Saturday, November 19, 2005

Coffee drinkers enjoy drinking coffee shock horror

Britain, UK news from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online:
Another despatch from the department of the bleeding obvious. It clearly was a very onerous task to discover that "high street cafes are convivial places where people go to enjoy others’ company." Who knew? I always go to to them to play ice hockey. I feel a couple of research proposals coming on:
1) to investigate the reasons why people go to pubs. This will involve a two year longitudinal study of human interaction in public houses. Researchers will be committed to spending at least twenty hours a week in pubs in order to conduct their research.
2) to investigate the impact of personal income on restaurant choice. This will involve visiting a large number of restaurants, especially the more expensive ones, and interviewing people about the amount of money they have spent. Researchers will be obliged to eat at these restaurants to conduct covert investigations of the subjects.