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Old 10-21-2008, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by lostbutterfly View Post
Basically, a standard 75cl bottle of 14% wine is 10 units. A bottle of beer is 1.7. I went through a stage of calculating my units to try to keep within the recommended guidelines.

I thought I was doing really well, until I realised they meant 14 units a WEEK, not 14 a DAY! Seriously! Why even bother to drink!
There again, not only is the UK term of units confusing, but what does cl, as in 75cl mean? I know the metric system and English system and I dont recognize cl.

*Oh cl is centiliter, my mistake.

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