# Less semen, Fewer sperm, bloody hell! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 11, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854 "2003-01-11T00:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/1 "2003-01-11T00:06:35Z")
Less traffic, fewer cars. Less education, fewer classes Less food, fewer meals less sex, fewer partners less love, fewer lovers less war, fewer battles less fat, fewer pounds less paper, fewer documents less rain, fewer raindrops less deodorant, fewer friends less mouthwash, fewer kisses less mustard, fewer condiments less equipment, fewer tools less real estate, fewer properties less money, fewer dollars less mortality, fewer deaths less time, fewer years less pudding, fewer desserts less bread, fewer buns less fun, fewer parties less drinking, fewer drinks less smoking, fewer cigarettes less fucking, fewer orgasms less fighting, fewer bruises Less thinking, fewer thoughts less nose-picking, fewer boogers Less Gandalf, fewer wizards less religion, fewer Christians less \*\* quantity of single thing \*\* , fewer \*\* number of many things \*\* less frustration, fewer rants ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/2 "2003-01-11T00:15:11Z")
less pie, fewer pies? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/3 "2003-01-11T00:15:35Z")
Sometimes less is more. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/4 "2003-01-11T00:19:14Z")
No, that was Lester Moore, who took four slugs from a .44. No Les no more. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/5 "2003-01-11T00:20:15Z")
The opposite of less is ‘more’. The opposite of fewer is ‘more’. I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/6 "2003-01-11T00:21:54Z")
uuuhhhmmm, yeah less confusing posts, more hampsters rested 😕 whatever floats your boat. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/7 "2003-01-11T00:30:45Z")
Bugs the hell out of me, too, **Stoid**. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/8 "2003-01-11T00:34:53Z")
It’s better if you offset the list by one: less sex, fewer meals less love, fewer partners less war, fewer lovers less fat, fewer battles etc. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/9 "2003-01-11T00:39:23Z")
More cites, fewer dumbfounded looks. ---
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/10 "2003-01-11T00:59:21Z")
Amen! I get memos all the time at work with “less hours” , “less incidents” and generally less of everything else. It makes me less likely to listen to my superiors. I am reading fewer and fewer of their memos. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/11 "2003-01-11T01:01:51Z")
how I long for the days when haiku was popular. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/12 "2003-01-11T01:35:24Z")
I confess, I have absolutely no idea what that means in context, wring. I am Stumpy. And Jane…heheheh. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/13 "2003-01-11T02:10:05Z")
Less filling, tastes great. No, no, wait a minute… ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/14 "2003-01-11T02:43:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*PhiloVance \*\*\* > less confusing posts, more hampsters rested No, _ **FEWER** _ confusing posts, you dolt. Keep up. 😃 **Stoid** : THANK YOU. It needed to be said. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/15 "2003-01-11T03:26:28Z")
Ackshully… good question…is the subject the confusion, of which there would be less, or the posts, of which there would be fewer? 😃 And White, I just hope some people who were always confused about it find clarity. Less ignorance, fewer fools. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/16 "2003-01-11T03:26:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*No, _ **FEWER** _ confusing posts, you dolt. Keep up. 😃 > \*\* Alternatively, less confusing posts, fewer dopers confused. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/17 "2003-01-11T04:19:13Z")
::applauds:: That is my _biggest_ grammar-related pet peeve. No way can you have less cars. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/18 "2003-01-11T05:00:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\*less pie, fewer pies? \*\* It occurs to me that this is a sincere question and hasn’t been answered. Yes, exactly. singular: less plural: fewer ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/19 "2003-01-11T05:01:09Z")
It took me about half the list befire I got what you were driving at, **stoid** , but I wholly concur. But I’m _still_ confused about > [@](#): > > less sex, fewer partners In fact, it’s possible to have **more** sex with fewer partners (or even less sex with more partners). However, no one could argue with: > [@](#): > > less promiscuity, fewer partners Not that there’s anything _wrong_ with promiscuity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854/20 "2003-01-11T05:02:51Z")
Well, I wasn’t always making a direct correlation, and that one actually occurred to me. Another is fat/pounds… you could have less fat and more pounds…of muscle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-semen-fewer-sperm-bloody-hell/147854.md?page=2)