[Yurt!]

Originally Posted by retalivity

That beer map is a crock of sh1te, a bottle of beer was at least $5 in Canada when I lived there 8-10 years ago, and was more expensive in the big cities of Vancouver and Toronto. Its undoubtedly gotten more expensive since.
A bottle of Chang in thailand is anywhere between 40-100baht, which is less than $3
And I very much doubt beer in China is more expensive than Japan or the UK, Unless they are only counting parts of Shanghai.

Beijing (the city surveyed) is not a cheap city any more. If you're buying foreign label beer, that price is about right.

[hognef]

Originally Posted by Chinese whospers

Good luck getting bear in Denmark for that price.

Bears aren't available in the wild in Denmark, so I'm sure that drives up the price.

[mikhail]

Originally Posted by Yurt!

Beijing (the city surveyed) is not a cheap city any more. If you're buying foreign label beer, that price is about right.

And if you're buying Tsingdao or Yanjing, good German-style beers (thanks colonialism), the price is about 3x too much.

[Gaspode]

The prices shown are not 'actual' prices, they are a per capita average based on their surveys & WHO data.

[cdeb]

How does per capita alcohol consumption affect the average price of a pint?

A beer in a supermarket or hotel lobby (which is what they base it off, though they'll have wildly different prices) is what it is. How much I drink is irrelevant.

If they're trying to get a weighted average based on how much of each people are buying, then they're way overthinking their methodology tbh.

[new92]

Originally Posted by Gaspode

It all makes sense now, Netflix and Chile.

[Gregor Samsa]

^^ Morto for all the countries doing Google searches for "Google".

[cdeb]

Dunno; could be people googling to see what data google keeps on you for example

[Shedite27]

Google now claims that 60% of searches are answered in queries. Google "Man United Score", and it'll return you the score in the current/recent game, hence no clickthrough to another site.

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally Posted by Shedite27

Google now claims that 60% of searches are answered in queries. Google "Man United Score", and it'll return you the score in the current/recent game, hence no clickthrough to another site.

I was joking with my comment, but the map specifically says that they're looking at "the number of Google searches for each brand", not the amount that the brand's site is used. Under the criteria of the map, your example would count towards Manchester United's brand popularity, not Google's, even if it didn't result in actually visiting a Man United site. Whatever way you cut it, there's clearly a lot of people in a lot of countries putting the word "Google" into their Google search queries.

[Hurrache]

Most popular breed of dogs around the world.


Zoomable here
https://householdquotes.co.uk/wp-con...ry-Country.png


All from https://householdquotes.co.uk/most-popular-dog-breed/

[Zebra3]

Originally Posted by Chinese whospers

Good luck getting bear in Denmark for that price. Map done up by pissheads.

Beer in supermarkets in Denmark are a lot cheaper than the quoted price.

[Shedite27]

Originally Posted by Zebra3

Beer in supermarkets in Denmark are a lot cheaper than the quoted price.

YEah I was there for the Ireland match a few years back and it wasn't outrageous. Ask for a foreign brand and it'll be a E7 pint. Ask for local beer (Tuborg, or carlsberg) and its E4

[SimonTemplar]

I think the people who are interested in this thread would enjoy the Map Men series on YouTube by Jay Foreman. It is very interesting (the type of stuff you'd hear about on QI) and delivered with incredibly dry British humour. Some of the ads at the end are hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...y3qWTeJEbC_QCp

Jay's other videos are also worth a watch too about other topics such as politics and London geography.

[JupiterKid]

I see that the most popular dog breed here in Ireland is the Golden Retreiver. Wonderful dog - as a family growing up we had one for 14 years. She had two litters of pups and was such a good, gentle dog.

I also see the most popular breed in Gibraltar is the Rottweiler. Seige mentality of the die-hard subjects of Blighty?

Actually, looking at those maps again I see the Rottweiler is very popular in a depressingly large number of countries. Tells you a lot about the mentality of the people there IMO. As for the countries that favour the extremely dangerous Cane Corso - best avoided in my future travel plans.