Best Couples

~*BEST COUPLES*~
Almost 98% of people
marry their 7-12th grade sweethearts
& because you opened this you will get
a good talk on friday by the person you love or like!
& it will also be the best day of your life.
do not break this chain.
Repost this as "*Best Couples*"
you got two minutes
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First of all, the 98% claim is completely ridiculous and I can't even begin to talk about how silly it is.

Secondly, I'm wondering how I somehow keep getting these things that are apparently for 14-year old girls by 14-year old girls.

[MidgardDragon]

Originally Posted by Class Bravo

~*BEST COUPLES*~
Almost 98% of people
marry their 7-12th grade sweethearts
& because you opened this you will get
a good talk on friday by the person you love or like!
& it will also be the best day of your life.
do not break this chain.
Repost this as "*Best Couples*"
you got two minutes
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First of all, the 98% claim is completely ridiculous and I can't even begin to talk about how silly it is.

Secondly, I'm wondering how I somehow keep getting these things that are apparently for 14-year old girls by 14-year old girls.

Do you...talk to many 14-year old girls? :x Warning: a yes answer will likely put you on a registry of some kind.

Anyways, the first thing I said after reading the first two lines was: bullshit!

Hell, I didn't even talk to 14-year old girls back when I was 14.

My reaction after reading the first two lines was pretty much the same as yours. I'd be hard-pressed just to remember a few peers' names from that time in my life.

[One-Fang]

I doubt 98% of people get married. Let alone who they're marrying.

I married my university sweetie (neither of us had a high school one), and I was a rarity. We are still the only people we know that married someone they dated at that kind of age.

[KathyB]

Percentage of adults who have never marriedIn 2004, for Americans 40-44 years old, 17.6% of men and 12.2% of women have never married. Even if half of them eventually marry before they die, that still isn't 98%.

Interestingly, since 1970, the number of people who have never married has increased significantly.

a Canadian survey found that "20% actually met their significant other while on the job." The Vault 2005 Office Romance Survey found that "22% percent of respondents report having met their spouse or significant other on the job."

Why am I even bothering when those 14 year old girls all know that anecdote=data?

Maybe 98% of people who marry a sweetheart from school marry one from 7th-12th grade?

Nah, I got nuthin'.

I wouldn't worry about putting too much effort into trying to bring any credibility to this one.

[One-Fang]

Originally Posted by KathyB

"20% actually met their significant other while on the job."

I take it that doesn't have quite the same meaning in Canada that it does here in NZ.

[Brad from Georgia]

I don't think I'd like to marry a fourteen-year-old girl. I don't even like to hear them talk.

[queen of the caramels]

Originally Posted by One-Fang

I take it that doesn't have quite the same meaning in Canada that it does here in NZ.

KathyB is from California not Canada. But it would appear to have the same meaning in the UK

So....I'm guessing that "on the job" is slang for knocking boots?

[KathyB]

From effingpot, my favorite site that interprets British English for Americans

On the job - If you are on the job, it could mean that you are hard at work, or having sex. Usually the context helps you decide which it is!

[Trixie Tang]

I'd love to see a really thorough study on how successful a marriage is compared to how they met/ how long they knew each other. I doubt anyone could draw useful conclusions from the results, though. I met both my husbands the same day, at the same time, (they were college roommates) and so far, the second one is much better.

[One-Fang]

Originally Posted by queen of the caramel

KathyB is from California not Canada. But it would appear to have the same meaning in the UK

Heheh, yes sorry, I meant it's a Canadian report, that's where Canada came into the equation.

[DadOf3]

Originally Posted by One-Fang

I doubt 98% of people get married. Let alone who they're marrying.

I married my university sweetie (neither of us had a high school one), and I was a rarity. We are still the only people we know that married someone they dated at that kind of age.

I admit that the 98% figure is insane, but I married my one-and-only high school sweetheart, and we'll be celebrating our 23rd anniversary in May. We met in grade 10 and started dating in grade 11.

My brother-in-law married his high school sweetheart. They started dating when he was in grade 11 and she was in 10. Friends from church started dating in grade 7 or 8 and they've been married about 10 years or so.

So, it does happen. But 98% is absurd.

[Mickey Blue]

Well of course it happens, for starters there are alot of places in America where kids are married before the age of 18. That said I'd wager that 50% of Americans don't even keep close contact (and I mean more then "Merry Christmas", "Happy Easter" stuff) with high school people, much less marry them.

[kitoboo]

When a high school teacher told us when we were in the 10th or 11th grade that very few of us would actually marry our high school sweethearts we were stunned with disbelief. Of course he was right.

-kitoboo

[franjava]

When my husband of 12 years and I started dating, I was a senior in high school and he was a freshman in college. So... I married my HS sweetheart, but he didn't marry his. Good thing, too. She was a loony.

I didn't even know my (now) wife when I was in HS. We weren't even in the same state...

[Tabbyclaw]

Is it sad that when I saw the title of this I immediately started listing off my various fandom OTPs in my head?

My "high school sweetheart" was a guy I'd known since preschool; we had two dates and I haven't actually spoken to him since the summer after graduation. Nope, not seeing us tying the knot any time soon.

-Tabby
the "Booth/Brennan, Drakken/Shego, Lily/Snape, Jack/Jo, and Mac/PC, just for the record" princess with claws