Such a vague question merits the default It Depends™.
Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
Submitted 5 months ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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0x0@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
me and my friends used to be regulars in a shitty pub where there was a group of older people who would be in there all day every day.
he was probably double my age but it didn’t stop him coming over to our table and pestering me and some of the other women.
we didn’t go in too frequently but the staff recognised us as regulars. we had to stop because some nasty people would come in on a specific day and one of our group wqs afraid of running into them.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓
Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I live in England, but maybe twenty years ago I’d go to my regular pub most days, have a couple of pints and maybe some food, socialise with people I’d got to know there.
Obviously that doesn’t happen anymore, it’s way too expensive now. Going to the pub or out for a meal is a rare treat these days.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I try to go to a local spot once a week or so for the sake of community. It’s kinda fun.
My problem drinking happens mostly at home.
Technoworcester@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Still do.
I’ve been alcohol free since 7th April 2023 but it’s a stop on the way home to see mates that don’t game online.
UK pub that’s part of the community. We organise canal cleans / litter picks / quiz nights / charity events etc…
Pubs can be good and you don’t HAVE to drink booze. Bars now… They are a different story I feel.
On a side note I feel the ability to ‘legally’ drink (without a meal) from the age of 18 stops a lot of the idiotic drinking stuff I always hear about from over the pond.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 5 months ago
I mean, people still do that.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
Alcoholics, sure
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
I don’t know if you’re aware, but pubs have been around for literally thousands of years. Google tells me that "The oldest known pub in England is a contested title, but The Old Ferry Boat Inn in Cambridgeshire is often cited, with claims of serving drinks since (560) AD. "
I’m sure there were a lot of alcoholics to frequent the place over the past 1500 years or so, but I’m willing to bet that there were a lot of other people who just wanted a meal and a good conversation most days.
Technoworcester@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Some. Not all.
Not all pubs are drink first. Food and socialising are also important things.
In rural areas it might be the only ‘communal’ space.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I was raised in a bar. My mother owned it for 40 years. Yes, same customers every day. They were all alcoholist but some of them stopped functioning. My mother Fed them, did their taxes, cut their hair. It’s terrible and sad. The functioning alcoholists had a family to turn home to. I used to be an alcoholist until 10 years ago. My wife had to make me realise that drinking every day, even just one beer a day, is alcoholism.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is alcoholist(s) term that means something different than alcoholic(s)? Never seen it before
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
JAPJER@mtgzone.com 5 months ago
Alcoholist is an older word for alcoholic. They might be older, hence the older word
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s alcoholism/alcoholic. Just a different translation.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pub culture is definitely a thing in the UK though and I wish we had some of these neighborhood meeting places in the US too.
Fraternal/Sororal organizations used to be a big thing up to the 60s with the Elks clubs, Odd Fellows, Shriners, etc. We’ve lost a lot of that community glue.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Car centric urban design and pub culture are incompatible.
though alcoholism is bad, the lack of thirst spaces is a much bigger problem
Deebster@infosec.pub 5 months ago
thirst spaces
I can’t decide if this is a joke or a Freudian slip.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Thirst spaces is a new term for this ancient person. Could you define?
I’m picturing a bunch of thot’s and dudebros mingling
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had a GF who worked in a university lab where they would go to a bar after hours and she would bring me along. It was an old school Irish bar (even had pics of Sinn Féin members on the walls). I kept going after we broke up and ended up dating one of the woman who bartended. She was always passing me free drinks. I was always a light drinker though, I just nursed them. This was mostly in my 20s. I did visit another Irish pub after night class in a different part of the city and the guy working there remembered what my usual meal order was. lol
boaratio@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I was in my 20s I frequented a local bar a few times a week and always thought it’d be cool if the bartender would just know what my usual drink was. Turns out that was not a great idea.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Walked into a bar/club one night and it was packed because some biker event. They had multiple bars but I usually went to an outside one upstairs because I could smoke outside, you know double down on being unhealthy. The bartender somehow saw me and my spouse walk in, ran out from behind the bar and grabbed two chairs stashed in a corner so they were out of the way of people dancing and asked people to slide over and put those chairs in at the bar so we could sit down. Everyone around the area had this look like the queen of fucking England just walked in and Ill never forget it. That’s the kind of customer service that will make sure you come back. The guy knew that business was seasonal, but if you treat your locals well when it gets busy like that, they’ll be the ones who are there when it’s slow season and he’d still have a few customers.
Makhno@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bartender from the US here. Im one of the few people i know in the industry that doesnt go out drinking almost every single night
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sir Patrick Stewart’s autobiography has a heartbreaking account of his father’s nightly bar visits, and it sounds like he didn’t drink alone.
pokexpert30@jlai.lu 5 months ago
For référence, there is an ancient in my village of 300 inhabitants that in the 60’s, there were SIX bars. For 300 inhabitants.
So I guess so.
percent@infosec.pub 5 months ago
we only have a bread machine now, no shops of any kind.
“We” meaning your village? Your village no longer has shops, but somehow shares a bread machine? Or am I totally misunderstanding this?
pokexpert30@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Yes
It’s a baguette vending machine in the center of the village
Yes I am french
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yep.
Source: Was one of them.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Worked in a pub in the UK.
Yes, we had regulars. They’d be there nearly every night after work for a quick pint before heading home.
Very few of them would stay for more than one or two though
Horsey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
NORM!!!
Horsey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t give me away so easily you cocksucka
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Like…um…what are you doing?
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Used to be? This is still common in many industries and localities.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The divide between cultures and populations becomes highly apparent on sites like this, which attract a very select group.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Yeah, from a lot of the responses I’m seeing my ignorance on the matter. I’m in a big city so it’s probably very different.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A lot of blue collar workers went straight to the bar after work 3-4 days a week.
I did sheet metal back in the 90’s for a year. Typical day… start at 6, off at 2:30, bar from 3-5. Pretty much everyday.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Remember, no internet before this millenium, 3 to 7 television channels before cable, no TV before the 50s…
updn@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I do. Most other people that come here are regulars also.
Not much else out there for community.
J52@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Yes, even in countries like Austria. Saddest thing was that many men that were ‘great pals’ while drinking turned into abusers when coming home, making their families co-dependents and their lives hell.
HubertManne@piefed.social 5 months ago
Yes. In my fathers time men would go there often for lunch and after work. I think some went home and then went over for an hour or two. Later it was still common but someone who did it all the time would be called a barfly but almost everyone did like friday night and pretty often thursday or saturday. Its diminished since and more and more bars have to sorta be restaurants or dance clubs or band venues.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think the men were called “loadies”, getting loaded (drunk) before going home. Women got the much less forgiving name of being a “barfly.” However, that may have just been regional and/or for that era.
HubertManne@piefed.social 5 months ago
when I heard barflys it was always men who hung out every night in a bar.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
If I could afford it I would. Better than going home and sitting on my ass playing video games or whatever. Bars around here are too expensive though (just like everything else).
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
yeah same. also i don’t drink alcohol anymore but it would be nice to have more places to hang out.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Strong disagree.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I walk by some neighborhood bars, that are cheap and still some people go everyday like the Simpsons.
Videogames are better. I’ve come to recognize some of the “local drunks” that are there every day, they do be like Barney from the Simpsons. It seems a little depressing looking at them destroying themselves with booze.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Videogames are better
Not if your goal is to socialize they’re not.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Same
IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I don’t know about every night but I know plenty of dudes who have a watering hole they go to weekly.
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yes, but bear in mind a lot factory, construction, and industrial jobs are 7-3 or 8-4. So a working class laborer could go catch a happy hour with the coworkers or neighbors and be home by 5.
Also in the age of single income households men were often not expected to pull as much weight at home.
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You guys are only working 8hrs? What a life to have. The company I use to work for extended their store hours in 6pm so 8-6 was typical with no overtime pay. Woww saying this out loud really makes me want to unionize.
iamacar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A lot of bars would have tons of cash on Fridays and bartenders would cash paychecks. Customers would pay off the tab and start a new one. Idk how common it is anymore. Most jobs I’ve had for a while will give a paper check if they have to, but discourage it as much as possible.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My uncle was a factory worker and a daily regular at his favorite local bar for more than 30 years.
My mom wouldn’t allow me to go inside the bar (because drinking alcohol is a sin, you know). But in the '80s and '90s, before cell phones, I knew exactly where to find him after school if I needed anything.
Unfortunately, 30+ years of excessive drinking caused a lot of really serious health problems that caught up to him when he was in his 50s. The owners and staff sent a huge flower arrangement and all came to his funeral.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
A sin? Lol what? Jesus turned water into wine, the fucking madlad!
TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Depends on the person. I think it was more common 20-30 years ago than now in some places.