Tag: survey

Study proves that men really are funnier than women

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 26, 2011

Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers,
and the New Generation of Funny Women
(Studies in Humor and Gender)

Web Watch has heard from many entertainment professionals that men are always going to be funnier than women.

Jerry Lewis said it, others have as well.

Heck, we’ve seen this play out in real life — with women-based comedies often getting short-changed at the movie theater (until Bridesmaids came along to prove everyone wrong). TV is a different story, with female-lead comedies often leading the ratings, until something Horribly Wrong happens to have those shows suddenly and mysteriously cancelled.

Rosanne? Laverne & Shirley? The Lucy Show? All written by men, we’ll guess.

Even Tina Fey, when she was head writer at SNL, said that it was tough to be a woman working in a man’s world.

Tags gender, Jokes, Party Talk, survey

News shopping

What are you doing to afford holiday shopping this year?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 24, 2011

Mrs. Pinchpenny's Guide to Surviving the Holidays on a Budget
Mrs. Pinchpenny’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays on a Budget

With the holidays around the corner, people are starting to think about ways that they can get gifts for their families and friends without breaking the budget (assuming that they even have a holiday spending budget in the first place!).

A recent survey from COUPON CABIN of almost 2,500 people asked how people were going to afford the holidays this year, and this is some of what they found:

Tags holidays, jobs, News, Save Money, shopping, survey

Book Movies TV

Spoiler Alert! Spoilers are GOOD for you! (Psst: Vader is Luke’s Father)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 11, 2011

Spoiler Alert: Bruce Willis Is Dead and
399 More Endings from Movies, TV, Books, and Life

Rosebud is a sled.

It was Earth all along.

Soylent Green is people.

Snape kills Dumbledore.

No longer is it safe to save a favorite movie, book, or TV show for later enjoyment if you want to avoid having the ending spoiled. Web Watch has mentioned before that we were successfully able to avoid hearing about the ending of THE SIXTH SENSE until we finally saw the film ourselves on DVD. Yes, we knew there was some general plot twist, but we always were able to avoid any in-depth conversation about it until many months after the film had been released.

And that was before Twitter and the #spoiler or #spoileralert hashtags came into play. We’ve gotten into online battles with friends who are active on various social media sites who have become angry about conversations on shows that they haven’t seen yet, but were pissed that they just happened to come across someone else’s comment.

Dude, if you don’t want to know what happened, then stay the hell off of Twitter. How the hell are WE supposed to know what you have or haven’t seen yet?

Tags Book, Movies, science, survey, TV

Music

Want a hit song? Then you might as well sing about sex

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 10, 2011

Let's Talk About Sex
Let’s Talk About Sex

If you want to be a songwriter, they say that you should write about what you know.

And if you want to be a successful songwriter, it ends up that you should WRITE SONGS ABOUT SEX.

Tags Music, Relationships, survey

Science

Are you an unmarried couple that’s living together? Your kids hate you.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 9, 2011

WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: THIRTY CONCLUSIONS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES from the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia was recently released.

And if you are a couple with children that happen to be unmarried (“living in sin” is what our parents called it, back when “sin” was a bit more inflammatory than it is today), then you have set your children up on an unhealthy spiral as they grow older.

Some of the results from the study include:

Tags parenting, Relationships, survey

10 Things food

America’s Favorite Casual-Dining Restaurant is…. Cheesecake Factory?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 5, 2011

Top Secret Restaurant Recipes

Would you have guessed that THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY would be named the 2011 FAVORITE CASUAL DINING RESTAURANT in a recent consumer survey?

Tags 10 Things, business, food, restaurants, survey

10 Things

The Best Companies to work for? How about “Where do YOU want to work most?”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 2, 2011

The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America

We’ve all seen those lists of the TOP COMPANIES TO WORK FOR, based on survey results that cover all sorts of topics like their work-from-home/telecommuting policies, time off, healthcare benefits, and other aspect – both tangible and not so much.

But a list of the TOP COMPANIES TO WORK FOR will only go so far – because the majority of those lists are usually family-friendly, local organizations that know how to cater towards their employees.

And there’s nothing wrong with that. If you are one of the lucky people working for one of those organizations, then good for you. You’re already there.

Tags 10 Things, apple, business, Google, jobs, microsoft, survey

Science

1-in-12 Michigan women suffer from vulvodynia

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 1, 2011

Ending Female Pain: A Woman's Manual - The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Women Suffering from Chronic Pelvic and Sexual Pain
Ending Female Pain: A Woman’s Manual
The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Women Suffering from Chronic Pelvic and Sexual Pain

One in twelve women living in Michigan suffer from vulvodynia.

And what is vulvodynia? It’s a pain in a woman’s external genital area. It could be a chronic pain, or it could come from some sort of contact such as from sex or riding a bicycle.

So where does this 8% of Michigan women figure come from?

Tags health, medical, Relationships, survey