Students Pay More for Beer Than Books (Yahoo)

[Endangered Specie]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20040823/od_nm/students_dc

LONDON (Reuters) - British students spend about $1.8 billion on drink every year, nearly three times as much as they cough up for books, a survey released on Monday showed.



At $1.81 billion, the collective bar tab of Britain's students is close to what they spend on books and food combined -- $600 million and $1.2 billion respectively. Rent costs them another $4.5 billion.

The survey by the Royal Bank of Scotland was conducted to compile a "Student Living Index," which ranks cities by offsetting living costs with earning potential from part-time work.



- I am not suprised.

[Doctor Smith]

1. Well, like, duh! You can't drink a book!

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Dammit!

You stole my answer! :P

[Blue-Jay]

3. Shit, I could've told them that.

duh.

[yellowcanine]

4. Somebody got PAID to do that survey? Where can I get a gig like that?

Damn, I always miss out on the cool stuff.