Laminated Pint Glasses

[Glassman]

Pint glasses - laminated, like car windscreens.

[elster]

Great.

Who will be paying for these?

[Glassman]

Dunno, but big project to get to the concept.

[HOGEPH]

Well, if these safe glasses added 1p to the cost of a pint, then the government, (if they were serious about reducing drink related violence), could reduce the tax on a pint by 1p?

Maybe not.......

[Chris_w666]

If it means not having to drink from plastic beakers on a match day I would pay extra.

[dougc]

Failing that, you could come down really hard on the sort of knuckle dragging fks who think smashing glasses on people's faces is an appropriate Friday night pastime?

Just a thought.

[toast boy]

As already said, who would be paying for it? Would the pubs be prepared to get them in if it means putting up the prices per pint and potentially harming sales?

[elanfan]

Bit of a waste of time unless they also start making the beer and alcopops bottles out of the same stuff. I wonder what the ratio is of being glassed is to being bottled?

Edited by elanfan on Thursday 4th February 22:58

[theironduke]

What a sad world we live in where adults cannot be trusted with glasses. How about using the plastic beaker cup things we had as kids, you know the things...nice safe plastic, big handle each side and a lovely spout to prevent spillage...?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Chris_w666 said:

If it means not having to drink from plastic beakers on a match day I would pay extra.

In your dreams. There's the small matter of the weight when one hits you on the head.

Horrid light-weight plastic is here to stay. Unfortunately.

[Pied Piper]

This is nothing new we had shatter glasses in pubs and clubs 15 years ago.

A guy was ejected from the pub, with glass in hand, threatened one of the door staff with it, smashed it on the kerb and was left with tiny little pieces of glass in his hand and over the floor, it was at this point he turned very white as the door staff rubbed their hands and asked "if it was now their turn."

Even the Coca Cola glasses we use now will shatter into a million pieces if dropped.

[elster]

Pied Piper said:

This is nothing new we had shatter glasses in pubs and clubs 15 years ago.

A guy was ejected from the pub, with glass in hand, threatened one of the door staff with it, smashed it on the kerb and was left with tiny little pieces of glass in his hand and over the floor, it was at this point he turned very white as the door staff rubbed their hands and asked "if it was now their turn."

Even the Coca Cola glasses we use now will shatter into a million pieces if dropped.

So a bit like not these glasses then.

[Poledriver]

They sound better than the 'ghey' Stella glasses. When helping my friend out at her pub I've had 3 of them spontaneously explode into many sharp pieces! They cover quite a range when they go off too!

[phumy]

So now when some sends this non breakable pint mug crashing down on your head with a huge force, it will not smash but actually cave your head in.........

[deviant]

Well it will smash but it will just be like a car windscreen in that it wont fall to pieces.

[JulianHJ]

I would expect if these become commercially viable and available then the premises deemed to be problematic, or in an area with pubic place violence issues will have to use them as part of their licencing terms.

[Glassman]

JulianHJ said:

I would expect if these become commercially viable and available then the premises deemed to be problematic, or in an area with pubic place violence issues will have to use them as part of their licencing terms.

[Jasandjules]

dougc said:

Failing that, you could come down really hard on the sort of knuckle dragging fks who think smashing glasses on people's faces is an appropriate Friday night pastime?

Just a thought.

It was my first thought as well.

Then I thought, why not do both? Someone hits you with a glass? They get 40 lashes a week for a month in the town square. You get a lot less damage thanks to the laminated glass......

[craste]

I think that anybody who smashes a glass into somebody's face should be done for attempted murder.

Locked up or preferably given a nice injection - good night, scum.

i just think it's really fked up that as a society we accept it as just 'assault'

Assault is when somebody punches you - not when they try and cut your face off.

[Dominic H]

craste said:

I think that anybody who smashes a glass into somebody's face should be done for attempted murder.

Locked up or preferably given a nice injection - good night, scum.

i just think it's really fked up that as a society we accept it as just 'assault'

Assault is when somebody punches you - not when they try and cut your face off.

I totally agree. It's the same with Knives, the little bds get charged with 'wounding' or grevious/actual bodily harm. No it's not, you stick a knife in someone you should be charged with attempted murder. As you say it's a world away from a punch-up.....

(Apologies to any of the legal profession for any inaccuracies in the above...)