large booking at restaurant- how to split the bill?

Ames

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I too found money's post very grim and hopeless and negative, not seeing any of the very positive things our beautiful, exciting and surprising planet has to offer.

Yes, of course you will feel 'depressed' if you always see the worst in everything, but this is not the same as clinical depression.

I think that's another problem. The attempt to take the stigma away from mental illness by 'normalising' it has had the unintended consequence of trivialising it. I think Mind's 'one in four' campaign has a lot to answer for - people think 'oh, I felt sad when my goldfish died' and think it's the same as people with severe clinical depression.

(Obviously the dead goldfish thing is a silly example used to make my point).

NewShadow

Poppie68 wrote: »

Blimey you lot, who would of thought a simple post about splitting a restaurant bill could rival War and Peace in the longest read stakes....

Well... given War and Peace is basically about understanding why people behave as they do and how the world can be changed by one woman saying, for no particular reason, “I have had so little happiness in my life”...

*Wonders if MITSTM could be the incarnation of Princess Marya*

Person_one

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

the only thing that helped was a totally un-natural drug called codeine

Codeine is an opiate, derived from poppies like heroin and morphine, completely natural.

Pollycat

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Errrm....there is the point that anyone who wore size 12 trousers four decades ago and still buying "size 12" trousers are actually now buying size 14 trousers.

I can say that - because I'm in that agegroup and know very well the clothes I bought in recent years are a size bigger than they say they are on the label (courtesy of "vanity sizing" in recent years).

I'm currently wearing recently-bought size 14 label trousers and I know that means I'm actually size 16 at the moment:(. The clue lies in the fact that the "outsize" range of clothes now starts at "size 14" - when it used to start at "size 16". It's still starting at exactly the same size it used to do - hence now apparently starting at "size 14".

Errrm....I think I may not have made myself clear.

I am not deluding myself that because I had a 24" waist 40 years ago and wear size 12 trousers now I am the same size I was. :rotfl:

A size 12 was 34" bust, 24" waist, 36" hips.
Lay the skirt flat and measure the waist band = 12".

Keira Knightley has a 23-and-a-half-inch waist.

Justine Gale - who was a body double for the actress on the set of her new movie 'The Duchess' - has revealed the extent of the actress' tiny body.
Justine - who has the same measurements as Keira and tried on all the outfits before scenes - said: "When pulling in my corset, all measurements were checked. I was most thankful for that on the day a new wardrobe assistant mistakenly pulled me into a 22-and-a-half-inch waist. Ouch! I'm sure Keira felt the same… and thankfully I was 'let out' an inch."

People like this ^^^ were just the norm back then.

I have a M&S skirt size 10 which measures 15.5 inches across the waistband.
Heaven knows what size that would be in the early 70s. :eek:
It certainly wouldn't be your size 14.

The point I was making in my post that you quoted was that - in comparision with a lot of people - I would not be considered obese (reference to onlyroz's post #1808).

BarryBlue

Person_one wrote: »

Maybe it wasn't a huge sacrifice if she with was a bloke who called sex 'you-know-what'!

Wasn't a sacrifice for me! I started seeing one of her friends who had shown an interest for some time. That's the 70s for you.;)

Poppie68 wrote: »

Blimey you lot, who would of thought a simple post about splitting a restaurant bill could rival War and Peace in the longest read stakes....

Quite true. But, as I said before, it's a woman thing really, all this pernickety nonsense with a calculator over a few pence here and there. Blokes just pay their proportion without a second thought, so if the bill for four was £70 everyone would chuck in a £20 note and that would be it. Makes for an amusing thread though!:)

onlyroz

BarryBlue wrote: »

Quite true. But, as I said before, it's a woman thing really, all this pernickety nonsense with a calculator over a few pence here and there. Blokes just pay their proportion without a second thought, so if the bill for four was £70 everyone would chuck in a £20 note and that would be it. Makes for an amusing thread though!:)

I'm not sure a single person has suggested calculating to the penny how much your contribution towards the bill should be. I'd be happy with a rough estimate to the nearest fiver.

seven-day-weekend

Person_one wrote: »

Codeine is an opiate, derived from poppies like heroin and morphine, completely natural.

Oh right, Ok. Anyway, it worked but had awful side effects and is very addictive (like heroin and morphine).

Frogletina

Poppie68 wrote: »

Blimey you lot, who would of thought a simple post about splitting a restaurant bill could rival War and Peace in the longest read stakes....

This thread would have been longer, except for a second time a lot of posts have been deleted. It was at page 97 when I went to bed last night, now we are back at 94.

frogletina

suki1964

Frogletina wrote: »

This thread would have been longer, except for a second time a lot of posts have been deleted. It was at page 97 when I went to bed last night, now we are back at 94.

frogletina

Oh yes, just noticed that

BarryBlue

onlyroz wrote: »

I'm not sure a single person has suggested calculating to the penny how much your contribution towards the bill should be. I'd be happy with a rough estimate to the nearest fiver.

I disagree. Many of the contributors have been saying, effectively, that people should pay for exactly what they have had, using calculators where necessary. My point is that friends don't do that sort of thing, certainly not if they are men. There is a very distinct difference in attitudes of men and women on this issue.

It's rather like when a group of people go to the pub. Men buy rounds, irrespective of what each are drinking and worrying about a few pence, and a 'duty driver' doesn't pay anything. Women, on the other hand, often clutter up the bar buying their own drinks in case one has a drink that costs less than someone else's. Does it really matter?