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The "I could have told you that for nothing" award for scientific research goes to...

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    The "I could have told you that for nothing" award for scientific research goes to...

    BBC News - Phone data shows romance 'driven by women'

    What are they going to study next?
    Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

    #2
    Originally posted by Alf W View Post
    Do bears tulip in the woods?
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #3
      once they have made their mind up, they just go for the poor bloke until he keels over and gives in!
      Half the population could have told you that. The other half could have told you as well but they'd never admit it.
      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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        #4
        Originally posted by Alf W View Post
        How about these pointless studies and more:

        Suicide rates are linked to the amount of country music played on the radio, winner, Medicine, 2004
        Ducks can be homosexual necrophiliacs too (winner, Biology, 2003)
        Why woodpeckers don’t get headaches – winner, Ornithology, 2006
        Pointless research: top 10 Ig Nobel award winners for silly science - Telegraph

        What's more sad is they won nobel awards for that .....

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          #5
          Didn't someone get a research grant for studying the effects of alchol on students, and then paid students to go out and get drunk

          Proving that students will get drunk if offered free alcohol, let alone paid to drink it...who'd have guessed
          Doing the needful since 1827

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            #6
            Originally posted by Alf W View Post
            Have they worked out what women use the internet for yet?

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              #7
              Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
              Have they worked out what women use the internet for yet?
              Porn, same as us fellas.

              NEXT!

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                #8
                Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
                Have they worked out what women use the internet for yet?
                mumsnet
                If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by wim121 View Post
                  Pointless research: top 10 Ig Nobel award winners for silly science - Telegraph

                  What's more sad is they won nobel awards for that .....
                  its the Ig Nobel you ignoramus - they are meant celebrate the more obscure/funny pieces of scientific research
                  Coffee's for closers

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by amcdonald View Post
                    Didn't someone get a research grant for studying the effects of alchol on students, and then paid students to go out and get drunk

                    Proving that students will get drunk if offered free alcohol, let alone paid to drink it...who'd have guessed
                    One of my lecturers managed that, he worked on Breathalysers they had to test them! One of his favourite stories.
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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