Before covid I'd have a few mates (a dozen or so) living here who were also working off shore.
If we were in town we'd meet up once a hitch, sit in a bar for 6 or so hours drinking a dozen beers, getting drunk, talking crap.
Sadly, there'd be the occasional fist fight etc.
I wasted too many hours over the many years spending half the day in bars, drinking too many beers and talking crap.