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Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV
Reuters ^
| 02/08/08
Posted on 02/08/2008 12:10:42 PM PST by nypokerface
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions -- said on Friday.
Electrical retailer Comet surveyed 2,000 Britons, asking them what they would give up for a large television, one of the latest consumer "must-haves."
The firm found 47 percent of men would give up sex for half a year, compared to just over a third of women.
"It seems that size really does matter more for men than women," the firm said.
A quarter of people said they would give up smoking, with roughly the same proportion willing to give up chocolate.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
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To: nypokerface
Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV. Plasma?
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:12:42 PM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
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To: nypokerface
Somebody owes me one big damned TV.
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:12:42 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
To: nypokerface
“Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV”
And I’d give up tv for six months in return for sex. :)
To: nypokerface
So they want to compensate for something?
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:13:01 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:13:26 PM PST
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
To: cripplecreek
Somebody owes me one big damned TV. Just one?
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:13:34 PM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: nypokerface
WOW. Is British TV that much better than American TV?
Or maybe American women...
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:13:36 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: nypokerface
From what I’ve seen of British women...
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:13:43 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: nypokerface
Yeah, baby.
To: Slapshot68
I don’t have to make that sacrifice (either way).
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:14:26 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
To: nypokerface
What’s the number of women who would give up sex with British men for a 12 inch B/W tv?
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:14:26 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: nypokerface
Also in the news,
“Half UK Women Would Swap TV for 50 Inch (fill in the blank)”
To: nypokerface
Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV Prostitution, UK style...
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:15:23 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: nypokerface
When you haven’t had sex in several years, it’s not much of a sacrifice.
To: mtbopfuyn
Did they break the survey out to include the responses of gay men, lesbian females, and the transgenered of either sex? It’s sexist to just assume that they are talking about straight men and them giving up on sex with women for the TVs. (sarcasm off)
To: cripplecreek
Somebody owes me one big damned TV.,Where do I go to collect my tv?
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:16:05 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater)
To: nypokerface
And they wonder why they have below-replacement level birthrates.
To: SoldierDad
Married with two young kids, I don’t get much sex or tv. lol ;)
To: nypokerface
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posted on
02/08/2008 12:17:36 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Newt^H^H^H^HTancredo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFred^H^H^H^HRomney^H^H^H^H^H^HRon Paul '08)
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