Like most Americans, I’m fascinated with the drinking culture of Great Britain. Not only do the British drink a whole lot, but more importantly, our friends in the UK seem to really enjoy drinking as much as anybody possibly can. In fact, the British Home Office paid for research into a safer pint glass that will make drinking even more enjoyable.
Imagine this, you are someplace in London drinking one of the 126 Million pints of beer severed in throughout the UK every week. Somehow you break your glass. This could have led to tragedy as official figures record 5,500 attacks a year with beer pint glasses (Nerdy Statistical note: this leads to a 0.00008394% chance that the guy next to you is going to attack you with his pint of Boddingtons). Does that seem like a lot to you? Now, however, the governments new hybrid safety glass (coming to a pub near you) can be broken, but held together like a car windscreen with a layer of plastic. That’s right – safety glass for beer pints.
Cheers to the Brits! Bottoms Up!
Article by Toby BenDor
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Nanny state strikes again. Besides, 93 percent of the pint glass attacks occur when Man U plays Arsenal, so the statistcs are skewed. Who wants to drink beer out of a windshield?
Nanny state indeed! These should be standard issue. Thing is – seems like this would encourage people to TRY to break the pint glasses. Sort of like seat belts encouraged people to drive faster.