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But is he wrong?

In Dublin, Ireland no less.

WOOF! WOOF!

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I don't drink by choice - don't see what's so special about alcoholic drinks - and I too appreciate when there's a good selection of Mocktails. Saves having to stick with the same old cola or lemonade.

A bush is a bush

> Open mic nights (poems, comedy, acoustic guitar), food truck Fridays, taco Tuesdays, etc

That is called a coffee shop.

This is a concept trying to fill roles already filled better by other venues.

Sadly

Depressing, isn't it ?

You right

I got the joke, I understand the cheap stereotype of the Irish all being alcoholics. I just don’t find it amusing or clever. It’s cheap and facile.

How can you not get the joke that the humor lies in the fact that a non-alcoholic bar in Dublin is an oxymoron?

The culture involves alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism_in_Ireland#:~:text=Binge%20drinking%20is%20considered%20the,deaths%20a%20day%20in%20Ireland.

Why can't a joke be a joke without everyone getting bent out of shape? Would I assume someone was an alcoholic because the person was Irish? Of course not! That would be stupid. Am I going to feel all offended because someone makes a joke about the very real situation regarding alcohol and Irish culture. No! That would be stupid, as well.

The more one uses humor against tropes, the more those tropes lose power.

Mel Brooks wrote comedies about the Holocaust, The Spanish Inquisition, and racism to combat and to criticize and to mock those very mindsets.

So because James Joyce liked to drink it’s okay to paint the Irish as alcoholics? How can you be intelligent enough to read Ulysses yet be so ignorant?

"Racism"? Really? It's a cultural phenomenon. James Joyce attested to it. He was an Irish author. He also drank like a fish. He always had to ask his patroness for more money, because he was constantly drinking it away. Joyce died of a bleeding ulcer from...you guessed it, the effects of alcoholism. My favorite novel is James Joyce's Ulysses.

I'm not making racist assertions. Ireland has anthropologically documented issues with alcoholism.

The mental gymnastics are simple. As far as they're concerned, if they aren't: straight, cis, sufficiently "russian" putin supporter, etc. They ain't human.

On one hand, I did have to clear it up for you. But on the other hand, I had to flip the disrespect back at you. "trying to be funny"

More like Captain Oblivious

So good energy is an evil force?

Yeah they're equally ridiculous. The other says that a fucking evil spirit is in someone's body and controlling them.

No, I didn't. People witnessing horrible things don't have to believe in fantasy in order to handle it.

Only vegan steakhouse in Texas closes forever. News at 11...to nobody.

I guess people will have to find a different movie theater to read their books.

Party poppers in the government I see

What's next? A posthumous award to Pavlov for "Upholding animal rights and welfare"?

Not The Daily Mail!

I just read a piece by them last night about the fear of kids "from the Home Counties" speaking like Ali G.

Granted, I read the whole article in the voices of Spitting Image characters, but that only made it just bearable.

woof woof! sausages...