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It sounds to me a very good idea. As long, that is, as its R&D and production costs don't spiral into gazillions and then come home to roost as a tax on drink.
Of course, it is also devoutly to be wished that the whole thing should be funded by decent hard-working clean-living people who live blameless lives in prosperous zones where pint glasses are not standard weaponry, and the screws are not put on those of us who lurk in hinterlands where human interaction, especially after 36 lagers, can be random and disconcerting.
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When I was a boy - maybe 50 years ago - my uncle Don, at every Christmas gathering, would jokingly pull out these drinking glasses he acquired that someone had invented for institutions (yes, that kind of institution), and bounce one off the fireplace chimney as a joke.
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They still need to put magnetic bottoms in the glasses, and have steel table-tops, so the careless elbow doesn't spill the drink.
I don't think I've ever been in a session where the musicians are in danger. Other parts of the bar, maybe, but they tend to leave us alone, regarding us as non-combatents.
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Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that the glasses pictured are women's glasses.
Proper men's glasses have a handle.
In the good old days at our session - mebbe about 15 years back - a man came into the bar and asked old Mrs B for 2 glasses of lager. She (of course) despised lager drinkers anyway, but when he saw her get a couple of pint pots down, and he said "Can I have straight glasses please" she didn't turn or alter her movement in any way, but said loud and clear "Only if you're a poof". She then served the lager in pots with handles.
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No, guys. I think its sort of a regional "country boy gone to town" thing. In a pub where they offer the choice I have sometimes been amused when someone feeling out of place gets their second pint in a different glass. Real men stick to their decision.
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david_h>>
If you're just embarrassed about the fact that you like drinking out of a girl's glass - go right ahead and admit it, then we can all have a good laugh at your expense.
The whole point of being in a mob is to be able to pick on the weak and disadvantaged, laugh at the uneducated, and generally mock the afflicted, so don't deny us our right.
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The same lager despising landlady mentioned earlier was once asked by a customer who "wasn't from round here" for two halves of lager and a tomato juice.
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MixO'
What the **** is all that froth for? Real man's beer has only enough foam at the top to leaf a ring to denot each swig.
As for women drinking out of pint pots - I've no problem with that.
Anyone remember the fight scene in "The Big Bus" - where the guy picks up a cardboard carton of milk and smashes the top on the edge of the table . . . . .
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Its you guys who are in the minority, my mob is are silently laughing at you, I've just broken ranks to help you out with an explanation.
No ? OK, then change tack. I'm wondering if Mix is one of those people who like the up and down up and down under the tap performance to get a 'good head'. (will that get me in a two to one majority ?)
My browser isn't showing the code behind the smilies and I've forgotten what they are.
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Time was in the UK (maybe up to about 25 years ago) when all pubs served beer in mugs with handles. But after that, those straight sided glasses insiduously began to take over.
Was it because customers complained about the mugs with handles, and demanded straight sided glasses?
It was not.
I'm told that the reason those glasses were brought in was because the (then) new glass-washing machines couldn't cope with glasses with handles. So nothing do do with customer preference - it's just about saving labour and thus making more profit.
I'm not so keen on German hyper-efficiency, (or their lager), but at least they preserved their tradition of drinking beer out of mugs with handles!
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The only thing I might really get worked up about regarding what beer is served in, and we need to keep an eye our lager drinking neighbours over this, is the volume of the container. (right you are)
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Jayzus, 47 posts about mugs with handles. Did I wander into the Bavarian Folk Forum by mistake this morning? What a buncha wackjobs. Put the lederhosen down and step away from the Fraulein, nice and slow there pally, good lad.
...and now, from the article...
"There are about 87,000 alcohol-related glass attacks each year..."
"Oh, those nasty Yanks, they're so violent, glad we're so superior. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the pub to go get in a nice alcohol-related glass fight. Cheers!"
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This is great, a good bludgeon is much more effective. Now the stupid mug won't shatter into pieces on the first hit. Set me up 2 pints please. One fer each hand. Outta my way ya buncha troublemakers.
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Now about me last post.....Quick disclaimer, Not serious!!!, Not Serious!!! Ok, all joking aside, beer mugs don't hurt people, people hurt people. Reminds me of t-shirt I use to have.....Instant arse, just add alcohol.
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Well said Boatpiper.
Having led a rather eclectic musical life over the past 30 years, I can speak from 1st hand experience as to which drinking vessels inflict the most damage. Punk/Metal clubs favor lobbed long-neck bottles tossed end over end. In most cases they are easily dodged since your average poodle-headed rocker kid is rather uncoordinated. I once had a bong thrown at me in a Reggae/ska club, and I've seen hundreds of pint glasses shattered in Irish pubs. But nothing hurts quite as much as a well thrown shot glass by an angry, drunk cowboy when you forget the lyrics to a favorite George Straight song.
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Having been conditioned in the same pub as Showadaddy* I now take a positive delight in asking a spotty young barperson if I can have my pint in a pot. Some places don't even have them. As they don't make them any more I buy them in charity shops every time I see them.
Of course in my local they know I have a pot and I don't have to ask any more. They've recently got a rather good imported German lager on but serve in vases. Doesn't seem to phase the young 'uns though.
* Everyone who has been to this pub has a story. The first time I went in was around 1983 and I was a spotty young art student, a heavy rock fan complete with leather jacket, denim cutoff and long hair. As I was actually picking up my Dad at the time, I though I'd only better have a half. Upon self-consciously asking for my beer in a bar full of big men in overalls smelling of cow c r a p Mrs. B leant over the bar to me and said in a very loud voice "Are you a lad or a lass?". It's not the same these days. It's changed hands and they've taken the smell away from the gents as well as having ice and crisps and curry nights and - horror - even a golf statuette on the windowsill.
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This landlady was about 80, and as is the way with elderly ladies she sported a fair amount of facial hair.
A certain piper who appears on this board once arrived at said pub and was challenged by dear old Mrs B. that he hadn't shaved - to which he replied "neither have you".
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SHAVE!!!!...Gasp!.....Heavans no!!!!
Me little bird would lose a place to nest!
Would have no blanket for to warm
Me weary weathered chest
No silver strands to pull upon
Whilst deep in thought and rest
Me matted treasure flows from face
an oracle of time
Take razor and jus buggar off
Me facial hair be mine...................and me little birdies
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Are we not missing a a point (in Dublin, a drink?)...like being able to take a drink without the need to exercise some form of brain surgery?
Maybe that's the difference from the older style sessions, let alone pubs, where one "learned to drink", and one generally was known within that community.
Sessions tended to be in those sorts of pubs, maybe not so much now perhaps back in England?
Important technological breakthrough for sessions!
Important technological breakthrough for sessions!
No more worries regarding errant bodhran player's elbows, random bow strokes from fiddlers, or swinging necks from banjo and guitar players -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35241176/ns/world_news-europe/
Perhaps sippy-cups for our pints of Guinnes is the next step?
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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sensational
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by scordion
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It sounds to me a very good idea. As long, that is, as its R&D and production costs don't spiral into gazillions and then come home to roost as a tax on drink.
Of course, it is also devoutly to be wished that the whole thing should be funded by decent hard-working clean-living people who live blameless lives in prosperous zones where pint glasses are not standard weaponry, and the screws are not put on those of us who lurk in hinterlands where human interaction, especially after 36 lagers, can be random and disconcerting.
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by nicholas
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"bonds two thin layers of gas together"
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by kkrell
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They must be the ones I use.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by gam
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Just ban glass and drink from plastic cups
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by D.J.F.
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Now, if only someone could develop an unbreakable heart....
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by AlBrown
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When I was a boy - maybe 50 years ago - my uncle Don, at every Christmas gathering, would jokingly pull out these drinking glasses he acquired that someone had invented for institutions (yes, that kind of institution), and bounce one off the fireplace chimney as a joke.
As I recall the dishwasher was their downfall.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by BarryM
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Might put a damper on Jewish weddings.
“Mazel Tov!”
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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They still need to put magnetic bottoms in the glasses, and have steel table-tops, so the careless elbow doesn't spill the drink.
I don't think I've ever been in a session where the musicians are in danger. Other parts of the bar, maybe, but they tend to leave us alone, regarding us as non-combatents.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that the glasses pictured are women's glasses.
Proper men's glasses have a handle.
In the good old days at our session - mebbe about 15 years back - a man came into the bar and asked old Mrs B for 2 glasses of lager. She (of course) despised lager drinkers anyway, but when he saw her get a couple of pint pots down, and he said "Can I have straight glasses please" she didn't turn or alter her movement in any way, but said loud and clear "Only if you're a poof". She then served the lager in pots with handles.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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You're absolutely right, showaddy!
Show me a pub that serves real ale only from wooden casks, and only in proper glasses with handles, and I start up a session there!
... sadly, I don't think any such pub exists any more ....
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
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"Proper men's glasses have a handle"
Depends where you live.
http://www.beer-pages.com/images/simon_theakston.jpg
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by David50
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Nah - but this lot have got the right idea!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/ProtoCloggies11.gif
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
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david-h>>
No it doesn't depend where you live - that's just a picture of a barman serving a pint of theakstons to a woman.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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LOL! Well spake again. showadd!
Women accepted, only mugs dring beer from mugs with no handles ...
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
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Hmmn - like to see a singer shatter one of those using their voice.
Safety-wise, not much of a breakthrough, really - we are about a month away from green beer in paper cups over hear.
We have not had an injury yet from a paper pint glass, to my knowledge, save collisions causing spillage.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Piece
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No, guys. I think its sort of a regional "country boy gone to town" thing. In a pub where they offer the choice I have sometimes been amused when someone feeling out of place gets their second pint in a different glass. Real men stick to their decision.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by David50
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david_h>>
If you're just embarrassed about the fact that you like drinking out of a girl's glass - go right ahead and admit it, then we can all have a good laugh at your expense.
The whole point of being in a mob is to be able to pick on the weak and disadvantaged, laugh at the uneducated, and generally mock the afflicted, so don't deny us our right.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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Well David - here's my decision (and I'm sticking to it!)
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_114/116940695822gYp1.jpg
And who says that women don't use beer mugs with handles?
http://cdn.view.co.uk/upload/hospitality/londonbierfest_300.jpg
The lovely Munich frauleinen featured in this pic seem quite happy !
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
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The same lager despising landlady mentioned earlier was once asked by a customer who "wasn't from round here" for two halves of lager and a tomato juice.
Her response was "It's not a cocktail bar".
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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MixO'
What the **** is all that froth for? Real man's beer has only enough foam at the top to leaf a ring to denot each swig.
As for women drinking out of pint pots - I've no problem with that.
Anyone remember the fight scene in "The Big Bus" - where the guy picks up a cardboard carton of milk and smashes the top on the edge of the table . . . . .
it's probably time for my pills soon.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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denote
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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and "leave". That's a bit of a weird one.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Bernie 29
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Its you guys who are in the minority, my mob is are silently laughing at you, I've just broken ranks to help you out with an explanation.
No ? OK, then change tack. I'm wondering if Mix is one of those people who like the up and down up and down under the tap performance to get a 'good head'. (will that get me in a two to one majority ?)
My browser isn't showing the code behind the smilies and I've forgotten what they are.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by David50
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They're all the same code, david. It varies according to what you're thinking. Here is the full range:
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by ethical blend
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Ecclesiastes 7 verse 6
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by showaddydadito
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Time was in the UK (maybe up to about 25 years ago) when all pubs served beer in mugs with handles. But after that, those straight sided glasses insiduously began to take over.
Was it because customers complained about the mugs with handles, and demanded straight sided glasses?
It was not.
I'm told that the reason those glasses were brought in was because the (then) new glass-washing machines couldn't cope with glasses with handles. So nothing do do with customer preference - it's just about saving labour and thus making more profit.
I'm not so keen on German hyper-efficiency, (or their lager), but at least they preserved their tradition of drinking beer out of mugs with handles!
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
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The only thing I might really get worked up about regarding what beer is served in, and we need to keep an eye our lager drinking neighbours over this, is the volume of the container.
(right you are)
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by David50
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Jayzus, 47 posts about mugs with handles. Did I wander into the Bavarian Folk Forum by mistake this morning? What a buncha wackjobs. Put the lederhosen down and step away from the Fraulein, nice and slow there pally, good lad.
...and now, from the article...
"There are about 87,000 alcohol-related glass attacks each year..."
"Oh, those nasty Yanks, they're so violent, glad we're so superior. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the pub to go get in a nice alcohol-related glass fight. Cheers!"
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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"There are about 87,000 alcohol-related glass attacks each year, with many resulting in hospital visits,"
Dammit, SWFL, you beat me to it. We're nut jobs juuuuuust because we have two campus shootings every year.
Still, though. Great idea.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by HK
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This is great, a good bludgeon is much more effective. Now the stupid mug won't shatter into pieces on the first hit. Set me up 2 pints please. One fer each hand. Outta my way ya buncha troublemakers.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Gone to work
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Now about me last post.....Quick disclaimer, Not serious!!!, Not Serious!!! Ok, all joking aside, beer mugs don't hurt people, people hurt people. Reminds me of t-shirt I use to have.....Instant arse, just add alcohol.
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Gone to work
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Well said Boatpiper.
Having led a rather eclectic musical life over the past 30 years, I can speak from 1st hand experience as to which drinking vessels inflict the most damage. Punk/Metal clubs favor lobbed long-neck bottles tossed end over end. In most cases they are easily dodged since your average poodle-headed rocker kid is rather uncoordinated. I once had a bong thrown at me in a Reggae/ska club, and I've seen hundreds of pint glasses shattered in Irish pubs. But nothing hurts quite as much as a well thrown shot glass by an angry, drunk cowboy when you forget the lyrics to a favorite George Straight song.
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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Bad news for the bodhran.
You have all met those people who play a rhythm on a glass in the bar, usually with a coin?
Non breakable glasses? They will be beating them with large spoons now.
Ah well, could be the end of the traditional session, as only "traditional" sessions have bodhrans.
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by bodhran bliss
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I just want to say that I have no dignity and I would happily drink beer out of a sippy cup.
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
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As long as it's good quality beer, right Silver Spear?
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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Having been conditioned in the same pub as Showadaddy* I now take a positive delight in asking a spotty young barperson if I can have my pint in a pot. Some places don't even have them. As they don't make them any more I buy them in charity shops every time I see them.
Of course in my local they know I have a pot and I don't have to ask any more. They've recently got a rather good imported German lager on but serve in vases. Doesn't seem to phase the young 'uns though.
* Everyone who has been to this pub has a story. The first time I went in was around 1983 and I was a spotty young art student, a heavy rock fan complete with leather jacket, denim cutoff and long hair. As I was actually picking up my Dad at the time, I though I'd only better have a half. Upon self-consciously asking for my beer in a bar full of big men in overalls smelling of cow c r a p Mrs. B leant over the bar to me and said in a very loud voice "Are you a lad or a lass?". It's not the same these days. It's changed hands and they've taken the smell away from the gents as well as having ice and crisps and curry nights and - horror - even a golf statuette on the windowsill.
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by Sugarfoot Jack
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This landlady was about 80, and as is the way with elderly ladies she sported a fair amount of facial hair.
A certain piper who appears on this board once arrived at said pub and was challenged by dear old Mrs B. that he hadn't shaved - to which he replied "neither have you".
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by showaddydadito
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I guess it wasn't me then. LOL.
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
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SHAVE!!!!...Gasp!.....Heavans no!!!!
Me little bird would lose a place to nest!
Would have no blanket for to warm
Me weary weathered chest
No silver strands to pull upon
Whilst deep in thought and rest
Me matted treasure flows from face
an oracle of time
Take razor and jus buggar off
Me facial hair be mine...................and me little birdies
# Posted on February 10th 2010 by Gone to work
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Ah...correction to final phrase....silly me......
Take razor you and buggar off
Says little bird and I
Proper artistc content now.
"Boatpiper 2010"
# Posted on February 10th 2010 by Gone to work
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Er, please tell me if I'm just being dense, but wasn't Pyrex invented years and years ago?
# Posted on February 10th 2010 by Joe CSS
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Joe - you're being dense.
These aren't made of pyrex.
Pyrex ones would be for serving hot beer.
# Posted on February 10th 2010 by showaddydadito
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Ah, hot beer, yes. That's what I was thinking of, of course.
But isn't Pyrex also pretty shatter-resistant?
# Posted on February 11th 2010 by Joe CSS
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No my roommates always break my pyrex stuff.
# Posted on February 13th 2010 by Earl Cameron
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Are we not missing a a point (in Dublin, a drink?)...like being able to take a drink without the need to exercise some form of brain surgery?
Maybe that's the difference from the older style sessions, let alone pubs, where one "learned to drink", and one generally was known within that community.
Sessions tended to be in those sorts of pubs, maybe not so much now perhaps back in England?
Brian xx
# Posted on February 14th 2010 by briantheflute