If we have to make the profile of the average ppruner regarding (gender, occupation, type of house where s/he lives, car s/he drives) what would be the most average/ most common element?

I understand most are guys and speak English as the first language. What else could you add?

Rwy in Sight

Working in, worked in, interest in AVIATION!

If I can believe all I read, the average PPruNer has a newer, bigger, faster car than mine and has more sex than I do :(

I think the above is about all you can say, everything else seems pretty well spread out over the spectrum, whether political, geographic or whatever.

I think that's part of the attraction of it.

Cheers
UFO
Average ppruner

Editted to add - I wrote this before TTN's post. Obviously what he said applies to me but not sure about the others.

...........Grey!! :p:E

The average JBer is a rabid right-winger who would bring back capital punishment, repatriate all immigrants, loathes the Olympics and the EU, owns or has owned several motorcycles and guns, and has a fetish for power tools and all things electrical.

" If we have to make the profile of the average ppruner regarding (gender, occupation, type of house where s/he lives, car s/he drives) what would be the most average/ most common element"

Why do you wish to profile us?

Which Gov't agency do you work for ?......:E:p

You left out handsome, dashing and well endowed, Mr SSK.

The average JBer is a rabid right-winger who would bring back capital punishment, repatriate all illegal aliens, loathes the Olympics and the EU, owns or has owned several motorcycles and guns, and has a fetish for power tools and all things electrical.

Apart from the bit I've greyed out, and the change I've made in italics, that's me!

I fall into some other categories which probably cover others :

Widely travelled and have lived and worked in many countries, multi-lingual, and semi-retired.

We have big watches....

the average ppruner..... knows more about everything than the other posters..

:}

The average person in JB seems to be someone who reads, and actually believes, the Daily Mail.
The only thing that can be said about the average person in R&N is that they spend more time playing flight sim than they spend sitting in a real plane :E

You left out handsome, dashing and well endowed, Mr SSK.


This immediatly came to my mind but modesty forbade me mentioning it.

A bit odd, a bit quirky, fairly literate, often retired, PPRuNing partly because there seem to be a lot of other odd, quirky, literate, retired (or sneakily doing this in the boss's time!) bods with interesting things to say ... ;)

Slightly too obsessed with the use of apostrophe's.

CG

apostrophe's.



Are you a grocer by any chance, charliegolf? ;)

No DX, an angler! Well done on the irony smiley. I was hoping for a bite- you shoulda let it hang a bit.:D

CG

Has a keen interest in all things sexual (except pooftery), likes planes, owns
at least one gun/rifle, loathes commies, has always regarded the EU as one
big bloody socialist state, knows O'Bummer got in primarily through the race
ticket, operates a conveyor belt, writes limericks, hates bureaucrats, is never
averse to nice titties, knows how a car engine works and how to fix one, truly
appreciates well-curved female arses and legs, will NEVER dob his mates in
to any mod, knows the meanings of most profanity, educated in the works of
John Holmes and Plato and Shakespeare, operates power tools efficiently, is
usually well off, loves the odd drink or ten down the pub, bitches and moans
a lot, really appreciates a good cigar, talks a lot of shit whenever the thread
mood dictates it, hates Gillard and Cameron and Blair and Mugabe, stinks up
a thread when it deserves it, can describe one of Higg's Bosoms, is up there
with particle theory and quantum physics, frequently covets his neighbour's
wife/daughter/niece/girlfriend/callgirl, been briefed on why a chortle bypass
regulator valve controls most transducer main shunt priorities, and picks his
or her nose a lot.

...and has a strange attraction to conveyer belts:E

Has an aversion to searches...

I regard myself as an average Prooner

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/neanderthal.jpg

PS I just got a good clubbin' for not including SWMBO.......

GLF eat your heart out.....

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/neanderthalfemale.jpg

Previous poster, please turn your monitor off now...you can see my entire life.

glf

Has one nut and one humongus breast with a hair comb-over reaching down to the hips

Is over 40
likes aviation and things ralated to aviation
has an opinion willing to share
probalby wishes CC were still stewardesses

....never lets an aircraft get somewhere his brain hasn't been 5 minutes earlier

lomapaseo: Has one nut and one humongus breast with a hair comb-over reaching down to the hips

I think I know who you mean but I'm not sure you would call him 'average'.

Actually, you could say with certainty that the 'average' PPruner has less than two nuts.

...likes digging deep holes?

...offers those, digging deep holes, a larger shovel!

is a genius!


A new member has to pick a posting name,that is different to over 356,000 existing names.:p

The average PPruner likes aviation and knows he (and she Reg :eek:) is pretty much always right!

As for JB (my favourite part of this site), well, I think we should just leave that to the psychiatrists. ;)

Caco

Average ppruner? Suave, sophisticated, always knows which fork to use, always pulls the most attractive women, is kind to his mother and to less fortunates.


It's good to be above average! :-D

Is interested in the contents of other peoples' sheds.


Finds the edit function irritating.

can recover from any aircraft upset and save the aircraft better than the PF whilst also being capable of winning a Gold medal at any olympic event.

That would apply to those infesting R&N and other forums. We denizens of JB know our limitations so please clean up your own mess and don't dump the trash down here in the dungeons. We have standards, you know....

http://www.johnhartstudios.com/wizardofid/characters/strip3_spook.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Omark44/chatroom.jpg

http://datas.evilox.com/medias/photos/bide-blonde-clavier/photo/bide-blonde-clavier.jpg

Para I think that bloke must be married to this one:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/fatbird.jpg

and then, of course, there's the famous pic of some of our lady members at a recent bash:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/Harridans.jpg

http://s3.images.com/huge.2.12564.JPG

Ppruners on JB. Amateur psychiatry and gentle weirdness a specialty. That's how we like it.

Average? AVERAGE??!!! How very dare you, Sir! No 'average' here, thank you very much.

Isn't the truth that there are no 'Average' PPRuNers? We are all extreme at one end of the spectrum or the other and just a few in the middle?:)

Treating the topic seriously ... JB does seem to have a lot of extrovert, opinionated, sometimes well informed, and often passionate posters. We are almost all involved or interested in aviation, and presumably educated and solvent. Just the sort of people who observe, and have strong views on what is going on in the world. We live in an era where society is tending to polarise into left or right. So it is helpful to be able to debate with those from the 'other' side, who at least share one common interest, and therefore some minimal meeting of minds.

The average Ppruner is innocently untroubled by the notion that he/she might EVER be spouting sh1te!

CG

The average Ppruner is innocently untroubled by the notion that he/she might
EVER be spouting sh1te!
CG


No! Really? ;)

goudie,

...offers those, digging deep holes, a larger shovel!:D

Thanks for that, a hell of a lot of larger shovels being dished out at present.:eek:

the profile of the average ppruner regarding (gender, ...

I wonder what the average gender would be.

If we have, say, 75% men and 25% women, will the Pprune women turn into average men? What is the average between men and women? I am sure the average Ppruner will come up with at least 3.162 answers...

Apparently, and I have it on good authority from Dazdaz (see his latest thread) That 66% of posters are men and 30% are women and approx 3.162% are none or both of the above

I'd say 85% blokes - 10% chicks - the remaining 5% being blokes pretending
to be chicks and vv.

- the remaining 5% being blokes pretending
to be chicks and vv.

Would that be the Thai membership, Slash ? :}

From a quick survey I would say that 84.12% of Ppruners are male, but then I also know that 89.3% of statistics are made up on the spot to strengthen the argument.

Depends on the forum, I'd have thought.

Don't forget Bryn the sheepdog.

Oh, hang on, he's a male as well.

Might have been "done", though.

Vasectomy: From Craigslist in USA

Well, if you have a look at this thread ( not link ) then you will note a lot of PPruners owning up to the same thing ! Knocks the statistics a bit more !

Disconnected ain't the same as whipped off!

...and you are speaking as......... ? ;)

Bryn the sheepdog.'Ere, us sheep worry about dogs yer know . . . :uhoh:

Disconnected, although that's not always MrsP's preference..... :ooh:

Pruned about 65 roses today - consider that average :ouch:

Would that be the Thai membership, Slash ? http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/badteeth.gif


Difficult to know till your close enough to find out and then it's too late.

I am not a specialist of personal attacks like many here, I am not a specialist of humour when humour means making fun of others for free, I don't believe either right wing or left wing is right and have all figured it out, so don't really have a political party, (right and left wing are part of the democratic game, nothing else), I made myself (well, long story about my "family") and earned my life and career path with my own blood and efforts and my country support (especially educating me through the army and a short career as a fireman, then paratrooper) since the very beginning, and as such understand what is valuable in life, for me no excuses, just results, and at the same time a true empathy for people around me who are not fortunate or lucky enough in life.
I have been use to be on my own since I am a teenager, what for sure influence who I am, today in my thirties I made it to what I dreamed about when a kid (what very few, would believe I was capable of, airline captain), so in many aspects I am definitely not the average ppruner.

My home is not in my country, my everyday language in the family of my own is not my mother tongue language, neither it is english, and I am preparing an early retirement sailing my boat around Europe. I am maybe a free minded gipsy ppruner?

No KAG, you are not average in this company.

Many people here have many international connections through work and personal relationships but you probably are towards the top of the scale. If one adds to this your background in the forces and fire-service, you become that bit more "special".

I wasn't aware of your age until today - I estimated mid-forties - so you reduce the average age somewhat - congratulations.

Your contributions to many threads are in a minority but you defend your position doggedly and always politely , although I have to say that I often cannot follow your logic. I think this must be a manifestation of the North/South mental/educational divide.

I live in France and speak good French and have dealt with French industry throughout my professional life, but French bureaucracy is difficult. I can go to the local town-hall with a question about creating a parking-space on land I own and the relevant official will talk to me for eight or nine minutes - no interruptions from me - and at the end I don't know if he has reached any conclusion/solution. I don't know if he deliberately talks like this to avoid making a decision or because his education has been based around the beauty of a well-formed argument without seeing the desirability of a conclusion.

In this case above - which did happen to me - I believe that in Northern countries I might have got a firm decision, but instead of being able to just amble into the town-hall and see the official immediately, I might have had to make an appointment, submit my question in writing and wait for a written reply.

It wasn't my position when I started writing this, but I think, after reading this, I prefer the French solution ( in small communes anyway ).

Significant thread-drift here, but KAG is an unusual member of the regular contributor clan ( at least on the anglophone threads ) so hope acceptable

P.S. I would be careful about saying "gypsy Ppruner ".. that will just ignite another flood of rhetoric ( apologies for the mixed metaphor but it just seemed to flow ! )

Difficult to know till your close enough to find out and then it's too late.

I could tell you a few stories Shack - not only about me but a few mates who have fared far far worse! :bored:

I am not a specialist of personal attacks like many here, I am not a specialist of humour when humour means making fun of others for free,

Your first comment is, in itself, a personal attack against 'many here', although not directed at a specific person.

You also don't seem to see others' sense of humour, so you've hit the nail on the head there.

You seem to think that anyone who disagrees with you is making a 'personal attack' and then again when someone makes light-hearted fun of your obdurate refusal to accept that the EU is a dying horse, you take that as a personal attack.

Earlier this week, in the EU thread, I said I admired you for your courage in defending that everyone else sees as a failure, and I posted a photo of a blinkered horse. I am sorry that you took that as a personal attack, it was meant as a bit of light relief.

I think that most of us, typical Ppruners, took it that way. But by your own admission, you're not a specialist of humour. I find the French sense of humour very hard to understand, in fact I often wonder if it exists.

Having read the rest of what you've said about your life and career, I have to say I respect you for that too, although many others here are no doubt similar.

Not sure how to define an average ppruner. But there are some who debate without insult, and who provide really useful information, plus thoughtful and sometimes challenging opinions. KAG is certainly one of those; as is Conpilot Tableview and quite a few others. The ability to communicate and debate with people from many countries & backgrounds is vital IMO if things are going to get better.
Pity about the sad people who enjoy personal attacks, innuendo, sarcasm, and general trolling. Pprune is what we all make it, and those who get their kicks from gratuitous insults add nothing to the mix. :yuk:

I'd say about half of them are below average, and half of them are above average :)

That's not an average, that's a mean. And some are meaner than others. Thus those who are less mean balance out those who are more mean. If you consider both within the context of a statistical average, then the Normal Distribution - the bell curve, equates to the shape of your average tin foil hat deemed necessary for protection against falling asteroids and the like.

Average PPRuNer! Don't be silly, we are all individuals...

An average day on TRABB (or whatever that thread is called!) ;)

We are all individuals! - YouTube

Caco

Edited to say that JB (at least) has made me revel in the fact that there's nowt so queer as folks (used in the old North English sense of course).

How many Ppruners are professional pilots?

The professional pilot statistic would be hard to ascertain methinks as PPRuNer's are not obliged to furnish licence numbers and issuing authorities. I guess (a statistic made up on the spot) that would be more than 50% and the number of PPRuNer's having a pilot's licence of one sort or another pushing that number appreciably higher.

Caco

Not forgetting the rather more select group that has the navigator's qualification entered in our logbooks ;)

Because, of course, pilots are totally incapable of navigating ;)

The average JBer is a rabid right-winger who would bring back capital punishment, repatriate all immigrants, loathes the Olympics and the EU, owns or has owned several motorcycles and guns, and has a fetish for power tools and all things electrical.

You say that like it's a bad thing? :confused:

You say that like it's a bad thing?

Indeed it is.

But sh*t, being a New Zealander is... ;)

Caco

You can aspire, Caco, you can dream and aspire....;)

Because, of course, pilots are totally incapable of navigating

Or other things ... Flt. Eng's. have to do sums, Co-pilots have to be able to write, and a Captain has to know someone who can read.

Loves hamster wheels or
Wouldn't touch a hamster wheel with a ten foot pole.

Seems like casual jokester -- reveals by public post or private message to be a genius in some area, any area.

Knows all the locations on "Where on Earth" vs
Knows how to find their home (most of the time).

Swears by their local pub vs
has never been in a pub.

Loves cats, dogs, birds...
Wants to eat them or do something bizarre to make them go away.

I've never seen a mention in any of the previous posts, about the requirement for even the average PPRuNer, to have a monstrous, testosterone-driven ego.

This ego is necessary to ....

1. be able to mercilessly slap down miscreants who post drivel on Pprune ...
2. indicate that your love-making prowess beats any other Ppruner, hands down ...
3. indicate that you have superior skills in every technological art ...
4. amply demonstrate that you could have singled-handedly saved any aircraft that crashed, via simply avoiding all the patently-obvious mistakes that were made in aviating/navigating/communicating ...
5. be able to robustly withstand the forum attacks of lesser persons who would dare to challenge your skills/total hours/abilities/conquests/knowledge - and to go on a counter-attack, that makes the WW2 fire-bombing of Dresden, by RAF Bomber Command, look positively benevolent .....

This ego is necessary to ....

1. be able to mercilessly slap down miscreants who post drivel on PPRuNe ...
Good, they deserve it
2. indicate that your love-making prowess beats any other Ppruner, hands down ...
Founder-member of the 30-Second Club here mate, which includes the pizza afterwards

3. indicate that you have superior skills in every technological art ...
But I have !
4. amply demonstrate that you could have singled-handedly saved any aircraft that crashed, via simply avoiding all the patently-obvious mistakes that were made in aviating/navigating/communicating ...
Nope, I'm just lucky
5. be able to robustly withstand the forum attacks of lesser persons who would dare to challenge your skills/total hours/abilities/conquests/knowledge - and to go on a counter-attack, that makes the WW2 fire-bombing of Dresden, by RAF Bomber Command, look positively benevolent .....
Many were recruited to drop nukes on Dresden if necessary; what do you expect?

Average? Average?

Anything but Average.

I've never seen a mention in any of the previous posts, about the requirement for even the average PPRuNer, to have a monstrous, testosterone-driven ego.

This ego is necessary to ....

1. be able to mercilessly slap down miscreants who post drivel on PPRuNe ...
2. indicate that your love-making prowess beats any other Ppruner, hands down ...
3. indicate that you have superior skills in every technological art ...
4. amply demonstrate that you could have singled-handedly saved any aircraft that crashed, via simply avoiding all the patently-obvious mistakes that were made in aviating/navigating/communicating ...
5. be able to robustly withstand the forum attacks of lesser persons who would dare to challenge your skills/total hours/abilities/conquests/knowledge - and to go on a counter-attack, that makes the WW2 fire-bombing of Dresden, by RAF Bomber Command, look positively benevolent .....


Ah, that'll be R&N you'll be wanting then, Mr Onetrack. This is JB and we tend to hide our bushes where the light is (or summat like that) down here in the dungeons and catacombs. Can't be arsed with the squabbling the daywalkers get up to, m'self.....

I'm just looking at the number of posts you have all made.

Ah, but that's coz JB posts don't increment yer counter, young LM. Not even when there's (whispers) aviation content.

1. be able to mercilessly slap down miscreants who post drivel on PPRuNe ...

2. indicate that your love-making prowess beats any other Ppruner, hands
down ...
3. indicate that you have superior skills in every technological
art ...
4. amply demonstrate that you could have singled-handedly saved any
aircraft that crashed, via simply avoiding all the patently-obvious mistakes
that were made in aviating/navigating/communicating ...
5. be able to robustly withstand the forum attacks of lesser persons who would dare to challenge your skills/total hours/abilities/conquests/knowledge - and to go on a
counter-attack, that makes the WW2 fire-bombing of Dresden, by RAF Bomber
Command, look positively benevolent .....


6. Resolve the most complicated crime while the police blunder around.
7.Thus making capital punishment acceptable as guilt is beyond doubt.
8. Advocate the sterilization of the underclass to avoid their reproducing.