Yep. I’m going to the distro tomorrow night and buying multiple cases. Work already knows I’m not coming in Monday.

Using his own logic against him, then if he is not a billionaire in the next 10 years, it’s his own fault. Seeing as it was so easy for him to increase his net worth by 1,000 times, he should be able to easily do it all over again.

What is it with Bitcoin millionaires being so insufferable? Maybe it’s that they know it’s not real money unless people invest real dollars. Once it happens they can all sell and be real rather than virtual millionaires.

I’ve never wanted Bitcoin to crash until this very moment.

“You’ve gotta be in it to win it!” shouts local lottery winner.

I’d say, “both.”

I kind of feel like this is a guy thing maybe (although I do know women who like to be at bars by themselves to just chill without being social, but rarely). For me going to a bar by myself is an invitation for creepy dudes to hit on me. I used to hate the 10 minutes my boyfriend would be outside to smoke, because it…

That’s fine, you don’t have to, but I do it all the time. No roommates,and there’s something comfortable about the din of people and casual, meaningless conversation (facilitated by sports/TV). You/the author may find TVs inconvenient, but hanging out on your own at a bar without a TV is basically impossible. Saying…

Too solitary. From a social context no different than looking at your phone. At least with a TV, everyone there is looking at the same thing.

This is the truth. My local bar isn’t a sports bar by design. They have enough TVs to cover all the games of a given sport, good food, and the bartenders/servers and clientele are all pretty solid people. Except that one asshole who only orders water and tries to drag people into coversations. He can fuck right off.

Or that play sports all the time because it’s the only thing appropriate to have on a TV when you play music all the time and never have the sound on.

Yup. I object to this line:

This is the type of customer that keeps your standard local bar afloat. If you aren’t a nice restaurant, or have expensive enough cocktails to cover your expenses, then you need to bring people in Sunday through Thursday, and this is going to be more than half of your clientele.

Or you sortof want to talk to people, but only in a completely banal way, such as how one talks to a stranger about sports.

Same. I don’t always want to talk and sometimes my friends are talking about stuff I don’t care about or can’t relate to (many of my friends are women so tuning out when they talk about their lady business is a life saver). Being able to look up at a non-close captioned airing of Blade Runner or The Warriors lets me…

Thank you for concisely and correctly stating the counter-point. No sports bar has good food, and they are terrible places to watch sports.

Suburbanite, commuter and frequent downtown establishment patron checking in.

Counterpoint: Sports bars are actually awful places to watch sports, and I routinely go to non-sports bars to watch sports in peace and quiet whilst eating food and drinking beer.

Yeah, that happens all the time. Kind of the point of a warranty.

I actually have done that…twice