This phrase, plus some thoughts earlier, led me to a different (but hopefully equally interesting) thought: how would a space bar actually work, if you wanted to cater to a specific crowd, like spacers?
Imagine you’ve got a big, slow-spinning ring. It creates pseudogravity at the outside - planet-bound tourists or anyone else not familiar with zero-G will tend to stay there, because that’s where they are comfortable. They get served by some kind of waitstaff, but it’s slow and more expensive and that’s how the staff likes it.
Go to the interior, though, and it’s weightless and everything’s spinning around you. It’s disorienting and weird, unless you’re a veteran space trucker or something, so the people who are in that lifestyle tend to hang out there, with each other. And there’s some kind of floating bar at the center, where people can “sit” together, talking directly to the bartender who’s floating at the heart of it all.
People have come up with new ways to drink in free-fall. There’s bar games, bets, and all the usual stuff you’d expect to find.
Edit: oh yeah, and when the bar fight breaks out? Punching each other is great, because if you land on the spinning ring, you’re there unless you climb back into free fall on your own. It’s like a ring-out in boxing.