Stealing glasses from pubs

[Elvis Costello]

A lot of my friends have glasses they have nicked from pubs or cups stolen from coffee shops.

Is this common practice or are my friends just tinks?

[pub car king]

I have a selection but it's more due to stoating home pished with them rather than any determined theft. That said I've never taken them back.

[whiskychimp]

Cobra glasses are belting. You also deserve a glass as you've had to drink a pint of Cobra.

[Aubrey Maturin]

3 minutes ago, whiskychimp said:

Cobra glasses are belting. You also deserve a glass as you've had to drink a pint of Cobra.

A pint of Cobra is exceptional.

 

[whiskychimp]

3 minutes ago, Tynieness said:

A pint of Cobra is exceptional.

 

Utter utter baws. One of the only beers that's less bad out of a bottle. Sweet, fizzy, tasteless pish

[Ranaldo Bairn]

I have a gorgeous Hoegaarden glass that fell into my pocket in a pub in Kent one night many years ago.

The decoration is long worn off but I still use the glass.

[throbber]

Stealing glasses from pubs is exclusively the behaviour of fresher students in the early to mid 00’s. Get a fucking life.

 

[Karpaty]

I lifted a Tennent’s glass up the road with me to catch the last train years ago. Still had beer in it so wasn’t a properly planned theft. 

The pub up the road from me gave away all their pint glasses when they closed for good a couple years ago. Think I ended up with about 7 or 8 different brands.

[cambozpar]

5 minutes ago, throbber said:

Steaming glasses from pubs is exclusively the behaviour of fresher students in the early to mid 00’s. Get a fucking life.

 

[throbber]

Steaming glasses can gtf as well!

[welshbairn]

12 minutes ago, throbber said:

Stealing glasses from pubs is exclusively the behaviour of fresher students in the early to mid 00’s. Get a fucking life.

 

Fearty pants.

[Hillonearth]

Abroad, I'll normally come home with a branded glass for the local beer - I normally just ask the bar staff if it's okay to take it and they're invariably cool with it.  I was over in Norway at a bar in Bergen and asked if I could keep a Ringnes glass - recommend the stuff btw - the barmaid told me to hold on while she dug out one of the place's logoed-up coffee mugs to take as well.

 

[Glenconner]

5 minutes ago, Hillonearth said:

Abroad, I'll normally come home with a branded glass for the local beer - I normally just ask the bar staff if it's okay to take it and they're invariably cool with it.  I was over in Norway at a bar in Bergen and asked if I could keep a Ringnes glass - recommend the stuff btw - the barmaid told me to hold on while she dug out one of the place's logoed-up coffee mugs to take as well.

 

Class.

[heedthebaa]

32 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Used to be ashtrays back in the day.

Beer towels and mats also, my brother used to collect them 

[bob the tank]

Its what a duffle coat hood is for

[throbber]

Beer towels and mats also, my brother used to collect them 

I have seen a few collections of various beer mats that people have stuck to their wall which have been pretty cool so that gets a pass from me.

[PB 4.2]

Pint glasses with a big ol' handle are a thing of beauty.     They're normally fairly heavy and probably dearer to produce hence why they're not used in pubs anymore.  

[tamthebam]

1 minute ago, PB 4.2 said:

Pint glasses with a big ol' handle are a thing of beauty.     They're normally fairly heavy and probably dearer to produce hence why they're not used in pubs anymore.  

I heard they didn't use them in Scottish pubs (well, Glasgow..) because the handle made it easier to smack somebody in the face with the glass. But your explanation makes sense. 

 

[Hedgecutter]

Pint's no a proper pint if it doesn't come with a handle attached to an assortment of glass rectangles.

[welshbairn]

Only problem about glasses getting nicked is the wankers who insist of the correctly branded glass for their pint. Fancy lager glasses are the first to go.