A little birdie sends in a link for a “postie poo.” After that heading, shenanigans, I’d publish anything.
So the news is that 50% of British Men would give up sex for 6 months to get a 50 Inch Plasma TV.
The article explains:
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…
A quarter of people said they would give up smoking, with roughly the same proportion willing to give up chocolate.
What would you give sex up for?
How Many Months of Sex Would You Give Up to Get a 50 Inch Plasma TV?
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I’m glad someone added that last answer.. I was testing you
Just say “no.”
To sweetbreads.
I’ll take the sex
- as to a large TV, I would like to quote the french knight from the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
“he’s already got one, you see., it’s very nice!”
For those who have never seen the French tauting scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs&feature=related
I could wallpaper my apartment with plasma screens for the months I’ve gone without sex
/tried to add as answer but was foiled by spicy bear
/can we get rid of the swicki
yeah, Silmo, can we get credit for time served?
but my real vote would have to count under @5. i could probably build a house. a nice house.
but only if the plasma tvs were solar/passive powered. otherwise, i would build someone else a nice house.
I’m married. I already go for long stretches without sex.
@9 I so hope “josh” is a fake name and your wife doesn’t know how to use the internet!
@2 Say you don’t mean it!
I will watch my TV in the velvet closet.
Sex is lovely, but most people are fucking lunatics.
@10, I’m sure his wife is aware. If she’s not, than he has bigger problems.
This just proves that not only Americans are lazy and stupid. Evidently, Brits are too!
As someone who hasn’t had TV in over 5 years, I can’t even fathom giving up one of the most wonderful, soul-fulfilling, and connecting activities one could ever experience on earth planet for a focking television set. Good god.
btw, on a side note, I read somewhere once that if you put a TV in your bedroom you have something like 90% less sex. And how many people have one in there?
I’ve heard that too, but I’m not sure of the cause and effect. Sometimes I wonder if the TV in the room is there to fill the void that should be already occupied by more sex.
the TV in the room is there to fill the void
They’re doing it wrong.
Ahh, the causation/correlation.
I’ve chosen not to do cable for years, but I’ve got to be honest, all the TV stations put full episodes of their smuttiest reality TV series online, and for that, I am grateful.
Yeah lilith, you actually just got me thinking about the interwebs a bit. I rag on TV ad nauseum, but the reality is, here I am on a blog…at least here there is interaction and communication between individuals, and we sometimes meet or see each other in real life. The TV just spits things out at you, with no room for a reply…
I would never allow the CPU to interfere with my sex life though!
Oh man, I just found out about this fellow wordpress blog today, and not to make assumptions about anybody, but this posting seems most appropriate.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-tv/
I reply to the television all the time. We are good friends. It understands and cares for me.
This just proves that not only Americans are lazy and stupid. Evidently, Brits are too!
Always remember – by definition, about half of the people out there are of below average intelligence…
I mostly watch DVNO.
@16: thanks. now i need two towels.
full episodes of their smuttiest reality TV series
American Midol?
Seriously? Who would give up sex…for anything?!!!! (Unless of course it was bad sex, in which case you should simple give up your partner).
Seriously? Who would give up sex…for anything?!!!! (Unless of course it was bad sex, in which case you should simply give up your partner)
Whoops, that got posted twice…oh, well it was worth reiterating.
I would compromise and give up sects. For example, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God? Dead to me for 50 inches of plasma TVness.
this topic seems to be (for some villains) a sad reminder of just how little they’re getting in the first place. here’s a way to get more.
(trying stanley’s little linky tip… hope it works.
But Lu… its television. It comforts and reassures. It soothes and envelopes. Its honoring of the lowest common denominator wraps around one like a fuzzy warm blanket. I want my stereotypes to be affirmed. I want my options listed on a menu. I want to be engulfed in its softly undulating golden glow for all eternity. Hold me, Wolf Blitzer.
yeah, not so much… here’s the link:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ih8kUG33Uoi5ZEzIROizRqmfYjJQD8V7UEK00
Damm MC, that’s supposed to be closely-held info! Men need to be trained, and you’re revealing shortcuts!
I will say that HD content is the most amazing eye candy ever. You will watching things just because of the pretty pictures- and who doesn’t love the pretty pictures.
Wait till you see a nature show, or the food (porn) network in vivid High Def.
You. Will. Want!
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Also: feel free to use this HTML test bed to test your HTML; just clear the space, type your HTML, and click “display”.
Well, crap. I give up.
HTML test bed
Well, crap. I give up.
For sex?
here’s a way to get more.
Hey mc – want me to come over and “clean your sink”? Or maybe “mop your floor” and “do your laundry”?
want me to come over and “clean your sink”
Did somebody call a plumber…
/bow chicka bow-wooooow
@30
Ah! That sheds some light on this.
Yo, that’s pretty much the same AP story……
My bad. I probably should actually read some of the links rather than just uncorking my bag of inanity without an ounce of compunction nor hint of hesitation…
I will say that HD… is the most amazing eye candy ever.
Thanks, wanago, but if I’m not mistaken you’re a dude, so stop looking…please. Ladies, feel free
I only have sex in rooms with flat screen tvs.
I’ll be in my car
/on the way to Crutchfield
//getting a flat screen just became WAY more important
Have you seen their women? I only know them from shows on PBS, but I’d give up sex with British women and you could keep the tv.
/inadvertent compliment to american hotties in there somewhere
better get a big one oy
haha
Come on B yo, we all see through the sarcasm, TV, is your warm blanket, isn’t it?
(Kidding, of course)
I can’t even believe this discussion is occurring! For goodness sakes, it’s sex, why would anyone give up human contact in place of some TV?! It is just TV. The only time I even watch TV is for sports, and even that is limited. I am just too busy for it, but sex I will ALWAYS make time for.
You men take note, I hear it is always on your minds. I strongly suggest putting down the remote and living out whatever sexy thing you are watching,,,goodness knows the woman will feel better than the couch (or you could combine the two…mmmm…a man on a couch).
I’m not giving up sex, and I’m getting a flat screen TV, too! Hello, tax refund!
Hyacinth Bucket is da gormless bomb, man! She’s all the mirrored tiles, not the fitty flat TV on wall. She’s well done in the kitchen, too my man! All the meat pies, the custards, the spotted dick, it’s little Britian to rock your world!
1. Ummm…have you ever seen most english women?
2. Lets try that test with….something a bit more interesting…
really? give up sex for a tv?? um, no.
i watched “the descent” on my normal sized, not flat-screen, HD tv last night. i had no desire for a bigger screen, i promise. however, if there were someone around to spend the night with me and protect me from the creepy-ass cave monsters, i’d have been okay with that.
/loves scary movies but jumped at her own shadow in the shower last night.
//so ashamed.
are any of you “are you crazy, I wouldn’t give up sex for $10M” peopel married? just curious.
In Soviet Russia, sex gives up you!
@52 I never woman believe who say size doesn’t matter
or believe woman
i was merely referring to the tv.
That just what the conscious mind wants you to believe…
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
and sometimes a cigar can nearly get a president impeached
better get a big one oy
15 INCHES BABY!!!
is 40 ounces enough?
(malt liquor, that is)
Sex lasts 2 minutes….er, I mean 2 hours….but a 50 inch plasma lasts many years (and will help you get more sex). I know what my decision would be.
Hell, I’m already halfway to getting a TV. Anyone from Crutchfield or Best Buy reading this?
@49, my return SUCKS, so I’m currently without sex, flatscreen, and fat check from the feds. And Satellite is my Hero just said I sound like a “c” in the other thread. And no more Polaroid. And Texas and Ohio voters let me down. And it’s not yesterday any more. Today blows.
And Texas and Ohio voters let me down.
lilith: the blogosphere is atwitter about the fact that Obama is likely to have won Texas once the caucus results fully come in. Still, you have no sex or TV or refund. But hey! I helped some. Maybe.
My tax refund = $1. Literally. I have a check from the Commenwealth right here. I think that might get me 5 minutes of watching someone else’s HDTV. Or a drink to help me deal with my televisional shortcomings.
I still owe the IRS $2600, so no refund for daddy. I have a big ass new TV which makes me uncomfortable, but is nice to watch movies on.
At least I still have the velvet closet and my Bea Arthur doll.
fook taxes they rr bullshitt. girlss shouldna haveta pay thems!
@68
i’ll see your velvet closet (keep the bea arthur doll)
and raise you http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/540076210.html which might make your television time more comfortable.
boo. that didn’t work.
i’ll try another time.
going to get coffee now.
OMFG…stuffwhitepeoplelike is so funny I choked on my Captain Crunch. it’s like Jeff Foxworthy for yuppies. This guys OWNS white hipster liberals with full neckbrace and shackles. If you skipped that link…go back. Charlottesville is CHOCK FULL of the kinda white people described in stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
@72:
ahaha I was totally like that before I bought my big LCD HDTV…
@73:
i was totally gonna agree but then i realized you said L”C”D.
actually in my head it was pick and choose words, like:
“ahaha i was totally like that before(skip words)L_D”(end)…”