“I go to AA to hear other’s experience, strength, ideas and to share my own.”

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If you are a teetotaler, what things have helped you stay sober? If you aren’t a teetotaler, what helps you say in control of your drinking habits?

Ten Things I’ve Learned About Walking into a Bucket of Blood in a Strange Town (and Getting Out Alive)

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“This is why pirates wore eyepatches. You want some night vision as soon as you get in there.”

Bar Etiquette: How to Treat Your Bartender

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How to get a bartender’s attention and build a rapport for a better bar experience for you both.

How to Successfully Meet Women Online

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Let your online dating profile be a window into who you really are.

Smoke in Your Eye

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What I felt for her wasn’t love. It was more an addiction.

Know Your Place

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Seeing yourself in the bigger picture of oppression.

“I sought the services of a sex worker because I was terrified of initiating physical contact.”

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This is a comment by It’s the Touch on the post “Can’t Get Laid”.

“Just like a man that will walk all over a woman once he knows he can get away with it, women have the capacity to do the same.”

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This is a comment by Danny on the Comment of the Day: “The problem nice guys have is they put women on pedestals and themselves in a pit.”

“The Tender Bar” by J.R. Moehringer

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“My father was a man of many talents, but his one true genius was disappearing.” J.R. Moehringer’s memoir, “The Tender Bar,” is reviewed by Jesse Kornbluth.

The World Needs More Teds Than Barneys

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Mark Radcliffe laments that the guy who’s a great catch in the long run doesn’t always make the best first impression.

‘Knight in Shining Armor’ Syndrome

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There’s probably no better place on earth to observe gender dynamics than in a bar on a Friday night.

Dude, Don’t ‘Neg’

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“What’s less authentic than entering into a ‘spontaneous’ social interaction with a script?” Hugo Schwyzer argues that “negging” isn’t cool.

Colbert Joins Men’s Rights Movement

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Roy Den Hollander has garnered comparisons to MLK and W.E.B. Dubois—from none other than Stephen Colbert.

Ten things I've learned from going to bars

Don’t expect to meet the love of your life at a bar. And if you do meet the love of your life at a bar, what kind of person are you? Alcohol makes you funny, angry, sad, sleepy, or argumentative. But really, it doesn’t make you do anything; it was all there to begin with. [...]

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If you’ve been looking for a fool-proof way to motivate a crummy waiter, you might be in luck: more states are now permitting loaded guns in bars and restaurants.