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So color be curious about the type of person that makes up this forum, i imagination its exceptionally diverse... as such prove it to this bored social scientist and answer the following questions... obviously feel free to leave gaps in bits you would rather not answer

Age:
Gender:
Race:
Sexuality:
Disabilities:
Marital status: Single / Married / Have a partner / Cohabiting with partner
Employment: Job Title / Unemployed
Salary:
Dream job:
Live with parents?:
Do you Rent or Own your property:
How many bedrooms?:
Religion:
Political beliefs: Right learning conservative, socialist liberal etc etc
How did you vote:
How often if at all do you read a paper?:
What paper?:
Last book read:
Last non essentials consumer purchase:
General health: Good / Average / Poor
Mental health: Good / Average / Poor



So me...


Age: 29
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Cohabiting with partner
Employment: Teacher
Salary: 20,000 - 30,000 pa
Dream job: Archaeologist
Live with parents?: Nope
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 2
Religion: Catholic
Political beliefs: Liberal Socialist
How did you vote: Spoiled Ballot
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Daily
What paper?: Independent
Last book read: Redcoat, Richard Holmes
Last non essentials consumer purchase: The Pacific box set
General health: Good
Mental health: Poor

Although I feel I'm a typical wargammer in many respects it might be interesting to find out for sure!

btw. I got into table top things about 2 years ago through a friend.

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Cohabiting with partner
Employment: Route planner for waste industry (computer analysis stuff)
Salary: £20,000 - £30,000 pa
Dream job: House husband, with a bit of programming on the side
Live with parents?: Nope
Do you Rent or Own your property: Own
How many bedrooms?: 2.5
Religion: None
Political beliefs: None really
How did you vote: Didn't
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Never, occasionally glance at the back pages (football)
What paper?: Whatever I happen accross
Last book read: Golden fool, Robin Hobb (Darn good series)
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Kindle paper white
General health: Good
Mental health: Good

Age: older than dirt (Cretaceous dirt)
Gender: male.
Race: Homo erectus
Sexuality: Married (its over for me! Save yourselves!)
Disabilities: see Age
Marital status: Single / Married / Have a partner / Cohabiting with partner: married
Employment: Job Title / Unemployed . I have people for that.
Salary: chump change
Dream job: leader of a ragtag fleet on a shining quest for a place, a place called…Earth. Or professional zombie hunter.
Live with parents?: That would mean I sleep with the fishes.
Do you Rent or Own your property: I am a timelord
How many bedrooms?: I run a small hotel and restaurant for my children and their 2-10 friends at any given time.
Religion: Herald of the Great Wienie
Political beliefs: Right learning conservative, socialist liberal etc etc: Marxist libertarian
How did you vote: I pushed buttons
How often if at all do you read a paper?: I use papers to cover the table when I clean guns and for a parakeet.
What paper?: you mean people telling me they are unbiased news sources?: WSJ, NYT,WP,Fox,CNN,BBC,NPR,Investors Business Daily, FT
Last book read: Sharp Edges, WWZ
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Essential Waylon Jennings. Ski trip funding for wife and kids, steaks for me and dogs.
General health: Good / Average / Poor: see age
Mental health: Good / Average / Poor: most doctors agree “crazed Alzheimer patient with delusions of adequacy”

Age: 29
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: Job Title / Unemployed: illustrator / Army
Salary: 31200 per year
Dream job: Living the dream
Live with parents?: Aye
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 5
Religion: Catholic
Political beliefs: feudal
How did you vote: Hard to explain to bipartidists
How often if at all do you read a paper?: everyday
What paper?: Clarin, Infobae, La Nación
Last book read: Song of Fire and Ice I
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Tobacco
General health: Good
Mental health: Who am I to answer that?

Not age, please.

We do not want youngsters to reveal their age in the forum.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Not age, please.

We do not want youngsters to reveal their age in the forum.

Just make the default: "younger than Frazzled."

Age: Old enough to drink
Gender: Male
Race: White Scottish
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: none
Marital status: Single
Employment: Student
Salary: £940 SAAS loan
Dream job: Something that doesn't drive me insane with a nice wage
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 1
Religion: Church of Scotland
Political beliefs: Fairly liberal/nationalist
How did you vote: Haven't yet
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Occasionally
What paper?: The Herald
Last book read: ADWD
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Some T-Shirts from sixdollartees.com (Vote Cthulu, Ricktocracy amd Gotham City Rogues ones)
General health: Poor but looking to improve
Mental health: Good

 Frazzled wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Not age, please.

We do not want youngsters to reveal their age in the forum.

Just make the default: "younger than Frazzled."

That doesn't narrow it down much though

Age: Younger than Frazzled
Gender: Male
Race: White British
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: Tech Clerk at an Engineering firm
Salary: £16,000
Dream job: CAD design, on something to do with Space....
Live with parents?: Yes
Religion: Atheism; but not the horrible "in your face" kind Agnosticism may be more accurate...
Political beliefs: Relatively apolitical
How did you vote: I don't
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Extremely rarely
What paper?: Daily Mail, it's the only damn paper my Mum will actually buy so that's mainly the reason I don't read it
Last book read: Currently reading IA3: Taros campaign
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Forgeworld :( My wallet hates me :(
General health: Good
Mental health: Good

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Not age, please.

We do not want youngsters to reveal their age in the forum.

In which case add a "if over 18" clause to age.

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Bisexual
Disabilities: I'm Dyspraxic but it doesn't really cause any major issues for me.
Marital status: Single
Employment: University student
Salary: Nada
Dream job: Physics research
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: I share a 6 bedroom flat with 3 other people.
Religion: Atheist
Political beliefs: Malleable
How did you vote: I don't
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Almost never
What paper?: Whatever is on hand
Last book read: QED by Richard Feynman
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Probably Alcohol
General health: Average
Mental health: Average

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Homosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: University Student
Salary: N/A
Dream job: Federal Reserve
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 2 shared with 1 other person
Religion: Atheist
Political beliefs: Left leaning/open to changing
How did you vote: Whenever elections come up
How often if at all do you read a paper?: usually once a week
What paper?: whatever I can grab
Last book read: Communist Manifesto
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Tickets to DIA
General health: Good
Mental health: Good

Amazing how so many people are in "good" health, you'd think that the average would be "average".

Age: Younger than Frazzled
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: High school sophmore
Salary: Sadly, zero
Dream job: Military historian of some sort
Live with parents?: Yup
Do you Rent or Own your property: Nay
How many bedrooms?: N/A
Religion: Roman Catholic
Political beliefs: I don't really have established political views yet
How did you vote: Can't vote yet
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Usually every sunday
What paper?: Star Tribune
Last book read: Killing Kennedy
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Some skittles out of a vending machine
General health: Average
Mental health: Good

Youg people generally have better health.

Age: 19
Gender: M
Race: No thanks, not good with races.
Sexuality: Bi
Disabilities: Wouldn't callOsgood-Schlatter disease a 'disability', but it's the only thing I have.
Marital status: Single. Any offers?
Employment: Volunteer
Salary: I don't like salary.
Dream job: Successful author.
Live with parents?: Grandparents.
Do you Rent or Own your property: You don't need to know this.
How many bedrooms?: Or this.
Religion: My own.
Political beliefs: They're all gak.
CELERY! I don't like celery, not salary!
How did you vote: You don't need to know this, either.
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Every day.
What paper?: The Times every day, and locals every week.
Last book read: Carpe Jugulum
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Second-hand Battle for Skull Pass missing a good amount of stuff, but still with enough models to make the purchase viable. £5.
General health: Average-Good
Mental health: What mental health?

And if this info was asked for via email it would be phishing.

Nice. Can't wait to see what you use it all for.

Age: Waaaaaaaay older than Frazzeled
Gender: Ares
Race: Olympian
Sexuality: When Aphrodite wakes up.
Disabilities: impossible
Marital status: Single / Married / Have a partner / Cohabiting with partner / Does Oragy count?
Employment: Job Title / Unemployed / Depends who prays to me...
Salary: No need
Dream job: Zeus' pad...
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Mount Olympus
How many bedrooms?: Enough
Religion: Mine
Political beliefs: Right learning conservative, socialist liberal etc etc Does it matter?
How did you vote: Send in Kratos
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Daily...
What paper?: Lysistrata
Last book read: Homer
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Ambrosia
General health: Good / Average / Poor Godly
Mental health: Good / Average / Poor Insane

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: University student/Part time musician
Salary: n/a
Dream job: Traditional Scottish Musician
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Neither
How many bedrooms?: 1
Religion: Atheist
Political beliefs: Whoever has the best policies.
How did you vote: Postal vote
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Daily
What paper?: Metro
Last book read: The Fault in our Stars - John Green
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Book on Norse Mythology
General health: Good
Mental health: Good

Age: 28
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Sexuality: Straight
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Have a partner
Employment: Teacher
Salary: 30,000 euro PA +
Dream job: Current one is pretty good
Live with parents?: Nope!
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 1
Religion: Agnostic
Political beliefs: Um. Conservative Left Wing? As in I don't believe in revolution or rapid changes but I am left leaning in many respects, while still believing strongly in personal responsibility. I'm probably Centre for Europe though.
How did you vote: I have no vote, as I have emigrated from Ireland. If I had one, I'd vote Independent.
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Daily
What paper?: The Irish Times
Last book read: The Hobbit!
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Ummm, some honey waffles? If food doesn't count...Medieval Total War.
General health: Good
Mental health: Good

Having seen a number of the youtube videos with Salad Fingers, I'm not telling you ANYTHING!

Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian(American!)
Sexuality: Hetero as hell
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Have a partner
Employment: US Army, Infantryman, Fireteam leader
Salary: 48K or so
Dream job: Owning my own LGS
Live with parents: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Niether
How many bedrooms?: 12
Religion: Athiest
Political beliefs:Conservative
How did you vote: Republican
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Occasionally
What paper?: Army Times, Stars and Stripes
Last book read: Know No Fear
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Flowers for valentines day
General health: Good
Mental health: Good (as one who can be that volunteers to deploy)

Age: Yup
Gender: Have that to.
Race: Not first, but usually not last.
Sexuality: When I can.
Disabilities: Visiting Dakka to much.
Marital status: Happy
Employment: Sometimes, if I feel like mingling with the common man
Salary: Love
Dream job: Answering online questionnaires
Live with parents?: At one point.
Do you Rent or Own your property: I rent property that I own, or was it the other way around?
How many bedrooms?: Chair
Religion: It's out there baby.
Political beliefs: I have some
How did you vote: With as much gusto as I could conjure up at that ungodly hour of the morning.
How often if at all do you read a paper?: I rarely come across a paper that has writing on it, so not often. Most of the stuff I read has multiple pieces of paper bound in some fashion.
What paper?: "Have you seen this cat", and it had a picture of a cat.
Last book read: Galaxy in Flames
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Food
General health: Grecian diety
Mental health: Yes. Maybe.

Age: Yougner than Frazzled
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Sexuality: Hetero
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: Shipping/Receiving
Salary: 26k
Dream job: Here
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 1
Religion: N/A
Political beliefs: Varies
How did you vote: Varies
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Daily
What paper?: Seattle Times
Last book read: Gaunts Ghost Omnibus 1
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Fast Food
General health: Poor
Mental health: Good

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: White British
Sexuality: Bisexual
Disabilities: Aspergers Syndrome
Marital status: Single
Employment: Student
Salary: Pahaha, I'm a student, the only thing I get is debt.
Dream job: Making stuff, preferably using a degree in mechanical engineering.
Live with parents?: no
Do you Rent or Own your property: rent
How many bedrooms?: 1 (student accommodation)
Religion: Atheist of the "believe what you want to believe, just don't shove it in my fac" variety
Political beliefs: Right learning conservative, socialist liberal etc etc
How did you vote: didn't, wasn't old enough at the time
How often if at all do you read a paper?: rarely, mainly get my news online
What paper?: The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent or The Metro, depending on availability
Last book read: The Great British Bake-Off: Learn To Bake
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Holy Fire by Foals
General health: Good to average, presently average due to a cold
Mental health: Good

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: I like the boobs.
Disabilities: None
Marital status: Single
Employment: Full time alcho- er, student.
Salary: One day. . . .
Dream job: Getting paid as much as possible, for as little work as possible.
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: dorm room?
How many bedrooms?: 1/2
Religion: Non-religious
Political beliefs: More bike lanes/left leaning centrist
How did you vote: 3rd party
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Every day
What paper?: USA today (it's free, okay?)
Last book read: Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Absinthe
General health: Demi God
Mental health: Nirvana

Age: 24
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Hetero
Disabilities: None (that I know of)
Marital status: Single
Employment: Mechanical claims analyst
Salary: 35,000-40,000 USD
Dream job: Not sure...
Live with parents?: Nope.
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 2
Religion: Athiest
Political beliefs: Liberal, I guess...too hard to figure out anymore...
How did you vote: With the machine
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Not very often
What paper?: Whichever one I happen to pick up...
Last book read: 1st Ultramarines Omnibus
Last non essentials consumer purchase: indoor r/c helicopter
General health: Good
Mental health: Average

Age: 27
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: Does self-diagnosed ADD count?
Marital status: Single / Married / Have a partner / Cohabiting with partner: Single
Employment: Job Title / Unemployed: Mobile Dental technician
Salary: $40K
Dream job: Rock Star
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent with 2 friends
How many bedrooms?: 3
Religion: Christian (not the crazy variety that hates everyone-the kind the Bible encourages)
Political beliefs: Right learning conservative, socialist liberal etc etc: Liberal
How did you vote: I filled in a circle on a paper
How often if at all do you read a paper?: I read Dakka for news
What paper?: DakkaDakka
Last book read: Stephen King-Full Dark, No Stars (currently)
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Warriors of Chaos book, cards, Dragon Ogres, Chimera, Cards Against Humanity with Expansions, Call of Cthulhu and Warhammer Invasion booster (1 each). It was a good day to spend
General health: Good / Average / Poor: I have a cough, and I'm about 30lbs heavier than I'd like at 5'11". So we'll go "average"
Mental health: Good / Average / Poor: I make Dr. Zoidberg look like a picture perfect example of sanity. Then again, a total psycho will claim sanity-so what am I, if I claim to be nuts?

Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Disabilities: Unable to perceive depth/cannot see in 3D
Marital status: Single / Married / Have a partner / Cohabiting with partner: Single
Employment: Student/Freelance Artist
Salary: None
Dream job: Freelance Artist that actually makes money
Live with parents?: No
Do you Rent or Own your property: Rent
How many bedrooms?: 2 (roommate)
Religion: Atheist
Political beliefs: Social Democrat
How did you vote: NDP
How often if at all do you read a paper?: Never
What paper?: N/A
Last book read: "The Idiot" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Last non essentials consumer purchase: Videogame
General health: Average
Mental health: Average

Staying with the USA laws regarding the census, I am only required to provide you with the following:

Number of people in your household on dakka : 1

 Shadowseer_Kim wrote:
Staying with the USA laws regarding the census, I am only required to provide you with the following:

Number of people in your household on dakka : 1

Oh, hello there, Michele Bachmann.

Not to nit pick, but you should make this a poll so you can see the results.

is anyone planning on compiling this data? it would be very interesting to see for sure.


Age: 32
Gender: M
Race: Caucasian
Sexuality: Hetero
Disabilities: limited mobility in lower extremities to injury.
Marital status: married
Employment: Physical Security Specialist
Salary: 80K annual
Dream job: owning my own gaming store / cafe. (hoping to make this a reality soon actually)
Live with parents?: Not for quite some time.
Do you Rent or Own your property: own
How many bedrooms?: 3
Religion: Christian (Non-denominational)
Political beliefs: Libertarian
How did you vote: Party
How often if at all do you read a paper?: rarely
What paper?: N/A
Last book read: I do not read fiction
Last non essentials consumer purchase: AR-15 Mil-spec buffer tube kit
General health: Average/poor (overweight and need to get back in shape)
Mental health: Good