alanwilliamson
Channel 4 has just broadcast an excellent programme on what we all here in the UK, on average use in our life time.
Here are some of the highlights I noted as it was broadcast:
- Consume 16,000 pints of milk
- Average 11.5 years of marriage
- 4,230 times we have sex
- 10 average sex partners
- Produce 3tons of poo
- 5 buckets of vomit
- Consume 56 loafs of bread a year
- Spend £1.5M
- £512k spent on food
- £282k spent on tax
- £236k on leisure
- Use up 3.5 washing machines
- Use up 15 computers!
- Responsible for sending 40 tons of waste to landfill
- Receive 628 Christmas presents
- 8 cars each
- Walks 190 miles a year
- 15,464 miles in a life time
- 440,000 miles we drive in a life time
- 135,950 litres of fuel we use in our car
- 59 foreign holidays
- Know 1,700 people
- 750tons of carbon we produce
- 148mins of TV per day
- 8years watching TV in our life time
- 532 books read
- There are more households that own 2 cars than 2 novels!
- 2455 newspapers read (1.5 tons)
- 24 trees required for that
- Asked to vote in 50 elections
- 74,802 cups a tea
- Consume 30,000 tablets
- Cry 61 litres of tears
- 390 acts of worship
- 104,000 dreams
- Only 1 in 3 of us will know someone that was murdered
An absolute eye opener for the things that we in the UK statistically impact.