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Herbert Henry Asquith

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If you could teleport, where would you go?

Where else but old Vienna before 1914? Given that I've got superpowers now, I'd banish the poverty and ethnic tension and have it all confirm to a Habsburg stereotype of endless pastries (no diets here!) that only end when it's goulash time. All fuelling my conversations with some of the most intelligent people of all time.
(it's too early to think of any obscene replies to this)
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Are you an early bird or a night owl?

Given that it's 6 am, what do you think?
Admittedly I would have left it a bit if not for workery, but I'm still much more a morning person by nature.

Are you a fan of scary movies? If so, which ones do you enjoy the most? If not, do you like being frightened in other ways (e.g. through practical jokes or by reading spooky stories?)

Not in the least, I'm much too easily scared to enjoy it! I like gritty, reality-based films with working-class people like me (often in other countries who live a life that' like mine, but more interesting. This, for example:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/06/leviathan-review-story-of-job

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How long has the idea of someone being behind you seemed frightening? Do you know why you have that fear?

As long as I can remember, it's just a human thing I think. Worse if they are my managers at work or (despite being 30) parents. Perhaps it's just being brought up to think I was always in some vague way doing something wrong and it was only a matter of time before someone finds out (and even if other people don't see you God will!). It's not like I cower in terror, just a feeling of unease and relief when they're gone :)

If you had to dye your hair and keep the color for the next five years, what color would you choose?

i have things growing in my hair

Do you think of yourself as a picky eater? What types of food do you refuse to eat?

I have a few red lines, that nasty processed "tomato" sauce that goes with beans, hoops etc, anything that entails peas, and if it has too much cheese (half the usual amount will do me). But if you don't serve anything explicitly banned, I'll eat it and I might even like it :)

Who's the wisest person you've ever met?

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That's a good question but I don't think I know the answer because my head is swimming :)
I had hypothyroid, recovered, then on top of the illness some things happened to make me question what I'd previously thought. Now I don't know what I think and I also suspect I'm now on too much medication and need another blood test before I even know who I am!
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It's the far future and time travel to the past exists. A giant meteor is about to wipe out life on earth: the only escape is to travel backwards in time, to a secret location in Europe. Your choice is between the following periods: 200sBCE, 1300sCE, 1500sCE, 1700sCE. Which do you choose and why?

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I'd live in the 18th century and be a good old English Whig aristocrat. I'd be obese from all that roast beef, plum pudding and best brandy and I'd own massive tracts of land and cheer on our victories against dastardly Frenchmen and Spaniards. What a time :)
I would rather stay here and try to save this time and place though really. We need to be opposing all these right-wing people who think the planet's resources can just be squandered like there was no tomorrow, for religious or just plain selfish reasons.
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Has the weather cooled down at all where you live yet? Or is it still hot and humid?

It is quite temperate, it was never really that hot at all. But I am still waiting for these bleedin' leaves to turn! Since I recovered from my thyroid I've been more active and went to places in the spring and summer, but I can't go to any of my places (of which there are 14!) for something like three weeks.

Do you have a greater tendency to complicate things or to simplify them?

As you may have guessed, anon, I'm the world's worst offender for pointless over complication. It's even more so in speech than in writing. My speech is filled with overelaboration and silliness and pointless random phrases ("you may, young man, you may" being a favourite for me, if not anyone else). I know how much it annoys people so I try to hold it in check, but it just makes its way out naturally. That's one of the many "joys" of diversity, anon.
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What is your favorite thing about summer?

I don't, anon, like summer that much: too hot and the run rises too early and wakes me up, also I prefer autumn trees to summer trees really. But one consolation's to be had, I live an hour a way from vast tracts of moorland (in the Peak District, which I gather is quite famous, though it's normal to us) and only in a brief August window does this hapen:
What is your favorite thing about summer

What are some ways you think might decrease the amount of drama on this site?

This will seem rude but a lot of people need to grow up, leave home, get jobs and if they're lucky get some lovin' done. I think one of the major downsides to the internet is the way people can segregate themselves. If I spent my whole life on white supremacist or jihadist websites, I'd start thinking that was normal and lose all ability to interact with others. And I've heard about communities getting increasingly polarised as young, liberal people leave small towns and move to the city and conservatives move to the suburbs, and some immigrants (please note that much/most of this is the government's fault because of the way it allocates refugees to certain places) clustering in ghettos.
As part of the general growing up process, I think it's important to seek out- easily done online, this- th best of opposition thought, as in opposed to your own tendency. I used to read a right-wing Catholic blog, unfortunately it's no longer around but that's what I was aiming at. I think if your party loses an election you need to understand why the other side won, apart from anything else you'll nevr win floating voters back round otherwise.
And so what I am not for is an echo chamber, I acknowledge how seductive this is on Twitter and Tumblr but it's not a good tendency.

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Most people associate beauty with perfection. What are some imperfections you consider beautiful?

Excellent question, this. I make no secret of the fact that I love autumn trees, I don't like the cold and I've got mixed views on the darkening sky but somehow I prefer autumn to spring (ok but not as good as autumn), summer (a bit too much and it gets boring) and the bleak midwinter. Unlike a previous answerer I don't like old buildings, there's a sadness to them. But I do like what's called the "edgelands", where country meets town, such as ex-industrial sites now abandoned to nature, which ar often more "wild" than farmland or manicured "nature" reserves.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/edgelands
Most people associate beauty with perfection What are some imperfections you

Can you please give 8 likes to @ltsNinaDobrev ? You'll get 20 likes back :)

First time I've got this anon spam, and also the last. Further such will be deleted without mercy. I woke up too early by mistake and I'm in a proper unforgiving mood, anon.

Isolation training for a peopled expedition to Mars has begun in Hawaii. What would you do to cope being isolated with the same few people with limited space for a couple of years?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Excellent question this. I'm afraid I've not given it that much thought, but surely I'd be able to handle it well enough I think. It's easy when you're a space lord.
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Do you think you've changed in the last year? In what way?

Through recovering from my thyroid, anon, I've got a new lease of life and now I can do things like this:
Nice and September-y, don't you think?
Do you think youve changed in the last year In what way

What's the last photo you took on your phone? Post it!

I don't take pictures on my phone because I have a real camera. Howbeit, since you've asked so nicely, you can have a picture of the time I spotted Francis our pope in the rather unlikely setting of Crewe.
Whats the last photo you took on your phone Post it

autumn

When summer's end is nighing
And skies at evening cloud,
I muse on change and fortune
And all the feats I vowed
When I was young and proud.
The weathercock at sunset
Would lose the slanted ray,
And I would climb the beacon
That looked to Wales away
And saw the last of day.
From hill and cloud and heaven
The hues of evening died;
Night welled through lane and hollow
And hushed the countryside,
But I had youth and pride.
And I with earth and nightfall
In converse high would stand,
Late, till the west was ashen
And darkness hard at hand,
And the eye lost the land.
The year might age, and cloudy
The lessening day might close,
But air of other summers
Breathed from beyond the snows,
And I had hope of those.
They came and were and are not
And come no more anew;
And all the years and seasons
That ever can ensue
Must now be worse and few.
So here's an end of roaming
On eves when autumn nighs:
The ear too fondly listens
For summer's parting sighs,
And then the heart replies.

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What are a few things you find aesthetic?

Well, anon, I've been aesthetically pleased twice today, by nature and by the works of (religious) man:
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/127725144779/1-near-oakamoor-2-at-the-top-near
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/127718037404/at-cheadle-perfect-cheadle-for-saint-giless
I am just waiting for autumn so I can revisit my places, and set spring, summer, autumn and winter photos of the same place through time.
As an agnostic I am interested in the phenomenon of religion. I am interested about how soldiers going into battle and people on their deathbeds are saying prayers, which the religious would say proves that they KNOW they have to arm themselves with faith despite saying otherwise, and atheists would say represents the power religion has over the human mind, for better or worse.
I do think that sometimes. "I stand at the door and knock". Whether that be God or the voices in my head, I don't know.
The aesthetic pleasure I get is from walking/cycling and eating, the intellectual pleasure from reading/writing and making plans for where I'll go on a trip, and I do like a bit of that filthy dirty stuff :)

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What's the worst type of job you've ever done?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Working at a place, and I think I'll name them since there won't be any repercussions, called Boxmore Plastics in Crewe. Mercifully I didn't have to stay there (it was a warehouse/factory, the only thing nastier than the plastic smell was my "colleagues") because I got a job at the vastly superior Royal Mail, which I didn't like but was bliss compared to that :)
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Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

I am of course the deepest of introverts. I can be social and popular, much more than a number of naturally extroverted people, but I'll always need to recharge my shields alone in silence.
I try to avoid sterotyping about how I'm deeper and more meaningful, but yeah :)
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