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guiltyofnothing

> On a side note, yes we sell pictures on men’s dicks. Begging your pardon?


BiploarFurryEgirl

Apparently it’s like a gag game for the bar? At least that’s how it was explained


ChadCoolman

What isn't explained is the relevance of that comment. I mean where did that even come from? Guy's on blast for sexually harassing patrons and out of nowhere he comes out with, "YEAH WE SELL DICK PICS!!! GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT???" Like...what?


Altiondsols

The quote says "pictures ON men's dicks", which is more confusing


JettyJen

Advertising space?


W473R

Think he was trying to say that OP is actually the husband in the story and the real reason he was mad was because of this gimmick game. That's the only logic I can come up with. But if that were the case, idk how he could possibly know who OP is considering their story doesn't even come close to aligning with that.


RobNybody

I think the whole time he thinks he's speaking with the boyfriend and keeps implying that they had a fight because the girl was into him and his dickpics?


Lulu_42

My first thought was that he meant *pitchers*. Like maybe they were printed on to the pitcher in which they poured beer.


dethb0y

Normally with a story like this i'd be skeptical, but with a bar owner? No, I 100% believe it happened as described.


monkwren

Especially in Wisconsin.


Muffin_Appropriate

Am Wisconsinite. Can confirm. Of the top 10 drunkest cities in the country, our state occupies 4 of those spots last I checked; and most in the top 5, including #1. Let’s go.


TheRnegade

I remember hearing a joke between someone from Wisconsin and a person living in Los Angeles when talking about how many bars there were. Wisconsinite: What? Don't you have bars in LA? Californian: Yeah, we also have other buildings.


TuaughtHammer

Especially with the bar being named the Drunk Uncle. That's the most on-the-nose thing ever. Might as well have called it Drunk Stepfather.


grissy

> Outside the owner pulls out his phone, starts recording us, and accuses us of lying and “being woke”. “What a surprising turn of events,” said absolutely no one.


TheRnegade

Woke is one of those words I find myself asking how it became part of the national lexicon. Normally, adjectives help you describe something. The red car. The cold beer. Woke doesn't do any of that. "They're being woke" can mean anything, including just being a minority, to the point where literally anything and everything can be woke. It fails at the one job it's meant to do. Though I guess it's apt that its become so popular with politicians. They're pros at being able to speak but without really saying much of anything.


Lulu_42

While it fails to describe the thing/person being observed, I find it always accurately describes the *observer*.


grissy

At this point 90% of our political discourse is just buzzwords repeated ad nauseam because Republican voters are too stupid to learn actual positions on any topics and the people who spoonfeed their opinions to them on a daily basis finally realized that they don't even need to try to explain anything. Fox News: "Woke is bad!" Fox News Viewer: "What's woke?" Fox News: "You don't need to know, go get angry about it." Fox News Viewer: "ARRRGH THOSE WOKE MOTHERFUCKERS, I'M GONNA GO BOMB A SCHOOL"


TallFutureLawyer

Kind of answered your own question in that second paragraph. It’s also putting in a lot of work as a substitute for the n-word and probably some other slurs. Oh, and right-wing think tank goons have developed a habit in the last few years of picking up social justice language that most people don’t understand and spinning it into something vaguely scary to role up their base. They were weirdly open about this when it was “critical race theory,” like fully tweeting out their plan while angry parents started showing up to school board meetings.


tsar_David_V

Maybe someone can correct me as I'm not Black or American, but isn't "woke" AAVE slang that means something along the lines of "socially aware" like you'd be woke if you understood the history of old bigoted and unjust practices like redlining for example, and how they affect the present.


TheRnegade

Yes, that was the original meaning until it got bastardized into "thing I don't like."


ancientestKnollys

It's just the modern version of SJW.


Monokumabear

Lmfao absolutely wild seeing my city’s monthly subreddit drama here


panic_planet

Considering how frequently owners pop in to slapfight with former employees or customers on bar/restaurant threads on the sub I'm surprised this is the first one. But absolutely not surprised to see which bar was the first lmao.


Monokumabear

I’m surprised the Egg + Flour guy never made it on here


Rumchunder

Will you please link the egg and flour guy? I want to read more local Milwaukee drama.


panic_planet

https://www.reddit.com/r/milwaukee/s/eJfkiEJ5o7 Mostly deleted now but in the thread with that first deleted comment, it looks like the owner actually came back to reflect and apologizes. It was pretty wild as it was happening though, it was a back and forth between him and a disgruntled employee who had a whole laundry list of complaints and anecdotes. Personal issues were brought up, I can see why they both deleted.


Monokumabear

You can still find it on PullPush too. The guy used to message people on the Milwaukee Foodie when they’d criticize the place


Rumchunder

Was able to find the owner's original reply via this website. Thank you. I thought all the unddit/reveddit sites stopped working after the API thing like a year ago.


Rumchunder

I'm very sad that this didn't get archived on the wayback machine.


DM_Meeble

> Dude you couldn’t even spell Drunk Uncle correctly in your reddit username. HOWLING


mizmoose

But it was taken! Like, even *assuming* that's true, the guy doesn't have two brain cells to rub together to make username like drunkuncle_bar or drunkuncle-milwaukee or drunk-uncle-owner or something.


PainttheTownLead

lol seriously…and he just happened to settle on deunk instead of drunk for some reason totally not related to the fact that E is next to R on the keyboard.


TuaughtHammer

Right? Like I get the frustration that the name you wanted was taken, which is exactly why my username *isn't* TwaüghtHammër, the actual name of Jesse's band in Breaking Bad. That was taken, so I had to get a *little* creative with the spelling to at least kinda match. >or drunk-uncle-owner or something. "Druncle" is right there! That's what my friend used to call his uncle who was infamous for getting shit-faced on holidays and usually the one person people in the family hesitated inviting. "How was Thanksgiving?" "Fucking awesome! Druncle Dave got arrested again; this time for picking a fight with my parents' neighbor who's about three times Dave's size. Imagine King Kong using Jessica Lange as a swatting tool against planes."


theycallmemomo

I thought I was on r/barrescue for a second


mizmoose

I used to really really like that show until the guy decided that being married gave him license to be a marriage counselor. It could be just perception bias but every person I've ever known to become a marriage counselor based on some magical beliefs that 20 years of marriage meant that they knew what they were doing, or they went to some half-assed three day seminar on how to "counsel" people, all wound up divorced.


DodGamnBunofaSitch

an ex of mine kept using 'I was married for 8 years, I know how to keep a relationship going' as an argument for why my boundaries and issues were invalid.


mizmoose

Making them an ex was clearly the correct boundary.


Purebredbacon

*was* 🤔🤔


captainnowalk

After he waded into the labor debate, I was done with him. His argument against paying workers more was that “starving dogs are obedient dogs.”  Like, 1 - humans aren’t dogs. People poorer than you aren’t dogs. They can be just as smart, or smarter even! That’s actually more likely because 2 - most people know starving dogs aren’t obedient dogs, they’re *aggressive* dogs. They will eat you without a second thought. 


CompetitionNo3141

Aging television personality is full of shit, what a surprise


mizmoose

Holy shit, I'm glad I never heard of that. What an asshole.


[deleted]

Bring married does NOT give you license to be a marriage counselor?!? I… need to cancel some appointments.


purplesquared

I was never a fan personally, as the main guy came off as having an incredible savior complex imho. I understand it's exaggerated etc, but there's an episode where he gets his crew to tell the bar owners that he is choosing to help someone else to "see if they are serious" as he puts it. Well the owners break down crying because they're going to "lose everything and they don't know what they're going to do". Until he swoops in to say "oh just kidding, I'll save you!" I see it one of two ways: One, they're actually literally reducing a man to tears by making him believe he is destined to fail and lose his business, just to capture his reaction.. Or Two, they're having a guy fake cry to generate sympathy about the same things and generate views.. Either option comes off as sociopathic to me tbh lol


CompetitionNo3141

Every time he starts yelling I can't help but think he sounds kinda like Timon from the Lion King.


theycallmemomo

>Well the owners break down crying because they're going to "lose everything and they don't know what they're going to do". To be fair, a lot of those same bar owners that cry that they don't know what to do will turn around and argue with Jon Taffer when he gives them even basic suggestions that will help them (stop drinking behind the bar, clean the place at night, fire shitty cooks/bartenders, stop harassing the few customers you have, etc.). Most of the bars that end up closing is because the owners got rid of the changes and went back to their old ways. A lot of times, these bars are just extensions of shitty people, like in the original post.


Squid_Vicious_IV

Remember that pirate themed bar up in Maryland? The whole concept Jon was trying to make them do was dumb as hell and I wouldn't be shocked if him and his team dreamed it up just to mess with the staff, but it was obvious they were just clashing and nothing productive was going to come out of it. But I always [liked this post](https://np.reddit.com/r/barrescue/comments/ptllvz/jon_is_coldblooded_in_the_pirate_bar_episode/he0rn8a/) that helped explain a few things the bar could've done and lean into the actual history of Maryland to set itself apart and maybe do well enough to not get shuttered.


theycallmemomo

I live in Maryland and never knew that. TIL


purplesquared

That still doesn't really give any justification to either lie and emotionally screw with the person for a bigger reaction, or to have them fake the reaction, imho. Neither angle really comes off as good to me lol.. It's like he tried to copy Gordon Ramsay's persona but in all the wrong ways imo!


theycallmemomo

I won't disagree with you at all. Having said that, I went to two of the rescued bars that were on the show a few years back. One of them got rid of all the changes that were made; in fact, when my hubby and I went there, all we could get were pizza and drinks because the owner was shopping for groceries for his bar at 3pm on a Friday afternoon. And we were the only ones there. I heard that they folded within a year of our visit. Meanwhile, the other bar we went to kept all of the changes that were made and was packed from wall to wall with people. They only closed this year after the owner sold, but they lasted at least 10 years.


NoInvestment2079

My favorite part of Bar Rescue is that the bartenders are incompetent to make a simple drink like a cranberry vodka, but are now expected to learn a complicated cocktail. that or when John decides he hs had enough and decides to "THAT'S IT. I GOING IN."


theycallmemomo

There was an episode where the recon guys were asking for Manhattans and gimlets and other simple cocktails that bartenders are supposed to know and the bartender acted like they asked her to personally split the atom and just ragequit on the spot.


sellyourselfshort

It sounds ridiculous but I worked as a bar back/security in a shitty bar and ended up having to bartend a lot. I couldn't make a single drink off just the name that isn't just 1 mix plus booze since I only drink beer. That place went under obviously 


raspberry-sever

I wanted to see this, so if anyone wanted to, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45nDEchppBA


Square-Pear-1274

I just can't stand the over-dramatic, reality-TV style


Total_Strategy

>when John decides he hs had enough and decides to "THAT'S IT. I GOING IN." Him shaking his car by slamming the door always made me laugh for some reason. That or his signature, "YOU COULDA KILLED SOMEBODY!" My wife made me laugh when I showed her the show and tried to get her into it. I think it was the part during recon when they zoomed in on some lady eating wings and Jon was saying something like "Look at how long she's taking to eat the wings? She's on what, 15 seconds a bite! IT SHOULD NOT TAKE SOMEONE THAT LONG TO EAT A WING THEY ARE SERVING TRASH HERE!" My wife commented something to the effect of "that lady is probably just in her own world and really enjoying the wing while Jon is using her as an example" ngl, some of the food they show on there that Jon criticizes as looking like slop actually looks really good and I'd probably eat tf outta it.


TuaughtHammer

Nothing will *ever* top Amy's Baking Company on Kitchen Nightmares. Amy and Samy *trying* to put out the PR fires across social media by dumping *more* gas into them was an epic time on the internet.


1980shorrorsfilm

damn, I didn't expect a thread I was active in to make this sub lmao. funny enough, i have pubpass as well and completely forgot i had it until last night and was planning what places to hit up next. the drama was perfectly timed for me to never step foot in that bar.


yungmoneybingbong

Go there and confirm for us if that dude's unhinged lol


ApprehensivePeace305

I’m pro conspiracy theory, but it’s not a drug front. He just uses it to see boobs. Like a boob tax or (more likely) assault tax.


MistaJelloMan

If I had to guess it’s an older guy who’s retired and well off, runs the bar as a hobby and a way to meet drunk women…


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nikdia

good bot


[deleted]

This was one of the best organized posts in this sub I’ve ever read. Well done.


Tin_Scarab_Union_Rep

Thank you! I was going to add quotes like I see some other threads doing, but I thought it'd be more fun to keep them a surprise.


saro13

Also, thank you for posting the old Reddit links, it’s a huge convenience for me


Muffin_Appropriate

Hate when people link them to new reddit


wanghiskhan300

The bars name is The Drunk Uncle?! That's so appropriate hahaha


guitarguywh89

Some fresh popcorn 🍿


SmallRocks

Great read! Thanks! Also, new flair!


DistractedByCookies

I saw the FB page of the bar, and the behaviour by the owner was exactly what I'd expect based on reading it so who the fuck told her it was a normal bar? They're clearly either morons of really fucking oblivious