Because they can’t afford to even get to the pub in the first place, probably.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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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.
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
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.
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Because it will cost them a day's wage.
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