I’ve heard mixed things about them. It can depend on the individual shed, I think. Because the kinds of people who go to them are often the kinds of people who most need some sort of social support group, at times the reason they need that support group can be because—as one online commenter said—they “had done a pretty good job of alienating all their family and friends through being crusty old codgers from a young age, so now they had a bunch of people just like them to validate their shitty attitudes”.
That’s not always going to be true, and the online commenter who wrote that also said that they now go to another shed with a much more positive environment.
What are they called in Australia?
Men’s sheds would be the closest I think.
I’ve heard mixed things about them. It can depend on the individual shed, I think. Because the kinds of people who go to them are often the kinds of people who most need some sort of social support group, at times the reason they need that support group can be because—as one online commenter said—they “had done a pretty good job of alienating all their family and friends through being crusty old codgers from a young age, so now they had a bunch of people just like them to validate their shitty attitudes”.
That’s not always going to be true, and the online commenter who wrote that also said that they now go to another shed with a much more positive environment.