People here will literally tell you “I don’t want to hear about it” but then complain about the gas prices. It feels like a total Don’t Look Up moment.
People here will literally tell you “I don’t want to hear about it” but then complain about the gas prices. It feels like a total Don’t Look Up moment.
A reporter for the New York Times went to a bar during the Watergate hearings and asked if they could put it on the TV and he was kicked out
I mean, if I was at a bar and trying to relax, I’d consider kicking out whichever cunt decided to put on something stressful like that. Imagine going to a yoga class and insisting that they change their binaural tone background soundscape to death metal instead. If I want to watch the news, I’ll tune into it. I get enough doom and gloom in my daily life, I don’t need it shoved in my face when I’m trying to relax.
TVs in bars is such a weird American thing
Even reasonably classy places have them.
I thought it was just a TV trope, but I am always amazed at how it’s normal to have an antisocial device in a place for socialising
Its not uniquely American. Plenty of Mexican and Japanese bars have TVs too. Mexican and American bars love putting on a sports game while Japanese ones show a lot of music videos.