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News Flash: Even Smokers Don’t Want to Date Other Smokers


Ashtray

As we celebrate WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY today, Web Watch would like to point out a RECENT SMOKING-RELATED SURVEY that came out that said that 80% of male smokers surveyed would prefer to date a non-smoker.

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10 Things

Today’s Fact: 40-50% of American Marriages End in Divorce


Guy's Guide to Getting Over a Divorce
Guy’s Guide to Getting Over a Divorce

Sometimes one needs to evaluate their personal relationships based on statistics around us in order to see whether we are above the norm or staying about average.

We all want to be in the top x% of whatever the good ranking is; nobody wants to be “average” or worse.  Unless the topic is one such as divorce, in which case the object is to NOT be in the normal range — especially when the range appears to lean towards divorce being the norm.

Sometimes you can’t help it – some marriages are destined to lead to divorce based on established criteria learned from hundreds of thousands of divorces before yours.  That’s what led economist Betsey Stevenson to create the DIVORCE CALCULATOR, a simple way to determine the likelihood of your relationship ending in a flurry of court-approved paperwork or not based on education level and financial stability.

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News

When it comes to their hair, 29% of men surveyed are most concerned about dandruff


Dandruff

According to a RECENT SURVEY ABOUT HOW MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR LOOKS done in New Zealand, men are more concerned about the amount of dandruff they have over whether they are suffering from hair loss.

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Did You Know? The average pair of underwear contains about 1/10th of a gram of poop


Dirty Underwear
Underwear

According to a study by Charles Gerba – professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona: the AVERAGE PAIR OF UNDERWEAR CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 1/10th OF A GRAM OF POO.

Gerba says that when you do an entire load of laundry that consists of just underwear, the wash water will contain about 100 million E. coli.  That many critters won’t completely wash away when the load is complete, and will remain in the washer to infest the next load of laundry that gets washed.

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Websites

The Vaccine/Autism Connection: the Jenny McCarthy Body Count


Healing and Preventing Autism
Healing and Preventing Autism

Autism is one of those conditions whose cause has been difficult to find.

Some parents of autistic children and other autism advocates — as many as one in four parents — have said that CHILDREN’S VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.  Since that original 1998 report proposing that there was a link between vaccination shots and autism came out, further studies since then have SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN THAT NO SUCH LINK EXISTS.

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Disney Movies Websites

How Disney Villains stack up against each other, and against other characters


The Disney Villain
The Disney Villain

Remember a few months ago when Web Watch showed you the PIXAR CHARACTER SIZING CHART?  Well, it seems that was just the beginning for artist Juan Pablo Bravo.

Since then, he has come out with two additional charts in his character sizing series:

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How To Websites

How To Legally Change Your Name (guess what Jack Roy and Chaim Witz have in common)


The Name Change Kit
The Name Change Kit for Brides

Changing your name can be a difficult process, whether it be for business, professional, or personal reasons.

Jack Roy, like other FAMOUS NAME-CHANGING CELEBRITIES, felt that he would find greater success by changing his name to Rodney Dangerfield.

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Gadgets shopping

Things we learned today: The History of the Shopping Cart


Shopping Cart
Shopping Cart

Ah, the shopping cart.

Whether you call it a buggy, shopping cart, grocery cart, trolley, shopping carriage, or shopping basket – we can all agree that they make shopping a bit easier.

Web Watch will refrain from commenting on how recent times have shown parents are using shopping carts as child-restraint systems instead of having lazy kids that are old-enough and big-enough to walk along in the store actually do so.  Don’t know what we’re not talking about?  Here’s a randomly selected example:

child in shopping cart (image courtesy of Flickr)

Yeah, Web Watch never got to ride in the shopping cart when we were growing up once we were big enough to walk on our own in the store. Our parents would never have allowed it.