Here in my rainy home of London, stories about “yoofs” and “hooligans” glassing each other with beer pints are pretty rife, which is why I’m hardly surprised the UK government is redesigning the pint glass to cut back on violence.
Supposedly 87,000 glassings occur each year in the UK, which says quite a bit about our culture here. Anyway, the government has weighed in and enlisted the help of the Design Council to create a safer glass, with a few different prototypes made so far. The first is coated in plastic to stop it from cracking, with the second design made from two layers of glass, bonded together with resin.
It kind of begs the question of whether pubs should just sell the amber liquid in plastic glasses, but you know those Brits – they may be hard-fisted purveyors of a good ol’ glassing, but they still want to look classy while doing it. [BBC]
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Wolfhound
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7:25 AMCut…Back… ha ha ha. I see what you did there.
davo1111
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 8:27 AM…or they could just spend the money on buying shatter glass. When smashed, the glass breaks into hundreds of tiny square pieces. Many pubs use it here, they’re just a little more expensive than regular glassware.
Ashley Bartlett
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 10:36 PMI don’t think that solves the problem. It’s still following the laws of physics and hurts when it hits, and there is still debris.
Most places use plastic, and while it’s nicer to drink out of glass, i’m not worried about the impact of it. The other option, drink somewhere nicer.
Hell, support the small bars :D Even better.