some guys are downvoting this because they'd never get laid (for free) if it weren't for bars/clubs..

you will see that it is from the photo-Hebrew / Assyrian words El (Spirit of) and Cohol or Ghoul (spooky, creepy, diabolical etc.

... only ever had sex with strangers stone-cold sober, and I think bars are a lot of fun---karaoke, for example, had a bunch of friends, we'd do karaoke when I was in University.

While I don't drink much now, I don't really think alcohol is as big a problem as, say, central banking. As for the inventiveness of alcoholics, one semi-respectable hypothesis is the "beer before bread" theory, that it was the creation of beer that led to the development of settlements, civilization, etc.

The issue I have is that if I am a home owner, I should be able to run a bar for-profit, the provincial liquor monopoly is an antiquated relic.

Risk is what makes life fun, and danger bonds people together.

Lots of amazing things have happened through out the centuries while people have consumed alcohol.

Winston Churchill for one would drink a bottle of Scotch a day and he help plan and win WW2.

Also Shark week and South West Airlines all came across over some drinks.

I bet there are a lot more out there.

Jezzus, welcome to the no fun zone, what a joyless boring turd you are.

Nothing important every invented. What about, uh, ethanol? you know the stuff that we use to sanitize everything? Why do you think it exists?

Most do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. And you speak as a turd. "Kerplunk !!!!"

Yes drinking makes you stupid. Everyone knows that. And almost everything fun is risky. And you are more likely to do risky things when you are in a stupid state. Therefore alcohol is necessary for fun. Bars are good. Logic.

Chiming in- but seriously!> you must be some kind of puritan, Think of all the great literature and art that has been helped to the surface with a few drops, with good company in bars. Pollock, Hemmingway, Joyce, Francis Bacon. Even trappist monks knew how to distil up a good brew. All in moderation. Bars shutting will rip the soul out of an already increasingly souless city