It’s not funny, it’s just… Horrible. Elitist, classist, sexist, just… Rank. Heckling (by some autistic bloke who actually works here), and just… So bad.
I got convinced to go to this thing. It’s like, as local as you could get, for me, but yeah…
Dunno if comedy is like this where you live, but man, in this “hipster bar”, dear god there is no way this was worth the cover charge.
Eugh…
Not even America, ahaha… But it is exactly the same, lol…
Though “the olds” go to this one, too, just to attempt to appear “cool”…
My parents go there more than I do, no word of a lie, to go to the “restaurant” part, because it’s “trendy”…
No fucking joke, lol.
But yeah, this place used to be exactly as you describe, less than a decade ago (old-ass women, drunk hicks, angry locals), and then these fucking hipsters bought it, ripped out everything from the bottle shop to the accommodation out back (you know, like any motel) to the fucking cable sports tv, and now..?
It’s a pretentious shithole with pinball machines, cover charges, sour beers (almost the only thing on tap) and a bunch of, let’s say, adult children running around…
You can’t even go there to watch the game. Or drink decent draught beer on tap (a must, for proper pubs here). So I genuinely don’t understand how they make money, lol..
It’s so… Generically “hipster”, that I suspect I could have just described one too many “hip” joints up and down your US West Coast, though, lol…
Sad
I don't think that sort of thing even exists, here, dude (what's Kratom, anyway, lol?)...
Fairly sure Kava is literally illegal, in this country, so that would have to be an underground thing here, lol...
But anyway, place is too small for that. And too isolated. Think... Rhode Island or maybe Maine, culturally, but with the isolation of like, Anchorage, or Honolulu... But with less people than any of those places, lol.
I'll look around, when I'm back interstate, in a "proper", functional city, lol.
I know a couple of bars that are a bit more like what you are describing, but the drug of choice is (of course) MDMA, and more dubiously Ket, and, well, they're still far too "generically hipster" for me, lol...