I fully disagree with the notion that spilling beer is blasphemy, that's a rule that should be held for school kids with no money, let's face it, beer is for sports and the outdoors, pre drinking at the very most. If you're drinking beer to get drunk you aren't really drinking so who cares if you spill it? If you're into that gourmet beer scene obviously the rules change but I'm tired of being told not to spill my beer while I'm dancing with a hot b-rod or telling a story waving my hands, primer's primer, it shouldn't be coddled. How you Yanks get plastered on that 4% nonsense I'll never be able to figure out as it is.
These are our rules of drinking:
1. No one is allowed to come to the bar with a t-shirt tucked into a pair of jeans, wearing deck shoes, having a cell phone hanging off a belt clip, wearing a fanny pack, a blue tooth ear phone, etc.
2. No one is allowed to foil the plan of anyone looking to scoop b-rods regardless of circumstance and all fictional stories must be strictly adhered to as well as evolved.
3. If someone is brought into the circle and they are easily offended remove them from the circle because they are useless and nothing but a deterrent for great times.
4. If someone is insecure and they are mocked they are not to be defended unless the mocker is a culprit of breaking rule no 1.
5. All persons at the table must have respectable table manners, nothing foils a great night like some neanderthal chewing with his mouth open babbling about the new deck he's putting on his house.
Those are rules worth adhering to, the rules of drinking are petty and useless imo, surround yourself with a good atmosphere and good people, and especially no pansies or frail whiners, and you're set up for success. It's all about the people, nothing else.