/lit/ - Literature

>>17718447
Not in Europe, especially southern Europe.

>>17718447
Is there no current alternative to the "little cafés"?

>>17718463

Count yourselves lucky.

>>17718468

Not in North America.

Anon, i... cafes still exist...

>>17718447
Is this a joke? You don’t know coffee shops exist?

>>17718447
Kys

>>17718463
Guy from Southern Europe here

I used to drink beer and read in small bars constantly

>>17718447
There are at least a dozen small cafes within walking distance of my apartment. Maybe two dozen. I have never been in, or even seen as far as I can recall, a drive-through.

>>17718447
What the fuck are you talking about? There are cafes all over the place, people use them for studying and reading all the time.

i can only read in a soundproofed, hermetically sealed room. sitting at some sticky table, trying to read, surrounded by gibbering eurobeaners sounds like hell on earth.

>>17718485
still in lockdown mode here. I wonder how many will close down instead of reopen.

>>17718447
That's a good thing

>Implying a place like this is full of pleasant little cafés

>>17718597
How do burgers even live in their cities? The American countryside seems comfy as fuck, with tons of untouched nature, but the cities look like hell on Earth.

>>17718597
There definitely is hidden in various small alleys and suburbs

>>17718624

Suburbs only have Starbucks and alleyways are basically criminalized in most American cities.

>>17718622
Depends on the city.
We should get like 3x the population the country has now to really start some new cities. I think that would be cool.

>>17718633
I guess Europe is still based

I remember walking around the inner city, sipping coffee in small bars and reading books i borrowed from my high school libary

Good times

>>17718641
>start some new cities

We forgot how though.

>>17718597
why would you assume to find American cafés or diners at the four-lane main road? like come on, I know it's shitty /lit/ thread but show a little execution of intellectual honesty while your baiting me to write this. fuck, I know there are cafés at the Champs-Elysée for tourists and new money type of guys, but all worthwhile cafés in the whole wide world are either placed at the harbour, in little alleys or around a corner somewhere.

>>17718662
You're totally right about that. How come all good cafés are hidden away around corners and such? I appreciate the feeling it gives, but it seems so odd.

>>17718673
my uneducated guess would be a) noise reduction, b) view, and c) exclusivity by location

>>17718463
The further you drive down South the browner the inhabitants get

>>17718447
>It's all "drive-throughs" now.
I don't understand this. Do you mean you can only get tea from fast food places with drive throughs like McDonald's? Or is it a drive through which only offers tea, like those roadside lunch/tea trailers?

>>17718447
Trump lost. You lost.

>>17718447
Why the fuck do people go to cafes anyways?
I have coffee at home.

>>17718910
Its nice being among people sometimes

>>17718914
>Pay 3 dollars to listen to people ego about themselves
Nah

>>17718924
I just pay half a euro to sit outside and enjoy the scenery

>>17718910
How are people supposed to know I’m a mysterious brooding intellectual if they don’t see me reading?

>>17718924
>not bathing once in a while in the radiating wrong-headedness of common people
ishygdds

>>17718928
>Scenery
So you sit outside and watch cars go by and grass grow.
And you pay for this privilege?

>>17718942
No i sit outside in an old part of town on a sunny day and watch people go by

I sip coffee for a bit then i just continue with my day

>>17718969
And what is the point of this?

>>17718447
What the fuck is with /lit: and nostalgia of the old days.

>>17718975
To relax and breathe for a little while. To become part of greater scenery and not just an implication behind the walls of your apartment.
It's one of those "stop and smell the roses" things.

>>17718975
What >>17719003 said

Just take a moment and enjoy the act of being alive

>>17719003
*SNIFF*
AH

I just did what you did but from my bedroom without paying half a euro.

Albeit I did not smell roses but rather the scent of BO.

>>17719003
Put on some headphones and listen to music.

>>17719023
Bet you have a cute room anon

>>17719108
I do not. It is rather ugly. New York is a terrible place and it's housing is very poor.

>>17718702
Southern Slavs are whiter than most Anglos. Italians and Greeks, even people living in southern parts of France, are bit swarthier but what does that even mean? Some polshit? Wherever Protestantism didn't triumphed people tend to be less insectoid-usurers.

I've never been to a cafe, I want to go when they open up again
It seems nice to establish yourself in a public place, maybe someone will talk to me

>>17719119
Bet you are a cute skinny twink anon

>>17718447
What country are you talking about?
In Sweden nothing can stop fika culture.

>>17719137
Get any closer and I'll spray

>>17719148
>In Sweden nothing can stop fika culture.
Except grenades, stabbings, beheadings, and murder/terror in general.

>>17719150
>>17719137
He can't spray us all, those cans only have about 5oz in them.

>>17719155
No, those are acceptable risks. The cafés will remain open no matter what.

>>17719157
Hell yeah brother

>>17719155
>American belief that not everything should stop at 11am for tea and cakes
Not Swedish but this is basically the reason your empire has never worked. Even Kitchener knew the value of having the machine gunning done by elevenses and he was fighting in the Sudan before your country even worked out it had oil competition.

>I live in Beijing, in the old hutong neighborhood. This is a local tea shop cafe and reading room. They have books in a few different languages, and for CNY 60, you can sit and sip tea (or coffee, or liquor) all day while reading, or writing.

Is this OK?

>>17719205
I hate sitting.
I can only read when I'm laying down