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When is it a pub and when is it not?
Erm, it's a pub when it's a pub, it's not a pub when it's something else?

What do you mean by that.
I prefer pubs to clubs. Better atmosphere and nicer to relax in. Plus they usually serve a better and wider selection of alcohol.

Well I think that you have bars, pubs, cafés. Those are three different things. I know they're about the same but when would you call something a pub and when a café or a bar.

I think of a Pub as a social place to get alcohol, a Bar as a place to get drunk, and a Cafe as a place to get coffee.

Of course, I'm a minor, so I'm probably wrong.

Pub: Commonly used shorthand for "Public House". Pubs are non-membership bars serving all sorts of alcoholic beverages. Most commonly found in the British Isles or Eire.

Club: A place for social gatherings, that plays the latest music and encourgaes dancing and drinking.
(Louder music than a pub and a totally different atmosphere - usually for a much younger crowd)

Cafe: A coffeehouse, restaurant, or bar

Bar: A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
(It is the actual counter that serves alcohol in a pub or club)

Sources: (The definitions i used are what is bolded)
Online Dictionary
Urban Dictionary

I've never been to a pub, so my only experience on what pub might be is in that one episode of Family Guy when the Drunken Clam is destroyed and is replaced by a British pub and the owner tries to hit on Louis.....or however you spell her name.

Club: A place for social gatherings, that plays the latest music and encourgaes dancing and drinking.

I don't particularly enjoy drinking alcohol, but pubs are great venues of social gathering.

Being a Commonwealth country, you'd expect NZ to have quite a few pubs.

Louis.....or however you spell her name.

I love good old beer-battered pub food.

Plus they usually serve a better and wider selection of alcohol.

We rather have bars, which are pretty okay.

For a second there I was like, "Wait a minute, you're only 20. In US you need to be 21." Then I remembered you're in Ireland where it's 18.

Not old enough to go to one, but when I am I will most likely go to a pub.

Dibs, what about sake houses? Can you get in there?

I generally think about pubs by sending small electric signals to various part of my brain.
I not old enough to drink, so I've never been in a pub.

what about sake houses?

I not old enough to drink, so I've never been in a pub.

The majority of pubs serve food, so you would be able to go in during the day to eat there.

pubs are a
nice place to
drink alcohol and socialize

when somethin is a pub
it most likely has alcohol
and looks like a pub
search on google images