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by **Houshphandzadeh** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:12:04

The getting plastered without trouble thing doesn't separate the Ray's from the Irish Pubs of the world, but it does separate the Ray's from the Vangos and Village Whiskeys and Continentals and so forth.

by **Bakestar** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:13:27

I'd say attention to decor (or lack thereof) is a marker of a serious dive bar.

by **BigEd76** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:14:05

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

what they eat

by **phatj** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:22:31

BigEd76 wrote:
phatj wrote:I never heard of this thing before, but my wife encountered one of these today:

what they eat

I saw a live cicada for the first time just a few years ago, and they're pretty freaky bugs themselves.

by **BigEd76** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:24:37

I know they have those weird patterns with rising from the ground only 1 or 2 times a decade, but I don't think I've seen those brown shells they leave behind since I was in elementary school...

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:32:54

Houshphandzadeh wrote:four comfortably, with two on the bed.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I received "several complaints about noise coming from your apartment."

Well, duh ...

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:33:29

Houshphandzadeh wrote: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.

Dive bar? Heck, back in my day of wine and wimmins, that would constitute a class establishment. I've been to places where you'd need to shower when you got home. Did I say shower? More like requiring one of those HAZMAT washdowns.

by **CFP** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:46:13

I may have seen that cicada wasp thing on my deck Sunday night. I didn't think much of it, now I'm glad I went inside.

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 17:47:47

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

She works here too.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 18:42:48

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.

Bonner's, my friend, Bonner's. I lived at the corner of 22nd & Sansom for three and a half years from 2004-2007 - still go back to Bonner's on occasion.

by **phatj** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 19:08:38

mozartpc27 wrote:
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.

Bonner's, my friend, Bonner's. I lived at the corner of 22nd & Sansom for three and a half years from 2004-2007 - still go back to Bonner's on occasion.

Now that's a dive.

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 19:16:19

Houshphandzadeh wrote: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.

Silk City?

by **The Dude** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 19:39:09

That's more of a hipster/trendy bar. Now they even have good food

by **Barry Jive** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 19:59:00

I missed post #5000 but at least I made it. What a ride. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 20:01:05

The Dude wrote:That's more of a hipster/trendy bar. Now they even have good food

I know Silk City is a hipster bar, but is it hipster enough for Housh?

by **Werthless** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 20:06:05

Barry Jive wrote:I missed post #5000 but at least I made it. What a ride. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

Who are you?

by **Barry Jive** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 20:11:41

Werthless wrote:
Barry Jive wrote:I missed post #5000 but at least I made it. What a ride. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

Who are you?

I'm sorry, as of now I'm adopting a strict no-responding-to-posters-with-one-bell policy.

by **Werthless** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 20:14:49

Barry Jive wrote:
Werthless wrote:
Barry Jive wrote:I missed post #5000 but at least I made it. What a ride. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

Who are you?

I'm sorry, as of now I'm adopting a strict no-responding-to-posters-with-one-bell policy.

I'm sorry, but I've tricked you into breaking that policy. You'll always be a 1-beller.

by **Grotewold** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 21:04:25

So we're opening a Rittenhouse dive bar

by **Bakestar** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 21:33:46

Endless mentioned it upthread, but Tangier (18th n' Lomby) is a good place, great service and the wings are really good (and I'm pretty ambivalent about wings).

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