Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

Quoting Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...>:

> Andreas Johansson comunu:
>
> >> Well, YUM proves sufficiently enough that no stereotype would
> really
> >> apply to us, except that fact that most of us are well-educated.
> >
> >What about Anglophone white Westerners? That'd seem to cover a large
> majority
> >of us.
>
> I would argue that's a function of Internet penetration rather than
> anything intrinsic to white Westerners.  And *of course* there's an
> Anglophone bias;  the mailing list is only in English. :-)
I thought the official language here was Dutch ...

Seriously, I didn't intend to suggest that there were any sinister reasons for
this bias. I just wanted to point out that we, even beyond our common
fascination for constructed languages, aren't exactly representative of the
whole human species.

                                              Andreas