I can see some tripping up and falling onto it in house parties or wherver where people are drunk.

And even in bars.. When it gets wet or bartender gets his/her hand wet it's not exactly going to be easy to hold.

Is this just a major disaster waiting to happen?

Not sure how well it will be received by retailsers, the piramid does take up a helluva lot of space on the shelves. due to it's wide footing, and triangle base which will make it difficult to place on the shelves.

Also the thing looks very cheap.

They both had very cheap looking grey plastic lids which looks aweful.

One looked like a £5 alcopop (pyramid), the other looked like a reasonably priced [£5] bottle of vinegar.

lastly I don't think there will ever be a situation where the same drinks will be liked by both men and women. No mateter how universally appealing they are.

E.g. a bloke is never going to want to drink the same type of drinks as a girl. Even if a drink is tasty if it's branded as a "girls drink", that's it, it's over.

Exactly. It's a lethal weapon. There's a reason there's nothing like it on the shelves already. I was astonished how little people seemed to be concerned by this.

Imagine if you slipped over and landed arse first on top of it - it could be quite painful.

Arse? If you're lucky. That bloody thing could pierce a lung.

dara o briain was quick to point out the pitfalls i was in stitches! as you would be if you ended up the wrong side of the pyramid


liz annoyed me by deliberately ignoring Chris' brief and going for a pink drink...ffs

It can happen. From experience I can tell you that it's not so easy to explain to casualty how an innocent mishap such as this can happen quite accidentally.

hmm on the other hand, i thought bottles cause most damage because they smash/crack on impact and then cut you. a pyramid is a very strong shape so therefore maybe it's actually a safer bottle to collide with than most

it cracked me up how nobody understood Chris was saying 'cubed' until that guy went 'oh as in square'. everyone was just like 'wtf are you saying?'

The first thing I said when the bottle was taken from the case was, "Ohmygod, it's a lethal weapon!"

It's lethal. Terrible design practically. Conceptually, it's great, but we don't live in a James Bond movie!

It's strong pyramid structure would be safer for the bottle.
But if I was falling onto a bottle like that I'd be kind of hoping that the bottle would smash when I made impact with it as opposed to just stabbing through my soft flesh.

It's almost as though they designed the most efficient impaling mechanism to put into pits that are hidden from view with bits of branches and twigs laid on top. The sort you might see in an Indiana Jones type film.

It looks a really annoying shape to pick up. The bottle looks like it should be full of bath salts that get bought as a crimbo gift and left on the bathroom shelf to go dusty.

It doesn't seem very practical now I think about it.
It just looks like it would be very awkward to hold as you're pouring a drink with it.

There really wasn't a single thing I liked about the pyramid bottle, nor the interest in 3s. Is 3 everyone's favourite number, or something? The bottle, I wouldn't buy nor have around simply because it's got a sharp point on it. Holding and pouring from that bottle is probably also extremely annoying. I thought that as a rum, it looked cheap.

I bet you don't do the cooking in your house. I mean, I can't bear to chop vegetables simply because kitchen knives have a sharp point on them. And you can do yourself a serious injury on the prongs of a fork!

Alternatively people can just take care and take responsibility for themselves, rather than wanting everything wrapped in cotton wool for them...

As Chris said - it was a prototype and no doubt the design would have been modified had irt got anywhere near production.