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Sounds like a shill for whoever that billionaire monster is that’s swinging their proverbial dick around here just to have more stuff than his also empty billio

Sounds like a shill for whoever that billionaire monster is that’s swinging their proverbial dick around here just to have more stuff than his also empty billionaire friends. How about the community aspect of it? Anything positive from people gathering, being social?

righthand 1y ago
Sure. How about the alcoholism aspect? Anything negative from people peer pressuring others to socialize a certain way with poison?
- stuaxo 1y ago
  It's OK, you don't have to go to the pub. Or if you do go, just have a lemonaid.
  - righthand 1y ago
    Oh don’t worry , I don’t plan to step foot in the UK considering how deep into authoritarianism it has slipped. I don’t see it unslipping in the next decade. Plenty of bars with nearly the same culture here. Clearly there should be some truth to my friends anecdotal joke if you’re responding this way.
- barbazoo 1y ago
  Are you somehow required to drink alcohol at a pub?
  - righthand 1y ago
    That’s been the social projection of a pub, yes. Though you aren’t required, we agree that pubs overall have done a lousy job advertising to the non-alcohol-inclined. Not only that but if most of the patrons are drinking, it makes sense that people who want to visit a pub do so for the access to the drinking patrons. If they wanted sober patrons they’d probably attend a church meeting.
    - barbazoo 1y ago
      I don't need advertising to not drink alcohol. There's always drinks that don't contain alcohol too, water for example.
      - righthand 1y ago
        Yes but a bar specifically caters to an alcohol heavy crowd. To attract more non-alcohol drinkers you need to advertise the pub as a non-alcohol friendly place to socialize. Since pubs are known to have alcohol drinkers it is the stigma of alcohol that keeps the non-drinkers away.
- hulitu 1y ago
  > Anything negative from people peer pressuring others to socialize a certain way with poison? You mean like Apple or Microsoft ? /s

righthand 1y ago

Sure. How about the alcoholism aspect? Anything negative from people peer pressuring others to socialize a certain way with poison?

stuaxo 1y ago
It's OK, you don't have to go to the pub. Or if you do go, just have a lemonaid.
- righthand 1y ago
  Oh don’t worry , I don’t plan to step foot in the UK considering how deep into authoritarianism it has slipped. I don’t see it unslipping in the next decade. Plenty of bars with nearly the same culture here. Clearly there should be some truth to my friends anecdotal joke if you’re responding this way.
barbazoo 1y ago
Are you somehow required to drink alcohol at a pub?
- righthand 1y ago
  That’s been the social projection of a pub, yes. Though you aren’t required, we agree that pubs overall have done a lousy job advertising to the non-alcohol-inclined. Not only that but if most of the patrons are drinking, it makes sense that people who want to visit a pub do so for the access to the drinking patrons. If they wanted sober patrons they’d probably attend a church meeting.
  - barbazoo 1y ago
    I don't need advertising to not drink alcohol. There's always drinks that don't contain alcohol too, water for example.
    - righthand 1y ago
      Yes but a bar specifically caters to an alcohol heavy crowd. To attract more non-alcohol drinkers you need to advertise the pub as a non-alcohol friendly place to socialize. Since pubs are known to have alcohol drinkers it is the stigma of alcohol that keeps the non-drinkers away.
hulitu 1y ago
> Anything negative from people peer pressuring others to socialize a certain way with poison? You mean like Apple or Microsoft ? /s