Do you try to look attractive when you go to the local grocery store?
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What’s one thing that would make you extremely happy?
I actually think money would make me happy, I understand that some rich people are sad because they're still haunted by their demons or because they live empty, hedonistic lives that give them no pleasure.
But me, I'd go round having adventures like
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
I'd still be "working" in the sense of making an effort to get a reward, I just wouldn't ever go to the office again. So I'd get meaning from my photography and adventures and my voluntary work, of which I'd do more.
There might be periods of boredom or tiredness if I'd got back from a big trip, but never a Monday morning quite as blue as this one!
But me, I'd go round having adventures like
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
I'd still be "working" in the sense of making an effort to get a reward, I just wouldn't ever go to the office again. So I'd get meaning from my photography and adventures and my voluntary work, of which I'd do more.
There might be periods of boredom or tiredness if I'd got back from a big trip, but never a Monday morning quite as blue as this one!
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What is your favorite spring flower?
Daffs!
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Do you use your pc, laptop, smart phone, tablet, etc. interchangeably, or does every gadget have a specific use to you?
I use my laptop when I'm online for a good few hours and want to do serious reading of long-range articles. It takes about 5 minutes to switch on fully so if I'm flicking through things I use my ipad. I also carry my ipad round with webpages I might glance at loaded up, & try to find a wifi signal. So while at the moment I have both devices on, they do have different functions, chiefly because I find it hard to do serious reading from a small screen.
Almost all my photography posts,
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
are done on my laptop with photos from a camera, the one with the cows is from my ipad but the rest are all done from a camera.
My phone is only ever used for texting as it's too fiddly to try reading long articles etc from there, and I couldn't read this site from a phone, how could anyone concentrate on such a small screen?
Also there was this time when having too many random apps that I hadn't disabled caused my phone to switch itself off when I was talking to my girlfriend, who lives in another city, so I rushed home to a series of enraged text messages about how she couldn't believe what I'd done to her and never wanted to see me again. Which would have been understandable if I'd callously put my phone down but it was just carelessness.
So that reinforced my decision that yes, devices will be used for what I consider their best function and not try to do everything.
Almost all my photography posts,
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
are done on my laptop with photos from a camera, the one with the cows is from my ipad but the rest are all done from a camera.
My phone is only ever used for texting as it's too fiddly to try reading long articles etc from there, and I couldn't read this site from a phone, how could anyone concentrate on such a small screen?
Also there was this time when having too many random apps that I hadn't disabled caused my phone to switch itself off when I was talking to my girlfriend, who lives in another city, so I rushed home to a series of enraged text messages about how she couldn't believe what I'd done to her and never wanted to see me again. Which would have been understandable if I'd callously put my phone down but it was just carelessness.
So that reinforced my decision that yes, devices will be used for what I consider their best function and not try to do everything.
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Do you think people who work in scientific fields are less susceptible to magical thinking (belief in the paranormal, astrology, superstition etc.)? Why?
No, asurprising number of scientifically trained people have believed in nonsense!
I found this very interesting
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
Do you remember Harold Camping who "foresaw" the end of the world in 2017, he was an engineer, and plenty of others have followed. Before we even get to the Nazi and communist scientists.
I found this very interesting
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
Do you remember Harold Camping who "foresaw" the end of the world in 2017, he was an engineer, and plenty of others have followed. Before we even get to the Nazi and communist scientists.
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What sound can put you to sleep?
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Do you agree that one cannot judge a book by its cover?
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Have you ever become aware of a false memory you've had? For example a situation turns out to have happened completely differently to how you remembered it, or a building was somewhere totally different to where you were certain it was? [Doug]
I have the opposite actually.
The band Drive-By Truckers, if you've heard of them, I might have seen them in 2014 but I completely forgot that the whole thing happened. It was when my hypothyroidism was starting to get really bad so forgetting was starting to get more common.
After I recovered I wondered where I'd got one of their T shirts from and I started thinking I might have seen them in concert, but forgotten. I think I might remember one man at the front shouting out for them to play this song, "Steve McQueen", that was presumably his favourite.
When I went to see them two weeks ago I had no particular recollection of going to their other concert 3 years back but I probably did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPihc9a_3vI
The band Drive-By Truckers, if you've heard of them, I might have seen them in 2014 but I completely forgot that the whole thing happened. It was when my hypothyroidism was starting to get really bad so forgetting was starting to get more common.
After I recovered I wondered where I'd got one of their T shirts from and I started thinking I might have seen them in concert, but forgotten. I think I might remember one man at the front shouting out for them to play this song, "Steve McQueen", that was presumably his favourite.
When I went to see them two weeks ago I had no particular recollection of going to their other concert 3 years back but I probably did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPihc9a_3vI
So, it's been TWENTY years since Buffy The Vampire Slayer first aired, back when I was working at a university. It brings back lots of good memories. Over on FB however, it wasn't so popular with some of my friends. So - (a) have you seen the series and (b) if so, did you love it or hate it?
As a teenager I wanted to shag Buffy, Cordelia & Willow so of course I watched it :)
Unfortunately, I neither did that nor achieved my goal of being like Giles as an adult. But I keep thinking about my favourite episode with the invisible girl.
http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Out_of_Mind,_Out_of_Sight
That bit at the end where they have a whole school full of invisible people, I've never forgotten it. Even at the time I was probably treating people the way Marcie Ross was treated, but I never considered it.
It's not something I've watched for years but I do remember that.
Unfortunately, I neither did that nor achieved my goal of being like Giles as an adult. But I keep thinking about my favourite episode with the invisible girl.
http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Out_of_Mind,_Out_of_Sight
That bit at the end where they have a whole school full of invisible people, I've never forgotten it. Even at the time I was probably treating people the way Marcie Ross was treated, but I never considered it.
It's not something I've watched for years but I do remember that.
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Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship?
I'm in one now fam, my girlfriend lives in Birmingham & I only see her about once a month, I suppose the one advantage is that my visits ate always enjoyable but the drawbacks are obvious and I can't imagine how people manage living even further away!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RUX6zuCwlzQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RUX6zuCwlzQ
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I'm really enjoying this one, anon!
http://graemeshimmin.com/ss-gb-book-review/
http://graemeshimmin.com/ss-gb-book-review/
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Ed Sheeran or The Weeknd?
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When was the last time you cursed?
You talk shite hen
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"Birds of a feather flock together" as the saying goes. Have you noticed that your online friends and followers generally share your opinions and ideology, or are you instead connected with a broad church of people with strongly differing views?
Most of the people I speak to online are personal friends, the rest are carefully selected people with common interests.
I don't actually know what my views are on most issues, so I get along with anyone above a level of decency so long as they're interesting & have something worthwhile to say.
Though saying that...
I don't actually know what my views are on most issues, so I get along with anyone above a level of decency so long as they're interesting & have something worthwhile to say.
Though saying that...
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How is your relationship with your parents?
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do you listen to the cure
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What do love and food have in common?
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Who should get an Oscar in the 89th Academy Awards?
Paul Nuttall
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I once lived briefly in a flat that I just couldn't be creative in, I struggled getting any writing done and I'm not sure why. Have you ever lived or worked in a place where you were simply unable to get anything done? Do you know why the place hampered your creativity and/or productivity?
I've actually never had this, when I feel stale I get out & not only do I literally get ideas (in that I see things to take pictures of) but I feel refreshed in mind as well as body.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/hemingway-thoreau-jeffers_b_3837002.html
This is an excellent question but it's difficult to specifically answer as it isn't in my field.
In the book 1913 by Florian Illies, one example of this is discussed, when a burnt out artist finds new inspiration in a different place.
"For the first time August Macke hasn't brought any old paintings with him; he wants to make a new start here in Switzerland. He is still quite exhausted from the 'First German Autumn Salon' exhibition, and also bitter about his failure and bad reviews. But down here, by faraway Lake Thun and beneath the warm October sun, his mood lightens after just a few days. He buys some paints and makes a start–in a passionate fury, the like of which he has never experienced in his art work before – and manages to create the most important work of his oeuvre in those four weeks by the lake"
Although I've always lived in the same place, I travel to other places and it's true we don't have our ideas in the abstract, drawng them from within, but our environment matters.
And this :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwV9cW1aaI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/hemingway-thoreau-jeffers_b_3837002.html
This is an excellent question but it's difficult to specifically answer as it isn't in my field.
In the book 1913 by Florian Illies, one example of this is discussed, when a burnt out artist finds new inspiration in a different place.
"For the first time August Macke hasn't brought any old paintings with him; he wants to make a new start here in Switzerland. He is still quite exhausted from the 'First German Autumn Salon' exhibition, and also bitter about his failure and bad reviews. But down here, by faraway Lake Thun and beneath the warm October sun, his mood lightens after just a few days. He buys some paints and makes a start–in a passionate fury, the like of which he has never experienced in his art work before – and manages to create the most important work of his oeuvre in those four weeks by the lake"
Although I've always lived in the same place, I travel to other places and it's true we don't have our ideas in the abstract, drawng them from within, but our environment matters.
And this :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwV9cW1aaI
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Your perfect Sunday breakfast?
Do you like Ian Rankin, anon?
In the first Rebus book this breakfast is eaten:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ian-rankin/knots-and-crosses/
Near his flat, he passed a little grocery shop outside of which were stacked crates of milk and morning rolls. The owner had complained in private to Rebus about petty and occasional thefts, but would not submit a complaint proper. The shop was a dead as the street, the solitude of the moment disturbed only by the distant rumble of a taxi on cobblestones and the persistence of the dawn chorus. Rebus looked around him, examining the many curtained windows. Then, swiftly, he tore six rolls from a layer and stuffed them into his pockets, walking away a little too briskly. A moment later he hesitated, then walked back on tiptoe to the shop, the criminal returning to the scene of the crime, the dog to its vomit. Rebus had never actually seen dogs doing that, but he had it on the authority of Saint Peter.
Looking round again, he lifted a pint of milk out of its crate and made his getaway, whistling silently to himself.
Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.
In the first Rebus book this breakfast is eaten:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ian-rankin/knots-and-crosses/
Near his flat, he passed a little grocery shop outside of which were stacked crates of milk and morning rolls. The owner had complained in private to Rebus about petty and occasional thefts, but would not submit a complaint proper. The shop was a dead as the street, the solitude of the moment disturbed only by the distant rumble of a taxi on cobblestones and the persistence of the dawn chorus. Rebus looked around him, examining the many curtained windows. Then, swiftly, he tore six rolls from a layer and stuffed them into his pockets, walking away a little too briskly. A moment later he hesitated, then walked back on tiptoe to the shop, the criminal returning to the scene of the crime, the dog to its vomit. Rebus had never actually seen dogs doing that, but he had it on the authority of Saint Peter.
Looking round again, he lifted a pint of milk out of its crate and made his getaway, whistling silently to himself.
Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.
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What do you like most about a woman's physique?
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Is it true that you can't dream of faces that you've never seen?
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What’s the coolest thing people can learn from you?
My advice is to read Douglas Adams, apart from anything else he clarifies where listening to my other advice and cool style tips will get you :)
After an hour or two of uncommunicative silence, the old woman decided that the solar panels had absorbed enough sunlight to run the photocopier now and she disappeared to rummage inside her cave. She emerged at last with a few sheaves of paper and fed them through the machine.
She handed the copies to Arthur.
"This is, er, this your advice then, is it?" said Arthur, leafing through them uncertainly.
"No," said the old lady. "It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make them stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" -- she paused, and filled her lungs for a good shout -- "in a smelly old cave like this!"
After an hour or two of uncommunicative silence, the old woman decided that the solar panels had absorbed enough sunlight to run the photocopier now and she disappeared to rummage inside her cave. She emerged at last with a few sheaves of paper and fed them through the machine.
She handed the copies to Arthur.
"This is, er, this your advice then, is it?" said Arthur, leafing through them uncertainly.
"No," said the old lady. "It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make them stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" -- she paused, and filled her lungs for a good shout -- "in a smelly old cave like this!"
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Happy Valentine's Day! How are you going to spend it?
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What would be your mafia boss name?
The Wolfman
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