I eschewed the traditional Friday morning bacon & egg sarnie in favour of being on a diet this morning
You'd think the improved chances of avoiding cancer would make me feel better about this.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:13, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I did a back of the envelope calculation just now.
The woman on the telly said there were about 8000 cases of Swayze cancer a year in the UK.

There are, roughly, 70,000,000 people in the UK.

So all things being equal (which I know they aren't) your chance of getting Swayze cancer are in any given year are 1 in 8750.

If you eat bacon every day your chance of getting Swayze cancer increase by 20% apparently, which makes the odds 1.2 in 8750*

Which isn't exactly a huge change is it?

*I'm willing to accept that my maths on this may be totally wrong when The Mighty Badger points it out.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:19, Reply)

Al. I'm trying to make myself feel better about being on a diet
AND living with a vegematarian. Don't ruin it with mathematics.

Anyway, I thought the UK population was around 61mil?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:21, Reply)

More like 62.1, but that reduces the 8750 to 7750.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:23, Reply)

So you're trying to make yourself feel better about your chances of getting cancer
with BULLSHIT MATHS?!

Pythagoras would be appalled
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:26, Reply)

bacon sucks anyway

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:31, Reply)

You are wrong.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:35, Reply)

I really miss bacon
Of all the meats, it's the one I can least justify at present.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 10:36, Reply)