How to insult a nation in 6 words

[telesonic99]

"England can not bat for toffee"

 

[Crankarm]

Hehe. You're probably quite right - thanks for the alignment. I just don't like sensationalist journalism, and for whatever reason, this one really touched a nerve .

Which is not likely to give any reaction as they are all anaethetised up to their eyeballs on vodka . 46 bottles a year is nearly a bottle a week! Hardly time to sober up. Mind it's cold and wet up there for 360 days of the year and with politicians such as Alex Salmonface it's no wonder they don't drink more than this so they are permanently pickled .

 

[Crankarm]

Hehe. You're probably quite right - thanks for the alignment. I just don't like sensationalist journalism, and for whatever reason, this one really touched a nerve .

Which is not likely to give any reaction as they are all anaethetised up to their eyeballs on vodka . 46 bottles a year is nearly a bottle a week! Hardly time to sober up. Mind it's cold and wet up there for 360 days of the year and with politicians such as Alex Salmonface it's no wonder they don't drink more than this so they are permanently pickled .

 

[mcshroom]

"England can not bat for toffee"

After today that's not an insult; just a statement of fact really

 

[mcshroom]

"England can not bat for toffee"

After today that's not an insult; just a statement of fact really

 

[Coco]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

 

[Coco]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

 

[montage]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

We built hadrians wall, you complained

 

[montage]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

We built hadrians wall, you complained

 

[scook94]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

 

[scook94]

You'd drink 46 bottles of vodka if you had neighbours like us

 

[rich p]

If that's an average and there's a lot who don't take up their quota then there must be quite a few who exceed that figure.
Why did they use vodka and not scotch?

 

[rich p]

If that's an average and there's a lot who don't take up their quota then there must be quite a few who exceed that figure.
Why did they use vodka and not scotch?

 

[661-Pete]

"England can not bat for toffee"

The way they batted today, the wicket might as well have been made of toffee...


But back to topic. A classic example of 'how to lie with statistics', I think, and reading the headline and the opening paragraph, I'm inclined to agree with the 'insult' claims. They could equally have conjured up a headline like "xx% of adults in Scotland drink the equivalent of more than yy bottles of Vodka..." ("...Whisky"?), whatever the values "xx" and "yy" turn out to be. That would have equally explained that there is a problem, but would have presented it in a far different light. Or they could even have gone all technical and stated the variance or sigma, but that would have lost most people who stop at the lies rather than the stats...

 

[661-Pete]

"England can not bat for toffee"

The way they batted today, the wicket might as well have been made of toffee...


But back to topic. A classic example of 'how to lie with statistics', I think, and reading the headline and the opening paragraph, I'm inclined to agree with the 'insult' claims. They could equally have conjured up a headline like "xx% of adults in Scotland drink the equivalent of more than yy bottles of Vodka..." ("...Whisky"?), whatever the values "xx" and "yy" turn out to be. That would have equally explained that there is a problem, but would have presented it in a far different light. Or they could even have gone all technical and stated the variance or sigma, but that would have lost most people who stop at the lies rather than the stats...