Jaysus I’m gaggin for a pint….

The best observation: “sudden clarity: the Irish are perceived as drunks because they are trying to keep up with each other out of courtesy. Noble”

I’m living abroad & working with loads of expats from lots of countries. TBH, some of them pretend not to understand rounds just to get a free drink, its actually sickening & I am very distrustful of anyone who misses their round…

I’ll get them in so… who wants a drink>?

One important rule to always remember is, if you have to ask whose round it is, it’s yours.

Few years back I was on a training course in Sweden with a few other UK and Ireland types including one notorious round dodger, famous to this day. Anyway there were 5 of us in total at this hotel bar and he let the round go 4 drinks then announces he’s off to bed! My pal immediately points out that he can go to bed but not until he orders 4 pints at the bar. The tight bollix grunts ‘trust you to notice’ but goes up and gets said drinks but then returns to the table to enjoy the full value of his purchase by staying for another 4 before assuming that at that stage we would be too wrecked to notice him sneaking off. We noticed alright and proceeded to do shots, doubles the lot, all on his room number. 5 years later the c@nt still grumbles about it haha. It being Sweden I think we racked up about £150 on his room, it was hilarious checking out, his face turned to pure horror when the reception bird told him he had ‘an account to settle’

The rounds system is like the CAO points system, it’s flawed but it works.

Are ya buying a round or hanging around?

Only a very close group of long standing drinking friends understand the subtle nuances
of the rounds system. It cannot be explained with any Vulcan logic to outsiders!

What I can’t understand is when 4 people go into a bar, each drink 4 pints each and pay for each one individually.. rounds sometimes make sense!

I think rounds work in busy pubs and night clubs where it can take 15 minutes to get served. In a quiet pub it doesn’t really seem necessary.

When I go out with the missus and other couples we tend to filter into rounds based on what we’re drinking. The lads and their pints and similar pacing peel into one and the girls and their wines/mixed shorts and slower pace filter into another.

Keeps it simple and removes the financial and time pressure from people. Not for everyone maybe but it works for us.

I laughed my way right through all those comments :-)))

Love the Aussie’s comment “Basically, paedophiles and people who talk in cinemas are the lowest of the low and slightly below them are round dodgers”. Fairly sums it up!

The only trouble I have with rounds is that after a few I start buying out of turn.

C’mon who’s round is it??

an englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walked into a bar………still there waiting for Scotsman to buy his round ;)

While what most of what the guy on reddit said was true, he made it sound very complicated. Personally I find that the couples of a group will usually go into a round between themselves, and the 3 or 4 single people will stick together. You’d never be buying a round for more then 5 people. You’ll usually just stay in a round with whoever you walked in with, or the 2 or 3 people sitting closest to you. Of course you’ll always ask everyone out of politeness though. And anyway, as soon as you hit the nightclub it’s usually every man for himself. With pre-drinking at home these days and then heading straight to the club, buying rounds is slowly becoming a thing of the past I’d imagine?

Those who drink on their own, always know whose round it is!

Never drink with Scots. Come their round, to give them a hint you have to say ” Jock, the barman’s calling you” or “Jesus there must be a hole in me glass”

Anyone for a pint? Crisps? Peanuts?

The round system also works when mainlining heroin. Who has time to go out to a dealer 3 times a day?

Didn’t the Irish devise the saying for round drinkers…’The more, the merrier’

I’d drink to yer health but me glass is empty. Now get up and get yer round in ye tight fisted git.

Are rounds in Ireland any different to rounds in the UK?

I always felt this was a bad habit, specially if you don’t drink, a round can cost a lot of money and put’s everyone under pressure, not to mention people drink to much because of this lunatic habit, that i can thankfully say my friends and myself stopped a long time ago….

I’ll have a wine spritzer- only a tenner a pop! Luckily I don’t need too many :-) and therefore avoid rounds…

@William Grogan :OK16 years old fair enough…But nobody below that age.Pubs are places where you can have an alcoholic drink and yes ,a smoke if you are a smoker.This is alas no more.

Remember to be first out of the taxi and the last one to the bar

50 euro must mean ur drinking on ur own. That’s about ten pints. If there is two of you that’s 5 each and why would u create a kitty for 2 people. I would understand if it’s for four people. That’s 2.5 each. Are u really going to drink out of the girly half pint glass then or refill the kitty. And how long does the kitty last….. An hour…. Maybe

It’s all about timing. First you make sure its a big group. Then you make sure you go up last. Then, when it is your turn, you time when you finish your own pint so that the maximum number of people have loads left. Bingo! 15 pints bought for you, only 3 pints bought by you, a nice profit on the night of 12 pints! Small potatoes, but potatoes none the less…

Anyone still call a kitty ” the diddly”? When I go out with my friends we put in a diddly. And when it’s gone..it’s definitely gone!!

There’s no stereotype here whatsoever, just hundreds of Irish people encouraging 17-year-olds – who wouldn’t be legally permitted to drink in the US for 4 more years, likely – to binge-drink. Well done.

The round system has long gone in Ireland . Drink is far to expensive to drink in Pubs here ,and if people are out they just buy what they want for their self.