Rules for Drinking at a Bar (male edition)

[CDawg834]

NEVER SPILL YOUR DRINK EVER!! If someone bumps into you it's your fault the drink is spilled. Anyone who dances should know how to dance without spilling their drink (especially males who really don't have to do much on the dance floor)

Important point. Especially at Celtics games. I can't stand people who spill their beers on seats when returning. Idiots. All they have to do is take a few sips.

Idiots like that should put a plastic cover on their beers and use a straw.

Strange as this sounds, I always wished they would put "kiddie covers" on my beers, just like they do with sodas...especially at Fenway where there is ZERO room to walk past people down a row.  You need to drink at least 1/4 out of each beer before you can even begin to walk back to the seat!

[Roy Hobbs]

Anyway, in researching that briefly, I came across this quote.  Cracked me up:

Still, there's no guarantee that simply taking the beer out of beer pong will have the sobering effect that college deans intend. Last year, Dartmouth College banned water pong ... because of the risk of water intoxication — it's no joke, as an H2O overdose can be fatal. "I know that [water pong] seems like a good balance between the Dartmouth drinking culture and just trying to have fun," Kristin Deal, a Dartmouth community director, wrote in an e-mail to students announcing the prohibition. "However, it can be just as dangerous, if not more so."

Haha.  Really?  Playing beer pong with water is "as dangerous, if not more so" than playing it with beer?

Do people even think before they speak?  Beware, the threat of water intoxication!

Actually water intoxication has killed several people in semi-prominent cases in recent years - I've heard of at least one woman who died during a marathon from drinking too much water while running.  I also saw a news show do a piece on a prosecution where fraternity brothers made pledges chug gallons of water, under the same "it's chugging without the beer, so it's safe" idea - one of the pledges died from water intox as well.  Though beer has water in it too of course, the alcohol effects will make you stop drinking well before the water catches up to you. The frequent urination probably doesn't hurt either.

It's a pretty nasty way to go, too - basically, the increased water content causes your sodium levels to get severely diluted, which causes water to osmose through cell membranes, swelling them up until they burst in massive numbers.  The brain is particularly susceptible to this, and you can imagine the consequences of huge numbers of brain cells literally rupturing. 

Remember kids, just say no to Demon Water - choose beer, for safety's sake, or at least Gatorade with some gin in it. 

/The More You Know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Haha.  All appreciated, but do you really think that makes water pong as dangerous, or more so than beer pong? I'm pretty sure nobody playing "water pong" is drinking gallon after gallon of water.

[fairweatherfan]

Anyway, in researching that briefly, I came across this quote.  Cracked me up:

Still, there's no guarantee that simply taking the beer out of beer pong will have the sobering effect that college deans intend. Last year, Dartmouth College banned water pong ... because of the risk of water intoxication — it's no joke, as an H2O overdose can be fatal. "I know that [water pong] seems like a good balance between the Dartmouth drinking culture and just trying to have fun," Kristin Deal, a Dartmouth community director, wrote in an e-mail to students announcing the prohibition. "However, it can be just as dangerous, if not more so."

Haha.  Really?  Playing beer pong with water is "as dangerous, if not more so" than playing it with beer?

Do people even think before they speak?  Beware, the threat of water intoxication!

Actually water intoxication has killed several people in semi-prominent cases in recent years - I've heard of at least one woman who died during a marathon from drinking too much water while running.  I also saw a news show do a piece on a prosecution where fraternity brothers made pledges chug gallons of water, under the same "it's chugging without the beer, so it's safe" idea - one of the pledges died from water intox as well.  Though beer has water in it too of course, the alcohol effects will make you stop drinking well before the water catches up to you. The frequent urination probably doesn't hurt either.

It's a pretty nasty way to go, too - basically, the increased water content causes your sodium levels to get severely diluted, which causes water to osmose through cell membranes, swelling them up until they burst in massive numbers.  The brain is particularly susceptible to this, and you can imagine the consequences of huge numbers of brain cells literally rupturing. 

Remember kids, just say no to Demon Water - choose beer, for safety's sake, or at least Gatorade with some gin in it. 

/The More You Know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Haha.  All appreciated, but do you really think that makes water pong as dangerous, or more so than beer pong? I'm pretty sure nobody playing "water pong" is drinking gallon after gallon of water.

Nah, I seriously doubt it, unless it was a long, long tournament - I just know water intoxication sounded totally ridiculous to me the first time I heard about it, but it turns out it's something that can happen and is pretty nasty.  Plus it's midway through my 5th straight 12 hr day at work, so I'm probably just hankering for some Gatorade and gin...luckily my weekend starts at roughly 9 tonight.

[D Dub]

-  Tip big up front.  Don't skimp with the dollar tips all night with plans to hook the bartender up later.  Hook him up on on the first drink, then they are likely to remember you and give you better service (ie: free drinks) later in the night.  A five dollar bill early in the night can go a long way somtimes...

Woah, are you saying a dollar per drink is not a sufficient tip?  Are we talking beer, or mixed drinks? 

No, no - I think dollar tips are sufficient for single drinks.  I am just saying that if you want to get hooked up, you should drop a 5 or something on your first round - then you can go to the singles on additional rounds.
 

[Chris]

I always tip a dollar, you tip a dollar every beer, it adds up pretty quick.  If it's mixed drinks, a little more may be used, but it's not hard to take a beer out of the cooler and take the cap off.  In Boston bars, I don't think tipping big will help you get a free drink or anything with the bar tender.  There are so many people, I really just don't see it happening.  Also, half the time, the bartenders in Boston don't even see who tips them.  You pay, get your drink and before you drop the tip hes on to the next person.

This is how I feel too.  A dollar for a beer is more than reasonable.  If you start getting into mixed drink, then it gets a little cheap I suppose...but for beer, any more is a bit rediculous.

[youcanthandlethetruth113]

I always tip a dollar, you tip a dollar every beer, it adds up pretty quick.  If it's mixed drinks, a little more may be used, but it's not hard to take a beer out of the cooler and take the cap off.  In Boston bars, I don't think tipping big will help you get a free drink or anything with the bar tender.  There are so many people, I really just don't see it happening.  Also, half the time, the bartenders in Boston don't even see who tips them.  You pay, get your drink and before you drop the tip hes on to the next person.

This is how I feel too.  A dollar for a beer is more than reasonable.  If you start getting into mixed drink, then it gets a little cheap I suppose...but for beer, any more is a bit rediculous.

I think Mr. Pink said it best folks:

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make ****.
Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. She don't make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a [edit] who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don't ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and [edit]
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.



[edit-good quote, wrong place. -IP]

[Chris]

I always tip a dollar, you tip a dollar every beer, it adds up pretty quick.  If it's mixed drinks, a little more may be used, but it's not hard to take a beer out of the cooler and take the cap off.  In Boston bars, I don't think tipping big will help you get a free drink or anything with the bar tender.  There are so many people, I really just don't see it happening.  Also, half the time, the bartenders in Boston don't even see who tips them.  You pay, get your drink and before you drop the tip hes on to the next person.

This is how I feel too.  A dollar for a beer is more than reasonable.  If you start getting into mixed drink, then it gets a little cheap I suppose...but for beer, any more is a bit rediculous.

I think Mr. Pink said it best folks:

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make ****.
Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. She don't make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a [edit] who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don't ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and [edit]
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.



[edit-good quote, wrong place. -IP]

Well here is how I break it down.  A bartender doesn't do any more than a waitress...in fact, if they are just getting you beer, they are doing less.  I regularly tip 20-25% to a waitress.  For a $5 beer, 20% is $1.  Therefore a $1 tip is perfect.  If the bar is charging more than $5 for the beer, unless it is tremendous beer, or larger than a pint, I probably am not drinking there...otherwise, I am probably starting a tab anyways (because I almost never carry cash), and just tipping them 20-25%.

[D Dub]

I always tip a dollar, you tip a dollar every beer, it adds up pretty quick.  If it's mixed drinks, a little more may be used, but it's not hard to take a beer out of the cooler and take the cap off.  In Boston bars, I don't think tipping big will help you get a free drink or anything with the bar tender.  There are so many people, I really just don't see it happening.  Also, half the time, the bartenders in Boston don't even see who tips them.  You pay, get your drink and before you drop the tip hes on to the next person.

This is how I feel too.  A dollar for a beer is more than reasonable.  If you start getting into mixed drink, then it gets a little cheap I suppose...but for beer, any more is a bit rediculous.

I hear ya.  Makes sense at crowded city bars where you have to fight your way up to the bar.  No need to go more than 20% when dude can't even see you. 

I'm sure the Boston bars are much different than the San Diego ones I am use to.  I usually am drinking at dives where you can saddle up to the bar and tie one on.  For me, dropping a 5 on my first round has paid off numerous times with many a free high-ball of Jameson or round of beers on the house.