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iPod More Popular Than Beer?
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Zonk
on Thu Jun 08, 2006 04:03 PM
from the screwed-up-priorities dept.
from the screwed-up-priorities dept.
prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."
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Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://whineymacfanboy.googlepages.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday April 12 2007, @09:28AM)
Story is about american students. Summary headline should read:
Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.
(I'll leave the facebook==beer popularity jokes to others:)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
American beer is like sex in a canoe, its fucking close to water.
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:4, Informative)
There are plenty of very good (and close mainstream, pun intended)
beers from the US these days. Avery, New Belgium, and Victory breweries
are some of my favorites. (beware the Golden Monkey)
Of course, most of those brew English or Belgium style,
*shudder*so props to the originating countries for showing the way.
I just wish I could convert more of my 'NASCAR' type friends
from 'Bud' and the 'Silver Bullet'. When they come over and peruse
my fridge full of tasty, bottled treats they give a blank look
and whine: but where is the Coors?
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://theravensnest.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @07:05AM)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://prube.com/)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Informative)
Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.
Not just college students (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/ | Last Journal: Friday November 09, @08:01PM)
Go away, you're not 21 (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://myatomic.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday November 19 2006, @12:31AM)
For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States, where the legal age for possessing an alcoholic beverage is somewhere in the junior year. With an iPod, on the other hand, any college student in the United States can rip CDs and buy DRM'd tracks from iTMS.
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft. Those two guys are a little creepy anyway.
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:5, Funny)
(http://whineymacfanboy.googlepages.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday April 12 2007, @09:28AM)
Individually, I understand every word in that snippet.
But together.... just not parsing.
Good lord, have you been to college? (Score:5, Interesting)
I was at one of those schools in a state where the drinking age was 21. What I can tell you is it's easier to get beer than a nice glass of ice water!
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
Stupid kids. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://koutouki.org/)
In other news... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.nathanlongmusic.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 16 2005, @11:10PM)
A new phrase. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice (Score:5, Funny)
Tomarrows headline: (Score:5, Funny)
Oh crap! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.stageselect.com/)
I just bought an iPod! THE HUMANITY! Beer, I miss thee already!
(heh)
Age factor? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~GillBates0 | Last Journal: Tuesday July 10, @04:36PM)
Barring underage drinking, it is more likely than not that students over 18 years would vote for beer, while iPod's would appeal to the younger agegroup as well. Infact early teenagers seem to be the target of their marketing campaigns, and people who're more likely to vote iPod over alcoholic beverages.
Given the fact that most students in the country comprise of the 0-18 age-group, and a minority in the 19 and over age group, the results aren't surprising, and infact skewed.
Statistics (Score:5, Insightful)
Still whats better than jamming out with your iPod while surfinf Facebook and getting drunk?
I dizagrea (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday October 12 2005, @10:30PM)
huh? (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.loscreepers.net/)
You might want to check your math, you drunk facebooking iPod dancing freaks!
Im ny day we studied in college, humming along to an 8 track! And that's the way we liked it!
Flawed Survey (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://mattwarden.com/)
Not everyone likes beer. The percentage is higher with college females. Why didn't they ask 'alcohol' instead of 'beer'?
Re:Flawed Survey (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday July 03 2005, @04:43PM)
Because they have an agenda.
SB
Budweiser beats Barry White everytime (Score:5, Funny)
Once again the education system fails us.
Why, those young punks.... (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday March 20 2007, @10:17PM)
These kids nowadays with their $250 iPods... Sheesh!
Something seems fishy... (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, nerds drink too! (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cmoore/)
Probably... (Score:3, Funny)