God Bless the Brits for being so damn smart or maybe not Seems you can go down to the pub enjoy some dinner have a pint or two or three and check e-mail and surf the net all the while away from the nagging wife. Why is it that most WiFi Hot Spots in the US are in coffee shops and small cafe’s?
I think the reason is probably most American Men when they go drinking are not interested in reading e-mail but more than likely to busy checking out all of the skirts. [Wi-Fi Networking]
I’m thinking that the answer may be the same reason why Canada has more donut shops per capita than either Britain or the United States.
The answer to *that* question is our Presbyterian heritage. While in England and the U.S., drinking establishments were perfectly fine places for people to meet and interact, our dominant religion in the 19th century, the Presbyterians, pushed hard for temperance, and frowned on the evils of alcohol. Bars and pubs were NOT the right and proper place for average people to go out, meet others and interact. So, where did they go instead: out to have a donut and a coffee.
This phenomenon exists to this day, especially in small town Canada where donut shops are as likely to have fair chunks of the community just hanging out over coffee as local taverns are to have fair chunks of the community hanging out over beer.
In the United States, bars have lost the pub’s reputation as a place of (relatively) quiet social gathering and have taken on a bit of a grubby, let-loose character. For the younger generation, coffee places are better places for quiet gatherings than bars. And that’s what the WiFi internet is tapping into.
That can’t be right. Chunks of Britain were very Methodist, but that never stopped the pub, which after all is a Public House, perfectly proper places to meet and argue (for men at least)