You took me literally, not figuratively.
That's OK, we've all done that š
Yes, I'm boiling glasses of water in order to watch AI generated cat videos š
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good thing the windmill and solar companies have generated enough esg tokens to offset all that water consumption.
I'm going to share a culturally specific joke with you.
You won't get it, but enjoy anyway š
The problem here is he has probably translated pub as bar... Bars are not pubs and even if he do a good job then pubs are not created equally so there will never be a good Portuguese explaination for them because unless he has been to a load of pubs and compared them with your pub how would he know?
I am sure you are definately wrong though and should stash that thought in your fanny pack to reconsider later. š
Here's me in a Portuguese beach bar in Lisbon a couple of months ago for context š
Did you pay for that with your 401k or sneaker investment fund?
If only I knew what a 401k was. If only the Internet existed for me to Altavista it š
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Im in the usa and speak english. Ive been to plenty in many different areas. Never considered them a hot bed for quality.
That is a good point. America doesn't have pubs. Lots of bars and I do love a good sports bar, but they are not pubs.
Pubs came in all shapes and sizes and its more about the community that frequent them than any other aspect.
I've been in stunningly beautiful pubs that have no atmosphere, whereas my local shithole is always full of my friends. I can have a chat and a catchup with them, either about quantum's threat to encryption or their ex wives or the football game they are watching š
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It's like saying I know the cultural life in Portugal because I speak Portuguese and have only been to Brazil.
Iām literally about to eat my Pastel de nata while selecting our cruise ship decorations š
So pubs across the pond are just a totally different experience and with vibrant cultured conversion?
Some are, some aren't.
Pubs, like bars come in all different shapes and sizes, they intersect bars and overlap, but both have their own space on the spectrum as well.
Historically pubs started life as people opening their front rooms to passing travellers, they then turned into Inn's where you could lodge and stable your horse. They then became social community hubs, then then became Wetherspoons and made a guy called Tim extremely rich š
They are also dying in the UK, which is sad and which was the start of this thread I believe.
Historically more so, but even today, yes. Treatise between countries were signed in pubs. People like my great grandfather bought the family farm in a pub. In my life time I have found some really interesting characters there and have had some really great conversations too as they are used to knit the entire community together.
Sometimes in these retarded economic times the last commercial venture surviving in the village is a pub... when that goes everyone laments it.
In the last few years there has been a massive attack on pubs with covid as well as an massive increase in rates to put them out of business. Its another vector of a control to close these place down as people get arrest online for tweets.