Blasphemy! UK plans to replace pint glasses with plastic

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Letum

The bars that have a problem with people smashing gasses in each others
faces don't tend to be the classy kind of establishment where one can relish
the authentic feel of real glass. I have no problem if hey are required to use
plastic.
Some of the rougher places near me already do.

this i could agree with.

if your in that type of drinking environment - chances are you dont give a damn about the decorum.

[Dowly]

Luckily we have our beer in glass thingies.

So they don't actually want to replace glasses, its just a design for a standardised plastic version.
Good move, how many times have you been to festivals in the UK and been given plastic glasses that are absolutely crap at holding liquid?
So this is the same firm doing the new design that already made a good profit designing and selling the safety glass at a price that was a fraction of the leading French version on offer to pubs.

[XabbaRus]

Ah but with plastic beer pint holders (it is not a plastic glass it physically can't be) you can break it into sharp spears and stab or cut someone...

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Ah but with plastic beer pint holders (it is not a plastic glass it physically can't be) you can break it into sharp spears and stab or cut someone...

Good lord is this really an issue? Sounds like a place I would avoid.

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Luckily we have our beer in glass thingies.

Which keep breaking right? For the same reason Letum posted, to stop people bottling each other.

TBH, I always preferred the Beer Mug, the original dimpled UK one, for that purpose my local has mine hanging over the bar.

For the usual binge drinking yobbos, plastic is the best choice.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Which keep breaking right? For the same reason Letum posted, to stop people bottling each other.

TBH, I always preferred the Beer Mug, the original dimpled UK one, for that purpose my local has mine hanging over the bar.

For the usual binge drinking yobbos, plastic is the best choice.

Better still....simply fill a trough and let them all stick their snouts in.

I've seen far too many people scarred for life by beer bottles and glasses despite the fact they have been minding their own business and simply been out for a nights enjoyment.

Plastic will suit the rabble fine.

[Melonfish]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Which keep breaking right? For the same reason Letum posted, to stop people bottling each other.

TBH, I always preferred the Beer Mug, the original dimpled UK one, for that purpose my local has mine hanging over the bar.

For the usual binge drinking yobbos, plastic is the best choice.

i'm of the same mind, those older dimpled mugs were proper beer glasses, as for the yobs yeah plastic for the lot of em, oh and training on the use of toilet facilities, heavy fines for taking up hostpital time with their drunken antics and needing to detox and a permanent ban on going into a pub full stop. if you can't drink responsibly, DON'T!
i live in a town in the nw and i swear it makes me ashamed to live in the same place as these people on a friday/sat night...

[bert8for3]

Well, I'm reading "replace". Which imho is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

TBH, I always preferred the Beer Mug, the original dimpled UK one, for that purpose my local has mine hanging over the bar.

Yeah , they were ideal.
They have the weight which you could swing easy and deck even the biggest, when they eventually broke you were left with the snug fitting handle which is very good for some really cutting punches .
Plus as a bonus you don't run the risk of cutting up your own palm like you do when using the nonic glass.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Instead of replacing glass with plastic, why dont they just refuse to serve the yobbos, and toss them out on their ear? Nothing worse than going to the pub to be greeting by a group of loud, foul-mouthed twenty-somethings who *have* to get wasted every night.