Drink With Consumerist In DC
Ben and Meg have finished their interview with Austan Goolsbee and we are now heading to Recessions to drink cheap beers in big mugs. Come join us! (Photo: Jeremy Brooks)
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Maybe if I have time before my meeting this evening...
Bah. Come to Looking Glass Lounge for trivia tonight :P
Darn, my chance to meet my favorite bloggers in person and I won't be around tonight. D'oh! Have fine in our fine city.
If there's one thing I've learned from running and participating in message boards it's this: it's weird meeting online people in real life, and nobody is anywhere near the same in real life. Outgoing online people are total introverts in real life, people are a lot weirder than when they are online, and personalities clash easily.
But if everyone's drunk then hey by all means!
Sorry, recessions is a pit. And you can find equally good prices with a better atmosphere at Mackeys.
You wait til my day off! I'm not even in the city today! Sigh. McFaddens in Chinatown is a good pub.
@downwithmonstercable: Well, I think the people at Gizmodo can attest that I am pretty much the same online as I am offline. I also look almost exactly like my avatar, except I usually wear more clothes when I venture out.
So in conclusion, ladies and jelly spoons, GitEmSteveDave uses his REAL picture online, and is just as unfunny, awkward, and long winded in real life.
@HRHKingFridayXX: ha, the pit atmosphere is why I go. And although I totally respect your DC opinions based on your blogging, Mackeys is dead to me
who knew so many people lived in DC.
so what was it like having a Mayor high on crack?
@downwithmonstercable: I have to disagree since I met my husband online. We've been married for 5.5 years now, so it can work out well if you are honest.
Plus meeting the Consumerist for drinks sounds like a fun evening to me!
@downwithmonstercable: I went to a Jezebel meet-up and it was pretty accurate. I think people are a bit more respectful, but that's to be expected face to face.
damnnnn i would totally go if i wasn't recording right now!
Wrong side of the country. :/
wooo cheap drink!
oh wait. other side of the country.
oh wait. can't drink worth sh*t even if my moms life depends on it.
@Skankingmike: Sorry I missed the 'was'.
The mayor issue will take more than a few paragraphs to explain, but briefly- it was either a crackhead that looked out for middle to lower class interests, or yet another politician in the pocket of the super rich and already powerful. The choices were bleak. Fenty for the win!
@everyone: Man I've had totally different experiences. I ran a message board with another guy. It was for sports car enthusiasts in the pacific NW area. Here are a few of the people I met:
- A guy who believed his uncle was a prophet of Jesus
- A guy who openly talked about his sex/poop fetishes
- A 50 year old guy who was dating a 17 year old
- A 45 year old guy married to a 19 year old, with a kid on the way
- Countless people who were the exact opposite of their online selves.
All these people were totally cool and normal online. Then you find out they're total wack jobs. The majority of the people ended up being wallflowers and not really participating, talking, or doing anything during meetups, they'd just stand off to the side while others had fun barbecuing or whatever. I could see what TinkishDelight is saying about being more respectful face-to-face, but man these guys were totally out there.
@Skankingmike:
Now he works on the city council and tries to be as contrary as possible while "forgetting" to file his taxes on time or make payments on the back taxes he owes.
@downwithmonstercable: And regarding the old guy/young girl people - it was not normal. The girls obviously had daddy issues, and the guys were disgusting slimey used car salesmen types.
Recessions tonight; repercussions tomorrow.
Ugh. Could you come again in a month and a half, when I'm 21?
You D.C.-heads better go out and buy Ben & Meg a few rounds each. I figure they've done at least that amount of good for us, the least we can do is pay them back with booze.
You should do this more often!
For laugh riots, start a game of Beer Pong, then switch it midway with golf balls.
Let me know when you get to Vancouver BC!
@TCama: I'm sorry. Consumerist only accepts comments from under-21s cagey enough to have at least one form of fake ID.
@Yoko Broke Up The Beatles: Would've been glad to oblige, but I saw this post about 6 hours too late...
@ugly:
This got me thinking.....why NOT a Consumerist road show? Send the associate/assistant editor(s) on the road to get free drinks!
I'm shocked at how few comments there are on this post! I honestly thought there would be more. Or, at least I thought there'd be a 'what does this have to do with consumerism' post!
On a side note, I'm using everyone's suggestions for where to drink in D.C. for when I go there next.
When will the Goolsbee interview be uploaded?
And does Consumerist have a YouTube channel?
That place is consistently cheap and smells like armpit. One of my favorite dives in the city, but beware, most cell phones don't get service
@Trai_Dep: Only because he's listening to a priest from Maryland rather than to most other folks in DC.
@downwithmonstercable: Purely for informational purposes, do you know where the those two guys met those girls? ;)
My big hangup is talking to people I don't know. As soon as I can put a face to comments, I can chat for hours. The biggest problem of people talking to me, is dealing with my subject jumping, damn ADHD ;P
@DistortedViewListener_GitEmSteveDave:
Hope you're not on ADDerall XR...it just went generic = your doc may try to get you to switch to Vyanse or you'll have to convince the insurance company that the generic is utter crap!
Ugg, saw this too late! Give us a heads up a few days in advance next time and I'll be there - drinks on me for the crew!
God help the bartender if you order Bud and he secretly substitutes Coors...