1. Everybody's a Wallflower
I know in the movies, when they depict bars and barhopping, it's always a rip-roaring adventure where everybody is partying with everybody else, girls are half naked and throwing themselves at drunken slobs of college boys and condoms are a figment of everyone's collective imagination. This is complete crap. Every time I've been to a bar, it's filled with tiny cliques of people who know one another, often a mix of girls and guys, or just a few lonely looking saps around the edges, never deviating from their patterns or talking to anybody new. Why would I pay a 5-10$ cover to go sit with people I already know? It's bull. Goto a house party with your friends, you're much more likely to strike up a conversation over beer pong, or a card-based drinking game.
2. One Night Stands are a Lie
Be honest with me - how many times have you met a girl at a bar, taken her back to your place, and didn't hit the walk of shame til 6am? Can you count it on even two hands? Yeah, I didn't think so. I've gone out to bars hundreds of times in my life, always with that singular goal: To meet and take home hundreds of women. It's only ever happened a few times, and given the time investment, it's just not worth it.
If the entire reason for going out with your buddies is to meet and bed random strangers, why would you goto a place where you are the least likely to do it? Girls aren't stupid, they know why you're slogging up to their stools and slovenly offering to buy them a drink! At least at a house party, a coffee house, a club meeting or some kind of extracurricular activity(LivingSocial volleyball, anyone?) you're meeting people and doing something interesting together you can talk about. That's the way to meet women.
3. It's Loud
Why in God's name would you EVER go and meet friends at a place to hang out when you can't even hear yourself think? I'm not even going to elaborate on this one, it's obvious. The only real plus to it being unbearable in a bar is that you get to reuse the same conversation pieces with the opposite sex over and over again as you both keep asking each other to repeat yourselves...
4. It Makes You Fat
You goto a bar and you drink 5 beers. Given that a beer is 150 calories, you're drinking 750 calories without even thinking about it. For most of you, that's a little less than half your daily intake of calories before you start storing fat. Ever wonder how girls gain that freshman 15? It's all those drinks you're buying them.
5. It's 40$ today, but what is it in ten years?
If you goto a bar and spend 40$ on drinks, that's not too bad. What's 40 dollars for a good night out with your buddies when you can't hear them speak, don't get laid, and gain a quarter of a pound? Well, let's do some math. Say you invested it and expected a reasonable rate of return of 7-10%. That's about 70-100$ ten years from now. That's ridiculous: Would you really pay 100$ of your hard earned cash for this shitty experience? I think not.
I'd rather save that money, and go out to a Morton's and get an amazing steak, or go skydiving(only 200$), or see 5 movies. A bar? Screw that. It's a waste of time.
