Should friends split the bill evenly?

I'm a yes but only because I'm the one who orders the second cocktail and I feel like the thread is about to come for me

In Japan the senior at the table pays, or we split exactly, and both are done without discussion. What I notice in this thread is not the money but the discussing. I would pay the extra to never have the discussion.

in mexico the one who invites pays, and the next time the other one invites, and it goes around, and nobody counts, and if someone is going through a hard time you just keep inviting them and nobody says anything, and i know this does not scale to a table of twelve coworkers in london, but i think the problem in this thread is not the maths, it is that you have stopped inviting each other and started going dutch, and once you are going dutch of course someone is going to notice the wine

we just use the app that splits it, you scan the receipt and it does it. problem solved, why is this a debate. LOOK IT UP its called splitwise or something

I've watched ten thousand tables settle up and I'll tell you the one that ends the friendship: not the even split, the itemised one. The second someone says "well I only had the soup" the night's over. Even split, round up, next round's on the soup person. That's how it's done in any pub worth drinking in.

Yes, and I'll tell you why from the other side of the table: the person doing the calculator is always the person who ends up with no friends. Over a year it evens out, over a decade you've paid for each other's birthdays and breakups and nobody's counting. The 600 złoty is the price of not being the calculator!