I don't care if this is true or not, it's an entertaining thought!
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have £49.00 today. 
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have £33.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have £0.00 today.
But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminium cans for recycling refund, you would have received a £214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
A recent study found that the average Briton walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that Britons drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Britons get about 41 miles to the gallon!
Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it?
Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it?
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This is what the World Bank has yet to understand
And, of course, Snopes has the history of this particular meme up to 2008.
Your maths are off in the second case - the average briton may walk 900 miles, but she doesn't drink 22 gallons of alcohol a year surely - that's about 12 pints of beer a day?
Really? Jesus, I give up sometimes, there is no joy left in the world!
That math seems fine to me. 22 gallons per year is reasonable. There's 8 pints in a gallon, so that's 8 * 22 = 176 pints per year. That comes out to less than half a pint a day.
Excellent...that's they kind of blog which makes blogging worthwhile!
Both of the maths calculations are "right". Anonymous assumed it was pure alcohol (so divide by the ABV to get pints of beer).
Mike assumed it was beer.
Pedantry aside - it was something a bit silly, and I enjoyed it.
Thanks @Fishter and @MikeReinitz - I am a mathematical moron and given that it was just a post of a joke I was sent I was incredibly depressed at the truly joyless response!
But it's good to know it's both funny and plausible - that cheers me up again! : )
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