In my short time in Halifax I have learned that not only do people here like to drink more, they also enjoy fighting more, puking more and finding any chance they get to make a fucking scene. If you’re going to come into an establishment tanked off your fucking ass, don’t expect to be served more alcohol. When refused more alcohol it’s probably not a good idea to follow your server all around that particular establishment telling her she made the wrong fucking call. Oh and let’s not forget the drunk girlfriend bawling her eyes out about also being cut off. She unfortunately was deemed “out of commission”. It’s fine that you decided to plea your case but don’t follow your server around, just ask for a water and behave yourself. Don’t threaten me with your fucking employment status, it’s not going to bring a drink to your table, ALSO don’t refuse to pay and threaten to walk out… that’s stealing you dumb fuck. When a fucking decision is made, don’t be a baby, don’t be a fucking racist, and don’t pretend you know the fucking owner and will get “everyone in this place fired”. Just be a man and leave, Oh! and don’t forget your hot mess of a girlfriend. Go to Hell! —Not A Halifax Fan
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
But did they tip well?
Sorry OP, couldn’t resist. That’s what sucks most about booze; it never makes a congenital asshole less of one.
Just give them their drink(s), then overbill them, they won’t know the difference.
Hot mess of a girlfriend..lol….was she in heat?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nmT6oNp55Tg/SOan…
Way to make sweeping generalizations, OP.
In some bars there are signs that say ” We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”
That says it all.
And IMO should be prominantly displayed in all places where booze is served.
I think it would make more sense if we knew where they were from, Org. If they’re from a small town of 500 people and no liquor store for a hundred kms, then yeah, I would agree we drink more.
Yes, because one drunk guy at a bar is representative of the entire HRM.
It always saddens me to see the pitiable effects of alcoholism, usually evident when the alcohol supply has been cut off. Begging, beligerence, sobbing. The problem is not being unable to get that last drink, it is being able to get the first one.
Halifax is full of drama queens and guys who are only tough when they’re drunk. Let’s face it there’s not much for young people to do in this city except drink, and when there’s only a few spots that everyone goes so people who don’t get along will inevitably run into each other. That’s not really what OP is talking about but I can relate. There’s always some drunken asshole starting shit any time I go downtown.
I enjoy partying in other cities like Montreal a lot more because I find clubs can be more selective about who they let in and there isn’t this tension in the air like in Halifax, people seem to just want to have fun and get along not stare you down or fly off the handle when you spill a drink or bump into someone. So many fuckin “tough guys” over here. Real tough guys don’t need to let everyone know how tough they are.
There are douchebags every where, not just in Halifax. Tommy do me a favor and google Montreal bar fights, oddly enough lots of reports come up. Stabbings, fights , shit even car chases after fights all starting in bars. We all know this shit happens where ever alcohol is served. If you don’t think so then your drunk right now. Quit shitting on Halifax.
“Let’s face it there’s not much for young people to do in this city except drink”
You’re f’ing kidding, right? Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada, there’s a f’ing shit ton of stuff to do here that doesn’t involve drinking.
Guy sounds like a winner!
http://www.hiphopsince1987.com/wp-content/…
But at the same time…generalizing it to be all of Halifax..kind of douchey.
I know that bar fights happen everywhere. But I’ve had a lot of experience in Halifax, I’ve lived here most of my life. I’ve also lived in Montreal and I find that there are less aggressive assholes on the bar scene. There’s also more places to go so rival crews can avoid each other. Ok you got me, I live in Dartmouth, but when I go out I go DT halifax. There really are only a handful of spots for the under 30 crowd and I just find that there is an aggressive atmosphere. There are really friendly spots but they are laid back and not really party spots (not really my age bracket either). In other words if I wanna party I gotta deal with these assholes. It becomes more hassle than it’s worth. I’ll shit on Halifax all I want, I can’t wait to get outta here, it’s just as expensive to live here as it is Toronto or Montreal, who the hell does Halifax think they are? A real city?
NL’s greatest export:
some examples would be great. I’ve lived in this city since I was born. You walk around and tell me what there is to do in Halifax besides eat and drink. damn near every business is a restaurant or bar. Sure you can go walk in the park. I don’t mean that to be sarcastic, walks are great, but really there isn’t “a f’ing shit ton of stuff to do” here, as you put it. I’m open to suggestion though. I find a lot of people who grow up here leave and the city is made up of people who grew up outside the city in rural areas or what I would call the boonies, who are happy just to live in a “city”. Just my observations.
PS you say largest city in Atlantic Canada like that’s supposed to be impressive. The next largest town is what, Moncton? Then what, Saint John’s or Charlottetown? These are tiny towns, and so is Halifax pretty much.
n.s. has the distinction of being the drinking, gambling and fighting hub of canada. wit that said, how come all the top prizes in the lottos, always go to ontario, quebec, or western canada.
there are those idiots, that should never have a drink, drive, or even be born. but as luck would have it, they do and are. and there is fuck all, you or i can do about it. let them bas their brains out, and enjoy the show.
“what there is to do in Halifax besides eat and drink.” I was just thinking that today op. I used to live in CB and there was so much to do, yes, it got boring and you felt like you were in a “lil ole country place” but thinking of the shit I got up to … compared to now … I guess you just have to get creative.
… but yes, drinking … OH LAWD y’all are some BAMFs here! I get really inebriated on half a pint, that’s my limit. A friend of mine, comparable weight … takes her 1 pint + some to have a “good” night … and it’s not just her. It’s many, many others I know as well. You can definitely hold the liquor, definitely.
Tommy:
Halifax is close to some:
Great surfing
Climbing
Hiking
Halifax has:
Good selection for dining out (for Atlantic Canada)
Sports, ultimate Frisbee for one.
Concerts, live shows. I’m down with the live music scene here.
House parties.
Bars.
Cute little market place on Saturdays (well..full time now isn’t it?)
Ghost walk
Beer brewery tours
If you want to go outside of hali a bit..wine tours.
Go out for a coffee..there are trivia nights and board game functions at some of the coffee places. Or at pubs.
Need I go on?
And who says you have to drink alcohol when you go to a bar. They do offer non-alcoholic beverages.
This post shouldn’t be the basis of someone’s opinion of the population in Halifax. This post was the scenario that just topped it all off for me in Halifax, I “bitched” about it because it needed to be said. I haven’t had a great experience in Halifax from day 1. I almost wasn’t hired at my job because I didn’t have “a look” (blond hair, big boobs). I’ve been told by my profs and fellow employees that the tattoos I have will limit my opportunities in life. I was born and raised in Ontario and nobody ever told me that, I was always encouraged to be a little different and it worked… until I moved to Halifax. I was labelled a rich Toronto girl who’s parents paid for everything. That would be true if my parents had jobs, unfortunately thats not the case. Therefore my argument is maybe don’t judge me by my looks, tattoos and where I’m from and I’ll stop judging Halifax. I truly believe this city has potential, there’s just a hesitation to embrace the diversity and that alone puts Halifax many many years behind the rest of Canada.
K, please tell me where I can hike and climb in Halifax besides Point Pleasant Park? As for concerts, half the time when I go to a hip hop show the artists are completely washed up and put on a shit show: afrika bambaataa was the WORST offender I’ve seen. Yes, I like playing frisbee and biking but even that gets boring eventually.
Sodey, but where can you climb and hike in Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, or most other cities? You have to go outside the city limits and there are several places outside the limits.
but m.h., toronto is the hollyweird of the north. and don’t forget onterrorio.
that’s true Bro about not having to drink when you go to bars.. however.. it’s not much fun for most of us. Definitely not my idea of a good time. Drinking is very much a social crutch in NS, more so than other places.
Halifax is great for the majority of people who live here(those of us who are around or above Halifax’s median age of 38.8, according to Google). It’s just hard when you have interests that are outside the immediate norm, such as hip hop for example. It’s true what Sodey says about the artists they bring here. I mean even outside of hip hop, acts like kid rock and sean paul coming here. Are you kidding me? These guys have BEEN washed up. Kid Rock still makes music but his career peaked about 7 years ago and I don’t know anyone who’s still a big enough fan to go to his concert these days and Sean Paul hasn’t been relevant in years! But let Kiss or Paul McCartney or Elton John or Neil Young come here and they sell out the Metro Centre in days. I love Neil Young and all but he was popular when my Dad was my age.
This is indicative of our demographic in this city. The youth can’t get anything until everyone else has worn it out.
It’s frustrating when you see people your age in other cities going to big shows with current artists, having fun, partying with thousands of people their age. It just seems like Halifax doesn’t want our young people to have fun. Like I’ve gone to certain bars that tend to cater to the over 30 crowd, me and a friend, sober, well dressed, clean cut, smiling, displaying no aggressive or dangerous behavior, and been refused service. I can’t think of what other than my age could have put them off, and it’s because of assholes like the the guy in OP’s bitch. And then they wonder why we do nothing but go out and drink at the dome or palace or Club Soda.
If people love living here far be it from me to shit on your parade, if you have a certain lifestyle and enjoy the more laid back, small town feel, great, enojy Halifax. I just don’t, really. I feel like its for older conservative people and that’s why nothing ever changes.
“I truly believe this city has potential, there’s just a hesitation to embrace the diversity and that alone puts Halifax many many years behind the rest of Canada.”
Ex-fucking-actly
Thanks, This&That. I have been meaning to take a brewery tour, but that still comes back to drinking but that’s ok! a least it’d be a change of atmosphere. Taking up surfing would be nice if I had the money. We do have some pretty good beaches I’ll give you that, but we don’t get much use out of them most summers, the warm weather comes and goes really quick.
A couple things just really get on my nerves to no end, the constant cold winds, shitty roads/infrastructure, transit system, and being on the only place in North America on Atlantic Time. I know that sounds nit picky but I don’t like that I have to stay up an extra hour to watch the game than the rest of the continent. Before Sportsnet 1 and TSN2 came along you couldn’t even watch basketball for the most part. It’s really hard to be a sports fan here or a fan of anything besides your typical maritime shit. I don’t think this place is an absolute hell hole or anything but the little things that piss me off about it pile up pretty quick. And the OP’s reference to many of us being very judgmental/conservative know-it-alls, yeah, I’d love for someone to deny that, we all know it’s true. I see people stare at people with tatoos or who dress a certain way with NO shame all the time, like have you never seen someone express themselves? MYOB!
The rest of the stuff on your list can be found in any city.
Ghost walk? Trivia and board games night? I’m 24!
You can do better than that. Or can you? I don’t know. It’s not for nothing that we’re known as a violent drunken city, people are f’ing bored.
t and t, i have been thinking of this since you changed your moniker
http://file.vustv.com/41hEORT9b21Gw.jpg
…and mh, it’s sound like you need to attend a summit. we enjoy the strange and unusual plus between me and the zedman we have enough body art to go around
Paingirl…… you enjoy the strange and unusual, and I think thats wonderful. Unfortunately, 95% of the population in Halifax that I’ve encountered doesn’t enjoy it, they’re in fact offended by it. Going back to my original post about the drunk guy making a big deal about how I cut him off. His employment status was thrown in my face a couple times, and I think thats wrong. He thought that he was better and smarter than me and physically followed me and would block my way into my section in order to attempt to get his point across. I’m more than capable of holding my own, but this city has had a way of just not accepting me, and I am certainly not alone.
gawd i hoped for at least 10%^^when we moved here it was like landing on another planet, but we prevailed…we walk amongst you it be otay http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YGZsB8JQLfQ/TGez…
Having much bar experience in Ontario as a tattooed person, I can tell you MH that the same scenarios have occured there as here. Drunks who pull the I’m-superior-to-you card -amongst other offensive behaviours- when their booze supply is cut off, and people’s (customers, co-workers, managers) misguided attitude toward inked women. Toronto may embrace individualism a little more than other cities but is still full of judgemental conservative asshats. BTW, where was security and/or management when you needed them to diffuse this situation?
halifax is roughly the same size as St. Catherines ON, if you take the city proper only and not the greater halifax area. In St. Catherines, you have TONNES of bars, a LOT more restaurants, hiking, nature trails, rock climbing (Niagara escarpment), niagara falls close by, toronto 45 minutes away, the Niagara green belt. it goes on and on. Plus dreary weather is not part of the picture. In the summer its 30+ degrees, tops are optional for women. Tell me what can be better? Plus in the many years of bar going etc that i experienced, the only time there was ever fights at a bar back home, was when the seasonal workers from other countries were around or if the americans came across the border to visit. the one thing i do like about halifax though is that its pretty easy to tell if something is about to happen at the bars here…there really isnt that much of a surprise if you are aware of your surroundings.
If your interests tend towards the geeky/nerdy side of life… http://hal-con.com/category/events/month/
Honest to GOD cuja, I wish tops were optional for the ladies in NS.
not even joking.
Pants optional too.
On a completely unrelated note: for some reason I have a craving for a whopper with cheese. Anyone volunteer to bring me one?
I’ll give you kitty hugs!
If I were going anywhere near a BK I’d consider it.
Fast Food AND public nudity.
I’ll be in my bunk >: (
But Ivan! It’s Whopper Wednesday!!!
topless no less….
a lot of people think the same way kitty… though most are pervvy fellows liek the suckster.
and thanks Brendon! Halcon laser tag this weekend! hmmmm… will see if I can cram that into my schedule.
tommyJ, if you think there ain’t much else… then just go with the flow. get hammered…
be it playing call of duty or rockband…
out at a bar…..
hell, follow the hobo leads and get smashed in public washrooms.
A nice stagger through parks as you stumble in the warm sun and cool breeze.
get your drank on…. beer is for pussies. 40% or bust.
Break it down….
http://www.tshirtbordello.com/images/e-mc-…
Eh. I’d settle for socially acceptable pantslessness.
Pantsless party at PK’s: who’s in?
Sorry, I’m a tad cranky this morning. The guy whose job it is to get the Wednesday Doughnuts seems to be working to rule this week. FML. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
:O No Wednesday donuts!?! Whatever is this world coming to?
It’s coming to Ivan climbing a clock tower with a scope mounted AK and enough 7.62 mm hollowpoints to cater a Pakistani wedding reception if somebody doesNT GET OFF THEIR FUCKING ASS AND GET ME SOME GODDAM DOUGHNUTS! >: 0
Ok – all better. For now…………
Hay I have a free donut thingy, Ivan! You bring me a whopper with cheese and I’ll give you the donut! 😀
Buck up, bud! At least we got some awesome reading on here thanks to oldhandjob!
Sorry Darlin’. I’m stuck out here in the Gulag. Take a sharp left at the City of Dis and keep going another half mile past the Slough of Suckanalpolypitude. I’d need a really cool steampunk Zeppelin to get out of here today:
http://ageofsteam.files.wordpress.com/2009…
On the plus side, since I’ve just admitted publicly to wanting to commit a crime perhaps Oldhandslime WILL alert the constabulary. And as long as they show up with honey crullers I’m prepared to cop to being Josef Mengele AND kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.
I saw a lady in Ontario who went topless and, TRUST me, you would have paid her to put her top back on. Think celulite with its own celulite! Beware what you wish for those who think topless public female nudity is a good thing. It won’t be Playboy models strolling down the sidewalks in shorts and heels. Mostly it will just be scary. Turn and run the other way, burn your eyeballs out of your skull scary.
bad naked oceanchickpeas http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5h9ekCg…
A good picture is worth a few words, cyber-sis, (or something like that)
George, [at Monk’s with Jerry]: “So she coughed?”
Jerry: “Coughing… naked… It’s a turn-off, man.”
George: “Everything goes with naked.”
Jerry: “When you cough, there are thousands of unseen muscles that suddenly
spring into action. It’s like watching that fat guy catch a cannonball in his
stomach in slow motion.”
George: “Oh, you spoiled, spoiled man. Do you now how much mental energy I
expend just trying to picture women naked?”
Jerry: “But the thing you don’t realize is that there’s good naked and bad
naked. Naked hair brushing, good; naked crouching, bad.
Regarding the original bitch; situations like those are when the bouncer should provide the problematic patron a quick lift out the nearest door with optional boot-to-the-ass. While some people (too few) tend to mellow out with booze and end up being ‘happy drunks’, alcohol can amplify existing doucheness almost as much as online anonymity can. Putting it simply, boozed-up tough guys exist as per the same principle as ‘internet tough guys’.
Unrelated, but when is the next summit anyway? Sounds pretty awesome, i’ll have to show up to one at some point.
HELLO FROM 401!!!!!!
Maes…. great advice. Halifax is still a terrible city, but thanks.