The weirder the better

Apparently banniNation isn't weird enough. Over half of the responders wanted to see more weird stuff. Silly pictures and phoshops came next, together with the geeky choice of technology. It just shows how nerdy we are. The interest in books and movies and science means we are intelligent nerds. Politics and other political stories were less wanted than one would think looking at the frontpage.

Get back in the kitchen and make me a sammich!

Sixty-five people responded to this weeks inquiry into how many hours bNers and bNettes spend making their living quarters inhabitable. Five of y'all are lucky enough to have mom or a maid pick up your basement digs. Four respondents were brave enough to admit they are slobs and never clean up. (Hmmm... if you're having trouble finding a partner you might want to look into that.) Two community members work hard as household managers - i.e. they are MOM or Mr. Mom. The rest of us don't obsess too much, but do spend some time keeping chaos in check. See the wiki for more results.

Sexy Time

It seems that most bNers and bNettes have some experience in the bedroom. 59 people answered this week's question "How many sex partners have you had? (Sex = hj, oral, intercourse)"

Roughly 32% of respondents said that they've had 3-6 partners and 17% said 7-12 partners. Two of you, and you know who you are, need to get out of mom's basement. Two more of you - when the hell do you find time to banninate if you have 41-100 partners? I'm not sure what to make of the response "Who's counting?" (8%). Perhaps these individuals don't want to ruin a nice leather belt.

Further analysis can be found here in the wiki.

School Daze

Sixty-two alts let us know where they attended school last week. The survey was really open and covered the entire K-12 experience so it was understandable that some felt left out - particularly those of us who went to magnet schools. Others felt the descriptions a bit too general.

Overall, 71% attended public/government schools and 24% attended private schools at some point in their K-12 education. The vast majority of us attended school in the Burbs. One person claims to have attended a Madrassa.

The results for this week are posted in the wiki.

The Religious Divide

This last week we surveyed the tribe about religion - always a divisive topic in meatspace and cyberspace. Seventy-six people voted. As always the results are posted in the wiki, but we will give a simple breakdown of the results here.

The general breakdown, based on major world religions, was 3.9% Jewish, 23.7% Christian, 1.3% Taoist. Then, 30.3% Other Religion, 19.7% Agnostic, and 21.1% Atheist. Zoroastrians were left off the survey and therefore could be lumped in with Other Religion even though they are considered one of the world's major religions.

Specific results for religious affiliations can be found in the wiki.

Despite the dizzying array of choices, 8 people still felt their beliefs were not represented adequately. Jin wonders how many self-identified as Force believers. ;)

Gym club here we come

For some exercising is a way of life, and for others getting a beer from the fridge is exercising. banniNation has more beer-people than gym-dwellers. It shows, since most bNers should lose at least few pounds. Then again half of them exercise 1-4 hours per week, so they are obviously doing something. Their beer-bellies are just in the way of their gorgeus abs.

Having Adventures: banniNation on Safari

The term safari is a 19th century Kiswahili term referring to a cross-country expedition usually for the purpose of hunting or viewing wildlife in East Africa (derived from the Arabic term safar meaning to journey), but it can mean traveling in general. Going on safari outside our home countries is getting more difficult with TSA pat downs, stance checks and body cavity searches (jk on the stance check - I think). 95% of bNers/bNettes have traveled in North America (makes sense given the meatspace citizenship of bN). A few souls have braved foreigners (ha! ha!), customs agents, and immigration to bring back reports from beyond the edges of the map where dragons live and cannibals haunt the jungles. One bNer/Nette has even safaried to Antarctica and lived to tell the tale.

If we take my dad's favorite phrase having adventures, which he uses to describe my total inability to stay put and lead a normal life like other people, then certainly the population of banniNation is doing that. Whether it is totalsecurity narrowly avoiding skanky women in Wasilla, AK, heresyoftruth posting bacon tits, burntman soaking up sunshine in Manica with a cold beer and prawns, ludditemike taking really early morning bike rides to photograph his MI town, modi traveling the world in the name of good health, lard baron hiking in Bavaria, or even grahams herding all the cool cats that populate bN, we are definitely having adventures.

For comparison's sake, here is a list of numbers of countries per continent. You can go here to get the list of countries. This week's results are posted in the wiki.

Antarctica - shared territory
Africa - 53
Asia -44
Europe - 46
North America - 23
Oceania/Australia - 14
South America - 12