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The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] 33 points 2 months ago (8 children)
  • dave n busters doesnt even have a pool table, if youre not a ticket-kiddie, dont bother
  • both national sports have been commodotized to extract every ounce of revenue, removing any actual enjoyment from the process
  • a beer anywhere in public is >=9$. who the fuck can afford that?
  • 30% of the country are zombie fascists and dont know it, and theres no way to actually talk to those people. i am out of patience.
  • they just turned the only roller rink in 150 mile radius into a pickle ball thing for old assholes who pay more.

just off the top, im sure theres plenty of other anecdotes

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Thanks for writing this out, its my experience as well. Take the recent world cup for example, price gouging at every step of the way. The local MLS games are a little cheaper but still every food/beer/drink/snack vendor in the stadium is charging >$10 for one item. Its just crazy. Even a local baseball team that is in the junior leagues is that much now. Sorry this ended up being a rant about sports but its the same across the board. Look at malls, they are being bulldozed in our area for apartments. So what do you do for fun that doesn’t cost $100…there are outdoor activities in parks and local sports facilities if your town is lucky to have them. I guess this is just me rambling about how expensive even the cheap and fun things used to be. Sigh.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Tried bowling lately?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    My alley has a good deal. $20 for 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental included. Beer buckets are kind of expensive at 5 for $18 for miller lites

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Nice! You are very lucky (assuming you like bowling).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm in the Midwest. Everything here is dirt cheap. But I do enjoy bowling. Not trying to derail that everything costs money to do anything now. Thank God it's a real alley and not the restaurant themed alleys you were talking about in another post.

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