From truth tellers to television repeats
in 21 easy steps.
% of proposals of marriage from men that take
place over the Christmas season 31
% of men who attended a work do who confessed,
in a Cosmopolitan survey to manoeuvring a female colleague under the
mistletoe as an excuse to kiss her 38
% of British women who wed in 1963 who chose a
man six or more years younger than themselves 3
% of British women who wed in 1998 who chose a
man six or more years younger than themselves 7
% of British women who wed in 1963 who chose a
man younger than themselves 15
% of British women who wed in 1998 who chose a
man younger than themselves 26
% of British women who from a survey of 5000 who
claimed never, ever, to have lied 6
% who admitted faking orgasms 48
% who admitted pretending to weight less than
they do 51
% who admitted to telling 'Flattering lies' about
a partner's sexual ability 73
% who have feigned delight at bad Christmas
present 88
% of men aged 22-32 who say their mums buy them
underwear more often that their girlfriends 38
% of single men who say a relationship is the
one thing that would most improve their life 44
% of attached men who don't view kissing another
woman as cheating 13
% of British adult who have taken part in a
threesome 10
% of people with an STI who tell their sexual
partner 90
% rise between 1999 and 2000 of women reporting
being sexually assaulted after their drink were spiked 60
% of drug rapes that are perpetrated by
acquaintance 70
Daily wage of Gwyneth Paltrow's chauffeur, who
apparently often ferried her macrobiotic lunch from her Belgravia flat to the
set of the Elstree Studios £
200
% of Brits who had an Atkins diet-safe Christmas
dinner (no carbohydrate and little alcohol) 40
Number of BBC two's 24 Christmas Day TV
programmes that were repeats 17
Compiled by Tom Templeton
1,2 Cosmo/Dating Channel 3-6 ONS 7-11 That's
life 12-16 Cosmopolitan 17 Drug Rape trust 18 The Sturman reports 19
Evening Standard 20 Hospital Saving Association 21 BBC
Published in The Observer Magazine (11/01/2003)
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