Please Meet Me For An Emergency Social Tomorrow

[Peter Corlett]

On 16 Feb 2010, at 10:14, James Laver wrote:
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> Or... LMC is from Portugal, where drinking establishments tend to have waiters.

British pubs are much more into long waits instead.

It is, I suspect, the reason why the British get rounds in instead of letting everybody buy their own. It's not necessarily politeness, just a way of reducing the average wait time.