I could say that about a lot of people I see in bars.
― Jeff, Friday, 18 March 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
"Daddy got in trouble. Family time is over. Let's go home"
― calstars, Friday, 18 March 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
Lol 6pm bedtime
― pratt truss it (dan m), Saturday, 19 March 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
This couple doesn't seem that bad. The kid's screams are not that noticeable above the din of the general conversation and music. The mom is even kind of cute in a Slavic kind of way. No rings though so maybe it's just a nanny and her boyfriend. I certainly don't care enough to attempt to clarify the situation.
― calstars, Friday, 6 May 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
tonight, around 8pm, 6 children sprinting up stairs, down other stairs, basically in a loop through the entire bar, for 45 minutes or so. in the end their parents are just basically getting wasted.
there is definitely a spirit among some parents in which they refuse to accept that the fact they have kids means some extra responsibility. i'm not saying this is some symptom of decline, just that the growing idea of endless no-child youth is causing internal conflict and desire among those who successfully procreated before they got the memo.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
i see this in country bars a lot too. kids with colouring books in the bar and then an hour or two scampering about the place. sorry ye cant have it both ways, lads
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
This one is taking his first steps here. He's got a great haircut. I smiled at the little sh1t
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
...destroy him
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 24 June 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
omg google for "shit" and find calstars
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 25 June 2016 11:49 (eight years ago) link
other way round tbh
― oh, amazonaws (wins), Saturday, 25 June 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
can you provide a deeper description of the people at the bar and maybe at the bar itself, next time or from memory if you can. i've never seen children at a bar.
― dylannn, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Fight the kid's dad
― pratt truss it (dan m), Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
We tried a new place for lunch out today. Roof deck is packed with early-20s who ordered bottomless brunch and probably threw away the food. Downstairs is half-packed with early-20s who ordered bottomless brunch and ate most of their food. Other than the usual champagne cocktails the bottomless brunch also gives an option of cans of Corona light, Miller lite, and Tecate - they're all drinking the Corona. Out of three pretty shit beers that's easily the worst, and I know from shit beer.
My five year old was a perfect lady and ate her waffle with aplomb. But yes, now that I'm pushing 40, I do kind of resent children in bars, especially the ones that don't know how to drink.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
I don't understand Corona. It's the beer for people who want to project that They're On Vacation. It tastes like fake lime piss.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
This is the first time I've ever heard a waiter tell a table "last call" at 12:53 in the afternoon
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
I would too if hipsters were dumping food and drinking Corona.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 June 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Jesus tombotFiveJesus
― Xzibrit late now (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 June 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
I know it's fucking insane
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 June 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
. i've never seen children at a bar.
― dylannn
Consider yourself blessed
― calstars, Sunday, 26 June 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
was in a bar earlier today watching the euro and having some bloody marys and beers with friends
a couple came in with a toddler & sat right across from us, kid was in a highchair
they sat there and ate their food and loled at the northern ireland own goal
the kid was cute and didn't cause any disturbance
they paid and left
― pratt truss it (dan m), Sunday, 26 June 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
I mean, the fucking NERVE, right?
appalling
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 June 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
The presence of children makes it more difficult to suspend time and avoid mortality in liquor.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Sunday, 26 June 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
are you guys quoting a Kingsley Amis novel I haven't read
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 June 2016 01:49 (eight years ago) link
i can manage
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 June 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
Other than the usual champagne cocktails the bottomless brunch also gives an option of cans of Corona light, Miller lite, and Tecate - they're all drinking the Corona. Out of three pretty shit beers that's easily the worst, and I know from shit beer.
What are the best shit beers? I've been shying away from IPA and Tripels lately and trying to just keep it to low-alcohol garbage beer, but I'm afraid to invest in anything other than Corona and Stella, both of which I don't care for much but are at least known quantities.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
And to keep this on topic, my liquor store is split with a bar and I always feel like I'm getting side-eye when I bring my kid in there with me. Maybe if Maryland would just allow the sale of beer in grocery stores like every other civilized state, we wouldn't have to go through this! But they have a parrot and she loves to go over and talk to it. Safeway is never gonna have a parrot, I can tell you that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
I'd be more afraid of the parrot than drunk drivers tbh
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
xp Modelo Especial (lagoon's fave iirc) is pretty decent but has had a huge marketing boost so it might not be as cheap as it previously was
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
most cheap beers aren't that bad imo
― marcos, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
i mean there are trash ones for sure, college party beers like natural light, old milwaukee etc and any ice beers but imo corona budweiser miller coors they are all fine
― marcos, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
shh don't let the secret out
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
used to be bars scattered a layer of crushed children on the floor to absorb spilled beer. can't do that anymore of course (thanks obama) so i don't know what they're doing there now.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
modelo and tecate are both fine choses. if unavailable, my next go-to is a sixer of werewolf killers.
children in bars? not really a huge problem for me.i did, however, leave a bar a month or so back because the children were loud and making it difficult to read. this was mid-afternoon on a weekday, and it's a bar/restaurant/grocery store, apparently where parents come to chat after they pick up their little kids. the kids got into some yelling, but mostly it was the relentless screeching of metal chairs against a stone floor that drove me out.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
choses e_WEO
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
I haven't read at a bar for a while, noticed someone reading at the bar on the weekend during Saturday busy hours. I thought, man, who reads at the bar when it's really noisy, the only person I know who would do that is.... and then I noticed it actually was my ex-girlfriend from a decade ago
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
HA.i read at bars with some regularity. usually late afternoon on my day off when places are pretty quiet. especially if there's a backyard. i can't read at home without getting distracted by the internet or records or whatever else. and i don't wanna chill in any of the coffee shops near me/can't drink that much coffee late in the day.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
heck yeah, that is a good plan imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
it is so nice outside here today, I really want to kick back at a bar patio and read some books
hope you can find some toddlers to join you.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
only chill ones plz
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
I love reading in crowded bars
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
I love reading the newspaper in a somewhat busy pub having a couple of pints and little whisky around 1pm. maybe some pub food if im hungry. Miss living in Glasgow :/
― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Dear Miss Manners,I live in California, where it is legal and typical for children tosit in the bar area of restaurants with their parents. I am constantlysurprised by the number of families in the bar area (where there arebig screen TVs), when rest of the restaurant dining area is wide open.Is an adult obligated to change their language if a child is seatedbehind them in a bar?
I recently had a "girl's night out" on a Friday night at a localrestaurant/brewery in their separate bar area. The mother of thefamily seated behind us asked us to "tone it down" because her youngchildren could hear our adult conversation. (Think "Sex and the City"on cable; not HBO.) Because the bar was mostly empty and they wereright behind us, the family could hear us regardless of volume.
What is the proper etiquette? Should we have moved or should thefamily have moved? While I understand her position about ourconversation, I'd like to think I can go to a bar and discuss adulttopics. If she wanted to have a "quiet" family dinner, she couldsimply have sat in the quiet, dining area.
Gentle Reader,When Miss Manners entered this august profession, she did not imaginethat she would be called upon to protect salacious talk in barrooms.But she doesn't suppose she can convince you to hold ladylikeconversation, not just for the benefit of any stray barhoppingchildren, but for the sake of decorum.
So she will require only one ladylike moment from you before you getback to your adult conversation. And that is to seem sympathetic whenyou say, "Well, we'll try, but you know, this is a bar, and this sortof thing is bound to keep happening. The children will be betterprotected in the family section." Or you can just say, "Of course,"and move away.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
^ thank u usenet
also, drinking and reading in the afternoon is typically a shortcut to a nap/wasted day. but such is life. these are hedonistic times.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
"MIss Manners is full of shit. Typical breeder.
"It's a bar what do you expect? We were here first, it's a bar, and the world does not revolve around your vermin. You don't like it, cowboy up and MOVE!"
Pretty easy solution, esp when you consider the breeders were so typical...Pete"
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
alt.support.childfree seems like a chill place to hang.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
old milwaukee
this used to be one of the best shit beers, at least in the late 90s. Look! http://www.djc.com/news/general/10010416.html
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
This is a wonderful story
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
"(Think "Sex and the City"on cable; not HBO.)"
Fool, everyone knows Sex and the City was on HBO. Complaint invalidated
― akm, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link