large booking at restaurant- how to split the bill?

Georgiegirl256

TBagpuss wrote: »

I think it is fairly icky, but 'skanky' is a very pejorative term and seemed inappropriate. Skanky implies more than just being beyond your (and my!) personal comfort zones.

Depends on your definition of it. It can mean many things, one of which is extremely unpleasant....and to me it is. But like I say, just my point of view and something I wouldn't do for a friend nor would want them to do for me either.

Peter333

Domayne wrote: »

You sound miserable. And you would hate me as a dinner mate (and probably in general) i eat with my hands most of the time unless it's pasta or rice because I find forks/knives uncomfortable, I will offer you food off my fork, a drink from my cup or glass and will happily eat/drink from yours.

My 3 closest friends and I don't really have boundaries. We kiss on the lips, grab body parts, stick tongues in ears and I even had to help a friend stick a tampon in recently because she couldn't hide the string, had just had a manicure and was dancing that night.
I find your attitude so baffling honestly?

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: It's true, some people really do have no limits! How on earth did she manage to insert them when you weren't there? So what if she'd just had a manicure, that is truely skanky!

I like to think I'm fairly laid back about most things, but that to me is above and beyond the call of duty! :rotfl:

Also, do you even eat with your hands in what would be deemed as a "posh" restaurant?

I am completely 100% on Georgie's side here. No way is that normal and acceptable behaviour, to insert a friend's tampon for them. And to call someone 'miserable' because they think it's not acceptable behaviour to eat off someone's fork in public is just rude.

I am not even sure the word 'skanky' (that Georgie used,) even covers it actually; it's just plain WRONG. Who DOES that? No-one I have ever known. IMO it's your attitude that is baffling Domayne!

You had to help her because 'she couldn't hide the string?!' Oh come on!!! I've heard it all now. :rotfl:

suki1964

Peter333 wrote: »

I am completely 100% on Georgie's side here. No way is that normal and acceptable behaviour, to insert a friend's tampon for them. And to call someone 'miserable' because they think it's not acceptable behaviour to eat off someone's fork in public is just rude.

I am not even sure the word 'skanky' (that Georgie used,) even covers it actually; it's just plain WRONG. Who DOES that? No-one I have ever known. IMO it's your attitude that is baffling Domayne!

You had to help her because 'she couldn't hide the string?!' Oh come on!!! I've heard it all now. :rotfl:

Peter, with the way you post I'd have thought you were well in touch with your feminine side

I've never hidden a string for a girlfriend but I did fish one out for a friend who had got it lost inside her

I've also wiped the bums of my drunken friends in my youth

Torry_Quine

Peter333 wrote: »

I am completely 100% on Georgie's side here. No way is that normal and acceptable behaviour, to insert a friend's tampon for them. And to call someone 'miserable' because they think it's not acceptable behaviour to eat off someone's fork in public is just rude.

I am not even sure the word 'skanky' (that Georgie used,) even covers it actually; it's just plain WRONG. Who DOES that? No-one I have ever known. IMO it's your attitude that is baffling Domayne!

You had to help her because 'she couldn't hide the string?!' Oh come on!!! I've heard it all now. :rotfl:

I agree, that's wrong on so many levels.:eek: Hide the string makes no sense to me anyway

suki1964 wrote: »

Peter, with the way you post I'd have thought you were well in touch with your feminine side

I've never hidden a string for a girlfriend but I did fish one out for a friend who had got it lost inside her

I've also wiped the bums of my drunken friends in my youth

I'm glad I don't have friends like you.

missbiggles1

duchy wrote: »

Doesn't you refusing dessert spoil the meal for others as you can't join in the sugar high everyone else is enjoying ? How is that different to you claiming someone skipping the starter spoils the meal for you as you claimed upthread. Not having a go -just trying to understand as I took you to be saying that for you unless everyone fully participated it ruined the meal for you.

I meant in restaurants where you have pudding or cheese - not both.:D

duchy

onlyroz wrote: »

I actually think it's pretty great being introduced to the friends and family of people I visit. Or the reverse when people visit me or my family.


My parents have some friends who live in New Zealand. They come to the UK about once every decade. When they visit my parents make the effort to introduce them to all sorts of people, and often organise events around them so that this can be done.


Perhaps I should tell them that this is not the "polite way to treat them"?


I have a friend from Belgium who I see every few years. I am itching to introduce her to my parents, and I was thinking that a meal out together would be just the thing. But now I'm wondering if everybody involved would find this offensive in some way.


The mind boggles.

I don't regard myself as so important that if I'm invited to stay my hosts must cancel all their arrangements as I must have their undivided attention......in fact if they kept me hidden from all their friends I'd wonder why !!! I've had some great meals with the friends and or family of friends when I've visited .... I'm with roz - My mind is boggling too

suki1964

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I agree, that's wrong on so many levels.:eek: Hide the string makes no sense to me anyway


I'm glad I don't have friends like you.

I shall take that as a compliment

Seriously not causing a row, but for a friend ( a real one that's there through thick and thin) I'd lay my life on the line


Thankfully I can count my good friends on one hand and I'm grateful to them all

Torry_Quine

suki1964 wrote: »

I shall take that as a compliment

Seriously not causing a row, but for a friend ( a real one that's there through thick and thin) I'd lay my life on the line


Thankfully I can count my good friends on one hand and I'm grateful to them all

It certainly wasn't meant. Any friend of mine who got that drunk wouldn't be a friend very long.

I certainly wouldn't be cleaning them up. :eek:

I can sort of understand the problem when a tampon is 'lost' but helping is a step too far for me.

duchy

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Erm....that'll be a no!

Maybe they were too busy trying not to get motion sickness! 6 times in Vegas (stayed twice at the Strat) and I've still never been to that restuarant!

I've heard the food isn't that great so I've never bothered although I have eaten at other revolving restaurants and yes the movement is only slightly noticeable. As for those rides ....er No !!!

Offering to insert a friend's tampon, eating with hands in a inappropriate setting - both sound like the behaviour of skanks to me - so yes pretty skanky but if they both have the same standard of what is acceptable then they are well matched as friends and no doubt realize most people have different standards whether off their faces or not <shrug> (That's assuming you believe the poster in the first place of course )

Feral_Moon

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I agree, that's wrong on so many levels.:eek: Hide the string makes no sense to me anyway

Perhaps she wasn't wearing any underwear :rotfl: