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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 17, 2008, 05:13:56 AM
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malaise (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:43 PM
Original message
If you had to give up either sex or the Internet for two weeks, which would you choose?
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/15/2008-12-15_...
WOW!
48 percent of women and 30 percent of men prefer the Internet to sex, according to a new study by Intel Corp.
The study asked more than 2,000 adults what they would rather give up for a period of two weeks, the Internet or sex.
Turns out, a lot of them would rather give up sex. (This begs the question: where can we find out what they're surfing the Web for?!)
The survey also found:
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58 percent of adults would give up watching TV for two weeks rather than have to give up Internet access for only one week
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65 percent of adults said they cannot live without Internet access
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39 percent said they couldn't live without cable TV and 20 percent couldn't live without dining out
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Only 10 percent said they couldn't live without a gym membership.
babsbunny (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:45 PM
Response to Original message
1. I haven't had sex for 10 years, so..........
I win!
appleannie1 (680 posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:47 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. And I thought I was a loner.
Myrina (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:50 PM
Response to Reply #1
11. ... you've got me beat! I'm closing in on 2 years ...
3waygeek (907 posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:55 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. 22+ years for me
fiziwig (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:10 PM
Response to Reply #1
21. 14 years celibate. I don't regret it at all. The Internet, on the other hand...
... is indispensable.
ChazII (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #21
34. Agree with you 100%.
DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:10 PM
Response to Reply #1
22. Me too, damn, this is an easy one......
Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 09:09 PM
Response to Reply #1
33. 10 years, 9 months give or take a couple weeks
a new record for me. Previous record was 8 years.
Sex is overrated. The internet is not.
madokie (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:48 PM
Response to Original message
7. Well at my age sex doesn't carry as much weight as it used to.
Richard D (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
8. Wish I had the choice.
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sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:51 PM
Response to Original message
12. A gym membership?! Have those people ever heard of the Big Outside?
deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:03 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. The big outside doesn't have weights.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:11 PM
Response to Reply #14
25. It does but they're just not all stacked up for you and waiting.
It definitely doesn't have a bottled water machine or card swiper.
deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 09:22 PM
Response to Reply #25
38. I don't think you understand weight training. I suspect you aren't much of a physical specimen.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 09:35 PM
Response to Reply #38
39. Then you guess wrong.
Uh-huh.
Doug's ex-wife has a great honker, one of those aesthetic sneezers.
Really.
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:08 PM
Response to Reply #12
17. Yeah, kinda like the Weather Channel.
When I was a kid, we didn't have teevee. But we had our own Weather Channel.
All you had to do was walk outside and look around.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 08:17 PM
Response to Reply #23
27. There's weather where I come from.
And it can kill you, if you're not savvy.
It's interesting, in a Freudian way, that the lying titty primitive doesn't get around to answering the question, internet or sex?
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Synicus Maximus (21 posts) Tue Dec-16-08 09:46 PM
Response to Original message
44. Sex
I ain't getting that much anyway.
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Hmmm.....no bragging about all of the girlfriends who keep him warm at night? Interesting indeed.
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3waygeek (907 posts) Tue Dec-16-08 07:55 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. 22+ years for me
HOLY CRAP! :o This dummie is either really old,really annoying or really ugly! :-)......maybe all three! It either sealed up or fell off! :-)
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sfexpat2000
A gym membership?! Have those people ever heard of the Big Outside?
Have you?
I guarantee you she spends a minimum of 8 hours on-line everyday.
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Dear TiT,
You live in CALIFORNIA. The costal region, if I'm not mistaken, not the desert or Sierra Nevadas. WEATHER is the least of your worries.
Sincerely,
Just got power back and facing another ice storm where people really HAVE died due to the weather.
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Dear TiT,
You live in CALIFORNIA. The costal region, if I'm not mistaken, not the desert or Sierra Nevadas. WEATHER is the least of your worries.
Sincerely,
Just got power back and facing another ice storm where people really HAVE died due to the weather.
Good that you finally got your power back, Sparky.
We had a couple, not too far from where I sit now (Glenville, maybe?), die of carbon monoxide poisoning, and there was a bunch of people in Troy (13, to be exact) that took a charcoal grill into their place to stay warm. I think three of those people are dead, with the other ten hospitalized, from CO poisoning.
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The responses sure explain the morose "mood" of the DUmmies.........no wonder they hate the world. :evillaugh:
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26 years without sex for me... life-long celibacy so far!
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26 years without sex for me... life-long celibacy so far!
I think you're making a moral choice. The DUmmies, OTOH, lack the social skills to have much of a life outside the internet or are just too ugly for anyone to bang.
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26 years without sex for me... life-long celibacy so far!
H5 for you, IA, and to Tantal for making the distinction.
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Reinforcing the stereotype quite nicely.
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I think you're making a moral choice. The DUmmies, OTOH, lack the social skills to have much of a life outside the internet or are just too ugly for anyone to bang.
Yep, I'm guessing most DUmmies don't choose celibacy, it has been forced upon them.
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I assume they are limiting that to meaning "With other people....."
:evillaugh:
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I assume they are limiting that to meaning "With other people....."
:evillaugh:
Atman should "give them a hand," so to speak . . . :loser:
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Gads, they're pathetic! Sexpat has got to be the biggest idiot on the planet, demonstrating once again she knows a whole lot about nothing. The big outdoors and weight training are 2 different things. I just can't understand why she'd actually WANT people to see the stupid.
Cindie
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Dear TiT,
You live in CALIFORNIA. The costal region, if I'm not mistaken, not the desert or Sierra Nevadas. WEATHER is the least of your worries.
Sincerely,
Just got power back and facing another ice storm where people really HAVE died due to the weather.
How much FEMA money did you get? Was there looting? Riots? Guns confiscated by your Democrat Mayor?
KC
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Gads, they're pathetic! Sexpat has got to be the biggest idiot on the planet, demonstrating once again she knows a whole lot about nothing. The big outdoors and weight training are 2 different things. I just can't understand why she'd actually WANT people to see the stupid.
Cindie
They are all experts;
Someone who knows more and more about less and less until pretty soon they know everything about nothing.
KC
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Sexpat has got to be the biggest idiot on the planet.....
You're a woman, and might not understand, madam, because different things impress different genders.
Doug's ex-wife has got one Hell of a good-looking snozzle, one has to admit.
The ancient Roman variety, long, aquiline, betraying her northern Mediterraneac derivation.
Just a really good-looking honker.
I'd hesitate to call myself a sneezer man, but the nose is one of the things I consider, when contemplating whether or not a femme is aesthetic.
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You're a woman, and might not understand, madam, because different things impress different genders.
Doug's ex-wife has got one Hell of a good-looking snozzle, one has to admit.
The ancient Roman variety, long, aquiline, betraying her northern Mediterraneac derivation.
Just a really good-looking honker.
I'd hesitate to call myself a sneezer man, but the nose is one of the things I consider, when contemplating whether or not a femme is aesthetic.
Hell, I must be one handsome man then! Back in the day my CB handle was Cyrano, if ya get my drift. :-)
Even my kids ask me, "Is that your nose, or did a bus park on your face". :-)
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Even my kids ask me, "Is that your nose, or did a bus park on your face". :-)
So, In a past life you were Jimmy Durante?