Why don’t Gen Z buy rounds in the pub?

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As I read it, it basically comes off as the author being grumpy that it’s harder to sponge off people who drink less, or slower.

  I will do reciprocal drink buying, but hate formalising into “rounds”. My drinking rate can vary wildly. I don’t want to be forced to drink faster, to keep up with others.

  Gen Z is the most financially squeezed age group in my memory. The fact they want to be more discerning in how much they drink and pay makes complete sense.

  It’s also worth noting that contactless card machines also remove a major bottleneck in going to the bar.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You’re supposed to reciprocate? Nobody told me that…

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Back in the 1970’s I didn’t need a freaking loan to buy a round of drinks for the table.

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• thomasshikari@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because they can’t afford to even get to the pub in the first place, probably.

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perhaps Klarna need to be involved.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m a millenial but on the very rare occassion that I go to the pub with a group, I hate buying rounds. Not because of cost, but because I’m a slow drinker and everyone is finished by the time I’ve drunk half a pint. Let me just enjoy my own drink at a pace I want to drink it.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Xer but yeah I agree. Its popular with the friends who want all their friends plastered. I have a budget when I go out. If you want to do the rounds thing then im going to have to go home early.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Better headline: “Why would Gen Z spend their vanishing expendable income being less healthy with all the friends they haven’t got?”

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re out with four people, if you’re doing rounds, you’ve got to have four pints if everyone’s putting in equally.

  If you only want two or three pints, you can’t buy rounds.

  The government (or was it the NHS or someone?) says we’re not allowed to have four pints, because that’s now binge drinking.

  So we only have two or three nowadays. So we don’t buy rounds.

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  • jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just uninvite that one friend… you know which one.

    /s

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because it will cost them a day’s wage.

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• Adkml@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because a pint is $8?

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  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ngl if you’re paying £6 a pint you youre going to the wrong pub, the “expensive” local I go to has lager for £4 and even infamously expensive Guinness is only £4.90. Other pubs in the area a lager is £3.20 and a Guinness £4.10

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• pirc_lover@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tbh the behaviour I engage in/observe is buying in pairs — you get the social aspect of buying rounds but can quit after 2, or buy them one the next time

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