Health & Safety Numptiness

[Bright Spark]

saying cheers won't feel the same with plastic cups

[RichardCranium]

WTS. I recently went to a bar that used old glass 'mugs',

jugs

I have three at home.

[BrilloPad]

Chap at clientco is having extension put in. Had crane to lift steels. A neighbour called h&s!! They advised only to lift 1 steel at a time........

[George Parr]

'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'

'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
...
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly.

1984. George Orwell.

[RichardCranium]

1984. George Orwell.

Same chapter:

......'Can't you bleeding well listen to what I say? I tell you no number ending in seven ain't won for over fourteen months!'
......'Yes, it 'as, then!'
......'No, it 'as not! Back 'ome I got the 'ole lot of 'em for over two years wrote down on a piece of paper. I takes 'em down reg'lar as the clock. An' I tell you, no number ending in seven-'
......'Yes, a seven 'as won! I could pretty near tell you the bleeding number. Four oh seven, it ended in. It were in February -- second week in February.'
......'February your grandmother! I got it all down in black and white. An' I tell you, no number-'
......'Oh, pack it in!' said the third man.
......They were talking about the Lottery. Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres. They were still arguing, with vivid, passionate faces. The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.

1984 was meant as a warning, not a manual.

[minestrone]

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.

I always drink stella and they had a top quality branded one, I only noticed when someone told me. It's just slightly thicker and does not ring when you flick it.