Really not very Oniony.

Dude you just had to clear that up, I prefaced it with that question

The drugless coke dealer in my town sadly shut his doors as well. Turns out no one wanted baking soda deliveries on Saturday nights.

Yessir, Captain Obvious.

Are you trying to be funny? Because you know they mean they don't serve alcohol, like trying to be a bar for sober people😜

Most craft mocktails these days use non-alcoholic distillates which often cost nearly twice as much as the well liquor even higher end bars will use. We have a couple mocktails at the restaurant bar I work at whose ingredients cost more than most of our house cocktails. They're subject to the same bullshit markup as liquor, but our margins on NA drinks are much lower.

That's a comedy club w/o booze

That was the joke... do you not understand what "pedantry for humor" means??

My question is: why does this topic have your panties in a knot?

Gotta turn off notifications for reddit- I forgot how prickly y'all are. Life's more enjoyable if you learn how to relax. The people who got the joke laughed, you don't gotta get mad about it.

No I absolutely wasn’t talking about every location people shop in any type of business. We are talking only about alcohol free bars. The rest of us understood that just fine.

Hey now, don't mock my Friday night plans...

Well people don’t go to the butcher to hang out all night

Nobody is denying that there are businesses that don’t serve alcohol.

Most/many bars in Dublin sell food and have music. They nearly all serve the same function as somewhere to socialise, have a few drinks, enjoy music and maybe eat some pub grub. They aren't really the distinct activities as you are making out.

Put it this way man - I live in Dublin and this is the first I’ve heard of the place 😂

I've never in my life heard of an alcohol free bar. I guess maybe fuckin Jamba Juice? if you don't want to drink, you don't have to order alcohol, but an alcohol free bar is a losing proposition

Those all serve alcohol and their main component is food or music, not an accompaniment to socializing (when was the last time you went to a restaurant to socialize with people you didn’t already know?). The concept is a place to gather that doesn’t have the vice of alcohol but still has an element to inspire social interaction. Without the addition of alcohol for entertainment and to loosen inhibitions, bars are generally boring. Something with rotating themes might work well. Open mic nights (poems, comedy, acoustic guitar), food truck Fridays, taco Tuesdays, etc, would add an element besides non-alcoholic beverages. Hell, people might even love a booze free sports “bar”.

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Sometimes, increasingly in this age of farce, I find it difficult to enjoy being a citizen of the United Klusterfuck of Great Britain.

I started going to Amerstam in the 80s and it has always been my favorite destination..but...the damn young male Brits always roam the streets in herds and can be major assholes trying to fight and general hooliganism.

never fails

Go to a coffee shop ya fucking twats.

It’s the fookers who only drink and love causing trouble…

Where's the Family Guy Ireland was once an advanced and futuristic society clip, lol...

Oh for fucks sake. Look, there's only one good reason (and a bunch that just aren't) to go to Amsterdam, and that is to smoke some herb, openly, without threat of arrest.

How the HELL are my fellow Brits getting this wrong? How does one fuck this up? It is SUPER simple, right? You book a hotel near a good coffee shop, you go to the coffee shop, get a drink, a snack and a big fat spliff, you go to space, float back to the hotel and trip your nuts off, you get munchy, you eat, you pass out, and do the whole fucking thing again tomorrow, causing trouble for no one. WHY IS THIS SO APPARENTLY COMPLICATED?

Compared to worshipping a syncritist "saint" that's basically a god of death and criminals, yes, absolutely. I wouldn't be shocked to hear locals feel safer after these, even if it's all psychological.

It was like a place for alcoholics to get together without the alcohol or Alcoholic Anonymous stuff

Yeah. It's always weird to me when people freak out about the negligible amount of alcohol in NA beverages. Like, there are small amounts of alcohol in practically everything. But it's not really an issue to slam 0.5% NA beer (or kombacha or orange juice) because the amount it would take to have a noticable amount on almost any human is enormous.

I can see how NA beer might be triggering to some. But I love the idea of an alcohol free bar. (I remember seeing such things in the Middle East and loving them. I also like that there are more and more non-alcoholic mocktails on menus at normal bars. It's great being able to go out and not drink if I don't feel like it.)