broadbill
Well-Known Member
I vote for a base 2 system, just to keep things interesting. I'll order a 0110 0010. Heck, we can order in Hex if we want then.
Nothing says American exceptionalism like the base 2 system. Am I right?
I vote for a base 2 system, just to keep things interesting. I'll order a 0110 0010. Heck, we can order in Hex if we want then.
This is so stupid. A bar glass is not a pint!! It was never designed to be! It is designed to hold a 12 oz beer with about an inch of foam so you can pour it out of a bottle or can. If you want a pint, go to a place that sells pints, not glasses.
Grocery stores can't get away with selling me a short gallon of milk and claiming that 'gallon' is just a generic term for a jug of milk... why should a bar sell me a short pint of beer, and get away with claiming 'pint' is just a generic term for a glass of beer? If they don't want to sell full pints, don't call them pints.
Is someone actually going to complain about this in a bar? Lets stop telling small businesses how to run their business, mmmkay?
That is legislating morality, not their place.
The bar pours short, consumer lets people know, bar comes up short and loses business due to bad pour practices.
That is how a capitalist system works, the consumer determines the market.
I never thought that a bill that just requires bars that claim to sell pints of beer to really sell pints of beer would create so much controversy. To me it seems to be just common sense. If a bar wants to use 14 oz glasses, just don't claim to be selling pints.....
I was kidding. I loved the metric system. I still do. I frickin' hate trying to determine imperial unit conversions. The toughest part is the first week or two. An American has no conceptual idea of what 50cL is, so there is a learning curve. Plus, you get drunk so you forget the next day. It's like Groundhog Day (the movie), only with drinking.
Just ask for a bottle, you will get the same amount everytime.
Problem solve.
I've never really felt as though I've been cheated on a draft, lucky maybe.
May be true, only if you read the label on the bottle. Looks like a 12 oz. bottle, but Guiness Lager is 11.2 oz.
I think part of what you're seeing here is plain old knee jerk, anti-government sentiment. Any time there's any attempt at all to regulate anything at all, some folks will have a 'the goverment's not the boss of me!!' reaction.I never thought that a bill that just requires bars that claim to sell pints of beer to really sell pints of beer would create so much controversy. To me it seems to be just common sense. If a bar wants to use 14 oz glasses, just don't claim to be selling pints.....
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