bon viveur friends - classic or dud

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a lot of my friends seem to have become bon viveurs lately... going to expensive restaurants, drinking expensive wine, treating cooking as some kind of display of their amazingness when they invite you round for dinner, etc.

it's a bit rubbish, really. Primarily it means I can't invite people round for dinner any more as my food isn't good enough for them.

does anyone else have this problem?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

my sisters do this to me but they realise i'm a slacker type and don't expect it in return

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a friend who can be a bit of a DRINKING bon viveur. It means you get to RAID HIS WINE CELLAR (ok bit of kitchen) and fine whisky selection. I think it is classic!! DV take advantage of the free good food! Unless it is crap and then say "do not worry old chum I'll have beans on toast when I get home" and then drink their "chateau de ponce 1983".

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Invite them round for kidney soup and piss in the bowl.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i am a mal viveur

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

someday.........

it's funny having friends like these at my age, I mean I like eating out and things and I'm glad my parents brought me up to like it, but when you have fuck all money and you're a student and one of your friends insists on drinking 2 bottles of nastro azzuro it's just gone beyond the beyonds.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps for your birthday you should invite them all to a fancy restaurant and they'll pay your share of the bill, cos they're your friends and they like you.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan - TWO bottles of lager?! What extravagance!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, but it's that fancy foreign stuff, not lovely oirish Harp, begorrah.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's bloody great I tell you. Me and Jonnie are hatching grand plans for a symposium stag do after watching an episode of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's TV dinners.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No Matt the point is they actually forfeit getting drunk for this purpose. Of course in London beer is cheap on Offies so you have no idea what I'm talking about. Don't know you're born etc.

Harp is the most disgusting thing in the world!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

when times are hard financially

http://www.cambrinus.nl/brw/BAVARIA.HTM

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps for your birthday you should invite them all to a fancy restaurant and they'll pay your share of the bill, cos they're your friends and they like you.

aha, touche.

I wish all my friends wore cravats all the time.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 15 May 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wish there was a wine called Chateau Du Ponce. What kind of wine would a ponce make?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 15 May 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What kind of wine would a ponce make?

"Daaaaaaaaaddy, I wanted the other Jaguar."

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I find this a bit hard to imagine for most of my friends. We spent last night playing pool in a pub. The only stuff eaten was crisps.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Budget bon viveur = "wine taste, beer money".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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