Re: DON'T DO STUPID THINGS!

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

ferg wrote:

> ...or (gasp!) a beer glass?
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/banning_beer_gl.html

Many years back, here in New Zealand, one of the major hotel chains 
(_the_ only national hotel chain??  I was a bit too young to pay 
sufficient attention though I seem to recall that they had HANZ printed 
on their glasses and this stood for Hotel Association of New Zealand) 
voluntarily "banned" glass glasses in their public bars for (allegedly) 
similar safety reasons, though the skeptical probably assumed the not 
insignificant cost reduction from heavily reduced replacements (from 
breakage and outright theft -- few student flats did not have a healthy 
stock of HANZ glassware) also played a major part in this.

IIRC it was 7 oz and larger glasses only (i.e. mostly those just used 
for serving beer), and included the "handle" and ubiquitous "jug" (that 
would be "pitcher" for our North American readers).

Thinking aboutit now, I doubt safety was actually that big of a concern 
driving this, for AFAIK few, if any, such hotels stopped selling 
"quart" (26 fl oz or approximately 750ml) bottles of beer (at the time 
by far the most common delivery method for local beers NOT supplied on-
tap at such hotels) across the bar, meaning there was still plenty of 
potential instant glass weaponry at hand in most bars...



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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