Because they can’t afford to even get to the pub in the first place, probably.
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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.
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.
Because it will cost them a day's wage.
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.
Just uninvite that one friend.. you know which one.
/s
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
Back in the 1970's I didn't need a freaking loan to buy a round of drinks for the table.
Because a pint is $8?
It comes in dollars?
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
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.
You're supposed to reciprocate? Nobody told me that...
If I'm going to the bar, and it's busy, I'll grab drinks for the people I'm explicitly with. I also keep a vague mental track of if I'm in a deficit with someone (I owe them a drink to balance out).
I don't do it with the expectation that they will buy my next drink however.
A bloke bought me a drink at my sister's wedding. Can't remember his name or face. I don't go to pubs so that was the only time that happened
They barely have money to get their own drink and you want them to get libations for the whole bar? You're fucking crazy.
Better headline: "Why would Gen Z spend their vanishing expendable income being less healthy with all the friends they haven't got?"
BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING MONEY. WHY YHE FUCK DO YOH KEEP ASKING "WHY AREN'T GEN Z..." WHEN THE ANSWER IS ALMOST ALWAYS MONEY! IT'S NOT A FUCKING MYSTERY YOU TRANSPHOBIC SHITLIBS.
Don't worry guys. Farrage says he will take 5p of a pint!