[Drinking] Amateur drinking - December

[Iggle Piggle]

Just waiting for a Chinese and am doing the time honoured tradition of having a pint whilst I wait. Amateur drinking hour seems to have a bumper crop this year :

1. 3 old boys - drinking halves natch - blocking off one corner of the bar so no one can order.
2. 8 lads who've never seen a pair of tits between them ordering and paying for drinks separately. I blame the parents.

The sound track to this is 2 gobby blokey blokes laughing loudly who will be having a "These days" convo very soon.

Christmas drinking season is upon us folks. Anyone else got examples of people who should be stoned for their incorrect pub etiquette?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Buy WATFORD.a drink from me ....

 

[jrbha]

Not just a Christmas issue, but people who take unnecessarily long at the bar. Know what you want and have your method of payment in your hand ready to be used BEFORE going to the bar. Does my head in.

And don't get me started on queueing...

 

[ManOfSussex]

I ****ing hate pubs in December. It's ****head central. Amateur drinking doesn't come close to describing the ****wits who get drunk on 4 pints of Carlsberg and make a complete ****** of themselves. Pubs full of works Christmas parties where people who only go to the pub once a year - just **** off!

Rant over.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

The worst time of year for proper pub goers

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

I ****ing hate pubs in December. It's ****head central. Amateur drinking doesn't come close to describing the ****wits who get drunk on 4 pints of Carlsberg and make a complete ****** of themselves. Pubs full of works Christmas parties where people who only go to the pub once a year - just **** off!

Rant over.

100%. I could have written this word for word.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Glad I don't drink, it all sounds far too macho.

 

[Sussexscots]

When you get to the bar, make sure you know exactly what you want. It should NEVER be necessary to shout across the bar to find out what the others o
In your group for whom you're buying a drink want. And for the love of God, if anyone wants Guinness, order it first.

The same principal of knowing what you want applies in the catering queues at the Amex.

 

[Weststander]

When you get to the bar, make sure you know exactly what you want. It should NEVER be necessary to shout across the bar to find out what the others o
In your group for whom you're buying a drink want. And for the love of God, if anyone wants Guinness, order it first.

The same principal of knowing what you want applies in the catering queues at the Amex.

Things used to be so much easier…. “6 pints of ….. please”. (For 6 people, not just me!).

 

[Badger]

Pubs in December is the equivalent of gyms in January.

 

[Pevenseagull]

....oh ....and a Guinness.

 

[Goldstone1976]

People watchers who go to pubs. Grrrrr.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Anyone else got examples of people who should be stoned for their incorrect pub etiquette?

Now when you say "stoned" are you referring to a biblical stoning or abstaining from the alcohol and using the cannabis version of getting stoned?

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

This thread is so quintessentially British, and I love it haha

 

[Eeyore]

Working from home, I am spared the office Christmas party. And this is a virtual office where I actually really like all the folks I work with. There is a pre-Christmas online gathering which I still avoid. I am far too scarred by times of old.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I ****ing hate pubs in December. It's ****head central. Amateur drinking doesn't come close to describing the ****wits who get drunk on 4 pints of Carlsberg and make a complete ****** of themselves. Pubs full of works Christmas parties where people who only go to the pub once a year - just **** off!

Rant over.

Got some horrible memories of those. Particularly the bit where the boss sets up a tab and buys the first round then you're all sat at the table making stilted small talk and you're just drinking your pint at your normal rate, barely even thinking about it, and then you've nearly reached the bottom of the glass and you look around and grimly realise that the amateurs have barely started on their drinks. There's that oh-shit moment when you have to decide whether to just sit there with an empty glass for another half hour, or you have to do The Walk Of Shame and very publicly leave the table and get yourself a second pint to a host of disapproving glances.

Mind you there were good bits too. My favourite was always at the end of the meal when the amateurs started ordering large brandies with gay abandon, little realising that the boss had quietly closed the tab some minutes earlier. Their little faces when they got presented with a stonking great bill was always a joy to behold

 

[Westdene Seagull]

....oh ....and a Guinness.

I find people ordering coffee more annoying. In the time it takes the bar person to make it from that big fancy machine they could of served half a dozen drinks. It's a pub not **cking Costas !!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I find people ordering coffee more annoying. In the time it takes the bar person to make it from that big fancy machine they could of served half a dozen drinks. It's a pub not **cking Costas !!!

Ditto cocktails

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Pubs in December is the equivalent of gyms in January.

Or bookies on Grand National day

 

[Silverhatch]

Not just a Christmas issue, but people who take unnecessarily long at the bar. Know what you want and have your method of payment in your hand ready to be used BEFORE going to the bar. Does my head in.

And don't get me started on queueing...

Experienced and confident bartenders deal with it thus… “I’ll come back to you when you’ve decided what you want…”