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Talking: yet another of many skills
A SURVEY in the United States has just come up with the not too surprising statistic that women talk more than men!
And I bet it cost a few thousand dollars and a hell of a lot of "manpower" to come up with a result that probably every man in the world could have told them without any research.
I have never been a great one for market research, polls and all that. But this result made me laugh.
It seems that women utter 20,000 words a day, while our male counterparts manage a mere 7,000. How they worked that one out I don't know.
But I reckon every man reading it gave a knowing look across the room to the woman in his life.
It does make you think though doesn't it.
Is it because men have nothing worthwhile to say?
Is it because women make all the important decisions in life so have to talk them through?
Is it because we have to constantly tell our men what to do otherwise it wouldn't be done right?
Is it because we are naturally more friendly, sociable and gregarious and so like to chat more?
Is it because we don't spend countless hours sitting in front of the box watching football and uttering the odd expletive when our side misses the goal?
Or is it because we can multi-task so well we can work, play, lunch, exercise and still chat for the nation.
I reckon there are lots of reasons and I'm sure every female in the land agrees we do like to nicely converse with our partners, friends, neighbours, colleagues, shopkeepers, or just the person at the bus stop – or as our men would put it we natter, nag, prattle, gossip, blather, rabbit on or chinwag – just a tad more than the average male of the species.
And do we feel guilty, embarrassed, slightly ashamed? Not a bit of it.
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