Plastic Beer Glasses

[pErvinalia]

Do plastic beer glasses indicate trust is breaking down in a society? Seems they are more and more evident. Surely in a civil society there is no need to fear a traditional glass for beer? What next? Plastic spoons, knives and forks along with a paper plate? This and other over the top 'health and safety' features of modern society cant be healthy? Surely one six inch scar to the face once every other year for some unlucky dude is a price well worth paying for genuine trust between thousands of drinkers at a bar?

I'm thinking this is a good yardstick for the health of a society.

...and if you ban glasses, only the criminals will have glasses. How will decent law-abiding folk defend themselves with plastic.

Good point. I think the only sane answer to this is.... GUNS!!

[laklak]

This solves both problems. Just fill with beer...

[Blind groper]

Polycarbonate is much lighter in weight than glass. This means you can make a much bigger stein which holds a lot more beer before inflicting stress on your arm muscles.

[JimC]

There are absolutely crap throw-away plastic glasses, which are horrible to drink from, then there are a good range of more expensive, washable polycarbonate glasses (that BG mentioned) which come in a variety of forms, including wine glasses. I doubt they'd be much use as weapons when broken, but they're quite pleasant to drink from. In Oz, bars around pool-sides are not allowed to serve drinks in glass, because of the bare foot/broken glass hazard, but the up-market resort places do quite a good job with classy polycarbonate ones.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Pint glasses made of 'safety glass' have been around for years - if you try to break them for use as a weapon they shatter into thousands of tiny pieces rendering them useless.

[Tyrannical]

Polycarbonate is much lighter in weight than glass. This means you can make a much bigger stein which holds a lot more beer before inflicting stress on your arm muscles.

But, that's the only exercise some of us get

[Cormac]

What was wrong with the old pewter mug!

[Audley Strange]

Because of Autotune. The fidelity of speakers was causing havoc with the resonance frequency of pint glasses which exploding spontaneously lead to "you spilt my pint" escalations far too often.

[Trinity]

Because of Autotune. The fidelity of speakers was causing havoc with the resonance frequency of pint glasses which exploding spontaneously lead to "you spilt my pint" escalations far too often.

[Svartalf]

What was wrong with the old pewter mug!

Nothing beside it being hard to find and expensive as hell

[JimC]

What was wrong with the old pewter mug!

Nothing beside it being hard to find and expensive as hell

Plus a certain amount of dissolved lead...

[Svartalf]

Modern pewter ought to be lead free. There's charm in eating and drinking from antiques, but using antique pewter plate and drinking vessel is indeed a bit foolish.

[Cormac]

What was wrong with the old pewter mug!

Nothing beside it being hard to find and expensive as hell

Plus a certain amount of dissolved lead...

Pah. It just added to the flavour.

[Cormac]

Modern pewter ought to be lead free. There's charm in eating and drinking from antiques, but using antique pewter plate and drinking vessel is indeed a bit foolish.

Bah. It isn't the same without the lead.

[Svartalf]

If you want lead, just ask Seth and Collector for some.