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ericmortensen: takethecityandrun: dailyme: British Home Secretary Alan Johnson holds two prototype pint glasses designed not to break up into dangerous shards on impact, in London, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The British government wants pubs to try out shatterproof pint glasses as a way to cut back on beer-related violence. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) Read more → Here’s a (sad) case study for what not to do: rather than address the underlying problem (an increasing culture of violence), correct a outlying variable. Do these people really believe that a shatter-proof glass is going to decrease their £2 billion+ problem? If I’m drunk and I’m upset enough to slash someone in the face with a shard I requisitioned from my pint glass, I sure as hell am going to turn to a chair, knife, or pool cue when the glass doesn’t cooperate. The problem here is rooted in culture, not in an easily breakable pint glass. So visit old Britain today, before your pub visit takes place in a padded room filled with pre-cut food and sippy-cups of beer!

ericmortensen:

takethecityandrun:

dailyme:

British Home Secretary Alan Johnson holds two prototype pint glasses designed not to break up into dangerous shards on impact, in London, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The British government wants pubs to try out shatterproof pint glasses as a way to cut back on beer-related violence. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau)

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Here’s a (sad) case study for what not to do: rather than address the underlying problem (an increasing culture of violence), correct a outlying variable.

Do these people really believe that a shatter-proof glass is going to decrease their £2 billion+ problem? If I’m drunk and I’m upset enough to slash someone in the face with a shard I requisitioned from my pint glass, I sure as hell am going to turn to a chair, knife, or pool cue when the glass doesn’t cooperate. The problem here is rooted in culture, not in an easily breakable pint glass.

So visit old Britain today, before your pub visit takes place in a padded room filled with pre-cut food and sippy-cups of beer!

Source: dailyme

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  1. msspica reblogged this from dailyme
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  6. oywei reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    hahah. so ridiculous but so necessary.
  7. dbreunig reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    Here’s a (sad) case study for what not to do: rather than address the underlying problem (an increasing culture of...
  8. totallynotkelsey reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    These would have ruined Trainspotting. This would have made stealing them SO much less worrisome.
  9. kayfabe reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    takethecityandrun:...These would have ruined Trainspotting.
  10. ericmortensen reblogged this from takethecityandrun
  11. takethecityandrun reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    These would have ruined Trainspotting.
  12. sharkled reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    Innovative I say.
  13. jangster reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    cuts from beer fights?
  14. macchiatodaily reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    What’s the fun
  15. wolvesinlace reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    Uh huh….. hmm.
  16. lrusso reblogged this from heresthething
  17. heresthething reblogged this from charlottesweb and added:
    And this is why I am in love with you, Charlotte Ringle.
  18. charlottesweb reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    1. Good idea 2. They should extend this...everyday water glasses. Sometimes I go through...
  19. jessicasjunk reblogged this from unclesean and added:
    Sean … he has the funny.
  20. unclesean reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    lack of readily available glass shards is really going...Shatterproof pint glasses might...
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  23. ifilikeityoulikeit reblogged this from dailyme and added:
    Wow. This is actually genius. Where has this been.
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