Thanks to the hard work of Argenti Aertheri and the suggestions of various other Boobzers, the Man Boobz survey is now up and ready to be taken. It will give me — and all of you — a better picture of just what sort of people read Man Boobz on a regular basis. It’s completely anonymous. Go take it! It will only take a few minutes.
I will probably leave it up for a couple of days, and will report the results here as soon as the numbers are crunched.
I think pretty much any other question you might have about it will probably be answered on the survey itself, so hop to it!
Thanks Argenti!
Great to hear you can get home, Viscaria! Fingers crossed there’s no damage.
I stated that rather misleadingly — I wasn’t evacuated, I just deliberately went to bf’s on the other side of the city to avoid getting stranded in the north by myself all weekend. Chances of damage are slim to none. If there’s anything it would just be a little bit of basement seepage from the amount of rain.
@kittehs
Hugs eagerly accepted 😀
@Kittehs’ OT also but we call the cats the Constant Creepers. We have trained them to shoo with a hissed “Elam”. Took time but it is so worth the giggles!
@Theda Bara
That is pretty cool XD
@Marie Worth it’s weight in chicken!
Yay for all the de-lurkers! ^_^ I’ve never seen so many of them in one thread.
Super awesome survey Argenti!! I’m amazed at how thorough it is, great job!
Theda – LOL! I should try something like that, ‘cept I don’t want a name like that polluting the airspace across the veil. Louis’s banned the Furrinati from the bedroom, but we do need some sort of “not now, children” code for elsewhere!
Theda Bara, that sounds like my cat. If you say the word “Shit” like Clay Davis in The Wire says it she gets all aggitated/alert and runs away.
@SittieKitty I don’t blame her to be fair. That would probably get me alert too.
@Aaliyah We are always here. We are legion. And watching. In a totally consensual and supportive way of course.
@Kittehs’ I just wanted to turn his name into an object of ridicule. Even more so I mean. My cats think ‘Elam’ means food. That makes me happy.
Theda – Oh, I got that, and it is funny! I just wouldn’t deign to say his name in our lovely house over There.
We have, however, mentioned Misandrist Hard Chairs. 😛
@Kittehs’ I know! Don’t forget your scented candles you hypergamous penguin you.
LOL if Louis calls me a hypergamous penguin now I’ll know who to blame!
@Kittehs’ Ha.ha! Oh that reminds me, thank Himself from me. Herself just handed in her thesis and I had my review, very stressful times. Biographies and the discussions on the finer points of courtly life certainly helped ease the tension. I’ve converted her! She now knows why my cat is called Louis, no disrespect. In a round-about way he helped!
@Kitten:
Yeah, being tanned was also the beauty ideal where I grew up, among racists too, and yet people with the kind of skin that becomes tanned very easily, if combined with dark enough hair, were considered suspicious and not properly white by racists.
For instance, a colleague of mine who grew up in the same rural all-white area and me, and has a Greek mother, was occasionally bullied by racists.
Really, we knew racism was stupid, but still it somehow manages to get even stupider as you really dig into it.
I was unsure on employment status since I’m freelance and don’t work as consistently as someone with a 9-5 so I just put employed.
It occurred to me after I posted it that I should’ve specified that I meant working at all, since PT totally counts as working. Freelance gets weird though. Like, I’m theoretically a freelance web designer…5 years ago. Guessing you’re doing better than that!
Yet again, I’m sorry for any and all confusion I have caused!
Done, and done! Looking forward to the results.
Lol, I’ve started working on compiling the “check all that apply” sections since 1,000+ people, nearly 300 religion options, twice…yeah, I need to get ahead of this!
Current tally is 1,180; one headache, two aching knees, and one drop of freeze peach on my bed (no really, my peach ice pop dripped!)
Oh, no problems. I was just clarifying.
Dvarg (is it okay to use that?) – I was the very white-skinned kid who got bullied for being white (I don’t tan, I burn) by the same ones who bullied the Greek and Italian kids at school.
Wonder how the “you must be tanned or you’re disgusting” brigade are going now, thirty-plus years on in the country with the highest skin cancer rate in the world …
@Argenti
I cannot tell you how much it meant to me to see my grammar correction in the first question and then you added my raised vs. being religious question! I am all asquee!
I do not doubt that we have way more lurkers than imagined. I’ve been here since before wordpress, I comment regularly, I founded the LJ (yeah, even I don’t use it) and I wasn’t sure if I could call myself a regular.
I did, however, make sure to check all of the options for being David. Aren’t we all? That and misandrous penguins. Hard chair aficionados. I’m not about to go through the archives, but I believe Meller called us Manboobzerettas, so sign me up for that also.
Never hurts to be methodical… 🙂
Grr – I was specifically replying to Argenti’s last comment.