Politesse dictates that one should always split the bill evenly when in a group situation, however, sometimes circumstances vary. When planning to spend a night on the turps with friends, unfortunately not everyone drinks at the pace of a wharfie. These so-called “men” presumably sit down to urinate. Now there’s an app to accommodate the larger lady’s smocks and their wussy ways.
In what can only be described as an electronic austerity measure, the Drinklist app allows users to track precisely what they’ve imbibed and pay only for the bare minimum. The user can choose from over 9,000 drinks and add them to their tab, add prices and calculate the total at the end of their slogging session. Perhaps the one redeeming factor of the app is that you can track your drinking prowess over time, seeing just how much of a champion of the bar and destructor of the liver you actually are.
While most of us know that buying rounds is the most sensible and fair measure, evidently others do not. The gentlemen among us who prefer the top shelf or the more decadent of cocktail blends also know to contribute more to accommodate our refined tastes. If your friend pulls out their iPhone to input their shandy (because what else would it be?) one thing should be automatically apparent: it’s time to ditch this friend. Although, the app is 99 cents, which we all know is way beyond the extremely frugal’s expenditure.
Published on 19 December 2011 by Agony Uncle