i suggest all threads be called "freds" from now on.

Wasn't sure if I missed that meme or Phandz was coining it

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Yeah, I like Bards. Irish Pub sucks.

I've been a bit at odds with the bar scene because I generally prefer divey places and there are more swanky joints than you can shake a stick at.

O'Sheas is divey, but kinda cheesey too.
Happy Rooster on 16th street.
Good Dog on 15th street.

The Black Sheep on 17th and Locust is one of my favorites

Yeah, Rooster and Good Dog are sweet. I'll have to try Black Sheep.

O'Shea's is kind of hilarious. One night pretty soon after I just moved in, I took a friend of mine who helped me there, just as it was the first bar we passed on the street, and the waiter and bartender just seemed so shocked that anyone would step foot inside. "You want to eat HERE?"

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Yeah, Rooster and Good Dog are sweet. I'll have to try Black Sheep.

O'Shea's is kind of hilarious. One night pretty soon after I just moved in, I took a friend of mine who helped me there, just as it was the first bar we passed on the street, and the waiter and bartender just seemed so shocked that anyone would step foot inside. "You want to eat HERE?"

I've been to O'Sheas a few times for lunch during Phillies day games. I imagine it's an old crowd at night.

Black Sheep is best of the 3.

An international student from Japan is outside my office right now asking out a student recently immigrated from China in awkward broken English.

UPDATE: She's giving him her number!

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Yeah, I like Bards. Irish Pub sucks.

I've been a bit at odds with the bar scene because I generally prefer divey places and there are more swanky joints than you can shake a stick at.

Doobies at 22nd and Lombard. Good beers and a great juke box. No sign on the outside, but it's on the NW corner of the intersection. I also dig Tangier's at 18th and Lombard. Great wings, laidback people, and the one bartender looks like KRS One and is a funny dude.

Doobie's is pretty sweet, though it's really dead these days. Went there on my birthday late on a Saturday night and it was just me, my two friends, two other people and the bartender. Although now that I think of it, that was pretty great.

TenuredVulture wrote:An international student from Japan is outside my office right now asking out a student recently immigrated from China in awkward broken English.

UPDATE: She's giving him her number!

Break that shit up. This is college, dammit!

i am enjoying the "housh names random bars" fred.

Come to think of it, I haven't been to Doobies in a couple of years. Maybe I'm not the only one.

Money magazine picked Philadelphia as one of the 10 Best Places to Retire in the U.S. It's the only big city on the list (Savannah is probably the next biggest).

I think that's awesome.

seen on my box of raisins:

Ingredients: RAISINS

huh

I have 0 desire to do any work today.

The annoying janitor woman better not bull shit with me for twenty minutes again. You'd think she could see it in my eyes that I wouldn't give a shit even if I could understand the words coming from her mouth.

Housh, define dive bar, and I'm not being a smartass, but I thought part of a dive bar was that no one actually was in there most of the time and that popularity quickly moved it away from dive bar. For instance there's nothing particularly nice about Irish Pub or something, but because there is so many people there... not a dive bar.

I don't think I called Irish Pub a dive bar; it certainly isn't.

A dive bar to me means:

1. It's (relatively) cheap.
2. No one will give you trouble if you start getting plastered as long as you don't act like an asshole.
3. And there is no Dress Code, meaning you can go after work in your shirt and tie or you can go on a Saturday night in jeans and a white tee and no one will think twice.

I don't think how full they are really matters, because people love a good dive bar, so a good dive bar will get traffic.

examples:
Bob and Barbara's
Doobie's
Twelve Steps Down
Ray's

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I don't think I called Irish Pub a dive bar; it certainly isn't.

A dive bar to me means:

1. It's (relatively) cheap.
2. No one will give you trouble if you start getting plastered as long as you don't act like an asshat.
3. And there is no Dress Code, meaning you can go after work in your shirt and tie or you can go on a Saturday night in jeans and a white tee and no one will think twice.

I don't think how full they are really matters, because people love a good dive bar, so a good dive bar will get traffic.

examples:
Bob and Barbara's
Doobie's
Twelve Steps Down
Ray's

No I know you didn't call Irish Pub a dive bar, but I was just giving an example... you can get cheap, bad beer at Irish Pub, there's no dress code and you can get plastered there without trouble (this last one I'm not really sure helps me out as it seems everywhere you can do that as long as not acting like an asshat).

And yet you and I both know that's not a dive bar. I guess my image is a place where Miller/Bud/Coors rules, it's dark, and no cocktails. But I totally defer to you on what a dive is.

Didn't we have a scary-ass bugs fred?

I never heard of this thing before, but my wife encountered one of these today:



Cicada-killer wasp

re: jeff

I don't know. For me, Irish Pub is nothing like that. It's not particularly cheap and serves a very particular clientele that don't make me feel very welcome unless I stick to a certain section of my wardrobe.

Maybe it would be easier for you if I had said hipster bar? But for me, there's a whole category of hipster bar to the left of what you would probably think of as a hipster bar.