tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post6856956499893230793..comments2023-09-20T12:50:40.208+01:00Comments on Pete Brown: More hilarity with statisticsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03011702209832734676noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-7438957990647485082010-01-18T14:47:55.548+00:002010-01-18T14:47:55.548+00:00definetly butter!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/healt...definetly butter!<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1244048/Ban-butter-save-thousands-lives-says-heart-surgeon.html?ITO=1490<br /><br />Great blog Pete, oh sorry not allowed to Butter you up.Coxynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-67122461302811424662010-01-18T13:08:40.292+00:002010-01-18T13:08:40.292+00:00Now I understand. I thought 46 bottles of vodka o...Now I understand. I thought 46 bottles of vodka on top of all the industrial white cider and Tennants Super was rather a lot.<br /><br />Joking aside, it's rather poor of the NHS to release such a disingenious report as it making them far less likely to be listened to if they have something valid to say. Poor show.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11269138727910397342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-45708122246248725182010-01-18T11:20:39.370+00:002010-01-18T11:20:39.370+00:00coxy did they day butter or was it trans-fat? In t...coxy did they day butter or was it trans-fat? In the rports i read it was all transfat (which I believe is man made substance with mixed health benefits) couldn't see butter mentioned. That being said onece the neo-pros get their dander up they have living off air and sitting on spikes given half a chance.BLTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564846497205095201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-8538715864852672782010-01-18T09:46:06.731+00:002010-01-18T09:46:06.731+00:00There was a doctor on morning tv today saying that...There was a doctor on morning tv today saying that Butter should be banned due to heart disease! The nanny state is going mad, next it will be cars because of road deaths,sweets because of tooth decay,blogs because of eye strain ans sex because its not fair that some people aint getting as much as some others.Coxynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-20227606271718855192010-01-18T09:44:07.309+00:002010-01-18T09:44:07.309+00:00They used vodka instead of whiskey partly because ...They used vodka instead of whiskey partly because it's percieved as dirty and low rent and so paints a bleak picture of lonely soaks sat in bleak flats a row of 46 clear cheerless indutrial alcohol vodka bottles in front of them slowly joylessly gulping back the firey poison. They can't at anytime link their claims to anything positive or the cracks in their logic will start to show.BLTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564846497205095201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-84378449891857372822010-01-17T23:22:26.459+00:002010-01-17T23:22:26.459+00:00I suspect they chose vodka over whisky because, as...I suspect they chose vodka over whisky because, as of 2008, vodka outsells whisky in both on- and off-licensed premises in Scotland.<br /><br />Great post, though.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06895027575630939898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-54989889109091939302010-01-17T19:05:48.139+00:002010-01-17T19:05:48.139+00:00Funny, I associate Scotland and Whisky so much tha...Funny, I associate Scotland and Whisky so much that when I started reading this I read "46 bottles of WHISKY a year".<br /><br />Regardless whether is Whisky, Vodka, Rum or Cachaça, the statistics are twisted, misinterpreted, misleading, whatever. Why they do it? What is their gain from it? Can it be possible that all this is the product of a bunch of sour people that have formed an unholly alliance with the tabloids?Pivní Filosofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17883511608403454943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-46025503424599931342010-01-17T16:31:20.929+00:002010-01-17T16:31:20.929+00:00I am really bad at math so I am happy to be correc...I am really bad at math so I am happy to be corrected but isn't this the case?<br /><br />- Scotland has about 8% of the UK population and<br />- total UK booze sales in 2007 were worth over 41 billion pounds and<br />- therefore, Scotland's booze sales can be approximated at around 4 billion pounds.<br /><br />I read that as meaning that if every penny of the 25 million spent at distillery shops was non-Scots resident alcohol sales, removing it entirely from Scottish consumption, it only represents well under 1% of total Scottish sales? If that is the case, the variation is under a bottle of vodka a year. <br /><br />Even if I am off by a whole decimal point and the distillery sales represent 10% of sales isn't it still a little bit alarming that every Scots adult averages 41 or 42 bottles of vodka a year? <br /><br />Warning: <a href="http://www.alcoholinformation.isdscotland.org/alcohol_misuse/files/alcohol_bulletin09_chpt2.pdf" rel="nofollow">.pdf source</a>.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01670495301758701170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-56804367099306928632010-01-17T15:03:16.832+00:002010-01-17T15:03:16.832+00:00Ah I've worked out where the 46 bottles of vod...Ah I've worked out where the 46 bottles of vodka number comes from. They were calculating that number by assuming 700ml bottles of a rather weedy 37.5%. SoThey either think that Scots drinkers only buy the very cheapest vodka or they used this weak alcohol level to make the number of bottles of vodka look more impressDavid Strangehttp://elitistreview.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-62686623240306767812010-01-17T14:15:57.475+00:002010-01-17T14:15:57.475+00:0040 x 750ml bottles of 40% ABV liquid
Vodka, like ...<i>40 x 750ml bottles of 40% ABV liquid</i><br /><br />Vodka, like all spirits, is actually sold in 700 ml bottles, which at 40% ABV contain 28 units.<br /><br />So in fact that's 21.5 units a week, or the equivalent of one and a third pints of 4% beer every day.<br /><br />Which hardly sounds like dangerous drinking to me.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-35923167913042427482010-01-17T13:18:17.316+00:002010-01-17T13:18:17.316+00:00You got a different figure for the number of bottl...You got a different figure for the number of bottles of vodka consumed per person because you calculated bottles as being 750ml. Most bottles of spirits are 700ml. That being said, if my mental arithmetic is up to it then this should only be adding just under three bottles to the total you derived.<br /><br />Sorry for bringing up this pedant's point (well, not so much a point more a specific location of zero volume in space). If we argue against the neo-pros our data and analysis must be better than theirs.David Strangehttp://elitistreview.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-50920051004585527192010-01-17T12:58:20.397+00:002010-01-17T12:58:20.397+00:00Another incisive, analytical and well-composed art...Another incisive, analytical and well-composed article, Mr Brown, the kind of stuff one wants to read. <br /><br />You picked more holes in that drivel-filled report and did so more effectively than I managed <a href="http://drinks.elitistreview.com/PermaLink,guid,f057896e-5572-43e1-9057-70c30fbb3c8e.aspx" rel="nofollow">in the rant on my site</a>. I am perfectly happy to play second (or even third or fourth) fiddle to right-thinking people who express themselves so well.David Strangehttp://elitistreview.comnoreply@blogger.com