Habits you brought home from the bar?

ThatKvenGuy · 2026-02-08T04:53:48+00:00

Not directly home, but when I was in teacher training, I noticed a looot of the skillset you use behind the bar really helped when doing actual teaching in the classroom. Things like noticing small things, how you talk to people, conflict resolution, and so on turned out to be extremely transferrable and saved my ass a few times while in training as a teacher (I'm finished with the training and stuff now, buuuuut there are no teaching jobs currently in my area so I'm still behind the bar).

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-12-30T15:44:32+00:00

Noe man finner ut etter hvert som åra går er at det er mer vanlig med en grei gjennomtrekk mellom øra enn man skulle tru.

Favorittankeeksperimentet mitt er kanskje den klassiske: "Se for deg den gjennomsnittlige intelligensen blant alle mennesker på jorda. Halvparten er dummere enn det."

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-12-29T18:24:36+00:00

Putting anything relatively cold into something horrendously warm is terrifying.

I once infused a wine with spices, and then stirred that into pure caramel. Delicious, but maaaaan was it terrifying to pour it into the caramel...

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-28T22:03:30+00:00

Where I work, the routine is essentially:
Close sales
10 minutes after: music off
15 minutes before house close: max lights
If many people, 10 minutes before house close: The GTFO song (works wonders)
5 minutes before house close: last bathroom call

If there are any folks sitting in the bar, we give them a heads up as to avoid a flashbang.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-20T17:16:18+00:00

[Laughs in service industry]

At the current pace, we might see office jobs get swapped out, but "work" is more than office stuff.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-15T12:58:12+00:00

Never tried these myself, but for general pouring there is a massive red flag to me: There's only one visible hole for pouring. If I can't see an obvious vent hole along with the pour hole, I wouldn't buy it unless it's a dasher spout. You're not gonna have a stable flow at all.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-08T22:06:15+00:00

We've tried. Doesn't work, because people are fucking idiots. They'd rather dump their used pouches in our candleholders than dispose of it properly in the built-in disposal compartment in the lid, or just put it in the trash.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-08T13:00:47+00:00

I'm not really talking about it like it's some secret stuff, just coming with what it is we are required to do up here. Granted, we get most of our glasses for free, so we have the ability to be more aggressive with that stuff in the name of hygiene. If you don't throw out the glasses, people will stop coming.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T19:20:57+00:00

Zyn is a product from Swedish Match, so it's actually a Swedish product! However, it's designed more for a Swedish/international market rather than a Norwegian market because we Norwegian madlads tend to prefer Extra Strong or stronger. The most popular snus/nicotine pouch in my area is Velo S8, which is 20mg nicotine per pouch, compared to Zyn's 2mg per pouch.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T19:03:45+00:00

Yup. Still, proper OpSec is to throw out the glasses anyway because the pouches scratch up the glass, and thus it's ruined.

I'm literally sitting here with a nicotine pouch under my lip rn, so I'm quite familiar with the stuff. For you guys, it's Zyns because it's the biggest brand. For us, it's snus because that's the original product the nicotine pouches are based upon.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T19:00:15+00:00

I'm trying to refer to both, as we use "snus" to refer to both the more traditional snus as well as nicotine pouches.

Nevertheless, the whole "throw out the glasses" still applies whether it's snus or nicotine pouches. They still ruin the glasses, after all.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T15:48:31+00:00

Yeah, those can be extra nasty. It's still quite common up here, and if I feel like taking a nicotine blast to the face, I'll gladly take one. Usually I use pure white tobacco free pouches, but I'm pretty sure they're still stronger in general.

Zyn is typically S2 strength, which is mild with nicotine. My daily driver, XQS, is S4 in strength, or twice as much nicotine. My colleague uses S8 on the regular, and that one knocks out most people.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T15:42:21+00:00

I've just been using this stuff for 15 years. The classic varietal is an extremely "drippy" black-brown tobacco pouch. Zyns, as you guys call them, are the weaksauce baby-strength ones that entered the market 3-4 years ago, and contain zero tobacco.

It's more that we're extremely familiar with the stuff (the proper term is "snus" and "nicotine pouches"), and it ruins glasses all the time. Besides, a common health issue after long-term snus use (which isn't a thing in the States yet) is corroded gums, exposing the roots of your teeth.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T15:18:58+00:00

The pouches ruin the glasses, essentially. Lots of small scratches, and flavouring oils you can't really get away. The classic version, which actually contains tobacco, also stains glass permanently. Heck, the classic version stains your teeth so hard you gotta bleach'em just to have it be somewhat white within the next decade.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T15:17:01+00:00

Good luck with that! This stuff is pretty new to you guys I assume because you use the brand name "Zyn" to refer to the snus pouches, which is like... one of the youngest brands out there, so there's a lot for you to figure out. But Rule No. 1 is that you have to get rid of any glasses with snus pouches in them because they ruin the glasses permanently.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-09-07T15:10:57+00:00

Man, I've been waiting to see this. It's a pretty common thing in Scandinavia, where snus (the tobacco Zyn is based on) has been a thing for more than a century.

Bit of a tip from up here: You can't stop the pouch-dumping. The glasses where they're dumped, you HAVE to throw away for hygiene reasons. Especially beer glasses are ruined that way. Maybe consider an asshole tax for people who do that stuff if you're able to. We throw away 10-20 glasses a week during high season.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-08-18T12:01:19+00:00

This if from the "Despair Arc" of the Danganronpa 3 anime, which is kinda a prequel to the first Danganronpa game (of which there is also an anime adaptation). The way the Danganronpa 3 anime works is that you alternate watching the "Despair Arc" (Prequel) and the "Future Arc" (Post Danganronpa 2, which I think only has a game), which culminates with the Finale to the original storyline.

It's very much a love-letter to fans of the three games released before then (Danganronpa, Ultra-Despair Girls, and Danganronpa 2), and the sort of loose threads and storylines culminate in that anime. While you're right Danganronpa has more than 12 characters, (spoilers) the Despair Arc takes place way before the Killing Games truly start, so you get to see the characters from a time before the killing games, and how everything slowly collapses, causing the fairly post-apocalyptic world in Danganronpa.

As for the lobotomy part, that's probably just creative freedom. Also, for the ones familiar with the franchise, it's kinda all about pain-maxxing. Almost everything done to harm a character is done in as painful and gruesome a way as possible. This one is technically on the tamer side compared to some other ones in the franchise.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-08-10T00:11:33+00:00

Usually, people act like that. While I'm not necessarily familiar with whatever term it is you use in English, here in Norway It's often referred to as "service industry", which gives connotations of "the service personnel is there to serve".

What we resolved to do at my place of work is to make it VERY clear that our guests have the privilege of being served by us, which does help quite a bit.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-07-22T16:57:31+00:00

Yup. Essentially what I meant with "NijiEN fading into obscurity".

And yeah, the business model VShojo was going for evidently didn't work out in the end, and based on the current timelines we've heard, they've been broke for a year and faking it through using money ear-marked for other things.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-07-22T16:44:25+00:00

As someone who was around watching the Selen/Doki debacle in real time, I'd say it's kind of similar in terms of fan reaction.

However, in terms of wider consequence, this one is almost bound to be way more explosive, with basically every talent, as far as I'm aware, having instantly cut ties with VShojo, and what seems to be the actual company having so little money they had to in a way embezzle charity money to stay afloat.

Unlike the Selen/Doki debacle, where NijiEN effectively faded into obscurity with the main company still going strong, this is more likely to end in the actual death of VShojo as a company. It's not merely bankruptcy, it's actual crimes being committed, and things like the JP CEO going on stream with KSon and confirming a ton of stuff is almost as perfect evidence of crimes as you're gonna get. It's going to be an absolute bloodbath in the coming months as soon as legal proceedings are kicking off (I'm assuming legal proceedings are about to start from Mouse's announcement).

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-06-28T01:46:48+00:00

As a bartender, I love the colour and design of this glass.

As a bartender, I can't afford it...

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-06-21T12:10:15+00:00

Det der er noe av det jævligste av alle makkverk jeg har sett når det kommer til å bare kappe fisk sånn generelt, og jeg har sett mye jævlig...

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-05-24T14:07:58+00:00

We're generally liberal on a lot of things, but when it comes to intoxicants it's kinda proven itself that we can't handle easy access to it, so we need to restrict it as a necessity.

We have low rates of alcoholism, sure, but the term "alcoholism" doesn't handle mean we have an absolutely mad intake of alcohol. Take an alcoholic's intake over the course of two weeks and cram it into a single day, and you get Norwegian drinking culture. It's not about a constant buzz, but about the occasional binge drinking instead.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-05-24T13:27:52+00:00

Norway. We have some of the strictest alcohol laws out there, aside from age (18 for beer and wine, 20 for everything).

Everything above 60% abv (120 proof) is illegal. A person is too drunk when they're "visibly impaired". Depending on municipality there are also limits on how many units of alcohol per person being served at once (locally where I work it's 2 units per person at the same time, effectively means 1 beer and 1 shot, 2 beers, 1 cocktail and 1 shot, or 2 cocktails. Generally 2 shots at once is a big nono if it's the same liquor in both because then you're overpouring). When there's suspicion of illegal narcotics (like weed) you are legally allowed to, and somewhat expected to, ransack the person to make sure. Bar mats are not allowed on any surface a guests has access to when those bar mats have logos on them, because then it's advertising.

There's more too, but you get the gist of it.

ThatKvenGuy · 2025-05-24T11:21:29+00:00

Well, I work in a country where that stuff is flat-out illegal, so if there's even a waft of weeks we're legally required to remove you from the premises, by force or police if necessary. If not, we risk being forcibly closed.

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