XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.sport.football   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <44842af4$0$2013$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl>, B. B.   
    writes   
      
   >"banana"  schreef in bericht   
   >news:wrakCIA0IAhEFwmE@borve.demon.co.uk...   
      
   [I only bothered opening this to see what crap you'd said about   
   football]   
      
   >>>Most people in the UK like [...] football   
      
   Is this true?   
      
   It's not as if any of the polling outfits are saying to people:   
      
    TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS   
      
       a) GIVEN THE CHOICE, I WOULD PREFER THAT THERE WAS SUCH A THING   
                     AS THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP COMPETITION   
      
       b) GIVEN THE CHOICE, I WOULD PREFER THAT THERE WAS NOT SUCH A THING   
                     AS THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP COMPETITION   
      
       c) GIVEN THE CHOICE, I WOULD HAVE NO PARTICULAR PREFERENCE AS TO   
            WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS THE FOOTBALL WORLD   
                     CUP COMPETITION   
      
   ...and then counting up the proportion who answered a) and stating this   
   as an estimate of the proportion of people who liked the world cup.   
      
   That proportion may not be as high as you think.   
      
   In fact, it may well be a minority.   
      
   Most women I've known haven't given a tinker's cuss for football.   
      
   (Although a friend told me recently that she has known several women   
   who've pretended to be interested in football in order to get into a   
   man's knickers, despite actually finding it about as boring as watching   
   paint dry).   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)