booze calculator

[arwkrite]

I don't want to know. Ignorance is bliss.

[gillhalfpint]

My thoughts too. I just want to enjoy it and not worry about implications charts and tables etc.

[Al 10000]

I think if we put my pub crawl in Oldham, Strongers pub crawl in Islington and Bucking Fastards pub crawl in Dorking the machine would either blow up or run out of food

[hondo]

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/to...-on.6702698.jp

[trainman]

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/to...-on.6702698.jp

Apart from being quite ludicrous, how could they get mugged for 56p(!!!) per cup? The manufacturer certainly saw them coming.

And the flippin 'unit' is still an arbitrary (and seemingly moving) measurement plucked from thin air, without scientific calibration, by an erstwhile health 'advisor', isn't it?

[Conrad]

I think the unit is fixed (would need to double check), but requires you to know the abv of the drink you are pouring to make any sense.

Any way you cut it seems like a stupid idea though, surely there are better ways of educating drinkers.

[Evil Gazebo]

Hahaha! I honestly thought 56p per cup must be a typo for 5.6p until I read the story. That is an astonishing example of how easy government bodies find it to throw public money away. Especially as the cups have just been indiscriminately handed out for free, so they'll quickly end up in the bin or used as kitchen measuring cups.

I bet whoever owns the company that relieved the Scottish taxpayer of over £300k is drinking rather more than the recommended weekly allowance in celebration. I would be.

This appears to be the agreed definition of a unit of alcohol. (Taken from the NHS website, but crops up regularly elsewhere)

One unit is 8 grams or 10 millilitres of alcohol. Half a pint of 3.6% ABV beer contains almost exactly one unit, as does 25ml of whiskey at 40%.

[trainman]

'unit' ... seemingly moving measurement

I think the unit is fixed

I suggested it may be a moving target as we used to think 6 units per btl wine, now it's 9.5, or 11?? Still an (initially) arbitrarily allocated measurement in my view.

This appears to be the agreed definition of a unit of alcohol...

Fair enough, I'll have to be even more honest next time the Doc asks.

[Conrad]

I suggested it may be a moving target as we used to think 6 units per btl wine, now it's 9.5, or 11?? Still an (initially) arbitrarily allocated measurement in my view.

Isn't this part of the ongoing thing that we are just drinking stronger drinks now? Not sure whether it is true but it is certainly the excuse I have heard for this.

[Al 10000]

I always thought the unit was fixed at either 3.6% or 3.7% it is the amount of units they advise people to drink a week that has been plucked out of the sky 21 for men and 14 for women.
I have been out with some women who can out drink most blokes,and who chose these magical figures in the first place.