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iPod More Popular Than Beer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the screwed-up-priorities dept.

prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."

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  1. Bzzzzzzzzzt! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Summary is incorrect. First line of story clues you in:

    Move over Bud. [emph mine]
    Story is about american students. Summary headline should read:

    Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.

    (I'll leave the facebook==beer popularity jokes to others:)
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    1. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by HillBilly · · Score: 4, Funny

      As it goes...

      American beer is like sex in a canoe, its fucking close to water.

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    2. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am a PhD student, so I'm perhaps not representative, but I find this 'research' slightly hard to believe. In the last three years, I have bought exactly one iPod. Over the same time, I have bought several hundred beers. Taking this week as a fairly representative example, I have bought two beers, and no iPods at all.

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    3. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by FinchWorld · · Score: 2, Funny
      I believe the production of American beer is quite cheap, hence its disfavour outside of the USA (for the most part).

      I think the process is get a european beer, drink beer, urinate into bottle, lable as American beer.

      *Ducks away from American Mods, making sure not to spill his Newcastle Brown*

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    4. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by thefirelane · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sorry, you seem to be under the impression college students drink for taste.

    5. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by Random+Destruction · · Score: 3, Funny

      You misspelled Canada.
      Easy mistake.

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  2. Stupid kids. by mctk · · Score: 5, Funny

    No matter how many songs you listen to, she's still gonna be ugly and talk to much.

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    1. Re:Stupid kids. by mctk · · Score: 2, Funny

      And, dammit, she shouldn't be talking to Much. He won't respect her like you will.

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  3. A new phrase. by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Free as in iPod"?!? I think not.

    1. Re:A new phrase. by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Free as in iPod"?!? I think not.

      Maybe it includes free spam?

  4. Tomarrows headline: by a_greer2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    iPod better than sex; survey of virgins shows.

  5. Oh crap! by larsoncc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't realize this was a binary choice!

    I just bought an iPod! THE HUMANITY! Beer, I miss thee already!

    (heh)

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  6. Re:Go away, you're not 21 by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States[...]

          Pfft. Those two guys are a little creepy anyway.

  7. Re:Go away, you're not 21 by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    law-abiding college students

    Individually, I understand every word in that snippet.

    But together.... just not parsing.

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  8. I dizagrea by Jambon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bere is waaay mor popoolre tnah podis! I heave noo idia wat ur talkn abowt ociffer....seeriuslee, man.

  9. huh? by blackmonday · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."

    You might want to check your math, you drunk facebooking iPod dancing freaks!

    Im ny day we studied in college, humming along to an 8 track! And that's the way we liked it!

  10. Re:Statistics by cpsc2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Still whats better than jamming out with your iPod while surfinf Facebook and getting drunk?

    Posting on slashdot while drinking beer, listening to an iPod and 'sufinf' facebook.

  11. Budweiser beats Barry White everytime by JavaNPerl · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can take the one listening to the 6th song on your slow jams playlist, I'll take a women on her 6th beer.
    Once again the education system fails us.

  12. Re:Nice by Amouth · · Score: 4, Funny

    beer always rises again when drinking excessive quanitys..

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  13. Re:Not just college students by Gax · · Score: 2, Funny

    I counted twenty people in my car alone coming back from the Pentagon who were using iPods of various types, three people with Powerbooks/MacBook Pros and two people with brand new Macbooks

    You're having a laugh! Twenty five people in your car using Apple products? Did you have four elephants in the boot running Windows laptops, as well?

  14. Something seems fishy... by tool462 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I question the validity of this survey. Wouldn't beer-drinking college students necessarily be underrepresented in this type of poll? It's totally not a statistically representative sample of college students if they asked these questions during daylight hours, and even worse, if they asked them before noon.

  15. Re:Flawed Survey by umrain · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they're going to get that generic then why not ask 'mp3 players' or 'music' instead of 'ipods' as well?

  16. Probably... by catdevnull · · Score: 2, Funny

    They were probably drunk when they took the poll...

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