If so, under what circumstances?

I've only done it once... I had some time to kill so I sat there at the bar and read a magazine and drank some cider.

Do you go to meet people or what? I guess I'm sort of a wimp when it comes to going to bars alone.

Yes.
When I get bored and nobody else wants to go out.
It's only a 3 min walk away and I went to highschool with the manager.

Knowing all the staff makes it easier to meet people. The males talk to me becuase I chat to the female staff and the women talk to me becuase the female staff tell them im ok.


This is an australian Suburban bar though, 4 miles from the CBD. Theres a sports betting section, pokies, restaurant.

I always go out to NYC bars alone however with my accent it's easy to get picked up/meet people.

I don't go to bars at all except J. Patricks and then it's usually to meet one of you goons.

in europe when i'm alone i do all the time and i end up meeting people and having a great time.

i used to go a  place down by my old apartment alone and i was friends with the bartender so half the time i'd go in if it was empty just to see him. 

i'd definitely go alone to a bar to kill time waiting to meet up with someone but for some reason i just don't have the fun doing it in the states that i do when i'm in europe.

i can't remember the last time i did it... which would be a good sign, if i wasn't so happy just drinking alone at home.

I go to bars alone.  I'll have a couple of pints and read.  I'd rather just walk to the bar and have a couple of pints than walk to the liquor store, wander around to pick something out, then have a bunch of beer sitting in my house.

I sometimes end up talking to people.  It's always because they approach me though.  I'm never there to meet people. 

I have a lot of bizarre conversations with strangers generally so the occassional one in a bar is no surprise.

Yes. I am very selective about the company I drink with.

i don't ever go to bars. even when i had no children and was drinking heavily i didn't go to bars.

oh, wait. yes i did. i went to gay bars with my secret boyfriend. but i was already hammered by the time i got there so i don't remember much of it.

Did you have trouble sitting after nights like that?

Did you have trouble sitting after nights like that?

no, actually! he always was making me play pool with him and then telling me that every girl he'd ever taught to play pool he ended up fucking in the ass.

i regularly reminded him that i already knew how to play pool and i never let him near my anus.

Nice!

Yes.
When I get bored and nobody else wants to go out.
It's only a 3 min walk away and I went to highschool with the manager.

Knowing all the staff makes it easier to meet people. The males talk to me becuase I chat to the female staff and the women talk to me becuase the female staff tell them im ok.


This is an australian Suburban bar though, 4 miles from the CBD. Theres a sports betting section, pokies, restaurant.

I always go out to NYC bars alone however with my accent it's easy to get picked up/meet people.

Melbourne suburban bar(n)'s are sad and scary places. Usually full of desparate pensioners returning their pension to the government through slot machines, and scary bogan wanna be outlaw biker drug dealer types who will beat you to death if you look at them. They are soulless caverous spaces usually playing either musak Cold Chisel or John Farnham or some such aural atrocity, where the beer of choice available is either VB or Carlton Draught (both undrinkable, but potent) and the decor is designed to easily hose out the beer, blood and vomit. Pool tables exist as a drawcard, but really, who plays pool these days? Yup, scary bogan wanna be outlaw biker drug dealer types.

And you cant walk to them, you must drive. They usually exist at the intersections of two huge highways. They are not a destination. They are purgatory.

I went to a bar tonight alone to kill time, it wasn't the worst night of my life. Some random guy started talking to me, he was nice... yeeeeaaaah.

I went to a bar tonight alone to kill time, it wasn't the worst night of my life. Some random guy started talking to me, he was nice... yeeeeaaaah.

hooray for no ass spoo. hopefully.

I told him I wasn't interested in going out. But a nice guy nonetheless.

I told him I wasn't interested in going out. But a nice guy nonetheless.

i have spent most of the night camming with dyl. he's fighting a losing battle with sleep.

When I was younger I did, but only because the bar maids were whores.

Drinking by myself right now actually.  I've been working on a statistics project for like three days and it's a complete fucking nightmare and all this end of semester shit is right up my ass.  I gave up for the rest of the night, and now it's tequila time.  Don't have any mixer so I'm mixing it with ice.

I can't remember ever going to a bar by myself, drinking at home by yourself serves the same purpose generally and it's cheaper.

My two cents.

RE: Melb stuff

Even the ones about the same distance from cbd as my local ?

We do have ones like you describe, you have to go further out of town though. Also nearly ever bar up here has been spruced up over the past decade.
I'm glad I don;t go drinking when im down there ( I am victorian ).

The small pubs in places like Fitzroy and Collingwood are excellent, but are inhabited by wanker types. Except the Leinster Arms, which is Chopper Read's local. If the owners weren't such Collingwood FC fanatics, it'd be the near perfect pub.

I live 17 kilometers from the CBD, in Blackburn, my choices are much more limited. I avoid the Blackburn, the Burvale, the Mountain View, Villiage Green, the Manhatten, the Bayswater, and others like it like the plague.

I've been away far too long to remember place names. I'm just a tourist now. I do remember bayswater however I think that might be becuase something happened there to get it on the news, which would be no suprise to you.

The geo/pop difference between Bris and Melb makes my head spin.

I was in BNE in October for work, first time I'd been there... I stayed in Fortitude Valley.

It was fun, but it was amazing how small the place felt. But I did watch some girl get nekkid in her apartment from Storey Bridge.

Yep, It is small for a CBD zone. Not too small though. The valley is the nightlife section of town, sadly its fucking ugly.

You went on the bridge walk no, you mean just walking over the bridge, have too, nobody does the walk.

The only reason people walk over the bridge is to get to and from the storey bridge hotel or pineapple hotel. nice places. not my favs.

I just walked over the bridge...

I found the Valley to be highly amusing, probably for all the wrong reasons. When I got to work in Coorparoo on Monday, they asked where I was staying. I said the Valley, and they were all, "oooh theres drugs and bad stuff there"

??!!?? Felt ok to me, probably been cleaned up a while back.

It seemed tame compared to St Kilda, or the old Kings Cross. Worst I got was the odd abo hassling me for change.

ha, you were like 5 mins away from me.

And to most bris people the valley is bad ~shrug, they havent seen real scum before.

and it is amusing for all the wrong reasons, its just old news to me. im biased.

I don't really go out often at all anymore, and certainly not alone. But before I became an old, boring, married man, I'd often go to bars by myself. That said, on an island this size, you tend to know almost everyone and vice versa, so I dunno if any kind of going out here counts as going out alone.

Like C said, though, when travelling I've always gone to bars alone. I also always seem to get to chatting with people, even though I don't really mean to. I guess I'm just friendly looking?

In like 11 months I can start going to bars. But I'd probably only go alone like once in a blueberry.

I go to bars alone all the time and just start talking to people. Over here it's a great way to meet people

Maybe there, but not in NJ lol my parents met in a bar and got married at a bar by the drunk mayor of the town. HAH talk about a love story. she left him so that's a good example right?

I haven't been to a bar in over 2 years



is it bad that my wife goes on a more regular basis than me?

Only because she comes over here and tosses my salad.