do you have pubs in america?

The pub is like a massive part of life for loads people in britain, do you have the same thing in america? silly name on the front, all smell the same, open from midday till midnight or is it more like bars and other shit over there?

more like bars and shit. some local neighborhood bars are similar to pubs and serve the same function, but they aren't really the same and we really don't have pubs as you understand them. the only pubs we do have are gimmicky places that style themselves as "English style" or "Irish style" pubs. But they really aren't true pubs and never could be because they don't have the surrounding cultural understanding of what a pub is to make them truly such.

yeah turns out this was a rubbish thread but ive been wondering this for months on and off and only finally did it resurface in my mind on watmm.

new thread idea, say something nasty about the poster above you.

bcm is a sweaty spiceboy with no mates.

messiaen fucks turtles

i said say something nasty

where i live in florida, there are loads and loads of british and irish tourists... there are actually more pubs than bars at my neck of the woods... i've been to one near my house and there was a autograph of bono on the wall... i don't see him hanging out in davenport though... the food was awesome... the beer, awesome! and a few irish speaking bar keeps... i know where they live too! actually... there are no bars in my area... just pubs!

lol @irish speaking

dya like dags?

i didn't understand some of the stuff they said... i would go there more often...but you know... marriage... children... responsibilities!

  asymmetrical head said:

i would go there more often...but you know... marriage... children... responsibilities!

These three things really shouldn't mix with the Irish.

of course we have pubes in america wtf?

  asymmetrical head said:

where i live in florida, there are loads and loads of british and irish tourists... there are actually more pubs than bars at my neck of the woods... i've been to one near my house and there was a autograph of bono on the wall... i don't see him hanging out in davenport though... the food was awesome... the beer, awesome! and a few irish speaking bar keeps... i know where they live too! actually... there are no bars in my area... just pubs!

jesus is all "omg wtf?"

totally!

this one old historic town near me has a few really old "pubs" that still function. Called the Fife & Drum, Coat of Arms etc. I'd say they are about as authentic of a pub that you are going to find in the states, otherwise it's just loads of hole in the wall bars. My favorite is called CRACKERS.

what is the difference between a pub and a bar?

  Hanratty said:

what is the difference between a pub and a bar?

In a pub you get pissed and fight the people you've been getting drunk with for the last 3 years and know really well. In a bar you get pissed and fight everyone else in that bar, which you've never seen before in your life.

bars are not that different to bars really.

So what do you do in a pub?

lol, you noticed then.

  abusivegeorge said:

  Hanratty said:

what is the difference between a pub and a bar?

 

In a pub you get pissed and fight the people you've been getting drunk with for the last 3 years and know really well. In a bar you get pissed and fight everyone else in that bar, which you've never seen before in your life.

Well, I mean, theres all kinds of bars that have regulars, especially in small towns here in the states. Theres got to be more than just that? Is it just really extreme? I always thought they were the same in some way. There are a ton of bars in the states that call themselves "pubs".

if there aren't any minorities, it's probably a pub.

if the food is edible, it's probably a pub.

or if soccer is playing on the TV and it's not a 60 inch flat screen HDTV, it's a pub.

It's usually football in the US, not soccer.

  autopilot said:

It's usually football in the US, not soccer.

I'm sure this sentence is very confusing for some.