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Dating profile themed questions.... Are you monogamous or non-monogamous? Is your hair your natural colour? Are you allergic to anything? Do you believe in sxx before marriage? Have you ever been in a long distance relationship? Are you either prochoice or prolife? Who do you live with?

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1. Monogamous
2. Yes, a sort of mousy blond-brown, somewhere in between
3. No, but I dislike lots of things
4. If you like, and I accept some are non-monogamous (which is ok as long as your partners know and accept it;no cheating please) but see my answer to your question in the lastask.
5. Yes, I am now! Thankfully I will visit my girlfriend tomorrowafter a month away.
6. I agree with Bill Clinton it should be safe, legal and rare; I don't like it but I call myself pro choice as there is often no alternative. I hate the hypocrisy of people who are "pro life" when it comes to foetuses but are happy for actual human beings to live in poverty, and love wars, torture and arms sales.
Also, if the Religious Right stopped legal abortion it would be unsafe, illegal and common. There would be more demand as more would be having unprotected sex and unable to cope with a child.
If you read Saturday Night by Alan Sillitoe, which I recommend, there's a horrifying illegal abortion which is so shocking that it was cut out of the film. But do the film makers deny that things like that were once common? They should consider life as it is.
Ideally every child would have a happy, loving home but given that Trump-loving evangelical hypocrites are fighting to make sure that never happens, they have no grounds for complaint.
7. Myself! (Given all the mouthing off I do, who would want to live with me!?)

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Dating profile themed questions.... Do you believe in marriage? Have you/do you want children & how many? Are you a centrist, leftist or rightist? What are your favourite foods & drinks? Do you support either Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter? Do you believe in global warming?

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1. I don't want to marry myself and I know some are happy in non-traditional arrangements, adopting, or may be widowed or left by their husband/life.
But I do think it's good that most people marry and stay in a monogamous marriage; it isn't for everyone but I think it should be the norm and in particular I think there is too much divorce and too many deadbeat parents, especially fathers, which comes from families not spending enough time together, working too much, and from the selfishness and demand for instant gratification that is fostered by neoliberalism.
(One of the reasons I support equal marriage is that a number of LGBT people could teach a number of straights a few things about faithful, loving partnerships, a lesson that many homophobes have failed to learn; think of Donald Trump's family values, for instance).
2. No, fair play to those who do but it isn't suitable for me.
3. Centre-left
4. My last meal would be leek & potato soup with wholemeal rolls, a Sunday roast with lamb, then sticky toffee pudding & ice cream. And I'd go to the scaffold eating a bag of herbal tablets.
5. Unsure
6. I accept the science. (could go on for longer but leave it here)
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-why-global-warming-is-responsible-for-freezing-temperatures-across-the-u-s-661a3d2295b2

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Dating profile themed questions.... What languages do you speak? Do you have any pets&what are they? Are you a feminist, why/why not? What are your dietary restrictions, if any? What are your pet peeves? What traits in others do you appreciate most? What's your worst trait? What's your 5year plan?

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1. English only, I speak a few words from watching subtitled films and learning French and German at school but I don't seriously understand any other language.
(So I let the funky music do the talking)
2. Sadly I can't afford to keep a pet but my parents have a dog, a 12 year old Hungarian Vizsla called Amber.
3. "If by whiskey" I certainly agree that women are equal to men and should be able to pursue any career that a given individual is capable of, and discrimination should be swept away. But I don't like the movement spearheaded by Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti etc, that is predicated on hating men and any women who disagrees that they know best and are entitled to tell men and women what to do.
4. The list of foods I dislike is very long, but I don't have any allergies or anything like vegan, kosher, halal etc so I can find something to eat in any half-decent restaurant or takeaway, if I have the money.
5. Online things that don't work, bad connections, the state of public transport, jobsworths, regulators, auditors, basically anyone or anything that pointlessly stands in the way of what I'm trying to get done.
6 Intelligence & empathy, or trying to do so.
7 Impatience & taking my liking for privacy/quiet too far.
8 Bugger knows!

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Can you give me an example of a time when you found beauty in the "mundane"?

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Lots of times :)
I read this terrific book and it really changed my outlook on life.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/06/edgelands-england-farley-roberts-review
I live in a major, ex-industrial city with a lot of former industrial sites, some of which have been designated nature reserves, some of which have simply been abandoned, and are seen as waste, though nature's recolonisation is now an inspiration after I read the book (I especially like self-seeding birch trees, of which there are many where I live).
So my voyage of discovery was launched and these are my adventures in the places most people ignore!
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/edgelands

When a parent is a farmer do you think they have a responsibility to prevent their children from bonding with the farm animals? Why/why not and if yes, how should this be done?

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That is a complicated one as the children would need to understand early on that, as part of the working of the farm, animals will have to be slaughtered, and (while not everyone likes this) a sheep or pig doesn’t have the same status as the family cat/dog.
Of course the animals have to be treated with respect and not senseless cruelty, as they are at https://www.fordhallfarm.com/ near where I live, which is a model of farming and community engagement. Therefore the laws on animal welfare should be strictly enforced. But what I’ve said above is a lesson that needs to be learned early on.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/02/books/a-novel-of-pastoral-vision.html
The danger is that this will be insensitively done and brutalise people; this happens in On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin, where the children are scarred by their father slaughtering their pet pig. “No sense to keep a runt” reasons the father, a sentiment that centuries of farmers would echo. But in that case he should have considered the children’s feelings, and it comes across as an act of senseless cruelty even if Amos Jones didn’t think it was. (I’d strongly recommend this book if you haven’t read it).

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23andMe has become very popular. The problem is that these sites can sell your DNA information to health insurance companies and those companies can then reject you from joining them. Do you think this should be illegal? Have you personally ever done one of these ancestry DNA tests/would you ever?

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I didn't know about this!?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/10/dna-ancestry-tests-cheap-data-price-companies-23andme
I certainly think it should be banned for people who haven’t given consent, and probably banned outright.
If the health companies want to scan people they can use their own tests rather than using underhand ways of getting information about people who haven’t given it to them. This just shows the iniquity of data companies in general but even more so the health companies who think sickness is something to make a profit from, and while the NHS in Britain is far from perfect I would fight to the death to prevent it being sold to American corporations in some dodgy so-called free trade deal.
I myself once sent off a sample to 23andme because my brother bought me a test, but they rejected it as there supposedly wasn’t enough DNA in the spittle! So I got a test from Ancestry instead.
Great Britain
73%
Eastern Europe and Russia
10%
Baltic States
7%
Ireland/Scotland/Wales
5%
Norway
3%
Sweden
2%
Finland/Northwest Russia
<1%
I am ¼ Polish and (afaik) ¾ English, though of course that entails not just Saxon but Viking, Norman, Welsh and possibly Irish extraction. So that is me !

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Which of these have you used and which in your opinion is best and why? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.

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I don't like or trust any of them, I had a Netflix 'subscription' to watch The Last Kingdom but cancelled it before my free trial was over :)
It should have been on the BBC, I don't like messing round with commercial channels that cost more than the licence fee for what they are, and advertising.

Asking your question to me of you: What is your opinion on the papal visit to the United Arab Emirates? (Thanks. :-))

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I haven't got much idea what to make of it, though it is interesting to note that a very high proportion of Christians live there and there are many churches (virtually all the residents are migrant workers, though very few will get citizenship and citizens are almost all Muslim).
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-arab-emirates-population/
They are tolerated but very much second-class citizens, as is the case in most Muslim countries.
He has stated that all faiths should stop supporting warmongering, which is true, but the UAE is one of the worst meddlers in Syria and supports Saudi atrocities in the Yemen, so on the one hand he needs to state that but on the other, avoid simply antagonizing people.
I asked the question because I'm unsure of my own thoughts and wanted to consult others!

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What's your opinion on the USA's two political party system? Do you think it's better for the sake of simplicity or do you think it'd be better with more options?

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I would support a multiparty & coalition system in any country. I didn't like the coalition in Britain from 2010 to 2015 but that wasn't because it was a coalition, and while such a system has its problems I do think Brexit would have been sorted by now if parties were used to working together.
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What snack is exclusively sold in your country?

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It's not just exclusively in Britain, but even more exclusive as it exists almost entirely in the region I live in and is unknown to people from other parts of the same country.
If I were executed, after my last meal I'd be chewing on these as I went to the scaffold. But I'm almost 100% you and most readers have never heard of them! :(
What snack is exclusively sold in your country
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Since the controversial Gillette commercial, many people have stopped supporting Gillette. Many being republicans, although the Gillette brand have supported the republican party for years. Why do you think those republicans have chosen to stop using their products now?

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It just shows what broflakes right-wing men are. They talk about people they hate being politically correct, easily offended, snowflakes etc. Yet right-whingers have in recent times been offended by razor blades, balloons, sausage rolls, a vegetable garden, and kneeling.
This is another example of how conservatives want and need to feel as though they're victims, and is equally laughable as the hysteria every ear about Christmas supposedly being banned, which never happens but which gives conservatives something to feel threatened by every year.
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If you reached a certain age or point in your life where you didn't see yourself finding a suitable partner any time soon, would you ever agree to an arranged marriage by friends or family? Why/why not?

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Certainly not, I love my girlfriend and don't want to marry anyone else but I don't have any great wish to marry her either as living together, marriage, children etc wouldn't work for either of us and would destroy us tbh.
I disagree with arranged marriage as a custom as, while some say there's a difference between a forced marriage (bad) and an arranged marriage (acceptable), where exactly do you draw the line?
Does anyone seriously think if a 15 year old from Bradford disagreed with her father and uncles over his choice of husband, she'd be given a fair choice whether to accept the arrangement or not? I don't think so at all. The coercion and pressure is certainly there, even in what is ostensibly an arranged decision that has supposedly got the consent of the partners.
I do believe the Western European custom of consenting adults choosing to marry, and a high proportion of people not marrying, is the best in spite of its drawbacks.

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What was your first thought when you woke up this morning

That it would be good to see my girlfriend and attend an event hosted by Alan Johnson, and it was! He spoke about his life and struggles and we had a good time.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/02/this-boy-alan-johnson-review
Sadly I had another thought to contend with, which is that my heel is still buggered after the walk I undertook in Wales last week. It's starting to recover but is always bad in the mornings.

Inspired by Allison’s answer to this ( https://ask.fm/shehitsback/threads/151999426296?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=iOS&shareBy=CactusDoug ) what’s a misunderstood/misapplied phrase you’ve often heard?

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Literally
'The reason being is' (tautology used by illiterate people)
Misuse of borrow and lend
Also I execrate the trend towards starting sentences with so, generally used by illiterates who hate 'foreigners' and all things 'foreign', even though they are totally Americanised themselves.

Tell me your battery percentage?

Ipod is at 100%, ipad is at 92% and charging, phone is at 94% and charging. Hadacol doesn't take chances!
If this is some deep and meaningful question where battery is a metaphor for my physical, mental & spiritual well-being, I don't know!

Today I watched BASEketball for the first time. It's a movie about combining baseball with basketball. If you had to combine any two sports, what would they be and what would it be called?

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What about a cycling in water race, where the water is about 2-3 feet high and flowing in the opposite direction at the pace of a slow-flowing river, would that work?

Do you have a favourite.... Tree? Flower? Plant? Pap.

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Birch, because I admire the way they colonise disturbed ground and appreciate how they've reclaimed ex-industrial sites where I live for nature :)
Bluebells
Wild garlic
Pap is this of Birmingham city centre, I'd like to live in that building (it's called the cube) but it's too expensive!
Do you have a favourite Tree Flower Plant Pap

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