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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.
--MarkusQ
P.S, To my wife (who also reads /.): I'm just kidding of course. I never did that. Especially since I met you.
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.
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...
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