Plastic or Glass Pint

[The Spanish]

I totally agree. Just to continue my statistics theme the BBC says 126 million pints are served every week, and yet there are only 5,500 attacks EACH YEAR with glasses AND bottles. Assuming that every single one of those attacks was with a pint glass and absolutely nobody got hit with a bottle then every time you buy a pint there's a 0.000000839% chance that your glass could be used as a weapon (give or take the odd point for my maths). I'm sorry but that is just not a problem and is simply not worth adressing with a blanket ban on glass drinking vessels.

As DKM and others have said the balance now is about right. If the venue generally expects a high percentage of pissed up wankers then treat them like children and serve the beer in plastic. If it's a gathering of civilized adult human beings then leave the f*** alone. (They can't though can they?)

I am quite happy to have a pint in a plastic glass outside the pub pre match. Tonight however, I would be annoyed.

Surely a well placed but equally idiotic environmental objection could drown this at birth. Might as well use idiots for your own ends.

Fair play to wehatepalace and those who clean up the mess or are in the firing line, thats completely understood. But a blanket ban? f***ing hell, its our 'solution' to every problem nowadays. It means we do not, in reality, have to find any solutions.

 

[Insel affe]

Glass everytime .......

i hate it when you get around in, and they give you shit plastic glasses and you then have to walk back with them all wobbly. Glass ones you can sort of hold them better there more sturdy if you know what i mean !!

 

[Easy 10]

Bloody hate plastic, the beer always goes WARM.

I totally agree with Brovian. Just because of a tiny proportion of utter fliddos in the population who can't take their drink, we'll ALL end up with plastic frigging beakers. What a load of ARSE.

Whats next. Plastic cutlery in restaurants ? Rubber golf clubs ? Spanners made of sponge ?

 

[Hannibal smith]

Maybe before the football on Friday in a local next to the ground - Plastic.

In my local tommorrow night with no more than 20 people whose idea of violence is not stroking the landlords dog. Glass.

Is it quite simple this one as others have said. Common sense. But that wouldn't employ some pen pushing beaurocratic wanker to do the thinking for most of us who are quite capable of doing it for ourselves.

 

[Brovion]

I know they're just numbers, but you try telling that to the poor bastard who's just copped a face full of glass...

I would be happy with good heavy duty plastics in clubs/bars in Brighton tbh.

That is PRECISLEY it! Saying 'well what about the poor bloke with a faceful of glass' is NOT sufficient reason to warrant a blanket, global draconain solution. You may as well ban floor polish if it stops one person from slipping over and breaking their neck. By all means let pubs and clubs in central Brighton use plastic if they so wish to stop the wankers from hurting people. But it should be discretionary not obligatory.

 

[Brovion]

... Fair play to wehatepalace and those who clean up the mess or are in the firing line, thats completely understood. But a blanket ban? f***ing hell, its our 'solution' to every problem nowadays. It means we do not, in reality, have to find any solutions.

Again I agree. Maybe that's a good indicator? If you need doormen then you need plastic glasses.

 

[wehatepalace]

Again I agree. Maybe that's a good indicator? If you need doormen then you need plastic glasses.

That one sentance there is probably the most sensible solution to the problem.
Town centre pubs and clubs and establishments with a history of violence - Plastic
Ye Olde local and country pubs with 1 man and his dog in them let em keep their glass

 

[Easy 10]

What about the metal/pewter TANKARDS that the old codgers have hanging up behnid the bar at their local ?
Got to be careful with those eh. Don't want to be coshed over the head by a retired colonel who's had one too many stouts of an afternoon.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

If you need doormen then you need plastic glasses.

Perfect sense.

 

[jordanseagull]

Personally i really like drinking anything out of the plastic pint beakers.

 

[desprateseagull]

surely plastic not good for the environment, as non recyclabable?

you could still get a nasty cut from them as well..

better to have glass, and good landlord.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

For a Drink: Glass.
If Attacked: Plastic.

Bonza.

Perhaps we could revert to 'Aussie Rules' and ensure that beer is sold in 'stubbies' and make it compulsary that a 'stubbie holder' is used. That will eliminate bottling incidents as they will either bounce or the glass will break and be retained in the, said, holder.

 

[looney]

Those who drink white lightening wont notice any change. agree with Brovian, I have a pewter pint, is that dangerous?

 

[wehatepalace]

I was bottled once in a club, but the fella who chose to hit me with said bottle, chose a full one that failed to smash, leaving me with quite a nasty lump !

 

[raymondbriggs]

The Landlady of the Top House,Buggers Hole was on the radio last year complaining that bottled beer wasn't supplied in plastic bottles and that the glass ones were a potential lethal weapon.
Obviously,she never considered refusing to sell beer in bottles and insisted her staff poured it into a suitable plastic glass.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Glass for me.

What the f*** am I supposed to CUT people with now if they LOOK at me the wrong way

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Glass for me.

What the f*** am I supposed to CUT people with now if they LOOK at me the wrong way

Wimps go for bottles. Any sort of hard man would have a knife stowed away somewhere.

 

[beorhthelm]

this sort of shit is f***ing ridiculous. what twat in governemnt really thinks this makes a f***ing difference. they are so f***ing out of touch, there has been "safety" glass that shatter up in hundred of peices for a decade and you can still cut someones face with a broken plastic cup.

and lager/beer from plastic taste shit FACT. are they going to enforce plastic wine glasses and Whisky tumblers? and bottles ogf wine? best get rid of chairs that can be picked up too, lest they be thrown. obviously no metal cutlery and only plastic spoons (takes someones eye out with a plastic fork).
sake.

 

[Billy the Fish]

are they going to enforce plastic wine glasses and Whisky tumblers? and bottles ogf wine? best get rid of chairs that can be picked up too, lest they be thrown. obviously no metal cutlery and only plastic spoons (takes someones eye out with a plastic fork).
sake.

I've heard they're going to cut off everyones hands and feet incase you want to punch or kick someone.

 

[Notters]

Bloody hate plastic, the beer always goes WARM.

I totally agree with Brovian. Just because of a tiny proportion of utter fliddos in the population who can't take their drink, we'll ALL end up with plastic frigging beakers. What a load of ARSE.

Whats next. Plastic cutlery in restaurants ? Rubber golf clubs ? Spanners made of sponge ?

That's bollocks easy, plastic's an insulator.

I still vote for glass though.