Glass shape 'affects drink size' (News that can used)

BBC ^ | Friday, 23 December 2005 | BBC

[indcons]

I prefer short glasses :)

[Xenalyte]

One wonders which glasses were closer to hand.

Me, I pour into whatever's clean!

(And if nothing meets that criterion, people call me a slattern and drink from the bottle.)

[Gordongekko909]

Indeed. I will scout my local bars to find the shortest, widest glasses.

[GSlob]

"(And if nothing meets that criterion, people call me a slattern and drink from the bottle.)"
" -You yourself know that the second morning dose, drunk right from the bottleneck, darkens one's soul - well, not for too long, only till the third dose, drunk from the glass, - but still it darkens the soul. Who knows it better than you?"
[Venedict Erofeev, "Moskva-Petushki"]

[indcons]

This theory needs a lot of testing and validation. I am going to start with this one here:

[BluH2o]

My gage ... how much is missing out of the bottle at the end of the evening works for me. The size or shape of the glass is of no consequence ... my motto ... a bottle a day (of wine) keeps the doctor at bay.

[elkfersupper]

Cheers!

[Xenalyte]

No one on FR has ever quoted Russian literature to me.

Marry me. Damn Xena's Guy. Damn the law.

(The real question is what the third drink does.)

[Xenalyte]

If you pour into the right glass, a bottle of wine only yields three glasses. Nothing wrong with that!

[WatchYourself]

I just drink from the bottle. Glasses are for girls and liberals!

[indcons]

Cheers!

[Gordongekko909]

"This theory needs a lot of testing and validation."

I see a federally-funded study in Congress's future. With Ted Kennedy doing most of the "research."

[elkfersupper]

And Cheers! from my date.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Glass shape 'affects drink size'

I don't know bout Ya'll but this seem's like explaining common sense.

[indcons]

I am still going to carry out important research on this topic.

[GSlob]

"The real question is what the third drink does."
OK, another piece from the same book addresses your question in great detail:

"... For example, by the age of eighteen I have noticed that from the first dose to the fifth I was maturing, i.e. maturing irresistibly, but starting from the sixth and up to and including the ninth - I softened. Softened so much that from the tenth dose I fell asleep, equally irresistibly. And what did I think in my naiveté? I thought: it's necessary to overcome sleepiness by willpower and to drink the eleventh dose - then, maybe, maturing will resume.
No. No resumptions, I have tried.
I worked on this problem for three years, every day I tried, and every day I fell asleep after the tenth dose.
And everything was so simple: it turned out that if you've already drunk the fifth, you should drink the sixth, the seventh, the eighth and the ninth - all at once, but to drink ideally, i.e. to drink only in imagination. In other words, you should, by one stride of will - not drink either the sixth or the seventh or the eighth or the ninth.
And, after the pause, you should drink the tenth dose, and, just as the Ninth symphony of Antonin Dvorzhak is conventionally called the Fifth, so you conditionally call your sixth dose the tenth and then you can be sure: now you'll mature without interruption from the sixth (tenth) to the very twenty eighth (thirty-second) dose, i.e. to the limit after which insanity and swinery follow...."

[Junior]

This is why they developed the 45cc shot glass. Same dose every time.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Who needs a Glass anyway ?

[bobbyd]

Hey slattern .....Merry CHRISTmas and how's your mom?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why don't bartenders keep bar with a beaker?