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on Friday September 30 2016, @10:23PM
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building.
Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens.
He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevents them entering the interior of the building.
Why you hating on millennials, Bro?
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Landlord Installs Faraday Cage to Block Phone Signals Because Social Media is Ruining British Pubs
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:21AM
I would kill to find a bar or restaurant anywhere near us that would allow a conversation with my dinner partner.
You can. It's called going out on Tuesday night instead.
My fellow misanthropes have gotten use to slinking in the shadows when most spots are dead. Everything is still available, it's just turned down a few degrees. A few dates have been uneasy at the lack of cacophony, which is okay; we probably wouldn't get along that well.
Others have settled in to intimacy such a setting provides, even if it takes a bit to get use to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @03:45AM
> You can. It's called going out on Tuesday night instead.
We found a quiet restaurant for Friday night (not a bar). Mid-days it's an independent coffee shop in a strip mall with a grill, also homemade soup, salads and sandwiches -- very busy. But on Friday evening the fancy coffee crowd must go elsewhere. Fancier restaurants in the same plaza look jammed. We are often the only customers and we know the staff well enough that they often turn the music off when we come in. Or, they don't mind if I walk around behind the register and turn it down myself.
Our local friends know that we can be found there for Friday dinner, and they drop in sometimes -- no planning required.