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bluereddish

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The Government has just about killed off the pub trade and now it wants to drive the final nail in the coffin by making it compulsory for all pubs to use plastic drinking vessels. Ok, I appreciate that there are plenty of examples where nothing but plastic should be used, after all, 'glassing' and its lifetime scars are evil and totally unacceptable in civilised society.. However, the vast majority of pub goers are responsible people who drink in well run trouble free places and should not have these barriers to their enjoyment forced upon them. Cars as well as drinking glasses are dangerous in the hands of idiots. Should all cars be banned? I can see the day when I'll have to dig out my old pewter tankard and carry it with me from pub to pub - unless they come up with some stupid reason for banning these too.

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bluereddish said:
The Government has just about killed off the pub trade and now it wants to drive the final nail in the coffin by making it compulsory for all pubs to use plastic drinking vessels. Ok, I appreciate that there are plenty of examples where nothing but plastic should be used, after all, 'glassing' and its lifetime scars are evil and totally unacceptable in civilised society.. However, the vast majority of pub goers are responsible people who drink in well run trouble free places and should not have these barriers to their enjoyment forced upon them. Cars as well as drinking glasses are dangerous in the hands of idiots. Should all cars be banned? I can see the day when I'll have to dig out my old pewter tankard and carry it with me from pub to pub - unless they come up with some stupid reason for banning these too.

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Scare mongering again.

I listened to the an interview with someone from the HO on the radio and all that they are doing is :-
The Home Office has commissioned a new design, in an attempt to stop glasses being used as weapons.

They said plastic could be an option if accepted but the feel and taste were an obstacle to this.
They also talked about special safe shatter glass as well as laminated sheeted safe glass.
They also talked anbout changing the shape.
The rest of this article is guess work and set to panic.

No one can say that an attempt to stop glasses being used as weapons is a bad thing.
 
As much as I dislike plastic 'glasses', if people could handle their drink and not think they can take on the world after 1 pint we wouldn't have any need for them.

It's ok to blame the Government or councils for everything these days but ultimately most drinkers are on their arse after half a pint of pissy stella and thanks to these lightweights we are all punished.
 
As long as it wasn't any of them flimsy plastic "glasses" then i wouldn't give a shit what i drank it out off.

If it stops dickheads thinking their hard smashing glasses over peoples heads then i'm all for it.
 
TheMightyQuinn said:
As much as I dislike plastic 'glasses', if people could handle their drink and not think they can take on the world after 1 pint we wouldn't have any need for them.

It's ok to blame the Government or councils for everything these days but ultimately most drinkers are on their arse after half a pint of pissy stella and thanks to these lightweights we are all punished.
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yet more pc brigade crap

(joke haha) lol
 
Hard plastic can be very sharp as well.

I dont care what I'm drinking of as long as I can hold the thing without half of the beer spilling out everytime I life it.
 
Forzacitizens said:
TheMightyQuinn said:
As much as I dislike plastic 'glasses', if people could handle their drink and not think they can take on the world after 1 pint we wouldn't have any need for them.

It's ok to blame the Government or councils for everything these days but ultimately most drinkers are on their arse after half a pint of pissy stella and thanks to these lightweights we are all punished.
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yet more pc brigade crap

(joke haha) lol
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I'd glass you for that!

Luckily only got plastic glasses to hand so you're safe.
 
Yeah - get rid of glass pint pots - bring in the plastic - let the knifings increase - cos the violent twats who now glass people will resort to other measures.
 
another example of government stupidity... what's next, paper mache chairs?

what about crockery (if the pub's serving food) or heaven forbid, metal cutlery?

for the idiots who glass people no doubt they'll find other alternative weapons as others have mentioned; simply replacing glasses with plastic pint pots isn't going to stop people getting pissed-up and the morons having a go at each other. I mean what about those group thugs that kick people to death after a night down the pub (when someone's offended someone); are we going to ban people drinking in groups and take away their shoes as well?

get real, and stop wasting taxpayer money and acting like we all need a nanny.
 
We have them down here after midnight. You can't take a bottle of wine to your table, you can only buy it in plastic cups. Fucking stupid rules.

It's not too bad if they're hard pastic, but one place tried to sell me a beer in the flimsy plastic cup like you get at the footy... yeah no thanks mate.
 
mr t said:
Yeah - get rid of glass pint pots - bring in the plastic - let the knifings increase - cos the violent twats who now glass people will resort to other measures.
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That's not really true. Glassing incidents are probably heat of the moment whilst any shithouse that carries a knife will have had time to think (if they have a brian) about why they carry it and what for. Hope the government are looking into bottles as well. Injuries from glass and bottle attacks are life changing and this initiative should not be challenged IMO.
 
manchester blue said:
mr t said:
Yeah - get rid of glass pint pots - bring in the plastic - let the knifings increase - cos the violent twats who now glass people will resort to other measures.
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That's not really true. Glassing incidents are probably heat of the moment whilst any shithouse that carries a knife will have had time to think (if they have a brian) about why they carry it and what for. Hope the government are looking into bottles as well. Injuries from glass and bottle attacks are life changing and this initiative should not be challenged IMO.
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I have an uncle brian who will only sup from an old style dimple pint pot!
 
MCFCinUSA said:
another example of government stupidity... what's next, paper mache chairs?

what about crockery (if the pub's serving food) or heaven forbid, metal cutlery?

for the idiots who glass people no doubt they'll find other alternative weapons as others have mentioned; simply replacing glasses with plastic pint pots isn't going to stop people getting pissed-up and the morons having a go at each other. I mean what about those group thugs that kick people to death after a night down the pub (when someone's offended someone); are we going to ban people drinking in groups and take away their shoes as well?

get real, and stop wasting taxpayer money and acting like we all need a nanny.
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I don't have any figures to back this up, but I'd guess that a lot of glassings are spontaneous reactions because they happen to be holding a very dangerous weapon at the time. If that weapon is taken away from them by being made out of safe glass, they just might resort to using their fists instead, which is good news for everybody.

It's not really something that needs to be implemented in quiet pubs, but the crowded standing-room-only town centre bars could certainly do with this being brought in.
 
MCFCinUSA said:
another example of government stupidity... what's next, paper mache chairs?

what about crockery (if the pub's serving food) or heaven forbid, metal cutlery?

for the idiots who glass people no doubt they'll find other alternative weapons as others have mentioned; simply replacing glasses with plastic pint pots isn't going to stop people getting pissed-up and the morons having a go at each other. I mean what about those group thugs that kick people to death after a night down the pub (when someone's offended someone); are we going to ban people drinking in groups and take away their shoes as well?

get real, and stop wasting taxpayer money and acting like we all need a nanny.
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tmouseman said:
MCFCinUSA said:
another example of government stupidity... what's next, paper mache chairs?

what about crockery (if the pub's serving food) or heaven forbid, metal cutlery?

for the idiots who glass people no doubt they'll find other alternative weapons as others have mentioned; simply replacing glasses with plastic pint pots isn't going to stop people getting pissed-up and the morons having a go at each other. I mean what about those group thugs that kick people to death after a night down the pub (when someone's offended someone); are we going to ban people drinking in groups and take away their shoes as well?

get real, and stop wasting taxpayer money and acting like we all need a nanny.
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Again... look a the true story and not the hype. All they are asking is for ideas of how glasses can be safer not just as a weapon but also for accidents. Pissed people holding unsafe glasses is an obvious hazard. If this can be reduced then it should be. The spokesman I heard on the radio agreed with everything that has been said in that it should not spoil the taste of the beer, shoudl not penalise the normal drinker but if glasses can be made safer then they shoudl. So they have launched an initiative to look at it...full stop.
Why this has then been turned into they are going to ban drinkiing glasses is an example of "lets all complain" just for the hell of it.
 
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