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You're banned from driving a car whilst under the influence of alcohol. We should do the same with glasses.
Glass pint glasses to be replaced with plastic
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You're banned from driving a car whilst under the influence of alcohol. We should do the same with glasses.
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I can't see how this would occur.
A lot of people don't. This is just punishing those who are responsible by using a "oh well they won't mind anyway" type rationale.
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Ergh I hate drinking from a plastic pint, it always tastes warm and flat.
While I'd support them being used in dodgy areas and clubs etc, I'd hate to see them being used in small traditional pubs.
This just seems like an arse about face way of solving the problem, the issue isn't the glass it's the muppets who get completely bladdered every weekend. Educate people that you don't have to drink like a fish every night and that having a pint or two is much more socially acceptable.
While I'd support them being used in dodgy areas and clubs etc, I'd hate to see them being used in small traditional pubs.
This just seems like an arse about face way of solving the problem, the issue isn't the glass it's the muppets who get completely bladdered every weekend. Educate people that you don't have to drink like a fish every night and that having a pint or two is much more socially acceptable.
^^^ this tbh...
they just need to implement it in problem areas - pubs on rough estates, known trouble spots, football pubs on matchdays etc...
on the opposite end of the spectrum ye olde english pub in some quiet village full of old men/real ale fans certainly doesn't require this and its prob of little benefit for a large portion of normal every day bars/pubs too.
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Hilarious you are should be a comedian, i dont need to describe the whole situation of what happened coz it haz no revelance to the topic so shut it!
How many pints are drunk each year? How many people are glassed each year?
I would be amazed if it is even close to 0.1% correlation.
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I think it has perfect relevance due to being the main reason for the suggested ban.
OK aside from the fact that what you did is pretty special, how can you be unaware you're holding a 1/2 pint glass in your hand????
The whole reason they're even considering this is directly because people do really dumb stuff like that.
lol it's called alcohol my friend.
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You'd rather be punched than glassed?
As for plastic glasses it might help but realistically if people want to cause injury to someone then they're likely to do it regardless. However if the aim is to minimise the chance of injury then why not go straight for the collapsible plastic cups that you get for camping?
Plastic glasses feel a bit odd in the hand when drinking as the weight is wrong but I guess I could get used to it again. I'm not sure of how much benefit this initiative will be but it isn't quite as daft as it appears at first glance - plastic glasses may also last longer than the 3 month average that conventional glasses have in pubs but they do tend to get a bit scratched/milky white after too much use.
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So which industry does this screw over then?
I don't want more plastic being produced. Why the **** can't some people just keep some things the same?
It's ****ing glass. Glass.
It's not going to kill old grandmothers and burn Churches.
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What else would potentially be used as a weapon then?
Anything is a potential weapon.
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Not everything is available to drunken louts.
Barstools and general furniture to be outlawed too then?
But it is not right there in front of them (or in their hand) to smash someone over the head with.
Of course people can go and find anything to use as a weapon to assault someone with but most of the incidents involving glasses would now be non existent. People aren't going to stumble around looking for the closest item that could be used as a weapon.
Most of the violent incidents are spur of the moment.
And sure barstools and furniture may be used in assaults but I'd bet on it being a LOT less frequent than glassings. Obviously if bar stools do become a problem they will just require pubs to screw them to the floor.
More pointless and stupid ideas that fail to get to the root cause of the problem from our government...
Are we surprised? I'm not, they are incapable of actually suggesting that people are at fault, that parents are at fault, and that society needs a serious rethink in the UK as large parts of it no longer have any personal responisbility. The problem really is that the people they need to target are generally traditional labour voters...
Are we surprised? I'm not, they are incapable of actually suggesting that people are at fault, that parents are at fault, and that society needs a serious rethink in the UK as large parts of it no longer have any personal responisbility. The problem really is that the people they need to target are generally traditional labour voters...
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All of which is more difficult to use as a weapon, especially a weapon as effective as glass.