[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Winner]

Maybe you're right, but I have no doubt that if it was a meme everyone would have adopted it. Human psychology is that weird.

And a guy making faces with a glass while another guy sings a song about a monster from the swamps that gets killed with a crop duster and sold to a zoo is quite confusing too. The internet is that weird.

Yeah, but these smart ass pics people post to amuse/humiliate others are usually quite clear. This isn't.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Here, I made it more clear:

 

[Winner]

Much better

 

[Yeekim]

(and we already know what kind of hooker is a 5€ hooker, don't we?)

All I can think of, is the following joke:

Two guys go to the brothel and ring the doorbell. A bouncer opens the door and asks what they need.
"We´ve got 10€ between the two of us", they say. "We´d like a hooker."
"10€? You may go and jack each other off around the corner", says the bouncer and slams the door shut.

After a while , the guys ring the doorbell again.
"Now what!?" asks the bouncer.
"What do you mean "what"? Whom are we supposed to pay?"

 

[bhsup]

This is fascinating to me. Has there been an uptake in new age religious movements in Europe?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

How do they define "spirit" and "force"? Could be people who believe in ghosts.

 

[Winner]

It's the sort of uncertain religiosity many people profess. As in "I don't feel stupid enough to believe in the God of the Bible/Koran/Torah, but I still think there is something out there, some sort of divinity or higher purpose or blahblahblah". Basically, make your own religion.

Many Czechs do exactly that.

(Also, lol Poland)

 

[Lillefix]

This is fascinating to me. Has there been an uptake in new age religious movements in Europe?

I know the type. They don't believe in God, but they want to be "spiritual"(second vaguest word in the language after art)...so yeah, what Winner said.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Maybe believing in spirits means they're alcoholics? Would certainly explain some countries up there.

 

[Murky]

It's not uncommon to believe in spirits. There may one day be a scientific explanation for it. That makes a lot more sense to me than believing in myths about deities from popular religions. And despite my become more skeptical about such things, I still have feelings of the paranormal. It could be something wired into my brain or something real. Who knows.

 

[Winner]

 

[Arwon]

Winner, Lillefix, VRWC, others, this may be relevant to your interests:

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/01/...ritual’-that-are-the-real-pain-in-the-arses’/

 

[Camikaze]

Moderator Action: In general, less pissing contest, more graphs and charts, please.

 

[bhsup]

Metatron, Lillefax, Winner, thanks for your responses. Enlightening! Metatron, I took you advice and looked at a couple of the countries you mentioned.

The UK is amusing actually...

Although the Census 2001 also recorded 390,000 Jedi Knights, making Jedi the fourth-largest "religion" in the UK, this does not confer them any official recognition. In fact, all returns with "Jedi Knight" were classified as "No religion", along with Atheist, Agnostic, Heathen and those who ticked "Other" but did not write in any religion.

Switzerland was actually kind of confusing and contradictory in a few places from what I read, but the data was also being presented from different decades as well so that may account for the contradictions.

 

[gangleri2001]

...were classified as "No religion", along with Atheist, Agnostic, Heathen and those who ticked "Other" but did not write in any religion.

Wait, what? How can heathen and atheist be in the same category? And how can heathens end up in the "No religion" category?

 

[Integral]

The Fed's new "communications strategy." Does anyone actually think this is useful?

 

[Mise]

So they're expecting sluggish growth until 2014?

 

[Monsterzuma]

http://www.luxetveritas.nl/blog/?p=1501

anyone see a pattern?

 

[Winner]

No, unless Iceland and the UK create a "pattern".

 

[Mise]

According to Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/transla...tp://www.luxetveritas.nl/blog/?p=1501&act=url

The bars (and %s within the bars) show debt as a % of GDP. The %s on the outside of the bar (on the right) are supposed to be the long term interest rate paid by those countries, but how in god's name they have measured that I have no idea. The original source of the chart -- http://www.icelandicecon.blogspot.com/ -- is no more enlightening, simply saying that this is "the long term interest rates that those economies are funding the debt on (OECD figures)". No source or anything, and the figures are also kind of out of date (which may or may not be relevant, depending on how they are calculated -- but we don't know how they are calculated so I don't even know if this is a problem!).

Kind of a pointless chart if you don't even know what the numbers are supposed to be, how they are measured, or why they are relevant.