Booze Calculator: What's Your Drinking Nationality?

[mikey4444]

Here is some pre-Xmas fun ! I came out as Slovenian !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30500372

[murraymints]

Margo.. cheers !

[MargoTester]

Cheers Minty - I really must get out more! I shall be aiming to "move" countries over Christmas and get stuck into some Prosecco and Baileys - not in the same glass I should add.

[joggerjayne]

Yikes! I'm ... France.

And then it said ...

"You drink more heavily than people from Belarus, the heaviest-drinking country in the world" !!!

[jno]

if the French drink less than Belarusans and you drink more, then how can....

I think someone's been bribing the judges here.

[Cloverjo]

JoggerJayne, it said exactly the same to me. I think we should just ignore it and carry on as we are. :)

[joggerjayne]

Agreed x

[Gromit]

I drink beer most days. I have a couple of dry days in the week, but a couple of heavier days at weekend. I reckon I drink 4 pints a day on average over a week.

The result says

// You drink more heavily than people from Belarus, the heaviest-drinking country in the world. //

It was then that I decided this 'survey' was propaganda and bollux.

[clyde59]

Namibia.

[jno]

apparently average adult Belarusans drink 17.5 litres of pure alcohol (I assume that's per year, not per day), mostly spirits.

http://belarusdigest.com/story/who-belarusians-are-heaviest-drinkers-world-17958

[Gromit]

My country match was Namibia, but I was a factor of 4 times greater than them. Compare to the UK, I was 10 times greater than a Brit.

I am doubting the methodology and counting here. It seems to be suggesting Brits drink only 2.8 pints over 7 days.

[Gromit]

Yep,
I've just put 2.8 pints of beer into the calculator, and that is how much beer a Brit drinks per week. Intuitively, I would have guessed the true figure was far more. Maybe Brits lue more after 3 pints.

[jno]

this report (it's the Mail) gives completely different figures, I see.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357865/Britain-countries-drink-alcohol-world-new-figures-show.html

This should all probably be regarded as an amusing pub game rather than a health warning, since the figures diverge so wildly that nobody seems to know the truth.

[Gromit]

I am playing with the results now.
A bottle of wine a day says you are from Portugal, who apparently drink a quarter of a bottle (1 glass) a day. The UK reading is a ninth of a bottle a day (?)

I am beginning to suspect that whoever put these data sets together, had been on the lash for a couple of days.

[Gromit]

Apologies,
I meant nine tenths of a bottle in a week, not a ninth.

[Arksided]

Now, I really fancy a drink... :-/