“I go to a bar to converse with my friends. Whet my whistle after a long stint on the motorcycle. To appreciate the wood work of the actual bar and the architecture of the bar itself. Often times just to see what the locals look like so I get a better feel of America. I even appreciate how they stack the bottles of booze to make an almost cathedral like work of art (eg. below, the St. Paul Hotel’s bar in St. Paul, Minnesota) All of that is ruined if you have the sports channel on, just like a loud thunderous fart in church.”
I hang out at a couple of sports bars both here and in Florida. We old guys still talk. The young guys go back and forth between their phones and the TV, conversation is limited between them.
An exception is made, of course, for Flames games.
I go to my local pub to watch sports. Sorry that offends you.
Face to face conversation. A dying art.
When people need each other less and less and the govt takes their place.
And when you go to a sporting event they blast music. You can’t win 🙂
I go to my local pub to watch sports. Sorry that offends you.
Cap’s point is that there exist sports bars for that exact service.
Went to a hockey game recently.
Canadian tire pays a whole bunch of kids to go out twice each period to clean the ice with, of course, Canadian tire scrapers while Toyota sells cars on TV too the guys watching their cell phones in the sports bars.
I guess that is so the owners can pay the players what they pay the players. The game is secondary so I treat is as such.
thunderous loud fart in a church, I like the SBD in the elevator on a long non-stopper :-)))
Captain I’m surprised at you.
You don’t believe in the free market? Capitalism?
If a bar has sports on and you don’t like it, don’t go there. Find a place without the big screen TVs.
Failing that, if none of the bars cater to your needs where you live, move! I hear there are still a number of quiet pubs in the UK that do just that. 🙂
Cheers
PS – fully agree with noisy bloody bars but maybe that’s why micropubs are starting to boom. 😉
Looks pretty comfy. Would visit! I agree for sure. Always hard to find a quiet kind of place to talk with friends over some drinks.
Captain’s point is that he’s thinks everyone is there for the same reason as him and we should all do and like whatever he does.
“And when you go to a sporting event they blast music.”
Exactly. And that’s why I quit going to any Oilers’ games. They have turned the NHL into the NBA.
So long as they aren’t playing CNN … I don’t care.
Again, ,b.this is not a call for all American bars to turn off the TV’s. I understand the Normies of America need there “sportzball” and the critical analysis thereof the sports channels provide. But for those of us who just want to have a drink, chill out at an old oak bar, talk to the patrons at the American Legion, or not have our eyes and minds raped with the stupidity that is the sports channel, would you mind just changing the channel or turning off the TV just once to see what happens?
My God, you’re right. He’s a veritable tyrant.
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There are many people who are NOT sports fans and have no interest in watching a sports teams play whatever in a pub. Pubs were supposed to be social places where people mingled and chatted.
I do not go to pubs anymore because I have a TV at home and that is where I prefer to watch TV. When I go out in a public place, I hope to see people socializing or at least acknowledging each others presence.
That doesn’t happen anymore and we have a generation or two of people who cannot have a face to face conversation or talk about anything they haven’t just read on their Smartphone. Zero social skills. Those who avoid this vortex of screens upon screens will be the winners.
One word on my gravestone to sum up how I feel about the society I spent my life in. … “DISAPPOINTED”
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When my Washington Nationals baseball games are on TV I go to my pub for food and sports. I could care less what the drunkards at the bar have to say. i could give a crap about the architecture of the oaken cathedral of poison behind the bar and now I know how much it pisses you all off.
Suck it up buttercup
Some of the nastiness from Travis is justified.
I don’t like sports on TV at a bar, I like UK, French, Dutch and German pubs with nothing but conversation.
But who the fuck am I to dictate to bar owners and Travis?
Were there a market for quiet bars in Canada, there would be quiet bars. Bar owners are not stupid.
Why is everyone in favour of free markets until they are out of sync with the markets?
Any one of you hosers wants a quiet bar, open one, until then, shut up.