To drink pints of beer

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I don't get out often but, when I do, I like to drink pints of beer. Just one or two but it's my tipple of choice when I'm out in a pub or at an event that has a bar. At home, I drink wine. I'm 40.

I don't drink pints of beer at work do's but I did overhear colleagues talking the other day about how inappropriate it is for women to drink pints of beer. One of the these people was a woman in her 30's! I was extremely indignant but then thought that maybe there's a cut-off point beyond which it's not appropriate for women to drink pints of beer. My mother is 70 and I would be a bit if she ordered a pint of beer.

Can't stand the stuff myself but I dont really care what anyone drinks.

My mum is 69 and since she's met my DH she drinks more beer than I ever have! Everytime we have a curry she might have half a pint or a shandy.

I drink pints, of ale.

and I happily drink them at work do's and have only had positive comments. Occasionally get a question about the ale as most of the men drink larger and therefore think I'm odd.

I've had a few comments from strangers, but they generally shut up when I say I'm not so attached to my drink that I won't pour it over there heads.

Something that really bugs me is my boyfriend will ask for an x and automatically be given a pint. I will always be asked if I want a pint or a half.

I love a pint of beer, especially real ale. I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks. Why would anyone care anyway? How stupid.

On a related note: I am male and a lifelong vegetarian. My wife eats meat.

When we go out she will almost always order a meat dish. Who do you think the vegetarian meal gets plonked in front of? Every. Single.Time.

I always drink pints if I am out and drinking beer. Habit that started when I was a student when it was always a nightmare to get to the bar.

I'm 50. I've had my hair cut short because I personally feel that there is a cut off point (ha!) for long hair but never for drinking pints!

I am very nearly 60 & have been drinking pints of ale for about 40 years.

Halves are not worth having.

And, damn you, OP - I feel really thirsty now.

I drink pints if I'm drinking beer, it just depends what I fancy drinking, but why would you get less?
A long time ago I was running a pub in Lancashire and a couple used to come in regularly. The husband would order for himself, then I would ask the wife what she wanted. She would say what she wanted to the husband and he would order for her. After a few weeks I asked her why she didn't order for herself, and she said it wasn't ladylike to order from the bar . This was the same pub that had a lounge and a tap room, the latter of which women weren't really welcome in

This made me laugh.

The drinking customs of the English

I think the link is harmless

It's bonkers outdated thinking. I'm in my forties and have been drinking pints of beer since I was in a band with 7 blokes in my teens who refused to let me drink laydeeeees drinks and let the side down. Quite right too.

My now husband and I knew that we were onto something good on our first weekend away together, in a packed pub at a regatta - it was so rammed that he bought four pints of the Regatta Ale instead of just two, to save fighting his way back t the bar twice. he fell in love with a woman who could appreciate real ale, and I fell in love with a man who could carry four pint glasses and then produce a packet of salt and vinegar from his back pocket

I drink pints of bitter, DH is partial to a vodka and coke, we never get the right drinks in front of the right person at the bar! life is far too short to spend leisure time drinking something you don't enjoy because it's the done thing. I'm early 30s and have been drinking pints since my teens if that helps!

Pints here as well but I use a straw. I also use a straw of I'm drinking glasses.

I'm amazed people judge this stuff.

*if I'm drinking bottles.

Nope, i drink pints too. However my FIL insists on getting me a half if i ask for beer. Dangerous stuff that as i can neck it faster : )

I would say YABU but only because if I try drinking a pint I am pissing like a racehorse! I think I must have the worlds tiniest bladder since I had the kids :o

Of course YANBU, I used to drink pints quite often and I remember on my wedding day, it was boiling hot and I just fancied a cold lager. Sometimes thats the only thing that will hit the spot. So when my dad asked me what I wanted I said a pint of lager. He refused to buy it!

He said that I shouldnt really be drinking pints at all, but certainly not while wearing my wedding dress. So I went to the bar and bought it for myself much to his disapproval!

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" 'one of the members would begrudgingly "allow" his wife to have a pint of cider'

why didn't she tell him to fuck off?"

I have absolutely no idea. In her position I almost certainly would have, but I wasn't about to interfere in their relationship dynamics, being a lowly barmaid . Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Ooh I love a pint, lager, cider - what ever!

Am pregnant and cannot wait for my pint of cider afterwards ;)

People who judge can fuck right off. I'm sure my mother would never drink a pint though, but mainly because she's small and it's a lot of fluid/booze for her!!

I have been drinking pints since age 17 (only at home till 18, obviously ), and will continue to do so till I'm too arthriticky to physically hold a pint glass. Anyone who thinks it is in any way wrong or 'inappropriate' is liable to wear the contents of it.

Why in earth would there be a cut off point after which women can't be seen holding a pint glass anymore? What fresh mysoginistic hell is this?

I'm with you there Jackie! So looking forward to my first post baby pint of Hoegaarden!

I once had holiday jobs as a barmaid. One was in a hotel 'public bar'. The men used to order a 'half and a hauf' i.e. half pint of lager and a whisky. If a women had walked in there and done the same she would have got some very odd looks. As for ordering a pint she may as well have asked to be burned as a witch.

I can't manage a pint, anymore (beer gives me tummy issues!) but when I did drink beer, you can guarantee I'd order a pint.

If nothing else, it just tasted better like that.

Always order a pint, bitter or cider though can't touch lager it's vile. As a teen a pint of mild was my favourite tipple.
I have quite large hands and a half glass looks silly, plus it's gone in 3 gulps.
Can't believe how sexist pubs still are

Compos - ah yes, gendered meals. If I order steak and DH salmon , guess who gets which?

When I was working, I also noted those restaurants who noted who was host and brought them the wine list, not automatically the oldest man.

I don't care what other women drink and i dont judge them, but I could not bring myself to stand in a bar/pub and hold a pint glass...I know its silly but I would feel so embarrassed butch.

penguin ahhh so it works with Fish too? Fish is designed as ladyfood too. I wonder where chicken stands on the gendered food continuum.

Has anyone said that drinking a pint is a bad thing?

Or are we all just saying the same thing?