I once ran across a translation of Diocletian’s edict which gave the prices of wine per “Roman pint,” but of course there was no Roman pint, so I had to figure out what unit they could mean, and it doesn’t help that there’s such variation between contemporary pints… headdesk … I also ran across different prices in different translations, so there are probably textual issues and uncertainties.
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The shape of the curve doesn’t surprise me that much, but the numbers seem high.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/80/20_rule#undefined
I guess, with a fudge factor of 1.97 (which is also what I’ve heard doctors do when they ask you how much you drink) it starts to look more plausible.
It’s a rite of passage. That’s why Humbabella can use canoe sex as a metaphor for a profoundly disappointing experience. Because of the canoe, not the Canadian. (“Damn, thwarted again”).
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1 before breakfast, 3 between breakfast and lunch, 3 between lunch and dinner, 3 after dinner.
Their pints are smaller but their ounces are bigger. You just have to know how to order.
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It’s, uh… 10 or 100, right?
That’s true. But it’s also a euphemism for “fucking near water”, a common Canadian description of American beer.
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The estimate would be less likely to be accurate for the top and bottom decile, as they’re not a range between two known points (he said, trying to pretend his last maths class wasn’t 26 years ago - bloody hell). But for your own hopes of finally making the gilded top 10% of US drinkers, a nice little wavy line through several known points on a graph ought to let you know whether its glory or failure. Go for it!
I was also going to complain about our wimpy American pints here, but then remembered that the last micro-brewery I went to was pouring imperial pints at US pint prices. I had never seen that before in the US, but hope it catches on.
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I like that! The crafty boozer. That’s the kind of buzz I’ll happily keep at crimbo, or at a bbq, or on a day off. The evening’s are slim however and when you’re serious about your hobby, time counts.
Why doesn’t the volume of an ‘oz’ vary with the density of the liquid being measured, that’s what I’d like to know.
And why don’t Americans call them fluid ounces?
They do, to distinguish them from ounces (av.), ounces (ap.), and ounces (fluid, Br.). Fluid ounces are a volume measurement, so density makes no difference.
Pro tip: Although the U.S. dry pint at 550.6 ml sounds like a good deal compared to the U.S. liquid pint at 473.2 ml, don’t order a dry pint.
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Was it good, cause it looks very interesting. Would it would for an undergrad survey?
#How would you I don’t even.
We could similarly ask why the size of a foot doesn’t change with the price-per-square-foot of the property being measured.
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I just want an oz of something to weigh an oz, whatever it is. If you want a measure of volume, don’t use a word that is already a measure of mass.
A girl who weighed many an oz.
Used language I dare not pronoz.
For a fellow unkind
Pulled her chair out behind
Just to see (so he said) if she’d boz
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I bet you’d be single, unemployed, and have a bleak outlook, in fact.
It’s the same 30% who claim they have never masturbated.
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What really needs to be studied is why the offspring of these raging drunks end up in middle management, and you know this is true because they practically brag about how Dad drank himself to death.
