All about yourself!

[batmacumba]

Well, It's Saturday night, the beer is cool and that tall, big breasted, long legged italian-brazilian blonde will never come back, so, why not?


Age: dangerously near to the 40's. Really scary.

Gender: Male

Race/ethnic compostion: 1/4 French, 1/8 Italian, some Spanish and Dutch, and a majority of Portuguese/Non-European/Brazilian/Whatever. White for BR standards.

Religion: A very curious thing, from the anthropological POV.

Height: 178

Weight: low, very low.

Location: Belo Horizonte, MG, BR.

Where you were born: Grenoble, Isère, FR.

Occupation: Architect.

Person you most admire: The homeless guy who passes the whole night yelling on the upper block corner: no bills, no pressure and boozed all day long. After him, a friend of mine, who was able to overcome the fact of being a poor afro-brazilian from the peripheric sh**tneighbourhoods of this oligarchical country big cities and became a very cultured and respected constitutionalist (one cannot even imagine how odd such an achievement is). Then, my father, with his colourful life and colourful thoughts.

Favorite President: None (FR), Vargas (BR), Lincoln (US).

Political Orientation: Jaurèsist.

Favorite Band: The Clash, The Beatles, Nirvana.

Favorite Sports team: Clube Atlético Mineiro. When It was a team.

Favorite Book: East of Eden.

Favorite Movie: Hard to tell... first, It was Ferris Bueller Day's Off; then, for a little while, The Empire of the Sun; but Trainspotting came one day; and all those old european movies on video... and I finally was completely unable to have a favorite movie for more than a week. This week is There will Be Blood.

Your other interests: Architecture. Urbanism. Anthropology. Victorian age intellectuality. Cladistics. Linguistics. Human Female Behaviour. Ordinated Chaos Theory.

Do you live by yourself?: Aye.

Siblings: 1 sister.

Relationship Status: Separated.

What year did you join Atlas?: 2011.

Nieces/Nephews: 2.

Have you ever been attracted to a person of the same sex?: Nay.

If you could pick your own nationality, what would you be?: If I were ridiculously rich, Polynesian; If I were ridiculously poor, Norwegian; but Brazil is the place where the middle-class lives like rich(not defending It, just pointing out).

[General Mung Beans]

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: East Asiatic, Korean
Religion: Presbyterian
Height: 5 feet 10 inches
Weight: 140
Location: Anaheim, CA
Where you were born: Newport Beach, USA
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: Jesus Christ
Favorite Band: Some World War II-era Wehrmacht choir
Favorite President: Abraham Lincoln
Favorite Sports team: Eh
Your other interests: History, eating

[Jayhawker]

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race/ethnicity: French, German, Cherokee
Religion: Lutheran
Height: 6'4''
Weight: 170 lbs
Location: Olathe, Kansas
Where you were born: Iola, Kansas
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: Pope Francis, James Nasimith, John Engle
Favorite President: Eisenhower
Political Orientation: I like to consider myself a moderate libertarian.
Favorite Musician(s): Michael Jackson, Maroon 5, Aerosmith, Queen, Carrie Underwood
Favorite Sports team: Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Chiefs
Favorite Book: Brave New World
Favorite Show: Downton Abbey
Favorite Movie: 2012, The Dark Knight, Knowing, Transformers, Finding Nemo (Judge me)
Other interests: Politics, College Basketball, Reading, Pawning
Favorite person on Atlas: Miles, though there are so many great people on here.
Favorite color: Green
Do you live by yourself: No - I live with a brother and his wife
Do you have any siblings? Yes, two brothers
Relationship status? Single
What year did you join Atlas? 2008
Do you have any nieces, nephews? I have three nephews and one beautiful niece - ages 12, 3, 2, and infant
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Anyone who says "no" is a liar
If you could pick your own nationality, what nationality would you pick? I kind of wish American was it's own nationality. Maybe one day.

[mattyman]

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Height: 5'10"
Location: Auckland City
Where you were born: Auckland
Occupation: Student at UoA; Bcom (Accounting, Commercial Law) BProp (Property) conjoint
Person you most admire: My gradfather, coming from poverty and a abusive home, he did a lot of good for his family and community
Favorite Band: John Mayer
Favorite President: John Adams, modern: Reagan
Favorite Politician: Rodger Douglas
Favorite Sports teams: Auckland Blues (rugby), Greenbay Packers
Your other interests: Current affairs, surfing (terrible at it though!), movies, reading when I get the time
Favorite Movie: X-men series, Marley and me, Captain America
Favorite tv series: Suits or How I met your mother

[DC Al Fine]

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race/ethnicity: Scottish with a bit of Dutch
Religion: Reformed Protestant
Height: 5'10''
Weight: 150lbs
Location: Halifax, NS
Where you were born: Toronto, ON
Occupation: Student/Teaching Assistant
Person you most admire: Notfamous: My grandmother, Famous: Stephen Harper
Favorite President: Calvin Coolidge
Political Orientation: Paleoconservative
Favorite Musician(s): The Black Keys
Favorite Sports team: Toronto Raptors
Favorite Book: 1984
Favorite Show: Downton Abbey
Favorite Movie: Shawshank Redemption
Other interests: Basketball, Powerifting, Investing
Favorite person on Atlas: Cathcon or Nathan
Least Favorite person on Atlas: Opebo or Antonio V
Favorite color: Green
Do you live by yourself: No
Do you have any siblings? Younger Brother, Younger Step-Sister
Relationship status? Engaged
What year did you join Atlas? 2012
Do you have any nieces, nephews? My siblings are all much younger than I
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Nope
If you could pick your own nationality, what nationality would you pick? Dutch

[For Oklahoma]

Famous: Stephen Harper

cue Hashemite

[kcguy]

Name:  Paul
Age:  42
Gender:  Male

Race/ethnic composition:  Foolish question to ask a genealogist.  (We don’t give short answers.)  My dad’s side is pre-Revolutionary American, so about ½ English, ¼ other British (mainly Scots-Irish), and ¼ German.  There’s also a trace of French.  My mom’s parents were Donauschwaben, from the Balkans.  Going back to the early 18th century, her ancestry would be about ¾ from modern Germany and about ¼ from other German-speaking areas, especially France, Luxembourg, and the Czech Republic.

Religion:  none.  Religion is totally irrelevant to my life.
Height:  5’-10” in my head.  Actually, I think I’ve shrunk to 5’-9”.  (So, about 175 cm)
Weight:  160 lbs/73 kg
Location:  Merriam, in the Kansas suburbs of KC
Where you were born:  KCMO
Occupation:  architect

Person you most admire:  Nelson Mandela.  I’ve always been impressed that he lost 30+ years of his life to prison, yet didn’t seem to hold a grudge.  Unlike, say, Mugabe, he seemed more interested in building democratic institutions in his country than in his own personal aggrandizement.  Similar things could be said about George Washington.

Favorite Band:  The Bangles?  Seriously not a music fan.  But I’m impressed that they managed 4 pop hits that sound nothing like one another.

Favorite President:  Washington.  For reasons stated above.
Favorite Sports team:  Reinforcing the gay stereotype, I have no interest in sports.

Favorite television shows:  Doctor Who, starting with the Donna Noble era.  Currently Awkward., even though I’m “too old” to be watching MTV.  From the past, I have a special soft spot for Daria.

Politics:  Pragmatic liberal, for lack of a better term.  Not activist enough to be a “progressive”.  I’m proud of the Americans With Disabilities Act, because it broadened the ability of Americans to contribute to society, and I’m relieved that the unexpected consequences for once turned out to be mainly positive.  I’m very American when it comes to free speech issues, and I would oppose any laws attempting to ban Holocaust denial.  While personally somewhat conservative, I would take anyone calling me a political conservative as slanderous.

Your other interests:  Genealogy.  I would love to be published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, if I ever solve any of the three problems I’ve been working on for the past five !#$^@&^! years.  Also, I play trick-taking card games with groups twice a month.  I can’t really stand politics, but I adore political demography.

Have you ever been attracted to someone of the opposite sex?  No, except for maybe Jordana Brewster.

Favorite quote:  From Douglas Adams, don’t remember exactly, but something like “As Kate lay beneath a pile of rubble, she was relieved to know that she hadn’t been merely imagining that this was a bad day.”

[For Oklahoma]

We have a new angus.

[HockeyDude]

My economic ideal:



I'm what you would call a small-town capitalist through and through.  Capitalism on a grand scale disgusts me.  That said, nothing quite tickles me fancy like the local barber shop or your friendly neighborhood hardware store. 

As for food? 





NOW THAT'S HOCKEYDUDE'S AMERICA!

[♀ Komrade Feminazi Kitteh ♀]

<Snowstalker> ftr i haven't jacked off in 8 days

[Jbrase]

I'm 100% sure I'm not a Libertarian and I'm wearing the avatar for ornamental purposes.

What you fail to realize is that long before Government was the "big, evil, awful" thing that Libertarians view it as, markets were making people richer than would ever be necessary. Tell me, how would the free market resolve wealth inequality? The answer is, it doesn't.

Libertarians like to believe that the free market is the answer to all of America's (and the world's) problems, when in fact it caused most of those problems in the first place. It was the free market that created wealth inequality, and encouraged/encourages it in modern society. The first "rich" people--the ones that made more money than others when America was first becoming an industrial nation--did not hold that much more wealth than say the "poorer" Americans. What happened was, the industrialization expanded and corporations were born.

Corporations exist to ensure that a sort of oligarchical system be upheld throughout the monetary system. Meaning, the CEOs of the biggest companies are ensured a lot more money than the lower classes (about 350-400 times as much money, to be exact) for doing quantities less work. They deliver a cheap, but "okay enough" product onto the market, and consumerism ensures that it is eaten up without questioning exactly what it is or how it was made.

The problem is that such a small amount of people control such a disturbingly large portion of the wealth in this country (and world) and will only end up controlling more. Is Government doing anything to stop it? Not really, and certainly not as much as we should be doing. But that's because corporations have the power of Government. We need leaders that will not be afraid to stand up to corporations and strip them of their power. The voice needs to be returned to the average citizen, and the wealth with it.

I'm not talking about full-fledged socialism, I'm talking about equality. Where the poor aren't as poor and the rich aren't as rich. No one in this world could possibly need a billion dollars for their own use. They just invest it so they can make more money that they won't spend.

HAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahahahahahaha......

How did I just find this?

[For Oklahoma]

What's funny? Did I use too many adjectives?

[Senator MaxQue]

To be honest, free market should work.
But, we don't have free market now, we only have cartels and oligopolies which plot together to give us the cheapest product possible, at the highest price possible and with the shortest lifetime possible.

[For Oklahoma]

To be honest, free market should work.
But, we don't have free market now, we only have cartels and oligopolies which plot together to give us the cheapest product possible, at the highest price possible and with the shortest lifetime possible.

To be honest, a genuine free market with some forms of domestic socialism would probably be ideal.

[angryGreatness]

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race/ethnicity: White
Religion: None
Height: 6'2''
Weight: 240 lbs
Location: Port Angeles, Washington
Where you were born: Port Angeles, Washington
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: JFK
Favorite President: Franklin Roosevelt
Political Orientation: Progressive Democrat
Favorite Musician(s): Modest Mouse, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Wu-Tang Clan, The Mountain Goats, Talking Heads
Favorite Sports team: Seattle Seahawks
Favorite Book: Catch-22
Favorite Show: Ever: The Wire or Arrested Development. Currently on the Air: Breaking Bad or Archer
Favorite Movie: Pulp Fiction
Other interests: Music, video games, history, comic books
Favorite person on Atlas: Oldiesfreak.
Favorite color: Orange
Do you live by yourself: Not yet, I'm just about to graduate high school.
Do you have any siblings? 1 younger brother.
Relationship status? Single
What year did you join Atlas? A few months ago
Do you have any nieces, nephews? Nope
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? I'm bisexual so yeah.
If you could pick your own nationality, what nationality would you pick? Canadian