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The Saddest Map In America

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Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by eplanit »

Avshalom wrote: post #38
sliverstorm wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, in some ways, a sign of where we are now most likely to see people we don’t know in various parts of the country. One could say the places listed are sad. "What ever happened to ?". You could take it as evidence that we are becoming less social, and withdrawing into our own shells. It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14. How is this not…

>>It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14. >How is this not sad? That's probably more a side effect of socialization that teaches men to take the active role.

Or, the result of Feminism, which teaches women to take the active role.

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Post by Gmo »

russell wrote: post #27
the_watcher wrote: post #10

How is "the car" Georgia's most common missed connection? Hitchhikers? I can't think of anything else.

Stopped traffic. A couple of decades ago, the only road from Silicon Valley to Skyline in the hills was blocked by construction equipment repairing a washout. My wife got out and walked up the line to see what was going on. She started talking to a man standing there. Turns out he was a freelance developer and my wife said, "My son knows how to program.", which lead to his firs job as a programmer in high school. In…

Ha, I was hoping that the freelance developer was you :)

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by edge17 »

zalzane wrote: post #28

I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what's the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category? It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don't see why anyone would even b…

the concept comes from newspapers in low population areas. it wasn't really invented by the internet.

you should go read the wiki page for 'missed connections' though, it's somewhat enlightening.

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Post by barkingcat »

zalzane wrote: post #28

I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what's the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category? It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don't see why anyone would even b…

I posted a missed connection once, and about 2 hours later got a reply from a person who was in the exact same circumstances (ie same time, same place, same details about furtive glances) - but she was looking at some other dude who was there and thought I was him. At the same time, I actually wasn't looking at her, but at another girl who was at the same event.

So it fizzled cause we weren't looking for, but looking "past" each other.

Moments of extreme awkwardness after flirting madly mutually verifying locational/timing/happenstance details followed by absolutely wrong physical descriptions of each other. Yah that conversation dried up fast.

I suppose it could have been a romantic start to some kinda relationship, but that ship sunk before it even had a chance.

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by nitrogen »

the_watcher wrote: post #14
drharris wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atlanta traffic.

Is that seriously it? Like people looking out the window? I spent 4 years in LA traffic and have never heard of that. It's definitely plausible though, now that I think of it.

I knew a guy who met his wife at a stop light.
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