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QI - Ireland
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Sep 15, 2008
I'm going to risk being incredibly dull and say Horses. I think Mongolia is quite high on your list.
QI - Ireland
Mister Matty Posted Sep 15, 2008
>I have to be absolutely clear whether you're guessing potatoes or not, so that I can award the correct bonus or whatever whistle . Is your guess "potatoes"?
No, it's not. As I said I misread the original question and although it *could* be potatoes I'm very sure it isn't.
QI - Ireland
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Sep 15, 2008
*damn*
erm.
Public toilets?
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 15, 2008
Which country would come top of the public toilets list, Robyn?
Not priests/Italy, sorry, SWL.
Italy comes 9th in the list with 30,100 pm.
QI - Ireland
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Sep 15, 2008
For some reason, I'm thinking France. Possibly Canada. Not GB.
QI - Ireland
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Sep 15, 2008
Oh, gawd. I can feel A Klaxon coming on. We're all dooooomed!
France.
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 15, 2008
Not toilets/France.
France comes 18th, with 20,800 of these per million people.
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 15, 2008
No, it's not priests full stop, Rod.
Neither is it Nepal. 
Nepal comes 116th, with 200 of these per million people.
QI - Ireland
Icy North Posted Sep 15, 2008
And I missed a couple of earlier ones. It's not pubs, nor is it roundabouts.
QI - Ireland
A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 15, 2008
With the help of the power of mathematics, I have calculated that Ireland has c.171,000 of these.
This strikes me as being too high to be any single profession. It also seems unlikely that Ireland is a world leader in any of the farm-animals-to-people type ratios, otherwise we'd all be hearing about Irish lamb, beef, pork etc all the time. And we don't.
I'm therefore leaning towards an inanimate object.
That's about as far as what passes for thought processes between the ears of Reddyfreddy have got.
RF
QI - Ireland
A Super Furry Animal Posted Sep 15, 2008
Ireland has the third highest alcohol consumption per capita, after Luxembourg and Hungary. Given the special nature of calculation of alcohol consumption (sales/head of population), Luxembourg figures are distorted due to the high number of people popping over the border from France/Germany/Belgium to take advantage of the lower duty on alcohol there. So that makes it second...
And now, I'm going to make a wild leap of faith that alcoholism correlates to alcohol consumption per capita! 
Is it alcoholics?
RF
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QI - Ireland
- 21: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Sep 15, 2008)
- 22: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 23: Mister Matty (Sep 15, 2008)
- 24: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Sep 15, 2008)
- 25: swl (Sep 15, 2008)
- 26: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 27: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Sep 15, 2008)
- 28: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 29: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Sep 15, 2008)
- 30: Rod (Sep 15, 2008)
- 31: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 32: Rod (Sep 15, 2008)
- 33: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 34: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 35: Icy North (Sep 15, 2008)
- 36: A Super Furry Animal (Sep 15, 2008)
- 37: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Sep 15, 2008)
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- 39: A Super Furry Animal (Sep 15, 2008)
- 40: swl (Sep 15, 2008)
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