How many is a few?

[BiggsyMalone]

between 4 & 8. 2 is a couple, 5 is a handfull 10 is 2 handfulls 12 a dozen

Does 3 not exist in your world?

[Max B Gold]

A couple of beers is actually 3 or 4. A few beers is 5 to 8 and a good few beers is anything above 8

So a few too many could mean consuming over 16 or more beers. This is like the cookery programmes I'm forced to watch when they say "and add a pinch of salt" I am horrified how big they believe a pinch is.

[Rubex Kube]

between 4 & 8. 2 is a couple, 5 is a handfull 10 is 2 handfulls 12 a dozen

Does 3 not exist in your world?

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

[Brigs]

Anyway, if she said do you want a “few” I would expect four, and I’d decline on the basis that I’d end up wanting more or going to the shops to buy a couple of packets.

Now if she said “do you want SOME?”, well then I’d be intrigued as to whether she was up for sharing the whole packet or not, but I’d expect 33% of the contents

Sorry, I meant to say if she offered you a few.
4 though is not acceptable from a box, a packet maybe but not a box

[BiggsyMalone]

between 4 & 8. 2 is a couple, 5 is a handfull 10 is 2 handfulls 12 a dozen

Does 3 not exist in your world?

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

[The Mindsweep]

41,000 according to Fiona

[Hoover Attack]

Does 3 not exist in your world?

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

I ask for a double Malibu and lemonade?

[Rubex Kube]

Does 3 not exist in your world?

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

Drank far to many double vodkas last night, no worries I'll have a couple couple at my local pie & mash followed by a couple scooped ice cream after face

[BiggsyMalone]

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

Drank far to many double vodkas last night, no worries I'll have a couple couple at my local pie & mash followed by a couple scooped ice cream after face

There’s a double O in too

[Rubex Kube]

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

Drank far to many double vodkas last night, no worries I'll have a couple couple at my local pie & mash followed by a couple scooped ice cream after face

There’s a double O in too

Too many couple vodkas hangover & don't care

[BIGRON]

Yes but I wouldnt ask for a trio or treble of anything really, unless its trophies won by Orient next season.

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

Drank far to many double vodkas last night, no worries I'll have a couple couple at my local pie & mash followed by a couple scooped ice cream after face

Most people quote Double Double for 2 pies and 2 mash

[Rubex Kube]

You don’t ask for a double of anything but you say 2 is a couple.

Drank far to many double vodkas last night, no worries I'll have a couple couple at my local pie & mash followed by a couple scooped ice cream after face

Most people quote Double Double for 2 pies and 2 mash

I know BR biggsy disagrees so I was putting him straight using his couple couple theory

[Eggski]

3

[Don Keybollock]

Less than a Cotchel.

[Monkey Boy]

A few is more than a couple and less than many and possibly less than more but could be exactly the same as a bunch. There sorted. Personally I think you lot are off your tits and that my friend's is a pair and not a couple

[LittleMate]

Here’s the answer - if your partner is popping to the shops, and she says “do you want anything?”, if you say “a couple of beers”, you mean two. Three is a bonus but not expected.
If you say “a few beers” and get three, you’d feel shortchanged but not able to say anything cos you didn’t specify. Four would be exactly right, five would seem like overkill. Ergo, “few” means “four” if you need to put a number on it, but the non specificity of it means that you can’t complain about a bit of leeway either way

The question is not correctly phrased then. It should be "how many is a few when talking to a woman?"

If I tell her I'm going for a couple, she takes that as three; If I'm going for a few then its very open ended.

Conversely when I come back from having a couple I've only had two and after a few well.....its a question of how long I was gone!