These ‘factory look’ restaurants ,with high ceilings with all the pipes and ducts exposed, can fuck right off. Then they pump in music so everyone has to shout, adding to the ‘ambiance’. That shit is the laugh track of social interaction.
A pub?
what!!!?
My personal conspiracy theory is that bars have bad acoustics so that you have to shout, so that you get a sore throat, so that you feel like you need to drink more.
That’s good, but it’s just so people dont linger too long and will leave after they’ve spent money. If bars and restaurants were comfortable people would hang out at them for hours and that’s bad for profits.
WHAT?
YEAH, I LOVE BEING HERE WITH THE PEOPLE I’M WITH TOO
That’s called a “lounge”.
Loud-ge
I’ve never been to a bar that plays music too loud. Did oop a club instead?
It’s not just about music. Like some bars and restaurants with modern interior have shitty acoustics, since they are open spaces with concrete walls and large windows. I went to a restaurant recently, wasn’t super crowded, music was played at low volume, still had a hard time hearing people. Since everyone in the room had to speak louder and louder to make themselves heard and overcome the reverb in the room.
We have this in the uk, it’s called wetherspoons
Like, withe the helicopter headphone system ?
it’ll go bankrupt quick. people drink less when they can have other stimulation
if the place has a dancefloor, it also has to have shit music in between so you return and buy a drink to pass time
So just drinking with friends at home then?
No… wait! Charging strangers to drink at your home 😏🤑
Drinking in the basement with my friends (the various paraphernalia i use to do drugs).
Make them byob and pay a cover
Why, I don’t want to hear them complaining about the current state of the world, I’m already depressed because all of it, I just want to drink my beer in peace and overwhelming conversation-canceling noise, with my friends close to me, where just a glance at each other saying “I feel the same” is enough.
Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.
I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”
Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.
I was joking, I can’t handle the large chaotic crowds of bars (autistic). I just meet with friends at home or go when it’s not busy.
I used to go to illegal techno parties, even organize them myself. Never protected my ears. Recent tests show my hearing is in perfect condition. Since I’m afraid of tennitus, I always wear ear protection now when there’s loud noise. At parties, at the metal workplace I go to, when people are javkhammering on the street, etc. I’m very lucky, several DJ friends of mine were too late and have tennitus now too.
In western movies & series that’s every bar.
It’s called a jazz bar and they’re not that great.
That’s a dive bar.
Don’t tell them. Half empty bars are the best.
All the dive bars in my area are filled with people smoking.
I think I aged out of it.
All bars in my area banned smoking even in outdoor patio areas. It sucks.
