The number of people....

[tinkerbell23]

Would the number of people a potential boyfriend or girlfriend has previously slept with put you off if it was alot!?

And whats alot?

My inspiration for question was an advert on bbc three there xx

[China Doll]

I don't think I've ever asked. I can't say I'd be particularly impressed if it was hundreds (which I'm pretty sure it isn't) but it's not like you get to have a say in what someone did before they met you.

[cazzz1975]

as someone with a keen interest in statistics I would find it interesting but as a romantic partner I would probably be a little put off, it would also speak volumes about his morals and possible commitment issues.

[sunny-dave]

..apologies cazz - but your 'keen interest in statistics' has just given me a huge chuckle ... (about 6.9 on the chucklemeter) ;+)

[ChuckFickens]

Not only would I want detailed figures, but I'd expect a venn diagram :)

[cazzz1975]

happy to have obliged dave :)

[jno]

I don't know that past is any guide to present... Warren Beatty's gone all quiet these days.

I've never asked but I suppose if I did I'd prefer the answer to be no more than double figures.

[rockyracoon]

This is a question I have never asked a partner and never will, I have no idea how many women Mr RR has slept with and as long as none of them were while he has been with me I couldn't care less.

[ummmm]

I've never asked either, and he's never asked me.

[joeluke]

Didn't realise that the number of people you've slept with defined what kind of person you are

.....and as if we always tell the truth about our 'number'

[maggiebee]

Well, Don Giovanni slept with 1,003 in Spain apparently!!

[Clanad]

A little know fact about airline crews is that a lot of them suffer from AIDS (Aviation Induced Divorce Syndrome). One of the things a pilot (or an engineer on the older Boeing 747's) reckons into his retirement (pilot's have to retire at 60, except on a case by case basis, at least here in the U.S.) is how many ways he's going to have to split it up... what with 2 or 3 (or more) exes...

Early on in my carreer, had a Captain that everyone called Captain Kangaroo... I was green enough to think they must have believed he resemble the children's TV actor.... no... and it wasn't his often bounced landings either...

Always remember, arguing with a pilot is like wrestling with a pig in the mud, after a while you begin to think the pig likes it... (motto for newbie first officers).

Finally, most of us were raised on 'steam gauges'... round dial instrumentation with hands that move around their face... just as God intended... On first being introduced to the 'glass cockpit' A-320 aircraft (all instrumentation looks like Ipads) a Captain friend posted this on the crew room bulletin board ... "Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV"...

[237SJ]

Clanad. One time I was on a flight and someone decided to do an inflight quiz for the crew. Everyone knuckled down and did the questions by galley. First Class galley, business downstairs, business upper deck and down the back. We let let flight crew in on the quiz as well. One of the questions was "What is the present that you give to celebrate 30 years of marriage". The Captain`s answer was "What a bloody stupid question to ask pilots, how the hell would we know"? That made me laugh.

[Gromit]

So, what would you make of this...

http://www.telegraph....red-1940s-affair.html

[237SJ]

That`s just a one off affair. It hardly counts in the sleeping around stakes does it?

[MarkRae]

I would think that two people whom I've never met are going to get divorced, therefore, none of my business.

Have you known the couple long...?

[carlton23]

When I was young, fit, and not bad to look at, I drove coaches all over England, Scotland, and Wales, mainly with foriegn students over here several months at a time. I found the girls most oblidging, `Airline pilot's`....hur? They haven`t lived.

[MarkRae]

1 airline pilot
2 airline pilots
3 airline pilots

etc

No apostrophe required...