Toadfish Monastery

1. What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you?
Hmmm..Almost flying off a three story high water slide.

2. Do you prefer hot and spicy or plain food?
Spicy, please.

3. Have you ever visited a desert?
Yep. A couple of them. Most recently, the Mojave over the summer.
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1. Favorite CD/ect.?

2.Opinon of the role special interest groups in politics?

3. Do you wait until the gadget you want is cheap, or do you buy it right off?

Quote from: Kanaloa the Squidly on January 05, 2007, 01:37:21 AM
1. Favorite CD/ect.?

2.Opinon of the role special interest groups in politics?

3. Do you wait until the gadget you want is cheap, or do you buy it right off?

1. CD?! That's so 20th century! 
If I had to choose a 'CD' I may say something like Clapton Unplugged, which makes sense as a CD more than each song. With classical music the concept doesn't work that well, I may like a symphony, or a sonata, or a particular movement, but if it is a CD it may be because of a particular interpretation of certain piece (say, Kyril Kondrashin live version of Brahms 1st, which BTW I love), but unless is a very long piece, there may be more stuff in that same CD or it could span several CDs.

2. In theory there shouldn't be any special interests role in politics, but given that it is not going to happen (the 'free speech' defense is a sham in my eyes) it should be very regulated and full disclosure of the mayor donors should be mandatory on its advertisements. I know, I know, not gonna happen either...

3. I try to wait and get a decent price, I may pay a bit more but never introduction price if I can help it.

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1. Do you trust the reasons of the guy on the traffic light with a cardboard sign asking for money?

2. Do you believe that a particular utopia (communist, anarchist, laissez faire/libertarian, etc) is workable?

3. Afternoon in the museum or evening in a concert hall?

1. Do you trust the reasons of the guy on the traffic light with a cardboard sign asking for money?
No

2. Do you believe that a particular utopia (communist, anarchist, laissez faire/libertarian, etc) is workable?

Not without constantly applied force of coercion, I fear

3. Afternoon in the museum or evening in a concert hall?
Both or none, depending on the options and the price/fee of admission

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1. Are you or have you ever been attendant of a communal party?

2. Do you agree with the contents of the Stonefall-Gillman Act

3. Why should I answer such intimate questions?

1. Are you or have you ever been attendant of a communal party?
As I have not got the faintest idea what one is (although i have several lurid ideas that sprang to mind whilst thinking about it) probbly not.

2. Do you agree with the contents of the Stonefall-Gillman Act
Again no idea and not even google helped me with this one 


3. Why should I answer such intimate questions?
Couldn't say if the questions were that intimate but assuming they are it will be because you are an inquisitive type.

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1) are nation states a good thing?
2) what do you base your ethics on?
3) what are your favorite shoes?

1) are nation states a good thing?
Given the usual (realist) alternatives, I'd say they are a lesser evil
2) what do you base your ethics on?
Common sense (or at least what I take to be common sense)
3) what are your favorite shoes?
Heavy (work)security boots (available for 20€ at the ALDI discounter about twice a year)

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1) favorite movie? (may be more than 1)
2) what languages do you speak (i.e. you are able to communicate in)
3) coca cola or pepsi? (or coffeinated beverage of choice excluding tea and coffee)

Wait, wait, wait, a little pause:

Swato, could you please tell us what the communal party and the Stonefall-Gillman Act are?
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1) favorite movie? (may be more than 1)
Brazil by Terry Guilliam even if I feel dying inside when the guy is making a fool of himself in front of the girl of his dreams.
2) what languages do you speak (i.e. you are able to communicate in)
Fluently, english and spanish, basic communication perhaps in italian and may be french.
3) coca cola or pepsi? (or coffeinated beverage of choice excluding tea and coffee)
Pepsi, for some reason I associate Coke with cultural imperialism (as if Pepsi wasn't, those guys did a great job with me... ).
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1. Flying in a fighter jet (you can buy tickets in Moscow ) or hang gliding?

2. If there are survivors in the Armageddon will they learn their lesson?

3. If you could move back in time to meet your most admired historical/artistic figure, would you do it even if is a one way trip?

1. Flying in a fighter jet (you can buy tickets in Moscow Wink ) or hang gliding?
would prefer a submarine

2. If there are survivors in the Armageddon will they learn their lesson?
Maybe, but their offspring would forget it soon enough

3. If you could move back in time to meet your most admired historical/artistic figure, would you do it even if is a one way trip?
Only if I can somehow take the current standard of living with me (and a bit of company)

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1. Your most admired person in history is?

2. Your most loathed/reviled/hated person in history is

3. Would you like to be able to mind-read, if you couldn't switch it off?

1. Your most admired person in history is?

Most? I rather like the fellow who created democracy. It's been a few years since my world history class, however, and I can't remember his name, though I think it's either Solon or Democritcus.

2. Your most loathed/reviled/hated person in history is?

Not sure, really, though I don't like Napoleon or  Augustus Caesar very much.

3. Would you like to be able to mind-read, if you couldn't switch it off?

Not at all. I think the whole mind-reading think is kind of creepy, actually.

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1. What's worse? Hill billies or theocons?

2. Favorite superpower?

3. Muffins or scones?

1. What's worse? Hill billies or theocons?
Weren't Hillbillies theocons (or at least the people that voted for them)?

2. Favorite superpower?
I grew up admiring Russia, mostly because I was born in a neo-colony  (or backyard) of the US. Nowadays there are 3 super powers (US, Russia and China) all of them with hideous evil deeds under their sleeves, so no, no superpowers, power is evil and superpowers are extremely evil (I sometimes wish that France was a superpower and then I recall Napoleon.. ).

3. Muffins or scones?
Gee.. such anglosaxon treats.. I don't know what to say.. I don't feel strongly towards any so.. perhaps a Roscón..? 

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1. Oil, acrylic, water colors, ink or pencil?

2. Time for the revolution, or time to go to the bar?

3. If aliens landed on your backyard and asked you to go with them, would you go?

1. Oil, acrylic, water colors, ink or pencil?

mixed media but if forced to choose acrylic

2. Time for the revolution, or time to go to the bar?

revolution please (but preferably the peaceful friendly type that involves somebody going to the bar!)

3. If aliens landed on your backyard and asked you to go with them, would you go?

If they had kill-o-zap blaster pistols then yes. How could I not after a misspent life subsisting on a diet of Douglas Adams

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1) Is the the thing you love most a person / place / thing / animal / other?

2) If you could get one more song out of a dead musician who would it be

3) Computer games - good for the soul?

1) Is the the thing you love most a person / place / thing / animal / other?

Not really sure. I love so many things. And it wouldn't be fair to the others to choose just one of it. (but if forced, I'd probably say it's a beverage that starts with "be" and ends with "er", but I won't say it aloud)

2) If you could get one more song out of a dead musician who would it be

Ray Charles probably.

3) Computer games - good for the soul?

Yes, especially when you have the opportunity to kill as many people as possible; that can be so good for the soul...

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1. What is the most exotic country (city/place/whatever) you have ever been to?

2. Roots Reggae or Dub?

3. Have you ever felt like riverdancing? Why?

1. What is the most exotic country (city/place/whatever) you have ever been to?
Not been to that many countries and none of those usually counts as exotic (one would not usually associate Canada or Norway with "exotic")

2. Roots Reggae or Dub?
More into obscure classical music

3. Have you ever felt like riverdancing? Why?
Neither in the nice or naughty sense

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1. Blue or fish?

2. Do you speak and/or understand English?

3. What is your profession?

1. Blue or fish?

Both!  Bluenose cod is a fish!

2. Do you speak and/or understand English?

Only when absolutely necessary.  Like most Strines, I actually do understand English, we just never use it.  Bewdymate.  Djavagoodweegend?  No worries, she'll be right!

3. What is your profession?

Idiot.

OK, IT contractor/consultant.  Hmm... same thing really! 

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Earlier Swatpluk asked: 1) Ever been in a storm at sea?

Yes.  Several times.  It was exhilerating/terifying/life-afirming.  Also I slept the best I ever have in my entire life (and I am a good sleeper!) during these storms.  Something about the movement of the ship being like the rocking of the cradle, I suppose.  OTOH, I saw the effect it had on some of my mates, and I would not wish sea-sickness on my worst enemy.

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1. What is the most remote place you have been to?

2. How did you get there?

3. Are you afraid of heights?

1. What is the most remote place you have been to?

Depends on what you mean by "remote". If it is in the sense of "far away from home", that would be New Zealand, if you mean "out-of-town-somewhere-hidden-from-civilization", that would be the summer "residence" of my late grandfather, a nice little cabin in the woods (but unfortunately, that place got so popular that there are too many houses around now, and too many people. When my grandfathere built it, there was only one house in the area, and that was across a small river).

2. How did you get there?

In the first case, plane, in the second case car.

3. Are you afraid of heights?

It depends. If I'm standing, no. If I'm falling, then most definitely.

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1. Do you like wearing hats?

2. What is the oddest (or extravagant, or something in that sense) peace of clothing you own?

3. Tie, bow-tie or scarf?

1. Do you like wearing hats?

Not really for their own sake, but I like wearing them while outside in the summer, since it helps stop me from getting sunburnt.

2. What is the oddest (or extravagant, or something in that sense) peace of clothing you own?

There are a few items I have that might be considered "odd"

- the t-shirt they put on me at my bachelor party (with the "to-do" list on it for the day, that was added to when my friends thought of something fun or embarrasing... most of the items got checked off by the end of the night)

- another t-shirt I have that has "ANDRE" spray painted across the front and has some sort of military rank drawn on the sleeve in marker. 
It's from a day of drinking with my classmates in university: ANDRE refers to "drinking an Andre" (or matching the amount of beer that Andre the Giant supposedly drank by himself - 120 beers, IIRC - between however many people you have present).  The rank refers to something else they decided to do: everyone started as a private, and gained a rank for every beer they drank.  I made it to 1st Lieutenant; the "winner" made it to Major General.   

- my kendo uniform - it's not exactly typical wear for North America

- my racing suit - not many people have flame resistant overalls.   

3. Tie, bow-tie or scarf?

Tie, unless it's Ascot Wednesday.   

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1. What's your favourite mode of transportation?

2. What languages do you speak, besides English?

3. Hang gliding, bungee jumping, or waiting in the car?