Pathetic surveys

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:57 am

If you want to plug your company in the Daily Mail, why not commission a pointless survey? Apparently Mailites can't resist reading about every trivial aspect of their own dismal, predictable lives. Here are some fascinating things I learned today:

From a survey about friendship:

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59 per-cent accused their closest acquaintances of being emotional 'vampires'

From a survey of female dog owners:

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Favourite shows are EastEnders, watched by 41 per cent of owners because their dogs like it, and the Chris Moyles show on BBC Radio 1.

And from a survey of families who play video games:

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Cathy Orr, Senior Director of International PR at PopCap, added, 'As technology becomes even more consumer-friendly, we at PopCap are delighted to see videogames playing an increasing role within family leisure time.'

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:14 am

I really hope that the motto of the last company is "PopCap - In yo' ass"

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:19 am

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Mothers-in-law are one of the most common causes of arguments between British couples, a survey has found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1Vvd7X82y

Arnold · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:39 am

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How women waste 50 BILLION litres of water a year shaving their legs in the shower

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1W7OeqNTB

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:41 am

Not tonight dear, I've got a laptop: Couples spend more time in bed looking at screens than at each other

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The study of two million Britons, including 200,000 Londoners, was carried out by Ikea.

Ikea?

mr angry manchester · **Joined:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:01 pm **Posts:** 282

Surveys in the Sun usually revolve around something to tittilate the Masturbating Masses (the extermist fringe of the Herd) for example, I remember one said that 25% of the population has had group sex. My mate at work quoted this one lunch time in the tea room at work. There were four of us in the room at the time

"I havent"

"neither have I"

"or me"

Then unison to the other person in the room "it must be you then!!"

This produced the reply

"piss off you pervs!!"

Who makes all this bollocks up?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7326

Arnold wrote:

Not tonight dear, I've got a laptop: Couples spend more time in bed looking at screens than at each other

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The study of two million Britons, including 200,000 Londoners, was carried out by Ikea.

Ikea?

Somebody trying to shift some new-fangled "sexy" matresses??

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:55 pm

Mothers prepare for the first day of school:

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One in six will have had a hairdo

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:20 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

Arnold wrote:

Not tonight dear, I've got a laptop: Couples spend more time in bed looking at screens than at each other

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The study of two million Britons, including 200,000 Londoners, was carried out by Ikea.

Ikea?

Somebody trying to shift some new-fangled "sexy" matresses??

I missed most of it, but IKEA have launched a TV ad campaign which seemed to involve chucking laptops out of bedroom windows. Funny that...

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:10 am

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Monday is officially the most miserable day of the week, a survey has found.

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A spokesman for Flomax Relief, which conducted the research of 2,000 adults said: 'Feeling a bit down and under the weather is a common Monday morning problem.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1Xiglr4P5

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:57 am

Well who'd have thought the first day back after the weekend would be the most miserable day of the week.

Honestly, there is something (sort of) in that most depressing day of the year stuff, but I think you'll struggle to find people who readily look forward to Mondays. Even Geldof hated them.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:01 am

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How telling workmates about our holidays wastes 9m hours every year (or 22 minutes each)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1YISureOC

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According to research across nine countries by travel website lastminute.com, 17 per cent of people lie to make the stories more interesting

Esqui · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:18 am

Something the Mail knows all about..

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7326

Arnold wrote:

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How telling workmates about our holidays wastes 9m hours every year (or 22 minutes each)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1YISureOC

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According to research across nine countries by travel website lastminute.com, 17 per cent of people lie to make the stories more interesting

This sounds like an opening shot of the CBI's "War on holidays".

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:01 pm

The CBI seems to be conducting a guerrilla campaign on several fronts. Aided and abetted by the Dacres of Fleet Street.

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