Pint Glasses to be outlawed in Britain.

[tsafa]

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/30...ks-ban-on.html

First they ban handgun ownership. Then they ban long gun ownership. Then they ban swords. Then they try to ban pointed kitchen knives. Now they plan on banning the PINT.

This is the reason why we can not give an inch on our second amendment rights. Once you start down that path there is no stopping.

The British Home Office is looking for proposals to make it harder to attack people with pint-glasses, including a mandate that all pint sleeves be made from plastic, or coated with shatter-resistant plastic. Because, you know, most bar-brawlers are fundamentally upset at the pint, not the people around them, and if they can't smash a pint sleeve, they will contain their anger and not use a chair, bottle, or imposing scarred forehead.

One of the posters there put it perfectly when he said:

I think the root cause of the problem here is hands. Anything that can be held in one's hand can be a weapon.

Outlaw hands. Problem solved.

[rikilii]

They're really getting it all wrong. They should be going the OTHER way, like mandating that every pint glass have a loaded Ruger LCP taped to it

[bogey1]

i thought they were already banned? (pint glasses)

[ungawa]

What are they going to pour my whiskey into?

Coming here very soon. You know what the funny thing is? I don't think any of this would have happened if the Cold War never ended. The Socialists and Fascists came out of the closet with a running start the moment the Berlin Wall fell. Now, after a generation of indoctrination, they've got us.

[ScaredOnce]

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/30...ks-ban-on.html

First they ban handgun ownership. Then they ban long gun ownership. Then they ban swords. Then they try to ban pointed kitchen knives. Now they plan on banning the PINT.

This is the reason why we can not give an inch on our second amendment rights. Once you start down that path there is no stopping.

Some of my best friends are dodgey Brits. I think I can see how the whole pussification after the Cold War really lead into disarming their society. But, I'm certain that if you attempt to take away their pint glasses, they will smite thee. They just have a different set of principles when it comes to beer and incest.

[jcabin]

someone already posted this on the site the other day.

either way, this is a great idea. I totally support it.
Soon enough they will become slaves and we can buy them to farm our land.
For a country that really pushed the anti-slavery movement, they've done a complete 180.

[rikilii]

What's next, bar stools and pool cues?

[jcabin]

What's next, bar stools and pool cues?

The church of england will influence the parliament to pass legislation requiring each citizen to hand over their soul.

[rikilii]

The church of england will influence the parliament to pass legislation requiring each citizen to hand over their soul.

"Soul" can be pretty dangerous. It killed Marvin Gay, doncha' know?

[indianjack]

Hard to believe, the pint of Stout is as British as American pie is american