This was really pointless.
When I last went on holiday with my girlfriend, we were having a great time until she decided to become ill with a dodgy mussel that she had had for lunch. In the evening, I was shooed out of the hotel room as she didn’t want me present when she…well… I am sure you get the idea.

I had read all my books, but I happened to have my laptop with me and access to the internet. I was idly reading Digital Spy when I came across an article about the program ‘Two pints of lager, and a packet of crisps’. With this in mind, I decided to conduct an experiment.

Hypothesis:

“Do only stupid people watch ‘Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps?’?”

Testing and data collection phase:

An informal email survey of friends to see how many watch TPOLAAPOC throughout the evening. There were different levels of viewing, ranging from ‘what’s that’? to ‘the odd episode’ to ‘all the time, and I sky+ it to watch it again and again’.

This was added to general intelligence rating amongst my friends using a bespoke points based system. This was based on how clever I thought they were.

Random test control subjects were also used in the form of a German tourist, a Greek barman, a couple from Kettering, and a small boy who kept on trying to look on my screen. This was a sample of some of the people in the hotel bar where I was.

Test note: There was a great deal of confusion from the Greek barman who kept on serving me two pints of lager and a packet of crisps when asked – his results were excluded from the overall data set.

Data Analysis:

There was an overall breakdown in the quality of analysis. Much of this was derived from the confusion with the aforementioned barman.

The data I had seemed to be inconclusive. Access to BBC3 also seemed to be a sticking point. The graphed results were scattered with not much conviction either way.

Conclusion.

Half my friends watch it. The other half don’t. I watch it. I must be half stupid. As I knew this fact already, I deemed the experiment to be pointless.

I then spilt a pint of beer on my laptop. Fucksocks.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 11:32, 1 reply)

Beer + laptop =
...well, for me it's usually wikipedia surfing. Open any link that looks interesting in a new tab, and wind up with about 20 lovely articles to read.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 12:27, closed)