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Comment author: David_Gerard 04 May 2012 12:55:30PM *  3 points [-]

Talking to strangers in pubs happens more in Australia. But I've seen people just talk to each other in specialist pubs in the UK, e.g. goth pubs or metal pubs. Subcultural bonding provides some assumable group membership.