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Tell the truth part 6
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"Truthfully
The pint glasses in your press
Did you buy them or over the years collect them from the pub you were in for a night out "
You can buy pint glasses?  I mean, yes, totally bought them 
Most devastating incident of liberating glasses from a bar involved a 21st, some lovely cocktail glasses and a bag falling off the table in Supermacs 😭
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When wetherspoons were in town they used to have a table with all different glasses on it that you could take and they had a donation box there as well. So got some lovely pint glasses but i did give donations too so guess we technically paid for them |
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"I wonder how people would feel if someone attending a party in their home decided to take a glass or cutlery or perhaps an ornament or a painting/print off the wall when they were leaving......
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I had an aunt did this every time she left our house, then when we visited hers she'd have whatever it was somewhere we'd spot it. Some things we never noticed til we saw it in her house, other things we'd be going up the walls looking for 
I do appreciate this is not the point you're making though  |
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By *iscuits8Man 3 weeks ago
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"I wonder how people would feel if someone attending a party in their home decided to take a glass or cutlery or perhaps an ornament or a painting/print off the wall when they were leaving......
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Tad bit of a difference between cherished ornaments or paintings in a home and a few boxes of branded pint glasses handed to a bar owner by a Heineken rep to be fair |
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By *og-Man OP Man 3 weeks ago
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"Think they're all from the pub. Misspent youth is to blame along with the collection of pub ashtrays I had at one stage before the smoking ban 😂"
I still have one ashtray because one person visits once a month that smokes
Mind you if it's raining she doesn't because she has to smoke out the back garden  |
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I volunteer in a charity shop - pint glasses galore there for €1 or €2 each. Much easier way to acquire any glasses.
I think the coveted ones are those with embossed with drink brands. Only have a single Guinness glass at home cane with a gift pack! |
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I don't drink so I've never liberated a glass of any description.
The two pint glasses currently in my cupboard were sitting outside my gate one morning during lockdown when some of the local pubs were doing home deliveries so I'm assuming one of the neighbours left them there. |
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Glasses are child's play , I have 9 bar stools and a 6ft pipe from an organ that was part of the dj box in a night club ,
Also have a 5ft plastic ice cream
I assume I paid for them but I was d*unk so can't remember |
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"I wonder how people would feel if someone attending a party in their home decided to take a glass or cutlery or perhaps an ornament or a painting/print off the wall when they were leaving......
Tad bit of a difference between cherished ornaments or paintings in a home and a few boxes of branded pint glasses handed to a bar owner by a Heineken rep to be fair"
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Promotional materials, especially branded glassware, are built into the overall cost of the product by the brewery so they don't in fact just get handed to the publican for free.
Taking an item without paying for it or having the owners permission, irrespective of its financial or emotional value, is still theft....
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I supplied the licensed trade for more than 20 years but not with drink or glassware so I'm no expert on either.
I know though that publicans in places like Clones all had to contribute to a glass pool because on match days and especially Ulster finals where thousands were drinking on the streets and walking out of one pub with a glass and leaving it in another or on a windowsill, they had no way of keeping tabs on who owned what.
I used to think they were all supplied by the breweries and over the years I've listened to dozens of bar owners complain about the cost involved but I haven't a clue how that cost is broken down. |
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By *og-Man OP Man 3 weeks ago
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"I wonder how people would feel if someone attending a party in their home decided to take a glass or cutlery or perhaps an ornament or a painting/print off the wall when they were leaving......
Tad bit of a difference between cherished ornaments or paintings in a home and a few boxes of branded pint glasses handed to a bar owner by a Heineken rep to be fair
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Promotional materials, especially branded glassware, are built into the overall cost of the product by the brewery so they don't in fact just get handed to the publican for free.
Taking an item without paying for it or having the owners permission, irrespective of its financial or emotional value, is still theft....
🤷♂️"
Yes it's theft
But I'd imagine most people do it
There's a clip of Rihanna on The Graham Norton show when he shows pictures of her leaving pubs all over the world with a wine glass |
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"I've only ever seen plastic pint containers used at large sporting events and concerts
Real glass isn't allowed
Delivery from pubs during covid also used the same containers
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I haven't been in Clones since the late 90s but there were no plastic glasses used then. |
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"I've only ever seen plastic pint containers used at large sporting events and concerts
Real glass isn't allowed
Delivery from pubs during covid also used the same containers
I haven't been in Clones since the late 90s but there were no plastic glasses used then. "
And as I said above, drinks delivered during covid were also in glasses because my daughters used the service and got a refund on the glasses on their next order. |
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