Do Drink Aware ads bother anyone else ?

drg85

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

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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 ?

TheZohanS

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

drg85

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

old_aussie

nope

El Weirdo

TheZohan wrote: »

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

Thanks Zohan. I don't want to catch computer AIDS.

Yahew

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

Chuck Stone

I'm confuddled!

Is it a smelly virus or a tasty blog?

/confused

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.

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.....

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:

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.

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.

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

Chuck Stone

TheZohan wrote: »

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

Aw JESUS!

Yahew

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

biko

Don't blogspam here.
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