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65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-talk-now-honey-i'm-clearing-auchindoun dept.

Ant writes "PR Newswire reports that 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other (SO). The "Cyber Stress" study confirmed consumers' growing relationship with technology in their everyday lives. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 Americans (84%) say they are more dependent on their home computer now than they were just three years ago."

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  1. I Would Comment On This... by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... but I have to go have sex with my wife.

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    1. Re:I Would Comment On This... by mockchoi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can you at least wait until I'm done?

    2. Re:I Would Comment On This... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      No worries. I got it covered.

    3. Re:I Would Comment On This... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why not have cybersex? Then you can do both!

      (Just don't forget your robe and wizard hat.)

  2. My PC is my SO by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    You insensitive clod!

    1. Re:My PC is my SO by bartyboy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Once upon a time, my SO was a PC, too. Until I discovered that her beige box was full of viruses, that she was rooted by strangers and that neighbours would piggyback on her fat pipe.

  3. In other news by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdotters, known to not have SOs, are believed to have caused a great innacuracy/bias in this report.

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  4. Coincidence.. by zyl0x · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, on a completely different topic, World of Warcraft subscriptions have exceeded 8 million.

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  5. I can't wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for National Mandatory Sex and Cuddling Day.

    (Verify word was "nearby"? Must be a sign....)

  6. Ridiculous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just ICQ'ed this story to my wife in the other room and we both agree that it is just BS.

  7. One of us. by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    PR Newswire reports that 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other (SO).

    One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us.
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  8. The reason is simple by Snarfangel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The PC does what you tell it to.

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  9. Obvious why by hardcode57 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have much more sex when you're with your computer.

  10. Re:Techno-Dystopia by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > > proximity becomes irrelevant: neighbours become irrelevant.
    >
    > Right, I will make sure to email you when I'm sick and need groceries, or to look after my kid when I need to go out a bit.

    And if you'd spent more time with your computer instead of your SO, you wouldn't have a kid who needs looking after when you need to go out a bit. More importantly, you'd have finished that "nifty robot who'd be able to go out and get your groceries for you when you're sick" project that's been sitting in your basement since you left college.

    "I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping,
    Robo-guitar gently weeps.
    I look at the floor, and I at least Roomba's sweeping,
    Robo-guitar gently weeps."

  11. Hmmmm... Significant Other... by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I seem to remember having one of those... Someone nagged me when I was upgrading our router... but the memory is dim... Anyway, the food miraculously appears and somehow the children get to bed, so I suspect someone is in the house doing these things...

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  12. Big Deal by cat_jesus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I spend more time with my underwear than I do with my SO and she doesn't seem to mind it. It has the added benefit of keeping my dangly bits from rubbing all over the inside of my pants.

    1. Re:Big Deal by LoveGoblin · · Score: 3, Funny
      It has the added benefit of keeping my dangly bits from rubbing all over the inside of my pants.
      Unfortunately, they also keep your dangly bits from rubbing all over the inside of her pants.
  13. Open Mouth, Insert Foot by Paulrothrock · · Score: 2, Funny

    I listen to quite a few podcasts. I listen to them mostly when I'm doing housework. One day, I had just finished the dishes and had about ten minutes left on part one of MacCast's podcaster roundtable, so I sat down on the couch and took a quick break. My wife took that as the signal for "cuddle." Then she asked me "Why do you like listening to your people on your podcasts talk and not me?"

    I said "Because they talk about interesting things."

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  14. Re:who are these people?! by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    All the normal ones have been eaten; the bony ones are next.

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  15. Re:Techno-Dystopia by Billosaur · · Score: 2, Funny

    But since Europeans and European-Americans aren't breeding anymore, it doesn't matter: you'll all be dead within a generation.

    Why do you think we fund cloning research?

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  16. Re:You forgot by Bastian · · Score: 4, Funny

    *My SO is another avatar in Second Life

  17. Re:Furthermore... by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "And what about the time spent with your SO in a room both using computers while chatting with each other...."

    And what about the majority of those on Slashdot where the computer IS their significant other?

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  18. This sums it up!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    WIFE: Babbbyyyyy, why don't you pay attention to me??

    HUSBAND: I'm busy on the computer!!

    WIFE: Well...I want to do some EXPLORING...(giggles)

    HUSBAND: (click) (click) (click) huh?

    WIFE: mmmmmm.....I wanna explore new sexual positions...

    HUSBAND: ehhh wouldn't it be quicker to just GOOGLE it! (click) (click) (click)