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I have read entire novels while at the bar. When you are doing a 12 hour shift on a slow tuesday with no deliveries and only 8 customers during the day it's possible.
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I've lost a couple of paperbacks at bars on some of my bad nightsTrashMammal posted:mere practice. find the right bar and you can gently caress a bear for real can't spell bara without bar after all
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Mar 10, 2024 17:25
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I used to hang out with a dude at a bar who would come in 2 hours before last call and grade his diff eq tests
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Mar 10, 2024 17:34
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i can't blame someone for drinking while grading anything, much less differential equations
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Mar 10, 2024 17:38
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I read Atlas Shrugged to strike up conversations with other like-minded individuals
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Mar 10, 2024 17:39
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dervival posted:i can't blame someone for drinking while grading anything, much less differential equations he had a system and that system looked loving miserable lmao we'd drink beers and talk about poo poo from my degree (history) instead
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Mar 10, 2024 17:40
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I genuinely read through the band NOFX's book "The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories" during visits to a nearby bar. I wanted to get out and would use that book as an excuse to go for a walk across town and sit at that bar's outdoor patio area to read. I often didn't even get anything alcoholic... like a kombucha or a soda but I was surrounded by a bunch of people in the sun with a light breeze and could relax and read for a while. Though, I did often need to stop reading that book for a day or so because the subject matter gets heavy. Murder, suicide, rape, kidnapping, drug abuse, fights, disease... you get to read about one of them killing his own mom at her request when she had a terminal illness. It's a bit nuts, that book.
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Mar 10, 2024 17:43
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A lot of "British style" pubs around here have books on the shelves along with a bunch of other poo poo to make them seem classy. I've read the first few chapters of "The western limit of the world" and "The hotel New Hampshire" but never got around to finishing either of them.
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Mar 10, 2024 18:55
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Smugworth posted:I read Atlas Shrugged to strike up conversations with other like-minded individuals That must have been a very disappointing gloryhole
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Mar 10, 2024 19:05
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I read The Wheel of Time book 8 at the Fiesta Bowl surrounded by drunk Notre Dame fans, that's the closest I can give you.
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Mar 10, 2024 19:46
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nothing finer than having a pint at the pub while you read Joyce and have a polite stroke.
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Mar 10, 2024 20:24
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:nothing finer than having a pint at the pub while you read Joyce and have a polite stroke. So civilized *packs tobacco pipe
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Mar 10, 2024 20:54
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I've done crossword puzzles while sitting at a bar.
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Mar 10, 2024 21:35
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Printed out and laminated the Wikipedia article for glory holes and casually showing it off to everyone, shaking my head laughing like "man, wouldn't it be crazy if someone actually did this, haha wow"
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Mar 10, 2024 21:41
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Yeah, for sure. If I'm on a work trip and don't feel like socializing, I'll sit at the bar area of a restaurant to eat and have a drink and read a book.
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Mar 10, 2024 21:57
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I like to read the rise and fall of the third Reich at the bar. You get to meet interesting people and if it turns out they are into Nazis, it is about as big as a telephone book so you can beat them with it.
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Mar 10, 2024 22:37
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I've read books and newspapers (though those on my phone) at bars multiple times. nobody really gives a gently caress if you do
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Mar 10, 2024 22:46
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Man, one thing I don't miss about the more literate past is newspapers. So big, so loud, so messy. On the subway they're probably 80% of the trash.
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Mar 10, 2024 22:49
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I liked reading news papers when lived with my parents growing up but I'm not going to pay to receive it these days especially when I half of it or more is stuff I would just toss in the trash because I have no interest... Sports, personals, opinion pieces by garbage humans, national/world news takes from the local bumpkin. I just read it for the local news.
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Mar 10, 2024 22:51
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Wendigee posted:I liked reading news papers when lived with my parents growing up but I'm not going to pay to receive it these days especially when I half of it or more is stuff I would just toss in the trash. I LOVE my local paper, but as a website. I pay for it. And I loved them as a newspaper back in the day, but in retrospect it was so loud. And messy.
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Mar 10, 2024 22:53
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I read the local paper with an online subscription but it's such a lovely layout I have to be pretty bored.. whichever section you choose intersperses "articles from our network" aka Republican talking pieces that are unrelated to the local news paid for by the Koch's. And you have to pay for it. I mooch my mom's password or I would never read it and just stick to apnews or something similar. Smaller city problems probably. 350k of us.. maybe 500k in the greater sprawl. One news paper that doesn't even have most of its contributors in the city. They poo poo canned many of them and run articles about my city from "reporters" that don't even live here. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Mar 10, 2024 22:56
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People are used to paying for the news. There used to be these "news boxes" where you'd put in "Hard Currency" and it would open. You'd take out that day's "Newspaper". Which was created anew each day. And in the old days, several times a day.
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Mar 10, 2024 22:58
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redshirt posted:Man, one thing I don't miss about the more literate past is newspapers. So big, so loud, so messy. On the subway they're probably 80% of the trash. I had to start getting a paper delivery subscription because Amazon discontinued their newspaper subscription service on kindle. It was honestly the best way to read the paper but Amazon has been dead set on ruining all their services
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Mar 10, 2024 23:03
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I also used to subscribe to our local paper but after exchanging private equity hands a couple of times it's almost entirely reprints from NYT and AP so like why bother
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Mar 10, 2024 23:04
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baja gaijin posted:I also used to subscribe to our local paper but after exchanging private equity hands a couple of times it's almost entirely reprints from NYT and AP so like why bother I hear ya. It's happened all over. I'm lucky enough that our main paper is still independent.
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Mar 10, 2024 23:22
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Wendigee posted:I like to read the rise and fall of the third Reich at the bar. You get to meet interesting people and if it turns out they are into Nazis, it is about as big as a telephone book so you can beat them with it. Then a discussion of Shirer’s homophobia turns into some serious men’s room gloryholin’.
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Mar 10, 2024 23:29
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I got no idea what that means, but I am reading that book. It's pretty good and shows how crazy, lucky and incompetent Hitler was. The giant swastika on the cover is a great reason to never take it out in public.. I was totally joking except for its ability to easily beat someone with do to it's size I've never read a book at a bar I don't go to them alone so I'm usually taking to friends. I could see getting bored and wanting to read a book in public but id probably go to a book store or coffee shop or something. I don't think anyone at the bar would care, I just don't see the point of overpaying for drinks unless you're there to talk to people honestly. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Mar 10, 2024 23:48
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Sometimes if I have nothing else happening on a Friday night I'll get some takeout and go to the bar with a book and read over dinner and a couple drinks. It's a nice little time. So yeah op I'm the guy that reads Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game at the bar
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Mar 11, 2024 00:33
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I live near Princeton and it’s really common there, but I’ve also drank at some hillbilly rear end places with taxidermy everywhere and people would probably get hostile if you read there. Depends on the place.
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Mar 11, 2024 02:25
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I have read at a bar, during the day when it is essentially empty
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Mar 11, 2024 02:37
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the reason is simple: alcoholism
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Mar 11, 2024 02:38
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Bad Purchase posted:honestly who would read a book when they could play an immersive narrative experience that adapts to their choices like baldur's gate 3 at the bar? We used to play D&D at the bar, it's central, more fun than staying after work and doesn't invade anyone's house.
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Mar 11, 2024 08:23
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Wendigee posted:I got no idea what that means, but I am reading that book. It's pretty good and shows how crazy, lucky and incompetent Hitler was. The giant swastika on the cover is a great reason to never take it out in public.. I was totally joking except for its ability to easily beat someone with do to it's size I think it'd be pretty hard to read with one hand, as well.
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Mar 11, 2024 08:26
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I don't quite hate humanity enough to just sit there reading The Iron Dream or The Consumer* with earplugs for several hours but I'm getting there. *M.Gira
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Mar 11, 2024 11:07
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I've never thought about it before but I guess as long as it's a "have a drink, maybe order some fries" sort of place it's no weirder to me than someone at a coffee shop. If it's like a club or party style bar then I would probably see it as a red flag.
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Mar 11, 2024 11:41
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Just when I have time to kill by myself. Train station or airport bars mostly, sometimes a hotel bar on a work trip.
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Mar 11, 2024 12:28
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baja gaijin posted:I've read books and newspapers (though those on my phone) at bars multiple times. nobody really gives a gently caress if you do they all make fun of you as soon as you leave. they know youre reading instead of Facebook
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Yeah, but only at bars that are specifically for reading or are known for quiet chatter.
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