Web more popular than sex, says Intel Large percentages of American men and woman would rather give up sex than be disconnected from the internet, chip giant Intel has claimed. The chip maker's internet usage behaviour study, which examined the behaviour of 2119 US adults, found that 46 per cent of women and 30 per cent of men would opt to go without a bonk for …
Can't remember who said it but....
"When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good" - you can't say that about the web.
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Perhaps the survey tells us more about the marketing people at Intel than about people's actual preferences. They might say they would rather give up sex, but it's easier to say than to do.
Do these percentages roughly correlate with the proportion of the population who can no longer see their own private parts due to the size of their gut? Or in fact more likely, the proportion whose PARTNER can no longer see their own privates.....
Although seriously it shows that the internet, like mobile phones before it (and TV before that etc.) has become something that a large section of people now see as a necessity in their life and not just a luxury. I remember when mobiles were considered a luxury item and now it seems almost nobody can manage without one. Likewise, net access used to be the domain of the geek, but now it's something that everyone needs.
That's comprehensive! With a population of over 305,000,000 this is a staggering
0.000695%.
The same taken obviously includes a huge number of people for whom sex and the use of the internet are mutually exclusive ( apart from the 5 finger shuffle )
Guess it must be a slow news day.....
First, the report is from Intel. Well, they would say that, wouldn't they (with a nod to Mandy Rice Davis who knew a thing or two about rumpy-pumpy).
Secondly, don't these people realise that for many geeks the internet *is* their sex-life?
Mine's the one with the Cat5 cable dangling out of the pocket and the semen stain on the front.
Perhaps call girls should advertise 'up to' 8mbps (mucky bonks per session) to your home and then only actually deliver 2.6, but charge you the same anyway?
How would those kinds of punters react to that kind of business model, especially when the same damn whore is giving the bloke next door the full 8 every night of the week?
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