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Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by Gibbon1 »

underseacables wrote: post #4

I miss being spontaneous about going out. I’m not even sure what restaurants are still open, what bars have gone out of business, why can’t we return to normal already?

Saw blurb that Marin county thinks they've vaccinated 68% of everyone over 75. And 50% of 65-75 year olds. Everyone in a long term care facility plus staff. They had an average 60 active infections in January, this month it's 4.

Bay Area Counties are starting to extend eligibility to essential workers.

Same time noises are that the amount of vaccine shipped is going to double in the next few weeks.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by corobo »

RalfWausE wrote: post #31

I think the psychological toll of the lockdowns in different countries is highly underestimated. I myself have no real economical shortcomings due to the lockdown, but even as a person who is normaly a total loner and who can spend weeks completely alone on a excessive hiking trip i am slowly going crazy... For my wife, who is a highly social character, its even worse. And i am not the only one in this mindset... wha…

Yeah I once spent 2 months not talking to anyone but I was doing things at the time. This is just

My wires are coming loose

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by _uwiz »

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 we should make your preferred hobbies illegal with strict enforcement.

Fuck you, buddy.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by tinus_hn »

_uwiz wrote: post #27
oarsinsync wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Predicting the future is difficult. After the overall incompetence of leadership that 2020 brought in many western countries, making any rational predictions about 2021 is irrational in itself. Based on their website, GP is likely in the UK. There’s vague hope based on vaccination rates, but given the number of self-inflicted own-goals by this government, anything more than vague hope now feels like setting oneself u…

Vaccination has literally fuck all to do with this. Our restrictions are randomly generated. It's illegal for me to have a friend over because they made it illegal. We have adverts trying to scare people into working from home, as if that's a choice. The government is literally trolling us, just showing us that we'll do whatever as long as there's propaganda backing it. Fuck this reality.

Same in the Netherlands and any restriction introduced for whatever reason is forever. For instance, when bars had to close at 22:00, people would flood the supermarkets to get booze for drinking at home. So they made a rule that supermarkets can’t sell alcohol after 20:00.

Now the bars have been closed for 3 months. Think anyone would remove that now useless limitation on selling alcohol after 20:00? Think again!

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by tinus_hn »

3np wrote: post #35
kungito wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it's easy to say this about summer but in the winter you have no options. It's too cold to hang out outside, play sports or whatever. You could hand out at each other's houses but people prefer to have neutral ground where no one has to prepare for everyone else

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?

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by tinus_hn »

Aeolun wrote: post #48
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…

> apparently the free market is a good idea only when your business goes well The free market is a (sort of) good idea when acts of god don’t interfere.

acts of government

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by _uwiz »

tinus_hn wrote: post #54
_uwiz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vaccination has literally fuck all to do with this. Our restrictions are randomly generated. It's illegal for me to have a friend over because they made it illegal. We have adverts trying to scare people into working from home, as if that's a choice. The government is literally trolling us, just showing us that we'll do whatever as long as there's propaganda backing it. Fuck this reality.

Same in the Netherlands and any restriction introduced for whatever reason is forever. For instance, when bars had to close at 22:00, people would flood the supermarkets to get booze for drinking at home. So they made a rule that supermarkets can’t sell alcohol after 20:00. Now the bars have been closed for 3 months. Think anyone would remove that now useless limitation on selling alcohol after 20:00? Think again!

UK Government 2020:

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

makes pubs shit to be in with distancing rules and masks etc

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

closes pubs earlier

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

close everything else, make meeting up outside illegal

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

I literally cannot come up with an explanation for this that isn't conspiratorial. For all of Boris' fluff, I don't believe that our Government is this incompetent or stupid - there has to be an ulterior motive here.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by corobo »

intricatedetail wrote: post #47

You miss the bar or the environment you ingested alcohol in? When your brain misses the ethanol high it is reminding you about the circumstances and makes you want to repeat it.

Spoken like a true HNer hahaha

I miss the PEOPLE.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by taurath »

renewiltord wrote: post #14
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a great opportunity for non-commercial spontaneity, choosing not between "what bar to go to", but which direction to walk in, and really taking in reality.

Yeah but you can't meet strangers. We're all bubbled in. And I love my friends, they're my pillar of peace in this pandemic, but there is a different part of me that craves the interaction with strangers in strange places.

Nothing has changed in the Pacific Northwest - people won’t talk to you Covid or not

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

possiblelion wrote: post #37
_uwiz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way things are going at the moment, I'll have to emigrate to somewhere "sane" like Belarus in order to even meet another person.

Estonia is a better option. Bars and restaurants are open, all without a bloody dictator.

Also the highest Covid rate in Europe right now, I believe?
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