How are you different from the stereotypical "average person" in your country?
Feel free to define "average" how you see fit. This isn't about debating what is average person. Comparisons to the averages in your age / friend group are fine too.
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For the life of me, I cannot get people i know to care even a little bit about their privacy when giving it away let's them scroll TikTok endlessly.
It's nuts to me. Anyone who doesn't care about privacy, I want to ask them in person when they last masturbated.
What? What's the difference? You don't care if Facebook knows.
I care about my digital privacy
How do you know the "average person" doesn't do childish things when out in the wood by themselves?
I couldn't know. Nobody knows that I do either
And does it make a sound?
What country is full of skinny homophobes?
I haven't posted anything to my personal social media accounts in half a decade.
Similarly, with the popularity of short form video booming, I basically don't consume any of it and instead find myself watching 1h+ video essays about some old piece of equipment from 40 years ago.
I'm a lot more left-wing than most people I talk to.
I'm tall enough to bang my head on some door frames.
What kind of old equipment videos do you watch? I found that I like old computers after watching Dave Plummer's pdp11 video's
If you've not come across them here are some of my favourite creators in that category, in no particular order: LGR, 8-bit guy, cathode ray dude, techmoan, technology connections, nostalgia nerd
I should probably change my username and avatar.
Well, for one, I speak fluent English
I'm not carrying a gun made of bacon and watching young Sheldon
When I was growing up, one of the first questions someone would ask a kid was what team they supported, and not even if they liked football in the first place. So I guess I was in a big minority there.
I feel like I'm the least Mexican dude in Mexico:
I guess some of the differences are because I'm autistic? Also, this deviation from the mean is only mentally. Physically I'm completely average.
I don't like beer nor football.
I'm Texan by birth. I don't like guns, meat, or driving. I think Mesoamerican history is way more interesting than the Civil War.
I'm an immigrant, so I guess by definition I'm not an average person in the country however you look at it
I'm autistic.
Visualy, I'm as average it gets. White straight male, average height, common composition. But
I' m Agnostic.
Believe people are not defined by their occupation and how much they make.
I m all for worker rights and fight for them
Into politics and trying to have as an objective ipinion as possible. Also try to talk about politics
My academic credentials are on the top 10% tier
I care about my RL and digital privacy
I use FOSS
I look after my health as well as my weight
Not a fan of Football
I make efforts to own my data and software
Travel a lot to other countries
have my own Jellyfin server
host a locally run smart home
Run a separate Batocera machine with a lot of games from a lot of legacy systems
Don't really care about where other people come from, or what is their religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or politics
Hey, that exactly describes me too!
I don' like soccer, I don't eat sausages, I'm not interested in cars. I do enjoy Sauerkraut, though.
I'm taller. I'm a man in a female-dominated field (and was in my previous career, as well). I don't own a car and have no interest in doing so. I know a dead language. I eat beans for breakfast. I don't drink coffee.
If you mean my country of birth, it's actually a bit difficult since I've been twice in the last ten years and this and some YouTube vids are my only real media consumption. If you mean where I live now, I'm definitely fatter, hairier, and tatooed-ier than the average person. My japanese is definitely a bit worse.
I'm a huge nerd wearing a tinfoil hat:
USA here.
Indifferent to sports. Football, baseball, and basketball are at best insipid. Hockey is at least somewhat interesting, but that's only because my youngest plays. Even then, I do not follow it.
Don't care about guns. Yes, I can shoot. It pissed my right-wingnut, Kyle Shittenhouse worshiping brother off to no end, when I could out shoot him, with his own guns. Did I mention he has 6 years in the Army and practiced with his weapons at least once a week? It took me maybe 10 shots of practice to start being more accurate. My vision is worse than his too. Still have no interest in owning one. I keep a Claymore next to my bed for social occasions at home.
I don't like sandwiches or burgers
Not even close to average.
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/12/who-exactly-is-the-average-american/
Interesting article...let's see how I score.
I am fairly below average, apparently.
That's an average thinking pattern. People like Einstein tho said he was no different than average other than the effort he put into his work.
There's no such thing as "big bones"
That’s not true; I’ve got them. My BMI is under 20, but I wear size 8-10 pants. My hip bones are literally bigger than average.
No credit debt. No drug/alc addictions.. Can run 20k+ without stopping. Care about my digital privacy. Never put so much as a scratch on a single vehicle in my life (including forklifts and non-road vehicles). Know how to sail. Couldn't care less about team sports.
Any tips to run 20k without stopping?
Well, generally speaking the easiest way to do that is to stop only once you're past the 20k mark.
Have you tried this "not stopping" technique yourself? Sounds like snake oil, to be honest...
Not stopping would require me to actually start first. I haven't gotten that far yet. Seems to be the difficult part.
I feel like the first week is actually the hardest. Then I start getting excited when I improve my times or distance and it becomes so much easier.
My problem is that vacations and winter really ruin my motivation. Who wants to run for an hour when it's pouring rain or freezing outside?
Bad weather for long runs is shit. Short runs tho? Just beast mode it! Conquer the elements! At least thats what I tell myself.
Incremental training. I started with Couch-to-5K. Highly recommend. Once you complete that program, increment weekly distance by no more than 10% per week until you reach your goal.
https://c25k.com/
It's funny, I used that program several years ago when I didn't exercise at all. Currently running around 9km, three times a week.
I have this unrealistic dream to run the marathon but I feel like even if I could physically do it, I'd get bored. Half marathon seems doable, though.
I'm working on the same goal but I'm sidelined with ankle issues so I've been cycling like a madman instead. Hopefully I can restart my training plan this coming tuesday.
I got 600$ in the bank motherfucker
I can bench press 300+ pounds (136 kg for the exceedingly rude Europeans in the thread), which puts me in the top 1% of men strength-wise not only in my country, but worldwide.
That's 135 kg. The weights on the machines in my gym only go to 120. But I guess you just use the barbells
Not really. It's still an amount of weight even if it's described differently.
It's not like this mf couldn't lift metric weights. Although, that would be very funny. Like kryptonite or some shit.
I'm not a fan of hockey
Taller than average
I have 3 kids more than average, plus a handful of step kids. 6 inches taller than average woman in my country. Probably more politically progressive, but that's hard to judge here, with all the gerrymandering and not everyone voting. Apparently also much more tolerant of spicy food than the average, at least according to people who claim to be average.
I'm the type of person who gives money back to a cashier when they make a mistake by incorrectly giving me more money, that's very rare in the country where I was born.
Same here!
I hate sitting in the sun, which is the opposite of most of the country. The heat and light make me feel super annoyed and uncomfortable.
In contrast, most of the people here are sun worshippers. Sitting outside in direct sunlight as much as possible.
I travel.
Not even gap year. Full on quitting multiple jobs and moving to another country and finding a job travelling.
People talk about it but most people are too scared and find excuses. Other people have legitimate reasons though.
Much more intelligent.
If you mean that the average person doesn't exist in real life then you're correct, but to claim that what is statistically average cannot be determined, then that's just a bunch of nonsense.
So you're more SJW than average for your country, got it