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Do Drink Aware ads bother anyone else ?

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  • 31-12-2011 12:13pm
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    drg85
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭


    Happy New year folks - does anyone else get irked by the drink aware ads ? Take a wee gander at this, it's something I wrote on alcohol consumption; specifically the science of getting wasted. It's tongue in cheek but the facts are there

    <snip>

    Essentially, the whole 'standard drink' idea seems to be a little pie in the sky. Could these be, dare I say it, because drinkaware.ie is MEAS, an alcohol industry group who might downplay things a little ?
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    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Don't click the link, it's a virus! :eek:


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    drg85
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭drg85


    Er no.. it's a link to <snip>.blogspot.com actually ?!


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    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    nope


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Don't click the link, it's a virus! :eek:
    Thanks Zohan. I don't want to catch computer AIDS.


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    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Its not a virus. Pretty good blog as it happens.


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    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'm confuddled!

    Is it a smelly virus or a tasty blog?

    /confused


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Yahew wrote: »
    Its not a virus. Pretty good blog as it happens.
    If it's that good, he/she wouldn't need to be spamming it here, tbh.


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    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I'm normally locked out of my head when they come on, and as i'm such a merry/happy drunk they don't bother me in the slightest OP.

    Hic.....


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    cgarrad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭cgarrad


    drg85 wrote: »
    Essentially, the whole 'standard drink' idea seems to be a little pie in the sky. Could these be, dare I say it, because drinkaware.ie is MEAS, an alcohol industry group who might downplay things a little ?

    If you going to have a rule for 4 million people is is by very definition average.

    People are stupid, it has to be reduced to a soundbite which can be driven into their heads :rolleyes:


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    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I'm confuddled!

    Is it a smelly virus or a tasty blog?

    /confused

    It's a virus, a very clever one. Most anti-virus software won't catch it.


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Only in the reasons why they have to exist in the first place - the fact that saddos think it cool to get completely bladdered.


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    Zen65
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    drg85 wrote: »
    Happy New year folks - does anyone else get irked by the drink aware ads ?

    Happy New Year to you too. No, I don't mind the ads at all.

    I don't find any problem with the concept of a standard drink. That a "standard drink" should have very different effects on different people is simply stating the obvious. I am not so absorbed with my own intellect as to feel that the variations in alcohol content in different (but similar) beverages makes the idea of a standard drink invalid. The concept of a standard drink is quite helpful, even if it is only useful as an approximation.

    By contrast I found your article full of heat, but it shed very little light. I found it to be anything but useful, and I would hate to think that the folks at Drinkaware.ie would ever try running an ad campaign which included so much inconsequential information.

    Cheers,

    Z


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    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    TheZohan wrote: »
    It's a virus, a very clever one. Most anti-virus software won't catch it.

    Aw JESUS!


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    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    I am sure that nobody would argue that the drink aware should change their campaign, however the science is agin them.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Don't blogspam here.
    Link removed.


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