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Big Woemen vs Small Women

  • 05-02-2008 8:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering what peoples opinions on this are. Lately Ive noticed some rather delicious plus size women. Well dressed and rather sexy. Or maybe I shoulda gone to spec savers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭the dee


    Another thread about this? I think the general consensus (?) is 'different strokes for different folks' :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    cock robin wrote: »
    Or maybe I shoulda gone to spec savers.
    Should have gone to the search function.

    And indeed, different strokes for different folks. And do a poll next time too (but not this time)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Now c'mon. It wouldn't be a fair fight whatsoever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    All women fall into two categories:

    6 foot+ tall and 250lbs+

    or

    5 foot tall and 75 lbs

    Gee, which will I plump for? Such a compelling thread. I think I'll go and vote for a black Taoiseach instead. Or 6th to go the full distance. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    Slow coach wrote: »
    All women fall into two categories:

    6 foot+ tall and 250lbs+

    or

    5 foot tall and 75 lbs

    Gee, which will I plump for? Such a compelling thread. I think I'll go and vote for a black Taoiseach instead. Or 6th to go the full distance. :rolleyes:

    I will soon have my thread with poll up about "do you take sugar in your tea"

    I think it will be a big hit!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Rob_l wrote: »
    I will soon have my thread with poll up about "do you take sugar in your tea"

    I think it will be a big hit!

    Coffee and Tea forum, It's probably being asked.

    Start more threads though Rob, I like your work. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Feelgood


    Small Woman - Eva Longoria

    Big Woman - Scarlett Johannson

    Personally I'd nail them both, together preferably...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Turnip2000


    Chunky girls need lovin too!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Scarlett Johansson isnt big. **** sake. Dawn French is big. France is big.
    Yeah. Totally pwnd Feelgood LOL ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!1111


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Dawn French is big.

    In fairness to la French, while she wouldn't exactly be my ideal woman, I wouldn't exactly throw her out of bed for eating biscuits (which is probably just as well, as she probably would insist on eating biscuits!)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Hell I'd bring her the biscuits. If I was single and she was caring. I bet she knocks out a mean fry too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    cock robin wrote: »
    Just wondering what peoples opinions on this are. Lately Ive noticed some rather delicious plus size women. Well dressed and rather sexy. Or maybe I shoulda gone to spec savers.

    Well consider this; there are a lot more plus sized men than plus sized women in this country according to a recent study.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    And according to a recent study, about a third of Brits think Churchill was a myth. Clearly not the case :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Mirror wrote: »
    And according to a recent study, about a third of Brits think Churchill was a myth. Clearly not the case :rolleyes:

    So? You mean the stupidity displayed in one study negates all studies? :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    No, clearly that's not what I mean. My point is studies don't really mean very much, when you've got a country of 4 million + and you use three, or ten or even fifty thousand. Congratulations, you now have figures for less than 1/80th of the population...

    Not that I was interested in a debate on the matter, but if you insist on asking!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Mirror wrote: »
    And according to a recent study, about a third of Brits think Churchill was a myth. Clearly not the case :rolleyes:

    True. He wath in fact a mythter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    And according to a recent study, about a third of Brits think Churchill was a myth. Clearly not the case :rolleyes:

    I think this study is a little more reliable than a bunch of uneducated Brits:

    Irish Adults (18-64 years):
    • Two out of five Irish adults - 39% (46% of men; 33% of women) are overweight
    • One in five - 18% (20% of men; 16% of women) is obese.The trend towards obesity in Ireland is increasing. Since 1990 the prevalence of obesity has increased by 67% overall, up 1.25 fold in women (from 13%) and up 2.5 fold in men (from 8%)
    • Ireland has the fourth highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in men in the EU and the seventh highest prevalence among women


    source:irishheart.ie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    luckat wrote: »
    True. He wath in fact a mythter.
    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    shinny wrote: »
    I think this study is a little more reliable than a bunch of uneducated Brits:

    Irish Adults (18-64 years):
    • Two out of five Irish adults - 39% (46% of men; 33% of women) are overweight
    • One in five - 18% (20% of men; 16% of women) is obese.The trend towards obesity in Ireland is increasing. Since 1990 the prevalence of obesity has increased by 67% overall, up 1.25 fold in women (from 13%) and up 2.5 fold in men (from 8%)
    • Ireland has the fourth highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in men in the EU and the seventh highest prevalence among women


    source:irishheart.ie
    What makes it more reliable? The fact that there are lots of fancy numbers?

    My point was clearly lost on you...

    And your assumption that the Brits surveyed were uneducated is silly. If the survey was interested in the facts they would not have solely surveyed uneducated people. I like your conclusion though. It's random.

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    What makes it more reliable? The fact that there are lots of fancy numbers?

    My point was clearly lost on you...

    And your assumption that the Brits surveyed were uneducated is silly. If the survey was interested in the facts they would not have solely surveyed uneducated people. I like your conclusion though. It's random.

    :rolleyes:

    Seems like someone is a little miffed at the survey !! ;)

    Whats your source on the Churchill one or did you just make that up in your own head?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Nope, wrong again! Just "miffed" now that once you've realised the error of your ways you've decided the best plan of action is to simply claim I'm somehow angry at the survey! :D

    Found the Churchill thing in this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055231399


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    Nope, wrong again! Just "miffed" now that once you've realised the error of your ways you've decided the best plan of action is to simply claim I'm somehow angry at the survey! :D

    Found the Churchill thing in this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055231399

    I think you need to go back to school then. 23% does not equate to 1/3.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    That's right, well done. My apologies for being forgetful. :/

    You're skipping my point entirely though so kthxluvubye!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    Feelgood wrote: »
    Small Woman - Eva Longoria

    Big Woman - Scarlett Johannson

    Personally I'd nail them both, together preferably...

    I think Specsavers applies to you...
    Scarlett Johansson is 5'4" and quite petite. Eva Longoria is 5'2" and very petite. The only large difference is their chest size. If that makes her a big woman then you need some help


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    That's right, well done. My apologies for being forgetful. :/

    You're skipping my point entirely though so kthxluvubye!

    Not really, 33% I might have struggled with, but 23% of Brits thinking Churchill was a myth; plausible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    shinny wrote: »
    Not really, 33% I might have struggled with, but 23% of Brits thinking Churchill was a myth; plausible.
    ...

    lol tbh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    ...

    lol tbh!

    Ah, you floored me with that argument :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Size 8 - 10 only for me pleasethankyou (Currently have a size 8 and happy with it) :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    shinny wrote: »
    Ah, you floored me with that argument :rolleyes:
    I think it's laughable, so I laughed. I'm not going to waste my time arguing whether or not it's plausible that 1 in 4 Brits think Churchill is a myth, as it's just opinion vs. opinioin, there can be no winner.

    A fair percentage of Britain were alive during his time in office! That's like asking the Irish, do you think Éamon de Valera is a myth? An equally ridiculous notion.

    So here endeth the lesson.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    I think it's laughable, so I laughed. I'm not going to waste my time arguing whether or not it's plausible that 1 in 4 Brits think Churchill is a myth, as it's just opinion vs. opinioin, there can be no winner.

    A fair percentage of Britain were alive during his time in office! That's like asking the Irish, do you think Éamon de Valera is a myth? An equally ridiculous notion.

    So here endeth the lesson.

    No matter how much you try to suggest otherwise, it is possible that 1/4 think he was a myth. Many may have been alive during his time in office, but probably more than likely, many more weren't.

    Besides, we don't know what age group were surveyed here. Perhaps that has skewed this figure.

    We do know that in the results I gave on obesity and overweight men/women in Ireland, that it was an 18 to 64 age group. Pretty representative IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Mirror wrote: »
    I think it's laughable, so I laughed. I'm not going to waste my time arguing whether or not it's plausible that 1 in 4 Brits think Churchill is a myth, as it's just opinion vs. opinioin, there can be no winner.

    A fair percentage of Britain were alive during his time in office! That's like asking the Irish, do you think Éamon de Valera is a myth? An equally ridiculous notion.

    So here endeth the lesson.
    de Valera is a myth though... isn't he? Next you're gonna tell me Bill Bailey is real I suppose


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    It is possible to believe that 1 in 4 of those surveyed think he is a myth!

    But that those 3000 can represent the entire country is foolish to assume. And that was my point. Surveys don't stand for for much unless a large percentage of the population is accounted for and that a fair and relative number of people from different backgrounds are taken into account.

    I could survey 3000 travellers and then claim that 90% of Irish are illiterate (not to be taken literally, merely a scarcastic example!), or survey 3000 Dublin City homeless junkies and conclude that our country carries the lowest levels of obesity in the EU. See what I'm saying yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    It is possible to believe that 1 in 4 of those surveyed think he is a myth!

    But that those 3000 can represent the entire country is foolish to assume. And that was my point. Surveys don't stand for for much unless a large percentage of the population is accounted for and that a fair and relative number of people from different backgrounds are taken into account.

    I could survey 3000 travellers and then claim that 90% of Irish are illiterate (not to be taken literally, merely a scarcastic example!), or survey 3000 Dublin City homeless junkies and conclude that our country carries the lowest levels of obesity in the EU. See what I'm saying yet?

    But a large percentage was surveyed here, so you've just discounted your own point :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    shinny wrote: »
    But a large percentage was surveyed here, so you've just discounted your own point :confused:
    Sorry, where is that stated??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    Sorry, where is that stated??

    It wasn't, it's in the source data.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    See now that's just downright stupid.

    Number of people surveyed: 3,000

    Population of Britain: 60,000,000 +

    Relative percentage of population surveyed: 0.05%


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭celt262


    I wouldn't be fussy i'd do them all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    See now that's just downright stupid.

    Number of people surveyed: 3,000

    Population of Britain: 60,000,000 +

    Relative percentage of population surveyed: 0.05%

    Then what are you doing using this as comparative? The obesity study is done as part of the CSO office. I don't know the exact figures, but I'd estimate it to be a lot more than 3,000 people. Their figures are always based on a large number of the population.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    You've taken this from attacking my original sarcastic statement, to losing an argument, and you're still digging? When you don't even know the exact figures surveyed? I'm stepping out here, this is clearly like banging my head off a brick wall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭shinny


    Mirror wrote: »
    You've taken this from attacking my original sarcastic statement, to losing an argument, and you're still digging? When you don't even know the exact figures surveyed? I'm stepping out here, this is clearly like banging my head off a brick wall.

    Ah well, at least you might lose a few pounds in the process :D;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Mirror wrote: »
    No, clearly that's not what I mean. My point is studies don't really mean very much, when you've got a country of 4 million + and you use three, or ten or even fifty thousand. Congratulations, you now have figures for less than 1/80th of the population...

    Do you understand anything about statistics or random sampling?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Why yes, yes I do. And in noting your moderation of the maths forum, I would like to point out your own use of the word random. Ergo, mathematics cannot solidly be applied.

    In conclusion, if you survey 3,000 out of 60 million and give me a conclusion from that regarding something as ridiculous as believing Churchill is a myth, I'm going to lol in your face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Mirror wrote: »
    Why yes, yes I do. And in noting your moderation of the maths forum, I would like to point out your own use of the word random. Ergo, mathematics cannot solidly be applied.

    In conclusion, if you survey 3,000 out of 60 million and give me a conclusion from that regarding something as ridiculous as believing Churchill is a myth, I'm going to lol in your face.

    Well the CSO would disagree with you there. Based on your previous post (#33, I think), you haven't an iota about statistics. I guess all the hundreds of years of work that's gone into the science of statistics has all been in vain. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    cock robin wrote: »
    Well dressed and rather sexy.

    There's the clue.....everyone can look good with clothes on.

    Not everyone can look good nekkid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Please, by all means, educate me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    *as a Statistical Analyst is vaguely interested in the nerd war between the Coach and Mirror*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Using Scarlett Johansson as an example of a woman who's "big" is an indication of how distorted our views on size have become.

    And the guy who only goes for size 8 to 10 women: you even KNOW what that means? And you know it means no curves?

    Tell me, are you a fan of Judy Garland too...?


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