I happen to like glasses, just a better experience I think.
I would say it's at the owner's discretion: if there are lots of bar fights in his bar, he can replace said glasses. If there aren't, he's free to continue serving in glasses.

never, drinks at bars are already overpriced without them tasting terrible. Besides, it is the difference between getting hospitalized for glass or bludgeoning wounds.

Furburt:
Perhaps in Scotland. And Ireland. And everywhere where there is Scots and Irish.

And Australians, can't forget us drunks.

Ehh I don't like to drink out of plastic and I don't care about other people all that much so no.

If it's one thing I'm noticing it's that people who have never seen or experienced a glassing is against the hard plastic glasses while people who have been either cut or had a friend who's been a victim, is for them. Do we have to be a victim of something before caring if someone else can get hurt?

This isn't about keeping everything safe like chairs and pool cues, glass is especially dangerous and it's in the hands of drunks who don't know what they're doing. I'm against out right banning them but I don't see why on peak nights we can't just use plastic.

I swear to the almighty gods of the pete that if some fool dared to serve me my scotch in a plastic cup I'd burn the bar down. If people are breaking glasses or whatever and using them as weapons, arrest them and sentence them to the fullest extent of the law if you want, but we don't need to child-safe everything...especially for adults.

nah just nice long hard time for physical assaults, public drunkeness and responsible drinking times to be enforced, seriously drinking till 5 in the morning wtf!? And ok shift workers i'm not talking about closing pubs & clubs at 10:30 although personally I think society as a whole would win. I'm just proposing a card or something to be issued on the premises upon entry and then every drink purchased can be tallied and an allocated time on premises can be enforced. What is it with people thinking it's ok to be totally off your face in public anyway? Reason for oposing glass ban in total, they'll just find something else to use ie: pool ques, balls, cutlery ,furniture and furnishings ,lighting hard liquor etc etc. By the time the government finally finished legislating we'll all be living life like they do in gaol ,except it will be a prison of red tape and useless rules.

TheNumber1Zero:

Furburt:
Perhaps in Scotland. And Ireland. And everywhere where there is Scots and Irish.

I'm both.
Double offended, nice work -oddly unsarcastic clap-

I'm one!

Semi offended by myself!

Yeah, I have to say, there's laws against glassing people, and while it'd be nice to take away the chance, I don't believe it really happens so much that it's an epidemic.

We really need to discover the underlying reason why people have got so violent and find it so easy to attack each other, and deal with that, instead of bringing in new laws to deal with the small issues at the far end of the problem.

No, I need those to see! :o
Oh, right, those glasses.

I'm not saying a ban should be enforced, but maybe a benefit for bar owners that do switch to plastic completely?

Yeah, I lost a mate from that one. Glass shard went straight into his jugular and killed him.

It's sad that we don't trust eachother with glasses now...

Having said that, I work in a bar. And have had a guy fling glasses at me after I had asked him to leave...that was messy.

Yeah. Glasses are the source of all violence. In fact, there was not a single injury in the history of mankind until we invented glasses. We should treat all adults like children. Truly, we should have everyone paralyzed at birth so no one can ever hurt anyone else. Then we should consider having our tongues removed so that we can't hurt each other's feelings. Good idea.

Plastic glasses and such cost a lot more in the long run. Also as they're plastic people often do not care about there condition and they often get broken all the time.
They also lose there finish very quickly and become scuiffed which leads them to be replaced very quickly.

Basically plastic glasses are not cost effective in comparison

More barfights in ireland, so ban them there, but not in england, we lke our glass glasses thank you.

The worst fight I've seen in a bar involved a woman holding another women by the head and smashing her face repeatedly into the corner of a bench. Once we pulled the assailants friends aside and were able to get to the poor girl she more or less looked like blood-bloated chopped steak.

Point being, we can't make everything of rubber, so why take away our little luxuries because people can't handle themselves?

I hope that girl went away for a LONG time.

Yassen:
If it's one thing I'm noticing it's that people who have never seen or experienced a glassing is against the hard plastic glasses while people who have been either cut or had a friend who's been a victim, is for them. Do we have to be a victim of something before caring if someone else can get hurt?

This isn't about keeping everything safe like chairs and pool cues, glass is especially dangerous and it's in the hands of drunks who don't know what they're doing. I'm against out right banning them but I don't see why on peak nights we can't just use plastic.

I don't care HOW drunk you are, you have some idea what you're doing. If you have the ability to think through breaking the thing to use it as a proper weapon, then you can't pleade "the devil alcohol" did it.

This problem is umusing to me. First I hear stories who were cut by glasses when someone has had too much to drink, then I hear that we should use glass insted of plastic because it's better for the environment. So I don't really care what happens, replacing glass with plastic isn't going to do much. They still have fists and plastic will still start a fight if you throw it a someone.

Hmm...I see now why your friend had mixed feelings. I really can't come to a concise decision..

in my grandfathers bar, we still used hölzerne Becher (wooden mugs). i think that would solve the problem completely

Beer tastes horrible when drank from a plastic cup. I would never pay for a beer just to have the taste destroyed by plastic.

I admit that glass shards are very dangerous. But they can make glass which shatters without making shards. Wouldn`t this be better?

Even greater would be if bars took some resonsiblity, refused to give alcohol to already toasted people and arranged taxis home. Just as though.

We should not let a few bad apples ruin a good pint though

It really depends on the pub you go to. Some are really rough with regular fights, but the vast majority never see any fights (at least inside the pub).

So I voted for fridays and weekends (since a lot of pubs and clubs do this anyway).

Artemorus:
in my grandfathers bar, we still used hölzerne Becher (wooden mugs). i think that would solve the problem completely

I'll hit you over the head hard with a lump of wood and you tell me it doesn't hurt :P

Furburt:
Different experiences obviously. I don't really go into pubs in Ireland though, I was just in the place in Scotland for a gig. Why they didn't use plastic cups I'll never know.

Still, when you consider that the worst Scotland has to offer is pub fights and football riots and the worst Ireland has to offer is car bombs and guerilla warfare I'd say you're probably slightly less violent.

Ireland is one of the nicest places I've been. Belfast especially. I was skeptical at first, but after I survived a day without dying and without hearing of anyone dying, I decided that they must make up lies about bombs to keep away English people.

Scotland, well, I'm living in Scotland right now cos I'm here at Uni. Honestly, nothing bad's happened here in pubs or clubs (except last night, my friend threw up on someone, does that count?). My friend's at Glasgow Uni, he hasn't seen anything like that either.

But, hey, the more people who're scared away from Ireland and Scotland, the better the secret of two awesome countries will be.

PurpleLemur:

Ireland is one of the nicest places I've been. Belfast especially. I was skeptical at first, but after I survived a day without dying and without hearing of anyone dying, I decided that they must make up lies about bombs to keep away English people.

How bizarre, every time I go up North either a bomb threat happens or I get caught in a riot.

Last time I was up near Belfast I heard loads of gunfire and shouting, turns out what I was hearing was this.

You cant ban glasses at Pubs!

Most of family would be blind without them...

Look. There are a lot of things in a typical bar that an angry drunk could use to hurt someone, or that a well-gone drunk could hurt themselves with. This won't help.

Most bars already use plastic or paper cups when things get rowdy.