Comment on Anon is worried about men

• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Isn’t it also because going out nowadays is expensive as hell especially if you live in a big city. Young people working part time aren’t going to waste one month’s salary on one night out. And just hanging outside in public sharing a beer will make a nosy boomer call the cops on you for loitering. So the younger generations have learned how to have fun at home without booze.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s never been a point in my life where going out drinking all night has made financial sense. A meal and a beer at a pub, sure, but bars are expensive. And loud. And cramped.

    The kids are on to something.

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    • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You just have to live in the right city with sufficiently high rates of alcoholism! In Fargo, ND you could get a tall 200 lb+ man proper sloshed over an evening downtown across 5-8 bars for $50 or less as recently as 2019. Not as cheap as drinking at home, but enough that most folks without kids working full-time could do it every other weekend.

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      • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        See, but that’s the rub! Who the fuck wants to spend $50 and go to that many bars? I could get a new AAA game for that much that I’ll play for hundreds of hours.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Fargo, ND

        Well there’s your problem, North Dakota doesn’t exist.

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      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        $50 or less in 2019? I live in a more urban area of the US than this and if you pregame and go with friends, you can get the equivalent of 5 drinks at 3 bars for well under $20. In 2025.

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    • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Having fun does not need to make financial sense.

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      • WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And yet finances are what enable some kinds of fun. $10 dollar indie game you play for a month or one night out for $200. Guess which men are picking.

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It does if you’re poor.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Drinking less is probably good. I doubt that automatically leads to less dating.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  we need cannabis lounges

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