4K around the World
I would like to start by thanking all those who took part, in particular those who widened our distributive net, a 3 country population would be a little dull. Now behold statistics in all their numerical glory!
We shall go in alphabetical order, so first up we have:
Australia! Home to poisonous snakes, millions of spiders, in addition to one very lovely 4K lady who lives in Sydney.
Britain, Britain, Britain! I love being British, it's a joy to live in the land that's won every war ever fought and invented the cat (copyright Little Britain 2004). Anyway to business. There are four mighty Britons here, two girls and two boys. A sexy girly resides in Oxford, home of an ancient university, and an equally sexy young man lives in Brighton, home of sunshine and sand, although possibly flooding now that we have global warming. The remaining two members live in West and East Yorkshire, the Home of Civilisation where Yorkshire Pudding and the Yorkshire Terrier were both discovered!
Next we have Canada, land of ice and snow, where lumberjacks and mounties are seen on every street corner. We have two members from this spectacular land, one man and one woman, one from Ontario and one from Alberta.
Ah, France. Apparently it's surprisingly like England, only the men have bad breath, but are a lot better in bed. I don't believe that for a second! There's no way the French could have worse breath than the louts you find on a Friday night in Leeds. But I digress. We have just one Frenchman alas, living in Paris, that city of elegant culture and contempt for America.
Ireland, where St Patrick drove out the snakes and where a man is not a man unless he drinks his own weight in beer every single day. We have a lone Irishman here, residing in Dublin, where they have banned smoking in pubs recently (I believe.)
How exciting! We have one member here who is a Timelord, and travels through space and time in a TARDIS. Aether is probably neither the Doctor nor the Master, but who can say for certain? In addition to having two hearts, he can regenerate when apparently dead and is very erratic but also very clever.
The United States of America, land of the free and home of hawks. A pleasant and wealthy land, whose chief hobbies are baseball, NASCAR, American Football (rugby with padding, wimps), bombing Arabs and table tennis. We have 32 confirmed Americans here, hooray! Full-view map, by GMOW, shows locations. Now, the joyous task of state breakdown....
Alabama: 1
Arizona: 1
California: 2
Florida: 2
Kentucky: 1
Louisiana: 1
Maryland: 3
Massachusetts: 2
Michigan: 1
Minnesota: 1
Missouri: 1
Nevada: 1
New Hampshire: 1
New Jersey: 1
New York: 1
Ohio: 1
Pennsylvania: 2
South Carolina: 1
Texas: 4
Utah: 1
Virginia: 3
Washington: 1
So, a final summary would be:
Australia: 1
Britain: 4
Canada: 2
France: 1
Ireland: 1
Gallifrey: 1
US: 32
Quite a clear division there. Excepting the Timelord of Gallifrey and our Australian, everyone is from either North America or Europe, with a large majority from Americaland. So, what's the significance of this? Well, for a start, you might be near to someone you didn't know you were and get to meet them. Also, it will colour the debates we have tremendously. In America, I do not think they have such a foul drink problem as we do, but likewise, Britain isn't full of gun-toting maniacs, and we certainly don't elect them to office (that is reserved for well-spoken traitors.)
We should consider also that AMerica has a whole political wing Britain and other countries perhaps don't: the Religious Right. The religious anything in the UK is low-key, and France is known as Secular Central. Therefore, you can expect much less controversy of things such as abortion from the Europeans. Another difference is that each country differs politically. The US is a country made up of states with a varying degree of autonomy. Canada, (forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong) is more like the UK would be if we weren't in the EU. Ireland is closer to the EU than we are, having adopted the Euro, whereas the UK's population is very sceptical of it. France is even more integrationist than Ireland. And we all know Gallifrey has been wanting to leave the EU for some time.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this somewhat basic breakdown.
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