Tell Us About Your Local.

by Englishman 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  jst2laws

  Mulan and Franklin,

  I am with Mulan on this, Starbucks seems to be the place of choice these days

  Two of my favorite people. But I'm sad to say we are a mess. We don't have what Eman is talking about, and we need it.

  I have been to Eman's local. It was filled with a variety of different people and ages. They all seemed to know each other, look after each other and to a degree care for each other. You do not find this in Starbucks.

  Maybe someone with a psych backround can explain this to me. So we don't have a "Local" like the Brits do. Maybe we have something else that we don't need what it provides. If so I would like to know what it is.

  Steve
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  RAYZORBLADE

  Hey Mike, that's a good thread.

  I think we can all get along really nicely at our local watering hole.

  For me, there are a couple. One is real white trash, but.....the folks are nice, and the crowd mixed (and I do mean that) Golden Pizza Pub, on the Danforth in east Toronto.

  The other: Mackie's Taigh Osda (House of Ales), Scottish theme....you know I'm gonna like that. It's great, with tons of beers on tap, and live music and excellent food.

  There's the Only Cafe, down the road. It's small and cozy, but awesome!!

  My other fav: The Tap. That's along Bloor Street West here in Toronto. iiz2cool and I have been there, it's not bad. Good grub, greasy spoon stuff.

  Then....(fanfare), there's where I work. The Cameron House:

  http://www.thecameron.com

  That's where some of the Toronto apostates and Vicki Boer hung out in November 2003.

  Aztec and iiz2cool, they are practically known and recognized there.
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  Soledad

  my local is across the river in Newark, NJ, a Portuguese bar-grill "El Pastor." they do have live music on weekends, the restaurant is separate from the bar area, the food is <<fantastico>> AND THERE IS NO NO-SMOKING BAN!! (jeers to Bloomberg for making me go to Jersey!! )
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  asleif_dufansdottir

  I have been to Eman's local. It was filled with a variety of different people and ages. They all seemed to know each other, look after each other and to a degree care for each other. You do not find this in Starbucks.

  Maybe someone with a psych backround can explain this to me. So we don't have a "Local" like the Brits do. Maybe we have something else that we don't need what it provides. If so I would like to know what it is.

  Well, I don't have lots of experiences with bars and such (I do know the pub over there is a bit different than your average bar), but I think one difference might be that people in the U.S. tend to go to a bar with a group of people they already know, where your description sounds like the folks in the local met and became friends at the local.

  For instance, here we have the 2 places that have been around for decades that different university departments frequent (when the local brew pub changed hands it was given an obit in the anthropology department newsletter! they'd been going there since the 60's).

  Of course, the tiny "beer joint" in the town where I grew up was a place where everybody knew each other, but that was because everybody in the little town knows each other anyway...
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  Undecided

  There is a few of us old farts that meet at McDonalds in the morning for coffee about 10:AM. My brother and I meet there most days with the other locals. It's very interesting to hear some of the conversations. Some are poor, some with money, some smart, some dumb, just a good mixture of people to have a few good laughs.

  Ken P.
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  IronGland

  I just go hang out with MD20/20 and they regale me with strange stories.
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  Surreptitious

  I thought this was gonna be about unions.
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  FlyingHighNow

  When we go to such a place we go to the Florentine Restaurant: it is family owned. It looks like an Italian Village inside and has a great atmosphere with dimmed lighting. There is a full bar. On Tuesday nights they have Karaoke. This is when we go. Ruby handles the Karaoke. We have gotten to know her and like her a lot. We sing even when we sound awful. I have found that a drink or two or three can increase your boldness. I rarely drink though.

  Andy and I both work at the same place. Many of the people who work there, including us, have been there for years. We all feel like family. Our breakroom is sort of like the local with no alcohol. It's always smoke filled as well as full of people. We have the best xmas parties and company picnic. Some of us girls go to lunch and a movie once in a while. I guess my job is my local. That's kinda scary. We need to get out more.

  Heather
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  Satanus

  The closest to this that i have is a place on the river where i often watch the sun set in the summer time. It's a point into the river where a bike path makes a large loop. There are some benches. There are sometimes ten or fifteen people watching it. A few times, a couple of others that live in my building, who also have bikes went there w me. It's pretty neat. I often take pictures. You can never get too many sunset pics.

  SS
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  Englishman

  but I think one difference might be that people in the U.S. tend to go to a bar with a group of people they already know, where your description sounds like the folks in the local met and became friends at the local.

  That could well be the difference. Most folk whom I know in my local I actually met in the local.

  Whenever we've moved house, we've always headed for an acceptable local pub. You sort of have to put your time in a for a while until you get to know a few folk, after that it becomes almost a second home.

  I visit my local most days, normally at the end of the day around 10 pm. It's a nice way to end the day, almost a reward for the work put in earlier.

  Englishman.