Ok... if I look at things from a numbers aspect. There are over 6 trillion (6,000,000,000,000) people on this planet alone, and that’s just a rough figure for the sake of math. Now, from genetics, the day of creation for all sexual beings, there is a 51% to 49% survival rate female vs. male, because the X gene is key for survival, women have better odds since we have 2, if one doesn’t work we have a backup, men don’t have that, and generalizing that everyone has a correct XX/XY pairing, I know there are exceptions, but for simplicities sake let’s assume everyone is normal AND single. Ok... so out of 6 trillion people, we just cut that to 49% male or 2.94 trillion (2,940,000,000,000) men to 51% 3.06 trillion (3,060,000,000,000) female. Now if global population to global prison population is correct, forgive me if my research if faulty, there is a 28% male prison population vs. a 15% female prison population. Leaving 2,116,800,000,000 men not in prison vs. 2,160,000,000,000 women not in prison. Another global statistic, 26% of all male population is gay and 23% of all female population is lesbian, (funny fact: both genders assume there are always more on the opposite side when it’s almost equal)

Ok so recap out of trillions of people 2,116,800,000,000 are men and 2,160,000,000,000 are women NOT in prison. now we can’t forget to deduct the global gay population, 2,175,600,000,000 are all straight men and 2,356,200,000,000 are straight women. Now if 823,200,000,000 are men in prison and 459,000,000,000 are women in prison, and 764,400,000,000 are gay men, and 703,800,000,000 are lesbian women. it really begins to dwindle the numbers down, even globally speaking. Now I do know there are the bi-sexual preferences among both of the sexes but please, I’m trying to keep this simple, for now.

Now for the sake of making a point to the single straight population; say we assume that the entire prison population is straight as well. Now were taking this to an extreme. We now minus the prison population and the alternative sexual preference people from the total population. That leaves 764,400,000,000 men and 1,456,200,000,000 women. Now if by some miraculous event; all the single straight people were magically and happily paired by these numbers, there are still 691,800,000,000 eligible women out there! THAT’S ALMOST A 2 - 1 RATIO!! Men have it better then they think, obviously. They survive only because of their mother (thanks to her X gene) and it seems they have a 2 women per 1 man ratio in the single straight dating world. [Maybe they should thank women more then it seems sometimes]

I do realize there are gaps in this research because I didn’t even count in factors like age, race, religion, pet preference, children preference, death rate, ect. and ect. (Any and all factors that can and could make a relationship go south) But it’s still to make a point mathematically for the single straight population in this world as a whole.

Now maybe I’m just trying to rationalize the fact that I feel kind of screwed as a single female, and not in a good way. But am I wrong anywhere in this?? I’d love to know.

Well the population is six billion, not trillion and you are pretty cute. The cute factor outweighs everything else.

oh dear

oh dear

oh dear

someone has waaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands

i dont have any sencible suggestions

sooo.... go and make a superhero costume from old clothes, then go food shopping in it, run and jump on a trolley, put one arm forward and scream "dont fear, superwoman is hear"

yeah when the numbers get that big.... it gets confusing

but yes. i have way too much time on my hands.... i wouldnt have this much time on my hands if i were occupied, but it seems like trying to find a needle in a haystack

then i suggest a magnet or a metal detector

with my luck the needles made of plastic.... lol

i think i see where this is going

so i`ll say now, I`M NOT COMEING TO FIND YOUR DAMN NEEDLE

cant you just buy a new needle?

tie some thread to it and tie the other end to your trousers

you need to take care of needles, even plastic ones. you dont want to find it by sitting on it. but if your sure its in the haystack, then i would get rid of said stack, go get a new needle, and put it all down to experience.

however, i fear you will just make the same mistakes again

lol... probably.. lol
damn shame i cant afford to buy a new needle. and i would probably enjoy finding one by sitting on it.

ermm... was this a 6inch, blunt, rubber needle?

or are you just weird

or is that your profession.... pin cushion

do you have a big squigy bum

I saw this one on Mythbusters

you burn the hay

and sift the ashes to get the needle

ive always been told, just sit down and do what pops up first. i could assume it was the needle, and alot of the times its what i find. lol

Hmmm... your fun

I applaud your effort. The trillion/billion thing is irrelevant as per the conclusion, since everything is based on percentages (fractions of the whole), so it works for any large number, your theory does.

Now we need all women to read this and convince them to become much more desparate than they are now. That would definitely help my case as a guy.

I still don't know how they figure the 1/4 rate of gayness over the total population -- I think that's a misguided myth, but I don't have any statitics to show that, either. All I know is that none of my high school buddies are gay, and there were 22 guys in the class. Also, only one of my co-workers were gay, out of literally hundreds. I live in a city of high gay population, and it's still just 20,000 gays for 4,000,000 people. In the gay pride parade we have 1,000,000 gays in town, but for the Carribbean parade we have 2,000,000 visitors. So if the carribbean population to the world is comparable to the gay population of the world, then there are half as many gays as Carribbeans. We need to look at the pupulation of the Carib archipelago, and half that, and then we have the total gay population. Divide that into six billion and you got the proper fraction of gay people over total people.

Would you terribly mind, doing the math, OP? All we need is somehow figure out how many people live in the Caribbean.

39,606,394 in total live in the Caribbean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_island_countries_by_population