Buying rounds of drinks: The Rules

[r04DiE]

Yeah, a drink's a drink although it's up to the recipient not to take the piss.

Exactly

Now how about smokers who have "given up" but insist on crashing your fags all night?

I never did that as a smoker and I never do it as a non-smoker!

 

[guitarpete247]

If people knew, why did someone then not go outside and drink them instead, before feigning innocence about what happened to them!

My brother and his mate did. They saw him going to someone's house and hung about outside for a few minutes then sneaked round the back, picked up the cans and walked home drinking them.

 

[DaveReading]

My biggest issue are people who quibble over a restaurant bill. Just pay a pro rate cost, I don't care if your starter was 50p cheaper.

Then you just mean pay equal shares, not pay pro rata (pro rata to what?).

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

II find it can be a bit awkward, rounds. I tend to only have one or two drinks, whereas lots of people sink three or four pints in two hours.

I'd not be drinking with anyone who takes 2 hours to drink 3 or 4 pints!!

 

[midlife]

Rounds are a necessary evil in the grim North.

Certainly everywhere I did my formative drinking we would do it on a pub crawl....one drink per pub then move on. So all in the group have to drink at roughly the same pace. So you can't just nurse a drink quietly and let others get on with it

.... that's where "minesweeping" comes in

Shaun

 

[TreeHuggery]

Used to work in a pub ...
my observations were ..
1. guys always buy in big rounds
2. girls ...unless there are only 2 of them....will buy their own drinks

 

[stephec]

There was one guy in our village who was probably the tightest man in the world. He had the nickname Toucan. If he went to a party he would take two cans and walk in. He would make his way to the kitchen and when no one was looking put his cans outside, drink the hosts drink all night then collect his cans and take them home.

Someone should've pissed over the ring pulls before he had chance to collect them again.

 

[cd365]

I'd not be drinking with anyone who takes 2 hours to drink 3 or 4 pints!!

That's an hour's drink

 

[keithmac]

That's an hour's drink

I was going to say exactly the same thing!.

 

[TheDoctor]

There's always that one annoying mate...
Your round, he'll want a double Pernod and black.
His round, he'll want a cheap lager.
Every. Sodding. Time.

As a corollary, you know who'll suggest just splitting the bill. It's the one who ordered oysters...
Also, the person who doesn't want to order any poppadums will eat more of them than anyone else, but won't pay for them because they didn't order them!

 

[keithmac]

I think choosing who to go out drinking and eating with should be taken more seriously!.

I'm happy to say the people I go out with genuinely don't take the piss.

 

[slowmotion]

I'm happy to say the people I go out with genuinely don't take the piss.

They must have impressive bladders.

 

[Pale Rider]

Rounds are a necessary evil in the grim North.

Certainly everywhere I did my formative drinking we would do it on a pub crawl....one drink per pub then move on. So all in the group have to drink at roughly the same pace. So you can't just nurse a drink quietly and let others get on with it

Same thing struck me when I moved to the north east.

At the time, I was happy to drink six or eight pints in a session.

But what I couldn't grasp was having to go to six or eight pubs to do it.

 

[ozboz]

My youngest brother will buy anyone ,and all drinks all day long , and dont some of them take the p**s ,
Whilst on a Sunday afternoon sesh in Delph , we was with a group of 5 of his friends who were with their wives , the rounds were 7 pints and whatever the women were on , when me and him shouted , the women had large shorts ,when these other blokes shouted , the women varied from nothing to a 1/2 maybe ,I picked up on it , My Bro got them in for second time , all women , large off the too shelf,
Cheeky Bas***s the lot of em'
My round next , 7 pints , didnt even ask these women I got a few looks , but they were aware I was on to it ,

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yeah, a drink's a drink although it's up to the recipient not to take the piss.

Now how about smokers who have "given up" but insist on crashing your fags all night?

This reminds me of the fellow down the local pub about 20 years ago who'd bum a cigarette then cheekily ask for another 2. One for before he went to bed and one for "the morning". The next time you'd see him down the pub he'd only give you 2 not 3 ciggies back. Bad enough but the cheeky git would then repeat the whole process of ciggy bumming! He must've been taught this by his dad, as I used to clean HIS windows until I gave up when the git wouldn't pay for months then insist he only owed you for 2 cleans not 3!