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[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oddly, I feel like you need to specify this in the PNW...

Beer bar, whiskey bar, coffee bar, chocolate bar. There's a lot of ten guys out there who'd get confused.

[–] Elivey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Beer bars (sometimes called taverns or pubs) are legally restricted to selling only beer, and possibly wine or cider. Liquor bars, also simply called bars, also sell hard liquor.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oregon has weird liquor laws. Taprooms that only sell beer and can't serve spirits are actually pretty common, and they'll have fancy beers brewed in a room behind the counter. (Most of them like to highlight the existence of the brewery by making it visible to the rest of the room.) People don't usually call em "beer bars" but that's exactly what they are.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can definitely tell it's a non-native by what they call those places

Also how they pronounce some of the smaller cities

Like Chelatche

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] osbo9991@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't heard anyone say chelatchie out loud before, but I live in the pnw and I would guess it would be pronounced cheh-latch-ee, which is similar to how "Wenatchee", a pnw city, is pronounced (not helpful but interesting nonetheless).

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very close, sha-latch-ee

No worries though

It's a really small place and the closer one lives to it the more likely I've seen people be able to get it

Spokane is a fun one to hear people say though when they're from a few states away

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spoke Anne? Did I get it right?

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Basically

More like Spo-Can

I've heard people say it as wrong as Spo-Cane before which was pretty rough

The easiest way to spot someone from out of the area is when it rains, ask them about the weather. We've got a lot of words for rain up here in Washington, so what they pick will say a lot.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago

Clatskanie is a good one too.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

"Brew pub" is the correct term, at least in my experience as a Portlander.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

There are wine bars and cocktail bars. A "beer bar" is the default, so it's a bit weird to hear, but it also sensible to be specific.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

We call them tap houses here, and we have a lot of them.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As opposed to a whisky bar maybe?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Today I learned pnw is pacific northwest. =) Also, side quests are a thing and sound fun.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Many of us also use 'Cascadia', in reference to the mountains we reside in and around.

[–] SimplyATable@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I live there, it's a great place! Plenty of side quests

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm from the PNW and I read this thinking "mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen."

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not from the US and to be honest, it still sounds like something "normal". That's not a rumor. That's just something that happened. A rumor is more like "I heard our ethics teacher has a wooden foot and that is because she got stuck in a bear trap when scaring off a weasel while comforting our biology teacher who found a corpse while scuba diving in the town's lake."

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Unless the guy who tells it to you has direct involvement or there is public reports i'd say it is still a rumor. Because he heard it from someone who probably heard it from someone.

At least that's what some guy at a bar told me the other day.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yea but we don’t teach ethics in the US outside of a few specific occupations

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just a weekend adventure over here.

[–] danque@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

Art imitates life. Before television, rumors were the way people heard about things. Before newspaper people would know of stuff happening in other place by word-to-mouth.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the west coast can get brutal.

E.G. I know a park that has a standing rule that all visitors hiking north (aka up until the wild) should sign in and out, and that search and rescue will be called on any cars left in the parking lot at night.

Not the police. Search and rescue.

Because if you go off the trails you can literally walk off a cliff because the underbrush is so thick.

[–] UnkTheUnk@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago

new skill learned: "investigative journalism"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I unironically just want to be a Stalker living on the Skadovsk and trading vodka for runors and sidequests.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Living in the more rural areas of my state near the National Forest is not too far off

But have fun being 2+ hours from the nearest city if it rains and 4+ if it snows

Edit for added context:

The area is typically beautiful

But if you need to leave the food desert you inevitably will find yourself in, it's a nightmare.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I live in Oregon! Someone tell me how to do the Bethesda potion hack so I can raise all my stats to reality-breaking extremes.

[–] danque@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

First you start with a bucket or container on your target's head. If done correctly he won't spot you and you can grab everything. Watch out for when the bucket falls off.

[–] Restaldt@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Never underestimate the power of gossip, my man

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Did you accept the quest?

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

This reminded me of Julian Sands. :( RIP

[–] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 2 points 2 years ago

His name was David Johnston

(His name was David Johnston)