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1) This is kind of an interesting question. I'm reasonably sure that there is nothing that I'm incapable of living without that I do not need. (For reference, I count my faith as something that I need; maybe that's the answer to the question.) There are many, many things I would miss if I didn't have them, which boil down to 1) comfort, 2) communication and 3) Teh Computer, but I'm pretty sure that I would eventually learn to cope without them, and their removal certainly wouldn't kill me.

The last answer goes double if 'things' refers to 'posessions', because stuff is just stuff, and I dislike getting particularly attached to it.

2) This is also difficult, because my tastes change from day to day :). Also, the definition of 'pudding' is quite difficult - is it just 'proper puddings', or does it include things like chocolate bars and sugar? I think that mostly what I look for in a pudding is sugar, sugar and more sugar, possibly followed by chocolate, nuts and creamyness. Oh, and fruit. I have an abiding weakness for tinned peaches and general tinned-fruit-salad that drives my mother insane :).

3) Yes. It's quite hard to do, though; jumping up and down on them results in 'ants running into cracks in shoes'. Bisecting them with a fingernail does the job quite nicely, but it's a long and tedious method if there are many, many ants that need to die, as there often are.

I mostly kill ants:
a) for other people, because people don't like them in kitchens or indeed anywhere in a house, or sometimes anywhere in general
b) for fun, although not en masse because they're generally more fun to play with alive.

I expect if I had a house and there were ants traipsing through my kitchen I'd attempt to find the nest and set poison or pour boiling water or whatever, just from general principles. Possibly also with ants in my bedroom, because I imagine waking up covered in ants would be unpleasent and somewhat tedious.