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Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Our Georgian and Victorian ancestors may have enjoyed a Christmas tipple but -- judging by the size of the glasses they used -- they probably drank less wine than we do today. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that the capacity of wine glasses has ballooned nearly seven-fold over the past 300 years, rising most sharply in the last two decades in line with a surge in wine consumption. Wine glasses have swelled in size from an average capacity of 66ml in the early 1700s to 449ml today, the study reveals -- a change that may have encouraged us to drink far more than is healthy. Indeed, a typical wine glass 300 years ago would only have held about a half of today's smallest "official" measure of 125ml.
Stop with all this rational thinking and study reading right this minute! We need to get eyeballs not facts, now drop and give me 10 health tricks your doctor doesn't want you to know.
This story reminds me how on our high school road trip a friend of mine was only drinking from small glasses, so as not to get drunk.
Or was that me? It's all a bit fuzzy.
I am certain I was the one running through the hotel halls shooting a staple gun and wearing a lampshade on my head.
Which is something you want to be wearing when shooting staples at walls in a cramped space. Those staples will ricochet all around.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
IS it the "lefts" fault for forcing people out of jobs after they've been abusing the power bestowed on them? Or is it the fault of the people doing those actions?
Whatever happened to "personal responsibility", which used to be the mantra of the right? Oh, that's gone...
1. Regulate your own breathing. Lazy breathing leads to inadequate lung utilization. Think about your breathing and try to use all of your lung. One good strategy is to alternate a single really deep breath with a few very shallow breaths.
2. You are drinking your water all wrong. Atmospheric gasses can leave water over time, creating dead water. Don't drink dead water! Always decant your water (especially factory-produced bottled water!) into a cup, and then pour it back and forth into another cup to properly aerate it.
3. Most people don't get enough acid in their diet, forcing their stomach to work harder. Eat lots of citrus, tomato, and vinegar.
4. People in cold climates rely too much on nutritional vitamin D. This is nothing but factory-produced vitamin D added to your food artificially... yuck! The only natural way to get your daily allowance is to remove as much of your clothing as possible and get out into the mid-day sunshine.
5. During the winter, some people develop a sensitivity to wood-burning smoke. Fire places and fire pits are much more popular in the winter, and people's unaccustomed systems react poorly. To keep your system smoke-ready, eat plenty of smoked fish and barbeque during the warmer months.
6. Bad blood tends to accumulate in your lower extremities. Heavy metals and other toxins collect and need to be distributed so that your organs can filter them from your body. To accomplish this, a simple headstand is sufficient. Every two hours, pause what you are doing and hold a head stand for about 1 minute.
7. Ceramic coffee cups are made from oxides of Aluminum and Silicon, which can cause human health issues. Always use a disposable paper cup.
8. The little "donut" ring on your computer's cords is great for limiting electrical noise through the wire, but the tradeoff is a disturbed electromagnetic energy field. Always tear these little donuts off to improve your electromagnetic environment.
9. The interior air of cars is laden with mold spores and plasticizer vapor - always drive with the windows down, even in winter.
10. Raw or undercooked chicken can indeed contain salmonella, but cooking the chicken straight through denatures critical proteins. A healthy person can handle exposure to salmonella, and regular exposure should make you more resistant. Always under-cook your chicken.
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W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Speak for yourself! The box of wine is all the way in the other room. Filling up that 0.6L glass means I'm sitting down with a fancy $7 glass of wine. That's called being classy, not being a drunk when your wine costs that much by the glass.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Your spelling is a little pour.
Nobody would ever fill them
I'm curious, hypothetically asking, if you'd never met a lumberjack, would you conclude that it's absurd that they exist? Because people fill glasses like those. You just don't know them.
"Old man yells at systemd"