Shatterproof pints, save lives and wastes money

Back in blog land once again. This time I bring news that the British Government have unveiled shatterproof pint glasses to help curb violent glassing incidents at pubs.

According to Yahoo!/A.P, approximately 87,000 glassing related incidents happen each year in the UK. On Thursday, the genius solution by British Home Security was to unveil two designs of shatterproof glass. Money well bloody spent, you silly Poms!

WTF, why don't people just serve beer in plastic cups instead?

Beer is supposedly served in glasses to keep it cold for longer. That and there is all this BS about glass helping the flavour in the beer open up. Don't you just hate those purists who feel that a beer is not a beer until it is served properly in a (chilled) glass? Hate to break it to youse, but surely I can't be the only one to observe that there is a decent population of pub goers out there who have absolutely no appreciation for the golden amber nectar. I'll put my hand up, I'm one of them. What's wrong with plastic? It's cheap and it was invented in 1855. Plastic is clear and can also be shaped to look like a traditional glass pint.

Furthermore, here are my top 10 reasons that it shouldn't matter whether beer is served in glass or not:

1. Beer shouldn't take that long to drink. 
2. Plastic doesn't shatter. Scientists spending countless hours on infusing resin onto glass to be shatter proof should have rang me up instead. My uncle in Taiwan manufactures plasticware. He has never had to deal with any shattering of glass, and he'll give you mates rates too. 
3. The younger you are, the more sculling is involved. That's what modern drinking culture has evolved into. Time for the purists to accept change. It's not exactly wine tasting. 
4. Poms like their ales served closer to ambient temperature anyway. They don't need it frosty cold. 
5. Aussies serve in pots. They are way too small of a quantity for temperature to play a factor. 
6. Bavarians drink beer by the litre. They don't complain about beer getting warm. Unless you're German and you are experience with drinking litre beers on a daily basis, that shit is gonna get warm before you finish all of it anyway. 
7. Not only do Americans serve beer in plastic, they serve in disposable plastic cups. Instead of glassing when getting agro, Americans shoot people instead. 
8. Most mass marketed beers are piss to start with. Most people aren't lucky enough to be able to afford the good Belgian stuff. 
9. It's a lot easier for bar staff to handle plastic. No shards to pick up and sweep in the middle of a packed dance floor. 
10. Aluminum cans are also an alternative. You can shotgun out of cans.