Can I Get Credit for Time Served???
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Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Half of U.K. men must be insane couch potatoes
grydth
Senior Master
Well, the purveyors of the study obviously hope to give the impression that British men are all couch ridden TV addicts or British women must be terrible in the sack....... either one yielding lots of angst and controversy........... all the hysteria all to their benefit, of course.
I did my own survey.
My personal study shows 95% of what I see in the media to be slanted, trivial or incomplete. I further found that 75% of studies were long on self serving and short on scholarship. A shocking 0% of the time would I trade intimate time with the woman I love for yet another infernal device to bring shallow media trash into my home.
I did my own survey.
My personal study shows 95% of what I see in the media to be slanted, trivial or incomplete. I further found that 75% of studies were long on self serving and short on scholarship. A shocking 0% of the time would I trade intimate time with the woman I love for yet another infernal device to bring shallow media trash into my home.
Hey, TVs won't ask you to cuddle!
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They are a one time expense you can enjoy for years.
Unlike Americans who seem to tell you their entire life story within minutes of meeting you for the first time Brits are very private people and when asked in the street by pollsters will say anything they think the questioner wants to hear. No one in their right mind believes the statistics that come from any company that polls public opinion here.
They only asked 2000 people and half said they'd give up sex for a tv? Out of the millions that live here? Yeah right, that's really accurate!
Big Don you really don't like Brits or Europeans do you as you constantly seem to be looking for things that show us in a bad light
They only asked 2000 people and half said they'd give up sex for a tv? Out of the millions that live here? Yeah right, that's really accurate!
Big Don you really don't like Brits or Europeans do you as you constantly seem to be looking for things that show us in a bad light
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Polls are notoriously inaccurate. It all goes back to the three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.
Tez, did you really not get the humor in the thread's title? This has less to do with Brits or Europeans and more to do with humor, although, I must admit, unlike the majority of Americans I do NOT think something is better just because it is European in origin. Why? Because, that is STUPID.
If I send you a few pounds will you rent a sense of humor?
Nothing wrong with my sense of humour but if you remember you called us hardly civilised and inherently stupid so I guess it's just you I don't find funny.
I must've missed that one - a shame as that had potential for a high humerous-irony-quotient conversation
.As to the OP ... I think not! No ups-downs for six months in exchange for a TV
! Half a year of celebacy so that I can not watch crap on an evenbigger screen ... can we haggle? How about six days? No, too long, humm ... half a week? Nah, forget it - come back when I'm retired :lol:.
Keep it clean people, I'n not a MOD but I can remind you that this is a FRIENDLY discussion forum and not a race war. Keep it respectful.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
If I offended anyone by the above I apologies it was not my intension. I do not believe the story that the link goes to so I made the above statement.
I am into a Chinese way of thinking and its culture (I am married into it) and I can tell you if you asked that question in Beijing it is likely you would get the findings that most men in Beijing would rather punch-out the person asking the question than have a 50 inch TV or have sex.... actually they would pretty much get the same results asking me
If I offended anyone by the above I apologies it was not my intension. I do not believe the story that the link goes to so I made the above statement.
I am into a Chinese way of thinking and its culture (I am married into it) and I can tell you if you asked that question in Beijing it is likely you would get the findings that most men in Beijing would rather punch-out the person asking the question than have a 50 inch TV or have sex.... actually they would pretty much get the same results asking me
Actually most men in the UK would punch out someone asking questions!
Being that it was only for 6 months and most of those asked are probably married, they might do that anyways. So why not say so and get a 50" TV out of it.
Being that it was only for 6 months and most of those asked are probably married, they might do that anyways. So why not say so and get a 50" TV out of it.
If I got a 50" TV I'd have to put it in my sittingroom and go out into the garden and watch it, it's far too big!
I'd have to rearrange the living room to be able to comfortable watch it without getting a stiff neck. Half the crap on TV nowadays isn't worth seeing on a small TV let alone a big screen. I do have a couple of video games that would look great on it, though. As for giving up sex for a large tv...well, I've only been married for a little over two years to a woman 13 years my junior...I'd be in BIG trouble if I tried taking that challenge.
SageGhost83
Brown Belt
I don't buy into statistics, either. They can be slanted to prove anything, regardless of how outlandish it is. I love brits and most of the brits I know are awesome dudes and real swingers. I seriously doubt that they would give up sex for a television, unless they were lying just to get the television. I know that I wouldn't give up one of those sexy british women just for a friggin television only to have to watch the crud that passes as entertainment these days.
