That's our local bar in Monterrey, Mexico [1]! We received some paper flyers with a QR when we had our first lockdown, it's nice seeing it pop up in HN.<p>If anyone's wondering, the bar is still open and operating on a very limited capacity, which has made it much nicer in my opinion. Also, the usual jazz quartet has been replaced with a trio with much younger musicians, since understandably the older musicians don't want to play in a bar during a pandemic.<p>[1] Maverick Monterrey - Lugar de Encuentros <a href="https://www.maverickmty.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.maverickmty.com</a>
I think not knowing when this is ending is worst part. I now know what the protagonist of the movie 'oldboy' meant by that.<p>also on a unrelated note, "you will see in two weeks" crowd seems to have completely disappeared.
I think the psychological toll of the lockdowns in different countries is highly underestimated.<p>I myself have no real economical shortcomings due to the lockdown, but even as a person who is normaly a total loner and who can spend weeks completely alone on a excessive hiking trip i am slowly going crazy...
For my wife, who is a highly social character, its even worse.<p>And i am not the only one in this mindset... what i hear and see in my region let me believe the mood is slowly turning into some sort of "Torches and Pitchforks" way...
I miss quarterly visits with a friend in a town midway between us. Just us in a hotel room, watching movies, going out to dinner, looking for new places or revisiting the old, chit-chatting away. We still communicate now but it lacks the spontaneity of our usual routine.<p>On a weekly basis, I miss "camping out" at my Starbucks and reading, growing slowly more wired on caffeine. This is the lack that seems to have put me off of my game the most, despite it not having a whole lot of personal interaction.
I miss being spontaneous about going out. I’m not even sure what restaurants are still open, what bars have gone out of business, why can’t we return to normal already?
I gave up booze in Dec 2019 as a (temporary?) experiment so lockdown has been helpful for me as I don’t have to not drink with friends in bars. But I know lots of people miss it and I hate seeing business owners in trouble.
For anyone missing the sounds of their local coffee shop, checkout Coffitivity: <a href="https://coffitivity.com" rel="nofollow">https://coffitivity.com</a><p>Not affiliated. Just like to put it on sometimes with a good indie playlist while I'm drinking coffee and doing work.
Hey I miss going to pubs as well! That’s why I’ve opened <a href="https://midnight.pub" rel="nofollow">https://midnight.pub</a><p>cheers!
Dunno if anyone missed it but there’s a really sweet playlist down the bottom.<p>The opener. What a tune <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6uDF1hOBaZmVNRGZm1NE7g?si=RQzHAwC3Qiy5weNGRd82PA" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/track/6uDF1hOBaZmVNRGZm1NE7g?si=RQz...</a>
I miss the bars a little (I wasn't too much for going out), but the current 6 pm curfew is rather annoying, how I can't do anything after work. Of course I adjusted my habits, going shopping or running during lunch breaks or the week end, but still
Extremely unlikely any of the ones I frequented will reopen in my country.<p>They survived the first lockdown but this one will surely have killed them off. Probably result in the historical buildings being sold off to be turned into luxury apartments.
What I find most interesting about this whole pandemic, is that my life hasn't changed in any noticeable way.<p>I work from home more then I did before, but I still need to go do work in-person on our servers occasionally. I go get groceries on Saturdays (although I need to stand in line now). I wake-up, work, eat supper, watch something on TV and/or have computer time, goto bed, repeat.<p>My wife hasn't left the house since March or so. But she's an introvert like me.<p>But by any measurable metric, my life hasn't been inconvenienced. And I know that I am lucky.
For some reason I went in expecting either someone complaining about a UI redesign where a bar had been removed, or a former lawyer commiserating about being disbarred.
I tried the background sounds for a while. Didn't really make me feel like my usual bar - none of the regular customers there, no good discussions, no meeting new people. After a while I didn't hear the noise at all, it just blended in the background. Then I switched it off, and realized how much it had been filling. Fun experiment.
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It's cool. I wish I could be happy.<p>But for me, this sort of thing just sends me further into a deep depression.<p>It ain't right. Pictures of food don't fix hunger.<p>I hope that we snap out of all of this soon. Writing these comments, just to leave a log, in case someone cares, if it all goes wrong.<p>I miss having the ability to miss. Having the feeling that others exist. Right now I feel that other people stopped existing.
There should be an Irish version of this, called 'I Miss My Pub'. There would be sliders for trad music, yelling, cursing, arguing, laughter, glass breaking, and people falling.
Cool bit of audio mixing. I'd appreciate "IMissLiveSports" personally, and "IMissLiveMusic" that could played in the background of any other music would be fun, too.
I really like it :-)<p>(It's telling a lot about the state of the internet that this site loads google malware, but won't remember where I let the sliders when I refresh the page though.)
This song captures that feeling well.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4</a>
Thanks for making this! I love these types of independent creative projects that don't rely on third party content to work (minus the Spotify embed).<p>There is something about ambient noise from people that helps me work and focus. Offices and coffee shops closing has saved me a ton of transit and coffee money but it's hurt my productivity a lot.<p>With Youtube 1hr mixes of ambient people sounds and Pomodoros, I'm doing a bit better.
I need some downtime from people in order to recharge my social battery. I really enjoy being around people but I just can't do it 24/7. Having your whole family around all of the time is really stressing since my social battery is empty and stays empty.<p>This is where an office or a commute happens, by the time you get home you really missed everybody, at least when everything is going right ;)
Similar is Sounds of the Bodleian [1], which offers ambient noises from four different reading rooms in the Bodleian library (the main research library at the University of Oxford).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam" rel="nofollow">https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam</a>
Maybe it's the rural setup where I'm from, but I'm glad that in 2020 and 2021 I barely visited bars. Summer was spent by lakes and forests, drinking beers, cocktails, appetizers, and eating freshly grilled BBQ for a fraction of the price, having quality time in the sun with friends.<p>I don't miss commercial society, I don't miss their tropes and their rituals. Fake friendship and banter from people hanging around to get some of my money in exchange of half a glass of ice and a dribble of liquor.<p>Bonus annoyance this year: the eternal covid lamentations of bar and restaurant owners, as if governments purposely wanted to destroy their businesses, as if one's bar is more important than other people lives, as if they didn't paint themselves and their stupid restaurant for years as an example of entrepreneurship (apparently the free market is a good idea only when your business goes well).<p>To hell with paid service, picnics and aperitivi in the main square with cheap liquor and (honestly) friendly smiles.<p>"I command this dump to wither, board its doors and windows forever" as Dan Feeder says.
Thank you for posting this. I've missed the spontaneous social interaction of meeting up with friends at a bar after work with this pandemic going on.<p>Things are starting to open up a bit in Chicago, but it won't be the same for a long time.
This reminds me of that website which provides several soundscapes, from the ambiance of a café to a walk in the woods. Its at <a href="https://mynoise.net" rel="nofollow">https://mynoise.net</a>
To add to the collection of websites recreating acoustic environments, there's <a href="https://imisstheoffice.eu" rel="nofollow">https://imisstheoffice.eu</a> for office sounds.
This is very interesting but I picture the image of sitting alone in a bar, which is not the kind of thing I'd want to picture.<p>Meaning, all this stuff I usually try to tune off or ignore when I am(was) out.
I use <a href="http://phanary.com/" rel="nofollow">http://phanary.com/</a> which has a ton of sounds and similar controls.
Until people rise up against the restrictions, the restrictions will continue and will be more restrictive over time. There's always a third, fourth, fifth wave, there's always a new strain immune to current vaccines. Just hold on for two weeks so we can defeat the virus!
You miss the bar or the environment you ingested alcohol in? When your brain misses the ethanol high it is reminding you about the circumstances and makes you want to repeat it.
When I see stuff like this it reminds me just how different I am to many people. It feels like I'm an alien trying to understand a new civilisation.<p>I used to go to "bars" and the like, but it was only to meet women and get laid. Now that I've secured the means to reproduction I don't have to force myself through that hell any more. Sites like this suggest there is something attractive about such places even if you take the sex away. I'm so happy, happier than I've ever been, that I don't have to go to bars or drink alcohol ever again.
I don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city. Most sheriff's in California have flat out refused to comply with the lockdown regulations. Since when did America get the ability to shutdown business'? Never....<p>During this Pandemic i've lost three 'Friends' (Social Media acquaintances I knew from HS) to suicide and have not heard of a single person who's had any long-term damage from Covid and the majority of my friends have has it at one point in time by now. I got it in early March in SF and again in July in Miami. Both times i caught a little sniffle. I got tested and quarantined but it did not stop me or scare me away from living my life. Most of my friends have the money, willpower and social distain for authoritarian governments to move to wherever state is not trying to follow China's example. (Mainly Socal, Florida, even Mexico)<p>Smoking cigs, riding motorcycles, and a million other things can kill you in this life. Live your life and anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. If you're scared of COVID stay inside, but let the rest of us live our lives.