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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 thefirelane · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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

  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. 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.

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

    beer always rises again when drinking excessive quanitys..

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