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| Random_Dan |
on Tue 24 Jan 12, 8:28 PM to Random_Dan's blog.
I've not been on IC for a while due to changes in my life, but the past few days have given me a new outlook and understanding of me and I'm feeling really rather good! It won't last! 
I have had far too much time on my hands recently, due to being both injured and single. This has resulted in lots of time spent in the pub. I now intend to swap the pub for the internet as I'm getting fat on the beer, so will probably end up posting more inane crap at some point in the future.
Anyways... following a very drunken pub based conversation as opposed to my usual, just plain drunk conversations, which have included topics such as "I don't think you can fire a flaming badger from a trebuchet at a Norwegian without getting in trouble" and "I think it's a sheep, but it doesn't have wool, and it's trying to eat my rucksack" which have no bearing on this weblog whatsoever, I got to thinking just how different people are in general, and in particular, I wondered how different I was from other people. Because I am both a nerd, and slightly sad, I was interested to find out how different I was.
So I thought I'd initially share the statically unlikelyness of me.
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded (etc.) and after a few million years, the odd bit of evolution, my parents mysteriously appeared on the face of the planet, and upon getting together, my mummy and daddy had a special cuddle and I was born 9 months later. Conception supposedly only occurs with a 2.5% likelihood per bought of intercourse, which seems like a fairly low number, but I'll go with it, as it's from Wikipedia, so it must be true! I was the successful one from approximately 39 million other little swimmers too, so go me!
I was born with a blood group that only occurs in 1% of the population, which means I share it with "only" 62 thousand people in the UK, and sadly I can't donate as I was also born with two congenital “problems” one which occurs in 0.2% of live births and the other occurs in 0.1-0.3% of the population.
I very recently decided to join the 1% of road users who ride a motorbike, and I'm one of the 0.1% of British people who think that climbing frozen waterfalls is a fun way to spend your winter days, and one of the 0.2% that think rock climbing is clever way to get out and about.
I have known for a long time that I have an interest in BDSM (thought it important to include something BDSM-y as it this is IC!) which again Wikipedia helpfully tells me, is an interest I share with between 5-25% of general population, and oddly this appears to be the thing I have most in common with the rest of the world, that and being male I guess, there does seem to be a lot of men about!
All of this is very interesting (if you like that sort of thing), and is very self indulgent in a "Look at me, aren't a special" kind way that's talked about whilst jumping from one foot to the other, but isn't actually relevant to what comes next. But at least I now know I'm pretty unique!
And so to the main point and reason of this weblog. My friend eloquently asked me in the aforementioned drunken pub conversation, “Do you never look at a lass and think 'I'd like to scuttle her?' (He's a classy gent he really is!) It got me thinking that I don't ever recall thinking along those lines, and I'm lead to belive that this is a fairly common thought process when a person spies another whom they find attractive. I generally just think "Boobs!" because, mentally I am in fact about 5, and as I once told my ex - "I like boobs because they're nice to lie on" (I'm such a catch!).
This kind of left me feeling kind of odd and unusual (Which lead to the “How unique am I” rubbish above!) From this, and a well timed and interesting article on the BBC, a programme on BBC3, far too much time on my hands due to being stuck indoors and routing around AVEN and their forums, I kind of came to the realisation that perhaps I fit somewhere in the spectrum of asexuality (specifically romantic asexuality),which goes some way to explaining rather a lot about my take on sex in general.
So there you go, this I guess is me “coming out” as it were, to a random bunch of near complete strangers, but I guess it's a start! It feels weirdly liberating!
And with that, I need to try again to catch the degu that's been roaming freely around my house for the past 4 days. Wish me luck!
Edited to add: Eek, this also appears to be my 100th post. Yay!
Edited Tue 24 Jan 12, 11:31 PM by Random_Dan
| 24 Jan 12, 8:56 PM Sadistia UK(NG), 10 yrs |
looks for badgers. Sx | |
| 24 Jan 12, 9:15 PM Lazer_Fantastico 4 mths |
Heh heh heh... I liked that. But if 1% of the UK population is 62,000 people, that means there's just over 6 million people here. It doesn't feel that roomy, somehow. If true, I think they were all down my local Asda this morning. | |
| 24 Jan 12, 9:27 PM Random_Dan UK(M), 19 mths   |
Darn those pesky 0s! The UK population is approximately 62.3 Million (again via wikipedia), 1% would be 623,000 Edited 24 Jan 12, 9:29 PM by Random_Dan | |
| 24 Jan 12, 9:54 PM Lazer_Fantastico 4 mths |
Damn! I was hoping you were right, and some sort of Day of the Triffids type incident had thinned out the numbers. I could do with a bigger garden. Or any garden, come to that. | |
| 25 Jan 12, 9:36 PM Commander_Kwaaab UK(SW), 7 yrs |
1% of road users ride motorbikes???:o Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Bloody Satnav |
