Irish obsessed with cosmetic surgery?
Calvin posted this on Apr 16th 2007 at 15:12 under Uncategorized
You dig up some amazing nuggets when you’re researching articles.
For instance, who’d have thought that the Irish would be more interested in cosmetic surgery than the British and even the Americans?
Apparently it’s true — when cosmetic surgery site lipo.com analysed global Google search data in October 2006 they found that when adjusted for population size the top five countries were:
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Philippines
- New Zealand
America came in 7th — probably because as a nation they already know more about plastic surgery than practically everyone else.
You can read the whole article here.
Who’d have thought it?
Another article on the same site claims a fair proportion of the Irish population will be rushing to cash in our SSIA (a government savings incentive scheme set to mature this year) and fritter away the proceeds on having things made bigger, smaller, nipped, tucked and generally rearranged.
Are the Irish really so obsessed with their looks — or is it just that so many people in this country seem to have money to burn?
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