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| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| Nude Calls |
Hmm.
So in addition to some folks wearing their skivvies 3 days in a row (article is also reproduced below and came by way of SC), many Brits also seem to enjoy strutting their stuff, sans knickers.
Maybe these people go about making nude calls because their underwear are in the wash...
Dial N for Naked
Mon Mar 27, 12:31 PM ET
London, Reuters
Up to a third of telephone users in Britain make calls in the nude, with men more prone to do it without clothes than women, a survey revealed on Thursday.
Research commissioned by Britain's Post Office, which offers a fledgling home phone service, revealed that 40 percent of men admitted to nattering naked compared with 27 percent of women. The results were based on a survey of 1,500 telephone users.
The research also showed that people were so busy that one in 10 people admitted to wandering off and leaving the caller talking to themselves.
Nation's knicker secrets revealed
Story from BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/4831180.stm
"It appears we have some curious ideas when it comes to cleanliness."
And more than half of the population have 10 to 20 knickers or pants in their underwear drawer.
The survey also revealed sharp regional variations such as 34% of people in the West Midlands spray their undergarments with perfume to make them smell better.
This compares with 17% of people in the South West and 19% of people in the North East.
Percentage of population with 10-years-old pants
East Anglia 10%
East Midlands 10%
London 12%
North East 7%
North West 6%
South East 7%
South West 9%
West Midlands 12.4%
Yorkshire and Humberside 9%
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posted by Cheshire Cat @ 3/28/2006 12:18:00 am   |
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LOL. The inside out bit has got to be made up. It's just too disgusting to be true.
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Only Britain woudl bother taking the survey in the first place. Can you picture the queen mum jabbering with camilla both san apparel? Pardon me, have to run to the bathroom and throw up now...
Thank goodness it wasn't a three way with Thatcher!!
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Fuff: Oh, I dunno, lol. Seems I've heard too many stories like this on my side of the pond, too. *blanch* ;-)
Charlie: Sure, sure, you stick to that rationale and I'll make sure to send more soap powder. :-)
Re the French: there was a survey done in France many many years ago. I can't remember who commissioned it, but essentially it asked the French how many bars of soap they used annually. The answer: 1 bar. That's right. 1 bar of soap in a year. You can insert your own perfume and cologne jokes here.
When I mentioned the knickers and nude calls to my friend last week, we had a very, very good laugh about the Americans who waste water, French who don't use soap, and the Brits who don't change underwear. Believe me, we were totally amused beyond belief.
Dirk: I see you've made it safely across blogs. Thank you. :-) Funny that you mention the video phones. I thought the same thing when I first read about the nude calls. I'm certain many people will deliberately accidentally have the camera on when they answer nude. For some, that might be an unexpected thrill; for others, I can only imagine they must go blind!
PK: Icko on the 3-way! Bad PK, bad! Actually, I believe the knicker survey was done by a soap company. I can only imagine that both manufacturer and the underwear companies must have been totally gutted when they realised why their profits were so scarce in certain quarters, lol.
Paul: Hmm. You seem to be the only excited about these interesting personal habits, lol.
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how utterly irksome. surely Proctor and Gamble could do some subliminal advertising to change this. Or is this why Seb's photo has him in a towel - to divert suspicion away from him as a Brit ??? Hmmm ??
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Good idea, Mummified! I've no doubt they already do subliminal advertising, but somehow I bet that a call-to-arms, so to speak, about underwear, isn't nearly as sexy as that to liquor or smokes.
Ick ick ick! lol
As for Seb and his towel... I've noticed he's shown 2 photos where he wears a proper tee-shirt, but the rest of him is clad in either briefs or a towel. Maybe he's going for the seductive image?
Then there were those, um, interesting photos in between... lol.
(Huh, my word verification is 'wlaalhle'. Almost close to 'wahey', no? Okay, maybe that's stretching it.)
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I think he's run out of clean clothes meself.
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