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Now I'm 1hr15mins late for my bath. Yay.
do you type really fast?
Yes.
does it annoy people who are around you (like in the library)?
It has been known to annoy people who are trying to get to sleep nearby, given that it apparently sounds like machine gun fire when I really go for it.
do you/did you like high school?
*shrugs* Meh, it's probably better than work. At least I get plenty of free time.
how old are you?
17
do you know anyone who has the same birthday as you?
Yes. Pete+Ju's little boy, Sunny, has the same birthday as me.
favorite pen color:
To write with: Black. To play with: Shiny purple/silver gel pen-ness.
what word do you constantly misspell when typing?
definately. (It *should* be definitely, but I've learnt it the other way, and can't get it sorted out now.)
do you have trees in your yard?
We have six trees. They are very small evergreens. By very small, that means 'less than a foot high'. Probably about 15-20cm, in fact. They are in big pots, three to a pot, and are very cute.
name one comedian that everyone thinks is funny but you absolutely cannot stand -
Rowan Atkinson in 'Mr Bean' mode.
name one director you hate and tell why.
I don't pay much attention to who directs what films; I also don't tend to 'hate' in that sense.
do you like tim burton?
I don't even know who Tim Burton is. This probably shows my complete lack of connectedness / up-to-date-ness / whatever.
what annoys you more than anything?
I'd say something like 'stupidity', but it's probably more prosaic than that: People tickling me when they do not have express permission and/or cannot be trusted to stop.
tell me about the weirdest pair of socks you own.
They have penguins on them. I've never actually worn them because I don't want to wear them out, which is a silly waste of socks.
if you woke up tomorrow morning as the opposite sex, what would you do first?
'Worry', I think sums it up quite nicely.
did you read fear street books?
No. I have a general dislike for horror books, given that I generally suspect if they had a decent premise they'd be filed under Fantasy, SF or Adventure.
how about sweet valley high?
No. Not even tempted. (Mallory Towers, otoh...)
babysitter's club?
/me answers that in exactly the same way as the above, and wishes she could remember the *other* boarding-school series she used to own some of.
goosebumps?
I certainly read *bits* of some of these, mostly because the covers were brightly coloured and shiny. I doubt I ever read one all the way through.
favorite show on nickelodeon (can be from the late 80's/early 90's when nick was good)
a) I am not American. b) Until recently, we never had more than the standard set of channels; now we have a digibox for the free-to-air digital garbage, and still only watch the standard set of channels except when ill, when the childrens' channels are great. On the subject of children's TV though, I've occasionally caught episodes of this endless-seeming series called The Tribe which has always for some reason captured my attention, and vaguely wished to see the whole thing through from the start, but it just keeps running and running...
are you afraid of the dark?
I like the dark. Once upon a time I was apparently so afraid of it I needed a night-light; then I went through a phase of not being able to sleep with the slightest bit of light, leading to me having blackout-linings installed in my curtains here (which is actually quite cool, being able to draw the curtains in the middle of the day and having it get quite dark).
did zeebo the clown scare you?
Again, I am unaware of who this 'zeebo' is.
where do you vacation every summer?
Going on holiday to the same place every summer could get dull, if we're talking about a family-holiday sense. XF could fit this, I guess.
do you like the beach?
No. I used to like the beach because you can build things out of that sticky sand you get when you get a bucket of seawater and dump sand in it and always leave a layer of seawater on top (replenishing sand when necessary) and they set quite hard, and you got to run around and stuff, but now I don't like it because you get sand everywhere which is scratchy and a pain to get rid of, and there are plenty of better places to run about.
do you tan or burn easily?
No. I stubbornly stay pasty and pale unless I try *really* hard, in which case my arms will go marginally browner and the back of my neck (and my nose) will burn and then go quite brown before fading.
do you make up your own words and lingo?
Generally, I steal from other people, although sometimes things mutate (Chessypig, allosaurations, mweep, oing...)
do you eat lots of tv dinners?
I don't watch enough TV to eat TV dinners. Food in front of the computer, otoh, happens reasonably often, although it's generally 'real food', as in bread and cheese/ham and fruit and water.
favorite hot pocket flavor:
I have never tried a Hot Pocket; in fact, I was mostly unaware of their existance until I watched The Core.
if you could make one celebrity magically disappear, who would it be?
I can't particularly think of one that deserves to be singled out for this honour. I'd rather make the whole system where entertainers get paid vastly more than, say, nurses and teachers, disappear. But that's not going to happen.
how is life treating you?
Life is treating me wonderfully. I'm simply too (teenaged/pathetic/stupid) to accept what it continually attempts to hand to me on golden platters.
do people like you?
They appear to. I'm not quite sure why.
what do you think it is that makes the "popular" people popular?
The willingness to do whatever it takes to be popular and to stay popular, and the ability not to seem desperate for popularity while doing so.
do you like chunky peanut butter?
I do not like peanut butter, in general. I suspect I dislike chunky peanut butter more than I dislike creamy peanut butter. (It's not that I *detest* peanut butter; I'll eat it willingly, and even enjoy it slightly, and if it was particularly good for me I would consume large quantities of it without complaint. I can just think of things that I would prefer to eat in the category of 'things that aren't quite so good for me as, say, vegetables' to which it belongs.)
what amazes you about the opposite sex?
Pretty much the same things that amaze me about my own, really.
are you in love with anyone?
The whole 'being in love' buisiness is somewhat difficult for me to comprehend, and in all the incarnations that I can kind of understand it in, doesn't tend to be something that happens to me. I've been in lust a couple of times, and haven't really tested if the last case has entirely worn off yet, if that's what you're asking.
do you like anyone?
Oh, this is where you're asking the 'are you in lust with anyone' question. I could, however, be obtuse and say 'yes, actually, I like quite a lot of people, my friends for a start...'.
why do you like them/why are you in love with them?
I don't think I can improve on the answer I found here - 'Cause they're nifty people.'
favorite cereal:
Alpen. Although I seem to like reasonable quantities of other cereals as long as I don't eat any one for too long.
name a movie that makes you cry:
Deep Impact holds the great honour of being the only movie which has ever made me cry. This is probably increadibly sad.
what's something you like about the opposite/same sex, physically, that your friends think is odd?
After struggling to parse that question, I think the answer is 'uhm, there isn't anything in particular'.
is it true that only the good die young?
No.
if so, are you going to live forever or die soon?
If only the good die young, this does not necessrily imply that all the good die young, or that if you do not die young then you are not good; it merely implies that those who die young are not bad. Hence the saying's validity or otherwise has no bearing on when I am going to die as long as I am good; combine this with the uncertainties over 'young' (not to mention 'good' and 'bad'...) and there's no good answer to this question.
do you live for today?
I live *in* today, probably more than I should. I don't live *for* today, because if I thought that today was the day that mattered I'd be even more depressed, as todays have a habit of containing lots of things I don't want to do that I do anyway for the sake of tomorrows.
how fast can you run?
Only very slightly faster than I can walk. I can walk reasonably fast, but my top speed is appallingly slow. (I can run even less fast in chainmail. Getting left behind when trying to run down a track before the next patrol comes round is not good.)
favorite band from the 60's/70's -
I don't know when the bands I listen to come from.
have any of your friends had kids as teenagers?
A girl who was my friend in primary school did. (The kid must be two or three now, at least; she's roughly the same age as me.)
did they finish high school?
I'm not entirely sure. I think she got her GCSEs, and she was at some form of college last I heard (just over a year ago).
favorite 80's television show:
I don't keep track of chornology that well.
were you even born in the 80's?
Yes.
what year?
1985.
have you ever taught a little kid a curse word?
Not intentionally. I rarely swear aloud (although I'm getting worse, unfortunately), so probably not.
If so which one was it?
Not Applicable.
do you think little boys are horrendously ill behaved?
That depends on the little boys in question. Some are. Some little girls are equally horrendously behaved, or worse. Often boys behaving badly get more attention because on the broad, sweeping-generalisationed whole they tend to act up in noisy, physical ways whereas girls tend to act up in nasty little social / emotional ways. Possibly also girls get into more trouble for being 'boisterous', which sets up the aformentioned trend.
have you ever thrown anything at a moving car? if so, what?
I'm sure I have. I can't remember what or when, though.
name a villian in a movie that scared you when you were a kid:
I can't remember one.
have you seen the original friday the thirteenth?
No.
the original chucky?
No.
the original halloween?
No. (Horror movies are not my kind of thing for somewhat the same reasons that horror books aren't, except moreso.)
what's your favorite channel?
I don't watch enough TV for this to be meaningful.
what do you say when you stub your toe off of the corner of the coffee table?
'owowowowow!' out of all proportion to how much it actually hurt, and usually more out of annoyance than pain.
what's the highest thing you've ever jumped off of and landed unharmed?
I don't make a habit of jumping off high enough things to potentially be harmed.
does it snow where you live?
Yes. Not that much, and not that often, but it did do so quite satisfactorily this year.
if yes, do you go sled riding?
Once upon a time I did. There's rarely enough snow to do more than screw up the transport system any more though.
have you ever used anything weird, like a Frisbee or a trashcan lid, for a sled?
No, ISTR we had a proper wooden sled ('we' being the family we went sled riding with, not our family).
how many people do you know who were born in november?
I have no idea. I don't keep very good track of people's birthdays. This is probably very bad of me.
what month has the most people you know born in it?
For the above reasons, I don't know this, either.
do holidays make you festive?
I don't know how 'festive' is meant to feel, so I couldn't tell you.
magazines you subscribe to:
New Scientist. I used to subscribe to PC Format too, but it got boring. (It did once feature alt.fan.pratchett in its article on newsgroups, though, which was pretty cool for a mainstream computer magazine and as I was reading afp at the time...)
do you read the supermarket tabloids?
Only when standing in line to pay for things at the supermarket.
have you ever smashed somebody's halloween pumpkin?
No. I did help eat my primary school's halloween pumpkin on one occasion, though.
ever had yours smashed?
I have never had a halloween pumpkin.
do you celebrate christmas?
Yes.
if not, do you still watch "how the grinch stole christmas" when it comes on television?
Even so, I do not watch 'how the grinch stole christmas'. I'm too busy watching The Wrath of Khan and The Land That Time Forgot and Fern Gully, should they be on *Again*.
do you think the grinch movie starring jim carrey was a waste of money?
No more than countless other movies.
ever had a hot teacher?
I have had both reasonably attractive teachers and teachers who have complained that the heating needs to be switched off.
if yes, did you flirt with him/her?
I appear to be incapable of flirting in any meaningful sense. Anyone who I would try and flirt with intimidates me so much that I can't do much more than follow them around like a demented puppy.
how do you treat people you are attracted to?
I follow them around like a demented puppy and gaze at them sorrowfully and longingly. (From the grand total of two data points, here.)
what do you want for your birthday this year?
There isn't anything that I would particularly want for my birthday that I don't want all the time. The only thing that I'm likely to get for my birthday and not any other time that I wanted, I'm mostly getting.
have you ever egged somebody's house?
No. That's just annoying.
has someone ever egged yours?
No, thankfully.
do we all go a little mad sometimes?
I certainly hope so. I pity anyone who doesn't.
what pisses you off more than anything in the world?
Isn't this pretty much isomorphic to 'what annoys you more than anything?'
do you still go trick or treating?
I never did go trick or treating. Carol singing is nicer and gets you just as much chocolate.
do you believe in santa claus?
I never did believe in Santa Claus, because my parents were understandably concerned about the effects of lying to me. But that's another mini-rant.
have you ever worked in a supermarket?
No.
how about a restaurant?
No. (I have had the grand total of three and a half days of paid employment in my entire life. These consisted of cleaning old products out of a product database, then sorting widgets, then getting fed up of sorting widgets and deciding not to bother going in the next day.)
if yes, do you agree with me when i say that those are the two worst establishments to work in?
I'd rather work in a supermarket than some other retail establishments, especially if I got to be on the till, because at least I could sit down. I'd rather work in either than on a production line doing the same one boring and possibly physical-type thing all day. Or in the Army, or something.
what color is your bedspread?
Pink and grey and white.
do your eyes change colors?
Yes. Especially the flecks in the middle, which can't decide whether to be yellow or brown. I prefer them yellow, because they're more unusual that way.
do you believe that we walked on the moon?
I don't know. Who are you?
what's your opinion of the u.s. retaliation in afghanistan?
Somewhat tainted by my low general opinion of the current US government.
do you live by yourself?
No. (Parents.)
have you ever gotten a computer virus?
Yes. It was an interesting Word macro-virus, back in the early days of such things. Its only payload appeared to be that you had to save everything as .dot files (it disabled the file type dropdown on 'save as'), presumably as a kind of propogation mechanism.
describe your junior high/middle school gym teacher.
They were reasonably normal, and at times abnormally reasonable, for a PE teacher.
how do you react when someone is talking to you --up in your face--and they have really bad breath?
I don't think this has ever happened to me, but maybe I simply don't notice bad breath that much.
What was your first date like?
I'm not sure I've ever been on anything that can be classed as a date, unless you count taking Sath to the Prom, which was highly amusing, even if I did get overtired and morose by the end of the evening.
did you go/are you going to the prom?
I went to the Y11 prom; I'm not going to the Y13 prom.
if you've already gone, was it good or bad? explain why.
It was okay. (The prom itself was terminally boring. Sath drinking a pot of sugar with incidental coffee, and me annoying George Preston by caramelising sugar in the candle flame, were amusing, as was some-random-Amy doing the 'you're my beshtest friend' act after having snuck out to a pub with the vast majority of the attendees and got completely rat-assed.)
do you get uneasy when you see a person of a different color than you walking down the same street as you in the middle of the night?
Yes. I also get uneasy when I see a person of the same color as me walking down the same street as me in the middle of the night.
if yes, do you think that makes you racist?
Given the latter qualifier, no. (I did notice an alarming tendancy for me to give black people a wider berth than white ones in London when I was paranoid about getting my bag snatched, though. I still maintain the main biasing factor in who I avoid is that I'm more likely to avoid young males than older people or females, though.)
are you a vegetarian?
No. I'm an unrepentant carnivore.
how about vegan?
Certainly not.
if no to both, do you think you could be?
No, I'm an unrepentant carnivore. I like my meat. Preferably in a form which reminds me it was once part of a living, breathing animal, thankyouverymuch. You want me to kill it myself, pass me the stun-gun and the meat cleaver. Yum yum.
have you ever given up a certain type of food? if so, what was it and why did you do it?
My family decided we were going to be vegetarians for a while once when I was too young to adequately protest. We did it because my dad watched a program about factory farming. We didn't last long.
who does the chores around your house?
The pixies. (We have cleaners in to do most of it. My mother does the rest of the indoorsy things that are left, except my ironing, which I do, and some washing up and cooking, which we share out. My dad does the outdoorsy stuff like gardening and washing the cars and putting the rubbish out.)
name one person who annoys you more than anyone else, and tell why.
I can't, really. The people who I could say 'annoy' me mostly sadden me and worry me more than annoy me. Unless we include fictional people, in which case it's Mr Bean for reasons which should be patently obvious.
what movie could you watch a million times and never get tired of?
I think I would get tired of every movie after a million times. PI, Dune and Tron would have to try hard, though.
what movie have you watched a million times, and you still laugh at the jokes?
I haven't watched any movie a million times. I doubt many people have.
what movie do you hope you never see again?
I can't think of an appropriately dire movie that I actually sat through in the first place. I'm normally pretty good at spotting turkeys.
have you ever hugged a stuffed animal or pillow and pretended that it was your significant other, or someone you had a crush on, and then someone caught you talking to it, and stroking its soft, fuzzy fur, and laughed at you and told the whole school?
That's quite a string of events; I presume it happened to the author of the survey. And no, nothing after the first nine words.
do you drive?
Yes.
if so, do you like to drive at night or in the day time?
Day.
has anyone ever called you a bitch?
Probably. I can't remember a particular occurance.
has anyone ever called you an asshole?
Ditto.
are you a bitch/asshole?
Sometimes. More the first than the second.
what's the first thing you do when you get home from school/work?
Eat some fruit.
favorite pop tart flavor:
Once upon a time I ate some pop tarts. They're not tasty enough for the badness value.
Do you play any musical instruments? if so, what?
No, I'm entirely non-musical.
tell me about the best school-related activity you ever took part in.
Meh. That would require major research.
what's your religion?
Christianity.
do you try to force it on other people?
Of course. 'Force' is a little harsh, perhaps; but I would if I thought it might possibly be effective (it can't, of course, because Christianity is all about the making-a-free-choice thing).
what's the best restaurant you've ever eaten at?
Probably that little one in London near the RI.
have you ever been flipping channels late at night and caught a glimpse of some porn on skinemax?
Not on 'Skinemax', no. We did in Portugal, and in some hotel or other.
if so, did you watch it? don't say no, i know you did.
We didn't immediately change the channel and try and tear our eyeballs out, if that's what you mean. Didn't keep it on for long in Portugal because there were other people's children present; made fun of it a bit in the hotel. (This is with my parents, btw.)
what's the code word or phrase you and your friends use for the word SEX?
The word 'sex' tends to work reasonably well, generally.
is sex an uncomfortable topic for you?
Not massively, no.
what is the one thing in the world that just looking at it makes you vomit, or come close to it?
Nothing.
when other people vomit, does it make you sick?
The smell isn't pleasent, certainly. It has never made me physically sick, though.
do your clothes match?
Rarely, apart from the fact I only tend to wear clothes from the pink-blue part of the spectrum, or black.
what are you wearing right now?
Vaguely tracksuit-ish but lighter trousery things, and a t-shirt; I never got changed after the gym.
did you ever have those fisher price roller skates that go over top of your shoes?
No.
have you lived in the same house your entire life?
No. (This is only my second, though.)
what's the weirdest thing you've lived next to?
I've never lived next to anything weird.
who is the ugliest person you've ever seen?
I have no idea. Occasionally I might have a fleeting thought to the effect 'mm, they look kind of unaesthetic', but I don't hold onto them.
do you watch talk shows?
Occasionally; to have a good laugh at them.
what do you think of pop music?
I don't think of pop music, generally.
do you type really fast?
Yes.
does it annoy people who are around you (like in the library)?
It has been known to annoy people who are trying to get to sleep nearby, given that it apparently sounds like machine gun fire when I really go for it.
do you/did you like high school?
*shrugs* Meh, it's probably better than work. At least I get plenty of free time.
how old are you?
17
do you know anyone who has the same birthday as you?
Yes. Pete+Ju's little boy, Sunny, has the same birthday as me.
favorite pen color:
To write with: Black. To play with: Shiny purple/silver gel pen-ness.
what word do you constantly misspell when typing?
definately. (It *should* be definitely, but I've learnt it the other way, and can't get it sorted out now.)
do you have trees in your yard?
We have six trees. They are very small evergreens. By very small, that means 'less than a foot high'. Probably about 15-20cm, in fact. They are in big pots, three to a pot, and are very cute.
name one comedian that everyone thinks is funny but you absolutely cannot stand -
Rowan Atkinson in 'Mr Bean' mode.
name one director you hate and tell why.
I don't pay much attention to who directs what films; I also don't tend to 'hate' in that sense.
do you like tim burton?
I don't even know who Tim Burton is. This probably shows my complete lack of connectedness / up-to-date-ness / whatever.
what annoys you more than anything?
I'd say something like 'stupidity', but it's probably more prosaic than that: People tickling me when they do not have express permission and/or cannot be trusted to stop.
tell me about the weirdest pair of socks you own.
They have penguins on them. I've never actually worn them because I don't want to wear them out, which is a silly waste of socks.
if you woke up tomorrow morning as the opposite sex, what would you do first?
'Worry', I think sums it up quite nicely.
did you read fear street books?
No. I have a general dislike for horror books, given that I generally suspect if they had a decent premise they'd be filed under Fantasy, SF or Adventure.
how about sweet valley high?
No. Not even tempted. (Mallory Towers, otoh...)
babysitter's club?
/me answers that in exactly the same way as the above, and wishes she could remember the *other* boarding-school series she used to own some of.
goosebumps?
I certainly read *bits* of some of these, mostly because the covers were brightly coloured and shiny. I doubt I ever read one all the way through.
favorite show on nickelodeon (can be from the late 80's/early 90's when nick was good)
a) I am not American. b) Until recently, we never had more than the standard set of channels; now we have a digibox for the free-to-air digital garbage, and still only watch the standard set of channels except when ill, when the childrens' channels are great. On the subject of children's TV though, I've occasionally caught episodes of this endless-seeming series called The Tribe which has always for some reason captured my attention, and vaguely wished to see the whole thing through from the start, but it just keeps running and running...
are you afraid of the dark?
I like the dark. Once upon a time I was apparently so afraid of it I needed a night-light; then I went through a phase of not being able to sleep with the slightest bit of light, leading to me having blackout-linings installed in my curtains here (which is actually quite cool, being able to draw the curtains in the middle of the day and having it get quite dark).
did zeebo the clown scare you?
Again, I am unaware of who this 'zeebo' is.
where do you vacation every summer?
Going on holiday to the same place every summer could get dull, if we're talking about a family-holiday sense. XF could fit this, I guess.
do you like the beach?
No. I used to like the beach because you can build things out of that sticky sand you get when you get a bucket of seawater and dump sand in it and always leave a layer of seawater on top (replenishing sand when necessary) and they set quite hard, and you got to run around and stuff, but now I don't like it because you get sand everywhere which is scratchy and a pain to get rid of, and there are plenty of better places to run about.
do you tan or burn easily?
No. I stubbornly stay pasty and pale unless I try *really* hard, in which case my arms will go marginally browner and the back of my neck (and my nose) will burn and then go quite brown before fading.
do you make up your own words and lingo?
Generally, I steal from other people, although sometimes things mutate (Chessypig, allosaurations, mweep, oing...)
do you eat lots of tv dinners?
I don't watch enough TV to eat TV dinners. Food in front of the computer, otoh, happens reasonably often, although it's generally 'real food', as in bread and cheese/ham and fruit and water.
favorite hot pocket flavor:
I have never tried a Hot Pocket; in fact, I was mostly unaware of their existance until I watched The Core.
if you could make one celebrity magically disappear, who would it be?
I can't particularly think of one that deserves to be singled out for this honour. I'd rather make the whole system where entertainers get paid vastly more than, say, nurses and teachers, disappear. But that's not going to happen.
how is life treating you?
Life is treating me wonderfully. I'm simply too (teenaged/pathetic/stupid) to accept what it continually attempts to hand to me on golden platters.
do people like you?
They appear to. I'm not quite sure why.
what do you think it is that makes the "popular" people popular?
The willingness to do whatever it takes to be popular and to stay popular, and the ability not to seem desperate for popularity while doing so.
do you like chunky peanut butter?
I do not like peanut butter, in general. I suspect I dislike chunky peanut butter more than I dislike creamy peanut butter. (It's not that I *detest* peanut butter; I'll eat it willingly, and even enjoy it slightly, and if it was particularly good for me I would consume large quantities of it without complaint. I can just think of things that I would prefer to eat in the category of 'things that aren't quite so good for me as, say, vegetables' to which it belongs.)
what amazes you about the opposite sex?
Pretty much the same things that amaze me about my own, really.
are you in love with anyone?
The whole 'being in love' buisiness is somewhat difficult for me to comprehend, and in all the incarnations that I can kind of understand it in, doesn't tend to be something that happens to me. I've been in lust a couple of times, and haven't really tested if the last case has entirely worn off yet, if that's what you're asking.
do you like anyone?
Oh, this is where you're asking the 'are you in lust with anyone' question. I could, however, be obtuse and say 'yes, actually, I like quite a lot of people, my friends for a start...'.
why do you like them/why are you in love with them?
I don't think I can improve on the answer I found here - 'Cause they're nifty people.'
favorite cereal:
Alpen. Although I seem to like reasonable quantities of other cereals as long as I don't eat any one for too long.
name a movie that makes you cry:
Deep Impact holds the great honour of being the only movie which has ever made me cry. This is probably increadibly sad.
what's something you like about the opposite/same sex, physically, that your friends think is odd?
After struggling to parse that question, I think the answer is 'uhm, there isn't anything in particular'.
is it true that only the good die young?
No.
if so, are you going to live forever or die soon?
If only the good die young, this does not necessrily imply that all the good die young, or that if you do not die young then you are not good; it merely implies that those who die young are not bad. Hence the saying's validity or otherwise has no bearing on when I am going to die as long as I am good; combine this with the uncertainties over 'young' (not to mention 'good' and 'bad'...) and there's no good answer to this question.
do you live for today?
I live *in* today, probably more than I should. I don't live *for* today, because if I thought that today was the day that mattered I'd be even more depressed, as todays have a habit of containing lots of things I don't want to do that I do anyway for the sake of tomorrows.
how fast can you run?
Only very slightly faster than I can walk. I can walk reasonably fast, but my top speed is appallingly slow. (I can run even less fast in chainmail. Getting left behind when trying to run down a track before the next patrol comes round is not good.)
favorite band from the 60's/70's -
I don't know when the bands I listen to come from.
have any of your friends had kids as teenagers?
A girl who was my friend in primary school did. (The kid must be two or three now, at least; she's roughly the same age as me.)
did they finish high school?
I'm not entirely sure. I think she got her GCSEs, and she was at some form of college last I heard (just over a year ago).
favorite 80's television show:
I don't keep track of chornology that well.
were you even born in the 80's?
Yes.
what year?
1985.
have you ever taught a little kid a curse word?
Not intentionally. I rarely swear aloud (although I'm getting worse, unfortunately), so probably not.
If so which one was it?
Not Applicable.
do you think little boys are horrendously ill behaved?
That depends on the little boys in question. Some are. Some little girls are equally horrendously behaved, or worse. Often boys behaving badly get more attention because on the broad, sweeping-generalisationed whole they tend to act up in noisy, physical ways whereas girls tend to act up in nasty little social / emotional ways. Possibly also girls get into more trouble for being 'boisterous', which sets up the aformentioned trend.
have you ever thrown anything at a moving car? if so, what?
I'm sure I have. I can't remember what or when, though.
name a villian in a movie that scared you when you were a kid:
I can't remember one.
have you seen the original friday the thirteenth?
No.
the original chucky?
No.
the original halloween?
No. (Horror movies are not my kind of thing for somewhat the same reasons that horror books aren't, except moreso.)
what's your favorite channel?
I don't watch enough TV for this to be meaningful.
what do you say when you stub your toe off of the corner of the coffee table?
'owowowowow!' out of all proportion to how much it actually hurt, and usually more out of annoyance than pain.
what's the highest thing you've ever jumped off of and landed unharmed?
I don't make a habit of jumping off high enough things to potentially be harmed.
does it snow where you live?
Yes. Not that much, and not that often, but it did do so quite satisfactorily this year.
if yes, do you go sled riding?
Once upon a time I did. There's rarely enough snow to do more than screw up the transport system any more though.
have you ever used anything weird, like a Frisbee or a trashcan lid, for a sled?
No, ISTR we had a proper wooden sled ('we' being the family we went sled riding with, not our family).
how many people do you know who were born in november?
I have no idea. I don't keep very good track of people's birthdays. This is probably very bad of me.
what month has the most people you know born in it?
For the above reasons, I don't know this, either.
do holidays make you festive?
I don't know how 'festive' is meant to feel, so I couldn't tell you.
magazines you subscribe to:
New Scientist. I used to subscribe to PC Format too, but it got boring. (It did once feature alt.fan.pratchett in its article on newsgroups, though, which was pretty cool for a mainstream computer magazine and as I was reading afp at the time...)
do you read the supermarket tabloids?
Only when standing in line to pay for things at the supermarket.
have you ever smashed somebody's halloween pumpkin?
No. I did help eat my primary school's halloween pumpkin on one occasion, though.
ever had yours smashed?
I have never had a halloween pumpkin.
do you celebrate christmas?
Yes.
if not, do you still watch "how the grinch stole christmas" when it comes on television?
Even so, I do not watch 'how the grinch stole christmas'. I'm too busy watching The Wrath of Khan and The Land That Time Forgot and Fern Gully, should they be on *Again*.
do you think the grinch movie starring jim carrey was a waste of money?
No more than countless other movies.
ever had a hot teacher?
I have had both reasonably attractive teachers and teachers who have complained that the heating needs to be switched off.
if yes, did you flirt with him/her?
I appear to be incapable of flirting in any meaningful sense. Anyone who I would try and flirt with intimidates me so much that I can't do much more than follow them around like a demented puppy.
how do you treat people you are attracted to?
I follow them around like a demented puppy and gaze at them sorrowfully and longingly. (From the grand total of two data points, here.)
what do you want for your birthday this year?
There isn't anything that I would particularly want for my birthday that I don't want all the time. The only thing that I'm likely to get for my birthday and not any other time that I wanted, I'm mostly getting.
have you ever egged somebody's house?
No. That's just annoying.
has someone ever egged yours?
No, thankfully.
do we all go a little mad sometimes?
I certainly hope so. I pity anyone who doesn't.
what pisses you off more than anything in the world?
Isn't this pretty much isomorphic to 'what annoys you more than anything?'
do you still go trick or treating?
I never did go trick or treating. Carol singing is nicer and gets you just as much chocolate.
do you believe in santa claus?
I never did believe in Santa Claus, because my parents were understandably concerned about the effects of lying to me. But that's another mini-rant.
have you ever worked in a supermarket?
No.
how about a restaurant?
No. (I have had the grand total of three and a half days of paid employment in my entire life. These consisted of cleaning old products out of a product database, then sorting widgets, then getting fed up of sorting widgets and deciding not to bother going in the next day.)
if yes, do you agree with me when i say that those are the two worst establishments to work in?
I'd rather work in a supermarket than some other retail establishments, especially if I got to be on the till, because at least I could sit down. I'd rather work in either than on a production line doing the same one boring and possibly physical-type thing all day. Or in the Army, or something.
what color is your bedspread?
Pink and grey and white.
do your eyes change colors?
Yes. Especially the flecks in the middle, which can't decide whether to be yellow or brown. I prefer them yellow, because they're more unusual that way.
do you believe that we walked on the moon?
I don't know. Who are you?
what's your opinion of the u.s. retaliation in afghanistan?
Somewhat tainted by my low general opinion of the current US government.
do you live by yourself?
No. (Parents.)
have you ever gotten a computer virus?
Yes. It was an interesting Word macro-virus, back in the early days of such things. Its only payload appeared to be that you had to save everything as .dot files (it disabled the file type dropdown on 'save as'), presumably as a kind of propogation mechanism.
describe your junior high/middle school gym teacher.
They were reasonably normal, and at times abnormally reasonable, for a PE teacher.
how do you react when someone is talking to you --up in your face--and they have really bad breath?
I don't think this has ever happened to me, but maybe I simply don't notice bad breath that much.
What was your first date like?
I'm not sure I've ever been on anything that can be classed as a date, unless you count taking Sath to the Prom, which was highly amusing, even if I did get overtired and morose by the end of the evening.
did you go/are you going to the prom?
I went to the Y11 prom; I'm not going to the Y13 prom.
if you've already gone, was it good or bad? explain why.
It was okay. (The prom itself was terminally boring. Sath drinking a pot of sugar with incidental coffee, and me annoying George Preston by caramelising sugar in the candle flame, were amusing, as was some-random-Amy doing the 'you're my beshtest friend' act after having snuck out to a pub with the vast majority of the attendees and got completely rat-assed.)
do you get uneasy when you see a person of a different color than you walking down the same street as you in the middle of the night?
Yes. I also get uneasy when I see a person of the same color as me walking down the same street as me in the middle of the night.
if yes, do you think that makes you racist?
Given the latter qualifier, no. (I did notice an alarming tendancy for me to give black people a wider berth than white ones in London when I was paranoid about getting my bag snatched, though. I still maintain the main biasing factor in who I avoid is that I'm more likely to avoid young males than older people or females, though.)
are you a vegetarian?
No. I'm an unrepentant carnivore.
how about vegan?
Certainly not.
if no to both, do you think you could be?
No, I'm an unrepentant carnivore. I like my meat. Preferably in a form which reminds me it was once part of a living, breathing animal, thankyouverymuch. You want me to kill it myself, pass me the stun-gun and the meat cleaver. Yum yum.
have you ever given up a certain type of food? if so, what was it and why did you do it?
My family decided we were going to be vegetarians for a while once when I was too young to adequately protest. We did it because my dad watched a program about factory farming. We didn't last long.
who does the chores around your house?
The pixies. (We have cleaners in to do most of it. My mother does the rest of the indoorsy things that are left, except my ironing, which I do, and some washing up and cooking, which we share out. My dad does the outdoorsy stuff like gardening and washing the cars and putting the rubbish out.)
name one person who annoys you more than anyone else, and tell why.
I can't, really. The people who I could say 'annoy' me mostly sadden me and worry me more than annoy me. Unless we include fictional people, in which case it's Mr Bean for reasons which should be patently obvious.
what movie could you watch a million times and never get tired of?
I think I would get tired of every movie after a million times. PI, Dune and Tron would have to try hard, though.
what movie have you watched a million times, and you still laugh at the jokes?
I haven't watched any movie a million times. I doubt many people have.
what movie do you hope you never see again?
I can't think of an appropriately dire movie that I actually sat through in the first place. I'm normally pretty good at spotting turkeys.
have you ever hugged a stuffed animal or pillow and pretended that it was your significant other, or someone you had a crush on, and then someone caught you talking to it, and stroking its soft, fuzzy fur, and laughed at you and told the whole school?
That's quite a string of events; I presume it happened to the author of the survey. And no, nothing after the first nine words.
do you drive?
Yes.
if so, do you like to drive at night or in the day time?
Day.
has anyone ever called you a bitch?
Probably. I can't remember a particular occurance.
has anyone ever called you an asshole?
Ditto.
are you a bitch/asshole?
Sometimes. More the first than the second.
what's the first thing you do when you get home from school/work?
Eat some fruit.
favorite pop tart flavor:
Once upon a time I ate some pop tarts. They're not tasty enough for the badness value.
Do you play any musical instruments? if so, what?
No, I'm entirely non-musical.
tell me about the best school-related activity you ever took part in.
Meh. That would require major research.
what's your religion?
Christianity.
do you try to force it on other people?
Of course. 'Force' is a little harsh, perhaps; but I would if I thought it might possibly be effective (it can't, of course, because Christianity is all about the making-a-free-choice thing).
what's the best restaurant you've ever eaten at?
Probably that little one in London near the RI.
have you ever been flipping channels late at night and caught a glimpse of some porn on skinemax?
Not on 'Skinemax', no. We did in Portugal, and in some hotel or other.
if so, did you watch it? don't say no, i know you did.
We didn't immediately change the channel and try and tear our eyeballs out, if that's what you mean. Didn't keep it on for long in Portugal because there were other people's children present; made fun of it a bit in the hotel. (This is with my parents, btw.)
what's the code word or phrase you and your friends use for the word SEX?
The word 'sex' tends to work reasonably well, generally.
is sex an uncomfortable topic for you?
Not massively, no.
what is the one thing in the world that just looking at it makes you vomit, or come close to it?
Nothing.
when other people vomit, does it make you sick?
The smell isn't pleasent, certainly. It has never made me physically sick, though.
do your clothes match?
Rarely, apart from the fact I only tend to wear clothes from the pink-blue part of the spectrum, or black.
what are you wearing right now?
Vaguely tracksuit-ish but lighter trousery things, and a t-shirt; I never got changed after the gym.
did you ever have those fisher price roller skates that go over top of your shoes?
No.
have you lived in the same house your entire life?
No. (This is only my second, though.)
what's the weirdest thing you've lived next to?
I've never lived next to anything weird.
who is the ugliest person you've ever seen?
I have no idea. Occasionally I might have a fleeting thought to the effect 'mm, they look kind of unaesthetic', but I don't hold onto them.
do you watch talk shows?
Occasionally; to have a good laugh at them.
what do you think of pop music?
I don't think of pop music, generally.
