View Full Version : Do you ever order tap-water at the pub?
Redway
11-06-2025, 07:13 PM
Or would you be hesitant about doing it so-as not to feel like you’re wasting the bartender’s time pouring something they won’t profit from (or some other reason for your no)?
I do it when I’m skint (I’ll admit) and still want to be in the pub-atmosphere without paying for what I can’t afford, but more commonly (and importantly) it’s to keep me hydrated enough and replenish electrolytes I lose from excessive sweating. The only medical thing that controls my hyperhidrosis (over-sweating) at this point is a medication called topiramate (which can also make people lose lot of weight, but on-label it’s more for migraines and seizures, especially in t’UK) and I only have occasional access to it at the moment. So it’s partly financial (that time of the month, skimping around before payday) and partly so-that my state of health in the hydration-and-electrolytes department will be alright.
Niamh.
11-06-2025, 07:20 PM
Yeah, usually I just ask whoever is buying a round to get me a water while they're ordering, it's no big deal :shrug:
Redway
11-06-2025, 08:00 PM
Yeah, usually I just ask whoever is buying a round to get me a water while they're ordering, it's no big deal :shrug:
Well, yh, it shouldn’t feel like it but when you’re not in a group (so there’s no question of getting a round in, unless a familiar local offers to buy you a drink anyway) and you’re not actually buying a drink, of any kind (not even a cordial), it can just feel a little cheeky making the bar-staff get you a water, when they could be making profit from someone-else. Moreover, some pubs (old-men pubs) can be so dingy and grubby that you can’t necessarily even trust that the tap-water will be clean or comfortable for you to drink.
Not in the shitholes...nice bars? I might, just to annoy who's buying the round.
Niamh.
11-06-2025, 08:13 PM
Well, yh, it shouldn’t feel like it but when you’re not in a group (so there’s no question of getting a round in, unless a familiar local offers to buy you a drink anyway) and you’re not actually buying a drink, of any kind (not even a cordial), it can just feel a little cheeky making the bar-staff get you a water, when they could be making profit from someone-else. Moreover, some pubs (old-men pubs) can be so dingy and grubby that you can’t necessarily even trust that the tap-water will be clean or comfortable for you to drink.I wouldn't really go to a pub in my own tbh, the only reason I'd be there drinking water is if I was driving or if I was just having lunch or something
Redway
11-06-2025, 08:30 PM
I wouldn't really go to a pub in my own tbh, the only reason I'd be there drinking water is if I was driving or if I was just having lunch or something
Any way you can edit the exclamation-mark (typo) in my title to a question-mark, by the way, please?
Redway
11-06-2025, 08:32 PM
Not in the shitholes...nice bars? I might, just to annoy who's buying the round.
I’m always more worried about annoying the staff. No-one’s said anything but what’s said publicly isn’t always what’s said or thought privately.
Crimson Dynamo
11-06-2025, 08:48 PM
i have never ordered a tap water in a pub in my life
Redway
11-06-2025, 08:53 PM
No, I'm straight.
This is why I have you on my ignore-list.
I wonder when vodka-soda became tap-water.
This is why I have you on my ignore-list.
I wonder when vodka-soda became tap-water.Obviously, I'm not on your ignore list. Because you replied to my post.
But you're now going on mine, for saying that I'm on yours and lying about it.
Redway
11-06-2025, 09:01 PM
Obviously, I'm not on your ignor list. Because you replied to my post.
But you're not going on mine, for saying that I'm on yours and lying about it.
You can selectively choose to view messages from people on your ignore-list and reply. I do that with Zizu more times than it seems to be worth. No word of a lie was told.
I can't see what he replied. I was too quick for him.
Strictly Jake
11-06-2025, 09:20 PM
Yep. I mean I get normal drinks to but if it's hot in there and if there's dancing eg club or party I get tap water between each drink, it helps me to stay hydrated and stops me downing the alcohol
Redway
11-06-2025, 09:36 PM
Yep. I mean I get normal drinks to but if it's hot in there and if there's dancing eg club or party I get tap water between each drink, it helps me to stay hydrated and stops me downing the alcohol
Lemon-water (and CBD, for what it’s worth) can also help calibrate your system and reduce symptoms of hangover. So maybe one time ask for a glass of iced water with lemon inside. The lemon will only go in someone-else’s gin otherwise.
Barry.
11-06-2025, 11:11 PM
I usually get a Fanta and tap water in case I finish my Fanta
Redway
15-06-2025, 07:10 PM
How many of us are drinking Bud Light at the pub on any given day anyway? As far as a lot of people are concerned, it might-as-well be water.
Crimson Dynamo
15-06-2025, 07:17 PM
I usually get a Fanta and tap water in case I finish my Fanta
:umm2:
Kate!
15-06-2025, 07:45 PM
Nah I won't even drink tap at home. Sparkling bottled all the way. Tap is vile.
Barry.
15-06-2025, 08:28 PM
Nah I won't even drink tap at home. Sparkling bottled all the way. Tap is vile.
Scottish water is good, I think it’s more clean than English water. We are told when we go to London to get bottled water
Niamh.
15-06-2025, 08:55 PM
Scottish water is good, I think it’s more clean than English water. We are told when we go to London to get bottled waterIrish tap water is really good too [emoji108]
Vanessa
15-06-2025, 10:20 PM
Wetherspoon has a water dispenser, so I drink from that.
But usually I prefer sparkling water.
We order tap water everywhere we go ( North West England though)
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Scottish water is good, I think it’s more clean than English water. We are told when we go to London to get bottled water
Irish tap water is really good too [emoji108]
…English tap water is generally so poor, tbf…
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 05:27 AM
Nope.
I like Coca-Cola or Cider at the Pub.
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 05:32 AM
No, I'm straight.
Drinking Water is gay?:laugh:
Water is essential for everybody lol.
Drinking Water is gay?:laugh:
Water is essential for everybody lol.What are you talking about?
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 08:50 AM
What are you talking about?
Well you answered with "no, I'm straight." When asked do you drink tap Water at the Pub.:laugh:
I'm just wondering why you would think that?
Well you answered with "no, I'm straight." When asked do you drink tap Water at the Pub.:laugh:
I'm just wondering why you would think that?So where was the word "gay" used in my answer?
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 08:54 AM
So where was the word "gay" used in my answer?
Well you referred to being straight.
What else am I supposed to think?:joker:
Redway
16-06-2025, 02:45 PM
Well you answered with "no, I'm straight." When asked do you drink tap Water at the Pub.:laugh:
I'm just wondering why you would think that?
I’ve given up trying to understand Alf.
Crimson Dynamo
16-06-2025, 02:51 PM
Well you referred to being straight.
What else am I supposed to think?:joker:
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in all my years of going to the pub, i can say that i have never ordered up a glass of tap water. Obviously, some drinks include water and that usually comes from the tap, like coffee, whisky, brandy etc
I probably have in the past if I wasn't drinking that particular night, but can't remember a specific instance.
Other than two cups of coffee to start my day off, the only other drink I drink regularly is water and most days it's all I drink after 11am. I sometimes treat myself to a ginger beer, and so I usually order that from a pub if I'm not drinking alcohol that day/night.
Redway
16-06-2025, 05:23 PM
I probably have in the past if I wasn't drinking that particular night, but can't remember a specific instance.
Other than two cups of coffee to start my day off, the only other drink I drink regularly is water and most days it's all I drink after 11am. I sometimes treat myself to a ginger beer, and so I usually order that from a pub if I'm not drinking alcohol that day/night.
I do love a good ginger-beer.
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 06:55 PM
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Mock please let people live and exist
:joker:
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 06:57 PM
I’ve given up trying to understand Alf.
:laugh:
I like Alf personally, but I do agree with you that I couldn't understand what he meant with his post.
Redway
16-06-2025, 06:59 PM
:laugh:
I like Alf personally, but I do agree with you that I couldn't understand what he meant with his post.
That makes one of us.
Mystic Mock
16-06-2025, 07:01 PM
That makes one of us.
:laugh:
Redway
16-06-2025, 07:09 PM
:laugh:
And one of us is just-enough.
joeysteele
16-06-2025, 10:15 PM
No I haven't.
I do only drink tap water at home though.
Wouldn't touch bottled water ever again, got a horrible bug from it while at Uni.
I'd never bottle water and then leave it or buy it after months on shop/store shelves, before drinking it.
Nah, plain tap water for me.
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