i’m really having trouble resisting my urge to make outlandish suppositions about the percentages in the “relationships status” survey we’ve got going on right over here —–>
problem is, i don’t really have a forum for it. and i’m willing to bet some of you have been waiting for the right time too. well, a survey crosses bravely into the realm of “statistically significant” at 100 samples. so, let’s go.
- 60% of marriages end in divorce. yet married outnumber divorced by 38 to 1. there are untruths in one of these numbers.
- singles are losing, always. i hate us.
- the “dating seriously” category has enjoyed a surge in recent days. i hope you all hooked up this new years eve and are enjoying a fantastic flingy romance that you think is serious. those are lots of fun, and i look forward to your imminent return to the scene.
- dating casually? i applaud the forthcoming honesty of both your internet poll vote and your unrelenting bar fly nature.
what did i miss?
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I wonder if some of the “seriously” people are dating some of the “casually” people.
Makes me glad I’m in the “married” category.
There are some interesting stats on marriage and divorce here that tell a different story than is commonly believed. For example, the median duration of first marriages that end in divorce: is nearly eight years for both sexes. Similarly, the percentage of married people who reach their 5th, 10th, and 15th anniversaries is 82%, 65% and 52%, respectively. [Full disclosure: I have been married more than 17 years.]
i thought lilith and I were engaged, but I found out this morning we are only dating “casually”….ouch! Scratch one vote for engaged.
Parlie,
You need to examine the demographics of the 60% number (I assume a nationwide figure? source?) and the demographic of this forum which is allegedly a concentrated pool of elitist pseudo-intellectual overpriced beer drinking twats with a mob mentality and virulent hatred of anyone who is not one of ‘us’.
These characteristics obviously make members of the forum excellent marriage material… (known as ‘a keeper’) and the 2 poor sods who got divorced probably married Pamela Anderson and so stood no chance.
Haha, caroline.
The stats could be true if some of those people who list as married are on their 14th marriage…
No Im not dying to talk about it, but I do have a question which has always bugged me. Why the different catagories for divorced and single. Are they not efectively the same? Dating seriously does not have a companion catagory of “broken up”. Casually dating does not have a parallel “stopped calling him”?
jus sayin.
Well not if you take into account that divorcees can have remarried…or the divorcees that are casually dating or seriously dating….a little statistic glitch…
i never said i was a statistician.
I think you could have a separate category for people who are (or think they are) dating caroline.
Statistically obsessed
*cracking up
And where is single and seriously dating someone married?
I am sorry Parlie, I didn’t mean to be a post-pooper, I just sometimes get a little number nutty.
You guys are in for a real surprised in the next hour or so…
Belmont yo: I completely agree with you! I have decided that it will be my little contribution to the movement to screw with any demographics I come near, by choosing to identify as “single,” rather than “divorced.” Why should it matter at all that at one ludicrous point in my life, I foolishly decided to marry and later thought the better of it? How does that make me qualitatively different from someone who has lived with one partner, or several consecutive partners, without making it legal? Single is single. Period.
The divorced thing was kinda not smart. I take responsibility for putting that category on there.
Thor… pray tell. Have you used your Sirrius Radio inverter to upload the binary IP code of all the votes and you are going to publish a list of who voted what, and use their ethernet SEO profile with a hot wired Tom-Tom publish a list of everyones real names, addresses and favorite poptart?
floozy, the answer is yes to that, but that will cost members $1 million dollar to see..
UVA LaGrape has done some statistical research on singles that is, quite frankly.. amazing. It’s almost so good, I feel like I’m spoiling everyone.
Check is in the post
I like strawberry poptarts. The ones with the white frosting a colored sugar. Mmmmmm.
No worries, Thor. Just about every poll, or demographic study, includes the “divorced” category. You were just following the tide, not creating it. It’s just apparently a nit that belmont yo and I particularly like to pick.
I have a friend who never married, and she ticks the divorced box on forms because she doesn’t want people to think nobody wanted her.
Good point, lexi. I hope Mrs. Gobbler isn’t in that category.
I can’t wait for Thor’s alluded post. I hope it has to do with Monticello.
talking about monticello gets me pretty hot, too. i hope that’s not weird.
It’s weird.
fuck.
Weird is the new black
So, Parlie is black?
There needs to be a “little column A, little column B” for divorcees. Floozy, your perpetually single friend… This is probably one of those obnoxiously true Successories posters… “You’ll miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Does that apply to her?
No… she was just hateful and no one wanted her.
I like to ignore things that bother me… keeps my blood pressure down.
Odd, I like to bother things that ignore me. Keeps me entertained.
Can sombody please tell me who I am dating!?!?!
Flooze, Your friend … I like her
Sil… hahaha… its Taliesin. Do you want her number?
Confession: I think I voted twice: once from home and once at work, so that’s one less person in the Married count. Sorry.
funny…(*furrowed brow) Two and floozy broke up with me today, did someone say something? *coughgobblercough*
Thor – can you repost the results of the age demographics for this site – that might help explain these numbers a bit (and also make for an interesting overlay for the online dating post)? My suspiscion is that Chuck’s fact about 82% of married folks making it to their 5th anniversary may be the key to our large number of marrieds (although the recruitment of talking to your spouse incessantly about the site resulting in both parties having taken the poll may also be in effect more so than singles telling their friends, who knows).
Hi Taliesin,
Flooze tells me we’re dating.
Are we having a good time?
xxoo
Silmo
Oh and Taliesen,
Are we into threesomes???
Just curious b/c Caroline will be here on Saturday and…well… you know… [cue porn music]
@Lys – Can I do this tomorrow, I’m a little slammed today with “real world” things.
*coughgobblercough*…. that’s what she said…HA!
Its like “One Life to Live” up in this bitch.
Floozy: are you your own friend?
Of course, my dear Thor. It’s not like I’m signing your paycheck.
“Old Fart Alert!!!” Yes, That’s me, and as a representative of this important demographic, us old farts just want young uns to not get “relationship diseases”, even the ones that can be cured. So wait a month.
I think we should probably get off of Ed Ho’s lawn.
Uva LaGrape… yep… you got me. I AM box ticking hateful girl that no one wanted.
You want to cut Jude Law, your intro music scared the shit out of me and you don’t know who Two0Four is… enough said.
50% of my marriages have failed, and my current wife’s as well. i guess that makes us only 33% successful?
also, Chuck, both my current wife’s first marriage and mine lasted less than 5 years. Ditto for three close friends of mine that all got divorced in the last 36 months. By the by, if anyone is looking for a good divorce service provider, I have to plug Bruce Tyler in Afton (Afton Legal Services?). All 6 of us that have gotten divorced (the aforementioned three plus one acquaintance) have used his service and then had a party afterwards. Divorce-A-Palooza.
Floozy:
I know!!!( I’m scared of her!)
shenanigans: don’t be skeered. You’re so skerdy.
catfite
Floozy: I said that Jude Law is such a pretty bitch that I want to cut him. That’s different from what you imply.
so… that comment was lost in time for 3 months. heady.
I’m not skerred anymore.
well…that’s what makin’ sweet love usually does to my lubs