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Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by elliottkember »

Something1234 wrote: post #430
edmundofuentes wrote: post #197

That's our local bar in Monterrey, Mexico [1]! We received some paper flyers with a QR when we had our first lockdown, it's nice seeing it pop up in HN. If anyone's wondering, the bar is still open and operating on a very limited capacity, which has made it much nicer in my opinion. Also, the usual jazz quartet has been replaced with a trio with much younger musicians, since understandably the older musicians don't w…

I'm very confused by the pricing on the bar menu. Is it really a $110 for a set of chicken wings or is it in a different currency?

Mexican pesos use the $ sign. That is US$5.40

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Post by cylinder »

rz2k wrote: post #312
mStreamTeam wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslghting in retrospect.

Unless you live in New Zealand you probably haven't ever written down your contact information when entering a store, and probably don't even know what that is. Flattening the curve was really about overloading hospitals. The end game is to make covid-19 extinct in the wild, or domesticated in the sense that only relatively harmless variants remain. Without serious testing and contact tracing that may take a very lon…

We check in with a govt app and QR codes in NSW and all of Australia does this and venues confirm before letting you in. It's integrated into the Service NSW app so I don't need a separate one. Same app where my digital drivers licence is. No paper. In fact I don't carry a wallet here anymore because public transport is with NFC - Apple pay.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by 3np »

tinus_hn wrote: post #55
3np wrote: post #35

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In some countries, you're even forbidden from having visitors in your home.

In some countries you get put in a concentration camp if your religion is the wrong one. Does that make it acceptable in your country?

...I'm sorry, how's this relevant and what's your point?

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Post by kortilla »

Glawen wrote: post #137
kortilla wrote: post #96

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> You can drink without getting drunk. No shit. The problem is that when you get into the habit of drinking 2-3 drinks every night you’re bordering substance abuse. Also, “a few glasses” is enough to be arrested for drunk driving, so you might not be the caricature of a drunk but you’re drunk nonetheless. Severance is a great way to understand your relationship with alcohol. The only reason it even seems weird is bec…

What I meant was that you should appreciate the quality and forget about quantity. At 2-3 glasses every night, I bet that you just drink the same thing over and over, so yes I agree with you that you are bordering abuse. I used to do this with whisky, but nice bottles are pricey so I drank cheap whisky and quickly got bored. Now I buy expensive bottles and appreciate it from time to time. Alcohol is embedded in our s…

> Alcohol is embedded in our society because it is the traditional way for people to let off steam.

You have those backwards. It’s only the “traditional way” because we pretend it’s not just “getting high” like every other drug and we push it everywhere (on flights, in restaurants, on trains, during dress/suit fittings, at sporting events, etc etc etc).

It could just as easily have been any other drug.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by stakkur »

There should be an Irish version of this, called 'I Miss My Pub'. There would be sliders for trad music, yelling, cursing, arguing, laughter, glass breaking, and people falling.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by iancmceachern »

rebuilder wrote: post #248
iancmceachern wrote: post #235

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Boo! Life is life, who are we to judge who's is more or less valuable?

We are doing so now, by choosing to take the suicides and mental health problems lockdowns will result in over the deaths the pandemic would cause without lockdown. I mean, I'm not opposed to the lockdowns generally, but you can't pretend we aren't making choices about who suffers. Mostly we're choosing to take our chances on the unknown long-term consequences over the fairly well-understood risks we face now. The pe…

That's fair, I agree.

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Post by tomcooks »

_uwiz wrote: post #26
tomcooks wrote: post #22

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Which country more or less is it? When the hot season will arrive will you be able to go out and make an impromptu bar with friends somewhere free (public squares, forests, beaches, etc.)

UK. I don't know, indefinite lockdown. It's currently illegal to sit on a park bench. I'll do it anyway, of course, but it might not be legal. [redacted] 97 days since it was last legal for me to have a friend over for a cup of tea. You know in the movies where at some point the psychotic main character thinks "I'm not the crazy one, it must be them"? I flip flop on this every other hour.

That sucks, had no idea you couldn't spend time outside over there. I can understand the ban on having friends over, but not allowing people to spend time outside is a recipe for disaster.

UK having what seems to be the most potent variant of the virus doesn't help, and the island factor either. Try to be strong, and don't let cabin fever tell you otherwise.

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Post by tomcooks »

leesalminen wrote: post #172
jjgreen wrote: post #168

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Yes, there are exceptions (vaguely stated, a funeral or what the police would regard as essential), but a holiday would be illegal. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Wow, I’m sorry to hear that. Sounds tyrannical to me.

Afaik most European countries have a travel ban unless it's for work.

Minimizing contact and travel, together with masks and sanitation，is proven to work and currently the only solution- unless hey you have a non tyrannical alternative then please let me know

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by tomcooks »

leehuffman wrote: post #34
tomcooks wrote: post #19

Maybe it's the rural setup where I'm from, but I'm glad that in 2020 and 2021 I barely visited bars. Summer was spent by lakes and forests, drinking beers, cocktails, appetizers, and eating freshly grilled BBQ for a fraction of the price, having quality time in the sun with friends. I don't miss commercial society, I don't miss their tropes and their rituals. Fake friendship and banter from people hanging around to g…

> Maybe it's the rural setup where I'm from Nah, it’s almost certainly (at least in this context) your privilege. I should hope that you’d never have your income, overnight, ganked out from under you. Not to mention the dozens of other hard working, honest humans on your payroll. I also hope nobody has the completely disconnected uppity spirit to post paragraphs of text telling you why you’re worthless, as you’re inh…

Do you have any solution other than assuming things about others, their supposed privileges? Do you think the state should give you money or leave you to your enterprise? Do you think that taking things from businesses was some sort of conspiracy plan against business owners or the result of something terrible plus bad management plus decades of no preparation even when the scientific community was proactively warning everyone of this problem?

I made myself resistant to THIS specific problem by decades of choices, losses and failures. My time to drown will come again as it did in the apat and hopefully won't blame others for that.

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Post by tinus_hn »

3np wrote: post #433
tinus_hn wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some countries you get put in a concentration camp if your religion is the wrong one. Does that make it acceptable in your country?

...I'm sorry, how's this relevant and what's your point?

You appear to be arguing that restrictions aren’t a problem because in other countries they are worse.
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