A pub regular has blasted his local for offering what he calls “poxy” rewards to punters who drink a staggering amount of beer.
He took to Reddit to share a photo of a poster he spotted in gents’ toilets, before questioning the wisdom of joining such a club. “Surely this isn’t a club ANYBODY should join?,” he asked. The poster detailed the boozer‘s “membership” to its “Club 100, 300 and 500”, which involves purchasing those respective numbers of pints.
The rules are simple as per the poster: “Sign up to the club. Purchase 100/300/500 pints of GUEST ale. Claim your prize!” And the prizes? A navy polo shirt for 100 pints, a maroon version for 300, and a black fleece boasting “500 Club” and the pub’s emblem for the top tier.
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Continuing his rant on Reddit, the disgruntled drinker said: “I wouldn’t want to know when I’d got to 50 pints, let alone 300! AND you only get a poxy polo shirt. Seen in my local pub’s mens toilets.”
Fellow Redditors criticised the scheme too, offering a variety of reasons as to why they wouldn’t opt to get involved. “One thing I absolutely don’t want to have a record of is how many drinks I’ve had at the same pub,” one person explained.
A second added: “It’s the same pub bit that would make it depressing. I’ve lived in a few different countries, and returning home after a few years and seeing the same people in the same pub whining about the same things always got me down a bit.”
A third punter confessed: “I’ve just spent about 9 months working in a pub, and it’s really made clear to me that I absolutely do not want to end up like the regulars who come in at the same time every day and drink the same thing. Many of them sitting on their own by choice. It looks like a miserable existence.”
Another user saw the funny side, and said: “10 pints every Friday night for a year and that polo is yours for next summer mate. Get stuck in.”