The Real 'Stuff White People Like'

Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results, white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.

Comments

Re:The female responses . . .

[ShakaUVM]

>>I always laugh whenever the Republicans complain about taxing the richest 10%

Idiot.

If you make a decent wage as a software engineer, and you're married to another worker, guess what? You're in the top 10%.

The cutoff for the top 10% of income is $110,000.

It's ridiculous to pretend that all of these people are all executives and fat cats that don't produce. I work my ass off, as does my wife, and we would both rather prefer not losing half our income to the government.

Parroting liberal talking points is insightful?

[quibbler]

This is "insightful"? Slashdot is sliding, fast. Mods, this is flamebait. Get a clue.

Re:white men?

[PopeRatzo]

admit it, you're not actually Canadian, are you? You're from New York!

You'll have to forgive us Americans for wanting to pretend we're Canadian.

Re:The female responses . . .

[ffreeloader]

No, executives make all the money while doing nothing useful(they spend more time trying to figure out how to enrich themselves than they do the company). Case in point, over the past 10 years executive pay has skyrocketed in the US while stocks are, at best, stagnant. This is why I always laugh whenever the Republicans complain about taxing the richest 10% is placing an unfair "burden" on the most "productive" people. Beyond a certain point the relationship between salary and productivity is tenacious, at best. Case in point, pretty much every single major bank in the US.

I had to laugh after reading this post. You didn't even come close to saying what you thought you did. It shows your inability to comprehend the words you use/read/write very clearly(and also those of your very liberal buddies on this site who are so quick to agree with you). You think you're being really smart, but instead you end up showing just how poorly you comprehend even what you say, let alone what someone says to you.. You complain about the Republicans, say their view of taxation is wrong, and then go on to say they are correct.

Here's a clue. If a relationship between two things is tenacious it means that relationship is very strong, that the relationship is very hard to break.

Here's the definition of tenacious from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

Definition of TENACIOUS
1
a : not easily pulled apart : cohesive b : tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance
2
a : persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired

The word you were looking for is tenuous. Once again from Merriam-Websters online dictionary:

Definition of TENUOUS
1
: not dense : rare
2
: not thick : slender
3
a : having little substance or strength : flimsy, weak b : shaky 2a

Maybe the reason so many of you liberals don't understand what the conservatives are saying is that your reading comprehension levels are so low.... You just don't get what they say because when the conservatives say white you think they meant black. You just proved the correctness of this assertion by thinking tenacious meant tenuous, as those two words are polar opposites in meaning. You know, like black and white.....

No, I'm not a Republican, and, no, I don't belong to any of the Tea Parties. I'm a registered Independent who comprehends what I read, and what I write. Hell, I've written so many misunderstood sentences on this site it isn't funny. The often misunderstand sentences fit the following model: A is true, if conditions b, c, and d are met. That type of sentence is very often read on /. as "this is true", period. The lack of language comprehension skills really scares me because if the people in our society can't comprehend what they read they base all their views on incorrect assumptions, and end up with beliefs based on wrong information just as surely as night follows day and then go on to want to transform our society into something that just cannot work in the real world.... They do this with great levels of arrogance calling anyone who disagrees with them stupid, a troll, mindless, etc.... It happens every day on /..

Now, if you're going to say that mistakenly used words don't really matter, or that it was a typo, think again. You just blew up your own argument, and if you realized it didn't think it was important enough to correct. If you blew up your argument and didn't realize it because you weren't sure of the correct wording, and didn't bother to use a dictionary or thesaurus to make sure, just how careful are you to communicate what you mean? Either excuse calls into question the quality of your reasoning ability.