These ‘factory look’ restaurants ,with high ceilings with all the pipes and ducts exposed, can fuck right off. Then they pump in music so everyone has to shout, adding to the ‘ambiance’. That shit is the laugh track of social interaction.
It’s even crazier that office spaces are designed like that. And then managers are suprised that everyone wears headphones in the office.
In one place I worked, the ambient sound was so loud that not only did everyone wear headphones, but the best way to chat with someone who was 3-4 desks away was to type to them while continuing to listen to whatever you had on your headphones. Of course, the place was so absurdly loud because the management insisted on an open office plan with everyone in the office so that we’d more easily be able to chat informally to foster new ideas.
Finally someone who agrees. Plus they charge so much for some tiny burger. Get a ceiling grid with those acoustic panels using the burger profit. The polished concrete floor never helps too.
I went to a club that boomers go to the other day. Carpet, clean toilets, soft lighting, and meals that cost less because their profit comes from poker machines. Hell yeah brutha
Oh, you don’t need the music to need to shout. The high ceiling achieves that by itself. Echo, space to fill, or something. Not to knowledgeable about acoustics.
I really wish they made restaurants with low ceilings. You take the tallest people who are likely to come, you add maybe 30 cm, and that’s more than high enough, right? No, they’ve gotta have ceilings so high they could genuinely fit two floors in the one they have. It’s a waste of space, too.
Absolutely. When I go to a bar or restaurant, I prefer a place that doesn’t look like a co-working space. Also, when I see anyone using a laptop in there, I’m out.
So just drinking with friends at home then?
No… wait! Charging strangers to drink at your home 😏🤑
Make them byob and pay a cover
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Going to go take a nap my friends, feel a little woozy 😌
Like some kind of public house?
I see what you did there…
Pretty sure I’d need to be a church or something first. California isn’t a fan of not collecting taxes.
There’s a town where there’s a trend of people building garage bars:
That sounds pretty neat actually
Pretty sure Family Guy did that first?
Drinking in the basement with my friends (the various paraphernalia i use to do drugs).
That’s almost a haiku… no wait, I just sat on syringes 43 through 50… someone please call 911.*
*100% kidding… although I am diabetic 😌
My personal conspiracy theory is that bars have bad acoustics so that you have to shout, so that you get a sore throat, so that you feel like you need to drink more.
For singles bars, it’s so people can get close and talk in each other’s ears and have a private conversation.
That is called a “pub”.
Remember kids:
Oak and brass, A touch of class. Pine and chrome, Get yourself a six pack and drink it in your garage.
it’ll go bankrupt quick. people drink less when they can have other stimulation
if the place has a dancefloor, it also has to have shit music in between so you return and buy a drink to pass time
Back in the late 90s, at a seedy bar with my tech-head buddies, we snagged a booth/table with a crappy half blown speaker that was pumping music so loud you couldn’t hear ANYTHING. My buddy whips out his multi tool and proceeds to stand up and snip the wire going to the speaker. An amazing idea that I’ve really never had the chance to replicate, but inspired me to carry a multi tool a lot more.
Sound panels. They’re insanely effective. I put up a few at home, and now I complain about every place that doesn’t have them.
BILLION DOLLAR IDEA: A BAR, BUT YOU CAN HEAR THE PEOPLE YOU’RE WITH
WHAT!? TELL ME AFTER THE NOISE DIES DOWN.
meanwhile when the noise actually does die down: SO THAT’S WHY I NEED A NEW HEMROID CREAM.
One of my personal gripes with TV and movies is when the main characters go to a dance club, or a strip club, and have a conversation at a normal volume level. You can always tell from the look of the places that they’re the kind where you have to shout into the ear of the person next to you to have a hope at being understood.
WHAT?
WHAT?
I don’t have a cat, maybe next door?
WHAT?
HUH?
That’s called a “lounge”.
A pub?
I feel like pubs in Europe are different than they are in the US. If you go to a dive bar in the US there’s a real chance you might end up stabbed or shot.
You get those places in Europe too, but you also get places that are queer friendly, serve food and craft beer, have a good punk oriented jukebox, and the barman will start pouring your drink when you walk through the door because they know what you’re going to order.
What you’re describing makes me kinda miss being a regular at a pub.
Post-COVID and moving to Canada … I find that I stay at home all the time nowadays. The bars I go to here are more establishments and have less of the home feel I used to get in Europe.
If you happen to be in Ottawa, I have a couple suggestions via PM. Otherwise, stuff that fits the feel you’d probably like exists, but is generally overshadowed by more establishment spots. Takes a little digging (and even what’s there may not suit your tastes).
Not neccessarily a bad thing though, alcohol being a poison and whatnot (I just happen to like poison).
Caveat - I’ve never been in Europe long enough to know the exact feel of a good homey Euro pub, for comparison purposes.
Sans jukebox, sounds like we’ve been to the same bar.
So not a bar.
Why, I don’t want to hear them complaining about the current state of the world, I’m already depressed because all of it, I just want to drink my beer in peace and overwhelming conversation-canceling noise, with my friends close to me, where just a glance at each other saying “I feel the same” is enough.
Totally get it. You wanna be where you can see your troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.
And I want my friends to know:
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Like my local pub, then. That’s how I like it.
Spoiler: they’re not ranking it in and aren’t millionaires, though.
