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what's the difference between a club and a bar?

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OldDog52 said:
Ok this is creepy. I'm sitting in the Invalid Link Removed in Eugene as I type this.

I assure you there are no chandeliers or garish jewelry here! Lol. Maybe the lights over the pool tables are "chandeliers". It's a working-class pub/lounge.
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A place that could easily fit into the great rock tribute to bars, "The Have Nots" by X:



Who wouldn't want to compare the Bee-Hive Bar and the Zircon Lounge?

Bonus TB content: tort!
 
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Club implies you're a member of something or that you and the other patrons are there for a shared purpose; dancing for instance. I think in practice, a club offers a setting that showcases entertainment/activity. A bar is literally the coutertop where the drinks are served and is also used to refer to a place where this is essentially the only thing being offered.
 
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OldDog52 said:
Ok this is creepy. I'm sitting in the Invalid Link Removed in Eugene as I type this.

I assure you there are no chandeliers or garish jewelry here! Lol. Maybe the lights over the pool tables are "chandeliers". It's a working-class pub/lounge.
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That's a place that's got to be on my Must Visit list, and now it is. It's much closer to the top of the list than the place that looked like a red barn on Rt. 30 along the Columbia that had a big sign that said "Steads, Chops, 24 hour breakfast, TOPLESS." That was none of the above, and probably a place to be avoided. The Jackalope Lounge, on the other hand, sounds like a winner even if it's just for the name.
 
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Chris 'Wighat' Jordan said:
Club implies you're a member of something or that you and the other patrons are there for a shared purpose; dancing for instance. I think in practice, a club offers a setting that showcases entertainment/activity. A bar is literally the coutertop where the drinks are served and is also used to refer to a place where this is essentially the only thing being offered.
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Here in the merry old land of Oz, clubs usually refer to "registered club" eg. RSL (returned servicemen) or Leagues Clubs (rugby league football) Bowls Clubs etc. you have to be a member, or visitor or a reciprocal member from another club (sounds very confusing!..)
I suppose what you would call a bar, we would call a pub.. the "bar" being that room, or area where the actual BAR is located and cleansing beverages are served!
All seem to be driven by poker machine revenue!
 
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Bar: Drink beer (or ber if you drink bud....) and watch sports, may include small gambling rings and sometimes when the only other option is soccer there is live music.

Club: 'Fancier' beverages than good ol' beer, usually a cover charge to get in, more likely to have a bouncer or 2, and is all about the music (the larger clubs generally have live music or DJs every night).
 
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Mr. Sound said:
Here in the merry old land of Oz, clubs usually refer to "registered club" eg. RSL (returned servicemen) or Leagues Clubs (rugby league football) Bowls Clubs etc. you have to be a member, or visitor or a reciprocal member from another club (sounds very confusing!..)
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I went to many footie clubs in OZ. Love the cheap beer & could often win my beer money back on the slots.
I'd just watch the machines and if a little old lady had been pounding one machine for a while w/o a payout, I'd be the next on it.
 
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I've never been clubbed at bars, but I've been barred from clubs.



Meanings can be regional:

My friend and I were visiting his relatives in Holland, and he and I mentioned we wanted to go out to a nightclub — his uncle got very upset with us; turns out a nightclub was a place with poles and scantilly clad women gyrating on said poles and leering degenerates drinking whilst watching the gyrations and... other "shuns".

Took us a while to calm him down and explain that disco had died down a long time ago and that what we Canadians called a nightclub was called a "disco" by him and most of Europe. "*Een nachtklub is smerig, een diskotheek is kool", apparently.
*spellings have been changed to add emphasis to consonants (c to k)



Now, where does the good ol' TAVERN fit into this mess of clubs, bars, pubs and lounges... ?
 
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Mr. Sound said:
Here in the merry old land of Oz, clubs usually refer to "registered club" eg. RSL (returned servicemen) or Leagues Clubs (rugby league football) Bowls Clubs etc. you have to be a member, or visitor or a reciprocal member from another club (sounds very confusing!..)
I suppose what you would call a bar, we would call a pub.. the "bar" being that room, or area where the actual BAR is located and cleansing beverages are served!
All seem to be driven by poker machine revenue!
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So what do you call the place where people go to dance, if not a dance club/night club? Don't tell me it's a "disco" in Oz.
 

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