[Closed] Splitting the bill.

mikewsmith - Member
So for all of those who are concearned about the low paid, how much do you tip in the pub?

Quite often buy the bar staff a pint. Good practice if you want served first when it's busy.

This is still going to be significqntly lower than the actual "living wage"

Cougar - Moderator
Was the atmosphere, with this group and its associated banter, likely to be the same as you having a solitary 16 Euro meal?
Where do you stand on the others in the group who'd had a €90 meal / drinks for €50? Bargain, right?

Or, if the €16 meal is worth €50 in real terms, maybe those consuming €80 should be throwing in €240 for the same value / markup?

I have never and still don't have an issue splitting the bill.
My "issue" in this instance was it had been a consistent piss take all week long by the 2 new guys to the group (both friends of only one of the others).
First few nights the difference was €5-10.
Then €15-20 and so on.
By the end of the week two of the usuals had joined in so the shares were massively skewed.
Add to that that the day before a couple of the others had said we weren't divying up for the last few nights because of the amount the new guys, etc were drinking.
I wasn't asked or given a choice - just told in the taxi that my "share" was £X.
I don't put a price on friendship but at the same time I also won't stand to be taken for a ride either.

getting out a calculator is being a dick

Agreed, but not for the reason stated above.

I can't imagine a circumstance where I'd choose to eat a meal with anyone stupid enough to need a calculator to work out the cost of their meal.

I don't put a price on friendship but at the same time I also won't stand to be taken for a ride either.

Essentially ever single meal i go to my bill will always be the least so I always have to subsidise others. its not a swings and roundabout event its just me paying for their stuff.

Imagine you always dorve your mate to trails and he never paid for this
Would you keep going?

I would if they were an impoverished person or a student or whatever but in general I would not as it is taking the piss. Friends dont do that freeloaders do that

junkyard, ok we get it, you're some sort of weirdo with abstinence, from everything, at the core of your philosophy, you're excused from the company. 😆

(ps would be easier if you just asked for a separate bill mind you. :lol:)

JY busy spreading his unique brand of happiness and joy de vivre throughout a grateful world...

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I'll even promise not to contaminate his onion bhajis

I was the quintessence of calm at bhajigate

separate bill for the sad abstinate friendless weirdo loner will be the cry I make next time i get invited out so will it be post brexit or after england win the world cup 😉

I'm going to join in with my pet hate, couples who join in with drinks rounds, but only expect to have to buy one round between them rather than getting them in individually 😡

Junkyard

Essentially every single meal I go to my bill will always be the least so I always have to subsidise others. its not a swings and roundabout event its just me paying for their stuff.

Imagine you always dorve your mate to trails and he never paid for this
Would you keep going?

Do you get other benefits from spending time with your friends? You may be contributing more to them overall, but perhaps without them, you'd feel sad and lonely, and have to start making friends with other people. And they might not be as nice, or have as much in common with you.

You should work out how much you are paying in to your friends events, and work out how much you're getting out, and then maybe think about other things you could spend that money on - healthcare for example, or taking up fishing.

We had a saying that the world works if you accept that everyone owes everyone a tenner. It stops working if your always taking.

wine for the dorrises and beer for the blokes

So Blue Nun and Watneys red barrel? Why not do the whole 70's eating out thing and have the men pay the bill 🙄

perhaps without them, you'd feel sad and lonely, and have to start making friends with other people. And they might not be as nice, or have as much in common with you.

Imagine you always have do rounds and your drink is always £3 and theres is always £6 will you buy this round for ever so they will be your friend?

Junkyard

Imagine you always have do rounds and your drink is always £3 and theirs is always £6 will you buy this round for ever so they will be your friend?

Do you and your friends get together to decide which pub/restaurant/takeout you're going to, and who's going to drive, and when you will all get there, and other random made-up rules? Maybe if you stop being friends with them, and stop subsidising their spending, they won't let you help decide, but you'll still have to go along in order to be polite and to have any company.

So you might find they've all decided to go to an Italian restaurant, but you really don't fancy pizza, but they just ignore your protests. And you end up having to go to a Korean restaurant instead, and eat kimchee on your own.

And not even the good kind of kimchee.

And then to cap it all, they find that they don't have enough money to pay the bill at the Italian place, and they spot you all alone in the Korean restaurant, and make you pay for their meal [b]anyway[/b].

Had a guy on a cycling holiday 4 years ago. Tighter than cramp. Ordered steak every night when nearly everyone else on pizza/pasta.Rinsed the kitty and swept up any spare drinks. Copper by trade. Now has the non-affecionate nickname "Sergeant Sirloin".

JY - it's your round on Monday night. I'll be having the vintage chateauneuf du pape. Will you be going for the fizzy water? 😛

And not even the good kind of kimchee.

I was with you until here, then I lost all respect. All kimchee is good, especially that kept in a kimchee fridge.

[quote=binners ]JY - it's your round on Monday night. I'll be having the vintage chateauneuf du pape. Will you be going for the fizzy water?
[s]Fizzy water ernie was right you are a middle class ****er :wink:[/s]
Ok but only if you say in here that you are my friend as lets be honest that is all I am paying for