Reply to: Health & Safety Numptiness

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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........

[RichardCranium]

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

jugs

I have three at home.

[Bright Spark]

saying cheers won't feel the same with plastic cups

[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.

[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.

[bogeyman]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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".