Is the vintage crowd the drunken costumed crowd? A thread for "squares"

[carter]

I speak to everyone! The more the merrier! The one or two that were sort of planned in the past fizzled out.
On the topic, it burns my goat when people give unasked for advice about other's bed times as in you go to bed too early, you stay up too late, you sleep too late, you sleep too much, whether they like hats or not.

GO PATRICK!

You go to bed too early. - Only when I stay up all night.

You stay up too late. - Only if I sleep all day after staying up all night.

You sleep too late. - As often as possible.

You sleep too much. - For who?

Whether they like hats or not. - I like hats a lot.

 

["Skeet" McD]

I dunno....back in the day before TV the local joint was the places folks would go to socialize. Jackie Gleason said it was TV that destroyed the atmosphere of the local bar . I used to love going down to the the corner watering hole with a pack of smokes and an old fedora on my noggin and just sit there talking to guys. Great sprawling conversations...you could just rip the whole word apart and make a friend you might never run into again.

I often think about what places like that were like back in the day before suburbia robbed us of our individual souls....

Well, Nulty my lad...I'm 55. I've been drinking since I was about 22 (at that time in NY, I could have started much earlier, if I'd a mind to)...and it was the "culture of the alehouse" that made me decide to start indulging. Since that time--over 3 decades--I've lived in downstate NY; upstate NY; Boston; and currently the hinterlands north of Boston (besides extended or repeating stays in various locales in Europe). And there's always been a pub I could call happily "my local" where you could and can get exactly the kind of experience we both cherish and you pine for.

Believe me: they are out there, no matter WHERE you are....although you might have to do a good deal of prospecting to find the one that matches your particular taste. 'Twas ever thus.

Bonus hint: sometimes pubs change their character markedly from one day to another, and most particularly at different times of the day. If you cherish good conversation and a varied and changing selection of fellow-loungers, give a preference to the slow nights and the early evenings. My current local up here in the sticks is PERFECT on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays pretty much all night....but the other nights, the louder, heavier-drinking 20-something set takes over by 9 or 10--not that there's anything wrong with that: they just define "a good time" differently than I do.

Good luck...and don't take mere nostalgia for the past as a poor substitute for getting the real thing!

Bibulously and loquaciously yours,
"Skeet"

 

[John in Covina]

I wonder about stuff like: when did it become unfeasable for me to stay up and out all night, then go to work and function like I had gotten a good night's sleep?

I used to be able to do it, now it is difficult and to be avoided like the plague.

 

[Miss 1929]

Me too, John...

I was wondering the other day how I ever did all the things in one day and night that I did in my 20s.

I still party and dress up and stay up late, but I pay for it...or, as Warbaby says. "The price of fun keeps going up".

 

[Spiffy]

All I can say in response to this is:
.....I'm a single college student in a 'party school' town. I'm getting it all out of my system now, as I see it. While I enjoy sitting at home in my pajamas watching TCM as much as anyone else, I'm supposed to be out making friends, being social, etc.

Now I'm re-reading this and I look like a bit of a mean crazy person. Sorry in advance, y'all.[huh]

 

[Diamondback]

Now I'm re-reading this and I look like a bit of a mean crazy person. Sorry in advance, y'all.[huh]

What's wrong with crazy people? What did I ever do to you? :cry: *sobbing like the stereotype of a little girl*







For the humor-challenged, this is intended as a moment of levity.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

All I can say in response to this is:
.....I'm a single college student in a 'party school' town. I'm getting it all out of my system now, as I see it. While I enjoy sitting at home in my pajamas watching TCM as much as anyone else, I'm supposed to be out making friends, being social, etc.

Now I'm re-reading this and I look like a bit of a mean crazy person. Sorry in advance, y'all.[huh]

Don't worry. There're just an awful lot of curmudgeons around. I was always surprised at the attention put on socialising at US colleges. At my University i had little time to socialise - too much work. [huh]

bk

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I was on the phone with a friend of mine in New York and she complained that I go to bed too early and that she’s eating dinner at 8:00 p.m. when I’m in my pajamas. She doesn’t understand why I don’t want her to call me after 9:00 p.m.

At 8.00. p.m You could be prowling around your Penthouse, crazy out of your mind , in satin Pyjamas with malibu feather trim , aching for a secret lover to drop off his dreary "Date" some time , after 9.00 p.m.

"A nice night "in"

 

[Feraud]

Don't worry. There're just an awful lot of curmudgeons around. I was always surprised at the attention put on socialising at US colleges. At my University i had little time to socialise - too much work. [huh]

bk

And it is always "a friend in NY" who gets the blame.
lol

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yes, the friend in New York is a very useful framing device.

bk