How Thick Is Your Bubble?

[hunter]

79. I live in a "bubble" of my own making, but I score high.

I don't watch television, and I'm a white guy living in a predominantly Mexican-American community. My white-guy grandfather warned me I'd be thrown out of the white-guy club if I married (in his words) "a Mexican girl," and he was right, thank God!

I think automobiles are smelly and dangerous things that are destroying our Earth's environment. I resent that I must own one so I drive an old mid 'eighties car with a salvage title that I've never washed except for the windows. It has lichens growing on it and spiders who hide out behind the mirrors when I'm driving hoping the wind doesn't thrash their webs too badly. I hate our family cars, and they hate me. If these cars died they couldn't hate me, so they don't die.

I have no idea who that NASCAR guy is, or what exactly NASCAR is. It's a car race, I do know that. Cars sometimes kill people. Duh. I think the race would be more interesting if the cars were electric and driven by robots. If a robot dies, you simply rebuild it and restore it from backup files. We can't do that with humans... yet.

I've never watched Oprah. Transformers is some movie. It didn't look like it would interest me.

I know and I work with plenty of military people, but I was never in the military. I failed the medical exam. Even so, the Navy offered me a civilian position. But I got a better offer from the Los Angeles Unified School District. But I resigned when my wife was accepted to graduate school in another state.

And I don't feel bad drinking mass market union made beers.

Riding the bus is fun, you meet all sorts of interesting people, see cool stuff out the windows, and get dropped off downtown. What's wrong with that? It's still my preference if I can avoid flying.

I also know where meat comes from, which is why I don't eat much of it. If you've never killed meat (fish included) and you are not a vegetarian, then you are living in some kind of bubble. Here's a picture of one set of great grandparents. They were not vegetarians:



From this picture alone, it's clear my family has always been a matriarchy. I don't know one woman in our family, genetic relation or in-law, who isn't a powerful matriarch.

My ancestors were Wild West because they weren't welcome in Europe or the more "civilized" places of 19th century USA. Many of them left no evidence of entering the USA and I imagine it went something like this: "Fuck this shit." And then they jumped overboard and swam.

I'm a miner, I'm a farmer, I'm a milkmaid, that's the ticket...

One of my ancestors was a mail order bride to Salt Lake City. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran off with a government surveyor. Our family has been on the Mormon shit-list ever since. She wasn't the last bride stolen away from the Mormons.

I agree with your criticism of this poll. They are trying to prove some "Hollywood liberal" stereotype. It amuses me that even here on DU, a place that's the home of so many affluent liberals, they failed.