CosmopoliTAN #37: Drinks and Worldly Conversation about Nothing (Page 47)

akustix - 2008-07-31 2:30 PM

hey all...

I think I would make a decent housewife... I just vacuumed, and swept the downstairs floor, washed the dishes, and even got some reading done while the youngest slept and the oldest played some computer games...

 I don't keep the neatest house... but I do clean... and I would put out every night. 

OK.... off to the gym for a swim.

-B 

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 3:34 PM Crazy

TheSchwamm - 2008-07-31 2:33 PM heh, i almost responded, but then i remembered i don't live in a big city.

wurkit_gurl - 2008-07-31 3:35 PM

Blocked - "games".

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 3:37 PM

Online log for someone who is almost at 600 miles for the month.

That's running miles. 

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 2:32 PM

What do you mean? 

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 2:37 PM

Online log for someone who is almost at 600 miles for the month.

That's running miles. 

jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:37 PM

I'll give you an example.  The high school I went to graduated 420 or so students.  I knew, at least by face recognition, most of the class I graduated with.  I also knew a good portion of the Juniors and some of the Sophomores.  I would estimate that by the time I graduated from high school, I met 1200 or so people that I would remember by name or facial recognition.  I would think that at a larger school (say an inner city LA school) there are quite a few more in a graduating class, so I would think that there are people in the same class that didn't know each other at all, so the math would not necesssarily hold true. 

My question is - based on your life experience, how many people do you think you will meet and know by facial or name recognition in your life, based on an average 70 year life span.

1stTimeTri - 2008-07-31 3:38 PM

Is that an Ultra-runner you know, or just happened to find?

jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:37 PM

I'll give you an example.  The high school I went to graduated 420 or so students.  I knew, at least by face recognition, most of the class I graduated with.  I also knew a good portion of the Juniors and some of the Sophomores.  I would estimate that by the time I graduated from high school, I met 1200 or so people that I would remember by name or facial recognition.  I would think that at a larger school (say an inner city LA school) there are quite a few more in a graduating class, so I would think that there are people in the same class that didn't know each other at all, so the math would not necesssarily hold true. 

My question is - based on your life experience, how many people do you think you will meet and know by facial or name recognition in your life, based on an average 70 year life span.

jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:37 PM

I'll give you an example. The high school I went to graduated 420 or so students. I knew, at least by face recognition, most of the class I graduated with. I also knew a good portion of the Juniors and some of the Sophomores. I would estimate that by the time I graduated from high school, I met 1200 or so people that I would remember by name or facial recognition. I would think that at a larger school (say an inner city LA school) there are quite a few more in a graduating class, so I would think that there are people in the same class that didn't know each other at all, so the math would not necesssarily hold true.

My question is - based on your life experience, how many people do you think you will meet and know by facial or name recognition in your life, based on an average 70 year life span.

wurkit_gurl - 2008-07-31 2:40 PM

Good lord. I don't even know! I mean, my high school was very large, and I know a lot of people. I took dance lessons for a long time and have done a lot of theatre outside school. Plus, college (including an entire MIT fraternity), grad school, the year I did taekwondo, folks I've met through triathloning, jobs, and I've met a lot of folks at church. Lots.

Jungle Jenn - 2008-07-31 3:41 PM My God........is this day ever gonna end

Rynamite - 2008-07-31 2:43 PM

Couldn't even guess a number. I meet a ton of people, but don't like most of them. I'm bad with names, too. I could walk up to a girl and remember her 10 digit phone number, but not her name.

bcart1991 - 2008-07-31 3:42 PM To be honest, I would remember a lot of people by face. I have a bit of a photographic memory. But it's subconsciously selective. My estimate would be in the thousands.

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 2:34 PM Crazy

Scout7 - 2008-07-31 2:40 PM

Not many.

I forget most of them, some intentionally.  And I'm bad with names. 

jdwright56 - 2008-07-31 3:42 PM

Try to estimate for me.  I am preparing a speech and I have a statistic that I feel will be startling when placed in the right perspective.  Since you schooled in the area that I am giving this speech, I would like to use your number.