Health & Safety Numptiness

[TimberWolf]

I once tripped over a little orange 'traffic cone' that was marked 'CLOSE THIS DOOR' that was propping open a door.

I have never worked that one out.

One health and safety issue I found potentially injurious to health were some slippery dimples laid by a pedestrian crossing. Having subconsciously established the prevailing co-efficient of friction between feet and pavement, and to be honest being a little distracted by something else, I went to dash speedily across the pedestrian crossing before the oncoming traffic would arrive, not taking into account some hitherto unencountered large (golf ball sized, but half hemisphere) bumps some weirdo decided to put in such a strategic leaping point. Instead of accelerating rapidly as had been the original intention, I instead did the giant splits. Ouch. I went back the following week to see how slippery they really were. When wet they are like Teflon on greased ice and should be sold as some kind of advanced lubrication technology.

[TinTrump]

Bring back the pewter tankard.

Bar room brawls would have comedy 'clonks' and 'clanks' like a 50’s pirate movie.

+1. Good idea. My local back home has them for a few regulars (I've got 20 years service in and not yet qualified).

As any beer drinker will testify (I hope), drinking ale from plastic is bloody rubbish.

As Jack Carter said, I'll have mine "In a thin glass".

[TimberWolf]

+1. Good idea. My local back home has them for a few regulars (I've got 20 years service in and not yet qualified).

As any beer drinker will testify (I hope), drinking ale from plastic is bloody rubbish.

As Jack Carter said, I'll have mine "In a thin glass".

Same with coke, much better out of the glass bottles.

Mind you, I conducted some independent double blind control experiments that confuted that.

[A Former Headhunter]

I agree and to support my agreement, I give you an irrelavant, unrelated experience.

However, based upon this irrelevant, unrelated experience, I now realise I disagree.

[George Parr]

As any beer drinker will testify (I hope), drinking ale from plastic is bloody rubbish.

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WHS

This is just what the pubs need. Not.

[minestrone]

They tried to do this to Glasgow a few years back but everyone kicked up such a stink they dropped it. They were using the plastic tumblers in a few places and it is pretty hard to tell the difference between them and glass, they are quite well made.

[bogeyman]

WHS

This is just what the pubs need. Not.

I think the 'powers that be' are fairly determined to close as many decent pubs as they can.

All that will be left are the shytehole mega binge-drinking barns like Wetherspoons and Yates with their bangin' tunes, plastic 'drinking vessels' and brain-dead bar staff.

What would Inspector Morse say

[bogeyman]

it is pretty hard to tell the difference between them and glass, they are quite well made.

[d000hg]

They were using the plastic tumblers in a few places and it is pretty hard to tell the difference between them and glass, they are quite well made.

Surprisingly, this is true... but only in some cases. Most plastic glasses are just like drinking from a child's cup, but some are so good you have to give it a 2nd thought to be totally sure.

[d000hg]

I still miss the old-style knobbly ones with a handle. They were much harder to smash.

Bring back the pewter tankard.

Bar room brawls would have comedy 'clonks' and 'clanks' like a 50’s pirate movie.

WTS. I recently went to a bar that used old glass 'mugs', it was wonderful as I haven't seen one since I was a kid. In fact it might have been the first time I've ever drunk from one, even though I grew up seeing people use them all the time.