Talking of snobby spastic, I'm going for lunch tomorrow with several friends and

[Ash]

family members to celebrate the birthday of the glw. We are going to a rather nice seafood restaurant in Brighton.

A visit to a seafood restaurant means certain things to me. It means foaming tankards of black velvet, half a dozen natives and then lobsters or Dover Soles. It does not mean fillets of sea bass or pan-fried cod or any other standard fish dish I could cook for myself any day of the week. However, if I order what I would like, when it comes to splitting the bill, the majority of those present will shít themselves.

What should I do, Awimb? Compromise my beliefs and eat ordinary people's food? That would be dishonest. Insist on paying for everyone? That would be humiliating for the other gentlemen present. Just get on with it in a cheery spirit of 'fúck you'?

Just offer to pay more on the split.

[Sir C]

Just offer to pay more on the split.

I wouldn't be in danger of sounding a little condescending?

[Ash]

I wouldn't be in danger of sounding a little condescending?

I think it is fairest to give them the option of whether they want to buy half your dinner or not. If they have a problem with that option than .. um ... that's their problem.

It might just encourage them to join you in top-end choices then everyone's happy.

[Luis Anaconda]

I wouldn't be in danger of sounding a little condescending?

a cheery spirit of 'fúck you' is the only polite way to do it.

Or suggest when the bill comes that everyone just pays for what they had and the waiter can go to everyone separately. They would love that