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I guess you can eulogize it as a sideshow rest home, but as someone who used to live near Silver Spring, that place loving sucked as anything else, man.
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I just watched half the Piratz episode on my break and oh my God. I don't even think a pirate bar is a bad theme, but maybe not in a business community off the Beltway and 30 miles from the ocean. I think the problem is the execution. I haven't seen the staff at their worst yet, but...the amount of decoration a place has is inversely proportional to how often it gets dusted. Every bar or tearoom I've ever been in that covers every possible surface with knicknacks relies on low lighting to hide the fact that everything is coated in dust. When I went to the Pirates' House in Savannah, they had a few pirate decorations, a ship in a bottle, some nautical maps, and things like that. It wasn't festooned from floor to ceiling with every bit of tacky Halloween pirate crap they could find.
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CrowsNestMutineer posted:We'll carry on, as we pirates do I'm against bullying and stuff but there's something about you that makes me want to smash your face with a hammer.
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Apr 8, 2015 23:38
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CrowsNestMutineer posted:We'll carry on, as we pirates do, You're not a loving pirate.
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Apr 9, 2015 00:00
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If it was a brand new bar I think the pirate theme could have worked, if you had real pirate themed drinks and food or something, but they ruined all their community goodwill so they had to pick something that wasn't pirate or nautical, because the people who would be there would just go "Oh yeah that pirate bar changed a little, I still don't want to go there"
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bobjr posted:If it was a brand new bar I think the pirate theme could have worked, if you had real pirate themed drinks and food or something, but they ruined all their community goodwill so they had to pick something that wasn't pirate or nautical, because the people who would be there would just go "Oh yeah that pirate bar changed a little, I still don't want to go there" They should just replace it with an apple bees.
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Holyshoot posted:They should just replace it with an apple bees. That's a bingo! And honestly there's a bunch of pirate themed bars out there that manage to stick around. Forgot about Gasper's Grotto in Tampa (or Ybor....can't remember). My parents love that place because it's divey and has cheap drinks and we always go there when I visit. I guess what I'm getting at is the pirate theme probably wasnt the kiss of death and maybe it was everything else. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 02:22
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It's not a realistic pirate bar without things like scurvy, pieces of eight, and a quartermaster. Did Piratz even have a quartermaster? No. Some "authentic" pirate experience. Pffft. It didn't even have real skeletons or a haunted treasure.
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Apr 9, 2015 02:26
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Holyshoot posted:They should just replace it with an apple bees.
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Apr 9, 2015 02:30
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Hazo posted:Most big chain restaurants actually have really high standards for bar service and operations so this would be a huge improvement. Except for some reason they are evil and ruining America 
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Apr 9, 2015 02:47
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Well I finished watching the Piratz episode, and what surprised me is that most of the staff don't seem terrible. In fact, it seemed like they enjoyed working in a thriving bar more than they enjoyed playing dress-up in a failing bar. It was the owner who was like "This isn't my dream!" probably because her husband was an incompetent jerk. Still, the corporate theme was monstrously bad. The decor was extremely generic. "Smartbar?" Paying a machine so you can pour your own beer? I know that's bullshit and I'm not exactly the kind of touchy-feely patron who wants to chat with the staff for loving ever. Don't get me started on the hipster ice. I guess they assume everyone who is "corporate" is a rich sucker who will pay a lot of money for a gimmick. Idunno, he's been doing this for a long time; maybe he's right.
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Apr 9, 2015 03:11
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Reminder that Piratz was $900,000 in debt. Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars You're invested in the bar? Are you $900,000 of other peoples money invested? Is it worth $900,000 to play pirate dressup? $900 is understandable. $9,000 is crazy, but manageable if you have disposable income and you get a lot of socialization, fun and value for yourself or your group out of it. When it is more important to you to play pirates than it is to fix your life and repay $900,000 you are clinically insane. $900,000
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Apr 9, 2015 20:03
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He even brought up her child and how her future is more important than a bad bar with a million dollars in debt, and that hardly even affected her.
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Shows like this have made me hate the word "dream." It's a word that's constantly used to blur the line between "living a fulfilling lifestyle" and "living a fantasy." I heard it all the time from people on Kitchen Nightmares who sunk their life savings into a restaurant because they thought buying a restaurant means you're buying a magic money factory full of free food and booze. Tales like this are always really sad when there's a family involved. Did her daughter think it was awesome that Mom ran a failing pirate-themed bar? How about now? Reminds me of that story from the wife of a video game programmer whose kids were depressed and cutting themselves because of Dad's "dream."
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OmegaBR posted:Another Piratz episode? Theme it after Somalia pirates CrowsNestMutineer posted:I hope that someday you find a bar worth becoming that invested in. Better to have a life, lest you end up like that crazy gently caress in Vegas that offed himself because his hangout buffet banned him SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 03:34
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Yeah, if you find yourself building your life and identity around a bar, then you are either an alcoholic or something worse than an alcoholic.
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I dig the high-rise concept they put in the bar tonight. The customization with what to have in the "windows" is a neat touch.
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raditts posted:Yeah, if you find yourself building your life and identity around a bar, then you are either an alcoholic or something worse than an alcoholic.
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bobjr posted:He even brought up her child and how her future is more important than a bad bar with a million dollars in debt, and that hardly even affected her. Also she seems to have a grandmother-grandchild relationship with, uh, her own husband, which is kinda weird
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I'm not a great cook, and am often guilty of not tasting dishes, sometimes even when I'm trying new variations. But smothering meat in sauce, actually calling that a dish and putting it on the menu, and never having tasted it...drat.
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I still wanna know how you go in a million loving dollar debt. I mean jesus, how the gently caress could you get anything with your credit so hosed. Better yet how you can go that far in debt and decide your main means of income would be better served as your personal hangout that earns you nothing.
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SocketWrench posted:I still wanna know how you go in a million loving dollar debt. I mean jesus, how the gently caress could you get anything with your credit so hosed. The real question is who sees a bar-owner 800 grand in the hole and says "I will loan this person 100 thousand dollars, this seems like a good plan."
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DStecks posted:The real question is who sees a bar-owner 800 grand in the hole and says "I will loan this person 100 thousand dollars, this seems like a good plan." Why do women go back to husbands who beat them? Because emotions overrule logic.
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I'm more surprised that the bar lasted that long after the show than anything else.
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Halloween Jack posted:Shows like this have made me hate the word "dream." It's a word that's constantly used to blur the line between "living a fulfilling lifestyle" and "living a fantasy." I heard it all the time from people on Kitchen Nightmares who sunk their life savings into a restaurant because they thought buying a restaurant means you're buying a magic money factory full of free food and booze. I'm really hoping the Underground Wonder Bar/Clear Bar is actually working out now, because Taffer got way too giddy about telling the owner her dream was dumb and a money sink and she'd have to give up on it. It was totally true, but just done in an overly mean way.
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Power of Pecota posted:I'm really hoping the Underground Wonder Bar/Clear Bar is actually working out now, because Taffer got way too giddy about telling the owner her dream was dumb and a money sink and she'd have to give up on it. It was totally true, but just done in an overly mean way. She deserved it though really, she spent more time acting like a loving five year old and coloring on placemats than trying to take care of her failing business.
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DStecks posted:The real question is who sees a bar-owner 800 grand in the hole and says "I will loan this person 100 thousand dollars, this seems like a good plan." Because in this case it's a TV show that earns through marketing and commercials. As long as it's a good show they'll make up that 100k and then some.
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SocketWrench posted:Because in this case it's a TV show that earns through marketing and commercials. As long as it's a good show they'll make up that 100k and then some. I believe they are talking about banks and normal people. Unless there was en episode where someone from the show lent someone 100k. Usually the poo poo they give these people is never paid back.
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Is that Hungry Investors show still a thing? What about the one where Adam Carolla and Tapout shirt guy yell at people?
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zVxTeflon posted:Is that Hungry Investors show still a thing? What about the one where Adam Carolla and Tapout shirt guy yell at people? I see scrolls for the contractor show now and again, so it's likely still alive. Can't say the same for Hungry Investors, wouldn't be surprised if it got canned.
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I was out visiting my parents and saw this    Then I noticed the row of condemned buildings adjacent to it. Apparently the laundromat next door caught fire and took a bunch of buildings with it including P's & Q's. Sucks to be them. Seemed to be a few people inside doing something so maybe it'll reopen (though if I were them I'd take the insurance money and run). I don't watch Bar Rescue anymore because it got way too dumb but I did watch S04E01 when I heard they were redoing The Artful Dodger. I used to be a manager at an ice cream shop around the block and it brought back fond memories of that particular epicenter of insanity in town. NOTinuyasha fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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zVxTeflon posted:Is that Hungry Investors show still a thing? What about the one where Adam Carolla and Tapout shirt guy yell at people? They're being sued by a contractor for false imprisonment and defamation. I expected it to come back with Bar Rescue, but maybe the suit is delaying the next season. http://consumerist.com/2015/03/23/contractor-sues-spike-tvs-catch-a-contractor-for-false-imprisonment-defamation/
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I ended up watching this show all day yesterday and they were running a ticker looking for people for that scummy contractor show multiple times per episode. Also I can't walk into a room now without yelling TROW DIS ICE AWAY SHUT IT DOWN SHUT IT ALL DOWN so my life is exponentially greater than it once was.
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How many time did you see that commercial about the cop with the bad tattoo? Seems like Spike runs that one on a loop.
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I gotta say, the episode with the 4 sisters in San Francisco was a nice one. They weren't shits, so Jon could be nice to them all along the way.
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I hope I wasn't the only one to see the new episode, where Taffer talks an uncomfortable (or hilarious) amount about the first ever Triple Butt Funnel.
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He gets way too excited over his butt funnels. Especially since it still sounds like a total poo poo thing to be proud of.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:42
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Someday, there will be a fourth butt funnel. The excited pointing will never end.
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Just grab people as they come in the door and duct tape them together. It's like a permanent mobile butt funnel.
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bigE posted:I hope I wasn't the only one to see the new episode, where Taffer talks an uncomfortable (or hilarious) amount about the first ever Triple Butt Funnel. That wasn't nearly as uncomfortable as John and the mixologist guy sitting in the front of a van watching porn on an ipad.
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