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I write this with homemade maple jalapeno cornbread in my mouth, gifted to me by the bar staff at my local pub this evening. This is simultaneously the best and most unexpected thing I've ever brought home from a bar, my significant other excepted.

This got me thinking: what is the weirdest thing you've brought home from the bar, Lemmy?

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[–] cam_i_am@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

Borat voice my wiiiiiiiife

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

Many years ago I got to the bar early, before my friends, and while waiting I applied for a job using their Wi-Fi. And I got the job. The job looked good on paper but my new boss f***** me by wage theft and pocketing pension contributions. It was fun, but it would have been more fun if I had been paid according to the law.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really don't get how anyone can have sex at the bar, or in a random bathroom somewhere 🫥

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In this case, it was a cheap blowjob bar in a shady red light district. I felt that something was wrong before I even made it back to my hotel.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

American here. What is a bj bar?

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I guess it's more brothel than bar, but it's a place you can get a beer and a blow job. I'm not aware of any in my home country either. However, as they say: "when in Rome" (or in this case, Bangkok)...

Since I received more than I bargained for, I won't be going back to that establishment and I'm tempted to leave a bad review on Google.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha, bar! I moved across the country in such a fashion that I connect with no one and sit in my apartment alone drinking on Friday nights.

Sounds fun though!!

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boo! Go to a bar and ask someone weird questions! You might get cornbread, who knows?

Raising one to you my friend - I know how tough it is to connect with people after moving sometimes. 👊

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I moved like 10 years ago, everyone was cool at first, then everyone thought I hacked them because I know about networking then I worked from home for ~5ish years and lost my patience for 99% of people. It’s all good though!

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I feel like there's WAY more of a story here - why on earth would a bunch of folks think you hacked them just because you have a commonish, if esoteric sounding, skill set? - but if you'd rather leave it there that's cool.

I've been working from home for almost 5 years now, and to be honest it drives me nuts. I kinda miss people, thus the bar. Not exactly the healthiest social outlet, to be fair, but I like it more than staying home.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Moving to a high COL area without an education (it’s fine, I make a ton of money now, I’m a self-taught programmer) will get you tons of crazy stories. I guess people here get their identity stolen a lot? It’s happened so many times that I’m scared to tell people I meet that I know anything about computers.

I moved to Los Angeles. The people here move slow and are dumber than a box of rocks. Not to be a hater, maybe I’m just bitter.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ratel@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I interpreted it as high Cost of Living area if it helps.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah it’s cost of living

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A friend brought home a giant, bright blue, sparkly Mary-in-a-bathtub. We googled it afterwards and found out that it was super valuable, so we brought it back, but it took three of us to get it back there and was much less fun than stealing it.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 month ago

My wife !

Baddum tshhhhhh

Thanks folks, tip generously and tell your friends I’m here all week.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago
[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not from a bar but I got drunk as a teenager and brought a pair of skis I found back to my Mum's house. My old room was used as a store room when I moved out and they were in there for like 15 years. I helped clear it out, asked where the hell these skis came from and was reminded of the drunken find I'd totally forgotten.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Skiison's Greetings!

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Be me: out drinking with friends for several hours.

Be them: acting completely normal.

Be me: drinking makes you pee, so me go pee, many times.

Be us: we’re drunk! Having a great time.

Be them: still acting completely normal.

Be me: say good night and put on my leather jacket.

Be me brain: Damn I’m drunk cuz this thing feels like it weights a ton ! Stumble home.

Be me front door: watching the confused, bemused, astonished drunk reach for his keys and pull lemon after lime after orange out of his pockets, but no keys.

Be me front door glass: Watching him stuff them into his jeans pockets like a never ending clown car of NINE pieces of citrus.

Be me keyhole: Watching drunk-e-poo finally find his keys, and let himself in.

Be me: laughing and drunk and wondering what the hell’s going on…

Be them: laughing their asses off, wondering when I’d finally notice that every time I got up to pee they took whole bar garnish and put it in my pockets.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This narration style is a bit tiresome

[–] Platypus@lemmings.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing, I've never been in a bar in my 35 years of life.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Platypus@lemmings.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 1 points 1 month ago

Congrats on having never been to a bar. In my experience, they're not healthy places. All sorts of debauchery and sadness happen at them, masked by alcohol and other drug use. They can be fun, and certainly many patrons are responsible and healthy, but that's not always the case. That's all.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I brought home a spoon this week. Friend also got one. They're really nice spoons. Trying to decide where to put it - silverware drawer seems a little dismissive of how excited we were to get them.

Frame it in a cheap glass case with a little placard that says "Break glass in case of cereal emergency"

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 10 points 1 month ago

My ex wife.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Some guy known only as "The Brazilian"

The only thing I know about him is that he was not Brazilian.

[–] SolarMonkey 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Skindred cd, case of strongbow, few bottles of liquor, promotional pack of jeagermeister swag (metal bar sign, bombshot glasses, thongs, t-shirts), and various other little things.

Customer appreciation golf outing then party night, everyone at the golf outing got raffle tickets (I didn’t go to that), but then got too drunk to keep track of them, so I ended up with like 12 of the winning tickets at the end of the night when everyone was clearing out.

One of my friends brings homemade hot sauce to the bar and gives little tester bottles to people tho.

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Took an umbrella. Not like for rain, but for a patio. It was 3m wide and lasted me several years in the back yard.

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Once got a chance of bringing home a girl but decided against it.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A sofa, which went into the attic until we moved out. We tried getting it out and made a hole in the wall.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

Would be cool if the bar in question was a very small drive in an obscure location.

That way you'd have a hole in your wall die to a hole in the wall

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is why you have to PIV-VOTT!!!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

lots of plastic straws. not of my own accord, a friend i was out with just kept shoving them into our pockets because she was annoyed at only being able to buy paper straws at the store.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I can answer this halfway.

One of those big glass beer boots (actually shaped like a boot).

on the walk home, I put it down to pee and then after I stumbled back home with my prize I looked confusedly at my empty arms and realized I forgot to pick the boot back up 20 minutes ago and it was still sitting on the sidewalk somewhere in lower zhangjiajie.

[–] DempstersBox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh ho ho!

Well, are we talking stuff scored at the bar, or on the drunken stumble back?

Because I have a penchant for grabbing city property that's been wiped out by some drunk driver already.

Bike racks. Innumerable signs and posts. A fire hydrant, a big fucking fatty, too. Car parts EVERYWHERE That yellow grippy stuff at the crosswalk. Many, many signs and posts. A whole assed traffic light (fucking finally)-not the post. Jesus, not the post. Yes, I tried. A wooden telephone pole (I had help, and we sang chanties while we did it) The lightbox with the little man and hand. It works! So does the traffic light :)

For the record, drinking and driving IS nevada's state pasttime, and a friend of mine once scored two actual streetlights, posts and all. Bastard tried to sell them to me :/

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not from a bar directly, but on the walk back from the bars. I picked up a brick paver. They had just finished laying everything down in the courtyard of a new building and there was 1 brick sitting there. I looked for spot to drop that brick into close by, but I didn't see a spot. So I carried it home!

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

the humour of the name really resonated with drunk me

[–] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's not very strange per se, but I stole a completely regular unmarked glass, by accident, because I finished it right as the next band came on and being kinda drunk I just crammed the glass into my coat pocket so I could clap and generally be enthusiastic

Still have the glass, haha. Can't think of anything else I've brought home besides maybe a napkin or flyer or something

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a tradition in england to steal glasses from pubs from what I heard from my friends who live there. I have 2 Guinness glasses that I stole from there, because I like their shape.

[–] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Huh, neat. Yeah, I'm American so there was no tradition or anything with my story, I was just buzzed at a show

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I intentionally stole a few glasses from a bar that I used to frequent—figured it was my tip.

[–] visnae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Cactus, cloth hanger, and a salt mill. Three different bars, same night. Another night my friend got home with a light bulb..