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Is my friend pulling my leg?

Postby umop ap!sdn » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:56 pm

Okay I know she isn't actually pulling my leg, but I was wondering if her experience is typical or not. Last night my friend and I were talking about my hangy double Venus symbol necklace thingy and she said that most people don't know what that symbol means. I thought its meaning was quite well known. So who's right?
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Postby Мастер » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:26 pm

I would have thought it was well-known, but when surveys show that 30% of people think that Adolf Hitler was a fictional character, maybe we shouldn't take anything for granted...
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Re: Is my friend pulling my leg?

Postby KLA2 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:07 pm

umop ap!sdn wrote:Okay I know she isn't actually pulling my leg, but I was wondering if her experience is typical or not. Last night my friend and I were talking about my hangy double Venus symbol necklace thingy and she said that most people don't know what that symbol means. I thought its meaning was quite well known. So who's right?


I would think any combination of the classic male / female symbols would be understood. {but what about the Ankh :lol: }

But then, what KOS said. What the hell is going on??? Total information (or data) overload resulting in prioritization? Scary.
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Postby KLA2 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:11 pm

Oh, yeah, KOS, and not to go all BAUT on you or anything, but do you want to cite references for that statistic? :lol:

Surveys show that 30% of the time 70% of statistics are at least 20% fabricated. :lol: :lol:
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Postby Мастер » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:12 pm

KLA2 wrote:Oh, yeah, KOS, and not to go all BAUT on you or anything, but do you want to cite references for that statistic? :lol:


At the moment, I am unable to provide any support for the claim.

KLA2 wrote:Surveys show that 30% of the time 70% of statistics are at least 20% fabricated. :lol: :lol:


This might be one of those times...
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Postby Мастер » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:13 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:
KLA2 wrote:Surveys show that 30% of the time 70% of statistics are at least 20% fabricated. :lol: :lol:


This might be one of those times...


And it looks like it was. I was wrong, it was only 10%.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... xhome.html
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Postby Dragon Star » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:17 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I would have thought it was well-known, but when surveys show that 30% of people think that Adolf Hitler was a fictional character, maybe we shouldn't take anything for granted...


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Postby troubleagain » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:33 pm

Well, for anyone who actually *knows* the male/female symbols, it should be obvious.
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Postby Dragon Star » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:49 am

troubleagain wrote:Well, for anyone who actually *knows* the male/female symbols, it should be obvious.


Well, I know all of youth knows the male symbol after the Austin Powers movies...
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Postby Enzo » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:10 am

Then there is the artist formerly known as god-knows-what.


Statistical studies consistently show that 3 out of four of us make up 75% of the population.


I think that symbols such as those of which we speak tend to be peer recognition tools, and as such are known within the group, but to the general public it is not something given any thought. WHy would my mother know that a unicorn or a rainbow stood for anything? How many of us see some young person with a bandana around their head on a hot day and think Crips or Bloods? But walk around Los Angeles with a blue bandana and you better hope not to bump into a group wearing red ones.
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Postby Superluminal » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:13 am

Liars lie and liars use statistics.

Twenty five percent of all traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Therefore, 75% of all traffic accidents are caused by sober drivers, ergo, you are safer driving drunk.
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Postby Мастер » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:32 am

Enzo wrote:WHy would my mother know that a unicorn or a rainbow stood for anything?


:oops: What does a unicorn stand for? :oops:
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Postby Мастер » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:33 am

Superluminal wrote:Liars lie and liars use statistics.

Twenty five percent of all traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Therefore, 75% of all traffic accidents are caused by sober drivers, ergo, you are safer driving drunk.


Liars misuse statistics :P What is missing in the above example is the number of miles driven by drunk vs. sober drivers...
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:04 am

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote::oops: What does a unicorn stand for? :oops:

Ya got me there. :?

Okay so it sounds like it's mostly of a symbol to identify oneself to those in the know, which is pretty much the reason I wear my necklace.

Incidentally, I've seen people respond in different ways, thereby nonverbally telling me more about themselves than I would otherwise have known. One time at a grocery store I caught a woman glancing down at it, after which she almost immediately smiled and began to make small talk. :D (She was even a cutie.)
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Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:49 am

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:
Enzo wrote:WHy would my mother know that a unicorn or a rainbow stood for anything?


:oops: What does a unicorn stand for? :oops:


I could wear one by the medieval meaning, but not by the modern one. :D

I wouldn't have given it any thought but can guess what your necklace means. But then if I wore my Berlin Icebaeren shirt only Arneb would recognise it, since it just has the logo on it. As has been said most of these are peer recognition symbols, I see people wearing jewellery, shirts, logos etc. everyday and have no idea what they mean, since they are not aimed at me, but they will mean something.
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Postby troubleagain » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:36 pm

I only *know* the medieval meaning (virginity). So what IS the "modern" meaning?
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Postby pmcolt » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:20 pm

That depends, doesn't it? Is it a regular unicorn, or an invisible pink unicorn?

(A rainbow, of course, means that you're a... you know... a Jeff Gordon fan. Such people are still heavily persecuted around these parts.)
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:01 pm

I should get an invisible pink unicorn! :lol:
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Postby KLA2 » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:45 pm

And what's with the avatar change to a praying mantis? A remarkable insect, but with certain mating proclivities ... :shock: {puts on tinfoil hat and runs away} :lol:
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Postby troubleagain » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:31 pm

and I'm no more enlightened regarding unicorns than before.... :?:
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Postby Enzo » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:32 am

Unicorns are symbolic of lesbianism. Not as widely known as I thought then...



Also useful would be the percentage of drivers who are drunk. If 2% are drunk but commit 25% of accidents...
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:13 pm

KLA2 wrote:And what's with the avatar change to a praying mantis?

I just think they're neat is all. (And good to have in one's garden, since they eat destructive insects.)

Cool even I didn't know that about the unicorns. OK so if the unicorn is invisible and pink = atheism, but if it's visible and either rainbow or lavender.... hey I should get one of each! :lol:
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Postby troubleagain » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:00 pm

Enzo wrote:Unicorns are symbolic of lesbianism. Not as widely known as I thought then...

Sooooo, none of this?

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Postby Blue Monster 65 » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:11 am

Oh, I'm sure there are ways around that!

And Umop - I saw an absolutely HUGE mantis the other day at a gas station. Must have been a mutant. I should have caught it, but it looked like it would take my hand off! Another guy said, "Look at the size of that fucker!" I laffed, but the lady walking by just huffed at him, which made me laff even more. You'd have dug it.

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Postby Enzo » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:44 am

It really bugged her, did it?
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