Drunkenly paid for a meal for 8 rather than split the bill
those conversations about the bill annoy me, not £350 of annoyance.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:19, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I can relate to this
I dread the end of a restaurant meal when perfectly nice people all of a sudden become total cunts because they "didnt have a pudding".
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)

Most of my friends aren't like that at all,
but they're often drunk, so "I paid! can I have my change?" when the bill is £40 down, turns into "I've just found £40 in my pocket" at the pub later on.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)

I don't mind splitting the bill evenly
except when it comes to wine. I can't stand the stuff, so when people order several bottles for the table and I've had to buy my own drinks on top of that anyway I do begrudge it adding another £20 to my bill.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:31, Reply)

How can you not like wine?
That's like saying you don't like cheese, there's a massive difference in flavours.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:33, Reply)

people who say they don't like wine haven't had enough of the good stuff
like a nice chablis, or chateauneuf du pape
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Or, right,
they just don't like wine. Good wine is tolerable rather than awful, but I'd still rather drink something else.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)

I refuse to believe it

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

this is true
Every wine I have tried, from the cheap Blossom Hill stuff that my friends drink to the £40 bottles my parents have, I just don't like wine. It just tastes like bitter grape juice to me.

It's kind of patronising to tell me that I only don't like it because I haven't had expensive enough stuff. I love whiskey, but I've had some expensive single malts that are foul.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Whiskey tastes like mud on fire.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:57, Reply)

this is true
and not in a good way
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I wasn't serious about the expensive wine thing
it's not for everyone.

I can't stand whisky, and wouldn't be able to tell if one was good or bad to be honest.

Closest I've come to enjoying some is Laphroaig when I was already hammered.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:56, Reply)

yeah but the base flavour
is still wine.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Such displays of petty penny-pinching make me sick.
I was brought up to believe that commerce is essentially vulgar*, so squabbling over a restaurant bill I consider the height of bad form.

*this is probably why I never have any money
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:25, Reply)

This has happend at meals with my fairly well-off middle-class mates.
I mean ffs. We can afford to let someone have a pudding on us.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)

but it is a bit annoying when none of you are that well off
and you have a stingy sponger in your group who orders the most expensive stuff because they know you'll be dividing the bill and absorbing the extra cost.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)

I don't invite people like that to meals

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Me neither but thanks to Facebook they invite themselves...

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Yep me too,
but it's also a bit unfair when someone who's not got much cash deliberatly goes for the cheapest stuff and then has to pay the same as everyone else.
I think the ideal number is about 6 any more and it becomes really complicated.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)

we seem to share the very same opinion on this matter
I find it particularly annoying as among my friends my mrs and I are the only ones with more than a rudimentary grasp of mathematics.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

I'll let you know how it goes at Montstock
at Tayyab's tomorrow.

Stingy cunts will be NAMED AND SHAMED.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Also name the person that chooses the most expensive meal
and drinks more than everyone else then is the first to say "lets just split it yeah?"
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I will. Even if that happens to be me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)

I'm pretty sure it will be you.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)

I will be going to london at some point in the not too distant future
ostensibly to visit my brother and my new neice, but I might try and arrange a visit to this Tayyabs place with a few of you rotters.

how does that sound?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Fucking magic, old boy.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)

splendid
my tea tastes of washing up liquid. I'm going to find whoever is responsible and defenestrate them.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)

It's the only way they'll learn.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Bloody Hell - I actually agree!
our group ranges from very low earners eg about 150 in benefits to a whopping £60k a year and I am certainly not happy to subsidise the expensive tastes of those who earn more than double my wage, especially if I have been careful ordering because I know my budget. strangely these same people with such expensive tastes always seem to have massive credit card debts. Learn to manage your money you fucking cretins.
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Wed 12 May 2010, 12:57, Reply)

I no longer go to restaurants with my library colleagues for this very reason
It is so embarrassing. Their social ineptitude comes across as rudeness to the staff, their GETTING OUT A CALCULATOR at the end of the meal, and their general retardedness makes my arse eat seat cushion.
I think they must only go out to restaurants on their birthday or something because it's all "Oh I didn't order that... Oh you pronounce it differently... oh yes it is what I ordered... oh I didn't realise it was a separate portion... erm, could you take it back please?.. Will they knock that off my bill?.. Oh I should have kept it... JUST GET THE HOUSE RED!!!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)

My (admittedly over-developed) cringe gland
has gone into meltdown, reading this ^
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:45, Reply)

I have sworn never again
Even when something's 'compulsory', if it's in public I won't go.
I can't even go for after-work drinks with them, because I live round there too, so I don't want local bars associating me with this bunch of smelly miscreants.

There is a bunch of ok people, and we arrange separate things.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I have one of those
I managed to watch 5 minutes of The Office before curling into afetal position.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:02, Reply)