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It's simple, do you respect people or do you watch TV in bars?
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Bars That Aren't Sports Bars Shouldn't Have TVs
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It's simple, do you respect people or do you watch TV in bars?
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Just admit you have no respect for other people and possibly yourself.
lol i remember we kept stealing furniture from our university bar. It became a game of who could steal the biggest thing. Lots of stools, we managed a table once.
Yeah OP not every pub needs a tv. Luckily many Dublin pubs are sprawling and have nooks and crannies.
Yeah OP not every pub needs a tv. Luckily many Dublin pubs are sprawling and have nooks and crannies.
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One restaurant I work at has no TV's at all, and my main gig has 1 tv inherited from the previous brunch place before it. We just play shows from Netflix on there!
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Is your main gig at a bar for children, idiots or idiot children?
It depends.
I remember one of the bars in Alhambra playing random anime on the screen. It wasn't bad.
I remember one of the bars in Alhambra playing random anime on the screen. It wasn't bad.
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What a world. Pricey drinks and they don't even have the decency to turn off the damn tv. Honestly you should do what I did and just take the cable next time.
It's a sweet farm to table place. Everyone is welcome, including you!
TV's in bars aren't that bad to me. The worst is seeing TV's in a fucking Arby's or any fast food place.
or certain gas stations that have TV's built in and play while you pump gas. Like we're all a bunch of feeble, zombified morons(about half right), that need to fill every precious moment of our life with a bright light staring at us.
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or certain gas stations that have TV's built in and play while you pump gas. Like we're all a bunch of feeble, zombified morons(about half right), that need to fill every precious moment of our life with a bright light staring at us.
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This has only ever been annoying when one of my regulars was packed out during the World Cup. Not a sports bar, but a foreigner-friendly bar. Packed full of faces I didn't recognise. Couldn't even get in.
Otherwise it's no bother. Nobody really watches the screens and they can be useful for pretending to do something while waiting for a friend to come back and not wanting to look like a bit of a loner staring at a smart phone.
Otherwise it's no bother. Nobody really watches the screens and they can be useful for pretending to do something while waiting for a friend to come back and not wanting to look like a bit of a loner staring at a smart phone.
This must be a troll. No one is this passive aggressive. Also, how did no one immediately notice that the TV suddenly didn't work and saw you near the area?
If that bar has cameras then stealing their cable wasn't very smart either
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Returning it with a letter? If you thought that what you did was right, then you should return it in person and tell them your story.
I've glanced through a few pages and everything from your replies to other posters to the poll and your own posts is telling me this is nothing more than a troll/fake.No one who is serious types the way you do in this topic.
I also don't believe you managed to steal an HDMI cable without anyone in the bar noticing you or that the tv suddenly went off. But if you want to keep up this tall tale, you do you.
You mean the stealing part. Yup, they got it.
Always bet on trolling.
He quickly swiped a hmdi cable from the TV, elevated, connected to the wall/box? Without being noticed? Is Snes a smurf?
I can't easily remove my own hdmi cable to my tv. It requires a ladder and gymnastics.
Unless we are to believe it's the only bar in the world with tvs that aren't elevated.
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It's a lame way of ensuring patrons spend more time in the bar. TVs cause distraction, meaning conversations last longer since people require more time to form thoughts, and sometimes need to ask their interlocutors to repeat sentences.
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Thank you!
I find I'm most eloquent when I write down my thoughts.
eloquence will get you nowhere. this situation calls for action. go in there, order a beer, dramatically slap the cable on the bar and explain your grievance in as few words possible ("brevity is the soul of wit" - wayne gretzky) and then leave. tip 100%, or better yet, just leave a 20 and don't take the change. you might not be able to make them get rid of the TV, but you can guarantee the next time you're in there they'll remember you're the guy who hates tv and tips like a lunatic, so your odds of getting them to turn it off will be much higher. i say all of this presuming by your avatar that you actually live in the greater Boston area, which means the likelihood of the bar calling the police is pretty slim as they've assuredly seen much, much worse
I agree with you OP.... just maybe... not quite to the extent of swiping a cable.
However I will fully admit to fucking with bar TVs using the IR blaster on my Newton back in the 90s so maybe I am already there.
I just wouldn't patronize a place like that anymore. I don't watch the sportsball so the places I hang out at are either TV-less or have like a single display showing freaky photoshops of historical photos or something non-motion-distracting.
However I will fully admit to fucking with bar TVs using the IR blaster on my Newton back in the 90s so maybe I am already there.
I just wouldn't patronize a place like that anymore. I don't watch the sportsball so the places I hang out at are either TV-less or have like a single display showing freaky photoshops of historical photos or something non-motion-distracting.
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Honestly, you're one of the very few people in this thread I actually respect.
OP if you aren't full of shit and trolling, which is highly likely considering how straight you've played this thread the whole time, you went from annoying to a downright asshole with that HDMI cable shit. If you did that at the bar I worked at I woulda put your face through a window.
Your dumb ass righteousness about how other people should enjoy their time at a a bar doesn't give you a pass to take other people's property.
Your dumb ass righteousness about how other people should enjoy their time at a a bar doesn't give you a pass to take other people's property.
You'd be goddamned surprised. When I was booking gigs I'd have assholes fuck with the speakers if they didn't like the band that was playing. People are entitled pricks.
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Some bars can have TVs and some can not. I go to a lot of breweries with my partner and friends and we usually bring a deck of cards and just talk drink and play whatever low impact game we're feeling.
But I also love baseball and it's nice to go to the neighborhood watering hole and see the game. And honestly sometimes I dig it when a bar has a tv on silent playing an old movie. I can't see how that's so infuriating.
In conclusion relax and enjoy your beer we're all gonna be dead soon anyway so stop getting your undies knotted up
But I also love baseball and it's nice to go to the neighborhood watering hole and see the game. And honestly sometimes I dig it when a bar has a tv on silent playing an old movie. I can't see how that's so infuriating.
In conclusion relax and enjoy your beer we're all gonna be dead soon anyway so stop getting your undies knotted up
The only point in going to a bar is to get drunk with friends or watch sports games with friends. Absolutely nothing about what a bar offers is mature or "adult". That's somehow both self-conscious and ignorant.
I'll also note open mics and karaoke are fun but again, nothing mature comes from either of those things.
I'll also note open mics and karaoke are fun but again, nothing mature comes from either of those things.
You should have a note and your name and address on it for they can ban you for stealing from them because it seems like you don't have any respect for people.
I like bars with TVs and I like bars without TVs. There's no one-size-fits-all answer here.
If I want to watch hockey, eat quality sushi, and order a cocktail, there should be a place where I can do all three in my neighborhood... and there is. It shouldn't just be relegated to sports bars, because they don't offer the same type of dining experience as other places.
If I want an intimate candle-lit night with no sports on in the background, and some nice jazz or piano music or someting, there are bars for that in my neighborhood too.
If you live in a city, you should be able to have it both ways.
If I want to watch hockey, eat quality sushi, and order a cocktail, there should be a place where I can do all three in my neighborhood... and there is. It shouldn't just be relegated to sports bars, because they don't offer the same type of dining experience as other places.
If I want an intimate candle-lit night with no sports on in the background, and some nice jazz or piano music or someting, there are bars for that in my neighborhood too.
If you live in a city, you should be able to have it both ways.
This thread perfectly captures the people who post in the sports threads and the people who don't lol
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User Banned (Permanent): Bumped old thread just to continue antagonizing other users, long history of similar behavior
Put my face through a window? Yeah ok pal, maybe if you weren't wasting your life infront of the idiot box watching sportsball.
Come find me when you get a brain.
So the mods have just let you have a thread where you use your supposed dislike of TVs in bars to be an asshole to other posters?
What kind of child are you OP
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