Stop it Rik, this is terrible, I can't take it!

sorry John,i know they are pretty awful.its just my classic pun style cheesyness

Steve wrote: Which reminds me, whilst at Wacken two of my mates bought two cases of alcohol-free Becks the fucking numpties!

thats nothing, i know a guy who spent loads on non alcoholic champagne!! Well i presume it was, cuz he got 600 euros worth and it didnt get him anymore pissed than he already was

Alcohol-free Becks is probably better than all that Capri-Sun.

Alcoholic Beck's is ridiculous. It looks like same but the box has blue trim instead of red. I would have bought it a couple of times if it weren't for the helpful lassie in Tesco reminding me that it was the non-alcoholic shite.

Immortalicide wrote:

Steve wrote: Which reminds me, whilst at Wacken two of my mates bought two cases of alcohol-free Becks the fucking numpties!

thats nothing, i know a guy who spent loads on non alcoholic champagne!! Well i presume it was, cuz he got 600 euros worth and it didnt get him anymore pissed than he already was

For that amount he could have got 3 shit handjobs. Please bare in mind I paid €560 for two bottles of champagne which I didn't consume

Why?

I mean - I've still not got this clear in my head - what kind of mess were you in to do that?

Metal Iain wrote:Incidentally can you share your source for your statistics with me or are you passing off mere hearsay as fact?

Drop in the Annual Drug Related Deaths Rate (St Georges University of London)
http://www.sgul.ac.uk/index.cfm?848746A ... E7BBE50937

The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (np-SAD) based at the International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's Hospital Medical School, has found that there has been a notable drop in the annual rate for drug related deaths from 1,583 in 2002 to 1,487 in 2003, a drop of six per cent. The report launched today by Melanie Johnson, Minister for Public Health, contains the latest surveillance report of drug-related deaths as reported by Coroners in the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man) for the year 2003.

Main findings are:

The majority of cases (70 per cent) were males and under the age of 45 years (73 per cent).

50 per cent of cases died from accidental poisoning. This is a reduction of 13 per cent compared with the previous year. However, there was an increase in the proportion of intentional self-poisoning cases from 19 per cent in 2002 to 37 per cent in 2003.
Opiates/opioids (i.e. heroin/morphine; methadone; other opiate/opioid analgesics), alone or in combination with other drugs, accounted for the majority of fatalities (74 per cent). Although heroin/morphine was still implicated in the majority of cases (36 per cent), a 19 per cent decrease of heroin/morphine-related death rates was observed with respect to the previous year.

There were 132 cocaine-related deaths, a rate similar to that observed in 2002. Both amphetamine and ecstasy related death rates decreased, respectively by 14 and 40 per cent, when compared with the previous year.

The GRO (Scotland) reported 317 drug-related deaths in 2003, 17per cent fewer than in 2002. Heroin/morphine was implicated in 55 per cent of cases and methadone in 27 per cent of cases.

In England and Wales, Brighton & Hove recorded the highest annual drug-related death rate per 100,000 population (25.3), followed by East Lancashire (13.9); Boston & Spalding (12.1) and Manchester (11.3).

Compared with the same period in 2002, the following jurisdictions reported significantly lower rates per 100,000 population aged 16 and over, than in the previous year: York (-398 per cent); Milton Keynes (-245 per cent); Oxfordshire
(-86.9 per cent); Cornwall (-79.2 per cent) and North Durham (-77.5 per cent).

Compared with 2002, the following jurisdictions reported significantly higher rates per 100,000 population aged 16 and over, than in the previous year: Southend & South East Essex (+574 per cent); Coventry (+ 337 per cent); Wrekin/Shropshire (+320 per cent) and Western Dorset (+141 per cent).

In commenting on the above data, Professor Hamid Ghodse, Director of the Centre for Drug Policy, St George's Hospital Medical School, said: "The findings of this report seem to indicate an overall decrease in drug-related deaths in the UK. This is excellent news and could well be the result of both the drug misuse monitoring and prevention initiatives promoted and carried out in the last few years. We hope that this trend will continue. However, there is the need for further vigilance and constant monitoring of the drug-related deaths situation. I would like to thank the Department of Health for their support for this very important Programme".



National Statistics On-line
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1091

The alcohol­-related death rate in the UK continued to increase in 2006, rising from 12.9 deaths per 100,000 population in 2005 to 13.4 in 2006. Rates almost doubled from 6.9 per 100,000 in 1991. The number of alcohol-related deaths more than doubled from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,758 in 2006.

In 2006 the male death rate (18.3 deaths per 100,000 population) was more than twice the rate for females (8.8 deaths per 100,000) and males accounted for two thirds of the total number of deaths.

For men, the death rates in all age groups increased between 1991 and 2006. The biggest increase was for men aged 35-54. Rates in this age group more than doubled, from 13.4 to 31.1 deaths per 100,000 over the period. However the highest rates in each year were for men aged 55-74.

Metal Iain wrote:Why?

I mean - I've still not got this clear in my head - what kind of mess were you in to do that?

No matter how many times you ask me to justify my actions that night, I really can't!

Steve wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:Why?

I mean - I've still not got this clear in my head - what kind of mess were you in to do that?

No matter how many times you ask me to justify my actions that night, I really can't!

good! that makes it all the more epic!!!

brighton and hove skag heads

highton and brove hag skeads

terrorizer wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:Incidentally can you share your source for your statistics with me or are you passing off mere hearsay as fact?

Drop in the Annual Drug Related Deaths Rate (St Georges University of London)
http://www.sgul.ac.uk/index.cfm?848746A ... E7BBE50937

The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (np-SAD) based at the International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's Hospital Medical School, has found that there has been a notable drop in the annual rate for drug related deaths from 1,583 in 2002 to 1,487 in 2003, a drop of six per cent. The report launched today by Melanie Johnson, Minister for Public Health, contains the latest surveillance report of drug-related deaths as reported by Coroners in the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man) for the year 2003.

Main findings are:

The majority of cases (70 per cent) were males and under the age of 45 years (73 per cent).

50 per cent of cases died from accidental poisoning. This is a reduction of 13 per cent compared with the previous year. However, there was an increase in the proportion of intentional self-poisoning cases from 19 per cent in 2002 to 37 per cent in 2003.
Opiates/opioids (i.e. heroin/morphine; methadone; other opiate/opioid analgesics), alone or in combination with other drugs, accounted for the majority of fatalities (74 per cent). Although heroin/morphine was still implicated in the majority of cases (36 per cent), a 19 per cent decrease of heroin/morphine-related death rates was observed with respect to the previous year.

There were 132 cocaine-related deaths, a rate similar to that observed in 2002. Both amphetamine and ecstasy related death rates decreased, respectively by 14 and 40 per cent, when compared with the previous year.

The GRO (Scotland) reported 317 drug-related deaths in 2003, 17per cent fewer than in 2002. Heroin/morphine was implicated in 55 per cent of cases and methadone in 27 per cent of cases.

In England and Wales, Brighton & Hove recorded the highest annual drug-related death rate per 100,000 population (25.3), followed by East Lancashire (13.9); Boston & Spalding (12.1) and Manchester (11.3).

Compared with the same period in 2002, the following jurisdictions reported significantly lower rates per 100,000 population aged 16 and over, than in the previous year: York (-398 per cent); Milton Keynes (-245 per cent); Oxfordshire
(-86.9 per cent); Cornwall (-79.2 per cent) and North Durham (-77.5 per cent).

Compared with 2002, the following jurisdictions reported significantly higher rates per 100,000 population aged 16 and over, than in the previous year: Southend & South East Essex (+574 per cent); Coventry (+ 337 per cent); Wrekin/Shropshire (+320 per cent) and Western Dorset (+141 per cent).

In commenting on the above data, Professor Hamid Ghodse, Director of the Centre for Drug Policy, St George's Hospital Medical School, said: "The findings of this report seem to indicate an overall decrease in drug-related deaths in the UK. This is excellent news and could well be the result of both the drug misuse monitoring and prevention initiatives promoted and carried out in the last few years. We hope that this trend will continue. However, there is the need for further vigilance and constant monitoring of the drug-related deaths situation. I would like to thank the Department of Health for their support for this very important Programme".



National Statistics On-line
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1091

The alcohol­-related death rate in the UK continued to increase in 2006, rising from 12.9 deaths per 100,000 population in 2005 to 13.4 in 2006. Rates almost doubled from 6.9 per 100,000 in 1991. The number of alcohol-related deaths more than doubled from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,758 in 2006.

In 2006 the male death rate (18.3 deaths per 100,000 population) was more than twice the rate for females (8.8 deaths per 100,000) and males accounted for two thirds of the total number of deaths.

For men, the death rates in all age groups increased between 1991 and 2006. The biggest increase was for men aged 35-54. Rates in this age group more than doubled, from 13.4 to 31.1 deaths per 100,000 over the period. However the highest rates in each year were for men aged 55-74.

What about figures for the number of people who actually use drugs and who use alcohol? Would it not be better to base your claim that alcohol is the most dangerous drug there is by comparing the proportion of people who drink and die an alcohol-related death to the proportion of people who use drugs and die a drug-related death? Otherwise those figures just shows that alcohol is more wide-spread than drugs - something I don't think anyone would dispute - and not that is a more dangerous drug.

*cough* thread deviation *cough*

Haha, I totally forgot this was about the Evile re-release.