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The Bar Man Sneezed In My Pint: Dilemma

  • 04-01-2014 03:23AM
    #1
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭


    Ok, so's I'm out picking up the take away and have 30 minutes to spare and I'm not driving.

    I orders a pint of Guinness, and whilst the new age looking sort of bar man pours the pint, he sneezes very loudly and widely across the general area of the bar. He had also attempted to catch the sneeze in his hand, which didn't work at all. So he wipes his face and continues to pour my pint which he had tilted at an angle under the Guinness tap.

    So what's to do? Do I say "mate, go wash your hands and pour me another pint"

    Or do I ignore it and drink the pint in the full knowledge that his infected nasal spray has covered every inch in a 2 metre radius?


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Comments

  • #2
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Free extra froth.


  • #3
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    So what did you do?

    Or are you waiting for AH to tell you what to do, in which case i say we don't offer any advice and see what happens?


  • #4
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    New pint please barman


  • #5
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    You now have the rage virus!

    Or is that the new age virus.


  • #6
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Eating and drinking, lovely

    22/25



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  • #7
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Ask for a spoon to take the snot out of the drink and itll be grand!


  • #8
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Borrow the time machine and prevent the sneeze in the first place.


  • #9
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    You should have got a bottle, half 2 at night drinking Guinness can only end in disaster OP.


  • #10
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    The fizz (carbon dioxide) and alcohol would *probably* kill some of the bugs


  • #11
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    WikiHow wrote: »
    You should have got a bottle, half 2 at night drinking Guinness can only end in disaster OP.

    Das true. 'Twas earlier on this evening. And I drunk the fecin pint. Didn't want to cause a fuss in a local bar full of "hey luvvy darling types" . They woulda mentally barred me.

    I'll be asking for a bottle next time.


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  • #12
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    The fizz (carbon dioxide) and alcohol would *probably* kill some of the bugs

    Really? Is this scientifically proven? Cause I'm running a temperatures right nows.


  • #13
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Really? Is this scientifically proven? Cause I'm running a temperatures right nows.
    That be the take away mate, keep within 5 metres of a toilet incase..


  • #14
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    WikiHow wrote: »
    That be the take away mate, keep within 5 metres of a toilet incase..

    Das true. 'Twas a chineses.


  • #15
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Das true. 'Twas a chineses.
    That is a bad lad to have on top of a few dozen pints :D


  • #16
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Das true. 'Twas a chineses.

    Jaysus... Youll be dropping bombs tomorrow that would send Yanks packing!


  • #17
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    But on the Up side, just buy Chicken Balls and no sauce, you already have an authentic Chinese Dip !

    22/25



  • #18
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Amazing some of us still hold the barman/ bar in such awe.

    of course, if it's the only pub for miles around, that's a bit different.

    Which, if it's the 'in' spot, it probably is, psychologically.


    Essentially, you're questioning you life path, and rightly so. :D


  • #19
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    1 - tell him new pint there and then.

    or 2 - try to get him aside and tell him quietly (more likely to work).

    or 3 - tell him you'll be right back, physically escape awkward social situation.

    (I do this ... very effective and efficient).


  • #20
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    uch wrote: »
    But on the Up side, just buy Chicken Balls and no sauce, you already have an authentic Chinese Dip !
    uch.


  • #21
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Amazing some of us still hold the barman/ bar in such awe.

    of course, if it's the only pub for miles around, that's a bit different.

    Which, if it's the 'in' spot, it probably is, psychologically.


    Essentially, you're questioning you life path, and rightly so. :D
    It is near a chinese so it must be a built up area. ;)


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  • #22
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    How is this even a question? Seriously.

    As if you don't know already :confused:


  • #23
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    How is this even a question? Seriously.

    As if you don't know already :confused:

    No honestly I didn't know alreadys. Clique of a pub. Every fecer watching if I cause a fuss. I'll be drinking cans next time outsides the Chineses.


  • #24
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Kettleson wrote: »
    No honestly I didn't know alreadys. Clique of a pub. Every fecer watching if I cause a fuss. I'll. be drinking cans next time outsides the Chineses.
    Do you think he sneezed deliberately OP?


  • #25
    mfergus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭mfergus


    There's a lot of variables in this.
    If you are >20 years older than the barman there's a good chance you may be immune to his strain of virus.
    For each year younger, the chance of you contracting it increase.
    Also, when last did you have a cold? If you had a cold within the last month and you're in the same area as this incident, there's a good chance it's the same strain of virus and you could be safe enough.

    Either way, that's only assuming it's a cold and that he has no serious infections or diseases such as hepatitis or tb.

    So my answer: either grow a pair and take a chance, grow a pair and ask for a new pint or be a puss, pay for the pint and don't drink it


  • #26
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    mfergus wrote: »
    There's a lot of variables in this.
    If you are >20 years older than the barman there's a good chance you may be immune to his strain of virus.
    For each year younger, the chance of you contracting it increase.
    Also, when last did you have a cold? If you had a cold within the last month and you're in the same area as this incident, there's a good chance it's the same strain of virus and you could be safe enough.

    Either way, that's only assuming it's a cold and that he has no serious infections or diseases such as hepatitis or tb.

    So my answer: either grow a pair and take a chance, grow a pair and ask for a new pint or be a puss, pay for the pint and don't drink it

    Thanks for that, I think I'll grow a pair, next time, maybes.


  • #27
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Do you think he sneezed deliberately OP?

    I think he might well have done now that I think about it.


  • #28
    mfergus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭mfergus


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Thanks for that, I think I'll grow a pair, next time, maybes.

    Or else get a good dose of antibiotics for the virus, but make sure you don't finish them. Take them till you feel better and then stop.

    Edit: this may not be accurate :)


  • #29
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Kettleson wrote: »
    I think he might well have done now that I think about it.
    Revenge is only fair now i think, what can we engineer?


  • #30
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    mfergus wrote: »
    Or else get a good dose of antibiotics for the virus, but make sure you don't finish them. Take them till you feel better and then stop.

    Edit: this may not be accurate :)

    Best err on the side of caution. In the future I'll visit my GP before going out for a pint.


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  • #31
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Revenge is only fair now i think, what can we engineer?

    Explosively puke all over the counter!
    Something like this...
    http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRIW-7nijYoMoq8oPeKq0YAmdFv2TlJI7215o2ke0O0nr1fr9qUZrS-e2Dn


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