Living in the material world

[gassor]

A team of anthropologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have decided, after one of the most extensive pieces of research into contemporary life ever conducted, that we are living in "the most materially rich society in global history, with light-years more possessions per average family than any preceding society".

In the smallest home in their study, a house of 980 sq ft, there were, in the two bedrooms and living room alone, 2,260 items. And, because of the rules the anthropologists were using to count, that was only the things they could see when they stood still. They didn't count any of the stuff that was tucked into drawers or squeezed into cupboards.

On average, each family had 39 pairs of shoes, 90 DVDs or videos, 139 toys, 212 CDs and 438 books and magazines. Nine out of 10 had so many things that they kept household stuff in the garage. Three quarters of them had so much stuff in there, there was no room left for cars.

All the case studies were in the US, but is it really that much different in the UK?

 

[Joe Hutch]

Too many threads, man.

http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=168045

 

[gassor]

Too many threads, man.

Mods, chuck it in the bucket, we need to de-clutter de forum.

 

[Bananahead]

But .

But .

I'm collecting them .

 

[Still]

And with thread we can sing-a-long.

 

[gassor]

And with thread we can sing-a-long.

Not so fast, this a Sound of Music reference that you want to plant as a sleeper earworm so that when we hear it sung we will obey your command? Or maybe not.

 

[lrt1367]

All the case studies were in the US, but is it really that much different in the UK?

I think the starving in Africa might take issue with the study mind.

 

[Still]

Not so fast, this a Sound of Music reference that you want to plant as a sleeper earworm so that when we hear it sung we will obey your command? Or maybe not.

Until reading that I had been voguing through this thread (so to speak).
Now my brain is alive with the sound of musical sickness, you swine! ;-D