Topic: Bars

Real Talk: What’s The Worst Pick-Up Line That’s Ever Been Used On You?

We’ve all experienced it: that pick-up line that is so absurdly awful you can’t help but laugh on the inside even as you are arranging your face and body language into the sternest and most no-nonsense weirdo-repelling expression you can muster. Unfortunately for the people who use them, these lines rarely work for their intended purpose, but they are certainly good for some chuckles after the fact. It was with that in mind that I rounded up the worst (greatest?) pick-up lines used on my friends and myself in recent memory. Names have been omitted to protect the pursued. More »

I Played Dead To Get Rid Of A Super Drunk Douchebag Last Night (UPDATE: Now With Photographic Proof)

When “no, thank you” doesn’t quite work, sometimes you have to take slightly more drastic measures. Like playing possum. More »

Love Joule, The ‘First Love And Sex Bar Dedicated To Women,’ Opens In Tokyo

In the public race for national acknowledgment and acceptance that women do, indeed, masturbate, Japan’s game piece just moved a little bit ahead of everybody else’s. More »

Would You Drink At A Bar That Had A “Panty Remover” Cocktail?

No? More »

If You Want To Get Your Drink On This Fashion Week, You May Want To Hit Up These Bars

Ah! Fashion Week! That twice a year event where the world’s finest designers and skinniest models come into town (if they don’t already live here) and inject the city with even more fashion savvy-ness. More »

Real Talk: Vote For The Worst Date Ever

Jesus, God, you guys have gone on some bad dates. More »

The Standard Fires Two Women, Allegedly, For Being Short

I guess that I shouldn’t be snarky about this, because the fact that two women are suing The Standard New York after being fired, allegedly, for not being tall and model-y enough is obviously not cool, but I mean…honestly? If I thought that I could get a job making hundreds of dollars a night for carrying drinks around on trays, I would go apply. But I’m not going to, because I don’t look like a model, and so I know I wouldn’t get hired at a place like The Standard. More »

Modern Etiquette: When To Intercept a Friend’s Drunken Hook-Up

Over at College Candy, there’s an article about letting friends go home with dudes from bars for drunken hook-ups. The author states that her friends would probably not intercept a potential one night stand, despite the fact that a recent … More »

Modern Etiquette: How Not to Be ‘That Girl’ At the Bar

CollegeCandy’s recent roundup of “the ten most annoying people at the bar” made me laugh, but it also made me sort of ashamed to realize that one or two of those people have totally been me. So how can you … More »

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