swee'pea99
Member
Ok, so I kicked this off by fwd'ing the lads a clipping, tagged 'Another triumph for graun copy-editing':
(In response to a 'what's wrong with that?, I posted
Uk: £100m
RoW: £114,999m
Um...sure about that?
Once we'd got past
Da fark is a functional drink? As opposed to an ornamental one?
and the like, friend followed up with
UK is 2.2 billion appaz
Now that made me sit up and pay attention. Two-point-two-billion is a lot. We spent over two bill on sugar water last year? I find that very hard to swallow.
(pause for tumbleweed)
Moving on...
(via 'Waiter! My drink is broken!')
friend sends
and this
So on the face of it, the Guardian is right: the global market in sugar water is worth about $179,000,000,000, with the UK accounting for about $100,000,000, 0r just over 0.05%.
Ya think?
How about you, Google AI? What's your take on all this?
I mean, some of it doubtless comes down to exactly what you define as a 'functional' drink - hence the 2.2 bn/7.17bn - but here you have at least one authoritative source putting the figure at c.£100m, another at at least twenty times that. So where's a po' boy to go from there?
(In response to a 'what's wrong with that?, I posted
Uk: £100m
RoW: £114,999m
Um...sure about that?
Once we'd got past
Da fark is a functional drink? As opposed to an ornamental one?
and the like, friend followed up with
UK is 2.2 billion appaz
Now that made me sit up and pay attention. Two-point-two-billion is a lot. We spent over two bill on sugar water last year? I find that very hard to swallow.
(pause for tumbleweed)
Moving on...
(via 'Waiter! My drink is broken!')
friend sends
and this
So on the face of it, the Guardian is right: the global market in sugar water is worth about $179,000,000,000, with the UK accounting for about $100,000,000, 0r just over 0.05%.
Ya think?
How about you, Google AI? What's your take on all this?
I mean, some of it doubtless comes down to exactly what you define as a 'functional' drink - hence the 2.2 bn/7.17bn - but here you have at least one authoritative source putting the figure at c.£100m, another at at least twenty times that. So where's a po' boy to go from there?
