39.36. He just reversed the digits. Easily done if you're British and over 40.

In American bars that attract a potentially volatile clientele they don't sell beer in bottles or use glass glasses - only cans and plastic.

Are there pubs that only serve beer in plastic glasses or is throwing a mug or bottle in UK pubs a rare event? Just curious.

Well, I'm English and over 60 (and not to argue over a hundredth of an inch but it's 39.3700787, give or take).

Michael

I'll have to go to Paris, where the original metre is in the Arts et Metiers Museum i think and measure it.

Are you calling my Primary 2 teacher a liar, Michael?

I can't help myself, there are actually,
39.37007874015748031496062992125984 inches in a meter or metre (whatever)!

Sheila,

Not me - Google. ;-)

Looks like you're outnumbered, Shiela.

Grrrr!

I seem to recall at least one long thread on this topic within the past year or so.

Bob, where on earth do you live that you have or know bars that won't even serve people beer in glasses because it's such a dive and all the patrons are commonly drunk and fight? I'm not saying this doesn't exist, I'm sure you may frequent such places -- but I have never been in one and you are making it sound like this is really common in the US.


Even the only bar in my small hometown (which is definitely not upscale and has the usual crowd that you would expect in a small Midwestern town where it is about the only bar and a lot of the crowd are what is called working class, driving pickups, working in the mills or factories, etc) does not do this. They looked at me in surprise the last time I asked for a glass rather than a bottle because they usually just hand out bottles, but I like something a little nicer -- but they serve beer both in bottles and glass mugs.

I just think you are giving a really distorted view of the US.

Well i didn't mean to imply that this was the norm---that said i go to three local bars where this is the policy and i think many clubs may also have that policy.

I think if you get out of the Belt Way there is a differet world out there.

But no 99% of bars don't have that policy - i guess i go to low-class bars, but they do exist in more numbers than you perhaps realize.

I have seen plenty of bars which serve in plastic cups on their busy nights. In my experience these are regular bars - not dives - which attract a big crowd of people in their 20s both with or without a dance floor. Places people go generally just to drink - not so much to eat. This is both in DC but more so outside of DC where I used to live in Pa.

Yes like the place i went even years ago in my college town - had two tiers and inevitably during the night someone who throw a bottle or glass down onto the floor below - so they went to plastic, which wouldn't harm or maim as much. Places packed with young folk out to get drunk and then some of them lose their head. No not only dives. And i wonder, seeing how British youths like to get so pissed if they don't have the same problems.