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Jun 19, 2016 4:47 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
What an average word average is.


What does it even mean?

Of course I could put up the dictionary definition, but it still doesn't tell us anything.

If someone is described as being of average intelligence, that is at least quantifiable if you use the IQ system. They would have an I.Q. of 100-110.



But what about physically?

If someone says they are average height, that would mean something totally different if you were Dutch or from the Congolese jungle.


Or weight/bodytype.

On CS, weight/bodytype is given an option of Average.

Does that mean if you come from a country where obesity is a problem, and you are obese, that you can write Average as your bodytype, even though you are in fact obese?

What is average to you, and should it even be given as an option?
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Jun 19, 2016 4:50 PM CST Average
Elegsabiff
ElegsabiffElegsabiffMotril-ish, Andalusia Spain24 Threads 20 Polls 695 Posts
Average is ish.
Tallish
Shortish
plumpish
thinnish
prettyish
handsomish

Sorry to use the technical terms in a social blog but you did ask.
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Jun 19, 2016 4:55 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
Elegsabiff: Average is ish.
Tallish
Shortish
plumpish
thinnish
prettyish
handsomish

Sorry to use the technical terms in a social blog but you did ask.



Thankish for your averagish reply.

grin
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Jun 19, 2016 4:59 PM CST Average
Elegsabiff
ElegsabiffElegsabiffMotril-ish, Andalusia Spain24 Threads 20 Polls 695 Posts
mollybaby: Thankish for your averagish reply.


Eh? confused

Average would not be unusually tall, short, thin, fat, or good-looking.
An average pygmy would perhaps not seem incredibly average amongst the Masai, with an average height of 6 foot. But neither of them would be your average CS member?

Damn. Now the word itself is starting to sound like gibberish!
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Jun 19, 2016 5:03 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
Elegsabiff: Eh?

Average would not be unusually tall, short, thin, fat, or good-looking.
An average pygmy would perhaps not seem incredibly average amongst the Masai, with an average height of 6 foot. But neither of them would be your average CS member?

Damn. Now the word itself is starting to sound like gibberish!



You see now where I'm coming fromlaugh
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Jun 19, 2016 5:05 PM CST Average
Elegsabiff
ElegsabiffElegsabiffMotril-ish, Andalusia Spain24 Threads 20 Polls 695 Posts
Off to lie in the dark with a damp facecloth on my brow to think it through. I shall return. scold
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Jun 19, 2016 5:07 PM CST Average
Common is less than average.

MAYBE?








allisbetterthannothing!
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Jun 19, 2016 5:09 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
NAKEDMUDPEOPLE: Common is less than average.

MAYBE?allisbetterthannothing!


Or maybe just a similar word to describe different things?
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Jun 19, 2016 5:10 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
Elegsabiff: Off to lie in the dark with a damp facecloth on my brow to think it through. I shall return.


I shall expect greatness on your return bowing
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Jun 19, 2016 5:14 PM CST Average
means....so/so. run of the mill ./could be better.
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Jun 19, 2016 5:18 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
truheart1941: means....so/so. run of the mill ./could be better.


You would think not many people would want to describe themselves, or be described, as 'run of the mill', but many do.
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Jun 19, 2016 5:25 PM CST Average
look at me , i,m not good looking neither am i really ugly...so i,m run of the mill person...in fact,i dont mind people thinking that....cheers
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Jun 19, 2016 5:31 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
truheart1941: look at me , i,m not good looking neither am i really ugly...so i,m run of the mill person...in fact,i dont mind people thinking that....


Maybe it is just I don't like, or particularly understand, the word so.

sigh
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Jun 19, 2016 5:40 PM CST Average
mollybaby: Maybe it is just I don't like, or particularly understand, the word so.
you are one of many who dont understand....that word. but we live with it.
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Jun 19, 2016 5:42 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
truheart1941: you are one of many who dont understand....that word. but we live with it.


That doesn't mean I shouldn't question it, and get other people's opinions thoughdancing
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Jun 19, 2016 5:48 PM CST Average
mollybaby: That doesn't mean I shouldn't question it, and get other people's opinions though
i never said that..by all means question it...no harm done..hug nite/nite...hug hug
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Jun 19, 2016 5:49 PM CST Average
mollybaby
mollybabymollybabyCork City, Cork Ireland56 Threads 8 Polls 23,608 Posts
truheart1941: i never said that..by all means question it...no harm done.. nite/nite...


Nite Truhug
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Jun 19, 2016 6:02 PM CST Average
Ccincy
CcincyCcincyCincinnati, Ohio USA77 Threads 20,535 Posts
To me average would mean that I'm healthy I guess.dunno
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Jun 19, 2016 6:10 PM CST Average
Ocee102
Ocee102Ocee102unkown, California USA10 Threads 1,399 Posts
I don't think we should be describing ourselves at all.

We all have cameras. grin
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Jun 19, 2016 6:35 PM CST Average
Bogart_1960
Bogart_1960Bogart_1960Ask me !, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France36 Threads 1 Polls 10,012 Posts
mollybaby: What an average word average is.What does it even mean?


What is average to you, and should it even be given as an option?


Some people are born average, some people achieve "averageness", some people have averageness shove upon them, and some people have all three. Even the people missing all, they stand up from all the rest -people who met them are always fascinated by how average they are.

Uniqueness is a fairly modern invention, and not really valid for people. if a discussion was based of what people had to think of right on the spot, they'd all be mostly of the time average - normal, boring, and straightforward - and i would say average is actually pretty good.

what’s is average? … we are (even with toys )

wine

interesting question
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