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Subject: Re: girls bar backing
From: fatdeko
Posted: Sun Apr 23. 2006, 08:25 UTC
Followup to: "Re: girls bar backing"  by margo  (Fri Apr 21. 2006, 09:46 UTC)
My apologies Margo, I seem to have appended my general peeve to your reply, 
and that was unintentional.  I was not responding to your post per se, but the 
overall temper of the thread.  AND what I thought was a little inconsistency, 
historically speaking, regarding this board's response to this question.
Namely:  When some youngster posts about bartending school and their next 
step, we have poo-poo'd the efficacy of a Bar School degree and have suggested 
barbacking as  (one of)the best avenues for advancement.  Or that it's at 
least as effective as school, or cheaper, or....on and on. 

Barbacking=good, school=not so good.

Now comes a damsel with the same question, and the consensus appears to be 
that barbacking's too hard, that it's dead end, that you might break a nail, 
that noone will really train you and you won't advance.  Oh yeah, and 
barbacking sucks, too. 

Maybe cocktailing might be better.....

I just wanted to point out that while barbacking isn't hard, it is brutal and 
that it's an exercise in attitude and fitness rather than force.  The 
individual feats of strength can be done, even by me, it's just the constancy 
of it that takes its toll on the disinterested and un-ambitious.  In Vino 
Veritas' post is a better testament to that, than my hypothetical scribbling.

And the double standard.  The double standard bugged the shit out of me the 
most.

myers


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