Originally Posted by
Efrem
Not quite that simple. If you stand a round for your table at a U.K. pub, it's common to tell the bartender "have half a pint on me." A 'tender who actually drank all those half pints would be totally sloshed before the evening was half over, but the price will be added to your tab as a tip - while avoiding the messy, somewhat degrading, bit of asking for money.
Thanks, but I was actually using irony in an attempt to point out to the op that he was overthinking things, and it really wouldn't matter to more than 97% of the world's population. There is no need to add a "tipping in bars" section to the existing list.
You're not going to get a bad reaction if you fail to buy one for the bartender. I stand by the point I was making in my sarcastic post
