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Primitive Demographics
« on: December 13, 2010, 05:20:36 PM »
Has anyone figured out the demographics of Primitives at DU? We know that they are often in their 40s. I wonder about race/ethnicity and gender of Primitives.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 05:28:28 PM »
Has anyone figured out the demographics of Primitives at DU? We know that they are often in their 40s. I wonder about race/ethnicity and gender of Primitives.

From DU picture threads, pretty much all of them are white.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2010, 05:38:16 PM »
I believe Frank has done some work on this but in general they are predominately white and 40 plus years old.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2010, 05:41:43 PM »
I believe Frank has done some work on this but in general they are predominately white and 40 plus years old.

Which absolutely shocks me.  Most have outgrown the "I wanna give other people stuff" by then.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2010, 05:42:22 PM »
My fellow alum's done a few polls on Skins's island over the past ten years.

Not many, but some.

And one can lie in polls.

Remember, DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

However, one "racial" poll from about three years ago seemed credible; that 97.8% or 98.7% (I forget which) of all primitives are of European derivation.  That seems consistent with occasional and anecdotal observations of the primitives.

As for "age," the primitives tend to be those born during the first half of the baby boom.

(The baby boom was 1946-1964.)

As for appearances, the archetypical primitive is "HamstersfromHell," seen in the primitives' photograph pages; "HamstersfromHell" is from southern Missouri, and not an especially active primitive, but man, he looks exactly like one imagines a primitive to look like.

It's difficult to discern ages from primitive comments, as many of them seem giddy teenagers, but one useful point of reference is the "do you remember" or "where were you at" campfires, dealing with some personality or event.  If a primitive remembers 10-cent movie admission or was in high school when Kennedy was assassinated, that's a pretty good indication the primitive is no spring chicken.

For the record, Doug's stupid ex-wife celebrated her 55th birthday last week.

One can however, be fooled; for the longest time franksolich guessed Oscar Wilde and the "elleng" primitives to both be circa 40 years old, but actually it turns out they're both about a generation older than that.

The hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer and Pedro Picasso, both at 52 years of age, are in the younger half of Skins's island.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2010, 05:52:37 PM »
Every photo of Primitives I saw was White for the most part.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2010, 06:19:38 PM »
In the interests of honesty in advertising, this is what some of the candidates for top primitive of 2010 have revealed about themselves (i.e., the vital statistics have been at one time or another provided by the primitive himself):

WilliamPitt, the Bostonian Drunkard, born December 1971
CaliforniaPeggy, the poetess CalPig primitive, born 1942
Proud2BlibKansan, the Die alte Sau, born late 1952
EFerrari, Doug's stupid ex-wife, born December 1955
Redstone, Chief S itting Bull, born either 1949 or 1950
Stinky the Clown, the sparkling husband primitive, born 1946
undergroundpanther, the subway cat, currently either 44 or 45 years old
Atman, Pedro Picasso, 52 years old, born either 1958 or 1959
HawkeyeX, the cross-eyed Iowa primitive, early 40s
mike_c, the mike_c primitive, at or near 60
NNN0LHI, the grouchy old primitive, born early 1950s
SystematicChaos, the gigantic primitive, born March 17, 1968 or 1969 (I forget which)
ThomWV, the mountain man primitive, born 1944 or 1945
warpy, the defrocked warped primitive, born 1950, give or take 6 months either way

franksolich takes no responsibility for the specific accuracy of the dates above, but DOES take responsibility for the general accuracy (i.e., if any errors, the errors are off by only a year or two).
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2010, 06:27:26 PM »
In the interests of honesty in advertising, this is what some of the candidates for top primitive of 2010 have revealed about themselves (i.e., the vital statistics have been at one time or another provided by the primitive himself):

WilliamPitt, the Bostonian Drunkard, born December 1971
CaliforniaPeggy, the poetess CalPig primitive, born 1942
Proud2BlibKansan, the Die alte Sau, born late 1952
EFerrari, Doug's stupid ex-wife, born December 1955
Redstone, Chief S itting Bull, born either 1949 or 1950
Stinky the Clown, the sparkling husband primitive, born 1946
undergroundpanther, the subway cat, currently either 44 or 45 years old
Atman, Pedro Picasso, 52 years old, born either 1958 or 1959
HawkeyeX, the cross-eyed Iowa primitive, early 40s
mike_c, the mike_c primitive, at or near 60
NNN0LHI, the grouchy old primitive, born early 1950s
SystematicChaos, the gigantic primitive, born March 17, 1968 or 1969 (I forget which)
ThomWV, the mountain man primitive, born 1944 or 1945
warpy, the defrocked warped primitive, born 1950, give or take 6 months either way

franksolich takes no responsibility for the specific accuracy of the dates above, but DOES take responsibility for the general accuracy (i.e., if any errors, the errors are off by only a year or two).

I wonder if any Primitive who are under 40.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2010, 06:36:12 PM »
I wonder if any Primitive who are under 40.

There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2010, 06:56:36 PM »
From DU picture threads, pretty much all of them are white.

But their hearts are black. :tongue:
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2010, 07:29:52 PM »
There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head

You know what's funny?  The DUmmies are the only one that would even matter to.  Hell, I know a guy from west Texas but I hardly ever talk about it and when he's around none of my friends seem to mind.  They treat him like everyone else .... hell we don't even bring it up.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2010, 08:15:00 PM »
There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2010, 08:38:28 PM »
There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head

Mr. Scorpio - also A.A. , and several of the SoCal and border state primitives claim Hispanic heritage. 

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2010, 09:45:47 PM »
There was one authentically-black primitive on Skins's island, but then my fellow alum kicked him off.

HamdenRice.

If Mr. Lamond Dorkio, the authenticator of "blackness" on Skins's island, wins one of the top ten primitive spots, franksolich will explain him.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2010, 09:48:15 PM »
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When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2010, 09:57:55 PM »
There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head

There is Ava, who was under 40.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2010, 10:00:01 PM »
There is Ava, who was under 40.

But the chinless wonder's only on Skins's island occasionally.

The young ones don't hang around like the old geezers do.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2010, 10:02:48 PM »
But the chinless wonder's only on Skins's island occasionally.

The young ones don't hang around like the old geezers do.

Any reasons for that?
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2010, 10:04:22 PM »
Any reasons for that?

Probably because they find the old geezers boring.

I mean, come on, even we middle-agers find primitives such as CalPig or greywarrior hardly interesting.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2010, 10:07:25 PM »
Probably because they find the old geezers boring.

I mean, come on, even we middle-agers find primitives such as CalPig or greywarrior hardly interesting.

One thing I notice is that Primitives are less nihilistic than their younger counterparts.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2010, 04:24:59 AM »
Bobbolink is homeless.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2010, 07:04:15 AM »
Bobbolink is homeless.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2010, 08:12:32 AM »
Any reasons for that?

Two thoughts on that: the 40+ crowd tends to be more politically active across the boards, so perhaps younger dems are just not interested in spending their time on an internet complaint forum.

Second thought: DU is made up of a bunch of aging hippies, who are either retired or living off the government, who have nothing better to do with their time.

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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2010, 08:24:08 AM »
But the chinless wonder's only on Skins's island occasionally.

The young ones don't hang around like the old geezers do.

This demographic may have changed over time, but it always seemed that the younger folks tended to hang out mostly in the lounge, with only occasional wading into the "big" forums.
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Re: Primitive Demographics
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2010, 11:20:09 AM »
There are a few, but the vast majority are older.

Xultar is African American, and Lioness Priyanka is East Indian.  I can't think of any other "diverse" DUmmies off the top of my head

I can only think of one other: FrenchieCat who is AA and French, I believe . . . and probably in her 40s but I'm totally guessing on the age.
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