BBC Radio 4 has a programme where a comedian interviews on of their favorite comedians. The following week the interviewee becomes the interviewer and so on ad infinitum!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/chainreaction.shtml
In terms of fostering mutual understansing and general love i thought something similar might work here. One sibling asks four or five questions of another. That sibling answers and poses four or five questions of somebody else (with a quick PM to the interviewee to stimulate a response). Nobody would have to answer questions they did not want to but it might give us a little insight into our little community.
Would anyone like to kick off with an interview for another user (alternatively you can tell me it is a daft idea ;D)
Sounds like fun, but how about just three questions, just to make it easier for siblings like me who can't remember what they had for breakfast?
Questions for the next sibling:
1)What did you have for breakfast?
2)Did you ever entertain thoughts about joining a monastery before you came here?
3)What's that on your head?
1. Beef stew. It was delicious.
2. No, but I once tried to recruit an entire monastery into becoming a coding 'factory' for software. Light intellectual work. Can easily be fitted between devotions. Encourages comtemplation...
3. It's a hat. Which one depends on when you're reading this. I have a lot of hats, but my wife won't let me wear some of them in public. Or in private, if she's there.
Questions for next sibling:
1. Why did you choose to answer next?
2. How do you feel about your body?
3. Why do you like swimming?
1) I'm here.
2) Betrayed
3) I like the feeling of weighlessness, and the idea of being able to just float, without a struggle to DO anything.
Questions:
1. What would you change if you had the power to make ONE change in your current employer?
2. What material thing have you always wanted but never been able to have?
3. If you had to spend the next 6 months without being able to hear a human voice, except that of one person, whose voice would you choose to be able to hear?
This looks like alot of fun!
1) I would very much love for him to be able to see his employee's point of view.
2) Doc Martins. I really had to think about that one. I just bought a house recently so that was the big one I've been striving for. I just can't justify spending 300.00 on a pair of bloody boots. But they're so cool... The internal power struggle continues...
3) Hmm.. the silly side of me would love to say James Earl Jones or Sean Connery. >:) But the first one that truly comes to mind is my son Kronos the Krazee. He and I have this funky connection. He'd keep me sane and ok.
Questions:
1) What's your favourite colour and why?
2) What's your biggest dream/hope?
3) What was your childhood like?
1) What's your favourite colour and why?
Green, because it suggests the sprouting of life.
2) What's your biggest dream/hope?
To raise the level of peace in this world by first raising my own tolerance level through humbleness and communication with others. What good is it to be rich or famous or well when people are suffering everywhere from a malady that CAN be helped through a better evolved mindset?
3) What was your childhood like?
In one way it was BAD because my parents broke up and my mom had a nervous breakdown/depression which lasted the rest of it from about age nine on through.
In another way: GOOD because by that time I had developed an imagination and a very strong sense of optimism which pulled me and my younger sister through some bleak times.
Every Christmas I remember the year we had nothing and how my sister and I wrapped lots of tiny little things we'd made and found and put up a tree ourselves and put all these tiny things under it. I still remember this as one of the best Christmasses ever because we made the magic ourselves and in a way it was quite empowering.
Questions for next sibling:
1) What is your favorite holiday memory?
2) What is your favorite warm drink?
3) Do you ever scamper?
Holiday memory? *whew* I have so many pearls that it's impossible to select just one. How about a college? Christmas morning with my sister, at the crack of dawn, and joy in my parents' eyes; Christmas eve candle-light service, sanctuary dark, but for 1,100 candles, a-capella singing of carols; spending all day of the "middle" of 3 day visit to my paternal grandma's talking with my cousin about imaginary things we'd only just made up; cold, cold snow on the ground, chasing kittens at my maternal grandma's farm-- and catching one; long, long car-rides, telling family stories over and over about "remember when so-and-so..."; trips that ended safely, in spite of heavy snow, and a highway-spin out or three; images of grandma's home-made "tree" cut from the back 40, decorated with the exact same lights and ornaments; that too-full feeling after eating HUGE Thanksgiving meal around a too-crowded table; "okay. just one more slice of mincemeat pie, then"; saying goodbye in the driveway for hours and hours ... *sigh*
Favorite warm drink? That's easy: coffee-chocolate! Very strong coffee, with a boat-load of chocolate instead of creamer/sugar.
Scamper? Alas, not anymore. I suppose I'm too old, and my bones do not like that activity at all. But, I do enjoy watching kittens, puppies, squirrels and other critters (including immature humans of any age) scamper. Sometimes with just a touch of envy. :D
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1. What was your favorite fictional character, when you were younger? (or, even now, actually)
2. Do you have an especial-favorite older relative/sibling/mentor/whatever that you still look to for guidance/inspiration (or would, if they were still corporeal)?
3. What/when is your favorite time of Year?
1. the smallest turtle in a book called turtle pond. It was a beatifully drawn story about the trials of baby turtles.
2. I dont take guidance very well (especially not spiritual) but I look to my father for anything practical and my mum can be relied upon to put in her tuppence on emotional issues (whether invited or not). I have enormous respect for my little brothers intellect and he is one of the people I really respect the opinions of.
3. Winter. I love storms and snow and the power of nature that winter demonstrates. That said I am pretty fond of all of the seasons. I do not really like the formal holidays - they always bring out the worst in me and I am prone to bouts of dissapointment - especially at Christmas.
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three questions for the next sibling...
1) What generates your enthusiasm?
2) do you consider yourself to be a creative person?
3) If you could live through any historical event what would it be?
I'm going to assume that one can answer more than once in the thread...
1] Lots of things, mostly other people.
2] Yes. Weirdly creative. (The only thing that's very mainstream about my creative impulses are floral designs because I still tend toward what's marketable.)
3] The signing of Magna Carta.
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1. What is your favorite flavor (of anything, your choice)?
2. What would you do with $3,000 'free money'--with the proviso that you can't pay bills, all use must qualify as frivolous.
3. Which forum member (Sibling or OWL or Pirate) would you most want to meet?
1. What is your favorite flavor (of anything, your choice)?
Chilli
2. What would you do with $3,000 'free money'--with the proviso that you can't pay bills, all use must qualify as frivolous.
Charter a yacht in the Whitsunday Passage for a week or two (or however long US$3,000 would last.
3. Which forum member (Sibling or OWL or Pirate) would you most want to meet?
Hmm, hard question. There are quite a few, but you ask me to narrow it down to one, so the answer is Sibling Chatty.
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1. What are you most proud of?
2. Who has had the greatest influence on your personal philosophy?
3. What person, living or dead, would you most like to be able to have dinner with?
1. What are you most proud of?
The parts of my job that involve supporting people to do extraordinary things. In particular being able to help a yound man from one of our most deprived council estates raise £500,000 to build a new park on a derelict site
2. Who has had the greatest influence on your personal philosophy?
I suppose I would have to say that the real influencers have been my family. beyond that I would include J R Lucas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lucas_(philosopher)) who taught me to thing
3. What person, living or dead, would you most like to be able to have dinner with?
Marx (karl not Groucho although I would happily do either)
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1) which do you prefer, animals or people?
2) If you could change one event in history (thereby altering its course in ways you may imagine but cannot be certain of) would you?
3) If so what event would that be?
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1) which do you prefer, animals or people?
I love both, but prefer people. Some of my warmest childhood memories are growing up with pets though.
2) If you could change one event in history (thereby altering its course in ways you may imagine but cannot be certain of) would you?
Oh yes, historical events are often driven by the smallest, not largest forces of change.
3) If so what event would that be?
Getting George W to sign the Kyoto Protocol for one. A proper count of the votes in Florida in 2000...don't get me started...too many in the last 6 years to comprehend
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1)If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
2)What song moves you like no other? Why?
3)Where were you 10 years ago? Tell us a story of your life back then?
1)If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
Not sure... I'm not picky; I go where I'm put. :)
Right this minute, being in a hotel room in Wales getting ready for Rally Great Britain would be pretty cool, but I'd really like to be anywhere that my friends and family are.
2)What song moves you like no other? Why?
I think it has to be Fare the Well, Love (http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiFARETHEE.html) by the Rankin Family. My wife's signing group sings it a capella; with 70 people singing it, it's powerfully sad. Also, because of the melody, I automatically picture a piper playing it at a funeral when I hear it.
3)Where were you 10 years ago? Tell us a story of your life back then?
Hmm... ten years... that would be the fall of 1996. I would have been in my year off between high school and university.
I had applied to several very competitive university programs in the areas of film, television and theatre production. I got rejected by most of them (one school did offer me an acceptance in "Cultural Studies", but when your life's ambition is to swing from a lighting grid, that just doesn't cut it), and spent the summer as #2 on the waiting list for my top choice of Theatre Technical Production, only to find out that for the first time in the history of the program, everybody who was offered an acceptance took it.
So, in September, I found out I wasn't getting in and decided to spend the year doing two things: saving money, and improving my grades at night school.
I got a job as an electronics salesman at a department store in October, so that would've taken up most of my time for the year following. Exactly 10 years ago today, I was also taking Algebra & Geometry at night.
I re-applied to university for the following year. I applied to the Theatre Technical Production program that had originally turned me down, and a bunch of engineering programs (since I now had the marks and the prerequisites, thanks to my night school). I got offered acceptances to all of them, including Theatre Tech, and finally decided on the more stable (but still interesting) path of engineering rather than theatre.
1) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live?
2) What did you like about your favourite subject in school?
3) What was your biggest childhood adventure?
(Not necessarily a trip away... even an "expedition" through the neigbourhood with your friends could count)
I wrote these answers, saved them but didny post them but now I, retardedly, feel I would like to questions so here goes! I will repost the questions of Sibling Lambicus the Toluous at the bottom as i have no intention of nicking those questions (and apologies for disrupting the flow!)
1)If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
I am tempted to say Liverpool out of bloody minded city patriotism but the truth is Cornwall. I love the place. it is like nowhere else I have been and is full of beauty and suprises. beaches, mines, birds and amimals, fogs, sunshine, peace and excitement! alternatively the slides at the Tate Modern. did them yesterday when I should have been in a meeting and I recommend them heartily!
2)What song moves you like no other? Why?
Light from a dead star by Lush. A fairly little known English band who made three great albums and an assortment of other good songs. This one is the opening track of the alum 'split' and it makes me feel like someome reached into me and wrote a somg about what they found. Very much connected with the next answer.....
3)Where were you 10 years ago? Tell us a story of your life back then?
1996. I had finished university in summer 1995 and in short order had been been dumped by the girl I loved (and still believe I do) since 6th form, got grades that were not as good as I should have (but which i deserved) and generally screwed up everything. In summer 1996 I had been dragged home (literally) by my parents, was drinking a phenomenal amount, taking drugs and generally being a bit of a idiot. Exactly 10 years ago I moved to bristol to live with a friend, got a job in a bookshop and started badly trying to get my life in order. 10 years later (4 collapsed lungs, 1 brain heamorhrage, 3 terrible girlfriends, 1 good one, assorted other liaisons, too many drinks, too litle consistency and a vast dose of cynicism but one beautiful fiance who puts up with all of that) I am nearly there. I hope.
By the way did I ever tell you all I love you :)
Goat
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1) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live?
2) What did you like about your favourite subject in school?
3) What was your biggest childhood adventure?
(Not necessarily a trip away... even an "expedition" through the neigbourhood with your friends could count)
OK, it's me again.
1) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live?
500 miles from my Mom.
OK, right here, but with either some help with Mom, or Mom 'getting' the concept of fatigue and stress being bad for me, so she'll quit inducing stress, and quit wanting me to do things I can't.
2) What did you like about your favourite subject in school?
MUSIC!! It was...music! Orchestra, choir, either one, both, even marching band.
3) What was your biggest childhood adventure?
(Not necessarily a trip away... even an "expedition" through the neigbourhood with your friends could count)
Bad, either the cross burning on our lawn or when I was kidnapped. (Both related to my father refusing to put an unqualified white worker in a position above a very qualified Hispanic worker.) The cross-burners aroused my ire for messing up my goldfish pond and I went out and yelled at them. (Age? 5, probably.) The 'kidnappers' didn't know that I bit when very angry. They learned.
Good...when we took wood stakes and chickenwire and a sod cutter, and cut huge squares of clover and made a 'tunnel' that grew to be a tunnel city just big enough for kids and dogs, but not Moms and Dads, and kept on adding on (Daddy was a little concerned about us using all his chickenwire, so we got hogwire out of my Grandpa's barn) until it covered most of a half-acre lot. Started it 2 days after school was out (end of May?), and it lasted until early August before it got too hot and our clover died. That a group of children were using a $300 sod cutter (1958 dollars) was not an issue, as we put it back where we got it from when we were through.
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1) What is your "I know it's irrational, and I don't care" fear?
2) What's your favorite kind of cake? CAKE!!
3) What cartoon/comic book/fictional character from childhood do you remember most?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 02, 2006, 05:49:27 AM
1) What is your "I know it's irrational, and I don't care" fear?
2) What's your favorite kind of cake? CAKE!!
3) What cartoon/comic book/fictional character from childhood do you remember most?
1) Either fear of walking across a bridge (I can do it now, but locked inside is a blubbering child, saying "go back") or else claustrophobia--but limited to deep caves (mostly). (occasionally rears it's ugly head, when I'm crawling around under a house, trying to fix some duct-work or other)
2) Cake-flavored cake. ;D (I like all sorts-- seriously depends on my mood at the time of eating)
But, if pressed into a choice, it's German-chocolate cake with "traditional" coconut-pecan icing.
3) Remember most? I suppose it would be from the writings of Robert A Heinlein. And his most memorable character would be Lazarus Long. I still find myself using LL's view of the world, to make decisions.
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1) What is your most treasured Holiday memory?
2) Do you look forward to your family getting together, or with regrets-- or what?
3) What is your favorite "ethnic" food? (By ethnic, I mean food from a culture other than your own.)
1) Most treasured holiday memory:
Having Yuletide with my friends. The Yule orange. It had cloves stuck all over it. You held it between your chin and chest, offering it to a friend. They took a clove with their teeth, kissed you, and took the orange from you with *their* neck and chest. If the orange was dropped, you have to pick it up off the floor with your chin and chest. :D
2) Do I look forward to family get togethers, or with regrets, or what?
With a sense of humour. My family's Scottish/Welsh. Ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Just switch the haircolours to various red taints and roll the rrr's. lol My family believes in not hiding feelings. Especially bad ones. So it was actually entertaining be at the dinner table. Sit back and wait for some bitching to begin... ;) Nothing ever got truly mean, or rude. Just 'aired out'.
3) Favourite ethinic food:
East Indian! Yummyyummyyummy... (With a nice side note for sushi) I've recently made a new friend with Indian roomies... who know how to cook... Woot!
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1) What's your all time favourite 'kid's' movie?
2) What's your morning routine?
3) Who's your idol/mentor/person you look up to?
1) What's your all time favourite 'kid's' movie?
The Three Lives of Thomasina. Great little movie.
2) What's your morning routine?
Get up at around six, make myself a cup of coffee, get online, check various things, read the news, get ready for school, go.
3) Who's your idol/mentor/person you look up to?
A combo of my mother and my debate coach. Both brilliant people, and I've learned a lot from them.
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1)Favorite teacher as a student of any level was?
2)Least favorite classic litertaure
3)Favorite holiday food
1)Favorite teacher as a student of any level was?
Definitely my Geology Professor, I always enjoyed his lectures - really thought provoking about the origins of life. I saw him a few years later on TV taking on a bunch of pseudo scientists from Ark Search, who had solid proof they had found Noah's Ark. It was a crop of sedimentary folds, not a boat! His work definitely inspired me when ID rose it's ugly head.
2)Least favorite classic litertaure
Any thing Mills and Boon
3)Favorite holiday food
At home - anything associated with Xmas
Away - eating authentic local foods and produce
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1)A song that sticks in your head from long ago, that everyone else has forgetten?
2)Should Hollywood stars really be allowed to adopt children from the 3rd world?
3)Do you have brothers and sisters?
1)A song that sticks in your head from long ago, that everyone else has forgetten?
Roy Orbison's Runnin' Scared
2)Should Hollywood stars really be allowed to adopt children from the 3rd world?
Only if they're definitely orphaned AND are special needs children that won't stand a chance without the intervention of a wealthy person. Angelina Jolie's latest still has a living parent. Were this a child needing surgery or special adaptability items (leg braces, wheelchairs, whatever) to thrive, then yes. Vanity adoptions? No. There are a hell of a lot of kids in the US that need adopting. Choose a few and move on. Donate money to all the orphanages you can, but don't go baby shopping somewhere so you can remove a child from it's heritage. (It's not just celebrities. Well-to-do Americans adopt Chinese baby girls like there was a huge store full of them just down the street.)
3)Do you have brothers and sisters?
I have 2 brothers, 8 and 12 years younger than me. My sister (18 months older) died at age 20.
Baby brother was born exactly one week before my 12th birthday. I'd wanted a dog, but accepted the kid instead.
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1] For the perfect sandwich (hot, cold, burger, whatever)...what do you need to make it? Everything on it, all details, please.
2] If you could become a fictional character and live part of that character's life, what character (and what story/book)?
3] Choose you three favorite singers, bands, or musical "acts" {operas, symphonies, whatever) for your All-Time Favorite Concert. (Can be deceased or living.) What songs/ compositions would you want to hear?
Warning! :offtopic:
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 03, 2006, 06:13:03 AM
Well-to-do Americans adopt Chinese baby girls like there was a huge store full of them just down the street.)
I wonder how much if this is due to the Chinese culture's extreme desire for sons over daughters?
The culture "requirement" to have a son to inherit, coupled with the draconian government's "one child per-- no matter what, even if it dies"
I seem to remember there is a serious problem of
"abort it if it's a girl" and/or abandonment of girl children by otherwise healthy parents.
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1] For the perfect sandwich (hot, cold, burger, whatever)...what do you need to make it? Everything on it, all details, please.
1 x Ciabatta Loaf
butter
2 x free range eggs (large) fried
4 slices of unsmoked streaky bacon grilled till just turning crispy
17 button mushrooms fried in butter
2 x pork breakfast sausage fried and halved
put all the ingredients in the ciabatta. add salt and pepper. eat. wait for heart attack :toadfish:
2] If you could become a fictional character and live part of that character's life, what character (and what story/book)?
Jernau Gurgeh from Iain Banks The player of Games. I would just love to find out how Azad is really played!
3] Choose you three favorite singers, bands, or musical "acts" {operas, symphonies, whatever) for your All-Time Favorite Concert. (Can be deceased or living.) What songs/ compositions would you want to hear?
Dubstar would be first a short set from the album disgraceful
Stars
Not Once Not Ever
The Day I see you again
and finishing off with (and here I cheat a little) the Billy Bragg cover St Swithens Day with Mr Bragg
Followed by the Alabama 3 (A3 in the US?) with their usual anarchic mixture of songs. These are the best live act you will ever see and I will be happy so long as the the set includes Mao Tse Tung Said, U Don't Danse 2 Tekno Anymore, Hypo Full of Love, Mansion On The Hill and Hello... I'm Johnny Cash
Finishing off with Radiohead performing their 1997 Glastonbury set
1. Lucky
2. My Iron Lung
3. Airbag
4. Planet Telex
5. Exit Music (For A Film)
6. The Bends
7. (Nice Dream)
8. Paranoid Android
9. Karma Police
10. Creep
11. Climbing Up The Walls
12. No Surprises
13. Talk Show Host
14. Bones
15. Just
16. Fake Plastic Trees
17. You
18. The Tourist
19. High & Dry
20. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
but adding 2+2=5 into the mix somewhere
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Imagine you were really happy....
1) Where would you be?
2) who would be there?
3) What would you be doing?
1. The forest
2. by myself
3. taking pictures
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Imagine your ideal life-
1. What is it?
2. Who are you sharing it with?
3. Where?
Kanaloa. been looking at your photos and would like to use [img=http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38718036/?qo=25&q=by%3Adorkanese&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps]http://one[/img] to inspire my next - frog hope you dont mind - will pop the result in the Toadfish Art Gallery....
your first question is rather big...
Imagine your ideal life-
1. What is it?
I suppose I would like to be living in a cottage by the sea (west cornwall) with a lot of books, a very good wetsuit, snorkel, surfboard, a good single malt whisky, a big box of paints and a computer. i would like to be working in a job that was important but manageable - (ie. not trying to tackle multiple deprivation in the UKs largest metropolitan Borough). I rather suspect however that this 'ideal' would prove to be ideal for a very short period of time!
2. Who are you sharing it with?
Not sure. I would enjoy a bit of time on my own but you would all be welcome to visit.
3. Where?
oops! answered this one already
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1. What could you not live without?
2. What are your superstitions?
3. How did you find your way to the Monastery and what keeps you here?
1. What could you not live without?
http://www.sandostatin.com/index.html And Dan, to buffer my life, to prevent the draining of my energy, to care for me.
2. What are your superstitions?
Pretty much, none, outside the conventional theatre ones. (Whistling, mentioning the Scottish play, etc.) I'm just really not a superstitious person, as superstition is caused by the distrust of the unknown, and I know for a fact that it's not the unknown that should scare you, it's what and who you DO know.
3. How did you find your way to the Monastery and what keeps you here?
From TOP/Koom Valley, after the first (possibly) Annual Passive/Agressive Lies and Halftruths Psychosis Festival, I stayed in touch with some of the people I care for, and suddenly, so many more of the people I care for were here!!
What keeps me here is the knowledge that you can care about, respect and even grow to love friends that you've never seen. One friend's (abusive) now-ex-husband used to tease her about her 'invisible friends'. It's amazing how visible those friends became when she needed us.... Internet friends are not invisible, really. They're just not right here physically, but they're in your heart.
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1) What current children's toy would you really like to have? (If you can Google it up, give a link!)
2) What "everybody loves..." song that everybody's supposed to love do you just not like? (Seasonal or not.)
3)What is your favorite dessert?
I always liked the Creepy Crawlers Oven thing. http://www.jakkspacific.com/images/creepy_crawlers.jpg
All Christmas carols with few exceptions. I got sick of them long ago when I had to suffer through them for two months while my sister played that on the radio and NOTHING ELSE.
Anything that has to do with cake, icecream, cannolis, cheescake...or a combination of said.
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What's something really stupid, but funny that you did whilst a young, mislead Youth?
Did you ever want to be a priest just for the tax break?
Did you ever wonder if you COULD reenact the whole "Shooting Apple of your HEad" thing? Ever try it?
CNtS. Nice to see you here in the merry band!
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What's something really stupid, but funny that you did whilst a young, mislead Youth?
oh blimey this is a toughie. Where do we start. Blowing up my mums garden fence with a homemade petrol bomb? various illegal activities? but I will settle for a stupid thing I did not quite do but was about to.....
In Birkenhead there was an ASDA (think supermarket now part of Walmart). This supermarket had a rooflop carpark with one straight, steep ramp from the forecourt. Whilst a trifle inebriated I and a few other friends pushed another mate to the top (at his instigation) in one of the notoriously unstable supermerket trolleys. Poised on the edge and about to send the unfortunate chap to certain doom / A&E we saw headlights start up the ramp. A police car pulled up next to us, would down the window and simply said "I don't think that is a very sensible idea. Do You?". Immediate clarity followed.
Did you ever want to be a priest just for the tax break?
Nope. lapsed as a catholic at 13 (pandering to papist terminology there. I do not think I lapsed as it implies I might come back!).In a work ice breaker I was picked out as person most likely to have been a priest (bizarrely). Oh and my father was a Benedictine Monk.
Did you ever wonder if you COULD reenact the whole "Shooting Apple of your HEad" thing? Ever try it?
Obviously I COULD (I might get through quite quarrels and a few small boys before succeeding). Never tried it although I was once knockled out by a friend whilst renacting Starwars with large planks of wood.
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What makes you Laugh?
What makes you Cry?
Do you live in the past, present or future?
What makes you Laugh?
This I was once knockled out by a friend whilst renacting Starwars with large planks of wood. for a start. Absolute laugh out loud, wake-the-dog kind of laugh. The fun stuff my friends do and say.
What makes you Cry?
Pain. Hurts. Things I cannot fix for other people. My Mama...
Do you live in the past, present or future?
I'm not really adept at telling the difference. Now is affected by then, and it has everchanging effect on all tomorrows. that's why I think that I try to be as kind as possible when I can, and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes, I just can't.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 13, 2006, 10:03:46 PM
What makes you Laugh?
This I was once knockled out by a friend whilst renacting Starwars with large planks of wood. for a start. Absolute laugh out loud, wake-the-dog kind of laugh. The fun stuff my friends do and say.
What makes you Cry?
Pain. Hurts. Things I cannot fix for other people. My Mama...
Do you live in the past, present or future?
I'm not really adept at telling the difference. Now is affected by then, and it has everchanging effect on all tomorrows. that's why I think that I try to be as kind as possible when I can, and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes, I just can't.
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1) Favorite kind of pet?
2) Do you have siblings?
3) What were you doing the first time you can remember realizing that life is finite?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 13, 2006, 10:06:47 PM
1) Favorite kind of pet?
2) Do you have siblings?
3) What were you doing the first time you can remember realizing that life is finite?
1. Cats, by far. I love dogs, but I don't have the attention span for them.
2. Yes, two blood, and four step.
3. When I was about seven, we moved from central texas to our current city, and we were driving though the desert of Arizona. Beautiful area, and I was remembering my great grandfather's funeral.
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1. Favorite baked good/pastry?
2. Favorite book?
3. Stupidest thing you've ever done/said
Off Topic Post!
Where in Central Texas?--As a Texan, all Texas interests me, especially the fact that "Central Texas" goes for 300 miles, minimum, in all directions from the geographic center of Texas.
I can drive for four hours, and still be solidly in Central Texas. ;) But i'd be sleepy...
central Texas is inbetween Narnia and the Alamo.
1. Favorite baked good/pastry?
There is only one important pastry baked item and that is the cornish pasty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty). if you aint had one then come surfing with me in cornwall and I will shw you the best in the world!
2. Favorite book?
for making me think Catch 22 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-22-Joseph-Heller/dp/0099470462/sr=8-1/qid=1166061083/ref=pd_ka_1/202-6370791-2889425?ie=UTF8&s=books), for making me laugh The long dark teatime of the soul (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Dark-Tea-time-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330309552/sr=1-1/qid=1166061186/ref=sr_1_1/202-6370791-2889425?ie=UTF8&s=books), for reafirming my understanding how mumbo jumbo conquered the world (http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Mumbo-jumbo-Conquered-World-Delusions/dp/0007140975/sr=1-1/qid=1166061232/ref=sr_1_1/202-6370791-2889425?ie=UTF8&s=books) and for bedtime reading hamlet (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hamlet-Arden-Shakespeare-Third-William/dp/1904271332/sr=1-2/qid=1166061297/ref=sr_1_2/202-6370791-2889425?ie=UTF8&s=books)
3. Stupidest thing you've ever done/said
too many to count! wasting my onechance to ask William Gibson (http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/) a question by asking him about the price of hardback books would be pretty high but if I would be honest I would say letting a girl called helen slip through my fingers through stupidity, nievetyand childish infidelity would probably top the list.
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1) one wish. 5 words. off you go!
2) are you responsible?
3) Does your family approve of your job?
1) one wish. 5 words. off you go!
No diabetes or side effects
2) are you responsible?
No. I didn't do it. No body saw me do it. You can't prove anything...
(with apologies to Bart Simpson)
3) Does your family approve of your job?
Yes. If only they knew.... ;) :D
1. What is the most exciting thing you have ever done?
2. Do you prefer tea or coffee or what?
3. What was the last live performance (music, theatre etc) you paid money for to see?
We lived in Kerville, a little town 60 miles outside San Antonio.
Quote from: Bluenose on December 14, 2006, 02:18:04 AM
1. What is the most exciting thing you have ever done?
2. Do you prefer tea or coffee or what?
3. What was the last live performance (music, theater etc) you paid money for to see?
1) Take fifth at the Stanford invitational tournie. I'm a bit boring, I know.
2) Coffee in the morning, tea the rest of the day.
3) Paid? Hmm...I don't know. But I did see Godsmack for free in 2003. I will be going to see Man of la Mancha tomorrow, I think.
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1. Most interesting place you've been
2. Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragon? What were you?
3.Favorite stand-up comedian
1. Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. November 25, 2000, specifically. That's the day I got "bitten by the bug" as they say. A combination of the place and the circumstances did it. Plus, there's a huge rock face that runs most of the length of town called the "Eagle's Nest". If you sit in the Tim Hortons and look out the front window, all you see is rock - it's amazing to look at.
2. No D & D, but in my youth I dabbled in the Robotech RPG. I had a few different characters.
3. Brent Butt. I've laughed so hard at his stand-up routine that I was worried I'd injure myself. I don't know if you'll get the full effect without the video, but you can hear some of his stuff here (http://www.brentbutt.com/braudio.htm).
1. What's the biggest fear you've conquered?
2. What's your favourite movie and why?
3. Automatic or a stick?
Quote from: Lambicus the Toluous1. What's the biggest fear you've conquered?
2. What's your favourite movie and why?
3. Automatic or a stick?
1. Needles have always been my biggest fear, but I haven't conquered it yet. I guess the fear that I've conquered would listening to other people's arguments. The fear that one is not right is quite difficult to live with. Fortunately I have conquered that fear quite early.
2. I love plenty of movies. It's difficult to define my favourite. I'll just go with "Requiem for a Dream". I've seen it hundred times and it doesn't fail to leave an impression on me every time I see it.
3. Stick. Not a fan of automatic. I find it quite boring to drive without manual.
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1. What is the first thing you do every morning after you wake up?
2. Do you consider yourself immature?
3. You're stuck in a traffic jam. What do you do?
Grey,
I know Kerville!! (It's not so little anymore.)
So do most Texas lovers...it's the Big Deal of the Hill Country along with New Braunsfel, AND it's the home of Kinky Friedman.
They also have a forensics program that's exceptional. The last time I had to judge at a tournament, Keeville took all firsts in interp and debate, and had 3 out of 6 firsts in individual speech events, just totally knocking out every other team there, including several that were 'nationally rated'.
Their new high school seems to be doing well, too. Yes, Kerville's big enough to have 2 BIG high schools.
And yes, the locals are referred to as Kerrverts.
Really? When I lived there ten or so years ago, it was tiny. By my standards at least, given that I had just moved from Denver to there. It was home of many old retired geologists, my grandfather included, as I recall.
My grandparents know Kinky, actually, and like him as far as I know.
I hadn't heard they had a speech program, at all, but that sounds really good.
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1. What is the first thing you do every morning after you wake up?
Get myself a cup of iced coffee, and either watch the news or get on the internet.
2. Do you consider yourself immature?
Oh yes. I entertain myself frequently with stupid things.
3. You're stuck in a traffic jam. What do you do?
Sigh and wait it out. Or turn around, provided there's not a lane island in the way.
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1. What's the weirdest thing you're fascinated by?
2. How did you find His Noodliness?
3. Muffins or cupcakes?
1. What is the first thing you do every morning after you wake up? Scratch meself. Under the covers, where no-one can see. Ahhhhh....
2. Do you consider yourself immature? Tremendously so. Keeps me young.
3. You're stuck in a traffic jam. What do you do? Put her in Park, crank up the tunes, sing at the top of my lungs and dance in my seat.
Edit: o foo, Kanaola and I answered simultaneously and I came in last. So:
1. What's the weirdest thing you're fascinated by? Everything.
2. How did you find His Noodliness? A great friend and spiritual advisor pointed me that way.
3. Muffins or cupcakes? Muffins. Less guilt!
Next questions:
1) Do you like where you are right now?
2) What is your favorite sound?
3) Do you think that okra originated on planet Earth?
1. Wild foods. I'll hit the brakes and pull over for a bit of wild fruit, ESPECIALLY blackberries. I can also spot said fruit, asparagus stalks, the few types of wild mushrooms I know are safe, and a host of other plants from great distance. So, if you see someone wandering around the forest eating the flowers, please wave.
2. Perfectly cooked, but the sauce has been left on to long and is burnt and bitter. A point of sadness since I'm a natural born Pastafarian (and still insist I was Touched by a NA and shown the interconnectedness of the universe), but I refuse to continue to be associated with the trademarked commercial creation of a guy who feels that publically ridiculing hatemails and flogging car emblems and shoddily written books is more important than using his 15 minutes of fame to try mend fences and start some inter-group dialogue (btw, anyone want a car emblem and pin? PM me.)
3. Muffins, but HATE over-sugared cakeized 'muffins' (think Costco muffins).... just give me a proper cupcake and quit the charades. Muffins should be hearty breakfast food.
ACH! Opas, I did it too! Not erasing that bit up there...
Next questions:
1) Do you like where you are right now?
Um, yes and no. Job -> Good (rather not be working, though), city and province SUXORS. I want to go back to BC.
2) What is your favorite sound?
Birdsong in the temperate rainforest on Vancouver island. After that, running water or surf.
3) Do you think that okra originated on planet Earth?
Yes, but I also believe I can derive both an aphrodesiac and a nontoxic water treatment product from okra, so my opinions are suspect.
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1. Would you be living a totally different lifestyle than you are now if you could?
2. If yes, why aren't you?
3. (If yes to 1) Will you eventually be able to live it?
1. Would you be living a totally different lifestyle than you are now if you could?
You betcha. One with more money.
2. If yes, why aren't you?
Cancer, neurofibromatosis, assorted genetic and other illnesses. I can't work anymore. (I did for 9+ years after DX, and it almost killed me. Bad mave.)
3. (If yes to 1) Will you eventually be able to live it?
Probably not. If ya got a magic want, i'll try.
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1) What one material possession do you value most?
2) Do you have any superstitions/lucky rituals? (Like putting on one sock first, rubbing the head of your Elmo doll, touching your lucky coin, etc.)
3) Do you resemble anybody famous?
1) What one material possession do you value most?
My dads tuck box from his boarding school
2) Do you have any superstitions/lucky rituals? (Like putting on one sock first, rubbing the head of your Elmo doll, touching your lucky coin, etc.)
not really. I am developing a superstition that taking Mrs Goat to watch Tranmere Rovers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranmere_Rovers_F.C.) makes tham lose so I may stop taking her :-[
3) Do you resemble anybody famous? (http://3)%20do%20you%20resemble%20anybody%20famous?)
People tell me I loo like british actor Colin Firth. There are worse things to look like. My dad is the spitting image of Harold Shipman the biggest serial killer in British history.
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1. Will you be drunk on christmas day?
2. How old is your house?
3. Would you like a biscuit?
1. Will you be drunk on christmas day?
Eww, no. I don't like alcohol.
2. How old is your house?
Not sure, but I'll guess that its about twenty years old.
3. Would you like a biscuit?
Yes. I like busciuts & cookies, so either way. Actually, the American application of buscuit sounds really good right now.
You'll have to excuse me, I have a mother to persuade.
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1. Are you going to go watch the new Harry Potter movie when it comes out?
2. Books or movies?
3. Ever read "graphic novels?"
1. Are you going to go watch the new Harry Potter movie when it comes out?
When it comes on tv or dvd. I can't get out to a cinema. But if i could, yes.
2. Books or movies?
Used to be books. But now I cant read for long. so it's movies on tv. But if i got better, it'd be books again.
3. Ever read "graphic novels?"
Started on the Rupert Bear Annual. Then later progressed to reading Asterix to my kids. The only graphic books I've read recently are Introducing Freud, and Introducing Jung, graphic and quite novel in their own way.
1. Who do you most want to see over the festive season and why?
2. If you lived in another country which would it be and why?
3. What's the most interesting (to you) thing you've learnt this year?
Quote from: NoName1. Who do you most want to see over the festive season and why?
2. If you lived in another country which would it be and why?
3. What's the most interesting (to you) thing you've learnt this year?
1. A lot of people. I'm going home so I'll probably see them.
2. I used to live in Serbia, before I moved for my studies, and I go back there every occasion I can (and I consider that place my home). That is more or less the (only) country I would consider live in at the moment, for various reasons. One of them is I just love the people there.
3. I've learnt that I can drink a bottle (0,7l) of whiskey without being sick on that evening or the other day. It was a very useful lesson.
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1. Do you maintain Christmas traditions and which?
2. Are you planning to kiss someone under the mistletoe?
3. What crazy thing have you always been keen to do, but never had the courage?
1. Do you maintain Christmas traditions and which?
not really. I will be cooking this year for my parents and other family members but will be doing beef not turkey. I have no decorations etc. The two British traditions I keep are getting plastered on Christmas Day and going to the Boxing Day football.
2. Are you planning to kiss someone under the mistletoe?
not planning to but you never know when you might get lucky! ;)
3. What crazy thing have you always been keen to do, but never had the courage?
Scuba diving. It may not sound terribly crazy but I have wanted to since I was a kid and after a series of operations on collapsed lungs have been told I will not be able to due to the risk of a firther collapse under pressure. So I am not at present courageous enough to but one day I might just do it anyway.
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1) have you ever punched anyone? If so why!
2) what is your greatest talent?
3) hollywood or european cinema (you can chose far eastern, bollywood, south american etc instead if you like)?
1) have you ever punched anyone? If so why!
Oh no. I've never really punched any one at all, though I've been sorely tempted to on a number of occassions.
2) what is your greatest talent?
That would either be cooking, or convincing people I'm right.
3) hollywood or european cinema (you can chose far eastern, bollywood, south american etc instead if you like)?
I don't really watch movies that often, and when I do, it's usually American, though I really like stuff from Canada, and Europe as well.
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1.What would you be doing, ideally, for the holidays?
2. Prefered form of transportation?
3. Are there any artisitc things you induldge in once in a while?
1.What would you be doing, ideally, for the holidays?
Fly to St Lucia. Stay at the most expensive hotel. Indulge in everything on offer.
2. Prefered form of transportation?
Plane. I miss flying. I spend a lot of time watching planes come into land from my bedroom window while doing my dying swan act reclining in bed and I am probably the only person in the UK who loves living on a flight path.
3. Are there any artisitc things you induldge in once in a while?
Writing rubbish on the Internet.
1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be? (no friends/relatives)
2. If you could go forward in time what one thing would you do differently?
3. What item of clothing have you always secretly wanted to wear?
1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be? (no friends/relatives)
Terry Pratchett, unless I could bring Douglas Adams back so he could write more.
2. If you could go forward in time what one thing would you do differently?
If I could alter the fabric of time in regards my existence (past) I would not have been born when I was. A couple of years later would have been better. To alter it in the future, what i'd do differently is go forward, memorize several years of Superbowl/World's Cup/Kentucky Derby winners and come back and make some bets...
3. What item of clothing have you always secretly wanted to wear?
Victorian or Antebellum dresses, cut to be belted or worn with a ruffled pinafore. (Very feminine looks.)
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1) Tell us about a sad memory.
2) What, if anything, do you wear to sleep?
3) Do you own a pair of roller skates?
Slight Aside.......
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 18, 2006, 06:48:33 AM
1. If you could take one well known individual with you to the desert island who would it be? (no friends/relatives)
Terry Pratchett
I really wouldn't you know. take him off the written page and that man is one of the dullest people I have ever spent an evening with. You would throw yourself to the sharks in no time!
Quote from: Sibling Chatty1) Tell us about a sad memory.
2) What, if anything, do you wear to sleep?
3) Do you own a pair of roller skates?
1. I'm not really in the mood to talk about sad memories. But I guess the last sad memory is the funeral of my grandfather in August. But I really don't want to talk about it, Christmas is a time for happy thoughts after all, isn't it?
2. Mostly I sleep in my underwear (shorts), but occasionally I sleep in my jeans (and everything else I had on me the evening I went out. It's so difficult to undress when totally wasted).
3. The last roller skates I owned was size 42 (I think it's a 7), which was a long time ago. (I have a size 48 - 13 now).
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1. What time do you usually got to bed?
2. Do you have an original painting?
3. You have to get rid of everything you have, but can keep one item. What would it be? (doesn't apply to pets, you can keep them)
1. What time do you usually got to bed?
Mrs Goat will tell you it is much too late. 1am is pretty normal on a week night. If she is away I will read, play computer games, use the internet till 4 without batting an eyelid!
2. Do you have an original painting?
severalof my own, a few of my brothers and a couple of sketchbooks by friends
3. You have to get rid of everything you have, but can keep one item. What would it be? (doesn't apply to pets, you can keep them)
If I were sensible I would say my house (or possibly a pair of trousers!!) but in reality I would keep a box filled with letters from people and sentimental nick nacks (If I can count that as one item)
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1. To be, or not to be?
2. Where are the Snowdens of our yesteryear?
3. Are you lonesome tonight?
1. To be, or not to be?
Stopped doing and started being a few years ago. It's a better way of life. So yes, to be.
2. Where are the Snowdens of our yesteryear?
Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
That made me smile out loud. It's a phrase that entered my common language early in life. I utter it often and people look at me oddly.
Others are Yesterday I went to the dentist
and no soap, radio and of course through a glass darkly
As to Snowdon last time I went up it I couldn't, it was fogbound as usual. And "Lord" knows what happened to the photos.
3. Are you lonesome tonight?
No, I have a migraine fighting to stay with me. And I just got some blue leather shoes, (the suede ones heels were too high).
1. What is your most vivid memory when you were ten years old?
2. How do you make decisions?
3. What, if any, superstitions do you abide by?
1. What is your most vivid memory when you were ten years old?
My grandmother died, any my mother chose to shut heself away from the world for months.
2. How do you make decisions?
On the whim of the moment? Depends on the decision. If I neehd to consider all the salient points and decide, i'm like an accountant, adding up every little detail to make sure the balance sheet supports my decision. If it's a matter of taste, an intangible, whatever, it's what strikes me as right at that moment.
Instinct, I think...
3. What, if any, superstitions do you abide by?
NEVER eat anything bigger than your head. (And the theatre ones, esperially the Scottish play one.)
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1) What will you have for Christmas dinner?
2) What are your plans for New Year's Eve?
3) Do you miss the FLUFFYSNAKIES OF DOOOOM!!!!??
Quote from: Sibling Chatty1) What will you have for Christmas dinner?
2) What are your plans for New Year's Eve?
3) Do you miss the FLUFFYSNAKIES OF DOOOOM!!!!??
1. The traditional Czech Christmas dinner: Carp and potato salad.
2. I'm not planning anything yet. Usually I end up celebrating it on the streets with several friends. Let's see what this year brings, but one thing is for sure, I'll get totally wasted like the last several years.
3. No, but I miss the FLUFFYBUNNIES ON A PLANE!!!
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1. What is your favourite number and why?
2. Bottled water or tap water?
3. Which dead celebrity do you miss the most?
1. What is your favourite number and why?
Avagadros number (6.08 x 1023) I just think it cool.
2. Bottled water or tap water?
Tap water - in Melbourne there's not muh difference, actually Melbourne's tap water is probably more pure than many bottled waters. Of course that does not stop the sale of a gazillion (unnecessary) water filters here...
3. Which dead celebrity do you miss the most?
Eva Cassidy. Such a voice. Such versatility. Lost to cancer at such a young age. :(
1. Do you dream in colour?
2. Can you fly in your dreams (and I don't mean in an aeroplane)?
3. Do you sleep walk or talk?
1. Do you dream in colour?
Yes, always have. I am a lucid dreamer - that is, I am able to recognize I'm dreaming, alter the path of the story or even "reset" the story and go down a different path.
I often modify the physics of dreams as well - reduce or increase gravity, for example. All at a whim.
My dreams are like movies to me- where I'm also the director, and am able to make world-changes mid-show.
2. Can you fly in your dreams (and I don't mean in an aeroplane)?
Often, frequently, and no, rarely in airplanes.
Sometimes, I can fly, but landing seems to be the problem. Sometimes, it's the takeoff that is the problem.
But, once up in the air, dream-flying is sooo cool.
Sometimes the physics of the flight is balloon-like, in that I drift with the winds. Othertimes, I may direct my path, much like superman. Still other times, I'm flying, but steering and turning is VERY HARD, so I often fly through trees and branches at speed (and suffer for that :D ).
Sometimes, I'm dreaming of driving cross-country, and at some point, I'm no longer in a car, but running or wizzing along just above the roadway at 60 mph ... at the point I realize, I'm not in a car, I sometimes think -- "why am I staying so close to the ground" and wizz up into the air ...
3. Do you sleep walk or talk? As far as I know, no. I do not believe I have ever sleepwalked in my life - unless I returned to bed after ::)
I may or may not talk in my sleep - this is likely, I suppose. I think sleeptalking may be a function of lucid dreaming, at least for me.
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1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?
2. Do you like driving cross country, or on long trips, just for the trip itself? To 'get away'?
3. If you could "snap your fingers" and travel from place to place instantly, instead of walking, driving, bus-ing or whatever, would you? Would you every time, or just sometimes?
1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?
Sometimes, when I realize I'm dreaming and don't wake up (which usually happens). I can change the dream, alter events, make things appear.... it's just rare to get control. If I realize I'm dreaming, I have to sneak up on the dream, and then tickle it into doing what I want. Any tips on training lucid dreams (besides chloroquine, which sharpens 'em up something fierce)?
2. Do you like driving cross country, or on long trips, just for the trip itself? To 'get away'?
Yes! But not so much in Alberta, where I do most of it (for work). It's too flat. In BC, I sometimes went for 'fun drives'. Not too environmentally unfriendly then, either... I had a 1.0 L engine in the car I was driving. A few hours alone in the car with some good CDs in the player can be blissful.
3. If you could "snap your fingers" and travel from place to place instantly, instead of walking, driving, bus-ing or whatever, would you? Would you every time, or just sometimes?
Yep. I'd always replace driving (around town and long-distance commutes) and flying (too $$$!). I would walk a lot more, but strictly for pleasure... get the errands done by snapping and then bugger off into the hills somewhere for a hike.
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1) Rate your preferred method of communication (with friends) in order: Snail Mail, Electronic Text, Phone/Voice, Face-to-Face, Other (specify):
2) Where in the world have you felt the most 'at peace'/'whole'/'centred'?
3) Do you prefer rain (+5oC) or snow (-5o C)?
1) Rate your preferred method of communication (with friends) in order: Snail Mail, Electronic Text, Phone/Voice, Face-to-Face, Other (specify):
*Snail mail: 3--It's nice sometimes, but usually, no.
*Phone: 3
*Electronic Text: 10--I use it ALL the time, on dA, email, etc.
*Face to Face: 10
2) Where in the world have you felt the most 'at peace'/'whole'/'centred'?
In the mountains. Any mountains.
3) Do you prefer rain (+5oC) or snow (-5o C)?
Rain please. It doesn't kill my plants the way snow does. :S
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1) Hillary or Condi?
2) Pears or apples?
3) Favorite city/town?
:offtopic: :offtopic: :offtopic: ;D
Quote from: Agujjim on December 19, 2006, 04:14:20 PM
1. Have you ever been able to control your dreams?
... Any tips on training lucid dreams (besides chloroquine, which sharpens 'em up something fierce)?
Only what I've read. Constant, and frequent daydreams seems to help a great deal.
As a child, I had serious difficulty going to sleep, and I would day-dream for literally hours until I'd day-dream myself to sleep.
To this day, I still do that - sometimes I "write" whole novels and stories. (But none are worth publishing - I once wrote some down, and when I was more alert, I saw they pretty poor prose.)
So, daydreaming seems to help.
I've read keeping a dream journal can help too - I've never tried that, though.
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There
is a negative side-effect of being a lucid dreamer: you never get to finish nightmares. I
always wake up as soon as the nightmare reaches anything serious. The negative aspect, is that
now I'm
awake, and I have a vivid memory of a nasty dream fresh in my mind. *yeach* I always have to get out a book to "cover" the "taste" of nightmares, in order to get back to sleep.
as my answers to the previous question simply disappeared into the ether....... I will have another go!
1) Hillary or Condi?
in what context? in most contexts I would go for neither (including as US president) but if pushed I would have to say Hilary on the basis that her oil interests are not so heavily enshrined on the side of a tanker now named the Altair Voyager allegedly
2) Pears or apples?
i love a nice pear! he he! but seriously pears every time. i see no point in apples unless they are traditional british varieties and someone has a big lump of cheddar.
3) Favorite city/town?
Liverpool (http://www.liverpool08.com/). Nuff said!
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1) have you ever seen a real live toadfish?
2) have you ever met a real live toadfish sibling?
3) If you had to spend an evening with three siblings who would you choose and why? (dont answer if you might offend!)
:offtopic:
What is chloroquine?
Malaria meds. I had 'em for the Phililppines.... they give you very, very real dreams for a couple of nights afterwards (it's a weekly dose).
Some people do not do well on chloroquin (nightmares, depression, other mental effects), but I only noticed the vividness of my dreams.
Can you get it in the States?
This reminds me of "Altered States." Anyone have a sensory deprivation tank.
I think it's available as a prescription.... we just told the doctor where we were going and he prescribed it. I'm surprised you didn't get some when you were over there.
Naturally, I wouldn't recommend taking it unless it's required... google it for all the bad stuff. Apparently it's toxic to the eye as well:
http://www.theberries.ns.ca/BOTW_archives/Chloroquin_Toxicity.html
Hmmm....
Thanks for the link. I never heard of it before.
1) have you ever seen a real live toadfish?
Yes, I once spent an hour or so watching a whole lot of toadfish instead of fishing for black bream, letherjacket and estuary perch which is what I was originally after. Very relaxin, the water was crystal clear and after I gave up fishing because the toadies kept nicking the bait, I just dropped in bits and watched the little critters. Great fun!
2) have you ever met a real live toadfish sibling?
No, but I have spoken to DaveL on the telephone.
3) If you had to spend an evening with three siblings who would you choose and why? (dont answer if you might offend!)
Hmm, tricky...
If I am in a pirate mood, it would be Black Bart, The Black Spot and DaveL, or maybe I should include NoName and Calico Jack and... Hmmm, too hard.
Ok lets think (primarily) non-pirate, well there's Chatty, Vita, Ops, Swato, Mero, Beagle, Qwerty, Bob, Goat..... Aaaarggghhh! How can you expect me to cut it down to just three? I'd like to spend the evening with all my HOT siblings!
1. Have you heard of Asteroid Apophis (http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/news_detail.cfm?ID=162)?
2. What are you planning to do in 2036?
3. Who ya gonna call?
1. Have you heard of Asteroid Apophis?
Not until I read that page...and bookmarked it for further perusal.
2. What are you planning to do in 2036?
Be dead, or be 84 years old and miserable...I choose dead.
3. Who ya gonna call?
Well, not Ghostbusters, because ghosts rarely need busting, they're generally fairly good at behaving properly, and if not, then getting out of their way is favorite.
As usual, i'll call Dan. He's really good at taking care of me.
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1) What's your favorite card or board game?
2) You're preparing a chocolate fondue. What 10 items will you have to dip into it?
3) For some horrible cosmic reason, you must forego either vision or sound. Which sense would you miss most, sight or hearing?
1) What's your favorite card or board game?
I love monopoly (but dont tell Beagle) and really enjoy scrabble. Not sure if it is a board game but Balderdash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash) comes top of the list.
2) You're preparing a chocolate fondue. What 10 items will you have to dip into it?
a potato wedge, a carrot, a stalk of asparagus, a lamb kebab, a barbeque rib, a french loaf, a saveloy, a toulouse sausage, a marrow and a banana. I would then discard the chocolate fondue and eat the rest (not much of a sweet toth on this goat I am afraid)
3) For some horrible cosmic reason, you must forego either vision or sound. Which sense would you miss most, sight or hearing?
I would miss vision most. losing hearing is terrible (my mum is partially deaf and my two year old niece has hearing problems) but it seems to me to be more manageable whilst maintaining a fairly normal life. I also get more pleasure out of creating art than music and would hate to lose that.
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1) What piece of (friendly) advice would you like to give me?
2) If you could save one endangered species for ever what would it be?
3) What is your favorite cheese?
Quote from: Comrade Goatvara 1) What piece of (friendly) advice would you like to give me?
2) If you could save one endangered species for ever what would it be?
3) What is your favorite cheese?
1. Don't hope that Marxism is going to save the world, it won't. :)
2. Can I save them all?
If I should save one, I'd probably go with the Tigers, I just love those little kitties... :D
3. Camembert. I could eat it all day long...
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1. Winter or Summer?
2. Spring or Autumn?
3. Will you celebrate the Chinese New Year?
1. Winter or Summer?
Winter! If I'm cold, I can always get a sweater. Summer's too hot, and there's only so much one can remove.
2. Spring or Autumn?
Spring, if I have to pick. The blossoms around here are goregous!
3. Will you celebrate the Chinese New Year?
Probably not, but you never know.
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1)Battle Ship Galactica or Star Trek?
2) Brownback or Gulliani for 2008?
3) What do you think is going to happen with Nepal?
1. I loved Startrek but the current incarnation of Battlestar Galactica is the only thing I watch religiously.
2. Is this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback) Brownback? I'm not too fond of Giuliani but the lesser evil...
3. Nepal? The same that happens everywhere else: strife, a bit of chaos, followed by a delicate balance that takes it out of the news. For now.
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1. Arthur C. Clarke or Isaac Asimov?
2. The beach or the mountains?
and for the musically inclined:
3. Prokofiev or Shostakovitch?
Oooh! Hard ones!
1. Arthur C. Clarke or Isaac Asimov?
Asimov by the finest of margins and probably based on the number of books of his that I have enjoyed over the years, which is to say that I have majorly enjoyed Arthur C Clark's work but there have been more of Asimov's. These two guys were definately my favourite authors in my youth.
2. The beach or the mountains?
I like a beach near the mountains ;), OK, if I have to choose I choose mountains. On second thoughts, I choose beach, but not by the sea, rather a beach on the Murray River in the ancient red gum forest. Yeah, that's the shot! My third thoughts can just go take a run and jump...
3. Prokofiev or Shostakovitch?
Hmm, tricky. I think Prokofiev, but that may be subject to change at no notice...
On the other hand I rather like Stravinski too.
1. Do thunder storms scare you or excite you?
2. What is your favourite kind of bird?
3. What was the last book that came into your possession, and did you buy it, or was it a gift or what?
1. Do thunder storms scare you or excite you?
Neither, usually. They make me sleepy, but they upset Spencer, so I have to be the consoling Mommy and convince him that the thundermonsters won't get the small grey dog.
2. What is your favourite kind of bird?
Norweigan blue. Beautiful plumage.
OK, i'm not a 'housepet' bird kinda person. I like cardinals.
3. What was the last book that came into your possession, and did you buy it, or was it a gift or what?
The Language of God (A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief) by Francis S. Collins, who is the head of the Human Genome Project.
it was a Christmas gift from a wonderful Sibling. I'm going to go read more of it in a few minutes.
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1) Whatcha doin' for New Year's Eve?
2) Did you overeat for Christmas? (Either main event or sweets.)
3) If you had to move to another country, which one would you choose?
1) Whatcha doin' for New Year's Eve?
Spending it having a vast dinner party with the same group of friends (probably about 18 people) who I've spent it with for the last 20+ New Year's Eve. It's a bring a dish dinner but I never have to as they all live in the same town and I am always just visiting ! Currently wondering how I am going to get back up the hill after midnight but before the party ends (tired)as I won't have my car with me and it's only about twelve houses up so asking someone to drive me is a bit daft. Well, it's not daft, I can't do it, but but but... oh bother
2) Did you overeat for Christmas? (Either main event or sweets.)
No, not over Christmas itself but I did have one chocolate cherry liquer too many tonight.
3) If you had to move to another country, which one would you choose?
Australia. Or New Zealand. Site unseen, never been, but like everyone I've ever met and what I know about them. Possibly Canada, actually definitely Canada but with different weather.
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1. If you had to move to another country which one would you avoid?
2. If you were going to meet someone you have always wanted to meet, where would you like to meet them?
3. If you could have another "sense", what would it be?
1. If you had to move to another country which one would you avoid?
Possibly any middle eastern. Apparently those are very restrictive in many aspects which goes against my nature, although I know that the process of knowing the culture itself would minimize that problem.
2. If you were going to meet someone you have always wanted to meet, where would you like to meet them?
The question -to me- brings the matter of who implied: I would love to meet the Dalai Lama, and in consequence I would really like a situation in which time and hundreds of others wouldn't impede talking with him. How that place would be, I'm not sure, in the gardens of a temple, perhaps? Honestly it doesn't matter (I know, I'm cheating with the answer :D).
3. If you could have another "sense", what would it be?
Perhaps perfect ear; I'm sure a good amount of music has layers hidden to me because of that (I have a decent relative ear, though).
On a related note, I had a relative "sense" of empathy: I was able to perceive the emotions of other people by focusing on them. It was terrible and I had to filter it out, most people have different combinations of negative emotions, be it anger, sadness, anguish, depression, etc, etc. Needless to say that when someone has positive emotions you don't need any special power to notice...
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1. Love at first sight or Concerted mutual coexistence?
2. If you could be a famous painter who would be and why.
And another musical
3. Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin?
1. Love at first sight or Concerted mutual coexistence?
I don't really believe in "love at first sight". Mutual-lust--maybe. ::) ::) So, by default, it'd have to be concerted mutual coexistence (whatever that means... <heh>)
2. If you could be a famous painter who would be and why.
Leonardo DaVinci. The man was genius at so many different things-- a Renaissance man before the Renaissance. I wonder what he'd have made of Quantum Physics?
And another musical
3. Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin?
Pink, definitely. I have all of their original albums (except for a couple of compilations and concert-albums) up through Division Bell. But, I have zero of Led Zeppelin's ... even thought I like their music, I was never motivated to actually go out and purchase any.
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1. If you drive, what is your favorite kind of car. If you don't, what is your favorite method of getting around town, the country, the world. And why, for either.
2. If you could always choose your flying method, which would it be? Balloon? Zepplin? Airplane? (small, single-engine or huge commercial or what?) Space Ship? Why? (or why not?)
3. Scuba diving or Sky Diving? Why? (or other "wild and crazy" activity)
1. If you drive, what is your favorite kind of car. If you don't, what is your favorite method of getting around town, the country, the world. And why, for either.
I don't drive, yet. Been too busy and too lazy and too cheap to get it. I choose to wait until I turn 17 1/2 (and that was months ago) so I wouldn't have to take Driver's Training, and then school started and I haven't had time.
But I like to walk. I often walk the mile and a half home from school.
2. If you could always choose your flying method, which would it be? Balloon? Zepplin? Airplane? (small, single-engine or huge commercial or what?) Space Ship? Why? (or why not?)
How about wings? That was always my choosen superpower as a kid. But if I can't have wings or something, I'll take a small plane. I can go whereever I like and take my time.
3. Scuba diving or Sky Diving? Why? (or other "wild and crazy" activity)
I'm terified of sharks, so I think I'd go sky diving.
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1. Best present you ever got (Could be from a white elephant gift exchange, or an actual present)
2. Cats or dogs? (or other pets)
3. Favorite artist? Why?
1. Best present you ever got (Could be from a white elephant gift exchange, or an actual present)
An electronics project set when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Endless fun making radios, amplifiers, etc...
2. Cats or dogs? (or other pets)
Cats. I prefer their independence, I just don't get the "love you no matter what" thing with dogs.
3. Favorite artist? Why?
Arthur Streeton. His treatment of light in the landscape was second to none IMO.
1. What is your favorite sea food?
2. State one piece of information that was indelibly imprinted in you brain at school, but which has never yet proven to be of any practical use.
3. How did you find the Toadfish Monastery?
1. What is your favorite sea food?
Smoked Haddock (Can't get it here) :'(
Smoked Mackerel (Can't get it here) :'(
Kippers (Can't get them here) :'(
Cod, Poached, Broiled, Baked, Fried, Grilled, whatever. Cod. :D
2. State one piece of information that was indelibly imprinted in your brain at school, but which has never yet proven to be of any practical use.
America was named after Amerigo Vespucci.
3. How did you find the Toadfish Monastery?
I mocked them gently when they first started up in Koom Valley - calling them self-styled HOTties, etc. (I'm not a 'joiner').
Then Sir Francis Drake invited me to join, and I found the 'beautiful people' who shone from within.
When Koom Valley self-destructed, I first followed the Toadfish here, and then was lucky enough to be instrumental in shaping this forum into the way it's now structured.
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1. Why did you steal from your mother?
2. Who is the person you most need to apologise to?
3. Who's in charge of how you feel?
1. Why did you steal from your mother?
I'm innocent. My mother dropped the charges. :mrgreen:
2. Who is the person you most need to apologise to?
Not sure. There are probably a few people I should apologise to, but won't probably do it. (Not because I'm too proud to apologise, but because it's been a long time since I've seen those people)
3. Who's in charge of how you feel?
Nobody is in charge of how I feel but me. I don't let anyone tell me how to feel.
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1. Is love real?
2. Red wine or white wine?
3. When you look back at the year 2006, are you satisfied with yourself (your achievements, etc)?
1. Is love real?
sometimes but what we call love is often a pale imitation of the real thing. I rather suspect people can only really love once and after that must settle for substitutes of friendship, dependancy and lust.
2. Red wine or white wine?
red wine every time (ooh a little accidental poem!)
3. When you look back at the year 2006, are you satisfied with yourself (your achievements, etc)?
Not really. I always feel like I am underachieving in almost everything. There were some real successes and a lot of good stuff but it was surrounded by a general malaise and feeling of opportunities missed.
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1) What was the best party you have been to?
2) describe your ideal home
3) Should people own animals as pets?
1. Is love real?
I'd say yes because it can be felt in my experience without sexual desire automatically being connected with it (and the other way around too). With no practical relationship experience :'(, I have to postpone definite judgement.
2. Red wine or white wine?
If alcohol at all, then Red Crimean Sparkling Wine
3. When you look back at the year 2006, are you satisfied with yourself (your achievements, etc)?
No! PhD thesis still unfinished due to laziness on my part, Negligible chances to get work in my profession in the area I live and would like to stay, Still no relationship in sight
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Edit: sorry, answer took to long and goat beat me to it
1) Best Party?
Such a rare occasion, can't say
2) Ideal Home?
I take that means in material terms
Hm, enough room to store books, CDs, DVDs.
Comfy and functional at the same time
Quiet location but with good public transport connections
Affordable
3)Pets allowed?
Yes, under certain conditions.
No vanity pets
No endangered species
Controlled responsibility (heavy penalties for maltreatment)
Only non-aggressive ones (err on the side of caution)
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1. Can you write serious poetry (i.e. poetry that is neither intentionally or unintentionally funny)?
2. Is there justified hope for humanity?
3. What will Bush do in the time left to him?
1. Can you write serious poetry (i.e. poetry that is neither intentionally or unintentionally funny)?
No, not at all. I tried it a few times in school, and with terrible results. I even have problems with less serious forms of poetry, mostly it's not even funny...
2. Is there justified hope for humanity?
Humanity is doomed. Let's party till we still can! :D
3. What will Bush do in the time left to him?
He'll probably travel a lot, as once he's out of office, he won't be able to anymore (and not get arrested).
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1. Modern or classic art?
2. What was the biggest amount you have donated for charity?
3. Do you want a cookie?
1) Art
Classical, definitely (it hasn't to be old or old-fashioned though)
2) Charity
depending on the definition of charity something between 50 and 100 € in one go I#d say
3) Cookies
Provided it#s the sort I like, yes
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1) Ever been in a storm at sea?
2) Ever been completely drunk?
3) Ever considered shooting (incl. archery) or fencing as sport?
oops! revenge there for the earlier interruption..... Swatos questions at the end!
1) 1. Modern or classic art?Modern (although much of it is rubbish) went to see the jake and Dinos Chapman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_and_Dinos_Chapman) over christmas and although it was horrible it was also great.
2. What was the biggest amount you have donated for charity?
In one go it would be £150 to the Tsunami appeal. I tend to think that standing orders help charities to plan better. I have helped friends and family out with sizeable sums before when they need it.
3. Do you want a cookie?
No thanks. I do not have much of a sweet tooth.
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1) Ever been in a storm at sea?
2) Ever been completely drunk?
3) Ever considered shooting (incl. archery) or fencing as sport?
Quote from: goat starer on January 04, 2007, 04:18:43 PM
1) Ever been in a storm at sea?
The closest for me was being in a storm on a lake. With lightning. In an aluminum canoe. I didn't feel that... um... secure. ;)
Quote2) Ever been completely drunk?
Depends.
"Falling-over-pukey-whoa drunk": yes.
"Take-this-guy-to-the-hospital-before-he-dies-of-alcohol-poisoning drunk": no.
Quote3) Ever considered shooting (incl. archery) or fencing as sport?
Not shooting... but I study kendo now, so I'd say that counts as fencing. By the level of pain it causes, I'd say it's a sport. ;D
1) How do you take your coffee?
2) Describe the time you reached the highest speed you've ever been at in a car.
3) What's your favourite thing about where you live?
1) Ever been in a storm at sea?
Never been to sea at all, so this would be a "no". :D
2) Ever been completely drunk?
Once. Was an experiment on my part. I talked waaaaaay too much (which I do while sober anyway, so...) I did not like the experience, so I never repeated it.
3) Ever considered shooting (incl. archery) or fencing as sport?
Oh, yes. Once at camp while a very small lad, I did VERY well in the archery tryouts. (which I just thought was fun-- didn't know it was a "tryout".) During the actual competition, I tanked. I guess the first time was beginners luck? Or a complete lack of nervousness, as I was just having fun (8 of 10 arrows in the center spot my first time out. During the "official" compete, I barely hit the target.... :P )
Nowadays, I stick to firearms (although never competitively-- don't much like competition.)
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1. Best (or worst) Vacation ever? (if no 'real' ones come to mind, a fantasy one may be substituted for a reduced score... <grin> )
2. If you could retire to a Lunar Colony, would you? Why? (Or why not?) (Assumes a functioning, civilian Lunar colony long established at the time of your retirement.)
3. Up-late-night, look-at-the-night-sky type?
Or Early-morning-cheerful Greet the Day sort?
Six questions - 2 proposers - getting us back on track......
1) How do you take your coffee?
white, no sugar, strong - often a double espresso latte
2) Describe the time you reached the highest speed you've ever been at in a car.
when i got my new car I looked down at the speedo on the motorway and realised I was accidentally doing about 110. slowed down rapidly! generally stick at or around the speed limit. Got rally driving day fror christmas! woo hoo!
3) What's your favourite thing about where you live?
the eating out and the proximity of the countryside
1. Best (or worst) Vacation ever? (if no 'real' ones come to mind, a fantasy one may be substituted for a reduced score... <grin> )
cornwall watching 35 foot basking shark, surfing, walking, enjoying great company, fine wine and conversation
2. If you could retire to a Lunar Colony, would you? Why? (Or why not?) (Assumes a functioning, civilian Lunar colony long established at the time of your retirement.)
nope. sounds terribly dull and no sea!
3. Up-late-night, look-at-the-night-sky type?
Or Early-morning-cheerful Greet the Day sort?
3. Up-late-night, look-at-the-night-sky type? from inside a pub!
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1) Hamlet or The importance of being Ernest?
2) Goats or Sheep?
3) Solitude or company?
1) Hamlet or The importance of being Ernest?
Hamlet, not even a close competition
2) Goats or Sheep?
Goat tastes much like lamb, but leaner and sweeter, so goats it is. Also sheep are probably the world's stupidest animal, although there is debate about whether or not they really are animal, some claim they are at least 50% vegetable.
I particularly like Rogan Josh made with goat and a roast leg of kid cooked with garlic, lemon juice and rosemary is hard to go past. Yum!
Present company excepted, of course, from all culinary endeavours.
3) Solitude or company?
I like both, but over all I am often most happy in my own company.
1. What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you?
2. Do you prefer hot and spicy or plain food?
3. Have you ever visited a desert?
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..? :D
(http://cerise.blogia.com/upload/20060413181551-roscon.jpg)
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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! :D
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.
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. :o
- my kendo uniform - it's not exactly typical wear for North America
- my racing suit - not many people have flame resistant overalls. ;D
3. Tie, bow-tie or scarf?
Tie, unless it's Ascot Wednesday. ;D
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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?
1. What's your favourite mode of transportation?
Ship or boat
2. What languages do you speak, besides English?
COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C,
3. Hang gliding, bungee jumping, or waiting in the car?
Definitely waiting in the car.
Hang gliding = aeroplane without either a fuselage or engine, yeah, right.
Bungee jumping = tying a rubber band around my ankles and jumping off a high place, I don't think so...
Also not keen on:
Skydiving = jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane, what a good idea. NOT.
Skiing = strapping two planks of wood to my feet and hurtling down the side of a mountain a sixty mile an hour, I can think of cheaper ways of breaking my leg if I really want to.
OTOH, I never even thought twice about being thrown off the front of an aircraft carrier by a steam catapult, so go figure... ;D
1. Something sweet or cheese and port/Tokay/red wine?
2. Creamy Camembert or aged Gorgonzola?
3. Passionfruit & strawberry Pavlova or Lemon tart?
1. Something sweet or cheese and port/Tokay/red wine?
Hmm, can't have wine/alcohol because of the carcinoid; have to be careful about sweets because of the diabetes (because of the medication for the carcinoid).
Sweet it is, preferably with chocolate, the darker chocolate the better.
2. Creamy Camembert or aged Gorgonzola?
No aged cheeses allowed (flippin' carcinoid again, thanks God, if you're listening, I <font=extreme sarcasm> REALLY <delete/font> appreciate the excellent state of my health. ONE genetic illness wasn't enough, oh, NOOOO, let's try 4 or 5 at a time.)
So, Camembert it is.
3. Passionfruit & strawberry Pavlova or Lemon tart?
Passionfruit and Strawberry over Lemon any day.
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1. Favorite fiction author?
2. If you were required to attend University level courses in a completely different field from your usual interests, what field would you choose?
3. Can you roll your tongue?
1. Favorite fiction author?
Is Pratchett a fiction author? If yes, it's him then.
2. If you were required to attend University level courses in a completely different field from your usual interests, what field would you choose?
Probably psychlogy. That's a field that has alaways interested.
3. Can you roll your tongue?
Roll roll roll... Yes I can...
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1. What was the worst hang-over you ever had?
2. Have you ever smashed something due to being very angry?
3. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
1. What was the worst hang-over you ever had?
Never been drunk enough for the classical thing. After-effects of dental surgery probably come closest.
2. Have you ever smashed something due to being very angry?
Yes, though nothing particularly costly
3. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
I used to slap myself in the face regularly for doing stupid things
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1. Most boring book you ever read?
2. Most annoying movie you never saw?
3. Most annoying question you ever had to answer (apart from this game)?
1. Most boring book you ever read?
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Pompous overblown drivel!
2. Most annoying movie you never saw?
Saving Private Ryan. starts with a brilliant portrayal of the horrors of D-day and then degenerates into a boys own story of plucky yet sentimental americans. Awful (especially when compared to Band of Brothers). bring back the days when the second world war was enough of a story without adding 'human interest'. I feel sure the real tales had some human interest already.
had I seen U-571 I am sure it would have jumped into first place easily.
3. Most annoying question you ever had to answer (apart from this game)?
can you direct me to the university (american tourist in the middle of oxford)
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1) what was the worst day of your life?
2) is there an old girlfriend / boyfriend that you would take back?
3) Monkfish or Prawns?
1) what was the worst day of your life?
I guess when I cut my fingers nearly off... or something like that. I tend to edit my 'worst days' from memory. ;D ::)
2) is there an old girlfriend / boyfriend that you would take back?
Absolutely! I'm VERY dense when it comes to interpersonal sexual relations, and she was feeding me so many opportunities, but _I_ being 5 times more dense than a neutron star failed to 'get it' in time... she eventually married her 'compromise choice'. *sigh* We really clicked, conversationally. And, I've come to learn, that good conversation is to be treasured above all else-- you can talk ANYtime, regardless of your physical condition(s). *bigger-sigh*
3) Monkfish or Prawns?
Oh, monkfish, most definitely! Tastes a lot like lobster.... <grin>
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1. Do you dream in color? Are you sure? <grin>
2. What's the highest place you've ever been? (above sea-level, to keep it world-wide)
3. Mountain climbing, or desert-treking? On foot, or powered? (feel free to combine both or ignore one or the other pair. <grin>)
1. Do you dream in color? Are you sure? <grin>
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I'm not really sure, because I have problems remebering my dreams, but I recall some being black and white (mostly those where something bad happens) and some being in colour (the happier ones)
2. What's the highest place you've ever been? (above sea-level, to keep it world-wide)
Is plane an option? If yes then in a plane, but not sure how high it was (but I guess it was the highest I ever came)
3. Mountain climbing, or desert-treking? On foot, or powered? (feel free to combine both or ignore one or the other pair. <grin>)
Depends on the fact, if there is a pub at the end. If yes, then it really doesn't matter.
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1. What is the most exotic food you have tasted?
2. Did you actually like it?
3. Do you try to live your life to the fullest?
1. What is the most exotic food you have tasted?
Wow, that's are hard one. I'm a self professed foodie, but I can't eat anything resembling offal.
Once when I was on holidays China I went to a Muslim restaurant in Xian which serves a really delicious mutton broth. You had to break this strange bread into a bowl over which mutton soup was poured. Then you had to add some really delicious condiments like picked garlic, chili and a few unknowns, which were all really delicious.
2. Did you actually like it?
It was awesome and I've never seen anything like it. Chinese food follows the standard Cantonese fare where I live. I had no idea there was Muslim Chinese cooking - it was really amazing.
3. Do you try to live your life to the fullest?
Since I've taken up meditation, I find sitting still is just important as being 'on the go'. So for me living life to the fullest is a combination of both.
Q1 What was your Xmas like? How did you celebrate it?
Q2 Where is a special place you can go to unwind?
Q3 What are you currently reading? Good? Bad?
Q1 What was your Xmas like? How did you celebrate it?
Pretty placid, rather skinny. We get Christmas crackers and have a ham. Pretty run of the mill.
Q2 Where is a special place you can go to unwind?
Outside, in my yard, or in the mountains. Anywhere outside, really.
Q3 What are you currently reading? Good? Bad?
Grimms' Complete Fairy Tales. Good, but scary as well.
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1. Favorite season?
2. Do you want to save the fairy shrimp?
3. Who is your favorite writer?
1. Favorite season?
Duck Season, NOOOO, Wabbit Season. No, DUCK Season.
Wabbit Season. Duck Season...
Ok, spring, I think. Or fall. Open Window Season, when it's not too hot, not too cold and not raining.
2. Do you want to save the fairy shrimp?
Who lost 'em this time?? Not me. Maybe Swato fed 'em to the Squidlings...
3. Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Prachett or Harlan Ellison.
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1) What color are your eyes.
2) Do you wear glasses? Should you?
3) Do you think you're vain about your looks? About your brains? About your abilities?
1) What color are your eyes.
I've always thought they were brown, but a girl told me once they are green. SO take your pick...
2) Do you wear glasses? Should you?
Apart from sunglasses, no, I don't.
And I shouldn't.
3) Do you think you're vain about your looks? About your brains? About your abilities?
I'm not vain at all. I don't have to, as I'm the most beautiful, most intelligent person in the world. Being vain would be just a waste of time in my case. ;D
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1. Shouldn't you ben asleep?
2. What do you consider your greatest ability?
3. How much is 1+1?
1. Shouldn't you ben asleep?
To the contrary. I should have gotten up 1.5 hours earlier at least
2. What do you consider your greatest ability?
Hm, the ability to get interested in about everything is a two-edged sword in todays world where extremly narrow in-depth knowledge is valued above everything and each and any distraction considered a waste.
3. How much is 1+1?
According to Peano this is by definition 2. But beacuse the opinion polls are not yet in, I'll abstain from following this lead beacuse it could hurt my reputation, if that answer doesn't run with the base.
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1. Your favorite plush toy?
2. Preemptive nuclear strike against Iran probable in 2007?
3. Kathrina the sequel this year? (hurricane + consequences)
1. Your favorite plush toy?
"Effant", a little plush elephant that trumpets when you squeeze him - given to me by my wife for nothing in particular a few years ago. (I like elephants)
2. Preemptive nuclear strike against Iran probable in 2007?
Man I hope not, but GW seems capable of anything...
3. Kathrina the sequel this year? (hurricane + consequences)
Probably not.
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1. To where did you last go away on holiday?
2. What place was the biggest disappointment when you actually got to go there, compared to what you always thought beforehand.
3. Main highway, quick as you can or bumble along the back ways and by ways, stopping here and there when the spirit moves?
1. To where did you last go away on holiday?
Norway, but that already some time ago.
2. What place was the biggest disappointment when you actually got to go there, compared to what you always thought beforehand.
I could name a few museums/exhibitions but have no special place in geographical terms in mind.
3. Main highway, quick as you can or bumble along the back ways and by ways, stopping here and there when the spirit moves?
Metaphorically more of the latter, otherwise depending on mood and situation
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1. pork, beef or veggies?
2. cold or hot shower?
3. Tolkien or Robert. E. Howard?
1. pork, beef or veggies?
Veggies, veggies, veggies, especially baked potatoes and steamed brussels sprouts.
2. cold or hot shower?
Hot, hot, hot, especially with liquid soap on a soft scrubby.
3. Tolkien or Robert. E. Howard?
Tolkein, Tolkein, Tolkein because I've never read any Howard.
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1) Moe, Larry, Curly, Curly-Joe or Shemp?
2) Laurel or Hardy?
3) Would you be an apostle if the situation arose?
1) Moe, Larry, Curly, Curly-Joe or Shemp?
I like either set of stooges. I like to watch them (I have a small collection) but I find that after the 3rd or 4th "bit" my funny-bone grows jaded, and they are not so funny as all that. So, I put my discs away for a time.
2) Laurel or Hardy?
Whichever one was not so dumb-- I always confuse which is which. The fat one, if that helps. ;D
3) Would you be an apostle if the situation arose?
If it does not require a belief in a supernatural, then, yes.
You could say I am an 'apostle' of science and the scientific method. I try where I am able, to help people understand that science is NOT 'anti-god' and it is NOT 'anti-religion'. It's only about finding out the facts.
"Just the facts, ma'am."
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1. Saturday morning cartoons or Evening News?
2. Read the book first, or see the movie first?
3. Go out to eat or stay at home & cook something special--which is more of a "treat"?
1. Saturday morning cartoons or Evening News?
Cartoons win. I am sick of watching the news, it's the same every day. I prefer reading them in the newspaper the other day.
2. Read the book first, or see the movie first?
Definitelly readi the book first. It can even happen that I don't want to see the movie afterwards (depends mostly on how much I liked the book and on the reviews of the movie, for example I am not going to watch Eragon)
3. Go out to eat or stay at home & cook something special--which is more of a "treat"?
Depends on my current financial situation and if I have to share the food with someone. If I have to go with someone, I'll go out (I'm no good of a cook), if it's for me only, I'll do some spaghetti and stay at home. :) (I wouldn't dare offering my cooking to anyone else, especially if I want to remain friend or in any other realtionship with that person; although it could be the ultimate test - if the person chooses to remain by my side despite of food poisoning, that person is a keeper) ;D
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1. Tangerine or orange?
2. What concert/festival/live performance you ever attended do you consider being the best you've ever been to?
3. If you would have to write one of those seek-a-relationship ads, would you lie about yourself?
1. Tangerine or orange?
Tangerine, to be specific, Clementine.
I don't digest fiber well, so the "finer" fibered fruit is better for me. Tastewise, I love all of the tangerine/orange group, but detest grapefruit and lemon.
2. What concert/festival/live performance you ever attended do you consider being the best you've ever been to?
Toss up: Arlo Guthrie or Peter, Paul and Mary.
If I could have actually HEARD anything, the Beatles on their first US tour would have been included, but mostly what you heard was screaming.
3. If you would have to write one of those seek-a-relationship ads, would you lie about yourself?
Oh, HELL no. Who do people think they're fooling? Nobody, obviously, when 40-ish is code for 58, or "Clark Gable look-alike" means what he looks like now that he's been dead a few decades.
My favorite is "independently wealthy" when used by some guy who inherited a large home from his Mommy and hasn't changed a tiny bit of it since 1972, and is still driving her Lincoln Town Car from the same era.
If I tell you i'm a 25 year old blue eyed blond with a a face and figure like Angelina Jolie and i'm really a 45 year old grey haired grey eyed woman with a figure like Alfred Hitchcock, you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
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1) If you had cancer, and a 3 in 10 chance of chemotherapy working, would you take that chance?
2) What is your earliest memory of reading?
3) Favorite kind of chocolate? (Milk, dark, bittersweet, with nuts, with fruit, with weird stuff in, white, as cake, pie, ice cream? None at all?)
1) If you had cancer, and a 3 in 10 chance of chemotherapy working, would you take that chance?
If I had cancer, I'd probably do anything to cure me, even if the chances are one to one million, I'd try it (everyone knows that if there's one to one million chance, it can't not work, right?)
2) What is your earliest memory of reading?
I remember in first grade, we were reading some kind of a story of a bee or something, it was actually speed reading, who will read the most in one minute aloud, or something similiar. I don't remember the story much anymore, but I do remember winning by a whole paragraph. :)
3) Favorite kind of chocolate? (Milk, dark, bittersweet, with nuts, with fruit, with weird stuff in, white, as cake, pie, ice cream? None at all?)
Any chocolate. But mostly without all the things around like nuts, fruit etc. Mostly dark or milk...
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1. Do you prefer using a pen or a pencil?
2. 80s or 90s?
3. What would you chose as a last meal?
1. Do you prefer using a pen or a pencil?
Situation-dependent. Mostly I use a very thin (soft) pen. A fountain-pen is used extremly rarely.
2. 80s or 90s?
Since the world is going steadily downhill, I should guess the 80ies.
3. What would you chose as a last meal?
A sedative? I'd probably ask for proposals and then make a choice
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1. What music would you prefer to be played at your funeral?
2. What kind of funeral would you wish to have?
3. Who will pay for it?
1. What music would you prefer to be played at your funeral?
the Internationale and the Red Flag
2. What kind of funeral would you wish to have?
I imagine that people will flock from all over the world to pay their respects to the peoples Goat. There will be much weeping and strident speeches and the whole thing will end up with the storming of the winter palace.
3. Who will pay for it?
the capitalist pig dogs will pay in blood!
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1) do you find it hard to avoid recting to trolls?
2) why is an internet community important to you?
3) name your worst act of piracy.
1) do you find it hard to avoid recting to trolls?
Nope. But it's more fun to react.
2) why is an internet community important to you?
You're all that's left to me since my imaginary friend ran away.
3) name your worst act of piracy.
I copied every Floyd record to cassette C90 in the 70s. Bought them all several times over since though.
Also wrote one of the first machine code programs on the BBC Model B for copying the add-on prom packs and saving them to tape (but don't tell anyone).
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Mozart or Beethoven?
C++ or C# ?
How many of your school teachers' names can you remember?
Mozart or Beethoven?
Beethoven
C++ or C# ?
Neither, bring back COBOL and FORTRAN I say!!!
How many of your school teachers' names can you remember?
Ummm, let me see, there was Bob (English), Father Mac (RE), Smiley (Maths), erm... Ahem.
1) What is the weirdest thing you have eaten, ie snake, insects etc?
2) Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin?
3) Scotch or Bourbon?
1) What is the weirdest thing you have eaten, ie snake, insects etc?
I don't have much opportunities on eating weird things. Does an earthworm count (I think I was four at the time. I'm pretty sure it tasted like chicken)
2) Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin?
Depends on the mood. But I think the Floyds win for me.
3) Scotch or Bourbon?
Double Scotch. (pure, without anything, without ice, without soda and most of all without coke)
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1. Newspaper on paper or online?
2. Your favourite TV-show/sitcom/series...?
3. Disco music or dance music?
1. Newspaper on paper or online?
Paper. A crisply just ironed broadsheet Daily Telegraph.
2. Your favourite TV-show/sitcom/series...?
Ever, I Claudius/Fawlty Towers
Current Dr Who/Desperate Housewives
(I know that's sad; I blame my mother for watching Peyton Place in front of me when small).
3. Disco music or dance music?
Dance music.
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Online or real shopping?
Sex, drugs or rock and roll?
An afternoon at the museum or beach?
Online or real shopping?
look at the things in real shops and then buy them online
Sex, drugs or rock and roll?
can i have some of these sex drugs of which you speak? But seriously probably drugs. If I cant have one of the other two I need something that will take my mind off it!
An afternoon at the museum or beach?
depends on the state of the waves. Nice breaking 6ft waves and i will be on the beach. dead calm and show me the mummies!
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1) baked beans or mushy peas?
2) have you ever eaten a pork pie floater? (they are real not simply a Pratchett invention)
3) What would you do if invisible for a day?
1) baked beans or mushy peas?
Probably baked beans. But only with meat.
2) have you ever eaten a pork pie floater? (they are real not simply a Pratchett invention)
Not aware that I did. But one never knows.
3) What would you do if invisible for a day?
Ladies' showers would be a logic answer.
But seriously, I don't think I would like to be invisible, not even for a day. I'm a social person (not socialistic!!!).
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1. Do you like musicals? Which one is your all time favourite?
2. What do you have in your pockets?
3. If you could enter the world of a book, which one would it be?
1. Do you like musicals? Which one is your all time favourite?
Yes, I like musicals. I have several favorites. I can't ever play the parts that I want to sing in them, but Guys and Dolls (I'm not convincing as Nicely-Nicely) and Damn Yankees (I can sing Lola, but I look like Brenderella) are at the top.
Somebody would have to pay me BIG bucks to do Fiddler again. And I HATE, HATE, loathe, despise and HATE Annie.
2. What do you have in your pockets?
Cell phone (waiting to go drive 25 miles in sleet and rain on frozen roads to pick someone up from hospital), keys, tissues and a dog biscuit.
3. If you could enter the world of a book, which one would it be?
Discworld, somewhere around Lancre, or maybe in Ahnk-Morpork, but NOT in The Shades.
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1) You've got 6 hours free time. No chores, no work issues, no 'should do' no pressures. Your time. What do you do?
2)For carnivores: Hom do you like your steak?
For vegetarians: What is your favorine source of protien?
3) Favorite Muppet? (or favorite Dr. Suess character if you're not a Muppet kinda person.)
1) You've got 6 hours free time. No chores, no work issues, no 'should do' no pressures. Your time. What do you do?
Read a good book. Take a nap. Get online and chat it up with my toadies :)
2)For carnivores: Hom do you like your steak?
For vegetarians: What is your favorine source of protien?
Medium-rare to rare. Depends on the cut of meat. NO bones-in, please. I'm civilized, and take my meat sans bones. ::) NY strip likely my favorite cut of cow. Chicken thighs (okay, you can leave the bone in that, if you simply must). Orange roughy. Mmmmm. Any sort of shellfish, so long as it's from salt-water.
3) Favorite Muppet? (or favorite Dr. Suess character if you're not a Muppet kinda person.)
Dr Bunsen--no Kermit--no Animal--no Beaker--no. Aaah. phooie. I loved'em all.
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1) Movie, book or play?
2) Political rally, church/synagogue/mosque/etc or tea with a few friends at a home?
3) Live album or studio album? Or DVD of their music videos?
1) Movie, book or play?
Book would come probably first. But it would depend on my mood, sometimes I'm not in the mood for reading and just relax in front of a good movie. And depends on the play as well.
2) Political rally, church/synagogue/mosque/etc or tea with a few friends at a home?
If by tea you mean beer and by home you mean pub, then I'd prefer having tea with a few friends at home. ;D
3) Live album or studio album? Or DVD of their music videos?
Seeing the band/musician/etc. live would be the best option. :)
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1. Who is (in your opinion) the best actor at this moment?
2. The best actress?
3. Discovery Channel or Animal Planet?
1. Who is (in your opinion) the best actor at this moment?
Real problem there. I check those coming to mind and find them dead all too often.
Christopher Lee is really good, if he is allowed to (rare)
Johnny Depp can be excellent but I haven't seen him in a "straight" role yet.
Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Bruno Ganz, Peter O'Toole?
2. The best actress?
Sigourney Weaver comes to mind
Maggie Smith
Keira K. and Natalie P. have potential
3. Discovery Channel or Animal Planet?
Give me BBC or Channel 4
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1. Are you superstitious (be honest)?
2. Why the platypus?
3. If you could exchange one living person for an already deceased in the same position (and revived of course), wich pair would you chose?
1. Are you superstitious (be honest)?
About somethings. Not walking under a ladder sort of things, but jinxing things by saying things.
2. Why the platypus?
Why not?
3. If you could exchange one living person for an already deceased in the same position (and revived of course), which pair would you chose?
Switch my least favorite person with a friend who died a few years ago.
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1. Favorite comic?
2. Do you play DDR?
3. Favorite artist?
1. Favorite comic?
Brent Butt (http://brent%20butt). Those of you who don't get Corner Gas (http://www.cornergas.com/) don't know what you're missing.
2. Do you play DDR?
Play it? I don't even know what it stands for.
3. Favorite artist?
My grandfather.
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1. Hunting, fishing or ewwww... no thanks!?
2. What was your first job?
3. Are you musical?
1. Hunting, fishing or ewwww... no thanks!?
Fishing! I love it. Fishing used to be one of my favourite hobbies; it's terrribly boring but it's an excellent way to relax and think. Plus I can eat fish (I'm usually too lazy to make some, but it's a different thing when I catch it myself)!! I love fish. (Salmon! SALMON!!)
2. What was your first job?
I gave private Latin and French lessons to finance my driver's licence. While at university I did a lot of jobs, for example working at a carpet discounter in Munich ;D...
3. Are you musical?
Kind of. I play piano and some bass guitar (and some classic guitar.. but everyone can play some classic guitar..). I don't have a lot of time for practising, but as a student I used to play in two (rock) bands. And, in another attempt to raise my standard of living while preparing my doctorate, I played piano in a bar in Paris two evenings a week to earn some cash (I played jazz; I don't really listen to jazz a lot because I find it lacks structure, but jazz is more fun on the piano than classic).
Besides, I love music in general and spend a lot of money on CDs and LPs.
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1. How did you imagine how you would be living now twenty years ago? To which extent is reality different?
2. Are you married/divorced?
3. Why do you post on this forum (regularly)? What keeps you here?
More coffee (!) ...
1) Fishing for fun, hunting for food. I don't trust fish much anymore, especially in the scummy flatlands and around orchard country, though I'd still eat 'em from some of the smaller bush lakes around home.
2) Dishwasher - led to cooking.
3) Not very, mostly due to lack of manual dexterity and patience to learn. I swear my head is musical; I 'hear' very accurate reproductions when I hear songs in my head, and it drives me nuts to hear someone whistle or sing a 'wrong' version of a song, even though I couldn't do it myself.
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Oop, DP beat me to the punch. Go with his questions. ;D
1. How did you imagine how you would be living now twenty years ago? To which extent is reality different?
At the age of one, I'm sure I didn't think about those things much, but I recall, when I was a kid, I was thinking about the year 2000 a little, and I was like "wow, I'll be sixteen in the year 2000, that's like impossible"... :D
2. Are you married/divorced?
None... I have time. :) Hell, I don't even have a steady girlfriend at the moment.
3. Why do you post on this forum (regularly)? What keeps you here?
I enjoy it. I really do. I love the people here, and I'm pretty sure they don't hate me much either. :) It's a place where intelligence meets imagination and random silliness... ;D
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1. Blues, Soul, Jazz or R'n'B?
2. What is your favourite way to relax?
3. Do you (or would you like to) own a massage chair?
1. Blues, Soul, Jazz or R'n'B?
Blues, I really like blues.
2. What is your favorite way to relax?
Two opposite ways, one sinful the other not (I think): a long hot shower, and playing first person shooters.
3. Do you (or would you like to) own a massage chair?
Only if the massage lady is nake... ooops! did I say that out loud? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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1. Alone at the top of the mountain or with your friends at the beach?
2. If you had the chance to have something with the cute girl/boy you liked in high school, would you?
3. Postmodernism: great or crap?
1. Alone at the top of the mountain or with your friends at the beach?
Can't I go to the beach with my friends after I've spent some time on my own on top of the mountain?
2. If you had the chance to have something with the cute girl/boy you liked in high school, would you?
Nope
3. Postmodernism: great or crap?
Crap. Sometimes great crap, but mostly just plain old garden variety crap.
1. Beef or lamb? (Vegetarians - Brocolli or Brussels Sprouts?)
2. If you could choose to be frozen/put into suspended animation/whatever and then be revived 100 years from now with a 100% guaranteed chance of survival if you act this year, would you?
3. If yes, what about if your chances were only 95%? If no, what might persuade you?
1. Beef or lamb? (Vegetarians - Brocolli or Brussels Sprouts?)
Beef
2. If you could choose to be frozen/put into suspended animation/whatever and then be revived 100 years from now with a 100% guaranteed chance of survival if you act this year, would you?
Nope
3. If yes, what about if your chances were only 95%? If no, what might persuade you?
Hell, i'd go with the thing if Dan and Spencer would come too, and if I were guaranteed a cure for at least the cancer, and maybe a couple of the other problems. (The neurological ones would be favourite.)
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1) Do you sleep with a fluffy pillow, a flat pillow or more than one pillow?
2) Disney or Warner Brothers?
3) If you could observe one 24 hour period of history...when and where?
1) Do you sleep with a fluffy pillow, a flat pillow or more than one pillow?
One rather flat pillow that is folded once
2) Disney or Warner Brothers?
If it has to be one of those it definitely would not be Disney!
3) If you could observe one 24 hour period of history...when and where?
Difficult. Do I get a translator? Probably something in the far past in Mesopotamia or Egypt (but focus on what?).
The return of the Phoenicians after their circumnavigation of Africa in the 7th century BC. Would be interesting to know how old Necho reacted when the news arrived that the ships he sent out 3 years before southward had come back from the north.
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1) Do you sleep with a fluffy pillow, a flat pillow or more than one pillow?
One rather flat pillow that is folded once
2) Disney or Warner Brothers?
If it has to be one of those it definitely would not be Disney!
3) If you could observe one 24 hour period of history...when and where?
Difficult. Do I get a translator? Probably something in the far past in Mesopotamia or Egypt (but focus on what?).
The return of the Phoenicians after their circumnavigation of Africa in the 7th century BC. Would be interesting to know how old Necho reacted when the news arrived that the ships he sent out 3 years before southward had come back from the north.
Questions? :)
Oh, sorry!
1) Any symptoms of morbus Alzheimer?
2) What was the question I had in mind just now?
3) Is this kind of joke tasteless (not in the culinary sense)?
1) Any symptoms of morbus Alzheimer?
No
2) What was the question I had in mind just now?
What question?
3) Is this kind of joke tasteless (not in the culinary sense)?
Eh? Oh, sausages and egg.
1. What is your favourite flower?
2. Have you ever held a live snake?
3. Power boat or sailing boat?
1. What is your favourite flower?
That's a tough one. I think it would be tulips or roses (red roses). But I don't get them so often anymore... ;)
2. Have you ever held a live snake?
I have held it in my hands and around my neck. Fortunately the snake was trained and I survived.
3. Power boat or sailing boat?
Pirate ship!
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1. Subway or bus?
2. DVD or VHS?
3. What was the last computer game (or video game) the you have bought?
1. Subway or bus?
bus (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/divine+comedy/national+express_20040885.html).
2. DVD or VHS?
I resisted for a long time but it is now DVD all the way.
3. What was the last computer game (or video game) the you have bought?
Prey (PC) and Just Cause (PC). not played either yet due to computer problems!
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1. Is it windy?
2. Is snow a good thing?
3. What do you think of participatory budgeting (http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk/)?
1. Is it windy?
Depends.
Oh - you mean here and now specifically? I'm inside, so no. Though it's not terribly windy outside right now.
2. Is snow a good thing?
Yes.
At least it's much better than the half-inch of ice that coated my driveway earlier in the week, which had to be chiseled off.
3. What do you think of participatory budgeting?
Not sure. I hadn't heard the term before, but looking at your link I got a bit of the willies from terms like "budget matrix" - it makes it sound similar to some Alternative Evaluation methods I know that seem very transparent, logical and accountable, but are very easy to manipulate by the administrator in ways that aren't easily noticable.
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1. What is your biggest strength?
2. What is your biggest weakness?
3. What can you bring to this position that would make you stand out from the other candidates?
1. What is your biggest strength?
I am the son of your boss.
2. What is your biggest weakness?
I don't know your relationship to his boss.
3. What can you bring to this position that would make you stand out from the other candidates?
See answer to question 1
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1. 1st amendment in outer space too?
2. What about the 2nd :-\ ?
3. What would Pat Robertson do, if actually live was discovered on Mars (or the the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri would send missionaries to Earth)?
1. 1st amendment in outer space too?
No, space being outside US and any other earth laws.
2. What about the 2nd Undecided ?
I think they should all make up their minds.
3. What would Pat Robertson do, if actually live was discovered on Mars (or the the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri would send missionaries to Earth)?
If Pat Robertson discovered that he was live on Mars, he'd know once and for all that he was not of Earth and therefore had no business messing with earth laws (see #1)
If the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri sent missionaries here, I would listen closely to their religious ideas and tell them to avoid that lunatic on Mars.
If the creatures went to Mars anyway and met Pat Robertson, they would probably be sorry they hadn't listened to me and if they came back to apologize, I would ask them to join our monastery.
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1) If you saw Liza Minelli lying by the side of the road, what would you do?
2) What's your favorite bath soap?
3) Your favorite music or silence?
1) If you saw Liza Minelli lying by the side of the road, what would you do?
Now or 40 years ago?
2) What's your favorite bath soap?
The one that makes all those beautiful bubbles... ;D
3) Your favorite music or silence?
I don't have a preferred music style, if that's what you mean. But I've been listening to drum 'n bass and reggae (mostly roots) a lot lately.
Silence is not an option in my life. I hate silence. I can't live with it, I always need some sounds around. I can concentrate more easily that way (people always wondered how I can actually study in the University pub back in Germany, a pub that was always full and very loud).
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1. Which politician would you like to meet?
2. Which dead politician would you like to meet?
3. What would you tell them?
1. Which politician would you like to meet?
Living ones? Ugh. None in particular.
2. Which dead politician would you like to meet?
Thomas More or Democritus.
3. What would you tell them?
No idea. How much I admire them? Possibly try to have a discussion with them on something interesting?
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1.Favorite legal case in history/present?
2. What, if any, extra ciricular activities did you partcipate in high school and/or college?
3. Sausage or bacon for breakfast?
1.Favorite legal case in history/present?
The Crown vs Thomas More (My all time favorite play is Man For All Seasons.)
2. What, if any, extra ciricular activities did you partcipate in high school and/or college?
HS--Band, orchestra, choir, theatre and all the speech and drama tournaments. Also played varsity volleyball until I broke my foot 3 times in one season.
College--Choir, theatre and all the forensic events, once again. Tutored at the State "School" (juvenile offenders, aka Kid Prison).
3. Sausage or bacon for breakfast?
Sausage. Or bacon. Both, since I can't have the eggs. Do you have multigrain toast? ;)
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1] You MUST have a smelly candle burning in the same room. Do you want vanilla, pine, apple cinnamon or musk?
2] Favorite berry? (NOT Chuck. I mean of the fruit variety, like blue or straw or black or mul...)
3] If Mama says NO, who do you ask??
1] You MUST have a smelly candle burning in the same room. Do you want vanilla, pine, apple cinnamon or musk?
Pine would probably be the least (ob)noxious
2] Favorite berry? (NOT Chuck. I mean of the fruit variety, like blue or straw or black or mul...)
Molte (cloudberry)
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3] If Mama says NO, who do you ask??
Why in that case ask?
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1. Have you ever insulted your computer? If yes, regularly?
2. Have you apologized later? [actually not uncommon ;D ] If no to 1), would you?
3. Do you have a nickname for your computer/car/other device?
1. Have you ever insulted your computer? If yes, regularly?
I scream and yell at occasionally, when it does something particularly stupid. However, I usually am yelling at the AUTHOR of the problem, be it the stupid programming, electronic engineering or thelike. That is, I direct my wrath to the HUMAN element behind my frustration.
I've been know to pound the keyboard on rare occasions-- is why I favor a more robust version. ::) Currently writing on a microsoft natural 'board. Mostly because my favorite vendor, Logitec does not have a corded natural version currently. They make a corporate version that I like, and it sometimes comes up for sale in the "remaindered" bins. (The box is always marked "not for resale".)
2. Have you apologized later? [actually not uncommon ;D ] If no to 1), would you?
Nope. And, no-- no one hears my rants but me. When in a public place, I swallow my anger. ;D
3. Do you have a nickname for your computer/car/other device?
Nope. I do not anthropomorphize inanimate objects.
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1. Do you practice "brand loyalty"? Or, do you choose your items "new" each time, on the merits and features of the item in question?
2. How did you get involved with PC's and the internet in the first place?
3. Do you ever wonder about the Internet? How it came to be, if anyone --really, is in control of it? Do you like this, or would you rather there was some sort of "oversight" group? (are you sure there isn't?) ;D
1. Do you practice "brand loyalty"? Or, do you choose your items "new" each time, on the merits and features of the item in question?
Let's say that if I was pleased with a brand, I'll give it preferred treatment the next time. But I have no problems to switch usually, if it doesn't please me anymore.
2. How did you get involved with PC's and the internet in the first place?
PC: PASCAL programming at school
Internet: Together with email while working on my diploma thesis
3. Do you ever wonder about the Internet? How it came to be, if anyone --really, is in control of it? Do you like this, or would you rather there was some sort of "oversight" group? (are you sure there isn't?) ;D
I think certain aspects are controlled and this will vastly increase in the future. I doubt that the days of the "free internet" will last. The censorship will (in the West) be less official/governmental but rest with he providers (though these can be quite political).
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1. Who'll be the next president of the US of A (provided the election fraud is limited)?
2. Any proposals for the "Southern Border Problem"?
3. What (apart from just leaving) can/should/will the US do in the larger Middle East and especially Iraq?
1. Who'll be the next president of the US of A (provided the election fraud is limited)?
I hope it's Hillary, don't know why. But I'd really like to see Ahnold up there, that'd be quite entertaining.
2. Any proposals for the "Southern Border Problem"?
Move more to the North.
3. What (apart from just leaving) can/should/will the US do in the larger Middle East and especially Iraq?
Send more soldiers down there. Until there are no other people left there than US-citizens. And then invade.
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1. Should Ahnold run for President soon, later or never?
3. Have you ever won a larger amount by playing hazardous games (like roulette, cards, betting etc.)?
4. Where did the question no. 2 go?
1. Should Ahnold run for President soon, later or never?
The constitution bans him from running (no double-entendre implied). Don't think it will be changed.
There are much worse candidates but I don't consider it the best option either (some prejudices against Austrians running countries they were not born in ;D)
3. Have you ever won a larger amount by playing hazardous games (like roulette, cards, betting etc.)?
Nope (nor lost either)
4. Where did the question no. 2 go?
It was taken away for questioning
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1. Who framed Roger Squirrel?
2. Clobbing seal babies or putting (lighted) fire-crackers in (living) pets?
3. What would the RSPCA say?
1. Who framed Roger Squirrel?
Roger the Rabbit did it.
2. Clobbing seal babies or putting (lighted) fire-crackers in (living) pets?
Microwaving kittens.
3. What would the RSPCA say?
They can't say anything, too busy with people clubbing seal babies and putting fire-crackers in pets.
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1. Do you have a disturbed mind?
2. Your favourite pun?
3. Are you gullible?
1. Do you have a disturbed mind?
oh yes. I am a bundle of neuroses!
2. Your favourite pun?
one with cherries and cinnamon.... oh pun!
3. Are you gullible?
nope. I have been described at work as having an "outstanding bullshit detector"
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1) when I complete my profiles of participants based on your answers on here what will yours look like?
2) Will your interview cycle profile really reflect your peresonality?
3) Are you worried?
1) when I complete my profiles of participants based on your answers on here what will yours look like?
Dreadful
2) Will your interview cycle profile really reflect your peresonality?
I hope the worst strains (of personality) don't
3) Are you worried?
Me, Worry?
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1. With what probability could a seal baby clobbing and pet exploding amendment (making it mandatory)be smuggled into a bill undetected?
2. Would Bush veto it, if Dobosn, Falwell and Robertson endorsed it (the contents of the bill)?
3. Would Cheney demand the executive power to be extended to microwaving kittens for national security?
This thread has been wandering a bit, but this, while funny, is a bit too far.
Please return to personal, rather than political, commentary. :)
Even though our beloved Comrade Goat has trouble separating the two! ::) ;D
It's not as if we don't have enough political threads bouncing around... :D
"Hey mister- can we have our ball back?" ;D
1)What is your favorite movie line ever?
2)What is the most zen moment you can remember in your life?
3)Have you ever played a practical joke on someone? If so, what was it?
1)What is your favorite movie line ever?
"E.T. phone home."
2)What is the most zen moment you can remember in your life?
The first time I read "The origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes. Satori exemplified.
3)Have you ever played a practical joke on someone? If so, what was it?
Automating a response, apparently from the Operating System, on a mainframe (IBM 370) to any user that requested a job be run, saying that the Computer was busy, and didn't want to be bothered by 'some dumb bunny' without the brains to notice that.
Some people were vastly amused, several took it personally, and wanted to report the Computer for sexual harassment. One emailed the CEO to complain about that (he was one of the ones greatly amused, but he did tell me not to do it again. ;D
1) Did you like your parents?
2) What was your favorite vehicle?
3) Did you inhale?
Sorry for being responsible for the thread drift :-[
1) Did you like your parents?
They are still alive and usually the answer is yes
2) What was your favorite vehicle?
Probably the tricycle or the roller I had as a small child. Today, I'd say something fast on the water.
3) Did you inhale?
Not voluntarily (I am a nonsmoker, so the only thing to inhale is other people's exhaust)
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1) Your family status (e.g. married, stable, relationship, single etc.)?
2) Favorite classical composer ("I don't like classical music" is an acceptable answer ;D )?
3) Do you have a good singing voice?
1) Your family status (e.g. married, stable, relationship, single etc.)?
Mostly single. Open for occasional flirts. :)
2) Favorite classical composer ("I don't like classical music" is an acceptable answer Grin )?
I like classical musical from time to time, but couldn't say which one of the composers is my favourit (but I'll say Bedrich Smetana just out of patriotism) ;D
3) Do you have a good singing voice?
Not that I'm aware of it. People tend to run away in panic when I sing. (Useful when in public showers, I love to sing under shower ;D)
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1. Roots reggae or dub?
2. Would you like to have a pet rat?
3. Off topic or on topic?
1. Roots reggae or dub?
Roots, por favor.
2. Would you like to have a pet rat?
Not so much, no. Rats belong elsewhere, not in my house.
3. Off topic or on topic?
So, I saw the weirdest movie EVER. Pan's Labyrinth. Good, weird, and nauseatingly bloody and violent. I nearly left the theatre.
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1. Classic fairy tales, or the syrppy Dinsey/Pixar versions?
2. Favorite horror/thriller flick?
3. Cult movies or classics? Or both?
1. Classic fairy tales, or the syrppy Dinsey/Pixar versions?
Not Disney but nothing against an intelligent new take.
One can botch the classics too.
2. Favorite horror/thriller flick?
Currently reviewing the old Quatermass&related flicks from BBC/Hammer.
Those would be among the favorites
3. Cult movies or classics? Or both?
Personally I gravitate towards the old b/w era and more European/British than US.
Difficult to put a cult label on those though some would deserve it.
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Do you prefer...
1. Strings or woodwinds?
2. Fast or slow music?
3. vocal or instrumental music?
Do you prefer...
1. Strings or woodwinds?
strings all the way. I love Elgars cello stuff and classical guitar like the concerto de aranjuez
2. Fast or slow music?
kind of middling really. to slow makes me sad too fast leaves me behind.
3. vocal or instrumental music?
in classical it is instrumental all the way and the same in modern dance music. my real love though is guitar based i ndie bands with vocals. just dont make me go anywhere near an opera!
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1. what is your favorite spice?
2. what is your favorite herb?
3. sugar in your tea?
1. what is your favorite spice?
The Spice Girls... ;D
I think my favourite spice would be either chili or pepper.
2. what is your favorite herb?
My lawyer advised me not to answer this question.
3. sugar in your tea?
Yes please.
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1. Water with or without bubbles?
2. Coca Cola or Pepsi?
3. Your favourite fast food place (or the one you hate the least)?
1. Water with or without bubbles?
With. San Pellegrino to be precise (I buy it by the case).
2. Coca Cola or Pepsi?
Neither. See above. If I must have flavored water, then Diet Lemonade, or Diet Cranberry Ginger Ale.
3. Your favourite fast food place (or the one you hate the least)?
Wendy's (if a good one - like most fast food places, they are very variable in quality)
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1. Joy or serenity?
2. Why do you dislike .... ?
3. Have you read any Steven Pinker?
1. Joy or serenity?
I have learned to not expect Joy. Serenity would be lovely, thanks.
2. Why do you dislike .... ?
Generally because .... has been rude or patronizing or greedy or obnoxious. Otherwise I generally like most ...., assuming they're not something i'm allergic to.
3. Have you read any Steven Pinker?
Nope. I am sadly poorly read. The no library now that I have time to read, combined with the inability to hold up a book well at the moment ::) ::) would probably be the cause for that.
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1] Do you have any nervous habit? (Clicking pens, tapping feet or fingers, drumming on things, playing with stuff...)
2] If you had the chance to visit for a month in another country, but only in one city (or reasonably small area) where would you go?
3] Would you give up your bed for a guest, or make them sleep on the (insert type of temporary guest accomodations here: sofa, futon, air matress, guest bedroom ancient matress, pallet on the floor)?
1] Do you have any nervous habit? (Clicking pens, tapping feet or fingers, drumming on things, playing with stuff...)
All of them in a mild form (usually conscious, i.e. I know that I am doing it while I am doing it)
2] If you had the chance to visit for a month in another country, but only in one city (or reasonably small area) where would you go?
Normally I'd say somewhere in Norway. But under the given circumstances I say London. A number of museums there I really want to visit.
3] Would you give up your bed for a guest, or make them sleep on the (insert type of temporary guest accomodations here: sofa, futon, air matress, guest bedroom ancient matress, pallet on the floor)?
Highly dependent on the guest. Additionally there is the question where to put the alternative bedding.
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1) You prefer the art of what century?
2) What kind of art (painting, sculpture etc.)
3) Any artistic leanings yourself (not music though)?
1) You prefer the art of what century?
I like art form all sorts of era, but Renaissance and traditional/folk art are my favorites.
2) What kind of art (painting, sculpture etc.)
Photography, painting, drawing.
3) Any artistic leanings yourself (not music though)?
Writing. Lots of writing, none of it terribly good, and photography. Pencil and charcoal drawing.
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1. How many computers do you own?
2. OS on said computers?
3. Favorite candy?
1. How many computers do you own?
2. OS on said computers?
One. OS is Windows XP. I have a work laptop with the same OS.
3. Favorite candy?
is candy sweets? is it all sweets? If so liquorice and aniseed glacier mint thingies.
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1) what is the largest animal you have touched?
2) do you gather / hunt and eat any wild food?
3) floorboards or carpets?
1) what is the largest animal you have touched?
Asiatic Elephant
2) do you gather / hunt and eat any wild food?
Yes - Rabbits, kangaroos (only species in abundance such as eastern grey), deer, fish (most available inshore/estuarine species in saltwater, in fresh water only introduced species like trout), molluscs (periwinkles, whelks etc) & squid, oysters, field mushrooms, blackberries (when sure they have not been sprayed)
3) floorboards or carpets?
My house has wall to wall carpet, but if I could afford it I would rip it all up and replace it with Australian hardwood flooring, probably spotted gum.
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1. Who is your favourite non-fiction author?
2. What is you favourite work by that author?
3. How many books on average do you read per week, month or year (whichever is easiest)?
1. Who is your favourite non-fiction author?
Sebastian Haffner would be a candidate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Haffner
2. What is you favourite work by that author?
Him being an essayist, this is not easy to answer.
From Bismarck to Hitler or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Hitler
3. How many books on average do you read per week, month or year (whichever is easiest)?
Even more difficult to say because I read so many books parallel and intermittantly.
Some thick books may take years to finish others are read in one go
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1. What is your favorite color?
2. What is your purpose (you may answer philosophically)?
3. Do you think you have a lasting impact?
1. What is your favorite color?
Difficult to say. I think I don't really have a favourite colour, but I'd go with the colour of most of my clothes, which is I thikn beige...
2. What is your purpose (you may answer philosophically)?
My purpose is to spread love and happiness around the world.
And have a few drink while doing that.
3. Do you think you have a lasting impact?
Not really.
But I got a few people drunk along the way, so maybe that is the impact of my work.
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1. Acapela or unplugged?
2. Your favourite traditional music?
3. Do you own any antiquity?
1. A capella or unplugged?
For myself? Better a full symphonic orchestra, so nobody will hear my singing
2. Your favourite traditional music?
Orthodox chant, preferably Bulgarian but Russian does too
3. Do you own any antiquity?
Does a fragment of a dinosaur teeth count?
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1) Are you happy?
2) What would improve your condition?
3) Anything nonpolitical in sight to worsen it?
1) Are you happy?
Pretty happy, I'd like to think.
2) What would improve your condition?
Yup. Getting into my college, getting a full ride for debate, and getting to state in it, too.
3) Anything nonpolitical in sight to worsen it?
Crappy topics, not getting in and having to stay here for two more years (bleh) and not breaking at state qualifications.
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1.Favorite photgrapher/other artist?
2. Do you like/understand abstract art?
3. Muffin or scones for breakfast?
1.Favorite photgrapher/other artist?
I couldn't say. I don't know much about photographers or artists... But from what I've seen lately I really liked the works of Banksy (www.banksy.co.uk) and Slavimir Stojanovic (http://www.slavimirstojanovic.com), the first is a street artist, the other is a graphic designer.
2. Do you like/understand abstract art?
I like it, but mostly don't understand it.
3. Muffin or scones for breakfast?
My breakfast mostly consists of a cup of tea and a cigarette, so I have slight difficulties answering this one, but I guess I'd prefer muffins.
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1. Sup or Sub?
2. Designer clothes or ordinary stuff?
3. Crosswords or Sudoku?
1. Sup or Sub?
Oh, most definitely sub. I have a long history on THIS VERY BORD to prove it. ;D
Stems from old proofreading training, I suppose. Words are supposed to line up at the bottom (more or less) and nothing (or nearly nothing) floats above the sacred line.
2. Designer clothes or ordinary stuff?
Being well beyond caring about how I look, I go for comfort. I've found that designer cloths are rarely (if ever) comfortable.
3. Crosswords or Sudoku?
Neither. Don't like those sorts of puzzles--even if you offered me money. ::)
I like nice mechanical ones, where I must take something apart to figure out what is wrong. ;D
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1. Ever read comic books? Still? Favorite, if so?
2. What do you think of the term "graphic novel"? Pretentious? Appropriate? Not descriptive enough?
3. Have you noticed the extraordinary number of movies coming out that are based on a comic book? What do you think about that?
1. Ever read comic books? Still? Favorite, if so?
Not for a long time, but when I was a kid my definite favourite was The Phantom.
2. What do you think of the term "graphic novel"? Pretentious? Appropriate? Not descriptive enough?
The term doesn't mean anything to me. I assume you don't mean graphic in the sense of violent or gory, so I assume that it must refer to something like an extended comic. Never seen any, so they are not on my radar. Of course, my lack of awareness is more likely to be related to my reading habits and book selections - I don't usually browse the entire book shop, only areas of particular interest.
3. Have you noticed the extraordinary number of movies coming out that are based on a comic book? What do you think about that?
I have noticed. I suspect it is simply an extension of Hollywood's preference for recycling proven ideas rather than coming up with new ones. After all, making movies out of successful books has been a Hollywood mainstay for ever, so using comics in the same vein should be no surprise.
1. What is your favourite movie adaption of a book/story/comic? (E.g. The Sentinel/2001: a Space Odyssey)
2. What is your favourite use of music in a movie? (e.g. the Blue Danube Waltz in 2001: A Space Odyssey)
3. Can you think of an example when the movie was better than the book/story/comic? (E.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Supplementary question 1: How many times have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Supplementary question 2: Do you think I am overly obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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1. What is your favourite movie adaption of a book/story/comic? (E.g. The Sentinel/2001: a Space Odyssey)
Sin City. The best transfer from graphic novel ;D to silver screen. Fantastic cinematography, great acting and thoroughly engrossing. Elijah Wood as the nutty serial killer cannibal was great.
2. What is your favourite use of music in a movie? (e.g. the Blue Danube Waltz in 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Barbers Adadgio in Platoon
3. Can you think of an example when the movie was better than the book/story/comic? (E.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey)
there are plenty where the book was written after the film but the only one that springs to mind the other way round is Fight Club.
Supplementary question 1: How many times have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?
how many questions do you want????? >:( ???? I would have thought about 10 times
Supplementary question 2: Do you think I am overly obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey?
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
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1) thought of any memorable last words you would like to use?
2) what would you like to be your epitath?
3) how morbid is this?
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1) thought of any memorable last words you would like to use?
Now comes the tricky part ;D
2) what would you like to be your epitath?
Didn't make it into the buried anonymous? ;)
Epitaphs are a bit out of fashion around here (I wouldn't be surprised, if they were banned)
3) how morbid is this?
Not more morbid than thinking about composing one's own funeral music ::)
A line of it could also serve as epitaph.
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1) Do you believe in an afterlife?
2) Does that influence your thoughts on death?
3) Would relative immortality (not dying unless killed) appeal to you?
1) Do you believe in an afterlife?
I want dearly for there to be an afterlife. I want to meet you and Leonardo daVinci and take long walks that don't need to end for centuries because in eternity, I hear they always wait dinner for you. But I am too skeptical a person to say that I completely believe in afterlife. I just hope for it.
2) Does that influence your thoughts on death?
Death is so unknown to me that I don't know what to think of it. I do beleive in it, though. I'm not that skeptical.
3) Would relative immortality (not dying unless killed) appeal to you?
I think not. For one thing, bodies wear out, even synthetic ones. For another thing, minds can wear down. I predict a future of insane people running around in wearing-out synthetic bodies and it's not a pretty sight.
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1) You look fabulous. What's your secret?
2) Rice cakes: food or packaging material?
3) Is it possible to love everyone?
1) You look fabulous. What's your secret?
Eh, you are looking at a mirror.
2) Rice cakes: a) food or b) packaging material?
They use popcorn over here. That means that the answer is b)
3) Is it possible to love everyone?
Not for a normal human being. If you mean, whether everyone could be loved by somebody, then you would be probably right.
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1) Ever seriously considered emigrating (if yes, from where to where)?
2) Did you ever consider seriously to run for public office (I don't mean physical fast movement towards an office building)?
3) Do you have party loyalty or do you decide anew everytime without looking for "precedent"?
1) Ever seriously considered emigrating (if yes, from where to where)?
Not really. I've never considered myself a citizen of one country, I see myself more like a citizen of the world and emigrating would mean for me leaving earth, and I'm not planning that till I have travelled the earth and discovered all of her beauties (or at least a greater part).
2) Did you ever consider seriously to run for public office (I don't mean physical fast movement towards an office building)?
No. But give me a molotov cocktail and I'll do the other one.
3) Do you have party loyalty or do you decide anew everytime without looking for "precedent"?
I don't vote. (I am allowed to vote since the age of 18 of course, but I didn't have the opportunity yet, I missed every elections because of some circumstances that couldn't be controlled - mostly I was aboard and had no possibility to get to an embassy to vote there).
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1. Your favourite parfume (or after shave/deodorant/eau de toilette/etc)?
2. Did you ever wish to have wings?
3. Or sharp dog teeth?
1. Your favourite parfume (or after shave/deodorant/eau de toilette/etc)?
No special favorite. Something half-way between Eau de Cologne and pure ethanol perhaps.
2. Did you ever wish to have wings?
Could be but a body-sized flying machine would have more appeal (on the ground, grown wings are so unwieldy)
3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth
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1. Your favorite pastime?
2. Your favorite bath-time?
3. Your favorite pasta?
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 25, 2007, 08:48:19 AM
3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth
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1. Your favorite pastime?Reading. Definitely reading. Fiction 99%.
2. Your favorite bath-time?Evening, after I'm dirty enough. Don't sweat that well (am prone to overheating as result) but don't have the side-effects of old sweat, either. ::)
3. Your favorite pasta?Cheese Tortellini. In a fresh-mushroom sauce--red sauce, of course. Not as big fan of cream sauces as I am of a nice medium-spicy red sauce. (and, by medium, I do not mean hot, like jalapeño hot. Spicy as in lots of subtle flavors and aromas.)
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3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth
What I'd really like is continuously re-growing-in teeth, much like sharks' do or snake's fangs do. Maybe a new set every 10 years or so. Rodent teeth's continuous growth would be okay for front ones, but you'd need to carry around oak-sticks to gnaw on all the time... ::)
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1. PC? Mac? Other? Windoze? Linux? OS X? Other? Why?
2. records, CD's or MP3s? (or blessed silence?)
3. Ever see sausage being made? Still want to eat some later? Compares to politics, yes? (no?)
1. PC? Mac? Other? Windoze? Linux? OS X? Other? Why?
PCs mostly with Windows. I have one with Suse to 'play'. The moment installing stuff becomes a simple thing in Linux and FPS video games are made for Linux I'll move away from Windoze (although I do work with MS development products, but I could use a dual boot for that).
2. records, CD's or MP3s? (or blessed silence?)
MP3s. ~10 hours in one burned CD, 1000 tracks on 1 DVD, or a good amount of my music in a hard disk based mp3 player, what else could I want?
3. Ever see sausage being made? Still want to eat some later? Compares to politics, yes? (no?)
Nope, I haven't but I heard about it. I do like certain kinds but I try to avoid them because of the sodium nitrite.
Regarding the question I do see a similarity with mushrooms :toadfishwink:
Oh, and the politics reference... sausages are cleanly packaged and while you can argue that candidates are packaged in the same way, it is all so filthy that the equivalent would be like picking your freshly packaged sausages from an septic tank.
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1. Chamber or Orchestral music?
2. What will be first, colonies in the moon or underwater?
3. How easy is for you to go from rational to irrational if provoked. How easy is to go back?
1. Chamber or Orchestral music?
Usually orchestral but with exceptions
2. What will be first, colonies in the moon or underwater?
I'd say the latter, if we are talking about more than a few scientists.
3. How easy is for you to go from rational to irrational if provoked. How easy is to go back?
I tend to explode without outside warning signals. Calming down depends, I think, partially on the time for the build-up. I have some success in replacing violent outbursts with sarcasm where once eardrums were (dezibelly) endangered or the umbrella would have gone to work on people's heads.
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1) Do you think duels with lethal weapons should have a (legal) comeback, if tight controls were applied?
2) Ever had to defend yourself bodily?
3) What kind of birthday gifts do you give preferably? As a receiver, do you like surprises in that?
1) Do you think duels with lethal weapons should have a (legal) comeback, if tight controls were applied?
Unfortunately it would be too difficult to control them, but they would make quite a change. It would be so romantic... ;D;D;D;D
2) Ever had to defend yourself bodily?
You mean if I had to kick somebody's donkey? Unfortunately if has come to that a several time in the past, but I was young and stupid. Since once an ashtray landed on my head (and another one landed on someone else's head but came from my hand), I try to avoid those situation.
3) What kind of birthday gifts do you give preferably? As a receiver, do you like surprises in that?
Depends on the person. I mostly give real presents only to those I'm pretty close to, so I mostly know what they like/need. With my sister, we have a special giving-gifts-relation, we just go out, buy each other something and that's it. :)
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1. Dune or Star Wars?
2. Harry Potter or Barry Trotter?
3. Would you like to become a member of the "Sons of Lee Marvin" (http://www.nndb.com/org/213/000111877/) (semi-)secret-society?
1. Dune or Star Wars?
I chose the known evil amd may the force be with me. ;)
2. Harry Potter or Barry Trotter?
Is that the Russian rip-off or the American spoof?
Let's see what the last volume brings. My bet is that Wormtail will stab Voldemort in the back.
3. Would you like to become a member of the "Sons of Lee Marvin" (semi-)secret-society?
Not enough similarity. Nothing against Lee Marvin though.
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1) Black, milk, sugar, milk&sugar?
2) the above with or without caffeine (be it tea or coffee)?
3) Alcohol with that?
1) Black, milk, sugar, milk&sugar?
Just milk, thank you.
2) the above with or without caffeine (be it tea or coffee)?
Caffeine, please.
3) Alcohol with that?
Oh yesyesyes, if you would. Got any Jameson's and Kahlua?
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1) Can you smell snow before it falls?
2) Do you sneeze when too much sun gets in your eyes?
3) Do you get a sinus headache before or after a storm?
1) Can you smell snow before it falls?
Nope, but rain, yes.
2) Do you sneeze when too much sun gets in your eyes?
No. With too much wind yes, though.
3) Do you get a sinus headache before or after a storm?
Never.
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1. Acids or bases?
2. Do you sing?
3. Cursive or printing?
1. Acids or bases?
Thats' chemistry, chemistry is science, and science is surrounded by an "I Dunno" field bigger than the one around math.
2. Do you sing?
Yes. Choral, generally alto, can cover tenor, second soprano.
Have done solo work, was opera major 2 years.
3. Cursive or printing?
Depends. Am I in a hurry? Are my hands hurting? Both are pretty messy.
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1] If you had to be a non-domesticated animal, what would you want to be?
2] What lesson did Sylvester McMonkey McBean teach, and to whom did he teach this lesson?
3] Would you rather be wealthy or happy, if you could only be one or the other.
1] If you had to be a non-domesticated animal, what would you want to be?
Elephant tortoise (or is it turtle?) looks appealing, provided that the Galapahos islands don't deteriorate further
2] What lesson did Sylvester McMonkey McBean teach, and to whom did he teach this lesson?
Donnt knoff ant 2 layzie 2 gougel id.
3] Would you rather be wealthy or happy, if you could only be one or the other.
Provided that there is no small print attached the latter
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1) Plants have a life too. Is it therefore as unethical to eat them as eating animals? If no, why not?
2) Would eating only fully synthetic food be more ethical?
3) Would you eat fully synthetic food at all or is the mere idea revolting to you?
1) Plants have a life too. Is it therefore as unethical to eat them as eating animals? If no, why not?
Why is it unethical to eat animals? I've never heard them complain. I consider it more ethical to eat a cow than its food, becaus cows eat grass, and grass helps us fighting against global warming.
2) Would eating only fully synthetic food be more ethical?
No. Ever thought about how the poor little synthetics feel about that?
3) Would you eat fully synthetic food at all or is the mere idea revolting to you?
I'd have a steak please. Medium raw please. Yes, a salad with it as well, but not too much.
I hope that's clear enough as an answer.
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1. The Good, the Bad or the Ugly?
2. What is the next album you're going to buy?
3. Invisibility vs immortality?
1. The Good, the Bad or the Ugly?
Depends on the purpose/task
2. What is the next album you're going to buy?
Some orthodox chant perhaps; wouldn't say no to a new Enya either
3. Invisibility vs immortality?
None, except if it comes with an on/off option
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1. What flavor is your toothpaste?
2. the same question for chewing gum
3. Do you travel abroad on vacation?
1. What flavor is your toothpaste?
Mint.
2. the same question for chewing gum
The same answer. Spearmint to be more precise.
3. Do you travel abroad on vacation?
One could call it that.
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1. Do you own a flag of your country and do you hang it out (often)?
2. Your favourite language (apart from your own)?
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1. Do you own a flag of your country and do you hang it out (often)?
No, I find flag-waving embarrassing.
2. Your favourite language (apart from your own)?
The only (living) language I speak apart from native German is English.
There are a few languages I'd like to speak/understand. Norwegian(I at least understand a bit), Icelandic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Inuktitut.
Can't actually name a favorite.
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1. What was the last movie you saw (not on TV)?
2. What is the next going to be?
3. What movie that you have not yet seen would you really want to.
1. What was the last movie you saw (not on TV)?
I've just watched Chronicles of Riddick.
2. What is the next going to be?
Not sure yet...
3. What movie that you have not yet seen would you really want to.
A lot of them. Can't name one out of my head.
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1. Do you have a brain?
2. Do you use it often?
3. Why?
1. Do you have a brain?
Usually, it's on vacation right now, though.
2. Do you use it often?
I try
3. Why?
It's there, so why not?
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1. Finish the joke, "There are 10 kinds of people in the world,..."
2. What have you got in your pocket(s)?
3. Where did it come from?
1. Finish the joke, "There are 10 kinds of people in the world,..."
Those who think in binary and those who don't! ;D
2. What have you got in your pocket(s)?
Let's see...
Left pocket: cell phone, car keys, gum, ID card
Right pocket: wallet (mostly with normal wallet-y things inside), house keys, $15 in bills (just stuffed them in my pocket rather than take out my wallet - I know, I'm lazy), some change, and my Swiss Army knife.
3. Where did it come from?
Most recently, most of it came from my bedside table this morning. The bills and coins I got as change today.
Originally, my Swiss Army knife came from my (now late) father. He gave it to me when I started in Boy Scouts. I always carry it with me, unless I'm somewhere where it would be forbidden/confiscated.
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1. What's the thing you've done that you're most proud of?
2. What's your favourite sport as a participant?
3. What's your favourite sport as a spectator?
1. What's the thing you've done that you're most proud of?
Sorry, but that's for telling everyone. There are minors around. ;D
Another thing I'm really proud of is actually my final exams in school (not university). I've been drunk for ten days during the finals and actually achieved third best average in class. I went with a hang-over to every single exam. Ok, I know, it's not really something to be proud of, but the results are what I mean, not how.
(and I'm very proud of drinking a bottle of whiskey and still be able to stand straight and communicate)
2. What's your favourite sport as a participant?
I do Capoeira. And I pretty much enjoy it (I'm hooked on it)
3. What's your favourite sport as a spectator?
Probably footbal.
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1. Would you like to be the Last Post winner?
2. Lillies or roses?
3. Do you think I'm sexy? ;D
1. Would you like to be the Last Post winner?
Too much fun for me to end by winning.
2. Lillies or roses?
Neither. Ugh. I like orchids and salvias better.
3. Do you think I'm sexy? Grin
Oh yeah, drop dead sexy.
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1. What do industrial cleaners and paint thinner make?
2.Steven Lynch or Jim Gaffagan?
3. Do you like the 5th Element?
1. What do industrial cleaners and paint thinner make?
Chlorine gas? (I actually did this once, when I accidentally-on-purpose mixed ammonia cleaner with bleach cleaner-- the resultant gas we nasty! I got out as soon as my eyes began to burn (hydrochloric acid is what you get when you dissolve chlorine gas in water).
2.Steven Lynch or Jim Gaffagan?
Neither. Never heard of either of'em.
3. Do you like the 5th Element?
Yes, especially the bit where Co. Vimes and his wife foil---oh, wait. You said 5th element. I thought you'd said 5th Elephant!
Actually, I rather like that movie--one of my personal favorites. I think it grows on you, after watching it the 5th or 10th time or so. I have it on DVD, actually, one what I purchased new, and not used. ::)
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1. How many monitors/screens does your PC have? 1? 2? 3? If only 1, ever used one with multiple monitors? (try it-- you'll never go back ::) )
2. Stick-shift or automatic? Why?
3. Soft, cushy suspension, with soft, sink-to-the-plush carpet seats?
Or, stiff, corners-on-a-pin-point, nearly zero body-roll, with seats you could safely use as jack-stands?
1. How many monitors/screens does your PC have? 1? 2? 3? If only 1, ever used one with multiple monitors? (try it-- you'll never go back Roll Eyes )
I just have a laptop with one monitor. I had the opportunity to use two monitors, and once even three. I wish I could go back to that, but it was a one-time thing.
2. Stick-shift or automatic? Why?
No automatic for me. I consider it boring, I like to do something while driving.
3. Soft, cushy suspension, with soft, sink-to-the-plush carpet seats?
Or, stiff, corners-on-a-pin-point, nearly zero body-roll, with seats you could safely use as jack-stands?
Depends on the occasion. But I like comfy, but not too comfy, I don't want to fall asleep while driving.
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1. What is your favourite joke?
2. What is the internet for?
3. Are you sure?
(here's a hint for the second question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo)
1. What is your favourite joke?
Sorry, it's the deadly one from Monty Python's Flying Circus. ;D
2. What is the internet for?
prawn (I don't even have to check the link to know that it is that "The internet is for..." song
3. Are you sure?
No, but insured ;)
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1. Wenn ist das Nunstück gitt und Slotermeyer?
2. Do you wish your virginity back (or lost in case it isn't yet)? :D
3. prawn or krill?
1. Wenn ist das Nunstück gitt und Slotermeyer?
I dunno...
2. Do you wish your virginity back (or lost in case it isn't yet)? Oh, HELL, no...took long enough to get rid of it in the first place, and everything in the vicinity that it all "works" with got removed 12 years ago. I need that like a moose needs a hatrack.
3. prawn or krill?
langoustine
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1) Name a fiction author you really just can't "get into".
2) Would you rather be a bird or a fish?
3) All expenses paid 3 week trip to any country you've never been to. Where are you going? Whatcha gonna do there?
1) Name a fiction author you really just can't "get into".
Tim LaHaye maybe :censored: ? Or do you mean an author that is actually good but doesn't appeal to me? I know there are some but currently no name comes to mind.
2) Would you rather be a bird or a fish?
A flish!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Oceanflish.jpg)
3) All expenses paid 3 week trip to any country you've never been to. Where are you going? Whatcha gonna do there?
Japan would be nice. landscape, historical places....Maybe I could even get some of those movies on DVD that are prohibitively expensive in import while I am there.
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1. Dallas or The Denver Clan?
2. Would you like a Pangalactic Gurgleblaster?
3. What is the house you live in built out of (wood, stone, concrete etc.)?
1. Dallas or The Denver Clan?
Dallas. I still have "occasion" cards to send people with all the Dallas folk pictured doing stuff. Sad but true.
2. Would you like a Pangalactic Gurgleblaster?
As long as I could have one of those dinky cocktail umbrellas in it.
3. What is the house you live in built out of (wood, stone, concrete etc.)?
Concrete, metal and glass. The sign with the name is wooden.
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1. When did you first realise you weren't alone in the world and how?
2. If you could fly (self-propelled), how high would you go?
3. If you could have a coat made out of any material what would you go for and why?
1. When did you first realise you weren't alone in the world and how?
When Dan agreed to move to Somerville.
2. If you could fly (self-propelled), how high would you go?
Not more than 8-10 feet. No farther than I can expect to fall without severe injury.
3. If you could have a coat made out of any material what would you go for and why?
Silk and cashmere...with a nice waterproof overlayer for when the dog is around. (I already have a wonderful black wool with grey Schnauzerfur mixed in where SOMEbody learned to pull my coat off the coatrack and sleep on it.)
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1) Do you fear death?
2) Why, or why not?
3) How does that impact the way you live?
1) Do you fear death?
More dying than death itself actually (provided there is nor hereafter)
2) Why, or why not?
Wouldn't like agony (during dying and/or afterwards, should I have bet on the wrong religious horse :o)
3) How does that impact the way you live?
Haven't tried the off switch yet (can be tempting sometimes)
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1. Do you like morbid poetry?
2. Ever tried serious poetry yourself?
3. Is it embarrassing in hindsight
(in case the answer to 2. is "No", do you think it would be)?
1. Do you like morbid poetry?
Not in the least bit. I've never read or heard any that impressed me even slightly. Most appears written by people who think that mindset is enough to make badly rhymed prose into poetry. ::)
2. Ever tried serious poetry yourself?
It's an occasional pastime of mine. Actually that's a poor term for it, I write it because I have to write it, most of the times I write.
3. Is it embarrassing in hindsight
(in case the answer to 2. is "No", do you think it would be)?
;D No. But thank you for asking. :)
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1. What do you think might cause you to enter politics?
2. Of all the pets you've known, 'who' was your favorite, and why?
3. How many times have you been in love? And how many times simultaneously :)
1. What do you think might cause you to enter politics?
Nothing.
2. Of all the pets you've known, 'who' was your favorite, and why?
I can't answer that. Because I haven't had that many pets in my life, and I loved them all.
3. How many times have you been in love? And how many times simultaneously.
I fall in love three times every five to six minutes.
Now seriously, I can say I've been in love only once, it lasted for two years, but had to break up with her because of me going to Germany and her to Italy.
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1. Goat or cow milk?
2. Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers?
3. Have you ever been temperd to throw your cell phone out of the window?
1. Goat or cow milk?
Either is fine, as long as it has been made into cheese first.
2. Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers?
Neither, don't find them very funny. Give me Monty Python every time.
3. Have you ever been temperd to throw your cell phone out of the window?
What? Blasphemy! I live by my cell phone. How else would I ever remember everyone's phone numbers or their email addresses when I'm not in front of my PC? I love my cell phone. Its got MP3 (never use), Internet (never use), FM radio (never use), games (never use), a 2MB digital camera (OK, I use that a bit), video phone calls (never use) and it makes phone calls without being plugged into the wall! The wonders of the all new electric talking-type wireless, it probably means the end of the horse-drawn Zeppelin, you know...
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1. Cheese-Shop, or the Parrot Sketch?
2. What is your favourite comedy movie/TV show?
3. Who is your favourite comedic author?
1. Cheese-Shop, or the Parrot Sketch?
'Norwegian Blue--beautiful plumage, isn't it squire?' (although the cheese shop's wonderful list of world-cheeses IS quite fun. Not to mention John Cleese's portrayal of a pompous too-big-words ~ss is too funny... )
2. What is your favourite comedy movie/TV show?
Depends on my mood--what day is it? <grin> Anything by MPFC, of course. Like Robin Williams, especially when he's improv. Also like "potty-humor" and Blazing Saddles is fun (Mel Brooks, for that matter is good).
Leslie Neilson's stuff is fun, too. As I said, very mood-dependant.
3. Who is your favourite comedic author?
Either Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, natch. <grin>
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1. Humanity's Ultimate Purpose is to Laugh. Agree? Disagree? Why (or why not or don't have an opinion either way, actually, and STOP bothering me with all these ENDLESS questions!!! )
2. Or, do you think these lyrics by Jewel (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jewel/deepwater.html) capture Ultimate Purpose?
3. Or, what you really hate are those stupid, pretentious links people put into their posts, yes? ;D
1. Humanity's Ultimate Purpose is to Laugh. Agree? Disagree? Why (or why not or don't have an opinion either way, actually, and STOP bothering me with all these ENDLESS questions!!! )
I believe like the existentialists that life has no purpose and that you are the one setting the purpose of your life. In my particular case laugh comes close, although I use it more to make life bearable.
2. Or, do you think these lyrics by Jewel capture Ultimate Purpose?
Nope (see above). My purpose in life is to finish in one piece.
3. Or, what you really hate are those stupid, pretentious links people put into their posts, yes?
Nah, the links themselves aren't pretentious, OTOH the poster and/or the writer of the page to which it goes might be. ;)
BTW, if humanity has a purpose, it would seem that is exterminate itself. :-[
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1. Saint Augustine truly saw the light and changed his heart, or he just decided to get into politics?
2. Strawberry jelly, strawberry ice cream or just strawberries?
3. Odd meters (ie: a waltz) or even meters (ie: a typical march)?
1. Saint Augustine truly saw the light and changed his heart, or he just decided to get into politics?
Given how he treated his de facto wife after conversion, I consider him a true digestory exit. For me another proof that "finding religion" (even if genuine) doesn't change the basic character traits.
2. Strawberry jelly, strawberry ice cream or just strawberries?
No jelly, ice cream only after a foretaste, and where did you hide those strawberries? I neeeeeeeeeeeed them!
3. Odd meters (ie: a waltz) or even meters (ie: a typical march)?
Even or higher prime numbers (a Russian specialty: 11/4, 13/4, 17/4)
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1. Should mankind have stayed in the trees (provided they started there)?
2. If mankind simply disappeared to-morrow (but leaving its mess behind), would it be an improvement or a catastrophe?
3. If you like fish at all, do you perfer fresh water or salt water fish?
1. Should mankind have stayed in the trees (provided they started there)?
Well, there is a school of thought that the trees were a bad idea in the first place. (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
2. If mankind simply disappeared to-morrow (but leaving its mess behind), would it be an improvement or a catastrophe?
Actually, the title of a book from many years ago by George R. Stewart, applies here - Earth Abides. I think the idea of a catastrophe in this sense is a man made one. Life would evolve and a new dynamic balance would be struck. Certainly the world would not look much like it does today, but then it does no look much like it did 10,000 years ago, or 100,000 or 1,000,000 for that matter.
3. If you like fish at all, do you perfer fresh water or salt water fish?
If you mean to eat, as a rule I prefer salt water fish, especially flathead (http://www.amonline.net.au/FISHES/fishfacts/fish/pbassensis.htm), my absolute favourite. Other salties I like include gummy shark (http://www.fishsa.com/gummyshark.php), snapper (http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/pauratus.htm), King George whiting (http://www.fishsa.com/kgwhitng.php) and silver trevally (http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/students/focus/pseudocar.htm).
OTOH, in the fresh Australian bass (http://www.nativefish.asn.au/bass.html) and golden perch (http://www.nativefish.asn.au/golden.html) are excellent eating as are a number of other Australian native fish (http://www.nativefish.asn.au) species. Trout are okay, although I think they are best smoked. I would not give you 2c for carp, they just take altogether too much preparation to make the edible IMHO. tench, roach etc are best used as burley.
1. Have you ever caught and eaten a fish?
2. Did you enjoy the experience? (If you haven't caught one, would you like to?)
3. What is it about catching fish do you like/dislike?
1. Have you ever caught and eaten a fish?
Nope. I have tried -although reluctantly- unsuccessfully.
2. Did you enjoy the experience? (If you haven't caught one, would you like to?)
Not really, there is some thrill related but ...
3. What is it about catching fish do you like/dislike?
...I have the feeling that it is me having the hook inserted on my palate then furiously fighting to survive, being pulled by my head to die asphyxiated. Man, I even feel sorry for the lobsters in the supermarket waiting to be steamed!
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1. Shy or uninhibited?
2. How about in bed?
3. At that point, music, tv, or the "sound of the jungle"?
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 29, 2007, 03:36:59 PM
where did you hide those strawberries? I neeeeeeeeeeeed them!
I have been a bad influence on you. :mrgreen:
1. Shy or uninhibited?
Believe it or not, shy.
2. How about in bed?
Not shy, if I remember rightly...
3. At that point, music, tv, or the "sound of the jungle"?
NO to TV, only certain music, prefer the natural sounds (and the silly and smart-ass remarks). There's a lot to be said for compatible sense of humor.
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1) Tub bath or shower?
2) Wash cloth or scrubbie/bath pouf?
3) How many "products" do you use on your hair after you rinse out the shampoo?
1) Tub bath or shower?
Tub for relaxing, otherwise just wash cloth for cleaning (wet of course!)
2) Wash cloth or scrubbie/bath pouf?
Wash cloth
3) How many "products" do you use on your hair after you rinse out the shampoo?
None, except a comb. Why should I wash my hair and then smear something into it afterwards?
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1. How do you heat your house/flat/dwelling place?
2. Problems with traffic noises where you live?
3. Do the neighbours complain that You are to noisy? (if, no: why not?)
1. How do you heat your house/flat/dwelling place?
I don't. It's expensive. :) When I'm cold, I just go out to the pub or cuddle in in my bed. ;D
2. Problems with traffic noises where you live?
Don't know, never actually noticed any noises.
3. Do the neighbours complain that You are to noisy? (if, no: why not?)
Almost all the time. :)
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1. Loud music or just a little sound in the background?
2. As a dictator of taste, what would you prohibit?
3. Love and peace or world domination?
1. Loud music or just a little sound in the background?
Not extremly loud but loud enough that one gets the details. No muzac!
2. As a dictator of taste, what would you prohibit?
Let's start with every singer that can't pass a standardized singing test without electronic help. Then painters/sculptors that are unable to produce a decent copy of a given classic (not necessarily slavishly copying it but showing that they have the basic skills)
3. Love and peace or world domination?
Let love dominate the world and there will be peace ;D.
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1. Onto the beach or up the mountains for vacation? (flatland no option)
2. Do you like swimming?
3. Do you prefer moderate/cool climates or would a desert climate suit you more?
1. Onto the beach or up the mountains for vacation? (flatland no option)
Beach. I love the beach. I love when it's warm, and I can lie on the beach and enjoy a cool beer (and nice view).
2. Do you like swimming?
Yes I do.
3. Do you prefer moderate/cool climates or would a desert climate suit you more?
Something in the middle. Not more than 30C and not less than 20 would be the ideal climate for me to live in. And somewhere on the beach.
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1. River or lake?
2. French or British movies?
3. DO you prefer paintings or photographs on your walls?
1. River or lake?
Fjord
2. French or British movies?
British (not all of course, and a few selected French occasionally)
3. DO you prefer paintings or photographs on your walls?
Photographs of paintings maybe. That's more affordable.
Not much room anyway. I have not even enough shelve-space fore everything that needs it.
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1. Horror films or nudies? (OK, not much difference these days ;) )
2. Original (and subtitled if necessary) or Dubbed? (all films, not just skin and gore)
3. Worst movie(s) you have ever seen? (if possible excluding skin and gore)
1. Horror films or nudies? (OK, not much difference these days)
Depends on who is nude in the movie. Sometimes it's a horror to watch the nudes. I guess I'd prefer a horror movie.
2. Original (and subtitled if necessary) or Dubbed? (all films, not just skin and gore)
Always original. I hate dubbed movies (especially after I've heard Denzel Washington speaking Hungarian. I'll never forget that moment, it was horrifying)
3. Worst movie(s) you have ever seen? (if possible excluding skin and gore)
Probably German 70s porn movies... ;D
But honestly, I couldn't say. I've seen far too many bad and worse movies. One of the more recent once I've seen could be the Pink Panther (the new one, not the old ones) or Son of Mask (horrible experience).
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1. Who is the funnies man (or woman) on planet?
2. Simpsons or Futurama?
3. Would you like to be somehow exposed to radioactive matter and become a superhero?
Exactly because of the German sofprawn of that era I made the bracketed exclusion.
(those would have of course to be excluded from the "most idiotic title" too for the same reason e.g. "Wo der Wildbach durch das Höschen rauscht")
1. Who is the funnies man (or woman) on planet?
Beats me, especially given the fact(?) that the most probable contenders are already dead
2. Simpsons or Futurama?
Futurama
3. Would you like to be somehow exposed to radioactive matter and become a superhero?
Not without prior consultation. The type of superhero would also be a factor to be deliberated.
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1. What is the most stupid movie title you know (no invented ones and no German softprawn please)?
2. What is the greatest (character) miscast you have seen in a movie or play?
3. There are rumors about a Casablanca remake: Who should be cast for that (if the project can't be stopped)?
1. What is the most stupid movie title you know (no invented ones and no German softprawn please)?
althoiugh it is a bit obvious I think it would have to be Snakes on a Plane
2. What is the greatest (character) miscast you have seen in a movie or play?
Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Hitchhikers film were both just all wrong.
3. There are rumors about a Casablanca remake: Who should be cast for that (if the project can't be stopped)?
If you can't stop it it needs sabotaging. I will be sneaking into the casting room and getting the following cast...
Rick Blaine - Jim Carey
Ilsa Lund - Paris Hilton
Victor Lazlo - jackie Chan
Captain Renault - Gerard depardieu
Major Strasser - Arnold schwartzenegger
Sam - Chris Rock
Signor Ferrari - Robert De Niro
Guillermo Ugarte - Ben Stiller
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1) Do you think any remake has been better than the original?
2) What type of coat do you wear?
3) do you use artificial scents to make your home smell like a trollops boudoir?
1) Do you think any remake has been better than the original?
In the case of certain b-movies with long remake/adaption/redo tradition (Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll&Hyde etc.) that is open to debate (especially what constitutes the "original").
Personally I liked the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory much more than the old (and not just because of the better effects). Actually I find the old one pretty dreadful and Disneyish.
2) What type of coat do you wear?
A cheap one (don't like to spend more than necessary on clothing even if I can afford it)
3) do you use artificial scents to make your home smell like a trollops boudoir?
Who says that it is not in the first place?
No, no friend of incense and the like
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1. Your favorite animated movie?
2. What do you think about using classical (=old) music in films instead of newly composed?
3. What is your favorite film soundtrack/music?
1. Your favorite animated movie?
Possibly Fantasia, (even the 2K version is nice), or maybe Akira.
2. What do you think about using classical (=old) music in films instead of newly composed?
It is a matter of how the music is used; 2001 is a wonderful example of classical music used on a movie. OTOH, music composed for a film, while may be a ripoff from classical works (John Williams is a master on that regard) if correctly made, fits perfectly the flow of the movie.
3. What is your favorite film soundtrack/music?
There are many I like even if those are ripoffs, right now I'm thinking in James Horner's soundtrack of Aliens or John Williams' soundtrack of HP PoA. But perhaps without hesitation I can say that my favorite soundtrack is Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky.
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1. If you had to choose between being deaf or being blind, what would you choose?
2. Had you ever fantasized with being in a desert island with the man/woman of your dreams?
3. If you could go back in time to your childhood and learn an instrument, would you? What instrument?
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 03, 2007, 03:05:36 AM
But perhaps without hesitation I can say that my favorite soundtrack is Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky.
Bingo! Would be one of my candidates too.
1. If you had to choose between being deaf or being blind, what would you choose?Deaf, definitely
2. Had you ever fantasized with being in a desert island with the man/woman of your dreams?
Yes, but I doubt that it would work very well.
3. If you could go back in time to your childhood and learn an instrument, would you? What instrument?
Formally, I learned the Recorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder) but never finished properly. I'd like to be able to play the pipe organ (but I doubt my talents)
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1. If you believed in reincarnation, how would that influence you?
2. If you got a free ticket on the first manned expedition to Mars, would you use it (it is not transferable)?
3. Related question: If the destruction of the earth was imminent and you had the chance to get a place on one of the few escape spaceships (as in "When Worlds Collide), would you take it and leave everyone you know behind or would you stay behind and give your ticket to someone else [a) your choice of replacement b)no influence on replacement]?
1. If you believed in reincarnation, how would that influence you?
Sort of an, "Mmm, maybe next time around," it's possible that I would put certain things off.
2. If you got a free ticket on the first manned expedition to Mars, would you use it (it is not transferable)?
I wouldn't.
3. Related question: If the destruction of the earth was imminent and you had the chance to get a place on one of the few escape spaceships (as in "When Worlds Collide), would you take it and leave everyone you know behind or would you stay behind and give your ticket to someone else [a) your choice of replacement b)no influence on replacement]?
I don't know. Depends on what sort of planet we were going to. A nice, lovely green place, I'd go, probably. If some dusty lifeless thing, I'd probably pass the ticket on to someone. I dunno who.
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1. What is the internet made of? (hint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOoQFa5ug8 )
2. Do you prefer thin pillows or great big fluffy ones?
3. Do you own the soundtrack to any particular movie?
1. What is the internet made of?
Tubes? :nervous:
2. Do you prefer thin pillows or great big fluffy ones?
I prefer no pillows, if we're talking about sleeping. I don't use a pillow for several years now (I have one handy, but it's mostly a replacement for a teddy to hug while I sleep)
3. Do you own the soundtrack to any particular movie?
To a lot of movies actually. It'd be a little too much to list them all, so I'll just write down a few: Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, all three Lord of the Rings, both Kill Bill, Requiem for a Dream etc.
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1. Why is the number 1 always first?
2. Do you use a calculator for simple things like 2+2?
3. When is the last time you made a call by accident (wanting to call one person and calling someone else automatically instead)?
1. Why is the number 1 always first?
I don't know, but it's been observed that the most commonly used numbers tend to be grouped around zero. Odd, when there's so many to choose from. This post is consequently dedicated to 645378453903214.
2. Do you use a calculator for simple things like 2+2?
No. When I were a lad ... [long rant removed. Ed]
3. When is the last time you made a call by accident (wanting to call one person and calling someone else automatically instead)?
Before clamshell mobile phones I several times found mine had clocked up 999 (the uk emergency number, but not fortunately dialled it) when being knocked about in my pocket. Even with the keyboard locked that number couldn't be blocked.
More embarassing than misdialled calls is the racy text message you accidentally send to your parents/boss by selecting the wrong phone list entry at the last minute.
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Which film should never have been made?
Do you care what celebrities think about anything?
Tennis or Squash?
Which film should never have been made?
The Black Hole by Disney
Do you care what celebrities think about anything?
If by celebrities you mean the movie/TV actor brigade then not in the least, being famous for being famous does no in IMO qualify one to be an expert on anything.
If OTOH you mean people like Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies etc, then yes I do care, at least when talking about things within or directly related to their area of expertise.
Tennis or Squash?
Squash definitely. Used to play a lot when I was in the Navy (and a lot thinner/fitter than now). Tennis bores me to tears.
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1. What is your favourite outdoor activity?
2. Do you read mainly fiction or nonfiction?
3. How did you first come to the Toadfish Monastery?
1. What is your favourite outdoor activity?
Sitting in the pub. In the outdoors department, of course. ;)
But seriously, my outdoor activities mostly consist of doing some kind of sport (mostly capoeira, football or basketball), so that could be considered favourite.
2. Do you read mainly fiction or nonfiction?
I guess both at more or less the same level, with fiction a little more.
3. How did you first come to the Toadfish Monastery?
I was invited by Griffin (I think) back at Omnia and am a member ever since.
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1. Your favourite martial art?
2. Martha Stewart vs. Oprah?
3. What is the best documentary (movie, not series) you've seen lately?
1. Your favourite martial art?
I don't practice martial art myself and had not yet the chance to practice maritial arts ;)
So I can only comment on movies. I like the one Michelle Yeoh does.
2. Martha Stewart vs. Oprah?
Fortunately (probably) I was not confronted yet with either.
3. What is the best documentary (movie, not series) you've seen lately?
Drat, my diet is mostly BBC/Channel 4 documentary miniseries.
The last actual movie was Al Gore's.
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1. Are you a good or at least decent(no moral judgement) cook?
2. Do you live in a big city or somewhere in the country?
3. Do you own a car?
1. Are you a good or at least decent(no moral judgement) cook?
People who have tasted my food say it's pretty good, but I'm too lazy to cook, so I rather say I don't know how to cook.
2. Do you live in a big city or somewhere in the country?
Never lived in the country, don't really want to either. I am a city kid.
3. Do you own a car?
Unfortunately not. But when I'm home I always drive my mother's car (Skoda Fabia), or to be more precise, I don't go out without the car (unless I have the intention to drink).
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1. Stars or stripes?
2. Favourite kind of pasta sauce?
3. Alpha or Omega?
1. Stars or stripes?
Stripes at night and stars by day :D
2. Favourite kind of pasta sauce?
As a purist I can do without, otherwise no special favorite
3. Alpha or Omega?
I am more a rho person ;)
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1. Eye colour?
2. Hair colour? Natural or dyed?
3. Glasses, contact lenses or no artificial "view corrector"?
1. Eye colour?
Hazel
2. Hair colour? Natural or dyed?
Used to be brown, nowadays more grey than anything, couldn't be bothered with hair dye, if people don't like my hair colour thay can take a run and jump...
3. Glasses, contact lenses or no artificial "view corrector"?
Previously glasses - did flirt with contacts for a while but did not really like them. Since having cataract surgery and intra-ocular lense implants now only need cheap "readers" I buy from the $2 shop for reading, much better than the $800 multi-focal titanium framed jobs I used to wear!
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1. Do you still have all your "bits" or have you had something out (like tonsils, appendix etc)?
2. Do you have any irrational fears?
3. Are you comfortable with public speaking, and what is the largest number of people you have ever spoken to (not including things like radio, video etc)?
1. Do you still have all your "bits" or have you had something out (like tonsils, appendix etc)?
A bit of repair work in the shoulder pan (stuffing a fissure of unknown origin with material from the upper arm bone) and a number of extracted teeth. Nothing of the "soft" stuff missing yet.
2. Do you have any irrational fears?
Yes, and I can be quite superstitious on occasions.
While I have no problems watching stinging insects or fat spiders on screen or behind glass I am very averse to direct contact.
3. Are you comfortable with public speaking, and what is the largest number of people you have ever spoken to (not including things like radio, video etc)?
Not much experience in that, a group of students or colleagues (below 2 dozen) was probably the top until now.
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1. Do you keep pets (maybe even a droit de seigneur ;) )?
2. Would you like it, if there was real magic (not just as metaphor for fascinating things) in the world?
3. Alcoholic, moderate drinker or t-totaller?
1. Do you keep pets (maybe even a droit de seigneur ;) )?
had two goldfish called Foot and Mouth. Mouth went missing so I got another Goldfish and two Shubunkins called Ear, Nose and Throat. Ear and Throat both joined Mouth in the land of missing Goldfish (I think the place is made of paperclips and car keys) so now I have Foot and Nose. I also have snails and frogs but they are not really pets as such.
2. Would you like it, if there was real magic (not just as metaphor for fascinating things) in the world?
Depends who has the ability. If it is me that sounds like a great thing (for me - not everybody else)
3. Alcoholic, moderate drinker or t-totaller?
Honestly somewhere between 1 and 2
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1) Do you volunteer?
2) Have you ever started your own business?
3) Have you ever ridden an aminal that was not a horse?
(edit) supplementary question.....
what is an aminal :D
1) Do you volunteer?
Yes. I am a volunteer counsellor (Ok so I only got one client but I'm sick) and I am an emergency backstop for a mental health telephone support line (ah something I can do lying in bed....!!).
2) Have you ever started your own business?
Yes. Three. An internet wacky academic service that never made it off the drawing board. A personal development course operation, now defunct. And my own IT consultancy which has been up and running for years but currently silenced due to ill health.
3) Have you ever ridden an aminal that was not a horse?
I went on an elephant at London Zoo once. And a camel. The camel terrified me.
(edit) supplementary question.....
what is an aminal :D
I am led to believe that Goat is an animal.
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1. What do you understand as the meaning of the word "spirit"? Give as many definitions as you can think of.
2. Why do you think they put the price tags on the sole of shoes?
3. What's your favourite thing to sit on?
1. What do you understand as the meaning of the word "spirit"? Give as many definitions as you can think of.- ghost
- soul
- enthusiasm
- alcohol
- pride/best example (e.g. "the Spirit of St. Louis")
- a disease cheerleaders get (we've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how 'bout you?)
2. Why do you think they put the price tags on the sole of shoes?So you know how much the shoes cost? Is that too obvious?
3. What's your favourite thing to sit on?My bum. :D
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1. How's the weather up/down (as warranted by height) there?
2. What's the strangest sight you've ever seen?
3. Why do firefighters wear red suspenders?
1. How's the weather up/down (as warranted by height) there?
Somewhat rainy, windy and cool, which is great given the typical weather in South Florida.
2. What's the strangest sight you've ever seen?
Man, that's a hard one; I've seen many trivial odd things but nothing really out of the ordinary. I'm going with the first time I saw a famous Colombian violinist using red socks in a concert. Later I was told that those were his lucky socks and that he wore them in every concert he played as soloist.
3. Why do firefighters wear red suspenders?
I imagine it has something to do with the fact they use very baggy pants (reason unknown to me), although I've seen them using different colors like yellow and gray.
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1. Have you ever had a close brush with death?
2. Were you scared, calm, or it was too fast to feel much? If not how do you think you would react?
3. Did your attitude toward life changed at that moment? Or if not, do you think it may change your attitude toward life?
1. Have you ever had a close brush with death?
Twice that I know of. The other times I probably didn't notice ;D
2. Were you scared, calm, or it was too fast to feel much? If not how do you think you would react?
First instance: it lasted about 18 months and it was scary at first.
Second instance: recently. About 2 hours. In A&E with heart rate into high velocity and the drugs to bring it down not working. Resolute. If this is it, so be it. But I wanted to set eyes on one of my sons before popping off.
3. Did your attitude toward life changed at that moment? Or if not, do you think it may change your attitude toward life?
Second Instance: No.
First Instance: Yes. Drastically. I don't care if/when I go. I will just do exactly as I please until whenever, whatever my relatives think I ought to be doing. Life is stripped to the bare bones. I decide several times an hour what I really really want to be doing. I find more humour in life than ever before (and my sense of humour has always been good).
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1. Apart from spouse or partner, who do you turn to for varying sorts of help and or support/understanding?
2. What order to do you put your clothes on?
3. How do you eat a plateful of food?
1. Apart from spouse or partner, who do you turn to for varying sorts of help and or support/understanding?
Help: Whoever is available to do it; Understanding: nobody, I fear
2. What order to do you put your clothes on?
Underpants, Socks, T-shirt, Trousers, Glasses, watch (no undershirt)
slippers are worn in the house more or less permanently when not in bed (or under water), heavy shoes outside.
3. How do you eat a plateful of food?
Complaining that my mother is responsible for my 100 kg too ;)
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1. Have you ever doubted your own sanity?
2. Reason for 1, if answered yes
3. Do you think you would notice if you actually became insane?
1. Have you ever doubted your own sanity?
A couple times although not in a particularly terrible way.
2. Reason for 1, if answered yes
Insecurity, I guess? Is only me who perceives the world is this way...? :o
3. Do you think you would notice if you actually became insane?
Isn't that the whole Catch 22 thing (if you know you are insane then you can't be)? In fact it reminds me a psychologist saying that what happens in A Beautiful Mind as portrayed in the movie isn't likely (in his case realizing that his imaginary friend is actually imaginary). In any case sanity is defined by concensus, if a person claims to see demons we assume that he/she is delusional, no?
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1. When was the list time you felt 'in love' (heart racing at the thought/presence of the other, altered [pink] perception of reality, and all the hormone induced euphoria) ?
2. Do you wish to feel all that again?
3. Is (the evolutionary response that we call 'being in love') a good thing or a bad thing?
1. When was the list time you felt 'in love' (heart racing at the thought/presence of the other, altered [pink] perception of reality, and all the hormone induced euphoria) ?
About 10 years ago, I think. I don't count the normal lusting for attractive persons here (the one where you know it is not "personal" but just an automatic reflex)
2. Do you wish to feel all that again?
Provided this time it gets a positive response from the other side (would be the first time)
3. Is (the evolutionary response that we call 'being in love') a good thing or a bad thing?
If it could be switched off in case of no success, thus allowing a new approach/attempt unimpeded, I'd say yes. Lacking positive experience in that area, I can't judge long-term effects of fulfillment.
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1. Is "transient" sex (e.g. 1-night-stands) immoral, if both parts are "free", i.e. not already in a fixed relationship?
2. Would you pose nude for photography (with or without spread of the pictures)?
3. What influence do you think has erotic art (not prawn) on non-adults?
No intention to go for politics again, personal answers are desired.
1. Is "transient" sex (e.g. 1-night-stands) immoral, if both parts are "free", i.e. not already in a fixed relationship?
I don't think it's immoral, if both parts agree that it's only about that one night, and it's only about sex, no relationships, etc.
2. Would you pose nude for photography (with or without spread of the pictures)?
Honestly, I would agree to pose, but I don't think anyone would like to see that (my body isn't very aesthetic. ;)
3. What influence do you think has erotic art (not prawn) on non-adults?
It depends on the maturity of the non-adult. I've seen adults drooling above very nice erotic art and I've seen non-adults admiring the same pictures for their beauty. It depends on the person.
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1. What do you want for your coming birthday?
2. What are you going to do with the socks you get instead?
3. Why?
1. What do you want for your coming birthday?
This:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/06-Scion-xB.jpg/250px-06-Scion-xB.jpg)
2. What are you going to do with the socks you get instead?
Use them unless those are too tacky.
3. Why?
Because I need socks too...?
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What triggers your emotional responses:
1. Tears
2. Anger
3. Guilt
1. Tears
Music
2. Anger
Unkindness
3. Guilt
Not much these days. Being thoughtlessly or needlessly unkind.
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1. Do you dress to kill or kill to dress?
2. Who would you most like to be if you had to be someone else who is alive today?
3. What do you not do that you want to do?
1. Do you dress to kill or kill to dress?
DRESS?? You mean, NOT slouch around the house in my robe and slippers? Do I even DO that anymore?
2. Who would you most like to be if you had to be someone else who is alive today?
Johnny Depp's wife or Alan Rickman's lover.
3. What do you not do that you want to do?
So far, I have not told my mother and my siblings to go the hell away and leave me alone. I've TRIED, but as usual, they don't hear me.
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1. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "comfort food"?
2. Milk chocolate or dark chocolate?
3. Would you rather be a horse or a zebra?
1. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "comfort food"?
Ad campaigns
2. Milk chocolate or dark chocolate?
Dark but without coffee aroma
3. Would you rather be a horse or a zebra?
In absence of predators a zebra
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1. Your favorite condiment (or are you even a notorious autocondimentor)?
2. Your favorite method of contraception?
3. your favorite plant (not for eating purposes but aesthetically)
1. Your favorite condiment (or are you even a notorious autocondimentor)?
really hot english mustard or pepper
2. Your favorite method of contraception?
thats a bit personal! I find my irritating personality works fairly well.
3. your favorite plant (not for eating purposes but aesthetically)
big tall grass (not the smoking sort)
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1) fish or frogs?
2) cheese or fruit?
3) sunshine or snow?
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3. your favorite plant (not for eating purposes but aesthetically)
big tall grass (not the smoking sort)
Oh, Reed Canary Grass, then.... kill two birds with one stone. ;)
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1) fish or frogs?
Fish please
2) cheese or fruit?
highly dependent on sort
3) sunshine or snow?
Snow for a change
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1) mount of joy or valley of tears?
2) carbonated or uncarbonated mineral water?
3) chocolate or jellybabies?
1) mount of joy or valley of tears?
Mount Joy! Sounds like fun. ;)
2) carbonated or uncarbonated mineral water?
Uncarbonated. Farting in bed is only fun when it's in moderation.
3) chocolate or jellybabies?
Chocolate. It melts between your teeth better than jellybabies.
Which do you prefer:
1) Newspaper, TV or internet news?
2) A night at the opera or a day at the races?
3) A one-night stand you'll dream about forever or a safe, reliable relationship that lasts forever even if it gets a bit stale sometimes?
1. Have you ever doubted your own sanity?
Yes, but I don't think anyone is.
2. Reason for 1, if answered yes
In truth, I'm a diagnosed anxiety sufferer and have to do relaxation and meditation.
3. Do you think you would notice if you actually became insane?
Probably not, but we are all a bit wacky in some way or the other.
1. Do you prefer Axolotls or Salamanders?
2. Jack and Jill went up the hill. What does this mean to you? Why?
3. Your most exciting moment in the year 2001?
OMG, I must either be crazy or I have just GONE BACK IN TIME!
Okay, okay... I'm fine now. I'll just answer Dave and no-one will notice.
1. Do you prefer Axolotls or Salamanders?
I prefer Metaxa.
2. Jack and Jill went up the hill. What does this mean to you? Why?
Jack and Jill were going up to Capitol Hill to protest almost everything and who can blame them? Why? Because they are too young to vote.
3. Your most exciting moment in the year 2001?
I was driving in my car after leaving my only child at preschool for the first full session when suddenly I realized that what appeared to be a radio ad for a TV movie about an airplane hitting one of the Twin Towers in New York was actually a news report. The car ahead of me veered off the road. Things seemed surreal. From there the day just became weirder. I was at a department store standing with a handful of bewildered people in the TV department when the second tower was hit. We just looked at eachother and asked "What the hell is going on?" Back in the car to head home I heard that the Pentagon had been hit. I got home just in time to see live shots of both towers of the World Trade Center crumble to the ground slowly and evenly, like wool socks unraveling. "What next?" I wondered. At the time I did not feel excited, just sort of spooked. A week later I began to have anxiety attacks, so I can relate to your condition, DaveL. Meditation helped more than anything. I hope to never have that sort of excitement again. Unfortunately, I'm not betting any money on it.
Which do you prefer:
1) Newspaper, TV or internet news?
2) A night at the opera or a day at the races?
3) A one-night stand you'll dream about forever or a safe, reliable relationship that lasts forever even if it gets a bit stale sometimes?
1) Newspaper, TV or internet news?
TV and Newspaper following morning to check out what the TV missed and/or get a different slant on it. Internet occasionally for specific need.
2) A night at the opera or a day at the races?
A night at the opera. I am crazy about Don Giovanni (Mozart) and various others; great opera takes me to a heavenly place.
3) A one-night stand you'll dream about forever or a safe, reliable relationship that lasts forever even if it gets a bit stale sometimes?
Having no expectations of the latter, and having had a form of the former (not a one-night-stand but a short fixed-term relationship) which was pure heaven, I say neither. But then, they both require some energy. With energy I might look for the latter. But it all seems so remote from my current way of life, it is barely in any life plan dreams I have. And of course, that could change.
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1. What are you going to do tomorrow?
2. What's the longest period of time you have spent alone, not seeing or speaking to anybody?
3. Do you have any personal customs, like always drawing the left curtain first, or always walking around a table in the same direction, even though it apparently makes no difference? If so, why?
Erm... questions?
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Time delay :o
They are there now ;D
Griffin bad Griffin.
Bad Zono/mato!! You didn't answer!!
OK, I will...
1. What are you going to do tomorrow?
Go to MDA, get a shot, pick up my records, go to the place that's doing the Indium-111 study, fill out paperwork, go to another hospital to see my friend Kate, who may be dying, coming home to get ready to go see my BRAND NEW DOCTOR!! 'Cause I fire MDA tomorrow.
2. What's the longest period of time you have spent alone, not seeing or speaking to anybody?
About 3 weeks. I didn't really miss anyone in my life at that time very much, either.
3. Do you have any personal customs, like always drawing the left curtain first, or always walking around a table in the same direction, even though it apparently makes no difference? If so, why?
Nope, just never wanted to be that 'set' in my ways. To not be willing to change isn't good when life doesn't just hand you lemons, it pitches the damn things at your head.
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1. Do you consider the US (under the current administration) a danger to the rest of the world?
2. Which last-half of the 20th century President of the US will history remember most kindly? (Eisenhauer through Clinton)
3. What's the ugliest part of your body? (Apologies to Zappa.)
1. Do you consider the US (under the current administration) a danger to the rest of the world?
Alas! Unqualified yes
2. Which last-half of the 20th century President of the US will history remember most kindly? (Eisenhauer through Clinton)
As a person? Carter, I presume. As a politician it could be LBJ for the civil rights (the blame for Vietnam will be shared with several others).
3. What's the ugliest part of your body? (Apologies to Zappa.)
That wart behind my second toe on the left foot (withstands all treatment for decades now)
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1. How often do you brush your teeth (per day?)?
2. How long does it take?
3. How often do you change your toothbrush?
1. How often do you brush your teeth (per day?)?
Two to three times.
2. How long does it take?
Not long enough, I'm afraid.
3. How often do you change your toothbrush?
I try to change it every three months.
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1. Would you prefer going to the dentist or dying a slow death?
2. How can we get rid of all the dentists with minimum cost and effort?
3. Do you prefer dentists or lawyers?
1. Would you prefer going to the dentist or dying a slow death?
Dentist is faster
2. How can we get rid of all the dentists with minimum cost and effort?
make teeth illegal
3. Do you prefer dentists or lawyers?
Hm, lawyers contain more fat but dentists taste too much like isopropanol.
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1. Favorite means of transport?
2. do you prefer sour or sweet? (in modest amounts)
3. do you like spicy food or do you prefer "flat"?
1. Favorite means of transport?
Bicycle over reasonable distances, helicopter is fun, too, but I tend to get sleepy in choppers (not the pilot!).
2. do you prefer sour or sweet? (in modest amounts)
Tough call - I generally prefer 'savoury', and both sweet or sour make good modifications. I try to eat all the tastes if possible, but I'll give the edge to sweet, especially for fruit. I do like a properly soured kimchi, though - I once had kimchi cousin-in-law's that was sublimely sour and refreshing, with a slight lemony taste.
3. do you like spicy food or do you prefer "flat"?
SPICY! If I have to eat 'flat' food for more than a couple of days, I go into capsaicin withdrawals and will resort to munching frozen habaneros or whatever else is at hand.
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1) Where would you rather journey to (assume first-class travel conditions) - the depths of the ocean or the edge of the solar system?
2) What childhood-hated foods have you re-taught yourself to eat as an adult?
3) Any foods that you still cannot eat or can't bring yourself to eat anymore (allergies don't count)?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on February 14, 2007, 07:12:10 AM
Bad Zono/mato!! You didn't answer!!
Couldn't. There were no questions. Which I rectified. Later. :'(
1) Where would you rather journey to (assume first-class travel conditions) - the depths of the ocean or the edge of the solar system?
Deep Ocean, outer space can be so boring after the first awe wears off
2) What childhood-hated foods have you re-taught yourself to eat as an adult?
A few vegetables, tea
3) Any foods that you still cannot eat or can't bring yourself to eat anymore (allergies don't count)?
Still a lot of vegetables including most of the cabbage and allium family (but nothing against onion aroma as long as there are no solid pieces)
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1. Singing in the rain or dancing in the snow?
2. Do you like dancing (either watching or doing it yourself)?
3. Do you sing and at what level (quality and voice level [bass, soprano etc.])?
1. Singing in the rain or dancing in the snow?
Singing in the rain. Snow is just fine to look at, preferably through a well insulated window, while drinking hot chocolate or mulled wine, but I wouldn't want to actually go out in it! Urrk!
2. Do you like dancing (either watching or doing it yourself)?
Sometimes I like to dance, depends on my mood and the music. Generally, watching dancing does not do much for me.
3. Do you sing and at what level (quality and voice level [bass, soprano etc.])?
Yes, I sing bass. Until I found I just did not have the time to attend rehearsal every Monday night (conflicted too much with early starts and used to wreck me for the rest of the week) I was a member of the Melbournaires a men's barbershop chorus. Although barbershop is not exactly my favourite form of music (although I like most sorts) it is fun to sing, especially when you get those close harmonies just right. Singing bass, you can hear the other parts build on your foundation and it can be just spine tingling when it goes just so. Previously as a boy I had a fair to good soprano voice and it was the family wisdom after my voice broke that I could not sing. It was many years later when I attended a session with the Melbournaires that I found out my problem was I was trying to sing in the wrong register. I am not a twenty feet below ground bass, but singing the lower notes generally (except for the odd really low note) was a revelation to me. I was told I had a pretty good voice, but I don't think I am any great singer...
1. What is your favourite (culinary) herb?
2. What is your favourite spice?
3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you? ;)
(I sing alto- let's make a chorus!)
1. What is your favourite (culinary) herb?
Sage. I can eat it an almost anything non-sweet.
2. What is your favourite spice?
Cardamom. Hmmm.... time to dig up the old Finnish Coffee bread recipe!
3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you?
Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.
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1) When someone says "I love you", do you believe it?
2) When did you first realize that you were a toadfish?
2) If, after you breathed your last, you found there was nothing else, would you be disappointed?
Quote from: Opsanus tau on February 15, 2007, 06:53:50 PM2. What is your favourite spice?
Cardamom. Hmmm.... time to dig up the old Finnish Coffee bread recipe!
3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you?
Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.
Mmmm... cardamom & coffee....
I've heard cilantro's smell compared to the smell of bedbugs, so screen door isn't a strech. I even found a club for you: http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ - oh, they have anti-cilantro haikus!
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Quote from: Opsanus tau on February 15, 2007, 06:53:50 PM
Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.
I've heard cilantro's smell compared to the smell of bedbugs, so screen door isn't a strech. I even found a club for you: http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ - oh, they have anti-cilantro haikus!
I don't want to sound impolite but, you don't like cilantro? Perhaps is because I'm hispanic or something but I find it almost essential. I guess the same can be said about me regarding wasabi (I hate it). :-\
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1) When someone says "I love you", do you believe it?Given that few people tells me such thing I better believe it...
2) When did you first realize that you were a toadfish?Mmm... the day I saw the hidden forum in omnia...?
2) If, after you breathed your last, you found there was nothing else, would you be disappointed?Technically, it is impossible to feel anything if there is nothing else. Now, regarding the idea itself I guess I would feel disappointed, it would mean that we are the children of (mis)fortune, that justice is an abstraction that doesn't really apply, and that I will never experience all those things that for one or other reason I couldn't do in this life.
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1. Earthquake, volcano or hurricane/tornado?
2. Humid heat or humid cold?
3. In the evening in an old and remote house: wood creaking or wind wooing?
I looooooves it, but I know people who don't. My dad isn't a fan.
1. Earthquake, volcano or hurricane/tornado?
Volcano please, I like the style
2. Humid heat or humid cold?
Absent other choices: cold
3. In the evening in an old and remote house: wood creaking or wind wooing?
wood (as long as it does not indicate that the house is coming down soon)
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1. Vampires or Werewolves (as neighbours)?
2. Lugosi, Karloff or Lee?
3. Will you refuse to answer this question?
1. Vampires or Werewolves (as neighbours)?
Vampires. I like dogs, but who wants neighbors that poop on your lawn? Besides, Temperance League is expanding, they might be Black Ribboners!
2. Lugosi, Karloff or Lee?
Lugosi for style, Karloff for talent. Not a Lee fan.
3. Will you refuse to answer this question?
Certainly not!! I try to always answer every question to my fullest and I will certainly attempt to do so with this question.
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1) Would you try an experimental procedure that requires you to be isolated for 5-8 days because of radiation?
2) What is your favorite movie of all time?
3) Have you ever disliked a book so much that you wouldn't finish reading it?
1) Would you try an experimental procedure that requires you to be isolated for 5-8 days because of radiation?
Provided there is some form of entertainment available (books, DVDs, CDs etc.) no problem
2) What is your favorite movie of all time?
That's a really tough one. For some time it was Fantasia, at some other time Henry V.(Olivier version) took the title. Currently I simply don't know
3) Have you ever disliked a book so much that you wouldn't finish reading it?
With some books at school I would have but was forced to finish anyway. Otherwise I'd say that it is very rare (and I may finish it years later)
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1) Your favorite movie genre?
2) Same for books (apart from Pratchett ;) )
3) Do you prefer books/movies from your own country or from another (and name countries in both cases)?
1. Your favorite movie genre
Sci-fi. When is well done it puts reality into perspective.
2. Same for books
Hard one. I like from fiction to thrillers and obviously scifi, I guess i'll go with the latter when is well done.
3. Do you prefer books from your own country or other?
I certainly like Garcia Marquez, but I don't really read books from only one country, whatever works.
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1. Tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy?
2. Cinema, theatre or opera?
3. Flute, oboe or clarinet?
1. Tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy?
Depends on my mood, when I'm feeling up, a bit if tragedy is good, comedy - so long as it engages the intelellect, I am not a fan of slap stick - is always a good idea if I'm feeling poorly. hard to tell, I guess I'll wimp it and go for tragicomedy.
2. Cinema, theatre or opera?
If it cost the same to attend I would go for threatre and opera, in that order, before cinema, but given the reality of things I probably go to the cinema more often tha n anything else. However, I do not particularly enjoy a lot of modern cinema, so I tend to be selective in what I do see.
3. Flute, oboe or clarinet?
Oh, the oboe! Love those mellow sounds...
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1. Big city shopping spree or a day at a quaint country market?
2. Slap up first class meal at a top restaurant with magnificent city views or an intimate candle lit meal in a tiny pub with an open fire and "rustic charm".
3. Round the world first class air ticket with accommodation at top hotels six stars all the way, or a three month cruise aboard the Queen Mary II?
1. Big city shopping spree or a day at a quaint country market?
Country market. Big cities have 27 stores with all the same crap.
2. Slap up first class meal at a top restaurant with magnificent city views or an intimate candle lit meal in a tiny pub with an open fire and "rustic charm".
Arrrgghhhh...probably the latter, as i'm a weird eater, but I loved going to exquisite restaurants and miss it.
3. Round the world first class air ticket with accommodation at top hotels six stars all the way, or a three month cruise aboard the Queen Mary II?
Get me to the airport on time!! Three months on a boat would put me too far from adequate medical care anyway. ::) ::) ::)
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1. What was your favorite childhood toy?
2. Have you ever started talking about another Toadfish to someone (in real life) as if you know the Todafish personally (in real life)?
3. If you could snap your fingers and "fix" one of the world's problems, what would it be?
1. What was your favorite childhood toy?
A rather rotten teddy bear (not the smooth short hair variant)
2. Have you ever started talking about another Toadfish to someone (in real life) as if you know the Todafish personally (in real life)?
Not extensively. More like "somebody I know has said..."
3. If you could snap your fingers and "fix" one of the world's problems, what would it be?
The obvious inability/unwillingness to think beyond a quite narrow horizon in space and time.
In other word: mental shortsightedness
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1. Prose or poetry (if it is the same author)?
2. Spoken or sung poetry?
3. Rhyme or rhythm?
1. Prose or poetry (if it is the same author)?
I don't know of (m)any people who publish both.
Tom Robbins's prose is prose poetry to me, and I don't think overmuch of his embedded poetry.
So prose.
2. Spoken or sung poetry?
Written. If I had to choose between your options, it would be spoken.
If you count song lyrics as sung poetry, then sung. But it's a very different genre, to me. The music does a lot of the work, and some very different work, and Prosody works very differently (and is a high art in itself), Prosody is what differentiates competence from incompetence in lyric writing (though it can be rescued by a talented singer).
3. Rhyme or rhythm?
A false choice, in my opinion. They do very different things, and rhythm is different from rhythmical and does different things, again.
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1. As an adult, do you still have a 'teddy bear'?
2. Do you read most of your 'library' over and over again?
3. Are there any social 'incidents' from long ago that you still cringe internally when you remember them?
1. As an adult, do you still have a 'teddy bear'?
See above (though the relationship is less intimate now ;) )
2. Do you read most of your 'library' over and over again?
A few books yes. To reread all of it would take years
3. Are there any social 'incidents' from long ago that you still cringe internally when you remember them?
Yes, and I cringe so strongly that I won't name any examples
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1. What is your favorite colour?
2. What is your task?
3. Does it really matter what the capital of Assyria is? ;)
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Sorry for the seemingly rude tone of the answers, no intention.
Concerning my questions above
I was thinking about poems that later got music attached (ballads for example)
rhyme vs. rhythm: I thought about the difference of antique poems (no rhyme but a fixed ryhthm), rhymed poetry (usually with a more free or at least variable rhythm), alliterative poetry (dramatic rhythm, no fixed rules) and "modern" poetry (complete freedom)
1. My favourite colour is...RED, No Blue, AAARRRRGH!
2. I seek the Holy Grail. (which in my case is assendancy to full Toadfish Monknessness or whatever - or to become a real pirate, whichever happens quicker!)
3. No.
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1. Blae mae Ivor the Engine?
2. Where is Captain Cronan's Treasure?
3. What is your 'Porn Star' name (you can work that out by adding the name of your first ever pet animal to your mother's maiden name).
1. Blae mae Ivor the Engine?
I have no idea. :)
2. Where is Captain Cronan's Treasure?
I know it, but I can't share this information with you. I don't want you to steal it from me.
3. What is your 'Porn Star' name (you can work that out by adding the name of your first ever pet animal to your mother's maiden name).
Kiki Felix. (wow, that sounds almost like a porn star name...) ;)
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1. Microeconomy or Macroeconomy?
2. Are you worthy?
3. Do you prefer Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?
1. Microeconomy or Macroeconomy?
As long as it puts good money into my pocket, I don't care ;)
2. Are you worthy?
No
3. Do you prefer Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?
I prefer that long asthmatic guy in the black outfit with helmet (otherwise the latter)
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1. Do you like erotic (not prawn) movies/art?
2. Do you like the Monty Python type of humor?
3. Where is the difference? ;)
1. Aye...me drawin of Anne Bonny is a bit saucy!
2. Brought up on it mate, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
3. Viva la difference?
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1. Have you ever been a Lumberjack?
2. Do you prefer Blondes or Brunettes?
3. Do you like ferrets?
1. Have you ever been a Lumberjack?
No, but I have hauled hay.
2. Do you prefer Blondes or Brunettes?
At my age, i'm lucky to have a balding grey hair kinda guy. (Redheads are favourite.)
3. Do you like ferrets?
The critter kind? Not really. The 2 legged, faux-human type? THEM I loathe.
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1] Have you served in your country's military?
2] PC or Mac? Why?
3] If you could extend your life by 20 years beyond normal life expectancy, would you do so?
1] Have you served in your country's military?
No. The closest I've gotten to serving in the military is getting brochures from the recruiting office when I was 20 and out-of-work.
2] PC or Mac? Why?
PC, and in a roundabout way, because of the Chicago fire:
When the Great Chicago Fire happened, fire departments had become commonplace, but not standardized. Each one had different equipment; each one also likely had good reasons for those differences, but when the firefighters from the surrounding towns rushed into Chicago to help out, they quickly found out that their fire hoses couldn't screw on to Chicago fire hydrants.
The fire departments were forced to make do as best they can - bucket brigades and the like - and a huge portion of Chicago burned to the ground.
In closing, standard is good. And if you don't have any compelling reason to make a decision between two items, it's best to choose the one that's more popular... if you think you might ever need parts or help for it.
3] If you could extend your life by 20 years beyond normal life expectancy, would you do so?
Just like that with no downside? Sure.
If I had to do it by killing people for their organs, or by lying in a 20-year coma, that would likely change my answer. But all else being equal, I've got no problem with watching my great-grandchildren graduate from college. ;D
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1. Sunbathing on the beach or swimming in the ocean? Why?
2. Star Wars or Star Trek? Why?
3. Paper or plastic? Why?
;D
1. Sunbathing on the beach or swimming in the ocean? Why?
Never a beach friend but swimming in the ocean can be done without
2. Star Wars or Star Trek? Why?
Star Trek never had appeal for me (Give me Raumpatrouille Orion or Firefly!)
Star Wars was not bad (notice the tempus!)
3. Paper or plastic? Why?
Depends on what one wants to do with it.
My eye-glasses are actually plastic, paper wouldn't do.
Otherwise I prefer paper e.g. for writing.
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1. barefoot or silk stockings?
2. shoes or boots?
3. t-shirt or shirt?
1. barefoot or silk stockings?
Barefoot
2. shoes or boots?
Shoes, provided I don't have to walk between puddles/mud
3. t-shirt or shirt?
T-shirt
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1. Prologue, development, climax or denouement?
2. Fins or wings?
3. Trumpet, trombone or french horn?
1. Prologue, development, climax or denouement?
Climax every time!
2. Fins or wings?
I've never met a Fin but I do live in Wingland!
3. Trumpet, trombone or french horn?
PHFOOOOOAAARRRR...a nice bit of French Horn!
1. Newts or Toads?
2. Ale or Lager
3. Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?
1. Newts or Toads?
Toads.
2. Ale or Lager
Sometimes it doesn't matter. But I prefer lager.
3. Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?
I'm not sure if she was the devil, but it had some kind of devilish feeling. ;)
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1. There are three great releases you have been waiting for for half a year at the same time, but you have only the money to buy one of them, what will you buy, a book, a CD or a DVD?
2. When was the last time you've been to the cinema and what did you see?
3. Lollipop or chewing gum?
1. There are three great releases you have been waiting for for half a year at the same time, but you have only the money to buy one of them, what will you buy, a book, a CD or a DVD?
CD last, book or DVD depends on the item (Pratchett would always win though).
2. When was the last time you've been to the cinema and what did you see?
The day before yesterday and it was a collection of shorties from the 1930ies (on steel production). Before that (sometime in January I think) Operation Lune (see review thread)
3. Lollipop or chewing gum?
Chewing gum
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1. Did you do it?
2. Are you a notorious liar (especially in answering this question)?
3. What color are your socks?
1) Yes. Generally. Depends on the definition of 'it' though.... as will question 2.
2) No.
3) Grey.
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1) Lake, pool or ocean for a swim?
2) Do you wear any jewellery?
3) What's your favourite precious/jewellery metal?
(if you answered 'no' to 2, think 'fantasy' jewellery - even a wrist or pocket watch counts!)
1) Lake, pool or ocean for a swim?
Ocean.
2) Do you wear any jewellery?
Yes, I wear a ring, a bracelet and a necklace. And a watch.
3) What's your favourite precious/jewellery metal?
(if you answered 'no' to 2, think 'fantasy' jewellery - even a wrist or pocket watch counts!)
My favourite is silver (ring and necklace) and wood (bracelet).
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1. Do you have or plan a tattoo? What is it?
2. Any piercings?
3. French maid or nurse?
1. Do you have or plan a tattoo? What is it?
No. I have skin, not canvas.
2. Any piercings?
I don't need any extra holes in my body, thanks.
3. French maid or nurse?
I could use a real maid, especially one that does windows...
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1. Do you ususally wear a watch?
2. Cats or dogs?
3. If you were asked to donate bone marrow, would you?
1. Do you ususally wear a watch?
Yes, a rather old one (I can't get a replacement that suits me)
2. Cats or dogs?
Cats (only in theory, the dermatologist forbade me from owning anything hairy or feathery)
3. If you were asked to donate bone marrow, would you?
After a thorough risk analysis, I would consider it (but only for someone I know, not anonymous receptor)
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1. chamber music or full orchestra?
2. classical music or pop?
3. cotton or artificial fibres?
1. chamber music or full orchestra?
Full orchestra. Never play on an empty stomach.
2. classical music or pop?
Classical. um. depends what you mean by pop. Serious great pop, sure. ;)
3. cotton or artificial fibres?
Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk.
Except I hope someone takes care of the worms.
Hmm, that wasn't the question.
Ok. Cotton, but mixed with silk.
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1) What springs to mind when you hear the word degeneration (no context supplied).
2) How confidential are you?
3) Do you believe in magic?
1) What springs to mind when you hear the word degeneration (no context supplied).
The abomination I was listening to today in a Barnes & Nobles: classical highlights with rhythmic pop percussion, including a Sarasate variation of Carmen. How can anyone believe that to bring classical music to the masses it needs to be desecrated in such a way?
>:( :censored: :smite:
2) How confidential are you?
In general very. There has to be a very good reason to *spill the beans*
3) Do you believe in magic?
Perhaps as a macro manifestation of quantum effects? Figuratively speaking, what happens when a couple falls in love; that is magical when it happens (although the reasons are very much rational from a physiological POV).
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1. Are sex and art compatible?
2. You aren't hungry but have ready access to good food. Do you eat?
3. Strings quartet or woodwinds quintet?
1. Are sex and art compatible?
Not sure what this question means. Do you mean sex as a topic of art (i.e. depiction of sex in art)? In that case, yes. Do you mean sex as art (i.e.performance of sexual acts as art)? In that case I would at least doubt it. Or do you mean, whether only sexual abstinence can produce true art. In that case definitely no.
2. You aren't hungry but have ready access to good food. Do you eat?
In moderation (I hope, but I still weigh close to 100kg)
3. Strings quartet or woodwinds quintet?
Woodwinds!!!!! (independent of number)
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1. Should (voluntary) incest be legally forbidden and persecuted?
(A couple is currently appealing for the abolition of that ban over here)
2. Your favorite painter or graphic artist?
3. Landscape paintings, depictions of humans or pictures of inanimate objects?
1. Should (voluntary) incest be legally forbidden and persecuted?
(A couple is currently appealing for the abolition of that ban over here)
What kind (level) of incest? In some places is illegal between 1st degree cousins (which is not recommendable, but possible). A very different case between direct siblings or parents and children (which to my eyes is close to rape). Is it possible for the worse cases of incest to be really concensual? Does law & prosecution really prevent it? :-\
2. Your favorite painter or graphic artist?
I love Leonardo, or Picasso but I'm going with Goya for now.
3. Landscape paintings, depictions of humans or pictures of inanimate objects?
Hard one again, I guess humans.
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1. In your opinion what makes a law work?
2. Airboat or Zeppelin?
3. Debussy or Ravel?
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What kind (level) of incest? In some places is illegal between 1st degree cousins (which is not recommendable, but possible).
In Jewish families it is very common for 1st cousins to marry.
1. In your opinion what makes a law work?
Laws work? Wow, that's news to me. :mrgreen:
2. Airboat or Zeppelin?
Led Zeppelin!!!! ;D
3. Debussy or Ravel?
Can't really decide, as I'm not very familiar with both (I've heard something from both of them, but I would lie, if I said I remember it very well and could actually rate it)
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1. What time did you go to bed last night?
2. Do you like sleeping?
3. What is the longest time you stayed awake in one run?
1. What time did you go to bed last night?
Around midnight, I think.
2. Do you like sleeping?
Yes. WAY more than I used to.
3. What is the longest time you stayed awake in one run?
From a Tuesday morning at 7:30 until Sunday morning at about 9:30. That would be 5 days and 2 hours. I was at work at a flower shop, with multiple funerals, Mother's Day and MORE funerals. I got ONE hot shower, two "hose off in the alley and change clothes" showers and maybe 6 meals in that time. And I worked standing up.
I had to be back at work by noon on Monday. I was 25 and could still handle it. (Contrast it to the last Valentine's Day I worked, where I couldn't make 72 hours without a 2 hour nap at about the 60 hour mark. I was 51 then.) Damn, i'm old...
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1. What is your favorite spectator sport?
2. What size shoe do you wear?
3. What do you do when you have a cold?
1. What is your favorite spectator sport?
They all bore me and Brockian Ultra-Cricket is not played/televised around here (nor do I own a TV)
2. What size shoe do you wear?
44 or 45
3. What do you do when you have a cold?
sneeze ;)
Honestly, not much. Waiting for it to be over
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1. Do you like mystery meat (or mystery veggie pie, shoul you be vegan or related)?
2. Do you like rain?
3. How's the weather where you are currently?
1. Do you like mystery meat (or mystery veggie pie, shoul you be vegan or related)?
I'm afraid to lift the crust up in a Red Cow pie...so I suppose I have to say yes!
2. Do you like rain?
I do like rain but, like alcohol, in moderation.
3. How's the weather where you are currently?
Too much rain ...and alcohol!
1. What do you consider was your greatest achievement?
2. Do you like Mondays?
3. Have you ever met...'The Dark Avenger'?
What do you consider was your greatest achievement?
Arrr, the last time me crew mutinied, I were cast adrift in an open boat 4200 miles from the nearest port. Detonating the remote controlled bomb I'd left behind on me ship gave me a great sense o' satisfaction, as I were already on the only lifeboat.
Do you like Mondays?
Aye. That bloke Friday has a nice one too.
Have you ever met...'The Dark Avenger'?
3. Gah! That stupid bastid still owes me for a peg leg.
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1. Maggits or weevils?
2. Temperature: below 30F or above 90F?
3. Glass or pewter tankards?
1. Maggits or weevils?
weevils look rather sweet; I like the kind of constant motion and general heaving in my bag of flour. Maggits jest look ugh.
2. Temperature: below 30F or above 90F?
Above 90F. Any opportunity to take my clothes off. Below 30F and I worry about bits of me snapping off.
3. Glass or pewter tankards?
Glass. I like to see the poison before I swallow it. And I can't stand the taste of metal polish.
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1. If you had four legs what would you do with them?
2. Black&White TV/Film or colour?
3. Describe your attitude to irrelevant minors.
1. If you had four legs what would you do with them?
Run! Run Joe, Run! Run for your life...!
2. Black&White TV/Film or colour?
I do like B/W but if I have to choose colo(u)r.
3. Describe your attitude to irrelevant minors.
Friendly if they are not annoying, patient if they are (because murder of children is frowned upon in our society ;) ).
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1. Cheney crashed in his chopper, he the only survivor, he is badly injured and these precious seconds can save his life, you are a photographer and the only person around, the question is: do you use colo(u)r film or B&W?
2. No, seriously, what lense would you use?
3. Digital or film?
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1. Cheney crashed in his chopper, he the only survivor, he is badly injured and these precious seconds can save his life, you are a photographer and the only person around, the question is: do you use colo(u)r film or B&W?
I'd probably be carrying color, so I would e-mail Kodak to send me some B&W, preferably by slow tortoise. Of course, I would NOT give away the subject of the impending shoot.
2. No, seriously, what lense would you use?
Telephoto, because I wouldn't get too near that rancid bag of ill wind, dead or alive. The stupid might be contagious.
3. Digital or film?
Digital, because I could just download it and sell it to multiple sources--to pay for the party!!
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1. Pineapple or papaya?
2. Blue jeans or black tie?
3. if you had to have one or the other, would you rather suffer from a head cold or a head ache?
1. Pineapple or papaya?
Neither!
2. Blue jeans or black tie?
Blue jeans. I hate ties.
3. if you had to have one or the other, would you rather suffer from a head cold or a head ache?
Cold
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1. Halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli? ;)
2. Do you prefer to be bored or scared to death?
3. What did you have for dinner yesterday?
1. Halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli?
I've gone off Tripoli since they stopped doing that Pistachio flavour ice cream...so it will have to be Monte.
2. Do you prefer to be bored or scared to death?
Oh, to be given the choice!
3. What did you have for dinner yesterday?
Fish Head Stew...as usual!
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1. What would you add to Fish Head Stew to improve the recipe? (please, Oh PLEASE!).
2. Who is your favourite Great Master?
3. Who was your favourite teacher at school?
1. What would you add to Fish Head Stew to improve the recipe? (please, Oh PLEASE!).
A large amount of either chilli powder or curry paste can usually cover up a large multitude of sins. On second thoughts, with FHS, you probably would be better to use both, plus tons of garlic and brandy... and caustic soda couldn't hurt, either.
2. Who is your favourite Great Master?
Well, I always thought Michelangelo was reasonably talented for a Holywood actor. Oh, sorry, that was Charlton Heston, wasn't it?
3. Who was your favourite teacher at school?
Eddy De Jong, our senior Physics Master. He was a great teacher, had a real love of the subject and was able to impart enthusiasm for it despite the childish curriculum we had to follow (I was reading about quantum mechanics at the time in the formal curriculum we had to study billiard ball collisions - good grief!) His experiments NEVER worked, but he managed to impart more leaning out of our working out why they didn't than we would ever have gained if they had. Somehow he managed to teach us what we needed to know to pass the exams, while also actually teaching us a great deal more about the subject and getting into the real meaty stuff of the current leading edge physics the time.
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1. Who is you favourite comedian or comedy act?
2. Adventure holiday or luxury all the way?
3. You are entertaining an overseas visitor for a few days, what relatively nearby attraction do you just have to take them to?
1. Who is you favourite comedian or comedy act?
An Argentinian group of musical comedy called Les Luthiers, sadly for the english speakers the scripts have heavy use of puns & double entendres to be translated successfully. In english I like George Carlin.
2. Adventure holiday or luxury all the way?
Adventure now that I can, in 30 years I'll do luxury (if I can afford it).
3. You are entertaining an overseas visitor for a few days, what relatively nearby attraction do you just have to take them to?
Well, being in Florida everybody wants to either see the bloody parks in Orlando or kill their feet doing shopping. More interesting destinies like Saint Augustine or the keys can be more expensive, but perhaps -if money is not in question- diving on the coral reefs.
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1. Cubism or pointillism?
2. Pyramids or temples?
3. Doric, Phrygian or Mixolydian?
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ok, modal or tonal?
::)
oookay, gregorian chant or Mary had a little lamb?
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1. Cubism or pointillism?
Pointillism, but more Pissaro or Lemmen than Seurat.
2. Pyramids or temples?
Temples. Pyramids are all dark and got ghosties innem.
3. Doric, Phrygian or Mixolydian?
Lydian, actually. Maybe Aeolian.
ok, modal or tonal?
Well, the modern conception of modes describes a system where each mode encompasses the usual diatonic scale but with a different tonic or tonal center. So, I would say...it depends.
oookay, gregorian chant or Mary had a little lamb?
Plato and Aristotle be damned, I MUST have a wider selection!! The ethos of my music cannot be that limited.
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1. What is your favorite sandwich?
2. What crunchy accompaniment with it? Fritos? Doritos? Crisps/potato chips? What flavor?
3.Favorite form of chocolate?
1. What is your favorite sandwich?
Bahn mi, hands down. My $3.13 'lunch out' indulgence, though not weekly anymore.
2. What crunchy accompaniment with it? Fritos? Doritos? Crisps/potato chips? What flavor?
With sandwiches in general - green salad! Them's snack food.... I can eat a bag if I actually sit down with one*, but they're not allowed to replace 'real food'.
3.Favorite form of chocolate?
Dark, dark, dark.... up to 86% cocoa, preferrably organic & free-trade. But I'll also take milk chocolate/hazelnut truffles, and Tim Tams are a close contender - BEST COOKIES/BISCUITS EVER.
*this is why we can't have junk food in the house... whatever one person can eat casually, the other is prone to finish in one go. Also applies to fruit - we have arguements over bartlet pears, because she eats 'em all before they are ripe enough for my tastes. ;D
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#1 Your FAVORITE COOKIE EVER (warning - if it's a homemade cookie, you must provide recipe :devil2: )
#2 30-word review of aparagus (your opinion)
#3 1500 word short essay on the "Origins of Spirituality". Just kidding. Name your latest 'new favorite song'! Feel free to quote lyrics.
#1 Your FAVORITE COOKIE EVER (warning - if it's a homemade cookie, you must provide recipe )
the one that you have to have cookies enabled for to get onto this forum
#2 30-word review of aparagus (your opinion)
Asparagus is king amongst vegetables. In soup, steamed, in stir fries the subtle flavour adds to most dishes. Samphire (sea asparagus) is even better but hard to get hold of.
#3 1500 word short essay on the "Origins of Spirituality". Just kidding. Name your latest 'new favorite song'! Feel free to quote lyrics.
The evolution of spiritruality can be traced back to the origins of the mammalian brain...... etc
how new is new? the last thing I brought and liked was the eraser by Thom Yorke.
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1) does writing essays contribute to human knowledge. If so why do we not do it more often?
2) are goats the pinnacle of evolution?
3) will you be attending the topics in herd health conference? (see calendar ;D)
1) does writing essays contribute to human knowledge. If so why do we not do it more often?
Not necessarily. When I was in school my friend Dai wrote a 1000 word essay which he based almost entirely on Bram Stoker's Dracula...the teacher noticed and Dai got detention!
2) are goats the pinnacle of evolution?
Not on the Gallapagos islands where, rather unsportingly in my opinion, they have been exterminated.
3) will you be attending the topics in herd health conference? (see calendar Grin)
Are there any topics relating to scurvy or Fish Head Stew? ...if so, yes.
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1. Jean Paul Sartre or Cap'n Cronan?
2. Who would you like to be marooned on a desert island with?
3. What questions would you like to ask Radio 'TalkPort'?
1. Jean Paul Sartre or Cap'n Cronan?
Cap'n Crunch
2. Who would you like to be marooned on a desert island with?
The Dalai Lama
3. What questions would you like to ask Radio 'TalkPort'?
"How do you turn this thing on?"
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1) How do you prefer your rice?
2) Who would you rather be stranded on a desert island with: Anne Rice or Condoleeza Rice?
3) If you could retrieve one thing from your past it would be what?
1) How do you prefer your rice?
Steamed. Or boiled. Or fried. Rice pudding is pretty good too. And risotto. Well, to tell the truth I just like rice.
2) Who would you rather be stranded on a desert island with: Anne Rice or Condoleeza Rice?
Condy gets my vote. That way when the cannibals arrive I reckon I'll have plenty of time to nick off while they get bamboozled when she tries to explain to them why they really don't want to eat anyone and would rather sit down a play a nice game of tiddly winks.
3) If you could retrieve one thing from your past it would be what?
The coloured pencil drawing I did from the photo of Edwin Aldrin standing on the moon - the one with Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Module reflected in his visor. I was really proud of that drawing and felt it really conveyed the spirit of the times. Unfortunately my parent tossed it out with a load of other carp when they moved houses when I was in the Navy.
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1. Oysters natural, mournay or Kilpatrick?
2. A rich full-bodied peppery Shiraz or a light crisp chardonnay?
3. Read the book first and then see the movie, or the other way round?
1. Oysters natural, mournay or Kilpatrick?
Yarrr, definitely Sydney Rock Oysters natural with a squeeze of lemon.
2. A rich full-bodied peppery Shiraz or a light crisp chardonnay?
Depends on the meal, but I'd lean towards a nice chardonnay.
3. Read the book first and then see the movie, or the other way round?
I'm a slacker when it comes to reading fiction. I'd much prefer to write my own fiction in the Pirates Section ;D.
I'm a self confessed non-fiction buff when it comes to books, so I tend to watch the movie.
1. Fish and chips or Spaghetti Bolognaise?
2. Vicunas or Llamas?
3. Tutenkhamen or Akhenaten?
1. Fish and chips or Spaghetti Bolognaise?
Fish, if it is smoked salmon.
2. Vicunas or Llamas?
Bakhtrian Camels
3. Tutenkhamen or Akhenaten?
The father. The son was an obvious loser. ;)
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1. Cuneiform or hieroglyphs?
2. What foreign languages do you speak/understand (piratese not included)?
3. What style is your handwriting?
1. Cuneiform or hieroglyphs?
I can't read either of them... Therefore I'd go with cyrillics...
2. What foreign languages do you speak/understand (piratese not included)?
Apart from Czech, which is my native language, I speak English, German, French and Serbian.
3. What style is your handwriting?
Mostly my handwriting is very bad.
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1. Do you take care of your finances on your own or do you have someone who does it for you?
2. Rich and healthy or poor and sick?
3. Will you give me a few thousands euros?
If you are Czech, why didn't you guess the last movie? ???
1. Do you take care of your finances on your own or do you have someone who does it for you?
The more important things are handled by my father
2. Rich and healthy or poor and sick?
Be or prefer? going to be the latter probably
3. Will you give me a few thousands euros?
Unlikely (woher nehmen?)
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1. sweet or spicy?
2. simple food or refined (no chemical connotation)? [quantity at your disposal]
3. walking or biking?
1. sweet or spicy?
Definitively sweet (I miss my granma :'( ).
2. simple food or refined (no chemical connotation)? [quantity at your disposal]
simple = fruit
refined = nicely cooked?
depending on the moment, then
3. walking or biking?
In flat biking, in mountain walking.
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1. Have ever you eaten raw beef?
2. Do you eat chocolate when you are depressed?
3. Adagio, Andante, Allegro or Presto?
1. Have ever you eaten raw beef?
I think I may have tried some raw ground round once as a kid, just to see what it was like. Not that ground round could be considered beef.
2. Do you eat chocolate when you are depressed?
If I did, I would be depresed all the time, just so I could eat chocolate. Any time is chocolate time!
3. Adagio, Andante, Allegro or Presto?
Allegro. I'm a lively kind of person.
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1) What's your favorite black and white movie?
2) What did you last see at an art gallery?
3) Do you find it easy to forgive?
1) What's your favorite black and white movie?
Eraserhead, by David Lynch.
2) What did you last see at an art gallery?
I've been to a exhibition by the students in Belgrade (Serbia). My friend had a picture exhibited there, so I had to go.
3) Do you find it easy to forgive?
I never forgive.
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1. Do you do sports on regular basis?
2. When was the last time you puked because of too much alcohol?
3. Am I a drunk?
1. Do you do sports on regular basis?
Not any more. Exercise sets off carcinoid crisis. In the past, I played softball (catcher, designated hitter), volleyball (spiker, although I was second shortest--I used to be able to jump) and WAY too much pick-up (American) football (supposed to be touch, ended up tackle). I have a metal plate in my left knee from doing that a lot as a teen and young woman, and a couple screws in one ankle.
2. When was the last time you puked because of too much alcohol? 1987
3. Am I a drunk?
Quite possibly. There are criteria that say you might well be, but I'm not the Acme Judgment Company, so I won't be commenting further. I do care about you, and want you to be sure to keep control of your life.
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1.Leopard print or Zebra print?
2.Fresh fruit or fancy dessert?
3.What movie are you anticipating seeing?
1.Leopard print or Zebra print?
Zebra print. prefferably on a herd of Zebra. I love the way they blend into one another making it hard to pick out the individual. painted a picture of it once too.
2.Fresh fruit or fancy dessert?
crikey! Can I not just have a sausage sandwich??? If pressed then point me towards a grape.
3.What movie are you anticipating seeing?
None in particular but the Bradford International Film Festival (http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bff/2007/home.asp) has just started so I will be catching some unusual flicks with my trusty friend of film card!
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1. Pans Labyrinth (http://www.panslabyrinth.com/) or Pans people (http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/trivia/pans_people/)?
2. Red Arrows (http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/) or Red Baron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen)?
3. Green Eggs and Ham or Green ham and eggs?
PS. Stick the sound on when visiting the Pans Labyrinth site and you get the rather wonderful theme and soundtrack
1. Pans Labyrinth or Pans people?
Have not seen the movie, but one of Pan's People is named Dee Dee, so I'll stick with that.
2. Red Arrows or Red Baron?
Red Arrows. The Red Baron fought Snoopy, and i'm just NOT putting up with that.
3. Green Eggs and Ham or Green ham and eggs?
I prefer picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts with The Sneeches, as I am severely allergic to eggs, no matter what color. I'll take the ham, though.
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1. If you had to be stuck on a deserted island with one of the following, who would you choose, and why?
A. Ann Coulter
B. Tony Blair
C. George Walker Bush
D. George Herbert Walker Bush
E. French and Saunders
F. Cheney and Rumsfeld
G. The Olson Twins
H. The Beckhams
I. Dame Edna Everage
2. If you could rid the world of one of the above, which would you choose? Why?
3. Eddie Izzard. Funny or not?
1. Hm, as a psychopathic teenie slasher it should be the Olsen twins :o
Otherwise Dame Edna seems the least objectionable.
2. Going back in time, strangling Barbara Bush would be the strategically best option (provided it would be before she met George I).
Although Cheney is more evil, without Rumsfeld he would not be where he is now. Put both in an exact replica of the Apollo 13 capsule and send them up!
3.I only know him from "Shadow of the Vampire" and there he is not funny (would be inappropriate for the movie anyway)
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1. How far is the next forest from where you live?
2. Do you have a driving license and since when, if you do?
3. Your favorite musical instrument?
1) how far is the next forest from where you live?
I live next to a fairly large block of forest. As to real big forest I'd have to say Hot Springs Arkansas-bout 30 minutes
2)DL? and since when.
I have an Arkansas CDL-B license. First licensed in Tucson Arizona in 1987- but been driving since age of 13.
3)Fav. musical instrument?
Bass weilded by Nikki Sixx circa 1986( oh he was just so beautiful). Piano.
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1) Pizza or burgers?
2) Spring or Fall (if you have "4" seasons)? If not explain fav.
3)Luciano Pavarotti or Placido Domingo?
1) Pizza or burgers?
Pizza, no burger fan
2) Spring or Fall (if you have "4" seasons)? If not explain fav.
Winter, if there is snow, otherwise probably spring.
3)Luciano Pavarotti or Placido Domingo?
Neither. Carreras would do but I am not very fond of tenors. Give me a decent Bulgarian bass!
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1.Favorite card game?
2.Favorite board game?
3.Favorite traditional song?
1) Pizza or burgers?
Pizza, extra cheese, please.
2) Spring or Fall (if you have "4" seasons)? If not explain fav.
Fall sounds pretty (never seen it 1st person) but hard to clean, I guess spring. Back home there is a dry season and a wet season (I prefer the dry for mostly obvious reasons). Here in FL is either hot season or Ultra-I-Can-Not-Stand-It-Any-More-So-Hot season, guess which one I prefer...
3)Luciano Pavarotti or Placido Domingo?
Nowadays? Domingo. Not only he is a far better musician but his voice is still there. A few years back Pavarotti had the edge because the beautiful color of his voice, but it is harder for him lately.
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Nooooooo...! Swato!
Ok, those too:
1.Favorite card game?
King
2.Favorite board game?
Chess
3.Favorite traditional song?
mmm, anonymous? La marselleise? (the folk music that I'm thinking about is relatively recent [past century]). :-\
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1. Fettucini: carbonara or Alfredo?
2. Starfish or sea slug?
3. Bartok or Kodaly?
1. Fettucini: carbonara or Alfredo?
I know not of what you speak. Is it FORIEGN? I only do local. now please move away from the precious things!
2. Starfish or sea slug?
I have never eaten either so I have no comment
3. Bartok or Kodaly?
I have never eaten either so I have no comment
(besides the semi breves get stuck in your teeth!)
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1. ghost or machli achari?
2. did you undersand that question?
3. If not would you like to come round and I will take you on a trip to the Aagrah?
1. Fettucini: carbonara or Alfredo?
Alfredo
2. Starfish or sea slug?
Starfish, but I really like sand dollars more...
3. Bartok or Kodaly?
Bartok. Prefer his music. Although Zoltan Kodaly was a better educator and may prove to be the more long-lasting of the two, historically, I just prefer Bartok.
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1. Hypothesis: There are 2 movies that you want to see at a film festival, both of which won't be available again for some time. One is reputed to be a major serious film on a somber topic, the other is projected to be the next "lighthearted feel-good, FUN movie of the century". Which one do you go see?
2. There are three options for snack time. You can have vanilla ice cream, raisin cake or bananas and berries. Which do you choose?
3. Ralph Vaughn Williams or Willie Nelson?
OK Goat Starer, i'll answer yours, the somenoe can answer mine...
1. ghost or machli achari?
Huh?
2. did you undersand that question?
What question? Is this the #3 bus?
3. If not would you like to come round and I will take you on a trip to the Aagrah?
Sure!! I like to go places, and not understanding is my default position. Can I bring my dog?
1. Hypothesis: There are 2 movies that you want to see at a film festival, both of which won't be available again for some time. One is reputed to be a major serious film on a somber topic, the other is projected to be the next "lighthearted feel-good, FUN movie of the century". Which one do you go see?
That sounds like a choice between Dancer in the dark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/) and Amelie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/). I'll choose the lighthearted, in fact I have two or three somber ones on queue that I haven't had the gut to watch yet.
2. There are three options for snack time. You can have vanilla ice cream, raisin cake or bananas and berries. Which do you choose?
Vainilla ice cream although it would be better if it were strawberry.
3. Ralph Vaughn Williams or Willie Nelson?
Vaughan Williams all the way, love all his symphonic stuff.
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1. Ok, a serious one, respond in all honesty, do you think that under specific conditions you could kill someone?
2. If yes, which conditions? If not, what conditions are required for you to do your worse?
3. Do you listen to music when you are angry? If yes, which music?
1. Ok, a serious one, respond in all honesty, do you think that under specific conditions you could kill someone?
I think I would, if it would be utterly necessary.
2. If yes, which conditions? If not, what conditions are required for you to do your worse?
I think that if I were in the position, when somebody is endangering my family, in a way that it would be to kill or to be killed, I would be able to do it.
The other situation would be, if a person I love is suffering a lot, dying away, to cut his/her pain. I don't know if I would be able to kill that person (try to kill someone you love), but I think I would at least try.
3. Do you listen to music when you are angry? If yes, which music?
I listen to music almost all the time, so even when I'm angry. Which music is depending on the level of angriness. Sometimes I need to vent my anger, so I listed to hard rock and similiar, sometimes I need to calm down, so I listen to the type of music I calm down with.
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1. Water with or without bubbles?
2. Do you prefer warm breakfast (eggs, sausages and similiar), cold breakfast (slice of bread) or no breakfast at all (just a quick coffee before leaving home)?
3. Do you swear a lot while driving? (if not a driver, then as a pedestrian watching drivers)
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Sure!! I like to go places, and not understanding is my default position. Can I bring my dog?
I think they generally frown on Dogs in Kashmiri restaurants. It is partly a cultural thing and partly about hygiene.
Now please return to what you were doing..........
1. Water with or without bubbles?
For drinking purposes with please
2. Do you prefer warm breakfast (eggs, sausages and similiar), cold breakfast (slice of bread) or no breakfast at all (just a quick coffee before leaving home)?
Cold breakfast (except for the tea) usually bread based
3. Do you swear a lot while driving? (if not a driver, then as a pedestrian watching drivers)
Occasionally (not aloud). Swearing time is in front of the computer.
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1.Do you consume erotic (not prawn) literature/movies/related?
2.The clothed or the naked Maya? (Goya not Gibson)
3.Would you refuse to vote for a politician because (s)he played a nude role in his/her youth (we had a case or two over here where the opponent tried to smear with that)?
1.Do you consume erotic (not prawn) literature/movies/related?
Occasionally
2.The clothed or the naked Maya? (Goya not Gibson)
Naked
3.Would you refuse to vote for a politician because (s)he played a nude role in his/her youth (we had a case or two over here where the opponent tried to smear with that)?
No, what possible connection could there be with a person's ability to act as an elected representative and the roles they played, nude or otherwise, in their youth or even last week, for that matter? I fail to see how anyone can make in issue of this.
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1. What is your favourite "comfort food"?
2. Do you remember your First Kiss and if so, with whom was it?
3. Do you still know/keep in touch with the person in Q2?
1. What is your favourite "comfort food"?
Cooked type, it's "Roasty Noodles" where you cook the roast with onions until it's brown and savoury, then cook the wide-cut egg noodles in the roast juices. (Must have massive amounts of protein, more that mac & cheese will give.) Snacky type, it's Cheetos. (Southern US'ians will know what I mean.) CRUNCHY Cheetos.
2. Do you remember your First Kiss and if so, with whom was it?
Yes, I do. His name was Larry Emmons, and we dated off and on for over 7 years. Both his mother and his sister were continually frustrated with me for not encouraging the issue to go farther.
3. Do you still know/keep in touch with the person in Q2?
Yes. His Mom and mine have been friends for years. The families keep in touch. His wife took almost 20 years to get over being jealous whenever I was around. I postponed my first cancer surgery to do the flowers for his Dad's funeral...I had previously done his sister's funeral flowers as well...it's a whole "family" thing. His wife has finally accepted the concept that I DO NOT want her husband, after I told her that IF I had wanted him, I would have had him to start. :devil2:
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1. City, small town or country? (Prefer, not where do you...)
2. Rice or potatoes?
3. Elvis or Buddy?
1. City, small town or country? (Prefer, not where do you...)
Country, then suburbia, then city. I liked cities in my twenties but now I like green bits and peace and quiet.
Living in Cambridgeshire there's plenty of open space, but I still miss the dense trees of suburban Surrey. If I had the money I'd live (but probably not for long) in Midsomer Murders territory (if that's shown in the U.S.).
2. Rice or potatoes?
Potatoes.
3. Elvis or Buddy?
Elvis, but, and this is heresy, I sometimes prefer covers to the originals.
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1 CDs or MP3s?
2 Your two favourite films/movies.
3 The best Miss Marple? Joan Hickson, Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury or Geraldine McEwan?
1 CDs or MP3s?
More used to CDs
2 Your two favourite films/movies.
Shifting from time to time.
The Cruel Sea and The Way to the Stars are clearly high on the list
3 The best Miss Marple? Joan Hickson, Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury or Geraldine McEwan?
Who could beat MR in this?
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1. How far is the next public phone from where you are?
2. Same for letter box? (not the one you receive letters in)
3. If you own/drive/etc a car: Diesel or gasoline?
1. How far is the next public phone from where you are?
About 2-3 blocks in a shopping mall.
2. Same for letter box? (not the one you receive letters in)
2-3 blocks in the opposite direction.
3. If you own/drive/etc a car: Diesel or gasoline?
Our cars are gas but the idea of using diesel is attractive (apparently making biodiesel out of waste cooking oil isn't as complicated) if the maker isn't VW (quality issues lately). Mercedes and BMW have some offerings there but I can't afford them, and I have no plans to buy a truck.
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1. Would you consider buying solar panels (photovoltaic or for heating water)?
2. Do you monitor how many miles-km/gallon-liter is your car doing?
3. If you could buy a 1 person vehicle as efficient as a motorcycle but less noisy and as safe as a car, would you?
1. Would you consider buying solar panels (photovoltaic or for heating water)?
Not at the moment because the warm water comes directly from the plant (power-heat-coupling)
Otherwise I would
2. Do you monitor how many miles-km/gallon-liter is your car doing?
Not owning one I don't (and over here the view is liter/km). I would monitor it, if I had one.
3. If you could buy a 1 person vehicle as efficient as a motorcycle but less noisy and as safe as a car, would you?
I wait for a modern version of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200).
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1. What is your name (I won't take Ponder Stibbons for an answer) ;)?
2. What is your task?
3. What is the favorite color of the capital of Assyria?
1. What is your name (I won't take Ponder Stibbons for an answer)
Kit
2. What is your task?
To bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother Snape!
3. What is the favorite color of the capital of Assyria? Damascus Purple
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1. Do you have automatonophobia?
2.If you could pick any job title (such as Official Naptaker) what would it be?
3. Are you tired of silly questions?
1. Do you have automatonophobia?
Fine with ventriloquists's dummies and wax statues. Am pretty scared of the statue in Don Giovanni (if that counts) and terrified of Daleks.
2.If you could pick any job title (such as Official Naptaker) what would it be?
Gossip and Superstar.
3. Are you tired of silly questions?
I like silly questions best when mixed up with sensible ones.
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1. Who won the war?
2. Was R.D.Laing a good thing?
3. What do you consider your greatest contribution to humanity?
1. Who won the war?
Ha. You don't fool me with questions like that. I've seen "The History Boys". I know that if I want a place at Oxbridge then I have to make my answer stand out. Therefore the correct answer is Lower Volta, for obvious reasons.
More seriously? The USA and USSR. The first through the transfer of assets from the British Empire at the start, the concomitant industrialisation and establishment of bases throughout the world. The USSR through the occupation of Eastern Europe and the establishment of a stereotypical bogeyman fascist westerner with which to frighten the proles.
You could argue the end of Empire was "a good thing" for Africa and Asia, but like the late Queen Mother, my personal view is that the explosive decolonisation carried out for cash and U.S. pressure reasons was undertaken too rapidly; without time for a controlled tranfer to a non-corrupt local civil service in most cases.
2. Was R.D.Laing a good thing?
My ability to comment intelligently on this issue is best demonstrated by the fact I thought R.D.Laing was an American singer. What's the correct answer?
3. What do you consider your greatest contribution to humanity?
A C++ memory manager written about 1995. Its day will come.
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1 Will Gordon Brown get to be PM?
2 Is the U.S. going into recession?
3 Why does Tony Blair let bad things happen?
1 Will Gordon Brown get to be PM?
Of Scotland?
2 Is the U.S. going into recession?
Yes, but it will hurt the wrong people again
3 Why does Tony Blair let bad things happen?
a) he is a poodle
b) he doesn't doodle
c) he doesn't care about the whole caboodle
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1. Why is there no rhyme for monster?
2. Who is your favorite candidate for US president (declared or undeclared but not Gore)?
3. Do you prefer dogs, cats, fish or reptiles for pets?
1. Why is there no rhyme for monster?
Because English is weird
2. Who is your favorite candidate for US president (declared or undeclared but not Gore)?
I'm not really happy with anyone at all. I thought about McCain, but he's cuddled up too much with theocons. Barak has potentially lost my my vote with his didging of questions--granted, it was on homosexuality, and that got Pace into hot water, but he could at least say that he has no desire to answer. Yeesh. Be striaghtforward.
3. Do you prefer dogs, cats, fish or reptiles for pets?
Cats, and possibly fish. I don't have the attention span for dogs, etc.
nice to see you around kanoloa but questions????
Given that Kanaloa hasn't showed up yet I'll start the questions to keep things going.
1. Was Kanaloa kidnapped?
2. Are the squidlings involved?
3. What is that muffled sound?
1. Was Kanaloa kidnapped?
Only by Life. It keeps moving on, no matter how much you want to just hang out at the Monastery.
2. Are the squidlings involved?
My sweet baby squidlings?? How could you ASK such a question?? (OF course they are, they're squidlings, it's their bound duty to be involved in EVERYTHING.)
3. What is that muffled sound?
What?? I have a head cold, ALL sounds are muffled.
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1. Are the leprechauns in your neighborhood extremely particular about what shade of green?
2. Do you miss the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOM color of pink?
3. Has anyone seen my mind? I seem to have lost it. Again.
1. Are the leprechauns in your neighborhood extremely particular about what shade of green?
Yes, they don't want to be mistaken for the Absinth Green Fairies.
2. Do you miss the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOM color of pink?
Of course I do. Life's not been the same since I've seen that colour.
3. Has anyone seen my mind? I seem to have lost it. Again.
It probably ran off with mine. I seem to miss it as well.
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1. What do we need brains for anyway?
2. Do you have your pants on?
3. Are you paranoid?
1. What do we need brains for anyway?
To translate the TV input into consumerist choices
2. Do you have your pants on?
Yes
3. Are you paranoid?
You are asking too many questions, stranger!
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1. Does pure ethanol do the job? (except spoiling the grammar of course)
2. Horror or Prawn (in literature, movies, art etc,)?
3. Do you own the house you live in or do you have to pay rent (house or flat)?
1) Does pure ethanol do the job?...
sure, well not in coffee but otherwise, sure
2)Horror of Prawn?
Horror- not into Prawn really. I'm a child of the 80's and no one did horror like the 80's ( now I didn't say it was all good Horror- just 80's Horror)
2)Own or rent?
I'm buying a fantastic deluxe 16x80 mobile home- complete with hot and cold running water. Ok I'm being sarcastic a bit here- I am buying the trailer- and yes I live in the southern USA( no smart comments!)- it's ok, it's livable, the park where I well park it is pretty nice we have a lake and such so overall is could be a much worse living situation.
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1) Do you feel it necessary to pluck or pull nostril hair, either from your nose or anothers?
2) American football or Football as played elsewhere ( Soccer here in the USA)?
3) Have you ever eaten fried green tomatos?
1) Do you feel it necessary to pluck or pull nostril hair, either from your nose or anothers?
I think shaving them might do the job.
2) American football or Football as played elsewhere ( Soccer here in the USA)?
Of course the way football is played everywhere else. I don't think American Football should be called football anyway. It's more like Rugby in armor.
3) Have you ever eaten fried green tomatos?
No, but I've eaten fried red tomatos once. Can't remember much of it anymore, it's been a long time...
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1. Is horse piss tastier than the American Budweiser?
2. Potatoes, rice or french fries?
3. What is your favourite cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? If possible, provide a recipe...
1. Is horse piss tastier than the American Budweiser?
Its a guess but I would say probably yes. the only thing that might possibly be worse than american budweiser is horse piss from a horse that has done nothing but drink american budweiser for several weeks. Even then you might find the process improves the flavour!
2. Potatoes, rice or french fries?
mashed potatoes with sausages, rice with curry, chips with steak
3. What is your favourite cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? If possible, provide a recipe...
one I had in Berlin a few weeks ago won this hands down...
Death in the Afternoon
Pernod
Champagne
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1) Do you like caves?
2) what is your guiltiest pleasure?
3) Do you play computer games? If so what is your all time favorite?
1) Do you like caves?
Yep, big time. Once visited the cave at Margaret River in Western Australia that has the world's longest straw stalictite (about 6m from memory), georgeous. However, my favourite caves are Wombeyan Caves (http://www.showcaves.com/english/au/region/Wombeyan.html) in NSW.
2) what is your guiltiest pleasure?
Chucking a "sickie" (http://www.gorskys.com.au/articles/how-to-chuck-a-sicke.html).
3) Do you play computer games? If so what is your all time favorite?
Not much these days, but my all time fave was Space Quest II
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1. Favourite hard cheese?
2. Soft cheese?
3. Blue cheese?
If you don't like cheese or can't eat it, then tell us your favourite red wine, white wine and sparkling wine?
1. Favourite hard cheese?
2. Soft cheese?
3. Blue cheese?
If you don't like cheese or can't eat it, then tell us your favourite red wine, white wine and sparkling wine?
Boy, make my life weird. SUPPOSEDLY, I can't have aged cheeses. I can't have wine either. Carcinoid syndrome, ya know...
BUT!!
1) My favorite cheese of all times is a really good Swiss. Or a really nice, smoky Provolone. No, the Swiss, or a smooth, nutty Baby Swiss. Ok, a Lancre cheese, but NOT the Lancre Blue. Pterry seems to have given Lancre the ability to produce a Quirm-type cheese.
2) Soft cheese?? AAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL of them. OK, Feta. (My Greek friend, Patty, introduced me to REAL Greek feta, brought home from Greece by Tia Dorothea, and it beats the HELL outta any not-really-Greek feta you've ever tasted. Tia's family produces feta for the 'carriage trade' restaurants in Athens, and has olive orchards.)
LOTS of feta.
3) Blue cheese? Has mold. That's what the blue is. I have mold allergies. Yes, I used to make a killer blue cheese sauce for pasta (as given to the Cardinal Queequeg character at Omnia), the key word being killer...for me!!
I don't want to be breathless, I don't eat blue cheese!!
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1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)
2. Do you still have any of your favorite toys or other items from childhood? What are they?
3. Is Congressman Joseph Lieberman, (Idiot, Connecticut) a total sell-out SOB, or just another rank opportunist?
1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)
burger should be in a white pain rustique with pickles, mature cheddar OR stilton, rocket and a chunky tomato sauce.
2. Do you still have any of your favorite toys or other items from childhood? What are they?
hndreds of them. My favorite has to be Commie Bunny. A rabbit won at a blue peter bring and buy sale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter) at the local Conservative club. He came with a blue rosette which was quickly switched for a red ribbon and soviet cap badge
3. Is Congressman Joseph Lieberman, (Idiot, Connecticut) a total sell-out SOB, or just another rank opportunist?
according to his own site he is a "thoughtful, principled, and effective legislator" so I would imagine he is a useless waste of space ;D
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1) Walking or cycling?
2) Would you eat / have you eaten insects?
3) Sharks - deeply misunderstood or evil killers of the sea?
1) Walking or cycling?
Walking (the bike is not safe and I won't spend money to buy a new one)
2) Would you eat / have you eaten insects?
If they are not recognisable anymore, why not? Not that I know of.
3) Sharks - deeply misunderstood or evil killers of the sea?
Evil is the wrong category but they can be pretty nasty (especially among each other).
They cannibalize their siblings even before born! They still don't deserve the negative hype as maneaters.
I personally prefer wolves and orcas.
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1. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
2. Beatles or Stones?
3. Situational Comic or Wordy Wit?
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1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)
Can't resist a hamburger question.
First make your roll. I use a plain white bread recipe (NO sugar) and roll the top of the bun liberally in sesame seeds, the bun is made fairly flat, that is not too tall and fairly wide.
Then make your patty. I use about 500g (~1lb) premium ground lean beef from my local butcher. One very finely chopped onion. Two crushed garlic cloves. 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs. One egg. One generous splash of Worcestershire sauce. One generous splash of Thai sweet chili sauce. Pinch of salt. Pepper to taste. Mix all ingredients in a bowl using your hands. If that is too "eew gross" then use a wooden spoon. Make into generous sized patties and cook over moderate heat turning once.
While the patties are cooking, cook a couple of slices of bacon and a fried egg per hamburger.
Slice the roll and lightly toast. Lightly butter. Place some shredded lettuce (iceburg, not any of that bitter rubbish here) on the bottom piece of bun, then a couple of slices of nice ripe homegrown tomatoes and a slice or two of canned beetroot. Once the meat is cooked place a patty on the salad, give it a squirt of good quality tomato ketchup and then put a slice of good quality cheddar over it then the bacon and the egg. Add salt and pepper to taste and then put the top on the bun.
Delicious and very messy. It is not possible to have a tidy hamburger and a
good hamburger at the same time IMO.
Now back to the Interview Cycle:
1. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?Buster every time.
2. Beatles or Stones?Different parts of me are arguing about this question but I think the Beatles have by a fine margin.
3. Situational Comic or Wordy Wit?Probably wordy wit more often than not, although more like the Goons, or Monty Python rather than American political humour.
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1. Do you play in the Pirates, if so, what is your favourite thread there?
2. What is the first thing you check when you log onto the HOT Forums?
3. Do you get twitchy if you haven't posted here for a couple of days?
1. Do you play in the Pirates, if so, what is your favourite thread there?
Is it enough that I play Sid Meier's Pirates (Pirates Gold to be exact) on a regular base?
2. What is the first thing you check when you log onto the HOT Forums?
New replies to your posts than unread posts since last visit.
3. Do you get twitchy if you haven't posted here for a couple of days?
I am short of founding Posters Anonymous
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1. Do you read a daily newspaper (print form)? If yes, which, if no, what else.
2. Do you read "holy texts"/scripture on a regular base?
If yes, out of faith or out of interest?
3. What's your pet's name or what would it be if you had one (or two or three or more)?
1. Do you read a daily newspaper (print form)? If yes, which, if no, what else.
Not daily.
I get our "local news" community paper delivered, but it's three times a week. I tend to read an actual "paper" newspaper only if I'm taking the train into the city for something, which doesn't happen too often.
2. Do you read "holy texts"/scripture on a regular base?
If yes, out of faith or out of interest?
Yes. I'm working my way through the Bible at the moment. My original goal was to do it every night before bed, but in practice it usually ends up being three or four nights a week.
I definitely don't read it out of faith (and perhaps unfortunately, the more I read, the more I sympathize with Mark Twain's position on Christianity and the Bible).
At this point, I do it partly out of interest, partly out of habit, but mostly because of some promises I've made, which I think I've gone into here before (though I may not have - I can't remember for sure).
3. What's your pet's name or what would it be if you had one (or two or three or more)?
I don't have a pet at present.
If I had the right sort of dog for the name (i.e. a little white fluffy dog like my wife wants to get), I'd go for "Asta", after the dog in The Thin Man.
Other names near the top of the list would be Huxley (after T.H. Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog") or Rusty (just 'cause I like the name)... but it would depend on the personality of the dog.
While I was growing up, I had a turtle named "Pokey", a budgie named "Tweetie" and several goldfish named "Jaws". I was an unoriginal child. :)
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1. What was the first "big trip" that you remember taking as a child?
2. What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
3. Your group is putting on a play. Which would you want to do: Acting, writing, directing, or running the lights... and why?
1. What was the first "big trip" that you remember taking as a child?
We didn't make 'big trips' when I was a child. When I was 15, we went all the way to the World's Fair!! It was in San Antonio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HemisFair_'68
2. What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
How crazy you wanna get? Cooking for 300 people on 4 hours notice? Storing 'some stuff', no questions asked, for my cousins, even though I KNEW they'd been running drugs in from Mexico? (It was locked in their car, in my also locked garage, but I was a student at a Baptist college at the time.) Postponing my cancer surgery for 9 days to do funeral flowers for the father of my friends? Agreeing to have a colonoscopy finished up with NO MORE DRUGS because my heart rate went wonky?
I think I will go with the always festive "Slapping the living crap out of a guy at Mardi Gras for getting a little bit too fresh, then finding out that he's from a prominent Italian 'family'." Never slap a Southern Mafioso--unless your husband happens to be "Cousin Guistina's" journalism professor. I coulda been gator food...
3. Your group is putting on a play. Which would you want to do: Acting, writing, directing, or running the lights... and why?
Heh...I have directed. I have acted, I have written and I have run lights. Writing is difficult, directing is a skill, acting is a talent, and lighting is a breeze.
I'll direct.
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1. Describe your favorite footwear.
2. You've got two hours to kill. Book, movie, TV or nap?
3. When did you first realize that you were different, that you were more thoughtful, or more inquisitive, or whatever it is that makes so many of us the rather different people that we are?
1. Describe your favorite footwear.
My bright blue leather pull on slightly taller than ankle boots. Pull on, push off, and no one else has any like them. They are not what you'd wear with anything so I wear them with everything. I've always liked idiosyncratic style.
2. You've got two hours to kill. Book, movie, TV or nap?
Til I got ill, it would have been a book, always.
Now it's often a nap that kills the two hours not the other way round.
If not, then one of my favourite TV programs, less concentration needed than a movie as all the characters are known.
Lastly, a film (video - can't get out to cinema) but that takes more energy so it would depend what was happening after the two hours.
3. When did you first realize that you were different, that you were more thoughtful, or more inquisitive, or whatever it is that makes so many of us the rather different people that we are?
When a student told me my age didn't make any difference, they could talk with me as if I was their age, and I talked with them as if I was their age. That took me by surprise. And when I thought about it, I realised it was true. It was probably the first time I fetched up against that which I later came to know as self-awareness.
For a long while I did get caught in the "being different". But more recently I have tended to get to know people who are less focused on propping up their incredibly busy lives that exclude anything and everything but keeping the show on the road, and hence have found so many different people that I am losing the sense of difference and tend to see it more as identifying with those who have a wider perspective rather than thinking I am different to those who for whatever emotional reason can't see beyond the end of their nose. Mainly because I suspect that if they could take their eye off the ball, they'd be similarly different.
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1. How do you feel about mobile (cell) phone masts?
2. Do you know anything about your great-grandparents? Great-great-grandparents?
3. What playground games did you play?
1. How do you feel about mobile (cell) phone masts?
I know they exist but I don't know whether I'd recognize one.
I never had a mobile and don't see the need.
2. Do you know anything about your great-grandparents? Great-great-grandparents?
I don't even know my grandfathers personally. Both died either before my birth or not too long after (no legal connection could ever be made ;)). There are probably some skeletons in the family closet* (there were some hints on my paternal grandmother's funeral) but if someone knows details that person isn't talking.
*probably no crimes but maybe something to do with the Nazi race laws (???)
3. What playground games did you play?
I guess the usual things like hide and seek. Memories not very clear. I was always more like sitting at home with a book.
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1. Did you ever smash dishes/glass in anger?
2. Did you ever seriously think about emigrating (and where to?)?
3. How much liquid do you take in on average daily (by drinking, not soups etc.)?
1. Did you ever smash dishes/glass in anger?
I did smash glasses while celebrating.
To clarify this: In Serbia, it's more or less a custom, to smash glasses, when celebrating. Mostly there's a song which triggers it, when it becomes difficult to control the emotions.
A few months back (4th January), we were celebrating the birthday of a very good friend of mine and almost all of her glasses/dishes/and other breakable things were smashed.
2. Did you ever seriously think about emigrating (and where to?)?
Not really. I prefer travelling.
3. How much liquid do you take in on average daily (by drinking, not soups etc.)?
Interestingly enough, we're now doing a project in statistics, where we write down all we drink. In the last three days, I've found out that I drink way too much (I have up to now about 5 litres of beer per day, 1,5 litres of wine, and 1 liter of hard stuff, together with around two litres of non-alcoholic beverages). Now a few days of detoxication period awaits me... ;)
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1. Do you save money, or spend every penny?
2. How do you listen to your music? (radio, tv, dvd, cd, vinyl, mp3?)
3. How many movies do you own (legally and illegal copies, you don't have to specify)?
1. Do you save money, or spend every penny?
Currently living on savings
2. How do you listen to your music? (radio, tv, dvd, cd, vinyl, mp3?)
Yes, no, rarely, yes, very rarely now(lacking equipment, the only working one is used by my mum), occasionally (not mobile, only on PC)
3. How many movies do you own (legally and illegal copies, you don't have to specify)?
If documentaries are included, somewhere between 1000 and 1500 (the few illegals now covered by having an original too)
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1. Do you speak "high" language or an easily discernible/recognizable dialect?
2. Would you temporarily join an organization you despise because you'd be otherwise at a significant disadvantage (or where do you think would be your tipping point on that)?
3. Are you (or were you in the past)on non-speaking terms with a close relative due to political differences?
1. Do you speak "high" language or an easily discernible/recognizable dialect?
Mmm.. I guess dialect? It is a gray area, if I speak in spanish I might use words that are part of Bogota's slang, but there isn't as much deviation from the canon language. With english it is even harder for me to determine if I am talking 'high' language or not. I believe in german there is a clearer distinction, no?
2. Would you temporarily join an organization you despise because you'd be otherwise at a significant disadvantage (or where do you think would be your tipping point on that)?
If that is the only way to bring bread home, I may cave, but I would try to look for alternatives.
3. Are you (or were you in the past)on non-speaking terms with a close relative due to political differences?
Non-speaking terms is too much, perhaps avoid discussion or not talk as often, I have a (so called) libertarian cousin who sometimes says things with which I am in complete disagreement. Funnily, dubya's administration has de-radicalized him a bit.
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1. Mandarin or Japanese?
2. Red wine or White wine (if you can't drink, apple juice or grape juice ;) ).
3. Have you heard a Fortepiano? Do Mozart/Haydn/Beethoven sound better or worse on one of those?
1. Mandarin or Japanese?
Food or language??
2. Red wine or White wine (if you can't drink, apple juice or grape juice Wink ).
Can't drink, but when I could I preferred a dry white wine. Both apple and grape juices are fairly empty calories unless they've been fortified with extra vitamins, because the processing eliminates most of the nutritional value.
3. Have you heard a Fortepiano? Do Mozart/Haydn/Beethoven sound better or worse on one of those?
Yes, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has a fantastic collection of keyboard instruments through the ages. Here's a quote about their "new" Fortepiano.
QuoteThe fortepiano ... is owned by Rice University and was built by Paul McNulty in Amsterdam in 1993. The piano is modeled after an instrument made by the Viennese builder Johann Walter in 1794. It has a pitch range of five octaves and is typical of the Viennese pianos used by the composers on this evening's program in that it has an action (known as the "Viennese" action) which yields a lighter and shallower touch than Italian or English instruments and which greatly facilitates performance of the sparkling passagework characteristic of piano music in the late eighteenth century. Instead of pedals, the piano has two knee levers. The left lever (called the moderator) acts as a damper of sound, and the right lever sustains the notes. The dampers are made of leather rather than felt, which is used in modern pianos. The hammers striking the strings are covered in leather, causing the fortepiano to have a sound that is shorter in duration than the sound of today's pianos.
McNulty's site has a lot of cool photos.
http://www.fortepiano.eu/
It's not as simple as "better" to me. I don't assume a 'better or worse' mentality on the sound of original instruments versus modern ones. Of course, I used to have season's tickets with these folks: http://www.houstonearlymusic.org/
Then again, I can be a music geek. I spent $300 to rent an "antique bassoon" for 2 weeks (an Italian faggotto over 200 years old) back in the 70's, and that was when my private college's tuition was only $550 a semester. I wasn't able to figure out the sound differences between the German antique I had access to and the Italian one I had heard, so I blew over half a semester's tuition to rent the damn thing. I have an expensive curiosity, always have had...and I am a self professed geek and weirdo. :thumbsup:
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1. What color car do you prefer?
2. Name three foods that you really, REALLY dislike.
3. Did your parents keep a baby book about you? Do you know where it is?
1. What color car do you prefer?
a dark blue
2. Name three foods that you really, REALLY dislike.
leek, anything that looks like vomit (even if I like the taste), certain types of cabbage.
3. Did your parents keep a baby book about you? Do you know where it is?
Yes, yes (about 4 m to the west from here and about 2 m up, i.e. upper shelf in book cabinet next room)
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1. What epoch of classical music do you like best (or do you dislike them all)?
2. Do you like to swim (even if you should not be able to do at the moment)?
3. what educational degree(?) do you have? (dropout, college, university etc.)
1. What epoch of classical music do you like best (or do you dislike them all)?
Hmm, tricky. Let me see, some of my favourite composers are Beethoven, Mozart, Tchiakovsky, Mahler, Wagner (when I'm in the mood), Stravinsky, Sibelieus, J.S Bach (with or without Goedel and Escher), Berlioz, Bizet (certainly not a complete list of favourites) So, I guess I would say mstly post baroque and pre modern (I just can't take the "modern classic", sounds like discordant self indulgent wankery to me). So I would say probably the nineteenth century and some of the early twentieth century, but my tastes are pretty broad and I can quite happily indulge in all manner of classical music.
2. Do you like to swim (even if you should not be able to do at the moment)?
love swimming. Actually taught myself to swim. When I was about 8 or so, I used to go to our local swimming pool practically every afternoon after school. I couldn't swim, but was unafraid of the water and could just manage a dog paddle to keep my head above the surface. However, I quickly became adept at swimming underwater and since my mother had banned me from "going past the six foot" (the pool was about 4 foot deep at one end and twelve foot deep at the other, I got around the prohibition by staying on the deep side of the divide. (You're right, I was a little shit.) I would dive off the diving board, swim under water until I needed some air, burst out of the water, like a whale breaching I suppose, to grab a lungful of air and then swim underwater again and so on, until I reached the side. Eventually I got sick of this and had a look at what the swimmers were doing and taught myself how to do it one afternoon.
3. what educational degree(?) do you have? (dropout, college, university etc.)
Diploma of Programming Technology.
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1. Have you ever watched a cricket match?
2. Devonshire Tea, or a Latte and cookie from some fancy coffee shop?
3. Plane or train?
1. Have you ever watched a cricket match?
No, and that Indian movie is still resting on the shelf waiting to be watched
2. Devonshire Tea, or a Latte and cookie from some fancy coffee shop?
Tea (called Westminster, no idea where it's actually from but cheap and mild)
Or are you referring to a British Tea ceremony? I just drink about 0.5l tee a day (one big cup for breakfast, another in the late afternoon or evening).
3. Plane or train?
Neither, if it can be avoided (I am rarely out of town). Inside the city train.
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1. How far to the next cinema?
2. Do you go there sometimes/often/never?
3. What do they charge on average?
Whoops. I'm too slow.
As a bonus, I've also included my answers to Bluenose's questions.
1. How far to the next cinema?
About 3 or 4 kilometers.
2. Do you go there sometimes/often/never?
That one, not so often. It's more expensive than others around here, and we usually just watch DVDs anyhow.
3. What do they charge on average?
$12, I believe.
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1. Have you ever watched a cricket match?
I've passed by people playing cricket in the park (and my high school had a cricket team), but I've never really stopped to watch.
One of my friends once inadvertently fired on a cricket match, though. He was in the park as well (it's a big park), launching a new model rocket of his own design. It turned out not to be completely stable, since it went up about 20 feet, then turn 90 degrees and took off toward the cricket game. He had some rather angry West Indian people telling him not to launch any more missile at them.
2. Devonshire Tea, or a Latte and cookie from some fancy coffee shop?
Latte and cookie. In any choice between tea and coffee, I choose coffee.
3. Plane or train?
Not too much train lately, unfortunately. Usually when I'm travelling, if I need speed, then plane. Otherwise car.
I'd take trains more often, but I tend to travel to places that are inconveniently far away from railway stations.
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1. What fictional character do you most closely identify with?
2. What historical figure would you most want to spend an afternoon with?
3. Which current world leader do you think would have had the best shot at an Olympic medal, if he or she had pursued athletics instead of politics?
1. What fictional character do you most closely identify with?
Esme Weatherwax (I started as Agnes Nitt, always wanted to be Gytha Ogg, but ended up Esme Weatherwax, sorta in Nanny Oggs's body.)
2. What historical figure would you most want to spend an afternoon with?
Yeshua bar Joseph
3. Which current world leader do you think would have had the best shot at an Olympic medal, if he or she had pursued athletics instead of politics?
Is there an Olympic medal for moronic behavior? If not, I would think probably Angela Merkel for something in the swimming/diving areas.
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1. What did you have for dinner last night?
2. Are you an optimist, a pessimist or do you consider yourself a realist?
3. You're assigned to a project with 7 other people. You know 5 of them and distrust three of the five. YOU are given the responsibility of pairing up teams to work together to complete the project. How do you assign the three you distrust? (Each with you or someone that you trust, or two together and one elsewhere, or do you assign them to strangers?)
Why?
1. What did you have for dinner last night?
Some fruit, some brie cheese, some crackers, cookies, marshmallow brownies... a little bit of everything, everyone brought food for the concert and we all ate it in the camerino.
2. Are you an optimist, a pessimist or do you consider yourself a realist?
A realist but I have been called pessimist more than once (as the saying goes: a pessimist is a well informed optimist ;) ).
3. You're assigned to a project with 7 other people. You know 5 of them and distrust three of the five. YOU are given the responsibility of pairing up teams to work together to complete the project. How do you assign the three you distrust? (Each with you or someone that you trust, or two together and one elsewhere, or do you assign them to strangers?) Why?
Distrust their competence or them as human beings? Even the nastier individuals can work properly to save their own ass. It is a balancing act but in most cases you will not have much flexibility because in a big team you most likely will have to play to the strengths of each member no matter how you feel about them.
If they are incompetent then you have no option but to put someone to babysit each of them. :-\
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1. "A friend will help you move, a real friend will help you move a body" True in your case?
2. A good theater company is showing a play you love at the same time a good orchestra is playing a work you love, you will not be able to see both, which one would you choose?
3. Piccolo or Tuba?
1. "A friend will help you move, a real friend will help you move a body" True in your case?
I have a couple of friends I know (or at least I think) I can rely on.
One is sure, if a friend of mine asks me for a service, and I am able to do it, I do it. I'd even move bodies if necessary. It's what real friends are there for.
2. A good theater company is showing a play you love at the same time a good orchestra is playing a work you love, you will not be able to see both, which one would you choose?
I'd probably go with option no. 3 - go and get some beer. Because I couldn't decide.
I'd probably go where my friends would like to go. As much as I like entertainent, I don't like entertainment alone.
3. Piccolo or Tuba?
Probably tuba...
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1. Do you bet?
2. What was the stupidest or most insane or weirdest thing you had to do because losing a bet? (like dancing in snow in a red g-string (don't ask) or similiar)
3. If someone dared you to do walk in your underwear through the town centre you live in, would you do it?
1. Do you bet?
Not money.
2. What was the stupidest or most insane or weirdest thing you had to do because losing a bet? (like dancing in snow in a red g-string (don't ask) or similiar)
I don't loose bets. My friend, who is Muslim, had to go home and pretend to be drink, though. (NOT my idea. I wanted her to sing a stoopid song for her school talent show)
3. If someone dared you to do walk in your underwear through the town centre you live in, would you do it?
Considering my town is 95% suburban, filled with old/blind people, or people who aren't home until 5:30pm and work on the otherside of town, mostly, sure.
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1. Did you get into your college of preference?
2. Keep NASA or get rid of it?
3. What do you think of when you hear "Muffin-Kong Goes to Jesus School"?
1. Did you get into your college of preference?
That would be university. Yes, after some unnecessary bureaucratic trouble.
2. Keep NASA or get rid of it?
Join Forces with ESA or do something against that noxious rivalry with the military.
3. What do you think of when you hear "Muffin-Kong Goes to Jesus School"?
That it sounds like a B movie title
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1. Lemon or orange flavoured drink?
2. Salt or pepper, if you have no chance to taste food beforehand and have to make the decision?
3. Where have you been?
1. Lemon or orange flavoured drink?
Probably lemon - better with rum, and sometimes less chance of major colouring agent and brominated vegetable oil additions.
2. Salt or pepper, if you have no chance to taste food beforehand and have to make the decision?
Pepper. Not everything needs salt, nearly everything goes well with fresh-ground black pepper. OTOH, anything I cooked is much more likely to need salting at the table than more pepper (but I often put more pepper on anyways).
3. Where have you been?
Only countries on the Pacific Rim - about 8 of them, I think.
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1. Do you know where your drinking water comes from (lake, river, well, rain etc.)?
2. Do you think you could make do only with food produced less than 100 km from your residence?
3. Which would you make a priority - cutting greenhouse gas emissions or cutting acute air pollutant emissions (SOx, NOx, photochemical smog, ground-level ozone, particulate matter)?
1. Do you know where your drinking water comes from (lake, river, well, rain etc.)?
Lake Okeechobee, which is at this time a little low, reason why we have some water restrictions running.
2. Do you think you could make do only with food produced less than 100 km from your residence?
AFAIK there are no meat/poultry industries in the vicinity, so I would have to become vegetarian in that case.
3. Which would you make a priority - cutting greenhouse gas emissions or cutting acute air pollutant emissions (SOx, NOx, photochemical smog, ground-level ozone, particulate matter)?
Possibly particulate for selfish reasons (my son has asthma from time to time). Reducing greenhouse gases may bring as a secondary benefit less mercury (if implies regulation to the coal industry), that would be a not so selfish choice.
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1. Do you believe that S. Hawking's suggestion about doing as much as possible to leave this rock and start colonizing other worlds ASAP is a valid one?
2. If that were possible now (start new colonies) would you go?
3. What situation would force you to do it?
1. Do you believe that S. Hawking's suggestion about doing as much as possible to leave this rock and start colonizing other worlds ASAP is a valid one?
Not yet. Inside our solar system the conditions are not really given (and only "short"-term) and we don't know enough yet about the neighbourhood. We should keep it in mind but not make it a top priority
2. If that were possible now (start new colonies) would you go?
Would depend on the conditions. Would have to be really promising, if there is no reverse option (which interstellar travel would imply, if Einstein is not completely wrong).
3. What situation would force you to do it?
An otherwise unavoidable long and agonizing death or if too many people would go that I would have difficulty living without (or Falwell, Dobson, Robertson becoming absolute rulers of the world with Phelps as their main enforcer ;))
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1. Soup or solid food?
2. Juice with or without flesh/pulp?
3. What do you think about meat imitations for vegetarians?
1. Soup or solid food?
Solid food. I've got half a stomach, and high protein requirements, so soup is a luxury in regards to available space.
2. Juice with or without flesh/pulp?
Without pulp. See above, also, I don't digest some fiber well.
3. What do you think about meat imitations for vegetarians?
Up to the vegetarian. If you're not going to eat meat, just don't eat it. If the pretend meat is really trying to seem like meat, what's the deal? Either be vege or don't. As long as you're not malnourished, it's not my problem. If you're malnourished and it becomes a health issue, then it concerns me.
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1. What is your favorite fruit?
2. How many keys do you carry on a regular basis?
3. What color socks are you wearing?
1. What is your favorite fruit?
Mangosteen, then durian and passionfruit. Modified for frequency of consumption, probably mango or pomegranate - a good mango is still hard to beat.
2. How many keys do you carry on a regular basis?
13, plus a mag key and a key fob. Two are duplicates...
3. What color socks are you wearing?
Black. Oh, hey, they match! I'm having sock issues - multiple styles, but can hardly find a matching pair. :censored: I'm going to buy 50 identical pairs....
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Mangosteen? May I inquire where from?
I think it's primarily from Thailand - most of the asian markets here carry it.
Questions:
1. What (unhealthy) food will you never stop eating?
2. On the beach, or in the mountains?
3. Fireworks or fireflies?
1. What (unhealthy) food will you never stop eating?
Meat in any form.
2. On the beach, or in the mountains?
The question is what do you intend to do? If walking, probably mountains, if sex chilling I'd go with beach.
But I love the beach and it's always my number one choice.
3. Fireworks or fireflies?
Fireworks.
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1. Cuba Libre or Sex on the Beach?
2. Have you ever tasted Absinth and did you like it?
3. Are you a myspace user?
1. Cuba Libre or Sex on the Beach?
Not the first, and the second only without the capitals, and with good protection from the sand. That stuff can irritate!! My favorite drink (other that a bourbon and water) used to be a Sloe Screw--orange juice and sloe gin.
2. Have you ever tasted Absinth and did you like it?
I had the closest thing to it that's legal in the US, at tho Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. And no, not really. Much like a mint julep, it's more appealing in legend that in fact.
3. Are you a myspace user?
Yes. http://www.myspace.com/evilauntie
Started it to be able to help idiots fix their attempts to sign up for Omnia, and kept it just because. It's also a way to keep an eye on my Goddessdaughter...and a nice place to rant about stuff that annoys me!
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1. What color are your bed linens and curtains?
2. How many products do you use an your hair?
3. Would you rather have a big casual 'dinner party' or a smaller, formal one?
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Too tired for questions except. how come your myspace tells me "Auntie Dee Dee is in your extended network".... ? I dont have myspace, I dont have a network, or at least I didnt know I have, if I have where is it...? is this cross-contamination ;) ?
1. What color are your bed linens and curtains?
At the moment, black sheets and red ochre patterend doonah and pillow covers. No curtains, but redwood coloured timber venetian blinds in the bedroom.
2. How many products do you use an your hair?
You mean apart from shampoo? None. Ok, one if you count shampoo.
3. Would you rather have a big casual 'dinner party' or a smaller, formal one?
I like both, but I'd say a big casual one sounds like fun!
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1. What's your favourite home remedy for coughs, colds etc?
2. Are you paranoid, or is just that everyone's out to get you?
3. What is your favourite sort of home made soup?
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Too tired for questions except. how come your myspace tells me "Auntie Dee Dee is in your extended network".... ? I dont have myspace, I dont have a network, or at least I didnt know I have, if I have where is it...? is this cross-contamination ;) ?
If you get a MySpace page, everybody you click on is in your extended network, I think.
I dunno. I just go there to check on my Girl and to rant in my blog.
Also too tired to do questions...
IIRC, your "extended network" are the people who are three or so "friend links" away from you... but since everyone has that "Tom" guy as a friend by default and many people don't delete him from their friend list, everyone is only a couple of links away from everyone else... through Tom.
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1. What's your favourite home remedy for coughs, colds etc?
Rest. That's about it.
2. Are you paranoid, or is just that everyone's out to get you?
Neither. If anything, sometimes I think people don't notice me at all.
3. What is your favourite sort of home made soup?
Anything made by my wife (except for her pumpkin soup - my wife's an amazing chef, but even she can't make pumpkin not awful for me. I'm not a fan of pumpkin)
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The following questions are courtesy of U2:
1. Did you come here for forgiveness?
2. Did you come to raise the dead?
3. Did you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?
1. Did you come here for forgiveness?
With all due respect to U2, if I need forgiving, it's not by them.
2. Did you come to raise the dead?
Not my job.
3. Did you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?
Lepers? No... Leopards--maybe!! But, I just can't get into that crucifixion vibe, not even for leopards.
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1. Do you ever think of your cell phone as an electronic leash?
2. What is the first movie you remember seeing?
3. Mickey Mouse. Cute or annoying?
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1. Do you ever think of your cell phone as an electronic leash?
I don't have one, so I can't tell.
2. What is the first movie you remember seeing?
Either Panamericana (an old documentary about the road) or Pete's Dragon
3. Mickey Mouse. Cute or annoying?
Cute in the original, annoying in its more modern incarnations
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1. Any intention of relocating should climate change be on the rapid and uncomfortable side where you live?
2. How much rains falls during the year on average where you live?
3. How far to the next evangelical church and does that influence you life?
1. Any intention of relocating should climate change be on the rapid and uncomfortable side where you live?
Nope. Here to stay. Even if the seas rise quite a bit, we're far enough inland to be safe for a while.
2. How much rains falls during the year on average where you live?
It 38.5 inches, according to the Internet
3. How far to the next evangelical church and does that influence you life?
We're about a block from the Methodists, three blocks from the Baptists. The entire town is only a mile and a half long, about a half mile wide, and it has 14 churches.
It doesn't influence me, and there are several of them that would really like to have me come lead the music, but I insist their board be apprised of the fact that Dan and I aren't married before we talk further. That puts an end to THAT.
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1. Which is your favorite season?
2. Would you rather have a toothache or an earache?
3. You're being banished. You'll have sufficient food, shelter and clothing. You can take no more than 10 personal items with you, and there will be no electricity or batteries. What do you take?
1. Which is your favorite season?
Spring (when it gets warmer), Summer and Fall (before it gets cold). I like all the seasons as long as I'm somewhere warm and in good company.
2. Would you rather have a toothache or an earache?
Honestly, none of both.
But if I had to chose, probably toothache. I hate dentists, but a toothache is in most cases easily curable (just rip the tooth out), especially with my ear problems history - had a Middle Ear Infection three times already and was warned that a fourth could leave me deaf.
3. You're being banished. You'll have sufficient food, shelter and clothing. You can take no more than 10 personal items with you, and there will be no electricity or batteries. What do you take?
Ten bottles of whiskey.
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1. You are rising money for charity. Which charity will you use the money for?
2. Would you consider yourself an internet-addict?
3. Is addiction natural to the human race?
1. You are rising money for charity. Which charity will you use the money for?
My father is head of a charity for blind people in Jordan and Israel, so that would my first thought.
2. Would you consider yourself an internet-addict?
Unqualified Yes
3. Is addiction natural to the human race?
Undoubtedly and not only with humans. But many addictions (especially those not based on material things) may be "unintended" by the biological "design". If one implants electrodes in a rat's brain that will let them have an orgasm when they press a button, they all turn Barbarella (remember the scene with the organ?) until total (and even fatal) bodily exhaustion sets in.
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1. How far from your place is the next natural hill/mount/etc. higher than 500m?
2. How far from your place is the next natural waterway?
3. Is net fishing unfair in comparision to fishing with rods (or handheld harpoons/spears)?
1. How far from your place is the next natural hill/mount/etc. higher than 500m?
I would guess about 30 miles to the very tall ones, though some goodly sized ones are as close as 10-15.
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This might give you an idea.
2. How far from your place is the next natural waterway?
About eight miles.
3. Is net fishing unfair in comparision to fishing with rods (or handheld harpoons/spears)?
Depends. If the nets can hold four jumbo jets, and are held the the sea floor with huge cement doors, then yes. If they are big enough to catch whale sharks, then yes. Other then that, as long as one takes pains to avoid catching non-target species, not so much.
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1) Who are you going to watch/vote for (possibly) in '08?
2) How 'bout them Yankees?
3) How many internet faces can you think of? (EG, >:3, :3, :'(, et.)
1) Who are you going to watch/vote for (possibly) in '08?
I'm not in the US, so I won't be voting in the election you're likely talking about.
I doubt the government here will survive to '08, but I've got a bit of freedom in my voting in the next federal election: my riding is pretty well locked up by the Conservatives, so how I vote won't have much of a bearing on who's elected to represent my neighbors and me.
Instead, I can use my vote to "say something" - I can concentrate on issues without worrying about whether the person I'm voting for has any sort of governance skills. All my vote will count for is a slight increase in the overall popular vote for one party, which will hopefully send a signal to whatever party gets in.
So... the short answer is: I'm not sure yet. ;D
2) How 'bout them Yankees?
Baseball is an amazing invention: it took the ingenuity of the Americans to condense all the boredom of a three-day cricket test into a single afternoon. ;D
3) How many internet faces can you think of? (EG, >:3, :3, , et.)
Too many to count, plus the only one that matters:
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^ the "your beaver wears a hard hat and safety goggles" smiley.
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1. Which do you prefer: plane, train or automobile?
2. What languages do you know other than English?
3. Have you ever learned a martial art?
1. Which do you prefer: plane, train or automobile?
I will look terrible but it is the car (Goats environmental credibility goes south!). time to think. your own music. and above all driving is fun.
2. What languages do you know other than English?
passable french and I made some laughable attempts to speak german in Berlin recently. I also know how to say "I am a hedgehog" in Spanish which is a surprisingly effective chat up line.
3. Have you ever learned a martial art?
You mean like sex? or listening when the other person is talking? oh sorry Martial ;) Well I kick donkey with a bullpup and flashbangs on Counterstrike Source.
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1. Ever thought of visiting Bradford?
2. Is goats milk nice?
3. Is my obsession with goats worrying you?
1. Ever thought of visiting Bradford?
Not only have I thought of it, I've done it many times... if you mean this Bradford (http://www.town.bradfordwestgwillimbury.on.ca/). I imagine as a goat, you might like to eat the town's mascot:
(http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/Bradford/bfd2.jpg)
2. Is goats milk nice?
Never had it, except in cheese form. I don't have anything in particular against it, though.
3. Is my obsession with goats worrying you?
Is my obsession with people worrying you? ;D
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1. What do you think of Gwilly the Carrot?
2. What is your town mascot?
3. Who would win in a fight between your town mascot and Gwilly the Carrot?
1. What do you think of Gwilly the Carrot?
I think he'd be nice in a tuna sammitch
2. What is your town mascot?
A man on a bucking horse? That's what's plastered all over town during the farmer's markets and the spring festivals. (Creative, I know. But heck, I live in a tiny little oakie town.)
3. Who would win in a fight between your town mascot and Gwilly the Carrot?
Mine. Gwilly would be mashed.
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1) Tea or juice?
2) Coffee or soda
3)What do you think is going to happen with the 15 British sailors the Iranian government's got captive?
1) Tea or juice?
Tea in the morning, juice later in the day
2) Coffee or soda
Soda, coffee upsets my stomach
3)What do you think is going to happen with the 15 British sailors the Iranian government's got captive?
They are probably going to end as a Bush pretense >:(
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1. Ever brawled as an adult?
2. Did you ever have to take an emitive?
3. Do you have/had/will have siblings (in the biological sense)?
1. Ever brawled as an adult?
Yep. The person I was 'taking care of' (I had her power of attorney, as she was both physically and mentally ill, as well as a Xanax addict) had gone back to her former psychiatrist and gotten Xanax again. We had worked for over a year, and lots of appointments and hospitalizations to get her OFF Xanax, and there she was, bombed out of her misd and lying to me. I got her handbag to take away the Xanax, and she attacked me. (I'd just gotten out of the hospital from having stomach and liver surgery, still had over 15 inches of open wound--out of 49 inches of incision.) She gut-punched me and clawed at the open wound, ripping off the bandages and dragging out part of the wet-to-dry dressing.
I punched her in the jaw with a roundhouse right that knocked her about 8 feet across the room. My home nurse came in about that time, and spent the next hour getting her committed to a mental hospital, then having attempted murder charges filed on her to make sure she stayed.
It wasn't pretty.
Oh, and I fought off a mugger when I was about 25. I was doing strength training with my brother at the time, and was keeping up with him pretty well, so I wasn't weak. I punched the mugger in the face and broke his nose, then kneed him in the groin. Then when he was down, yes, I kicked him. (Don't ever threaten a florist with a dull knife. We know what they look like.) He turned out to be a serial rapist, wanted for at least 9 or 10 attacks.
2. Did you ever have to take an emitive?
Only to 'get ahead' of food poisoning. I had been the last one to eat at a wedding because I was working with the photographer and then cutting the cake, so about 2 hours after everyone else ate, I got to. A couple hours later, people started getting sick. Ambulances, etc.--food poisoning. So, I asked if they could help me just throw it up then, before it got worse. I was only in the hospital for 2 days, some people were there a week.
3. Do you have/had/will have siblings (in the biological sense)?
One sister, died when she was 20, I was 18.
Two brothers, one is 8 years younger, one is 12 years younger.
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1. When writing (not typing, but actual handwriting), what do you prefer to use? Pencil, fountain pen? Ballpoint? (Biro, stick type, better quality?) Gel pen? Marker? Crayon? And what color ink/gel/whatever do you prefer?
2. What's on your grocery list?
3. We're going swimming!! Do you prefer a lake, a river, a pool or the ocean?
1. When writing (not typing, but actual handwriting), what do you prefer to use? Pencil, fountain pen? Ballpoint? (Biro, stick type, better quality?) Gel pen? Marker? Crayon? And what color ink/gel/whatever do you prefer?
Fineliner (black or red), pencil if removability is desired
2. What's on your grocery list?
At the moment only yoghurt (everything else seems to be in stock)
3. We're going swimming!! Do you prefer a lake, a river, a pool or the ocean?
Public swimming baths (but is has gotten too expensive), ocean (but not with sandy beach)
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1. Do you like moose aux chocolat ;)?
2. Do wind turbines spoil the view?
3. Do you smoke, have done so in the past or consider doing it in the future?
1. Do you like moose aux chocolat Wink?
Ermm....?
2. Do wind turbines spoil the view?
I've never thought so.
3. Do you smoke, have done so in the past or consider doing it in the future?
No. Not unless you count years and years of second-hand exposure.
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1) Got a gmail?
2) What's your favorite recipe for?
3) Favorite news source?
1) Got a gmail?
I had to look up "gmail". Does that answer your question? :-[
2) What's your favorite recipe for?
Spinach souffle. I got it from my mom, but somehow hers always tastes better than mine.
3) Favorite news source?
The Daily Show with John Stewart. I watch NBC nightly news, but Stewart's is definitely more enjoyable.
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1) What's your favorite flower scent?
2) What's your favorite food aroma?
3) What smell brings back memories for you?
Love,
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1) What's your favorite flower scent?
Wild rose. Even better is fairy-slipper orchid, although I rarely get the chance. Also mock orange, lilac, and hyacinth (at a distance - too powerful up close!).
2) What's your favorite food aroma?
Roasting garlic, all in all. But I loooooove smells, so they are almost as enjoyable as the taste - one I especially savour is the first wafts of goodness that start about 3 blocks from Chinatown! Oh, and fresh durian will stop me in my tracks from a few aisles over and draw me in for a sniff.
3) What smell brings back memories for you?
A mix of diesel exhaust and decaying garbage/gutter always makes me perk my nose up.... sounds terrible but reminds me of travelling in exotic places!
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A) Favorite flower to eat?
B) Favorite non-flower, non-vegetable, non-herb plant smell? (so, anything that you wouldn't normally eat or use - mine is the smell of tomato vines)
C) Favorite too-stinky BAD smell?
A) Favorite flower to eat?
definitely not cauliflower, I hate that stuff
B) Favorite non-flower, non-vegetable, non-herb plant smell? (so, anything that you wouldn't normally eat or use - mine is the smell of tomato vines)
Pinewood
C) Favorite too-stinky BAD smell?
You mean those vomit-inducing smells of certain amines and pyridine (+ derivates)?
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1. Do you like flowery language or do you prefer dry prose?
2. What are your thoughts on defloration ;)?
3. Is Flora a nice name?
1. Do you like flowery language or do you prefer dry prose?
I prefer flowery language.
2. What are your thoughts on defloration Wink?
I think those thoughts are not for the wide public. Especially with minors around.
3. Is Flora a nice name?
I don't know. I have never met one. But it would remind me too much of butter (there's a butter of some sort called Flora around here).
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1. What would you do, if you met the Easter Bunny?
2. What is your favourite rabbit recipe?
3. Are you hungry?
1. What would you do, if you met the Easter Bunny?
Believe the Vicar of Dibley (http://www.tvheaven.ca/dibley.htm) is real (http://www.tvheaven.ca/dibley2.htm).
2. What is your favourite rabbit recipe?
One of these (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter/recipes.htm); the Iranian one looks fun.
3. Are you hungry?
For what? Food, yes. I have phases of no interest in food but am currently in a chomping phase. I have bought loads of silly* things to eat over Easter. I actually have a bar of chocolate in my hand right now.
But my main hunger isn't for food. It's for freedom from illness. Freedom to do all the things I loved doing but couldn't do enough of while raising my kids. Days with no agenda, whole days devoted to wandering round interesting places, the theatre, cinema (hmm I did a lot of that but I want more),lots and lots of museums and galleries; I want to Do Abroad, a world tour, I want to visit every single friend I ever made in all the different countries they now live in (ditto uk where they have moved to silly places no one ever goes to). I want to fly, I want walk in the sun. I want to go to restaurants, I want to contact all the people who have passed through my life and spend a day with them.
Then of course there's sexual hunger. I would have said No to that. But that was before I read up on Zyban and found it has an interesting side effect of raising sexual functioning. It was after reading that I had the flirty incident with the optician - and I hadn't started the tablets so they must be very effective. So, if I do start taking them I might have to change my answer to yes and sign on with Madam Fifi.
*silly=forbidden fodder=things that mean my favourite clothes wont fit
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1. How many TV channels do you think there should be?
2. How can someone tell you are not telling the truth?
3. Can you touch the tip of your nose with your tongue
2. and 3. may be related ;)
1. How many TV channels do you think there should be?
4 should suffice, if the quality is right.
2. How can someone tell you are not telling the truth?
That blinking neon sign above my head ;)
3. Can you touch the tip of your nose with your tongue
No, not even without the Pinocchio effect.
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1. Do you find your own sense of right/wrong often in conflict with official norms?
2. Are you often in conflict with your own sense of right/wrong (are you a constant sinner ;))?
3. How do you calibrate your moral compass?
1. Do you find your own sense of right/wrong often in conflict with official norms?
Maybe not often, but sometimes. It is usually a problem with what others may find admissible, such practicing outright bigotry in segregated privacy. That sort of thing. I can be a real pain in the neck about that.
2. Are you often in conflict with your own sense of right/wrong (are you a constant sinner Wink)?
No, I can usually find semi-valid excuses for my sins. ;)
3. How do you calibrate your moral compass?
By what hurts others or myself.
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1) Would you call yourself "easygoing"?
2) At parties, do you stay put or "work the crowd"?
3) When do you feel the best connection to The Great Everything?
1) Would you call yourself "easygoing"?
Easygoing? That's my second name.
And sometimes I'm even easy. ;)
2) At parties, do you stay put or "work the crowd"?
When I party, I party. No rest till I'm so exhausted that I can't stand on my feet anymore (that is also sometimes connected to the alcohol consumption of that evening).
But I like to work the crowd. I hate parties, where I'm the only one actually dancing. If you're in the same club as me, you will find me on the dancefloor, with a drink in my hand and at least one girl by my side. ;)
3) When do you feel the best connection to The Great Everything?
I am the Great Everything, so always. ;)
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1. Do you think I am the Great Everything?
2. You're out clubbing. Where can you be found, at the bar, on the dancefloor, sitting in a dark corner or else?
3. Do you like non-alcoholic beer?
1. Do you think I am the Great Everything?
Sure. :D
2. You're out clubbing. Where can you be found, at the bar, on the dancefloor, sitting in a dark corner or else?
I don't, I don't have the time or the inclination, and most clubs around here are 21+. If I did, I imagine I'd be on the dance floor.
3. Do you like non-alcoholic beer? I don't like beer, so no.
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1) What's your pet peeve?
2) Favorite cartoon? (one you watched as a kid, watch now, etc.)
3)Which of the five senses do you value the most?
1) What's your pet peeve?
Greedy businesses and evil politicians.
2) Favorite cartoon? (one you watched as a kid, watch now, etc.)
Between Foghorn Leghorn, Samurai Jack, (currently) Naruto and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
3)Which of the five senses do you value the most?
As a trained musician I would say hearing, but I really like the other four ;)
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1. Robin Hood: Good, Evil or a gray character with good PR?
2. Do you like apocalyptic themes (books, shows, movies)?
3. Where (if at all) will be humankind in 1000 years?
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Oh, I know that it was a page ago but I couldn't avoid the name Flora:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/203475770_cf4b4ba448.jpg?v=0)
(Flora Martínez, a Colombian actress)
1. Robin Hood: Good, Evil or a gray character with good PR?
If a real person, then probably gray with good posthumous PR.
But what about Dennis Moore?
2. Do you like apocalyptic themes (books, shows, movies)?
In general terms yes but there is a lot (=too much) of insipid stuff.
3. Where (if at all) will be humankind in 1000 years?
It can consider itself happy, if it is only in a very sorry state.
I fear mankind is somewhere near the top right now and it will go downward in the not too far future (we may not live to see the plunge).
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1. What will you have for lunch today (or had, if it is past already)?
2. Did you go to religious services on Good Friday?
3. When was the last time you ate spinach?
1) What will you have for lunch today (or had, if past already)?
Pot Noodle (aka Ramen noodles in the USA)
2) Did you go to religious services on Good Friday?
no- but I did watch the Pope on TV
3) When was the last time you ate spinach?
day before yesterday
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1)Just where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?
2)What is the most disgusting vegetable on the planet? ( I mean the one you'd not eat even if dying)
3)Is Robby the Robot the greatest robot ever? Why or Why not?
1)Just where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?
After a productive joint venture with the tooth fairy, it is said that she is hiding in an Irish forest near Dublin.
2)What is the most disgusting vegetable on the planet? (I mean the one you'd not eat even if dying)
I much rather not eat a number of cooked vegetables specially cauliflower. Now, there is a group of tubers that grow in the Andes known in english as mashua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashua) (or cubios in Colombia). I don't know if I would rather die than eat them but it would be a though choice.
3)Is Robby the Robot the greatest robot ever? Why or Why not?
One of the coolest, no doubt (although it reminds me of daleks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek) sometimes).
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1. Sousa's marchs: love them or hate them?
2. Military music is to music what military justice is to justice: agree, disagree, why?
3. What music you can NOT stand?
1. Sousa's marchs: love them or hate them?
Neither. I think some are appropriate for some occasions but I generally prefer the European style.
2. Military music is to music what military justice is to justice: agree, disagree, why?
Depends on what one considers as "military music". There is a lot of great music depicting the military, there are a number of interestig military songs too. Military justice is so far a field from the last bastion of justice in an unjust system to the total perversion of summary mass execution that I consider the whole question unanswerable without very precise definitions.
3. What music you can NOT stand?
Volkstümlicher Schlager (there is no adequate English word for that)
Anything oversentimental (languages that I don't understand may be excused occasionally, I sometimes curse my knowlege of Latin because it spoils most of Dvorak's sacred works for me).
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1. When did it last rain (or snow etc.) where you live?
2. Is the summer usually very dry where you live (and how about the other seasons)?
3. Do you listen occasionally to Rush Limbaugh (and for what reason, if you do)?
1. When did it last rain (or snow etc.) where you live?
Rained last night. Snow? 1973, from what I understand.
2. Is the summer usually very dry where you live (and how about the other seasons)?
We'll have a dry late summer and fall, but not too bad. We're at the north end of a big lake, so even when it's fairly dry all around, we get a bit of 'lake showers' in the close-to areas.
3. Do you listen occasionally to Rush Limbaugh (and for what reason, if you do)?
No, I used to have to hear him once in a great while about 10 years ago, and when he had his TV program, we used to turn it on with closed captioning and make fun of him, until my little brother expressed the total of all Rush ever has said and ever will by providing a gaseous recital from any orifice possible.
How often do you have to hear a jackass bray to know he's a jackass? That's why I don't bother.
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1. What are your three favorite cheeses?
2. Which family member do you think you most resemble?
3. What's the most fun you've ever had? (With your clothes on, please...)
1. What are your three favorite cheeses?
Camembert, camembert, camembert...
2. Which family member do you think you most resemble?
People tell me, I look like my father. My mother always add an "unfortunately" to that statement.
3. What's the most fun you've ever had? (With your clothes on, please...)
With my clothes on? So I can't tell you about the night I lost all my clothes in a club? ;)
Anyway, it would be way too difficult saying when I had the most fun in my life, because I try to have a lot of fun as often as possible.
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1. Why is sex, in your opinion, considered a sin?
2. Would you ban any religion? Which one and why?
3. You are a dictator of good taste. What would be the first thing you'd prohibit?
1. Why is sex, in your opinion, considered a sin?
It's only considered a sin if you do it before signing a contract with the organisation which considers it a sin. Does that answer your question?
2. Would you ban any religion? Which one and why?
Only the worst excesses of religion, Suti and singing Kumbaya for example.
3. You are a dictator of good taste. What would be the first thing you'd prohibit?
Any television program with the word "celebrity" in it.
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1 China or India (or neither), which will be the next superpower?
2 What did you want to be when you grew up.
3 What went wrong?
1 China or India (or neither), which will be the next superpower?
I think China will get more powerful on the world stage, but I don't see any one particular country filling the "superpower void" any time soon.
2 What did you want to be when you grew up.
An architect.
3 What went wrong?
I realized that it was the engineers who got to do all the things I thought sounded "fun" (I'd be much happier designing the structure of a building than figuring out how to make it pretty AND useful)... then I found out that I liked transportation better than structural design.
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1. Do you like to cook?
2. How/Where/When did you learn to cook?
3. What's your "signature dish"?
1. Do you like to cook?
I'm not really sure if I like it. I quite enjoy it from time to time, but am mostly lazy to do so. And the fridge is mostly empty (or filled with alcohol), so there's not much to cook from.
2. How/Where/When did you learn to cook?
My mother gave me some recipes, and I just do what I can to make good food out of that.
3. What's your "signature dish"?
Dry spaghetti. Sometimes with some cheese on it. It's the cheapest way to eat. And I am a student. ;D
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1. Which one of Bob Marley's children would you say is the best artist?
2. Would you like to be a millionnaire? Why, why not?
3. Have you been attacked by something pink and fluffy during Easter?
1. Which one of Bob Marley's children would you say is the best artist?
Let's see, I remember there's a Ziggy and a Bunny... But I don't know which is the best artist. I loved Bob Marley, though.
2. Would you like to be a millionnaire? Why, why not?
Yes, because it would be very temporary. I would be a millionnaire for about a week. That's how long it would take for me to pay off my house and buy a monastery for us. Then I'd be back to my present country mouse lifestyle.
3. Have you been attacked by something pink and fluffy during Easter?
If purple is the new pink, then yes. The Easter Bunny gave the Opsalette a fluffy purple monkey yesterday and it has attacked me several times. It used to have a voicebox that shreiked when you touched it, but early this morning she gave it a tracheotomy and sewed it back up very nicely. Now it is slightly less obnoxious.
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1) How do you calm yourself when you get upset?
2) Do you consider yourself a hypochondriac?
3) What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
1) How do you calm yourself when you get upset?
I start with a few cigarettes, move to hitting the wall with my head, then have a few more cigarettes, then get drunk, and end up hitting the floor with my head. ;)
But normally I stay with the cigarettes and maybe do something, where I can vent my upsetness out. Like screaming or sports. Or hitting something.
2) Do you consider yourself a hypochondriac?
No. I am more the opposite. I deny my illness and wait till the last moment to solve it.
3) What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
I don't know. They don't make the beer-flavoured ones yet.
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1. If in trouble, what would be the first thing you'd do?
2. Do you like hitting people?
3. Have you ever thrown something out of the window because of being upset? What was it?
and an extra question:
4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
1. If in trouble, what would be the first thing you'd do?
Think it all through, then snarl at people.
2. Do you like hitting people?
With my hands?? NO. With a clue-by-four? As needed.
3. Have you ever thrown something out of the window because of being upset? What was it?
Yes. An alarm clock. I had an early geology class my junior year of university. I paid a FORTUNE for this alarm clock because it was supposed to be loud enough to wake me. After trying for a week to get it to work, it FINALLY alarmed. At 3 AM. And wouldn't stop. So I took it apart with a hammer and a screwdriver, and threw it out the window. At 7:00 the next morning, it was gone.
and an extra question:
4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
Farkleberry Suprise
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1. Are you able to fall asleep easily at night, or only when you're supposed to be awake?
2. Do you like to wear hats?
3. Would you rather be rich or good looking?
And an extra question:
4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
1. Are you able to fall asleep easily at night, or only when you're supposed to be awake?
Falling asleep is usually easy. Not sleeping through my alarm clock tends to be more problematic.
2. Do you like to wear hats?
I like wearing hats better than sunburns and heatstroke.
I tend to wear hats for protection, not fashion.
3. Would you rather be rich or good looking?
Rich, probably. I don't know if my ethics would let me translate good looks into money, but I'd have less of a problem buying the good looks. ;D
And an extra question:
4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
Won't touch that stuff - it's cursed. ;D
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1. What was your favourite aminal at the zoo when you were little?
2. What's your favourite animal at the zoo now?
3. Which animal annoys you the most at the zoo?
Bonus question:
4. What's your favourite Frogurt flavour?
1. What was your favourite aminal at the zoo when you were little?
The Lion-- his name was KC (yep Kit Cat) he was so lovely. The lion house was horrible though- he lived on concrete for years and I'll never forget the day the new lion exhibit opened and this beautiful boy stuck his head out the door and had to be coaxed outside onto the grass by his keeper because he didn't know what freaking grass was- we all wept! He died at the ripe old age of 22 ( male lions typically live 12 to 14 years) in 1998.
2. What's your favourite animal at the zoo now?
That baby boy gorilla, Mosi! Oh and his father Fossey. And Mahale the chimpanzee. Oh heck all the great apes.
3. Which animal annoys you the most at the zoo?
The human visitors!
Bonus question:
4. What's your favourite Frogurt flavour?
I've been off the stuff and on the wagon now for about a year. Still go to the FA meetings though.
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1) If you could live anywhere else in the universe,would you and where?
2) What is your first real memory?
3) Are you an only child? Or not?
Bonus question:
What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
1) If you could live anywhere else in the universe,would you and where?
Why should I? I'm quite satisfied with this place so far.
2) What is your first real memory?
I don't really know. But definitelly one of memories I remember from my childhood was kissing a girl under the bed, while playing hide & seek. :) (I've always loved the girls...)
3) Are you an only child? Or not?
I have an older sister that used to torture me, especially mentally. Today she says that she has just been preparing me for marriage.
Bonus question:
What is your favorite frogurt flavor?
I have already answered that one above..
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1. What are your nightmares mostly about?
2. You woke up from a nightmare. After a few seconds you realize that the monsters that you dreamed about are standing next to your bed and waiting to attack you. What do you do?
3. What are your happy dreams mostly about?
bonus: you know the drill. Frogurt?
1. What are your nightmares mostly about?
Two themes:
1) Inability to move properly, while pursued by people with no faces.
2) My father is still alive.
2. You woke up from a nightmare. After a few seconds you realize that the monsters that you dreamed about are standing next to your bed and waiting to attack you. What do you do?
Say 'Hullo, Dad." Then kill it.
3. What are your happy dreams mostly about?
Joyful, inventive, and delightful sex.
bonus: you know the drill. Frogurt?
Blackberry.
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Is there anything you will not do under any circumstances?
Why do you think people like you?
Do you expect your children will help you in your old age?
Is there anything you will not do under any circumstances?
Depends on the circumstances. I'd probably say that I would never have sex with a man, but who knows?
Why do you think people like you?
What is there not to like? ;D
Do you expect your children will help you in your old age?
I would be more concerned about reaching the "old age". With my current lifestyle, it will be very difficult... ;D
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1. Shorts or slips?
2. Do you blush/get embarassed/feel ashamed when other people talk about sex or when you have to talk about it?
3. Is there a question you would refuse to answer?
1. Shorts or slips?
Shorts
2. Do you blush/get embarassed/feel ashamed when other people talk about sex or when you have to talk about it?
Not these days. One of the advantages of getting older is that you lose a bit of that self consciousness that attends you when you are younger. Of course there are disadvantages, especially in the aches and pains department, but let's not go there...
3. Is there a question you would refuse to answer?
No comment.
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1. What is you favourite bridge, and what do you like about it?
2. You have been invited to a potluck dinner where you do not know most of the guests, what meal do you take?
3. A long time friend who lives on the other side of the world is going to be in town for week and has dropped a broad hint that s/he would appreciate an invite to stay at your place, unfortunately s/he is bringing her/his spouse who is an unmitigated bore. Do you invite them to stay?
Bonus question: Is passionfruit frogurt the nectar of the gods?
1. What is you favourite bridge, and what do you like about it?
The bridge into Corpus Christi, Texas, coming from the north.
I like it because it's the first "big bridge" I remember--and I remember it being built, AND because they finally built it and replaced the drawbridge partially based on the fact that having the bridge drawn for long flotillas of barges was not safe for, say...pregnant women trying to give birth in the back of ambulances on the way to the closest hospital, circa November 1952, for instance. :P
2. You have been invited to a potluck dinner where you do not know most of the guests, what meal do you take?
Cajun red beans and rice (RBR), with the beans prepared with no meat, and half the rice made with butter, half without, then the sausage to the side.
OR
Cream cheese and black olive spread with lots of yummy crispy, crunchy things to put it on, but in the 'with bacon crumbles' and the 'without' versions. (AT that point vegans are on their own. I can do the RBR totally vegan, but the cream cheese is intrinsically un-vegan.)
I'm doing this with the RBR on the 26th, but probably won't divide the rice, as Caldwell, Texas isn't known for much in the way of vegan residents, and I think I know both vegetarians.
3. A long time friend who lives on the other side of the world is going to be in town for week and has dropped a broad hint that s/he would appreciate an invite to stay at your place, unfortunately s/he is bringing her/his spouse who is an unmitigated bore. Do you invite them to stay?
Can they both sleep on the same sofa? Do they mind sharing it with the dog?
Actually, I wouldn't mind. Dan is so good with boring people that he can both entertain them and find SOMETHING that they can talk about, or at least take the male bores out to look at the power tools, or radio stuff, or lawn tractor. And we have LOTS of books and tapes and DVDs, so being bored isn't happening, because I can tune out anybody. (A bonus to my ill health. I can and WILL declare naptime at any given moment. Rarely when driving, but you never know.)
Our last boring guest got dropped at the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Library, and told to call when he was through hero-worshipping. :devil2: :devil2: :devil2: :devil2: :devil2:
Bonus question: Is passionfruit frogurt the nectar of the gods?
Not a passionfruit fan.
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1) Does interracial marriage register on your mental radar, or do you just see 'humans' instead of races?
2) It's your day to choose the entertainment. All things being optimal (weather, finances) do you go to the amusement park, the zoo/aquarium or to the beach/swimming pool?
3) You have the choice of desserts: Fresh berries with Chantilly cream, chocolate mousse or Tres Leches cake. (No frogurt, sorry.) Whatcha gonna eat?
Bonus question: Is it permissable to call a strawberry frogurt bar with a carob coating "health food"?
1) Does interracial marriage register on your mental radar, or do you just see 'humans' instead of races?
No problem at all as long as no side gets abusive (the latter more about culture than "race"). There could of course be "impractical" matches (of the pygmy meets giant variety) but that's not for me to decide.
2) It's your day to choose the entertainment. All things being optimal (weather, finances) do you go to the amusement park, the zoo/aquarium or to the beach/swimming pool?
Zoo/Aquarium especially around here (Berlin, even without Knutmania), swimming pool would be the second option. Me not liking "amusement" parks, me not liking Disney culture!
3) You have the choice of desserts: Fresh berries with Chantilly cream, chocolate mousse or Tres Leches cake. (No frogurt, sorry.) Whatcha gonna eat?
Berries, if I can omit the cream. Do three leeches a cake make?
Bonus question: Is it permissable to call a strawberry frogurt bar with a carob coating "health food"?
I had to look up frogurt and at first thought it was a joke on mashed frogs with milk.
Yoghurt in any form should be semi-liquid. If there is no extra sugar in it, it can count as health food.
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1. Who brought up that frogurt thing in the first place and for what reasons?
2. When will the frogurt thing go away?
3. What about frogurt sushi?
Bonus question: are the Democrats soft on frogurt?
1. Who brought up that frogurt thing in the first place and for what reasons?
Don't look at me!! I'm all about the Cake, the Depp and the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOOM. Ask the Mad Monkess of Virginia.
2. When will the frogurt thing go away?
You never know. Frogurt is sneaky. It sits there looking like ice cream, and can jump out at you at any time!!
3. What about frogurt sushi?
Only applicable if made with fugu.
Bonus question: are the Democrats soft on frogurt?
Everybody's soft on frogurt. It doesn't harden up as well as a good ice cream or gelato.
By the way, leches are milks. Leeches are useless relatives, who eat all your cake. CAKE!!
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1) Do you have any irrational fears?
2) As a child, where did you feel most secure?
3) You have a chance to spend a month, expenses paid, in another country. Your choices are North Korea, Bangladesh, Iraq and Ethiopia. Where will you go, or will you?
Bonus Question: Is Opsanus Tau over her frogurt thing?
Ye gawds, how did you know I'd peek in next? You're scary phenomenal!
1) Do you have any irrational fears?
Yes, indeed I do. I can usually rationalize them and thus erase them, given time. My last one was a sudden fear of flying (in airplanes) during the last high terrorist alert. I am still trying to work that one out. An older sibling of mine insists it was irrational.
2) As a child, where did you feel most secure?
Oh, at my grandparent's big old victorian house in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It was so old and creaky and re-assuring and they filled it with love and patience. I miss them.
3) You have a chance to spend a month, expenses paid, in another country. Your choices are North Korea, Bangladesh, Iraq and Ethiopia. Where will you go, or will you?
Do I have to fly there? Okay, let's say I'd go by boat. Either way I don't think I'd go to any of those places. The suffering would be too great for me to handle. I am inordinately sensitive to human suffering. I don't deny it, but I feel it in a personal way. I read and watch the news every day. That's about all I can take.
Bonus Question: Is Opsanus Tau over her frogurt thing?
Okay, okay. I'm over it. Thank you so much for your indulgence. You're very kind.
Now, on to gelato!
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1) Do you feel more sorry for the dead soldier or for his/her family?
2) Do you feel more sorry for the family of the victims or for the family of the gunman?
3) What, besides frogurt, chocolate, alcohol, drugs or gelato helps to cheer you up when you're feeling sorrowful?
P.S. FROGURT! heeheehee...
1) Do you feel more sorry for the dead soldier or for his/her family?
Family. The dead is not affected anymore (though he could have other problems, if a vengeful deity waits on the other side)
2) Do you feel more sorry for the family of the victims or for the family of the gunman?
Default option A, open to change depending on characters involved.
3) What, besides frogurt, chocolate, alcohol, drugs or gelato helps to cheer you up when you're feeling sorrowful?
Starting a war of aggression on my PC ;) :(. Sorry, no patented solutions to that problem.
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1. Ever read Bellum Yogurtinum (The Dairy Wars? ;)) by Sallust?
Ok, I know that it is actually Bellum Jugurthinum
2. What do you think about the Muppet Show?
3. Should frogs be fed frogurt?
1. Ever read Bellum Yogurtinum (The Dairy Wars? ) by Sallust?
Nope, but if you can have a War of the Roses I'm sure you can have one about Yoghourt. I'm on the side of strawberry.
2. What do you think about the Muppet Show?
I think Jim Henson was a genius, as was Lew Grade for financing it. And I don't believe that story that Lew asked the "Jesus of Nazareth" people whether they could make do with six disciples.
3. Should frogs be fed frogurt?
Whatever. Just remember that key O-level schoolboy French phrase. "Je ne mange pas les cuisses de grenouilles".
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1 Would you eat frog's legs? *
2 Would you eat horse?
3 Would you eat snails?
Bonus question. Ettes vous Francais?
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* assuming non siege of Stalingrad type conditions.
1 Would you eat frog's legs? *
Yes.
2 Would you eat horse?
I had horse sausages. Quite tasty.
3 Would you eat snails?
I would probably try it.
Bonus question. Ettes vous Francais?
Non, mais je parle francais assez bien.
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1. Do you use any instant messenger programs on regular basis?
2. Is love a drug?
3. Is life a drug?
Bonus question: Is frogurt a drug?
1. Do you use any instant messenger programs on regular basis?
Yep, In fact until recently I worked for what became a virtual company held together by MS Im and Skype.
2. Is love a drug?
I have it on the best authority (Roxy Music) that it is.
3. Is life a drug?
No, life is the thing you need drugs to take your mind off.
Bonus question: Is frogurt a drug?
I could stop any time I chose. It's not a problem.
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1 Is this place paid for by the Frogurt Marketing Board?
2 Could it be?
3 What's my percentage?
Bonus question. Are we getting our just desserts?
1 Is this place paid for by the Frogurt Marketing Board?
We wish...
2 Could it be?
Good question. MB? Opsa??
3 What's my percentage?
Same as now.
Bonus question. Are we getting our just desserts?
Not if all the dessert we get is Frogurt. I want CAKE!!!
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1. What is your favorite kind of cake?
2. Can you teach a Sneech?
3. Ever had a rootbeer float?
Bonus Question: What's for lunch?
1. What is your favorite kind of cake?
Preferably with chocolate.
2. Can you teach a Sneech?
Never met one, so probably not.
3. Ever had a rootbeer float?
Never had rootbeer, so no is the answer.
Bonus Question: What's for lunch?
The thing I put in the thread "recipes to share". It's in the oven now and I can't wait for ti to be finished (any moment now).
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1. Can you live without your cellphone?
2. How do you open beer-bottles?
3. What year is your computer from?
Bonus: Is the frogurt period over?
1. Can you live without your cellphone?
No, because I do not have one (or had), so I can't live without my cellphone
2. How do you open beer-bottles?
Apart from not drinking beer, I open bottles depending on type by either unscrewing or using a bottle opener.
3. What year is your computer from?
The one I sit in front of is about 10 years old, the one at home maybe five.
Bonus: Is the frogurt period over?
I hope so, period.
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1. Can frogs feel hurt?
2. Whom do you call when a frog was/is hurt on your property?
3. Does Kermit eat yogurt? (he definitely drinks milk)
Bonus question: Frogs hurt worse than frogurt greened (with mould)?
1. Can frogs feel hurt?
I imagine they do although it must be quite different from what we feel.
2. Whom do you call when a frog was/is hurt on your property?
Not PETA. From time to time frogs (or more exactly, toads) get 'hurt' by cars. It is obviously terminal and you wait for the landscapers to clean up.
3. Does Kermit eat yogurt? (he definitely drinks milk)
It is quite likely but I can't be sure of it. A better question would be, does he eat porkchops? ;)
Bonus question: Frogs hurt worse than frogurt greened (with mould)?
Hurt who? The frog does feel something, while the frogurt most likely don't.
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1) Does Kermit eat porkchops?
2) Censored question
3) How does Miss Piggy feel about it?
No bonus question for this round.
1) Does Kermit eat porkchops?
He, probably does.
2) Censored question
Censored answer
3) How does Miss Piggy feel about it?
She likes it. ;)
No bonus question for this round.
And no bonus answer.
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1. What is your favourite smilie around here?
2. How's the weather?
3. Should Kosovo be independant?
Bonus question: Answer whatever question you want that you find in this thread in the past three pages.
1. What is your favourite smilie around here?
:daz:
2. How's the weather?
Cooler than usual, hopefully it will last, though I doubt it.
3. Should Kosovo be independant?
Painful one. If I understand correctly it is still part of Serbia but for all practical purposes it isn't, IOW it almost independent already. How many serbians are still in Kosovo? I also remember reading that after the war there seemed to be an opposite ethnic cleansing (ethnic albanians removing serbians). I guess, whatever portions are still on a serbian majority should remain with Serbia and the rest should either join Albania or do its thing.
Bonus question: Answer whatever question you want that you find in this thread in the past three pages.
What year is your computer from?
The oldest part (a harddisk about 3 years) the newest (the processor) about 3 months.
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1. Big chaotic city or small town big hell?
2. Sci-fi or Fantasy?
3. You can go back in time and save someone. Who?
1. Big chaotic city or small town big hell?
Tiny little bitty town, and most of the hell comes from elsewhere.
2. Sci-fi or Fantasy?
Pratchett, Harlan Ellison (that's one of each-ish) and everything else is negotiable by author, sometimes by book.
3. You can go back in time and save someone. Who?
My sister.
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1. True or false: Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.
2. Fill in the blank: My preferred mode of transportation is ____________.
3. Multiple choice: My current choice of underclothing is
A. White
B. Black
C. Red
D. Print
E. None of the above.
Bonus question: What color are your socks?
1. True or false: Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.
Even some that do the first also do the second and occasionally even on purpose.
WW2 was planned partially as an improved replay of WW1 for example.
2. Fill in the blank: My preferred mode of transportation is ____________.
safe
3. Multiple choice: My current choice of underclothing is
A. White
B. Black
C. Red
D. Print
E. None of the above.
A (at least in the morning)
Bonus question: What color are your socks?
Somewhere between beige (new) and white (washed often enough to bleach)
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1. What's more important for children to learn, basic math or basic history?
2. Is reading or writing well more important?
3. Is listening to a complete recording of a book (or someone reading it to you) equally effective as reading the book yourself or less or more?
Bonus question: Did you ever read My Pet Goat?
What's more important for children to learn, basic math or basic history?
Since learning from history seems not to work (see above questions), maths.
Is reading or writing well more important?
First I have to decipher the sentence. Certain sections of UK society would read it as "Is reading or writing well-more important?". However, I shall answer "Is reading or writing-well more important?" as I think was intended.
Reading is vital to my imagination. Writing is not. Writing-well even less so. If I cannot read I cannot breathe.
Is listening to a complete recording of a book (or someone reading it to you) equally effective as reading the book yourself or less or more?
See above. I don't want someone else's interpretation as given by tone and inflection of voice.
Bonus question: Did you ever read My Pet Goat?
No. And since meeting Goat here, I am definitely going to avoid it. Assuming it exists.
"well-more" for example, may be used to mean like "really really really more"
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1. Have you ever set fire to your hair?
2. When you open the front door to somone do you cover up if you are undressed?
3. What carrot would induce you to do the dirty on someone else? (what dirty? be honest).
Bonus Question: what makes you sneeze?
1. What's more important for children to learn, basic math or basic history?
Basic Math, history is important but basic math is, well, basic. Even in a pre-agrarian society is of vital importance.
2. Is reading or writing well more important?
Than basic math or among themselves? Writing is a subset of reading, and regarding math, well, it is still more important for survival.
3. Is listening to a complete recording of a book (or someone reading it to you) equally effective as reading the book yourself or less or more?
Depends of the reader. A good one can really make a difference, although it is a different experience, reading you can stop and re-read passages, listening is awkward to rewind. Up until now I read the Harry Potter with to kid making voices and trying to act them as good as I can, and it is fun.
Bonus question: Did you ever read My Pet Goat?
Nope.
Darn, other set...
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1. Have you ever set fire to your hair?
Not really, a bit as a kid but more to experiment.
2. When you open the front door to somone do you cover up if you are undressed?
If I'm naked I put something on before opening the door, so nope, I don't cover my self. ;)
3. What carrot would induce you to do the dirty on someone else? (what dirty? be honest).
Holy cow! I'm not sure how to read that question. I imagine carrot = deed, and the dirty = vengeful action. It has to be something big enough for me to do it, and there is a big chance it just remains a plan. In the end I see it as: if the opportunity presents itself to return the favor, then I will.
Bonus Question: what makes you sneeze?
Combination of dust, and cold weather.
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1. If you feel sad you put sad music or moved music?
2. Do you have a good audio system at home?
3. Is it the same for you to sit down at home and listen music than going to a concert (musically speaking, not for friends, the crowd, etc).
Bonus question: how often do you cut your hair?
1. If you feel sad you put sad music or moved music?
It depends on the sadness. If I need cheering up, I put cheering up music, if I want to remain sad, I play sad music.
2. Do you have a good audio system at home?
Unfortunately, at the moment I have only the speakers of my laptop.
3. Is it the same for you to sit down at home and listen music than going to a concert (musically speaking, not for friends, the crowd, etc).
Not really. I prefer going o a concert. It's just another experience, most of all, the majority of bands I listen to, sound better live.
Bonus question: how often do you cut your hair?
I used to hate cutting my hair, so it happened that I wouldn't go to the hairdresser for months. Now I go at least once in a month.
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1. Is Eye for an eye an optin in your life?
2. Do you say "Hello" and "Good-Bye" and "Thank you" when in a supermarket (the big kind, not the small family business nex-door)?
3. Dou you like wearing hats?
Bonus bonus bonus: Do you like these bonus questions?
1. Is Eye for an eye an optin in your life?
No. If we went by "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" then the whole world would be blind and toothless.
2. Do you say "Hello" and "Good-Bye" and "Thank you" when in a supermarket (the big kind, not the small family business nex-door)?
If there's someone to actually speak to, yes. In some stores, there isn't, in others, they run if you make eye contact. However, I am a Southern Woman of A Certain Age, and I can no more NOT say Thank You than I can cease breathing. The spirit of my Grandmother would thump my head, to start with... (We also say things like "I 'preciate it" and "Y'all have a good day, y'hear?" and " Bless your heart, I hope ya feelin' better soon!" and other little folksy stuff. born to it, ya know?)
3. Dou you like wearing hats?
Yep. I may look like a dork, but I like hats, especially if my hair is icky. And with two feet of hair, it's icky a lot. (I just cut about a foot of length off of it.)
Bonus bonus bonus: Do you like these bonus questions? Yes.
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1. Can you bake a cake without using a mix?
2. What is the worst pain you have ever had?
3. What is your most favorite song of all time?
Bonus question: Can I have a cookie?
. Can you bake a cake without using a mix?Yes from sratch. One time I baked it without rembering to put the flour in. To say it slid out of the oven is an understatement. The there were my success. Trains, Spaceships, Rockets, Castles, Magic Roundabout for endless birthdays.
I have'nt baked for about 10 years though.
What is the worst pain you have ever had?Joint Worst
Labour gone wrong. Six hours into it my (1st) (not nasty then) baby's heart started playing up and my cervix was way behind schedule so no where near delivery. I was refusing pain relievers as I'd done the obligatory million "natural" childbirth classes. Suddenly I went into second stage labour with my cervix still barely dilated. The pain of contractions was huge. The all-consuming over-whelming physical need to push the baby out was even huger. And I had to not push, not push, not push....... it took about three people to hang onto me - resisting pushing while contracting for hours is indescribable. My cervix never opened, much more, my baby's heart was failing rapidly, the ninety five people in the room were rushing around in total panic to prepare me for an emergency Caesar. I didn't notice. Too much pain. They gave a consent form for the op to sign. I insisted in reading all the small print still being unaware there was urgency. This reading detour wasn't popular ! They put me out the moment my pen reached the end of my name. Came round to find a baby on my pillow beside my head which was an incredibly odd feeling. Worried for ages about it being some random baby.
Addendum I } We both lived. If it hadn't been for the Caesar we'd have both died. My peliv is structured to admit babies but not to discharge them. Once in, it's a one way street.
Addendum II } My second Caesar was planned and by epidural.Once the epidural wore off one/two days of womb contraction sets in. Because of the epidural, there's nothing else in the body to ameliorate the pain which is excutiating - as bad as labour - and worsened by the previous Caesar scar having been opened up again. (the dopiness etc other methods involves, protects from excessive pain at this stage to some extent). They don't warn about this aspect of epidurals and they should. I was unprepared and shocked by it.
3. 3. What is your most favorite song of all time?I'll have to add it in when I,locate it..
Bonus question: Can I have a cookie?Bonus Question to the Bonus Question: Are they blocked?
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1. How do measure a ship with an ordinary tape measure?
2. How much do you start out to do one thing but do something else instead?
3. Which of the following would you like to try:
- run away and start a new life
get someone else to organise your life for you
Bonus Question: do you think having two eyes is sufficient?
1. How do measure a ship with an ordinary tape measure?
1st one needs two or three helpers( someone has to hold the end of the tape) and some paper and a pencil(preferrably waterproof for those underwater measurements), actually it's done with some secret formula/method that only 10 scottish ship builders know about,and believe me one pays dearly to get that knowledge from them, that's why you can recognize them by their giant Tartan yachts.
2. How much do you start out to do one thing but do something else instead?
well, not very often, but of course it does happen, like I'll start out replying to a question someone has asked me and then I'll think of something else during or something that they've said will remind me of a thought and sometimes off I go. Like once I was washing the dishes and my daughter asked me about something her teacher had said in class that day and that reminded me that when I was in school that very same teacher had asked us about the same thing, so I just had to stop washing dishes and tell my daughter the story
OH!
oooops!
I mean no, never I always finish what I start.eventually.
3. Which of the following would you like to try:
- run away and start a new life
get someone else to organise your life for you
Could I do both? I'm pretty organized but could always use help. If I run away and start a new life do I have to take the cats, the children( 16 and 20) and do I have to give the ex-husband my new phone number?
Actually I'm pretty lucky- the girls are decent people and the ex is in Tucson so not really in my hair and I'm healthier than many and have a home and people who love me- so no I don't think I'd run away.
Bonus Question: do you think having two eyes is sufficient?
Two eyes is pretty good. It would be very interesting to see a person with more than two though.
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1) Which would you rather do on any given day- lay on the grass under a tree and watch the leaves and the sky or lay in/on a boat and "fish" whether or not you actually intend to catch anything?
2) What is your favorite jelly/jam/spread to have with/ on your peanut butter sandwich?
3) What one suggestion that has ever been given to you- that you acted on- was most beneficial? And the opposite- least beneficial?
Bonus: have you ever done something that you were very afraid to do and what was it?
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Off topic to Griffin and to Dee Dee.
I was a 17 year old in labor and they kept telling me
DON'T PUSH! because things were not ready- I'm glad you and your child came through alright- I've been there with that Don't push!- that is one of the most difficult instructions to ever be given to any human ever- Don't push. It's overwhelming.
Dee Dee--- I am deathly afraid of heights and this applies to bridges ( well it once did) as well. I will never forget my first visit to Corpus and that bridge you were talking about "earlier" appeared - I pulled over to the roadside and was ready to have my daughter( the one they wouldn't let me PUSH with) take over the driving and she took my hand and just told me that I could and was going to do it. I did. I did it with her holding one hand, my other daughter holding my shoulder from the back seat, my left wheels as close to the middle as possible, at 25 miles an hour with Arkansas tags on my car and Texans backed and trying to get around my idiot self in the fast lane, and my eyes very nearly closed!( no this was not the safe thing to do- luckily it was not too busy) and now- bridges- piece of cake!
1) Which would you rather do on any given day- lay on the grass under a tree and watch the leaves and the sky or lay in/on a boat and "fish" whether or not you actually intend to catch anything?
Easy, fishing. I like boats, I like lying about in boats, I like fishing (BTW, catching fish is incidental to fishing, otherwise it would be called "catching").
2) What is your favorite jelly/jam/spread to have with/ on your peanut butter sandwich?
Vegemite and sour pickled onions. Yum!
3) What one suggestion that has ever been given to you- that you acted on- was most beneficial? And the opposite- least beneficial?
A very senior officer I worked for once in the Navy said that the single most important thing in any situation is to answer the question "what are we trying to achieve here?" I have found that to be very true. Once you have decided that, all the other questions become much more simpler to answer and you are much more likely to achieve what you set out to do in the first place.
The lest useful advice have ever been given was so useless that I can't remember it. I have been blessed (cursed) with a very selective memory - my subconscious edits information as either important, interesting, unimportant or uninteresting. It keeps the first two categories and dumps the second two. It does this automatically, so although I can tell you that the first stage of the Saturn V rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel a second and produced 15 milion pounds of thrust I have no idea of what the least useful advice was - it has been edited out! This does have the advantage that you can tell me all sorts of gossip without fear of me ever repeating it to anyone, since I find gossip totally uninteresting. My wife despairs of ever finding out that was said in a telephone conversation I might have just had with my mother/sister etc since most of it will go straight into the bit bucket - Now I put the phone on speaker and let her hear for herself.
Bonus: have you ever done something that you were very afraid to do and what was it?
Yes, speak to a large group of people. One time when I was giving a prepared presentation to a group of people I mucked it up royally by omitting a part early on that was required to understand a later bit and so had to take a major detour at the later point to cover off on what I had missed. I was approached by one of the attendees and complimented on a wonderful presentation - "I never knew what you were going to say next, it was very interesting!" This taught me that the audience does not know what you are intending to say, so if you make a mistake here and there it does not matter. After that I lost my fear of public speaking and now am comfortable talking to any sized crowd - my biggets so far was about 3,000 at a conference one time - in fact my problem now is learning when to stop!
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1. What makes you sad?
2. Do you bite your fingernails?
3. Have you ever had a therapeutic full body massage?
Bonus question? Where did all the frogurt go?
1. What makes you sad?
I try not to get sad in any circumstances. But the last thing that made me really sad was the death of a relative.
2. Do you bite your fingernails?
No, never did. But I bite anything that come into my reach. Especially pens and pencils.
3. Have you ever had a therapeutic full body massage?
I had a full body massage, but it wasn't really therapeutical. But it felt really good though.
Bonus question? Where did all the frogurt go?
To frogurt heaven.
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1. What is your favourite cosmetical activity (manicure, pedicure, etc)?
2. What is your favourite sport to watch?
3. How much money is in your wallet right at this moment?
Bonus: Where is frogurt heaven?
1. What is your favourite cosmetical activity (manicure, pedicure, etc)?Shaving.
2. What is your favourite sport to watch?Auto racing. Specifically, really good closed-wheel road course racing, where the cars are evenly matched and every one has a world-class driver, e.g. ALMS on a good day.
3. How much money is in your wallet right at this moment?Zero. :( I need to go to the bank machine.
QuoteBonus: Where is frogurt heaven?
Nowhere. Frogurt is cursed. ;)
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1. What is your preferred shaving method: electric, safety razor, straight blade, something else?
2. What's your favourite sport to watch
live?
3. Where you live, what do they call a bank machine: "bank machine", "ATM", "magic box o' cash", something else?
Bonus question: does frogurt melt in Hell?
1. What is your preferred shaving method: electric, safety razor, straight blade, something else?
Safety double-edge. I am a real weenie when it comes to razors.
2. What's your favourite sport to watch live?
Skiing. Whoosh! Frosh! Zip!
3. Where you live, what do they call a bank machine: "bank machine", "ATM", "magic box o' cash", something else?
"That %@#$ thing that just ate me card!"
Bonus question: does frogurt melt in Hell?
No. If it did it would no longer be frogurt. It would be kefir.
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1) What would you say is your mental age?
2) Are you ever flip?
3) Do you sometimes bite your tongue?
1) What would you say is your mental age?
Depending. Pretty helpless in this cruel economic world (=about 10), other wise cynical enough to be double my age.
2) Are you ever flip?
No, I am more like a flop.
3) Do you sometimes bite your tongue?
Occasionally but not on purpose
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1. Beetles or Rotating Rocks?
2. Do you like to sing yourself?
3. If yes to 2.: only in private?
If no to 2.: Why not?
Bonus question: Who goes to frogurt hell?
1. Beetles or Rotating Rocks?
A rotating rock gathers no beetles.
2. Do you like to sing yourself?
Occasionally.
3. If yes to 2.: only in private?
If no to 2.: Why not?
Yes, generally only in private, by myself... unless I'm "karaoke drunk", which doesn't happen too often, since "karaoke drunk" is only slight less than "passed out drunk". ;D
Bonus question: Who goes to frogurt hell?
The frogurt. It's cursed.
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1. Who is/was your favourite comic book superhero?
2. What was your favourite toy as a child?
3. When you were a child, did you have a "secret clubhouse" (even if it was just the clearing in the bushes)?
1. Who is/was your favourite comic book superhero?
The Flaming Carrot! http://www.flamingcarrot.com/FlamingCarrotPage/index.html (http://www.flamingcarrot.com/FlamingCarrotPage/index.html)
2. What was your favourite toy as a child?
My Pooh Bear. (He was not a Disney Pooh, just a large teddy bear.) I loved him for so long the soles of his feet came off. After he had been patched a couple of times my mom had to buy him baby tights.
3. When you were a child, did you have a "secret clubhouse" (even if it was just the clearing in the bushes)?
We had a whole town in the woods, just us neighborhood kids. We made the walls of our houses by sweeping leaves into low walls. everyone had a shopfront. I was the dirt salesman. I had dirt of different colors in piles to choose from. It was a brisk business.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
1) Do you remember your first sweetheart?
2) Did you ever think of yourself as "different" as a child?
3) Do you think the world can be saved?
Bonus point:
If frogurt repented, would it go to heaven?
1) Do you remember your first sweetheart?
The first boy I liked? Yes, I don't remember how old I was, but I thought he was cute!
2) Did you ever think of yourself as "different" as a child?
-Ish. I grew up in the nineties, we were ALL special. ;D More then that, a little. I spoke proper English, and was constantly razzed for it--"You think you're all that!" and "Why do you use such big words?"
3) Do you think the world can be saved?
No. We're too stubborn, to start.
Bonus point:
If frogurt repented, would it go to heaven?
Sure.
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1. Hot Pocket?
2. Favorite comedian?
3. Most interesting religion?
Bonus Question: why is there a bonus question?
1. Hot Pocket?
No, it's just regular temperature.
2. Favorite comedian?
Hmm... too many.
Probably Billy Connolly or Robin Williams.
3. Most interesting religion?
Hinduism
Bonus Question: why is there a bonus question?
Either:
- because the 3-question format can be limiting, or
- because people like getting "extra" stuff.
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1. What's the oddest phrase you know in a language that you don't really know?
2. Would you prefer a week with the days off staggered (i.e. three work days, one day off, two work days, one day off) instead of stuck back-to-back?
3. What do you like to do during a long power failure?
Bonus question: Do you pay attention to your horoscope?
1. What's the oddest phrase you know in a language that you don't really know?
"My Hand Is The Pervert" Bad grammer and all. In two languages I don't really know.
2. Would you prefer a week with the days off staggered (i.e. three work days, one day off, two work days, one day off) instead of stuck back-to-back?
10 day week, split into 4 On, 1 Off, 3 On, 2 Off. I'm actually thinking that I'd do best with 4 x 10 hr and 3 Off, or even 3 x 12 hr + 1 x 4 hr + 3 Off. It's so hard to actually accomplish anything on a work day, and nothing important stays open on the weekends (Except the BEER and FOOD stores ;) )
3. What do you like to do during a long power failure?
BBQ! Sleep when it's dark... be outside when it's light out.
Bonus question: Do you pay attention to your horoscope?
Sometimes, although I'd just as soon pick up yesterday's/last week and see if anything matched. Seeing them ahead can influence things too much. ;)
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1. Favorite hot-day food?
2. Favorite sitting-on-a-patio-in-the-sunshine beverage?
3. Do you harvest and eat any wild foods?
Bonus Question: If yes on 3, what haven't you tried that you'd like to try? If no, why not?
1. Favorite hot-day food?
Beer
2. Favorite sitting-on-a-patio-in-the-sunshine beverage?
Beer
3. Do you harvest and eat any wild foods?
Does stealing strawberries from a private garden count as harvesting wild foods?
Bonus Question: If yes on 3, what haven't you tried that you'd like to try? If no, why not?
So many things. But they rarely involve any food. Although some of those things involve whipped cream.
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1. Would you consider yourself a pervert?
2. Do you have a lucky number? What is it?
3. What were you doing on this day at this time in 2003?
Bonus, bonus, bogus: If I give you a flower, will you accept it?
1. Would you consider yourself a pervert?
Yes, but I won't give details apart from that it is mainly theory so far.
2. Do you have a lucky number? What is it?
I put exams on Friday 13th if possible. Has the advantage of a short waiting list (no joke).
3. What were you doing on this day at this time in 2003?
Probably sitting in a lecture (too lazy to check, whether it was a weekened and something else would apply)
Bonus, bonus, bogus: If I give you a flower, will you accept it?
Depends on the flower and the absence of conditions I'd not like to meet.
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1. Do you consider yourself a person of good or bad taste (not food related)?
2. Is it likely that that impression is shared by others (apart from teachers. those would very likely consider all pupils as without taste)?
3. Are you likely to give an honest answer, if you are asked about a matter of taste and you consider it utterly tasteless?
Bonus question: Would you answers change significantly, if "taste" were replaced with "tact"?
Duje, those are hard questions ...and excellent ones.
1. Do you consider yourself a person of good or bad taste (not food related)?
(My first response would be "bite me", but that would be rude.) ;D
I think I have fairly good taste, as I have an aesthetic education. The fact that I will occasionally toss it out the window for the sake of experimentation, fun or shock value only means that I do not always let it rule me. I am also a thrifty person and will wear things that may not be the height of fashion if I find them comfortable or useful.
2. Is it likely that that impression is shared by others (apart from teachers. those would very likely consider all pupils as without taste)?
Probably not. Remember my leopard-print monk's robe?
3. Are you likely to give an honest answer, if you are asked about a matter of taste and you consider it utterly tasteless?
You mean if I consider the question utterly tasteless? In that case I'm apt to be frank. However, if the object of questionable taste is what you mean, I would try to put it as gently as possible. For instance, if you were to walk in and ask if those pink spandex bicycle shorts looked okay, I might say that I wouldn't wear them as it is going to be much too warm for spandex today.
Bonus question: Would you answers change significantly, if "taste" were replaced with "tact"?
I am probably more tactful than I am tasteful.
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1) Do you talk to the Great Everything at all, every day or whenever the mood strikes you?
2) Do you chew your nails?
3) Do you think that the right kind of music could awaken you from a coma?
Bonus question: Do these pink bicycle shorts make me look pensive?
1) Do you talk to the Great Everything at all, every day or whenever the mood strikes you?
Only when hung-over and down with a headache. I always say: "please make the pain go away".
(I don't believe in the Great Everything, so sorry that my answer couldn't be very honest)
2) Do you chew your nails?
Nope. But I chew everything else. Especially pencils, pens etc when nervous. (I managed to chew through two pencils during one exam)
3) Do you think that the right kind of music could awaken you from a coma?
I'm pretty sure that the right music and the right woman by my bed could do miracles to me when in a come. ;)
Bonus question: Do these pink bicycle shorts make me look pensive?
It made me pensive.
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1. What do you want to do and where do you want to be when the apocalypse strikes?
2. Why is there never a beer in the fridge when one has the cravings for it?
3. Why is the beer always gone so quickly?
bonus: Will you give me a beer, please?
1. What do you want to do and where do you want to be when the apocalypse strikes?
Hard one, preferably in outer space away from it all- especially if we humans are the cause.
2. Why is there never a beer in the fridge when one has the cravings for it?
It's easy to forget to buy more- especially if like me one doesn't crave it often- every once in a while I like a good cold Bud Light longneck but not often, so I always have to go get them when I want one.
3. Why is the beer always gone so quickly?
Because I share.
bonus: Will you give me a beer, please?
yes, see the above. If I have it - it's yours, will even split a bottle with you.
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1: If you see a small child crying- like if you are out in public- what do you do or do you do nothing. I'm talking total melt down.
2: Do you think parents - overall- are spoiling their little darlings. Do you think that when "we" were kids that "our" parents socialized us "better" or not. I understand that some on this forum are quite young so if you answer just go with it- no right or wrong answer- just interested.
3: What is your favorite "flavor" vodka? Or is flavored Vodka a blasphemy.
no bonus- I'm tired
1: If you see a small child crying- like if you are out in public- what do you do or do you do nothing. I'm talking total melt down.
If it seems like the kid isn't just having a hissy fit for attention, I try to make eye contact with the kid, and then smile or make a funny face. Sometimes it confuses the child and makes him or her forget what they were so upset about.
If it seems like the child is just freaking out to get attention, then I don't give it.
2: Do you think parents - overall- are spoiling their little darlings. Do you think that when "we" were kids that "our" parents socialized us "better" or not. I understand that some on this forum are quite young so if you answer just go with it- no right or wrong answer- just interested.
Hmm. Not sure on that one.
I think that to a certain extent, we've replaced "discipline" with "protection". This has meant that more children are less prepared for the real world, IMO.
3: What is your favorite "flavor" vodka? Or is flavored Vodka a blasphemy.
My favourite is vodka-flavoured vodka.
Nothing against flavoured vodka; I just can't remember ever having any.
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1. What is one thing that was once a major life goal for you, but in retrospect, you're glad you didn't do it?
2. What life experience, though negative or unpleasant, do you feel you got the most benefit from?
3. Do you have a "personal motto"? What is it?
Bonus recursive meta-question: What is the bonus question?
1: If you see a small child crying- like if you are out in public- what do you do or do you do nothing. I'm talking total melt down.
I'm assuming that the question involves an unattended child. In that case I would try to talk to the kid and if necessary look his/her for parents. If the kid is family/friend/mine I will try to reason with him and if that doesn't work I will let him cry and possibly make a little fun of his attitude.
2: Do you think parents - overall- are spoiling their little darlings. Do you think that when "we" were kids that "our" parents socialized us "better" or not. I understand that some on this forum are quite young so if you answer just go with it- no right or wrong answer- just interested.
I dare to say that most parent do spoil their kids either by too much or too little of everything. There is no formal training to be a parent; the most you can expect is dealing with small siblings or working with children (BTW, I did both) and that is not even close to what being a parent implies. As a parent you are always walking over a very thin line while trying to stop fast balls, fearing that you have been too soft or too hard on this or that.
About my parents... well they tried to avoid the mistakes made with them by my grandparents (or so they say) and on the same token I am trying to do the same with my kid. Was it ok the (many) times I was spanked then? Was it necessary? I haven't spanked my kid once in 11 years not because I think it is that bad but because I haven't had the need, I have been involved enough so that he is able to control himself for the most part (according to his age). I am able to recognize -what in my eyes are- mistakes parents make with their kids, and I'm sure they do too with me (usually is my wife who is telling me...).
I guess the short answer is that very few people has a clue at what to do as a parent.
3: What is your favorite "flavor" vodka? Or is flavored Vodka a blasphemy.
At the beginning I liked Absolut Citrus until I learned to dring the real thing. Nowadays I see it not as a blasphemy but with (admittedly) the same disdain as to dring vodka with orange juice... ;)
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1. What is one thing that was once a major life goal for you, but in retrospect, you're glad you didn't do it?
I really don't know. From the one I had as a kid (being an astronaut) to the ones I had at the university (working in an electronics R&D lab, or singing ancient music in Europe, or playing in a major orchestra) I still think that I would have liked any of those.
2. What life experience, though negative or unpleasant, do you feel you got the most benefit from?
Perhaps the time I managed a summer camp. While everything worked out it was horribly stressful with little time to sleep. From that I learned that I didn't want to do that anymore, managerial skills, and how to use guilt to successfully manage teenagers (obviously after they screwed up).
3. Do you have a "personal motto"? What is it?
Perhaps a mixture of the engineer credo "Hope for the best, expect the worst" and "the only problem without solution is death"
Bonus recursive meta-question: What is the bonus question?
Bonus answer: what is with the bonus question?
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1. Do you think there should be an university for parents?
2. Do you find your self dwelling on "what ifs"? How often?
3. If you could make one of your youthful dreams reality what it would be?
Bonus question (let's change the tone a bit): Which one you like better, the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 3rd or the 2nd of the 7th?
Do you think there should be an university for parents?
Yes, the University of Life. No, I think schools shoud do more. There should be "emotional intelligence" lessons.
Do you find your self dwelling on "what ifs"? How often?
Used to until I got breast cancer. Now they are all irrelevent and anything is possible.
I only have one "what if" that has any meaning and it's "what if the cancer comes back" and actually it tends to be more a "when" than "if", because of my risk factors from the last lot and my poor health. This may sound miserable. It's the opposite. It engenders a do it today mind set and a "what if the cancer doesn't come back" alternative that is still covered by the do it today.
I don't dwell on it. I just do today.
If you could make one of your youthful dreams reality what it would be?
I'd be a famous ice skater.
Bonus Question: Liking any one better is mean to the others.
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1. Who wins?
2. Do you get upset breaking eggs for omelettes?
3. What's your biggest superstition?
Bonus existential Question: what's at stake?
1. Who wins?
Winning is for little things, like sport and games. In life winning is a null concept IMO. No one wins, no one loses. The important thing is to be true to yourself, to respect yourself and others, to care about this fragile planet of ours and to give and accept all the love you can.
2. Do you get upset breaking eggs for omelettes?
Nope. Man, you gotta break eggs to make omelets. Plus you need a little butter for the pan, some fresh chopped chives, a little grated vintage cheddar, a dash of Tabasco, some salt and pepper and a some cherry tomatoes and button mushrooms for the filling. Cook tomatoes and mushrooms in a saucepan until soft, reserve keeping hot. Use three eggs peer person, break into a bowl, add chives, Tabasco salt and pepper. Whisk egg mixture until combined. Melt butter in pan over moderate heat and pour in mixture. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Cook until bottom of omelet is golden, then remove pan from stove top and place under the grill to cook the top - not too hot or you will burn it. When done turn out on plate and add tomatoes and mushrooms to one half, turn uncovered half of omelet over filling and serve straight away.
3. What's your biggest superstition?
I'm not really superstitious, so I can't think of anything.
Bonus existential Question: what's at stake?
Joan of Arc
<takes off silly hat>
Actually everything and nothing. In a very real way, this life is all there is. We burn brightly and then the flame goes out, sometimes snuffed out in an instant and othertimes we fade like an ember for a while, but in the end the result is the same. I say that this is not a reason to despair but a reason to make the most of what we have. Live your life, smell the roses, remember to laugh. Tell those you love that you love them. Go fishing. Have a beer. Be silly. If you touch many people as you go through life's journey, your memory will linger. Be happy for what you are and for the life you still have.
1. How many bridges, does a man have to cross?
2. What do you want your legacy to be?
3. What is more important, the journey or the destination?
Bonus question: How will you know when you get there?
1. How many bridges, does a man have to cross?
All of them that are between here and now and where I want to be. No bridges? No worry! Too many bridges? Rest a while. All bridges don't have to be crossed immediately.
2. What do you want your legacy to be?
Kindness
3. What is more important, the journey or the destination?
Journey. The problem with destinations is that unless you have something else going on, a destination becomes a grave. You "arrive" and get into a rut. Then, somebody fills in the ends of the rut, and...it's a grave. There are lots of lovely stops on the way, but arrival at the final destination isn't the big thing, it's the last thing.
Bonus question: How will you know when you get there?
No pain? No problems? No bills to pay? If I find out first, I will try to let you know.
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1) Of all the things I've ever lost, I miss my mind the most. What have you lost that you miss? (Material or physical or whatever.)
2) If you ruled the world, what color would you paint your throne room?
3) You're about to be transported away from a dying Earth. You can take ONE object with you, it can be no larger than your head. What are you taking along?
Bonus question: Do you think I would look silly in zebra print shoes?
1) Of all the things I've ever lost, I miss my mind the most. What have you lost that you miss? (Material or physical or whatever.)
My Dad.
2) If you ruled the world, what color would you paint your throne room?
Nothing. It'd be wall-to-wall windows.
3) You're about to be transported away from a dying Earth. You can take ONE object with you, it can be no larger than your head. What are you taking along?
As much digital storage media as I can get, carrying as much music and written material as I can fit on.
Bonus question: Do you think I would look silly in zebra print shoes?
Depends on your hat.
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1. What's your measure of "success"?
2. Ever fallen out of a boat?
3. What was your first car?
Bonus question: you've discovered/created a new element (probably near the end along with Californium, Nobellium and the like). What would you want to name it?
1. What's your measure of "success"?
Happiness in absence of a warm gun ;)
2. Ever fallen out of a boat?
Yes and almost drowned when the kayak capsized (calm waters, it was the result of a paddle fight with another kayak)
3. What was your first car?
Never owned one. The first family car I remember was a Simca, the first and only I drove (driving school) was a VW Diesel Golf.
Bonus question: you've discovered/created a new element (probably near the end along with Californium, Nobellium and the like). What would you want to name it?
It's time to honor Scheele, on the other hand there should be an element with the symbol E or A at last. If it is this year than Glies(e)ium, to honor the first earth-like planet found outside our solar system.
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1.What is your favorite type (not author) of lyrics ?
2.Do you know more than one stanza of your country's national anthem?
3.If you are abroad, could/would you lie about your origin (and under what circumstances)?
1.What is your favorite type (not author) of lyrics ?
Progressive rock lyrics from the 70s. Not because they're better than any other, but because they remind me of being young.
2.Do you know more than one stanza of your country's national anthem?
First two verses. It's also the only thing I can sort-of play on piano (a group of us non-musicians needed someone to play it and I "won" the honour).
3.If you are abroad, could/would you lie about your origin (and under what circumstances)?
I could probably do a good Swedish chef impression if abducted by the Taliban.
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1 Goats. Good company or a tasty barbecue?
2 Meat or fish?
3 Favourite aircraft?
Bonus question: At what age do you want to retire?
1 Goats. Good company or a tasty barbecue?
Depends on the goat. But they can be both.
2 Meat or fish?
A nise steak please!
3 Favourite aircraft?
My own learjet. ;D
Bonus question: At what age do you want to retire?
At the age of 30 because of being a millionaire already at that time. :)
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1. Do you think sobering up is a necessity?
2. How do you solve depression?
3. what would you like to see written on your tombstone?
Bonus: What would you write on my tombstone?
1. Do you think sobering up is a necessity?
Depends on the reason and how one defines sober.
2. How do you solve depression?
Snarking and chocolate.
3. what would you like to see written on your tombstone?
Nothing. Don't want one. I find the idea of being buried rather creepy. Just burn the carcass, have a root beer kegger for a wake, and dump the ashes on an eco-cemetery.
Bonus: What would you write on my tombstone?
"Why the hell do I need one of these?" :D
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1. Burial plans?
2. Favorite blogger/writer?
3. Favorite kind of pen?
Bonus: What kind of...pen would you name after yourself?
1. Burial plans?
So far, the only certain plans I have for my burial is that I want it to happen after my death.
Beyond that, it might be nice for someone to sneakily bury my ashes at my local racetrack, but that's optional (and may change as I develop a bit of maturity)
2. Favorite blogger/writer?
Douglas Adams, hands down.
3. Favorite kind of pen?
For everyday writing, anything thick*, preferably with black ink**. In a moving car, a Staedler 2 mm lead holder*** or a Sharpie fine tip marker.
* I hold my pen in a weird way, so I find thicker pens more comfortable.
** I spent most of my high school years in a theatre, often working under dim blue or red light backstage or in the booth. Black's the only colour that doesn't turn invisible in some colour of light.
*** Technically not a "pen", I know.
Bonus: What kind of...pen would you name after yourself?
A charming, dashing, gallant pen, of course! ;D
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1. Have you ever abused a non-alcoholic beverage?
2. Donut, muffin or bagel?
3. What's the fastest you've personally gone in a car?
Bonus question: what's that smell?
1. Have you ever abused a non-alcoholic beverage?
I verbally abuse Dr.Pepper every time someone gives it to me instead of the root beer I order.
2. Donut, muffin or bagel?
Bagel, please.
3. What's the fastest you've personally gone in a car?
On a highway, 95MPH. On a closed ranch road, when I knew for sure there was no other traffic on the 7 mile road that looped through the property, 135 MPH--in my 1965 Plymouth Barracuda. (This was in 1973.) OH, it was about midnight on a bright moonlit night, and I drove it with no headlights. On a bet. Broke 120 MPH and did it in the dark. Made $100.
Bonus question: what's that smell?
That smell? The underwear of my passenger that night. The one that lost the bet...
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1) How many brothers and sisters do you have?
2) Were you named after a family member? (Who?)
3) What precious metal do you prefer for jewelry?
Bonus question: What's the frequency, Kenneth?
1) How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Two older brothers
2) Were you named after a family member? (Who?)
Maternal uncle
3) What precious metal do you prefer for jewelry?
Hm, copper and tin are not precious metals (though copper is borderline).
Rarely wear jewelry.
Bonus question: What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Low, Mr.More
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1. What's the most expensive legal offense you have been caught with yet?
2. was it also the worst committed?
3. How did Homeland Security get hold of this thread?
Bonus question: can an antisemite wear jewelry without being a hypocrite (apart from it being a general feature in the first place)?
1. What's the most expensive legal offense you have been caught with yet?
never been caught ;)
2. was it also the worst committed?
interesting question. When looking at getting work placements and employment for ex-offenders we ask businesses this to get them thinking about how easy it would have been to be in the same position as some of the people we are helping. The simple answer is that if you take maximum sentences into account some of the things i did at university could have carried a 20 year term (they were never serious enough for a court to impose this sentence but in theory....).
I suppose that given my active opposition to the Iraq war i could have been whisked off to Guantanamo Bay for ever :D
3. How did Homeland Security get hold of this thread?
Do i look worried by your black helicopters and orange jumpsuits :goatflag:
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1) Do you keep in touch with old boy/girlfriends?
2) What art do you have on your living room walls?
3) What books do you have in your lavatory?
1) Do you keep in touch with old boy/girlfriends?
Not really...it's safer that way!
2) What art do you have on your living room walls?
A watercolour of some bluebells in a wood.
Another watercolour of the Lake District.
boring really, but on Second Life in my Pirate Inn I've got portraits of pirates all over the cellar walls!
3) What books do you have in your lavatory?
Toulouse Latrec biography, Toulouse Latrec's masterpieces, Shite's Miscellany, Moby Dick, Three Men in a boat, Three men on the Bummell, Bored of the Rings (excellent parody of Tolkiens masterpiece), Toilet Elephant and Notes from a Small island...there's a theme running as you can see!
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1: What was your greatest sporting achievement?
2: How long can you shop for without getting bored?
3: Have you ever been in danger from a wild animal (insect, fish etc)?
1: What was your greatest sporting achievement?
my first competetive cricket match. I bowled 1 over of 13 balls (Very Wide!) conceding 15 runs but taking two wickets. The guys at the other end were so suprised when a ball went straight they just watched it fly past! I also scored 6 runs including one 4 and caught someone. On return to the clubhouse i was presented with the club social rules....
first time you bat for the club you have to buy 4 pints for the team
first time you bowl for the club ditto
first time you hit a four ditto
fist time you bowl somebody out ditto
first time you catch somebody ditto
and so on....
cost me 24 pints :D
2: How long can you shop for without getting bored?
hours and hours online or in a bookstore. If it involves clothes about 20 seconds
3: Have you ever been in danger from a wild animal (insect, fish etc)?
I consider myself to be in mortal peril if a spider even looks at me!
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1) do you have a pasta maker?
2) If so have you actually ever used it?
3) do you know anyone who has read 'A brief history of time'?
1) do you have a pasta maker?
Yes, I have a mother.
2) If so have you actually ever used it?
I do not just "use" other people.
3) do you know anyone who has read 'A brief history of time'?
Yes, myself (in translation though)
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1. If you had to die by unnatural means, which way out of life would you prefer?
2. Could you honestly imagine to sacrifice your life (in a very unpleasant way) for a single other person? (No, this is not about unhappy marriages)
3. You have to fight a duel and have the choice of weapons, what would be your choice?
Bonus question: Why does that person ask such morbid questions?
1. If you had to die by unnatural means, which way out of life would you prefer?
Fast and painless.
Or laugh to death.
2. Could you honestly imagine to sacrifice your life (in a very unpleasant way) for a single other person? (No, this is not about unhappy marriages)
If someone would endanger a member of my family (the part that I like) or a very good friend, I'd probably sacrifice myself.
3. You have to fight a duel and have the choice of weapons, what would be your choice?
Ashtrays. I have a thick head and experience in tossing ashtrays at another person's head.
Bonus question: Why does that person ask such morbid questions?
I think it has something to do with his childhood. ;)
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1. Were you a happy child?
2. Do you have a flag of your country (or any other country) at your house? Where (hanging on the wall, out of the window, out in the yard, hidden)?
3. How often do you take your trash out?
Bonus: Should the bonus question have a number appointed or just remain a bonus?
*****a brief aside but what constitutes and 'unnatural' death? Squashed by a Yeti? Devoured by ghosts? murdered by your imaginary friend? ;D
Usually any death that is not by old age or a disease caught the natural way.
****well i must say that is funny use of the word natural! being eaten by lions is natural and it is pretty natural to die if you get hit by a bus!
now get back to what you were doing. Move along please there is nothing to see here
Orwell gives a pretty good definition in one of his essays AFAICR. His conclusion was that it's better to die violently and young (or not too old), though getting round to it might be one of those things you tend to put off.
1. Were you a happy child?
I'd say yes.
2. Do you have a flag of your country (or any other country) at your house? Where (hanging on the wall, out of the window, out in the yard, hidden)?
No, I only have a few t-shirts with the flags of Iceland and Norway and am always suspicious about people waving German flags (especially abroad and/or in groups).
3. How often do you take your trash out?
No regular intervals and dependent on kinds of trash
Bonus: Should the bonus question have a number appointed or just remain a bonus?
The latter
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1. Should children be allowed to watch TV before they have learned to read?
2. From what age on should children be allowed to use a calculator at a school (instead of doing the math by hand that is)?
3. Should children learn to read before going to elementary/primary school?
Bonus question: Will GW Bush write memoirs (himself or using a ghostwriter) and will they be titled "For Me and My American Pet Goat"?
1. Should children be allowed to watch TV before they have learned to read?
Yes, especially Sesame street and other shows that teach letters and numbers. There need to be more of them, and they need to bring back some of the classic Sesame Street early shows, where the letters and numbers were really stressed.
2. From what age on should children be allowed to use a calculator at a school (instead of doing the math by hand that is)?
At the age where their classwork has helped them master the basic math actions (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and they're starting into more difficult mathematical studies.
3. Should children learn to read before going to elementary/primary school?
Children should learn 'reading readiness', the letters, sounds, shapes, etc by US system kindergarten (age 5) so that basic reading can be taught. (US offers preschool, with a program called Head Start for people that can't afford private preschool, or cannot teach at home (literacy issues) but not all eligible children participate. By first grade, a child should have a very basic reading level, or they won't be able to keep up.
Bonus question: Will GW Bush write memoirs (himself or using a ghostwriter) and will they be titled "For Me and My American Pet Goat"?
He'd have to have a ghostwriter, but he wan't talk about the Pet Goat. He's afraid of livestock of any type, and goats would be no exception.
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1. What are you allergic to, if anything?
2. What's the sickest you've ever been?
3. Which family member do you most resemble?
Bonus Question: Anybody got some cake?
1. What are you allergic to, if anything?
Certain types of pollen (e.g. birch) and a few fruits. Slightly (only after long exposure) to some metal salts.
2. What's the sickest you've ever been?
Weber A on one ankle, chickenpox as a child (I don't remember personally). Nothing life-threatening yet.
3. Which family member do you most resemble?
My father (in body shape and character)
Bonus Question: Anybody got some cake?
Not me
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1. Do you like fish (as a dish that is)? If yes, more salt or more fresh water species?
2. Would you like to become a space tourist and how much would you invest in it, if you do?
3. Does the French election affect you?
Bonus Question: Cheese or Black Forest cake?
1. Do you like fish (as a dish that is)? If yes, more salt or more fresh water species?
AAARRRRRRRRRR...Surely no need fer me to answer that one...Just the Heads!
2. Would you like to become a space tourist and how much would you invest in it, if you do?
AAARRRRRRRRRRR I be waitin fer the mayor Ken Liversausage to make it part of London Transport!
3. Does the French election affect you?
YYYYYAAARRRRRGH...The Frenchies always affect me...the very mention of em makes me crew rise up to a man and bay fer blood...and some o that nice blue cheese and a couple o bottles o cote de Rhone...
Bonus Question: Cheese or Black Forest cake?
Bonus answer: Calico Jack's treasure is situated just off the coast o Blind Pew's island, four degrees south West of...
Oh the cake, the cake!
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1. Is the population of France really any more than 10 million (I am conducting a survey for the purposes of armament supplies)?
2. Who is your favourite French painter?
3. What is your favourite French cheese?
Out of order, and not responding to the questions, but...
Balck Forest Cake??? My favorite!!!!!!
1. Is the population of France really any more than 10 million (I am conducting a survey for the purposes of armament supplies)?
In 1226 the population was 16 million. But I guess you are more interested in the mid-1700s when it was around 21 milloin.
2. Who is your favourite French painter?
I don't know any, but Vanessa Infante has a good pedigree being the fourth generation of a family of French decorators. But I'm unsure whether you meant interior or exterior.
3. What is your favourite French cheese?
I like the ones that come in round wooden boxes best.
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1. How would you cope with a world without packaging?
2. What was you favourite birthday present ever?
3. What would you do if faced with a friendly looking oran-utan?
1. How would you cope with a world without packaging?
I couldn't. 95% of my shopping arrives by mail/van. I'd have to buy a house next to a mega-Tesco.
2. What was you favourite birthday present ever?
Part payment for a collie puppy. Second best, a telescope from my father when I was eight.
3. What would you do if faced with a friendly looking oran-utan?
Make my excuses and leave. You have to draw the line somewhere.
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1 Will you mourn Tony Blair's passing into political history?
2 Richard III, guilty or maligned? (Guess who's reading "The Daughter of Time" after hearing bits on Oneword radio).
3 Why do you always imagine John of Gaunt to be tall and thin?
1 Will you mourn Tony Blair's passing into political history?
If it means that the UK will fall to paleoconservatives instead, then I'd consider him the slightly lesser evil. But at least he had no extramarital affairs with interns ;).
2 Richard III, guilty or maligned? (Guess who's reading "The Daughter of Time" after hearing bits on Oneword radio).
Not worse than the average English royalty of his time and probably with more brains.
But literature/theatre should still be greatful for Shakespeare's drama, independent of historical distortions.
3 Why do you always imagine John of Gaunt to be tall and thin?
If at all because of Lovecraft's Night-Gaunts, otherwise I do not imagine him.
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1. Will Scotland become (formally) independent within the next decade?
2. Would that be a good or a bad thing?
3. What about Wales (or whales for the non-Brits or otherwise disinterested)?
Bonus question: Why was there no bonus question in the last entry?
Quote from: Swatopluk
If it means that the UK will fall to paleoconservatives instead, then I'd consider him the slightly lesser evil. But at least he had no extramarital affairs with interns ;).
Actually I'm not sure we're ever getting rid of Blair. Talk about the long goodbye; We'll probably all have to start putting our pyjamas on before he takes the hint it's really time to go.
GB is generally considered more Atlanticist than Blair, very Euro(currency)skeptic and fairly Euro(anything)skeptic. If his time at the Treasury is anything to go by he favours lots of intricately-detailed legislation. The UK tax code (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/04/29/cntax29.xml) has now overtaken even that of India, previously the World bureaucracy champions.
1. Will Scotland become (formally) independent within the next decade?
Hard to tell how much is a genuine wish for independence and how much general griping and resentment at being taken for granted. I think they're canny enough to realise that once the cheers died down they would be in an economic mess, and if they really did turn true socialist they would lose Edinburgh's financial services (and other multinationals) to London.
2. Would that be a good or a bad thing?
Bad overall, because we're a small enough island any way. Probably good economically for English taxpayers though.
3. What about Wales (or whales for the non-Brits or otherwise disinterested)?
Don't hear much about Welsh independence these days (at least not in Cambridgeshire :) , so don't know.
Bonus question: Why was there no bonus question in the last entry?
It wouldn't be a bonus if you got one every time.
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1 Nikolas Sarkozy, saviour of France? Mad right winger? Same old, same old?
2 Can France be changed from the top or will street protests stop it?
3 Should France be changed?
Bonus question: Why are there no French Toadfish? It make borrowing a villa very difficult.
ah Beagle! never miss a chance to you old polemicist!
Gordon Brown is the new saviour of Britain! Clearly distinguished from his opponents by having a novel idea called 'policies' ;)
1 Nikolas Sarkozy, saviour of France? Mad right winger? Same old, same old?
this is a trick question as i have it on good authority that NS was you old school penpal. so no comment
2 Can France be changed from the top or will street protests stop it?
they will if i have anything to do with it :goatflag:
3 Should France be changed?
it needs nore hills in the north
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1) tentacles or wings?
2) would you eat a sea slug?
3) Rabbits. natures edible bounty or cuddly pets? (as Viz once asked "I am planning on making a rabbit stew. Can any of your readers advise me whether it is cheaper to go to the butchers or the petshop?)
1) tentacles or wings?
Wings. Easier to cook consistently (important if someone else is cooking), and I'd rather have a pair (workable for flight) than a set of tentacles. OTOH, I've never eaten a wing that was still moving. :o
2) would you eat a sea slug?
They tend to be rather toxic, but I'd try a nontoxic species. I've eaten land-slug-with-a-shell-on (snail) and sea snail, so why not?
3) Rabbits. natures edible bounty or cuddly pets? (as Viz once asked "I am planning on making a rabbit stew. Can any of your readers advise me whether it is cheaper to go to the butchers or the petshop?)
Both! I've considered raising rabbits as dual-purpose animals - keep the parents for breeding and eat the young. Rabbits are one of the all-around cutest domestic animals that are also (relatively) socially acceptable to eat (of all the domestic consumables, I don't think I could slaughter goats for meat - same for species that are usually companion animals like potbelly pigs, dogs, and horses. Would have less of an issue with cows, sheep, meat hogs, rabbits and virtually none with poultry).
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1. Is it the weekend yet?
2. Do you keep houseplants?
3. Ever jumped off a cliff? If yes, how high (max - mine's about 30 ft into water)?
1. Is it the weekend yet?
It is always the weekend to a free mind.
2. Do you keep houseplants?
Yes indeed. I have a couple of small potted palms, several types of geranium, a couple of peace lilies, a small cactus, a dragon-winged begonia, a spider plant, a snake plant, a Christmas cactus and three giant pink bromeliads that look like they could eat me.
3. Ever jumped off a cliff? If yes, how high (max - mine's about 30 ft into water)?
I have jumped off many a small cliff, and walked off a few short piers, as well.
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1) Have you learned how to drop it after you've made your point?
2) Do you smile at strangers sometimes, just in an attempt to brighten their day?
3) Do you make it a point to acknowledge people in wheelchairs?
1) Have you learned how to drop it after you've made your point?
It took a while, but usually, yes.
2) Do you smile at strangers sometimes, just in an attempt to brighten their day?
Yes. They always think I'm up to something.
3) Do you make it a point to acknowledge people in wheelchairs?
About a third of the time I am right there with them, so yeah, I do. Most of us aren't slow, but we may be easy to catch...
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1. List the ingredients in the Perfect Sandwich.
2. Which first? Read the book or see the movie?
3. How far do you live from your best friend?
1. List the ingredients in the Perfect Sandwich.
Two beers and a shot of slivovitz in between. ;D
I don't really know how my perfect sandwich would look like, as the usual sandwich I make is bread, butter, some meat (mostly ham or salami) and cheese. I guess it could do some improving. (maybe two loaves of ham and one loaf of cheese between it?)
2. Which first? Read the book or see the movie?
Always the book first.
Unless the books is based on a movie and not the other way around.
3. How far do you live from your best friend?
Very difficult to say. I don't really know who I should consider my best friends. I have a lot of good friends in several countries, that I would consider my best at the given moment. I can't say which one is the my best of them all.
If I consider the one that I have been very bound to for a long time, then my answer would be around 700 kilometres.
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1. There is a theory that true friends do not exist. Do you agree with that? (on a sidenote, I don't)
2. What would you do to a person that would hurt your friend?
3. Would you enjoy that?
Bonus: Define what pleasure is for you.
1. There is a theory that true friends do not exist. Do you agree with that? (on a sidenote, I don't)
I wonder what person would say that. I do have true friends.
2. What would you do to a person that would hurt your friend?
I may try to do some payback but in most cases the wound is (quasi) self-inflicted: "That person is not good for you", "you shouldn't go out with him/her", etc, that usually in the end becomes the classic "I told you so..."
3. Would you enjoy that?
Nope. Getting back at that person will not stop the pain of my friend.
Bonus: Define what pleasure is for you.
A good chocolate truffle, a good wine, a beautiful landscape/view/painting/etc, a nice steak, a good song/symphony/work, sing/play a good work, good sex, etc, etc :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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1. How often do you ignore good advice?
2. Do you tell your friends if they are (in your view) spoiling their children?
3. As a tourist do you prefer going to the museums or to the shops?
Bonus question: Praeludium or Fugue?
1. How often do you ignore good advice?
Regularly, especially my own.
2. Do you tell your friends if they are (in your view) spoiling their children?
The intersection between friends, people having children and me having knowledge about the latter's educational methods is unfortunately negligible. But I think I would.
3. As a tourist do you prefer going to the museums or to the shops?
Clearly museums, shops only insofar as they provide something that I want but could not get at home. I tend to stroll through museum shops though (clarification: not shops where you can buy museums).
Bonus question: Praeludium or Fugue?
D minor please
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1. Are you a vengeful person?
2. What makes you furious easiest?
3. What do you do about it?
Bonus question: Pistol or cutlass?
1. Are you a vengeful person?
Revenge may be beautiful sometimes.
2. What makes you furious easiest?
Stupid and ignorant people pretending to be smart. And talking to the public. And the public listening to them. And doing what they want. I don't know if in that case which makes me furious.
3. What do you do about it?
Unfortunately one can't do much, as murdering stupid people and locking ignorant people up is still illegal.
Bonus question: Pistol or cutlass?
Depends on the purpose, but I prefer cutlass, it's more silent.
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1. Do you consider grey (also called shadow) economy very important for a society?
2. You have to hire one person. You have the choice between a man and a woman that have completely the same qualifications for the job and you think both are equally capable of doing it. Which one do you chose?
3. Your favourite marmelade?
Bonus: Who do you consider the worse actor of all time?
Bonus 2: ... worse musician of all time?
1. Do you consider grey (also called shadow) economy very important for a society?
Of course depending on the definition, I'd say society can't do without.
2. You have to hire one person. You have the choice between a man and a woman that have completely the same qualifications for the job and you think both are equally capable of doing it. Which one do you chose?
If there is no obvious character flaw and the first view sympathy level is comparable, the woman's chances would increase with lack of outer attractivity (as long as she is no gorgon). Plain faces tend to be less likely to cause trouble. I assume that the job description does not contain seduction ;).
3. Your favourite marmelade?
Difficult to say at the moment because I rarely eat marmelade these days. Plum or stawberry were favorites of old (but not too sweet please).
Bonus: Who do you consider the worse actor of all time?
You mean apart from Daniel Küblböck? Heavy competition these days. From what I hear the Olsen Twins are pretty high up on this ladder.
Bonus 2: ... worse musician of all time?
The people who write/perform "songs" for the European song contest in the last decade?
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1. Your favorite painting?
2. Your favorite sculpture?
3. What would Mozart be/do today?
Bonus Question:
1. Did art go downhill since cave paintings became unfashionable with our ancestors?
2. How do you imagine "cave music" was in those days?
3. Are you in contact with your inner Neanderhal relative?
1. Your favorite painting?
I love so many paintings. But there is one I go to visit whenever I am anywhere near it: Claude Monet's "Woman with a Parasol" http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?61113+0+0
I don't know why, but the lines and reflected light create a sense of animation I feel I am really there on that sunny hill.
2. Your favorite sculpture?
Again, I love sculpture, too. But when I was a kid, I got to see Michelangelo's "Pieta" in person at the World's Fair in New York. It stunned me. I drove my family crazy begging to go in and see it again and again. When I went to school and was asked to make a crayon drawing of what I did that summer, I drew the Pieta. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/michelangelo/pieta.jpg.html
(Hmmm... seems to be a mother and son theme going on here...)
3. What would Mozart be/do today?
A zombie. No, you mean if he had been born more recently, I'm sure. I think he'd still be in music, probably avant garde, and possibly not heard of by many of us, but influential to those in the industry.
Bonus Question:
1. Did art go downhill since cave paintings became unfashionable with our ancestors?
No! But much of it remains strictly representational for purposes of communicating to the masses.
2. How do you imagine "cave music" was in those days?
I was briefly in a band where we imagined that early people could not conceive of any number beyond One. There was One thing and Some Things. So we called our band Bamm-Bamm Rubble and One. Our guitarists played on one string and I played a drum with one bone as our lead singer read from Dr. Suess' "Hop on Pop". Needless to say, we only performed once.
I think cave music was probably better than we were.
3. Are you in contact with your inner Neanderhal relative? Absolutely. (Thank you for asking this one bonus question.)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
1) Do you think human beings have gone as far as possible, culturally speaking?
2) Do you believe that the human race could experience a quantum leap?
3) If you were all alone on the planet, would you sing?
1) Do you think human beings have gone as far as possible, culturally speaking?
Culture has to evolve. So no. Unless evolution is dead.
2) Do you believe that the human race could experience a quantum leap?
Yes. Two ways.
a) By combining all our brain stems which I believe to contain undiscovered quantumaness.
b) When they work out what matter's. (decontrsruct)
3) If you were all alone on the planet, would you sing?
No, I'd be too busy listening to the tree fallings.
Bonus Answer: I did not.
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1. Although it is not recorded, someone must have once said tree falleth not by man alone. Who would have it been that said that?
2. If you went on a Quest, what would you like to find at the end of it?
3. Were novels better before the invention of the word processor?
1. Although it is not recorded, someone must have once said tree falleth not by man alone. Who would have it been that said that?
Solomon.
2. If you went on a Quest, what would you like to find at the end of it?
An excellent, excellent education.
3. Were novels better before the invention of the word processor?
I don't know, actually. I like some of the ones written post-Word, and some pre.
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1. Do you want to hug a polar bear?
2. If you could learn any language ever spoken at any time in history, what would it be?
3. Who is your favorite person in history?
1. Do you want to hug a polar bear?
Yes! And a Loon too.... they are doing very very well right now against the Sloth.
2. If you could learn any language ever spoken at any time in history, what would it be?
Speaking? Not sure, as there's little use for a spoken language outside of it's historical/geographical context. Probably Mandarin (which I don't believe I'm capable of learning) or Esperanto. From a written perspective, Latin for its scientific applications, or Hangul (which I'm supposed to be learning and can sound out a bit) which AFAIK is the first language designed specifically for the purpose of increasing national literacy rates.
3. Who is your favorite person in history?
*blank stare* I haven't met many of them. Do my ancestors count? My my maternal grandmother, maybe, or paternal grandfather.
:'( :-[ :( :) :D ;D :o ;)
1. Can you speak any 'garbled english' languages besides Pig Latin fluently? (I know Unglish ;D)
2. Have you ever tried to construct a secret language or code?
3. Have you ever invented a game or sport?
Bonus question: What area of your education do you feel has been most useful in your day-to-day life?
(basic literacy and math skills do not count).
1. Can you speak any 'garbled english' languages besides Pig Latin fluently?
ope-Nay, ust-Jay ig-Pay at-Lay-in-hay. (atin-Lay, in the simplified version.)
2. Have you ever tried to construct a secret language or code?
No, the regular stuff is already garbled for dyslexics. Why make it worse?
3. Have you ever invented a game or sport?
A variation on a couple of card games...one that combines Spades and Bridge that is pretty fun, if you have a lot of egotists playing. (You can force them to run their bid really high...)
Bonus question: What area of your education do you feel has been most useful in your day-to-day life?
My psychology of communications classes in college. They taught me a lot about how people's minds work, and what I need to know to manipulate them if I feel I need to. I rarely feel the need to do so, but when it's needed, it's there.
(BTW, Dan taught himself to speak and read Esperanto. He got me to where I was fairly fluent, but it's not a language you use very often.)
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1. Woot!! An extra $100 (or equivalent) in your pocket!! What do you spend it on?
2. You go to the movies, only to find yourself at the Hell Multiplex, year 1997. These are your film choices:
Titanic
Men in Black
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Liar Liar
Air Force One
As Good as It Gets
Good Will Hunting
My Best Friend's Wedding
Tomorrow Never Dies
Face/Off
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1997/top-grossing
Which one do you go see? Why?
3. Why is there air?
Bonus question: What's for breakfast?
1. Woot!! An extra $100 (or equivalent) in your pocket!! What do you spend it on?
Booze and some cheep whores..eh..NO!..a dozen DVDs or half a dozen books (or less, they are expensive these days).
2. You go to the movies, only to find yourself at the Hell Multiplex, year 1997. These are your film choices:
Titanic
Men in Black
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Liar Liar
Air Force One
As Good as It Gets
Good Will Hunting
My Best Friend's Wedding
Tomorrow Never Dies
Face/Off
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1997/top-grossing
Which one do you go see? Why?
I'd consider heading straight home again but, if I were forced to stay, the Bond or MiB look at least tolerable (have seen the latter but not the former). JP2 made even less sense than the book. With all respect for Kate Winslet, I don't have to see that Schmachtfetzen Titanic (I am actually surprised that there is no sequel yet, the Lusitania sailed for doom just a few year later)
3. Why is there air?
Because politicians produce a lot hot of it?
Bonus question: What's for breakfast?
Self-baked (and already a bit stale) onion breadroll with Lyoner (i.e. light sausage with herbs).
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1. What shall we do with the Jerry Falwell (in absence of drunken sailors that is)?
2. What is your opinion of the current GOP candidates for the 2008 presidential elections?
3. Will you likely live to see the results?
Bonus question: Sex or violence?
1. What shall we do with the Jerry Falwell (in absence of drunken sailors that is)?
Bury him before he starts to smell.
2. What is your opinion of the current GOP candidates for the 2008 presidential elections?
Bleh. At the moment, I will not vote for any of them.
3. Will you likely live to see the results?
Unless I get extraordinarily sick or stupid, or by some bizarre twist of fate, I'll get to watch the results.
Bonus question: Sex or violence?
Option A, I think. I refuse to be involved with violence.
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1. What question have you always asked about science?
2. Has it been answered?
3. Can it be answered by modern science?
Bonus: Do you like the drugs, or do they like you?
((Sorry, got a Marylin Manson song stuck in my head))
Squidly!!!!! I miss you coz you are not here much!!!! ;)
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1. What question have you always asked about science?
what on earth is this quantum stuff about?
2. Has it been answered?
I'm sure someone would say so but I do not understand the answer and if you cant answer a question in a way that an Oxford graduate will understand it then frankly you aint much cop at answering questions!!
3. Can it be answered by modern science?
see answer 2....
Bonus: Do you like the drugs, or do they like you?
love many of em! but they dont like anybody let alone me :(
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1) can you answer the question above in a way i can understand?
2) do you know anyone who can?
3) can i have their telephone number?
1) can you answer the question above in a way i can understand?
It appears that at the smallest level (and therefore with effects at all levels), the universe acts very strangely indeed.
2) do you know anyone who can?
If the above answer works for you, then yes.
If it doesn't work for you, then probably still yes, but I'm not exactly sure who.
3) can i have their telephone number?
They'll call you. ;)
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1. If it were up to you, would you change the "line" with regard to recreational drug laws where you live?
e.g. where I am, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol (and certain hallucinogens for some reason!) are OK, THC, narcotics & stronger stuff are not
2. If yes to 1, where would you set it? More strict than now or less?
3. What was the name of your teddy bear or other stuffing-headed friend from when you were a child?
Yes, bit hectic right now. Senior finals and check out and everything is time-consuming. After this Friday, things ought to go back to normal.
1. If it were up to you, would you change the "line" with regard to recreational drug laws where you live? e.g. where I am, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol (and certain hallucinogens for some reason!) are OK, THC, narcotics & stronger stuff are not
Yep. Legalize it so it can have the tax crapped out of it. Or so the strong stuff can be taxed, since it's easier to grow certain other ones.
2. If yes to 1, where would you set it? More strict than now or less?
Much less strict.
3. What was the name of your teddy bear or other stuffing-headed friend from when you were a child?
Which one? Figaro, Nibbles, Mr. Floppy, Bear-Bear, Fluffy Princess Rex...the list goes on. I had lots and lots of them as a child. They currently reside in a box in my garage.
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1. Favorite web or otherwise comic?
2. Favorite noise?
3. Do you know someone who is almost a ninja? (seems to disappear and reappear without any apparent effort)
1. Favorite web or otherwise comic?
Either www.toothpastefordinner.com or www.qwantz.com
2. Favorite noise?
The sound of a straight-cut gearbox at a high rate of acceleration. It's like the wail of a banshee, but in the best way possible.
I also like listening to my wife sing, but I'd never call that "noise". ;)
3. Do you know someone who is almost a ninja? (seems to disappear and reappear without any apparent effort)
The first person who comes to mind is my friend's former business partner, who, after they decided to fold the business, said "don't sell off the company's assets; I want to keep them and start up a new company. Let me have them and I'll cut you a cheque for your half"... and then disappeared, never to be seen again, only appearing as rumour and shadow.
>:(
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1. How did you do it?
2. What made you do it?
3. If you had to do things over, would you do it differently?
1. How did you do it?
It wasn't easy.
2. What made you do it?
The great entangling fabric of everything.
3. If you had to do things over, would you do it differently?
Only if I knew better this time.
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1) What is your favorite popsicle flavor?
2) Which is more soothing to you: flute or guitar music?
3) If little green men offered you a one-way ticket off this planet, would you go?
1) What is your favorite popsicle flavor?
pure orange
2) Which is more soothing to you: flute or guitar music?
Flute (not a great guitar fan)
3) If little green men offered you a one-way ticket off this planet, would you go?
Depending on the destination and the situation.
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1. What do you drink at breakfast?
2. When, how often and how long do you brush your teeth?
3. Would you give a detailed (public) report on your sex-life (provided you have one), if the payment was good enough (and how much would that be)?
Bonus question: What happened to the discussion about the joy of clubbing baby seals?
Yes, that is deliberately ambiguous and could mean the seals having a party
1. What do you drink at breakfast?
Unless you consider the liquid yogurt mixed with cereal a beverage nothing. Coffee and orange juice kill my stomach so I avoid them.
2. When, how often and how long do you brush your teeth?
In the evenings, sometimes after lunch or before leaving home, possibly not as long as it should be but as thoroughly as possible.
3. Would you give a detailed (public) report on your sex-life (provided you have one), if the payment was good enough (and how much would that be)?
Detailed report as in visual documentation, you mean? I dunno, I guess I wouldn't mind if it weren't frowned upon, particularly regarding one's job. The other side is that it would be uncomfortable if my son knew about it (mostly for him, as it would be for me to know about my parents').
Bonus question: What happened to the discussion about the joy of clubbing baby seals?
Perhaps it has something to do with the season and all interested are out enjoying themselves... ::)
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1. What is it with whaling? Should the southern hemisphere enforce a ban of whaling in their area given that all whaler countries are in the northern hemisphere?
2. Would penguins survive if a few polar bears are moved to the south pole? Would the bears survive?
3. Who should regulate and enforce laws preventing cruise lines and other ships pouring sewer water in international seas?
Bonus question: Whale songs or songs about whales?
1. What is it with whaling? Should the southern hemisphere enforce a ban of whaling in their area given that all whaler countries are in the northern hemisphere?
Then they will hunt in the North instead and most whales (to my knowledge) don't stay permanently in one hemisphere. And the perpetrators would use blackmail anyway.
Arm the whales! Seriously, only a total ban enforced with, if necessary, military power has a chance in my opinion.
2. Would penguins survive if a few polar bears are moved to the south pole? Would the bears survive?
The Antarctic penguins probably not, those farther North maybe. Don't know, if the bears could catch the seals there too.
3. Who should regulate and enforce laws preventing cruise lines and other ships pouring sewer water in international seas?
Armed patrol bird squads in connection with the now armed whales ;D
The UN need a bit more muscle and should do it.
Bonus question: Whale songs or songs about whales?
Isn't that essentially the same? I don't think whales sing about the joy of motocrossing.
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1. When is the next important election where you are?
2. Should Gore run for president again?
3. Do you find it disturbing that Cheney didn't look the least evil on the photo with wife and grandchild.
Bonus question: Should Switzerland maintain a large blue water navy?
1. When is the next important election where you are?
Erm, the primaries...? I have no clue, besides I still can't vote here.
2. Should Gore run for president again?
I dunno, he has gathered more momentum doing other stuff so it may help him. Also, I like Obama but I sometimes (sadly) think that many people in the US would not vote for a black man. Who knows, perhaps it is Gore's time to run.
3. Do you find it disturbing that Cheney didn't look the least evil on the photo with wife and grandchild.
The devil has always been able to camouflage, it stands to logic that he would be able to hide his demonic innards from time to time.
Bonus question: Should Switzerland maintain a large blue water navy?
In principle sounds dumb, but the real question should be made to a non affiliated military strategist on the advantages of such navy in the case of an invasion. About the likelihood of such invasion, well, if rapture comes and the Chinese horde invades Europe... ::) ::) ::)
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1. Should the EU become a (unified) military power?
2. Should the UN have its own army, and what should be its role?
3. When will the security council abolish veto power for its 5 VIP members?
Bonus question: If someone made a successful colony in international waters how long it would take for a power to take control of it?
1. Should the EU become a (unified) military power?
Absolutely not.
2. Should the UN have its own army, and what should be its role?
I'm sort of torn on this. On one hand, I am innately suspicious of ANYTHING international. But on the other, It would be a handy way to handle genocide and international terrorism.
3. When will the security council abolish veto power for its 5 VIP members?
Do I really have to answer that? I highly doubt it will ever happen, since none of the VIP members will want to give that power ip. It COULD happen if there was enough pressure, but that's the only way I can see it happening.
Bonus question: If someone made a successful colony in international waters how long it would take for a power to take control of it?
Dunno. Not long, I imagine.
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1. Hot or mild salsa?
2. How organized are your book marks?
3. How good are the odds that the US will 'do something' about Iran? (Insert whatever you think that something is)
Bonus: How much does the TB scare tell us about the world's ability to handle possible pandemics?
1. Hot or mild salsa?
Depends on dish. In case of doubt hot.
2. How organized are your book marks?
Pieces of paper within range of hand are sufficient. If you mean for the browser, depends on computer I am working on and the mood of the software.
3. How good are the odds that the US will 'do something' about Iran? (Insert whatever you think that something is)
Something will be done and given the current administration nothing good.
Bonus: How much does the TB scare tell us about the world's ability to handle possible pandemics?
Too much and nothing good.
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1. Do you read Harry Potter books and/or are you going to buy the last one as sonn as available?
2. Cold or hot dishes preferred?
3. Is where you live more threatened by drought or flooding or both?
Bonus Question: Should duels with lethal weapons become regulated but legal?
1. Do you read Harry Potter books and/or are you going to buy the last one as sonn as available?
Absolutely and it's already on pre-order.... !
2. Cold or hot dishes preferred?
Cold, grab from fridge, on bad days. Hot if energy available. I eat to live.
3. Is where you live more threatened by drought or flooding or both?
Sort of both. Flooding if the Thames Estuary scheme does not get actioned soon enough as the Thames Barrier is designed to allow flooding in my area to prevent flooding in other areas. Drought due to Thames Water giving massive profits to shareholders rather than spending them on the massive leaks in their pipes. The water was off again this morning and for the first time we had an apology letter warning us. But the management policy seems to be finger in the dyke.
Bonus Question: Should duels with lethal weapons become regulated but legal?
Freedom is important. If I want a good fight with one of my kitchen knives I should be able to do that in the privacy of my own home.
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1. Which world leaders would you like to see on The Weakest Link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weakestlink/) and who would you expect to be voted off in which order and why?
2. How do you interpret the personalities of people wearing odd socks or shoes?
3. Did you see any giants when you were a child?
1. Which world leaders would you like to see on The Weakest Link and who would you expect to be voted off in which order and why?
Amadinejad, Bush, Abbas, Cheney, Condi, Blair, Olmert.
Neither Iran nor the US is terribly happy with their elected official at the moments, Abbas is not terribly useful, Cheney irritates me, Condi is mildly better, and I don't know what to do with Olmert.
2. How do you interpret the personalities of people wearing odd socks or shoes?
"I really don't care about what I looks like and what you think. I have better things to do then make sure my socks/shoes match."
3. Did you see any giants when you were a child?
Nope
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1. How much sugar do you put in your morning beverage of choice?
2. What're your favorite news sources?
3. Paper or plastic?
Bonus: How useful do you think the USA PATRIOT act is?
1. When did you barf last?
At my doctor's surgery about 15 months ago.
2. What was the reason for that?
A vaso vascular collapse. They plunged a huge shot of magnesium into my thigh muscle which shot up into my hip (extreme pain). I did a slow keel over pass out. The nurse had to call another nurse and a doctor which involved trying to stop me falling off my chair while phoning for help and holding the sick bowl. I couldn't walk for three weeks after - thigh and hip pain excrutiating - and they decided my doing self-adminstered magnesium injections at home probably wasn't a good idea.
3. Did you enjoy it?
No. Nor did anyone else.
Bonus question: Why those barfophile questions?
Are you a secret barfer junkie?
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1. Do you think that having every alternate tooth removed will catch on as a fashion statement?
2. What academy would you like to found?
3. Why are there nasty people in the world?
1. Do you think that having every alternate tooth removed will catch on as a fashion statement?
well is will make flossing easier
2. What academy would you like to found?
the academy of dispatcher who can best interpret garbled radio traffic
3. Why are there nasty people in the world?
because Paris Hilton needs a group to be the leader of
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1) do you floss everyday?
2) Waxed or Unwaxed?
3) Flavored or Unflavored?
bonus-- do you use the spool floss or the pre-loaded floss picks?
1) do you floss everyday?
Nope. I really should start (and I've been saying that for at least a decade). It's like deodorant - a great idea on paper but sometimes slips my mind. Mind you, I manage the deodorant MUCH more frequently than the floss, and probably have less of a need of it (depends on what I've been eating, in regards to both).
2) Waxed or Unwaxed?
Unwaxed, I think. There's some horrible new netted type of floss around here (dentist sample) that I grab by mistake sometimes.
3) Flavored or Unflavored?
Either, though I guess I prefer unflavored or mint. It's all samples; I never buy it.
bonus-- do you use the spool floss or the pre-loaded floss picks?
Sometimes I use business cards. ;D Usually spool.
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1) Which Sibling here to you feel you know the most about?
2) Which Sibling would do you feel you don't know enough about (and would like to know more)?
3) Which Sibling do you think you'd get along with best in real life?
Bonus: Are there any Siblings that you think are very like you under different circumstances? (i.e. you'd be very like them if you had followed their life's path)
1) Which Sibling here to you feel you know the most about?
My dear siblings Aggie and NoName.
2) Which Sibling would do you feel you don't know enough about (and would like to know more)?
My dear sibling The Meromorph
3) Which Sibling do you think you'd get along with best in real life?
My dear siblings Aggie and NoName
Bonus: Are there any Siblings that you think are very like you under different circumstances? (i.e. you'd be very like them if you had followed their life's path)
Weirdly enough, my dear sibling The Meromorph.
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1) If we built an actual monastery, would you come and visit?
2) If we made Toadfish logo magnets would you put one on your car? (If no car, fridge?)
3) If you met God and God didn't look anything like you thought he/she/it might look, how would you know it was God?
1) If we built an actual monastery, would you come and visit?
Eventually, yes, or if was near someplace I was going anyway. I'm a tad strapped for cash.
2) If we made Toadfish logo magnets would you put one on your car? (If no car, fridge?)
I'd love one! Of course.
3) If you met God and God didn't look anything like you thought he/she/it might look, how would you know it was God?
I expect I'd simply know.
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1. What is your favorite art style?
2. Do you ever find that sometimes the music you have on perfectly suits the moment by total coincidence?
3. If you cook, what's your favorite cookbook? If you don't, who's your favorite cook?
1. What is your favorite art style?
In general? Applied to painting/sculpture? In painting I am particularly fond of both Italian and Dutch renaissance, but I also like Spanish painters like Velazquez, Goya up to Picasso , and I also like the impressionist...
Oh, and of all paintings that I've seen in real life, the ones that stand out more are Van Gogh's. ;D
2. Do you ever find that sometimes the music you have on perfectly suits the moment by total coincidence?
With some frequency, although I listen to music a lot therefore it is bound to happen eventually.
3. If you cook, what's your favorite cookbook? If you don't, who's your favorite cook?
I do cook, but believe it or not I do not have a cookbook. The few recipes I know have been learned from someone in the family, watching cook, told by someone else, or some creativity on top of those.
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1. Have you heard music of Gyorgy Ligeti? What do you think of his music? (If you have seen 2001 Space Odyssey you have, in the (surreal) scene leading to the end where Bowman is on a moving pod making faces).
2. Have you heard of Fernando Botero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero)? Do you like his stuff?
3. Do you like the 'serious' Chaplin (Limelight) or the funny one?
Bonus: check this out (http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050413_2.htm). What do you think?
1. Have you heard music of Gyorgy Ligeti? What do you think of his music? (If you have seen 2001 Space Odyssey you have, in the (surreal) scene leading to the end where Bowman is on a moving pod making faces).
I've seen that movie and I remember the music from the psychedelic scene. As I recall it was very experimental and interesting with minimalistic phrases. (Sheesh, I sound like I'm at a wine tasting!) I don't know whether I could sit through a whole album of his, but then again, I like Phillip Glass and Steven Reich, so perhaps I could!
2. Have you heard of Fernando Botero? Do you like his stuff?
Yes, I've heard of him and have seen an exhibit of his. I thought it was funny and more than a little egocentric, but enjoyable in a way.
3. Do you like the 'serious' Chaplin (Limelight) or the funny one?
I like both Chapmans, but I think I love the serious, artsy one the most. He had a gift for physical communication.
Bonus: check this out. What do you think?
Whew. That stuff was pretty intense. I think I may have seen a couple of Abu Ghraib pieces in The Washington Post, once. I didn't realise that subject was such an obsession of his. It looks a lot like Botero, doesn't it? But it borders on another kind of fetishism. I find it kind of scary, but recognize that art does that sometimes.
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1) Do you like tasting wines and rattling on about each and every scent and flavor passage? (I do! ;) )
2) Are you a collector of anything, and if so, what?
3) What size is your "personal space"?
Bonus point: If Botero and Abu Ghraib got into a fight, who would win?
1) Do you like tasting wines and rattling on about each and every scent and flavor passage? (I do! Wink )
No, as I dislike alcohol in general, as well as the fact that I am too young to legally drink.
2) Are you a collector of anything, and if so, what?
Anything I can use to hold stuff--boxes, bottles, etc. as well as of books.
3) What size is your "personal space"?
If I can reach out and touch you with the flat of my palm at full arm's length, then you're in my space. The only time I really mind people in my space is if I'm at the computer (I hate people reading over my shoulder) or in a new social situation. My room (roughly 9'x13') is also my personal space, and I most of the time hate having people in my room, with reasonable exceptions.
Bonus point: If Botero and Abu Ghraib got into a fight, who would win?
Dunno, couldn't tell you.
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1. Favorite movie/play sound track?
2. Have you ever been to a protest?
3. What was it for, if you have?
Bonus: Favorite classical composer?
1. Favorite movie/play sound track?
If you ask me a different day I might answer a different movie (from Starwars to Dune, Farinelli to the Red Violin, Moulin Rouge or Aliens...) but I'll stick with the previous time I answered: Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (for Eisenstein's film).
2. Have you ever been to a protest?
Yup, if that counts as protest.
3. What was it for, if you have?
It was when the likely winner of the presidential elections in Colombia was assassinated in 1989 (Luis Carlos Galan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carlos_Gal%C3%A1n) if you must know). Tens of thousands of students from all major universities and even from regular schools went to march as a sign of protest. The guy was killed on orders from the Cartel de Medellin but foul play has been seriously suspected by the ruling Partido Liberal. The protest was a pacific march with black armbands.
From that experience and having watched multiple protests of different kinds, I no longer believe them much useful. In order to achieve change you and a significant percentage of others must be willing to put your life on the line for an important period of time (from weeks to years) otherwise whomever is responsible will not be affected (see Satyagraha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha)).
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1. Are you willing to die for principles? If so which ones?
2. At what point pragmatism overtakes principles?
3. What are your feelings about patriotism?
(no need for bonus with those...)
These are too good of questions for me to pass up, so *yoink!*
1. Are you willing to die for principles? If so which ones?
Yes. Freedom.
2. At what point pragmatism overtakes principles?
When pragmatism gets things done.
3. What are your feelings about patriotism?
A good thing, in limited doses. Patriotism helps a country succeed. Nationalism screws things up.
(no need for bonus with those...)
Indeed.
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1. Who invented the internets?
2. What is the internets made of?
3. What is your preferred economic model and why?
Bonus: What, if any, are the benefits of red tape and the bureaucracy?
1. Who invented the internets?
A bunch of engineers in a bunker during the cold war.
2. What is the internets made of?
Bits and pieces.
3. What is your preferred economic model and why?
A mixture of cooperativism and, health and environmentally regulated capitalism. I'll expand in the NET helpline thread when I have a chance.
Bonus: What, if any, are the benefits of red tape and the bureaucracy?
Checks and balances for the most part, even if it is inefficient and usually behind the times. IMHO bureaucracy is not an evil in itself but excessive bureaucracy. Just to use an example imagine what would happen if a new drug is brought to market without that red tape. Codes and regulations tend to exist for a reason, if the reason is outdated then challenge the regulation itself, not all regulations.
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1. Bauhaus or deconstructivism? :devil2:
2. Your opinion on Penderecky's Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima? :devil2: :devil2:
3. Was Kant right or wrong when he proposed his understanding of perception? :devil2::devil2::devil2:
Bonus: you can skip any of the questions or all if you provide the exact location of the bottler of your beverage of choice.
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Unibroue inc.
80 Des Carrières
Chambly, Québec
J3L 2H6
Tél: 450-658-7658
Fax: 450-658-9195
Google Map (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=80+Des+Carri%C3%A8res+Chambly,+Qu%C3%A9bec&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=24.071305,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=45.441134,-73.261755&spn=0.001596,0.003648&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr&om=1)
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1) Have you ever drank water straight from the earth? (stream or spring - wells don't count, and no cups or other utensils allowed)
2) What's the dodgiest water source you've drank from?
3) What's the best water you've ever tasted?
1) Have you ever drank water straight from the earth? (stream or spring - wells don't count, and no cups or other utensils allowed)
Yup... out of a lake plenty of times, assuming that a cupped hand over the side of a canoe doesn't count as a utensil.
2) What's the dodgiest water source you've drank from?
Either out of a questionable stream when I was too young to know about things like giardia (a.k.a. "beaver fever"), or when I accidentally swallowed a mouthful of seawater while swimming in the Pacific.
3) What's the best water you've ever tasted?
Dunno. I don't remember ever thinking "gee, that's good water." To me, water either tastes bad or like nothing at all.
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1. What's the first film you remember seeing as a child?
2. How long does a car trip have to be for you before you consider it to be "far"?
3. What's your favourite thing to make or do by yourself (as opposed to buying it in a store/hiring someone to do it)?
1. What's the first film you remember seeing as a child?
Bambi?
2. How long does a car trip have to be for you before you consider it to be "far"?
Four or more hours. It takes about three to get to the next big town from where I live, so further then that is a long drive.
3. What's your favourite thing to make or do by yourself (as opposed to buying it in a store/hiring someone to do it)?
Sewing my own purses.
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1. Ever had a tick?
2. Favorite national landmark (wherever you may live)?
3. Know l33t?
1. Ever had a tick?
Even the traditional one in the eye (the metaphorical ones are too numerous to fill in the margin)
2. Favorite national landmark (wherever you may live)?
Difficult, the ICC would qualify.
(http://www.avalon-hotels.com/imagesupload/Sehenswuerdigkeiten/ICC.jpg)
http://www.avalon-hotels.com/imagesupload/Sehenswuerdigkeiten/ICC.jpg
3. Know l33t?
Know of existence but not much about content.
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1. Who will rid US of that meddlesome vice president ;)?
2. Is chess sports?
3. What singing voice do you like most (tenor, soprano etc.)?
1. Who will rid US of that meddlesome vice president?
God (you may interpret that answer at your leisure)
2. Is chess sports?
May be? Is definitively not physical but it isn't poker either. Back home chess is considered a sport under the sports state office.
3. What singing voice do you like most (tenor, soprano etc.)?
Counter-tenor specially for classical and pre-classical stuff.
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1. Do you have a hand shower?
2. Do you have potted plants? If so, how often do you have a sick/dead plant?
3. Did you have any formal musical training at some point in your life?
1. Yes, the shower head is de-mountable, and has a plastic hose.
2.Yes, there are quite a few potted plants around if my mother is around. I personally prefer the ambience of the garden, particularly in the early evening. Mum is pretty green-fingered, so few dead or sick (not counting the herbs used for cooking, who don't last long...)
3. They tried. Oh, how they tried. But my total and complete lack of any form of musicality beat them. I spent all the music lessons outside, reading a book. Better for them, better for me...
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My turn.
1. Where is your favourite place on the planet.
2. Why is it your favourite place on the planet.
3. Do androids dream of electric sheep?
1. Where is your favourite place on the planet.
I think it's Belgrade (capital of Serbia), which is a city I love the most. And it's the place, where I grew up, the place, where I know a lot of good positive people, I have many many memories about it. It's my town...
2. Why is it your favourite place on the planet.
Already answered above and am too lazy to do "Cut - Paste".
3. Do androids dream of electric sheep?
They probably just count them, not dream of them...
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1. Do you want to give me around 1.000 euros to get out of a bad financial situation?
2. Do you prefer formal or casual wear at work?
3. Do you sleepwalk?
Bonus: What is your parfume, it smells really nice...
1. Do you want to give me around 1.000 euros to get out of a bad financial situation?
That's about 60% of what I currently have available and health insurance will eat that away in less than a year. Sorry, at the moment No.
2. Do you prefer formal or casual wear at work?
casual (I hate formal and even the "casual" is often too formal)
3. Do you sleepwalk?
Not that I know of
Bonus: What is your parfume, it smells really nice...
So, you love soap?
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1. Should the issuing of a driving licence be age or only maturity dependent?
2. Should there be mandatory retesting for the driving license similar to that for flying licences?
3. What do you think about squids as pets?
Bonus question: Squids on a plane? (and on which side?)
1. Should the issuing of a driving licence be age or only maturity dependent?
Maturity plus Good judgment, like slowing down in the rain, being mindful of pedestrians, etc.
2. Should there be mandatory retesting for the driving license similar to that for flying licences?
From certain age and increase in frequency. There are too many older drivers in Florida that should NOT be driving.
3. What do you think about squids as pets?
I think is cool, just be mindful that they are smarter (it is suggested to give them toys) and that their life span isn't too long.
Bonus question: Squids on a plane? (and on which side?)
As a side dish, you mean? Without water, how can the squids terrorize the passengers? Unless we are talking about some relatives of Admiral Ackbar ;)
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1. What causes you terror and why?
2. Have you been in a situation that you thought at the moment you were going to die?
3. Do you like rollercoasters?
Bonus: a movie worth watching?
1. What causes you terror and why?
Spiders. I really don't know why, and don't want to think about them for long enough to find out why!
2. Have you been in a situation that you thought at the moment you were going to die?
At least three times. It's very freeing. :) Once when when sliding off a snowy road down a dropoff and heading for some very large trees.(car passed between them with a measured [later] 1/2 inch to spare). Once when very sick. (I watched the universe spin slowly to a stop). Once when I fell off the trail offroading down a 30 degree mud and loose rock slope, at the end of which was a 100 foot sheer drop I managed to veer enough to hit a moderately sized tree before going over the cliff. My Insurance agent thanked me for hitting a tree!).
3. Do you like rollercoasters?
Yes, particularly wooden ones. I hate waiting in line for them, though. :P
Bonus: a movie worth watching?
The Emerald Forest.
Erm.... Q-q-q-q-q-questions...?
1. Why do you think I forgot to ask any questions?
2. What questions do you think I should ask?
3. Have you ever encountered a more inane and unhelpful response?
Bonus Question. Do you want to ask and answer your own questions? And then ask some more?
1. Brain was focused on higher things. (trying to decipher an E. Razer post?) That or the onset of dementia, delirium tremens, Galloping Knobrot (pick your own favourite condition)
2. I think you should ask questions about nomenclative determinism.
3. Yes. But, due to my signing the Official Secrets Act, I am not permitted to talk about it.
Bonus Question.
No, but I will ask some.
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Are you afraid of beachballs?
Given the parlous state of televisual entertainment foisted upon an unsuspecting audience, are we justified in ritually executing TV executives and producers?
What happens when you smell mint?
Are you afraid of beachballs?
Yes, it means that now I have to go to the beach
Given the parlous state of televisual entertainment foisted upon an unsuspecting audience, are we justified in ritually executing TV executives and producers?
Only if the execution is on live TV :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
What happens when you smell mint?
Search and... enjoy. :D
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1. You had an accident and the main nerve of a limb was severed. You can keep the limb but it will be useless and it will not feel a thing, with a high risk of long term lesions due to lack of sensibility. Do you keep it or prefer to get a functional but synthetic prosthesis?
2. You lost the limb. Your options are
a) Wait a year until an artificially cultivated limb is grown from your own DNA (after that you will need at least other 6 months o therapy)
b) Get a functional robotic arm now
Note that the insurance will only pay for one of the two choices.
3. It is official, your body cannot hold you any longer, you could have your mind moved to a computerized robot or die, what would you choose?
bonus: how do you feel about cyborgs?
1. You had an accident and the main nerve of a limb was severed. You can keep the limb but it will be useless and it will not feel a thing, with a high risk of long term lesions due to lack of sensibility. Do you keep it or prefer to get a functional but synthetic prosthesis?
Prosthesis.
2. You lost the limb. Your options are
a) Wait a year until an artificially cultivated limb is grown from your own DNA (after that you will need at least other 6 months o therapy)
b) Get a functional robotic arm now
Note that the insurance will only pay for one of the two choices.
a) In the long term this would surely be a better option, prpared to scrifice immediate gain for long term better solution.
3. It is official, your body cannot hold you any longer, you could have your mind moved to a computerized robot or die, what would you choose?
I'd go the robot option. Could always get myself turned off if I finally have had enough.
bonus: how do you feel about cyborgs?
Cyborgs ar OK, Cybermen are not and Daleks are right out of the questions.
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1. If you were in a survival situation - life boat at sea, etc - and you had the choice of eating a recently deceased companion or dying, which would you choose?
2. What would you want your companions to do, if you were the one who died, in the above situation?
3. In a survival situation, is there anything you would refuse to eat, even if it meant you would die, including only those things that are not poisonous themselves?
Bonus question: What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
1. If you were in a survival situation - life boat at sea, etc - and you had the choice of eating a recently deceased companion or dying, which would you choose?
have you ever read "survivor type by Steven King---- don't know about this- I usually don't eat alot of meat anyway, it would probably depend greatly on how big a b@#$%^$ you were to me before
2. What would you want your companions to do, if you were the one who died, in the above situation?
carve away- as long as i was completely dead first- no picking off bits while alive but "looking like a goner"
3. In a survival situation, is there anything you would refuse to eat, even if it meant you would die, including only those things that are not poisonous themselves?
I can't think of anything, I've eaten bugs, grubs, crickets, ants, etc. I do not think I could bring myself to consume feces(much of which contains large amounts of undigested vegetable matter)-I'm thinking large herbivore here. I do not want to eat eyes- but they are edible and in many places are considered the food gift of honor at t feast- but were talking starving here
Bonus question: What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
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roasted sago palm grubs- ok so maybe this counts as eyes- just not big juicy ones
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1-Are you more rational than not?
2-What makes you irrational- what event-place-thing makes you go simply emotional and the heck with reason?
3-What person helps keep you grounded and sane and all that is good?
1. Are you more rational than not?
Yes. By nature I am a cool-headed, placid, laid-back individual. I do not get stressed. I am also a scientist, and rationality and logical progression are trained into you.
2. What makes you irrational-what event/place/thing- makes you go simply emotional and the heck with reason?
Nothing specific. I do not get panicky, or unreasonable in stress situations. I keep a clear head, and think logically. Emotional does not necessarily mean irrational. A succession of embuggerances, and I will lose my temper, I'm not a robot. But it does take quite a bit.
3. What person keeps you grounded and sane and all that is good.
Here is where I got lucky. Most people have 2 or 3 really good friends. The kind who will drop everything and come running when you need them. A group of us made friends at Uni. I have about 20 people I can call for help. And know that they would shift mountains if they had to. Quite a few of them are married, have significant others etc. Every single one of the later additions is the same kind of person. One of the group, who trained as a pyschologist, says that we are the largest such group he knows of. He wants to write a paper about us. if he does, none of us will read it. We don't need to know the what ifs and wherefores of a group dynamic, who is the what and why.
We love each other. It is as simple as that. And woe betide anyone who upsets one of us. We have Smiting Sticks, too. And will gang up to use them.
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1. I love cheese. Do you?
2. Are you a morning person, or an evening person?
3. What is your favourite animal?
1. I love cheese. Do you?
Love it, love it, love it! I suspect one of the reasons I became a vegetarian is so I could have cheese instead of meat.
2. Are you a morning person, or an evening person?
I am a morning person and an evening person. It's the middle of the day I'm not so good at.
3. What is your favourite animal?
I've always loved the manta ray. Does that count? I love cats, giraffes, bumblebees (I pet them when they're too busy to care- no lie!), cheetahs, moths, dolphins, owls, orangutans, turtles, too many to name all. And toadfish!
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1) If you were a piece of furniture, which one would you be?
2) What herb or spice do you use the most?
3) If your favorite living author showed up at your house asking to use the phone to call for a mechanic for his/her broken car, would you gush to her/him over his work?
1) If you were a piece of furniture, which one would you be?
Probably a toilett, as very often, I'm full of ****... :)
But probably I'd be a worn-out sofa, smelling of a bar, it's been in, and whiskey, that someone poured over it by accident... :)
2) What herb or spice do you use the most?
Chilli peppers...
3) If your favorite living author showed up at your house asking to use the phone to call for a mechanic for his/her broken car, would you gush to her/him over his work?
Probably not, as I wouldn't even recognize him... :) And if I did recognize him, I'd probably not even know what to ask...
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1. What was the last movie you've seen in cinema?
2. What was the last play you've seen in the theatre?
3. What kind of sun-glasses do you own?
1. Troy
2. Return to the Forbidden Planet (many years ago)
3. I own no sunglasses.
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1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2. What is your earliest memory?
3. Would you be cryogenically frozen?
1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Rapido ruedan los carros car*gados de azucar* al ferrocarril
2. What is your earliest memory?
Me on a bus on the hands of my father (standing) going home in the evening. I must have been 3.
3. Would you be cryogenically frozen?
Nope. What's the point? Besides, even if I am not a decrepit old man, the part of me that believes in the supernatural fears that my soul -if indeed exists- would be trapped there instead of moving on.
*non rolled 'R's
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1. How important is eating good to you?
2. How important is exercising to you?
3. Are you obsessive/compulsive for something in particular?
Bonus: whats on your fridge right now?
1. How important is eating good to you?
Pretty important. My stomach is fussy and I try to avoid the discomfort of fast food. My best bet is to eat very simply.
2. How important is exercising to you?
It has become more important now that I'm older and have some back problems. If I don't excercise, I feel the back problems. So I excercise. Again, a preventative measure.
3. Are you obsessive/compulsive for something in particular?
My husband would say I'm obsessive/compulsive about the kitchen sink. I can't stand seeing gunk in it first thing in the morning, especially when that gunk is under the breakfast dishes. So I'll take out the breakfast dishes, wash the sink, put the dishes back in and then wash them. I'm not a clean freak, but I don't relish the thought of last night's bacteria in this morning's dishwater. I prefer my bacteria fresh, I guess.
Bonus: On my fridge is a bunch of drawings by my daughter, a Zippy the Pinhead comic, a Tom the Dancing Bug comic, a calendar,and an invitation to a reunion for d.c. space (an art club I used to frequent).
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1) Bees: pro or con?
2) Are you a fan of hats?
3) I have three houses for sale in the afterlife: The first is in Hell, next door to the original Blackbeard the pirate. The second is in Limbo, next to Oscar Wilde. The third is in Heaven, next to Martin Luther King, Jr. Which one might you be interested in?
1) Bees: pro or con?
Bees are cool. they have a fascinating social structure, and I love honey.
2) Are you a fan of hats?
Hats are cool. I have lots of hats. My most recent is a fez, obtained in Turkey a month ago. Loving the fez. An Aussie Barmah hat is on its way, as a birthday pressie from a friend.
3) I have three houses for sale in the afterlife: The first is in Hell, next door to the original Blackbeard the pirate. The second is in Limbo, next to Oscar Wilde. The third is in Heaven, next to Martin Luther King, Jr. Which one might you be interested in?
All three. Can then switch between them, and rent out the unoccupied two to the deserving. I suspect I'd spend most time in Limbo. Dinner parties inviting the neighbours would be interesting...
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1. Given 10 minutes, an iron-cast alibi and a baseball bat, who would be in trouble?
2. Returning to the theme of dinner parties, name your five favourite guests. (death and being a fictional character no bar)
3. Britney or Christina?
1. Given 10 minutes, an iron-cast alibi and a baseball bat, who would be in trouble?
Nobody. I'm not really into the idea of settling disagreements with a baseball bat.
2. Returning to the theme of dinner parties, name your five favourite guests. (death and being a fictional character no bar)
Not sure if this would count as my "favourite" guests, but this dinner party would be interesting:
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Babe Ruth
- Steven Wright
- John A. MacDonald
- William Randolph Hearst
3. Britney or Christina?
Christina, but only because my wife wasn't an option. ;)
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1. Hang gliding or bungee jumping? Why?
2. How late do you have to get up before you consider it "sleeping in"?
3. Do you vote in every election (i.e. federal, state/provincial, local... all of 'em)? Which ones do you skip, if any?
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 19, 2007, 08:50:30 PM
1. Given 10 minutes, an iron-cast alibi and a baseball bat, who would be in trouble?
Nobody. I'm not really into the idea of settling disagreements with a baseball bat.
The individual that crossed my mind while reading the question could have a 'healthier' demise just by forcing him to run on a treadmill until his hearth stops, but that couldn't be called humble, shame on me...
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1. Hang gliding or bungee jumping? Why?As a desire, hang gliding (more control), although I have to admit that both appeal to me and that it isn't likely I will be doing any (my wife wouldn't allow it).
2. How late do you have to get up before you consider it "sleeping in"?You mean keep sleeping? Quite late then, after 8 PM and likely to wake up at 12-1 (not such a good idea).
3. Do you vote in every election (i.e. federal, state/provincial, local... all of 'em)? Which ones do you skip, if any?If I can I do unless something prevents me from doing it (like important work that day or travel). Ironically the one that I skip is usually the condo association one...
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1. The road is yours, straight, alone and in perfect shape (and no police in sight). Do you indulge your right feet?
2. Sweets, meats or breads?
3. Have you found yourself liking the work of someone with whom you disagree in some fundamental way? Who and what?
1. The road is yours, straight, alone and in perfect shape (and no police in sight). Do you indulge your right feet?
I indulge it until I make a hole in the floor... :)
2. Sweets, meats or breads?
First have a steak with a piece of bread and then some sweet sweet dessert.
3. Have you found yourself liking the work of someone with whom you disagree in some fundamental way? Who and what?
I really don't know...
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1. Please answer the previous question no. 3, as I wasn't able to give a nice answer.
2. Do you like Gershwin? Would you like to meet him personally?
3. If you had to choose between playing the piano at the Carnegie Hall or performing at the Sidney Opera, what would you choose?
Bonus: Do you respect yourself?
1. Please answer the previous question no. 3, as I wasn't able to give a nice answer. (3. Have you found yourself liking the work of someone with whom you disagree in some fundamental way? Who and what?)
Yes. I disagree with ROn Paul on a few issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, but I can see his points and tolerate his views.
2. Do you like Gershwin? Would you like to meet him personally?
Dunno. He was amusing, from what I've read of him, and I like his work, but I dunno if I'd really want to meet him.
3. If you had to choose between playing the piano at the Carnegie Hall or performing at the Sidney Opera, what would you choose?
In reality: SInging. I can sing passably for a total ameature.
Ideally: Piano. I wish to no end I played something.
Bonus: Do you respect yourself?
I try.
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1. Do you hate junk mail as much as I do?
2. Do you have an irrational fear of anything? If so, what is it?
3. Did you get hte new Harry Potter book?
1. Do you hate junk mail as much as I do?
Electronic or on paper (feed it to the oven!)
2. Do you have an irrational fear of anything? If so, what is it?
Certain mostly harmless animals are the first to come to mind.
And then there is the fear that I could spontaneously commit some horrid act.
3. Did you get hte new Harry Potter book?
Yes, and read it more or less in 1 go (and went to bed at 5am as a result)
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1. What movie genre is your favorite?
2. Do you feel attracted or revulsed by the "obscene"
3. Do you like snakes?
1. What movie genre is your favorite?
I like artsy movies, that is- ones that don't follow Hollywood formulas, but involve more creativity and message.
2. Do you feel attracted or revulsed by the "obscene"
That depends on your definition of "obscene". To me, obscene is violence and cruelty. I am completely repulsed by them. To some people, nakedness and sex are obscene, but to me that's just nature.
3. Do you like snakes?
I think that snakes are very unique animals and deserve more respect. I respect them quite a lot. When I come across one in the garden, my first reaction is to respect it so much I yelp slightly and back off quickly. My next reaction would be to try to identify the snake, to make sure the domestic critters are safe. Even if it was a poisonous snake, I would not try to kill it, or ask anyone else to do so. I might call animal control to see if they would come and remove it to a safer spot.
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1) Do you think that forgiveness is part of being humble?
2) Is there anythig you would judge to be unforgivable?
3) Which better suits you: "Forgive and Forget" or "Live and Learn"?
1) Do you think that forgiveness is part of being humble?
Yes and no, I think is is someting to strive for, but I don't think it is in the human nature to be able to completely forgive and forget.
2) Is there anything you would judge to be unforgivable?
Yes, a few things. I think what one is able to forgive is and has to be someting very personal.
3) Which better suits you: "Forgive and Forget" or "Live and Learn"?
The later, my live has thought me to learn by my misstakes and then move on.
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1) If you for one day could become another human being who would that be, and why?
2) If you for one day could become any animal what animal would that be, and why?
3) If you had the choose to either spend a month in a spacecraft and on a spacestation or a month at a underwater research station what would you choose and why?
1) If you for one day could become another human being who would that be, and why?
Given that it is only a short term experience, a person of the opposite sex would be first choice (and one, unlike me, having a sex life for that matter). Ok, that's rather shallow but the only reason to be a specific other person would be to know something about them that one could not know otherwise. This would also point more towards a character in the past.
2) If you for one day could become any animal what animal would that be, and why?
I really would like to know how it is to be a cephalopod (either a giant squid or a smaller one with color changing ability). An added feature would be that they are very probably self-conscious.
3) If you had the choose to either spend a month in a spacecraft and on a spacestation or a month at a underwater research station what would you choose and why?
Difficult choice but giving my sensitivity to vertigo, zero gravity might not be desirable. If the sealab is in an interesting spot, that would therefore win. I don't know, whether I would pass a diving test though.
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1) Do you have allergies and to what extent?
2) Prose, epic or poetry? (and do you dabble in any of it yourself?)
3) Do you prefer sung or instrumental music (or don't you like either)?
1) Do you have allergies and to what extent?
Pollen and chemicals. The stuff the spray on cotton in September is particularly bad.
It's fairly minor now. Used to be worse. Just lots of sneezing and such.
2) Prose, epic or poetry? (and do you dabble in any of it yourself?)
Prose. I write a fair bit of it.
3) Do you prefer sung or instrumental music (or don't you like either)?
Depends. Classical, I like sung better, everything else, I like insturmental better.
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1. WalMart ot KMart?
2. WHat is your favorite sweet?
3. Is it still around?
1. WalMart ot KMart?
Neither. WalMart has an outpost here called Asda but I tend to use Tesco for geographical reasons (more out of town stores near me). If I need more exotic food for something then Waitrose/Marks and Spencer.
2. WHat is your favorite sweet?
Jelly Babies. (http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/bassetts-jelly-babies-p-97.html). Preferred confectionery of Time Lords everywhere.
3. Is it still around?
Yep.
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iPod or Clone?
Churchill or Gandhi?
NATO or UN?
iPod or Clone?
none
Churchill or Gandhi?
Both, for bad cop good cop routines
NATO or UN?
Could NATO be employed as official UN enforcer?
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1) If there were gill transplants available, would you be interested (air breathing would be still possible)
2) Sahara or Gobi?
3) When and where were the best movies made (your taste, not some official list)?
1) If there were gill transplants available, would you be interested (air breathing would be still possible)
Of course!
2) Sahara or Gobi? Neither, thank you. Very boring. I like the Sonoran Desert much better.
3) When and where were the best movies made (your taste, not some official list)?
I like late eghties, early nineties the best. (The Crow, Muriel's Wedding, Boondock Saints, etc.) I haven't really watched much in the way of foriegn films, so I can't say anything about where.
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1. Favorite blog?
2. Do you read blogs regularly?
3. Ever dyed your hair some wacky color?
1. Favorite blog?
One of those in #2, not sure which
2. Do you read blogs regularly?
Yes: Obsidian Wings, Greenwald, Orcinus, uggabugga, The Rude Pundit; Legal Fiction is now part og ObWi
3. Ever dyed your hair some wacky color?
No and don't intend to.
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1. Is the TV or Computer screen an adequate substitute for the "big screen"? If not, what about a beamer?
2. Do you get more information from radio or television*? (in both quantitative and qualitative sense)
3. Do you regularly use some visual aid (glasses, contact lenses etc.)?
*internet/newspapers/etc. explicitly not included
1. Is the TV or Computer screen an adequate substitute for the "big screen"? If not, what about a beamer?
Not really, though I think it won't be too long before a high-end TV and a computer with a large screen will be indistinguishable.
And I don't know what a "beamer" is.
2. Do you get more information from radio or television*? (in both quantitative and qualitative sense)
TV for both, I think.
I'm into documentary and news shows. For me, radio tends to be music. I will listen to talk radio once in a while, but most of it around here is just "phone in, give your opinion and hang up" format, so there usually isn't a lot of thoughtful discussion involved.
3. Do you regularly use some visual aid (glasses, contact lenses etc.)?
Yes. I'm blind as a bat without them. I have both, though I should get new lenses for my glasses. The prescription's about a decade old.
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1. If someone offered you a TV show, would you take them up on it? What would it be like (drama/comedy/news/talk/something else)?
2. Have you ever written a song or poem about a person you know/knew?
3. Aisle or window? Why?
Bonus question: do you consider yourself "analog" or "digital"?
1. If someone offered you a TV show, would you take them up on it? What would it be like (drama/comedy/news/talk/something else)?
No, probably not, I'm camera shy. Radio talk show would be fun though.
2. Have you ever written a song or poem about a person you know/knew?
Yes, I wrote a poem about my SO.
3. Aisle or window? Why?
Window. What's the fun if you don't get to look out?
Bonus question: do you consider yourself "analog" or "digital"?
Analog, very much so.
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1) Cameras: digital, Polaroid, slide film or paper copies from celluloid?
2) Red wine, white wine, beer or water?
3) Vacation time: lie at the beach, hiking in the mountains or explore a new city?
1) Cameras: digital, Polaroid, slide film or paper copies from celluloid?
Digital, I can take as many as I want without fear of running out of roll or the cost of processing. Currently I have a decent point-and-shoot but I am contemplating going D-SLR whenever I can spare ~$600.
2) Red wine, white wine, beer or water?
Red wine. Beaujolais, Pinot noire, Rioja, Tempranillo, a good Sirah/shiraz (I am partial to French ones), etc, etc. :D
3) Vacation time: lie at the beach, hiking in the mountains or explore a new city?
Mountains. I grew up watching the mountains and now that I live close to the beach (in a place where the only hills are made of garbage) I really miss the times I went hiking.
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1. 1 wheel, 2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels, 6 wheels, 18 wheels, caterpillars or no wheels at all?
2. Glider, plane, chopper, or zeppelin?
3. Palestrina, Vivaldi, Rossini or Respighi?
1. 1 wheel, 2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels, 6 wheels, 18 wheels, caterpillars or no wheels at all?
4 legs good, All wheels bad
2. Glider, plane, chopper, or zeppelin?
chopper......
(http://www.mvvcc.org.uk/features/cycles/images/choppermk1.jpg)
3. Palestrina, Vivaldi, Rossini or Respighi?
I dont eat pasta.
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1. coconut mushrooms or haribo sour mix?
2. heroes or lost?
3. do you wish you had a glass paperwight shaped like a tennis ball?
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 27, 2007, 09:59:04 PM
And I don't know what a "beamer" is.
A video projector for use with computers. I didn't realize that this word is used in several languages in that meaning but
not in English.
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Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 27, 2007, 09:59:04 PM
And I don't know what a "beamer" is.
A video projector for use with computers. I didn't realize that this word is used in several languages in that meaning but not in English.
I knew the thing as a 'video beam' back home but in the States it is a projector. A 'beamer' is a BMW, go figure!
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Quote from: Swatopluk on July 29, 2007, 09:06:18 AM
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 27, 2007, 09:59:04 PM
And I don't know what a "beamer" is.
A video projector for use with computers. I didn't realize that this word is used in several languages in that meaning but not in English.
I knew the thing as a 'video beam' back home but in the States it is a projector. A 'beamer' is a BMW, go figure!
It leads the list of pseudo anglicisms in wikipedia.de :(
Unless you made your fortune in drugs dealing or bank robbery referring to your 7 series as a "beamer" in England is considered a bit déclassé. But the video projector meaning is non-existent to my (possibly out of date) knowledge.
1. coconut mushrooms or haribo sour mix?
Haribo Sour Mix... (never had coconut mushrooms)
2. heroes or lost?
I have not been watching any of those two... Seen a few minutes of Lost, but didn't get into it. I've been watching House MD, Weeds and Entourage lately, liking all of them very much.
3. do you wish you had a glass paperwight shaped like a tennis ball?
No, I'd prefer a tennis ball shaped like a glass papaerweight.
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1. Which animal would you like to get drunk with?
2. Sparkling wine - white, red or rose?
3. Are you a good dancer?
Bonus: Why don't people use the NET helpline around here? ;)
1. Which animal would you like to get drunk with?
My cat
2. Sparkling wine - white, red or rose?
Non-alcholic white?
3. Are you a good dancer?
Ball room dancing, yes. Not freestyle though.
Bonus: Why don't people use the NET helpline around here?
Dunno.
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1. Ever wonder what drugs Rohal Dahl was on?
2. Do you use POP mailing systems?
3. Who was your favorite teacher growing up? Why?
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 29, 2007, 07:47:31 PM
3. do you wish you had a glass paperwight shaped like a tennis ball?
No, I'd prefer a tennis ball shaped like a glass papaerweight.
aside... given that rthe paperweight in question is shaped like a tennis ball that would be a regular tennis ball shaped like a glass tennis ball....... at that point my brain started to bleed......
continue...
Quote from: beagle on July 29, 2007, 07:43:52 PM
Unless you made your fortune in drugs dealing or bank robbery referring to your 7 series as a "beamer" in England is considered a bit déclassé.
For BMWs I dislike (or rather, BMWs that are driven as status symbols rather than as fun rear-wheel-drive cars with good handling and performance), I like plain old "Bmw" (pronounced "bum-wuh"). ;D
1. Ever wonder what drugs Rohal Dahl was on?Not really... he meshed so well with what I thought as a kid that I just assumed he was really good at putting himself in the frame of mind of a child.
Though in retrospect, perhaps my parents had me on the same stuff that he was on. ;)
2. Do you use POP mailing systems?Yes.
3. Who was your favorite teacher growing up? Why?My favourite teacher was the head of my high school theatre department. He only marginally taught me directly (two classes in "dramatech" - lots of hands-on, not much listening to the teacher talk), but was a major influence on the after-school activities of me and the other folks involved in theatre. He had a huge influence on a lot of other kids, too.
My last year in high school was supposed to be his retirement year, and the last play he was set to direct was the fall term production (another drama teacher was directing the winter play, and instead of a spring play, our school had "Rookie Drama" every May, which was a four-night festival with ~3 one-act plays a night, each directed by a senior drama student and acted by the grade 10 drama students - I believe the festival was in large part his idea originally). As it turned out, it did turn out to be his last play, because the night the play closed, he had a stroke while he was sleeping. He ended up finishing his last year on long-term sick leave.
The next year, a few of my friends who were still in school started a campaign to get the theatre named after him. They thought it would be appropriate, since he had touched the lives of every single drama student since the theatre was built; he had even been the one to push for an actual theatre in the first place (the school was built in stages, and the original plan was just to put a stage at one end of the gym), and was the one who had the foresight to get lots of good used equipment instead of the shiniest and newest stuff, hence when I got there, we had lots of good 35-year-old lighting equipment instead of a little bit of 30-year-old crap, and could actually be taught the basics of how to set a lighting spread properly.
Anyhow, like I said, my friends started a push to name the theatre after him. At first, the school board gave a flat-out no: their policy was that they didn't name things after living people. But they worked at it and worked at it, and through the efforts (read: pestering) of my friends, plus a petition with a lot of signatures on it, the school board finally agreed.
About a year and a half after his stroke, the school board got him to come in on the pretext of helping set the class schedule for the next year (which was something he'd done for years); at that point, he was in a wheelchair and was being helped by his son (who was in on the plan)... they brought him into the theatre, and it was like the scene at the end of Mr. Holland's Opus: they had put the word out to all his former students that could be found, and they were all there, filling the auditorium. They wheeled him down and unveiled the name of the theatre. He was blown away.
So... that was my favourite teacher. He was a terrific teacher, not so much for actually
teaching (he was good at helping people learn, but to me, that was secondary), but for his amazing ability to encourage whatever little spark there was in every student he encountered.
Sorry - long response.
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1. If you weren't doing what you're doing now, what would you be doing?
2. What made you decide to do what you're doing now instead of what you would have been doing?
3. What electives did you pick in high school? Why?
what are 'electives' and is high school when i think it is?
Electives - non-requisite classes that one chooses to fit their interests and aspirations, and high school is generally the last 3-5 years of public schooling (as opposed to post-secondary like Uni etc.).
For example, I took wood shop as my main elective (I think I took 4 classes of it in my senior year). Also took the tougher incarnations (Grade 12) of bio, chem, physics, but I don't consider those standard electives; others might. I graduated with way too many credits... ::)
1. If you weren't doing what you're doing now, what would you be doing?Probably hanging out with friends or sleeping. Possibly writing.
2. What made you decide to do what you're doing now instead of what you would have been doing?The friend I was supposed to go hang out with got a ticket last night, and had to work today to pay it off.
3. What electives did you pick in high school? Why?Oh. Um,
4 years of Debate ('coz I thought it would be fun, and I fell in love with it)
Three years of Spanish, my mother made me.
Two years of forensics (no, not poking dead bodies. Speech) because one year it got me out of academic decathalon, and then because I enjoyed it.
Photo. On a whim. Turned out to like it.
Zoology. I wanted to know if star fish had brains.
Botany. I like plants
Environmental science, because I liked it.
Art. Needed a year of it for the state college system.
Acadec, because I liked the teacher originally.
I had to have 305 credits to graduate, ended with 350. (Ten classes senior year and a summer art class)
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1. Preferred operating system?
2. Has that been asked before?
3. Is Google evil?
1. Preferred operating system?
Shimano Deore LX or XT, 24 speed. Sure, XTR is lighter and cooler, and 9-speed is in style, but LX is cheaper to replace when you (inevitably) rip a deraileur off on a rock. Asides, I don't shift precisely enough to actually use all 9 gears... as long as the granny is at a low enough ratio, you're golden.
2. Has that been asked before?
It certainly hasn't been answered that way before. ;)
3. Is Google evil?
No, as much as I hate monopolies, it's nice to have a clear, effective standardized choice of search engine, and I loooooves their toys like gmail, maps, Google Earth. And hey... it's free, and the ads are relatively unobtrusive.
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1. Ever eaten squid ink or a product made with it?
2. What's your favorite edible natural product used to color food?
3. Do you check labels for carmine?
1. Ever eaten squid ink or a product made with it?
Yep. Pasta (black pasta...uuuuhhh, ick?), specifically ravioli with finely minced squid in the filling. In a red, but no tomato sauce, with sour cream piped on it. It was...colorful.
2. What's your favorite edible natural product used to color food?
Finely chopped herbs. Tiny bit of beet juice.
3. Do you check labels for carmine?
YES. El Yucko.
Any new questions?
Sorry, got distracted by a phone call from the National Institute of Health. I told them I wanted some, please... (A friend is one of their board officers and wanted to alert me to another clinical trial possibility that is working its way into the system.)
1. If you could be a citizen of any country, would you leave 'home'?
2. What's the last film you saw in a cinema?
3. What is your ideal pet? One you've wanted forever, or thought would be cool or different?
Bonus: Should I dye my hair blue?
1. If you could be a citizen of any country, would you leave 'home'?
As my family have been expats since the late 60's, I would have no problem with leaving "home". I will always be a Scot, no matter what passport I carry.
2. What's the last film you saw in a cinema?
Casino Royale
3. What is your ideal pet? One you've wanted forever, or thought would be cool or different?
Not really into the idea of pets. Much prefer the beasties out in the open, where they are supposed to be. If pushed, I'd like a politician or two. So much more enjoyable rubbing their noses in the mess they produce...
Bonus: Should I dye my hair blue?
If you feel dying your hair blue is something you want to do, go for it. However, at least in the enclave of the elderly I currently inhabit, the whole "Blue Rinse" thing is invariably paired with the matching Heather Twin-set and clumpy shoes...
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1. Do you believe in karma?
2. What good thing happened to you in the last week?
3. What good thing did you cause to happen in the last week?
Bonus:
Whoever guesses my middle name gets a backrub.
1. Do you believe in karma?
I don't really know. I just think, that if I do a good deed, it will somehow get back to you in a positive way and if you're an asshole, you'll be nahdled like one.......
2. What good thing happened to you in the last week?
I fell in love... Although that might have been the week before....
3. What good thing did you cause to happen in the last week?
Someone fell in love with me... And it wasn't myself...
Bonus:
Whoever guesses my middle name gets a backrub.
I want a backrub, but I am not able to think straight, so I can't guess your middle name... Is it maybe "elephant"?
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1. I don't know what to ask, so just answer....?
2. What is your prefered animal?
3. Do you know on which weekday you've been born? (Monday, Tuesday...?)
Bonus: Shou I ask something more, or is it ok, if I just shut up fpr a while?
1. I don't know what to ask, so just answer....?
Muffins.
2. What is your prefered animal?
I really like sharks, especially Greenland sharks. And I like ceolcanths and lungfish.
3. Do you know on which weekday you've been born? (Monday, Tuesday...?)
I'm Friday's child. All of my sisters and I were born on Fridays.
Bonus: Shou I ask something more, or is it ok, if I just shut up fpr a while?
Whatever you like.
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1. What color are your eyes?
2. What eye color would you choose if you could?
3. Did you read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows?
1. What color are your eyes?
Officially gray-blue, in reality with a tinge of green
2. What eye color would you choose if you could?
Less green more gray
3. Did you read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows?
On the day of publication finishing between 4 and 5am next day after about 15 hours of reading (i.e. about 40 pages/hour)
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1. Is the ideal male or female nude more well-proportioned (ignore the face)?
2. What's the most elegant animal (and what the least) in your opinion?
3. What's the most unconventional movie you have seen?
1. Is the ideal male or female nude more well-proportioned (ignore the face)?
I think it's draw.
2. What's the most elegant animal (and what the least) in your opinion?
Horses can be elegant... but I think I have to say it's the Leopard/Panther since it manage to look relaxed and graceful at the same time.
3. What's the most unconventional movie you have seen?
I think it's still "Prospero's Books" by Peter Greenaway.
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1) What is your favorite colour?
2) What are you most fascinated of: water, fire, metal, stone, wood, glass?
3) Your favorite pudding/dessert?
1) What is your favorite colour?
Green, especially that color green new spring grass is.
2) What are you most fascinated of: water, fire, metal, stone, wood, glass?
Water and wood.
3) Your favorite pudding/dessert?
Ice cream, especially chocolate ice cream.
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1. Do you have any favorite brands (of pens, shoes, purses, etc.)?
2. If so, why?
3. If you drink tea, what is your favorite kind, red, green, or black?
1. Do you have any favorite brands (of pens, shoes, purses, etc.)?
Shoes? Favorite brand is "What fits??" (See discussion about huge feet.)
Purses? I carry a med bag with a pen in it....
PENS!! Rollingwriters...a rollerball pen that doesn't skip. I also like my Cross pen and pencil, but that's more for historic value than anything else.
2. If so, why?
I'm less into brand than I am into function (especially functionality for the money expended).
3. If you drink tea, what is your favorite kind, red, green, or black?
Depends on mood, to be honest. There is a time and mood for almost any tea.
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1) Have you ever had a book that bored or annoyed you so much you decided to not even finish it?
2) Is there an author you'd like to read, but are intimidated by?
3) What's your favorite fruit-flavored non-fruit item?
1) Have you ever had a book that bored or annoyed you so much you decided to not even finish it?
Jorge Isaacs' La Maria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_%28novel%29) (a XIX century Colombian writer). Everybody had to read it in high school but I simply couldn't. I don't know if it was because of my age, the fact that I hated the class (and the teacher) or the fact that that kind of romanticism full of pointless grief is simply not my style (besides we are talking a bloody loong novel).
2) Is there an author you'd like to read, but are intimidated by?
Umberto Eco. To me the guy is a genius; his serious stuff (the novels are light in comparison) is quite dense but very interesting.
3) What's your favorite fruit-flavored non-fruit item?
Strawberry flavored stuff, be it tea, wafers or ice cream (not gelato, that is made of fruit and simply fantastic).
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1. Please choose: Medieval church music, Baroque (think Bach, Vivaldi), Classic/Romantic (Beethoven, Brahms), Serious contemporary (Shostakovich, Ligeti, Steve Reich) or Light contemporary (from the Beatles to Metallica and everything in between).
2. Orthodox art, Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract or Pop art?
3. Comedy or Tragedy?
1. Please choose: Medieval church music, Baroque (think Bach, Vivaldi), Classic/Romantic (Beethoven, Brahms), Serious contemporary (Shostakovich, Ligeti, Steve Reich) or Light contemporary (from the Beatles to Metallica and everything in between).
Oooh, you had to ask that. Drat.
Erm, Medieval church music appeals to me because it's gorgeous. Light contemporary because there's so much vairety.
2. Orthodox art, Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract or Pop art?
Pop, Classical and Renaissance. (Betcha) Can't pick just one.
3. Comedy or Tragedy?
Comedy. Tragedy is depressing.
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1. I hate Scarlett O'Hara. Is there a character in a book that simply disgusted you to the point that you dropped the book?
2. What is the stupidest show on television in your opinion?
3. What makes you cranky?
((sorry, had a neighbor's fence fall over and snap a sprinkler AGAIN. I have to dig it up again to check for more damage. >:( )
1. I hate Scarlett O'Hara. Is there a character in a book that simply disgusted you to the point that you dropped the book?
There were some slimy types where one wishes for a blunt object to use it on them but most books get finished at last (may take a few years).
2. What is the stupidest show on television in your opinion?
If we leave out talkshows, some Volksmusik show is a great contender. But there is so much digestive final product on TV (one reason why I don't have a set) that the removal of that would be only marginally effective.
3. What makes you cranky?
You mean what gets on my nerves above the normal? Groups of little children I can't escape from (think: in buses or on trains) and girls with loud and shrill voices (also deadly in groups).
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1. Would you consider yourself a misanthope?
2. Is hypocrisy contagious?
3. Can yout eat delicious food that looks extremly disgusting/revolting? (I have problems with that)
1. Would you consider yourself a misanthope?
No, more of a curmudgeon. The only thing is, you can't call yourself a curmudgeon, someone else has to do it first. Fortunately, I have some erudite friends.
2. Is hypocrisy contagious?
Most things can be contagious. Hypocrisy, stupidity, unpleasantness etc. The problem is that humanity, compassion and wisdom seem to be a lot less contagious...
3. Can yout eat delicious food that looks extremly disgusting/revolting? (I have problems with that)
Bring it on. The smellier the cheese, the better. I've eaten meals that look like half-digested roadkill. This is because the quality of the taste is more important to me than the fact that the lettuce or radish or whatever is displayed in such a fashion so as to reflect the chef's artistic soul. Plus, I can cook, but tend to make a mess.
Done it again.
Ned Ludd was right, dammit.
1. On your perfect day, where would you be?
2. Same day, what would you eat?
3. As before, but what would you do?
Bonus:
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
1. On your perfect day, where would you be?
With the girl of my dreams (not necessarily somebody else's) visiting some museums
2. Same day, what would you eat?
Nothing too sophisticared. Well done meat would be probably included and cloudberry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudberry) yoghurt as dessert
3. As before, but what would you do?
** censored by the FCC ** :D and a bit of sightseeing
Bonus:
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
No, they look sheepishly at gynoids
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1. What will you do when Cthulhu comes back?
2. Where will you go on your next vacation?
3. How much will you pay for the incriminating photos, I have in my possession (concerning your
not my nefarious deeds)?
1. What will you do when Cthulhu comes back?
Hide behind the squidlings, as he won't hurt them.
2. Where will you go on your next vacation?
Don't know if I can call it a vacation, but I'm having a one-day trip to Croatia (leaving this evening)
3. How much will you pay for the incriminating photos, I have in my possession (concerning your not my nefarious deeds)?
Nothing, I always like, when kinky photos of myself get published... ;)
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1. Where is the line between kinky and I would never do this in my life for you?
2. Do you think gin-tonic is a good drink for a long bus-drive?
3. You and a person of the opposite sex are the last people on earth and need to preserve mankind. Who would you wish this person would be?
Bonus: Where does genius stop and madnes begin?
1. Where is the line between kinky and I would never do this in my life for you?
Play with blood and other body fluids/excrement.
2. Do you think gin-tonic is a good drink for a long bus-drive?
Not if you are going to drive... otherwise, I guess so, I would prefer something with a little more fruit taste like a gin and grapefruit juice, or why not, 2/3 Cava or champaign, 1/3 sloe gin.
3. You and a person of the opposite sex are the last people on earth and need to preserve mankind. Who would you wish this person would be?
My SO.
Bonus: Where does genius stop and madness begin?
on the other side of a very thin line...
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1) Whiskey: Scottish single malt, Scottish blended, Irish single malt, Irish blended, bourbon or I wouldn't touch that vile thing with a ten foot pole!
2) Why (the see above)?
3) Candy: sweet, salt, sour or gimme, gimme gimme! ;)
1) Whiskey: Scottish single malt, Scottish blended, Irish single malt, Irish blended, bourbon or I wouldn't touch that vile thing with a ten foot pole!
Jameson's Irish Whiskey, a blend. Wee dram o' that all around, please.
2) Why (the see above)?
Smooth and lovely to sip straight, strong and able to ring clear through an Irish coffee.
3) Candy: sweet, salt, sour or gimme, gimme gimme! Wink
Bittersweet chocolate!!!!!
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1) Do you like to get rained upon in the summer?
2) When an unfortunate experience occurs, do you look at it as a way to learn something?
3) If you were alone in a cathedral and knew no-one could hear you, would you sing loudly to hear the accoustics?
Bonus point: How much would you pay to see a photo of Swato on his dream date?
1) Do you like to get rained upon in the summer?
If I've got a while afterward to dry off, sure.
2) When an unfortunate experience occurs, do you look at it as a way to learn something?
Yes. Maybe I've taken too many engineering classes, but I see people somewhat like structural steel: stress it beyond its normal maximum and as long as it doesn't break, that stress becomes the new maximum.
I don't extend the metaphor into strain hardening or fatigue cracking, though. ;D
3) If you were alone in a cathedral and knew no-one could hear you, would you sing loudly to hear the accoustics?
Probably not. I might listen to my wife sing, though.
Bonus point: How much would you pay to see a photo of Swato on his dream date?
Nothing... if he wants to share, that's fine. Otherwise, I won't intrude.
Besides, I've already got a good photo spot staked out in the bushes.
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1. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
2. Are you doing it?
3. What do you want to be "when you grow up" now? :)
1. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A vet or a lawyer.
2. Are you doing it?
Not yet.
3. What do you want to be "when you grow up" now?
Photographer.
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1. What would your ideal job be?
2.How much sleep to you need, on average?
3. What would you do to get your ideal job?
1. What would your ideal job be?
Queen of the World, Empress of the Universe (and yes, as a matter of fact, I DO own the roads, TYVM.)
I'd love to be able to work at all...I do well in management and purchasing positions, but want to be a journalist.
2.How much sleep to you need, on average?
Well, I can manage on about 7 hours a night. When I am not so well, I do 24-30 awake and miserable, then about 18 mostly dead, in cycles.
3. What would you do to get your ideal job?
Who do I gotta kill? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 8)
If I had the time and money (and health) I would go back to school. That would do it.
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1. Where would you like to live if money were no object?
2. What's your favorite comfort food?
3. Are you afraid of getting injections?
1. Where would you like to live if money were no object?
Norway, provided there is a (2-way) teleport to Berlin available on location
2. What's your favorite comfort food?
Something with meat and potatoes (veggies optional)
3. Are you afraid of getting injections?
No, but I had no especially negative experiences in that regard until now
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1. Is Tom Cruise a good/mediocre/bad actor?
2. What do you think about mandatory celibacy?
3. How much do you read on a regular base?
1. Is Tom Cruise a good/mediocre/bad actor?
He can be a good actor, as a reference there is an early movie he made, TAPS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083169/) in which he showed -to me- the ability to act. Sadly most directors hire him for his pretty face (as L. DiCaprio) hence he looks like an idiot quite frequently (or perhaps that early movie was a fluke? ;)).
2. What do you think about mandatory celibacy?
Is to me, the most stupid idea ever conceived. Celibacy can only work if there is an inner will to control that urge and the imposition just make the ordeal worse as recent history has proven.
3. How much do you read on a regular base?
Not as much as I would like (unless you count the internet) about 20-40 pages daily on average, unless I have dead time or I get caught with the book.
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1. Do you make stories on your mind? Have you written any?
2. Do you have any serious regrets?
3. Do you believe the word 'happiness' has a real practical meaning? If so which?
1. Do you make stories on your mind? Have you written any?
Oh yes. Something like six of them are in various stages. Some are being planned, some are about half way complete. Only two have ever been completed.
2. Do you have any serious regrets?
Not seeing a friend of mine on the last day of school in seventh grade. She died that summer.
Cracking a mildly abrasive joke to a friend the last time I saw him, because he also died about two or three weeks later.
3. Do you believe the word 'happiness' has a real practical meaning? If so which?
I'd argue that contentment does, but happiness is a state of mind and depends on that person.
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1. How old were you when you learned to drive?
2. Did you pass the test the first time?
3. If archeologists were to on cover your home a thousand years from now, what do you think they'd think you were?
1. How old were you when you learned to drive?
33, if you mean the driving licence for motor vehicles. In other words last year. Have not driven since the day I got the licence.
2. Did you pass the test the first time?
Yes but it was a close shave (the theory was no problem though). While driving parallel to a lorry in a bend (I on the outside), the Bernoulli effect began to suck the car towards the lorry. It's a bit counterintuitive to have to countersteer in a bend.
3. If archeologists were to on cover your home a thousand years from now, what do you think they'd think you were?
Provided all the books survived, they would guess that those belonged to several persons, not just one. Someone who studied chemistry, a historian (or two) and one or two other academics/university graduates and very probably an adolescent/older child.
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1. How far from you to the next opera house?
2. If you had the choice to prevent the Holocaust but would thereby also prevent forever a Jewish nation state (not necessarily in Israel) to be established, would you do it and why (or why not)?
3. Should the method of appointment of federal judges in the US be changed and in what way, should there be term/age limits?
1. How far from you to the next opera house?
I live at 10 minutes from a center for the performing arts where they have shown an opera or two. About 30 minutes from one of the theatres were Miami Grand Opera performs (about 6 productions a year). 50 minutes from the theatre were the company I sing for performs (4 productions a year).
2. If you had the choice to prevent the Holocaust but would thereby also prevent forever a Jewish nation state (not necessarily in Israel) to be established, would you do it and why (or why not)?
I tend to think that the notion of 'nation/state' tends to be a divisive one often heralding patriotism and nationalism in very damaging ways. OTOH the millions of lives that could have been saved were invaluable. I would prevent the holocaust without thinking. A different question is if the world would have rejected antisemitism without the holocaust.
3. Should the method of appointment of federal judges in the US be changed and in what way, should there be term/age limits?
Given the amount of power the appointed guys have, and the ideological interests vested in such positions, I seriously doubt that there are easy ways to prevent misuse in the appointment.
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1. Do you like atmospheric music?
2. Is isolation a solution or a problem?
3. How often do you feel the urge to do something completely different?
1. Do you like atmospheric music?
If that means music that concentrates mainly on mood (i.e. creating atmosphere), I's say yes but not exclusively.
2. Is isolation a solution or a problem?
Depends what it is meant for and what kind of. Part-time hermiting has its advantages. Involunatary isolation is something else.
3. How often do you feel the urge to do something completely different?
Regularly, but I rarely do act on it.
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1. How do you estimate your artistic talents (all kinds: drawing, sculpting, singing, acting etc. etc.)?
2. If you dabble in art at all, is it as a performer or as a creator?
3. Rare, medium or well-done?
1. How do you estimate your artistic talents (all kinds: drawing, sculpting, singing, acting etc. etc.)?
Mmmm...slightly above the average bear, when it comes to photography and possibly writing. Drawing, average bear, singing below average, etc.
2. If you dabble in art at all, is it as a performer or as a creator?
Creator
3. Rare, medium or well-done?
Well-done
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1. Have you ever seen a live belly dancer?
2. Would you go see one?
3. Favorite non-native cuisine (IE something your mother didn't cook regularly for dinner)
1. Have you ever seen a live belly dancer?
Yes, and I used to dance my self, I'm thinking about taking it up again too... Does wonders for ones posture.
2. Would you go see one?
YES! :mrgreen:
3. Favorite non-native cuisine (IE something your mother didn't cook regularly for dinner)
Thai, I think, but Middle East, Indian and Szechuan cuisine is very nice too. I'm a bit of a foodie. :-[ ;)
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1) Do you dance?
2) Is there a special dance you would like to be good at?
3) Do music play in important role in your life?
1) Do you dance?
Nope, never (at least not in the direct sense)
2) Is there a special dance you would lik to be good at?
Nope, see above
3) Do music play in important role in your life?
I love music but to say that it is really important would maybe go a bit too far
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1. Has there been a single event that thoroughly changed the way you see the world (and I don't mean your visit with the optics specialist ;))?
2. Is there a world catastrophe in the cards soon?
3. What kinds of vegetables do you like and which do you loath(e?) ?
1. Has there been a single event that thoroughly changed the way you see the world (and I don't mean your visit with the optics specialist )?
Yes (and no offense to others) but leaving religion and dogma for good. Then meeting others who had done the same.
2. Is there a world catastrophe in the cards soon?
Only of the natural kind. IMHO here ain't no end times baby. Only if we choose to collectively end it ourself.
3. What kinds of vegetables do you like and which do you loath(e?) ?
I quite like eggplant. Hmmm...and the odd fried potato ain't too bad either :mrgreen:
1) Is there a song that totally moves you every time you hear it?
2) If so, what is it?
3) Have you ever been in a social situation, you thought would be really great, that turned out to be really awful (like a party)? What was it like and what did you do?
1) Is there a song that totally moves you every time you hear it?
Yes there is.
2) If so, what is it?
It's "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie. It's the only song where I am very close to crying every single time.
3) Have you ever been in a social situation, you thought would be really great, that turned out to be really awful (like a party)? What was it like and what did you do?
Yes. There was a get-together (one might even consider it a party), a birthday of a friend of mine from school. It was the first time after a year, where all the people I went to class with finally met at one place (after school we were all scattered around the world) and I thought it'd be fun. Unfortunatelly I stood corrected. I arrived later than all the others (had some stuff to do before, came two or three hours too late), all the alcohol was gone and all the people drunk. And I've found out that the majority of people, I considered friends for a long time, have changed way too much (in the negative sence) and I saw that I have nothing to talk about with that people. I left after an hour and was glad I left.
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1. Have you ever experienced true love?
2. Do you prefer having a suntanned or white skin?
3. Do you have a friend, you would consider doing anything for and vice versa?
1. Have you ever experienced true love?
Think so but she was not responsive (the first of our class to marry and also the first to die*)
2. Do you prefer having a suntanned or white skin?
I am a true paleskin
3. Do you have a friend, you would consider doing anything for and vice versa?
No
*I have an alibi ;D :'(
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1. Should questions here be answered short or with an essay?
2. Why did you answer 1. the way you did?
3. Do you plead guilty as charged?
Bonus. Why can't he come up with more serious questions?
1. Should questions here be answered short or with an essay?
With whatever length answer is necessary to properly respond, of course! :mrgreen:
2. Why did you answer 1. the way you did?
I thought my answer was sufficient to respond to the question.
3. Do you plead guilty as charged?
I was charged? Sure!
Bonus. Why can't he come up with more serious questions?
The "other places" in his mind are taking precedence over the part that comes up with questions.
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1. What sort of long-distance communication method (i.e. not face-to-face) do you prefer?
2. Describe the level of mess surrounding the computer you're currently accessing this from.
3. Tea: Black, green, or red?
1. What sort of long-distance communication method (i.e. not face-to-face) do you prefer?
The type we are just engaging in. No great phoner (just a phon(e?)y)
2. Describe the level of mess surrounding the computer you're currently accessing this from.
Computer below the desk with 2l of orange juice next to it, monitor on the desk with:
Pencils and rulers to the left of it, a dictionary, ear protection, loudspeakers a stapler and a piece of soap to the right of it.
Rolls of paper (pen recorder) under it. A stopwatch, aroll of tissue paper and two pieces of sheeting (to shield the monitor from light) on top of it. Me in front of it.
3. Tea: Black, green, or red?
Black in the morning, green or black in the afternoon, never red
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1. Could ghosts exist for real?
2. What do you see, when you look out of the window?
3. How high is the highest human built structure within 20 km of where you are now?
1. Could ghosts exist for real?
Definitely, even if not in the traditional sense. Quantum entanglement makes all sorts of fun stuff possible. My mother, in Tampa, Florida, knew the second my grandfather died over in Poland.
2. What do you see, when you look out of the window?
My driveway. My mother's garden. A cul-de-sac. A sidewalk. Lots and lots of St. Augustine grass. Upper-middle-class generic houses. Upper-middle-class generic cars. Sometimes children.
3. How high is the highest human built structure within 20 km of where you are now?
The mighty AmSouth building towers a magnificent... 176m. Although it will soon be surpassed by the 181m Trump Tower.
1. What is your favorite method of moving from place to place?
2. Are you more prone to find fault in yourself or in others?
3. Do you often experience déjà vu?
1. What is your favorite method of moving from place to place?
Depends. For short trips, bike. For longer cross-country-type trips, I like cars, but I'm also fascinated by planes. I'm one of those people who could just watch planes take off for hours.
2. Are you more prone to find fault in yourself or in others?
Myself. I think I often assume the best in people even when it's not necessarily warranted.
3. Do you often experience déjà vu?
Didn't you already ask me that? ;D
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1. What is that one thing that you can do, but nobody else can do?
2. What's the big "tourist trap" near you?
3. What's your favourite non-"tourist trap" place near you?
1. What is that one thing that you can do, but nobody else can do?
Come up with some of the things that I spout out here.
2. What's the big "tourist trap" near you?
Busch gardens. A brilliant idea: Let's take a brewery, and then build a zoo/amusement park around it. Parents get drunk, kids fly around on roller coasters. Proof of tourist trap: Tickets for one day cost a little bit over $50. If you're a Florida resident, you can get in on that ticket for a whole year.
3. What's your favourite non-"tourist trap" place near you?
At the moment, Mima's Alaskan Tacos in Ybor City. (Not much to do 'round these parts. And Ybor is all the way downtown.)
1. What causes you to sweat suddenly?
2. What emotions cloud your judgement?
3. What is your favorite citrus fruit?
What causes you to sweat suddenly?
The current Houston Texas firefighters calendar.
What emotions cloud your judgement?
Try as I might- I hate traffic and get a bit of road rage-so the emotion I have the most trouble with is anger. I'm not a violent person- but traffic pushes my buttons and I have to pull out and stop and breath or else I'm going to murder the @#%^*($!
What is your favorite citrus fruit?
Lemons and limes--- love them
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How often do you call your mother? or is mother is deceased/gone how often do you call the person who has taken her place(of course mothers aren't actually replacable- but you get the idea)
Are you closer to your mother now or then(when ever then was-ie childhood, adolescence, etc)?
Who has been the greatest influence in/on your life- and some of the "why"?
How often do you call your mother? or is mother is deceased/gone how often do you call the person who has taken her place(of course mothers aren't actually replaceable- but you get the idea)
Not very often, a few times a year perhaps and rarely in an exclusive way. :-[
Are you closer to your mother now or then(when ever then was-ie childhood, adolescence, etc)?
Not very close. At some time in my childhood/early adolescence I spent more time with her (basically staying at her work) but we are different and similar in the aspects that matter :-\ (she is a believer and lately a more fundamental christian, and she has a strong character that apparently I inherited/learned) so we try not to step in each other's toes. Now I live a few thousand km away making our contact more sporadic.
Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, but... :-\
Who has been the greatest influence in/on your life- and some of the "why"?
Perhaps my uncle on my dad's side. He broke my dad's flaws that I was replicating (and some still are with me) of hating emotions and/or expressing them. If it weren't for him I don't know if I would be able to express my self in an emotional way (different from anger, obviously :-\ ).
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Let's try something more cheerful...
1. Have you tried 3 chocolate Milka bars?
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(why oh why is it so hard to find it in the States?)
2. How many glasses of wine make you giddy?
3. What kind of music makes you dance?
1. Have you tried 3 chocolate Milka bars?
Yes, and I love it. Actually, it's also difficult to find it here. I've tasted it in Germany, where it is available...
2. How many glasses of wine make you giddy?
Depends on my mood, if I've eaten something before etc. But basically it's 1 1/2 bottles I need at least to feel giddy.
3. What kind of music makes you dance?
I can dance to anything, if I'm in the right mood. And there's always mood for dancing... :)
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1. Do you like electronic (dance) music, and if yes, which kind (techno, electroclash, drum n' bass etc....) do you prefer?
2. Which of the recently released movies do you like the most/would you like to see the most?
3. Will you dress up like Elvis for the 30 year's anniversary of his death?
Bonus: A small step for you or a ginat leap for mankind?
1. Do you like electronic (dance) music, and if yes, which kind (techno, electroclash, drum n' bass etc....) do you prefer?
Oh yes. Erm, I like everything but run of the mill house, but electroclash and trance are my usuals.
2. Which of the recently released movies do you like the most/would you like to see the most?
Stardust! I really want to see it.
3. Will you dress up like Elvis for the 30 year's anniversary of his death?
No.
Bonus: A small step for you or a ginat leap for mankind?
Small step for me helps mankind in that giant step.
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1. What's the furthest east you've been?
2. Which major bodies of water (Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico, etc.) have you see or been in?
3. Favorite leisure activity?
1. What's the furthest east you've been?
Kirkenes, Norway (30°E), otherwise Bulgaria (30 years ago at pre-school age)
2. Which major bodies of water (Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico, etc.) have you see or been in?
North Atlantic, Arctic Sea (Norway, Iceland, Svalbard), North Pacific (a holiday long ago in Canada ending on Vancouver Island), Black Sea (see question 1), Baltic and North Sea (naturally, being German)
3. Favorite leisure activity?
Reading, watching DVDs (sex still unavailable)
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1. Do you have nightmares on a regular base (that does not mean following a strict timetable)?
2. Can you usually remember your dreams?
3. Do your dreams follow logic or is it complete chaos of unknown origin?
Bonus: Is that the first time that guy asked 3 questions on the same topic?
1. Do you have nightmares on a regular base (that does not mean following a strict timetable)?
Yes. Always involving my ex-husband or my mother.
2. Can you usually remember your dreams?
Yes. I am re-married (ie. I agree a second try which I would never do) to the same person and it again does not work. Ouch!
3. Do your dreams follow logic or is it complete chaos of unknown origin?
Usually reasonably logical.
Bonus: Is that the first time that guy asked 3 questions on the same topic? I lost count.
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1. What's your earliest memory of your mother (or primary carer)?
2. What makes life worth living?
3. Do you put the cap back on the toothpaste ? Bonus: Why/Why not?
1. What's your earliest memory of your mother (or primary carer)?
I have a lot of faces, frozen moments, and a few major events from my childhood, and few things longer than a moment, though those moment extend at least sixteen years back.
I think that the earliest I have was running around the table in a diaper and t-shirt at about two years old, while she read the paper (I think. I remember not being able to see her face clearly, and I think it was a paper obscuring it.
2. What makes life worth living?
New things and habit. I love to learn new things, and have a routine I repeat nightly. It makes for a nice balance.
3. Do you put the cap back on the toothpaste ?
Yes
Bonus: Why/Why not?
You mean there are people who don't?
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1. Was college considered "optional" in your family?
2. Earliest book you recall reading?
3. If you have a cell phone, what's your ring tone?
1. Was college considered "optional" in your family?
The education system is a bit different here with primary school, then 3 different types of secondary school (Main, Real and Gymnasium*). After that its's trade/vocational school, technical college or university (depending on the type of 2nd school).
Gymnasium was "mandatory" but I was the only one to go to university afterwards. My 2 older brothers chose different career paths.
2. Earliest book you recall reading?
Active reading? Then it was the book I learned reading from. I can still remember a lot of details.
3. If you have a cell phone, what's your ring tone?
I don't have and hope to avoid it for the time being.
If I had free choice, Spirit of Cambria would be a candidate.
*nothing to do with sports, the dictionary gives grammar school as English equivalent
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1. Do you like Shakespeare? What play most (if you dislike him, insert play by other author)?
2. What is the worst Disney movie you know?
3. Should there be a constitutional option to remove the head of government by plebiscite (apart from general elections)?
1. Do you like Shakespeare? What play most (if you dislike him, insert play by other author)?
i love shakespeare. I can still recite about 80% of Hamlets lines from my university days. Has to be Hamlet. MacBeth is too Historically innacurate and dont go for the comedies at all. Do like King Lear and Corialanus though.
2. What is the worst Disney movie you know?
I have a horrible habit of liking disney movies. I love the Little Mermaid..... no really I LOVE her :-* Alladin left me under impressed.
3. Should there be a constitutional option to remove the head of government by plebiscite (apart from general elections)?
Is a plebiscite an axe? ;D I dont believe in this voting malarkey. It encourages people with little talent other than ego to put themselves forward to an elactorate that fundamentally knows nothing of their abilities (lord I expect a CV and Interview for the office cleaner - heaven forbid we require our 'rulers' to have any talent at all!) not sure what I would replace it with though. The eternal problem of the Marxist is that Marx never really got around to describing a systen of government rather than an historical process. Attempts to date have been largely appalling!
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1) Do you eat proper childrens sweets like wham bars and drumsticks and cola bottles and flying saucers etc.
2) Where would you like to be right now?
3) With whom?
1) Do you eat proper childrens sweets like wham bars and drumsticks and cola bottles and flying saucers etc.
I eat necco wafers and juju bees, and jelly beans, but not too much of the classic candies. Mostly mass manufactured Hersey's garbage, unless I can find a Heath bar (I love love love heath bars)
2) Where would you like to be right now?
In the mountains somewhere. In either of the two north American chains I've been in (The Rockies or the Sierra Nevadas...both are beautiful, but the Sierras are far more rugged)
3) With whom?
I'm nearly always with other people, so by myself, I think. But if I have to bring along someone else, a couple of good friends.
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1. What hours of the day/night are you most awake at?
2. If you hadn't taken the path you are on right now, what one would you have chosen?
3. Do you yahoo!?
1. What hours of the day/night are you most awake at?
If left to my own devices I get up between 9 and 10 am and go to bed between 2 and 3 am.
I am most awake in the middle of the evening
2. If you hadn't taken the path you are on right now, what one would you have chosen?
Possibly historian. I doubt that I would have made it as a shipbuilding engineer
3. Do you yahoo!?
Do you mean behave like one? rarely (I think)
Or do you men using the search engine? Also rarely these days. If google doesn't yield useful results.
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1. Would the world be a better place if there was general promiscuity but no jealousy?
2. Is Buddhism more humane than nonviolent Christianity?
3. What would happen, if everyone knew that the world would end in a day/week/month/year?
Would it make a difference, if they also knew that their actions would have no posthumous consequences for them?
Bonus: Why again sex, violence and religion? Are there no better themes?
1. Would the world be a better place if there was general promiscuity but no jealousy?
I don't mind that world provided that the obvious health risks were minimized.
2. Is Buddhism more humane than nonviolent Christianity?
I am biased towards Buddhism which I believe to be harder to misrepresent than christianity.
3. What would happen, if everyone knew that the world would end in a day/week/month/year?
Would it make a difference, if they also knew that their actions would have no posthumous consequences for them?
It would certainly be chaos all over plus all the fundies screaming how much we deserved it ::)
Bonus: Why again sex, violence and religion? Are there no better themes?
Hey, you forgot politics ;)
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1. Are disney musicals the worst of all?
2. Roller coasters: good or evil?
3. Does it make sense to be in a attraction park at 95F/36C plus humidity?
Bonus: can you tell where am I?
1. Are disney musicals the worst of all?
YES! And I am subjected to them regularly due to two Disney-obsessed siblings.
2. Roller coasters: good or evil?
Funfunfunfunfunfunfun. Good.
3. Does it make sense to be in an attraction park at 95F/36C plus humidity?
I assume you're talking about Disney Land/World. Probably Disney land.
No, so go in April or early November.
Bonus: can you tell where am I?
I think so. LA?
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1. Have you ever had to replace sprinklers?
2. Which of the PoC movies was the best?
3. Why?
1. Have you ever had to replace sprinklers?
Nope, and given that I live in a condo, I don't think I will have to deal with something like that anytime soon.
2. Which of the PoC movies was the best?
Mmm, perhaps the latest one?
3. Why?
Dunno, I liked the 2nd too but the ending was a bit disconcerting.
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1. Windows, Mac, Linux or some obscure flavor of Unix?
2. Do you own an Apple iPod?
3. Does it make sense to watch a movie in such a small screen?
1. Windows, Mac, Linux or some obscure flavor of Unix?
I have a Windows XP and a Red Hat Linux.
I like linux much better.
2. Do you own an Apple iPod?
No. I don't intend to give Apple scads of money when I can buy myself an off brand and get just as much space and possibly a cooler look.
3. Does it make sense to watch a movie in such a small screen?
Nope.
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1. What's your opinion on affirmative action?
2. If you live in the US or have one of these anyway, do you listen to your local talk radio station?
3. Why or why not?
1. What's your opinion on affirmative action?
I think it is still necessary even if it causes some problems. There is still plenty of veiled (and sometimes open) racism in the US and so far it seems like the only thing that helps offsetting it. At some point it should be dropped but IMO not until some sort of balance is reached.
2. If you live in the US or have one of these anyway, do you listen to your local talk radio station?
Erm, does NPR classify as 'talk radio'? There are some shows more opinionated than others so ...
3. Why or why not?
I want to hear some balance, listen to a far right or a far left* character isn't my cup of tea.
*I heard that some exist in the US although with the shift to the right, most people in the left or the greens** are considered far left now. I've heard far left back home and it is completely nutz BTW.
** being environmentally friendly is not my definition of left or much less far left.
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1. Chocolate cake, fruitcake or bread cake?
2. Is the new fashion style too liberal? ;)
3. What new music style do you consider glorified noise?
1. Chocolate cake, fruitcake or bread cake?
Fruitcake! I like chewy things. But unlike a dog, I am not amused if they also squeek.
2. Is the new fashion style too liberal? Wink
These low-cut cowls the monks are all wearing now are only disgusting because I look so lousy in them. ;D
3. What new music style do you consider glorified noise?
All music is glorified noise.
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1) Do you ever suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
2) Do you think that chewy licorice squidlings would sell?
3) What's that supposed to mean?
1) Do you ever suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
Yes
2) Do you think that chewy licorice squidlings would sell?
Not to me
3) What's that supposed to mean?
Don't like licorice. Gummies, especially pineapple with cherry tentacles, would be lovely.
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1. Do you wear glasses (or contacts)?
2. What's the most scared you've ever been?
3. Avacado. Yes or no. Discuss.
1. Do you wear glasses (or contacts)?
Do plastic intra-ocular lenses count? Used to wear glasses, but since I had both cataracts removed and replaced with aforesaid lenses, no need for driving, day to day use. need glasses for reading/computer, but cheap (~$5) +2.5 for reading and +1.5 for computer work fine. Beats $800+ for titanium multi focals I used to wear!
2. What's the most scared you've ever been?
Pre-flight inspection of a Grumman Tracker parked in "shit spot" (right up against the coming <edge of the flight deck> on the starboard side forward of the island) on HMAS Melbourne during a big storm and fairly big seas, having to climb up onto the top of said aeroplane and out over the starboard engine to inspect the propeller boss and other components. Yes, I had a safety line on, but the top of the engine was about 15 feet above the deck edge and deck was about 42 feet above the oggin (ocean for all you land lubbers) and it was wet and windy and SCARY.
3. Avacado. Yes or no. Discuss
Yes yes yes yes YES! Especially Haas avocados, the black ones with a rough skin. Reasons: Guacamole; Toasted avocado, chicken, bacon and cheese foccacias; Avocado slices in your salad; A few slices of avocado on top of your rice before putting the curry on top of that; Mashed avocado instead of butter when making sandwiches. Did I mention Guacamole?
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1. Peanuts or cashews?
2. Salted or unsalted?
3. Who was you favourite teacher and why?
Bonus question: What happened to the bonus question?
1. Peanuts or cashews?
Cashews. Oh, if I had some right now they's be in my tumtum. (That goes for Hass avocados, as well!)
2. Salted or unsalted?
Salted. Unsalted cashews are too sweet.
3. Who was you favourite teacher and why?
Miss Martha Delaney, who was my creative writing teacher in tenth grade. On our first day of class, she said "Shock me!" My friend Jeanne and I tried to shock her, but she only became more delighted with us. That was the most marvelous challenge I ever got in school.
Bonus question: What happened to the bonus question?
I don't know. I thought you had it.
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1) What would be more fun: a barrel of monkeys or a bucket of squids?
2) If you could make a toast at Sibling Aggie's wedding reception, what would it be?
3) It's a rainy day. Shall we dig through a junk shop, a bargain store, or a used book shop?
Bonus Question: What if we all stopped everything and just had a party?
1) What would be more fun: a barrel of monkeys or a bucket of squids?
a barrel of monkeys!
2) If you could make a toast at Sibling Aggie's wedding reception, what would it be?
"Dearest friend- may your days be long and full, laugh often, love more often. Be yourself and embrace the self of your mate. Never forget the power of chili peppers. Treasure your wife- treasure yourself as well. May peace and joy be your daily companions." (that seems lame- someone please do better)
3) It's a rainy day. Shall we dig through a junk shop, a bargain store, or a used book shop?
Junk Shop!!!!!!! Especially if they have clothing and really don't care if the "older ladies, gents too" come in again to play dress up.
Bonus Question: What if we all stopped everything and just had a party?
If we just stopped and had a party--- isn't that what we are doing already ;)
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1: If you could also make a toast at Sibling Aggies wedding,what would it be?
2: If your coworker leaves- out in the open- an opened box of candy (chocolate, etc)- is is acceptable to eat some? (hurry it's a box of Turtles and they look good)
3: Do you wear socks to bed?
Bonus Question:
Sorry, can't think of a bonus question- the chocolate is staring at me.
1: If you could also make a toast at Sibling Aggies wedding,what would it be?
Good health, good fortune and a long, loving and sharing life for my favorite internet nephew and his beautiful bride. May each day be more precious than the previous one, and may every gift and every happenstance fill you both with the wonder of love.
(As a personal, not public part--and Aggie will understand this: I want to pass on the wisdom of another couple that we're related to. Ruthie and Clayton had an agreement that served them well. Never stop considering the other half of you as the most important thing in your life. Your love for one another will cover all the ills, all the misfortune and all the sadness you may encounter if you remember that you are WE, not just ME.)
2: If your coworker leaves- out in the open- an opened box of candy (chocolate, etc)- is is acceptable to eat some? (hurry it's a box of Turtles and they look good)
If the top is on, and it's not in the open middle of the desk, no. Top off? Go for it. Right there out in the open? Yep, fair game (only one, until you check, though.) Hey, if you don't want to share your choccies, don't let me know you have choccies!!
3: Do you wear socks to bed?
Winter, usually, summer, not just no but HELL NO!! (However, once my feet get warm in the winter, the socks come off all by themselves. My feet do not like to be crowded.)
Bonus answer: Pass the chocolate.
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1. You have an unexpected windfall of $50 USD (or equivalent) that does not have to go for any specific bill or purpose. It's just for YOU. Books, computer toys, movies or music, chocolate, booze or special food? (Or the ubiquitous other.)
2. OK, ya got an all expenses paid trip to any place you want to go, for 10 days, with up to 5 sidetrips of no more than 75 KM (approx. 50 miles) available--for you and 3 companions. Who do you take, where do you go? (Companions do not have to start where you are, can be anyone from anywhere.)
3. You're walking down the street and a man rushes up and says "They're coming to kill me. Take this. Send it to my family, the address is inside." And he rushes off. When you get home, the news says an "enemy" spy was killed on the street you were on, and his "family" was arrested as spies as well, and are being held pending trial. The package contains 50 diamonds of various sizes, all seem to be of high quality. You check, and the address that you were to take the diamonds to is where the "family" was arrested.
What do you do with the diamonds?
Bonus question: Why do I do such weird questions?
1. You have an unexpected windfall of $50 USD (or equivalent) that does not have to go for any specific bill or purpose. It's just for YOU. Books, computer toys, movies or music, chocolate, booze or special food? (Or the ubiquitous other.)
Could be books, or DVDs (if there is something in particular worthy of the money) but if it is rainfall money it is quite likely to go for CDs or downloads of classical music (NOT in iTunes, I despise Apple).
2. OK, ya got an all expenses paid trip to any place you want to go, for 10 days, with up to 5 sidetrips of no more than 75 KM (approx. 50 miles) available--for you and 3 companions. Who do you take, where do you go? (Companions do not have to start where you are, can be anyone from anywhere.)
Mmm, that's a hard one, possibly somewhere in Europe, may be Madrid, with my wife and kid (who would never forgive me if I left them).
3. You're walking down the street and a man rushes up and says "They're coming to kill me. Take this. Send it to my family, the address is inside." And he rushes off. When you get home, the news says an "enemy" spy was killed on the street you were on, and his "family" was arrested as spies as well, and are being held pending trial. The package contains 50 diamonds of various sizes, all seem to be of high quality. You check, and the address that you were to take the diamonds to is where the "family" was arrested.
What do you do with the diamonds?
The big questions are: would some interested party be able figure out I have the diamonds and trace me? and, are we talking about big/easy to recognize diamonds or small/nondescript diamonds? If the chances are low of being traced AND the diamonds are hard to recognize as somebody else's property, I would keep a low profile and after a while I would move the diamonds out of the country to sell them in small batches to different people (and different places). OTOH if the probability to be linked with the diamonds is relatively high I would take them to the police.
Bonus question: Why do I do such weird questions?
Because the purse you found had $50 in cash and a bunch of diamonds? ;)
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1. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, or sapphires?
2. Investment in US$, Euros, Suiss Francs or Yen?
3. What is in your opinion the best place to buy real state now?
1. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, or sapphires?
I like color stones. Rubies and emeralds because good ones are valuable, sapphires because they're blue.
2. Investment in US$, Euros, Suiss Francs or Yen?
Investment? What's that? Swiss Francs seem to be the most stable historically.
3. What is in your opinion the best place to buy real state now?
Investment or use? Future investment or something income producing NOW?
Housing prices are plummeting daily in most markets. There will be a residential glut that will rebound horribly on the US economy as the repossessions rise. NOW is not the time, you should wait and plan for the bottom of the market for residential purchases, either for investment or for a residence.
Long term, you look for an undervalued area that has growth potential. (Someone you know bought a classic Craftman cottage on 2/3 of an acre, needs cosmetic work, has original stained glass in the front windows...outbuildings, big trees--about 3 years ago, for under $30K. It's already worth about twice what it cost, with no improvements.)
In my area, the "escape from Houston's rat race" people are having to pay huge premiums for the closer in areas. The extra 13 miles from Brenham to Somerville cut prices precipitously, and as the pricier areas are starting to suffer, our prices in 'town' here are rising.
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Investment property to be income producing? if you're planning on putting some money into the investment, look for older multi-family housing with 3 and 4 BR units. As houses are repo'd, there will be family groups that will need multiple bedrooms (kids) and can meet a fairly large monthly, but not keep up payments on a growing ARM. Buy older units, refurb and rent them. A friend in Atlanta took a complex of older 2BR/2BA rental units and took the basic floorplan apart and refurb'ed it all into three and four BR units (2 with 5 BRs) with larger kitchens, etc. and some of the baths made into laundry rooms. He bought it with the idea of catering to displaced ARM families, but he's actually got applications for more units than he'll have based on the fact that it's 3 or more bedrooms within a reasonable distance of the 'main part' of the city, instead of a 45 minute to 2 hour commute.
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Across the board, housing in Texas has always been less expensive that most places.
What kind of real estate ya want? (Don't get me started on commercial...)
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1. Would you rather live in a single family home on a suburban lot or acreage, or in a city townhouse/condo/apartment?
2. Carpet, tile( incl. lino), laminate (faked wood) or real wood flooring?
3. Sweet snacks or salty snacks at the movies?
1. Would you rather live in a single family home on a suburban lot or acreage, or in a city townhouse/condo/apartment?
Single family home.
2. Carpet, tile( incl. lino), laminate (faked wood) or real wood flooring?
Wood with area carpets/
3. Sweet snacks or salty snacks at the movies?
Sweet
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1. What was your first job?
2. (who is) your favorite email provider?
3. What is your favorite Starbucks/equivalent drink?
1. What was your first job?
At the Weinerschnitzel at the intersection of Oracle and Orange Grove in Tucson, Arizona. Absolutely a fun place to work, we had a manager/franchise owner who was this total mafia guy from up north/back east somewhere-- I swear that once their was a body in the walk in. And we'd put bottles of beer in the big ice maker to chill and then forget them and he's loose his mind and call us at like 4 am screaming his head off in Italian or something. Not all Italians are mafia- I realize this is a stereotype- but he was. Pretty amazing we aren't dead from it- this was evidently before OSHA and such- we used to drain the fryers and then carry the hot liquid fat in big pots across the parking lot to the 'grease trap'- Oy Vay if one of us had fallen.
2. (who is) your favorite email provider?
I use hotmail and whatever the university uses for the other- so I guess hotmail. I'm not very familiar with any other.
3. What is your favorite Starbucks/equivalent drink?
I don't do franchise coffee very often-- I like good old iced coffee when I do indulge.
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1: Are you an only child or one of two or more?
2: Where are you in the ranking if not an only- 1st, 2nd, 3rd-etc?
3: What was the absolute worst trouble you got into as a child- the worst single event and if you had/have siblings were they involved?
Bonus: Did your parents do something really spectacular as punishment- like for real send you to boarding school or what?
1: Are you an only child or one of two or more?
One of four.
2: Where are you in the ranking if not an only- 1st, 2nd, 3rd-etc?
Second, although my sister died at age 20. Parents spread us out after having my sister and I within 18 months of each other. Brothers are 8 and 12 years younger than me.
3: What was the absolute worst trouble you got into as a child- the worst single event and if you had/have siblings were they involved?
A family squabble turned into a bloodbath...and I got the blame because I was being the sensible one. Sister was locking older little bro out of house, he kicked through the plate glass patio door and hacked up his ankle badly. He lost a lot of blood, went into shock, and when he was finally coherent enough to tell Mom about it, he blamed me, because I was the one he remembered doing something about it. (Yeah, I bandaged it and took him to the ER for stitches--but all he remembers is blood all over my hands as I was pulling out shards of glass.)
Mom and Dad were on their way home from an out of town trip, and came in to a note saying I had taken Les to the ER although I didn't have a driver's license, our sister was at her best friend's and Larry was at Tony and Michael's...could they come to the ER, please? And there was the residue of the blood everywhere.
Parents got there, Les got back to talking eventually, and blamed me. My sister figured she'd gotten away with it and didn't say a word. Mom and Dad were being VERY hard about it--I had to pay to replace the door glass (not their homeowner's insurance, me) and they were barely speaking to me. Larry tried to tell them it hadn't been me, but he was 4, so they ignored him.
A week later, Sister's best friend called, got Mom, and asked if she was still grounded, or would she be able to talk on the phone or even go somewhere with her? Mom says "Why should she be grounded" and the truth came out...
Bonus: Did your parents do something really spectacular as punishment- like for real send you to boarding school or what?
They acted as though it was STILL my fault. If I had stopped her, it wouldn't have happened, he wouldn't have been hurt, the glass wouldn't have been broken. That she was just turned 18, I was 16 and he was 8 and I couldn't control them made no difference, I should have stopped it. No, I did NOT get my money back, no, she did not get punished, but I stayed on "restriction" until I was called back to work on threat of losing my job.
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1. Favorite fruit?
2. Favorite vegetable?
3. Favorite entree'/main dish?
Bonus question: Favorite dessert?
1. Favorite fruit?
Raspberry
2. Favorite vegetable? Toooomato
3. Favorite entree'/main dish? Gumbo. God, I looove gumbo (sans seafood)
Bonus question: Favorite dessert?
Hmm, anything with chocolate and raspberries. Or multipul kinds of chocolate.
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1. DO you use an internet radio site of any kind?
2. Favorite almost-swear word?
3. Finish this lyic, "The internet is for ____" (Hint: four letter word)
1. Pandora
2. frickin'
3. PORN!!
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1. How much water (not other beverages, water) do you drink in a day?
2. Do you use sunscreen/sunblock products?
3. Do you have any birthmarks? What and where?
1. How much water (not other beverages, water) do you drink in a day?
I drink about 2 glasses of just water a day.
2. Do you use sunscreen/sunblock products?
yes, fairly regularly- I still have lots of sun damage from younger "laying out days"- so it's more to keep it from getting worse than anything else.
3. Do you have any birthmarks? What and where?
I never knew I had a birthmark until I was an adult and then Joe said- hey do you know that birthmark on your butt looks sort of like an amoeba? Don't know how I missed it all those years, and don't know why mom or someone never said anything either. It is covered by any sort of bathing suit or undergarment, but still it is their and once pointed out to me it really looked huge and glaring.
1. How much water (not other beverages, water) do you drink in a day?
If tea doesn't count, none.
2. Do you use sunscreen/sunblock products?
No, since I turn brick-colour when exposed long before the UV can cause sunburn, I don't need it (and it does not help for that)
3. Do you have any birthmarks? What and where?
None, that I know off. I have remarkably few skin anomalies for my age according to the dermatologist.
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1. Should Dubya and accomplices be put on trial before US courts or outside the US (international or local)?
If you think that they should not be put on trial, write a 4711 word essay explaining your choice
2. Do you prefer wild or "cultivated" berries?
3. Rembrandt or Vermeer?
Sorry, crossposting. But you forgot to bring new questions anyway ;).
Yes, Thank you-- I was distracted.
1. Should Dubya and accomplices be put on trial before US courts or outside the US (international or local)?
If you think that they should not be put on trial, write a 4711 word essay explaining your choice
I'm not really sure. I've heard a lot of noise moving that way recently, but I have yet to see definite evidence on Shrubya's intentions. Cheney, yes. Throw that guy to the wolves.
2. Do you prefer wild or "cultivated" berries?
If I cultivated them, than I'd rather eat cultivates berries. If not, wild then.
3. Rembrandt or Vermeer?
Vermeer, I think. He does more with lighting than Rembrandt seems to have, though Rembrandt is awesome too.
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1. Do you feel that mocking terrorists is an important aspect in defeating them? (a la http://kris-wilson.deviantart.com/art/Osama-64676409 and http://youtube.com/watch?v=juaIEpgm2xU)
2. Do you feel that the current way to 'defeat' them (IE loosing scads of rights) send the right message?
3. Are we doing enough of the right things to defeat them properly?
1. Do you feel that mocking terrorists is an important aspect in defeating them?
Perhaps not in itself but it certainly lifts the spirits of the rest.
2. Do you feel that the current way to 'defeat' them (IE loosing scads of rights) send the right message?
Only if you believe that to fight the devil you need to use his methods. Terrorizing civilians (no matter if here or there) only helps the Machiavellians of this world.
3. Are we doing enough of the right things to defeat them properly?
Not in a long shot. Terrorism is the child of inequality and despair. If you have a society with enough civil liberties, little or no poverty/unemployment, and no discrimination, it is very hard to recruit* (what for?). When you look at the large terrorist organizations you'll notice that they provide things that the state does not**. Instead of bombing them to hell with all the collateral damage involved, provide services to those in the areas of influence. If a government is observant will notice very quickly who opposes such help, etc. As things stand now, the current so-called 'war on terror' is fueling the next generation of terrorists.
* Home grown terrorism in the 1st world, is rare and usually instigated by individuals on the fringe of society and/or with some pseudo religious framework.
** Hezbollah, provides a number of social services including schools and day care to the populations in their areas of influence; back home in Colombia the FARC entice new recruits by offering a salary (the effective unemployment is above 50%).
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1. If someone built a city in the middle of the sea would you go live there?
2. How can corporations be motivated to do the right thing?
3. Is it possible to make true art and make money of it while alive?
1. If someone built a city in the middle of the sea would you go live there?
Maybe. Depends on who's running it and a few other things.
2. How can corporations be motivated to do the right thing?
I'm not really sure, other than for us to patronize those that do--even if it's a little more expensive because of that
3. Is it possible to make true art and make money of it while alive?
I can't answer that.
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1. Would you be willing to pay a little more for goods if they come from a company that treats it's employees and source people right?
2. What's the best deal you've ever gotten?
3. Who's your favorite photographer?
(Answered on Talk Like a Pirate Day)
1. Would you be willing to pay a little more for goods if they come from a company that treats it's employees and source people right?
Y'arrrggggghhhh, I believes in rewarding them that knows how ter treat their crew.
2. What's the best deal you've ever gotten?
I be a barrrrgggain shopper from day one. I once paid only 4 gold dubloons ($4. actually) fer a whole queen sized sheet set with quilt! Methinks the price was missing a zero at the end, but the cashier didn't flinch when she rung it up, so i didn't have ter run er through.
3. Who's your favorite photographer?
A blaggard named George deVincent, whom I worked for as darkroom technician back in me lubber days. Hell of a salt, really. Some of his photos are here: http://www.dcvote.org/trellis/denial/osaycanyousee.cfm
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1) Will yer dare to Talk Loik a Poirate to a total stranger today?
2) Can yer tell a scalliwag a yardarm's length away?
3) Ale or rum?
1) Will yer dare to Talk Loik a Poirate to a total stranger today?
Course Oi will. Oi allus taalks normal, it be the landlubbers whut don't.
2) Can yer tell a scalliwag a yardarm's length away?
Oi be a pirate Capting. oi can tell a scalliwag at a few leagues, nivver mind a yarrdaarrm.
3) Ale or rum?
Ahh, Oi sees yer little mistake there, Opas, it be ale and rum....
1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
2. What is your favourite colour?
What is the air speed velocity of a fully laden swallow?
1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
It's government, innit? There's yer answer.
2. What is your favourite colour?
Blue. Or maybe blue, or else blue.
What is the air speed velocity of a fully laden swallow?
ARRR...ye dint put the number, ye lazy blaggard, so it's nae a proper question!! And Oi dinna ha' t'answer it!!
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1. What do you do to cheer yourself up when you're depressed?
2. Do you like asparagus?
3. what color are your favorite socks? Solid or a print?
1. What do you do to cheer yourself up when you're depressed?
I find something to do that takes my mind off it, and contemplate why I'm depressed when I'm far enough mentally.
2. Do you like asparagus?
Oooh yes! With butter, salt, pepper and parmasan.
3. what color are your favorite socks? Solid or a print?
Black and green stripey ones.
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1. Favorite meal?
2. Favorite restaurant?
3. When does fall arrive in your neck of the woods?
1. Favorite meal?
#25 Baked Brie with garlic and black pepper on toasted french bread. Sigh.
2. Favorite restaurant?
The Lost Dog Cafe, home of the above meal. http://www.lostdogcafe.com/
The food and beer list are excellent, and they help find homes for lost animals.
3. When does fall arrive in your neck of the woods?
This Sunday, the 23rd of September. The weather is still quite warm here, but the landscape is becoming more golden and the dogwood trees are going maroon. Our peak foliage color here is normally around the second week of October. The current drought may affect the show this year.
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1) What is your favorite thing to do in autumn?
2) Do you experience a strong spiritual connection to nature?
3) Maple syrup- yes or no?
1) What is your favorite thing to do in autumn?
Hibernate.
2) Do you experience a strong spiritual connection to nature?
Hmm. Nature's that stuff the other side of the double-glazing, right?
3) Maple syrup- yes or no?
More maybe. Don't think I've ever tried it. If it's remotely like golden syrup then I'll risk it in my porridge.
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1) Favourite composer?
2) Favourite artist?
3) Favourite writer?
1) Favourite composer?
Mussorgsky and some other Russians of the non-Tschaikovsky tradition
2) Favourite artist?
Shishkin, Escher
(http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/shishkin-timber.jpg)(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10048534A~Oben-und-unten-Poster.jpg)
3) Favourite writer?
Terry Pratchett
My favorite book is by Kipling though: Stalky&Co
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1. Do you expect snow in the winter where you live?
2. Are you good at producing parodies?
3. Do you have or want to have children?
1. Do you expect snow in the winter where you live?
No. If we got snow it would be very, very, very bad for the crops. We've had a light dusting of snow once in the decade I've lived here.
2. Are you good at producing parodies?
I'd like to think so.
3. Do you have or want to have children?
I'm of two minds on this.
A) Little kids are adorable, and babies are even cuter. And I like mommy-ing anyway.
B) Kids are brats, particularly after about the age of six. It doesn't get any better at all until they're about 14 or so.
So I think I'll just spoil my sisters' kids and such, and then return them after a while.
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1. Best show/concert you've ever been to?
2. What is your opinion about the various 'social networking' sites?
3. Are you on one?
1. Best show/concert you've ever been to?
Arrgh...different categories!!
Beatles in the early/mid 60's??
Placido Domingo, several times? (NOT either Pavarotti concert, may he RIP. Domingo's always been better, IMO)
Zappa?
Arlo Guthrie was WONDERFUL.
Several Peter Paul and Mary concerts...
The day there was a guest in my voice teacher's studio, and her dear friend performed an aria for us (me and the 14 vocal pedagogy students that got to come to my lessons to learn how to teach singing). Lovely older woman, Maria Somebody...oh, yeah, Callas!!
Hearing her, from 10 feet away, singing Un Bel Di. Not a complete concert, but possibly the most powerful musical experience I have ever had.
2. What is your opinion about the various 'social networking' sites?
Meh. I'm just---meh--about the whole thing.
3. Are you on one?
MySpace
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1. How many languages can you speak? (Well enough to be able to survive a day without an interpreter.)
2. What is your favorite 'comfort food'?
3. What subject did/do you dislike the most in school?
1. How many languages can you speak? (Well enough to be able to survive a day without an interpreter.)
German and English. I understand a little bit of French and Norwegian, so short-time survival seems possible.
2. What is your favorite 'comfort food'?
Hm, don't exactly know what that means. Is it anything that is not just consumed for nutrition?
My mother can do a good cake. I also am addicted to certain types of crisps.
3. What subject did/do you dislike the most in school?
sports, followed by German (aka spoil the fun of literature course)
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1. How is the seal-clubbing going? (pet microwaving for those outside the colder regions)
2. What's your opinion on martial arts?
3. Should/can corporeal intimacy be enhanced with "expert advise" (maritial arts ;D)
1. How is the seal-clubbing going? (pet microwaving for those outside the colder regions)
Terrible! Every club we go into, the seals just spill everything and then leave me with the check!
2. What's your opinion on martial arts?
Good to watch as ballet. Good for tuning up the ol' physique and self-discipline.
3. Should/can corporeal intimacy be enhanced with "expert advise" (maritial arts.)
That depends on what you call an expert. A therapist? A prostitute?
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1) Is Chinese food better on day one or day two?
2) Would you dress up in a crazy outfit to try to win if your favorite food or beverage was the prize?
3) Mountains or ocean?
Bonus question: Should the Bonus Question stay or go? With or without the frogurt?
1) Is Chinese food better on day one or day two?
Of what. I do like Chinese food within limits
2) Would you dress up in a crazy outfit to try to win if your favorite food or beverage was the prize?
Probably not (may depend on definition of "crazy")
3) Mountains or ocean?
Norway (=both)
Bonus question: Should the Bonus Question stay or go? With or without the frogurt?
No froghurt for me but open to the bonus
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1) Is your country/state/etc. of residence your country/state/etc. of origin?
2) Have you any talent for painting/drawing/sketching/etc.?
3) Have you learned to play a musical instrument (i.e. not just in the way of producing more or less random audible sound)?
Bonus question: What about seal microwaving?
1) Is your country/state/etc. of residence your country/state/etc. of origin?
Nope. Born and grew up in Bogotá, Colombia and living on South Florida now.
2) Have you any talent for painting/drawing/sketching/etc.?
I can draw, but I wouldn't dare to say that I have talent. ;)
3) Have you learned to play a musical instrument (i.e. not just in the way of producing more or less random audible sound)?
A few years of French Horn during my BA in music. I'm not playing much now, though. :-\ :'(
Bonus question: What about seal microwaving?
Does that help with the print? Most seals I know just work with ink...
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1. Is there in your opinion a good reason to hunt whales?
2. Do you agree with animal testing with apes?
3. Should we make reserves with physical geographic barriers to keep elephants separated from people?
Bonus: when is an animal smart enough to grant him rights?
1. Is there in your opinion a good reason to hunt whales?
Two reasons, but only hypothetical:
1) To find a cure to save people/animals.
2) There are too many wales and they would endanger the nature's normal flow.
2. Do you agree with animal testing with apes?
I don't know the opinion of the apes, so not sure if I agree with them... :mrgreen:
3. Should we make reserves with physical geographic barriers to keep elephants separated from people?
Brake all the barriers and walls. It worked in Germany after all...
Bonus: when is an animal smart enough to grant him rights?
When an animal is smarter than the US president. Grant the rights to all animals I say.
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1. What do you consider more disgusting - pedophilia, zoophilia or necrophilia?
2. Are sex and violence compatible?
3. When should it be allowed for minors to have sex?
Bonus: Is sex a joke?
1. What do you consider more disgusting - pedophilia, zoophilia or necrophilia?
Why would we have been given two feet if they weren't meant to be mates?
Rare breeds should be protected.
So I guess that leaves necrophilia.
2. Are sex and violence compatible?
www.scotsmist.co.uk/glossary_c.html (http://www.scotsmist.co.uk/glossary_c.html) defines "compatible" as a term that refers to a computer that can run DOS software. Thus violence would seem to be compatible and sex not.
3. When should it be allowed for minors to have sex?
Before bedtime?
Bonus: Is sex a joke? If so, it's a real cracker !
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1. Who will win the prize for first person to clone themselves?
2. Why do people wear underwear?
3. Which letter on your keyboard do you use most often and why?
Bonus question: Would you ever have joke sex?
1. Who will win the prize for first person to clone themselves?
Dolly Parton. If it worked for sheep, why not for people?
2. Why do people wear underwear?
To keep their outerwear from sticking to stuff...
3. Which letter on your keyboard do you use most often and why?
Backspace. I'm dyslexic, so I have lots of stuff to correct...
Bonus question: Would you ever have joke sex?
Been there, done that.
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1. Speaking of underwear...cotton or synthetics?
2. What scent is your shampoo?
3. Is there a color of clothing that you will NOT wear? What is it?
Bonus: Did my previous bonus answer make you go :scared: or :barf: or :snark:?
1. Speaking of underwear...cotton or synthetics?
cotton, the private parts want to breathe
2. What scent is your shampoo?
don't know, just smells soapy
3. Is there a color of clothing that you will NOT wear? What is it?
a lot, even if not combined. I usually abhor "neon" colors at least for the main part (tiny fractions can be acceptable)
Bonus: Did my previous bonus answer make you go scared or barf or snark?
either :rockon: or :oops:
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1. What influences your choice of clothing (apart from the price)?
2. Are squids a good alternative to fish as "pets" ? (and what about crustaceans?)
3. Is abstinence (not just sexual) a virtue in itself?
Bonus Questions: Where is the baby?
1. What influences your choice of clothing (apart from the price)?
It should look nice, elegant or distinctive without being obnoxious. ;)
2. Are squids a good alternative to fish as "pets" ? (and what about crustaceans?)
I'd say they are better but should get more attention and toys (which exactly I don't know :-\ ). Re: crustaceans, I don't like the arthropoda phylum with few exceptions (I love taking pictures of butterflies).
3. Is abstinence (not just sexual) a virtue in itself?
If abstinence comes from an inner desire to control urges (usually primal like food and sex) then I think it is a lofty goal. If it is an imposed precondition (like for priesthood) I think it is a bad thing that will be likely to spill at some point in one form or another.
Bonus Questions: Where is the baby?
In the fridge
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1. At what point is the line from comfort to luxury crossed?
2. What comforts do you take?
3. What luxuries do you take?
Bonus: babies, roasted or grilled?
1. At what point is the line from comfort to luxury crossed?
The point where the panty line is invisible. Why spend extra on something no one can see?
2. What comforts do you take?
Duvet days. I wish I had a pocket sized duvet to take around with me when I have to do a non-duvet-day.
3. What luxuries do you take?
Chocolate. Anything digital; can't resist.
Bonus: babies, roasted or grilled? Roasted. The delicacy of crisp skin and succulent flesh. Yummy.
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1. Why should we NOT learn the lessons of history?
2. If the countries of the world were to be rearranged which two non-bordering countries would you place next to each other and why?
3. What size teeth are best?
Bonus Question: what would you do with the baby's bathwater?
1. Why should we NOT learn the lessons of history?
'coz sometimes we pick up silly ideas from it.
2. If the countries of the world were to be rearranged which two non-bordering countries would you place next to each other and why?
Iran and Saudi Arabia on what is now Australia.
3. What size teeth are best?
The one that fit in your head
Bonus Question: what would you do with the baby's bathwater?
Pour it very carefully down a drain with small holes?
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1. Do you have freckles?
2. Assuming you use a QWERTY keyboard, should we switch over to a more effective style of key arrangement?
3.How big do you like your windows?
1. Do you have freckles?
Everywhere but my face, basically.
2. Assuming you use a QWERTY keyboard, should we switch over to a more effective style of key arrangement?
I use Dvorak. Faster to learn, easier (if you don't allow your previous training to brainwash you, or if it's what you start with) and a more efficient use of the hands.
On a QWERTY kb, my fastest time EVER was about 25 WPM. I can hit 40 on a Dvorak board easily, and can push it to 50 WPM if I am in a hurry.
3.How big do you like your windows?
Depends on the room...gotta have enough wall space for bookshelves, otherwise, I could do mostly windows, little wall.
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1. What's your favorite vegetable, and how do you like it prepared?
2. Do you sleep on your back? your side? face down? hanging from the rafters?
3. Soft or firm bed?
Bonus: How many pillows do you use?
1. What's your favorite vegetable, and how do you like it prepared?
Sweet pepper... And I prefer my vegetables raw.
2. Do you sleep on your back? your side? face down? hanging from the rafters?
I sleep on my stomach, face to the right, one hand (left) stretched, the onther one bent.
3. Soft or firm bed?
Firm.
Bonus: How many pillows do you use?
Just one... And I hug it (hate to have a pillow under my head)
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1. Do you consider yourself a good kisser? Has anyone ever told you that you are one?
2. Do you kiss often?
3. When was the last time you kissed someone (not the friendly way, the lover way)?
Bonus: Should kisses replace hugs?
1. Do you consider yourself a good kisser? Has anyone ever told you that you are one?
Yes, I have been told I am. As I have never been able to kiss myself, I can only listen to those on the receiving end.
2. Do you kiss often?
Not nearly as often as I would like.
3. When was the last time you kissed someone (not the friendly way, the lover way)?
I prefer to count it in Ice Ages, then it's only four...
Bonus: Should kisses replace hugs?
No, as hugs are so wonderful, but can't we have hugs AND kisses?
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1. Can you define the difference between an emergency and a disaster? (Guess who just started his course?)
2. Why does the Clairvoyant shop in Edinburgh need to advertise?
3. Did you get a vision of two clowns in full costume going at it when "joke sex" was mentioned?
Bonus: If it happens in a different postcode (zip code, or other local variant), does it count?
1. Can you define the difference between an emergency and a disaster? (Guess who just started his course?)
I choose to answer the second one: you!
2. Why does the Clairvoyant shop in Edinburgh need to advertise?
Dunno.
3. Did you get a vision of two clowns in full costume going at it when "joke sex" was mentioned?
No
Bonus: If it happens in a different postcode (zip code, or other local variant), does it count?
Meeeybe.
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1. How much of what people say is bull?
2. Is The Brave One any good in your opinion?
3. How many pets have you owned over your lifetime?
1. How much of what people say is bull?
Hard to tell, I would say around 50% but it seriously depends on the kind of crowd you are dealing with.
2. Is The Brave One any good in your opinion?
Who is The Brave One?
3. How many pets have you owned over your lifetime?
About 10 not counting tank fish.
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1. Does satire change the world or is it only a silly comfort?
2. Humid heat or dry cold?
3. Is it possible to have a society where people doesn't take advantage of others?
1. Does satire change the world or is it only a silly comfort?
I'd say it does. The question is, for the better or the worse in the long view
2. Humid heat or dry cold?
Dry cold!!!!
3. Is it possible to have a society where people doesn't take advantage of others?
Others inside or outside that society? ;)
I think the answer is no. But the effects can be minimized enough to be endurable.
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1. Bath or shower? (and hot or cold?)
2. Vegetables raw or "processed"
3. butter, margarine or No Thanks! ?
Bonus: would you bath in fatty veggie mash for cosmetic purposes?
1. Bath or shower? (and hot or cold?)
Hot needle shower. Nothing like it for getting the clinker out of yer ass! ::)
2. Vegetables raw or "processed"
Raw for snacking, creatively cooked for meals.
3. butter, margarine or No Thanks! ?
Butter, thank you, a little more, if you would, please! :D
Bonus: would you bath in fatty veggie mash for cosmetic purposes?
Not for cosmetic purposes, but I could tell you a tale about a young scottish lassie and a large tub of buttered bashed neeps... :o
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1. Have you ever given shelter to the homeless (including those you already knew)?
2. What makes for a good day to die?
3. What did you do that your mother would never forgive, if she knew?
Bonus question:
Who would you abandon everything to follow, if asked?
1. Have you ever given shelter to the homeless (including those you already knew)?
Yep. Took in a friend of a friend who couldn't find work where he was, got him on his feet---kept him, too!! (Dan)
Honestly, I have always done so, trying to keep people from being homeless--including assorted relations, my 'adopted' son, friends, friends of friends, a person or two that I originally met on-line.
Does short term count? We 'Katrina/Rita" timeframe had anywhere form two to 11 people, plus a travel tank of fish and a trailer with 2 horses. (That extra 1/3 acre lot came in handy.) Food for all became a bit touchy, since we don't have a functional kitchen, but we made it!
2. What makes for a good day to die?
Any day when the balance of pain is more than one can bear. Suffering for the sake of 'nobly suffering' is stupid.
3. What did you do that your mother would never forgive, if she knew?
Refused ordination several times.
Bonus question:
Who would you abandon everything to follow, if asked? Dan.
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1. What's your "dream vacation" destination?
2. How many pillows do you sleep with?
3. Do you have insomnia in any form? (What kind, if yes?)
Bonus question: DO you think love can conquer all?
1. What's your "dream vacation" destination?
I dream of making a nice little road trip - Rio, Havana, Kingston, New York and than have a nice road trip in an old convertible through the North American continent.
But at this very moment, my dream destination is France, where my girlfriend is at the moment...
2. How many pillows do you sleep with?
I sleep with one, but I usually use it for hugging, not for sleeping on it.
3. Do you have insomnia in any form? (What kind, if yes?)
Can't fall asleep at night (or in the morning, depending on how long I can't fall asleep), sometimes wake up several times at night and waking up early and not being able to fall asleep again.
Bonus question: DO you think love can conquer all?
Love is a powerfull thing. I wish love could conquer all. But unfotunately the reality is different and I'm afraid it won't conquer all... Money and hate is winning at this moment.
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1. Are you a person that falls in love easily?
2. You see a piece of clothing (or other item of liking) you really like, but it's very expensive and it might destroy your budget planning, but you really really want it. Do you buy it? Why? Why not?
3. Silver or golden tequila?
Bonus: Does money make the world go around?
1. Are you a person that falls in love easily?
Not really.
2. You see a piece of clothing (or other item of liking) you really like, but it's very expensive and it might destroy your budget planning, but you really really want it. Do you buy it? Why? Why not?
Oh God. If it's a jacket or a hat or a tie, yes. Anything else, no.
3. Silver or golden tequila?
Neither. I don't like alcohol.
Bonus: Does money make the world go around?
Oh yes.
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1. Define 'cynicism'
2. Muffins or cupcakes?
3. How long was your hair at it's longest?
1. Define 'cynicism'
moral pessimism with an edge
2. Muffins or cupcakes?
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those look fine
3. How long was your hair at it's longest?
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in relative terms one of those should fit the bill
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1. What are the climate change predictions for your area?
2. How much do you drink on average per day (not limited to alcohol)?
3. What's your weight (mass for those in a different field of gravity than normal on Earth)?
Cute little serious-faced kid.
1. What are the climate change predictions for your area?
Since I'm near Washington D.C. the climate is expected to be extremely hot and windy over the next couple of years, then cooling slightly after the presidential elections, but only temporarily.
2. How much do you drink on average per day (not limited to alcohol)?
Small glass of juice, two cups of coffee,tall glass of water with lunch, and again at dinner sometimes followed by a glass or two or three of wine. (Or four.) Actually, I need to drink more water.
3. What's your weight (mass for those in a different field of gravity than normal on Earth)?
Oho, now I see why the answering stopped cold here! ...but I'll come clean, I've averaged near 150 ever since I had my daughter. Luckily, I'm seven feet tall. Nope, I'm 5'6", but my doc says I'm still in the healthy weight range, here in the U.S. where everyone weighs 500 pounds because we all eat too much McDonalds and Entenmann's danishes.
I've been thinking about this lately, how some Europeans dis us for being rather large, but we are big, muttley people here. We have few diminuative French folk (except around New Orleans). We're mixed bags of Viking titans and rock solid Native Americans and Mexicans and Africans and Asians and Mediterrainians and little green men from Mars who stop by every so often to impregnate us. (Those Martian genes can't handle our cooking, here, I'll tell you.) So I wish they'd lay off. We're not purebreds like them.
But I digress...
1) Do you believe that The Great Everything (a.k.a. God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Brahma, The Goddess, Jahweh, what-have-you) only exists on Earth and not in Outer Space? (Thus the little green men food intolerance factor? :mrgreen: )
2) Can you be happy in your body just as it is?
3) Have you ever been invisible?
Bonus: Can you think of a bonus question?
2) What is this "2" doing here?
In one of those shots you look my little Dutch cousin. ;D
1) Do you believe that The Great Everything (a.k.a. God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Brahma, The Goddess, Jahweh, what-have-you) only exists on Earth and not in Outer Space? (Thus the little green men food intolerance factor? Mr Green )
No
2) Can you be happy in your body just as it is?
For the rest of my life, yes. But I would prefer the route of self-improvement.
3) Have you ever been invisible?
Actually invisible? No. But unnoticed, yes.
Bonus: Can you think of a bonus question?
What is your favorite color?
2) What is this "2" doing here?
Not sure.
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1. If the Dalai Lama came to your area, would you go see him?
2. Favorite pattern?
3. What is your favorite color?
1. If the Dalai Lama came to your area, would you go see him?
If I can afford it. He was recently here for a short state visit (annoying the Chinese) but had no public appearances.
2. Favorite pattern?
Difficult. I love celtic ornaments and the colors (dark) blue and green but the ornaments are better in b/w or metal.
I love strict (but not boring) geometry
3. What is your favorite color?
Niniveh? European or African? Aaaaaaarggh! ;)
Actually dark blue (cobalt or with a hint of green)
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1. If you were to award the Peace Nobel, who would be on your short list?
2. Same for literature
3. Should a posthumous Nobel be possible*?
Bonus Question: Should the Dalai Lama become General Secretary of the UN? :daz:
*In order to avoid noone receiving one while alive anymore (because all would go to Newton etc.), let's limit that to achievements past 1900.
1. If you were to award the Peace Nobel, who would be on your short list?
Ben and Jerry (yes, the ice cream guys), Molly Ivins (posthumous, so yes to the #3 question), Barbara Ehrenreich and the protesting Monks in Burma.
2. Same for literature
Kurt Vonnegut*, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson*, Tom Robbins, Neil Gamian, maybe T.C. Boyle and Harlan Ellison--and a good deal of Stephen King. (King has committed the cardinal sin of being both good and very popular...not a Nobelish thing to do.)
*denotes dead guy, also part of answer to #1.
3. Should a posthumous Nobel be possible*? Yes, see nominee in #1, and those in #2 as well
Bonus Question: Should the Dalai Lama become General Secretary of the UN?
I dunno...
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1. What color is your winter coat?
2. Do you wear a hat and gloves when it's cold?
3. Will you get (or have you gotten) a flu shot?
1. What color is your winter coat?
Mostly blue with a little grey and white.
2. Do you wear a hat and gloves when it's cold?
Yes. Especially in Quebec.*
*Chatty: even without having been to Texas, I can tell you that Quebec cold is to regular cold what Texas hot is to regular hot. Quebec cold (or Alberta cold - nod to Aggie) is "my nose hairs are frozen and I can't feel my face, but I'm not noticing because it hurts my lungs too much to breathe" cold.
3. Will you get (or have you gotten) a flu shot?
Haven't got it yet, but I'm planning to get one.
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1. What piece of parental advice do you wish you had paid more attention to when it was given?
2. An anonymous benefactor will pay up to $100,000 for a new car (only one) for you. Ignoring differences in maintenance, insurance & upkeep costs, what do you get and why?
3. What author or written work do you think should be a "classic" that isn't normally considered so now?
Bonus question: how do you solve a problem like Maria?
1. What piece of parental advice do you wish you had paid more attention to when it was given?
None. I wish I paid less attention to all of it.
2. An anonymous benefactor will pay up to $100,000 for a new car (only one) for you. Ignoring differences in maintenance, insurance & upkeep costs, what do you get and why?
MERCEDES-BENZ C300 Sport 2008
Why? No idea really. Just always wanted a Merc and a sports. It's well within the budget so I could throw it away and try another similar class car from another manufacturer - maybe even another two - so I'd have ongoing novelty factor.
3. What author or written work do you think should be a "classic" that isn't normally considered so now?
Margaret Forster. Sheer brilliance of observation of humans - the Pinter of the Novel.
Bonus question: how do you solve a problem like Maria?
By switching the TV off.
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1. Where would you like to see a World Summit and why?
2. Would you refuse to go into care if you became unable to care for yourself and had no carer, and if so why would you refuse and how would you cope (with no money).
3. Where do you sing or hum?
1. Where would you like to see a World Summit and why?
Not sure. Try someplace poor in the Carribean.
2. Would you refuse to go into care if you became unable to care for yourself and had no carer, and if so why would you refuse and how would you cope (with no money).
Hell yes. If my mind's going (it may at that point--alzhemier's runs in the family) I'll kill myself first.
Coping? Dunno. Good question.
3. Where do you sing or hum?
On my back the cafe I lurk in when not in class.
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1. Do you plan to post pictures of your Halloween costume?
2. What were you?
3. Are you already planning for next year?
1. Do you plan to post pictures of your Halloween costume?
Oh, I all ready have.
2. What were you?
I was me- the weirdest thing I can think of!
3. Are you already planning for next year?
Yes, I'm planning to be me again.
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1) What smell do you find to be the most objectionable?
2) What is your favorite part of November?
3) Chewy, crunchy or creamy?
1) What smell do you find to be the most objectionable?
Black mold (presumably Aspergillus niger). I enjoy many pungent smells (durian, hot garbage with diesel fumes, chocolate lily [Fritillaria sp.]), but mold smell makes me retch.
2) What is your favorite part of November?
Remembrance Day, especially on a Friday or Monday. ;)
Otherwise, November is my least favorite month.
3) Chewy, crunchy or creamy?
All three together, especially in chocolate bars. ;)
Slight edge to crunchy overall and creamy/soft for fruit.
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1) What is your favorite month?
2) What makes a month 'good' to you - weather and activities, or holidays and happenings?
3) Are you looking forward to any upcoming years in particular? Which year(s)?
1) What is your favorite month?
April
2) What makes a month 'good' to you - weather and activities, or holidays and happenings?
Weather.
3) Are you looking forward to any upcoming years in particular? Which year(s)?
Mmm, 2009. I move out.
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1. Muffins or scones?
2. Have you ever had a nazook?
3. Dreds or bald--which is better?
1. Muffins or scones?
muffins--- warm from the oven
2. Have you ever had a nazook?
never had it- had to google to find out it is a type of pastry- must try and find some or try and make some- I'm a carb-aholic- sounds delish
3. Dreds or bald--which is better?
depends on the person
Bob Marley--- what else but dreds
Patrick Stewart-- what else but bald
bald guys are sexy overall- but so are guys with lots of hair (think 80's bands)-- so I just like boys
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1. Which one place could you live in for the rest of your life- city, area, etc-- money is no object.
2. Who was your best friend growing up?
3. Do you still know that childhood friend- do you keep up?
1. Which one place could you live in for the rest of your life- city, area, etc-- money is no object.
Ahhh, Santa Barbara, CA. If only I could just buy the old monastery there and live out my days with you guys on the lovely landcsape between the steep mountains and the sea. I can see us pulling chairs out onto the stone patios and chatting until the wee hours.
2. Who was your best friend growing up?
Her name was Jeanne. She was from Monatana and just sorta showed up beside me one day in art class. She was an outsider, shy and funny. We loved being different from everyone else and often decided to do projects together quite independently from what the school had in mind. Once we got sick of seeing a very long empty bulletin board in one of the halls, so we skipped class and helped ourselves to the art supplies, making a display by dipping our hands in paint and creating flowers from open-hand prints and buds in various stages of opening from our fists. Luckily, our art teacher was an odd person himself, and claimed to have given us permission when we were called on it.
3. Do you still know that childhood friend- do you keep up?
Alas, she died of breast cancer around eight years ago. But I think of her often. I was just talking to her the other day in my mind (it being Samhain and all) and remembering our antics and thanking her for being such a great friend.
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1) Do you think that maybe we can still communicate with our deceased friends?
2) Do you ever give "mental hugs"?
3) I've just given you a mental hug. Did you receieve it?
1) Do you think that maybe we can still communicate with our deceased friends?
I think that in a very real way we can- not so much that they are involved in the giving back- it's more of a oneway thing- but I do think that love lives on and when we remember loved ones who have died and keep them alive within up then -- yes we are communicating with them. As long as we remember someone and pass them along then they never really go away. I also see it as communicating with the larger whole of humanity- death is something that visits us all and all cultures have a form of 'dealing with' death- I prefer to attempt to do it in a positive and meaningful manner.
2) Do you ever give "mental hugs"?
Oh yes- I'm always sending out 'vibes' - thinking of you sort of things- really concentrating on someone.
3) I've just given you a mental hug. Did you receieve it?
I think so-- so nice to know that we care about and think about each other.
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1) do you believe that inside of each living person is a separate thing that is very often termed a soul? I'm not necessarily talking in a Christianity sense either- of course that might be your thoughts-and I'm always interested in all views- but other ways of thinking about soul as well as a separate thing.
2) Have you read Steven Kings Dark Tower Series? Thoughts on it?
3) Why are we (not all of us-but many) facinated with people like Brittney, Paris, Michael Jackson etc?
1) do you believe that inside of each living person is a separate thing that is very often termed a soul? I'm not necessarily talking in a Christianity sense either- of course that might be your thoughts-and I'm always interested in all views- but other ways of thinking about soul as well as a separate thing.
I believe that there may be something to it although it is hard to tell what exactly. I've read a bit on the subject of re-incarnation and there seem to be some reason to believe that there might be something else after death, as if some of our experiences and even emotions were able to subsist after we die. Still, if you believe that argument it is very hard to say if the person/soul that recalls* such events is the same that experienced them.
2) Have you read Steven Kings Dark Tower Series? Thoughts on it?
Nope, sorry, you'll have to ask someone else. :-[
3) Why are we (not all of us-but many) facinated with people like Brittney, Paris, Michael Jackson etc?
I think it is a bit of us internally wishing at times the same attention, a bit of "perhaps my situations isn't bad after all", and a bit of schadenfreude. Besides we humans have always liked the circus freak-show; the mixture of our natural curiosity and morbid feelings.
*under hypnoses; some cases are genuinely intriguing. This is a very interesting subject with lots of angles, from the medical, psychological and religious fronts that may merit its own thread. Personally I like some Buddhist thoughts on the subject.
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1. What do you tell yourself when you don't want to get up from bed but you have to?
2. Have you been in a situation in which there is loud music you don't like but you have to stay? How do you deal with that?
3. Have you eaten live (ie, it is still alive) food? If not are you willing to try?
Bonus question: See the picture above, it is a bio-degradable coffin. What do you think about it? Would you consider using one?
1. What do you tell yourself when you don't want to get up from bed but you have to?
"Coffee awaits!"
2. Have you been in a situation in which there is loud music you don't like but you have to stay? How do you deal with that?
By getting as far away from the sound as possible and starting a loud conversation with someone else.
3. Have you eaten live (ie, it is still alive) food? If not are you willing to try?
Bean sprouts are still alive when you eat them. So are yogurt cultures. I love both of those foods. I don't think I'd eat a living animal though. Sounds like unhappy mojo.
Bonus question: See the picture above, it is a bio-degradable coffin. What do you think about it? Would you consider using one?
Oh yes, indeed. I would consider it an honor if it was floated down a river and lit on fire as it sailed off. (I would not allow my spouse to be in it with me, though, unless he was all ready deceased as well. And wearing an "I'm with Stupid" tee shirt! ;D)
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1) Do you often rely on your instincts in times of uncertainty?
2) Do you believe that The Great Everything respects a sense of humor?
3) Do you think that greater spirituality might relive suffering?
BONUS QUESTION: Do you think that okra may not have originated on this planet?
1) Do you often rely on your instincts in times of uncertainty?
2) Do you believe that The Great Everything respects a sense of humor?
3) Do you think that greater spirituality might relive suffering?
BONUS QUESTION: Do you think that okra may not have originated on this planet?
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Yes, yes, yes and yes.
(Yes three on the assumption that you meant relieve instead of relive. Reasoning? A lot of our suffering in present day isn't physical, it's emotional, based on the "WHY ME" school of thought. The proper answer is, of course, "Why NOT you?" Why should others suffer, but NOT you? Are you so much a finer human being that you get a free pass on all unpleasantness? Ya think so?? Hmmph. The Universe does not play favorites, sometimes shit just happens...)
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1. What 'little luxury' would you most hate to give up?
2. How do you differentiate between a luxury and a necessity?
3. Do you like cinnamon in your hot chocolate drinks?
Bonus: Would you ever consider cosmetic surgery?
Op, you sound just like me in the morning.
Kana's first thought: "ugghh...sleep...."
Second thought: "I smell Kenyan coffee....mm...delishious...."
1. What 'little luxury' would you most hate to give up?
The internet or my cell.
2. How do you differentiate between a luxury and a necessity?
Will I die without it? No? Ok, it's a luxury.
3. Do you like cinnamon in your hot chocolate drinks?
Mmm, generally no.
Bonus: Would you ever consider cosmetic surgery?
Meeeybe. If I was in a horrible accident and broke mirrors by walking past them. Or if I was unhappy with it.
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1. What is the BEST prank you've ever pulled?
2. Meanest thing you ever said?
3. Person you despise the most?
1. What is the BEST prank you've ever pulled?
Put a Volkswagon Beetle on the platform of the auditorium/chapel at the little Baptist college I attended. I conned the football team into carrying it down the aisles and putting it up on the stage. I had a building key because I was a music practice room 'monitor' and had to lock up after the last practice hours were over. (Practice rooms in the attic and basement.)
However, others consider the diaper on Dougie my piece de resistance. See the statue in front of this building??
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In 1973, I put a diaper on him that was sewn on very securely, and had to be cut off...
Prior to that I was mostly involved in the sudsing of various fountains, and a bit of 'street theatre' involving impromptu synchronized sudswimming at those fountains.
2. Meanest thing you ever said?
I repeated back to my Mother exactly what she said to me after my sister died. "We always said we had a girl for Daddy and a girl for me. My girl is gone. I don't have a daughter anymore. I will never have a daughter again." And then when she denied it (for YEARS) and denied it vehemently, even when I didn't bring it up, I finally called her two best friends, who were there with her and heard her say it, and they BOTH gave her the EXACT same quote, just as she'd said it to me.
A 'kind" person would have let her continue to think that she'd never crushed me...but then a kind mother wouldn't have continued doing so on a regular basis.
3. Person you despise the most?
Dick Cheney.
Nuff said.
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1. Do you think the American economy will fail badly enough to cause a world-wide economic crisis?
2. Do you support the actian of the French government in prosecuting Donald Rumsfeld for his criminal actions while in charge of the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
3. Do you think the US will ever have enough common sense (or balls) to apologize to the rest of the world for the debacle we're causing?
1. Do you think the American economy will fail badly enough to cause a world-wide economic crisis?
Depends heavily on East Asia I think. If they say that enough is enough one day and drop the dollar, there will be.
A simple internal implosion might be controllable as long as the US does not actively try to pull eveyone down with them.
Iran and the US economy will be possibly a hen and egg question.
2. Do you support the actian of the French government in prosecuting Donald Rumsfeld for his criminal actions while in charge of the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
They should not have let him escape.
3. Do you think the US will ever have enough common sense (or balls) to apologize to the rest of the world for the debacle we're causing?
Let's put it this way: Any official apology will cause an internal firestorm, so it would be pretty meaningless because it will not be seen as coming from the whole US but only from a modrate minority.
It is (slightly) more likely that a future administration will try to do good or try to mend the damage but without talking much about it in public.
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1. Should politicians have iron principles?
2. Your bet on the GOP primaries?
3. What are your (world) political predictions for 2008?
Bonus: Should death by rogue elephants be considered for crimes against humanity ;)?
1. Should politicians have iron principles?
Principles, yes. But common sense should take precedence.
2. Your bet on the GOP primaries? or
I WANT Ron Paul, going to expect Guliani (:vomit:)
3. What are your (world) political predictions for 2008?
either a pull out of Iraq or a bombing of all nuclear facilities in Iran.
Bonus: Should death by rogue elephants be considered for crimes against humanity Wink?
Meeeybe.
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1. Is violence a part of your nature?
2. Worst injury?
3. What is the center of your life?
1. Do you think the American economy will fail badly enough to cause a world-wide economic crisis?
Hard to say. It has been working out of internal consumption and credit at a rate deemed 'not sustainable', nevertheless continuing its general performance. Interestingly enough previous crisis apparently have diversified the economy in a way that makes harder to crash the whole system (just for reference check the current price of the barrel of oil with the 70s). I fear more for the medium to long term effects of the housing/credit crisis; so far it seems that the economy has been able to weather the the situation but if the banks keep making to hard to borrow and real state prices continue to fall, we could be in a moderate to big crisis in one to five years (depending of the rate of the decline).
2. Do you support the action of the French government in prosecuting Donald Rumsfeld for his criminal actions while in charge of the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
I think that while it may have little real consequences (Rummy not being able to travel outside the US) it is a nice gesture, but with Sarkozy in power I don't think it will be long lived. :-\
3. Do you think the US will ever have enough common sense (or balls) to apologize to the rest of the world for the debacle we're causing?
Not in the foreseeable future. The current doctrine of intervention will not be changing any time soon, and how can you apologize when you want to justify doing the same sh!t over and over again?
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Darn, now more questions:
1. Should politicians have iron principles?
I'm not sure, in one hand the incumbent in the US (and his cronies) are supposedly faithful to the neo-con principles and look the results. A fundie is a fundie no matter if the basic principles seem Ok at first glance. On the other, how long until they change iron principles for iron fist? ;)
2. Your bet on the GOP primaries?
9-11 Giuliani, Thompson or Romney... let the devil choose!
3. What are your (world) political predictions for 2008?
A mixture of election fraud (like the US among others), constitutional changes to remain in power (Venezuela, Colombia, Pakistan) and canceled elections (Pakistan) seem to be the trend now. It's starting to look very bleak for democracy right now.
Bonus: Should death by rogue elephants be considered for crimes against humanity ;)?
That would violate the rights of the elephants! :mrgreen:
Nope, the better choice is to send them (with most politicians) to Mars. It would be great for science and technically isn't a death penalty (they *may* survive, if nothing fails, the decalcification doesn't break their bones as soon as their arrive to Mars and they don't kill each other on transit or on the surface).
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Again..?!?!?
1. Is violence a part of your nature?
Very deep inside and I have been successful keeping it that way.
2. Worst injury?
One of my front tooth while I was on Elementary School. A very stupid tale that had it happen in the States would have merit a lawsuit.
3. What is the center of your life?
ME!!! (ooops, did I say that outloud?) ;)
My son.
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1. You have rice, frozen veggies, chicken breasts and ground beef. What would you cook?
2. You can go back in time and learn an instrument. Which one?
3. Is there a building in particular that you like/admire?
1. You have rice, frozen veggies, chicken breasts and ground beef. What would you cook?
rice and veggies-- with some chicken on the side for whomever wants to eat with me
2. You can go back in time and learn an instrument. Which one?
the Harp--- hey I think I'd look great with a Harp, ot the Spinnett(spelling?)
3. Is there a building in particular that you like/admire?
yes-- many
what came to mind first is Falling Water-- it's a house built over a waterfall that mimics nature. Frank Lloyd Wright-- it's in PA.
let's see-- Sydney Opera House
just poking around New Orleans-- some very interesting stuff
my home- plain-ordinary- but MINE
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1)Where do you want to be in 5 years time?
2) Do you think we - humans- should try and colonize 'space'?
3) When all the water at the poles melts- can I come and live with you?
bonus: if you live 'lower' than me- you can come stay with me-
1)Where do you want to be in 5 years time?
ALIVE!!
Here, but with the house fixed and a functional kitchen.
2) Do you think we - humans- should try and colonize 'space'?
Not yet. Why should we go trash somewhere else until we can learn to take care of what we have??? We CAN do better, but GREED is the problem.
3) When all the water at the poles melts- can I come and live with you?
Sure!! We're projected to be close to the beach about that time...We can head to your house if there's a hurricane!!
bonus: if you live 'lower' than me- you can come stay with me-
I figure we can take up a rotational residential situation until the Monastery's ready.
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1. Do you have any allergies?
2. Are rising numbers of allergy sufferers caused by environmental factors?
3. Have you heard about the "green" movement taking place among some US Evangelicals?
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/05/23/evangelical-environment-republicans-business-cx_0524oxford.html
Do you see this as a positive thing?
1. Do you have any allergies?
Very mild asthma. Penicillin.
2. Are rising numbers of allergy sufferers caused by environmental factors?
My best guess is that some are, e.g. particles from diesel in city centres. I think women aren't supposed to eat peanuts when pregnant these days either.
Others may be due to an inadequate or misdirected development of the immune system in young children due to being raised in an excessively clean environment. Don't think the experts have made up their minds yet. The suspicion is that the immune system "gets bored" and, if there are no bacteria/viruses to fight, wastes its time creating unnecessary antibodies to second-level "threats". Because of the timescales involved and the huge numbers of possible factors I don't think anyone really knows.
3. Have you heard about the "green" movement taking place among some US Evangelicals?
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/05/23/evangelical-environment-republicans-business-cx_0524oxford.html
No. Doesn't particularly surprise me though. Green isn't necessarily un-Conservative or un-religious over here.
Do you see this as a positive thing?
I suppose so. The consequences are a bit hard to determine. If they're rational greens then it sounds promising. On the other hand if the plan is to annexe the Middle-East or Africa in order to rebuild the Garden of Eden then I predict ructions.
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1 President Musharraf - good or bad for Pakistan?
2 Benazir Bhutto - same question
3 Why have India and Pakistan had such different outcomes since independence?
1 President Musharraf - good or bad for Pakistan?
A fewking disaster. To some extent the fact that he's still there is a result of King Georges attempt at 'Foreign Policy' by personal relationships between 'monarchs'. He's about to make the fatal mistake of oppressing the brothers and families of the army officers who's support he depends on. Then family will trump and he'll be out on his ear. That won't help Pakistan much, though; like America it's been too much damaged by it's current government to recover soon.
2 Benazir Bhutto - same question
Possibly Pakistan's only hope for eventual recovery (in a generation or so); otherwise it's civil war/religious wars, and the Balkans all over again. Unless someone gets real stupid and threatens India with Nukes - Then they'll be a sea of glass.
3 Why have India and Pakistan had such different outcomes since independence?
Both are fundamentalist religious, but at least India's is a 'wisdom' religion, not a patriarchal oppression religion. The other critical factor in Pakistan is the Army's effective take over of Commercial and Industrial power, separate from it's military role. That's not only allowed, it's driven, frequent military coups.
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1) Will King George succeed in bombing Iran before he's indicted for war crimes?
2) Will Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld stand trial, eventually?
3) How can we help it happen?
Bonus Question. Can you tell I'm pissed today? :dontknow:
Not a full response, only question three.
Nag the living hell out of Congress, and especially about HR 333, the Cheney Impeachment. (And tell Pelosi to shut the hell up SHE isn't the American people, and if she can't represent what we want, she needs to go home.)
If we expect the US to survive, if there is EVER to be an actual democratic republic instead of a Dominionist theocracy or a facist luanticocracy or whatever the fuck these bastards are trying to do, the government has GOT to be gotten under control. The suspicion that Blackwater is in place to protect the unholy spawn of the NeoCons smells of a coup, an internal revolution wresting the country away from anyone but the Bushista Imperial Presidency.
Cheney's the place to start. Those of us old enough to remember the Nixon Imperial Presidency might recall a young Richard Cheney...one of the architects of that debacle. He moved on along the inside corridors of power, was a Bush I player in the Reagan Era...always concerned with unifying power under the Administrative Branch.
He's almost there. This isn't conspiracy theory crap. It's a pattern. Corporatocracy. Which is Facism. Cheney's goal.
Halliburton's already offshored. Their blood money is rolling in, and they'll not be paying taxes on it.
Greed. Which is NOT good. Never has been. Never will be.
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Can you tell I'm pissed, politically and perpetually? :nono:
The cycle has once again gone political... I think it's time to change that, in order not to get angry around here... New questions to save the day:
1. Which super hero would you like to meet? Why?
2. If you had one question to ask him, what would it be?
3. If you could obtain any piece of art (I mean any, so also those who are in different museums, too expensive etc...), which would it be?
Bonus: What would you like me to ask you?
1. Which super hero would you like to meet? Why?
The Hulk, actually I think Lou Ferrigno is still smokin hot! especially his 'older' version, like when he did the episodes of "The King of Queens" on TV. mmmmmm Lou, sorry
2. If you had one question to ask him, what would it be?
Not sure--- maybe What his views are about how the world has changed in its view of the deaf/hard of hearing community since he began his career as a body-builder and then into acting.
3. If you could obtain any piece of art (I mean any, so also those who are in different museums, too expensive etc...), which would it be?
Starry Night by Van Gogh--- I've always loved it- and then found out that Van Gogh was a fellow tinnitus person and it suddenly made sense and all the more special.
Bonus: What would you like me to ask you?
Surprise me.
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What was your favorite thing to do as a child? Play outside, play inside, favorite toys, etc.
What did you really, seriously want to be when you grew up?
If you could invite 5 people to dinner- who and why?
What was your favorite thing to do as a child? Play outside, play inside, favorite toys, etc.
Play inside with technical toys like Meccano etc mostly, but also spent ages running around outside with a collie dog.
What did you really, seriously want to be when you grew up?
A physicist, but I though it was more Dr Who than it really was. Soon shifted into computing.
If you could invite 5 people to dinner- who and why?
(I'm using a certain amount of licence here).
Winston Churchill - One of very few politicians of any time period I admire. Witty guest as well.
Alan Turing - Computer/logic genius and eccentric. For predictions.
Livia Drusilla - Wife of Augustus and possibly power behind the throne. To find out if she did the things attributed to her.
Judge Sir John Powell - English judge and rationalist. At one of the last witch trials in England his "It is not illegal to fly" comment about a "witch" allegedly seen flying on a broomstick effectively marked the end of the Middle Ages. To find out how a rationalist coped with the mood of the times.
Mae West - Because she sounds fun.
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1 Favourite tree?
2 Favourite breed of dog?
3 Favourite commandment to break?
1 Favourite tree?
Valley oaks. Oaks in general, too though.
2 Favourite breed of dog?
I like herding dogs. I have a border collie/aussie mix and he's the sweetest. I want an Alano, 'coz of my family history. --->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alano_Espa%C3%B1ol
3 Favourite commandment to break?
I regularly break the one about the name in vain.
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1. What is your favorite seasonal dish?
2. What is your favorite color?
3. What is the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
1. What is your favorite seasonal dish?
Few things are seasonal anymore these days. I just had very good strawberries (if that counts as dish)
2. What is your favorite color?
dark blue with a hint of green
3. What is the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Depends on whether it runs on lead or not
If it were a duck, I'd say Quack 1
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1. Would (absent that asteroid strike) dinosaurs be the humans of today?
2. What would society look like, if there were 3 (biological) sexes instead of the standard 2 we enjoy(?) ?
3. Is there a general market for animal-on-animal prawn*?
Bonus Question: Is this the absurd question thread bleeding into this?
*some zoos actually use that to encourage rare animals to mate and procreate
1. Would (absent that asteroid strike) dinosaurs be the humans of today?
I actually wonder if a civilization existed 65My would it leave anything left behind? The troodon already had circumvolutions in his brain, and interestingly, the latest findings suggest that the dinosaurs actually survived the asteroid hit for at least 1 or 2 My. Perhaps a dino species was smart enough to create a civilization and destroy it. How can we know?
2. What would society look like, if there were 3 (biological) sexes instead of the standard 2 we enjoy(?) ?
Erm... long hair, short hair and bald?
3. Is there a general market for animal-on-animal prawn?
Apparently you haven't seen the discovery/national geographic channels... ;) :mrgreen:
Bonus Question: Is this the absurd question thread bleeding into this?
Absurd? Where? Why? That's absurd!
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
1. How long until we can have dinosaurs as pets?
2. Is it possible to have decent dietetic food?
3. If you could have a famous sculpture in your house which would it be?
1. How long until we can have dinosaurs as pets?
People have all kinda lizardy and toadlike critters as pets already...Get to cloning. If you make it, some nutburger will buy it.
2. Is it possible to have decent dietetic food?
Depends on the type of dietetic. Are you cutting sugar, carbs, fats, what?? Most diet foods end up being heavy in chemicals, salt and non-food. You'd be better off with an attempt to eat NO premade, prepackaged garbage, just fresh, whole foods from local sources.
3. If you could have a famous sculpture in your house which would it be?
Magritte's Madame Recamier de David-1951
(http://www.akkuaria.com/magritte/imm/image029.jpg)
I doubt the Menil in Houston would let me have it, though... (Yes, I have a sick and twisted sense of humor.)
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1. What do you want for End of Year Festive Gift Giving Holiday??
2. What's your favorite tradition associated with said Holiday?
3. What's your favorite SONG associated with it?
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BONUS!! Did I declare War on Christmas?? :mrgreen:
1. What do you want for End of Year Festive Gift Giving Holiday??
A GPS Navigator
2. What's your favorite tradition associated with said Holiday?
Big turkey dinner with cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, carrots, sweet potato & parsnips and green beans followed by Plum pudding with brandy sauce, King Island cream (http://www.kidairy.com.au/Products.aspx?category=7) and all washed down with some fine sparkling Durif (http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/archives/2004_03/wine_story1.shtml) then have some mince tarts, chocolates and more Durif. Lay around feeling bloated, finish off playing silly card game Skip-Bo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIP-BO)
3. What's your favorite SONG associated with it?
Aussie Jingle Bells
Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
Esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It's Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs
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Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
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Engine's getting hot;
we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard,
he is welcome too.
All the family's there,
sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.
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Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
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Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes 'round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.
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Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
English translation for selected terms:
Holden - Holden is the Australian branch of General Motors
ute - short for utility, a pick-up vehicle based on a normal family sedan
Esky - a brand of insulated cooler used for keeping drinks (mainly beer) cold, the name is universal regardless of actual brand
Kelpie - a breed of Australian cattle dog
thongs - NOT underwear, actually a type of footwear consisting of a sole and a strap attached to the sides and to a piece that fits between the big and second toe.
swaggie - short for swagman, men who carried their possession on their back during the Great Depression who wondered about the country on foot looking for work or trying to avoid it, depending on your POV
shoot through - go
BONUS!! Did I declare War on Christmas??
Yes. RETURN FIRE!!! :yar:
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1. What is the silliest thing you have ever done at <enter holiday festival of your choice here>?
2. Is gift giving at this time of year: A) a crass commercial exploitation of the gullible public; or, B) shut up and give me my pressies now!
3. What is the funniest/least appropriate present you have ever received?
Bonus question: Would you like an egg-nog?
1. What is the silliest thing you have ever done at <enter holiday festival of your choice here>?
Probably just saying something stupid.
2. Is gift giving at this time of year: A) a crass commercial exploitation of the gullible public; or, B) shut up and give me my pressies now!
:smirk: B! B! OMG, B!
3. What is the funniest/least appropriate present you have ever received?
A Moses action figure. I <3'd him. And then he was stolen from me. :'(
Bonus question: Would you like an egg-nog?
Yesh! A non-alcholic one, plz.
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1. What should the next pope be named?
2. Where will the investigations of Olmert lead to?
3. What is the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
Bonus: What does the recent posthumous award to Koval mean for relations between the US and Russia? (http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3155089.ece)
Pope Ultimus of course ;)
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I did #3 already above and have nothing to say on Bonus.
No good questions coming to mind either.
I owe you one, Swato, as you came up with a Name That Movie for me when I ran out of ideas.
1) Do you bite your nails? If so, when?
2) Do you like snow? Alot of snow?
3) Would you join Chatty's Anti-Christmas Army?
BONUS QUESTION: Eggnog frogurt: Is it Absolutely Necessary?
PS: Loved Bluenose's Aussie jingle Bells!
1) Do you bite your nails? If so, when?
Ayup, when they need trimming. Strictly for grooming purposes, not a nervous habit (that's what lips and writing utensils are for).
2) Do you like snow? Alot of snow?
Yes-yes. But it should stay on the ground consistently for a period of 3-4 months, not intermittently for 8-9.
3) Would you join Chatty's Anti-Christmas Army?
Could offer mercenary artillery services if needed, but maybe I'm already joined in. We are going very anti-gift this year 'cause we all spent it already this year.
BONUS QUESTION: Eggnog frogurt: Is it Absolutely Necessary?
No, but if they can put the rum straight into the frogurt it's could become Reasonably Necessary.
1) Give one easily achievable way to take a little of the commercial out of Christmas.
2) Do you prefer to receive one large and exciting present or a whole bunch of little ones (in terms of size, $ value AND excitement factor).
3) Does it make sense to avoid buying items on Buy Nothing Day, if you plan on buying them later anyways?
Bonus: Choice of holiday tree: Artificial, real (cut) or alternative (live tree, decorating existing houseplant, non-tree alternative)?
1) Give one easily achievable way to take a little of the commercial out of Christmas.
Spend as little money as possible on gifts. Give things you've made or baked. Buy little unique things at thrift shops that give their profits to charities. Oops, that's more than one way. If nothing else: just light a special light to spread some cheer.
2) Do you prefer to receive one large and exciting present or a whole bunch of little ones (in terms of size, $ value AND excitement factor).
I prefer several little weird things all mysteriously wrapped up under my tree and I don't really care what they are. Big pricey things only embarrass me. I like little delights.
3) Does it make sense to avoid buying items on Buy Nothing Day, if you plan on buying them later anyways?
No.
Bonus: Choice of holiday tree: Artificial, real (cut) or alternative (live tree, decorating existing houseplant, non-tree alternative)?
We have done almost all of these things, but are currently doing the pre-lit artificial tree thing. We can put it up whenever we want, leave it up as long as we like, and then take it down and store it for next year. It is inexpensive and practical and I don't have to worry about taking an animal's home down by mistake or keeping a live tree cooped up inside for too long. Yes, I miss the smell. I come from a family that considers real Christmas trees sacred and am ribbed by them and called tacky, but I gotta do it my way. (Weirdly, none of them do trees at all any more. Just me!) To me the lights and symbolism are the most important thing, anyway.
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1) If you decorate for the winter holidays, when do you traditionally do it?
2) " " " " " " " " , do you do it alone, or with family and/or friends?
3) """""""""""""""""""""""""""", is it a quiet occasion, or do you play music?
Bonus question: Is there any other kind of nog beside egg nog, and if so- isn't it redundant to say egg nog?
1) If you decorate for the winter holidays, when do you traditionally do it?
Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving if using an artificial tree, otherwise, first weekend in December. But, I don't anymore, so--never.
2) " " " " " " " " , do you do it alone, or with family and/or friends?
Traditionally, with family, until they figured out that I would go ahead and do it even if nobody else would...then alone.
3) """""""""""""""""""""""""""", is it a quiet occasion, or do you play music?
I played Christmas music, but eventually gave that up, too.
(Christmas starts AFTER Thanksgiving. NOT in August, at the end of Back to School.)
Bonus question: Is there any other kind of nog beside egg nog, and if so- isn't it redundant to say egg nog?
The 'nog' is derived from the Middle English term noggin, used to describe a strong ale.
Read the History part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog
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1. Are there some specific meals/dishes that you associate with cold weather? If so, what are they?
2. Do you consider yourself a competent cook?
3. What is your favorite meal to prepare?
Bonus: Wanna come cook here? I'm tired of my lack-of-cooking... ;)
1. Are there some specific meals/dishes that you associate with cold weather? If so, what are they?
Soup, hot chocolate, and carajillo (hot black coffee with aguardiente or brandy).
2. Do you consider yourself a competent cook?
I consider myself a decent cook. I need to learn a lot more to be a competent cook.
3. What is your favorite meal to prepare?
What I like most and least is to make lasagna. I love it, but it takes me more than half a day to do it.
Bonus: Wanna come cook here? I'm tired of my lack-of-cooking...
I'll cook for you. Should I take my wok? ;)
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1. Books: history, fiction, science fiction or non fiction?
2. Is there a need for patriotism?
3. Have you heard medieval church music? Do you like it?
Are ren-fairs silly or fun?
1. Books: history, fiction, science fiction or non fiction?
I used to be such a fan of fiction and sci-fi, but for some reason I've been reading mostly non-fiction for the past few years.
2. Is there a need for patriotism?
Honestly, no- I don't think so. "My country right or wrong" is about the poorest, anti-active attitude I can imagine. For example: I love that I presumably have free speech here in the U.S., but since that freedom sometimes wavers (what the heck was that 'don't ask don't tell' carp?) I am not as proud of my country as I could be. We, as citizens of any country, as citizens of the world, need to know what is right and fair and if our leaders are not leading along those lines, then we need to find better leaders, not stand up for them just because they've been elected. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tend to equate patriotism with jingoism. Maybe we should stop standing up only for our country and start standing up for all of humankind. (I know, this attitude will probably get me killed some day.)
3. Have you heard medieval church music? Do you like it?
I am a huge fan of Praetorius, a 14th century Polish composer. A friend of mine gave a gorgeous cassette tape of his Christmas music played on authentic instruments and I've been looking for it ever since. (It is out of print.) I notice there's a newer version out by the Westminster Cathedral Choir http://www.amazon.com/Praetorius-Christmas-Westminster-Cathederal-Instruments/dp/B000002ZIZ
and i suppose I'd better snatch it up before it disappears.
Are ren-fairs silly or fun?
I'll let you in on a secret: I'm scared of ren fairs. I've never been to one. I am under the impression that they are full of the same kind of people that go to Star Trek fairs, and I've only been to one Star Trek fair, once long ago. The friend that went with me and I screamed all the way home.
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1) Which do you prefer: Thrift store or retail outlet? Why?
2) What's your favorite hot drink and under what conditions do you most like to drink it?
3) Can our attitude help the world?
Bonus: If frogurt could be made into a hot drink, would you try it?
1) Which do you prefer: Thrift store or retail outlet? Why?
Thrift Stores--- one can find the most amazing junk that people will actually use or like.
2) What's your favorite hot drink and under what conditions do you most like to drink it?
Hot chocolate---- when it is cold outside and I can snuggle in bed.
3) Can our attitude help the world?
Yes-
Bonus: If frogurt could be made into a hot drink, would you try it?
no I am hiding from Frogurt- I'll be under the table if you need me or have any hot chocolate to give me.
PS--- Griffin gets the hug of the day :hug:
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1) How would you define your best meal ever
2) Where's Waldo (see toadfish illum thread)
3) What do you think about the 100 Mile Diet
Frogurt should not be green-- really frightening. What flavor is green frogurt anyway?
Quote from: anthrobabe on November 16, 2007, 07:37:53 PM
What flavor is green frogurt anyway?
It could be kiwi or a wonderful tropical fruit called feijoa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoa).
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Carry on
OK, back to the list... (And green frogurt is frog flavored...if frogs taste anything like Key Lime Pie--which is yellow, BTW.)
1) How would you define your best meal ever
Best ever? In early June, 2001, when the NG tube came out and I was able to drink water and not have a problem, and all the testing was OK, I had the most wonderful roast beast and Swiss cheese on garlic toast and a glass of apple juice. (17 days of trying to see if my stomach was going to be difficult, and giving it time to recover--no food, no water, NOTHING by mouth for 17 days. they wanted me to start with broth, I wanted me to start with food. I managed 3 bites. It was wonderful.)
Most delightful food--that's different.
There are two...
One is turtle soup (or Soup 111, a tiny serving of turtle soup, crab and corn bisque and french onion soup), trout in pecan sauce, cajun new potatoes, green beans amandine and either pecan pie or bread pudding at Commander's Palace in New Orleans (Or Brennan's in Houston--same part of the Brennan's family.)
OR, the special meal that our waiter at the Blue Room at the Fairmont in New Orleans used to get for me. Shrimp and Crab Remoulade (You could order one or the other, but he'd get me a small crab serving and add several shrimp to it), vichisoisse (what Texans call 'cold tater soup') and make me a Caesar salad, even though it wasn't on the menu. Then, because I had done triple appetizers already, he'd get me one lamb chop and tiny servings of their exquisite puffed potatoes and one of their vegetables. He also chose my desserts for me from the selection available in the kitchens--not just what was an the Blue Room menu, but from anything on any Fairmont menu or any party menu that night. Yeah, I got REALLY spoiled...
2) Where's Waldo (see toadfish illum thread)
Waldo's probably taking a nap...
3) What do you think about the 100 Mile Diet
Great idea. We try, to some extent (as we can afford to, anyway) to eat locally, but there are limitations. I would imagine that there are places where it would be difficult, though, since there's no agriculture for at least that distance...
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1. What's your favorite form of exercise?
2. What's your secret ambition?
3. Are you trying to accomplish it?
1. What's your favorite form of exercise?
Dancing, (if I could energy wise). Hate all other forms.
2. What's your secret ambition?
To write a novel and an autobiography.
3. Are you trying to accomplish it?
I stop and start both. Been stopped a while now as diverted energy to essays for Diploma. When I first got ill I organised myself with a digital recorder, voice software and the laptop to use in bed. The voice software is useless as I use too many words it's never heard me use before, despite reading Alice in Wonderland to program it. I think now I'd like to just record voice sound files and get someone else to type it up. But I haven't got that organised and won't while still working on the Diploma.
*** green frogurt is peppermint flavoured surely?
***** thanks for that hug, A, I did need it and it was lovely.
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1. How many times do you go back to check things?
2. What is a recurrent theme in your nightmares ?
3. Is Utopia a real place?
1. How many times do you go back to check things?
all the time. whether i have locked the car in particular. I am one of lifes worriers.
2. What is a recurrent theme in your nightmares ?
being worried
3. Is Utopia a real place?
yes it is....
Utopia, Northern Territory Australia
Utopia, Florida
Utopia, Queens, New York
Utopia, Ohio, a former anarchistic community
Utopia, Texas
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1) if you found yourself in Utopia who would you be most suprised to find there too?
2) Do you wear smart clothes for work?
3) If you could get rid of one 'fashion' (tattoos, piercings, platform shoes etc.) which would it be?
1) if you found yourself in Utopia who would you be most suprised to find there too?
My Aunt Jean. Although she lived there for years...she's passed on now, and she swore when she moved that she'd never mave back, dead or alive. 9Utopia, Texas is the home of the Kinky Friedman Rescue Ranch for Animals, as well.) As for the not-Texas kinda Utopia? Any politician of a date later than Sir Thomas more's.
2) Do you wear smart clothes for work?
Work? I generally stay in me jammies, 'cause I don't work. As to smart clothes...I'm built for comfort, not style.
3) If you could get rid of one 'fashion' (tattoos, piercings, platform shoes etc.) which would it be?
Tats. Sorry all the people with tats, but are you aware of the sad consequences of aging flesh on that lovely tat? ERK!!
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1. What domestic chore do you dislike the most?
2. Do you do your own laundry, or does someone else at home do it, or do you send it out?
3. How often do you eat out at a restaurant (not fast food or take away)?
1. What domestic chore do you dislike the most?
Cleaning the bathroom. I HATE HATE HATE doing that.
2. Do you do your own laundry, or does someone else at home do it, or do you send it out?
I do some laundry, and so does my mother. We don't send it out unless it needs to be dry-cleaned.
3. How often do you eat out at a restaurant (not fast food or take away)?
Not very often.
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1. How much would you pay for your favorite sweet?
2. Favorite author?
3. How big should the portion sizes at restaurants be?
1. How much would you pay for your favorite sweet?
Not much. I am of simple taste.
2. Favorite author?
Terry Pratchett is definitely very high on the list. Tolkien and Kipling also score high.
3. How big should the portion sizes at restaurants be?
So that the average customer is clearly satiated but not so much that many people have difficulty to eat up everything.
The trouble is usually with the drinking not the eating.
Chinese restaurants do a good job there with the rice being separate from the main dish, so customers can decide the mixture for themselves.
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1. How's the weather currently where you are?
2. When did you last visit a public aquarium and/or zoo?
3. Do you like stage music (opera/musical etc.) and of what kind?
Bonus: Does the frog hurt?
1. How's the weather currently where you are?
Not as hot as usual but I wouldn't mind if it gets cooler.
2. When did you last visit a public aquarium and/or zoo?
About 6 months or so, I think.
3. Do you like stage music (opera/musical etc.) and of what kind?
Opera. I despise the traditional Broadstreet musicals with very few exceptions. I confess I would like to see what Mel Brooks is doing, though.
Bonus: Does the frog hurt?
Only if it is blended into froghurt.
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1. Your thoughts about diamonds?
2. Would you drink a beer made with the ancient Egypt formula?
3. What pop music artist will survive the test of time?
Bonus (http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender).
1. Your thoughts about diamonds?
I dunno. I tend to like them-they're useful and pretty. But I do realize the need to beware of the history of any given diamond.
2. Would you drink a beer made with the ancient Egypt formula?
I'd try it.
3. What pop music artist will survive the test of time?
Any of it that reflects humanity. Feelings, ideas, etc. As well as anything purely, undeniably awesome. And I suspect anything techno-favored, since I think a lot of music will be synthesized.
Bonus:
I'm sorry, but that's not funny. Makes me a little sick to my stomach, actually.
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1. How well do you deal with blood/guts/gore that are caused by violence?
2. How do you feel about games/flashes like that [http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender]?
3. How long do you brew your tea?
Bonus: Do you like Doc Martens?
1. How well do you deal with blood/guts/gore that are caused by violence?
Not well in the abstract, in the real word? Like cleaning up crime/abuse victims or helping out in emergencies? I do quite well at that moment and then puke my guts up for 3 or 4 days afterward, unless I have more to deal with... Once the 'evidence' is collected, the cops are generally happy to allow the friends or family to take over...
Somebody has to. As to photos, videos? Can't even look at them.
(Sorry, but when you've waited until the crime lab people are through and then scraped the brains of your friend off the walls...reality is bearable, because it keeps the family from having to do it. To them, it's so much morse.)
2. How do you feel about games/flashes like that [http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender]?
Cartoon violence is cartoons. To sane adults, it's a sort of sick release, a reflection of the 'revenge need' every last one of us has. It's not something that kids should be exposed to, even the bleeped language tells you that. But, it's not something that I would try to regulate, either. THAT is noting compared to the sick shit on some of the everyday videogames out there, believe me. It's annoying cartoon gophers, NOT 'simulated' real humans being raped, tortured and murdered. It's as real as a talking frog or a talking gerbil or whatever. Can't waste any angst on bad taste or releasing anger in that way.
3. How long do you brew your tea?
Can't let it brew for long. the more it brews, the stronger, the more apt it is to cause me problems. Weak tea for me.
Bonus: Do you like Doc Martens?
I think I would love them, but they're expensive and out of the question. I'd like to have some decently warm and sturdy shoes of some sort, but I'm difficult to fit.
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1. Would you shop for gifts here?
http://proshop.blackwaterusa.com/
2. Does the prospect of severe climate change scare you more than the prospect of gross political disruption? Financial fallout from bad policies, or both of the previous? Or does it all seem like a 'somebody else's problem' field?
3. Was life simpler 50 years ago, or were people simpler?
Bonus: Baklava, yes or no?
1. Would you shop for gifts here?
http://proshop.blackwaterusa.com/
I will shop nowhere else! whether i need a universal holster or a hat expressing my support for thuggish state sponsored terrorists it has everything I need. And great customer service (provided you are not Iraqi.
2. Does the prospect of severe climate change scare you more than the prospect of gross political disruption? Financial fallout from bad policies, or both of the previous? Or does it all seem like a 'somebody else's problem' field?
I rather suspect that severe climate change and political disruption will go hand in hand. There is a little sneaky bit of me that is looking forward to a kind of post apocalyptic existence a la Day of the Triffids.
3. Was life simpler 50 years ago, or were people simpler?
I found life very hard 50 years ago! But seriously it was much easier. many of the inventions designed to make life easier actually make it more stressful and increase the work we all do many fold. Take email..... no please take it and get rid of it!
Bonus: Baklava, yes or no?
i prefer a cap. The bit over your mouth and nose becomes disgusting and people assume you are a terrorist or bank robber! (you may infer from this that I have no idea what Baklava is)
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1) could you survive in a post apocalyptic world?
2) if so where do your skills come from? the scouts? being part of a survivalist militia? Playing resident evil incessantly?
3) Is male pattern baldness a sign of virility or just a sign that your hair is falling out?
1) could you survive in a post apocalyptic world?
Depends. I can probably feed myself, and perhaps protect myself, but that's kinda iffy.
2) if so where do your skills come from? the scouts? being part of a survivalist militia? Playing resident evil incessantly?
I went to a camp in elementary school that taught some survivalist skills, and I read a fair about about edible plants. I own several books about them, too.
3) Is male pattern baldness a sign of virility or just a sign that your hair is falling out?
It's a sign that your hair is falling out.
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1. Do/did you go to class regularly in college?
2. Favorite citrus fruit?
3. Do you like the circus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 06, 2007, 01:15:53 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava
You could wear Baklava on your head. Baklava wouldn't be warm like a balaclava would. Balaclava are not as tasty though. :mrgreen:
All this talk about balaclavas has made me nostalgic for some Kendall Mint Cake. ::)
(Don't ask why, I can't explain it in less than a novella)
And I have to invest in more honey and some nuts, or else just buy another tray of baklava. (Not to mention buying the pastry....then assembling and baking it.) :stirpot: :duh:
Gotta buy another tray of baklava.
Baklava is lovely, especially when fresh.
1. Do/did you go to class regularly in college?
Yes, I did. I skipped a lot of my 10th grade year, though. I was really bored. BUt then I went to alternative school and things got better. I paid for my own college, so that may have made me want to get my money's worth out of it.
2. Favorite citrus fruit?
The best citrus I ever tasted was when I was in Saratoga, Florida vacationing at my employer's house on the bay (she didn't pay us much, but we did have this one fabulous perk). There was a white grapefruit tree on her property and every morning my spouse and I would go out and pick a grapefruit to split for breakfast. They were as sweet as candy! There was an orange tree too, and the oranges were very good, but the grapefruits were out of this world! I've never tasted them as sweet before or since.
3. Do you like the circus?
There are certain things about the circus that make me uneasy, such as making animals do things they are obviously not choosing to do. But I look at it as an historical form of entertainment, one that has been around and been appreciated for a long time. When I think of it in that context I can enjoy it.
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1) What is your favorite sort of sky?
2) Do you think that the right kind of music could raise you from a coma?
3) Do you believe in omens?
Bonus: If frogs are in frogurt, what are yurts made out of?
1) What is your favorite sort of sky?
right after the rain goes away, when clouds are trailing behind the group, and the sun is peeking out.
2) Do you think that the right kind of music could raise you from a coma?
Possibly. I bet if you play Dethklok loud enough, you'll wake the dead.
3) Do you believe in omens?
I'm an atheist with some pagan leanings, but not so much.
Bonus: If frogs are in frogurt, what are yurts made out of?
Small children.
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1. Do you think Bush is full of scat of a bovine nature when he says he didn't know that Iran had quit with the nukes in about 2003?
2. How much of what he says is really equal to what somes out of the "south end of a north-bound cow"?
3. Who's the brains of the white House?
Bonus: What's the Bilderberg Group?
1. Do you think Bush is full of scat of a bovine nature when he says he didn't know that Iran had quit with the nukes in about 2003?
Certainly, he'd been told. What he remembers...he is a wetbrain "dry" drunk, and sometimes the medication level is off and he doesn't remember things.
2. How much of what he says is really equal to what comes out of the "south end of a north-bound cow"?
Is there a percent above 100%? Over the years, he's been able to repeat what he's been told--most of the time.
3. Who's the brains of the white House?
Cheney's been pulling the strings, Rove was the babysitter with the evil ideas. As long as the military/industrial complex was being served...anybody could give a string a tug to see what happened, showing that there NEEDS to be some level of self-preservation in a President. the current pResident has never needed that because Daddy's Buddies would always pull him out.
They're backing off now, with good reason.
Bonus: What's the Bilderberg Group?
An annual meeting of "the big guys"; leaders of industry, politicians, etc. Been going on since the mid 50's. Supposedly a brain trust kinda thing, international in scope. they meet at expensive resorts and engage in a mutual admiration and mental masturbation weekend that lets them think they're in control.
Evidence suggests otherwise, they control nothing, but it's a prestige thing, so they all want to be there. the group is named after the original meeting place, from when it was a let's keep an eye on this divided Germany thing, and "protect" Europe sorta meeting.
Some folks think it's the planning group for "the New World Order". ::) I think it would have been more fun to call them the Oosterbeek Group.
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1. Recession or depression? Which do you expect?
2. Why?
3. Should we string up the Bushistas or Greenspan? Both?
1. Recession or depression? Which do you expect?
Too early to tell. If we get through the next 6 months without major financial collapse, recession, otherwise depression.
2. Why?
The central banks have lost control of setting interest rate policy. The BoE lowered interest rates yesterday but the markets signalled they think interbank rates will go up. If liquidity is cut off to industry then failures will go up markedly. If the housing market goes into a vicious circle decline then buy-to letters will bail out, and the banks will trust each other even less.
The central banks are between a rock and hard place. Small interest rate drops don't have any effect on faith, a big one might, but if it suddenly re-established normal interest rates then inflation could take off, needing a fast reversal and big loss of credibility.
Meantime enjoy the ride, because no-one is steering.
3. Should we string up the Bushistas or Greenspan? Both?
Neither. Hang up those who delude themselves by building complicated mathematical models of financial risk and how to offset it. Massive edifices are built on these models, but they ignore how ordinary traders react. At some point, when the real world stops behaving like the models, traders stop believing the models, switch into cash and stay there. This is no surprise to anyone but the modellers; this did for LTCM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTCM) over a decade ago.
Greenspan has warned against this, Warren Buffet has warned against this, and last century Maynard-Keynes warned again it (see the "Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" quote in that LTCM link).
This time people are not only saying they want to be in cash, but also exactly which banks they want that cash to be with. When even Citibank has to get Arab bail-out (remember them? - the people not respectable enough to run ports?), things do not look rosy.
Brits will tell you this wouldn't have happened when the banks were run by Mr Mainwarings. ;)
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1 iPhone - leap forward or gimmick?
2 Porridge or muesli?
3 Christmas or New Year?
1 iPhone - leap forward or gimmick?
Gimmick. A pretty gimmick, but it can't do anything a laptop can't do better.
2 Porridge or muesli?
coucous instead, please.
3 Christmas or New Year?
Christmas. New Year's is so hollow (not that Chirstmas isn't, but at least chirstmas is supposed to be spent with family rather than drinking)
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1. What's the bet way to deal with terrorism?
2. What's the best way to deal with the economy?
3. Favorite kind of muffin?
1. What's the bet way to deal with terrorism?
Economic development. Despair at poor economic conditions does more to promote terrorism than anything else.
2. What's the best way to deal with the economy?
Ooh. Tough question. To start, do exactly the opposite of what Bush proposes.
3. Favorite kind of muffin?
Depends on when you ask. What am I hungry for at the moment?
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1) From all of human history, what is the most important invention?
2) Which of Robert Heinlein's novels is the best?
3) Who is your favorite classical composer?
1) From all of human history, what is the most important invention?
Walking upright, kindl(e?)ing fire, maybe contraceptives will take first place some time in the future
2) Which of Robert Heinlein's novels is the best?
Sorry, although I know the author, I have not yet read any of his novels
3) Who is your favorite classical composer?
Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
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1) What's for dinner?
2) Does censorship crush or unintentionally encourage creativity?
3) Ever considered diving as a hobby?
1) What's for dinner?
Chicken and vegetable Wok with Rice
2) Does censorship crush or unintentionally encourage creativity?
I think it's more complicated than that. among other things on has to define creativity... But yes, censorship restrains creativity no doubt (but to make an odd comparison ;) ) it also puts it in a pressure boiler and steam under pressure can cut like a knife. The allegories; stories, paintings etc. made to slip under the censors radar can be very powerful but they always make me wonder what this person could accomplish in full freedom. I guess my answer is that censorship smothers the creativity in the majority but fuels it for a few.
3) Ever considered diving as a hobby?
I love driving! And I could consider it if I had the money for it.
But driving to different places like very old churches or old industrial sites (like Sala silver mine, you can see some photos on my flickr site) to wander around and take pictures is something of a hobby for me and my SO.
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1) What is your favourite season?
2) Chicken or fish?
3) Flowers or green plants?
1) What is your favourite season?
Where I live, we have three seasons--winter, summer and in between. I like the in between because it's a perfect 75*F all day long.
2) Chicken or fish?
CHICKEN!
3) Flowers or green plants?
Green plants, I think. More soothing.
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1. Favorite weather?
2. What is your favorite comfort food?
3. Who are you (or would you, if you were an American) thinking about voting for in the 2008 Presidential Election?
1. Favorite weather?
The sort of coolish analogue to Fall that we have here.
Something with temps between 65 and 75 F, with light breezes and maybe a short rain shower every afternoon would be good. (Rural Puerto Rico, for example.)
2. What is your favorite comfort food?
As my ability to eat certain foods is stopped by my f&%$ng illness, I'm down to mac and cheese, chicken sammiches and garlic&onioned teriyaki rice.
And chocolate.
3. Who are you (or would you, if you were an American) thinking about voting for in the 2008 Presidential Election?
By choice, never mind availability:
Edwards
Gore
Kucinich
Obama
Anybody else Democrat
Hillary
And Obama ONLY if his platform and VP bound him to stay pretty far away from the Corporate Moneymen that are buying access to him as Hillary Insurance. (If she doesn't win the primary. They've got her bought and delivered.)
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1. Do you 'collect' anything? (Not a 'set' collection of one-every-so-often plates, or that sort of thing, but--well, I collect Zebras and zebra print things. I also collect audio recordings of certain music selections, even the bad ones.) If so, what is it?
2. Is there something you've always wanted to do for fun that you've been embarrassed to try?
3. Vhich is more important to you? Being right or being polite?
1. Do you 'collect' anything? (Not a 'set' collection of one-every-so-often plates, or that sort of thing, but--well, I collect Zebras and zebra print things. I also collect audio recordings of certain music selections, even the bad ones.) If so, what is it?
Yarrgghhh, I collect metal lunchboxes of the fifties and sixties and seventies. I've got about 48 of them. They make me happy. I don't know why. Maybe because my mom made me carry a brown paper bag lunch to school.
2. Is there something you've always wanted to do for fun that you've been embarrassed to try?
I think I'd like to dance naked in the rain. Just sounds like fun.
3. Vhich is more important to you? Being right or being polite?
Wow.
Tough question. I want to say I'd rather be right, but life has taught me that "right" can be relative. At least with manners there are rules. Still, if it's a matter grave enough, I find myself piping up for what I'm seeing as "right" if I feel that right thing would be threatened by my silence. So my answer is: it depends on how important it is. And yes, I hate that answer too.
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1) Have you ever felt so embarassed that you vowed never to show your face in the place of embarassment again?
2) Have you ever felt so full of gladness that the sun seemed to shine right through you like you weren't even there?
3) Do people who write silly questions annoy the heck out of you?
BONUS QUESTION: Did you know that the okra plant has beautiful flowers?
No. Yes. Yes. No.
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1: Do people who don't elaborate on answers annoy you?
2: What job (real job that exists) do you feel would be your dream job?
3: Why?
Depends on the question, any dream job would involve dreaming, because it couldn't be called a dream job otherwise.
BONUS question: Is subversion useful?
Since you didn't properly answer those questions, I will. :mrgreen:
1: Do people who don't elaborate on answers annoy you?
No.
2: What job (real job that exists) do you feel would be your dream job?
A photographer for National Geographic.
3: Why?
Why not? I get to travel and take photographs. I'd be published in an internationally respected magazine.
BONUS: Yes, very useful. Which is why governments flip out about it.
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1. Could you make a living doing what you love?
2. Are you a good driver?
3. Who is your least favorite political candidate (any country, any level, any year)?
1. Could you make a living doing what you love?
I did. Not a GOOD living, but enough to barely survive. (florist.)
2. Are you a good driver?
Excellent. Even when I'm not feeling my best, I am 'the driver' when a group goes somewhere, even if it's not my vehicle. AS has been stated by many people that have ridden with me, I'm hyperaware of all my surroundings and skilled at the maneuvers needed to avoid adjacent bad drivers.
Never an at-fault accident, only been struck while immobile, with the exception of the Chief of Police's nephew running a red light at 3 AM and broadsiding me, for which I was ticketed for "failure to observe vehicle in intersection." He was doing 75, I was doing 20, in a residential area. Like I said, cop's nephew.
3. Who is your least favorite political candidate (any country, any level, any year)?
Easy. Hitler.
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1. Would you accept the power of life or death over another person?
2. Do you consider yourself a moral person?
3. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate or caramel?
1. Would you accept the power of life or death over another person?
Not if I could possibly help it. But, if _I_ am the most qualified person to assume the responsibility, then I will do it.
2. Do you consider yourself a moral person?
Yes. Far from perfect at it, but yes, I try. Honesty is the most basic principle, and I try to utilize that whenever possible. (but, in my older age, I've finally learned that sometimes the _correct_ answer is NOT the most honest one. People are worth more that being brutally honest all the time.)
3. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate or caramel?
Yes.
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1) If you had a choice between driving a car to get from "A" to "B" or using a Star Trek-esque transporter for your routine travels, which would you choose?
2) What traits/positions do you look for FIRST in a potential political candidate? What traits/positions are a "deal killer"? (if any)
3) If you had to grow your own food all the time, what would you choose to grow? (animals included, but you'd have to feed'em somehow-- part of the "grow your own food" conditions)
1) If you had a choice between driving a car to get from "A" to "B" or using a Star Trek-esque transporter for your routine travels, which would you choose?
Depends--what's the best option for the price and any damage to the world? If it's less than about two miles, I'll walk, thanks.
2) What traits/positions do you look for FIRST in a potential political candidate? What traits/positions are a "deal killer"? (if any)
Sanity and balance. Those are my two bigguns.
Cuddling with/being a fundie = total and utter deal beaker.
3) If you had to grow your own food all the time, what would you choose to grow? (animals included, but you'd have to feed'em somehow-- part of the "grow your own food" conditions)
Tomatoes, herbs, corn (me and the chickens), celery, apples, various citrus and stone fruits, a couple types of berries, alfalfa and wheat (for me and the cattle and sheep), sugar cane, peppers, spices, coco plants, coffee trees, tea, flowers and various other flowering plants (for the bees), rhubarb, fish, and rice.
:D You didn't place limits on me, so, hypothetically, I can do this.
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1. If you could have chosen what era you were born in, which one would you pick?
2. Why?
3. What's the fanciest dish you've ever made?
1. If you could have chosen what era you were born in, which one would you pick?
Barring the future, today.
2. Why?
Modern medicine, for the most part. Without antibiotics, I would have died at about 30...a very bad pleural infection.
3. What's the fanciest dish you've ever made?
Probably fettuccine carbonara. A real cholesterol bomb waiting to happen.
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1) What is your favorite place to go think?
2) What is your favorite cuisine?
3) Ford or Chevy?
1) What is your favorite place to go think?
Good weather, my porch. Bad weather, my bed.
2) What is your favorite cuisine?
Chinese, followed by Italian. All limited by my weird (enforced by pain) eating habits.
3) Ford or Chevy?
Car or truck? Car, neither, gimme a Japanese or Korean make, as they're more dependable.
Truck? OK, now we gotta discuss power plant, uses, payload...
General truck, an F-150 is usually an efficient and reasonably priced choice. If I need to get a bit more power, the pricing schedule of the 250 and 350's make me check and see what Chevy is up to. You can generally get a better price on an up-power Chevy that what the 250/350 pricing scale is (EOYM sales excluded), but if I'm gonna get a "Chevy" truck, I will look at a GMC first--less money in trim and "foo-foo" stuff.
For a van, I would look for an old one with that 350 V-8 big block if I needed a full size delivery vehicle. Those engines can go forever...
In the big pickups...my favorite used to be anything with a Cummins diesel power plant. Recently, the GMC 365 Duramax has outperformed it by a country mile, including fuel efficiency. The 4x4 handles like a luxury sedan, too--independent front suspension.
Oh, damn, I'm soundin' like a gearhead again... :-X
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1. Favorite chip/crisp flavor?
2. Do you like fondues and other foods served as/with dips?
3. Who's the whackiest? L Ron Hubbard or Fred Phelps?
1. Favorite chip/crisp flavor?
I'm not that choosy, but I think green onion is my fav.
2. Do you like fondues and other foods served as/with dips?
Yes. My general philosophy of food is try it once, twice if I like it, three times just to make sure.
3. Who's the whackiest? L Ron Hubbard or Fred Phelps?
Phelps. Phelps is just plain wacky. Hubbard, I think, was sly as a fox. His followers, for the most part, however...(how anyone could think of that bad sci-fi story as acceptable religion completely baffles me)
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1) What is the most important invention of all of human history?
2) Who is your favorite sci-fi author?
3) Do you like garlic?
1) What is the most important invention of all of human history?
Control of fire, I think (although the canonical answer is sliced bread)
2) Who is your favorite sci-fi author?
Lem (dead), Adams(also dead). There are a number of less well-known ones I like, some of them still alive
3) Do you like garlic?
In moderate quantities as condiment but not as a vegetable itself (same with onions)
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1) What is your favorite monster (the FSM and the Muppets excluded)?
2) Are you also affected by trashophilia cinematica (aka Morbus Wood)?
3) Is it time for the next Bond parody?
1) What is your favorite monster (the FSM and the Muppets excluded)?
Oh, it has to be Mothra: grandly fake with visible strings, strong female, offspring-protective, fabulously patterned, roaring, spewing, furiously flapping, called through song by twin fairies in matching 1960's Jackie Kennedy outfits- what more could I ask for?!?
2) Are you also affected by trashophilia cinematica (aka Morbus Wood)?
If you mean a fascination for crappy films made before 1975, then yes! (See above) I used to live for the Psychotronic Film Society screenings. I miss Mystery Science Theater 3000. Give me "Plan Nine From Outer Space", "Faster Pussycat- Kill! Kill!" "Spider Babies" and just about any Godzilla flick.
3) Is it time for the next Bond parody?
As long as it's a parody and as long as they go completely over the top with it.
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1) Peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, or cinnamon?
2) What is the thing that calms you down the most?
3) Which would you choose: seeing through time or seeing through space?
1) Peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, or cinnamon?
Depends on what it's used in.
Chewing gums- Spearmint.
Spice and scent- Cinnamon I love Cinnamon.
2) What is the thing that calms you down the most?
Water. Preferable a large lake or even better the sea. It doesn't matter if it's calm or stormy looking out over a large body of water cleanses my soul.
3) Which would you choose: seeing through time or seeing through space?
Space I think.
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1) Apples or Oranges?
2) Do you believe in love at first sight?
3) Favourite season?
1) Apples or Oranges?
Both? I loooove pink lady apples and looooove blood oranges, so I can't really pick.
2) Do you believe in love at first sight?
Nope. That's, at best infatuation, and at worst, lust.
3) Favourite season?
We have three seasons around here--winter, summer and in
between. I <3 in between.
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1. How often do you get sick?
2. Who is your most interesting ancestor (that you know of)?
3. What is the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
1. How often do you get sick?
More often than I'd like. My immune system is crap anyway, but I also have Seasonally Affected Disorder, due to being born and brought up in the Tropics. Not enough sunlight in the UK... One thing SAD does is decreases your immune response. Makes me a bit of a human canary when there is anything going around.
2. Who is your most interesting ancestor (that you know of)?
The Taylors who are affiliated with Clan Cameron as a sept are said to be descended from Donald "Taillear dubh na tuaighe" (Black tailor of the [Lochaber] axe), who lived in the time of Mary Queen of Scots. He was the "natural son" of Ewen Cameron, 14th Chief of Clan Cameron and a daughter of the Chief of Clan MacDougall, out of wedlock. Ewen had Donald nursed by a tailor's wife at Lundavra; thus the name Taylor. After his father's death (Ewen died while a captive of the Chief of the MacDougalls, held prisoner until he agreed to marry the Chief's daughter), Donald would became the greatest warrior that Clan Cameron had even known. Acknowledgement of his parentage by his deceased father not being enough to ascend to the Chiefship, he excelled in the field of battle, usually against the Cameron's principal foes, the Clan Mackintosh and usually with his trusty Lochaber axe. In time he would flee rising Cameron-Mackintosh internal Clan treachery, with a band of loyal followers, to Cowal. The descendants of his followers there were for ages known as Mac an taillear; later as Taylor. A tribute to Donald remains in the Cameron Coat of Arms, where his likeness, along with a Lochaber axe, borders/protects the outer shield.
3. What is the air velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European?
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1. What is your quest?
2. What is your favourite colour?
3.What is the capital of Assyria?
1. What is your quest?
Good health.
2. What is your favourite colour?
Blue
3.What is the capital of Assyria?
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1. What's your worst memory of your first school?
2. Have you or would ever darn a sock?
3. Do you prefer to travel north, east, south or west from your home and why?
1. What's your worst memory of your first school?
When I was going for 7th grade, I had heard all sorts of tales about the boys showers in gym class. As I was painfully shy, it was a literal nightmare-- I had bad dreams about it all summer. But, the actual experience was not that big a deal-- I was not the only one there. It seems that misery loves company. So does embarrassment.
2. Have you or would ever darn a sock?
I have. Many, many years ago. I used a darning attachment on an electric sewing machine. Not that satisfactory-- left a "lump" on the sock that was not that comfortable to walk upon.
Socks are cheap. When they have holes-- they go. But, usually it's the elastic that goes first-- and out they go. I hate loose floppy socks....
3. Do you prefer to travel north, east, south or west from your home and why?
South, and/or East. I live in the NW part of my city.
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1. Trackball, mouse, touch-screen or keyboard short-cuts?
2. 1 computer screen, 2 or more? Flat LCD, plasma or old-fashioned CRT?
3. Carpet, hardwood floors or something else? (like mutated grass? AKA The Ringworld series )
1. Trackball, mouse, touch-screen or keyboard short-cuts?
Yes. I've used allof the above and all have their strengths.
2. 1 computer screen, 2 or more? Flat LCD, plasma or old-fashioned CRT?
I had two on one old Mac. The smaller (integral) screen was for menus and the like, the big, additional monitor was for layout.
I've also had a workstation with both Mac and PC, scanner, printer, etc. That was nice.
I'd like a larger, flat screen for my current system, but it's not in the cards right now. As for plasma, at high altitudes they can "buzz" which I would find very annoying.
3. Carpet, hardwood floors or something else? (like mutated grass? AKA The Ringworld series )
I have new carpeting here, which is nice to walk on, but it sheds like a pet. My old place was a craftsman style house with big windows shining sunlight onto hardwood floors, which were gorgeous. They had to be swept constantly, though...
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Books or e-books?
Jazz or blues?
Lamps or candles?
1. Books or e-books?
I've been reading eBooks since my first palm pilot. Now I have a Sony Reader which currently has all discworld books and all Asimov's robots/foundation books. Regular books are nice but carrying them around isn't.
2. Jazz or blues?
Blues. I do like some jazz (with the exception of the easy listening smooth crap), but I don't know much on the subject.
3. Lamps or candles?
Candles, specially during the satanic invocation rituals prior to the baby feast. ;) :devil2: :mrgreen:
Seriously speaking, I do like candles, although I use them less and less now. :-\
(why don't we have an eating baby emot/smilie? Now I'll have to use Goya ;))
(http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/Goya-Saturnus.png)
1. Babies, roasted, fried or boiled?
2. Do you season the baby before or you prefer BBQ sauce?
3. Is a questionnaire on eating babies in poor taste? (see Q.2)
1. Babies, roasted, fried or boiled?
Raw.
2. Do you season the baby before or you prefer BBQ sauce?
I prefer to marinate it in a bubbly brine of chamomile.
3. Is a questionnaire on eating babies in poor taste? (see Q.2)
Yes, and I wouldn't aswer it if I were me. Luckily, I'm not feeling quite myself today. ;)
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1) If the babies in questions were cannibals, would you then feel more justified in eating them?
2) If you were being pursued by cannibal babies, how would you escape?
3) Should a cannibal baby run for president?
1) If the babies in questions were cannibals, would you then feel more justified in eating them?
I'd wait around their first 4-6 months to check they really were cannibals - always good to draw out the anticipation.
2) If you were being pursued by cannibal babies, how would you escape?
I'd lure them into the mouth of a Great Whilte Shark and then escape in the confusion.
3) Should a cannibal baby run for president?
Been done before !
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1. If a cannibal baby head were left in your bed would you pass it on to your enemy?
2. How many canibal babies does it take to change a light bulb?
3. Which type of cannibal baby did Hannibal like best?
1. If a cannibal baby head were left in your bed would you pass it on to your enemy?
No, too useful as shredder.
2. How many canibal babies does it take to change a light bulb?
No need for lightbulbs, they glow in the dark
3. Which type of cannibal baby did Hannibal like best?
The aquatic ones that bit the Romans in the back at Lake Trasimene
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1. Do cannibal babies eate ach other?
2. Was Swift actually discussing cannibal babies when making his modest proposal
3. What is the text of the official cannibal baby lullaby?
1. Do cannibal babies eate ach other?
Of course. No respect among cannibals, after all.
2. Was Swift actually discussing cannibal babies when making his modest proposal
Could be. Swift did overlook the minor problem of too-lean roasted babies. These are tough and dry, not suitable for parties at all. And babies of the poor are apt to be underfed and lean.
3. What is the text of the official cannibal baby lullaby?
to the tune of Brahms' Lullaby
Eat your brains, eat your brains, eat your brains now my darling.
Hear's a fresh one, young and fat, bringing full stomach to you.
Tuck it in, eat it all, eat as much as you can
For it is good, it is fine, you should eat it all up now.
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1) Which would you choose: PC, Mac, Linux, Pocket PC, Palm, Atari, Commadore, TRS-80, IBM-370, PDP-1130, other? Why?
2) If you had a chance to safely travel into outer space, or to the moon, mars, would you?
3) Ever desire to spend a summer in one of the Antarctic research bases?
1) Which would you choose: PC, Mac, Linux, Pocket PC, Palm, Atari, Commadore, TRS-80, IBM-370, PDP-1130, other? Why?
I have very fond memories of my old Atari ST but it'd be a bit slow these days. GFA Basic was such a good language to program in as an adolescent who grew up with Turbo Pascal
2) If you had a chance to safely travel into outer space, or to the moon, mars, would you?
I'd probably not get the necessary clean health bill for the trip but I'd be generally interested
3) Ever desire to spend a summer in one of the Antarctic research bases?
No great burning desire but I wouldn't necessarily say no (would 2 weeks be okay, all expenses paid by someone else?)
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1) How should sex-ed at school be dealt with? When what and by what means? (Should the applied pregnancy course be taken before the experimental buggering or after theoretical bigotry 101 ;) )
2) Should the theoretical driver's test use sketches or actual photographs?
3) Are trikes preferable to bikes as far as comfort, security etc. are concerned?
1) How should sex-ed at school be dealt with? When what and by what means? (Should the applied pregnancy course be taken before the experimental buggering or after theoretical bigotry 101 Wink )
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Having actual experience in sex ed of 4th, 5th and 6th graders.... I would state that it should be taught. But, just the facts, keep it dry, and stick to the actual details. I find that if you approach the subject with an 'matter-of-fact' attitude, the kids will fall into line naturally. When you further demonstrate that you will answer their questions, no matter how 'odd' without laughing or making fun, you can gain their confidence. Then you often get the chance to answer the real questions that are bothering them. You need pictures, of course. I find line drawings less problematic than photos. The kids seem more comfortable with 'art' (drawings, diagrams, painting-reproductions, etc) than with actual photographs. The art permits an abstract mind-set. Photos are too 'real', and tend to dissolve into fits of giggling and uncomfortable laughing. I use a power point demonstration for the 'mechanics' of it.
Studies show that kids who are informed of the subject are apt to make rational decisions before they engage in sexual exploration. That is, the either skip it entirely, or if they do engage in sex, are far more apt to use safe sex-- or at the very least, they try to use some form of pregnancy prevention.
It's the ignorant kids who become unintentional parents.... (y'hear that fundies? It's YOUR kids who are most at risk to become parents...! )
*steps down off the* :soapbox:
2) Should the theoretical driver's test use sketches or actual photographs?
I think that drivers tests should be re-taken every 5 years or so. People's abilities change.... and forcing them to refresh their knowledge of defensive driving wouldn't hurt, either.
3) Are trikes preferable to bikes as far as comfort, security etc. are concerned?
Motorized trikes can be quite dangerous in turns. Unstable (at least the single-wheel in front style). They're all but banned here in the US. Kiddie trikes? They're still quite popular, I'm told, among the just-learned-to-walk crowd. Of course, among the 'more-money-than-sense' crowd, battery powered toys are replacing the traditional foot-pedaled versions. *bleah* So much for healthy exercise.... Is it any wonder many kids are overweight?
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1) Movie Theater or rented(owned) DVD at home?
2) Microwave popcorn, or Traditional pan-(in hot oil)-fried?
3) If you're going to your favorite Ice Cream parlor to binge on a Banana Split (or other favorite confection) will you, as a salve to your conscience, order a Diet softdrink to go with? Or will you save roughly 2 times the calories (of the diet versus the regular), by vowing to NOT eat that last bite? (as in a single bite of your Ice Cream dessert likely has roughly 2 times the calories of that can of regular soda, versus the diet one...)
1) Movie Theater or rented(owned) DVD at home?
Theater. The recliner in front of the TV is nice, but the big screen can't be beat.
2) Microwave popcorn, or Traditional pan-(in hot oil)-fried?
Actually, I prefer a hot air popper...though the ease of microwave popcorn is nice.
3) If you're going to your favorite Ice Cream parlor to binge on a Banana Split (or other favorite confection) will you, as a salve to your conscience, order a Diet softdrink to go with? Or will you save roughly 2 times the calories (of the diet versus the regular), by vowing to NOT eat that last bite? (as in a single bite of your Ice Cream dessert likely has roughly 2 times the calories of that can of regular soda, versus the diet one...)
Well, I can't have that big a sugar splurge these days. I would have to go with a single dip and water. An 'nana split sounds wonderful, but no can do.
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1) Did you hate, tolerate, or enjoy algebra in high school?
2) What time of day do you prefer to go fishing?
3) Marvel or DC?
1) Did you hate, tolerate, or enjoy algebra in high school?
Loathed it. Still do, in fact.
2) What time of day do you prefer to go fishing?
I don't fish, but if I did, early evening or early morning.
3) Marvel or DC?
Marvel or Darkhorse, please..
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1. What do you think of the recent Congressional approval of retroactive forgiveness for the telecom companies that participated in the warrantless wiretaping?
2. How bad is your temper?
3. What things set of nostalgia in you?
1. What do you think of the recent Congressional approval of retroactive forgiveness for the telecom companies that participated in the warrantless wiretaping?
They should be be mashed into a pulp, and have their eyes gouged out, and their elbows broken, have their kneecaps split, and their bodies burned away, and their limbs all hacked and mangled, their heads smashed in and hearts cut out, and their livers removed, and their bowels unplugged, and their nostrils raped and their bottoms burned off...
2. How bad is your temper?
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!?
3. What things set of nostalgia in you?
Can't name any specific things, the attacks usually come unpredictably.
Certain Vera Lynn songs do something like that (despite me being born long after WW2)
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1. Would a school timetable with days dedicated to certain subjects work better than having several subjects each day (e.g. Monday:History; Tuesday:Math; Wednesday:Native language/literature...)?
2. At what time of the day should school start, how long should a lesson be, how long the breaks etc.?
3. Many professions require continuing education to keep up-to-date. Should there be something like that for everyone (mandatory that is)?
1st of all to Bob in a Quantum State-- :TYfg-a.com:--- you said it right sibling! it should be mandatory(no opting out) as well. all too often the opt-out parents are the ones who won't or can't teach it(and it is often fundies) and they really need it! You stay on that soap box!
1. Would a school timetable with days dedicated to certain subjects work better than having several subjects each day (e.g. Monday:History; Tuesday:Math; Wednesday:Native language/literature...)?
I think block days would work well on a high school level- I have always broken my college classes up in one type of class per class day- I think that sort of daily immersion would be beneficial-- IMHO-I do however feel that in the lower grades the breaking up of a day in to smaller bits should stay the same-possibly beginning in Junior high a sort of modified daily block subject could be introduced so they are not dumped into it cold when the begin high school.
2. At what time of the day should school start, how long should a lesson be, how long the breaks etc.?
I think it could begin a bit later than it does already-- my daughter catches the bus in the dark for much of the school year- for one thing, teens especially are notorious(right word?) for not getting enough sleep and the more homework they have and so many of them must work to help the family-- I know teens that MUST work to help the family,their parents are ashamed but it is fact good or bad- so they go to bed later and later-of course some just stay up for the heck of it as well- they've got to sleep to 'perform' and hell just to grow properly and normally so I think later am start would be good-- 9 or 10am should be tried. I like block learning- instead of 6 or 7 different subjects a day 2 or 3 is better- I seem to learn better that way and I suspect I could have done better in high school this way as well. A school day should be about 5 to 6 hours. Breaks can be fairly short between classes but the real issue I have is in lunch/meal breaks- at my daughters high school they have a 35 minute lunch break- this is silly- they can't eat or relax at all in 35 minutes-- they wait in the line for 30 of those 35 minutes then grab the sandwich (burger, etc) off the tray and head back to class.
3. Many professions require continuing education to keep up-to-date. Should there be something like that for everyone (mandatory that is)?
If we had CE in common sense then I would say that all humans should take an annual class. CE is good for everyone-- when we stop learning we begin to stagnate. so yes I am for CE.
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1: If you know about several different types of upper level undergraduate schooling in various nations (not college level undergrad but what we in the USA call High School) which works best- or would it be a combination of several types?
2: Is there anyone subject that should take presidence over all others in school?
3: If a parent(s) will not teach or allow to be taught certain things to their child(children) that are important and necessary (sex/reproductive health and education,chemical/drug/substance use-abuse-awareness, science and biology,etc) should the 'state' be allowed to override the parents desires and teach it anyway?
1: If you know about several different types of upper level undergraduate schooling in various nations (not college level undergrad but what we in the USA call High School) which works best- or would it be a combination of several types?
I have had experience with both Eastern European, Western European and US professors in graduate school.
US professors are usually pretty tolerant of questions, and I think that is a very good thing. Western Europe tolerates a little questioning, but not much. Eastern European profs tend to be very authoritarian...listen and keep your mouth shut.
So, from my experience, the American system is best.
2: Is there anyone subject that should take presidence over all others in school?
I think there are a few core subjects that should not be ignored, but can't say that any one takes precedence.
I do wish they would teach more critical thinking in schools.
3: If a parent(s) will not teach or allow to be taught certain things to their child(children) that are important and necessary (sex/reproductive health and education,chemical/drug/substance use-abuse-awareness, science and biology,etc) should the 'state' be allowed to override the parents desires and teach it anyway?
Argh!!! Part of me wants to say, yes, force the little b@st@rds to study it anyway. But parents do have the right to abuse the educations of their little ones. Sadly, the little ones are the ones that will pay the price.
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1) What is your favorite stellar constellation?
2) What is your favorite music genre?
3) Should Social Security be left unchanged, privatized, or eliminated?
1) What is your favorite stellar constellation?
Orion
2) What is your favorite music genre?
Tonal and skilled (quite rare these days)
I have a quite varied taste, so it is difficult to name one specific genre (and in all genres there is a lot I can't stand)
3) Should Social Security be left unchanged, privatized, or eliminated?
False trichotomy ;)
I think a reform is needed but neither privatizing nor eliminating is an option.
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1) Who should become the next VPOTUS?
2) Will Bush/Cheney&Accomplices get away unpunished (except maybe for some travel restrictions)?
3) Ever eaten kaviar?
1) Who should become the next VPOTUS?
It is still a bit early for me to vote in stone but I am leaning towards Obama so I think a good VPOTUS for him would be Hillary at this point--- but I haven't completely decided yet- just leaning.
2) Will Bush/Cheney&Accomplices get away unpunished (except maybe for some travel restrictions)?
Of course-- isn't that how the game is played- I scratch your back now in anticipation of needing my back scratched at some future point.
3) Ever eaten kaviar?
Yes if you count the little orange type(Salmon I think it is) that come with/on some of the rolls at Sushi bars. But something like Sturgeon - the 'expensive' kinds then no I have not.
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1) Since all Sturgeon are on the endangered species list, should we humans just do without sturgeon products(ie; K/C aviar) until populations are more sustainable?
2)Have you taken time to sit down and think about how you want your remains to be handled at the time you die? Burial, cremation,ceremony and type, etc? Do you think it is important to do this or since you will be dead do you think it's ok to figure out the basics (like pre-paid burial) and then let family/friends do the rest of the 'pomp and circumstance' since most funerals are for the 'benefit' of the bereaved.
3) Have you ever kissed a non-human primate-- (no not tongue!)? Who, when and where? Oh and if not- would you if you had the chance?
3) yeh my ex !
woops - back as you were.... carry on
1) Since all Sturgeon are on the endangered species list, should we humans just do without sturgeon products(ie; K/C aviar) until populations are more sustainable?
Yes, for wild varieties. Harvesting of 'cultured' products should continue to be okay-- would encourage such activities. Then, at the very least, we'd have DNA samples of the animal in question.
2)Have you taken time to sit down and think about how you want your remains to be handled at the time you die? Burial, cremation,ceremony and type, etc? Do you think it is important to do this or since you will be dead do you think it's ok to figure out the basics (like pre-paid burial) and then let family/friends do the rest of the 'pomp and circumstance' since most funerals are for the 'benefit' of the bereaved.
I've thought about it on several occasions. If I _do_ have a say, and if I'm worth anything more than token $$, then I fully plan to rent out a smaller open-air sports stadium, and invite all the would-be ghouls---err--benefactors to attend. Then, just as the festivities are getting started, a low-flying helicopter would pass over the heads of the attendees, and dump the ashes of my cremation out the window, and into the faces of those who would benefit themselves. Then, an announcement over the PA, would be that that was it, that I'd spent it all on the stadium and helicopter rental, and whatever was left after that, was all donated to charity. The food they were now enjoying was ALL they were going to get from me. ;D
On a serious note, if I have anything to say about it, I'll be donated to a research hospital (if they want my mouldy corpse), after anything useful was removed to help someone in need (whatever they want-- like a rummage sale, _I_ don't need any of it, now). This should be a zero-cost to any of my surviving relatives. If my still-living relatives object to that, or want more, then they can bloody well pay for it themselves.
3) Have you ever kissed a non-human primate-- (no not tongue!)? Who, when and where? Oh and if not- would you if you had the chance?
No. Might. Would depend on any relationship I have/had with the animal in question. I've been known to snuggle/hug/be affectionate with my cats at times. They seem to like it-- they always purr in response, with 'head-butts' and *meows* of wanting more.... (and no, not _that_ sort of affection! Geeze..... ::) )
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1) Do you currently have, or have you ever had, non-human companions? Thoughts, comments? (if yes or no)
2) If low earth orbital habitats become popular in the next foreseeable future, and YOU had an opportunity to emigrate to one, would you? Why or not? (and by habitat, I mean something really, really huge, aka Classical Science Fiction space colony)
3a) When you vote*, do you select your candidate-of-choice based on Feelings/Looks/Gut or based on cold hard rational reasoning? Or a mix?
3b) * if you DON'T vote...... why not?
1) Do you currently have, or have you ever had, non-human companions? Thoughts, comments? (if yes or no)
currently no home pets-- have had many in the past- cats,dogs,hamsters,birds,etc. I think pets add quality to the human life- I'm not sure exactly what they get from us but it seems to be something overall good for all species involved. I also volunteer in primate enrichment at my zoo- I got started through a university program and was hooked from day one-- I'm not sure how much enrichment and benefit I give to them -they are after all in prison for life- yes a fairly nice prison but still completely unnatural no matter how hard we try- but my life has been so enriched by their being in my life- they are companions of the most magnificent sort and if there is true blessing then it is knowing them and interacting with them- no deity required. It is actually profound at times--- we had a western lowland gorilla born in October of 2006 and that is when I truly learned the definition of awe as something outside of anything I'd ever had anything to do with- my children inspire awe in me- but I gave birth to them and so they are both in and of me and in and of themselves-- this gorilla mother (Sekani) and father (Fossey) and baby boy (Mosi) aren't in and of me and that was AWE that I never knew existed.
2) If low earth orbital habitats become popular in the next foreseeable future, and YOU had an opportunity to emigrate to one, would you? Why or not? (and by habitat, I mean something really, really huge, aka Classical Science Fiction space colony)
Oh heck yes- where do I sign up. Really, I think we have to take care of Earth as our one and only perm home- I just don't see us colonizing the universe. But I am so there if one of the really city size habitats is ever up and running. Just call me hamster and I'll be on that wheel. Nothing noble about the feeling of wanting to for me- purely selfish-- the entirety of the COOL factor.
3a) When you vote*, do you select your candidate-of-choice based on Feelings/Looks/Gut or based on cold hard rational reasoning? Or a mix?
A mix- of course I look at the person- but looks or personality alone do not a good candidate make. It is very interesting that in this election cycle I have found myself very much drawn to the two candidates who are not typical-- and I've had to really make sure that I am paying attention to the entire candidate and not just looking at the external.
3b) * if you DON'T vote...... why not?
I vote-- everytime I can-- too many people can not vote- it is too precious to waste.
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1) Why is the crime rate continuing to climb? Or do you disagree with this statement? Thoughts,opinion,etc?
2) Is is sexist to think that hot firefighter calenders (male) are acceptable and alright while many think that the female version is just another form of negative-porn? Or do you think it is all unacceptable?
3) Do you carry a checkbook-- paper checks you tear out and give to the merchant? Or do you only use a debit/check card? Do you think paper checks are oblsolete? Do you use a credit card for every purchase and then pay it all off on a monthly basis?
1) Why is the crime rate continuing to climb? Or do you disagree with this statement? Thoughts,opinion,etc?
It is and it is not. (should I leave it at that? No? Okay...) There's more general crime simply because there's more people. Since there's more people, that automatically means there's more people populating the "fringe behavior" 'slots' of behavior. And, there are people in even "fring-ier" 'slots' that in the past were not populated at all, or only very, very rarely. Now, we get a regular population of these extreme-behavior types. Thus, the total number of crimes are up, as compared to previous generations. Is the crime per-person up? In some places, yes. In other places, it's either the same, or has declined slightly. Over all, it's pretty much the same, if I recall correctly.
Is the per-person risk-factor higher or lower than previously? Higher-- due to the total number of crimes being up, and the total number of extreme-behavior people being up. Thus, your % chance of being a victim is up.
But, this is just a statistic. Your locale will greatly affect your individual results. There are still places around that have effectively zero crime rates, if you look for them. Cities will have a higher % chance, and your location within that city will have an effect, too-- simply because there are more people within easy travel to where YOU are.
Is the Great Human Experiment degrading into a mess-o-crime? No. Not even a tiny bit. We're about the same, overall, as we were in the past.
Is our perception of ourselves 'tainted' with a view that we are more amoral than we were? Certainly-- crime stories SELL media. Stories about how "all is well" do not. Which stories will make the 5'oclock news and above the fold?
2) Is is sexist to think that hot firefighter calenders (male) are acceptable and alright while many think that the female version is just another form of negative-porn? Or do you think it is all unacceptable?
Porn is only sexist, if the person(s) involved were forced, coerced or in some other way induced against their will(s) to partake.
Whatever two (or more) adults choose to do between themselves is None Of My Business, and is not porn in my book.
On the other hand, sex slavery should be abolished when and where it is found, as should child porn. The perps should be removed from society at large, permanently.
3) Do you carry a checkbook-- paper checks you tear out and give to the merchant? Or do you only use a debit/check card? Do you think paper checks are oblsolete? Do you use a credit card for every purchase and then pay it all off on a monthly basis?
I literally can not recall when I last wrote out a paper check-- I think I remember where the darn thing (checkbook) actually is, but I'm far from certain.
Debit card or cash. Cash most often, these days. I even pay my utilities with cash mosttimes.
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1) Jelly doughnuts? Or plain? Glazed? Choco? Creme-filled? What is your favorite type of toroidal fat bomb? Or, if *shudder* you don't actually like doughnuts, what's wrong with you? :mrgreen:
2) Coffee? Tea? Both, neither? What is your favorite beverage of choice-- which one do you partake of most often, when and why.
3) American style Pasta (completely cooked until soft) or Aldente? Why? (and we won't even consider those who *shudder* don't like pasta.... truly we won't. Just leave it blank, and we'll all light a candle for you....)
1) Jelly doughnuts? Or plain? Glazed? Choco? Creme-filled? What is your favorite type of toroidal fat bomb? Or, if *shudder* you don't actually like doughnuts, what's wrong with you?
Glazed, to match my eyes.
2) Coffee? Tea? Both, neither? What is your favorite beverage of choice-- which one do you partake of most often, when and why.
Both. Coffee first thing, Coffee at work, Tea at home after I get in. But San Pellegrino (water)is my favorite beverag - I buy it by the case. A friend odered it for me at a fancy restaurant in Tunbridge Wells, and I fell in love with it at first sip.
3) American style Pasta (completely cooked until soft) or Aldente? Why? (and we won't even consider those who *shudder* don't like pasta.... truly we won't. Just leave it blank, and we'll all light a candle for you....)
Al Dente, of course. Boiled soft reminds me of Fried Okra. :o
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1. How many friends have you 'lost' for something you did?
2. Have you ever eaten a flower?
3. Have you ever been the place a cat preferred to sleep?
1. How many friends have you 'lost' for something you did?
Friends, none. Acquaintances, yes.
Boyfriends, that's another category, and one that goes both ways...
2. Have you ever eaten a flower?
Yes. Glazed organic violet petals and such on petits fours.
3. Have you ever been the place a cat preferred to sleep?
Most of my life. Wouldn't have it any other way. (Hmmm, I see that this question relates back to #1: interpreted as an unforgivable fault by a humorless *ex*boyfriend.)
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Do you generally listen to favored cds start-to-finish? Or is your Ipod / cd changer / other set to play selectons at random?
Do you let your food touch? (!)
Wildflowers or hot house blooms?
Do you generally listen to favored cds start-to-finish? Or is your Ipod / cd changer / other set to play selectons at random?
Start-to-finish, even of one or two songs is not exactly to my liking. Got into that habit, back in the days when LP's were King, and Record Changers were the Latest tech. 8-track players, too. I was smart, tho, I recorded my own 8-tracks off of purchased LP's.....
Never was much for editing.
Do you let your food touch? (!) Sure! Why not? I've been known to pile it all together on the plate, higgledy-piggledy. I'm always up for trying a new "mix". Last night, I was finishing off a mac-and-cheese, and for the last plate, thought, "why not" and dumped some plum preserves on top, just for a "new" flavor. Was okay. Wouldn't want the whole thing that way, but a single helping? I'll probabily do it again, sometime.
Wildflowers or hot house blooms? Wildflowers, or anything else that doesn't need direct attention by anyone (other than wild insects/birds/animals). Am a big fan of local plants or the so-called "native varieties". These plants evolved to actually live in the local area, and are used to the weather 'round here. No need for watering, plant-food, etc.
Indoors? The only plants I have are gifts, that because I'm stubborn, I keep alive. Except for the rye grass pot, which is for the cats to munch on. For instance, I still have a "peace lily" that I was given when I accidentally removed the first finger and most of my left-hand thumb (since sewn back on). It's been re-potted 3 times so far, and is showing signs of needing a larger pot soon. Once in a great while, it will bloom. Usually after I've forgotten to water it for a couple of weeks, and it partially wilts. I suppose, it "thinks": "Oh, Crap! Drought! We must reproduce, Just In Case!" Works every time: about a week after I rehydrate it and "bring it back to life" it will sprout several flowers.... I just have never deliberately tried it.
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1) Since, obviously, you use a PC/mac on a regular basis, are you considered the local "computer guru" where you are? Or does someone else keep your computer "housed and fed" for you?
2) You have a chance to go on an All Expenses Week vacation, to Anywhere in the World. The catch is that you must go by yourself. Would you go? Where? Why? (or why not)
3) You've just been given a chance: you can have total Creative Control of your very own, no-holds barred TV show, complete with a staff of writers (you select) actors (you choose) and so on.
Or else, you can Star in a TV show, but someone ELSE will dictate your role.
Which would you choose?
1) Since, obviously, you use a PC/mac on a regular basis, are you considered the local "computer guru" where you are? Or does someone else keep your computer "housed and fed" for you?
Computer guru and I are not the same entity. I manage fairly well-- but when something really goes bad- that's me yelling down the hall ; "Bill! would you come to dispatch please? I need help."
2) You have a chance to go on an All Expenses Week vacation, to Anywhere in the World. The catch is that you must go by yourself. Would you go? Where? Why? (or why not)
Africa-Uganda- Mountain Gorilla territory---- that would be a dream, even alone.
3) You've just been given a chance: you can have total Creative Control of your very own, no-holds barred TV show, complete with a staff of writers (you select) actors (you choose) and so on.
Or else, you can Star in a TV show, but someone ELSE will dictate your role.
Which would you choose?
The first option. It would star Johnny Depp and Naveen Andrews and I would be the love interest(I'm the boss so I can star as well as have creative control) :YaY: Seriously-- I would choose the first option and it would probably be along the lines of extreme animal activist television, starring Johnny Depp and Naveen Andrews who just happen to fall madly in _____ with the very hot anthropologist......
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1) In your opinion what is the best movie EVER! numero uno movie that everyone must see and that you will watch over and over and never get enough of.
2) In your opinion what is the worst movie EVER! big stinky of all that should be buried and forgotten and left to become dust in the wind.
3) Can you watch movies in a foreign language with out subtitles or your native language voice over and enjoy them as well as other movies? Is it more than a simple 'language' barrier?
I don't want to spoil it for others, so I will answer only parts.
I do not think there is a single best movie but I think there could be an inofficial canon (what became of that thread btw?)
If there indeed is a single worst movie of all time, it should be seen (exceptions only for people that really could not bear it or would turn into violent maniacs as a result). I guess it would be either a propaganda piece and/or terror-prawn (look for 'zombie' 'cannibal' 'holocaust' etc. as a title hint or character names like 'Ilsa'). Were there any rumors that Paris Hilton will play Juliet opposite John Wayne Bobbit as Romeo? personal prejudice: something out of B/L-ollywood could also have a chance.
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Concerning foreign movies without subtitles or dubbing: Provided I can see it with enough info once, I have no problem to do it again without.
No new questions from me. The next one may try his/her luck with the previous.
OK, I am NOT a big movie fan...Like 'em, prefer books.
1) In your opinion what is the best movie EVER! numero uno movie that everyone must see and that you will watch over and over and never get enough of.
I can't watch ANYTHING forever, but I DO love Blazing Saddles to distraction. (Yes, Mel Brooks humor. Also love Young Frankenstein, Producers, 14 Chairs, etc.)
2) In your opinion what is the worst movie EVER! big stinky of all that should be buried and forgotten and left to become dust in the wind.
Surf Nazis Must Die. Had to tolerate the noise from it while watching/participating in Rocky Horror one midnight showing. Blech.
3) Can you watch movies in a foreign language with out subtitles or your native language voice over and enjoy them as well as other movies? Is it more than a simple 'language' barrier?
I have 'problematic' hearing. I do well with subtitles in MY language, much less others. Dub overs ONLY if previous speaking parts are TOTALLY out, otherwise I can't distinguish anything. I am NOT proficient at languages AT ALL, so I need all the help I can get. So, can you see why I prefer books?
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1. Favorite fiction author (any genre)?
2. Favorite non-fiction author? (yes, any genre)
3. Worst book by a previously good author??
1. Favorite fiction author (any genre)?
Pratchett, of course! Though Gaiman is a very close second.
2. Favorite non-fiction author? (yes, any genre)
Immanuel Kant? I really like his ethics theory.
3. Worst book by a previously good author??
I like Mercedes Lackey. Can't lie, she's my literary vice.
Elvenbane was terrible! Positively horrible!
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1. Who is your favorite comedian?
2. Silliest landmark you've ever been to (voluntarily or otherwise)?
3. Records, tapes, CDs or MP3s--which is your favorite format?
1. Who is your favorite comedian?
I don't have a single favorite: Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Eddie Izzard. Used to be Dennis Miller and Bill Maher, but they love themselves so much anymore that they don't need my paltry fandom.
2. Silliest landmark you've ever been to (voluntarily or otherwise)?
Exact center of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere (http://www.mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/Poniatowski.html)
3. Records, tapes, CDs or MP3s--which is your favorite format?
You left 8-tracks off this list! Alas, you never knew the joy of hearing your favorite song rudely interrupted by a ker-CHUNK! as the track changed. It added that certain je ne sais quoi.
I prefer cds because they are tangible goods, and you can make tapes or MP3s from them for other purposes.
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1. Iconoclast or iconographer?
2. Do you prefer 2D (paintings, prints, photographs) or 3D (sculpture, vahhhses, objets d'art) to personalize your space?
3. Piles of decorator pillows on couch and chairs: inviting and comfy or irritating and fussy?
1. Iconoclast or iconographer?
Iconoclast, of course :) (and you made me look those words up, just to be sure what they meant--- I got the 2nd one right, but the first one I had all wrong.) #2 in the definition would fit many of those people I admire.
For the edification of those of us who did not previously know: (from www.dictionary.com)
i·con·o·clast –noun
1. a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration.
2. a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
i·co·nog·ra·phy –noun, plural -phies.
1. symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
2. subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation.
3. the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
4. a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing, as a portrait or a collection of portraits.
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i·con·o·graph, noun
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2. Do you prefer 2D (paintings, prints, photographs) or 3D (sculpture, vahhhses, objets d'art) to personalize your space?
2D paintings. Original, if possible, but photography is acceptable. Don't have any posters anymore-- too commercial, I suppose.
3. Piles of decorator pillows on couch and chairs: inviting and comfy or irritating and fussy? Neither. I don't have any such things-- two chairs in the living room. When company comes, I must get out folding chairs (which are quite comfortable, actually..... they are canvis, but have a lean to the back, not a "director's chair" style. Not unlike a semi-recliner).
In other people's homes, I assume that pillows on sitting apparatus are for cushions and NOT for decor. Furniture that is JUST for decor is an abomination-- a representation of Selfishness, a "look at what I have! Don't Sit! It's for Bragging, Only!" This would include "decorator only" pillows that must be removed, in order to utilize the furniture. Life's too short for such idiocy.
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1) 4 wheels, doors and a roof, as an "A to B" apparatus, or your beloved car-car is an extension of YOU? (or do you prefer some other number of wheels... like 2 or 10 or 1?)
2) Do you DO your job, or ARE you your job?
3) Is Life, a Means to an End, or is it that Life Itself IS the Means?
1) 4 wheels, doors and a roof, as an "A to B" apparatus, or your beloved car-car is an extension of YOU? (or do you prefer some other number of wheels... like 2 or 10 or 1?)
It was most definitely not an extension of me. Just a mode of transport.
2) Do you DO your job, or ARE you your job?
As much as I enjoy being a 'Bucks cog, I am not my job. I DO my job and I do it well, but this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life, so therefore, I am not it.
3) Is Life, a Means to an End, or is it that Life Itself IS the Means?
Life is a means. If I am wrong, and there IS some higher being, than I have no doubt we were placed here to learn, and life is that learning. I live like that regardless, but none the less, it's what I think.
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1. What is the single most effective way to deal with terrorism?
2. Should the rest of the world recognize Kosovo?
3. What is the value of blogs in today's world?
1. What is the single most effective way to deal with terrorism?
For the long term, education and economic development. Most terrorism is the result of ignorance and despair.
2. Should the rest of the world recognize Kosovo?
At this point, yes. I am not all that much in favor of countries breaking up, but I don't see any sort of peaceful resolution that would not have Kosovo going its own way.
3. What is the value of blogs in today's world?
An alternative to corporate news. The big news outlets have to toe the corporate party line these days, and blogs dan give a different viewpoint. Of course, one still needs to do some research to decide which viewpoint is correct, but seeing things from different angles is useful.
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1) Are you a dog person or a cat person (or something else)?
2) What is your favorite dish to cook?
3) With Castro stepping down, what will be the future of Cuba?
1) Are you a dog person or a cat person (or something else)?
Dog person with strong cat person leanings. The ideal situation would be some of both, as I am a fan of multiple critter households, but we're not able to support and properly care for more that one fuzzy family member at a time. (I inherited/rescued Spencer and Preston together, and worked hard to be able to afford both of them. Still paying off vet bills from the chinaberry incident.)
2) What is your favorite dish to cook?
Red beans and rice with sausage?
Shrimp etouffe?
Chicken fried steak?
Chicken enchilada casserole?
Pasta Primavera used to top the list.
I used to love cooking. Still do, just have some problems.
3) With Castro stepping down, what will be the future of Cuba?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEufacF1bRA
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1. If Cuba opens up to US travellers, would you (assuming you're a US citizen) go there, even if the State Department is going to be stupid about it?
2. Can you swim well enough to make it to shore from a half mile out?
3. What is the longest train trip you've ever taken?
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3) With Castro stepping down, what will be the future of Cuba?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEufacF1bRA
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:desperate: (literally laughing out loud at the punchline..)
Thanks, I needed that!
1. If Cuba opens up to US travellers, would you (assuming you're a US citizen) go there, even if the State Department is going to be stupid about it?
Not that I could afford it, but if I could, I would. It is a place with a rich culture and a certain mystique. It would probably be quite interesting to visit.
2. Can you swim well enough to make it to shore from a half mile out?
I don't think I'm a strong enough swimmer to fight the current easily.
3. What is the longest train trip you've ever taken?
Across the northern United States from Washington D.C. to Seattle, Washington in the late 1970's. It took a couple of days, but it was very cool. We were in one of those trains with the observation deck on top. (Do they still have those?) I really loved the dining cars, just sitting and eating meals with strangers going other places (especially old people with lots of stories) while watching the scenery go by. I would definitely do it again. Much more relaxing than the plane.
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1) Planes, trains, automobiles or boats: what's your fave for a long voyage and why?
2) If someone yells "Hey! There's a rainbow!" or "Look at this sunset!", do you drop everything and go to look?
3) If you wind up at a friend's child's birthday party, do you participate?
1) Planes, trains, automobiles or boats: what's your fave for a long voyage and why?
Bullet train. Quiet, smooth, fast, you can see the countryside up close but the scenery changes quickly, and they sell beer.
2) If someone yells "Hey! There's a rainbow!" or "Look at this sunset!", do you drop everything and go to look?
Absolutely!
3) If you wind up at a friend's child's birthday party, do you participate?
Heck yeah. Last time I think I even brought the coolest present (model rocket kit for a 11 y.o. boy; even got some Grandma stink-eye for Most Dangerous Gift ;) ).
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1) What's the biggest / weirdest rainbow you've ever seen?
2) What is/was your favorite type of sprinkler to run through on a hot summer day?
3) 18 complete seasons of the Simpsons on DVD - heaven or hell?*
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1) What's the biggest / weirdest rainbow you've ever seen?
A double rainbow - 2nd one above and slightly to the left of the first (don't ask how I knew which was first!)
2) What is/was your favorite type of sprinkler to run through on a hot summer day?
I don't. The water would blunt my rapier.
3) 18 complete seasons of the Simpsons on DVD - heaven or hell?*
Heaven, but I'd prefer it on HD as I have to get up to change DVD's.
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1. Should all advertising aimed at children be banned?
2. What do you think it would have been like to live next door to Sherlock Holmes?
3. If you have to sleep in a bunk bed do you prefer upper or lower berth and why?
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3) 18 complete seasons of the Simpsons on DVD - heaven or hell?*
Heaven, but I'd prefer it on HD as I have to get up to change DVD's.
It's 2 seasons per disc and very definitely not HD - most of it appears to be recorded from TV. ;)
1. Should all advertising aimed at children be banned?
Absofriggin'lutely. Children lack the skeptical-mindset to truly understand that they are being manipulated. (okay, so do most adults, but Children are defined as "innocent" and should be protected from themselves. I'm a huge fan of NOT protecting ADULTS from the consequences of their own stupidity.)
2. What do you think it would have been like to live next door to Sherlock Holmes?
Most interesting, initially. After some time, probabily frustrating as all heck. On the other hand, if EVER I lost something, and I was on good, friendly neighborly terms, I bet I could figure out how to interest him in applying his considerable skills in helping me find it.... ::)
A reason to ALWAYS invite him to the backyard BarBQ... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
3. If you have to sleep in a bunk bed do you prefer upper or lower berth and why?
Top. I'm a light sleeper, most times, and ANY noise, movement, etc will wake me up. The creak of the springs as the upper bunk turns over (EVERYone, unless they are physically unable, rolls in their sleep) would keep me awake.
Plus I have a touch of claustrophobia, and for some reason, bottom bunks seem to aggravate that.
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1) a) Do It Yourself, if at all possible? b) Or enlist the aid of someone else? (friend, relative, etc) c) Or, take it to a professional?
Or, some combination of the above-- like, a) first, then b) and if all else fails, c)
2) Home made bread or pre-packaged store-bought (aka, Wonder Bread) or Artisan Bread (as available in many bakeries, now)
3) What's your favorite brand/flavor/style of Donut? (now, be honest-- who doesn't at least like those little fat bombs? :D )
1) a) Do It Yourself, if at all possible? b) Or enlist the aid of someone else? (friend, relative, etc) c) Or, take it to a professional?
Or, some combination of the above-- like, a) first, then b) and if all else fails, c)
Step 1: Invite a friend, buy a lot of beer. Drink some beer, see that it doesn't work.
Step 2: Invite another friend, buy more beer. Drink beer, see that it doesn't work.
Step 3: Invite more friends, buy even more beer. Drink beer, try to do it, see it doesn't work.
Step 4: Buy more beer, drink beer.
Step 5: Wake up with hang-over, take some aspirin, call professional.
The number of steps can vary, depending on the amount of beer/friends.
2) Home made bread or pre-packaged store-bought (aka, Wonder Bread) or Artisan Bread (as available in many bakeries, now)
Home made, vbut no time to bake it...
3) What's your favorite brand/flavor/style of Donut? (now, be honest-- who doesn't at least like those little fat bombs? Cheesy )
Donuts filled with vanilla pudding... Mmmmmmm...
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1. Evening out with friends: restaurant, pub, club, or go home, watch TV and fall asleep at 9Pm?
2. Favourite pub/restaurant?
3. If I go to your country/city, what would you recommend me to do/visit?
Bonus: Did you miss me? :P
1. Evening out with friends: restaurant, pub, club, or go home, watch TV and fall asleep at 9Pm?
restaurant 1st(used to be big on cooking at home but not so much any more, then home but not necessarily to sleep (movies, games, etc)
2. Favourite pub/restaurant?
I really like this place across from the university called Van-Lang(fusion of Asian styles-homestyle, very heavy on veggies and fruit with minimal fuss and it is very inexpensive). Chains---- I like waffle House because they are open 24/7 and have good coffee
3. If I go to your country/city, what would you recommend me to do/visit?
Ok USA--- you must at some point in your life visit the state of Arizona-- the entire state- stay a while-- must see the Grand Canyon of the Colorado (http://www.nps.gov/grca/) and Kartchner Caverns (http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/kartchner.html) before you die. Arizona is the best!
Ok in the state of Arkansas-----
You gotta see "the big damn bridge" (http://www.markpettersen.com/personal/big-bridge.htm), visit Pinnacle Mountain (http://www.mountainstateparks.com/pinnacle/)state park, and come to my house and we'll go on a city/state tour AB style, there is alot to see in AR as well.
Bonus: Did you miss me?
oh silly ---- of course we/I did.....
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1) If I visit your local area what should I see/do-- not miss?
2) Do you like popcorn-- what kind, what do you put on it?
3) What is your first memory?
1) If I visit your local area what should I see/do-- not miss?
Let's see. Tulsa is in Green Country, basically the NE corner of the state, and is (mostly) green-- lots of interesting geology, not so flat, streams, etc.
Lakes? Yes there are a number of lakes around her-- Tenkiller is the clearest water; it's a deep-water lake, with mostly limestone and flint as it's base. Often you'll see scuba dive flags on it. But, there's other lakes, too.
Tulsa itself? Well, we have the William's Tower downtown. It's an actual 1-2 scale replica of the World Trade Center towers, except that the space between floors is the usual 10-12 feet. But, it has 55 floors instead of 100+ that the trade center had. The same architect, as I recall, designed it.
We have a world-class golf course, if you're into that. It's a *hoidy-toidy* members only, though. Something-or-other country club (I forget). But, it regularly hosts national golf tournaments.
There's a world-class University in mid-town. Tulsa University. There's also a world-class FUNDIE "university" too.... Queer-Bob-U I mean Oral Roberts University. You ought to drive by, at least, and see the giant bronze hands out front.... worth a laugh, at least.
Let's see. There's the old IPE (International Petroleum Exposition) building, with a giant statue of an oil man out front. It USED to house the annual IPE events, until that was moved to Houston because of our antiquated liquor laws (since repealed).
Downtown is being renovated....again. They seem to have money for that, but still can't fix the friggin' potholes in the major streets.... *bleah* What else?
We have one of the best Zoos in the Midwest, according to people who rate those things.
Plenty to eat, too. We have a sizable Mexican population, so it's easy to locate REAL Mexican food. We have TexMex, too of course.
There's enough Asians around, that we have any number of good Asian (Chinese/Japanese/Thai/etc) places. There's even a place that serves India-style food, but I haven't been to it yet. Am saving up. Once a year, there's a Native American Green Onion Fest. Worth the 30-50 minute wait in line. But, it's a "you have to know" kinda thing. I must remember to ask around, for this year, where it's being held.
2) Do you like popcorn-- what kind, what do you put on it?
Nowadays, microwave. I buy the "extra fat" 'butter' kind. On it? Fresh ground black pepper-- generous. Powdered garlic. Seasoned salt. Onion powder. Cajun spice mix. Drizzle olive oil (if I can't find the "extra butter" variety). Combinations of these. Once in a while, I sacrifice a box of Mac&Cheese and use the powdered cheese from that. Makes a quite tasty cheesey popcorn. The leftover mac gets plain ol' red sauce instead (no waste, no want).
3) What is your first memory?
Being blown out the door of a house trailer by a near-tornado wind. Was 2-ish at the time. Was made over so much, is why I imagine I still remember. It was in Hays, Kansas and the area was all rural. Nowadays, it's all urban-- we stopped by not long ago, and ate at the restaurant that the old church had become. My dad built that building as a Church, back then. Lasted for years and years. Many, many years later, the church sold the land/building at a nice profit, and was able to purchase outright a newer, larger building for themselves.
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1) If you're in a big hurry, but need to eat, what do you resort to? Skipping the meal entirely? A quick pass through McD's (or equivalent) drive up? Quick-nuke of a TV 'dinner?' Stop and eat anyway, even if you're late...?
3) In a conversation with others, when you detect an error in their speech, do you point it out right away? Or, point it out later, in private? Or try your best to just ignore it...?
2) Do you keep your kitchen [food, spices, edibles] organized, with everything in it's place, or do you just stuff things where they will fit, at the time of bringing them home?
1) If you're in a big hurry, but need to eat, what do you resort to? Skipping the meal entirely? A quick pass through McD's (or equivalent) drive up? Quick-nuke of a TV 'dinner?' Stop and eat anyway, even if you're late...?
First option NOW is stop and eat. The ignore it option bought me an ulcer... Fast food is--a problem. It's also, for me, "fast passage" food, so no MickeyD's. I can do MAYBE a Whataburger (issues with pre-prepped foods and an enzyme that's created as they sit--makes eating an adventure) but best is a sit-down place where I can get specific info on the food, the prep and the timing. [Sounds picky, but I can literally be incapacitated by eating something that's been sitting out for a short time, then refrigerated, heated up and served. Carcinoid sucks.] Option otherwise?? Get one of the generic poptart packages out of my med bag. Gotta carry them, or cheese crackers, or a jar of peanut butter everywhere.
3) In a conversation with others, when you detect an error in their speech, do you point it out right away? Or, point it out later, in private? Or try your best to just ignore it...?
Depends on who it is. Generally, just ignore it. Someone who is trying to learn better grammar/speech patterns? I'll save and teach when not in 'company' or correct gently if one-on-one. Someone who is trying to push themselves as an authority on something, as the 'guy in charge' because he WANTS to be?? Bust 'em right then, in front of Zeus and everybody. :mrgreen:
2) Do you keep your kitchen [food, spices, edibles] organized, with everything in it's place, or do you just stuff things where they will fit, at the time of bringing them home?
My kitchen is too--disjointed--to organize well. The house is almost 100 years old, and there's nowhere near enough storage space in the kitchen. We don't have a fully functional kitchen, either...assorted small appliances stand in for an oven and cooktop. (I need gas service to the house. I need a plumber, some re-piping and money for the deposit.)
It all gets put on a shelf by Dan when we get home (I have to go crash) and later on, I attempt to bring order out of chaos that includes a bookshelf instead of a pantry, and a shelf that's too high for me to reach fol some stuff.
I gotta clean out that damnable refrigerator. There's a bottle of ancient eggnog hiding in a back corner...
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1) Would you rather read a book or watch a movie?
2) What color attracts you attention most when shopping? (This may not be your favorite color, just the one that gets you to look at things.)
3. Crisps/chips and dip or crackers and cheese?
1) Would you rather read a book or watch a movie?
How about write one?
2) What color attracts you attention most when shopping? (This may not be your favorite color, just the one that gets you to look at things.)
Lime green, cantalope, bright blue, deep red, certain shades of orange. Butter yellow. Certain shades of grey ;).
3. Crisps/chips and dip or crackers and cheese?
There's a Caribbean sauce that's super good with cream cheese and crackers. I'll take that, please.
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1. What makes you happiest?
2. What is your current mood?
3. What is the philosophy by which you live your life?
1. What makes you happiest?
when I can actually pull off #3 below, when my daughters are both home and we are all piled on the couch together
2. What is your current mood?
Just now reading back over some of the replies to this thread-- connected to the world--- can I call that a mood?
3. What is the philosophy by which you live your life?
the whole 'do unto others' thing-- not in a biblical sense because someone said I have to, but just because I am a human and they are a human and we as humans should treat each other as human ( I do include non-human primates here as well, I know several of them too well to dismiss them as anything but worthy of simple dignity and respect, from me they get much more)-- this is a two way street, kick me like a can and well that tells me that is how you want to be treated in return, don't kick people when they are down(unless of course you are the one that had to put them down, I'm thinking along the lines of child molesters here), attempt to leave behind a place in better shape than when you got there (environment, planet, feelings, dreams, rooms, work, etc), at minimum to express to one single person a day what they mean to me-- we so often get in a routine of 'bye going to work/school-love you'-of course we love that person but- I try and stop and look that person in the eye and tell them it's more than I love you-so much more.
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1) Do you ever dream about people you know online- like sibling toadfish?
2) Have you ever been bitten by fireants> Was it what you expected based on reports of them you have heard or bad but not that bad
3) If you had the chance for one big huge great do over of an event in your life- would you, what, why
OK, back to inquiring minds want to know...
1) Do you ever dream about people you know online- like sibling toadfish?
Yep. Recently, Aggie's been sent do supervise oilfield stuff here in this area, Pieces got a job at A&M being in charge of the University's Graphic Arts EVERYTHING, and Swato was hired to teach there, tenure track, and I introduced him to a lovely woman I know who teaches German and French at a private school...it's in Indianapolis, but distance didn't seem to matter.
Before that, Alpaca chose to go to Rice in Houston and so did Qwerty. And Scrib went to U of H because the speech department's better. (I listed Grey/Scrib as having resided with me for 2 years to get her in-state tuition.)
2) Have you ever been bitten by fireants> Was it what you expected based on reports of them you have heard or bad but not that bad
Yep.
Huge blisters that burned like blazing hell for 3 days, then just hurt for another 2-3 weeks. I ran a temperature for over a week, and was nauseated for most of it.
(I'd rescued my Mom's 16 year old blind dog from a fire ant bed after a meter reader left the gate open and he went wandering into a field. The gas company paid my doctor bill and the dog's vet bill. Mine was $230, the dog's, by virtue of more bites on a much smaller body, ran a little over $900. I also chained the fence closed, and they had to come through the house to see the meter. One guy jumped the fence and then went out it and left it open and I saw him do it. I flattened all four tires on his vehicle and called the gas company to tell them what he did.)
3) If you had the chance for one big huge great do over of an event in your life- would you, what, why
My birth. I'd delay it by 2 or 3 years. My sister and I were born too close together...especially since Mom also miscarried between the births. We were 18 months apart...
The why? Mom's body wasn't ready to support another pregnancy. I was half a foot shorter than the next shortest sibling (my sister) and by the size of my legs and arms, hands and feet, SHOULD have been much taller. It might have also prevented some of the genetic problems that have given me so much trouble.
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1. What is one very important lesson you actually learned in "high school" (or the equivalent)?
2. Do you sing? and if so, can you sing harmonies?
3. Who is your favorite cartoon character? (Animated, strip or book, any genre.)
1. What is one very important lesson you actually learned in "high school" (or the equivalent)?
That people are effing idiots and deeply corrupt in certain ways. I had always hoped people were generally smarter and more honest. But I learned better when I started grading my debate coach's senior English papers.
OMFG, dumb! These people were seniors in high school but I don't think I wrote that badly in middle school! And then the principal forced her to pass these kids, even though they shouldn't have, just so the school didn't look bad.
2. Do you sing? and if so, can you sing harmonies?
I do sing, but mostly to annoy my choir sister, since I'm terrible.
3. Who is your favorite cartoon character? (Animated, strip or book, any genre.)
Aaron Stack, the Captain and Bloodstone from NextWave or Jones from Desolation Jones.
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1. What do you usually dream about?
2. What's your favorite shirt look like?
3. What's your silliest vice that you indulge in?
1. What do you usually dream about?
Am in school (shifts randomly from elementary through post-college depending on scene). I have just realized that I signed up for some class which I have not attended all semester. I am in a final for a maths class for which I was supposed to keep a daily journal all semester, "showing my work". I have not done this. I have no idea how to do the maths problems because I am a fine arts major, dammit! I need to drop the missed class quickly because the semester is about to close, but need to know what it is and find the registrar's office. I am trying to get to a physics class, but keep winding up in a phy-ed wing instead, and am the only person sneaking - fast - through the gymn in street clothes. I also need to go to other classes; cannot remember what else I am taking. Of course, my class schedule with info is in my locker. No idea which wing it is in, or what the combination is. If I locate the locker and open the locker, I cannot read the schedule. I am schlepping around a weird collection of notebooks and texts. Suddenly, there are strange interpolations of "seminary lite" classes and events; I once "filled in" for the homily as presiding priest disappeared...
At this point my brain starts to dimly suspect I may be dreaming...
2. What's your favorite shirt look like?
Ahhh, one I purchased after wearing it in my brief phase as a community model for a couple of my favorite boutiques. (That was a few years and a couple chocolates ago!) It is an ivory silk with a "racing silks" print. I have carefully preserved it lo, these many years and hope never to surrender it.
3. What's your silliest vice that you indulge in?
I love "super hot" Hot Tamales.
Drop one in an opened diet coke. Drink fast! before inevitable chemical reaction. Laugh hilariously at cat. Wait for blood sugar to return to normal.
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1. If you could relive one great day, what would it be?
2. Favorite mental vacation place?
3. Hot Tamales or M&Ms?
1. If you could relive one great day, what would it be?
There's one day, when I actually had a connection with a woman (with whom I've since lost touch) that was real. Details omitted, but there was great conversation among other things.
My one great regret is failing to "take a hint" that she broadly dropped my way, several times.... *sigh*
2. Favorite mental vacation place?
Alternate reality. Usually loosely based on one or more of my favorite fictional "worlds"
3. Hot Tamales or M&Ms?
Neither. Not much of a candy person.
But, if I had to pick between one of those-- peanut butter M&M's if such existed.
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1) Fiction or nonfiction. Why?
3) See the movie first, or read the book it's based on first? Why?
2) Orderly bedroom, or chaos? Care if company notices (either state)?
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1) Fiction or nonfiction. Why?
Fiction! I'm fascinated by certain concepts--magic, teleportation, humanoid species, Fate, and more than a few other things.
3) See the movie first, or read the book it's based on first? Why?
I'd rather read the book first, but it doesn't always happen. Sometimes I on;y find out later there's a book/comic that it's based on.
2) Orderly bedroom, or chaos? Care if company notices (either state)?
Chaos! My room tends to be an inordinate disaster--clothes, books, shoes and papers litter the floor. But I can find everything
(except my math book...) and I have a path cleared from the bed to the door.
I'd be mortified if anyone but close family saw it like this, though.
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1. What do you look for in music?
2. Believe in coincidences?
3. Are you too mean for Davey Jones' locker?
1. What do you look for in music?
Mostly, I like intricate music. The style doesn't matter that much as long as the interplay of the themes gives the mind a lot to work with. For example, I love Bach. His fugues are great.
2. Believe in coincidences?
Yes. While the chance of a particular coincidence occurring is pretty small, the chance that some coincidence will happen is pretty good. I am not one that thinks everything that happens must have meaning and purpose. I am a believer in Sh!t Happens.
3. Are you too mean for Davey Jones' locker?
I would like to think so, but in reality...NO.
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1) What was your favorite class in school?
2) Who is your favorite Sci-Fi author and why?
3) Did you ever want to be an astronaut?
1) What was your favorite class in school?
Biology, natch. I remember one year, had a particularly easy teacher. I had taken the text book home the first coupla weeks, read what interested me, returned it to my locker, never opening it again. I made A's anyway, though. The book was essentially review-- little that was new to me that year. Was 9th grade, I think.
2) Who is your favorite Sci-Fi author and why?
Depends on the day of the week. ::) Asimov? Heinlein? Pratchett? I dunno. If I had to stick to one and only one... Heinlein I guess.
3) Did you ever want to be an astronaut?
Oh, certainly. When the Apollo program was going on, I avidly followed it-- built plastic models of each stage and stuff like that. At some point, someone pointed out that a person with glasses would never qualify for the physical, a bit of me died.
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3) When reading forum comments, do you notice the little things, or totally ignore that, and just pay attention to the message?
1) Do on-line spelling, diction and grammar mistakes bother you? Do you correct them if you 'quote' the person?
2) Or do you 'save them up' in case you want to insult or belittle the poster in some way?
G) When reading forum comments, do you notice the little things, or totally ignore that, and just pay attention to the message?
How awake am I at the time? Do I feel OK, or am I seriously in need of 5 units of Sando and a lobotomy?? It alll depends!!
N) Do on-line spelling, diction and grammar mistakes bother you? Do you correct them if you 'quote' the person?
I notice them, because I was married to a j-prof, and journalists make EVERYBODY become an editor. They generally don't bother me, and I don't correct them if I quote. A quote's a quote, not an adaptation.
U) Or do you 'save them up' in case you want to insult or belittle the poster in some way?
Oh, if I wanna insult and belittle somebody, it'll be for stuff they've just done that pisses me off...I'se ebil, but I'se current and ebil... :devil:
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Z) How many 'cosmetic' items (anything beyond soap/shampoo and water) do you use in your regular grooming?
O) Do you regularly use a perfume/cologne/aftershave? If so what kind of scent?
G) Can you tolerate fragrance laden household cleaners, or do you go far as little added smell as possible?
Z) How many 'cosmetic' items (anything beyond soap/shampoo and water) do you use in your regular grooming?
Zero (apart from plain anti-perspirant). I'm the wrong generation, both mentally, and in the sense of being too old and ugly for anything but boiling nitric acid to work an improvement.
O) Do you regularly use a perfume/cologne/aftershave? If so what kind of scent?
Nope. But I suspect there's an industrial sized spray can of Brut 33 left over in the cupboard somewhere from when I was about 13 and was convinced it would alter the odds in my favour.
G) Can you tolerate fragrance laden household cleaners, or do you go far as little added smell as possible?
Don't really notice one way or another. Generally by the time I get round to cleaning my house it needs something with the subtlety of Jeyes Fluid, or the aforementioned acid (so versatile).
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a) What's the scariest word in the English language?
b) Which are worst, Daleks or Cybermen?
c) Where's the sidelight switch on a Volvo?
a) What's the scariest word in the English language?
Believe.
b) Which are worst, Daleks or Cybermen?
Cybermen. For were they not once human? The Daleks were always just Monsters.
c) Where's the sidelight switch on a Volvo?
Absolutely baffled. Never owned or rented a Volvo. But one of my best friends has one, maybe I'll ask him.
If I had to guess, I'd say it was automatic, a part of the turn signal system?
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@) Do you regularly change your PC's desktop picture? Or is it one of the "generic" ones that came with the operating system?
*) Do you Trust The Government? Why or Why Not?
() Have you ever considered, as a protest, not filing Income Tax (or your country's equivalent)? Purely hypothetical, of course (hear that homeland security? purely hypothetical... )
@) Do you regularly change your PC's desktop picture? Or is it one of the "generic" ones that came with the operating system?
I did on this one but it slowed the performance of this antique piece of electronics so I do not anymore. On my PC at home I like the one the company put on it (not Microsoft abaominations), so I did not change it.
*) Do you Trust The Government? Why or Why Not?
On average I do in most areas, since they have not given me much reason of distrust yet as far as my person is concerned. I may think them incompetent on a regular base but thta's the way it is.
() Have you ever considered, as a protest, not filing Income Tax (or your country's equivalent)? Purely hypothetical, of course (hear that homeland security? purely hypothetical... )
I considered due to lack of taxable income but They mailed me to prove it. That was a bit difficult (how do you prove a negative) but I managed and they have left me in quiet since then.
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ß) Are you often plagued by stomach trouble?
ö) If yes, what do you do, if not, how?
ä) sensitive to seasickness or related illnesses?
ß) Are you often plagued by stomach trouble?
26/8/379...MORE than daily. Of course, it's me, with the carcinoid and all...
ö) If yes, what do you do, if not, how?
Let's see. Nexium, (PPI) for starters. Also my Giant Vat of Pepcid, and then Gaviscon, and a pancreatic enzyme, fresh-ground nutmeg if I HAVE to...sleep sorta propped up, and then there's the Sando, which helps as well. And a pill for stomach spasms, if that stars up again.
ä) sensitive to seasickness or related illnesses?
Been so long since I didn't have at least a mild nausea on a regular basis, I don't know that I would recognize a day without it. A non-nauseated state of being---I remember that. It was about 1972...
Don't get motion sickness, really. Of course, I don't press the issue, either. I've got a horrid sense of balance, bad inner ear issues, and know my limits.
My carcinoid diagnosis answered a LOT of questions that I had about some health issues. It's also given me insight into other health issues as well.
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$] Is there a history of any hereditary illness in your extended family?
^] Have you ever had genetic testing of any type?
!] If given a choice, would you consider self-euthanizing rather than living with a progressive debilitating illness? Why or why not?
$] Is there a history of any hereditary illness in your extended family?
Yes. A rather extensive list--biopolar, border line, Ausberger's, Aushikin-slaughter's, depression, heart-disease, asthma and, a few others, too, I think.
^] Have you ever had genetic testing of any type?
Nope.
!] If given a choice, would you consider self-euthanizing rather than living with a progressive debilitating illness? Why or why not?
toward the end, I would. In the beginning? No. Too much to do still, still capable of doing it.
And I do sort of already have one--eventually, manias will cease to exist, and I will only have norms and depression. Some time around 40, I think.
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/) Favorite type of paper?
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What else is there to do, if not what we do?
I don't think I should do anything else.
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Maybe, but he has probably lost his eyepatch.
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Do paper bills count? :mrgreen:
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č) Do you have a special dance you like to do when succeeding in something (or when thing just go as they should)? If yes, do you do it often?
š) What was the last sporting event you went to?
ř) What was the last musical event you went to?
Bónús: Should we have bonus questions?
č) Do you have a special dance you like to do when succeeding in something (or when thing just go as they should)? If yes, do you do it often?
Not really, it may have something to do with the fact that very few of my successes are worth dancing. :-\
š) What was the last sporting event you went to?
Gee... I think an Indycar race a few years back when JP Montoya was running.
ř) What was the last musical event you went to?
A Traviata production this past Monday (last show of the season).
Paid for? I'm not sure if it was a concert of The Police or a New World Symphony concert last year.
Bónús: Should we have bonus questions?
Perhaps, if the bonus is related or funny enough. ;)
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á) What did your parents wanted you to learn, you didn't, and now you regret not learning/doing?
é) Sturm und Drang, or Balance & Harmony?
ñ) Is it possible to keep the idealism without been naive, or is growing cynicism unavoidable?
Bonus: What happened to numbering in this thread and why?
á) What did your parents wanted you to learn, you didn't, and now you regret not learning/doing?
Secretarial skills, although I don't really regret it. I'm freakin' dyslexic and I'll never type 90 WPM and shorthand?? It became a dinosaur while I was in college. Besides, you CANNOT always get a job as a secretary...
é) Sturm und Drang, or Balance & Harmony?
Balance and Harmony, with a side of levity and peace.
ñ) Is it possible to keep the idealism without been naive, or is growing cynicism unavoidable?
You don't have to stop being idealistic, but being realistic involves a certain amount of cynicism. So does growing up.
Bonus: What happened to numbering in this thread and why?
It started when Bob wanted to see if people paid attention to the 'little stuff' and mixed the numbers. I answered with letters, which led to symbols, which has wandered off into one of those 'things' we just do... If we weren't all pretty individualistic people, we'd have never gotten together in the first place. that we ARE not the average crowd makes the silly stuff happen in a rather laid-back manner. Sorta like the dividers between sections in this thread.
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Part the First: Make your own, or just buy it already and save the time and effort? (Whatever...a thing you could make if you tried.)
Part the Second: Similarly, Do it Yourself or hire The Guy...
Part the Third: Do you like camping out, or is your idea of roughing it a Motel 6 with no room service?
Part the First: Make your own, or just buy it already and save the time and effort? (Whatever...a thing you could make if you tried.)
I'd make it my self if I have the time and inspiration.
Part the Second: Similarly, Do it Yourself or hire The Guy...
It depends, everything where f***ing up leads to immediate danger to either living things or possessions (gas, water/plumbing, most electricity) I let a pro handle, every thing else I'm equipped to take care of my own. I wish I had someone to call when in need of advanced computer support though.
Part the Third: Do you like camping out, or is your idea of roughing it a Motel 6 with no room service?
The summer vacations in my childhood consisted of 3 persons spending 4-5 weeks in a small (6m long) sail boat, sailing from island to island in the Swedish Baltic sea archipelago.
However camping with a tent unless I'm in the wilderness of the mountains doesn't feel to attractive. too many idiots, thieves, junkies, etc. around to make me feel comfortable. IMHO there are nothing in the Swedish fauna that is so unpredictable and dangerous as people.
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1) What's the most dangerous where you live, Nature or People?
2) What is the most embarrassing product in your fridge?
3) Bath tub or Shower and why?
1) What's the most dangerous where you live, Nature or People?
People. The most dangerous animals is the occasional untrained dog. Even skunks are scarce hereabouts.
2) What is the most embarrassing product in your fridge?
Non-food items put there to make them last longer.
Or else it's the food item put there so long ago, that it's taken on the form of a new life-form. Some of those containers, I'm afraid to touch-- I might get teleported into another dimension.... ::)
3) Bath tub or Shower and why?
Shower. Currently, because my house has no bathtub-- just an oversized shower. But, back when I had a 'tub, I sometimes showered off first, then soaked in the tub for therapy.
The thought of sitting in dirty water for a length of time is not conducive to cleanliness. Or at least to me! ::)
Wash that dirt down the drain, where it belongs! :mrgreen:
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alpha) Electric range/stove or Gas? (Or other... like wood or something) Why?
beta) Electric oven or gas? Or, convection, microwave, hybrid, reflector-wood, what?
gamma) Use teflon or think it's an abomonation? Stainless steel or cast-iron?
delta) (bonus question) Do you think Aluminum cookware ought to be removed from the market, and why or not?
alpha) Electric range/stove or Gas? (Or other... like wood or something) Why?
Gas all the way! Gas allows me to fine-tune the amount of heat put out in a way that a thermostat-controlled electric stove can't. Gas is fine for anything from roaring jet of flame for woking and quick sauteing, all the way down to a slow, long simmer for a stewpot.
Of course, a good electric stove is perfectly acceptable, too. And a wood-burning stove is also very fine, but you need to have a certain knack in order to control the temperature. And if you fire up a wood-burning cast iron stove enough for you to get it very hot for some frying, the rest of the stove also heats up to an appreciable degree, which might be a bit too much at times. But it is lovely for keeping the house warm...
beta) Electric oven or gas? Or, convection, microwave, hybrid, reflector-wood, what?
On this point, I am actually more for electric ovens. They are a bit more easily controlled than gas ovens, and can often go higher in temperature, and more importantly, lower in temperature than a gas oven. Try making creme brulee in a gas oven -you definitely need to start fiddling about with water baths and cover sheets and whatnot, whereas with a good electric oven, you just set the thermostat to 65 or 70 degrees celsius.
Microwaves are good for defrosting stuff, as well as experimenting with temperatures and wines, but I can't imagine using one for cooking.
gamma) Use teflon or think it's an abomonation? Stainless steel or cast-iron?
Teflon can be OK, if it is a good, solid coat, on a good, solid base with decent physical and thermal mass. A thin layer of PTFE coating on a metal frame about as thick as tinfoil is doomed to failure. Oh, and Silpat teflon baking sheets are great when making pastries and confections, as well as gel spirals, chocolate corkscrews, caramel brittle and other fun stuff.
Stainless steel is also OK, especially for wet cooking. For frying, I actually prefer either cast iron (also lovely for braising), a teflon coated pan, or a sheet carbon steel pan, such as a classic french omelette pan or a wok.
delta) (bonus question) Do you think Aluminum cookware ought to be removed from the market, and why or not?
Aluminium is like anything else -it has it's uses. I don't like to use it when the aluminum surface comes into contact with the food -it sticks easily, and you can easily get discolouration of the food. But it is good to use as part of the body of a cooking vessel, and anodized aluminium is good for pots. Likewise, large stockpots are slightly less unwieldy when they are made out of aluminium.
Now, my questions:
Å: Lutfisk, gravlax or surströmming?
Ä: What strange or weird stuff or combination thereof that makes other people go "Eeeewwww" do you like to eat?
Ö: What stuff that other people rave about makes you go "Eeeewwww"?
Ø: Bonus question! Strange dots, lines and squiggly-wigglies with the letters: Are they overrated and stupid, or cool and funky?
Quote from: Lindorm on April 07, 2008, 07:33:18 PM
delta) (bonus question) Do you think Aluminum cookware ought to be removed from the market, and why or not?
Aluminium is like anything else -it has it's uses. I don't like to use it when the aluminum surface comes into contact with the food -it sticks easily, and you can easily get discolouration of the food. But it is good to use as part of the body of a cooking vessel, and anodized aluminium is good for pots. Likewise, large stockpots are slightly less unwieldy when they are made out of aluminium.
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That is exactly why I tossed out all my aluminum cookware (except for strictly on the outside, as a heat-retaining engine).
There appears to be a link with too much aluminum in the diet and Alshemers'
Back to your regularly non-scheduled interviews. (shoo.... shoo... I'm cooking.)
Å: Lutfisk, gravlax or surströmming?
Pustefix!
http://www.pustefix.de/
Ä: What strange or weird stuff or combination thereof that makes other people go "Eeeewwww" do you like to eat?
Peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches. I love them and can't understand what's so weird about them, but some people seem to think the very idea must be from another galaxy.
Ö: What stuff that other people rave about makes you go "Eeeewwww"?
Red meat.
Ø: Bonus question! Strange dots, lines and squiggly-wigglies with the letters: Are they overrated and stupid, or cool and funky?
Cool and funky!
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oncet) What is your favorite candy to get stuck in your teeth?
twicet) What is your favorite berry seed to get stuck between your teeth?
corset) What's your current favorite hat?
bonurt) How much will you give me never to mention frogurt again?
oncet) What is your favorite candy to get stuck in your teeth?
Butterfinger bars. And for that reason, I avoid them.
twicet) What is your favorite berry seed to get stuck between your teeth?
Raspberries. mmmmmmm.
corset) What's your current favorite hat?
For warm weather, a black straw with a stiffened, broad brim and sunprint scarf tied round the crown.
For cool weather, a black felt fedora with a broad brim.
I have many hats; it's part of my signature style.
bonurt) How much will you give me never to mention frogurt again?
Nothing. You may mention what you like.
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один) Do you prefer knitted sweaters/jumpers, tees -or- button down shirts?
два) Any jewelry that you always wear?
три) Glasses, contact lenses, or lasik?
тантьема) What should the international penalty be for wearing socks with sandals?
один) Do you prefer knitted sweaters/jumpers, tees -or- button down shirts?
Shirts. Long-sleeve, even in summer (keeps the sunburns off, but I sweat alot). Button-down or not, doesn't matter, so long as there's a pocket for my reading glasses, a pen, a tiny screwdriver and a marker.
два) Any jewelry that you always wear?
Nope. My skin does not tolerate constant contact with metal or plastic. I get a rash. So, nothing. Not even gold. (and, yes cotton or natural fabrics are fine. I don't run about in the nude. Or, usually not....)
три) Glasses, contact lenses, or lasik?
Lasik. Can't recommend it enough. I now have 20/15 vision, except for very, very close objects.
тантьема) What should the international penalty be for wearing socks with sandals?
Immediate and constant ridicule from everyone that is forced to view them. Lots of finger-pointing, laughing and such. An occasional Nelson 'Ha-Ha!' would be appropriate too.
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2) Math or The Arts? Both?
3) What is your favorite period/style of art? Pre-medieval? Egyptian? Renaissance? Impressionist? Post-modern? What? (or Who, if you prefer)
5) Movie or Play? Opera or Orchestra? (Or concert?) Why?
7) Bonus question: Is there any significance to how I numbered these. How is it different from 2, 3, 5, 8?
Sure, I'll take another turn...
2) Math or The Arts? Both?
Wellllll, I prefer the arts first.
And language second.
But I like science and interesting math very much as well.
Interesting math is not the prosaic kind you use to balance checkbooks. It's the kind that fires the imagination. Not much of it around daily life, sadly.
3) What is your favorite period/style of art? Pre-medieval? Egyptian? Renaissance? Impressionist? Post-modern? What? (or Who, if you prefer)
1. Art & Crafts Medieval Revival. My old apartment was in a repurposed an Arts & Crafts house, and the interior was as close to neocastle as was humanly possible. I miss it terribly, living in a do-not-paint! contempo-white-box, here.
2. Egyptian New Kingdom art. I wrote a book on it for a jr. high social studies project. All me avatars arrre Egyptian. (http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/EgyptSmiley.gif)
5) Movie or Play? Opera or Orchestra? (Or concert?) Why?
It's all good.
- There was little live theatre where I lived before, so I became something of a movie buff. And you can pause, rewind, watch again.
- I like opera on PBS or Bravo, but haven't had much opportunity to attend. I did attend the local Symphony when I could and donated art to its benefits auctions.
- Attended concerts like a crazy person in my 20's. Now, I tend to buy cds for the same benefits as movies.
7) Bonus question: Is there any significance to how I numbered these. How is it different from 2, 3, 5, 8?
- 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... are prime numbers.
- 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55... is a Fibonacci series.
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* * * CATEGORY: HOUSEHOLD CRITTERS * * *
* Cats or dogs? Why?
** Birds or fish? Why?
*** Ferrets or lizards? WHy?
% What is your criteria for classifying domesticated-for-food, domesticated-for-work, and domesticated-for-pet animals?
* Cats or dogs? Why?
Currently, I am doggified. I prefer to have both, but at this juncture, where Dan would be doing kittehlitterz duties because I am not 'as healthy as I used to be' AND we can't afford both...I haz a Spencer. When the inevitable comes, we are going to try for a beagle rescue. (Short hair this time, Spencer currently resembles a sheep.) I'd love to have a cat as well, but there's the financial issues...I'm adamant about taking proper care of my non-human companions, more that human ones that CAN take care of themselves...
** Birds or fish? Why?
Birds. Have had fish, LOTS of fish. Have had birds. I like birds more. I dunno why, really.
*** Ferrets or lizards? WHy?
Not a reptile fan. Not a real ferret fan either...but better a long fuzzy thing than a long scaly thing. (Leezards don't fool me, they're just snakes with legs on.)
% What is your criteria for classifying domesticated-for-food, domesticated-for-work, and domesticated-for-pet animals?
Local custom? Depends on where ya are. I'm not lookin' to eat dog anytime soon, but I'm not going to condemn anybody that does, because yes, I WILL eat cow and pig...not so much sheepies, though and never You Know Who... :goatflag:
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a) Which of our emoticons/smileys/whatever is your favorite?
b) Is there an emoticon that you wish were available as a sign to use in Real Meatspace Conversations? What is it?
c) Pie or cake?
Bonus: Want ice cream with it?
a) Which of our emoticons/smileys/whatever is your favorite?
:sportsred: :bigsmack: :smirk_orange:
A tie between these ones.
b) Is there an emoticon that you wish were available as a sign to use in Real Meatspace Conversations? What is it?
Yes! Any and/or all of these.
:justafleshwound:
:sheep:
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c) Pie or cake?
I'm a cobbler girl, but I'll take cake over pie.
Bonus: Want ice cream with it?
OhsweetJesus yes! Proper French vanilla. The one with the little flecks in it.
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:bouncing:) Have we gone too far with the emoticions?
:panic: ) Do you ever literally dance with joy?
:pinkelephant: ) Favorite type of chocolate?
:bouncing:) Have we gone too far with the emoticions?
Nope. There's no such thing as 'too far' with emoticons until you run out of space. Somebody will use it eventually, and be glad it was there when they needed it.
:panic: ) Do you ever literally dance with joy?
Used to. Now I chair-dance with joy.
:pinkelephant: ) Favorite type of chocolate?
YES!!NOW!! PLEASE!!!!! OH, excuse me...semi-sweet, bittersweet, truffles rolled in unsweetened cocoa powder. More chocolate than sugar. Or any other kind. :)
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1] Would you rather sleep or read?
2] Why?
3] Did you sleep with a favorite stuffed animal when you were little?
1] Would you rather sleep or read?
Sleep.
2] Why?
I get to read plenty of stuff; I never get anywhere near the recommended sleeping time.
3] Did you sleep with a favorite stuffed animal when you were little?
It's a total lie. And no I haven't still got it. In the third drawer down. At the back.
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1 If electricity is cause by electrons what is morality caused by?
2 Is cheating always a sin?
3 Same question, but by yourself this time.
1 If electricity is cause by electrons what is morality caused by?
Busibodies? People with way too much time on their hands, and a complete and utter lack of joy of living?
People who are miserable themselves, and are suspicious that somewhere, somehow, SOMEONE is having fun, and are determined to put an immediate STOP to it?
I dunno-- I'm not that moral myself... ::)
2 Is cheating always a sin?
Define "cheating". Define "sin".
the way I see it:
Cheating: circumventing the rules for your benefit.
Sin: causing deliberate needless harm to another living being, especially sentient/human.
So, no, I would definitely say that cheating is not ALWAYS sin. Sometimes it is the ONLY solution to a sticky problem.
3 Same question, but by yourself this time.
Makes no difference whatsoever, if I use my definitions, as above.
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01. Do you always wonder how things work? Or are you content with a "black box of mystery" answer?
10. Did you take your toys apart as a kid, to see what was inside? Or, do you still have some of your carefully preserved childhood toys? Both?
11. Math. Is it just a useful tool, a completely mysterious "thing" for eggheads, or the coolest invention ever?
01. Do you always wonder how things work? Or are you content with a "black box of mystery" answer?
I usually do but I will not always put that much effort into understanding, if it looks like more effort than it is worth.
10. Did you take your toys apart as a kid, to see what was inside? Or, do you still have some of your carefully preserved childhood toys? Both?
Both and that does not include the toys whose very purpose is assembling/disassembling :mrgreen:
The problem can be to put the things together again (like watches)
11. Math. Is it just a useful tool, a completely mysterious "thing" for eggheads, or the coolest invention ever?
Can be useful, entertaining, boring, frightening all dependent on circumstances
But not the coolest thing ever, I'd think.
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100.
Can prostitution be an "honorable" profession? (also give exhaustive definitions for prostitution, honor, profession, be and can ;) )
101.
Premarital sex (i.e. sex with a person one considers to marry): immoral, common sense, doesn't matter, <fill in other option>?
110.
What kinds of condiment/spice do you like/dislike and how do you use them?
(heh, was going to answer, but 110 tripped me up. It would run to pages. I am seriously considering buying a second small fridge just for condiments*, and I have cupboards overflowing with spices & seasonings)
*except between food storage and specialized cooking gear, there's no danged room in the kitchen. Certain pots & pans live on the stove permanently because there's simply nowhere to cram 'em.
100.
Can prostitution be an "honorable" profession? (also give exhaustive definitions for prostitution, honor, profession, be and can ; )
a profession is some activity requirig training and which is paid for, Good prostitutes need to acquire skills. Hence fulfills the training requirement. Prostitute implies payment he so scores there too.
Honour is objective within a society. If the greatest sign of respect in a society is to be offered a prostitute then it is an honourable profession,
Lastly I imagine many prostitutes saying "he's a right old B.... in the Can...." is that definition enough?
101.
Premarital sex (i.e. sex with a person one considers to marry): immoral, common sense, doesn't matter, <fill in other option>?
common sense. terrifying thought to be committed unto death to a totally incompatible lover.
110.
What kinds of condiment/spice do you like/dislike and how do you use them?
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I like tarragon sprinkled on anything.
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1. What one personal feature would you like to change, how and why?
2. What one human trait would you like to change, how and why?
3. What would make your existing abode (rule=you cannot move) into you dream home (has to be vaguely feasible).
1. What one personal feature would you like to change, how and why?
My entire endocrine system, including thyroid, neuro-endocrine and all hormonal parts of it. That would eliminate the multiple neurofibromas and lipomas, and I wouldn't be so lumpy.
2. What one human trait would you like to change, how and why?
Greed. Eliminate it completely from the human psyche, and the world would be a much better place. I think just having the Deity of Choice strike it from everyone's ' emotional capacity' would be great. why? So that Exxon, Shell, Halliburton, KBR, GM, Ford, ADM et al, would MAYBE not send us to the poorhouse, as they're killing any lingering chance that the economy won't collapse--worldwide
3. What would make your existing abode (rule=you cannot move) into you dream home (has to be vaguely feasible).
Executing the remodeling plans that we'd made when we moved in. Second bathroom, kitchen, new wall surfaces (ancient paneling must go) and getting the ugly shingles off and cleaning and repainting the exterior. Gas run, and deck builh, heating an AC taken care of properly. Oh, and building a storage building to put all Mom's excess crap into... 30 x 60 steel building with a concrete floor should do it. should do it. Anybody have a spare $75,000 or so? :mrgreen:
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1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?
2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?
3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?
1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?
Being fair. It's one of the several reasons why I don't believe in the god of my childhood any longer (the fundie's verson of god is patently unfair, but that's another long rant in and of itself.)
I don't mind not getting my way, if the way that IS being "got" is fair, or the best for the situation.
2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?
None of these. Polarized brown during the day (blue light blocking) and yellow/amber for night (pilot glasses, blocks blue, reduces oncoming headlights to tolerable. Very sensitive night vision, here)
3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?
If I had to spend it TODAY, RIGHT NOW, I'd donate it to the Methodist church, Oklahoma conference. My brother's a preacher, and my parents are members.....
If I had time to research? I'd find a small charity that promoted science education in public schools. What else? :) Small, so that my $$ would be significant to their cause.
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I. If you could change things, and replace income taxes with something else-- what would that "else" be? Or would you just revamp the current system? How, why?
II. Favorite type of movie/book: Comedy? Mystery? Drama? Emo-piece? Animated/live action? (that is blurring....) What? Pick your favorite category and defend it. ;D
III. If you had to reduce your TV channels to just 3, which would you choose? Why?
IV. bonus. If the answer to III. was "I don't watch much TV, actually" how do you get your news? Or do you?
V. alternate bonus. If the answer to III. was anything else. How do you get your news? Or do you?
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I. If you could change things, and replace income taxes with something else-- what would that "else" be? Or would you just revamp the current system? How, why?
Revamp. The answer is complicated enough to make a new thread on the subject and I will.
II. Favorite type of movie/book: Comedy? Mystery? Drama? Emo-piece? Animated/live action? (that is blurring....) What? Pick your favorite category and defend it.
Scifi. Good scifi has comedy, drama, mystery and action. As a side note, Emo pieces bother me to no end.
III. If you had to reduce your TV channels to just 3, which would you choose? Why?
3?! I watch little TV and I just follow 5 channels (Discovery, History, National Geographic, Scifi & Comedy Central). I cannot dispose The Daily Show & Colbert Report from Comedy Central, nor Galactica from Scifi (at least for a year), therefore I would keep Discovery for Myth Busters & Smash lab, grudgingly because I do like History and NG a lot too.
IV. bonus. If the answer to III. was "I don't watch much TV, actually" how do you get your news? Or do you?
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V. alternate bonus. If the answer to III. was anything else. How do you get your news? Or do you?
I get my news from NPR, TDS/CR, and the Internet. News networks.. Are you crazy?!
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Primera. What language you'd like to learn?
Segunda. Is there -in your opinion- a way to teach a logical approach to politics?
Tercera. Why do people admire huge constructions (like the pyramids) that had no practical use for the people building them?
No bonus this round.
Primera. What language you'd like to learn?
Japanese (but Norwegian is more likely to actually happen)
Segunda. Is there -in your opinion- a way to teach a logical approach to politics?
No, politics (and policy to a degree) has very little to do with logic
Tercera. Why do people admire huge constructions (like the pyramids) that had no practical use for the people building them?
Well, the mere fact that someone managed to put something useless this big up, should create some impression. Humans seem to be wired to be open to overwhelming (I am so little and this is so big. How did they do it?).
To quote old Ramses II: If ye wanna know how great I am, try to beat me even once.
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unos. Do you bowl well?
dos. Does that qualify or disqualify you for becoming POTUS?
tres. How good is your aim (throwing, shooting etc.)
Bonus: What if Lincoln were presidential candidate in 2008 (answer for both main parties and major "alternatives")
unos. Do you bowl well?
Nope. My highest of all time score was 179, out of a max possible 300? No, I do not. ;D
dos. Does that qualify or disqualify you for becoming POTUS?
In reality? No. The job is much more complex, and as I recall, they removed the presidential private lanes during the Nixon regime.
But as a perception? Maybe. The Great Unwashed people of the Plains.....you know.....Morons, likely think that anyone who does bowl well would automatically made a good POTUS. Fortunately, most of these folk do not actually DO anything about it, and do not vote all that much. The rate of turnout in the US was below 50% in 2006....
.....you think that something that important, more people would participate....
.....but you'd be wrong-- voting involves DOING something.
tres. How good is your aim (throwing, shooting etc.)
Throwing objects, like baseballs, footballs, grenades---- not so much.
Shooting, so long as it's with a firearm-- above average. Not as good as I used to be, when I routinely put 20-30 rounds of 0.22 pistol at roughly 20 feet, inside the price-tag on the box. (THAT dates that ability. What's a price-tag? A 3/4 inch square paper label, usually self-adhesive, often brightly colored, affixed to a product that informs the purchaser of it's actual price. Long before those zebra-stripe UPC codes, which are clearly Marks Of The Beast-in-training.)
Bonus: What if Lincoln were presidential candidate in 2008 (answer for both main parties and major "alternatives")
Well, Lincoln would not be able to run under either of the Big Two, these days. When Lincoln was a youngster, he was pretty much an Atheist. In his later years, he grudgenly accepted that there was some form of Higher Power--(a) God, if you will. He rejected the Christian bible and the Christian god till the very end. Lincoln Quotes (http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/quotes.php?author=6)
This fact alone would automatically disqualify him for either the Republocrats or the Demowimps. I don't know enough about the minority parties in the US to know if he could get into one of those, but who cares? They never win National elections anyway.... ::) And, frankly learning anything ABOUT them would require that I actually DO something.
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Acey: Should voting in the US be made mandatory? Why or why not?
Duecy: Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc? Why not? (notice the built-in bias? :mrgreen: )
Loosey: What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink? (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)
Goosey: (bonus) Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon? (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)
Acey: Should voting in the US be made mandatory? Why or why not?
Oh, WHY in the hell would we want even MORE ignorant people to vote?? People who don't know a DAMN thing but what they saw on th' TEEVEE last night, whar' that Billo Riley guy sed that you cain't trust wimmin and dark skin folks to do what's right fer Umurrica...
Now, if you could mandate even marginal education along with voting, and the ability to THINK?? Maybe. As it is, let's let the Great Unwashed remain ignorant and filthy. Only when the Religiocans send them swarming from their self-built pits of ignorance do most of them even bother to register to vote, so let them be what they are...fodder, or bovine intelligences.
Yes, in fact, I AM an intellectual snob.
Deucey: Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc? Why not? (notice the built-in bias? )
Regular cafeteria drinks like?? Milk? Juice? Tea? What?
Most beverages that we deem appropriate for teens aren't that much healthier...'fruit juice' is expensive and if it isn't it's because it has been adulterated with high-fructose corn syrup and colorings and artificial flavors and...CRAP, just like the CRAP in sodas. Milk? Lots of lactose intolerance around, plus most kids won't drink anything but flavored milks--more sugary crap--and the skim/2%/whole milk wars could be deadly! Tea? Hot or cold? Why not coffee? Lemonade? (Artificial? Sweetened?? What??)
I say give them plenty of ice and some decently filtered water (also use filtered water to make the ice) and quit catering to ANY of the commercial beverage folks. During the winter?? Hot water dispensers, bring your own teabags and whatever you use to sweeten it. School can supply lemons/limes for the vitamin C. Don't need the little monsters to get scurvy.
Honestly, by HS age, they've already formed their habits. Let them buy their beverage of choice, just keep the worst of the "performance drinks" out. (Red Bull gives you hyperactivity!!)
Loosey: What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink? (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)
It's bullshit. If you can die for your country, you should be allowed to vote, too...and drink. Make it ALL 21, or go to ALL at 18, then enforce the hell out of every PI, DUI, etc. law on the books--across the damn board. (Drunk at ANY age is not good.)
Oh, yeah. Because I'm as mean as they come... Without a high school diploma or a GED, NONE of the above, except voting, is valid. No Army, no drink, no NOTHIN' unless you've gotten some damn education. Don't like it? Get your ass back to school. If you're incapable of getting a GED, you're certainly not really the exact kind of person the military needs. (Read up on the VietNam era 'laxity' that killed off untold guys that joined up to try to get out from under a losing hand--one they'd probably been issued by virtue of being poor. Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld, you incredible jerk!))
This DOES of course, presuppose that NO person EVER has to deal with malnutrition, homelessness or lack of proper medical care. When this country quits treating its citizenry like chattel (or cattle, to the slaughter...) THEN we'll straighten out these problems.
Goosey: (bonus) Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon? (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)
Oh, HELL no...BUT there's not the mass transit system here that many other 'civilized' countries have.
I'm in favor of a driving age of 14. And until age 24, that driver MUST have a 'black box' that goes with them to every auto they drive, hooks up to a computer in the vehicle, and it does EXACTLY what a plane's black box and cockpit recorder does. Combined with a GPS system, EVERYTHING done in that vehicle is 'monitored'...at the time, or later. Speeding? Drinking? Driving badly? Blathering on a cell phone? ALL recorded. Until age 24...unless there were problems. Mo' problems, mo' time monitored!! (You take you black box in to be downloaded every week, if used. Driving without it is punishable by being denied a driving license until age 21. Found driving again? Add on another 3 years AFTER the "no driving until age 21", and so on.
The insurance rates for teen drivers would be able to be dropped...the very behavior that causes higher rates would be monitored and thus pretty much wiped out. Like I said, I'm mean.
(I also know that at age 14, I was a MUCH better driver than most older teens I knew, but I learned to drive as a child, on a farm, starting on a tractor, going to a 3 on the tree farm truck, then to a 16 foot bobtail by the time I was 12.)
Of course, SOME folks would push the envelope, some folks wouldn't like the 'intrusion'. Fine You can drive when you get your HS diploma or GED, are 18 and can pay for some serious driver's ed.
Oh, parents enabling their children no 'work around' the teen driving regulations? Loose their licenses. And for every year of incident-free driving with your black box? Knock off a year from the other end on having to have it. You could be free by 19--if you have had the sense to be vigilant about your previous behavior.
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Fake question 1) Does the above get across WHY it's a good thing I never had kids??
Real question 1) How well do you tolerate excessive heat?
2) What do you consider excessive heat, by the way? Interior and exterior temps both, please...
3) Would you rather be faced with "too hot" or "too cold", barring life-threatening extremes?
4) Do you sleep with the covers over your head?
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Acey: Should voting in the US be made mandatory? Why or why not?
Oh, WHY in the hell would we want even MORE ignorant people to vote?? People who don't know a DAMN thing but what they saw on th' TEEVEE last night, whar' that Billo Riley guy sed that you cain't trust wimmin and dark skin folks to do what's right fer Umurrica...
Now, if you could mandate even marginal education along with voting, and the ability to THINK?? Maybe. As it is, let's let the Great Unwashed remain ignorant and filthy. Only when the Religiocans send them swarming from their self-built pits of ignorance do most of them even bother to register to vote, so let them be what they are...fodder, or bovine intelligences.
Yes, in fact, I AM an intellectual snob.
Deucey: Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc? Why not? (notice the built-in bias? )
Regular cafeteria drinks like?? Milk? Juice? Tea? What?
Most beverages that we deem appropriate for teens aren't that much healthier...'fruit juice' is expensive and if it isn't it's because it has been adulterated with high-fructose corn syrup and colorings and artificial flavors and...CRAP, just like the CRAP in sodas. Milk? Lots of lactose intolerance around, plus most kids won't drink anything but flavored milks--more sugary crap--and the skim/2%/whole milk wars could be deadly! Tea? Hot or cold? Why not coffee? Lemonade? (Artificial? Sweetened?? What??)
I say give them plenty of ice and some decently filtered water (also use filtered water to make the ice) and quit catering to ANY of the commercial beverage folks. During the winter?? Hot water dispensers, bring your own teabags and whatever you use to sweeten it. School can supply lemons/limes for the vitamin C. Don't need the little monsters to get scurvy.
Honestly, by HS age, they've already formed their habits. Let them buy their beverage of choice, just keep the worst of the "performance drinks" out. (Red Bull gives you hyperactivity!!)
Loosey: What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink? (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)
It's bullshit. If you can die for your country, you should be allowed to vote, too...and drink. Make it ALL 21, or go to ALL at 18, then enforce the hell out of every PI, DUI, etc. law on the books--across the damn board. (Drunk at ANY age is not good.)
Oh, yeah. Because I'm as mean as they come... Without a high school diploma or a GED, NONE of the above, except voting, is valid. No Army, no drink, no NOTHIN' unless you've gotten some damn education. Don't like it? Get your ass back to school. If you're incapable of getting a GED, you're certainly not really the exact kind of person the military needs. (Read up on the VietNam era 'laxity' that killed off untold guys that joined up to try to get out from under a losing hand--one they'd probably been issued by virtue of being poor. Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld, you incredible jerk!))
This DOES of course, presuppose that NO person EVER has to deal with malnutrition, homelessness or lack of proper medical care. When this country quits treating its citizenry like chattel (or cattle, to the slaughter...) THEN we'll straighten out these problems.
Goosey: (bonus) Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon? (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)
Oh, HELL no...BUT there's not the mass transit system here that many other 'civilized' countries have.
I'm in favor of a driving age of 14. And until age 24, that driver MUST have a 'black box' that goes with them to every auto they drive, hooks up to a computer in the vehicle, and it does EXACTLY what a plane's black box and cockpit recorder does. Combined with a GPS system, EVERYTHING done in that vehicle is 'monitored'...at the time, or later. Speeding? Drinking? Driving badly? Blathering on a cell phone? ALL recorded. Until age 24...unless there were problems. Mo' problems, mo' time monitored!! (You take you black box in to be downloaded every week, if used. Driving without it is punishable by being denied a driving license until age 21. Found driving again? Add on another 3 years AFTER the "no driving until age 21", and so on.
The insurance rates for teen drivers would be able to be dropped...the very behavior that causes higher rates would be monitored and thus pretty much wiped out. Like I said, I'm mean.
(I also know that at age 14, I was a MUCH better driver than most older teens I knew, but I learned to drive as a child, on a farm, starting on a tractor, going to a 3 on the tree farm truck, then to a 16 foot bobtail by the time I was 12.)
Of course, SOME folks would push the envelope, some folks wouldn't like the 'intrusion'. Fine You can drive when you get your HS diploma or GED, are 18 and can pay for some serious driver's ed.
Oh, parents enabling their children no 'work around' the teen driving regulations? Loose their licenses. And for every year of incident-free driving with your black box? Knock off a year from the other end on having to have it. You could be free by 19--if you have had the sense to be vigilant about your previous behavior.
I always like reading your stuff, Chatty.
Makes me ;D
Yeah, but would you vote for me for Empress of the Universe?? :mrgreen:
That's what I want to be if I choose to grow up. ;)
Fake question 1) Does the above get across WHY it's a good thing I never had kids??
For the same reason as Thales of Milet :mrgreen:
Real question 1) How well do you tolerate excessive heat?
Not at all over extended periods of time (i.e. beyond the time one would stay voluntarily in a sauna)
2) What do you consider excessive heat, by the way? Interior and exterior temps both, please...
Anything beyond 25°C. Less, if direct sunshine is involved, slightly more, if there is a fresh wind.
If it's very cold outside (or just cold but also wet), the temperature may be allowed to rise inside.
In general 20°C is OK. In the summer I like it cooler on the inside than in the winter.
3) Would you rather be faced with "too hot" or "too cold", barring life-threatening extremes?
too cold. Against that there is protection by warmer clothing but there is no such remedy against too hot.
4) Do you sleep with the covers over your head?
Not to my knowledge. It's too hot :mrgreen:
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Huey) Who is your favorite head of state/executive in your country and in any other country (and the US, if not included yet)?
Dewey) Under what circumstances (if any) would you consider it wise/justified/etc. to make an attempt on the life of a leading politician? Do NOT name anyone specific!
Louie) What do you think life would be in a 2 or 4 dimensional world (spacial dimensions only)?
Huey) Who is your favorite head of state/executive in your country and in any other country (and the US, if not included yet)?
Favorite head of state---
well he is only the elected Sheriff of Maricopa county, Arizona USA-- and I don't agree with alot of his personal views (he is very religiously conservative, his mandatory teaching of God Bless America to inmates who do no speak english, other things) but the man is tough on crime, forces deadbeat parents to support their kids, utilizes a fantastic group of volunteers to fill budget shortcuts so his deputys and staff can do their job in relative safety, you go to jail if convicted and not home to play(tent cities-good enough for soldiers in the desert, this began during the 1st gulf war, good enough for convicted criminals), saves money in inventive ways and protects guards ( a big problem is coffee attacks where the inmates throw scalding coffee on guards-so no coffee- saving about 20,000 a year alone to put into the summer camp for kids, Hard Knocks High, and ALPHA to name a few. the point is-- he is very tough, but I think fair and a good person and most importantly-- you will hear people over and over say-- they do not want to go back to jail in Maricopa county-- so the recidivism rate is low and that is what counts-- rehabilitate where you can and keep the rest locked up and keep new ones from comming in! Jail is not summer camp ---no porn, no weight lifting yards, no cigs-- but education, educational tv (did you know it is against federal law for prisoners to not have access to cable TV- so he went all Disney channel only, help for those who want to remake their lives. I don't love him-- we differ on philosphy too much but as far as being a cop, and maybe running for office one day-- yeah I do like the man. I also own a pair of pink "go Joe" boxers! (began with the white prisoner boxers printed Maricopa Jail being smuggled out and sold so saggers could 'look cute' sporting their very own I'm a big bad prison person garb- so he went to all pink underwear for male and female and they were really popular(but not among the prisoners and the so called black market has dried up) so he started even more fundraising for projects to help guard/deputy families)
Dewey) Under what circumstances (if any) would you consider it wise/justified/etc. to make an attempt on the life of a leading politician? Do NOT name anyone specific!
do not name anyone specific because THEY are watching! Yes if they are a despot, killing,raping, maiming, stealing and running a community/country into the ground while getting billionare rich on the dead bodies--- yes kill the barstards/biotches---- the resulting turmoil would be rough but eventually settle down-- but ONLY IF something worse did not take power.
Louie) What do you think life would be in a 2 or 4 dimensional world (spacial dimensions only)?
wow can anyone imagine sex in a 4 dimensional world-- that would be unbelievable. (sorry 1st thing that came to mind). I don't think I can imagine the way life would be on a 4th demension spatial level. I can't process 2 dimensions. What a mind blowing idea--- gotta process that for a while.
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Pepperoni pizza: Could you, would you, have you ever support(ed) a political figure very different in philosophy than yourself based on their actions, things they have done, things they have contributed to the greater good.
Hamburger pizza: What would be your definition of true human altruism, or is true altruism in a human a myth.
Cheese pizza: Do you have grass stickers (a sort of seed that sticks and is small and painful making barefoot in your yard impossible)in your area, your yard, park. Do you accept it and wear shoes or constantly seek a solution. If you write letters to the editor of you paper about the damn things-bonus points!
Pepperoni pizza: Could you, would you, have you ever support(ed) a political figure very different in philosophy than yourself based on their actions, things they have done, things they have contributed to the greater good.
When we lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala-git-down-dammit-bama in the early 80's, I voted for George Wallace for Governor.
Why?? Because of the possible candidates, he was the saner (this is after he had renounced his 'racist' past, which was actually a pretty LIBERAL stance compared to most of Alabama at the time...seriously) and the one that had a focus on fixing the educational system at all levels, while maintaining salaries at the major universities.
His opponent's main stump speech consisted of "They's gittin' to be too dang miny kollejez heer. Ever time you turn aroun' you gotta nuther dang joonyur kollej. Why you need so miny?? AN' we payz them egghaids too much our Tax Money (spoken with reverence and awe) and needta tighten up da belt!!"
Then he'd get it his limo, earned from legal fees from suing the State of Alabama for any and everything...and wave and ride off to tell some OTHER folks why they didn't need education either.
I'd have voted for Atillia the Hun...
Hamburger pizza: What would be your definition of true human altruism, or is true altruism in a human a myth.
Contrary to popular though, humans can be altruistic. Sometimes it's nurture, sometimes it's nature, sometimes it's a combination. SOME people are, by no means all.
What else would compel an otherwise sane (?) individual to allow someone to cut open their hip, take a bone chisel, knock out a hunk of bone and draw out the marrow to give somebody else? I understand it's much easier now...but THOUSANDS of people have done that for people they don't even know, and never will.
Organ donors--not cadavers, but live people that donate a kidney, or part of a liver. Why? Because they ARE NOT CONVINCED that they alone, individually, are the Most Important Being on the Planet.
Cheese pizza: Do you have grass stickers (a sort of seed that sticks and is small and painful making barefoot in your yard impossible)in your area, your yard, park. Do you accept it and wear shoes or constantly seek a solution. If you write letters to the editor of you paper about the damn things-bonus points!
I grew up with stickerburs, down in sandy Aransas Pass. My feet were tough enough from not wearing shoes that I didn't bother with them until I got to the blacktop or other pavement/shell/caliche roads, then I brushed 'em off. On 'my' property, my problem. On public property, I complain. It's NOT brain science or rocket surgery to get rid of them if you get to it immediately.
We've had a few in the yard, and I got Dan to go after them with a vengence. No more stickerburs!! Not for me, because they weren't in parts of the yard I can access well, but because they hurt da dogfoots...and NUFFIN' hurts da dogfoots... >:( It makes da Mama mad if somefin' hurts da dogfoots.
My dog is NOT spoiled. OK, a little. OK, he's sleeping on my bed, head on the pillows, because he had a tough morning chasing squirrelies that got into the Spencer and Daddy Clubhouse (No Gurlz Allowd) where they go to work with tools and Do Guy Stuff. (No handrail, so no Mom...) It's a little 'mini-house, about 10 x 14 feet, with an enclosed porch area that adds another 3 feet in length. Dan left the door open early this morning, and the Great Squirrely Invasion took place...
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Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?
Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... :mrgreen: (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. :director:)
Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.
So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?
1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?
Being fair. But it is always so important that it is getting my way because my way is fair. I am a justice freak. My way doesn't have to mean it's nice for me.
2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?
Well I don't get to see much sun, but green.
3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?
The Samaritans.
I don't trust charities to disburse money. Reading their accounts always makes me freak. I get so angry.
The Samaritans do a single straightforward job extremely well. You are feeling entirely alone and desperate and you pick up the phone and they are just there and you aren't alone. And the better listeners even help you feel less desperate.
It's why I do the mental health support line. Which I have just been told I may not be able to do any more because it is too expensive (at £5 a month) to divert the phone lines so we can be on the line at home (and in my case in bed). But I wouldn't give the money to our outfit because their administration is crap and goodness knows what it would get spent on.... the support line is peripheral.
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1. Which actors voice is your favourite? How would you describe it?
2. What's the longest you have ever slept and the longest you have ever been awake?
3. If you didn't have your life, whose would you like to have ?
1. Which actors voice is your favourite? How would you describe it?
ALAN RICKMAN!! Yeah, Depp's voice is OK, but Rickman can pull deep down inside me and 'get' me...
Describe it?? Infinitely flexible. And generally sexy...
2. What's the longest you have ever slept and the longest you have ever been awake?
Slept without need to wake and potty (cath after surgery) was 31 hours. Not in a coma, just sleeping. Slept, waking only to potty and crawl back in after a drink of water? 58 hours...right after one of my longest awakes. Probably about 76 or 78 hours, floral holiday combined with huge funeral flower orders. (Mother's Day I think...)
3. If you didn't have your life, whose would you like to have ?
Somebody with decent physical well-being and a damn BOATLOAD of money. HRH the Queen? Mrs. Bill Gates? Heck, I would settle for the functional body and a livable income (Define livable? OK, $35K for 2 people, or $55K if we have to buy insurance.)
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Same Q's as bottom of last page...
Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?
Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... Mr Green (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. director)
Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.
So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?
Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?
"God Said" without any qualifying statements, like "I believe that..." or "In my opinion..."
There is NO possible compromise with 'God Said'
The ONLY possible thing is to say, 'No He Didn't' or some more polite variation on that, such as 'You're Mad! Completely Bonkers'
The phrase sans personal qualifiers is both arrogant AND prideful.
It is pride to assume that the speaker actually communicates with The Creator Of All.
It is arrogant to assume that the speaker is able to actually comprehend what Was Said.
It is arrogant AND pride to assume that the speaker is the ONLY person so Blessed.
Okay, enough belaboring that point.
Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... Mr Green (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. director)
I would, except that currently, I don't have a personal car-- just a company truck (10 mpg Diesel, at $4/gal) so I don't see how I could get there.
But I would help, if I could....no really! ::) Honest! ::) ;D :ROFL:
Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.
So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?
It would have to depend on the Last Wishes of the person so affected. And, I'm sorry to say, the availability of funds. Grim knows that _I_ am not wealthy, so if the person in question had insurance, and it was their desire-- yes, I'd go Whole Hog as it were.
But, I would not place their family in financial ruin, just to buy a few more days/months. It sounds harsh, but that's Reality.
Of course, there is almost always compromise. Half-Hog, as it were. If this buys quality time for them to make a graceful exit from their family? Certainly. Especially if it was not going to break their bank.
Sometimes you have to consider the whole hog, before starting on a bar-b-que. Once the person who's afflicted dies, the rest of the people affected have to go on living.
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en primus. Favorite Day of the Week: Busy, get-down-to-doing-SOMETHING, Monday? Or lazy Sunday Afternoon, too late to do anything constructive, may as well sit/lay around drinking beverage of choice?
en secundus. Favorite Time Of Day: Oh, goody! It's Morning! Get up, start the day. Or At Last! It's evening! Start to Par-tay! Or something else?
en tertiarus. Do you look forward to Interviews, or do you loathe them? If the latter, why are you answering this silly quiz? ;D
en primus. Favorite Day of the Week: Busy, get-down-to-doing-SOMETHING, Monday? Or lazy Sunday Afternoon, too late to do anything constructive, may as well sit/lay around drinking beverage of choice?
Friday (especially, if there is duck on the menu at the university)
en secundus. Favorite Time Of Day: Oh, goody! It's Morning! Get up, start the day. Or At Last! It's evening! Start to Par-tay! Or something else?
after 8pm (then at last I am able to be actually productive, pre-noon I am useless)
en tertiarus. Do you look forward to Interviews, or do you loathe them? If the latter, why are you answering this silly quiz? Grin
depends on the type of interview. If nothing depends on them (like here ::)), I am willing.
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Hastati) What legal rights should animals have?
Principes) Given that meat production consumes many more calories (provided by feeding the beasts) than can be extracted from it, should we go back to the days of meat only on one day per week?
Triarii) How "ethical" is your food consumption?
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith...
Of course, there is almost always compromise. Half-Hog, as it were. If this buys quality time for them to make a graceful exit from their family? Certainly. Especially if it was not going to break their bank.
Sometimes you have to consider the whole hog, before starting on a bar-b-que. Once the person who's afflicted dies, the rest of the people affected have to go on living.
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The funeral bar-b-que whole- or half-hogs may temperately furnish forth the marriage tables...
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Hastati) What legal rights should animals have?1. Enough space left for wild creatures to live, in their natural, properly balanced habitats, throughout the world. The animals to be left unmolested and their space left 'undeveloped' by humans, protected by tasteful, environmentally suitable combinations of natural and man-made barriers. For the most part, they will keep themselves in check. If they stray into domesticated areas, vet/tech specialists would be available to capture and return them whenever possible, or to kill them swiftly and humanely if absolutely necessary.
2. As long as I am talking crazy: animals bred for human consumption (meat, eggs, dairy, leather, fur, wool, down, whatever) to be kept in humane conditions. Animals intended for slaughter to be put down by properly trained butchers, with respect: swiftly, painlessly, and out of the sight of their fellows. Something along the lines of 'shochet'. (Po9 repents of chikkin hot tubs parties here.) Educate -- OK...
indoctrinate -- from early grades that feathers, fur, leather, etc., are not to be used in frivolous or throwaway purposes, as lives are taken to provide them.
3. Hunting to be de-glamourized and de-machismoed in non-indigenous areas. As long as I'm talking really,
really crazy, hunting to be pretty phased out in industrialized, non-indigenous populations. License for hunting or fishing to require proper training in proper weapon maintenance, and safe and accurate usage. Shift culture away from 'trophy' mentality and emphasize respectful sportsmanship (no super-duper-overkill calibres, for example). Humane and responsible bows respected more than rifles here. Serious repercussions for hunting on preserves, without licenses, driving around with trophies strapped to vehicles, or drunken or frivolous killing.
4. Animal product testing to be reduced to barest minimum. Applications for permits to use animals must show serious need. Test animals to be cared for with respect, in humane conditions and never subjected to torturous experimentation. Full public disclosure to be made on any permits issued, detailing product, reasons, process, and results. High-tech computer models and interactive computer graphics are already sophisticated enough for virtual dissections for vet or med students.
5. Pets to be cared for by responsible people in humane conditions. If animals are mistreated, they would be removed from the offending residence and those responsible prosecuted for cruelty to captive creatures. As long as I'm talking really crazy, reduction of obscene waste elsewhere in society would free up enough money to ensure spaying, neutering and proper medical care is available for all pets. [edit] Providing proper food, water, shelter, exercise and affection (as suitable for the species)
should go without saying, but I'd better say it anyway. [/edit]
Principes) Given that meat production consumes many more calories (provided by feeding the beasts) than can be extracted from it, should we go back to the days of meat only on one day per week?I wouldn't mandate the frequency. I would also like to see the 'cowboy mystique' de-glamourized in the process of finding alternative work for those in the industry. Perhaps training to manage/protect the wild preserves specified in Q1 or to manage special, additional conservation parks which can be visited to observe and enjoy animals in their natural habitats...
(NB: I've met my share of ranchin types in my life, so I'm not naive about the cultural shift this would represent!)
Triarii) How "ethical" is your food consumption?Not as ethical as it was previously. Cannot wait to recover from current neocon socio-economic 'negative enhancements' in my life. But
that's a whole different whole rant, isn't it?
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wanci: Do you dress more for style, more for utility, or for a combination of the two? Is there a significant difference between your preference for home or dress and what is required for your work?
nunpa:What vanity enhancements do you use? (Contact lenses or Lasik over corrective lenses; dying hair; makeup; etc) Is this for your personal comfort or to conform to work, [dating/marriage], or other social expectations?
yamni:If you could change the 'normal' human aging process, what changes would you effect and why?
[Numbering courtesy of a Lakota language site.]
wanci:
Do you dress more for style, more for utility, or for a combination of the two? Is there a significant difference between your preference for home or dress and what is required for your work?
Equally for style and utility. Has to fulfill both. When I worked in the Uni dress was same home and work. Other places it was different. Now it's the same again but for a different reason - I dress up not down all the time -when I am dressed at all (actually I am beginning to dress up in bed as well - but that's another story). I have adopted this as a method of overcoming disability. There's nothing like looking as good as possible for banishing the aura of ill health. It's good for me psychologically and it fools other people who often now say wow you look so well.
nunpa:
What vanity enhancements do you use? (Contact lenses or Lasik over corrective lenses; dying hair; makeup; etc) Is this for your personal comfort or to conform to work, [dating/marriage], or other social expectations?
Nail varnish. (see above - same reason). Muck around with hair colour (see above - same reason - though this now extends to liking looking young). Wear makeup at Christmas LOL.
yamni:
If you could change the 'normal' human aging process, what changes would you effect and why?
All of them. No aches and pains. Skin like a baby's. No degeneration of body parts. Definitely no brain loss function. I'd let everyone know their check out date and be perfect til the last moment with time to set their affairs in order. And I'd also make womens stomachs (and other bits) return to normal after having babies in them.
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One of Three: If you had to do without one body part which would it be and why? (excluding ones that make not much difference - appendix et al).
Two of Three: If you could save your child but 2 other people would be killed, or you could save the 2 people but your child would be killed, which would you do?
Three of Three: What do you think life would be like if your upper and lower bodies were separate but connected via a tube or some other connecting method?
Bonus: where have the froggart questions gone?
One of Three: If you had to do without one body part which would it be and why? (excluding ones that make not much difference - appendix et al).
I'm quite attached to all of them. I could probably spare a toe now my premier league days are over.
Two of Three: If you could save your child but 2 other people would be killed, or you could save the 2 people but your child would be killed, which would you do?
What did the kid get me for Father's day? Are the two politicians or timeshare salesmen? Need more information.
Three of Three: What do you think life would be like if your upper and lower bodies were separate but connected via a tube or some other connecting method?
Weird, even more dateless, and not suitable for pre-watershed viewing.
Bonus: where have the froggart questions gone?
We lost the franchise, but we're pitching for athletes foot powder, and there's a possibility of Weetabix.
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1) Where did you get the weird questions?
10) Which is the best breakfast cereal (think carefully).
11) Will you ever write an essay again?
Bonus) I like Weetabix because...?
1) Where did you get the weird questions?
I am a perweird, so no sur-prize there.
10) Which is the best breakfast cereal (think carefully).
None of them. The only cereal for breakfast is whole-grain bread
11) Will you ever write an essay again?
The answer to this question is quite a complex one. As Durbin Quatfield said in his 1864 treatise on the common horsebug in a slight digression taken from Stern Laurentz in his first Auntie Booby collection that he published after the great fleamarket riots following the coronation of Cedric, son of Ethelbert...eh, I think I am digressing a bit. What was the question actually?
More serious, does an PhD thesis count as essay?
Bonus) I like Weetabix because...?
(Almost) Everything one does not know seems interesting. What will happen, if I press this red button marked "DOOM"?
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1) What do you expect to be the reason for your death?
2) Does that bother you?
3) Now, he's into morbidity (after sex and alternative lifestyles) What may be the reason and what will follow from that?
Bonus: Now we had binary a second time. are there no more obscure counting thechniques?
1) What do you expect to be the reason for your death?
Carcinoid cancer or a side-effect thereof.
2) Does that bother you?
Nope. Gotta die someday, and I just don't want to be in pain when it happens.
3) Now, he's into morbidity (after sex and alternative lifestyles) What may be the reason and what will follow from that?
The reason for my death?? Really REALLY bad luck in the genetic lottery... What will follow from that? I hope my siblings and their progeny will catch the idea that GENETIC means "This could happen to YOU, too."
Bonus: Now we had binary a second time. are there no more obscure counting thechniques?
I'm thinkin' there are more languages to be explored...
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one: Do you worry about your mortality--aging, memory issues, etc? NOT afterlife issues, just end of life issues.
two: About those afterlife issues? Whadda ya think?
many: Your stance on assisted dying/euthenasia/mercy killing--whatever ya wannacall it?
lots: (bonus) Which would bother you more--looking old or acting old?
one: Do you worry about your mortality--aging, memory issues, etc? NOT afterlife issues, just end of life issues.
Yes-- the loss of mental function. To me, dying "gracefully" means your mind is good until the end, or just before. Since I'm a rationalist, to me, all else is vanity. :)
two: About those afterlife issues? Whadda ya think?
I have not drawn a definitive conclusion.
However, over the past 3 years conversing with various sorts, including zealots of several stripes, I have become a "hard atheist" with regards to the Traditional God. (whatever flavor-- doesn't matter-- don't believe It/Him/Her exists as Advertised).
I think that god, if god exists, is nothing like what people claim or imagine. The evidence is just not supportive of their claims.
On the other hand? What if it IS a test? But, what if the fundie-zealots have it exactly backwards? What if the test, is for rationalism? And that god, being ultimately rational, is interested in weeding out rational minds, for Interesting Discourse. But, what of the fanatical-fundies? God, being ultimately rational, has a place for them, too: yes, it's crassly furnished in gold leaf, with marble, yada-yada-yada. Harps issued to each at the door.... ::)
Bottom line: all humans (barring the unusual specimen) demonstrate at least the capacity for rational thinking.
If humans are even a remote reflection of the Ultimate Creator (god--duuh! :) ) then that Being is rational as well, yes?
If so-- the only rational "conclusion" from where I'm sitting, is: "I do not know. I am awaiting more information."
Once we die-- if there is an afterlife, I think that "more information" would be available in abundance, yes? At the very least, what IS and what IS NOT would be apparent.
At that time, then, I would attempt to draw a conclusion.
I would think that a rational being could well understand that, and not hold it against me that I waited until I was dead....
many: Your stance on assisted dying/euthenasia/mercy killing--whatever ya wannacall it?
I have already put plans into effect, with regards to myself. Were I to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's, or other mentally-degrading condition, I will exit gracefully, likely by my own hand. If I'm facing a life of increasing pain, and less and less physical function-- again, I will exit gracefully before things get out of hand.
So, obviously, I think that it ought to be a RIGHT of anyone who's mind is otherwise functional, to choose to exit gracefully. To kill themselves with dignity, and without stigma, if you don't like euphemisms. :)
To quote Robert Heinlein' character, Lazarous Long, in Time Enough For Love:
"Where is my friggin suicide button? It is supposed to be right there on the arm of my hospital chair-- I can see where it's been removed! I want that button re-installed, pronto!"
lots: (bonus) Which would bother you more--looking old or acting old?
Acting old-- definitely. Not a big worry about how I look.
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ένας - Do you believe essentially the same things as you grew up with, or have you changed some, a little, or a lot? To what? (or not.. :) )
δύο - Watch much TV? Favorite show? Or favorite alternative to TV if you don't
τρία - Speak more than English? Go ahead-- brag. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Bonus: what language did I number these?
ένας - Do you believe essentially the same things as you grew up with, or have you changed some, a little, or a lot? To what? (or not.. Smiley )
Essentially, I am just about where I always was, belief-wise. It's just gone through various fine-tunings along the way. My Mom was Episcopalian, but I never got into the whole Christian thing for some reason, even though my three other siblings did. My Dad was Unitarian. More my speed, but a bit vague.
For the past nine months I have been studying the Medicine Wheel ways. I really like them because they require no faith. What you see is what you get. All you have to do is make a practice of looking and feeling. If you are able to find the great spirit outside and inside, then lucky you. You don't need afterlife if you can find heaven here. Just like anything else, it's temporary. All the more reason to appreciate it whenever it moves through your life.
Also- it is the most adaptable philosophy I have ever met. Rules may be modified or broken. It evolves! ;D That makes very good sense to me.
δύο - Watch much TV? Favorite show? Or favorite alternative to TV if you don't
I like unusual movies and The Daily Show with John Stewart.
τρία - Speak more than English? Go ahead-- brag. Mr Green Mr Green
Nur ein bischien Deatsch buchstabiere ich sie schlecht.
Bonus: what language did I number these?
It's all Greek to me.
1) How often (if ever) do you take time to meditate?
2) Would you rather be made of wood or made of stone?
3) How self-conscious would you say you are?
1) How often (if ever) do you take time to meditate?
Once or twice a year. Used to be often, but I lapsed.
2) Would you rather be made of wood or made of stone?
I think I am more likely to turn into a pillar of salt, but if you insist then stone, black smooth carved flowing hint of feminine shape like what my sculptor friend makes. (or maybe I'd like to be one of Constantin Brancusi 's works).
3) How self-conscious would you say you are?
Used to be excrutiatingly but could completely put it aside. Something snapped about 15 years ago and now I don't give a fart's curse.
I could never speak up in large groups. Now I can. I can even be the one addressing a large group. Even having forgotten to put on my false breast.
I really don't know how I changed so totally but it had something to do with a workshop where I had to crawl around on the floor in front of strangers. ;D
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1. Which bit of your body do you like best and why?
2. What are the sorts of initial rational thoughts you have on waking... examples... give as many as possible
3. What's the most embarrassing item of clothing you have ever worn or had to wear and how did you cope with it?
1. Which bit of your body do you like best and why?
Hair. It's easy to keep it out of my way and it rarely hurts.
2. What are the sorts of initial rational thoughts you have on waking... examples... give as many as possible
"Rational" and "on waking"? Can those two terms co-exist? Not in my subjective experience...
OK, usually, I wake up to either the thought of "to the potty NOW" or "will someone convince the dog that just because HE is awake, I don't have to be awake, too". My favorite is "Hmmm, nothing really hurts much." One of my least favorites is "Oh, damn, damn, damn that hurts" which can be anything from muscle spasms and cramps in my feet and legs to a torsion-type pain in various places in my abdomen.
I used to wake up thinking about work, the meaning of work and why I needed to work. (Hated bosses, torture by others, needed the money...) Periodically, I wake up thinking that the world would be a much nicer place if there had been a universal flush system installed at the beginning, so that it could easily clean up us and our messes.
3. What's the most embarrassing item of clothing you have ever worn or had to wear and how did you cope with it?
In a one-act play, I had to wear a lacy slip with nothing under it but a bra and panties. It had to look convincingly like I was wearing just my underclothing.
I wore flesh toned tights, so that when I started out putting on the thigh-high white lace hose, there was already something on my legs, and wore a tightly fitted, boned 'merry-widow' type corset (bustier) onto which we attached what looked like bra straps. Thus, I had sufficient layers of clothing on that I wasn't embarrassed about wearing "just my undies" on stage.
That I had to do this at a regional (6 state area) theatre competition in front of 3,000 plus people?? We don't discuss that. Also, my hair was waist length, and I was allowed to have it down. At that time it was thick enough to be quite concealing. (Think Cousin Itt from the Addams Family...)
The play was Tennesee William's 27 Wagonloads of Cotton, which was made into the film Babydoll.
Tennessee Williams can really write 'em...
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1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?
2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?
3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
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I am going to answer these but
I really want sibling Zono to come and answer them as well! Seriously-
1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?
I was in my 6th grade play. I played an old woman who had one line. I got to walk with a cane, I gave the smart mouth kid who had the lead a bloody head with it :mrgreen:
2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?
Cordelia-- King Lear, she's a nice person, balances evil people, is honorable, has mercy-- she's just a nice person who plays nicely with others. And the name is cool also ;). My grandmother is Cordellia Izora and I am S. Cordellia.
3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
I don't know-- first to mind Jo March (Josephine-Little Women), she is independent, does her own thing, loves deeply, is intelligent, and is loved by others.
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here take this little pill and call me later.
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?: Are you a Trekkie? why/why not?
??: Or is Star Wars your thing? why/why not?
???: If you learned that in fact you had 30 minutes to live, what would you do?
Someone summoned me.
In a big RED font.
Hence...
1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?
Straight theatre, in highschool on a small rol. Nothing to write home about. Singing, 3 years of vocal technique, a few school concerts and soloist works a couple of times. Choral work, since high school, then University chorus, music department chorus, and professional choruses both in Bogotá and in South Florida, including (the now defunct) Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and Palm Beach Opera.
Lots of respect for stage hands & work but never done it myself. It is a very unforgiving job (miss a cue and everybody will voice how incompetent you are).
2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?
Hamlet: idealistic, deranged, insane... I can see part of myself in him. ;)
3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
Phew! That is a hard question, while I do identify myself with certain characters while reading a novel, none come to mind in this moment as one I could claim.
Or perhaps Casaubon from Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum?
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?: Are you a Trekkie? why/why not?
No. The canonic definition crosses the line into a level of fandom I'm not prepared to embrace. Now, I do love the series and the idea of a human world in which rationality is above self interest, the hope of a future in a real sense. Sadly a future so morally distant it vanishes into the impossibility.
??: Or is Star Wars your thing? why/why not?
As fun scifi? Of course, what could be cooler? Regarding the serious themes in it, I do recognize the Jedi ethos and the politic pathos in the series, but sometimes if falls into a caricature of those.
??? : If you learned that in fact you had 30 minutes to live, what would you do?
Use meditation to get ready for my passing. Not enough time for meaningful goodbye's.
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1. Irony or cynicism? Explain.
2. Does satire influence people or it is simply a way to let some steam out?
3. Do you expect to see humans behaving rationally at some point? Or perhaps in certain situation?
1. Irony or cynicism? Explain.
Cynicism inwards (usually; externalized in disguise of happy nihilism), irony outwards
A cynic is a disappointed romantic with brains and that fits my character (I think). Irony is also powerful armor
2. Does satire influence people or it is simply a way to let some steam out?
Is that mutually exclusive? Unfortunately too many people don't "get" satire, so the emphasis is clearly on the latter.
3. Do you expect to see humans behaving rationally at some point? Or perhaps in certain situation?
Do you mean humanity as a whole? The individual human being is quite rational most of the time but does not look far enough into the future. Many things that are rational in the short term become harmful in the long term. Unfortunately rationality grows weak in some areas of main importance.
Paradox: the most irrational behaviour can be fully rational depending on the setting/belief system
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1. What should Hillary (not Sir Edmund) do?
2. What will she do?
3. What do you think of her and has this opinion significantly changed with time?
Bonus: What are your criteria for naming children and what guidance would you give on that?
1. What should Hillary (not Sir Edmund) do?
Quit before she makes a bigger fool of herself. As it is,she and Bill have destroyed any 'legacy' he may have had.
2. What will she do?
Hang in there until even the most idiotically biased staff members and DLC shills tell her that she's gotta stick a fork in it or they will. I fully expect her to try some backroom pushing and nagging at the lead up to the convention, and to NOT go gracefully...as she's already shown she won't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfidftLe5Z0&eurl=http://www.wikio.com/video/216894
3. What do you think of her and has this opinion significantly changed with time?
At one point, I admired her for her help to her husband as President, because she IS an effective 'policy wonk'. As a Senator, I felt she was OK, her constituents liked her...and then she started hanging out with the Conservatives (Right-Wingers, Republicans, and even the Christo-fascists in the "prayer breakfast group" that she's been meeting with. she's NEVER said she was wrong about the war, she's voted with the Repubs WAY too often, and I wasn't thrilled. THEN she started this campaign.
A year ago, I thought she'd make a great cabinet member, and Bill for the Supremes. Now I wouldn't put either one of them in charge of a lemonade stand. (And I told her so. I'm on a political polling list, and we were shown the "#AM" ad 2 days before it aired. My response was "Go ahead, LOSE the support you've had. This is Texas, we KNOW scare ads when we see them (Johnson's ticking nuclear bomb ad that got Goldwater? We saw it first...)
She needs to go back to New York (Bill needs to slink out of Harlem). They both need to either declare as Repubs or re-learn what it means to be a Democrat.
Bonus: What are your criteria for naming children and what guidance would you give on that?
Don't go trendy. Don't use "yoonaeikquie" (unique) spellings. Don't make us stupid names--one recent abomination is Nevaeh--heaven spelled backwards. Don't choose to name a girl a 'traditional' boys name or a last name and then 'jazz it up' by spelling it funny (Bayleigh/ Baylee/Baelee--just name the kid Bailey OR one I dearly loathe because Leslie is originally a male name...my uncle and brother are both Leslie--Lesley, Lesleigh, Leysliegh).
If you want to name a child after an older relative, use common sense. If Great Aunt Theresa has 2 granddaughters, 3 great granddaughters, 4 nieces and 3 great nieces named after her, DO NOT name your daughter Theresa (This actually happened in my extended family. You can't get near that side of the family without running into Theresas enough to field a football team. Then one of the guys married a Teresa...) even ifyou're part of the large Catholic contingent of the family and love both the name AND Aunt Tee.
Now, as to specific ethnic names, please understand that at some point there MAY be problems. Your daughter SIOBHAN (shi-VONNE) may do fine in Ireland, but if you move to Tulsa when she's 14, there's gonna be a problem among most of the folks she meets. (And, indeed, she'll probably go through high school as S. Mddlename Lastname.)
As to your sons, same thing, but with bells on, about the unique names and spellings. Names are cyclical. Celebrities get away with a lot more leeway, as do the wealthy.
As to advice, for Amurricins, use this site http://www.babynamesgarden.com/
and for others, find something similar. When you fina a name you like, put it on the list. Make a list of about 30 names, circulate it to the relatives, then take their responses, toss them out and choose what the parents of said infant like best. If you end up with a kid called Parnassus Apple-butter, so be it. She'll probably choose to go by Parri, PA or Tyfanneigh.
Me, I'd give the kid a set of neutral initials and let it work out a name it likes, to be chosen on or by the 18th birthday, and flexibility before that. DJ works for a boy or a girl... :mrgreen:
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1. Do you consider yourself a serious-minded person?
2. Why?
3. What is your favorite berry to eat just as a berry, not cooked, conserved, jammed or jellied or made into a dessert?
Bonus: What about in frogurt??? :mrgreen:
1. Do you consider yourself a serious-minded person?
Yes.
2. Why?
I have always acted older (but looked younger) than my peers because I was responsible for more than they were. I still consider the range of probable outcomes when making important decisions, and am accustomed to predicting and forestalling knee-jerk objections to suggestions or requests in the workplace or with 'challenging' people outside it.
3. What is your favorite berry to eat just as a berry, not cooked, conserved, jammed or jellied or made into a dessert?
Raspberries.
Raspberries.
Ras! Ras! Ras!
I like them fresh. I like them frozen.
I like them drowning in white chocolate.
Bonus: What about in frogurt???
I like cold and frozen things, so...
Hmmm, I wonder how vanilla frogurt would be with raspberries...
And chocolate...
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Z. What's your favorite tea (or coffee)?
Y. Milk, lemon, sugar, something else or plain?
X. Iced tea: abomination or refreshing?
1. Biscotti: pretentious or just crumby?
Z. What's your favorite tea (or coffee)?
Favorite tea: green tea with mangoes (either Lipton or Celestial Seasonings) Decaf or leaded, depending on time of day.
Favorite coffee: Hawaiian. Or Kohona if you like. It really is worth the extra $$. One of the few coffees I routinely drink black.
Y. Milk, lemon, sugar, something else or plain?
In regular coffee: nonfat dried milk and sugar. Sometimes that "non-dairy" lofat coffee creamer, too. Depends on how harsh the brand/flavor is. I typically grind and brew my own, so that a cup of mine is much like 4-5 cups of whatever you can get from typical coffee vendors.
In tea: if hot, plain or a hint of honey. If cold, plain. Lemon if fresh. Sweet cold tea is an abomination. :)
X. Iced tea: abomination or refreshing?
Refreshing! I drink it literally by the gallon, summertimes.
1. Biscotti: pretentious or just crumby?
What's a 'biscotti'? Some sort of Italian sports car? Wouldn't touch it in either case.... :mrgreen:
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Part the first: PC or Mac or Linnux? Why? Why not? Does it really matter? :D
Part the second: If you could permanently change ONE SINGLE ASPECT of human culture/society world-wide-- what would it be? Why?
Part the third: You've just been given 2 minutes. You can give the Speech of Your Life, or you can remain silent, or something else. The Whole World is Listening. What to do?
Part the Optional: Motorcycles-- pure fun, or death-waiting-to-happen? Explain.
Part the first: PC or Mac or Linnux? Why? Why not? Does it really matter? Cheesy
Mac. I have Mac. But no, I don't think it matters all that much. What actually matters is the person operating the machine.
Part the second: If you could permanently change ONE SINGLE ASPECT of human culture/society world-wide-- what would it be? Why?
I would completely remove whatever gland it is that we seem to have that makes us want to smash those that do not believe things exactly the way we do. I believe that this is something humans need to evolve out of, and if I knew how to do it, I'd evolve us all right into a more tolerant era. Unfortunarley, it's just going to take time and work.
Part the third: You've just been given 2 minutes. You can give the Speech of Your Life, or you can remain silent, or something else. The Whole World is Listening. What to do?
Ooh, I'm not good at speeches. I tend to trip over my own tongue. Could I just have everyone exposed to our website here for two minutes' worth of attention? Could it be in every language available?
Part the Optional: Motorcycles-- pure fun, or death-waiting-to-happen? Explain.
Death waiting to happen. It's not the motorcyclists I'm worried about, it's the people in the other vehicles to which people on motorcycles seem to be almost invisible.
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1) What's more important to you? Money or dignity? Why?
2) To what extent would you call yourself happy-go-lucky?
3) Do you think that the notion of God is necessary?
1) What's more important to you? Money or dignity? Why?
That sounds like a question for a prospect prostitute. :mrgreen:
Seriously speaking, the trick would be what dignity means; the guy at the back of the garbage truck may be poor and have a non-glamorous but honest job. On that respect he has his dignity. OTOH dignity may mean different things for different people who may consider such job as something indignant. It may also be related to ridicule and in that regard I would choose a well paid ridicule than a poor 'dignity'.
But the most important scenario is related to prostitution, not only on the sexual sense but on the moral and/or philosophical sense. Is it OK to work for the likes of Phillip Morris, or Exxon-Mobil, sales or any bank or insurance company? How far in the job until you feel all dirty inside? I try not to prostitute myself but when you need a job is hard to take the high road and say I rather go hungry (and put my family on a bad situation) rather than work for _________. I sang a couple times for a Christian Science church covering a friend and I felt somewhat dirty but it wasn't as much money nor I had a formal offer to keep singing there. I worked doing small programming for BP and while it seemed a decent company on certain respects, it is a very dirty business (in the environmental sense and some other stuff). I worked for a company that made software for those credit consolidation companies that appear on TV. Even when there is at least one honest company on that area (or perhaps just one?) and I wasn't involved in the dirty part of the business a part of me felt dirty and I was far happier when it was over partly because of that. The worst was adjusting a program that generated lotto numbers usually sold to old folks. It was just a couple times and I didn't have much of an option. Later when I didn't work for the company with the link, the guy contacted me and I was so busy I never did anything else for him.
So to resume, I'd like my dignity but only if I can afford it.
2) To what extent would you call yourself happy-go-lucky?
As to I'll wait for my luck to shine for me without worrying too much. In the end worrying doesn't help anyways.
3) Do you think that the notion of God is necessary?
For certain people.
I'm very much in agreement with the existentialist motto: life in it self doesn't have a meaning, you are the one giving meaning to your life.
For some G_d and/or religion is the meaning they choose, and I find it quite respectable provided they don't want to force me to their meaning.
Now, socially in those times and places in history where justice was scarce or non-existent, religion had a very important role not only on the cohesive side but on the "fear what you can't see and behave" sense. I tend to believe that that is an outdated concept.
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1. Are sexual taboos necessary? (obviously excluding incest and child molestation)
2. Does the lending prohibition (in certain religions) make sense?
3. What are your thoughts on polygamy/polyandry?
1. Are sexual taboos necessary? (obviously excluding incest and child molestation)
I'm with Robert Heinlein, here-- whatever two adults want to do that is mutual, that is up to them. I would place no limits between adults of any kind--- not even incestuous.
Adults.
Now. For extra credit: define exactly what constitutes an adult. Be specific. Your example MUST cover ALL possible human conditions, including variations on mental capacity, etc. ;D
A word about religious limits on sexual behavior among adults:
I see it as strictly a method of crowd/sheep control. If you can get a handle on a person's most powerful instinct, and then contrive to make them feel "dirty" about having that instinct, then you truly have control over them and their lives. For all you need to do is provide a "wash" to assuage the "dirty" away.
Looked at objectively, it's really quite clever.
Humans have long since evolved beyond the need to "protect the women and children"-- and that justification for oppressive sexual rules is long past.
Being responsible for one's own actions, including offspring, ought to be a "bottom line" sort of thinking-- no need for overbearing laws trying to ENFORCE this responsibility. It's akin to pushing a rope: you won't have much success.
2. Does the lending prohibition (in certain religions) make sense?
No. I see it as yet another way to control people from a central authority.
3. What are your thoughts on polygamy/polyandry? Well, from the above, it ought to be obvious by now.
So long as all the adults in question are in on the gig, and not forced or brainwashed into it at a very early age...
Which pretty much brings up a problem: should religion (any sort) be allowed to be taught to children? If the religion has real value, a rational adult can easily decide to choose it. A child lacks sufficient critical thinking skill to be making such weighty decisions.
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A) should basic human needs be a right? Ought they be provided for free, if needed? I'm including basic shelter, basic food, basic medical care, here.
B) Is insurance-for-profit an ethical oxymoron? Justify either way in commentary.
C) Is the internet really for porn? Video link (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645)
A) should basic human needs be a right? Ought they be provided for free, if needed? I'm including basic shelter, basic food, basic medical care, here.
I'd say yes but those that can do should be required to do their part to "earn" it (and that might include those that just "let their* money work for them"). If that phrase was not so abused I'd say: To each according to his/her (reasonable) needs, from each according to his/her abilities (without turning into exploitation)
B) Is insurance-for-profit an ethical oxymoron? Justify either way in commentary.
Non-profit insurance could only be provided by the state realistically and I do not consider that the ideal solution.
That would mean profit being justified to which I agree to a certain degree. What is not justifiable in my opinion is the insurance as "just" a cash cow of the "what we can get away with" kind**. As a result, the insurance business should be in my opinion be tightly regulated in order to guarantee access to the essential services for everyone without undue burden. To secure the viability of the business under these circumstances some risk-sharing would be appropriate (like having all companies pay into a shared pool that is used to compensate the disadvantaged ones***).
C) Is the internet really for porn?
The net was not born for porn**** but it is a legitimate subgroup that should not be per se discriminated against. That excludes true exploitation, certain types of spam and other stuff that at least one involved party is not a voluntary part of. Hey, and the typically available resolution is not that good either ;).
*assuming that they got it not primarily through their own skill but either inherited it or just multiplied existing wealth they had no part in creating.
**the type of selling water to people dying of thirst at 10000$ per bottle while blocking the access to any other source of drinkable fuid
***i.e. those that take the "uninsurable"
****I do not think this was the military's primary intent but these days nobody can be sure
1) Do you like to eat ice (cream and the like, not just solid H2O)?
2) If yes, what flavor? If no, why not?
3) Is making your own food (etc.) superior to buying it? (meaning stuff that you actually can produce, not things like microchips ect. that require large infrastructure)
1) Do you like to eat ice (cream and the like, not just solid H2O)?
Yes. PLEASE! Ice, ice cream, gelato, sorbet, if it's frozen, I want to eat it, no matter what you call it. (Now, if possible, soon if not.)
I'm an ice eater. The kind of ice (chipped, cubes, that funny tubular areated ice from Sonic drive-ins, whatever) does not matter. If there is ice that I can get in my mouth, I WILL crunch it up, I WILL eat it. (Habit from living in South Texas for most of my life? Maybe. I'm also a big fan of stuff that goes crunch.)
At one point (after moving to New Orleans back in 1979) I lived a good part of the summer on frozen broccoli--eaten frozen, out of the package. I don't know why, but it was what I wanted. Sometimes with a cheese sauce (or canned aerosol Cheezwiz-- :barf:) but mostly just as it came out of the bag or box. :dontknow:
2) If yes, what flavor? If no, why not?
Ice cream? Yes, please. I'm not fond of coconut...but otherwise, I'll pretty much be happy with almost any flavor. I'm especially fond of any caramel, pineapple, blueberry--ANY berry, pear (HaagenDasz has a caramelized pear that is wonderful) and a really good vanilla. Most chocolate ice cream is too sweet and too 'milk-laden' for a chocolate purist like me. (Haagen Dasz does a Swiss Almond Vanilla, excellent vanilla with almonds covered in bittersweet chocolate, that I would probably consider selling my soul for, were there a buyer that foolish.) Cherry!! Cherry with chocolate! Almost anything BlueBell.
http://www.bluebell.com/home.aspx
Main plant in Brenham, 15 or so miles away. GOOD stuff, not as expensive as the 'superpremium' like HaagenDasz.
Uh ohhh...new flavor...I'm in trouble.
http://www.bluebell.com/The_Little_Creamery/Press_Releases/press_southern_hospitality.aspx
HaagenDasz also makes a chocolate sorbet. Not ice cream, Good for those 'no dairy' times. Yep, I can eat an entire pint (if I don't eat anything else most of the day.)
I like ice cream with 'stuff' in it. Texture is important. Smooth ice cream, some crunchy 'stuff'. best of both worlds.
My all time favorite is White Chocolate Almond by BlueBell. they rarely make it.
3) Is making your own food (etc.) superior to buying it? (meaning stuff that you actually can produce, not things like microchips ect. that require large infrastructure)
Inn that you can control what goes in to what you produce, and it's not 'dated' from sitting in storage, yeah, it might be considered "better". BUT, the time consumed in production? The energy used? (Human energy as well as power of some sort.) All this MUST be taken into account. So must the skill level of the producer. If it takes me 2 years to make a set of dishware, shaped, fired, glazed and fired again--all in my small and inefficient home ceramics kiln, exactly HOW is that better than buying a set of more efficiently produced and safer (what's in that glaze? will it harm me later on?) Corelle that won't break as easily and that I can purchase replacements for at any time? Or even fine china? The labor factor alone makes handmade dishes a losing proposition, except as aesthetically pleasing items, which takes them into the field of art.
Foods...I can bake bread. I used to regularly. Now, my energy level prevents it (as does the lack of a working full sized oven because running the gas lines to the house will be expensive, and we haven't afforded it yet). Would it be worth my efforts to bake? Possibly, BUT---I prefer a multigrain, heavy, dark bread (no rye) and that's hard to do at home. And we don't eat that much bread.
So, there are things to consider about each specific item. Without an electric churn, I will NOT make butter. (I hand churned butter for YEARS every summer when I was a kid. And it seemed like years at the churn, too. But, I had me some right arm muscles from churning...) Yes fresh butter is AMAZING compared to the commercial product. But, I'd have to find fresh raw (or pasteurized only) milk, or cream. Verdict? Buy the butter, because I don't own a churn and I don't have a ready source of the milk/cream I'd need. (Dairy farmers here are big producers only, they don't split out stuff for the locals.)
Clothing? I can't sew. Unless the world is ready for me wearing a sheet wrapped around me, I'll buy clothes.
Veggies? I want a garden for the veggies, yes. Need tiller, seeds, water and time and energy. Can buy seeds/plant sets. Can (maybe) repair tiller. Water? Bills might get scary... Time and energy. Not right now!
Every home produced item is indeed a trade off. I prefer to buy ingredients and cook some things, I'd rather have a restaurant cook others. The freshness or the 'adapted for MY purposes' of a home produced item may indeed be superior. (I want some of Alex's home made cottage cheese...) BUT, what are the trade-offs and expenses?
It's a fine line, and it would have to be item by item.
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1. If you could ask Barak Obama one question, what would it be?
2. If you could ask John McCain one question, what would it be?
3. If you could make Dick Cheney answer one question HONESTLY, what would it be?
1. If you could ask Barak Obama one question, what would it be?
Up to what point will you submit to the conventional wisdom regarding economic policy?
2. If you could ask John McCain one question, what would it be?
Given that current troop rotations are about to collapse and funding for the war is eating into the deficit, are you going to reduce the troops presence in Iraq, in Afghanistan, or are you going to revive the draft, and/or how do you plan to keep paying for the war?
3. If you could make Dick Cheney answer one question HONESTLY, what would it be?
Were you aware in the weeks previous to 9-11 that an attack involving planes and buildings was about to happen?
(I would really love to hear an answer to this one under a heavy truth serum).
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1. If today you could get an electric commuter car at an affordable* price (think ~100-150 miles autonomy and $15-25K) would you buy it, or consider doing so and why (or why not)?
2. If you could afford a form of renewable energy installed in your house (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind) would you? What is currently preventing you from doing it?
3. Knowing your current environmental impact, what is the hardest thing to personally cut that would help the environment?
* Assuming that you can actually afford it.
1. If today you could get an electric commuter car at an affordable* price (think ~100-150 miles autonomy and $15-25K) would you buy it, or consider doing so and why (or why not)?
* Assuming that you can actually afford it.
In a New York second. Even though the current electrics TOTAL environmental cost is actually higher than for petrol-fueled vehicles.
Really, you say? Consider this: if you factor in the energy and environmental impact of manufacturing the batteries, and the rest of the car, and at least 2 replacement battery-sets for the life of the car. Factor in the cost of creating the electricity to recharge the car over it's lifetime. Compare that to the impact of making petrol cars.
Battery making in the US is a heinous process, especially lead-acid batteries (the only seriously economical battery available at present). Most of these are made in facilities that have "exclusion" clauses and "grandfather" clauses in-- due to being in business prior to EPA impact studies. Anyone lead-testing the soils around the current battery plants would be horrified....
The newer batteries are far, far worse an impact with regards to toxic waste.
Yet-- I'd buy that car in a heart-beat.
Why, knowing what I know?
Because we NEED to push that technology-- NOW. Not in 5 years, and truly not in 10. If a significant fraction of the population were driving electrics, the tech WOULD catch up to the problems I outlined above.
And the environmental impact AT THE CAR is minimal. It is MUCH easier to clean up a plant (be it electric or battery-maker) than it is to clean up the pollution of millions of individual cars.
You gotta consider the Whole Enchilada.
2. If you could afford a form of renewable energy installed in your house (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind) would you? What is currently preventing you from doing it?
Photocells? Not at present-- the manufacturing of these things is a net energy-loss. That is, it takes more energy to make the things, and produces more toxic waste, than you'd save over the life of it.
Solar thermal? Yes-- I plan to add a simple hot-water loop Real Soon Now. A very small electric motor, controlled by a thermostat. If the water in the loop is hotter than the water in the take, on comes the motor. If the water is cooler-- motor off. I'd use an indirect-loop, so I could put non-toxic antifreeze in the outdoor coil. For dark, dismal winter days-- so it won't freeze the water and ruin my collector.
I'd set the gas-thermostat (on the tank) as low as it'd go, as a backup heat source. Most of the time, the hot water would come from the sun. Occasionally, the gas would kick-in, as needed.
All I need is to Find Time.... *sigh*
3. Knowing your current environmental impact, what is the hardest thing to personally cut that would help the environment?
Hmmm. My current occupation? I routinely work with R22, a type of refrigerant. But, then again, I was never convinced that freon was a cause for the Ozone issues. Freon is still routinely created and used overseas. And you don't hear of the Ozone continuing to degrade....
On the other hand, years and YEARS ago, I quit using pressurized spray products, in favor of alternatives. For example, underarm spray deoderant? Switched to solid. Pressurized spray window cleaner and other cleaners? Switched to hand-trigger pumps. About the only thing I occasionally use that is a pressurized spray can is spray paint. I may have to re-think that, too-- there are alternatives to that, even.
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What is your favorite Color?
What is the air-speed of a fully laden Swallow? (European, of course)
In the Grand Scheme of Things, do you consider that Humans are Worth It? Or are they pretty much a Bad Move?
Bonus: Do you like/own a Digital Watch? Have you ever owned one? One with one of those push-buttons-to-see types?
What is your favorite Color?
BLUE Specifically cobalt blue.
What is the air-speed of a fully laden Swallow? (European, of course)
Faster than me.
In the Grand Scheme of Things, do you consider that 1) Humans are Worth It? Or are they pretty much a Bad Move?
Bad idea. Construction is faulty, they break a lot, some really inferior structural engineering to the whole mess, plus they're unusually whiny and co--dependent a lot of the time. I have, as of yet, to find an acceptable alternative for certain applications, though.
Kittehs and doggiez iz much nicer company, though, for the most part. I rarely haz to whack kittehz and doggiez with my No Stupiding sign.
Bonus: Do you like/own a Digital Watch? Have you ever owned one? One with one of those push-buttons-to-see types?
I don't wear watches. I tended to drawn my watch on a regular basis, and got out of the watchwearing habit. Then I broke my wrist, and now I can't stand to have a watch on. I use my cellphone, or ask Dan, who wears a digital watch, one of the push button to see in the dark kind, set for 24 hour time. (Which confuzzles me.)
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1) What do you consider your worst 'bad habit'?
2) Do you intend to try to change it, or have you accepted it and decided to live with it?
3) Have you ever attended an organized protest meeting of any kind?
1) What do you consider your worst 'bad habit'?
I'm an asshole. Sarcastic, irritable, and more than a little selfish about certain things.
2) Do you intend to try to change it, or have you accepted it and decided to live with it?
Depends. I want to change the selfishness (and I'm working on it) but I've tamed most of the asshole-ishness. At this point, it only comes out when I'm irritable, angry or I think you're not worth the air you breathe.
As I usually have a good reason why I think someone should quit breathing, I think I can live with that.
3) Have you ever attended an organized protest meeting of any kind?
Yes. I protested when Hillary came to my city. It was pretty cool. Also went to a World Can't Wait! protest at Stanford two years ago.
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1. What is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
2. What do you like about where you live?
3. Do you watch your food cook in the microwave?
1. What is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Depends how you define "weird".
In terms of the exotic, I've had various Asian dishes with ingredients I couldn't readily identify
In terms of things that very few people eat, I'm the only person I know who likes Dijon mustard on my eggs. I also once made a sandwich out of summer sausage, cheddar cheese, mayonnaise and two Eggo-style waffles.
In terms of things that I've eaten that most violates common sense, probably a Twinkie.
2. What do you like about where you live?
The nature-ish stuff: I like that I can see swans on a daily basis in the summer, that great blue herons occasionally fly over my house, and that my backyard gets visited by rabbits.
Plus the lake. I'm a short walk from Lake Ontario and technically, my house has a lake view (you have to stand on the upstairs porch and lean out over the railing to see it, but it's got it). Lake Ontario's big enough to stretch out beyond the horizon, but it's freshwater, so it has an almost-the-ocean-but-still-really-different vibe to it. I like it.
3. Do you watch your food cook in the microwave?
Only if I'm worried about it splattering and I'm not in the midst of preparing some other part of the meal/snack.
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1. What's your earliest clear memory?
2. What early memory were you once certain of, but then found out that your recollection was completely mistaken?
3. (remembering Scribelrus' previous user title) What's your favourite type of pie and why?
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on June 03, 2008, 06:44:53 AM
1) What do you consider your worst 'bad habit'?
I'm an asshole. Sarcastic, irritable, and more than a little selfish about certain things.
2) Do you intend to try to change it, or have you accepted it and decided to live with it?
Depends. I want to change the selfishness (and I'm working on it) but I've tamed most of the asshole-ishness. At this point, it only comes out when I'm irritable, angry or I think you're not worth the air you breathe.
As I usually have a good reason why I think someone should quit breathing, I think I can live with that.
Umm, you may grow up to be me...
You've been warned. :mrgreen:
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Carry on...
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on June 03, 2008, 11:20:29 PM
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on June 03, 2008, 06:44:53 AM
1) What do you consider your worst 'bad habit'?
I'm an asshole. Sarcastic, irritable, and more than a little selfish about certain things.
2) Do you intend to try to change it, or have you accepted it and decided to live with it?
Depends. I want to change the selfishness (and I'm working on it) but I've tamed most of the asshole-ishness. At this point, it only comes out when I'm irritable, angry or I think you're not worth the air you breathe.
As I usually have a good reason why I think someone should quit breathing, I think I can live with that.
Umm, you may grow up to be me...
You've been warned. :mrgreen:
I think I can live with that. :D
1. What's your earliest clear memory?
I distinctly remember walking down the street, looking down at the edge of the diaper around my waist and at my bare feet, below, and in the distance, my family calling my name. (I think I had just learned to walk and had either escaped or didn't know how to stop, or both!)
2. What early memory were you once certain of, but then found out that your recollection was completely mistaken?
Don't know that one. Sorry. There are probably a few, though.
3. (remembering Scribelrus' previous user title) What's your favourite type of pie and why?
I love a good cherry pie. I like biting into cherries in the filling and having them burst in my mouth all tangy and I like the color of the goo between the cherries. It's fantastic. And I like the blend of flavors between cherry filling and nice, golden crust. Mmmm... cherry-y!
1) What is your favorite topping for pie?
2) Do you like any foodstuff that's unnatural in color?
3) Have you ever visited deceased people in dreams?
1) What is your favorite topping for pie?
Lemon Merangue
2) Do you like any foodstuff that's unnatural in color?
Blue Smarties
3) Have you ever visited deceased people in dreams?
No, but a deceased person phoned me in a dream once and gave me some warning about something that was going to happen. It was really scarey.
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1. If you had more than two legs (ok, one if you are a pirate), how many would you like and why?
2. If you were stuck in your bathroom for six months which well known person do you think would be best qualified to get you out, and why?
3. What six implements would you take on a trip to Mars?
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on June 03, 2008, 06:44:53 AM
I'm an asshole. Sarcastic, irritable, and more than a little selfish about certain things.
Does that mean you're a deoxyribonucleic asshole? (the last line in this video...)
NOT SAFE FOR WORK! (naughty words...)
Hard N Phirm--
Trace Elements video (http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB76B0D53C0EA76EC9C764414400C26014)
(watch closely when he counts off the time with his fingers.... )
Oh, damn, I gotta send that to Tommy from Feo y Loco.
It's their kinda song...
http://www.feoyloco.com/
:offtopic: :offtopic:
Clearly my questions are simply unanswerable :mrgreen:
I'll answer your questions, Griffin!
1. If you had more than two legs (ok, one if you are a pirate), how many would you like and why?
Six. I currently move one-half of my legs with each step, so I would continue to do that, moving three legs instead of one and thus staying dynamic. The remaining three grounded legs, however, would always form a plane and thus ensure stability at all times.
Of course, that doesn't count arms and other useful appendages.
2. If you were stuck in your bathroom for six months which well known person do you think would be best qualified to get you out, and why?
Scot McClellan, since he's slimy enough to ooze out of any situation.
3. What six implements would you take on a trip to Mars?
Pilot G2 .38mm pen
Moleskine notebook
Shovel
Pogo stick
Dust cloth
Book to read
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1. How do you amuse yourself given long stretches of time (read: months) with absolutely no obligations to anybody?
2. Have the police made themselves much more of a visible, constant presence in the vicinity of your residence than before?
3. Carpet, wood floor, or other? Explain.
1. How do you amuse yourself given long stretches of time (read: months) with absolutely no obligations to anybody?
Depending on the amount of money:
-$$$ tourism (I would spend that time in Europe learning one or two languages)
-$$ take courses of something (again languages come to mind, possibly mandarin)
-$ drawing/reading/making music
2. Have the police made themselves much more of a visible, constant presence in the vicinity of your residence than before?
Yup, remember the property taxes ballot? Well given less income guess what's the city doing: giving tickets. At least 3 times I week I see the cops in motorcycles with a radar in hand at the entrance of my condo hunting speeders.
3. Carpet, wood floor, or other? Explain.
Tile (FL heat, remember? In fact I would be killing myself this past days with my AC broken if I had something else).
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1. If you could go back to the time when you chose your career would you change it? Why? (or for our younger siblings, what do you plan to do?).
2. Is there something you wish you learned long ago?
3. Are you and 'Elitist'? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
1. If you could go back to the time when you chose your career would you change it? Why? (or for our younger siblings, what do you plan to do?).
I'd finish my degree in music, no matter what was said about the job market, get my Master's and teach voice.
2. Is there something you wish you learned long ago?
I wish I had learned how to stand up to my family before I was 35...
3. Are you and 'Elitist'?
I must be. Dan brought me a button from the state Dem Convention that says "Elitists For Obama".
;D :mrgreen: ;D :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ;D :mrgreen: ;D
1) Do you believe that GWB should be impeached and convicted?
2) How about Ol' Dick? (Cheney)
3) Do you think either motion will ever clear the House Judiciary Committee?
1) Do you believe that GWB should be impeached and convicted?Yup. And strung up by his toes outside The Hague. Pinata sticks and bats should be kept handy.
2) How about Ol' Dick? (Cheney)Yup. He's the brains of the operation. He should then be run over with a Hybrid.
3) Do you think either motion will ever clear the House Judiciary Committee?I doubt it. But we can always hope.
:selfhug:
1. How do you deal with summer time in your area?
2. Should color be spelled with a 'u?'
3. If you drink tea, what's your favorite kind?
Bonus: If you drink coffee, where does it come from (originally)?
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe
1) Do you believe that GWB should be impeached and convicted?
Yup. And strung up by his toes outside The Hague. Pinata sticks and bats should be kept handy.
Close, but *oi* finks they should be hung up by thee body parrrt they arrr always simbolically swingin' aroun...
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1. How do you deal with summer time in your area?Usually with lots of watered-down lemonade, iced tea, and frozen grapes.
2. Should color be spelled with a 'u?'It's my favourite way to do so...
3. If you drink tea, what's your favorite kind?1. Stash / Early Grey Double Bergamot (yum!)
2. Tazo / Cinnamon
3. Yogi / Egyptian Licorice
Bonus: If you drink coffee, where does it come from (originally)?N/A ;)
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FOR WARM WEATHER:
1. Cotton or linen?
2. Jeans or Khakis?
3. Sneakers or Sandals?
Bonus. Shorts: Yay! or Neigh!
Warm weather here! (Unfortunately.)
1. Cotton or linen?
Um....
After checking my closet, cotton, apparently. I can't say it comes from any particular personal preference, though.
2. Jeans or Khakis?
Depends on the situation, of course, but when any style of dress is acceptable, I choose jeans.
3. Sneakers or Sandals?
Sandals absolutely. I wear sneakers only in very particular situations when I really, really have to.
Bonus. Shorts: Yay! or Neigh!
Yay! But I don't really have a nice pair, so when I go out in public, I stick to the pants. Outdoors, beach, at home, though, absolutely.
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1. Did you ever have a summer job as a teenager? If so, what did it entail? Did you like it? Do you have any wisdom to offer as a result of your experience?
2. Choose one: bird-like power of flight or ability to breathe underwater (with fish-like swimming capabilities). Explain.
3. If you had the ability to perform magic with the condition that your wonders be performed with the aid of some utensil - wand, staff, mysterious orb, etc. - what object would you choose as your hyper-universal remote control, and why?
1. Did you ever have a summer job as a teenager? If so, what did it entail? Did you like it? Do you have any wisdom to offer as a result of your experience?
Loads. Shelf-stacking in Sainsbury's (supermarket), digging a huge garden pond for an eccentric old lady (who said she wanted to fill it with champagne), doing cross-checking of audits for a brewery, stocktaking for a defence company :mrgreen:, soldering power supply units for a computer memory drum ::) company.
They were all quite fun because you knew you'd only have to do it for a short time.
Advice: If you get a choice, choose something that looks good on your CV, don't piss off the permanent staff by working twice as hard ::) , bear in mind that if you're heading to a good university there will be people there who've done the first two terms work in their high school, so don't neglect your reading list.*
2. Choose one: bird-like power of flight or ability to breathe underwater (with fish-like swimming capabilities). Explain.
Flight. I'd never have to use the A14 again and would be immune to tanker driver strikes.
3. If you had the ability to perform magic with the condition that your wonders be performed with the aid of some utensil - wand, staff, mysterious orb, etc. - what object would you choose as your hyper-universal remote control, and why?
Wristwatch. You evil adversary wouldn't notice anything strange.
* Remember the worst vice is advice.
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1 iPhone or other mobile?
2 iPod or clone?
3 Apples or oranges?
1. i phones are too expensive but I love apple gadgets...my mobile is an LG model of some sort. I also have an apple G5 computer, but not one of the latest intel ones...I have one of them at work though.
2. I have an i pod nano and I've recently downloaded Spoon's latest album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga which is excellent, and Peep Show. I also play Texus Holdum poker on my nano which tends to wear out the battery charge.
3. Computers = apple. Fruit = Oranges.
Texus Holdum = debt and uncontrollable rage.
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1. If you had the money would you fly into space with Virgin Galactic?
2. Bicycle or Horse?
3. What is your favourite colour?
1. If you had the money would you fly into space with Virgin Galactic?
Health allowing (and the money not usable for anything else), yes, I'd seriously consider it
(Could be another company too, if there were advantages)
2. Bicycle or Horse?
Bicycle (or related vehicles). I do not trust large animals
3. What is your favourite colour?
Niniveh....Aaaaaaargh!
Blue, with a tinge of green or pure cobalt
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1. If you had to live in uni-coloured surroundings, would you choose pure pink* or b/w?
2. There is two types of food in front of you. One is delicious but looks and smells extremly disgusting, the other looks extremly delicious but is completely tasteless. Which one will you choose (eyes and nose have to stay open during eating)?
3. Are you afraid of fire or water? Which one would you choose, if you had to, for an unpleasant experience
Bonus: Is that one of those headology question sessions?
*If you love pink choose a color you dislike
1. If you had to live in uni-coloured surroundings, would you choose pure pink* or b/w?
Black and white wouldn't bother me. On the other hand, pink surroundings would imply that I was an internal parasite, and it's a very successful life strategy. ;)
2. There is two types of food in front of you. One is delicious but looks and smells extremly disgusting, the other looks extremly delicious but is completely tasteless. Which one will you choose (eyes and nose have to stay open during eating)?
The delicious-disgusting food. I have eaten things that look extremely disgusting, and things that smell extremely disgusting, and will actively seek out those foods again because they are DELICIOUS! Combining them wouldn't be an issue. It's disgusting ideas that throw me off (can't do bugs because of the innards and crunch-pop-squelch factor, am squeamish about whole innards in general although I suppress it for some foods and muscle-based organs are OK with me).
3. Are you afraid of fire or water? Which one would you choose, if you had to, for an unpleasant experience
Provided I would survive, I would choose water (very unpleasant experiences with fire leave major scars). Provided I wouldn't survive.... I would choose water. Drowning sounds less painful. I have an affinity for and a high comfort level with both, but have been in more scary situations with water and am confident of my abilities to get out of most situations (I'm still here). I'm a strong swimmer and can travel at least 50 m underwater (linear, not depth) without surfacing for breath.
Bonus: Is that one of those headology question sessions?
Only Q1, IMO
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Fit the first: Are you reasonably fluent in legalese (in your native tongue)?
Fit the second: Ever had to negotiate a complex legal document?
Fit the third: What's the most disgusting thing you've eaten that you would eat again? Measure disgust according to general public opinion, not what you thought of it.
Bonus: Where am I getting the fits from?
Fit the first: Are you reasonably fluent in legalese (in your native tongue)?
Depends on what you'd call resonable. I can wade through legalese fairly well when I have to, but it is exhausting.
Fit the second: Ever had to negotiate a complex legal document?
Depends on what you'd call complex, but so far all I've ever negotiated was a mortgage and re-mortgage. That was plenty.
Fit the third: What's the most disgusting thing you've eaten that you would eat again? Measure disgust according to general public opinion, not what you thought of it.
Gosh, all I can think of right now is tofu. Tofu took me a while to learn how to appreciate, but I love it, now. Most other disgusting things I've had to eat I would not eat again. My poor Mom makes the most awful paella- the rice is hard and she uses this terrible articficial lobster substance- yuk! Gee, sorry Mom, but I -erm- forgot that I all ready ate earlier.
Bonus: Where am I getting the fits from?
Your tailor?
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Oon) Have you ever had to figure out a polite excuse for not eating some well-meaning person's unfortunate offering? What did you say?
Doo) Is it okay to lie petitely and politely sometimes, as in to save someone else's feelings?
Twa) Is confrontation the best solution to a touchy subject?
Oon) Have you ever had to figure out a polite excuse for not eating some well-meaning person's unfortunate offering? What did you say?
"I'm full" (with various ornaments) typically works well for me, and people tend to believe it as I don't generally eat very much anyway.
Doo) Is it okay to lie petitely and politely sometimes, as in to save someone else's feelings?
I think so - certainly not always, but when the tradeoff is only between my own sense of moral righteousness and somebody else's feelings, I typically choose the other person's feelings.
Twa) Is confrontation the best solution to a touchy subject?
It depends on the person whom I'm confronting. With most of my close friends, I'm confident enough in the strength of the friendship to bring up touchy stuff, knowing it'll probably get resolved faster that way. When I'm dealing with people with whom I'm less close, I tend to shy away from confrontation (probably more than I should).
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1. Do you call people, or do people call you? (Bonus: is that of your own doing, and do you like it?)
2. Do you jot things down or do you try to memorize them?
3. Favorite brands of trivial objects: a mark of class or pretension?
1. Do you call people, or do people call you? (Bonus: is that of your own doing, and do you like it?)
I find the telephone very often quite an annoying invention and use it as rarely as possible (and can do without a cellphone very well). Since I live the life of a pseudo-hermit real world contacts are low. Hey, you crowds ARE my social life ;).
2. Do you jot things down or do you try to memorize them?
Where did I put those notes again? Can't remember! :mrgreen:
3. Favorite brands of trivial objects: a mark of class or pretension?
Why change, if I find the product working sufficiently and not overprized?
Brands are useful not to get lost in front of the shelves (for that reason I hate the regular change of the packing of many branded items).
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1. What are the most common natural desasters in the area where you live?
2. Would you like to change those desasters for others (if no desaster is not an option)?
3. How's the weather?
1. What are the most common natural desasters in the area where you live?
Tornadoes are probabily at the top of people's minds, but flooding is far more common hereabouts.
Especially with the "over the top" weather we've been getting of late. Can anyone say, "Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)"? ::)
2. Would you like to change those desasters for others (if no desaster is not an option)?
No. Flooding, rarely takes lives-- that is, if people pay attention. I.e. avoid driving off into water rushing across roadways...
Property damage can be quite high, but is usually quite fixable afterward. Contrast this with the total destructive force of a tornado or hurricane (or volcano).
And many are finally getting a clue, and purchasing flood insurance. Finally.
3. How's the weather?
Wet. Rainy. What? You already guessed that? Wait-- this IS Oklahoma. In a month or so, it'll be so dry people will be complaining about how dry it is....
....and longing for the weather they are complaining about now.
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1> Math. Love it. Hate it. It's a necessary evil. Which? Something Else? Thoughts, please.
2> Science. Really is the best model for Finding Out Things? Or is it but one of several choices? Why? (or not)
3> Religion and/or Faith. (as Doug Adams quipped) A Really Bad Idea? Or is it a Requirement for a Truly Fulfilled Life? Why (or not)
Extra points for succinct answers. :mrgreen: (just kidding....)
1> Math. Love it. Hate it. It's a necessary evil. Which? Something Else? Thoughts, please.
Love love love. It's beautiful, elegant, fascinating, derived from years of human genius, and it really works. I'm in awe.
2> Science. Really is the best model for Finding Out Things? Or is it but one of several choices? Why? (or not)
For the big questions (i.e. How do things work?), absolutely. For the little ones (e.g. Whodunnit?), there's still something to be said for human intuition and instinct.
3> Religion and/or Faith. (as Doug Adams quipped) A Really Bad Idea? Or is it a Requirement for a Truly Fulfilled Life? Why (or not)
I'm young, so I can't be entirely sure yet, but my life has been pretty fulfilling so far without any religion. Faith, though, is more flexible, and I think fulfillment in life does require having something to trust, believe in, and lean on, from faith in the ability of the ground to support me to faith in my own potential as a human being.
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1. Is love an instinctual, physi-physio-psycho-logical emotion you experience in a way that seems beyond your control, or is it grounded in a physi-physio-psycho-logical choice you consciously make?
2. When you sit down to work, not relax, do you like your seating implement firm or soft? Do you like fifteen different points of adjustment, or do you like it rigid?
3. Laissez-faire capitalism, complete socialism, or something in-between (and if so, what)? Asked in terms of pure economics and without reference to previous attempts in history at such systems.
1. Is love an instinctual, physi-physio-psycho-logical emotion you experience in a way that seems beyond your control, or is it grounded in a physi-physio-psycho-logical choice you consciously make?
IMO romantic love is the result of a valuable adaptation that allows for the male to take care of the female during the most fragile time, namely pregnancy and the baby's 1-2 years of life. Once the imprint happens the male will have a higher incentive to take care of the female. Remember that our ancestors rarely reached more than 25 y/o and likely would average 15-17 y/o, just time enough to have 1 or 2 children.
Specifically regarding your question, if you are 'in control' you're NOT 'in love'.
2. When you sit down to work, not relax, do you like your seating implement firm or soft? Do you like fifteen different points of adjustment, or do you like it rigid?
I'd love to have 15 points of adjustment if it were affordable, after hours in front of the computer my butt tends to suffer. :-\
3. Laissez-faire capitalism, complete socialism, or something in-between (and if so, what)? Asked in terms of pure economics and without reference to previous attempts in history at such systems.
The short answer is mix of both: have kibbutz like cooperatives side by side with laissez-faire capitalism, provided that subsistence farming is actually possible (no or very low property taxes for small farms) and a small piece of land is actually available for those unable to make a life in the 'capitalist world'.
Some people is simply unable to share and much rather live in a dog-bite-dog world. Let them, they'll be happier and so the rest of us.
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1. At what age were you when you first fancied someone?
2. At what temperature is the thermostat/house now?
3. What is the longest trip you've made in one sitting?
1. At what age were you when you first fancied someone?
I remember it pretty clearly-- 5th grade, right about the time my hormones started changing my brain's chemistry. My body caught up much, much later....
But then again, I always liked girls-- I never did go through that "I hate girls" phase. I suppose being fairly close to my sister helped in this....although we had our knock-down and drag-outs.
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
*sounds of scuffling*
2. At what temperature is the thermostat/house now?
Thermostat: 77. Actual temperature of house: 80 (it's a function of where the thermo is placed)
3. What is the longest trip you've made in one sitting?
Something like eight hours non-stop. Was a trip in a van with a bunch of high school seniors to Appalachia Mountains, for a volunteer service project. Was 2 additional cars, and our illustrious leader had a cast-iron bladder.... Need for gas forced us to halt, finally.
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3] Make lists? Or trust your excellent memory? Some other method of Getting Things Done?
2] Post-It Notes. Abomination? Godsend? Or... 'What's a Post-It'?
1] Ball-point pens? Pencils? Mechinical or wooden? Fibre-point pens? Quill pens? Sharpies? A 3" paint-brush? What is your preferred method of manual writing? How often do you use it?
3] Make lists? Or trust your excellent memory? Some other method of Getting Things Done?
I make lists even if I'm fairly young my short term memory isn't what it once was after my collision with the infamous wall... Losing my short term memory again is a major warning signal that I'm getting too stressed out again.
2] Post-It Notes. Abomination? Godsend? Or... 'What's a Post-It'?
I love them, no ugly marks of tape left when removed from pages in books or any other surface they will stick on!
1] Ball-point pens? Pencils? Mechinical or wooden? Fibre-point pens? Quill pens? Sharpies? A 3" paint-brush? What is your preferred method of manual writing? How often do you use it?
Yes to all above! It depends on what I'm writing, on what kind of paper and why. I do admit that I prefer using a fountain-pen instead of a quill pen but I have quill pens, I have used it and I know how to make them properly. I have a lot of pens and I tend to have a favourite of every kind. ::) However my 4 colours in one pen- ballpoint pen is the one that tends to get the most use I think, since it's the one I use to colour-code notes in my planner and personal notes.
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1) Do you collect things?
2) Is the sum vices always constant (ie if you stop smoking/drinking/eating candy you will pick up something else instead)?
3) Favourite smell, what, why and what do you feel when you sense it?
1) Do you collect things?
Not consciously. I used to collect stamps when I was little, but it wasn't a collection as much as a plastic box full of random stamps from letters we got if I remembered to cut them out and throw them in there. And while my mother claims I collect junk, the various accumulations of similar things that I do have all serve or have served some purpose that made them useful to keep.
2) Is the sum vices always constant (ie if you stop smoking/drinking/eating candy you will pick up something else instead)?
I think it aims towards constancy (i.e. I'm likely to pick up some bad habit after I get rid of another one - or just become aware of another bad habit that I have), but isn't strictly constant. I think one vice can be substituted for many, and successive vices from which I wean myself can be lesser and lesser in magnitude until it becomes subjective whether they're vices at all. That'll be later in life, though - first I need to go through college and pick up some serious vices! :mrgreen:
3) Favourite smell, what, why and what do you feel when you sense it?
There's a particular smell that some old things have that reminds me of my grandmother's apartment in Poland. I feel a sense of interconnection when I sense it - reminds me of a lot of times and a lot of people.
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I. Is there a difference between cleanliness and unclutteredness?
II. If you could paint your primary living space any color, what color would it be and why? Generate a hex code (http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-colors.html) and write your response in that color. (Bonus: Would you paint the ceiling?)
III. Cell phone features/"features": an inevitable evolution toward pocket computers that happen to be able to make phone calls, or a bunch of useless ploys to get you to pay more money to the carrier?
I. Is there a difference between cleanliness and unclutteredness?
Yes. It would be nice if my house were clean. It would be a miracle if it were uncluttered.
II. If you could paint your primary living space any color, what color would it be and why? Generate a hex code and write your response in that color. (Bonus: Would you paint the ceiling?)A blue of this shade? Does it work? Gotta check.The ceiling would be this shade. Understand that the color would be on a main wall, all the 'woodwork' and in a part of the stenciled-instead -of-wallpapered other walls, and in any case would mostly be covered by bookshelves. (My name is Dee Dee and I am an addict...)
By the way, this hex code is my name... <--- Read that...
III. Cell phone features/"features": an inevitable evolution toward pocket computers that happen to be able to make phone calls, or a bunch of useless ploys to get you to pay more money to the carrier?
Both. However I refuse to play. My phone isn't a camera, a video recorder or anything else. It's a phone. Grudgingly, I allow it to have "call waiting"...
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1) Do you have any summer holiday trips planned?
2) If you could go anywhere in the world, but you had to stay in that one place (city or region), where would you go?
3) Where have you gone on holiday/vacation that you did NOT like?
1) Do you have any summer holiday trips planned?
cornwall for a week. Sun Sand and Surf and all that. I will be camping by the sea and painting things. Then I am also going to the Isle of White for the Bestival festival which should be a right giggle.
2) If you could go anywhere in the world, but you had to stay in that one place (city or region), where would you go?
Cornwall - the place makes me happy
3) Where have you gone on holiday/vacation that you did NOT like?
never been that keen on Wales since childhood holidays in Snowdonia.
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1) Oreos - dog biscuits repackaged or tasty treat for humans?
2) what is the worst book you have read? bonus - did you finish it?
3) which flumps are best - the sweets of the woolly egg things?
1) Oreos - dog biscuits repackaged or tasty treat for humans?
As an un-stoned adult, I find oreos to be not much more than tooth-darkeners, but recently someone handed me a chocolate-filled double-stuff oreo backstage at a play I was in. I don't know whether it was because it was 9 pm and I hadn't had dinner or not, but it tasted really good!
2) what is the worst book you have read? bonus - did you finish it?
Lard help me, a friend of mine once recommende "Lasher" by whatsherface Rice. Pure carp! I forced myself through it just to say I had finished it and vowed to never touch her work again. Dreadful pap.
3) which flumps are best - the sweets of the woolly egg things?
I prefer Gumby.
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1) What comes to mind when you hear the word "jolly"?
2) Which musical instrument do you wish you could play really well?
3) What's the best party you've ever been to?
1) What comes to mind when you hear the word "jolly"?
A Londoner with a hat and umbrella. :P
2) Which musical instrument do you wish you could play really well?
The piano. I strugled wih my lessons while I was at school and while I can toy with the instrument I can't say I can really play it (much less well).
3) What's the best party you've ever been to?
There were a few when I was around Alpaca's age and later. I wasn't too successful with the ladies but at least I knew how to dance.
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1. Have you ever tried any latin dance (salsa and merengue come to mind but if you can do Tango I'll bow my hat to you)?
2. Is it possible to have jolly teenage years?
3. Do you want to reach 100?
1. Have you ever tried any latin dance (salsa and merengue come to mind but if you can do Tango I'll bow my hat to you)?
As a joke--I have no rhythm with which to do it seriously. I would though, if I had it.
2. Is it possible to have jolly teenage years?
Yes. I certainly did. But I stayed away from the typical drama BS, did whatever I wanted, and ignored people who had problems with that.
3. Do you want to reach 100?
Sure, provided I don't get Alzheimer's (in which case I might kill myself). I could very well do it--my family is fairly long lived.
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1. What was your favorite class in college? (If you haven't yet reached that, what do you look forward to?)
2. What type/which theme of calendar do you keep?
3. Do you have Google Desktop?
1. What was your favorite class in college? (If you haven't yet reached that, what do you look forward to?)
Numerical Analysis class. And my favourite activity was Fourier Analysis and Transforms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform) but the Laplace transform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform) was a close runner up in my popularity scale.
I once filled a whole notebook with a single Fourier transform = total happiness.
You have to marvel at something that includes stuff like the Heaviside_step_function (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function).
Nowadays I haven't the faintest idea what most of the weird squigggly symbols are but I still retain a vague impression of what
∑ n a k might be, mainly because MS Excel often reminds me one can add up whole columns.
[k=1]
2. What type/which theme of calendar do you keep?
Augustin. Occasionally Hebrew. Hate ones where you have a picture on one page and the dates hanging underneath on the next page on the same plane. When my boys were still underage I used a simple wall chart. I don't do calenders now. There is only today. Although I do keep a diary in which I write basic events - like "spoke to psych. on phone at x hours" and "bad headache" and "supermarket" etc. but it's retrospective and is mainly maintained so that when the police come calling and ask where I was on the night of September 5th 1969 I will be able to answer.
3. Do you have Google Desktop?
No.
In fact I really don't have any desktop. All my desks are covered with so many useless objects, 5 feet high stacks of papers like old invoices, post-it notes hidden underneath other post-it notes, things to be mended, etc etc that it is virtually impossible to tell there is a desktop there at all.
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1. What would you do in the last four hours before the world ended (knowing it was going to end)?
2. How do you find a girl like Maria (for non-brits, UK TV prompts me to wonder about this)
3. Where would you never ever in a million years consider having sex?
1. What would you do in the last four hours before the world ended (knowing it was going to end)?
In the first hour I would probably try to prepare for the possibility that we would survive. I would gather my husband and daughter. I would get water, medicine, food together. I would try to figure out alternatives as to where to run to if necessary. In the second hour I would try to contact people. This would probably turn out to be impossible, but I'd try. In the third hour I would go outside and gaze lovingly at all I'd loved about the world and try to photograph it with my heart. I would thank it for being and implore the Great Everything to preserve it, somehow. In the 4th hour I would begin hunkering down. I would probably get into a tight circle with my fam and sing every song we ever knew, just to try to keep from getting scared. I would do stupid things like duct-tape the vents and board the windows. I would fill the bathtub with water. I would insist that we would live. I wold do a lot of hugging.
2. How do you find a girl like Maria (for non-brits, UK TV prompts me to wonder about this)
I don't know how to find her, but Broadway musicals have taught me "Never stop saying Maria" (West Side Story) and "How do you solve a problem like Maria" (The Sound of Music).
3. Where would you never ever in a million years consider having sex?
Anywhere in the vicinity of my Mom!
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1) Would you put a Toadfish Monastery sticker (magnet or static cling) on you car?
2) How do you feel about predictions that the world will dramatically change in 2012?
3) What can you do to bring about positive change?
1) Would you put a Toadfish Monastery sticker (magnet or static cling) on you car?
provided you finance a good car for me :mrgreen:
2) How do you feel about predictions that the world will dramatically change in 2012?
There have been dramatic changes in the world in my lifetime. Why especially bother about more?
>98% predictions of asteroid (> 3 km in diameter) hits may be an exception :eeksign: :earthquake: :tornado:
Seriously, I expect the world going down the drain gradually, not in large jumps
3) What can you do to bring about positive change?
Discover that I am the supreme being and using the accompanying powers to bash the GOP and some other doers of unpleasantries?
Again seriously: Driving* less (I do), eating less meat (too addicted for that), being politically conscious (I try), act on that (I fail), thinking in the long term (never my strong side), waste less energy (I could do better)...
*including aeroplanes, excluding vehicles driven by your own muscles
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1. What are your predictions for the time before the US presidential elections (and the immediate aftermath)?
2. How should Iran be handled/treated?
3. Your opinion on "foreign" food (not meant as a question about local vs. imported food items)
Bonus: Seal clubbing or shark finning? ;)
1. What are your predictions for the time before the US presidential elections (and the immediate aftermath)?
IF the Repubs try to bring in an "October surprise" that would include martial law and/or postponing the elections? Some very definitive actions, up to and including rioting in the streets of DC, unless the cops/troops keep their heads. If that happens, possibly the end of the US as it's known today.
If the Repubs DON'T try any dumb-ass moves and DON'T try to steal the elections by mechanical means, then there'll be a MAXIMUM 17% lunatic fringe die-hard Neo-Con right-wing panic, and the rest of the country will wait for the new administration to take effect, and the new Congress.
2. How should Iran be handled/treated?
Carefully, and NOT, repeat NOT by the US.
3. Your opinion on "foreign" food (not meant as a question about local vs. imported food items)
What kind? Food? I'm all for it. Can I eat most of it? No, but I do enjoy trying new things, new tastes. (Unfortunately, my digestive system took giant leave of it's moorings years ago, and most new stuff is a problem, due to some spice or herb or SOME dang thing that keeps me from eating it.)
You can't say I don't have an adventurous palate. One late Saturday morning a few years back, my brother and I made burritos with knockwurst, kimchee and Swiss cheese. Hey, it was edible, it didn't require putting on clothes to go get anything else. (And it wasn't a baloney sammich...)
Bonus: Seal clubbing or shark finning? ;)
I defer to Aggie. He's much more in the know.
People do need to realize that wildlife management is needed. (Finning sharks? Not so. Use the entire organism or don't kill it.)
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1] Are you the most 'liberal' person in your immediate "group" (family or friends--or both)?
2]Would you consider live organ donation (ie: a kidney)? Only for family? For a friend? Or for a 'stranger'? (If eligible.)
3] Have you ever been matched for bone marrow donation? (Once again, if eligible?) Would you do it if matched?
Bonus: Why is there NEVER any rum??
1] Are you the most 'liberal' person in your immediate "group" (family or friends--or both)?
Family-wise, my mother, father, and I are all about as "liberal" as people get, so we're about equal. The extended family is all in Poland and Catholic, so I think it's pretty safe to say we're the most "liberal" branch. Among friends, yes. There's some question as to that since one of my friends is a communist, but he's moved away from that recently (and his girlfriend's economically conservative and actually knows a whole lot about economics), and I think I'm still more socially "liberal" than he is. There are also some other friends who vaguely seem to be about where I am, but they don't keep up with politics much, so it's difficult to get a definite reading.
2]Would you consider live organ donation (ie: a kidney)? Only for family? For a friend? Or for a 'stranger'? (If eligible.)
Hell yes, for anybody, especially while I'm still a teenager who thinks he's immortal.
3] Have you ever been matched for bone marrow donation? (Once again, if eligible?) Would you do it if matched?
Never been matched. If I was, I would willingly do it. I've heard it hurts a bunch, but hey, I still have that unfilled Vicodin prescription from my oral surgeon.
Bonus: Why is there NEVER any rum??
Because our Russian friends are big friends of Tequila, which they pronounce Ta-ki-la. (Two or three Saturdays ago, three of them polished off a bottle of Patron together over dinner, and then one of them drove home.)
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i) When packing to move, do you get sentimental when you dig up old objects?
ii) What's the worst vaccine you've ever had?
iii) Do you keep the boxes stuff was packed or sent in?
Bonus: Pi or e?
i) When packing to move, do you get sentimental when you dig up old objects?
In Stage I of the move, where I have time to thoughtfully gaze upon my possessions and consider the best and most elegant way of packing them. By Stage IV things get a one-second up-or-down vote and are treated accordingly.
*muses* Stage IV items are always the last to be un-packed as well. In extreme cases, not until packing commences for the next move...
ii) What's the worst vaccine you've ever had?
I'm sure one of those elementary-school shots must have hurt like the dickens more than the rest, but I can't remember. It's all faded along with the vaccination scars.
iii) Do you keep the boxes stuff was packed or sent in?
Yes and No.
- Expensive items with long-term lives and molded packing elements to protect them get repacked in the same cartons during a move.
- Packaging is kept for any object with appeal or commercial value likely to extend beyond my ownership, as that helps resale.
- Very cool boxes, or those which can be reused are kept.
- Everything else: flattened and sent to recycling.
Bonus: Pi or e?
Can I give a guess rephrased as pietry?
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I. Poetry: should it rhyme? Discuss.
II. Which would best express your personality:
sonnet, haiku, limerick or free-verse?
III. Which is a worse crime against humanity: very bad amateur poetry about sentimental topics, or very bad amateur paintings about sentimental topics?
bonus: What is your stance on biblioclasm and/or censorship, and does it apply to the works described in #III?
I. Poetry: should it rhyme? Discuss.
In order to be poetry it should at least have some sort of rhythm, and some may consider it rhyme. In the strict sense, no.
II. Which would best express your personality:
sonnet, haiku, limerick or free-verse?
Free-verse. I tend to hate poetry unless is witty/clever which may not be consider true poetry by some, therefore as a serious attempt a free-verse tend to have more chances of working for me.
III. Which is a worse crime against humanity: very bad amateur poetry about sentimental topics, or very bad amateur paintings about sentimental topics?
Bad poetry, a bad painting is less offensive to me.
bonus: What is your stance on biblioclasm and/or censorship, and does it apply to the works described in #III?
Biblioclasm is a sin, a crime against humanity, intelligence and all that I hold dear. Even books filled with lies should be preserved, heck, even bad poetry should be preserved. I'm reading a book about Alexandria and my view of early Christianity has been lowered precisely because of that. I can go as far as to say, burn the author but keep the book. ;)
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1. The authoritarian cynical view of the world is that incarceration, torture, murder and genocide are tolerable because we are still barbarians and it happens much less nowadays, anyway. What would you do (or not) with those who spouse such ideas?
2. What are you capable of while very angry?
3. Is it possible to torture someone with kindness?
Bonus: why am I asking this?
1. The authoritarian cynical view of the world is that incarceration, torture, murder and genocide are tolerable because we are still barbarians and it happens much less nowadays, anyway. What would you do (or not) with those who spouse such ideas?
Lock them up, torture them, kill them and everyone like them. :irony:
I believe that people who espouse such ideas have totally given up and are the saddest creatures on Earth. They are also incredibly lazy to not show any will of their own and tremendously ignorant for spreading such severely-depressed, irresponsible ovine excrement.
I guess that all I could do with them would be to talk to them and try to show them that SOME of us are evolving into the next thing necessary to preserve life on this planet. Will we be simpler or more complex beings? I don't know. But change we will, whether or not we all change at the same rate.
2. What are you capable of while very angry?
I have demonstrated a terrible temper during this life, and have broken things and hurt myself physically and others emotionally. I am extremely unproud of this fact and have been trying to heal myself, but it is a slow process and I have to be constantly aware that whatever little white-hot flame of anger has reared its ugly head before can do it again if I am not very careful.
3. Is it possible to torture someone with kindness?
Only if they have soul enough to be embarrassed by it.
Bonus: why am I asking this?
My guess is that you have recently been angered. If I'm right can I have some frogurt? Pleeeze?
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1) If the Toadfish had a real, physical monastery, would you come for a visit?
2) Have you felt utterly peaceful and connected to the rest of the world? When? Where? How?
3) How do you feel about this statement: "We are all special"?
1) If the Toadfish had a real, physical monastery, would you come for a visit?
Absolutely! :) If the country in question would let me in (and out) that is... If it's very far away it might be a once in a lifetime journey and I would try to stay a month or so if it's closer (Europe) I'll could probably make a trip every other year and plan my visits so I could meet as many of the other Siblings as possible.
2) Have you felt utterly peaceful and connected to the rest of the world? When? Where? How?
Around midnight a day in late July some 8 or 9 years ago, on the outermost rim of Sweden's Baltic sea archipelago, floating in the 24°C mirror surfaced water, feeling the water carrying me unaided, watching a full moon and a few stars and the lights from faraway ships and lighthouses on a otherwise free horizon. :)
3) How do you feel about this statement: "We are all special"?
Much better than I feel about the statement "Don't think you're special"!
I do think that we all are special in on way or another, special doesn't mean better or worse than somebody else, just not the same and it sounds better than different, I should know I've been different all my life... And what is it Chatty says now and then "normal is a setting in the washing machine" ;D
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1)Where do you think a Toadfish Monastery should be located?
2) Sea, mountains, forests, or desert in what type on nature do you feel most at home?
3) Are you a norm breaker? In what way?
1)Where do you think a Toadfish Monastery should be located?
I very much think it should be somewhere foresty. The mountains or at least foothills would be nice. And I personally think it should either be located in/around Sequoia National Park (http://www.nps.gov/seki/) (far prettier than Yosemite), Zional National Park (http://www.nps.gov/zion/), the Colorado Rockies, on the Rio de Chama, or in the Hill Country of Texas. Oooh, or in Lincoln county, New Mexico (http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/292/2/1/Nightfall_by_dorkanese.png).
All places that I've personally felt peace in.
Though I would certainly be happy if it was on Maryland's East Shore, since that place is fabulous.
(Although admittedly, since I've never left the country I have no idea where else it should be located.)
2) Sea, mountains, forests, or desert in what type on nature do you feel most at home?
Mountains/forest. I've always lived near a big range of them (the Colorado Rockies, the Sierra Nevadas) and they've always been a refuge and, for a small city girl, a place of wonder.
3) Are you a norm breaker? In what way?
I suppose. Never conformed to what was expected of me--bitchy, wore whatever I wanted (that was the kicker, for some reason), did what I wanted regardless of the perception most people had of it (debate, forensics, etc.). Also, probably the only atheist in my family and probably the only left-wing libertarian in the whole lot of us, too.
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1. How long has it been since you forgot an appointment?
2. If the Monastery was located near you, would you move in (under the pretense of being the caretaker, of course)?
3. What was the last thing you wrote?
1. How long has it been since you forgot an appointment?
Past Friday my son had an orthodontist appointment and despite having a reminder the night before I completely forgot. They called and we arrived late. :redface:
2. If the Monastery was located near you, would you move in (under the pretense of being the caretaker, of course)?
If I'm allowed, sure I would!
3. What was the last thing you wrote?
The stuff in the 'All kinds of Art' folder. I currently have an idea for a pseudo scifi novel, but I don't know if I have the time and will to write it (much less anyone reading it ;)).
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1. Would you buy a beautiful frame even if it is more expensive than the painting itself?
2. How cluttered is your desk right now?
3. Voodoo dolls or porcelain figures?
1. Would you buy a beautiful frame even if it is more expensive than the painting itself?
Yes.
I should disclose: I used to be a framer, and it is my understanding that even those crazy Medicis and Pope guys spent more on frames -- the work of skilled cabinetmakers -- than on paintings -- which was just, you know, art.
2. How cluttered is your desk right now?
Currently I am sans-desk, so I'm happy with my condition, clutter-wise. ;)
3. Voodoo dolls or porcelain figures?
Porcelain figures make me nervous; I'm afraid they will break and someone's heirloom Hummel or Precious Moments Collection will be left incomplete. Also, I didn't grow upwith that kind of thing. I only saw crappy knockoffs in the local discount store (not to mention the above-mentioned Hummels and Precious Moments) and tend to think it's all junk.
Voodoo dolls, now... That's art. (fetching examples below -- heh heh heh) :D
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Pretend that you are fantastically busy...
1. Would you rather have a driver or a butler? Why?
2. Would you rather have a secretary or a gardener? Why?
3. Would you rather have a personal chef or a personal shopper? Why?
Pretend that you are fantastically busy...
1. Would you rather have a driver or a butler? Why?
Even though I enjoy driving, I think a driver would be more useful if I was fantastically busy, because travel time is a lot of time during which I could be accomplishing significant things. A butler would be a great convenience, but the things he would do are probably not as time-consuming for me to do myself.
2. Would you rather have a secretary or a gardener? Why?
Secretary would be the reasonable choice, but I have to say gardener, because I would be peering over the secretary's shoulder the whole time, micromanaging everything. I can trust someone else with the garden, though.
3. Would you rather have a personal chef or a personal shopper? Why?
Chef. Good food is very valuable to me, and rather time-consuming for me to prepare. (I know there are fast dishes, but I haven't learned 'em yet.) My shopping, however, is very focused, hunt-and-retrieve shopping, and is again the sort of thing I would rather be doing myself, because I tend to research the significant purchases obsessively, and again, I want it done just right.
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1. What's your screensaver?
2. How do you organize/file things?
3. What's the most paranoid thing you regularly do?
1. What's your screensaver?
I think it's a Monty Python thing, from about 10 years ago. Or else it's the flying Windows. If I'm at my desk, no screensaver ever shows, when I'm not, then it goes to dark. (If I'm vertical, I'm at my computer.)
2. How do you organize/file things?
A pile for everything, everything in its pile.
OR
Obsessively, cross-referenced and in Pendaflex folders with subfolders, with a file reference sheet that's up-to-the-minute.
3. What's the most paranoid thing you regularly do?
Double-check to make sure that a person that's not even eligible for parole until 2020 is still in prison. I WANT to be dead when that SOB gets out, because it'll deny him the ability to make good on his threats.
:P
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One: Have you ever testified in court?
Two: Does your driver's license photo look like you, or did they photograph some alien being?
Three: Based on your behavior in the last 48 hours, would your Grandmother be ashamed if she knew what you'd been doing? (Assuming that Dear Granny is/was still amongst us...)
Po'9, the last tree dolls are they elemental representations?
Sorry for interrupting, I just had to ask.
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One: Have you ever testified in court?
Yes. A road accident case. I said the lorry was on our right and my (ex) husband, who was up next after me, said the lorry was on our left. The lorry driver got banned anyway, despite his 90 year old mother depending on his income.
Two: Does your driver's license photo look like you, or did they photograph some alien being?
It looks like I used to look. Could be I was an alien, or I am now. Dunno which.
Three: Based on your behavior in the last 48 hours, would your Grandmother be ashamed if she knew what you'd been doing? (Assuming that Dear Granny is/was still amongst us...)
I doubt it. But she would be very puzzled :mrgreen:
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1. Which is your primary sense? Rank the others in descending order of usefulness.
2. What would make you revise your opinion of someone - in the sense of having a completely different understanding of their personality? (exclude the obvious, like them murdering someone etc).
3. Does your voice change according to whom you are talking?
1. Which is your primary sense? Rank the others in descending order of usefulness.
Since the sinuses affect the ears and I am getting older, the eyes rule unchallenged. I guess it is also the sinuses that degrade the sense of smelling (in combination with some allergies). My tasting sophistication went downhill some time ago. I naver used pepper as a child, now it replaces salt as additional condiment almost completely. My pinkies tend to go asleep occasionally. Let's not talk about certain other body parts that are not to be shown in public :mrgreen:
2. What would make you revise your opinion of someone - in the sense of having a completely different understanding of their personality? (exclude the obvious, like them murdering someone etc).
I do rarely snoop into other people's sex life :o. Seriously, apart from political revelations that area would be the prime candidate for a reevaluation.
3. Does your voice change according to whom you are talking?
And on what I read/watched immediately before. I guess people become sometimes irritated when certain peculiarities sneak in without them knowing the context.
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1. How do you divide your spare time between watching TV/listening to radio, reading, surfing the net, ravishing virgins etc.?
2. Do you work in your learned profession or are you doing something completely different (modify appropriately, if unemployed)?
3. How to comabt the ever increasing abuse of the Olympics for politics/commerce/etc.?
1. How do you divide your spare time between watching TV/listening to radio, reading, surfing the net, ravishing virgins etc.?
Radio is almost exclusively a while-driving pastime. TV/internet/computer games more-or-less equally. On weekends, I occasionally do Other Things. <heh>
2. Do you work in your learned profession or are you doing something completely different (modify appropriately, if unemployed)?
Depends on what you mean by "learned". ;D
I learned to do what I do now, and I'm doing it-- HVAC. But, in college, I started out as Biochem, changed to Biology, changed again to computers, then changed again to biology/teacher.
Never completed any of those.
3. How to comabt the ever increasing abuse of the Olympics for politics/commerce/etc.?
Easy: eliminate all sponsorship of athletes by government entities.
This would have the unfortunate side-effect of turning them into walking billboards for product(s).
Is that worse? I dunno-- ask a NASCAR fan..... ::)
In my opinion, ANY human activity is fraught with politics, some to a greater degree than others.
It's in our nature, as cooperative, but self-aware beings to BE political.
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1) All media is going to be reduced to a single supply-chain: Radio, TV, Internet, Something Else.
What would you choose, if by some magical formula, you had to decide for everyone? Justify your choice with your considered opinion, please.
2) Space Exploration: love it, hate it, it's a Waste Of Money, it's the Ultimate Purpose of Humankind, what?
3) If humans could modify Mars to be more human-friendly, but thereby ruining any possible chance of determining if there ever was life on it, should we anyway? Or should we be preserving Mars as it is, pristine, and just modify humans to fit Mars, instead?
1) All media is going to be reduced to a single supply-chain: Radio, TV, Internet, Something Else.
What would you choose, if by some magical formula, you had to decide for everyone? Justify your choice with your considered opinion, please.
The internets, definitely. It may take some learning and getting used to, but the internet provides a degree of user choice that even the most advanced TV interfaces can't remotely approach. It also provides a much greater opportunity for independent voices to be published, and the popularity of a particular source is determined by the number of people who choose to view it much, much more than by ad revenue and executive decisions.
2) Space Exploration: love it, hate it, it's a Waste Of Money, it's the Ultimate Purpose of Humankind, what?
Love it. I know the money could be put to better use, but so much other money can be put to better use that the argument becomes irrelevant - we have enough money in the world to have a little extra to fund space exploration. Ultimate purpose - maybe, in the sense that it will broaden our understand of the way the world works, but not our immediate ultimate purpose until we screw this planet up so much that we have to move.
Otherwise, the amount of scientific insight it provides is so enormous that I think it's necessary.
3) If humans could modify Mars to be more human-friendly, but thereby ruining any possible chance of determining if there ever was life on it, should we anyway? Or should we be preserving Mars as it is, pristine, and just modify humans to fit Mars, instead?
If we don't find a better planet, we'd better adapt ourselves. We're pretty good at that, y'know. If we ever do need to move there, we might be a bit more cautious about modifying planets, anyway.
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1. What color stands out most to you? (Or what combination?)
2. What shape do you find most aesthetically pleasing?
3. What shape do you find most intellectually pleasing?
1. What color stands out most to you? (Or what combination?)
Black and white with some other color (I favor green or bright yellow or red).
2. What shape do you find most aesthetically pleasing?
Tear-drops and other organic shapes, primarily.
3. What shape do you find most intellectually pleasing?
Ovals. I have no idea why.
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1. What color is your favorite item of clothing?
2. What's your favorite restaurant?
3. How far is the nearest mountain from your house?
1. What color is your favorite item of clothing?
Bright, intense blue. All favorite clothing is blue or black.
2. What's your favorite restaurant?
Where am I and what time of day is it? Of all times, forever, money no option? Commander's Palace, New Orleans. (NOT Brennan's, the ORIGINAL that spawned the Brennan's family of restaurants.)
3. How far is the nearest mountain from your house?
Either in Arkansas, up by Anthrobabe's, or in West Texas, 'bout 400 miles west of here. They CLAIM to have one outside of Killeen, but a mountain that is that short is NO mountain, it's a hill with pretensions.
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1. If, to appease the Evil Daemons of Illness (or else DIE!!! a horrible and gooshy death) you have to 'feel bad' for 48 hours would you choose a headache, a cold/upper respiratory illness or a stomach problem?
2. Why?
3. Gotta choose one to drive for six months: A nice looking car in an ugly color or an ugly car in a nice looking color? (And why...)
1. If, to appease the Evil Daemons of Illness (or else DIE!!! a horrible and gooshy death) you have to 'feel bad' for 48 hours would you choose a headache, a cold/upper respiratory illness or a stomach problem?
Headache.
2. Why?
I'm used to them, and they impair my functionality as a human being least. Colds are indescribably annoying to me, and stomach problems leave me looking at least sixteen months pregnant and groaning while desperately rolling around on the couch trying to find a half-comfortable position.
3. Gotta choose one to drive for six months: A nice looking car in an ugly color or an ugly car in a nice looking color? (And why...)
Assuming that car performance would be the same, I'd choose the nice car in the ugly color. Most people I know tend to notice the car before the color, and I don't think a good color can mitigate the effects of a really ugly vehicle.
1. Do you find beauty and elegance in forms of abstract thought, like mathematics?
2. What's your favorite tool (in the broadest sense)?
3. Is it better to be too analytical and read too deeply into things, or to be oblivious to a lot of subtleties?
1. Do you find beauty and elegance in forms of abstract thought, like mathemathiics?
Yes, absolutely. Although they don't appear to be abstract when I think about them. Bit of a puzzle there perhaps.
2. What's your favorite tool (in the broadest sense)?
Wit - oh, and Mr Green :mrgreen:
3. Is it better to be too analytical and read too deeply into things, or to be oblivious to a lot of subtleties?
I think it is better to be so, provided one can also enlist some kind of "regulator", but it brings much pain to me personally. People who are oblivious seem much happier but also seem to cause much pain to other people.
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1. When did you last count your socks? What did you feel while doing so?
[if not socks, substitute another appropriate piece of clothing]
2. Discuss the parable of the seven veils.
3. What is your recipe for opening your heart to Mother Nature?
1. When did you last count your socks? What did you feel while doing so?
[if not socks, substitute another appropriate piece of clothing]
I never count my socks, or any other pieces of clothing. If I find one lonely sock consistantly moping around my sock drawer, I throw it out.
2. Discuss the parable of the seven veils.
During the dance of the seven veils, the dancer sheds seven veils one by one. I believe this is to cast off barriers between herself and her true nature. I think of this as a lot like how people act when they fall in love: they let down their walls a little at a time until they are (ideally) so at ease with one another that they can bare all, in a matter of speaking.
3. What is your recipe for opening your heart to Mother Nature?
Ingredients:
You
Mother Nature
Add yourself to mother nature a little at a time, perhaps using the four directional winds as a guide to make sure you are addressing the whole and not just a part of mother nature. Blend well until throroughly incorporated and all remove all stray external thoughts as you go.
When you reach the bliss stage, try not to analyse, but hold for as long as possible. Any bliss is good bliss. Be in the now and feel the connection.
Bake for as long as you can keep in the moment. Reheat if you are distracted. Keep any unused leftovers in your heart for future use. Repeat daily or as often as possible.
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1) What is your favorite time of the day or night and why?
2) If there's anything you could do to save the world, what would it be?
3) Complete this sentence: "The world is my ______".
1) What is your favorite time of the day or night and why?
Early, early morning, when the sunlight is pale and golden (though I'm very rarely up early enjoy to enjoy it) or dusk, when the light is like honey. It's beautiful.
2) If there's anything you could do to save the world, what would it be?
Give common sense and compassion to the whole lot of us.
3) Complete this sentence: "The world is my ______".
Curiosity?
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1. Do you still buy CDs?
2. Who is your favorite Discworld character?
3. When was the last time you simply let it (whatever 'it' is) be?
1. Do you still buy CDs?
Occasionally classic music, mostly because the versions I want aren't available for (legal) download without DRM.
2. Who is your favorite Discworld character?
The case of course.
3. When was the last time you simply let it (whatever 'it' is) be?
I try to most of the time. If life has thought me something is how foolish and useless is the illusion of control. We want to believe that we are masters of our own lives, our own environment, our planet and even the universe. In reality our margin of action, while potentially significant in our own lives, is very limited at best. I respect those who have the discipline (stubbornness?) to not let go and fight to the last, but frequently they have a heavy price to pay for their achievements.
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1. How well can you tolerate noise and how much noise are you capable to tolerate in your daily life?
2. If you could live underwater, would you?
3. Do you talk to yourself?
1. How well can you tolerate noise and how much noise are you capable to tolerate in your daily life?
It depends entirely on the noise.
No matter how tired or deeply asleep, I awaken immediately on the first *HURK* of a cat *HURK-HURK-HURKing* anywhere in the house, my ears desperately trying to swivel to triangulate the origins. I am concerned for the cat and the HURKing surface, though, not upset.
I've lived in an urban setting most of my life and can sleep through steady traffic noise, drunks having pissing contests (once with actual piss), and the people a few doors down playing very loud music at their party. I don't enjoy those sounds, but I can block them out.
Very loud gratuitous motorcycle revving is extremely annoying, as is intended.
Snoring, now, flips my homicide switch. It is a noise I cannot block out, accustom myself to, or endure.
2. If you could live underwater, would you?
Does 'if you could' mean the presence of a water-and-air-tight bubble of some sort, or the ability to extract oxygen from water myself without discomfort and panic?
As a triple-water sign, I'd like to be surrounded by the power of the water and the incredible beauty I've seen in some aquaria. As someone who nearly drowned in childhood, not so much.
3. Do you talk to yourself?
Inner monologue never shuts off and has been audible on occasion, especially when I'm working through a design problem or trying to find a lost object. But so far I can keep quiet when it's appropriate, and I'm not arguing with myself, losing those arguments, or stopping speaking to myself because of them.
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1. Do you listen to music with headphones or speakers in your living space? If both, which is actually set louder?
2. Is your music collection meticulously organized (alpha-by-artist, or by date of release, or by genre) or are you content with a pile of (whatever media) stashed wherever?
3. Do you know the make and model of every component in your entertainment system, able to rattle off all the finer audiophile details at the drop of a hat? Or did you choose a glorified boom-box that fits unobtrusively on the bookshelf, priced-to-move at your local Big Box store?
Bonus: Have you ever (or would you ever) used music as a 'weapon' against an annoying neighbor?
1. Do you listen to music with headphones or speakers in your living space? If both, which is actually set louder?
Headphones. I live with people who do not enjoy jungle or techno. And my laptop speakers suck.
2. Is your music collection meticulously organized (alpha-by-artist, or by date of release, or by genre) or are you content with a pile of (whatever media) stashed wherever?
It's mostly on my laptop and is organized by whatever system I set it at last on Media Player. What isn't digital, is in a couple different piles in a couple different places.
3. Do you know the make and model of every component in your entertainment system, able to rattle off all the finer audiophile details at the drop of a hat? Or did you choose a glorified boom-box that fits unobtrusively on the bookshelf, priced-to-move at your local Big Box store?
I pretty much have the glorified boom box. I've had the same one for about, oh eight years? I'm contemplating getting a new one that'll let me keep my awesome speakers, though.
Bonus: Have you ever (or would you ever) used music as a 'weapon' against an annoying neighbor?
Used it against my sisters, once. Does that count?
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1. Which side of your family do you look like the most?
2. Ever been to a hookah bar?
3. What does it take to *actually( make you angry?
1. Which side of your family do you look like the most?
Hmm. My mother SWEARS I'm an exact copy of Dad's side (inferior, BY FAR to HER side, of course) while other people NOW seem to see a resemblance between me and Mom. (I'll just kill myself NOW, thanks.) I actually look most like my Dad's Dad. (And I'll thank you Brits to stop all the Welsh jokes, please. The short, stocky, brown haired, blue eyed Welsh ancestry does indeed show.) But there are a few attributes of my distant Grandmother on Dad's side, who was Native American/Freed Slave mixed. Suffice it to say, I look mostly like ME.
2. Ever been to a hookah bar?
Nope. Don't wanna go, either.
3. What does it take to *actually( make you angry?
Injustice, greed and blatant stupidity for the sake of "having your own selfish way". (See also US Government, the lobbyists that own it, and their asinine actions.)
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1. If you know that you were going to die a long, extended and painful death, would you kill yourself?
2. Why, or why not?
3. Do you think that a person in that position should have the right to do so?
1. If you know that you were going to die a long, extended and painful death, would you kill yourself?
Yes. At whatever stage I found it intolerable or before it became impossible if no one would assist.
2. Why, or why not?
I don't believe in the sanctity of life. I can see no point in extreme pain or disablement with no quality of life. Ok, if severly disabled and you learn to hold a brush in your teeth and paint nice flowers or whatever, and this gives enough pleasure to your life. But if I'd rather die than do that why shouldn't I? I have never understood why society makes such a fuss about putting animals out of their misery but makes an equal fuss about forcing us to go through it. Can't see any difference.
3. Do you think that a person in that position should have the right to do so?
Always. I belong to Dignity in Dying (http://www.dignityindying.org.uk/) an organisation which is fighting for such rights in the UK. Have for a long time. It's on the political agenda. It will get the legislation through eventually. Sooner the better.
I also have a large poster on my wall "The right to a Good Death" with all the sensible things one would want. Like excellent palliative care for starters. Which it often absolutely isn't.
In the past week I've had long conversations with my mother about her sister and my cousin about her mother - ie. my aunt who just died! Both have said over and over how she said she wanted to go 3 years ago and she has been forced to live through long dreadful pointless painful utterly depressing years. My cousin said tonight that towards the end a nurse said to her (about keeping her conscious) "you'd rather know what's going on wouldn't you?" and she said "No" and the nurse was completely taken aback. Which is mad. And maddening.
Actually I could go on ranting about this topic for hours, so I better stop.
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1. What are the things you are putting off doing until you think you are going to die?
2. How would you feel* if you died without doing them?
* assume you have the magical power to feel and know you went and died without doing them
3. So why don't you do them, given anyone can die in a flash, or if answering 1. and 2. has changed your mind about doing them, why have you changed your mind?
1. What are the things you are putting off doing until you think you are going to die?
Committing suicide.
2. How would you feel* if you died without doing them?
Gosh, I'd feel like I missed my chance.
3. So why don't you do them, given anyone can die in a flash, or if answering 1. and 2. has changed your mind about doing them, why have you changed your mind?
I don't think I'd commit suicide unless I knew death was imminent or dreadful. Since I don't know either to be true, I will remain a hopeful living thing for as long as humanly possible.
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1) Have you ever laughed so hard you almost lost consciousness?
2) Can you see The Great Everything in a flower?
3) Would you rather be simple or complicated?
I'm not going to kill you for missing an opportunity :irony:
As you were..........
1) Have you ever laughed so hard you almost lost consciousness?
I once laughed so hard that I could not catch my breath, but did not lose consciousness.
2) Can you see The Great Everything in a flower?
No. I still have trouble seeing the Great Everything as anything.
3) Would you rather be simple or complicated?
Can I be a complicated simpleton?
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1. What song have you been listening to the most in the past three days?
2. Do you prefer white mice or pink elephants?
3. What was the last alcoholic drink you had?
Bonus: Who? Where? Why? Wieso? What's up?
1. What song have you been listening to the most in the past three days?
No More ft Beverley Knight & Dynamite MC--Roni Size, I think.
2. Do you prefer white mice or pink elephants?
Elephants. They're not super intelligent inter dimensional creature;
3. What was the last alcoholic drink you had?
A marigita :P
Bonus: Who? Where? Why? Wieso? What's up? I don't know! I just don't know!
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1. Did you do it?
2. What's your alibi?
3. Are pirate-ninjas an abomination unto Nuggan?
Elephants. They're not super intelligent inter dimensional creature;
*Ahem. Yes, we are. We just choose to be less flashy about it than those bloody mice...*
1. Did you do it?
I most certainly did not. Unless you have absolute, definitive proof, and even then, it was my Evil Twin.
2. What's your alibi?
i was helping little old ladies across the road, and volunteering at the old folks home, and the soup kitchen, and as a day carer. I was setting up every charity known to man, as well as giving all my wages to orphans.
3. Are pirate-ninjas an abomination unto Nuggan?
Isn't everything? I'm sure I got a memo from the High Priest, saying that everything was to be considered an abomination. I think it's over...
No, that's not it. Wait a bit, I'll dig it out....
1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
2. What do you use to let people know you're selling 'For Sale' signs?
3. If practice makes perfect, how do you explain taxi drivers?
Bonus: If everything is relative, what is everything else?
1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
(a) No one ever owns enough hotels ?
(b) Everyone gets £200 each time they go past the door - it would cost too much to have more?
(c) They got the spelling wrong; it was supposed to be the Monopolise Commission?
2. What do you use to let people know you're selling 'For Sale' signs?
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3. If practice makes perfect, how do you explain taxi drivers?
By how well their engines catch fire?
Bonus: If everything is relative, what is everything else?
Yes. Or possibly No.
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Please answer this only if you are female and have seen Jennifer Fox's Flying Confessions of a Free Woman - or, if you are not female and/or have not seen it, please repost the questions as the next set of questions after you have answered.
1. How annoying is her voice?
2. Why was it so obvious to everyone but her how her South African Lover would turn out?
3. How come my parents seem like hers but I messed my life up in a different way?
Bonus Question: What do you think about Patrick?
Looks like we need a fresh start here
1. What do you think about Rush Limbaugh?
2. Should Rachel Maddow run for president (or VP)?
3. What is your favorite flower?
1. What do you think about Rush Limbaugh?
He is an embarrassment to all Americans of Irish descent and I think we should banish him to the depths of an English peat bog.
2. Should Rachel Maddow run for president (or VP)?
YES! With Keith Olberman as her VP.
3. What is your favorite flower?
Nasturtiums
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1. Why so serious?
2. Will you go see Watchmen?
3. What's your favorite food?
1. Why so serious?
Me, serious?
Nah, it's a facade...
2. Will you go see Watchmen?
Nope. Not a fan of graphic novels, not a fan of that kind of movies, and I don't go to movies anyway, because they cost too much money.
3. What's your favorite food?
Meats, cake, any Cajun/Creole I can sink a spoon into. Mostly, something I don't have to work long and hard at, because I don't have the energy anymore...
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1. Favorite fruit?
2. Should the World Courts go after Cheney, Cheney/Bush, Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld, any permutations of the above, including some of their policy guys?
3. Bobby Jindal. Opportunist or whackjob?
1. Favorite fruit?
Banananananana (adn strawberries)
2. Should the World Courts go after Cheney, Cheney/Bush, Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld, any permutations of the above, including some of their policy guys?
If the Sir Robin treatment is not available
To be mashed into a pulp and to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away. And his limbs all hacked and mangled. His head smashed in And his heart cut out And his LIVER removed And his bowels unplugged And his nostrils raped And his bottom burnt off And his penis--
3. Bobby Jindal. Opportunist or whackjob?
Leading GOPster => most likely both
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1. Do you expect to travel abroad within the next year?
2. Do you like the (real and true) folk music of your country or do you prefer that of another (or neither)?
3. Does Obama do a good job (at least until now)?
1. Do you expect to travel abroad within the next year?
I'd like to but I seriously doubt it, we are on the risk of having only one income at home if things keep going the way they're going.
2. Do you like the (real and true) folk music of your country or do you prefer that of another (or neither)?
I do but it took a while for me to appreciate it. Folk music in Colombia is quite rich in styles and rhythms and despite the onslaught of commercial music it survives with serious composers devoted to the different genres.
3. Does Obama do a good job (at least until now)?
Given the circumstances I'd say he is doing a good job, or at least as good as possible. Nevertheless he may have to go back on his bipartisan goals (besides, given that the repugs adopted Rush's mantra of wishing Obama to fail, why bother trying to accommodate them?).
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1. Where would you rather be right now?
2. What would you like to be eating right now?
3 What would you like to drink with it?
Bonus: what's so important about 'now'?
1. Where would you rather be right now?
Asleep, mostly.
2. What would you like to be eating right now?
Cake (dang it, Chatty!)
3 What would you like to drink with it?
Depends on the cake. :mrgreen:
Bonus: what's so important about 'now'?
It's all we have.
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1. What's your favorite period of history?
2. What web browser do you use?
3. What's the best remedy for a cough, in your opinion?
1. What's your favorite period of history?
Roman Imperial followed by British Imperial (I never claimed to be politically correct :) ).
2. What web browser do you use?
IE7 with IE7 Pro addon. Partly because I like it best, partly because it does XML DTDs properly, but mainly because it annoys Sibling Zono
(actually have to use all the major ones for work).
3. What's the best remedy for a cough, in your opinion?
Of all the remedies that don't work, probably whisky. Of those that do, Honey and lemon.
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1 Most elegant aircraft?
2 Most elegant car?
3 Most elegant boat?
1 Most elegant aircraft?Hard one, on one end I thing of Zeppelins and Blimps for their simplicity, on the other you could argue that a Gulfstream is the most elegant but I guess it may be some of Scaled Composites planes like the Proteus:
(http://pro.corbis.com/images/UG004835.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B8C041DA6-3E53-4A79-BDC3-02A2850F12B1%7D)
http://pro.corbis.com/images/UG004835.jpg?size=67&uid={8C041DA6-3E53-4A79-BDC3-02A2850F12B1}
2 Most elegant car?Again elegance may mean many things, I find the Lotus Elise platform to be very elegant (small high torque engine with a very light frame for an excellent power to weight ratio), and the Mercedes Benz CLS series to be very elegant in the conventional sense. Back in the 80s the car I considered most elegant was the Aston Martin Lagonda
(http://www.ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/aston_martin_lagonda.jpg)
http://www.ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/aston_martin_lagonda.jpg
3 Most elegant boat?Frankly that goes out of my realm of knowledge therefore I can only say that I like catamarans in that sense but I would be hard pressed to mention a model.
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1. Most money you have lost in a stupid fashion.
2. Most time you have lost making (or developing) something.
3. Most time/money lost repairing something.
Quote from: beagle on March 09, 2009, 08:29:13 PM
IE7 with IE7 Pro addon. Partly because I like it best, partly because it does XML DTDs properly, but mainly because it annoys Sibling Zono
How about xslt's? :P
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the thought of using a particular web browser simply because it would annoy a ciberspace sibling is totally wonderful :mrgreen:
now how can I apply that to the rest of my life?
** as you were **
1. Most money you have lost in a stupid fashion.
Buying groceries from the types of stores that give one 'green stamps' (sometimes yellow or pink) that you paste into little books and then redeem for stuff (usually low quality crapola)-- this ended years ago when I realized that I was simply paying out the kazoo for groceries to get the little stamps then I went discount store shopping (but not wal mart-just bigger chains). Over the years-- oh I hate to think of it added up.
At once? hmmmmm maybe the $20 I put in a slot machine once in Reno.
2. Most time you have lost making (or developing) something.
I took many hours over a week to paint/decorate quite a few flower pots to sell at a local flea market. I dropped the box and smashed most of them.
3. Most time/money lost repairing something.
Ha-Ha so you know about the '57 Chevy in my fathers garage that I've been having restored for 25 years now. His runs- mine does not.
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1. If you could go back and whisper one thing in Albert Einsteins ear-just one phrase- what would it be?
2. What really happens to Dandelion fluff when you make a wish and blow on them? (not the adult scientific it makes more version)
3. Where was your first kiss? Dance, doorstep, party, car-etc. Juicy details if you wish.
[3] Where was your first kiss? Dance, doorstep, party, car-etc. Juicy details if you wish.
In a bedroom at the house of parents of my friends.
The parents (mine and the girl who's birthday party it was, did I say I was <14 maybe 12 maybe 13?) were downstairs drinking while a crowd of the girl's friends were all upstairs in her bedroom. I'd never been to a party like it before (actually I never went to one like it again). We were all sat around on bed floor chairs. I was on the bed trapped with a boy I did not like the look of right next to me. I knew no one. It was horrid. Very horrid. Suddenly the lights went out (did someone switch them off?). Next thing I knew I had a wet slobbery tongue all over my face and then stuffed into my mouth from the direction of the boy of whom I had not liked the look..... Push, shove, nothing deterred this tongue (at least I guess it was a tongue). It slathered around and was just plain disgusting.
Were you expecting some rose-coloured nostalgia here?? If so sorry. Life sucks (sic) !!!!
Eh? What? I've got to answer the other two questions ?
Oh, OK, then.
[1]If you could go back and whisper one thing in Albert Einsteins ear-just one phrase- what would it be?
Hey Dearie, love the Frock. Where did you get it? By the way, does you theory include relatives of werewolves?
[2]What really happens to Dandelion fluff when you make a wish and blow on them? (not the adult scientific it makes more version)
They waft away and continue wafting until they land up in Tinkerbell's back room where Peter Pan is hiding from Captain Hook in the fluff which needs constant freshening up with new supplies.
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[1] What you would you like to see as the next new Olympic "sport" ?
[2] If you had to be a rare breed animal, (beware your karma, you have no idea what it might effect), which would you like it be and why, or if it does not yet exist, describe.
[3] Ideally, how many toes would you like to have and why?
Ha! Griffin left out her question, so that means I can choose which ones I want to answer, so I choose Beagle's ones:
1 Most elegant aircraft?
Hawker Sea Fury
(http://www.aviationphoto.co.uk/Pictures/RNHF%20Hawker%20Sea%20Fury%20FB11%20VR930%204%20Dunsfold%202006.jpg)
2 Most elegant car?
Jaguar D-type
(http://www.tuningnews.net/news/080717/goodwood-festival-of-speed-2008-77.jpg)
3 Most elegant boat?
(I assume boat includes ship)
The Cutty Sark
(http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pKQI2D5dhzUN-qTdM82rAfhusO__zrmQzSCaS7mejdYht2FvZ5TKAZ72VHSRV0gE-mdi25Ero4uQ)
Favourite arcade game
Favourite ice cream flavour
Sci Fi or Fantasy?
No I didn't. Bluenose is ruled Out of Order !
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[1] What you would you like to see as the next new Olympic "sport" ?
[2] If you had to be a rare breed animal, (beware your karma, you have no idea what it might effect), which would you like it be and why, or if it does not yet exist, describe.
[3] Ideally, how many toes would you like to have and why?
... and they were damn interesting questions too:
[1] What you would you like to see as the next new Olympic "sport" ?
[2] If you had to be a rare breed animal, (beware your karma, you have no idea what it might effect), which would you like it be and why, or if it does not yet exist, describe.
[3] Ideally, how many toes would you like to have and why?
[1] What you would you like to see as the next new Olympic "sport" ?
Freestyle sleeping (a duration event). I wis Gold!!
[2] If you had to be a rare breed animal, (beware your karma, you have no idea what it might effect), which would you like it be and why, or if it does not yet exist, describe.
Something in the Quagga family. I've got some of the wardrobe already.
[3] Ideally, how many toes would you like to have and why?
The ones I have are sufficient, I just want more room for them in shoes. (I have duck feet.)
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Reiterating Blue's questions for continuity's sake...
Favourite arcade game
Favourite ice cream flavour
Sci Fi or Fantasy?
Favourite arcade game
Deus Ex (okay, it's a PC game, but it's the one I've replayed the most often)
Favourite ice cream flavour
Fresh peach
fresh strawberry
genuine walnut-vanilla
butter pecan, with real pecans and real dairy butter
Hmmmm. I'm having a difficult time selecting. I better go with:
Ice Cream flavor. ;D
Sci Fi or Fantasy?
Yes.
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1) Passive Resistance or Active Defense. Or some synthesis of either/neither or perhaps E.T?
2) Genius is supposed to be 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Agree? Disagree? Rum Cake?
3) According to Robert Heinliein's Stranger in a Strange Land, monkeys (including we) laugh at themselves, because they must. For the most part, life is miserable, painful, lonely and unpleasant. But if we can laugh at ourselves, it's not only bearable, it's actually meaningful and enjoyable. Now the question: Green eyes, Blue eyes, Hazel or Brown? Or some other color...what's your favorite in a Significant Other?
Bonus: ignore 1, 2 and 3, and discuss the non-question part contained in 3. ;D
1) Passive Resistance or Active Defense. Or some synthesis of either/neither or perhaps E.T?
Depends, passive resistance appeals to the humanity of the aggressor, IOW it shames it by making abundantly clear who the evil party is. When the aggressor loses its humanity and/or considers the victim 'non human' then passive resistance actually helps the aggressor, in which case Active Defense becomes an alternative, but that in itself is only viable if there is a realistic possibility to mount such defense successfully. The missing option is to flee which IMO is as valid as the other two.
2) Genius is supposed to be 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Agree? Disagree? Rum Cake?
Rum cake! :mrgreen:
Genius involves luck too which could easily be more than 50% in certain cases.
3) According to Robert Heinliein's Stranger in a Strange Land, monkeys (including we) laugh at themselves, because they must. For the most part, life is miserable, painful, lonely and unpleasant. But if we can laugh at ourselves, it's not only bearable, it's actually meaningful and enjoyable. Now the question: Green eyes, Blue eyes, Hazel or Brown? Or some other color...what's your favorite in a Significant Other?
Honey.
Bonus: ignore 1, 2 and 3, and discuss the non-question part contained in 3.
Back in my school days we used to say that if you don't laugh at life, life laughs at you and that is quite cruel. ;)
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1. Do you believe that hurricane/tornado proof houses should be mandatory in risky areas?
2. Should insurance companies charge accordingly if not?
3. Is it possible to write laws that punish the kind of behavior bankers were engaged in to cause the current crisis? Will anyone dare propose such laws?
Bonus: is the Chinese model of punishment for corruption (death penalty) a valid alternative? What other options should be considered? Explain your answer.
1. Do you believe that hurricane/tornado proof houses should be mandatory in risky areas?
If you have children under the legal age for emancipation (16 in California, dunno what it is in other places)
2. Should insurance companies charge accordingly if not?
Yup!
3. Is it possible to write laws that punish the kind of behavior bankers were engaged in to cause the current crisis? Will anyone dare propose such laws?
Possible? Yes. And someone will dare to propose them. But no one will dare to pass them.
Bonus: is the Chinese model of punishment for corruption (death penalty) a valid alternative? What other options should be considered? Explain your answer.
I propose the national government uses/buys a big plot of Nevada to create a Battle Royale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royalee%20Royale)-style death match, lasting for three days. The winner (assuming there is one) will then face a The Lady, or the Tiger? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady,_or_the_Tiger%3F) style judgment; they either end up with a million dollars and a new car (the lady) or a future where they work for charities and charities alone (the tiger--for them).
The public may place bets on all proceedings.
I don't think anyone would survive. If one did, s/he would be so destroyed, they'd be humiliated and traumatized. The million dollars and a car would give whoever the winner was a foothold in life to try to set up their lives, and the charities would be death by inches or, if they still have a soul, a step towards paying back the rest of humanity.
All profits from this venture would go to paying back those harmed by banker actions (or, if this is a governmental problem, goes to paying off the national debt).
And hey, it's Nevada--gambling's legal.
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1. Favorite genre of book?
2. Do you consider the James Bond and Sherlock Homes novels not by Ian Flemings or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be fanfiction?
3. Are there any redeeming features to fanfiction?
1. Favorite genre of book?
Gardening
2. Do you consider the James Bond and Sherlock Homes novels not by Ian Flemings or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be fanfiction?
Yes!
3. Are there any redeeming features to fanfiction?
Eh, yes. I think fanfiction is a good creative excercise for amateurs.
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1) Favorite salad green
2) Favorite kind of roofing material
3) At what point would you consider not forgiving a spouse/ significant other?
1) Favorite salad green
Fresh baby spinach leaves. With a bit'o purple (red) onion. Add some pitted, black olives, chopped or sliced. Over the top with vinegar and oil, or some nice Italian style dressing. Or, maybe some Bleu Cheese dressing, depending on me mood....
2) Favorite kind of roofing material
Standing-seam copper, tin or baked-enameled steel. I likes the sound of rain drumming on a metal roof....and they last (if you don't let'em rust) forever...
3) At what point would you consider not forgiving a spouse/ significant other?
Lying. I can (and have) taken infidelity. But lying? Continuous, pathological lying? No, canna' take that, 'e can't. I canna' take even a bit'o lying, actually.... rather have the truth. Even if it hurts, it's real.
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Part the First: Portable hand tools: manual, battery or electric-mains (corded). Defend your preference, hopefully with amusing personal anecdotes not involving detached body parts....
Part the Second: *You* and you alone are In Charge for 72 hours. Your word is literal Law of the Land. What will you do with those 72 hours? The only limitations are the usual laws of physics and other mundane matters....
Part the Forth*: Someday, humans invent a genuine personality-copying process that actually works (aka the film The Sixth Day). It works out to a sort of ersatz immortality. Would you avail yourself of this? Why or why not?
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* Part the Third is on vacation, in the Bahamas, and won't be back until Friday. Or mayhap Tuesday, if the weather's fine.
Part the First: Portable hand tools: manual, battery or electric-mains (corded). Defend your preference, hopefully with amusing personal anecdotes not involving detached body parts....
Manual--Hammers and stubborn tin.
Part the Second: *You* and you alone are In Charge for 72 hours. Your word is literal Law of the Land. What will you do with those 72 hours? The only limitations are the usual laws of physics and other mundane matters....
Let's assume that the things I say when In Charge stick after those 72 hours, or I might start with the maiming.
The Glass-Steagall Act goes back into effect.
All those responsible for the current crisis pay through the nose.
Starbucks removes my district manager and manager [they won't matter much longer--a new job is looming on the horizon, thank god, but there will still be people at my store that I like]. Also, unions are formed for partners to keep Howie and his minions in check.
What's sensible reigns, instead of what's profitable.
Hammity and co. shut the hell up.
Rush Limbaugh ends up in an English peat bog ("And the people rejoiced...")
Turkey admits to the Armenian genocide.
The middle east gets some frickin' sense (changing the way rape is dealt with, etc.) and programs are set up and run by outside entities to foster women's literacy.
Pakistan helps out in the search for Jafar* on pain of all aid being permanently shut off.
Nukes (ALL of them) are promptly handed over to Switzerland and Pope Palpatine's personal Swiss guard is set on watch
Countries accused of human rights violations are forbidden from being involved with the UN's human rights council.
--which is given some teeth
The US quits interfering in other countries like we did in Panama in the 80s and the Monroe doctrine is finally (finally) abandoned.
OPEC is forbidden to run as a political cartel
The Dome of the Rock and surrounding inter-religious holy sites are annexed by the UN
The Oslo Peace Accords are updated and passed.
Israel withdraws from the various places they aren't supposed to be.
Political entities the fund and foster terrorism are dismantled
I can keep going, but I think that's enough.
Part the Forth*: Someday, humans invent a genuine personality-copying process that actually works (aka the film The Sixth Day). It works out to a sort of ersatz immortality. Would you avail yourself of this? Why or why not?
No. I don't think people can really remain human (in the best sense of the word) if there's not a limited amount of time to do so (I sort of agree with Alan Moore that our perception of time effects ("The writer believed that a character living in a quantum universe would not perceive time with a linear perspective, which would influence the character's perception of human affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character like Spock from Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" and to grow away from them and humanity in general.")
*Bin Laden has always reminded me of Jafar from Aladin.
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1. Which of the issues in the second question I answered do you think is the most important?
2. What would the effects be on the world if they were carried through?
3. Favorite film?
1. Which of the issues in the second question I answered do you think is the most important?
What's sensible reigns, instead of what's profitable.
2. What would the effects be on the world if they were carried through?
Sanity...for a few days until all returns to "normal"
3. Favorite film?
That's a difficult one. Very likely something British.
Possible candidates: Lawrence of Arabia, The Way to the Stars, Henry V (Olivier version)
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1. Should people like Glenn Beck be treated like the Bush regime treated* its "enemies" (for "transgressions" far minor than pulling a Herny II**)
2. What is your favorite invertebrate?
3. Are there any invertebrates you like to eat (and I don't mean de-boned steak ;) )?
*or claimed that the treatment should be
**Beck e.g. notoriuosly explains domestic terrorism as a natural reaction to liberals and currently more or less openly advocates 'armed resistance' against the Obama administration
1. Should people like Glenn Beck be treated like the Bush regime treated its "enemies"?
You mean locking them up indefinitely with no recourse? Yup, that sounds right for him, and Limbaugh, and Hannity, and most of the FOX editorial board and...
2. What is your favorite invertebrate?
Isn't it obvious? The octopus! :P
3. Are there any invertebrates you like to eat?
I'm not too keen of seafood in general (I like sushi from time to time) and I consider eating cephalopods to be morally wrong so not really. I'm curious about grasshoppers but I wouldn't be surprised if those taste close to their crustacean relatives.
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I couldn't pass this one up:
*You* and you alone are In Charge for 72 hours. Your word is literal Law of the Land. What will you do with those 72 hours? The only limitations are the usual laws of physics and other mundane matters....
I would try to screen as many politicians, corporate heads and boards, and union leaders for signs of psychopathy/lack of empathy, remove them from office, ban them from high positions for life, send them to an island in the Pacific and make sure they'll never leave. That should take care of most of the problems.
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1. Remember that kid/girl you liked in school but never dared to? Would you like to go back in time and talk to him/her?
2. How would you feel about riding an ultralight plane?
3. If you had the opportunity to go to a kibbutz like community where money isn't important and everyone takes care of one another, would you? What would be necessary for you to go?
Bonus: icecream or cake?
1. Remember that kid/girl you liked in school but never dared to? Would you like to go back in time and talk to him/her?
No, probably not. I tended to be attracted to arrogant assholes in high school (IE, they were intelligent, knew it, and liked to rub it in people's faces). There's one that liked me, however, and I wish I had done more than look confused.
2. How would you feel about riding an ultralight plane?
Oooh, sounds like fun!
3. If you had the opportunity to go to a kibbutz like community where money isn't important and everyone takes care of one another, would you? What would be necessary for you to go?
Yup! Wifi, electricity, my laptop, and some of my books. I'm a simple person.
Bonus: icecream or cake? Ice cream cake.
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1. Favorite leisure activity?
2. Are you a cat or a dog person?
3. What's the best aquarium you've ever been to?
1. Favorite leisure activity?
To be frank -sleeping, but reading and sex is also very nice. ;D
2. Are you a cat or a dog person?
Dog person, I don't have anything against cats they can actually be quite charming but I don't understand then or trust then the way I understand or trust dogs.
3. What's the best aquarium you've ever been to?
Universeeum in Göteborg (Gothenburg). A seven stores building with tanks three stores high with both domestic fishes and more exotic ones and a whole open area where you walk among the frogs and insects and such. Not for the skirmish. ;D
A close friend of mine used to work as a guide there and gave me a private tour.
http://www.universeum.se/index.php?lang=en (http://www.universeum.se/index.php?lang=en) if you ever visit the Swedish west coast you should spend a day here.
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1) Are Zoo's some thing good or something evil?
2) Have you ever had a close encounter with the local wildlife? If so what happened?
3) Favourite dessert?
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I will make it a point-- I love aquariums.
Too bad I refuse to fly, these days....not out of fear, but because the paying customers are treated like cattle, only worse. With extreme indifference, occasional disdain, and as if they were not worth the bother. If *I* am paying for it.... I expect better.
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1) Are Zoo's some thing good or something evil?Love zoos, when an effort is made to simulate the environment the critter came from. They serve a role to help preserve the genetic diversity of the planet, if not the actual social environments of the same.
They can be an evil place, though-- for the animals, I mean. But, it's better than extinction. Barely sometimes, but better.
2) Have you ever had a close encounter with the local wildlife? If so what happened?Yup. It was a summer camp for 6th graders. It was a copperhead or rattlesnake (one or the other, I did not examine him closely). The snake was discovered by some kids, along a trail, and he was super-lethargic (he was cold). I gathered him up in a pillow-case, and took him well into the back 40, well away from the camping area. Wouldn't have considered killing him, though: the local squirrels and rats were too numerous as it was...
I've had several such man-snake encounters, but I usually hear them long before I see them, and I keep still, let them go on their way. Most snakes are afraid of something as large as a person-- even a child is huge from a snake-eye view. Give'em a chance to vamoose, and they typically will.
3) Favourite dessert?Yes.
What? I *like* dessert. I really never met one I didn't like, except for meringue-- I"m allergic to uncooked eggses.
Oh, I dunno-- at this particular moment? Native pecan pie. Ask me in 10 minutes? It'll be something else, like fresh blackberry cobbler, with *real* hommade ice cream...
:meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal: :meal:
(can you see that? 300 6th graders pounding the tables with their silverware in unison? I'll tell you about it sometime...) 5* Kids. Love'em, love to be around anyone's, doesn't matter, just basically like kids. Or you can only stand them, if you're somehow *related*. Or kids are not only best not seen and not heard, but out of sight, out of mind. Or somethin' else....
6. Ever own or maintain a large home aquarium? I don't mean a glass with a beta fish or a bowl with a goldie or something, but more than 15 US gallons, with heaters, lights, gravel, pumps, etc, etc, etc. What would your dream, ultimate one be, if so? (or even if not...)
7. Vacation. Get as far away as possible, or stay home, but refuse to answer the 'phone. What's your method?
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* Parts the First through the Fourth, not including the Third got Twittered from Part the Third, and decided to join it on vacation. 5, 6 and 7 are temping until they return.
Bob, if you ever end up out here on the west coast, go the the Monterey Bay Aquarium (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/). Huge tanks, (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/outerbay.asp) Bay flora and fauna (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/kelp.asp), exhibits, and the OTTERS (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/otter.asp). The staff's pretty awesome, too.
5* Kids. Love'em, love to be around anyone's, doesn't matter, just basically like kids. Or you can only stand them, if you're somehow *related*. Or kids are not only best not seen and not heard, but out of sight, out of mind. Or somethin' else....
Depends on the age group. Babies are adorable until they start to cry (and then I hand them back to momma), toddlers cute/annoying, Elementary school kids are all right. I HATE middle schoolers--annoying little snots. High schoolers are fine.
6. Ever own or maintain a large home aquarium? I don't mean a glass with a beta fish or a bowl with a goldie or something, but more than 15 US gallons, with heaters, lights, gravel, pumps, etc, etc, etc. What would your dream, ultimate one be, if so? (or even if not...)
No, but I want one. I have no idea what would be in there, but I want one.
7. Vacation. Get as far away as possible, or stay home, but refuse to answer the 'phone. What's your method?
GET AWAY. Gotta blow the stink out. Also, I refuse to answer the phone unless it's a friend or family.
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1. Cameras: digital or film?
2. Cell phones: flip, slide, or neither?
3. Cats: alive, dead, stuffed?
1. Cameras: digital or film?
Digital for ease of use, "that's crap, delete", film for carefully crafted shots
2. Cell phones: flip, slide, or neither?
Couldn't care. If it works, that's all I want to know.
3. Cats: alive, dead, stuffed?
Alive, big, and doing cat things in the savannah. Of course, to see them, I have to be there too...
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1. The badger. Lovely creature or pain in the ass?
2. The farmer. Lovely creature or pain in the ass?
3. Is David Attenborough the Greatest Broadcaster Ever?
3b. Who has the more relaing voice, David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman?
1. The badger. Lovely creature or pain in the ass?
Lovely creature. Doesn't deserve it's bad reputation a bit. Yes, they can be grumpy and yes they have scary teeth's and strong jaws and doesn't make suitable pets, so what?
I once saw a badger family play in the dew wet newly moved grass on our lawn one early summer morning, cute and hilarious. :D
2. The farmer. Lovely creature or pain in the ass?
Depends on who, when and where. I grew up on the countryside, some are sensible others are jerks.
3. Is David Attenborough the Greatest Broadcaster Ever?
Very possible, he's in the top 3 at least.
3b. Who has the more relaing voice, David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman?
It's a draw. They have different qualities.
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1) Funniest spontaneous (not a trick) animal behaviour you have ever seen?
2) Birds, how do you feel about keeping them as pets in cages?
3) Favourite house plant?
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1) Funniest spontaneous (not a trick) animal behaviour you have ever seen?
One of our cats (Tire Iron - pronounced Tarn according to local accent) loves to play with out three big dogs. They pick her up in their mouth (yes in their mouth), and throw her about six feet, she picks herself up, sopping wet with dog drool, and comes back, touches noses with the dog and they do it again...
2) Birds, how do you feel about keeping them as pets in cages?
I don't approve at all. Unsanitary for the humans. Dreadful for the birds, unless it's a room-sized cage (at least) for tiny birds.
3) Favourite house plant?
Rubber Plant (see the art gallery - one of my poems is about this).
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1) Have you ever danced in the rain?
2) Do you shout at the television?
3) Do you believe in reincarnation/
1) Have you ever danced in the rain?
Yes. :)
2) Do you shout at the television?
Frequently.
3) Do you believe in reincarnation?
No.
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1. Have you ever read Upton Sinclare's The Jungle?
2. What is your favorite era in history?
3. Do you think that a real reformer has any chance of being elected and being able to do what s/he said s/he would?
1. Have you ever read Upton Sinclare's The Jungle?
Yes
2. What is your favorite era in history?
The next one
3. Do you think that a real reformer has any chance of being elected and being able to do what s/he said s/he would?
Today? Sadly, no. Election would be almost impossible, accomplishing much at all? Suicide.
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1. Favorite comfort food.
2. Least favorite dish.
3. Do you have food texture issues?
1. Dunno... not a big comfort food consumer. Probably instant noodles with (frozen) peas. Even better if the peas are cooked mushy with the flavour, prior to adding the noodles.
2. Anything with canned tuna.
3. Yep, with certain mushy foods that don't have enough taste-to-texture. For example, bananas do NOT taste good enough to justify the texture; I don't mind eating strongly-flavored banana varieties and I have been consuming LOTS of bananas in protein shakes lately (where the texture is destroyed, but the flavour predominates, but I refuse to eat the whole fruit under normal circumstances. OTOH, (frozen) durian has a pretty repulsive texture but is flavourful enough to get away with it. Not a fan of mayo, creamy dressings and such; might be a mouthfeel thing?
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1. What food could you never be persuaded to try again?
2. What food could you never be persuaded to try in the first place?
3. Would you eat this?
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Bonus: If otherwise no, would you eat it to avoid getting shown up by a 7 y.o. girl? ;)
1. What food could you never be persuaded to try again?
Tofu! I have massive texture issues with food, too, and tofu is revolting (as are eggplant, mushrooms, out-of-the-bag marsh mellows, and ripe bananas)
2. What food could you never be persuaded to try in the first place?
Bugs and internal organs like brains and livers.
3. Would you eat this?[/b
NO! That's canabalism AND meat. I'm vegetarian and I don't do sea food.
Bonus: If otherwise no, would you eat it to avoid getting shown up by a 7 y.o. girl?
I'm not that prideful. She can have all the nasty octopi she likes.
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1. Could you be vegan?
2. Do you like naps?
3. Sleeping in the sun or the shade?
1. Could you be vegan?
Personally no, I'm too much of a foodie or glutton ;) however I do respect other peoples choice and would never lie about what's in the food I cooked. And when I have guests I try chose food and cook it according to my guests preferences, if a vegetarian/vegan or person with allergies is invited as a guest at my home they should feel as welcome as the meat eaters and real, well prepared, food is essential in that aspect I think... However, there is one strict rule in my kitchen during parties with both meat eaters and vegans present. NO PREACHING IN MY KITCHEN! ;D
2. Do you like naps?
No not really, not if I'm otherwise well, then I just prefer to sleep for too long in the morning. :D
3. Sleeping in the sun or the shade?
Shade. Sleeping in the sun easily get painful for a pink skinned animal like me.
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1) Beans, good or awful?
2) Favourite cold beverage?
3) Coolest insect?
1) Beans, good or awful?
Depends on the sort and the cook
There are too many ways to spoil green beans (the canteen showed me another one last week)
2) Favourite cold beverage?
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3) Coolest insect?
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The orchid mantis
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1) Are you an arachnophobe?
2) Should there be strict rules about what animals are allowed as pets (e.g. no anacondas but maned wolfs are OK ;)) ?
3) Coffee , tea or cocoa?
1) Are you an arachnophobe?
Absolutely. I have to get little kids to remove spiders from my house if there's no-one else here. My wife knows when I've seen a spider from the sound of my voice when I call her name. ::)
2) Should there be strict rules about what animals are allowed as pets (e.g. no anacondas but maned wolfs are OK ;)) ?
Yes, for 'indoor' pets, nothing not 'domesticated' (and that's a short list), with the exception of fish. For outdoors, no confinement of wild animals, though benign relationships with wild animals are an excellent measure of character. NO SPIDERS!
3) Coffee , tea or cocoa?
Yes, please! I drink at least two of the three every day, sometimes all three. One thing I do, that I've not seen anyone else do, is drinking two different drinks at the same time. It seems natural to me, but most people think I'm strange when I do that.
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1) Does it amuse you when people live up to the stereotypes of their nationality, culture, or body type?
2) Do you enjoy public speaking?
3) Why did you become a Toadfish, and why did you wait so long?
People answering interview questions with one word answers will NOT be given cake!
1) Does it amuse you when people live up to the stereotypes of their nationality, culture, or body type?
Enormously...I would recognize an Italian abroad from a mile away! All geared up with their Invicta backpa they used that (or still do?) for high school and College...with their neat designers cloths and that "air" of "I am so cool you should keep your distance from the god/goddess" bleh! In my years of voulntary exile I have learned to camufalge very well... just can't resist teasing the 45 yrsd old italian man who keeps living with mommy and daddy and cares for his mother more then for the woman who has been his fiancee for the past 15 yrs...
2) Do you enjoy public speaking?
Love it! Whatever it is...just give me a mic and an audience... and possibly a presentation board...
My dad has always hammered on me that I should be a lawyer :P
3) Why did you become a Toadfish, and why did you wait so long?
I have been looking for home all my life... and it took a nice english fellow on American soil to bring me back to it... :)
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People answering interview questions with one word answers will NOT be given cake!
now can I get cake? Red Velvet please! :D
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Do you think the current Pope should resign his office since he is still stuck in the middle ages and didn't get the memo that the Church has no temporal power anymore???
What is your favourite cake and why?
What do you think of dreaded date 21 December 2012?
Do you think the current Pope should resign his office since he is still stuck in the middle ages and didn't get the memo that the Church has no temporal power anymore???
I think it would be more entertaining if all previous Popes resigned as well. ;D
The problem with conservatism (and I speak as a conservative by nature) is that the person may not necessarily be attempting to conserve the status quo from a particularly enlightened period.
What is your favourite cake and why?
My favourite cake is the one in front of me, because it is due for consumption.
What do you think of dreaded date 21 December 2012?
I was trying to work out what was so bad about a solstice, then realised that the world was due to end ::). personally, I think that Dec 31st is far scarier, as that is when the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end...
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1. Green? or Blue?
2. Red? or Yellow?
3. Puce? or Tope?
1. Green? or Blue?
Blue
2. Red? or Yellow?
Red
3. Puce? or Tope?
They don't have Taupe (the way it's spelled in most places) but taupe it is. It's a greyed beige color, soothing as a background because it blends so well.
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1. Coconut--love it? Hate it? Can live with it? Your true feelings about the stuff.
2. Do you have any food allergies?
3.Choose a spot for a two week holiday.
Now tell me, why there? And what would you do there?
Bonus: Can I come with??
1. Coconut--love it? Hate it? Can live with it? Your true feelings about the stuff.
I like it--the real stuff, anyway.
2. Do you have any food allergies?
No, thank goodness.
3.Choose a spot for a two week holiday. Now tell me, why there? And what would you do there?
Just ONE spot? Ach. Mmmm, in country, I vote for Mesa Verde National Park. Honestly, it's more gorgeous than Yosemite or nearly any other national park I've been to (though Sequoia and Zion come close). It completely stunned me when we crested the top of the road and the landscape for miles around was just laid out (http://fc19.deviantart.com/fs16/f/2007/203/8/a/Mesa_Verde_by_dorkanese.jpg). I would like to spend more time there, with my camera and at the pueblo houses.
Out of country...I don't know. I've never left the country, but I've always kind of wanted to go the Elephant Mountains in Thailand. They're supposed to be utterly, utterly gorgeous. Camera + Scribble = pure JOY!
Bonus: Can I come with??
Of course.
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1. Ever stayed at a cabin?
2. Where?
3. Wold you ever go back?
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Do you think the current Pope should resign his office since he is still stuck in the middle ages and didn't get the memo that the Church has no temporal power anymore???
Given his authoritative knowledge it's odd how rarely the Pope is cited in the medical literature. Are Papal Bulls the R.C. form of Colemanballs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemanballs)?
1. Ever stayed at a cabin?
A couple.
2. Where?
Little one in Glacier Park, Montana. Huge one in Northern Virginia.
3. Wold you ever go back?
Yes. The little one was rustic, remote and fun, and the big one was luxurious.
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1) Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
2) Name five things you would absolutely have to have in your dream house.
3) If you could choose a talent that you don't now have, what would it be?
1) Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
Not me, though I did put the feck in feckless.
2) Name five things you would absolutely have to have in your dream house.
Sex, drugs, rock & roll. If rock and roll counts as one then food and water would be handy too; otherwise, very wet food.
3) If you could choose a talent that you don't now have, what would it be?
The ability to forge Bill Gates' signature.
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1 Should IBM take over Sun?
2 Is there a market for Java on MVS/TSO?
3 Do you remotely care one way or another? About anything?
1 Should IBM take over Sun?
Mmm.. given that the spark architecture is in its deathrows and Sun is living by making Opteron blades and racks, it's only value added is OpenOffice and Java. I guess as long as IBM commits to keep the open source developments from Sun I don't care if it's swallowed whole or in pieces.
2 Is there a market for Java on MVS/TSO?
Gee... I think its, well, a bit off, but what do I know about mainframes? Intuitively it would make sense to transform a mainframe into a webserver (making it a requirement) but it sounds like overkill to me, unless you can prove that a mainframe is more economical to maintain for that purpose that the current distributed paradigm.
3 Do you remotely care one way or another?
About the above? In principle? No. I'm not a client or user of either IBM, Sun or mainframes, but things change in this business enough to at least keep an eye on it.
About anything?
I care about a few things, like the server I'm running or the videocard in my rig but those large behemoths that are likely behind my banking are, well, the problem of the IT departments of the banks. ;)
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1. Does it make sense to prepare for SLI/Crossfire when buying a motherboard?
2. Is running physics on videocards the next big thing?
3. Is mutithreaded programming a requirement nowadays?
1. Does it make sense to prepare for SLI/Crossfire when buying a motherboard?
Don't know much about this so I'll pass it on to the next eager participant.
2. Is running physics on videocards the next big thing?
I had to look this up too. As an ex-Physics student I love the idea that Physics is so important it warrants it's own co-processor ("All science is either Physics or stamp collecting" - Ernest Rutherford, before genetics). I pity the poor bloke who has to do the microcode for relavity and quantum mechanics though. Perhaps the chip should stay Newtonian for the first few centuries, though a relativistic effect visualization tool for students would be cool. From what I remember it was hard to imagine what things would look like at near warp speed, and we just ended up believing whatever the Lorenz equations said for a particular dimension, rather than try and picture it.
3. Is multithreaded programming a requirement nowadays?
I think it has been on Windows for some time (because process creation is relatively slow). On UNIX it's been less essential. However on both now it's very embarrassing if your program is keeping users waiting and they can see from top/Task Mangler that you're only using one of the 2, 4 or 8 cores.
Many times in my (alleged) career I've been in the situation where people have tried to shift process/file UNIX-style orientated programs to Windows (e.g. cgi on IIS) without shifting to the thread/memory paradigm, and then wondered why it is slow.
These days I find the UML Activity diagram one of the first and most useful ones (after the use cases have determined what the punters think they want), precisely because it shows up what can and can't be done in parallel, and where the bottlenecks will be.
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1. Does it make sense to prepare for SLI/Crossfire when buying a motherboard?
2. Are you a geek/nerd/anorak?
3. Would you like to *meet other geeks (http://www.gk2gk.com/) just like you? Or, if you prefer, does geek dating make sense or is it a recipe for endless rows over the the correct indenting of code?
* Note I know nothing about that site, (obviously, I was just referred there by someone desperate to shake me off). You date geek/psycho/dungeon-master/republicans at your own risk.
1. Does it make sense to prepare for SLI/Crossfire when buying a motherboard?
Only if you don't think single-card video is going to maintain it's lead over software. So far, software rarely tasks video cards enough of the time to justify dual, triple or quad video cards. If the only reason you can think of, is that video game, you really ought to reassess your priorities in life.... ::) ;D
2. Are you a geek/nerd/anorak?
I used to be. But, because I'm not in the game directly any longer, I'm an "old geek". Heck, I still know what HOLLERITH FIELDS means...
3. Would you like to *meet other geeks (http://www.gk2gk.com/) just like you? Or, if you prefer, does geek dating make sense or is it a recipe for endless rows over the the correct indenting of code?
* Note I know nothing about that site, (obviously, I was just referred there by someone desperate to shake me off). You date geek/psycho/dungeon-master/republicans at your own risk.
No, not really. I'm basically a hermit, socially. What I need is to meet local people of any persuasion... ;D
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1] You are faced with a dilemma: you must loose one of your 5 senses permanently. Which one? Why that one?
2] If you could have a 6th sense, and could choose the nature of it, what would you choose and why?
3] Ice Cream: super-cold-fresh-from-the-freezer, softened a bit, but still frozen or melted into liquid? Why?
(If you don't like ice cream, substitute pie instead: hot-from-the oven, room temperature or cold-from-the-fridge. If you like both, this is a bonus question. If you don't like either? Check your pulse: you may be dead, and haven't realized it yet.... )
1] You are faced with a dilemma: you must loose one of your 5 senses permanently. Which one? Why that one?
At this point? Touch would be a possible, as I've got 'peripheral neuropathy' from the cancer and have lost quite a bit of it. Taste...can't eat that much and my sense of taste is screwy anyway. (I can taste things like 'palm oil' and the tropical [not good for you] oils in foods, on the other hand, at times, food has no taste whatsoever.) NOT going with sight or hearing...smell? Maybe.
I'll go with touch. Maybe that would also take away some of the pain??
2] If you could have a 6th sense, and could choose the nature of it, what would you choose and why?
I've already got it, it's my most important sense. It's HUMOR. OK, real answer, I'd want a built-in lie detector...the ability to sense the truth as people spoke.
3] Ice Cream: super-cold-fresh-from-the-freezer, softened a bit, but still frozen or melted into liquid? Why?
Super cold, only 'soft' enough to be scooped out. Why? Because I play with my food, especially ice cream, and I want it cold when I eat it, so it HAS to be very hard frozen when I get it. (I moosh up my ice cream and stir it when I get to the later part of it. The early part, I skin off a thin bit of it and slowly lick it from the spoon. A former partner referred to it as my ice cream foreplay...)
(If you don't like ice cream, substitute pie instead: hot-from-the oven, room temperature or cold-from-the-fridge. If you like both, this is a bonus question. If you don't like either? Check your pulse: you may be dead, and haven't realized it yet.... )
Bonus: Fruit pie should still be warm if possible. Lightly nuked is acceptable, refrigerated is NOT acceptable. Cream pies? Cold to room temp. "Chess" type pies (buttermilk, pecan, because of the filling, lemon chess, etc, including things like punkin and sweet tater, ones that depend on eggies to make them set up?) fresh from oven, still warm, or else 'frigerated, because of the eggie content, unless eaten within 2 days.
I haz rules on pies...
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1. If you had to grow most of your own food, could you?
2. Is there something you've always wanted...not expensive, just 'different' that you've never gotten yourself because you don't want to deal with friend/family reactions?
3. You've got $5,000 (or equivalent) a very dependable fuel efficient car and 6 weeks that you MUST be gone from home. Where ya goin'?? Why? (Can I come with?)
1. If you had to grow most of your own food, could you?
I'd probably have to live on mushrooms grown in the buckets that were fashionable once. I used to grow peas as a child so perhaps I could manage those as well. Oh and cress in the airing cupboard. Anything that needs digging wouldn't really work for me but I imagine I could happen to live near some pre-existing fruit bearing trees and talk nicely to them. mmmm grow bags..... and I can plant pips in flower pots (once did an avocado). Then there's the abundant foxes (I'm beginning to worry about protein) in the next door wasteland garden..... but I don't have a shotgun.
2. Is there something you've always wanted...not expensive, just 'different' that you've never gotten yourself because you don't want to deal with friend/family reactions?
No. So I'll pass the question on.
3. You've got $5,000 (or equivalent) a very dependable fuel efficient car and 6 weeks that you MUST be gone from home. Where ya goin'?? Why? (Can I come with?)
Given it would take me a long time to get wherever never mind the fuel efficiency due to need for lengthy bed stops, and the need for nearby hospitals, and language stuff, at present I'd probably opt for the Highlands. Devestatingly beautiful and summer approaching so not a bad time to be there re. weather (and the midges not yet out). I always want hills, the higher the better, though not necessarily mountains, and also lakes. I'm afraid the money would be spent on restaurants (but not specialising in Scottish foods such as haggis ! (there are some fabulous eating places if you know where they are). An alternative might be Frech/Italian Alps. Not too far away hills with higher number of good food spots and the languages not totally beyond me. And yes you can definitely hitch a ride ! I love company when travelling.
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1. Is there something you've always wanted...not expensive, just 'different' that you've never gotten yourself because you don't want to deal with friend/family reactions?
2. If you had to live inside a fictional world which would it be and why?
3. What changes would you make to the human body if you could do it like by magic?
1. Is there something you've always wanted...not expensive, just 'different' that you've never gotten yourself because you don't want to deal with friend/family reactions?
Mmm, more atheist shirts, a subscription to something liberal enough to annoy my parents, an old type writer.
2. If you had to live inside a fictional world which would it be and why?
One that I make up as I go along.
3. What changes would you make to the human body if you could do it like by magic?
Do some remodeling on cerebral cortex. We could use it. And a few other tweaks, regarding how we walk and what we're immune/susceptible to disease-wise on a physical and mental scale. Oh, and lower our fertility. There's too many people as it it.
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1. Is a black sheep still a sheep?
2. What do you think about memes?
3. Could you make and spread one?
Scrib, are you wanting an old manual typewriter??
If so, let me check the barn and the mini-house. I think there's an old Royal, and maybe an Olivetti. Not "old-timey" looking, but more 40's "sleek moderne".
One of them may be pink, however... :o
1. Is a black sheep still a sheep?
Yes. All sheep are black when the lights are out.
Oh, you mean the kind of black sheep that is not a follower? That's an interesting question. When thinking in this regard we tend to use the term "sheep" to imply the willingness to be herded. Is the black sheep not a sheep because it won't be herded? Or is it not following the herd because it has all ready been shunned by the rest of the matching white sheep? What about a white sheep from a grey herd?
Yes, a black sheepis still a sheep, but it is one that stands apart.
2. What do you think about memes?
That's another interesting concept that I don't entirely understand.
3. Could you make and spread one?
I think anyone could if s/he happened to be lucky with timing and exposure. Just look at the "Don't tase me, Bro" guy. He managed to coin that phrase under duress. Other people try hard to create buzzwords and they fall flat. So I don't know.
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I) Is a person who is following a very popular rebellion still a rebel?
II) Can you smell anything right now? If so, can you identify it?
III) What color is your smiting stick?
I) Is a person who is following a very popular rebellion still a rebel?
Well, as long they are a minority I guess.
II) Can you smell anything right now? If so, can you identify it?
Pancakes! :) I had pancakes for dinner and the smells linger.
III) What color is your smiting stick?
Plain wood oak or juniper and a little less than 6ft so it can be used as a rokushakubo.
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1) What cause would drive you to pick up a weapon and go to war?
2)Does flowers make you happy?
3) Apples, red green or gold?
1) What cause would drive you to pick up a weapon and go to war?
Invasion of the US or it's territories. A failure of the government to fascism or other extreme sort of thinking. Things like that.
In fact, I attempted to enlist back in 1980's but failed due to health.
2)Does flowers make you happy?
Not by themselves, no. But in context with other scenery? Like in a garden or wild in a pasture or woodlot or other setting? Sure.
3) Apples, red green or gold?
Pie. Preferably warm.
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a) Music: recorded professionally in a studio? Or a concert recording? Or live #at# a concert? Or...you really hate music and wonder what's all the fuss about? Explain why
b) Whatever the venue, do you prefer professional-with-talent music or amateur-barely-talented? Or perhaps no-talent-at-all-but-very-cute little kids making the music? If you answered "hate music" in a) for b) tell us which of the above you hate the most...
c) I like cheese. Any sort, really, so long as it came from animals and not vegetables. Do you consider "velveeta" (or equivelent) to be cheese? Edible? Something best used to adhere posters to walls? Explain, please. Feel free to elaborate at length the virtues of your favorite cheese or cheese-like-substance.
Bonus: if you like cheese, what sort of music do you like to listen to while snacking on your favorite cheese?
a) Music: recorded professionally in a studio? Or a concert recording? Or live #at# a concert? Or...you really hate music and wonder what's all the fuss about? Explain why
Recorded professionally. If a piece is recorded using good quality kit, then the reproduction is better. Then it's up to you how good the kit you play it on is.
b) Whatever the venue, do you prefer professional-with-talent music or amateur-barely-talented? Or perhaps no-talent-at-all-but-very-cute little kids making the music? If you answered "hate music" in a) for b) tell us which of the above you hate the most...
Doesn't have to be professional, but with talent is preferable.
c) I like cheese. Any sort, really, so long as it came from animals and not vegetables. Do you consider "velveeta" (or equivelent) to be cheese? Edible? Something best used to adhere posters to walls? Explain, please. Feel free to elaborate at length the virtues of your favorite cheese or cheese-like-substance.
I had to look Velveeta up. It doesn't qualify as "cheese food", legally, only "cheese product". To me, it's synthetic crap. One of the advantages of living in the UK is the proximity of France, a place that truly understands cheese. I love cheese. Maybe I'm spiritually French. I adore creamy cheese, the kind that usually smells like 6 month old socks. And blue cheese. And hard cheese, and goat's cheese, and well, cheese. Godawful plastic blocks, that have had no contact with anything organic are not cheese. They are anathema. (In the modern sense of the word, not the Ancient Greek)
Bonus: if you like cheese, what sort of music do you like to listen to while snacking on your favorite cheese?
As I tend to listen to classical music most of the time, the fact I happen to consuming cheesey comestibules at a given point won't alter that. A liitle Mozart goes particulary well with Brie de Meaux...
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1. Are you scared of spiders?
2. Are you scared of any other animal? (excluding humans)
3. Could you fend for yourself if left out in the wild?
Bonus: Do you know the difference between the Immaculate Conception and the Incarnation of Christ? (without looking it up)
a) Music: recorded professionally in a studio? Or a concert recording? Or live #at# a concert? Or...you really hate music and wonder what's all the fuss about? Explain why
Oookay... I spend a few years in a conservatory so the hating music thing... well, I would think that there is something fundamentally wrong with a music hater... ;)
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The better the musicians the better live music is and something will be lost in the recording, this is particularly true for classical music, a recording of a great orchestra will never do justice to the work, the musicians or the conductor when compared to the live experience. For pop music it's a bit different, while the energy of a concert experience can't be replicated the quality of sound is frequently lousy in a concert venue (the bigger the worse) and I'm convinced that the process of amplification destroys the richness of the instruments hence even unplugged events lose something in the process. That being said, studio recordings are carefully crafted products, clean enough to listen subtleties that you would rarely pick at a live engagement making both things (live vs studio) two very different products with different virtues and downsides.
So err.. depends? ;)
b) Whatever the venue, do you prefer professional-with-talent music or amateur-barely-talented? Or perhaps no-talent-at-all-but-very-cute little kids making the music? If you answered "hate music" in a) for b) tell us which of the above you hate the most...
The more professional and talented the better. An amateur may lack experience or publicity but if there's talent it may be interesting. Now barely talented or untalented? Go to the shower and sing/play there, I don't wanna hear ya, ok?
c) I like cheese. Any sort, really, so long as it came from animals and not vegetables. Do you consider "velveeta" (or equivelent) to be cheese? Edible? Something best used to adhere posters to walls? Explain, please. Feel free to elaborate at length the virtues of your favorite cheese or cheese-like-substance.
Are you talking about that usually yellow supposedly dairy substance used in cheap burgers/sandwiches? Oh, the cheap thing used as dip for chips... ? Isn't it the same thing? Well, erm, I guess you can eat the stuff occasionally, but don't call it cheese, mkay? Try those chips with real cheese and you'll notice the difference.
Elaborate? A world without cheese (young, aged, soft, hard, white, yellow, green, blue) is a very sad world indeed. Something must be done to capture the methane from the cows but keep the cheese flowing!!!
Bonus: if you like cheese, what sort of music do you like to listen to while snacking on your favorite cheese?
Any. If the music is too good I might not eat the cheese, and if the cheese is too good I might not put attention to the music...
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1. Are you scared of spiders?
Yup, big ones, I had one of those coming up my leg when I was a kid and despite no injure I still have bad vibes about it. I try to rationalize the fear and can watch them even perhaps let them in my arm, but I have to use a bit of self control for it.
2. Are you scared of any other animal? (excluding humans)
In general I'm not fond of arthropods (although I can admire their beauty) but the one that comes up to the hate & disgust (more than scared) are roaches, particularly the big ones that grow in tropical/sub tropical climates. I guess it can count as irrational fear but I really, really feel bad at the sight of one and have trouble killing them (not for lack of hate, mind you). Not sure why they disgust me so much.
3. Could you fend for yourself if left out in the wild?
Depends on 'the wild' we are talking about. As a camper in my younger days I know a trick or two but it will depend on what is available to survive.
Bonus: Do you know the difference between the Immaculate Conception and the Incarnation of Christ? (without looking it up)
Sigh, yes, I bloody do, I was raised catholic, so yeah, I know, bleah*. ::)
* I hope I'm not offending anyone, but I'm less and less fond of 'the church' nowadays, besides I wonder how many productive things I could've learn in all those catechism lessons I had as a child.
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1. What do you feel when someone answers first in this thread while you are answering?
2. Is it possible to have organized religion without it being subverted for the gain of the few?
3. Is there a practical, viable way to make politics a respectable profession?
Wow, good questions Zone!
1. What do you feel when someone answers first in this thread while you are answering?
I feel like my last piece of warm pie has just fallen on the floor.
2. Is it possible to have organized religion without it being subverted for the gain of the few?
I really don't know. It seems that organization requires rules, which in turn seems to attract people who want to bend them in their favor. Maybe the only way around this is to remain unorganized.
3. Is there a practical, viable way to make politics a respectable profession?
See above. As long as someone's in charge there will always be someone else who isn't, and wants to be, who will mess it up for those who are trying to do their work.
In both religion and politics the problem appears to arise over power struggles. So:
1) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in religion and/or politics?
2) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in the average children's play yard?
3) Can humankind play nice?
1) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in religion and/or politics?
No, see below
2) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in the average children's play yard?
No, see above
3) Can humankind play nice?
It can play, but once it is for real: No!
Because these are not very deep answers, I'll leave the questions for the next one.
1) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in religion and/or politics?
2) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in the average children's play yard?
3) Can humankind play nice?
1) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in religion and/or politics?
Not completely but perhaps control them to an exempt. If you think about it democracy (whatever that thing is) allows certain level of control that prevents the most egregious transgressions.
2) Is it possible to avoid power struggles in the average children's play yard?
Depending on how empathy is thought to them, there is a chance to minimize the worst offenses but any success will be limited by the nature of the (human) beast.
3) Can humankind play nice?
Remove the psychopaths and there is a chance of fair play.
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1. What are your thoughts on the western paradigm of beauty?
2. Do you have a particular childhood memory you want to share with us?
3. What is the dish you hated as a kid that now wouldn't live without?
1. What are your thoughts on the western paradigm of beauty?
It's ruled by status symbols, just like every other paradigm. But certain things lucky men and women have will never go out of style because it's in our biology to like women with an hourglass figure and men with certain features.
2. Do you have a particular childhood memory you want to share with us?
I was 12, and my school district does this thing where every sixth grader who wants to can go to a camp in the mountains (supposedly to teach you how to survive if you get lost up there--I hardly remember a thing).
The Sierra Nevadas are glorious and huge, and in most places there's no light pollution, and that camp was fun! I dissected an owl pellet (we found a mole skeleton), went for a long nature walk (it was early September, so plants were fruiting and it was wonderfully warm), made an obsidian arrow head, and the last night, we did astronomy. I've only ever seen a handful of other places with that many stars visible and I've always been awed by them.
3. What is the dish you hated as a kid that now wouldn't live without?
I wasn't a picky eater as kid and I think I may be more picky now than I was then. But anything involving peppers. I didn't do them as a kid, and now I eat them like apples.
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1. Was there anything you ever read that made you feel like just an over sized monkey?
2. How do you feel about disorder?
3. What's your least favorite household task (cleaning the gutters, scrubbing the toilet, etc)?
1. Was there anything you ever read that made you feel like just an over sized monkey?
Oh hell yes. The Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault, when I was 19, which I gave up on after three pages. And A Critique of Pure Reason by Kant a year earlier, which I had no choice but to read. Those two seem the worst offenders I can recall, though no doubt there are thousands of papers that helped give me that impression as well.
2. How do you feel about disorder?
I'm fine with it. Too much, of course, can be a pain at times, but too little and things become dull. Disorder allows for flux and chance and other random events and as someone who generally dislikes things staying the same for too long, I approve. Plus, its the permament state of existence of my bedroom.
3. What's your least favorite household task (cleaning the gutters, scrubbing the toilet, etc)?
Without a doubt cleaning the bathroom. The reasons it needs to be cleaned so often are exactly the reasons I dislike it.
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1. If you could be in any city in the world right now, where would it be, and why?
2. Can an omnipotent being create an object too heavy for it to lift?
3. Mushroom or tomato soup?
1. If you could be in any city in the world right now, where would it be, and why?
Probably Paris, more so this time of the year. There may be better places but I don't know them yet (I still have some traveling to do). Why? Great food (I'd do it just for the bakeries ;)), a vibrant cultural life, a language I like (and need to improve), an easy and affordable way to move around, and lots and lots of stuff to see.
2. Can an omnipotent being create an object too heavy for it to lift?
That is an interesting question, I guess you could rephrase it as can and omnipotent being in this universe go out of it to lift it? I guess that illustrates how oxymoronic the concept of omnipotency really is.
3. Mushroom or tomato soup?
Thai mushroom soup with noodles. :P
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1. Birds, love them, hate them, indifferent about them, crazy about them, making you crazy? Explain.
2. Describe the perfect computer.
3. How is your dream house?
1. Birds, love them, hate them, indifferent about them, crazy about them, making you crazy? Explain.
Birds are not my favourite animals, I don't dislike them (except pigeons :taz: ) they can be beautiful, intelligent and interesting. Magpies, ravens and small seagulls are favourites since they are very resource full and can be hilarious to watch. We always feed the small birds during the winter with all kinds of grains coconuts and stuff, now in Mars and April we have a LOUD chorus of twitter and squeaks every morning. :)
2. Describe the perfect computer.
Problem free.
No need to do updates every other day.
Easy to connect to other appliances.
Silent
If laptop all above + pretty light.
3. How is your dream house?
+5 rooms, a nice big kitchen, preferable a waterfront view (close to nature anyway), a fireplace in the living room, a conservatory would be nice. :)
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A) Lake or sea?
B) What's your plan s for Easter?
C) Do you like eggs (the real ones not the candy variety)?
I just couldn't resist.... :tjack:
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2. Describe the perfect computer.
Could not resist: HAL from 2001, except without the homicidal tendencies.
Basically, voice-operated. Faultless. Logical to a fault. Self-learning. Adapts itself to the user (not the other way 'round). Mobile. Atomic-powered (so no need to plug in or recharge). 100% full-time high-speed access to the world wide web. Self-aware enough to automatically defend itself against zombie/virus attacks. Smart enough to learn, and filter out the e-mails I don't want to see, but to answer the routine ones I
need to, but find tedious.
Learns what sort of news I like and what sort I need to hear, and filters the rest into a summary, presenting the former.
Basically, an improved, auxiliary brain...
...and while we're at it? Scratch the voice operation-- have it directly connected into my cortex. I'll just think at it, AKA the computers in L. Neil Smith's universe...
A) Lake or sea?
It depends! I love the smell of the sea, the sound of the sea, the shells, etc. I love few things more than sitting seaside and letting the environment take all my stress and iron it out like a tablecloth.
BUT
If I had to choose where to put my home (and wouldn't I love to have this choice), I would put it by a mountain lake. It would be less likely to flood, less likely to suffer from hurricanes/typhoons, less likely to be overrun by tourists in the summer. I would still be able to get the reflected sunlight and watch the waterfowl and fauna, and if it was northern enough, I might benefit from skating fun when it iced over in the wintertime.
If only my ship would come in! I'd settle for a rowboat at this point.
B) What's your plan s for Easter?
Nothing big. We used to have Mr. Ops' father over for dinner, but he is not well enough to travel these days. Maybe we'll go visit him, this time around. We'd have to invite ourselves, though- he never thinks to ask anyone over. Can be a bit awkward.
I did buy a chocolate bunny for the Opsalette, though. (Okay, and some pastel M&Ms for us big kids!)
C) Do you like eggs (the real ones not the candy variety)?
I do. I'm a dairyvegetairy and eggs supply good protien that is more challenging to find in a vegan diet. Plus, I like the way they taste. Especially in omlettes and Egg Fu Yung. And don't get me started on hard boiled. Oh, to be Paul Newman's stand-in for the egg-eating scene in Cool Hand Luke! Where's my salt shaker? Still, I don't get to eat them very often, as Mr. Ops has high cholesterol. That's probably why I am so enthusiastic about them.
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Uno) Do you celebrate any holidays that belong to religions not your own (if any)? If so- Why?
Deuce) Do you believe in luck?
Tracy Ullman) What's happening season-wise in your part of the world?
Uno) Do you celebrate any holidays that belong to religions not your own (if any)? If so- Why?
Yes. Christmas, St. Patrick's day, Easter...
MY holidays are Mole day, Pi day, Moosemas, Mungday, St. Tib's day, Festivus, etc. but the others are cultural. My family is Catholic and Catholic lite (Lutheran), so those are sort of what I was raised on.
Deuce) Do you believe in luck?
Sort of. Random chance that falls in your favor is luck.
Tracy Ullman) What's happening season-wise in your part of the world?
Spring. It's now dry, blustery and alternating between warm and cool.
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1. Favorite book series?
2. Have you had good experiences buying stuff online?
3. What's the worst that could happen?
1. Favourite Book Series
Rather un-high-brow, a typical very English detective: the Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George. It's just as good in the TV makeover series as well. Except they announced there won't be any more of those.
2. Have you had good experience buying stuff online?
Due to degrees of incapaity I buy virtually everything on line. Nearly always really excellent. Arrives quickly, good condition, no quibble exchange/refund if wrong, just what I ordered and expected. And I don't just stick to known sites either. The bad ones are so rare they really stand out.
3. What's the worst that could happen?
To me personally as oppposed to all humankind, a long slow lonely isolated painful chronically awful death. Like being unable to tell if we hit the bottom of the market before hand, it is hard to tell if it has already started but the signs aren't good at present.
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1. Why do we spare animals slow horrible death but not humans? How can anyone think that this is OK? (faith arguments excluded).
2. Why do animals relatives have no say?
3. Which country will get the most medals at the 2012 Olympics and which the most in which individual event and how much will this cost Londoners?
1. Why do we spare animals slow horrible death but not humans? How can anyone think that this is OK? (faith arguments excluded).
Because people love their animals much more intensely than they love other humans, and more significantly, they empathize with animals. People spend their whole lives carving out their own space where other people aren't allowed, both physically (my house, my yard, my car, my cubicle) and mentally (my ideas, my memories, my secrets). This isolates us, in both directions -- you have your "stuff" that you won't tell me, and I keep my thoughts about you and your stuff to myself to maintain "decorum". If I allow myself to care enough about you to advocate for your euthanasia, others hearing about it have to address the possibility of facing a similar situation, and that's too uncomfortable. It's easier for them to ignore your pain (and mine) than to accept the possibility that they will have to make a similar choice some day, so the option is legislated away. Because animals are assigned a lower value by society, it's easier to conceal the pain one goes through in deciding to euthanize a pet, and easier for others to ignore it. This allows the isolation booths of individuals to remain inviolate.
2. Why do animals relatives have no say?
They do, but only in those cases where humans have not separated them, and the humans in question care enough to look for the input from them. Even when looked for by a sensitive, caring human, it's not easy to find, or even to be sure the relative understands waht's going on. When Devil Kitty suddenly threw a blood clot (saddle thrombus) and lost use of his back legs, with accompanying extreme pain, we had to decide very quickly between unpleasant options. His sister, Little One, knew something was wrong, but in the half hour before we were ready to leave for the emergency vet (2AM, isn't it always the way), we were not able to get any sense that she knew how serious things were. We had to euthanize Devil, and it took Little One a few days to figure out that her brother wasn't going to come back, and a few weeks to stop looking for him. I wish cats could talk.
3. Which country will get the most medals at the 2012 Olympics and which the most in which individual event and how much will this cost Londoners?
Probably the USA will get the most overall. I have no idea who is good in which event so I'll guess that swimmer, Phelps, will win the most. It will end up costing Londoners way more than it's worth, and they'll be stuck with a bunch of lovely shiny new sports facilities that no one will use.
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1. What is your favorite musical instrument, and why?
2. What accomplishment are you most proud of in your life so far?
3. Have you ever experienced anything that you would classify as paranormal?
1. What is your favorite musical instrument, and why?
The French Horn. Going to school for music and spending a few years with it made the attachment stronger. I miss playing professionally, though. :(
2. What accomplishment are you most proud of in your life so far?
Mmm, after so many flops? So far the only accomplishment I can claim is the education of my son. He is 13 so I still have time to screw up.
3. Have you ever experienced anything that you would classify as paranormal?
When my son was a few months old we moved from a tiny efficiency to a real albeit small apartment. The place was nice, in a nice new building a block from my parents house (which was convenient because that's where we left my son during the day). There was something eerie about the place, there was always a baby crying during the day, the couple that collected the administration fee looked disappointed when I pointed out how pretty their apartment was, my wife was growing nervous by the day until one night, I went to the bathroom and when I opened the door of our room I found her standing on the bed in what looked like a state of trance. When I asked her what was happening I felt something wanted to get inside me (I don't know how exactly to describe the feeling). I shook it off and we left the apartment that evening. We spent 3 weeks on that place, broke the contract and after telling the owner what happened she first said that she had told a priest to give a benediction to the place quickly adding that she had done the same which each property she had (::)) and that if there was something wrong with the place she would have to sell it. And about two weeks later the place was indeed for sale.
It could have been a form of self suggestion or something and we tried not to think about it until I heard an odd tale about a year later. A colleague from my dad's school lived in the building right in front of the place and she told him that the previous week a lady that lived on the second floor of the same building was found screaming naked on top of her bed in what looked like a trance and that the police had to be called.
At this point there may be a rational explanation to the whole affair (involving an interesting number of coincidences, mind you) but I frankly have trouble dismissing the possibility of a genuine paranormal event.
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1. How skeptic do you consider yourself?
2. Do you have intuition?
3. Do you know a placebo that has an effect on you?
1. How skeptic do you consider yourself?
Sometimes verging on paranoia. The problem is that I have bouts of overcompensation for that at other times.
Generally I think I am more likely to believe negative than positive claims ("too good to be true").
I think the mot that "a cynic is a disappointed idealist" has much for it.
2. Do you have intuition?
Not very effective and I am very sceptic about it anyway.
3. Do you know a placebo that has an effect on you?
The unserious answer is that some standard components of placebos trouble my digestive system and therefore have a result of course ;)
I need some kind of lozenge when going to sleep and it's rather unimportant what it is, otherwise the acid reflux (or the thought thereof) starts too early. The fact of taking something often has an effect on me even if I have no special trust in the effectiveness of the substance.
I also don't see much of a difference whether I drink chamomile tea (no caffeine) or black tea in the morning, it#s the fact of drinking something hot that seems to count.
1) What is your favorite "non-charismatic" animal (=nothing traditionally cute etc. allowed)?
2) What do you consider the strangest word in your/the English language?
3) Commercial fishery has a catastrophic effect on the oceans but without it many humans would die of hunger (and fish is very healthy if kept free of pollution). What do you think about that dilemma and does it influence you own consumer choices?
Warning: Fish farms consume caught wild fish. 1 ton of farmed fish requires 4-5 tons of wild fish as input.
1) What is your favorite "non-charismatic" animal (=nothing traditionally cute etc. allowed)?
Awww, do I have to pick just one? Lung fish and Greenland sharks, if not. I got really, really excited when they had them at the Baltimore aquarium a couple years ago.
2) What do you consider the strangest word in your/the English language?
"Awkward"
3) Commercial fishery has a catastrophic effect on the oceans but without it many humans would die of hunger (and fish is very healthy if kept free of pollution). What do you think about that dilemma and does it influence you own consumer choices?
Warning: Fish farms consume caught wild fish. 1 ton of farmed fish requires 4-5 tons of wild fish as input.
I don't eat fish (being vegetarian and all) so no, it doesn't influence my choices. But it's a very serious dilemma. I think if we stopped destroying the seabed with trawlers (I think it's trawlers that do that), we'd have less of a problem.
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1. Do you celebrate pi day?
2. Do you plan to buy the next Discworld book when it comes out?
3. How do you feel about the word "moist"?
1. Do you celebrate pi day?
I would, if I knew what day it was supposed to be on. What would one do, by the way? Eat a circular pie for dinner?
Or, perhaps, play this video 100 times before bed?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU)
[youtube=425,350]Mfr7xG6smhU[/youtube]
2. Do you plan to buy the next Discworld book when it comes out?
Absofrikkinlutely. And on the Kindle format, too..... what else? ;D
3. How do you feel about the word "moist"?
Well.... every time I hear the word.....I have this yen to go look at my collection of prawn photos, for some strange reason....
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01) Some people consider that the internet was the Beginning Of The End. However, in a recent study, it's been shown that people who routinely surf the web have noticeably more frontal brain activity than people who do not, given similar activities.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228325/internet-boosts-brain-power (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228325/internet-boosts-brain-power)
What is your opinion of the WWW?
10) Caffeine, delivered in the form of coffee or tea is likely the most imbibed drug by humans, even surpassing alcohol as far as I can tell.
World coffee production: 7,742,675 metric tonnes annually (2007, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee) )
World tea production: 3,550,194 metric tonnes annually (2005, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea) ) an article which also claims tea-drinking is only surpassed by water, world-wide. But they do not verify that statement.
Are you in the majority or minority, when it comes to a daily dose of caffeine? Care to elaborate?
11) Some folk correctly point out, that without cheap single-person computers, the internet (good or bad) would likely never have happened-- in spite of Al Gore's increased funding efforts. :mrgreen:
Some philosophers see the internet as merely an emergent property of readily available computing power, and that the real Major Cultural Shift is in cheap computers and cheap computing power.
It has become so incredibly cheap, that formerly simple appliances now sport computers inside, to increase their effectiveness (computer-powerd toaster, makes perfect toast is but one example).
Cheap hand calculators have effectively hamstrung ordinary humans' ability to do simple arithmetic -- why learn multiplication tables, when a cheap calculator does it faster and more accurate?
Do you think the widespread availability of cheap and powerful electronic "calculating engines" will eventually have a similar effect on people's memories? Why memorize facts, when the answer is just a few keystrokes away...
Thoughts?
I will only go for the last part of the last question: That battle was lost with the arrival of the art of writing some time ago (Platon discussed it in his Phaidros/Phaedrus dialogue btw). Traditional* analphabeths usually have a far better** memory.
*as opposed to the modern 'functional illiterates' that simply see no need in this reading stuff
**= better trained
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I will only go for the last part of the last question: That battle was lost with the arrival of the art of writing some time ago (Platon discussed it in his Phaidros/Phaedrus dialogue btw). Traditional* analphabeths usually have a far better** memory.
*as opposed to the modern 'functional illiterates' that simply see no need in this reading stuff
**= better trained
Watch the PI video? I like the harmonies within the chorus, myself. And I freely admit I cannot understand some of the regular verse....but I
like the chorus.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 27, 2009, 03:27:31 AM
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 26, 2009, 09:10:10 AM
I will only go for the last part of the last question: That battle was lost with the arrival of the art of writing some time ago (Platon discussed it in his Phaidros/Phaedrus dialogue btw). Traditional* analphabeths usually have a far better** memory.
*as opposed to the modern 'functional illiterates' that simply see no need in this reading stuff
**= better trained
Watch the PI video? I like the harmonies within the chorus, myself. And I freely admit I cannot understand some of the regular verse....but I like the chorus.
I downloaded that the first time it appeared on the forum. But where is the connection to illiteracy? I also love orthodox chant despite not speaking Russian (not to speak of ancient Bulgarian). Some of the older pieces sound
really weird (and extremly modern, not your cliche medieval).
Enough of this chit chat !! Let's get back to the real business of this thread.
01) Some people consider that the internet was the Beginning Of The End. However, in a recent study, it's been shown that people who routinely surf the web have noticeably more frontal brain activity than people who do not, given similar activities.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228325/internet-boosts-brain-power
What is your opinion of the WWW?
The WWW is system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet so I am unsure whether the answer to this question needs to distinguish between the WWW and the Internet. ;) ;) However, my opinion is the same for both. ;D
There's no doubt in my mind that they keep the brain active. For example, while writing this post, I have to think. Whether the research mentioned is meaningful I have no idea. There may be all sorts of reasons why frontal lobe brain activity is differrent in the two groups mentioned and the Alzheimer's Society doesn't seem to rate it.
My opinion otherwise? Cannot imagine life without it. No idea how I survived before !!
10) Caffeine, delivered in the form of coffee or tea is likely the most imbibed drug by humans, even surpassing alcohol as far as I can tell.
World coffee production: 7,742,675 metric tonnes annually (2007, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee )
World tea production: 3,550,194 metric tonnes annually (2005, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea ) an article which also claims tea-drinking is only surpassed by water, world-wide. But they do not verify that statement.
Are you in the majority or minority, when it comes to a daily dose of caffeine? Care to elaborate?
I used to be a high level coffee drinker. Since my racing heart diagnosis I restrict it to one cup first thing, then only drink decaffeinated coffee for the rest of the day/evening, having been told how much caffeine increases speed of heartbeats and warned off it. Sometimes I don't even have the one cup first thing. I do drink several cups of decaffeinated a day. I haven't actually noticed any difference from when I drank lots of caffeine which puzzles me somewhat given all the hype.
11) Some folk correctly point out, that without cheap single-person computers, the internet (good or bad) would likely never have happened-- in spite of Al Gore's increased funding efforts.
Some philosophers see the internet as merely an emergent property of readily available computing power, and that the real Major Cultural Shift is in cheap computers and cheap computing power.
It has become so incredibly cheap, that formerly simple appliances now sport computers inside, to increase their effectiveness (computer-powerd toaster, makes perfect toast is but one example).
Cheap hand calculators have effectively hamstrung ordinary humans' ability to do simple arithmetic -- why learn multiplication tables, when a cheap calculator does it faster and more accurate?
Do you think the widespread availability of cheap and powerful electronic "calculating engines" will eventually have a similar effect on people's memories? Why memorize facts, when the answer is just a few keystrokes away...
Thoughts?
I would say it has already had an effect on memory, but not necessarily on remembering fewer facts, just on what sort of facts are memorised. For example, our schools seems to teach totally different stuff to when I was at school. No longer can I quote some every day Dickensian phrase and expect people to know what the hell I am talking about...... Whether the old facts were more vital then the new facts in terms of survival when our society falls apart which it will at some point for some reason, remains to be seen. :(
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1. How do you store your socks?
2. What do you do when you have nothing to do?
3. Do you think recycling works?
1. How do you store your socks?
In a drawer
2. What do you do when you have nothing to do?
Read
3. Do you think recycling works?
I think it is a valuable tool in getting people to think about the environment, and used to doing something to cover their part. Recycling itself is not especially effective on the grand scale at the moment, but as the technology becomes better and more cost-effective (letting more organisations be more involved in the process) it will become so. Basically, I see it as a big step in the right direction, but one that can't stand on it's own. It needs to be taken as a part of a much larger process, otherwise it will just be a sop to the conscience.
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1. What's your favourite time of day?
2. What's your favourite time of year?
3. What are your feelings about the Angora Rabbit?
1. What's your favourite time of day?
You can't make me pick one! Sunrise and sunset. There's fifteen minutes in each that are absolute perfection.
2. What's your favourite time of year?
Spring.
3. What are your feelings about the Angora Rabbit?
I kind of want one.
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23. What is the occult connection?
42. Do you prefer words or images as a medium?
5. Who is your favorite pope?
23. What is the occult connection?
Burroughing into it. Will soon sheae the truth!
42. Do you prefer words or images as a medium?The Total Perspective Vortex is not text based to my knowledge.
I think it is highly depending on the context. There's a lot that cannot be properly/prcatically described with words (e.g. complex machinery) while anything abstract usually defies depiction. Words and images have to support each other.
5. Who is your favorite pope?
John Paul I.
He went too early (although the murder hypothesis is likely wrong. But possibly he died just in time of natural courses to avoid being murdered)
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a) What is the latest dream you can remember?
b) Under what circumstances would you consider violence to be justified (with you as the committer)?
c) Up to what degree do ways justify means for you and in general?
Edit: I just want to say that questions b+c have no connection to the Tiller murder and were typed before I became aware of it.
a) What is the latest dream you can remember?
A dream from last night about the kids in a family my family used to partly spend our vacations together with... I ended up searching the net for all three of them, they appear to have done well in life :)
b) Under what circumstances would you consider violence to be justified (with you as the committer)?
An immediate threat to my life or someone dear to me (good or bad, that would include the family dog/pet...) I guess a threat to someone totally defenceless like a small child would trigger me too but in other cases I would hopefully remain clear headed enough to call for reinforcements instead.
c) Up to what degree do ways justify means for you and in general?
To a rather small degree, but as usual it all comes down to context.
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1) Have you ever felt paralysed by fear?
2) What did/would trigger such a reaction in you?
3) What common (common mean that ape brain and cats/dogs/rats et al doesn't count for us westerners) food item won't you touch with a 10ft pole?
1) Have you ever felt paralysed by fear?
Never that I recall. I tend to go into "mental overdrive" when under extreme stress (aka emergency situation). That is, time appears to slow to the point I can think a bit about each single action I'm about to do.
2) What did/would trigger such a reaction in you?
President Cheney. (no, seriously.... Canada, here I come...)
3) What common (common mean that ape brain and cats/dogs/rats et al doesn't count for us westerners) food item won't you touch with a 10ft pole?
Freshwater fish. I break out in serious hives, and have trouble breathing.... so you can easily see why.
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Small) If you're eating to treat yourself, or to celebrate, do you go out to a commercial place (fast-food, restaurant, etc) or do you purchase premium ingredients and prepare it yourself?
Medium) If you partake of animal proteins, which species is your favorite? If not, what's your favorite non-animal protein?
Large) If you're eating out, and you go ahead and order that over-the-top dessert, do you, as a sop to your conscience, order a Diet soda as well?
Family Size) Bonus-- if you like to eat steak*, how best to cook it? Raw? Sorta raw? Medium-rare? Medium? Medium with burnt-bits? Burnt? Feel free to wax lyrical on your favorite method(s) of preparation. (*or, feel free to subsitute your protein of choice, and how it is Best Prepared. Yes-- with capitol letters. )
Small) If you're eating to treat yourself, or to celebrate, do you go out to a commercial place (fast-food, restaurant, etc) or do you purchase premium ingredients and prepare it yourself?
We definitely prepare our own goodies. Way better than you can get in the restaurants around here, and less expensive. We also accompany the meal with our own homemade wine (17%-21% aclcohol!), which is way yummy too, and avoid having to drive home drunk, or the crisis of not having enough wine with dinner (assuming we decide to drive home less than tipsy).
Medium) If you partake of animal proteins, which species is your favorite? If not, what's your favorite non-animal protein?
We gravitate towards salmon, but that's mostly because my wife won't eat anything that had fur on it at any time during its existence. I have a disproportionate and somewhat overwhelming urge to consume all the pepperoni pizza (with mushrooms) on the planet.
Large) If you're eating out, and you go ahead and order that over-the-top dessert, do you, as a sop to your conscience, order a Diet soda as well?
I haven't had a soda in years. I hate the stuff. If I'm having a fancy-schmancy dessert in a nice eatery, I'll have a delicious black coffee with it. The dessert will either be pecan pie, or it will have a nearly lethal amount of chocolate.
Family Size) Bonus-- if you like to eat steak*, how best to cook it? Raw? Sorta raw? Medium-rare? Medium? Medium with burnt-bits? Burnt? Feel free to wax lyrical on your favorite method(s) of preparation. (*or, feel free to subsitute your protein of choice, and how it is Best Prepared. Yes-- with capitol letters. )
Broiled salmon fillets. Take a nice half-pound fillet, remove the skin, smother it with Lea & Perrins Chipotle Tabasco sauce, shake on a healthy amount of black pepper, refrigerate for a couple of hours. Prepare some stir-fried veggies - garlic, onion, mushroom, peapods, etc. - and some brown rice. Broil the salmon on high until its fragrance is strong enough to tell you it's done (this will vary by the individual, I use The Force). Serve the veggies on top of the rice, salmon to the side, and have a bowl of chilled pineaple chunks on the table. We have just about polished off the last of the Barolo (four cases - egad!), but it went particularly well with this dish. If you prefer white wine, a Vouvray or a Muscadet will also compliment it quite nicely.
What makes you pull over to the side of the road? (Something you see, not making a phone call or running out of gas)
What is your Most Fun Thing that you do?
Why have you chosen to live in the house/town/country where you live?
What makes you pull over to the side of the road? (Something you see, not making a phone call or running out of gas)
Neat rock formations, interesting plants, a lovely little glen, a gorgeous sunset, a perfect nightsky, a fantastic storm.
What is your Most Fun Thing that you do?
Keep busy, actually. For someone so lazy, it's been novel to stay busy instead of lounging around. Reading, forums, writing, hanging out with friends, working, etc.
Why have you chosen to live in the house/town/country where you live?
I didn't, actually. I was moved here as a little girl and I haven't managed to leave yet. But if I were to say why I'm glad I live here (it does have its good points) it would be the access to fresh produce right out of the field, the mild winters (I don't miss snow), that I can be at the beach in four hours or the mountains in two. Yosemite is in my backyard, plus I have even better parks just as near by (if you ever end up around here, I'll take you to Kings Canyon NP, which is prettier than Yosemite). The Bay area is a couple hours away, and LA is a few more. Even major act preforms within six hours of my location from Depche Mode to minor names in every genre.
Are you a pirate?
Do you use net speak IRL? ;)
Do you bake? If you do, what's your favorite thing to make?
Are you a pirate?
I have my days, matey, but me boat is impounded and me dobloons are buried far away to buy a new one.
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Do you use net speak IRL? Wink
R u c-rius? Rly? LOL
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I may use some contractions while texting but I try to control myself.
Do you bake? If you do, what's your favorite thing to make?
Bread cake, in fact I should make one!
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1. Which composer was crazier? (excluding Mussorgsky's delirium tremens, and Schumann's sickness).
2. Which painter was saner?
3. Which politician would classify as a necessary evil?
1. Which composer was crazier? (excluding Mussorgsky's delirium tremens, and Schumann's sickness).
Scriabin would be an option. He could have made a career in Hollywood or Vegas with effect shows (he proposed but where not yet techn(olog)ically feasible)
If megalomania counts, then Wagner and Mahler would qualify.
2. Which painter was saner?
M.C.Escher. Don't get fooled by his crazy pictures.
OK, strictly spoken he was not a painter but a printer
3. Which politician would classify as a necessary evil?
In the US? SecDef Gates comes to mind.
Over here Merkel is not doing much but that is better than most alternatives at the moment.
Putin is not a pleasant guy to say the least but he seems to be the most sane, capable and pragmatic ruler Russia had for some time (Gorbachev was nice but ineffective).
The GOP leadership qualifies as evil and laughably incompetent. If that is necessary to keep even such a bunch of spineless whimps like the Dems in power, then we might be grateful for their existence. Imagine, if the GOP was run by Putin instead of Boss Limbaugh... :scared:
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1) Why, in your opinion, did Sarah Palin resign at the time and in the way she did?
2) When do you get up in the morning and when do you go to sleep (weekdays/weekend)?
3) What do you think about zoophilia?
1) Why, in your opinion, did Sarah Palin resign at the time and in the way she did?
Didn't like the way things are going with Iran? Needed to spend time looking for new lipsticks? Seriously, how the hell can anyone know since she is an idiot. Over here it is touted as due to running for President in 2012 but since she didn't resign to do that last time it sort of rings hollow, if not stupid.
2) When do you get up in the morning and when do you go to sleep (weekdays/weekend)?
Between 11 am and 14:00. I'm not sure it could be called getting up as I go straight back to bed again. Sleep? Between 11am and 2 am. but most often between 11 pm and 2 am. Yes, I am compromised on the sleep front. So what's new? Well, 11 pm to 2 am is fairly new and no telling if it will last or whether I'll be back to 5 am to 6 or 7 am. soon. I could write a book on this.
3) What do you think about zoophilia?
I find it very tiring. ;D
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1. Describe in detail how you like your steak cooked (veggies/vegans substitute beans) and why.
2. List all the things you do when naked.
3. What's your attitude to bungee jumping and why.
1. Describe in detail how you like your steak cooked (veggies/vegans substitute beans) and why.
Well seasoned with pepper, adobo, beer and salt, to a medium rare, ideally on a grill.
2. List all the things you do when naked.
Loong list:
Sleep, walk, run (in the thread mill), sit in front to the computer, cook, clean, read, play the piano/recorder/horn, draw, fix/upgrade/tweak my computer, watch movies, eat breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack, shower, play solitaire, talk on the phone, chat, post in the NETIC, Oh and almost forgot: sex.
3. What's your attitude to bungee jumping and why.
One of secret fascination, it's one of those things that aren't advisable with my back (or weight) but that I would likely do if I could without ill effects.
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1. Are rollercoasters evil or the best invention ever?
2. When did you learn to eat spicy foods and how much can you take?
3. Is it all about money?
1. Are rollercoasters evil or the best invention ever?
Where's the contradiction? ;)
1. Are rollercoasters evil or the best invention ever?
Evil.
But then I don't really get amused by amusement parks. Too loud (my tinnitus goes ballistic). too expensive and too crowded for my taste.
2. When did you learn to eat spicy foods and how much can you take?
I always liked spices, I can't live with out my garlic, I blame my mother she's a garlicoholic and I got my addiction in the womb! ;D I learned to appreciate Chilli in the mid '90's when we started to get other kinds of Chilli pepper in our shops than just "Spanish Pepper" grown in the Netherlands. ::)
I still love hot food and Habanero is my favourite but due to medication I can't stand as much as used to. :(
But I still need an occasional fix especially when we have a heatwave, if it isn't spicy I simply won't eat it if it's over 25 °C outside. "Oooh it burns, damn that was tasty... More!" to quote myself when Lindorm made Butter nut and chicken curry seasoned with a healthy amount of habanero sauce last week. ;D
3. Is it all about money?
No it isn't. But not having to worry about how to pay the rent/mortgage put food on the table makes life a lot easier. I guess it's a balance act.
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1) Do you find amusement parks amusing?
2) Favourite spice?
3) a)If you had to either go camping for 2 weeks straight or spend the same amount of time sailing (in a smaller boat with 3-4 bunks) what would you chose?
3)b) Who would you bring (1-3 persons)?
1) Do you find amusement parks amusing?
I primarily find them expensive these days. Also I get old (36) and have no kids demanding visits, so I am not going there (and there is none wortwhile in the vicinity). LEGOland, I'd probably find interesting.
2) Favourite spice?
I usually only use simple pepper, am no expert and therefore have no preference that I could put a name on. I am more towards the sour/bitter end. The sweet stuff used for poultry these days are not to my taste.
3) a)If you had to either go camping for 2 weeks straight or spend the same amount of time sailing (in a smaller boat with 3-4 bunks) what would you chose?
3)b) Who would you bring (1-3 persons)?
Never been a camper but sailing I'd not be totally opposed to( ;)), provided someone is present who knows how to handle the boat. My practical experience is limited to rowing a boat out for fishing (i.e. not one of those floating abominations for professional speed rowing).
That would be person #1. If I had a relationship that would be there too (preferably plus the partner of the person handling the boat).
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1) Where do you go/travel/etc. for holiday (provided you have such a thing and can afford it)?
2) How is your relationship with your close relatives? (see also 3.)
3) Is your family widespread or is (almost) everyone living in a single area?
1) Where do you go/travel/etc. for holiday (provided you have such a thing and can afford it)?
Wherever the fancy takes me. Sometimes it's just a quiet weekend away, sometimes a longer time. For the longer holidays, usually someplace warm. Loving Gibraltar and Turkey at the moment.
2) How is your relationship with your close relatives? (see also 3.)
We are a very close family, and love our get-togethers.
3) Is your family widespread or is (almost) everyone living in a single area?
Some of my family live in Glagow, but there are some others in Dundee, quite a few extended family in Australia, my brother lives in London, my parents are in Turkey and I'm in Belfast.
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1. Do you have many acquantances or a few good friends?
2. Do you have a regular routine?
3. Given a free choice, what city would you live in?
1. Do you have many acquantances or a few good friends?
I have many people with whom I interact on a regular basis - loads on the internet, quite a few at work, others around the neighborhood. I have less than ten - probably less than five - that I would consider good friends in Real Life. If I expand that category to include pals-type friends, the number goes up to something like twenty. I'm a bit of a hermit.
2. Do you have a regular routine?
Oh yeah. The first hour of every day is autopilot all the way - shovel the litterboxes, change the water bowls, feed the cats, clean up, check the meds list.
3. Given a free choice, what city would you live in?
I would never live in a city again if I had any choice at all. Currently we live in a mostly rural town, populatiion around 3500. The town covers around 55 square miles. The city we moved from was about 6 square miles and over 47,000 population. I still feel like I need to get away from the crowd. If money was no object, I'd move up to one of the unorganized townships in my work territory.
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1. What musical instrument(s) do you play, and what kind of music?
2. What sports do you play (or did you play before your body gave out on you)?
3. How do you heat your home - oil, gas, wood, or coal, and why that particular fuel?
1. What musical instrument(s) do you play, and what kind of music?
French horn close to a professional level (which is what I studied in school), recorder (which is quicker to pull out), and sung professionally for a while, all classical music. I can bang and make noise with a piano but wouldn't call that 'playing' and I can do chords in a guitar (party guitar, very different from classical guitar which BTW is one if not the most hard instrument to play).
2. What sports do you play (or did you play before your body gave out on you)?
Ping-pong? I gave up other sports way before my body did.
3. How do you heat your home - oil, gas, wood, or coal, and why that particular fuel?
With the sun. In fact I have a problem with that, it can't be dialed down so I have to waste energy for almost 10 months a year cooling it. There hasn't been a winter cold enough to turn on the heat (did I mentioned I live in Florida?).
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1. Are you capable with the pencil or the brush?
2. What would you build if you had the budget?
3. Who do you miss from highschool?
1. What musical instrument(s) do you play, and what kind of music?
I did play the recorder, although I never learned it properly (1 # or b max)
I used to compose a bit (utilizing the computer as an ersatz instrument)
2. What sports do you play (or did you play before your body gave out on you)?
No sports, least of all team sports (left the gymnastics club decades ago*)
3. How do you heat your home - oil, gas, wood, or coal, and why that particular fuel?
District heating. I can see the plant from my window or at least the cloud of the cooling tower
1. Are you capable with the pencil or the brush?
A bit with the pencil, not at all with the brush
2. What would you build if you had the budget?
Something slightly fortified in Norway maybe
3. Who do you miss from highschool?
The girl I fell in love with (not mutual) who married someone else and died of cancer 9 years ago.
*OK, just two decades
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1) What was the highest/lowest temperature where you live this year?
2) Do you often fly and do you like that or not?
3) How much do you know about your family history/ancestry?
1) What was the highest/lowest temperature where you live this year?
I think it hit 90 or 91 F last August, this summer has only cracked maybe 87 or so once. Last winter (and pretty much every winter) we got down around -20F -- at the ofice there were two mornings at -36F :o
2) Do you often fly and do you like that or not?
I haven't flown since 1984, and I have no desire to. I used to live near Logan Airport, and talked to several mechanics who worked on the planes there. Too many horror stories.
3) How much do you know about your family history/ancestry?
I know a bunch of random entries, and have tons of information that I can look up. On my father's side, the genealogy has been assembled back to shortly before the Battle of Hastings. On my mother's side it's not quite so complete, but still has been done back to around 500 years ago. I have reams of stuff on it.
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1. How well do you like your job?
2. How well do you know your neighbors?
3. How is the economic downturn affecting your lifestyle?
1. How well do you like your job?
I hate it. It's gotten better with the new manager and the company figured a few things out (the cut throat competition is gone), but it's still a sloppy company and the DM is a slimeball. I feel the need to take a shower after I talk to him.
2. How well do you know your neighbors?
Not very well at all. One set, we like a lot - my sister has baby sat for them and they give us their extra tomatoes. But that's it. It's not a community here so much as people who happen to live next to each other. *shrug* It's the way it is, and no one seems interested in changing that.
3. How is the economic downturn affecting your lifestyle?
It's not. I make more money now than I did at my old job, even before September. I've made more in the last two and half months than the previous six months combined.
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1. Have you ever used a proxy?
2. What's your favorite flower/plant?
3. Do you ever watch Judge Judy style shows?
1. Have you ever used a proxy?
Formally, no.
2. What's your favorite flower/plant?
Sheer Bliss (http://www.rose-gardening-made-easy.com/images/sheer2.jpg) tea roses. So lovely
3. Do you ever watch Judge Judy style shows?
Ewww. I don't have enough schadenfruede to watch them.
Mom does, though... ;)
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1.What age-, gender-, or taste-inappropriate 'collectible' do you hoard?
2. What appeals to you about it?
3. Have you ever (or would you ever) throw out a collection if it raised a sneer on the lovely lips of your loved one?
1.What age-, gender-, or taste-inappropriate 'collectible' do you hoard?
I suppose all the screws, nails, bits of wire, cables, computer hardware components, etc are not particulalry gender appropriate in that none of my RL female friends seem to horde anything remotely like it.
2. What appeals to you about it?
I can "fix" anything. Theoretically. In practice, I can fix somethings sometimes, but not all all things everytime. I do get a rush of "I'm brilliant" when I do manage to fix something with stuff I've horded so I suppose there's some benefit but the amount of space it all takes up is probably not worth the candle.
3. Have you ever (or would you ever) throw out a collection if it raised a sneer on the lovely lips of your loved one?
No, unless you count me as my loved one...... and then the sneer would be about space/usefulness as at 2. above.
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[1] What's the last thing you would like to do before you depart this earthly life?
[2] What would be your selection for Desert Island Discs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr)?
[3] What would you like to invent?
> [1] What's the last thing you would like to do before you depart this earthly life?
Regenerate. You don't want to know my second choice.
> What would be your selection for Desert Island Discs?
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Pet Shop Boys - Home and Dry
Brahms - A German Requiem (for all flesh is like grass)
Dvorak - From the New World (Largo)
Neil Young - Words
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Some days Thomas Tallis would knock out the Dvorak.
> [3] What would you like to invent?
A time machine
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1 What would be your choice for Desert Island Discs?
2 Who would you rather be, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes?
3 Would you want Dr Watson as your GP? (MD?)
1 What would be your choice for Desert Island Discs?
1. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 ~ Sviatoslav Richter, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki, and Wiener Symphoniker - two (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rachmaninov-Piano-Concerto-No-2-Tchaikovsky/dp/B000001GQD/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1248824780&sr=1-5) for the price of one tee hee
2. Gideon's Daughter/Friends and Crocodiles. (soundtrack) ~ Adrian Johnston
3. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls ~ Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
4. Don Giovanni ~ Mozart
5. Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance
6. Elvis Presley ~ The 50 Greatest Hits
2 Who would you rather be, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes?
Miss Marple - can't stand Poirot and Holmes always seems a bit dodgy.
3 Would you want Dr Watson as your GP? (MD?)
Possibly not, unless Holmes was actually doing the diagnosing.
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1. If you had to take a three day train journey, which countries would you go through, what food would you take, and what else would you consider vital to take.
2. Where/When would you go in a time machine.
3. What do you consider the most desirable characteristics in a workmate?
1. If you had to take a three day train journey, which countries would you go through, what food would you take, and what else would you consider vital to take.
If you start from where I actually live, the only other country I could get to on a three day trip is Mexico. I don't want to go to Mexico, really. On the other hand, if I lived in a place that had little countries all jammed together like Europe, I'd probably go to Greece, Hungary, and the Crimean (yes, I know, not an actual country). I LOVE Greek food, so no worries there, other than the meat bit (I don't know how I fix that - I would rather not be sick for the rest of the trip just because I had a bit of lamb) and I'm sure I can find other delicious things on the way, so I'm not sure I would actually need to bring food with me.
A camera, my eReader, my mp3, the contents of my wallet (credit card, passport, etc.), and my phone. I think that's all I would require.
2. Where/When would you go in a time machine.
Oh god. EVERYWHERE. I'd go bother interesting figures of all different times. And then, I would pull a Bill and Ted and bring several dozen to the present and unleash them on a mall. Or Hollywood. Or DC. I can totally picture Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun teaming up to chase secret service people through Washington DC.
3. What do you consider the most desirable characteristics in a workmate?
Honesty, professionalism, friendliness, intelligence.
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1. What's your favorite way to cook eggs?
2. What's your favorite fruit?
3. What super hero ability (flight, x-ray vision, etc.) would you have if you could.
1. What's your favorite way to cook eggs?
Scrambled, with smoked salmon and pepper.
2. What's your favorite fruit?
Currently, raspberries. but that will change, it always does...
3. What super hero ability (flight, x-ray vision, etc.) would you have if you could.
Flight. That would be awesome. Imagine being able to fly over herds of wildebeest, and them just behaving as they should, not wondering what the noisy metal box with the funny feet was.
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1.Walnuts. Do you approve?
2.What is your favourite historical period?
3 Why?
1.Walnuts. Do you approve?
-Yes I do and very much so with honey and chevre cheese ;D
2.What is your favourite historical period?
My inner archaeologist loves the "Vendel era" (550-793) and "Viking era" (790-1100), I love the Medieval and Renaissance eras for the art, architecture, clothes and craft in general, I can go on like that forever... no real favourite
3 Why?
It depends on what I'm interested of at the moment, there are golden nuggets everywhere!
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1) Favourite type of tree
2) Goat cheese, :meal: or :hide: ?
3) What is the oddest cheese you have ever tried?
1) Favourite type of tree
Oak. Hardy. Drought-tolerant. Long-lived. Has a deep taproot, instead of shallow, all-over-the-yard and into the sewerlines. Leaves rarely fall in a huge bunch, creating yardwork. Hard wood, useful for woodworking. Burns cleanly, too. Even produces acorns, which with suitable prep, can be made into food.
2) Goat cheese, :meal: or :hide: ?
Mmmmm. Although I must admit I've only had semisoft creamy type of goat cheese.
3) What is the oddest cheese you have ever tried?
Aged harvarti. *sigh* Okay, so this is Oklahomer, where sharp cheddar is considered "exotic"... ::)
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1) favorite style of pizza; list toppings and describe crust.
2) favorite seafood; anything goes, here-- price is no object. :)
3) When you sit to relax, is it in the same chair? Sofa? Bed? Hammock? Describe this contrivance. Inquiring minds want to know.
1) favorite style of pizza; list toppings and describe crust.
MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm pizza. I luuuuuuuurrrves pizza. Double garlic with black olives, pepperoni with mushrooms, Hawaiian, Fonzo's Special (pepperoni, ham, sausage, hamburger, green peppers, onions, mushrooms). Extra cheese, garlic white (sans tomate), green pepper and onion. The crust must be chewy, not crunchy, but it doesn't have to be super thick. To render pizza edible requires treatment with hot peppers. I usually just use the crushed red pepper from the "ordinary" spice department, but in hot weather, when I have a sufficient supply of beer (minimum one beer per slice), I'll occasionally break out the thermonuclear habaneros. These things are monitored by the UN and NATO. Mongo like.
2) favorite seafood; anything goes, here-- price is no object.
I'm kinda boring here, I'm afraid. I grew up right next to the Atlantic, seafood is not even almost exotic. I like swordfish steaks on the grill. If you want to include all fishies, I might switch over to broiled salmon fillets marinated in chipotle sauce. Yum.
3) When you sit to relax, is it in the same chair? Sofa? Bed? Hammock? Describe this contrivance. Inquiring minds want to know.
What is this "relax" you speak of?
I get five or ten minutes of actual sit-and-relax after dinner, but most of my sitting is not very physically relaxing. after dinner I sit in a bar-height chair, with my feet up on the counter extension, for a few minutes. Other than that, if I'm sitting, I'm usually doing something - like right now I'm attempting to type stuff into the magic box without too many typos.
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1. What is your favorite non-alcoholic beverage?
2. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
3. Swimming?
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Earthling:
In the On The Beach section there is a food and cooking area with a special thread dedicated to cooking with Chilli if you want to check that out. :)
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1. What is your favorite non-alcoholic beverage?
Lulo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulo) juice. If you find a Colombian (or perhaps Ecuadorean) restaurant ask for it.
2. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Wine. More specific you say? Good wine.
Also a shot of Havana Club Añejo.
3. Swimming?
With fins in a reef. I wish I could do it more often.
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1. When was the last time you got drunk?
2. Was worth the hangover?
3. Do you have a teenage mishap worth telling?
1. When was the last time you got drunk?
Probably about 18 months ago, although not the totally head spinning degree, more like just the very silly stage.
2. Was worth the hangover?
Yes. I was able to speak French perfectly !!! :o
3. Do you have a teenage mishap worth telling?
No. But I have some adult ones !
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1. Would you trust anyone with your life (apart from medics, fire service etc)?
2. What three objects would you take with you to the moon?
3. If you had to be someone else, who would it be?
1. Would you trust anyone with your life (apart from medics, fire service etc)?
Yup, I have a few friends who served in combat with various branches of the US military, and I'd trust any of them with my life - even Tom L., who I really only know from work. Those guys do not mess around with anything that's even moderately serious. I'd like to think I could trust my brothers, but they're both fairly inept. I'd trust their intentions, but not their abilities. I'd trust my brother in law, my cousin (well, he is a trauma surgeon after all, maybe he doesn't count), my friend Patty the Forester .... ummm, can't think of anyone else. My wife is too panicky, sad to say. :(
2. What three objects would you take with you to the moon?
A really good telescope (talk about no interference!!!), a bunch of bacteria to leave behind, and a guitar. gotta have my guitar.
3. If you had to be someone else, who would it be?
I would probably choose some really great guitarist whose name starts with "S". Segovia, Satriani, Santana ...
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1. If you knew you were going to die, where would you go to do it?
2. Do you think you are in good physical condition for your age?
3. Have you ever put yourself in physical danger to help another, either human or nonhuman?
1. If you knew you were going to die, where would you go to do it?
I assume you mean that I knew I was going to die soon, since I'm going to die eventually. ;) Also, I assume you mean what I would do before that as well.
Let's assume I have a month: I would go up the mountains and spend a couple days wandering around there. I'd blow my savings on a trip to the Caribbean or something and spend days and days swimming and shopping and loving every last minute. And then I'd go home that last week or so to my family and spend those last hours with them.
2. Do you think you are in good physical condition for your age?
I'm kind of out of shape, but I have a stellar immune system so that helps? Also, I'm going to be rectifying the out of shape bit soon. :)
3. Have you ever put yourself in physical danger to help another, either human or nonhuman?
Um, I live a safe life, physically speaking, but I did save my sister from getting stuck under a huge raft in a pool one time.
1. Can you find me a tutorial on making balloon animals?
2. What's your favorite radio station (internet or otherwise)?
3. What was your first (paid) job?
1. Can you find me a tutorial on making balloon animals?
I think that art is passed only from master to pupil.
2. What's your favorite radio station (internet or otherwise)?
It was RIAS Berlin but did not really survive the fall of the GDR (it was zombified later)
3. What was your first (paid) job?
A mandatory industrial internship during my chemistry studies.
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1. Be honest, what are your personal racial prejudices?
2. Is this cartoon racist (and does it actually matter)?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfGvptL_TY
3. How many stanzas of your national anthem can you quote from memory?
1. Be honest, what are your personal racial prejudices?
I don't feel I have a particular racial prejudice as much as cultural prejudice. For instance, I do have a very negative perception about white southerners specifically linked to their accents. I know that in all likelihood only a minority exhibit the negative traits I associate with them, and in consequence I have to tell myself that I isn't fair to judge a person by his/her accent, but it is a conscious effort.
2. Is this cartoon racist (and does it actually matter)?
It might have one or two questionable elements at the beginning but it seems very minor. Racism in cartoons may matter depending on how it can perpetuate negative stereotypes.
3. How many stanzas of your national anthem can you quote from memory?
Just the one. There was a time when I knew two or three more but I forgot them due to lack of use.
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1. How important is patriotism to you?
2. Is there any particular prejudice you have against any particular group of people. How do you manage it?
3. What do you usually do with your evenings?
1. How important is patriotism to you?
Depends how you define patriotism. I don't go for the "My country, right or wrong", but am proud of my Scottish heritage, and of the fact that I am British. I also recognise that we did and do many things badly, or that I consider wrong. I am glad of the fact that we can remove our politicians without having to resort to coups, and that our military doesn't run our country.
2. Is there any particular prejudice you have against any particular group of people. How do you manage it?
Not especially, no. At least, not based on race, creed or any of the usual separations. I don't suffer fools gladly, and simply try to avoid idiots, and any activity where the idiots would be in charge. I try to be tolerant, and accept differences, but blind adherence to any set of conditions annoys me.
3. What do you usually do with your evenings?
Depends on the time of year. Mostly, as I spend so much time wandering around outside, poking sticks and holes and crawling through hedges, I quite enjoy being inside, with a book and a cuppa. Bat season, I'll be out, detector in hand, chasing the wily Pipistrelle.
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1. What is your favourite animal?
2. What is your favourite plant?
3. Where is your favourite restaurant?
1. What is your favourite animal?
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2. What is your favourite plant?
More difficult. Blooming cacti, large pine trees, Venusian flytrap
3. Where is your favourite restaurant?
I have no special favorite. There was a nice Chinese one a few minutes walk from here (one that avoided the usual 'palace style').
I actually rarely go to restaurants (if take-away Asian diners and company cantinas don't count).
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1. How far back can you trace your family?
2. Do you have children or have intention to get some (of your own or adopted?)?
3. In what way do your religious views (or lack thereof) influence the eductaion of your children (or would, if you don't have any)? What role did religion play in your own education?
1. How far back can you trace your family?
Depends on which side. On my dad's, back to Switzerland in the 1600s (right before they were kicked out of sheep theft) and on my mom's, 1620s Paris, France...right before he was sent to Quebec.
2. Do you have children or have intention to get some (of your own or adopted?)?
Ahhh, no. I can deal with kids, and I think they're cute, but I don't think I'd be a good mother and my tolerance for crying is pretty low.
3. In what way do your religious views (or lack thereof) influence the eductaion of your children (or would, if you don't have any)? What role did religion play in your own education?
I would probably never really talk about religion, and they would probably get an ear full about it from their grandparents on my side (especially from my mom!). If they asked about it, I'd explain that some people believe in god(s) and some people don't.
Religion had a murky place in my upbringing. We were Catholic, and sometimes went to church, but it was never "say your prayers at night, learn the rosary, etc." status so it was kind of an abstract. When I was about 15, my mother became a lot more religious and it was suddenly a force to be reckoned with my house. About a year later, I left the Church, and two years after that I accidentally told my mom I wasn't Catholic, so I suspect she wishes she had made it a bigger deal when I was a kid.
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1. Do you have any magazine subscriptions?
2. African or European swallow?
3. Who is your favorite piratical figure of all time?
1. Do you have any magazine subscriptions?
Not at the mo, but at various times I've had subscriptions to National Geographic, OMNI, Wired, Gourmet, Smithsonian, Discover, How, and Creation [art! not religion]. There are a few magazines that I rotate picking up issues from at the newstand.
2. African or European swallow?
This not being a topic of serious study back at uni (nor the premise for any of the above-mentioned periodicals), I consulted the interwebs for an expert's opinion. (http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/) Ahhh, most enlightening.
3. Who is your favorite piratical figure of all time?
Cap'n pieces o'nine, at thee helm ov Thee Madde Moggies Revenge, ov coarse! Wot kynde ov kweschunhs arrrgh these, ennyweighs!
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1 Another swell ov Antichristophobia is being trumped up by radical factions here in the YooEssA. Regardless of country, does your local press continue to flog this fear as well?
2. Religious inclinations aside, is there a living person who strikes you as a plausible contender for such a rôle? (can be a politician, entertainer, athlete, religious leader, neighbor...)
3. On the flip side, is there a living person who strikes you as an anti-antichrist? Someone you truly admire and would consider a good role model for the masses?
1 Another swell ov Antichristophobia is being trumped up by radical factions here in the YooEssA. Regardless of country, does your local press continue to flog this fear as well?
No. Even the evangelical periodicals usually limit themselves to warnings about satanical temptation in the here and now.
2. Religious inclinations aside, is there a living person who strikes you as a plausible contender for such a rôle? (can be a politician, entertainer, athlete, religious leader, neighbor...)
Kiko Argüello
Tadeusz Rydzyk
Josemaría Escrivá (while still alive)
Don't trust the wikipedia entries. They are patrolled by their cultists who will remove any negative info quickly.
Other evil persons I could name lack the mass appeal, charisma and persuasiveness for the job
3. On the flip side, is there a living person who strikes you as an anti-antichrist? Someone you truly admire and would consider a good role model for the masses?
It has become a bit of a cliche: the current Dalai Lama. Humble with a sense of humor, not hostile towards science...
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1. Any food allergies?
2. What has been the longest journey (time, distance) you ever undertook?
3. At what height above sea level do you reside?
1. Any food allergies?
If I drink orange juice made from concentrate, I get little welts on my hands.
2. What has been the longest journey (time, distance) you ever undertook?
The journey to figure out where I stand in the universe. (Still on it.)
3. At what height above sea level do you reside?
We're at 875.79 feet above sea level, apparently the same as Tianjin, China. Thank you for making me look that up. It was interesting!
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1) Do you think that people in general have become more aggressive in the past year or so?
2) How could you be a better person?
3) Could someone else forgive you for something you have done wrong, or would you have to forgive yourself?
1) Do you think that people in general have become more aggressive in the past year or so?
I do not see any significant changes for better or worse, at least where I am.
Where I see more aggressiveness, I can't say whether the change is only in the attention it gathers or whether there is actually an uptick.
2) How could you be a better person?
Not being me, of course ;)
There are many ways of improvement but the difficulty is to actually take one or more of those.
A cure for real and metaphorical laziness would be necessary, I fear.
3) Could someone else forgive you for something you have done wrong, or would you have to forgive yourself?
It's difficult to forgive one for sins noone knows about (esp. those that are 'mere' thoughts).
And since those are sins, there is low incentive to talk about them.
Forgiving oneself is too often the easy way of the hypocrite (which does not say that I am not a hypocrite).
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1. How would you define marriage (personally and legally)?
2. Does gardening have any appeal for you?
3. What do you think about profitting* from damage done to others without you having anything to do with that damage**?
*not necessarily monetarily
**(including indirectly by being a potential beneficient)
1. How would you define marriage (personally and legally)?
Marriage is a legacy behavior from agrarian societies where life expectancy was rarely above 20 years. It was a tool for subsistence farming in the lower classes and wealth retention in the higher ones, and only until the 20th century was related with sexual attraction between both parties*. As for it's legality, the whole point of the contract was to retain land or wealth, therefore the current push from the "between a man and a woman" crowd is completely anachronistic.
*In the past a man may have been attracted to his potential wife if he had a say in the process.
2. Does gardening have any appeal for you?
Conceptually? Sure, why not. Practically? Not really, it implies an important amount of time for care that is employed in other things right now. If one day I manage to get a pension (and that is a veeeery big If) and have space and enough time to burn I would definitively consider it.
3. What do you think about profitting from damage done to others without you having anything to do with that damage?
I guess that question would go well with trauma physicians getting paid for their services in a war zone. ;)
Morally it seems relatively easy to spot (as a reprehensible practice like buying stolen goods at bargain prices) but in reality it's harder to determine: ie, is an engineer paid to work on a reconstruction project in -say- Irak doing something morally reprehensible? In other cases an enabling behavior like selling weapons is frequently justified by the makers as the classic "but I didn't shoot those guns!" and plausible deniability becomes the norm. The [in]morality of such cases shouldn't be in doubt regardless of how common such practice is.
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1. Assuming that the links between how prone to fear is an individual and his political leanings, would it be OK to make available and give anti-paranoid drugs to large parts of the population? :mrgreen:
2. If that doesn't work would you agree to send them to another planet/moon?
3. Should we start colonizing the moon, Mars and beyond if that doesn't work?
1. Assuming that the links between how prone to fear is an individual and his political leanings, would it be OK to make available and give anti-paranoid drugs to large parts of the population? Mr Green
If it truly is clinically-proven, mentally-unhealthy paranoia and there is a safe drug and those needing it may take it of their own free will, then I suppose it's not so bad. the question is: Would the truly paranoid take such an offer? :mrgreen:
2. If that doesn't work would you agree to send them to another planet/moon?
If they were willing to be sent there of their own free will, but again, being paranoid- would they go? Perhaps if they were convinced they could start a new colony of far-righteous paranoids they may be tempted. ::)
3. Should we start colonizing the moon, Mars and beyond if that doesn't work?
Maybe that's the ultimate plan, thus the interest in water on the moon.
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1) It is the end of the first decade of the 21st century. How do you think it has gone?
2) What do you think you might do with the new year?
3) What do you hope to accomplish by the end of the next decade?
1) It is the end of the first decade of the 21st century. How do you think it has gone?
technically it isn't the end of the first decade. that is next year. there is no year 0 in the gregorian calendar... blah blah... bore bore....etc
personally? not great but I am looking forward to the next one.
generally.... as well as can be expected. Probably not what you would expect to hear from me but we left the last century in such a mess that the face we are all still here is a bit of a miracle!
2) What do you think you might do with the new year?
try to persuade a girl to fall hopelessly in love me :-) try to be happier. genarally aim for smaller, more personal victories instead of trying to change the world single handed.
3) What do you hope to accomplish by the end of the next decade?
well it would be nice to be in charge of everything by then ;)
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1) what was your best christmas present?
2) Who is your favorite superhero?
3) why?
1) what was your best christmas present?
Half the cost of a rough-haired collie puppy (twenty years ago).
This year, some D&G jeans from someone hopelessly deluded about the possibilities of making me remotely fashionable.
2) Who is your favorite superhero?
Sherlock Holmes.
3) why?
It might be the costume, but more likely the triumph of rational humanism.
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1 When was the last time you hit someone?
2 Do you regret it?
3 Did you win?
1 When was the last time you hit someone?
Not technically hit, but when in hospital on a locked ward (I thought at the time due to madness, but I later saw the sign outside which said it was medical and I now think it was partly due to suspected infection), I tried to escape; in fact, I did escape, dodging through the locked door as someone came in, and made it to the lifts; as in all good films, the lift took so long to arrive (I could see no stairs), that a nurse managed to catch me. The main reason I had escaped was to get to the phone and phone book in the main entrance of the hospital in order to ring someone to tell them I was locked up (I did not know their number and the ward sister would not let me have a phone book). The nurse was not strong enough to man-handle me back into the ward, but we did a deal that he would give me a biro if I went back to bed. (the biro was the first part of a newly formed plan to repeat the escape and was required to copy out the number I needed from the phone book in the lobby downstairs as I realised I would not remember a number). On arrival at my bed, I asked for the biro. The nurse laughed in my face and reneged on the deal. I was so furious, especially at him laughing at me, that I grabbed a glass of water which had about one mouthful of water left in it, and threw the water in his face.
2 Do you regret it?
I do not regret it. The nurses should have told me why I was locked up and they should have seen that I had the wherewithal to phone someone. Even prisoners get the chance for one phonecall. All my human rights were being abused. The nurses in question should be prosecuted under the Geneva convention. I am glad I had the spirit to defend myself.
3 Did you win?
No. I remained locked up until a psychiatrist came and interviewed me and said I could be released. I never got to phone the person I wanted to phone who would have helped me. I did however get to phone the only person who's phone number I could remember - my sister - which was useless as I knew it would be. No one came to rescue me. I was sent home in a taxi with anti-biotics. At no time did anyone explain why I was locked up.
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1. Who would you want to make your one phone call to if locked up in a hospital medical ward?
2. What is the likeliest reason for you to be locked up?
3. Why do you think hospitals have become prisons?
Bumped. Come on Someone !
1. Who would you want to make your one phone call to if locked up in a hospital medical ward?
Locked with just one phone call? Sounds like the kind of situation in which the call is utterly useless, if somebody cares (s)he should be visiting frequently, if not it doesn't matter who you call, you are already alone.
2. What is the likeliest reason for you to be locked up?
The same reasons anybody would be locked, mental issues. Note that there is a difference between been interned and locked, being the latter used for those who are declared mentally incapable to take decisions related to their own health.
3. Why do you think hospitals have become prisons?
I don't see hospitals as prisons other than in the metaphoric sense of the word. For the sick it perfectly may feel like a prison but one preferable to the alternative.
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1. You have the opportunity to fix any personal flaws you have. What personal flaw would you keep?
2. Why?
3. In your opinion, would those who know you understand your decision?
1. You have the opportunity to fix any personal flaws you have. What personal flaw would you keep?
A: Whoa, difficult. I have so many. Maybe I'd keep my nerdiness.
2. Why?
A: It keeps me from thinking I'm too cool.
3. In your opinion, would those who know you understand your decision?
A: Yes, I think they would. My friends tend to be on the nerdy side, as well.
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1) Do you have any beliefs you think are worth dying for? If so, what are they?
2) Do you have any beliefs you think are worth killing for? If so, what are they?
3) Do you have any beliefs you think are thoroughly worthless? If so, what are they?
1) Do you have any beliefs you think are worth dying for? If so, what are they?
I've often thought hard about this one. No I don't have any beliefs, but I do have a fact, which is belief connected but in my case is not to do with my beliefs. I believe if I was faced with death for being Jewish I would not deny I was Jewish. Obvious where this comes from, but also quite daft really. Suppose it is connected to race. I think of the chain going back into history (except some ancestors certainly "married out").
2) Do you have any beliefs you think are worth killing for? If so, what are they? No.
3) Do you have any beliefs you think are thoroughly worthless? If so, what are they?
Everyone must tell the truth at all times. {impossible, nothing is truly truth}
Falling in love with someone available would make my life work for me {impossible, I'd still have ME/CFS}
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1. You are being tossed about in the rapids and have one minute to live before going under and drowning. What would you think about for that one minute?
2. You are facing execution unless you agree to be shot out of a cannon with no safety net. Which would you choose and why?
3. You could live in any country in the world (assume jobs, family, friends all there too). Which country would you choose and why?
1. You are being tossed about in the rapids and have one minute to live before going under and drowning. What would you think about for that one minute?
Any surface, rock or root to hold on? Watch intently. Keep your air. Measure your energy. What's coming ahead?
Essentially I would be fighting for my life on that minute.
2. You are facing execution unless you agree to be shot out of a cannon with no safety net. Which would you choose and why?
Mmm, depends, If I land without safety and they are going to let me die right there from my injuries I may choose to be executed.
3. You could live in any country in the world (assume jobs, family, friends all there too). Which country would you choose and why?
I have some ideas, philosophically I'm under the crazy impression that Sweden is a truly civilized country and I would like to see first hand how that works out. I fell in love with Paris when I was there, it seemed like a reasonably civilized place with plenty of cultural options, plus, it isn't as cold as Sweden ;). Then again I am Hispanic and perhaps I would like to be back with my crazy brethren, although perhaps not in Bogota, but may be a small town called Villa De Leyva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_de_Leyva), or if not in Colombia may be Costa Rica, which seems to be a little less crazy (and insecure) than Colombia.
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1. What do you like to cook to show off?
2. If price were of no consideration, what beverage would you drink more often?
3. What worldly pleasure you can't live without?
1. What do you like to cook to show off?
It used to be fettucine alfredo, now I take pride in my (equally evil) baclava.
2. If price were of no consideration, what beverage would you drink more often?
Did you have to ask? ;) Remy, of course!
3. What worldly pleasure you can't live without?
I am really rather fond of the internets and movies on dvd.
Less tech-intensive, my books .
I *could* live without my beautiful textiles, but why! :)
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Are you an "I wouldn't change a thing!" or "I would change things!" type, when looking back on your life?
^ Why?
Would you rather write an autobiography or be the subject of a biography?
Are you an "I wouldn't change a thing!" or "I would change things!" type, when looking back on your life?
The question is not, whether I would change things but whether I could have done so and what the results would have been.
^ Why?
I see a lot of possibly missed opportunities. Maybe I could have kept my job (and likely damaged my health in the long term through the daily 5 hours commuting) or successfully wooed a certain girl (and would have become a widower in 2000 at age 26) to just name two things.
Would you rather write an autobiography or be the subject of a biography?
I can do very well without either. I prefer obscurity
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Are you politically active and if so in what ways?
Do you think your parents did a good job (concerning you)?
Have you ever seriously considered writing a book or actually done so (no job qualification writing like theses etc.)?
Are you politically active and if so in what ways?
I'm not politically active in the sense that I go out on the street and campaign, but I do like to debate politics online, although that's almost exclusively Facebook these days (I know). I occasionally post politically-charged posts on the internet, both in forums and on, you guessed it, Facebook. I have accounts with a few online newspapers, and occasionally make comments on these as well.
Saying all the above, I do have political conversations in meatspace too, although these aren't as frequent as my online conversations on politics. I do not subscribe to any particular political party either, although if pushed, i'll say I don't vote for either of the two most popular political parties in the UK.
Do you think your parents did a good job (concerning you)?
I believe that they could have done better purely because nobody is perfect, but then "perfect" is hardly a word i'd ever consider using in relation to my parents. Although my brother and I were provided for in many ways such as there always being food in the house, and us receiving what my parents could afford when it was time to buy presents, I do have a few complaints.
My father was too strict with me, especially when younger, but then this was him picking it up from his father, who picked it up from his father, and so on. From what I know, strictness has certainly lowered over the generations. My grandfather used to be beaten quite badly by his father, and my father reasonably badly by his father, but on a far lesser scale. My granddad came to regret a great many things later in life, which is why he was strict yet fair with my brother and I. I'm glad he changed.
My own father was never one for emotional intimacy with me and my brother, which was again a trait he picked up from granddad. I never felt that I could speak to him about just anything, and it always felt weird when he tried to be close like that. Long ago I vowed to take the best in the way I was raised, and forget the bad, bringing in my own good things. I also realised that i'll most probably bring my children up (if I ever have them) with the same neuroses as I have, lol. ;D
Have you ever seriously considered writing a book or actually done so (no job qualification writing like theses etc.)?
Yes I have. I've considered writing up my travel experiences for a number of years now, but have never found the will to just sit down and start it properly.
I also sketched the outline of a science fiction epic a few years ago, along the lines of the classic writers Arthur C Clarke, Frank Herbert, and Isaac Asimov, but once again never got round to starting it.
Have you ever considered just packing up the bare essentials and travelling the world for the rest of your life?
If you were given the chance to be a pioneer colonist on Mars or the Moon, would you do it?
If you could be the figurehead (ie - Prime Minister, President, etc) of any country in the world, which one would it be?