Pub rounds

Peter333

cuthbertlilly wrote: »

What’s MSEers opinions on the pub round system of buying everyone in a group drinks?...as opposed to buying your own?

Not a fan. There is always someone who will try to take the pee, and someone else who will usually end up spending more.

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

Against it to be honest, especially when it's forced on you. I usually (attempt anyway) turn down people buying rounds for me. I was out with my new work mates not too long ago and was told it was "my turn". Obviously in that situation you feel slightly obliged but I did not want to buy everyone a drink as it was frankly something I did not want to spend my money on.
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Urgh how rude and annoying! This person that said 'your turn!' sounds like someone who likes to make sure he rarely spends.

Detroit wrote: »

Agree with the view that rounds only work for me with a maximum of 4 people.
I also find it incredibly annoying when people have cheap drinks when it's their round and switch to expensive ones when it's mine. So many people do this, and I don't know how they've got the nerve!
Just as annoying is having to split a large group restaurant bill equally when I've had a one course and a coke and others have had deserts and several glasses of wine.
Rounds can be avoided if you can't afford or don't want to participate by arriving slightly later when everyone has their drink in, but before they've finished it and getting your own, and continuing to do so; or by saying straight out you'll get your own as you're on a budget, just staying for one, not drinking tonight etc etc.

Agree ^ :T

I have found people love to have the cheap drinks when it's their round, then have a schooner of wine when it's mine! :rotfl:

It was my birthday a while back, and me and my wife went out with this couple we see now and again. They hadn't wished me happy birthday, or got me a birthday card or even sent a text or anything. So the week after my birthday, we met them at the pub for a few drinks ... I bought the first round, they bought the second (cokes for them haha) and then I bought the third round.

Then halfway through the third round, the female in the other couple said 'oh no, we forgot your birthday didn't we?! DAVE! Buy Pete a birthday drink!' So he went to the bar, and got me a whiskey, my wife half a lager and him and his missus a drink. But it was his round anyway! :rotfl:

You couldn't make it up!

Oh and I also agree that it only works really when there is 4 people. Even then I am not keen on rounds.

welfayre

Never realized how lucky I am with my group of mates :rotfl:

We always do rounds, if we're in a big group we tend to split into smaller groups depending on who arrives with who (or who arrives around the same time as who). Generally when one of us arrives we'll ask whoever is already there if they want a drink and go from there.

No one ever mumps about someone having an expensive drink. If someone wants a double spirit and coke instead of a pint there's no issues. After all it's only a few quid extra and you know that if you decide you fancy one later you'll get it no problem too.

room512

OH and I went out with another couple. Took it in turns to buy rounds. On her round she had a glass of orange juice and every time it was our round she had a double vodka and tonic. Went on for a couple of rounds (and had done every time we'd been out together) and in the end I mentioned it as it was annoying me. "Oh, when it's my round I don't fancy vodka" she said. Her OH looked embarrassed and bought our drinks for the rest of the evening. After that we always bought our own drinks.

Samsonite1

With a group of friends you trust, it is much easier. This is the system we use:

Someone buys the first round for everyone who arrived at the start - this person will be rotated at each pub visit.

When someone finishes their drink (e.g. they drink more quickly), they ask who else wants another drink and they get a "mini" round in. Also if someone arrives late and is getting themselves a drink they will ask too.

This tends to self-regulate as the heavier drinkers will have to get more rounds in, so may slow down. Also it will tend to even out over a number of pub visits.


Going out with colleagues can be more difficult, especially a large group. Managers tend to buy the rounds or set up a tab, so this makes it easier. If I end up feeling I paid to much for everyone else's drinks, I will make sure I do not the next time!

sweetilemon

I really don't mind rounds with my close friends because it always works out and if it doesn't I'd buy them drinks anyway. I wouldn't care who drinks what or who got the first / last. However on occasion other people have joined our company and avoided buying a round at all and drank bottled cider all night. They weren't invited back.

w211

Get there first, and buy all the drink you're going to drink that evening, before the others to arrive. Therefore if the rest of them buys rounds, then you won't be part of it, as you already got your drinks.

Probably best if you drink red wine, rather than cold drinks, which will get warm during the evening (except for white wine/champagne which will probably come with an ice bucket).

A bottle of wine will look better than having 3 or 4 (or whatever!) bottles/pints in front of you, but who cares what other people think.

miss_independent

As a non (alcohol) drinker, I hate it. And I think there is part of me that doesn't understand the "point" of rounds...is it just to avoid everyone queuing over and over? I would only drink a maximum of 2 diet cokes or ginger ale and lemonade on a night out.

When I was younger (a student) and mixing with people who were a lot older, I got put in an awkward situation a few times where I only had a tenner with me to last the night and the people started doing rounds. The first time I had to go into the "emergency" cash my parents had given me when I started uni. I was used to sixth form/uni where everyone bought their own or shared a bottle between them and totally unprepared that I might be expected to pay for rounds.

I've never mastered the art of refusing a round though as I don't want to appear to be tight.

Pollycat

cuthbertlilly wrote: »

any more opinions on this subject?

Yes.

cuthbertlilly wrote: »

last weekend: with OH and 1 other couple, started doing rounds mine was £18...something = manageable. got to 11.30pm, another couple arrive i went to the toilet and came back to find it was my round apparently another £28....odd (I drank 4 pints all night lol)

£4.50 per drink? :eek:

sweetilemon wrote: »

However on occasion other people have joined our company and avoided buying a round at all and drank bottled cider all night. They weren't invited back.

room512 wrote: »

OH and I went out with another couple. Took it in turns to buy rounds. On her round she had a glass of orange juice and every time it was our round she had a double vodka and tonic. Went on for a couple of rounds (and had done every time we'd been out together) and in the end I mentioned it as it was annoying me. "Oh, when it's my round I don't fancy vodka" she said. Her OH looked embarrassed and bought our drinks for the rest of the evening. After that we always bought our own drinks.

I really dislike mean people.

One of my sister's ex-partner's was like this.
When we went for a drink on Christmas Day (3 siblings and partners, Mum & Dad) he'd get to the pub door first and open it with a flourish to let everyone else in.
My Mum thought he was so polite. I could see right through him, it was designed to ensure he got to the bar last.
He was always last to buy a round and when it was his turn, he'd nurse the dregs and suggest it was time we went home.
I had the measure of him though and I'd jump up and say 'Oh, dinner won't be ready for ages, I'll help you carry the drinks back'.

Samsonite1

Pollycat wrote: »

Yes.

£4.50 per drink? :eek:

I went to the pub with one colleague and got "a round" in (2 pints). I handed a tenner over and the bar tender said "and the rest?". Turns out it was £5.25 a pint!

cyantist

cuthbertlilly wrote: »

last weekend: with OH and 1 other couple, started doing rounds mine was £18...something = manageable. got to 11.30pm, another couple arrive i went to the toilet and came back to find it was my round apparently another £28....odd (I drank 4 pints all night lol)

Why weren't the people who had just arrived getting a round? Surely they hadn't got one at all by that point?