Most Annoying Glass Design

[NickDavies]

I nominate Stella's stupid goblet.

<rant> It is perfectly designed to channel the condensation down the stem which then collects on the foot in sizeable volumes, trapped by surface tension and the mould marks. You of course don't notice, too busy fiddling with your phone or earwigging the next table or slagging the pub off for not having proper beer so you're stuck with Wifebeater. Then you take a swig and all that condensation ends up down your shirt or in your lap, making it look like you're so pissed you've both missed your mouth and wet yourself. And that was your first drink all day. </rant>

I'm sure they do it on purpose.

[Paris_Hilton]

I nominate Stella's stupid goblet.

<rant> It is perfectly designed to channel the condensation down the stem which then collects on the foot in sizeable volumes, trapped by surface tension and the mould marks. You of course don't notice, too busy fiddling with your phone or earwigging the next table or slagging the pub off for not having proper beer so you're stuck with Wifebeater. Then you take a swig and all that condensation ends up down your shirt or in your lap, making it look like you're so pissed you've both missed your mouth and wet yourself. And that was your first drink all day. </rant>

I'm sure they do it on purpose.

My nomination

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[Soup Dragon]

Much as i love my history, overall glasses have improved............. i always found the one below difficult to balance after a few pints of mead (saxonbeater)

http://www.jelldragon.com/drinking_horns.htm

[aleandhearty]

Sorry, I can't resist it...Why, it's the dimpled jug of course. (Lights blue touchpaper and stands well clear.) :D

[ETA]

Those stupid artifical Bavarian mugs with a spiky pewter lid, guaranteed to put your eye out after about 4 litres whilst chiming some irritating faux-folk tune from the wind-up music box hidden in the volume-wasting base.

[Conrad]

I used to quite like the Stella glasses, should I ever have the misfortune again I will be clearly on the lookout for drips :)

To Soup though, aren't you a bit of a wussy Viking if you have any mead in your horn to spill? If it has drink in it you shouldn't be putting it down!

[aleandhearty]

To Soup though, aren't you a bit of a wussy Viking if you have any mead in your horn to spill? If it has drink in it you shouldn't be putting it down!

Can you imagine Soupy approaching the bar, to ask the barmaid for a cloth, as he's spilt mead from his horn.:eek: Cue resounding slap. :D

[ericonabike]

Not sure about annoying, but the Leute Bok glass wins the prize for solving a non-existent problem: how to have a handleless glass with a pointed base that doesn't have to be held all the time...http://tinyurl.com/4ljhre2
Incidentally, weren't the original Saxon drinking vessels designed so that they cou;dn't be set down, but rather drained at a draught? Sure I read that somewhere...

[Soup Dragon]

Can you imagine Soupy approaching the bar, to ask the barmaid for a cloth, as he's spilt mead from his horn.:eek: Cue resounding slap. :D

It would be her own fault, as she would have 'give me the horn' in the first place:D

[Soup Dragon]

Incidentally, weren't the original Saxon drinking vessels designed so that they coudn't be set down, but rather drained at a draught? Sure I read that somewhere...

drinking horns go way back into antiquity, i am sure fragments were unearthed in Mycenae (when i studied it some years back) - likely more to do with the fact that they could be hollowed, or some ritual thing than actual practical thought of being able to set it down - hence my 'worst glass design' and yes - the Romans made them in glass later

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/g/glass_drinking-horn.aspx

[Alesonly]

Most annoying one Ive tried is the Yard of Ale glass it took me three attempts too drink it straight down without spilling any. :D

[rpadam]

Not sure about annoying, but the Leute Bok glass wins the prize for solving a non-existent problem: how to have a handleless glass with a pointed base that doesn't have to be held all the time...http://tinyurl.com/4ljhre2
Incidentally, weren't the original Saxon drinking vessels designed so that they cou;dn't be set down, but rather drained at a draught? Sure I read that somewhere...
The Leute Bokbier glass is a daft looking drinking vessel, I agree, but with its fine rim it actually makes certain beers taste better. Try a test with one of these and something more chunky (a Chimay glass, for example) side-by-side and see whether it makes a difference - you may be surprised...

[Brewguru]

Surely any pub forced to serve beer in plastic pint pots (strictly not a glass and so a bit off topic I know)

a) its naff
b) the reason why they use plastic is probably due to violence among clientele
c) the beer in those sorts of establishment is probably not worth drinking anyway

hence I never come across them these days as I avoid those places, but have horrid memories of them during my ill spent yoof :o

[Eddie86]

Carling glasses. Shatter into a thousand pieces when dropped from any height above 12 inches

[Oggwyn Trench]

Empty ones :D:D

[RogerB]

Obviously no-one has ever had a Sangria session in Torremelinos using a Spanish Porron! :eek:

[Paris_Hilton]

Empty ones :D:D

or one's containing short measures

[runningdog]

Any glass that look like it'd make a good flower vase.........

[ericonabike]

...and talking of flower vases, the 'pint' Hoegardeen [excuse potential misspelling] takes some beating. So thick, it almost takes two hands to lift it. And that reminds me - was in a bar in Brussels onetime where all the beers were available in two litre glasses. Same design as the usual size, but it felt like you'd walked into a Brobdingnagian boozer.

[NickDavies]

I ordered a pint of Stella (didn't fancy Pride/GKIPA/Bombardier) in a newly branded (OK so it says so on the menus but looks like every other ex-Spirit pub in the area) Taylor-Walker establishment not from from Victoria. So it came in its designer vase with an inch of head on it. So I asked for a top up, which was declined, asked whether they would in that case take a nine pound note but didn't get a laugh or a top up, asked them to show me the 20oz line which I knew wasn't there and finally pointed out the existence of Westminster trading standards not 500 yards away. Still no joy. I gave in in the end and glugged down my £3.80 18 ounces of Eurofizz and dashed for the train.

Allegedly it is the policy of Punch taverns to sell Wifebeater in short measure and if an area manager caught them filling near the brim they'll get a rollicking.

[Moonraker]

I would've given the barman £3.60, then a rollicking if he asked for the full amount.