Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 days agoI saw an old video about when they made it illegal to drink and drive and dudes are like “they’re taking away my freedom! It’s my business if I wanna go to the bar and grab a couple beers after work before heading home! Im not hurting anyone!” It’s crazy how casual getting nightly drunk and driving home was in those days
My dad’s friends often claim that’s what destroys restaurants. You can’t even go and get hammered and drive home.
Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.
It is kinda crazy how different the times were. In the same documentary, they also touched on immigrants and how they also like to hang out in bars. One guy casually said something like: well i some people don’t hate these Spaniards, and some people just want them dead.
Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.
I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.
He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!
Not drinking is not easy, especially that age. I stpped drinking when i was almost 30. I thought that’s just a thing that you’re not doing, no big deal. A lot of people find it VERY weird. You wouldn’t believe the conversations i had especially with drunk people. “You don’t drink? Like never?” “Never ever?” “But how?”
I had to literally explain to people what i do instead of drinking and how to order a water in a bar. Ot that a glass of wine is also alcoholic, that i know i can drink a beer and still drive, that one glass is okay, that i don’t care how “good” it is, that i don’t drink even if you don’t even taste the alcohol. It never ends. And just like religion, you can’t just say because it’s dumb and you’re kinda proof of it right now.
Five and drive, baby
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I don’t think it’s crazy at all. The US in particular still has basically no real mass transit and bars everywhere. Everyone knows there is still drinking and driving going on. Certainly not all those people are calling ubers.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Im sure there are plenty of towns in rural America that still follow the “boys will be boys/go home and sleep it off” mentality with drunk driving and good ole boy crime in general
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Wel…if you’re white anyways. No this is more American than selective enforcement of laws.