"I'll cut you, man!"

[trashcanman]

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So yeah, because of the nearly NINETY FUCKING THOUSAND bar attacks in UK using broken glasses as weapons, the government has
decided it would be way cheaper to give all of the pubs shatterproof pint glasses then to pay billions of pounds a year to stitch these crazy bastards up. So I ask you, my British friend(s), what the hell is up with that? We joke about that stuff over here, but few people aside from biker gang members are actually going to smash a fucking glass or bottle and cut somebody with it. Maybe it's because a good portion of us are packing heat, but how fucking bent do you have to be to cut a motherfucker up with glass? Whatever happened to a good punch in the face or a cair across the back? Is this British tradition or is everybody over there just that pissed off at each other?

[The Curmudgeon]

Ha, welcome to the UK, man. The threat of being "glassed" in pubs is very, very real. Any club or gig I go to has every drink in a plastic glass, or sometimes bottles of beer (Bud etc) come in weird, plastic bottles that LOOK like glass. Being bottled or glassed has never happened to me, touch wood, but it happens ALL the time around the UK.

If you ask me, spending money on fake glass is missing the point. There should be stricter, longer sentences for the idiots that want to stick the pint glass in your face in the first place. Scarring someone for life and getting a 4 month community service order isn't going to scare anyone.

No sight-seeing trip to Britain booked then, Trashy?

[trashcanman]

I don't drink so I should be safe, but with my mouth I'll be sure to stay on the other side of the street of any pubs I see if I ever go there. Goddamn. Tat is one fucked up cultural quirk.

[The Curmudgeon]

If you've ever seen Trainspotting (and you should, if you can understand the dialect), this gives you an idea of your worst fucking nightmare to bump into in a pub..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=utN9s_zGCms&feature=related

[trashcanman]

Best. Beer commercial. Ever.

[The Curmudgeon]

So is there a reason hehind the "no drink" rule, Trashy? Was it after a bad experience or is it a "Straight Edge" deal or what?

[trashcanman]

You could call it Straight Edge. It's not a sacred law or anything, but for a guy like me it's just common sense. My personality is twisted and hard enough to control as it is without adding alcohol to that mix. Plus I have a lot of suppressed anger. And alcoholism runs in my family. Drugs in general are something I feel have the capacity to wreck your life in any number of ways and nothing of substance to offer in return so I simply don't need them. I have other ways of enjoying myself.