I agree and disagree with this. During football season I occasionally walk down to the (Huge Chain Restaurant Similar to Pic Related) bar to have a few pints and watch the few games I’m interested in. Not a sports nut, just have a few teams that I half assedly follow because I find the game interesting and have connection to some of them. There’s a bit of a social factor to it for me in just being around people rather than watching the game by myself at home, and the beer is actually incredibly cheap. The local regulars are actually surprisingly cool, very few fatties too surprisingly. I really enjoy indulging in the cross-cultural male language of sports. Then again, sometimes its tedious pointlessness just irritates the fuck out of me. You’re pretty introverted so you would be completely miserable in that environment.  You’re completely right though that people who make a lifestyle of bar food/drink weekends end up torching their health and wasting piles of cash on a somewhat generic corporate experience. I remember feeling hungry and looking at the menu (this particular place has calories counts on it now) and some of those meals were like 2500-3000 cals of fried shit. I just wanted like a small thing of chips n salsa bartender dude, I don’t need more food in this meal than I need for the whole fuckin day, lol. Pile pitchers of cheap beer on that and it’s no surprise everyone is such a fat fuck these days. A nation of heroin junkies would probably have less morbidity in the long run.