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What 1% are you a part of?

posted 9 months ago by Chomsky89 (395)
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I am part of the top 1%:

-Marzipan consumers on earth. Not because I eat a lot of it, it's just not a thing in most countries, and many people don't eat it in the countries where it is a thing

- flying hours. Not because I'm so well-traveled, but because my parents lived a 24-hour drive apart since I was 6 years old.

- Brown cheese consumers on earth. Same explanation as Marzipan.

- Number of cousins. I'm actually not sure about the exact number, but it's around 40.

- Numbers of languages understood (4), which is normal in my country. But extremely rare in most countries.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 9 months ago

I'm the 1% that knows there is nothing at all special about me and that I'm extraordinarily ordinary.
I'm fine with this:)

[–] VinceD (9805) 9 months ago

This came up in another thread a few days ago, but patches of my hair turned gray when I was still a teenager due to "poliosis circumscripta," a rare condition that affects less than 0.5% of Caucasians. It causes sections of your hair to lose color and it looks very different from normal graying.

Numbers of languages understood (4)

I speak and understand English 🇺🇸 and Spanish 🇪🇸.
I can also understand and carry out basic communication in Italian 🇮🇹 and Portuguese 🇵🇹, although I don't speak either of them fluently.
But if that counts, then I guess I'm in that one, too.

Other than that, I’m pretty ordinary and boring, and damn proud of it.

[–] Kowalski (75527) 9 months ago

THE FOUR LANGUAGE THING IS EXTRAORDINARY IN MY OPINION.

[–] Chomsky89 (395) 9 months ago

it's not really bragworthy in my case since Swedish and Danish are quite similar to my language.

[–] VinceD (9805) 9 months ago

That's how I feel too. Some people say Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are barely different languages lol.

One of my exes speaks English, Polish, Italian, and Korean...and I'm like...how is that even possible???

[–] Kowalski (75527) 9 months ago

I TOOK THREE YEARS OF SPANISH...I CAN SPEAK ONE SENTENCE AND MAYBE UNDERSTAND AND/OR SAY A FEW WORDS....I WAS A FUCKUP YEAR ONE AND FAILED...THE OTHER TWO YEARS I GOT A'S...BUT THAT WAS BECAUSE ANNETTE SAT NEXT TO ME BOTH YEARS AND HELPED ME A LOT....ANNETTE IS PART OF THE REASON I DON;T KNOW MORE SPANISH THOUGH...SHE MADE SURE I GOT A'S BUT I WAS ONLY PAYING ATTENTION TO HER...NOT SPANISH...SO I AM A ONE LANGUAGE DUDE.

OH..THE SENTENCE I CAN SAY IS...

YO TENGO EL GATO EN LOS PANTELONES....EL GATO ES MUY CALIENTE.

ANNETTE ALWAYS LAUGHED AT THAT.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38076) 9 months ago

I can speak English, Indonesian, Malaysian, Khmer, Thai and French.

I can also understand a bit of Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.

I also know a few helpful phrases in Japanese, Tagalog and Mandarin.

[–] Kowalski (75527) 9 months ago

YOU ARE AN EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUAL...EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.😉

[–] AndyKing1967 (38076) 9 months ago

Thanks, I didn’t want to put it as a direct answer to the OP or include any other 1% stuff because it’ll just sound like I’m showing off and people seem to get pissed off at the slightest thing ☹️

[–] GolfnGuitars (2886) 9 months ago

I'd like to think that I'm in the Top 1% of guitar players, but:

1) There's really no way to measure that.
2) Some of these young kids can really play.

Again, no way to truly measure this, but...when it comes to golf, I can choke with the best of them (drive, iron shot, chip, putt...doesn't matter, I can choke 'em all!). And I can slice a golf ball off the planet with anyone (but I'd rather slice than hit that duck-hook I hit for a good chunk of last year...yuck!).

Other than that...about the only other thing I can think of is that I've worked at the same place since I graduated from college (almost 33 years ago). It used to be fairly common to work at the same place for one's career, but not so much anymore.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38076) 9 months ago

I would imagine that there’s a fair few posters that fall into the top 1% global income bracket.

[–] Chomsky89 (395) 9 months ago

Thats true. I'm probably barely inside of it. But my purchasing power is not in the global 1% without moving I'm pretty confident, although I'm definitely in the top 5%.

Someone with my income in Pakistan would have 4 times my purchasing power, and easily also be within the global 1% in PP.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38076) 9 months ago

I was surprised at how low the figure was when I Googled it.