Cans:
Cheaper
More readily available, night and day, from most shops
Wide variety especially of smaller brands
Admits brevity of life with size differences
Some beer doesn’t really fit
Pints:
Get you quite drunk
Nice on a Summer day
Quite obsessed with their own volume
Some pubs are open late
This is one of my main points when I have to talk (boringly) about not drinking vs drinking. If you convert the pure volume that people drink on a night out into a non-alcoholic liquid it’s properly absurd to consider drinking that amount of anything.
Yeah coming out of the pub having had 4+ pints is perfectly “fine”, but if someone said they’d had that much Fanta or milk or ginger beer you’d be pretty puzzled imho.
(pints of water are the only way to drink water tho)
Cans also have a secondary, potential fun-Thursday meaning. Pints can’t claim that now can they? Maybe we need to start giving it a saucy second lease of life