We don’t meet up in person too often, but my friends from college have a discord server that pretty much always at least 2 or 3 people chilling in. Sometimes we play games together, other times everyone is doing their own thing but it’s nice to have people to talk to when gaming. Also most of us live too far from each other to meet up all the time. I guess this is like the modern day, post covid, equivalent of everyone meeting up in a bar or cafe after work
My bf has a discord server with his friends too. Whenever one of this is online, they hop in the voice channel and just hang out. If someone else logs in, they chat, otherwise they just leave it up.
Yes, but we call it a bar. Same thing, just less tea or coffee
In highschool, my classmates and I would hang out at the nearby McDonald’s often enough we gave it an informal course code.
There are plenty of cafes now but it’s too expensive now for me to hang out at them more than a couple times a month.
Of course. How else would we develop the exposition other people will need to understand our narrative?
it’s called “my place” or “their place”, and we make coffee for a cent on the dollar
Not everyday but my friend ground have our hangout space that we can go every weekend, which is one friend’s shop.
As a young adult, last year in school and first year out I kind of had this. There was a bar in our town where we went to, not every day but very often. It was a great time!
Did sex in the city use the same cafe all the time? I missed that I guess.
Didn’t they used to go the same place for brunch? I could be wrong
Maybe, thats why I was asking. I def dont remember anything as constant as the cafe in friends.
No they famously try new places all the time. The only time there’s a repeat place is if it has significance to a plot point. They were all well off though.
Ahhhh I see thanks
I know of several retiree groups that meet up for coffee first thing in the morning. One day I hope to part of one :(
No. But in college, we had a pub we would go to for dinner on Wednesday every week with the same group of friends, with the occasional tag along. Does that count?
When I was younger, certainly before kids, yeah, we had a couple different restaurants or bars where we’d meet up fairly regularly, for either a couple beers or some food, or both, or more.
This thread highlights the reality of Lemmy, and how it’s representative of only a sliver of the population. The number of people saying “Friends?” is depressing.
When i have local friends, im usually the one who noveltysluts us out of having ‘a place’ we go to for food when we food. If i dont agitate for variation, it does not occur.
I thought the point was that we no longer have this. I’m a millennial, and when I was in my 20s, we used to hang out at Denny’s a couple times each week.
Now the policy has changed and the prices have gone up. We can’t afford to eat out, and even if you can, you aren’t allowed to hang out for hours chatting with your friends anymore.
That is a good point. I see a lot of people suggesting it hasn’t been a thing since the '90s, when for me it stopped probably shortly before or shortly after COVID, and mainyl because I have kids. But I won’t disagree that shits expensive everywhere, and I’ve certainly said to myself “Yeah, that ain’t worth that.” So I’m with you there.
I think I could still hop on down to my local watering hole and meet up with some friends and put some beers away though. The beers there have always been expensive, and so that at least hasn’t changed.
I don’t have kids, but it stopped being a thing around 2010-2015ish for me. It does feel like it’s been on the downswing since the 90s, but maybe that’s just because I could never afford to hang out at the bar, haha.
I still meet up with my friends at the usual hangout but the frequency is way down to like once every 2 months or something. None of us can believe that shithole is still in business.
Yo when I was in high school you could go to the diner and spend $4 on a sandwich and fries and hang out. Now it’s like $20 for the same shit
You guys have friends?
Do you know how much a fucking CHEF works?!!! Wtf, Monica wouldn’t have time to spent all day in a coffe shop
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I used to hang out in the same park.
I dunno, even if we check in first, doesn’t anyone else have any effectively semi standing “see you there” meets? (Like, where if someone wasn’t going to be there, they’d probably text you.)
Pre texting, I suppose the alternative was either make plans each and every time by calling a few people or, a standing arrangement, like coffee wherever, call me if you can’t make it otherwise I’ll see you there.
