Freedom and whisky gang thegither?

[Lord Muck oGentry]

This fairly made me choke on my herring and oatmeal:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1790006,00.html

Glasgow City Council wants to ban serving drink in glasses. Because we all know how much damage can be done by a drunken bampot with a glass in his hand...So people who want to have a glass of whisky will have to have a plastic cup instead.

John 11[empty intensifier]35, as we say up here.

[median]

I saw a trick done by a friends Scottish grandfather in which he slowly warmed an emptied whisky glass (single malt of course) in his hands for 10 minutes, after which he managed to get a few fluid oz. more! :D

Will plastic cups be just as good? My God there could be uproar! ;D ;D

[Lord Muck oGentry]

A few fluid oz. more?

Alert JREF! The million is in danger!

[Jocky]

Glaswegians have been glassing each other for centuries - it's a traditional sport (I speak as a Glaswegian myself, BTW)

What next - are they going to ban metal cutlery in restaurants? You can take someone's eye out with a fork, you know ... :D

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Perhaps the report didn't do justice to the councillor's position, but it comes across as pretty average nonsense:

But Councillor Gordon Macdiarmid, the board's convener, said he was not worried by the legal challenge, adding: 'It is astonishing that anyone in the 21st century should seek to place the protection of glass receptacles ahead of the safety of their patrons.'

Macdiarmid, who has campaigned for years to make Glasgow the first 'glass-free' city in the world, said he was acting on evidence, as well as demands from parents of 'glassing' victims, surgeons and the police.





Odd. I'd have thought we were talking about protecting not glass receptacles but the right to drink from them.

And what sort of evidence, one wonders, could establish the policy principle he favours. He probably means that he thinks it right to agree to these demands rather than refuse them. But his words don't explain why he thinks that safety trumps humdrum freedom.

Bah! If this goes on, I shall end my days penning foamflecked letters to the Herald, signed " Disgusted, Partick X" >:(