Not me personally, but the members of the goo Research monitor group reported on their worst-ever kiss, for both women and men.
Demographics
Between the 18th and 24th of September 2009 1,156 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 63.8% of the sample were female, 10.1% in their teens, 20.8% in their twenties, 30.0% in their thirties, 23.4% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 6.4% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This does seem like a rather unusual demographic spread for goo Research.
Luckily I haven’t suffered from many on the list, although we once got chased off from beside a vending machine by someone who wanted to use it…
Ranking results
Q: What was your worst-ever kiss? (Sample size=738, women)
Rank Score 1 Someone I didn’t like suddenly kissed me 100 2 Partner had terrible bad breath 72.4 3 Was drunk and kissed anyone 62.2 4 Got rubbed by his whiskers and it hurt 49.6 5 Bumped teeth 43.3 6 Unnecessarily long snog 33.1 7 Was a dare in a “Truth or Dare” 31.5 8 Family saw us 27.6 9 Was kissed in front of people 21.3 10 Partner had heavy nose breathing 19.7 11 It was a parting kiss 19.7 12 The guy I really fancy saw me kissing someone else 17.3 13 Partner had protruding nose hair 17.3 14 Partner was watching the television 16.5 15 Partner’s rough lips hurt 15.0 16 Got a static shock 13.4 17 Our glasses got entangled 11.8 18 Partner got a nosebleed 11.0 19 Partner didn’t close his eyes 10.2 20 Stranger interjected something while we were snogging 9.4 Q: What was your worst-ever kiss? (Sample size=418, men)
Rank Score 1 Partner had terrible bad breath 100 2 Bumped teeth 86.2 3 Was drunk and kissed anyone 67.2 4 Was a dare in a “Truth or Dare” 43.1 5 Partner’s lipstick, lipgloss was all sticky 41.4 6 Someone I didn’t like suddenly kissed me 37.9 7 Partner didn’t close her eyes 36.2 8 Family saw us 22.4 9= Partner had protruding nose hair 19.0 9= Partner’s rough lips hurt 19.0 11= Got a static shock 17.2 11= It was a parting kiss 17.2 13 The girl I really fancy saw me kissing someone else 13.8 14= Was kissed in front of people 13.8 14= Our glasses got entangled 13.8 16 Partner had heavy nose breathing 12.1 17= Partner was watching the television 10.3 17= It was dark and I missed her lips 10.3 17= Stranger interjected something while we were snogging 10.3 20 Needed to go to the toilet mid-snog 8.6
2 Comments
thistokyolife.com · November 23, 2009 at 13:10
what’s a “penalty game”?
Ken Y-N · November 24, 2009 at 00:44
I was taking the literal translation of batsu-game, but since you posted I’ve decided to change it to a dare in a Truth or Date, which is not quite the same, but the equivalent idea and more understandable, I hope!