I don't think it even takes me 47 hours to blab!
The average woman cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours, a study has revealed.
Researchers found that women are overcome by a burning desire to share gossip as soon as they hear it.
They will typically spill the beans to at least one other person in an average of 47 hours and 15 minutes.
The study of 3,000 women aged between 18 and 65 also found four out of ten admitted they were unable to keep a secret - no matter how personal or confidential the news was.
More than half admitted that alcohol could prompt them to dish the dirt. Boyfriends, husbands, best friends and mothers were most likely to be initial recipients of the information.
Michael Cox, UK Director of Wines of Chile which commissioned the research said: 'It's official - women can't keep secrets.'
I wrote on my Facebook page that I didn't need no 47 hours to start blabbing and asked how long it would take them to spill goss, and my friends commented:
Sarah Louise Cook
Phew, thank goodness you told me as I have the HOTTEST gossip that I was going to tell you!! Because I can share as long as you DON'T repeat!!! ;-) x
Tammy Pruitt
Depends on how juicy it is!
Jeanne Bernard
You are too funny. Just wait till I leave England, after I go and visit you, till you blab about me.
Jennifer Butt
I can take it to the grave if it was told in confidence. : )
Karin Malchow
Dislike plugging myself, but that doesn't stop me. My take on the subject: http://tiny.cc/DnRme
Steve Borthwick
Everyone loves a good gossip including men, so I'm not convinced this is biased by gender, but you didn't hear that from me... right!
Barbara Woolworth Hutton
Oh, gosh, who really tells the truth in these studies? If you want a secret kept, DON'T TELL IT, especially to proven blabbers (which, we must assume, is everyone.) If you think about it, "keep a secret" is an oxymoron: if it's really a "secret," then it wouldn't be shared anyway by the source, so the "keeping" part is meaningless. "Keep a confidence" might be a more accurate term?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1213855/Women-really-secret-Gossip-shared-just-47-hours.html#ixzz0RGzKfUJh
2 comments:
You can't trust anybody with a secret, except your priest and your physician, who are bound by clerical and HPPPA dictates, respectively.
Tell your secrets, and you are guaranteed a wide audience, when your trusted friends decide to blab! And they will, yes indeed, they will!
My husband learned many years ago not to bring home any courtroom tales---if they were juicy enough, I'd blab!
And then, we hear people insanely blabbing about THEMSELVES! Can you spell "book contract," children? Can you say "cash in"? Sure you can!
Now, who really gave a s**t about mediocre actress Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of a couple of Mamas an Papas, who had a role in a boring unfunny sitcom, went on to greater glory as a heroin addict, and basically was (deservedly) forgotten, until...she decides to write a tell-all about (supposedly) having consensual SEX WITH HER FATHER. He's dead, so can't confirm nor deny this weirdo allegation, so I suppose we take her word for it?
I ain't buying it. Not her book, nor the story. Call me naive, call me a cockeyed optimist (or a Just Worldist, as has been done here) but I just don't think anyone in his/her right mind would engage in such. I refuse to believe any father is that lost to decency, or that any daughter would not RUN to her mom, or the authorities, if such a degradation were proposed, or forced upon her.
"Blab" is the topic, right? Why would someone "blab" something so shameful about themselves? As I understand the process of gossip, it's others who blab about YOU.
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