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Its not just to accomodate them, in my experiance, adults wanna be with adults. We want to have fun with adults, joke, make dirty comments. Say bad things, Curse. And having and adult only night would be great.

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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Its not just to accomodate them, in my experiance, adults wanna be with adults. We want to have fun with adults, joke, make dirty comments. Say bad things, Curse. And having and adult only night would be great.
Having an adults only night is great. Having a no kids under 21 night is terrible.

Adults will tend to play among adults and kids among kids anyway. At least that's how it's always worked around these parts.

I'd be surprised if there's that many adults who want to make dirty comments and say bad things in the company of strangers. There aren't too many people who get more abusive and abrasive than me and my mates playing a game.... but none of us do it among strangers.

What you're describing sounds more like "club" behaviour than "public store" behaviour. Which is fine if the club is willing to rent out the store for the evening.

You could make a pub with a gaming area attached, which will naturally be an adults focused thing, but I feel then the "pub" aspect becomes your main business and the "gaming" aspect secondary.

Hell, even when I'm in a pub I mostly be careful of what I say because over here you still occasionally get young kids wandering through pubs with their parents. Or, ya know, someone from work might walk past while I'm calling my mate a %^&#^@ Polish %&%^$# ^U&@#! which is even worse than a kid walking past

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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Having an adults only night is great. Having a no kids under 21 night is terrible.


Err, what? Aren't those the same thing?

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 Peregrine wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Having an adults only night is great. Having a no kids under 21 night is terrible.


Err, what? Aren't those the same thing?
Yeah I just said it from 2 different perspectives, having a night *for* one group of people sounds nice, but having a night where you *ban* a group doesn't sound quite as friendly.

I'm sure there's some adults who would like an adults only night, but I think the gain in making those people mildly happier is outweighed by the risk of making the other group unhappy.

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There is absolutely no way I would turf out a chunk of my shop's customers just because some people want to swear.

If anything I'd point to the big RULES signs we have up and say - Rule 1: No swearing - thanks!

If you want an adults only night, do it at your local club. Don't do it in my shop. A really good way to ruin a reputation is by having customers behaving badly.

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Do any FLGS use the swear jar model?

 
   
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 Flamekebab wrote:
Do any FLGS use the swear jar model?


I don't know. We don't because asking people to pay for swearing seems a bit much, particularly when we don't want people to swear at all, rather than just taxing it.

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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, I have had it happen several times. A kid plays a game with me, about turn two he leaves cause his mommy says its time.


OTOH, I've had to pack it up because his wife called him home...

But I don't get mad at him. As I see it, at least he got a couple hours of fun away from the ol' ball & chain, the poor bastich.

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What is with all this "beer" talk? As a non drinker this makes no sense to me at all.

Also when people are saying they want "beer" playing their games, does this make GW correct in saying 40K is a Beer and Pretzels game?

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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, I have had it happen several times. A kid plays a game with me, about turn two he leaves cause his mommy says its time.


OTOH, I've had to pack it up because his wife called him home...

Or because the sitter canceled and now he's got a hard deadline much earlier than expected. 'Mommy says it's time,' is pretty irrelevant since it applies to adults as much as it does to kids.

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Davor wrote:
What is with all this "beer" talk? As a non drinker this makes no sense to me at all.

Also when people are saying they want "beer" playing their games, does this make GW correct in saying 40K is a Beer and Pretzels game?


My garage gaming crew has beer when we play 40k. I can't imagine why anybody would want to play 40k any other way.

   
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There's a lot of discussion about using beer to promote sales at the shop, but why not hookers and blackjack? It seems to work quite well for Vegas.
   
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 stanman wrote:
There's a lot of discussion about using beer to promote sales at the shop, but why not hookers and blackjack? It seems to work quite well for Vegas.


Technically, Vegas doesn't have hookers - that's actually illegal in Vegas proper.
   
 
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