JAPAN INVENTS BEER GLASS THAT MAKE YOU DRINK SLOWER

In Japan, they’ve invented a glass that makes you drink slower. The glass resembles an hourglass, but it’s open at one end. When it’s filled with liquid – oh, let’s pretend it’s beer – the drinker raises it to their mouth. The top half goes right in, but the bottom half of the glass will slowly release the last half of the beer through the smaller passage in the middle. The creator of the glass says it takes around three times longer to drink from this glass than a regular glass. The idea, apparently, is for the drinker to slow down, to take longer to enjoy a drink, thereby preventing them from drinking as much.
* I don’t understand. Why would anybody not want to drink as much? And not as quickly? Are the Japanese brain damaged? I’m not getting the concept.
* If we were supposed to drink slower, our necks would be straws.
* Maybe this is for cheap people who want to spend less on their dates.
* I can see American bars buying millions of these things, and then destroying them.
* I can maybe see this as a fix for brain freeze from a Slurpee.