"British pub fights get safer with new design glasses"

[mariomike]

"LONDON (AFP) - Drunken pub fights in Britain are set to get safer with the invention of a strengthened beer glass that health authorities hope will cut the huge bill for treating inebriated brawlers.":
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100204/koddities/eu_britain_pint_glass

Sounds like a great new invention! Hopefully, bars over here will buy these glasses. Or better yet, styrofoam. hahaha

 

[Michael OLeary]

British interior minister Alan Johnson praised the new models and said the properties of the current pint glass are to blame for much of the country's alcohol-related violence.

Apparently people don't hurt people in Britain, beer glasses do.    :

And how much money was spent to reinvent the plastic cup?  But why use a lightweight plastic cup that doesn't have the mass to cause damage, when you can invent one that does.

 

[mariomike]

I guess in the U.K. they don't have access to beer bottles? The bartenders must pour their beer into glasses for them?
Broken beer bottles are more popular as weapons over here than glasses. Especially since they switched from stubbies to the long neck handles. It was pretty hard to do much damage with the old stubbies, but the new long neck handles are a different story! It's like they were almost invented for bar fights.

Of course, you can't do that with a beer can. ( Unless you throw it! )

"The Hidden Cost of Alcohol: A Study of Bottle-Based Weapon Violence
Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 494-495"

 

[uptheglens]

I thought one of the reasons for introducing the pint glass was to replace this

style of glass that you could break on a table and have a ready-made knuckleduster.

Anyhow, here's another article about this story:

http://newsarse.com/2010/02/05/violent-beer-drinkers-to-revert-to-hitting-you-repeatedly-with-fists/

 

[mariomike]

All in the name of progress. Like when they invented safety glass for car windshields.

 

[Michael OLeary]

I thought one of the reasons for introducing the pint glass was to replace this
style of glass that you could break on a table and have a ready-made knuckleduster.

It won't stop the behaviour of using glasses as a weapon.  Try doing that effectively with a Solo cup. 

 

[Scott]

Every pub I was in during my two trips last year (and I was in A LOT of pubs) had a paltry selection of bottled beer (Budweiser, Heineken and a few other international brands) with the rest being draught. In some places you'd be lucky to find a cold bottle of beer...

Pint glasses also vary by brand or sometimes by individual pub, much like here. For example: Tennent's Lager has a glass of its own, as does Guinness...but if you were to drink in the Prince of Wales Bar in Aberdeen you'd get your fizzy in a cask ale glass (similar to the Guinness version)

I think it also worthy of mention that during my four and a half months across last year, split between two trips, I never saw one incident of violence in the pubs. I went on football nights, during warm up and wind down from rugby tests and all other manner of evenings out.

Of note: my time was all in Scotland with a wee trip to Ireland - perhaps it's more rough down south

 

[mariomike]

style of glass that you could break on a table and have a ready-made knuckleduster.

For the two-fisted drinkers, your own "Tequila Slammer".

 

[Scott]

IIRC, there is a rather large PSA campaign ongoing in the UK that takes aim at booze fueled violence.

 

[mariomike]

IIRC, there is a rather large PSA campaign ongoing in the UK that takes aim at booze fueled violence.

I'm not an expert, but I believe that alcohol is strongly connected to Domestic Violence. That is not to suggest that everyone who enjoys a drink is going to do it. But, when it does happen, in my experience at least, the guy is often HBD - Has Been Drinking.

 

[PMedMoe]

I'm not an expert, but I believe that alcohol is strongly connected to Domestic Violence. That is not to suggest that everyone who enjoys a drink is going to do it. But, when it does happen, in my experience at least, the guy is often HBD - Has Been Drinking.

Or drugs:  Cocaine fuelled naked brawl

Personally, I think either one just loosens one's inhibitions or enhances one's mood (be it bad or good).  There still has to be a "violent" streak in the person to begin with.

 

[mariomike]

I wonder if you really know a person until you marry them?  Sometimes you think a couple is like Ozzie and Harriet, then are surprised to learn they are more like Jekyll and Hyde! 

 

[Journeyman]

Or drugs:  Cocaine fuelled naked brawl

That link should be in the humour section; the complete story is hilarious.

I wonder if you really know a person until you marry them....start doing coke and alcohol, swapping naked pictures with other couples, wife-swapping, knife fights in the kitchen and jacuzzi.....and then....only then, once you're wrestling naked on the neighbour's lawn, do you begin to realize just who the other person has become.  ;D 

 

[PMedMoe]

That link should be in the humour section; the complete story is hilarious.

I wonder if you really know a person until you marry them....start doing coke and alcohol, swapping naked pictures with other couples, wife-swapping, knife fights in the kitchen and jacuzzi.....and then....only then, once you're wrestling naked on the neighbour's lawn, do you begin to realize just who the other person has become.  ;D

I agree, it should be in the humour section.  I particularly like the last line:

The husband realizes the relationship is now finished, said Stoesser.

Really?  What was your first clue?  :rofl: