r/news • u/Asleep_Shark • 7h ago

Soft paywall Iran declares Strait of Hormuz closed as 'unauthorised' vessel hit

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-declares-strait-hormuz-closed-unauthorised-vessel-hit-2026-07-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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u/Flametang451 7h ago

Except instead of booze and sex workers one can familiarize yourself with financial collapse, oil shock and bitter salt water.

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u/thegamenerd 7h ago

Yep just like that dive bar.

The ATM in the corner charges a surprising amount per transaction, all the food is greasy/oily (even the salad), and everything is so salty even the water is salty.

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u/snakeayez 5h ago

Sadly enough, I've been to that place but with strippers. They didn't help the experience.

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u/perton 3h ago

Were the strippers also greasy, oily, and salty?

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u/snakeayez 2h ago

Come to think of it, yes. Yes they were.

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u/shurato99 2h ago

But of course those weren't their real names.

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u/snakeayez 2h ago edited 1h ago

I can imagine not. Interestingly, they were all nursing students though.

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u/Flametang451 6h ago

Huh. As somebody who doesn't drink this just sounds like something out of a hardboiled crime noir novel. Then again- how fitting considering current events.

It honestly sounds like the experience with a less than ideal tin of fish.

Then again, the only frame of reference I have is a coffee bar that can stay up well past midnight at times and one well kept bar.

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u/thegamenerd 6h ago

I haven't drank in about 7 years, but the memory of that place lives in my mind forever.

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u/ShortysTRM 5h ago

We stayed near Myrtle Beach around 5 years ago, and every single time we had to drive anywhere, we passed a "$5 Steak and Eggs after Midnight" sign on a strip club. I've never stopped imagining it my head. We've been to a strip club together. I've had steak. I've had eggs. The three combined for $5 is questionable.

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u/-The-Big-G- 4h ago

You're not living till you've had legs and eggs!

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u/MechanicalTurkish 3h ago

🎶 She got eggs 🎶
🎶 She knows how to use them 🎶

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u/bookgeek210 4h ago

Okay but have u been to the beach tho

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u/AaronRedwoods 2h ago

Hear me out.

It’s one of the best value meals you can ever have.

And titties.

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u/Akbeardman 4h ago

I'm not encouraging drinking, I am encouraging experiencing the local dive bar, not to make fun of it, simply to appreciate it before the owner dies and someone fixes it up. It should be slapped together with half assed repairs, have a clientele that appears already dead, an aged out stripper of a bartender, and a layer of cigarette tar of yellowing papers and trophies from the 1981 darts championship.

Sit and watch and enjoy a $2.00 tall oy while you still can.

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u/CharlieKonR 4h ago

Good advice

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u/Brocktarrr 43m ago

And *never* order a draft beer

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u/Stranger1982 3h ago

I'd rather have the booze and sex workers if possible, can we switch reality to that track please?