[rancho]

Source http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...72-952,00.html

MORE than 70 "high risk" licensed venues across Brisbane, including the Qantas Club, will be the first targeted in the State Government's ban on glass.

The roll-out of plastic or shatter-proof glassware comes as Queensland copes with a surge of glassings as hundreds of victims are treated at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital each year.

Liquor Licensing is yet to determine whether the ban on glass will apply permanently, or after a certain time. But it's understood different licensees will have different conditions and that the ban will include stubbies and alcopops.

The first ``high risk'' venues to be targeted:

Club India, Brisbane
Transcontinental Hotel, Brisbane
The Federal Hotel, Ipswich
Zuri Lounge, Fortitude Valley
Uber, West End
Pine Rivers United Sports Club, Strathpine
The Hi-Fi Brisbane, West End
International Players Cabaret and Sportsbar, Ipswich
Victory Hotel, Brisbane
Empire Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Bunk, Fortitude Valley
The Family Nightclub, Fortitude Valley
Hotel Wickham, Fortitude Valley
Caxton Hotel, Petrie Tce
St Pauls on Leichhardt, Brisbane
Fridays, Brisbane
Pig N Whistle, Eagle St, Brisbane
Port Office Hotel, Brisbane
Chalk Hotel, Woolloongabba
The Velvet Cigar, Petrie Tce
The Fox Hotel, South Brisbane
Players Universal Lounge, Brisbane
The Lasseters Valley Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Union Jacks Ale House, Brisbane
Jade Buddha, Brisbane
Sportsman Hotel, Spring Hill,
The Met, Fortitude Valley
Jimmy's On The Mall, Brisbane
Tony's Niteclub, Fortitude Valley
Planet Nightclub, Fortitude Valley
Rockafellas Bar, Fortitude Valley
The GPO Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Bank Vault Lounge, Fortitude Valley
Bad Girls, Fortitude Valley
Down Under Bar & Grill, Brisbane
Club Minx, Brisbane
Just Hooters, Brisbane
Embassy Hotel, Brisbane
Royal George Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Little Jumbo, Brisbane
Brazilian Touch, Fortitude Valley
Mustang Bar, Fortitude Valley
The Elephant and Wheelbarrow, Fortitude Valley
Bohemia, Petrie Tce
The Monastery, Fortitude Valley
Scores Night Club, Fortitude Valley
The Cabaret Nightclub, Fortitude Valley
Qantas Club, Qantas Club Lounge, Qantas Chairman Lounge, Brisbane Airport
Hotel LA, Petrie Tce
Rics Cafe, Fortitude Valley
Exchange Hotel, Brisbane
The Beat Cabaret and Restaurant, Fortitude Valley
Showgirls CC, Brisbane
The Fringe Bar, Fortitude Valley
Step Inn, Fortitude Valley
Rosies on Edward, Brisbane
Club 299, Fortitude Valley
Mystique, Fortitude Valley
Kaliber Boutique Lounge Dining, Fortitude Valley
Love and Rockets, Petrie Tce
Imagination Cafe, Bar & Cafe, Petrie Tce
Love and Rockets, Fortitude Valley
The Calypso, Expresso Bar & Cafe
Casablanca Brasserie & Cafe
Arena, Fortitude Valley
Bar Soma Restaurant, Fortitude Valley
Siam Samrarn Thai Restaurant, West End
Not Quite 299, Fortitude Valley
X & Y Bar, Fortitude Valley
Normanby Hotel, Red Hill
Royal Exchange Hotel, Toowong
Alexandra Hills Hotel, Alexandra Hills

I guess it's too early to predict what conditions will be applied to venues, but seriously, this is absurd. What's next? Will it be illegal for distilleries and breweries to bottle their products in glass?

What about the niche market, cocktail bars like Barsoma, Bowery (actually it closes before 3 so seems to be excluded) etc etc. I can't really see myself enjoying a nice cocktail from a plastic cup.

Or the alternative... 'shatter proof glass'? So now these licensees have to fork out for a whole new set of presumably expensive glassware?

Perhaps Brabs or someone with a bit more knowledge than a News Ltd journalist can shed some more light on the subject, but my blood is definitely boiling. I can handle the 3am lockout, but I can't handle warm beer.

[reeditchaos]

wow that seems outrageous..guess its a good time to stop enjoying goin out and drinking

[TheScore]

switch to spirits

its a shame that we're all being punished for a few idiots behaviour but if it saves a persons eye or permanent facial scarring then ill handle drinking slightly warm beer

[RunningWithScissors]

nah just drink faster

gives you time to fit a few more drinks in and maybe even start a fight

[Dave wratH]

Great cause we really need to be wrapped in more cotton wool.

How about harsher penalties for douche bags that glass people. Isn't that aggravated assault? WFT happened to personal responsibility?

What about the Environmental impact of the tens of thousands of people drinking every weekend now using plastic cups? I wonder what the figures would be for how much waste is this is creating?

[RunningWithScissors]

shitlikethisiswhyigaveupdrinkingandswitchedtometh haveyougotaproblemwiththat**** doyouwanttofightaboutit

[macc4]

if you bring your own, you will still be able to glass people

[rancho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave wratH

What about the Environmental impact of the tens of thousands of people drinking every weekend now using plastic cups? I wonder what the figures would be for how much waste is this is creating?

its sickening isnt it? i wonder if you will be allowed to re-use your cup if you so desire. did you know that on us airlines its illegal to reuse a cup for water for 'health reasons'?!

they use 4 million plastic cups a day! arhghaghag i hate this shit.

[Ruthykins]

I'm actually okay with this. I'm fairly sure the poor people who have been unfortunate enough to cop a glass to the face wont give a shit if your beer gets warm faster.

I know it sucks because the minority are ruining it for the majority but I'm much happier to drink my beer from a plastic cup than go home one night without the ability to use my right eye ever again.

[Cosmo Cater]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rancho

Qantas Club, Qantas Club Lounge, Qantas Chairman Lounge, Brisbane Airport

Glassings in the Qantas Club? I can imagine a heated debate about improperly folded napkins, but glassings? A more realistic concept is some pretty annoyed Q-club members having to drink out of plastic cups.

There also no mention of the Glen Hotel, Dooley's Meadowbrook, Rum Jungle @ Bracken Ridge or the Calamvale.

[macc4]

if two girls were to share one cup, would the beer still get warm?

[Ruthykins]

there is actually a place called "Rum Jungle"... oh dear. You're just begging for a glassing going there!

[rancho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruthykins

I'm actually okay with this. I'm fairly sure the poor people who have been unfortunate enough to cop a glass to the face wont give a shit if your beer gets warm faster.

I know it sucks because the minority are ruining it for the majority but I'm much happier to drink my beer from a plastic cup than go home one night without the ability to use my right eye ever again.

That's just my light hearted piss-take, the issues go far deeper than warm beverages.

Ooh, maybe they can serve those frosty cups?!

[thursday]

Can't you chill shatterproof glass? Either way, this news is fine with me.

[RunningWithScissors]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruthykins

there is actually a place called "Rum Jungle"... oh dear. You're just begging for a glassing going there!

haha years ago i had some mates who used to hang out there but i was like fuck that


(doesn't bother me much, for years raves at the arena (RIP) only had plastic cups and cans)

[trouble hifire]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruthykins

there is actually a place called "Rum Jungle"... oh dear. You're just begging for a glassing going there!

yeah the rum jungle is 7 shades of nasty, if you bring it up with cabbies they will tell you they refuse to pick people up from there anymore.

[j_hunter]

wow

[Worth]

This sorta rubbish makes me so bloody angry.. Leave the rest of us alone, and if there is some person who feels the need to Glass someone else, PUT THEM IN JAIL... That way we can all keep enjoying our clubs the way we always have.

I love the fact one of the people interviewed in the Article with 40 years experience in the industry actually blamed the 3am locket for all this nonsense.

[jazzcat]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave wratH

WFT happened to personal responsibility?

this..

[DjReal]

Just switch to bottled beer instead of tap. Not going to be as good as a fresh poured, obviously, but surely its better than having your beer in a plastic cup.

[RunningWithScissors]

yeah you can't glass people with bottles

[DjReal]

I havent read the article in full, but i gathered it was more for glasses, rather than bottles, as per the case at most festivals etc already.

[rancho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DjReal

Just switch to bottled beer instead of tap. Not going to be as good as a fresh poured, obviously, but surely its better than having your beer in a plastic cup.

as per my first post, it applies to 'stubbies and alcopops' aswell.

fyi, a stubbie is a beer in a bottle

[DjReal]

Thats what i get for not reading the post entirely

[Ruthykins]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave wratH

WFT happened to personal responsibility?

I totally agree with this, but its been proven time and time again, people are shit. Idiots just cannot be trusted to make the right decisions.

[ruffles]

What is little Jumbo going to do? A cocktail in a plastic glass? I think I will pass.

[B-Radikal]

This is another example of the government being totally thoughtless.

The first we have heard of this was via an email from a friend just minutes before this thread appeared.

There has been no consultation or information from the government re. this.

We have never had a glassing in our venue nor a serious violent incident. To lump barsoma with these places in unfair, simply because we trade to 5am on a weekend.

This would be final nail in the coffin after a long line of nails hammered through us by this government. And all this after today having to pay in excess of $16000 in annual fees to even open our doors.

Vent your disgust to our local member Grace Grace grace.grace@queenslandlabor.org

[justletgo]

well this is now becoming the normal.. i few f*cktard's (i got that word from my little bro whos just turned 17 haha i think its awesome) are destorying it for the rest of us.

Its just sad, imagine whats its going to be like in 5 years time... they wont even serve booze. it will turn into a blue light disco

[Osiris_S13]

Hi-Fi bar already uses the shatter proof glasses....they are weak


edit: figuratively not literally

[yazzie]

they have switched over at platinum, gc. i dont drink beer so it doesnt really matter lol. vodka drinker here. least the plastic ones arnt as heavy, easyer to dance around holding it

[mcdoofus]

FUCK. THAT.

Guess I'll just have to go out and eat a bunch of pingers instead.

[Ruthykins]

although I am pro-plastic at pubs, you'd think places such as Barsoma would be exempt from this rule? I've never heard of a glassing at a cocktail lounge and the risk of it ever happening would be minuscule compared to that of a pub such as RGs

[rancho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcdoofus

FUCK. THAT.

Guess I'll just have to go out and eat a bunch of pingers instead.

totally.

but good luck smoking crack out of a plastic pipe

[Lady Lex]

Already started on the GC

Lucky I drink Champagne. bleh to plastic cups

[beebop]

that list is so broad its hilarious!

i wonder what the actual data is regarding glassings in brisbane venues....

[Dave wratH]

I've been watching America's Hardest Prisons and you can still make a very effective shiv out of a plastic cup. Sure it's not as 'ready made' but if you have the wrong intentions you are always going to find a way around something to do wrong.

[Evil Genius]

Quote:

Originally Posted by beebop

that list is so broad its hilarious!

i wonder what the actual data is regarding glassings in brisbane venues....

they all have glasses?

[RunningWithScissors]

why is the treasury casino not on that list

[rancho]

treasury has a special license.

it's called the 'do whatever the fuck you want because we tax the fuck out of you' license.

[the_pezman]

^^lol i thought the same thing :S

Quote:

Originally Posted by rancho

totally.

but good luck smoking crack out of a plastic pipe

just have to stick to mt franklin billys then

Quote:

Originally Posted by yazzie

they have switched over at platinum, gc. i dont drink beer so it doesnt really matter lol. vodka drinker here. least the plastic ones arnt as heavy, easyer to dance around holding it

those couple extra games are killer :p i noticed at hifi, without the extra weight ppl didnt realise they were holding them half the time and were flinging their drinks around. tho it couldve just been the messy crowd :p

Quote:

Originally Posted by B-Radikal

Vent your disgust to our local member Grace Grace grace.grace@queenslandlabor.org

grace grace is our local member?? jeezus i specifically voted her last in the last election
goes to show you just cant trust ppl with two first names



on a good note, no 388 so my cider is safe

[Lady Lex]

BRadikal - i would like to submit a professional letter.. how do you recommend we address this?

[boxcar_saviour]

I've been to plenty of venues where I've felt uneasy about certain patrons being trusted with glass cups/ bottles. And while it will detract from the drinking experience (beer tastes like shit out of plastic cups), it only takes one fuckwit to smash a stubby across your face to potentially ruin your life.

[madam meow]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave wratH

Great cause we really need to be wrapped in more cotton wool.

How about harsher penalties for douche bags that glass people. Isn't that aggravated assault? WFT happened to personal responsibility?

What about the Environmental impact of the tens of thousands of people drinking every weekend now using plastic cups? I wonder what the figures would be for how much waste is this is creating?

this




"......in my dictatorship...."

[airconteka]

wouldn't it be cheaper to give everyone reusable glass proof masks?

[mcdoofus]

Quote:

it only takes one fuckwit to smash a stubby across your face to potentially ruin your life.

^ Or a fist. Are they going to ban fists? Or maybe we should all be forced to wear oven mitts inside nightclubs.

Crash helmets maybe?

Kneepads to stop skinned knees?

.........

[madam meow]

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_pezman

grace grace is our local member?? jeezus i specifically voted her last in the last election
goes to show you just cant trust ppl with two first names

her office is around the corner... wanna go dump a zillion plastic cups at her office?


and a dead whales carcass to really make a point?


i dont know why i am larfing.. this truley shits me..


SA.. bans plastic cups
NSW.. looking at banning plastic water bottles

but no.. in QLD.. lets bring the fkn production on. Lets punnish the responsible people an the poor environment because of a few fucking retarded pathetic excuses of humans that we cant even punish cuz we are a bunch of soft ****s.

seriously.... retarded.

[MadMike]

Got a buddy who is in Q mgmt. Gonna ask wtf happened in the Qantas club to warrant this.

[rancho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by boxcar_saviour

I've been to plenty of venues where I've felt uneasy about certain patrons being trusted with glass cups/ bottles. And while it will detract from the drinking experience (beer tastes like shit out of plastic cups), it only takes one fuckwit to smash a stubby across your face to potentially ruin your life.

yeah but its absurd, sure you can lose an eye, have some scars etc etc. but its much more dangerous getting in a car.

fact is, you can get hurt anywhere, anytime and by anything. shit i could spontaneously combust from the inner rage i'm feeling, perhaps we should ban stupid laws that make people rage.

[madam meow]

plus clearly he needs to hang out at some new places.. i never feel this so called threat when i go to licensed venues...
maybe because i dont go to places where there are jock/footballer fukwits. even the valley mall pretty much all the time.
pretty simple to avoid. :shrug:

[thursday]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rancho

yeah but its absurd, sure you can lose an eye, have some scars etc etc. but its much more dangerous getting in a car.

fact is, you can get hurt anywhere, anytime and by anything. shit i could spontaneously combust from the inner rage i'm feeling, perhaps we should ban stupid laws that make people rage.

We may have to repeal some of the drug laws for that