It is barbarian to "clink" wine glasses

[TheAvocadoOfWisdom]

is it not?

I raise my glass at toasts and find my neighbour on occasion attempting to clash his or her glass against mine.

Ugh, no?

Oh do give it a rest trills.

Yes, but horns and skulls don't do well in the dishwasher, you know. We are modern Barbarians after all.

Though crystal skulls might be nice, there's an idea...

Yabu, it is one of those customs that many people like me did not realise could be annoying or offensive to other people.

My (large) family insists on clunk-clicking (top and bottom!) I find myself insisting on it outside the family

If people ask if they are being unreasonable then I am allowed to tell them that I think they are, and my reasons for thinking it. :)

At least horns don't get that cloudy thing that some dishwashers do...

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Clinking the least of your problems if you are inviting barbarians.

YABU, you have henceforth spoiled my innocent clinking with intrusive thoughts of a hitherto-unsuspected social faux-pas.

Tis daft though.

'tis a cheery enough practice and not one I had considered infra-dig.

Last night, outside in a park in the pissing rain celebrating the strike of New Year, six of us were barbaric enough to clink champagne glasses. It felt rather good.

I don't like clinking but dh always does and dd has grown up with the practice. [sigh, my child is going down the drain]

I didn't think the tipping some in each others glass was a myth? Surely in those days they all drank the same stuff?

As an Anglo Saxon culture i'd say it was fine that we clinked glasses :)

One does so love to be barbaric!

I don't like clinking, but I'll do it if someone else initiates it as it would seem rude to ignore them. But I've got one friend who insists on doing it every single time we meet for an informal drink (in the pub, say), I just don't get that At.All

I'm intrigued by Tarty's clunk-click though

Among my siblings we clink while muttering "Filthy German habit" under our breaths in memory of our late father........

I will clink and clink gladly if it's a small group of old friends I haven't seen in a while. Other than that, yes, it's tedious in a contrived japes sort of way.

Oh yes I am a "clinker" when drinking a glass of wine...I aways ensure eye contact with the person I am clinking with!

I clink, therefore I am ...

Personally I find one's huge battle-axe rather impedes proceedings but if I put it down some bugger'll pinch it ...

note to self clinking of wine glasses is common, Greggs, fruit shoots, Moet, Tesco ....slow down!

Oooh we've done it twice - one at christmas and one at new year. We all clinked glasses with ds with his carton of apple juice.

Hight of sophistication. Really is.

we all content.

My Mum is not a big drinker so any time she is having a glass of wine is a bit of an occasion for her and she likes to clink and say "Cheers". When DD was small she liked this very much and one day when I went to pick her up from nursery I was told she had tried to introduce the practise at lunch time (with the juice obviously!)

It was a memorable Christmas that DS 'clinked' my DF's glass and smashed it.
DF was more concerned about the waste of Chablis than the broken crystal.

If you don't look in the person's eyes you are clinking with you are cursed with a year's bad sex (chance would be a fine thing)

Clinking on special occasions where affection and bonding is felt, but only with those within reach and a raised glass to the others, but with a meaningful look of love to mitigate the lack of clink. Hearty cries of Up yer bum de rigeur throughout.

There are correct ways of doing things. Where a toast is concerned, the correct way is to raise glass, repeat toast words and sip. That's all. Chinking glasses is infra dig, I'm afraid. Essex chavs and all that.

Today's toast is:

Our Ships at Sea