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Capitalist Piglet

15:35 / 24.04.03

I am new here, and as far as I can see, there is no thread that polls everyone on the basics. I just thought I'd ask for some info to get a better idea of who is who around here.

Age:
Sex:
Location:
Political Leanings:
Religious/Spiritual Leanings:
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists):
Education:
Favorite Food:

Thanks in advance, and here is my info:

Age: 22
Sex: F
Location: USA, Alabama (don't make fun!)
Political Leanings: Cross between Republican and Libertarian
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: I call myself Christian, but I don't really know if I am. I'm in a state of limbo, trying to find my way
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): I like most everything except rap and country (save a few classic country musicians). My favorite artists are Pink Floyd and Tori Amos
Education: B.S. in Business Economics, not currently used, as I am a tech writer for a NASA contractor
Favorite Food: anything Mexican. YUM!

pointless and uncalled for

15:42 / 24.04.03

I remember the damage bought about by the last one of these threads. Can we conceivably reach such eurinthian heights again and will there be more baseless and rampant accusations based a handful of simple replies?

Let us see.

Age: Sculpture
Sex: Cannot answer this due to lack of relevance
Location: Saahf D'River
Political Leanings: 0
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: Less than 0
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): Purists and Photojournalists.
Education: substandard and frankly ill-fitting for that which life has so far thrown at me.
Favorite Food: Not really.

16:01 / 24.04.03

A census taker tried to test me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a good chianti.

I'm sure your intentions are pure, Capitalist, but I think I'll stick to forming my impressions of the people here from the snippets they reveal, inadvertently or by choice, in the course of their posts. You seem like a tidy, well organised person.

Each of your categories could be food for much debate in one forum or another.

Capitalist Piglet

16:01 / 24.04.03

Bump. And I think comments about other people's postings should be started in a new thread.

Capitalist Piglet

16:09 / 24.04.03

Yes, I am tidy and organized.

To a fault, almost.

16:15 / 24.04.03

Here's an idea: instead of asking to be spoon-fed huge blocks of information, why not just pay attention, ask specific questions as appropriate, figure things out from context?

Because, you know, answering polls—well, that would be telling.

Capitalist Piglet

16:27 / 24.04.03

Why are you guys being difficult? In the time that you took to post some retort to this thread, you could have answered the questions and been done with it. :P

16:32 / 24.04.03

And where would be the fun in that?

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:33 / 24.04.03

Remembering with a wince my part in the flamefest the last one of these became...

Guys, can we cut CP some slack here? She's clearly interested in us, and also comes from a board which seems to be a bit more personally involved. Certainly we can choose not to join the census, or suggest that it is better to piece people together, but she's just asking for info in the same way a "what is your job like?" or "what images does your name suggest" thread does, just in a more programmatic way...

Conversely, I guess people are being "difficult" because they disagree with the aims of the thread, CP, and it's their right to register that dissent - threadwandering is pretty largely tolerated in the Conversation. A/s/l threads probably find themselves on the receiving end of a degree of snobbery, and also there's a separation between individual and fictionsuit on Barbelith sometimes that makes answering the questions a bit tricky or possibly a bit futile for many people. Mind you, I think you're massively overestimating the time it takes for Jack and Ganesh to compose retorts.

I'll have a think about your questions and see what I can come up with, CP.

Capitalist Piglet

16:42 / 24.04.03

Well, I am new here, yes. I am not 100% familiar with the culture here, so it would be unfair to assume I should just "know" that the people here aren't game to revealing themselves in an organized fashion. But, fair enough. I shall figure out who you people are on my own. Just don't jump all over me if I make an inaccurate judgement call.

Matthew Fluxington

16:49 / 24.04.03

Would you like my bank and credit card numbers, too?

My mother's maiden name is "Cook," if that helps you any.

The Apple-Picker

16:50 / 24.04.03

There's that blustery steamroller Flux, again. Why don't you just leave us poor Iraqis alone?

Tryphena Absent

16:59 / 24.04.03

Because obviously telling someone how old you are equates with giving them your credit card details... you horrible, sarcastic sugar plum fairy you!!!!!

17:25 / 24.04.03

Age: 8 years older than Orson Welles when he made Citizen Kane. This fact haunts me.
Sex: Not right now, thanks.
Location: Peninsular America (says so on me profile).
Political Leanings: I'm a registered member of the Reform Silly Party. I believe there are still 500 or so of us scattered around the state, but since the main party web site went down, I can't check the numbers so easily.
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: Taoist Gnostic.
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): That which is played with sincerity, abandon, and occasional melancholy.
Education: Yes, please. I've been through graduate school. I also have a Doctorate of Divinity, but it's an honorary degree.
Favorite Food: Currently, it's Xoc. On brown rice. Steamed in green tea, then roasted quickly for a crispy outside, and sliced thin. Drizzled with a sauce made of:
1 C balsamic vinegar,
2 tsp salt,
1 Tb chopped herbs (phalaris, cannabis, dill, rue),
2-3 cloves garlic, finely chopped,
3 sexual pecadilloes (fondly remembered),
1-2 medium peacock eggs
1 1/2 Tbs ethyl ether.

Stir well over medium heat , then gradually add...

4 Tb melted ghee (blessed or unblessed),
1 tsp prudence (do not substitute regret, it *will* curdle)

Garnish with elephant bristles.

17:32 / 24.04.03

Elephant bristles? That's just...wrong. You want echidna spines for that.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:39 / 24.04.03

Age: Twenties, but getting more and more disheartening. I found myself standing in the kitchen the other day thinking "Jesus God in Heaven. I'm not far from thirty and I still know more about Transformers than ISAs"...

Sex: Male-identified.

Location: London

Political Leanings: Unsure. Might get back to you.
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: More spiritual than religious, perhaps. I'm interested in theology, and in belief more generally, but I don't believe in God as conceptualised, to the best of my knowledge. Thye do make for interesting narratvies and ethical propositions, though.
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): Probably whiny guitar rock, really, but have been inclining to electronica. Listening to Ladytron, Half Man Half Biscuit, Belly and Black Box Recorder, The White Stripes and Kristen Hersh. Hope to discover new and exciting bands through KaZaa.

Education: Undergraduate degree. I keep meaning to get my MA, but never get around to it.

Favorite Food: Moules, probably, and I eat a *hell* of a lot of pasta, so must presumably like it.

Tryphena Absent

17:41 / 24.04.03

Oh what a lovely idea,

Age: I thought everyone on Barbelith was frozen in their mid to late twenties?
Sex: I'm just a girl.
Location: my spiritual location is always North London with a bit of Victoria Park (Hackney) thrown in for good measure.
Political Leanings: I'm left but not anarchically so.
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: Eclectic Witchcraft.
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): I like everything- even Eurodance and I think that shows real commitment.
Education: I graduate from uni on July 14th.
Favorite Food: Erm... well, it's not meringue.

17:48 / 24.04.03

You'll ruin your figure, grant. I have marinading my innards assiduously through the years, just for you. Might I recommend my sweetbreads, in particular, to Monsieur. I suspect the liver will be as toxic as a polar bear's, however.

Stick with us, Piglet, you'll have too much information soon enough. I understand your desire to cut through the crap and establish basic demographics. Your difficulty stems from the fact that some of us are resistant for one reason or another to the notion of reduction to simple, heuristic categories and get our kicks from wading through the crap. There's a lot of crap on the 'Lith.

There are likely to be many other posters who would welcome the opportunity to identify their vital statistics in just the way you prescribe. No doubt you'll be hearing from them soon.

I wondered how you selected your categories? Is their order of any significance: age having some pre-eminence and then sex is the next box to tick? I am 46 and have secondary sexual characteristics of the male persuasion. Does that knowledge affect how you will interpret my posts in future? I say this only because you set a test of current U.S. residence on another thread and were, IMO, quick to dismiss the point of view of those who failed that test.

Ninjas make great pets

17:49 / 24.04.03

"Jesus God in Heaven. I'm not far from thirty and I still know more about Transformers than ISAs"...

HA HA HA.. Haus you hit the nail so hard on the head you broke the hammer.

im mid-late twenties (until I turn thirty the "mid" is staying firmly in!)
I make pretty pictures all day (when the client lets me) on a MAC and anyone whos worked with one knows this pretty much covers all belief systems. as once written in WIRED.. "first there was 0 then there was 1"

music wise Faithless, Underworld and at the moment best of St.Etainne.

Tryphena Absent

17:52 / 24.04.03

I'm particularly interested in the Favourite Food category. It could be easily replaced and would be more telling if you asked for a Favourite Drink or Favourite Drug. People's addictions are... easy to trip over on Barbelith.

Ninjas make great pets

17:53 / 24.04.03

People's addictions are... Barbelith

Ninjas make great pets

17:55 / 24.04.03

ummm.. does pen plastic count as a food group btw?
I chew a lot of the blasted things

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:07 / 24.04.03

Hiya CP. Welcome to the board.

Age: Older than the crumbled temples of Egypt, older than the broken statues of Ur, older than-- Ouch. Okay, 29. And a quarter.

Sex: F.

Location: Barcelona, Spain.

Politics: Some sort of half-backed left-wing libertarian thing.

Religious/spiritual leanings: Lamp-post worship.

Education: Made it as far as uni, but the course closed down before I could graduate.

Fav. food: AMBLONGUS PIE. But it has to be made with nice fresh Amblonguses.

Capitalist Piglet

18:47 / 24.04.03

Xoc, worry not. If I'm going to make broad generalizations (or generalizations about broads

), I won't need everyone's info to do so. Hehe. Anyway, there is no specific meaning behind the ordering of the categories. It's just nice to be able to understand where people are coming from. Whether you want to admit it or not, things like, age, gender, where you grew up, where you recieved your education, etc. has an effect on how you think.

18:59 / 24.04.03

Course it has - but often a subtler, more complex influence than might be suggested by a five-minute census.

19:12 / 24.04.03

Heya CP!

Age: 34 (well, on saturday anyway)

Sex: M

Location: Old 'ampshire

Political Leanings: [cough] conservative anarchist although the quizzy thing says I am Libertarian (I take it you know which quiz I mean)

Religious/Spiritual Leanings: Agnostic with tendencies towards paganism

Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): 'odd stuff' (Lorenna McKennit, Blackmore's night, Mostly Autumn)

Education: Got 'arf way through the Master's degree and ran out of cash

Favorite Food: Salmon, smoked, on hazel sticks, over an open fire.

If you last long on here (us slightly 'right of centre' types appear to be in a distinct minority!), welcome to Nuttyville

19:13 / 24.04.03

Age: an estimated month younger than MC, oddly enough.

Sex: Yang

Location: In the rare instances I intersect with the material world, my prime physical presence is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Political Leanings: Whatever is opposing those currently in power, and supporting of personal freedoms.

Religious/Spiritual Leanings: Strikingly similar to Political Leanings above. See The Magick for greater detail.

Favorite Genre of Music (or artists): I am looking over the enormity of my mp3 collection, and laughing at the absurity of trying to categorize it. Though in general, if it is cause for my head to bob and mouth to utter "yea" now and then, its good. Bonus points for anything that allows me to trance into altered states of consciousness.

Education: Trained by the ancient masters of the Frognose Temple in southern Chile in the secret arts of Bene Gesseret style Ku-Man-Du, until departing due to personal disagreements with the cusine. Further studies of the migratory patterns of garden slugs led to a graduate position in the Church Of Outer Dimness in the Recreatonal Ontology department, where I obtained a Deanship in Dance and continue my work on the computational cognitive programming algorythms of lightworking hippies.

Favorite Food: Chemestry

Nice to meet you

Capitalist Piglet

19:24 / 24.04.03

cusm, I went to Pittsburgh on business not too long ago. It's a neat little place.

19:26 / 24.04.03

awww, i gotta feel for ya piggie... no1s doin it. So i will.

Age: 16
Sex: f
Location: jemimaville, aka vaginaville, N scotland
Political Leanings: Lets say, if i was born on the day my id says i am, id prob b voting lib dem next week.
Religious/Spiritual Leanings:none really
Favorite Genre of Music (or artists):REM, The Cure, Placebo,
Education: Done my standard grades (eight grade 1s, and i expect a round of applause), Doing my highers next month, and going to Uni in september.
Favorite Food: Gotta be strawberries and raspberries.

And if its a census, u should really be knocking at our doors, and fining us for not filling it out...

Foust is SO authentic

20:11 / 24.04.03

Hahahaha. Welcome to Barbelith, CP.

21:10 / 24.04.03

This
will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about some of us...

...and if you click on a person's "name" you'll get shunted to their profile, which can also be revealing.

21:17 / 24.04.03

"...probably find themselves on the receiving end of a degree of snobbery..."

Sorry, I just had to re-print that (partial) sentence.

"...probably find themselves on the receiving end of a degree of snobbery..."

(*holds back laughter*)

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:40 / 24.04.03

Ah, well, we're an elitist mob, of course. But even we appreciate the value of a good science experiment. There really should be some kind of registered cultural exchange program - at present it seems that Barbelith is a terrifying chunk of terra incognita to be explored with much discussion, and we're really quite cute.

21:45 / 24.04.03

Age: 20
Sex: male, supposedly
Location: sometimes England, sometimes Wales
Political Leanings: about as far left as it's possible to be, whilst avoiding belief in any "-isms"
Religious/Spiritual Leanings: nothing true / everything permitted
Favorite Genre of Music: all of them. Except possibly opera and house. 75% noisy guitars though.
Education: just about to finish University. Probably won't do much more.
Favorite Food: pizza, marzipan or toasted cheese sandwiches.

21:47 / 24.04.03

Maybe we use the thread for a brief summary of ourselves, without the categories?

I would start, but I need to eat first. Sorry.

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