Stuff Governments Waste Money On

From the US Government study:
Shrimp on Treadmills, studied whether shrimp get tired on treadmills.
Cost $500,000

Stuff Governments Waste Money On

  Stephan Bolliger, a pathologist, and colleagues at the University of Bern in Switzerland won an award for a study they did to determine whether an empty beer bottle does more or less damage to the human skull than a full one in a bar fight.

  (Hard to believe you can win an award for busting someone in the head with a beer bottle.)

  "Both suffice in breaking the human skull. However, the empty ones are more sturdy," Bolliger said by email. “This is because the pressure of the beer, aided by carbonation, makes a full beer bottle explode quickly.”

  (My own study, tested on my head during my younger days of bar fights, concludes that if you have a thick head of hair, you can pretty much take an empty or full beer bottle strike to the skull with little or no damage. It also helps to have a large head and neck and to have a brain the size of a walnut floating around in there so a sudden shock will not make it bang the sides of your skull. Shaved heads could be a problem because you take the full force of the blow. So it’s my conclusion that hairy guys with small brains make out better when hit in the head with bottles. I would have written about this sooner if I knew I could get an award for bar fighting.)

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