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Glass Shapes Can Make Us Drink Too Much
Roland Piquepaille writes "Some people think that a glass is half empty while others see it as half full. But one thing is sure: some glasses are fuller than others. According to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), researchers from Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that short glasses are more likely to lead to over-indulgence. In fact, people pour 20-30 percent more alcohol into short, wide glasses than into tall, narrow ones of the same volume. The researchers obtained similar results with students and professional bartenders. So, as New Year's Eve is coming, remember to use only tall glasses for your party!!!"
Do you mean by "drink too much??"
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I have found that after switching to this glass not only do I typically only fill it half full, I rarely even finish it all.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Silly me. I thought it was the alcoholism.
People who drink out of bottle shaped glasses tend to drink more than even those who use short glasses!
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Use short glasses when someone else is buying the liquor, tall when you are.
Use short for your date, tall for you.
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P.S, To my wife (who also reads /.): I'm just kidding of course. I never did that. Especially since I met you.
Is that like really, really fun science? You know, that kinda looks like a Calvin & Hobbes word. You didn't just get the boxed set for Christmas, did you?
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Heh, given the lack of women here at Georiga Tech, it is no wonder that the only possible research is in analyzing alchohol and alchohol glasses.
The only other possible research alternative would have been to analyze network cable lengths, but then you get into cliched-joke territory.
Funny anecdote - a graduate student here asked a prof for a good hangout, and he recommended a place right across our research lab. Dude took his girlfriend there, only to realize that it's a strip club. Hilarity ensued. And of course, the same prof usually offered free beer and pizza if you came to his saturday meetings.
Now you know why they do research into alchohol glasses here at Tech.
After extenshive testing I haff determined that the shshshort glasshes are the besht for extenshive testing porpuses.
Now where the hell did I put my pants?
Faversham, Mr. Domo.
I knew there was a reason why I drink 3 cans of Dr. Pepper every day. Not for the caffeine, but for the carbonated water.
So where do beer bongs fit into this study?
In my part of the world, that is measured in inches. Is this some new trend, using mass? Hey baby, I'm 700 grams.
... and then they built the supercollider.
The real party animals won't be reading SlashDot ;)
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
One of my friends has taken to ordering Jack Daniels, chilled, in a martini glass. Most bars charge you for one shot but pour at least two--even bartenders who can pour a good 4-count will pour it, take a look, think it looks empty, and double it.
rage, rage against the dying of the light
Some people say the glass is half full, others say the glass is half empty, but engineers say that the glass has a factor of safety of 2.
which should be about 1 hour and 3 hours before midnight.
I think you need to lay off the alcohol already...
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
Some say the glass is half full,
Others say, half empty,
Engineers say, "that glass is not built to specs."
Hey will you take the same bet if there is some "putz" who insists the pint glass is 20 fl. oz? You don't mind visiting Canada or the UK do you?
god i hope not.
So, as New Year's Eve is coming, remember to use only tall glasses for your party!!!
If you want to have a good party, you should probably do the opposite.
Wow, my pretentious-o-meter went off that scale after reading that post.
You know how a lot of Americans feel about their guns? Well, we're like that with beer. Any politician who gets labelled as the guy who nicked our beer... well, his career is suddenly not worth a great deal.
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