Day 46 - Ha Ha Bar
Tonight I went to the Ha Ha Bar in Reading with some friends from church. It did seem a bit classier than the pubs I went to recently, and a lot different from what I pictured a "bar" to be like -- definitely different from the ones I've seen in America. Well, I don't think I've actually been to any except at the Holiday Inn, but I've seen them in movies and they were nothing like what I went to tonight.It was fun, and I had a good chance to talk to a few nice people who I didn't know very well. But there's something that I don't understand about the place. Maybe someone can explain it to me. There's really nothing to do there but talk to people. And yet, they played music so loud that it was very hard to hear what anyone is saying, and you almost had to yell for anyone to hear you. What sense does that make? I think there should be quite places for talking, and loud places for sitting and listening to the music. But loud places for talking? What's the point of that?
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:) Matt- The reason that they do that is because most people who go to bars don't want to talk. They go there because they want to drink and listen to music.
That is the very reason why I do not go to bars. I have never really had fun unless they have something else to do. ie: dancing, bowling, pool, etc. Bars are like that anywhere you go.
This is a big part of why I liked certain pubs in Oxford. We went to one bar there that was loud with little to do, and it wasn't much fun. The pubs tended to have no music, or the music was of the right volume that you could talk over it. I wish we had pubs around here that were oriented around having a drink with friends and talking to people.
Wetherspoons are about the only music free pubs.... plus the odd few independent ones.
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