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1. IanMunro - Member

   One for the Scots - Who's ahead, lagging or on target for hitting the years target?

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. Stoner - Member

   I wonder why they didnt use "whiskey" instead of vodka?

   Too painfully close to the truth?

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. algarvebairn - Member

   Man, I've got 12 left to go and its only January!

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. Smee - Blocked

   Works out to be roughly 10 pints/wk.

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. tiggs121 - Member

   I'm surprised it's as low as 46 bottles! Thankfully I'm way below this average which obviously means someone is way above this average.

   Are we the biggest drinking country in the World?

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. BigJohn - Member

   I don't think Scots drink a lot of whiskey.

   Whisky, on the other hand...

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. Stoner - Member

   It equates to only 3 bottles of wine a week.

   All those scottish puritans bringing the average down then

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. Stoner - Member

   BJ - good point - I always forget who spells it wrong.

   Since im not a whisk(e)y drinker...

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. iDave - Member

   have they factored out the contribution by sassenachs sipping G&T when they're in Edinburgh or Peebles on dirty weekends?

   Posted 2 years ago #
10. bakey - Member

    Doesn't 46 bottles per year work out at about 23 units per week? Marginally just above the governments guideline for safe adult male consumption...

    Posted 2 years ago #
11. Stoner - Member

    unfortunately stats like this are about as useful as the kind of crap you get on beauty moisturiser ads.

    What would be far more useful would be, for example the modal and mean consumption per week of all those that do drink. Possibly also the mean and modal amount drunk at each session too.

    This would give a better comparative picture of the culture of consumption in a particular area. Unfortunately that kind of data is more expensive to collate than simply divide some customs and excise figures on duty from sales by the population number to grab a headline.

    Posted 2 years ago #
12. algarvebairn - Member

    The 46 bottles of vodka is an extract. Its 46 bottles of Vodka, 26 bottles of whisky; 130 bottles of wine and three swimming pools of lager.

    Only kidding obviously. Its more skewed reporting to make us all look like jakeys up here. I don't think that Scotland has any more of a problem than the rest of the UK with drink. Fags and chips are a different matter and probably a bigger problem.

    Posted 2 years ago #
13. CaptainFlashheart - Member

    Is it still the case that Scotland has one of the highest per capita rates of teetotallers? If so, the rest of them are really making up the numbers!

    Posted 2 years ago #
14. IanMunro - Member

    Its more skewed reporting to make us all look like jakeys up here. I don't think that Scotland has any more of a problem than the rest of the UK with drink

    Isn't denial one of the primary symptoms shown by alcoholics?

    Posted 2 years ago #
15. thisisnotaspoon - Member

    Isn't denial one of the primary symptoms shown by alcoholics?

    
    yep

    That and an ability to either drink loads or not at all
    

    Scotland has one of the highest per capita rates of teetotallers? If so, the rest of them are really making up the numbers!

    Dread to think what mines like, I bought 9 bottles of wine, a crate of beer, and a bottle of gin the other day, with no intention of shareing them! (but it should last me a few months)

    Posted 2 years ago #
16. alpin - Member

    i heard the "46 bottles of vodka" thing on the radio and laughed.

    piss'eds

    Posted 2 years ago #
17. robgarrioch - Member

    Happily not even on the radar of this statistic myself; I reckon it includes people IN Scotland (i.e. visitors, eg. at Hogmanay) to put a skew on the truth.
    The recent findings on Buckfast aren't helping our healthy, friendly image either!

    Posted 2 years ago #
18. GrahamS - Member

    Just as well Buckfast will be completely unaffected by the proposed minimum pricing on alcohol.

    Because everyone knows the real trouble on the streets is caused by middle-classes enjoying a bottle of Merlot with dinner

    Posted 2 years ago #
19. algarvebairn - Member

    There's a program on telly tonight about Buckfast. Could make interesting / cringey viewing.

    Posted 2 years ago #
20. glenncampbell - Member

    46 bottles isn't too much really - roughly 4 wee nips a night, and three bottles of wine a week would just cover my cooking ration, never mind having a glass with dinner! It's also limited statistics - I do think that buckfast, chips, fags, the SNP and deep fried mars bars are more of a problem as mentioned above

    Posted 2 years ago #
21. glenncampbell - Member

    and the daily mash has an even more amusing slant on the story

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/scotland-wakes-up-covered-in-piss-again-201001182386/

    Posted 2 years ago #
22. Northwind - Member

    "I don't think Scots drink a lot of whiskey."

    I do.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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