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Forum » Topic: 82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 02:05:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php Quaz on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160143 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:26:14 +0000 Quaz 160143@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Ta all. Yes Jeni, I should never fly solo. It's like that time on Evil Island when you asked me to order a fresh 6 tonne Orca and we ended up eating Okra for months. writinginbsl on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160094 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:12:31 +0000 writinginbsl 160094@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ just like life of pi late stars The All New Jeni B on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160092 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:14:09 +0000 The All New Jeni B 160092@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ This is what happens when you don't run an idea past me Quaz. Not only can I not bask in reflected glory, you make ridiculous errors. Any way, I'll give you 4.75 stars, with spelling deductions. (Nice idea by the way.) Perks on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160078 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:07:06 +0000 Perks 160078@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Nice one Quaz. Had me chuckling 5* Titus on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160064 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:28:27 +0000 Titus 160064@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Q, you have my full sympathy. Really frustrating when I only find glaring tpyos in my posts after the edit deadline has passed ... But I still love the idea. Stars. Tripod on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160047 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:40:39 +0000 Tripod 160047@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Nothing secedes like success... Quaz on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160046 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:32:11 +0000 Quaz 160046@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Oh, what a total tool I am. I did indeed meen secede, but it was late when I was running it all past the spell checker and I must have picked the wrong word, feeling too ready for bed at that point to check the dictionary. Looked at it on here today and suddeny realised the glaring mistake. waylandsmithy on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160042 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:36:31 +0000 waylandsmithy 160042@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ My unicorn and I have agreed to give this five stars. Titus on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160016 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:27:30 +0000 Titus 160016@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ I was initially a bit puzzled until I realized: did you mean "secede" [= withdraw from / leave] rather than "succeed"? But I like the idea! medici2471 on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160015 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:54:13 +0000 medici2471 160015@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Never mind Quaz, it's not Monday, it's four days to Friday!.. Quaz on "82% of Brits Would Vote to Succeed from Reality, Says Poll" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55380#post-160014 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:49:37 +0000 Quaz 160014@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ A recent poll carried out by MORI for the campaign for Unreal Life has discovered that 82% of British adults would vote to succeed from reality and live in a fantasy world of their own making. The poll, conducted on a Sunday night with work looming on Monday morning, is bound to call into question the policy of government to “Make everything a bit crap” . When a sample of the UK public were asked to comment further, Dave Goodman of Essex commented, “Well, as a forty two year old smoker, who drinks five pints a night and has a beer gut, I would love to be a professional footballer for a Premier League team who gets to spend his week nights in nightclubs and expensive hotel rooms with glamour models. I’d vote for that.” Celia Downton, who lives in a small basement flat in an unfashionable area of North London, responded “Much as I love my cat, I’d happily drown him in a bucket in order to change my life of meeting so called single men on the internet and in bars, only to end up weeping and bitter after they have used me and I realise that they will never leave their wife. Ideally I’d be a romantic heroine in a billowing white dress, being wooed by a rich, sophisticated, single man who would die for me and quotes poetry as we make passionate love. Either that, or a dominatrix in a dungeon of pain, lashing the skin of all the men who have betrayed me.” Leading analysts have complained that some of the expectations are unrealistic, pointing out that if everyone lived in a fantasy world then nothing would get done, overseas investors would move their business elsewhere, and there would be a shortage of glamour models for all the men who suddenly became professional footballers, let alone the problems of scheduling all the matches for the vastly increased number of Premier league teams. It is further estimated that number of rocket launches required for all of the men who really wanted to be astronauts instead of working in IT would bankrupt the nation. Despite the obvious practical problems, an e-petition to succeed from reality has been started on the government website, and if it gains enough signatures then it will have to be debated in the House of Commons, where it is thought that a number of MPs will vote in favour of being in Celia’s dungeon of pain.