Taking pint from barmans hand

JohnnyG said:
If you've already paid for it then you MUST take it off them, NO-ONE is allowed to touch YOUR pint.
If you haven't actually completed the deal then there's nowt wrong with waiting until you assume ownership, although it's not necessary.
Shorts, cocktails & wine may have different rules though, ask your lady friends.
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When the bar man is putting down the pint on the bar, I recommend not touching the pint, but casually stroke their wrist. Then pick up the pint. This is completely socially acceptable.
 
You are meant to stand there, hands on hips in a manly way, staring at the beer mat.

When the barman puts the beer onto the mat, you then have to stare unsmiling at him, as if mutually acknowledging the fact that both of you could wrestle a bear to the floor, if you wanted to.

Then stare at the beer, this is one on one now and only one of you is going down (usually the first ten beers, then you).
You notice the swirling bubbles, the heady froth on top, then it's in your hand and with no more than four gulps it is down your neck.

You wait, feet apart, beer dripping from the corner of your mouth, like a salivating hound of hell. To hold onto the bar rail at this point would mean shame and possibly having to join the Foreign Legion.
Then with one manly swipe, you clear the froth from your mouth, stare around the room to see if any women have been watching, then return to staring at the beer mat.

The barman knows that this is fight to the floor and will already be pouring another.
 
You are meant to stand there, hands on hips in a manly way
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bitslice said:
You are meant to stand there, hands on hips in a manly way, staring at the beer mat.

When the barman puts the beer onto the mat, you then have to stare unsmiling at him, as if mutually acknowledging the fact that both of you could wrestle a bear to the floor, if you wanted to.

Then stare at the beer, this is one on one now and only one of you is going down (usually the first ten beers, then you).
You notice the swirling bubbles, the heady froth on top, then it's in your hand and with no more than four gulps it is down your neck.

You wait, feet apart, beer dripping from the corner of your mouth, like a salivating hound of hell. To hold onto the bar rail at this point would mean shame and possibly having to join the Foreign Legion.
Then with one manly swipe, you clear the froth from your mouth, stare around the room to see if any women have been watching, then return to staring at the beer mat.

The barman knows that this is fight to the floor and will already be pouring another.
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FML.... 9.42 and im going to have to grab a beer =(
 
When I did some bar work a few years back I absolutely hated it when punters would try and take the pint from your hand as you tried to place it down on the bar for them.

The main gripe was that people who had a few to drink already sometimes spilt the pint in the awkward moment of you pushing the pint towards the bar and their hand grabbing the pint (the two motions, although small, could and sometimes would lead to some spillage which I'd have to clean up). If anything did spill I was generally the target of the punter for me apparently spilling it. Yet I never had it spilt once when I placed the drink down for them to then pick up.
 
I think you should wait but on a side note I ****ing hate it when the bar people touch the top quarter of the glass with their fingers, I walked out a place once when the bar wench (who wasn't even attractive) touch the rim of the glass with her grubby fingers (the sort where the nail has been bitten to the quick). I think in that scenario it would be okay to grab the pint from their dirty hands just so you can launch it at their head, jump over the bar and go ape **** crazy on their face.
 
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