Chatting in the nude

Yesterday morning I read in a Reuters news bite that up to one third of telephone users in Britain chat on the phone in the nude. The study was commissioned by Britain’s Postal Service. While it is fascinating that British men are more prone to chat on the phone in the buff than British women – I ask, what twisted person at the British Post Office was interested in this? Who would even think of doing a study like this? And what were they intending to do with the results? Perhaps someone enterprising wanted to sell mail-order clothes for wearing specifically when chatting on the phone. Maybe clothes with built-in phones? But if this type of crazy research warrants being published – I’m going to start thinking of studies that could potentially be useful. How many people pick their nose in public? Possibly selling the results to the Kleenex people. How many people chew on their pens while working? I’d sell this to a chewing gum company.