Pub Manners

Hi!
Not to defend numpties🤔 But...
They may have thought the person left and didn't finish the drink..
People do...do that.
It's too bad there's no way to "leave a signal"..that you'd be back to finish.
 
In my first Pub outings in Uk back in the 1980's, I was a 'Numpty' for sure.
I learned pretty quick some of the do's and don'ts.

First mistake: Standing at the bar, enjoying the conversation with the gent next to me.
When I finished my pint, I told the barkeep to get me another and one for the person I was talking to.
The owner just looked at me with contempt and complied.
The person I was talking to seemed to grow colder toward me and left after he finished his pint.
When he was gone, the owner told me I'd just done a bad thing.
This was a very small village pub and his patrons would have just enough money for their pint and now he went home to get more money
to come back and buy me one, he had to repay the debt.

I didn't know at the time. I'll never forget that.

Next up: Back then I was a smoker, I threw my pack of cigs on the bar when I arrived.
I would pull one out and continued on with my conversation.
A patron, who figured out I was a 'Yank', cornered me and explained that it was proper to offer those around me a smoke when I got one.
When I did this, they would offer their pack when they lit up.

So much to learn. Spent 4 years learning everything I could about my surroundings.

Still the best 4 years I've spent anywhere.
 
That buy me a drink and I have to buy you one back barely exists in pubs these days.. usually if someone hasn't got the money to repay.. they'll either refuse your offer, or promise to get you one next time...

Equally no one sokes any more ( or ghardly anyone, and certainly not inside a pub), so that wouldn't happen if you came again
 
IFortuna said:
I love that word. Numpties. It just has the ring of a couple of jackwagons who have no manners. Mind if I purloin this beauty of a word? 🤣
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it's actually a word we use very regularly... instead of calling people 'stupid' or Idiots.. or worse.. if they do something that seems stupid or lacking in common sense, they would be called a numpty.. but rarely to their face..usually just in reference to them or their actions...

For example.. someone committing a serious crime would not be described as a numpty... but a small misdemeanour's that lacked thought.. would

Today I stood at the queue outside waiting to go into the pharmacy.masked up.. and there was a guy directly in front of me smoking a cigarette... and I got a blast of it... he would be called a numpty by some for doing something really stupid .. or also equally something lighthearted.. like trying to go through the locked side of a double door into a store .. then you would be called a 'numpty'' in a light hearted manner to your face by your friends...
 
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Funny story. I was in Llanidoles, Wales to ride the great little trains of Wales. I was staying at a B & B, so I had to go out for dinner every night. The second night I ate at the pub, the barman came over to me and asked why I was in this town. I told him I was riding the Great Little Trains of Wales.
He goes back into the bar, and announces'"The Yank is riding the trains" :D
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I'm not sure about "pub" etiquette, but "bar" etiquette is "Ya snooze, ya loose". You get off the bar stool, you lose all rights, and privileges associated with barstool ownership. It's in the US Constitution.
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There are no bar stools in Wetherspoons, thankfully.

I would burn barstools given the chance.
In some pubs it is difficult to get served at the bar for more numpties sitting on them.
 
JaniceM said:
I've never heard of numpties.. and not jackwagons either... :oops:
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Check out the YouTube channel "Vilified Freedom". He did not coin the term, others use it, but VF has made it popular. It probably has generally the same connotation as "numpties". :)
 

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