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Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:16 am
by Turdacious
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sens ... -a-quiz-2/
Interesting quiz. I got a 78.
48-99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.
42-100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.
11-80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.
0-43: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot. Typical: 9.
0-20: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person with the television and movie going habits of the upper middle class. Typical: 2.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:45 am
by Sangoma
Mine is 32. But I am not an American, so that's probably irrelevant.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:47 am
by kreator
43. It says I have average TV and movie habits, which isn't really accurate since I don't watch TV and I've only seen 3 movies this year which is a lot for me.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:06 am
by Protobuilder
kreator wrote:43. It says I have average TV and movie habits, which isn't really accurate since I don't watch TV and I've only seen 3 movies this year which is a lot for me.
Same. Interesting but not entirely accurate.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:02 pm
by DikTracy6000
Sangoma wrote:Mine is 32. But I am not an American, so that's probably irrelevant.
It means you're a grinder.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:14 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
62.
Not sure what this is intended to mean other than I was forced to eat at the Outback Steakhouse.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:46 pm
by Freki
55
Wish I could've picked both Branson, MO and Richard Branson.
I like how it was about the educational/income levels of where I've lived but never asked about mine...
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:50 pm
by johno
54
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:36 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
johno wrote:54
Not watching enough shitty TV clearly.
Up your dose of Applebees and Once Upon a Time.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:40 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
I was listening to the JRE yesterday and there was a snippet about how car racing is dumb and Brazilians are Crazy for F1 and the street were full when Senna died...and they had the temerity to say..yeah, I mean, if some Stock Car racer died in a big race in the US who would even know.?
Ummm..Dale Fucking Earnhardt? Jesus tits...talk about a bubble.
PS...Stock Car racing is fucking awesome and if you disagree you need to go back to whatever socialist frozen wasteland you came from.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:48 pm
by Shafpocalypse Now
Yes
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:18 pm
by dead man walking
Blaidd Drwg wrote:
PS...Stock Car racing is fucking awesome and if you disagree you need to go back to whatever socialist frozen wasteland you came from.
actually, it's hot and muggy here in vermont.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:19 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
dead man walking wrote:Blaidd Drwg wrote:
PS...Stock Car racing is fucking awesome and if you disagree you need to go back to whatever socialist frozen wasteland you came from.
actually, it's hot and muggy here in vermont.
Keep driving until you see Inuit. Do not darken the doors of this great country again...fuckin philistine.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:33 pm
by dead man walking
our republican lt gov and candidate for gov this election races at thunder road.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:35 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
dead man walking wrote:our republican lt gov and candidate for gov this election races at thunder road.
Are you sure you're not mistaking that for the Tom Cruise movie Days of Thunder?
An entire film premised on using the steep banking of a NASCAR oval to make Cruise appear taller than Nicole Kidman while walking alongside each other?
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:45 pm
by dead man walking
we're at the northern end of appalachia here.
nearest neighbor's boyfried was a hitter and (allegedly) a dealer. when he left, one son of the new live-in (a woman) o.d'd injecting fentanyl.
none of those restaurants exist within a half hour of where i live. the quiz doesn't assign points for plowing the driveway of welfare recipients living in a trailer.
still, i do live in the progressive bubble that is vermont, a special place freed from heteronormative thinking.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:05 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
dead man walking wrote:we're at the northern end of appalachia here....... when he left, one son of the new live-in (a woman) o.d'd injecting fentanyl.
What a waste of good china white. Fuckin junkies ruin responsible drug use for everyone.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:37 pm
by seeahill
57. Whatever that means.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 11:07 pm
by Cave Canem
53
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:08 pm
by Mickey O'neil
"You got 69 points." I hate NASCAR racing. Now MTB and MX is a different story. I do like F1 as well. I grew up in trailers, rental homes (was 16 when we bought our first house) and we lived with my grandma at times.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:12 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Mickey O'neil wrote:"You got 69 points." I hate NASCAR racing. Now MTB and MX is a different story. I do like F1 as well.
How dare you.
If you can't appreciate NASCAR, you just don't like racing. It's pure distilled strategy with loads of cheating. It's the most American of Motorsports because it's rooted in treachery. What's not to love?
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:23 pm
by Grandpa's Spells
16
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:32 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Grandpa's Spells wrote:16
Well...with regard to Applebees, you're not missing much.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:04 pm
by johno
Grandpa's Spells wrote:16
When I visit Chicago, we can sample some craft beers and watch Downton Abbey.
Re: Do You Live In A Bubble?
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:36 pm
by Grandpa's Spells
It's a little weird that people who go to the same 6 restaurants and watch the same 6 shows don't live in a bubble.