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Went to a bar by myself for the first time in a long time tonight. Here's my review:
Pros:
-karaoke night and I wasn't the worst performer
-lesbian bar
-basement bar
Cons:
-not my fav hometown dive bar
-not one had a light for me when I realized I locked mine in my car
-$6 draft beer
Overall score: 5/10
#bar reviews#lesboslibra#lesboslibraspeaks#llspeaks#lesbian#bar#alcohol#cw: alcohol#silly text post#buzzed posting#not yet drunk posting
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Guinness is Good For You
There are a lot of things I love about living in New York City, and a lot of ways in which it is different than living in North Carolina. Four years later, the one I still haven’t quite adjusted to is how easy it is to get Guinness. I will spare you my fun story about the first time I tried Guinness in the Storehouse in Dublin – although, there’s an argument to be made that the reason I love it…
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#bar reviews#Bedford Falls#Break Bar#Guinness#Kari liveblogs life#New York City#NYC#Oscar Wilde#Printer&039;s Alley#Turtles All the Way Down
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asked for an amaretto sour and they had to have put bourbon or something in there shit was straight nasty. the bathroom smelled like a pond
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What do you think Aventurine would be like as a boss?
Aventurine's first character story tells us that people both outside the IPC and internal to the Strategic Investment Department are explicitly racist toward him, so I would say first that I suspect Aventurine's team is much, much smaller than other Stonehearts like Topaz. For example, we constantly see Topaz's dumb "support squad" following her around in most of the events she shows up in, while we've never been introduced to a single "Aventurine support squad" member.
My suspicion is that, between the rampant racism and the undoubtedly common rumors about Aventurine's dangerous behavior, very few people are even willing to be put on his team in the first place. I suspect he's much more likely to be paired up with one or two "strategic partners" (like Ratio) and sent to handle things that way, rather than actually having a large group of underlings he directly supervises.
But just logistically speaking I'm sure he does have a few underlings, and I think... He's probably a very difficult person to work for, for a couple reasons:
He will almost certainly beat assholes to the punch. If a majority of the people who have been assigned to work with him don't want to be there, you can bet he's not going to wait around for new people to prove they are racist garbage. I imagine that, for the most part, he's off-putting and offensive to new people from the get-go. You ask which desk is yours and he just goes "Oh, feel free to set your things anywhere!" then turns around like: "Wowwww. Jim, this rookie is trying to steal the desk you've had for ten years! How inconsiderate our new friend is proving to be~!" New people on his team probably have the worst few weeks of their lives. (Because... If people are going to hate him on principle alone, he might as well give them a reason, right?) However, this has the effect of weeding out most of the people who are incapable of dealing with Aventurine's antics, so I imagine that the few who persevere through the hazing are probably genuinely decent folks. Those that make it past the initial "Let's see how much you hate Sigonians and disrespect me personally" vibe check probably end up on Aventurine's good side, and I think he eventually eases off his newbies after a while. (Not before they've proven their exceedingly high tolerance for shenanigans and even higher ceiling for shock factor, though. If a new employee makes it past the first month of working for Aventurine, literally nothing else will ever phase them. An elephant-sized Warp Trotter could warp them all six galaxies over and they'd just be like "Anyone got a working cell? I need to tell my babysitter I won't be back by 9.")
I think he's just never there. Absentee boss in the extreme. It's not that he ever slacks or doesn't do the work--it's just that he's constantly going off and doing the missions all on his own. It doesn't matter how many times the higher-ups assign him to do a team task, tell him he has to take the full squad... He just scampers off and does the deal entirely on his own, comes back covered in blood, and is like "Hey guys, I took care of the problem; enjoy some comp time on me!" I don't think he drags his average-level underlings into his dangerous gambles; I think he just does all the work with their clients by himself or with a high-caliber partner. You would think this would make him a great boss to work for, but I implore to put yourself in such an employee's shoes: You go into the office every morning only to see your to-do list is empty. Your boss isn't there to give you any new direction. After twiddling your thumbs for four hours, you find out the reason he isn't in the office this morning is that he's recovering from betting he could take an entire pack of Borisin in a fist fight. He's not in the hospital because of the fight (which he won). He's in the hospital because he was then promptly shot in the back by the guy he was betting with. Why is your life like this? Why must you be subjected to the soap opera of your boss's own self-destructive spiral?
Even when he's around, he's probably weirdly awkward. Don't get me wrong, I bet when he's in a good mood he throws all kinds of extravagant parties in the office, and his employees would never lack for bonuses and perks. But I think he has never really bothered to learn--or perhaps simply does not care--about normal managerial behaviors and boundaries. Like, you slip up and tell him your mother-in-law is in the hospital. He comes back five minutes later to tell you he's just bought six bouquets (sent from your address), commissioned a personally embossed card for her with your monogram, and contracted the services of the best-reviewed individualized medical team in Pier Point under your name. He's patting himself on the back for being an incredibly thoughtful boss. You don't know how to tell him that you haven't spoken to your mother-in-law in years, not since her last attempt to poison you. Every six months he buys the whole team new cars. You have no idea what to do with all these cars. It's too many cars. Put some cars back. He calls everyone his "friend," but even after working for him for years, you still have absolutely no idea about his likes, dislikes, or hobbies outside of the IPC. You could not name his favorite food if someone put a gun to your head. Does he exist outside of the workplace? You literally can't imagine him anywhere but on a mission or at a poker table. He's constantly bringing an "I am the party!" vibe to the room, but everyone else is a bored 8-5 worker who doesn't have a drop of enthusiasm left in their veins. It's like when a singer asks the audience to cheer along with a song, but nobody in the audience makes a peep. Absolutely no one in the IPC cubicles can match his particular freak. Aventurine's a smooth-talker and a street-smart cookie for sure, but something about the way his smile looks like it's made out of plastic when anyone tries to engage him in chitchat at the water cooler gives you the vague impression that he's probably never had an actual friend in his life. If "uncanny valley" was a vibe a workplace could have, Aventurine's office would have it.
Long story longer, I think Aventurine has very few people willing to tolerate him as a boss, whether because they are racist or simply because his quirks are just too quirky. However, I like to imagine the few who have hung in there are ride or die. You know they have an "Aventurine Protection Squad" group chat. They probably all wear peacock-teal and gold accessories in solidarity. They have definitely disappeared people for talking shit on their boss before. Aventurine has no idea how much they actually like him.
#honkai star rail#aventurine#character analysis#honkai star rail headcanons#aventurine headcanons#aventurine as a boss#is just like not having a boss at all#except when it comes time for performance reviews#and instead of putting in valid paperwork#he just gives you solid gold bars#“only three and a half bars this quarter Eliza; might want to pick up the slack”#also#I got a really interesting asks about my thoughts on Ratiorine#but they're kind of complicated#so it will take me a bit more time to answer those
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18 Years of Abysmal Service
Paddy's Pub + shitty bar reviews 1/?
#iasip#paddys reviews#textposts#happy birthday sunny#sunnys legal!!#i have so many of these so#stay tuned for birthday week#and yes they’re all real reviews of bars in philly or nyc#don’t ask how long i spent combined reading reviews of shitty bars and combing episodes for scenes to match#oc
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the mosaic timeline in the magicians remains one of the craziest things i’ve seen a tv show do, like, ever
#tho graduation and bar review have derailed my rewatch queliot is never far from my mind#the magicians#text
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Bar Review Day 9. 90 days to the bar.
Went on a short road trip just to eat good food. Extended another day studying Poli out of necessity. My brother made me a Nespresso.
Watched a bit of the Men's French Open Finals. Got big plans for tomorrow. Hoping to conclude the "first" reading of Poli by tomorrow.
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Veilguard Eve, TIME TO MANIFEST GOOD FEELS AND HAPPY ENDINGS
#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#solavellan#LOOOOOORD#GIVE ME STRENGTH#i read some of the reviews and apparently the game is pretty good!#but i need it now#i'm basically gnawing at the bars of my cage at this point
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The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.
#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality#i do think that some christian publishers are getting better#and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues#instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests#but i'm not sure *how much* better#because anything above the low bar feels like great literature#the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem#and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept#i have some issues with the history and the mystery#but the characters!#it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book#several chapters of solid waterworks#(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived)#i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards?#(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic)#but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault#here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just#'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?'#are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships!#your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre#i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now
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I found the most wholesome hype for DUNE 2 under Chris Stuckmann's non-spoiler review (x)
#dune#paul atreides#dune 2#no i havent watched the review itself#i avoid everything bar red carpets and photocalls
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finished watching utena last night
#i am so normal (gnawing at the bars of my enclosure)#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#review coming soon on my letterboxd (will contain spoilers)
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Photographs of Disneyland by Loomis Dean, July 1955.
#vintage#1950s#Fantasyland#Tomorrowland#Frontierland#Mad Tea Party#tea cups#Autopia#Peter Pan's Flight#Pan ride#Storybookland Canal Boats#Diamond Horseshoe Review#showgirls#kids#happy#Disney#mid-century#rides#attractions#guests#TWA Rocket to the Moon#Space Bar#California#Anaheim#amusement park
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I have this feeling that when I get to hell I'm gonna be surrounded by a bunch of TVs playing all the filthiest dumpster trash I ever beat off to and I'm gonna have no choice but to beat off ad infinitum to that nasty shit. And when flames shoot out of my cock I will simply say
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Have I spent hours getting my apartment completely perfect to impress the hot Italian guy (and, unfortunately, his girlfriend) who will be coming to stay tomorrow? Perhaps.
#i bought them flowers and champagne and told them about the secret great bar they better give me an excellent review#s narrates her life#anyway I'm celebrating passing the life in the uk test with sprite and wine and tidying#also if you will realistically be in my neck of the woods and want to know about the secret bar I'll share with the crew 😘#please ignore the wrinkles in the rug I'm fixing them#and yes i wish the curtains could be an inch longer but I'd have to order custom and I'll get on that at some point
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Paddy's Pub + shitty bar reviews 3/?
#iasip#paddys reviews#the bouncer x bartender one made me JUMP#also the phones one.. yeah#lowkey if you’re ever bored just read bad reviews of bars near you and youll have yourself a sunny scene in your head immediately#oc
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