Pub rounds

hazyjo

Try going out in the City where it's around a tenner for a double in a lot of bars :rollseyes: I only go if there's a work tab. Not my sorta places really.


There's a lovely little pub near my work - I'd much rather go there Normal prices, normal people


Jx

seven-day-weekend

cuthbertlilly wrote: »

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

Oh this is going to end up like the endless 'sharing the bill in a restaurant' thread.

If you want to buy your own drink and no-one else's, do so, but don't then accept a drink in a round . Just tell people you can't afford/don't want to be in the round.

SingleSue

In a large group (very very rare nowadays), we buy our own or split into smaller groups.

More regularly though it will be me and a friend and we take turns, I usually buy the first round and we don't get another until both of us have finished, luckily we drink at a fairly even pace so it works out well and neither of us are waiting ages for the other to finish. As the night goes on, my friend usually has had their fill of diet coke and won't want another drink, so I just go ahead and get my own from then on but each time making sure I ask if they want another.

Marvel1

I rather go my own, that way I can go my own pace.

Mrs_Imp

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Before when we had kids, we used to go a place called a 'night club', and with friends, whose names I've now long forgotten, we used to buy rounds and would keep drinking until the last person had ran out of cash. Granted back then it was 25p a shot at the blessington carriage. Also why I got in to debt, but I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it.

I used to go drinking at the Bless, many moons ago.

psychopathbabble

It depends on who I'm with, same as a meal out. DH went out for a work do, had a cheap main meal and no drinks yet had to contribute £35 towards the split bill. He paid it because he didn't want to look tight in front of his colleagues (he is in a senior position) but was pretty annoyed about it.

I've got friends who nitpick the bills too, her boyfriend paid less because he didn't have a dessert yet she didn't point out his dinner was more and he had several coffees where I was drinking water, so actually just splitting it would have been more equal anyway!

Having not had much money in the past, I am happy to not do rounds or involve people that don't want to be involved. DH is used to drinking with the lads and therefore always gets involved in rounds... as said previously, it very much just depends on who we are out with.

Pollycat

psychopathbabble wrote: »

I've got friends who nitpick the bills too, her boyfriend paid less because he didn't have a dessert yet she didn't point out his dinner was more and he had several coffees where I was drinking water, so actually just splitting it would have been more equal anyway!

I'll say this again:

Pollycat wrote: »

I really dislike mean people.

Pollycat wrote: »

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'.

This oik ^^^^tried the same trick.

He announced on a family meal out - 3 siblings and partners, Mum & Dad - that he and my sister would pay for what they'd had, even though the rest of us were happy to split the bill.

He worked it out and announced what their share was but I pointed out that they'd missed off the aperitifs they'd had (but everybody else had passed on), the extra plate of olives, the liqueur coffees.
I told him exactly how much he needed to add on to 'his share'.
At that point he realised that he'd be paying more than if we split the bill equally between the 4 couples so he reversed his decision but I smiled sweetly and said 'No, you pay for what you 2 have had and the rest of us will split the remainder between the 6 of us.

He really was a despicable man.

PasturesNew

Rounds are bad.
Buy your own is good.

That way everybody can drink what they like, at the pace they like.

I went out the other week with a friend for a drink. We bought our own drinks. She had a bottle of wine .... I had half a diet coke.

Dill

Easy - if there's 4 or 5 people and you'll be staying for 4 or 5 drinks, take it in turns buying a round. But if you're only stopping for a quick pint then get your own, or 'owe' someone a pint next time you go.

cuthbertlilly

explained to gf that I struggle to afford £18 + £28 plus transport costs for a few drinks out and that we've got other priorities in life and I do want to also socialise with others but would rather occasionally do rounds but mostly go dutch, but she said it's important to be generous to people. what's the saying about men/women - venus/mars or something.