Are You a One Percenter of ANYTHING?

I tried to figure out if I'm in the 1% of anything at all, but I don't think I am. At first I thought it's rare to have two cats, but it's not. Lots of households have more than one cat. Perhaps if I had two cats and a bird it would put be in a 1% category, but I don't have a bird.

I have two televisions, one stereo and six clocks. That's still not 1% material because lots of people collect clocks. There's nothing in my life that makes me unusual. I'm just a typical dude; how about you?



What makes you a rare bird?

1% of those on DU who used to race slot cars as a kid? 1/24 scale at the tracks. Any takers? :shrug:

I was way into slot cars in the 70s. Damn those things were fast!

at the commercial track in my suburb. I miss slot cars, and if I ever won the lottery I'd have someone build me a big 200-250 foot eight laner.

My first name is in the one percent. Do you own a coin older than 1850? Do you eat anything unusual? Have you had a foursome? Are you 6'7 or more? Did you make it to a semi-pro sport? Look harder, you'll find something.

Not many people study Latin any more. Still fewer take four years of it.

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5
inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,
Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.



Of arms and the man I sing . . .

but I LOVED it. Probably my favorite class in high school.

You are part of the 1% who knows where that title comes from.



Vercingetorix was da man!

It was a requiremnt for graduation. I'm thankful for that now.

And bugs at one time....to be specific insects at a celebration....


Maybe

:hi:

No, did not ask what exactly was on that dish.

I agree with you, and I posted it. Originally I'd thought of asking whether people were part of a 1% such that the remaining 99% would rise up against them. One person said she's a published author. Perhaps the 99% of us who aren't published authors are pissed off enough to rise up and denounce her. But it's difficult to come up with slogans. Down with intellectuals! Hmmm.



Thinking is subversive.

I distinctly remember

"Somebody's got to stand up to the experts!"

Don't know who said it, but he had an -R behind his name :)

with an individuality matched only by everyone else, all 100% of them . . .

How many people can say that?
And another signed by BOTH Stan Lee & Jack Kirby.
That has to count for something.

of people in the US as far as bird ID skills go. :D

That probably puts me pretty close to 1% right there, maybe even under, almost certainly if you only count adults with a license.

That's a different one percent.

:hi:

:evilgrin:

:hi:

Herb Caen, three-dot journalist of the San Francisco Chronicle, bragged that he had never eaten at McDonalds. I'm that way about popular television shows. I have never watched Dancing With the Stars. Nope. And I cannot imagine myself doing so.

watched by most Americans. So not watching DWTS puts you with the majority. Most Americans do not watch it, so not watching makes you more typical, not less....

Um, hmmm.


Not weight, not height, not eye color, not blood type, not hair color, not ethnicity, not religion, not marital status, not number of children, not Rh factor, not sexual orientation, not spoken language, not dominant hand/foot/eye, not in number of appendages, not in number of extremities, not in IQ, not in shoe size, not in hand size, not in genital size, not in waist size, not in chest size, not in neck size, not in hat size, not in inseam...


Well, I wear a -5.5 contact lens in my left eye and -5.75 in my right. Maybe that's a bit unusually strong? Or maybe that combination?



Damn.

Not too many people are still running those old operating systems. 3.1 was actually a good operating system; Windows 98 was not. Windows ME was a horror show. People don't like Vista, but I'm happy with it.

*sigh*


I'll be off in the corner being generic.

properly speaking. Instead, Windows 3.1 was a graphical user interface laid over the top of DOS (Disk Operating System). IBM actually had an operating system competing against Windows 3.1 called 'OS2' that actually was a true operating system. Don't remember what happened to it but obviously at some point IBM threw in the towel.

And now back to regular programming.

It's a trend. Nobody makes a big deal about it the way they did a generation ago. Remember when you learned WordPerfect 5.0, how proud you were? Relive those experiences today.



Be part of the WordPerfect 1%.

:roll:

If it was WordPERFECT, then why did they need anything other than a 1.0?

:Shudder: Please don't remind me of those days.

It's positively snappy now!

Without my contact lenses I can't even leave the house. With them, however, I see perfectly.

;-)

I got her eyes... and my dad's ear hair.


Thanks guys. :eyes:

Ear hair!!!!

You are a riot :D

:P

I'll keep that in mind :P

...12 years old. But, it's a Mac, so that wouldn't be in the 1%. ;) My only problem with it is the internet has moved on and left the old guy behind.

One laptop, one desktop that I use for entertainment purposes (games, movies, etc) and one desktop that I use for work purposes.

I have met enough people with that vision or worse to believe that it isn't 1%, maybe around 3-5% but I'll have to check on that.

:hi:

But I am not.

I have no way of knowing if anyone or anything else thinks.

is that I gave birth to a baby that had 'breastmilk jaundice' (not the usual kind) in which her jaundice didn't show up until she was nearly 2 weeks old and persisted until she was 8 weeks old. Very unusual, only happens to 1 in 100 to 200 babies. She had to go through liver function tests to make sure it wasn't something more serious. She was fine. But I guess that means SHE was in the 1%, not me, LOL.

That would put me roughly at the 0.08 percent mark.

as a Friend nether holds himself above nor below another

seems hard to believe, though

and a lifetime undefeated record in thumb wrestling.

I think it was in speling.

:rofl: :hug:

Then again, nothing counts in Texas.

Active duty service member....

:patriot:

So probably so. Just not in the top 1% of wealth.

Or do we just do a better job identifying them?

I've seen an increase in autistic kids in my classrooms over the last 10-15 years. This year I have 3.

Before 1994, when Asperger's Syndrome was recognized, many people on the spectrum were misdiagnosed as ADHD, Childhood Schizophrenia, Schizoid Personality disorder, etc.

My first autistic student. I'd been attending SST meetings for him for a couple of years when he arrived in my class as a 2nd grader. During that year of observing him, I started researching the patterns I'd been seeing, and they all came up Asperger's, which I'd never heard of. I took it to the district psychologist, who observed him and contacted the parents, who got him diagnosed. It was a light coming on, in terms of understanding him and how best to serve him. He was my student for 3 years, and I loved him dearly. He is the boy I hold in my heart when each new student on the spectrum arrives.

He'll be graduating from high school this year.

I'm in a small percent of some categories, anyway.

I am one of the minority who actually prefers living by myself, surrounding myself with empty space and silence. Who thinks the world would be a better place with 6.5 billion fewer people.

I am one of the minority who doesn't seek out group/pack/herd identity, who doesn't need to agree with anyone, who doesn't need to follow anyone, who doesn't need to check with what someone else thinks before coming to a decision about anything.

I am one of the only people I've ever met who NEVER listens to talk or news radio or tv, who really doesn't give a shit "what ________ said," who shudders in horror at the very concept of twitter, who has blocked texting on her cell phone, who watches almost no tv, who reads hundreds of books a year...

I am one who doesn't consider shopping a sport or entertainment, who doesn't go to a store without a specific purchase in mind.

I am one who rarely sees a movie.

I am one of the tiny percentage of working poor who actually managed the bootstrap thing: to go to college. The first in my family, on either side, to do so. Having experienced the intensity of stubborn, brutal determination that cost, having experienced the sacrifice of personal life, of wholeness of being, that took, having run into obstacles that kept me from pursuing that college education further than I did, even though I wanted more, I know what bullshit the "bootstrap" concept is.

I don't know if any of those things put me in a "1%" category, but I'll bet that all of us have SOMETHING that sets us apart from the norm in some way.

By my self.

Not including ones that aren't in working order.

If you are, I'll be seeing you on a new version of "Hoarders". ;)

And I'm about to turn 50... :party:

That is, by hand, no computers ;)

How many of us are left? :)
(CAD Designer by day...)

In Japan are Christian. I don't live there, however I would be one of the 99% if I did live there.

That's probably 1% ... other than that I can't think of a thing. I'm pretty average in every other way.

:-)

that puts me in the 1% . Pissed off that the only research money for this genetic disorder comes from the DoD.

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2178763&mesg_id=2178763

I'm sure that a bunch of them are in the top 1% in that regard.

but I'd say that we are a 1% family in a lot of ways.

1) My wife never got an engagement ring. I offered to either buy the ring or keep our meager savings. She opted to keep the money. Now we can afford it, but she's not interested.

2) We have a dozen computers in our home. I work with them for a living. The kids like to build them. They like to have their friends over to play computer games.

3) We like to camp out of our canoes. We know lots of other people that do, but I bet that less than 1% of the country does it.

4) Our children's names aren't in the top 100 most popular, so they are presumably in the less than 1% of the country with those names. On a similar note, fewer than 1% of the people share our last name.

5) I bike to work. At least for where I live and work, I'm definitely in the 1%.

6) I have a defined benefit pension, retiree medical, and a 401K (6% match) where I work. If that isn't something that only 1% of the people still working have, it is getting pretty close.

7) Less than 1% of the people in the United States live in my town.

8) I take more than 20,000 pictures every year.

If you can't think of lots of things in which you are in a 1% group, you aren't trying very hard. Heck, I bet that, as popular as it is, less than 1% of the US population reads DU on a regular basis.

Verbal was not as good. Oddly enough, my profession now deals with language and hardly anything to do with math.

That's all I'm saying. ;)

Eighty-five percent of the American public says they'd like to write a book someday. The other fifteen percent actually attempt it.

I'm one of the 1% that's finished more than one manuscript.

:woohoo:

make it to that point (at least I like to think so. LOL)

Sadly, the pay didn't match the status. :(

Specialized in one-twelfth scale.

Undoubtedly anyone with internet access is a lot better off than a the people starving in Africa, China, etc.

However, all this has gotten me is alone.

So am I. And I'm Asperger's to boot. We are apparently very rare birds indeed, but I wouldn't change much, if anything about myself. The nose I inherited from my dad, maybe...

There are definitely other things making me different, as well. :hi:

with almost constant small seizures.

for writing a pretty hostile letter to Pres. Richard Nixon.

That's gotta be 1% materiel.

The percentage of the population that don't listen to your wife is probably pretty high. Frankly, I don't pay any mind to her at all, and I'm probably representative of most folks this side of the Mississippi.



The Mighty Mississippi

100% of us has a seizure threshold that could be triggered by drugs, a fever, an illness, etc. I am among the less than 1% whose has no traceable original cause and has been resistant to all intervention options.

In one day.

I don't think there are many of us but I don't know if they keep stats on it.

Redhead (probably closer to 20% or sumthin)? Um...arrogant bitch? Don't know. I would imagine I'm rare in some way. My husband tells me I'm one of a kind. :)

I took an exam for grad school and had an very unusually high score.

Miller Analogy Test.

I had a good test prep booklet and probably got a bunch of easy questions.

I like tests and patterns. Other than that I can't think of a damned thing.

:P

I have four cats. ;)

In school, I tested at the 99th percentile in everything except math. Took the SAT in seventh grade and scored in the top half of the top one percent, which qualified me to go to Duke's Talent Identification Program in the summers. Was tested as reading at college level and above in fifth grade - I still remember the summary of the individual IQ test I took in fifth grade, and how the last sentence said I had "the temperament and abilities to go far with her life."

I want to point out that I was born to factory workers and my father died when I was seven without a will, and his family took our house and my mother bought a trailer and moved us out to the woods in a singlewide. So I'm not some status symbol for a soccer mom driving a Lexus SUV. I was never pushed, was never homeschooled, went to rural public schools, etc. And I got a full scholarship to TIP every summer based on financial need.

I've actually drawn parallels to the financial 1% before there - I'm not a neocon on economic issues, but I notice I have some of the same traits when it comes to mental and emotional issues. I tend to assume that what comes easily to me comes easily to everyone else, and that there is no excuse for being ignorant. I spent the winter I was nine reading every book the local library had on the Holocaust and I've continued to read everything I can find about Nazi Germany, and so when fascism came here I immediately recognized it.

I've softened up some recently, but I still feel a little angry that it took other people a decade to see what I saw immediately in 2000 - which I was 19 when Bush took the presidency. Think of all the lives that could have been saved and how much better the world could be if everyone had done this Occupy thing when Bush stole the election. To me it was obvious that we would end up where we are from the beginning, and it's hard for me to really realize that other people couldn't see it, that their brains don't work the same way mine does.

One big problem - I tend to assume that other people know what they're doing and choose to do harmful things anyway, even though they know the consequences. So like - for example I'll see a Hummer limo drive by, and I imagine the people inside getting off on killing the world. I imagine them picturing living beings covered in oil and suffering and dying and entire ecosystems being wrecked, and they just love that image, that they want it to happen. When really they're probably thinking like "Woo, look at me in a Hummer limo, I'm having fun and being special and showing my social status, woot!"

Or I'll imagine that someone who supported the invasion of Iraq knew it was based on a lie, and that they just wanted Iraqis to suffer and die, that they just really liked the thought of American bombs tearing apart Iraqi children.

Basically, I assume that humans know what they are doing, and thus the world can be a terrifying place for me, full of monsters in human form. When in reality they're probably just living their lives in the society in which they found themselves and don't even realize what they're doing. In other words - I tend to blame them for not being born with what I have, just like the 1% blames the rest of us for not being born into absurd amounts of money.

Seriously, you are that smart and have read many books about Nazi Germany, and you solemnly believe that we living under fascism? And you don't think there's anything inconsistent about the fact that we can debate, open and freely on a public discussion forum, the question of whether or not we are living under fascism?

She started out as a classroom pet many years ago.

If we are 1% of the U.S. population, then we are probably way higher than that throughout the world. :shrug: :smile:

. . . mostly because no one would likely sit as long as I would to achieve this :rofl: :







It's not really gained me much attention. Not even local media cares about it. Only this year, a casting rep from HGTV put out a notice for "Extreme Pumpkin Carvers" or something like that. After about 2 back and forths with information and pics, I never heard from her again. So, yeah, I guess I'm not good enough for HGTV. :shrug:

Aside from Ray Villifane (who's an art teacher and a sculptor. I don't sculpt or work with real pumpkins . .. that's another story and probably why I haven't heard from HGTV again), in all my years of searching online for pumpkin carve photos, I've never really seen (and this includes the Maniac guys, one of whom was on Halloween Wars) anyone besides like, two people, who can take it to the level I do. It's difficult and takes a long time (anywhere from 10 to 50 total hours) to get near-exactness on one of the Michael's craft pumpkins. I don't posterize or dumb-down the pattern.

I refuse to say on which end of the spectrum, though.

is the rarest personality type, and I'm left-handed which is a little unusual. So yeah, I kind of march to the beat of my own drum.B-)