so i read an article entitled �three won�t be a crowd in 2050� in today�s age newspaper. in it an �expert�, demographer bernard salt, attributes the trend of women delaying marriage until they are older to the sitcom friends. essentially he is says that tertiary educated women watching friends see a group of 20 something single friends living together and that is why women in australia are getting married later in life.

argh hum, mr salt, or should i just call you, mr talks through his arse, don�t you think that the change in economic and social status for women may be, and i�m going out on a limb here, so you may have to excuse my wild theories, plays more of a role in women marrying later in life? just a wild guess.

my sister watches friends, she�s 26 and married. i have only seen a couple episodes of friends, am 31 and single. so a sample size of 2 doesn�t give weight to my argument, but that�s just an example closest to hand and if i was to do a proper rigorous survey i�m sure the result would be the same.

and where did the �journalist� lisa pryor find this guy? if she wanted ridiculous quotes i could have come up with a lot better ones than that. �yes, women are marrying later in life because they get pets earlier on in life and it is a statistical fact that people with pets live longer, so these women can afford to be single for longer�.

now i may be too harsh on mr salt and it could be ms pryor�s misquoting or taking the quote out of context to fit her 300 word limit, but really. all i can say is that lucky for me i am a tertiary educated girl who can recognize a pile of bollocks when she reads it.