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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
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They're interested in developing this statewide and thought they would start with us.
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A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!
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The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.
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Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.
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