Time to ditch the pint?

Clare_Culchie

It just crossed my mind, and don't crucify me here, that perhaps with the pubs shut this might be a very good time to make the switch of our drinks measures from imperial to metric, and more closely align ourselves with our EU brethren.

It would mean a decrease in the standard serving size from 568ml (1 pint) to 500ml.

There is a positive correlation between reduction of serving size and the reduction in alcohol consumption and, ergo, improvement in health.
https://europepmc.org/article/med/29756262

Eoinbmw

Clare_Culchie wrote: »

It just crossed my mind, and don't crucify me here, that perhaps with the pubs shut this might be a very good time to make the switch of our drinks measures from imperial to metric, and more closely align ourselves with our EU brethren.

It would mean a decrease in the standard serving size from 568ml (1 pint) to 500ml.

There is a positive correlation between reduction of serving size and the reduction in alcohol consumption and, ergo, improvement in health.
https://europepmc.org/article/med/29756262

Sounds like a big expense to an already crippled industry?

Chivito550

Eoinbmw wrote: »

Sounds like a big expense to an already crippled industry?

In Qatar they serve 500ml in a pint glass. Every time I got a beer there, I felt cheated. I even went back a few times to ask for it to be filled to the top before I realised the reason. At 14 quid a beer, I felt the least they could do was fill it up.

Would love to see them try to serve 500ml in a pint glass here!!

Tec Diver

If it means that more people are drinking less alcohol then I'm in agreement. Alcohol abuse in this country has a massive effect on families etc.

Eoinbmw

Tec Diver wrote: »

If it means that more people are drinking less alcohol then I'm in agreement. Alcohol abuse in this country has a massive effect on families etc.

Deal with the abuser then!

gctest50

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/page/alcohol-daily

ShyMets

Na. The metric system is overrated

Wanderer78

Tec Diver wrote:

If it means that more people are drinking less alcohol then I'm in agreement. Alcohol abuse in this country has a massive effect on families etc.

To be honest, I'd put the money into our mental health and support services for such things, as I suspect, changing glass sizes, won't make the blindest bit of difference here

SEPT 23 1989

Heresy!

WrenBoy

Not to be overly dramatic, but I would engage in domestic terrorism if this happened.

biko

And change "1/4 pound cheese" to "100 gram cheese"?

No, just no.

Chivito550

Tec Diver wrote: »

If it means that more people are drinking less alcohol then I'm in agreement. Alcohol abuse in this country has a massive effect on families etc.

In much of Australia they drink a ridiculous measure called a schooner (three quarters of a pint) and they are still the worst I've ever seen for alcohol-induced violence. Fights are common place over there, to a much more noticeable extent to here. I've even noticed bouncers getting in on the act!

sydthebeat

No because there is no tangible positive from going from a pint to a litre.

Lots of negatives

How could you pull the "prefect pint"??

RandRuns

Why?

Beasty

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JasonStatham

Just close the pubs permanently.

corks finest

Clare_Culchie wrote: »

It just crossed my mind, and don't crucify me here, that perhaps with the pubs shut this might be a very good time to make the switch of our drinks measures from imperial to metric, and more closely align ourselves with our EU brethren.

It would mean a decrease in the standard serving size from 568ml (1 pint) to 500ml.

There is a positive correlation between reduction of serving size and the reduction in alcohol consumption and, ergo, improvement in health.
https://europepmc.org/article/med/29756262

Better off ditching it all altogether, thought I loved it but after slowly getting fed up with the weekly hangover etc, realise that as one gets older the Beamish was a killer, used go out once a week then once a month then at Xmas time, wasn't for me used have a hangover after 4/5 pints, social side I missed terribly for a while.
My own personal view point as I can see the positives of alcohol but the negatives far outweigh them.
Worked as a doorman for nearly 30 years so saw both sides, and worked and travelled all over the world and can say hand on heart that us Irish have a vv bad relationship with the booze, daughter in oz cringes at the weekly fighting, hassle and general mayhem caused by young Irish in Perth

Donegal Overlanding

WrenBoy wrote: »

Not to be overly dramatic, but I would engage in domestic terrorism if this happened.

You probably said that, along with thousands of others, when they were talking about introducing a smoking ban. Yet Ireland was the first and took it amazingly well.

ohnonotgmail

if they did change from a pint to 500ml you can guarantee that the publicans wouldn't change the price charged

corks finest

gctest50 wrote: »

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/page/alcohol-daily

Yet the Irish and brits are the only gangs that cause mayhem on the streets weekly after booze

Wanderer78

JasonStatham wrote: »

Just close the pubs permanently.

why?

corks finest

Chivito550 wrote: »

In much of Australia they drink a ridiculous measure called a schooner (three quarters of a pint) and they are still the worst I've ever seen for alcohol-induced violence. Fights are common place over there, to a much more noticeable extent to here. I've even noticed bouncers getting in on the act!

Amazing that it's the young Irish getting the bad rap in Perth as the stand out messers and troublemakers then?

Chivito550

Chivito550 wrote: »

In much of Australia they drink a ridiculous measure called a schooner (three quarters of a pint) and they are still the worst I've ever seen for alcohol-induced violence. Fights are common place over there, to a much more noticeable extent to here. I've even noticed bouncers getting in on the act!

That's in the breeding IMO... Nothing to do with drink.

Renault 5

biko wrote: »

And change "1/4 pound cheese" to "100 gram cheese"?

No, just no.

Vincent:
And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

Jules:
They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?

Vincent:
No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f*** a Quarter Pounder is.

Jules:
Then what do they call it?

Vincent:
They call it a Royale with cheese.

Jules:
A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?

Vincent:
Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.

Jules:
Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?

Vincent:
I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King.

seamus

corks finest wrote: »

Yet the Irish and brits are the only gangs that cause mayhem on the streets weekly after booze

Seems unnecessary. Nobody gains anything. You get to say, "we do metric pints" now, but what's the point in that?

The argument that it reduces alcohol intake and would have any knock-on effect on abuse is nonsense. Alcohol abusers don't go out for two pints. They drink until they can't fit in any more.

Cans have been 500ml for decades, and it hasn't affected alcohol abuse.

hi5

They did have half litres here in Ireland back in the 1980's.
They brought them in when the price of the pint went over 1 punt.

suicide_circus

Yes. More generic sameness, standardisation and uniformity, thats what we need.

From my cold dead pickled hand!

DellyBelly

Actually think this is a great idea.

beauf

Spend a bit of time in Germany with Mass glass...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9F

... And when you come back a pint feels like a half glass.

partyguinness

Well if you think about it...at what other time does anyone consume a full pint of any liquid..and 5 or 6 in the space of a few hours?

Pint of tea/coffee/Mint tea anyone?

CrazyFather1

Why would we need to ditch the pint?
The size of the glass is not the problem. Even if you got rid of it then people would just drink more bottles. If people want to get stupid drunk they will do it.