
EVER hit the office, ladies, wearing slightly less than you ought to?
Or perhaps you've skipped that all-important visit to the washbasin after a trip to the loo?
If so then your number could be up, because a fascinating new book offers an amazing insight into the statistics behind our daily lives.
For instance, women own 22 pairs of knickers on average - and almost one in five have gone to work without wearing any.
But blokes smiling at that figure should quit now. Around eight per cent of you never clean your teeth in the morning.
Here, we shed more light on the nation by numbers.
Brits pinch an estimated 430,000 gallons of hotel shampoo every year.
Forty-three per cent of us claim to have had sex in our cars - 52 per cent of men and 34 per cent of women.
More of us believe in ghosts (42 per cent) than God (38 per cent).
The average wedding costs ?22,858 with the bride spending ?1,200 on a wedding dress. The groom's outfit is just ?165 and being a guest totals ?300.
Eleven per cent of us don't wash our hands after using the toilet.
Thirty-six per cent of us do not take a bath or shower every day.
Thirty-nine per cent of us read on the loo, 21 per cent text and 21 per cent talk either on phone or to family member.
Eight per cent of blokes don't clean their teeth in the morning.
Brits drink 165million cups of tea every day - that's three for every man, woman and child.
We have sex an average of 4,239 times in our lifetime.
Forty-three per cent of the population own a pet. Cats cost ?7k over their lifetime and dogs ?20k.
Women spend 27.5 mins in the bathroom, compared to 20.7 by men.
Twelve per cent of the nation's sickies are fake.
Sixty-three per cent of us are too embarrassed to complain about a bad meal at a restaurant.
Five per cent of our total album purchases - and 90 per cent of singles - are now downloads.
Sixty-four per cent of women find clothes shopping "depressing" and ten per cent have cried in a changing room.
Nearly one in six kids aged between two and ten is now clinically obese.
You could fit the entire UK into Russia 70 times, Australia 31 times and France twice.
Women spend three hours a day on housework on average. Men clock up just one hour and forty minutes.
People in Sheffield have the most fillings and missing teeth.
We eat more than half of the crisps scoffed in the EU and twice as many baked beans per person as any other country.
The Sun is read by just over one in six adults.
The most popular holiday destination in the UK is Blackpool.



....Been caught loads of times over the years, me grandma (god bless her), me mum AND me dad and Mrs Pumpy doesnt even bat an eyelid nowadays cos she's caught me that many times.
mrs pumpys caught u having an hamshank ?
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