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And The Sinner Is...BBC's science magazine conducts analysis to determine 'most sinful nation on earth'

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:07 PM EST
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Cranmer is not sure what the BBC is up to with this absurd (?) analysis, but he can guess.

The corporation produces a magazine called 'Focus' – 'a magazine of science, technology and the future'. In latest edition (Feb 2010), there is an article on whether or not nature has 'programmed' mankind to be sinful.

The article is entitled 'Born to sin. Why nature wants you to be bad', and it examines parts of the brain that purport to wire people to commit the seven deadly sins. The article then asks which is the most sinful nation on earth and concludes it is__________________

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For each of the seven deadly sins the rankings are

Lust: 1st South Korea (UK is out of the top 10)
Gluttony: 1st USA (UK 5th)
Greed: 1st Mexico (UK 6th)
Sloth: 1st Iceland (UK is out of the top 10)
Wrath; 1st South Africa (UK 5th)
Envy: 1st Australia (UK 5th)
Pride: 1st Iceland (UK is out of the top 10)

The analysts then allocated 10 marks to the first, then 9 mark to the second and so on with no marks to any nation outside the top 10.

And so *********** comes top with 46 points, *********** second with 32, *********** third with 24 with *********** sixth with 17 measly points.

LOL! Can you guess who is number one?

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:11 PM EST
Shub Tnediserp Remrof

What a shocker America isn't number 1 sinful country. I do agree that America is number 1 in gluttony though. Sad, but I agree.

  • 6 votes
Reply#2 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:22 PM EST
CarlZup

Woo Hooo! We're number one! We're number one!

  • 6 votes
Reply#3 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 10:45 PM EST
Carloz

I never realized you were from Oz, bud! Good to know -- even if y'all are awful sinners. LOL!

  • 3 votes
#3.1 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:48 AM EST
DaVoH

I like sin, it makes me happy...

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 9:02 AM EST
scar_tissue

Well, what would you expect when the Brits created a colony out of prisoners to begin with? LOL

  • 2 votes
#3.3 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 2:29 PM EST
robynlewisTX.

What?! The great Satan isn't #1?

Guess we'll have to try harder next time...lol

  • 5 votes
#3.4 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:10 PM EST
Carloz

What?! The great Satan isn't #1?

Yeah, what a shocker. ;-)

  • 2 votes
#3.5 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:15 PM EST
DaVoH

a shocker

I've done that before, and I think it maybe a sin too...

  • 3 votes
#3.6 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:29 PM EST
CarlZup

Yah, tis mate, feels bloody good tho...

  • 3 votes
#3.7 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 9:07 PM EST
DaVoH

feels bloody good

lol, I'd keep that to myself =)

  • 4 votes
#3.8 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 9:05 AM EST
CarlZup

No worries mate, nobody reads this stuff ;)

  • 4 votes
#3.9 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:17 PM EST
DaVoH

Yeah, only the most serious of bloggers come here, nothing to fret over =)

  • 3 votes
#3.10 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 1:41 PM EST
CarlZup

I never realized you were from Oz, bud! Good to know -- even if y'all are awful sinners. LOL!

I've been there, but I live in Tennessee, which is as sinful, if not more.

If Elvis was still hollerin' and gyratin' he'd tell ya; Tennessee is the Volunteer State, we'll do anything for money, sex or weed, and when we get in trouble we blame the Yanks. :)

  • 4 votes
#3.11 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 2:28 PM EST
Save Me Jebus

Whoo Hoo, I live in # 3. Guess we have to work a little harder to catch 1 & 2. Oh well, there's always next year.

  • 1 vote
#3.12 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 3:35 PM EST
Carloz

I've been there, but I live in Tennessee, which is as sinful, if not more.

Well, I'm originally from Louisiana, which people like Pat Robertson probably believe is a place that made a pact with the devil.

  • 2 votes
#3.13 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:09 PM EST
CarlZup

Well, I'm originally from Louisiana,

Luv yer shrimp gumbo, it's sinful for sure! :)

  • 3 votes
#3.14 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:19 PM EST
Carloz

Even more sinful -- fried boudin!!!

  • 2 votes
#3.15 - Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:49 AM EST
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Shub Tnediserp Remrof

I wonder if BBC just plain out doesn't like the Aussies, so they ranked them number one. Of course then again UK did place fairly high themselves.

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sun Feb 7, 2010 11:34 PM EST
Carloz

I wonder if BBC just plain out doesn't like the Aussies, so they ranked them number one.

I wondered the same thing, Shub. Someone at the Beeb just being snarky.

  • 3 votes
#4.1 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:49 AM EST
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zugbah-1110911

Yes....yeah...We won! We Won? I'm not an Aussie though but I am a sinner! Aren't we all? I wonder!

  • 3 votes
Reply#5 - Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:25 AM EST
weRdoomed

My favorite role as a dancer thus far has been portraying Gluttony -- though I really wanted to play Lust -- so I guess it made me Envious....

Hmmmmm....

  • 4 votes
Reply#6 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 2:40 PM EST
GEEZER-guy

I expected Thailand (after all Bangkok?) to nail LUST, ya think? And what about the slothfull cannabis snacking Dutch?

  • 4 votes
Reply#7 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 4:51 PM EST
CarlZup

The cannabis snacking Dutch are quickly being overtaken by the cannabis Californians, Colorado(ites?), Alaskans, Washington DC ers and another half dozen I can't recall at the moment. So they have been surpassed in that respect. lol

  • 4 votes
#7.1 - Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:28 PM EST
DaVoH

the cannabis Californians, Colorado(ites?), Alaskans, Washington DC ers and another half dozen

I have got to get out of Mississippi...

  • 2 votes
#7.2 - Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:21 AM EST
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