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Is there something you eat every day?
Bread
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Do you talk to yourself?
No, unless you count my blog which no one reads! :)
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Favorite actress?
Gemma Arterton!!!
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Which animal is your spirit animal?
I think I've said this before but in 2013 I was on top of Snowdon when I saw an eagle flying free and said to myself, that is my spirit animal :)
So I took a picture of it, then looked back later and saw a pigeon on the floor!
So now I'm jinxed by having a pigeon as my spirit animal.
So I took a picture of it, then looked back later and saw a pigeon on the floor!
So now I'm jinxed by having a pigeon as my spirit animal.
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Places people want to visit?
I don't know about anyone else but I'd rather be in Singapore!
My brother used to live there but he rather selfishly moved away, so I may not be able to afford to return given that flights are already expensive and hotels (which I'd never had to pay for when I stayed with my brother) would be even more so.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/Singapore
My brother used to live there but he rather selfishly moved away, so I may not be able to afford to return given that flights are already expensive and hotels (which I'd never had to pay for when I stayed with my brother) would be even more so.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/Singapore
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What do your doodles look like?
Bonus if you can not only read it but get the reference!
What do you consider not super obvious red flags in the dating world? Like things that come off really great at first but looking back you might consider not ok?
Co-dependence and obsessively fixing on one person as if they were the answer to life, which can seem charming at first and is encouraged by romantic songs and films but is actually toxic.
When it becomes known that the person is a human being and cannot meet the unrealistic expectations placed on them, it doesn't evolve into a healthy relationship between people who love each other in spite or because of their imperfections, but blows up for everyone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoagldK69U0
When it becomes known that the person is a human being and cannot meet the unrealistic expectations placed on them, it doesn't evolve into a healthy relationship between people who love each other in spite or because of their imperfections, but blows up for everyone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoagldK69U0
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What is your biggest complaint about your current phone? Mine is the lack of a headphone jack!
It has far too little data, am I not entitled to a service given how much I pay? :(
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What are your favourite things to get for starter, main course and dessert to get out at a restaurant?
Leek & potato soup
Sunday roast, with lamb
Sticky toffee pudding & ice cream
Sunday roast, with lamb
Sticky toffee pudding & ice cream
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What song brings back memories from your childhood?
I've loved this tune since I was very young. Obviously at the time I had no idea it was about druggies travelling the world, getting stoned on various things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC041pQl4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC041pQl4I
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Ever been in a long distance relationship?
I am now, to an extent! My girlfriend lives here
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/birmingham
Which is about 40 miles from where I live, so we only see each other once a month or so. I do find the seperation hard but I wouldn't want to live with anybody as I'm a very private person and so is she.
Don't tell her this as I don't want to seem soppy! But this is my love/seperation song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/birmingham
Which is about 40 miles from where I live, so we only see each other once a month or so. I do find the seperation hard but I wouldn't want to live with anybody as I'm a very private person and so is she.
Don't tell her this as I don't want to seem soppy! But this is my love/seperation song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0
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Which person in your family do you look most like?
I apparently look uncannily like both my parents! Here I am with my dad and granddad.
Do you spot the reference on my t shirt, incidentally? :)
Do you spot the reference on my t shirt, incidentally? :)
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What is your favorite children's story?
I've never been able to identify this story but I've borne it in mind since I first heard/read it as a child.
There was a wealthy prince who had everything he could possibly want, and one day a poor shepherd boy walked past the palace playing a tune on a flute, which was the most beautiful tune the prince had ever heard.
The prince was enraged that a mere peasant could have a thing of such beauty and craved it for himself. So, being a prince, he simply grabbed the flute from the boy.
But when he came to play it, no sound came out, because he was punished for his greed & cruelty.
This is the outline of the story I heard but I don't know where it came from so if anyone can help I'd be overjoyed!
There was a wealthy prince who had everything he could possibly want, and one day a poor shepherd boy walked past the palace playing a tune on a flute, which was the most beautiful tune the prince had ever heard.
The prince was enraged that a mere peasant could have a thing of such beauty and craved it for himself. So, being a prince, he simply grabbed the flute from the boy.
But when he came to play it, no sound came out, because he was punished for his greed & cruelty.
This is the outline of the story I heard but I don't know where it came from so if anyone can help I'd be overjoyed!
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Would you rather buy a new game or an extension pack for a game you already have?
I don't play games but I do always re-read and re-watch things as it deepens the understanding and solidifies it in the memory. I also like going back to places I've already visited, rather than gadding round doing any old thing and taking none of it in.
So I vote for extension, I suppose!
So I vote for extension, I suppose!
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What's the last book you read?
Really terrific book which was a famed work of fiction in the 14th century.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/16/poetry.simonarmitage
Apparently, the book is set very near where I live, and if you read the original out loud in a Potteries accent it actually makes sense to people who live here despite being written in Middle English, and not only that but a dialect much further removed from Standard English of today than Chaucer.
I only saw the Simon Armitage translation and it was fascinating, not as an account of what King Arthur and Sir Gawain did (it's unlikely the existed in anything like the form storytellers centuries later portrayed them). And this is the place where the 14th-century poet is believed to have placed the green knight's lair!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/16/poetry.simonarmitage
Apparently, the book is set very near where I live, and if you read the original out loud in a Potteries accent it actually makes sense to people who live here despite being written in Middle English, and not only that but a dialect much further removed from Standard English of today than Chaucer.
I only saw the Simon Armitage translation and it was fascinating, not as an account of what King Arthur and Sir Gawain did (it's unlikely the existed in anything like the form storytellers centuries later portrayed them). And this is the place where the 14th-century poet is believed to have placed the green knight's lair!
Whose brain would you want to live in for a day?
Bruce Chatwin!!!
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/06/25/walking-with-bruce-chatwin/
(The author of that article was one of the contestants to be British prime minister; what a shame he lost, as he was by far the cleverest and most sensible of them all).
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/06/25/walking-with-bruce-chatwin/
(The author of that article was one of the contestants to be British prime minister; what a shame he lost, as he was by far the cleverest and most sensible of them all).
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what are some ways you manage stress?
By walking & cycling, especially uphill, to the tune of audiobooks.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/solvitur-ambulando-it-is-solved-by-walking/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/solvitur-ambulando-it-is-solved-by-walking/
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PAP of your favorite meme!
Hello Boris Johnson/Nigel Farage supporters and everyone who imagines Brexshit to be a good idea!
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What do you have to lose if you just go for it?
I appreciate the sentiment but having been unemployed for two years in my twenties, I have a hell of a lot to lose if I just go for it, and that's why I put up with such utter shit in my job.
The reason I support a universal basic income is I think most people don't dare to live out their dreams and they should be able to. Given a safety net people will bounce higher on the trampoline, or whatever the analogy is. So I do hope things change for the better in that way, and that's one of the reasons I'm a staunch Andrew Yang supporter.
https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/
But I will myself be more cautious probably for the whole of my life.
The reason I support a universal basic income is I think most people don't dare to live out their dreams and they should be able to. Given a safety net people will bounce higher on the trampoline, or whatever the analogy is. So I do hope things change for the better in that way, and that's one of the reasons I'm a staunch Andrew Yang supporter.
https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/
But I will myself be more cautious probably for the whole of my life.
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What is your favorite way of wasting time?
Tumblr!
My site is http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos which I think is a good site, but I do read any old shit on there when I either have nothing else to do, or can't be bothered to do the things I have to do.
My site is http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos which I think is a good site, but I do read any old shit on there when I either have nothing else to do, or can't be bothered to do the things I have to do.
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What are you grateful for today?
Had a great trip up here!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/apr/17/kinder-scout-mass-trespass-anniversary
There was a superb TV show called The Village which was on in 2013-14, which was intended to show the life of a very old man called Bert Middleton, who lived for more than 100 years. It starts when Bert is 12, just before World War 1 (in which his brother is executed for 'cowardice', when in fact we now know he had PTSD).
So it was an excellent, gritty showing of Bert's early life but then sadly the programme was cancelled after 2 seasons leaving it totally in the air, I suppose because all the philistines would rather watch some shit like Love Island.
Anyway, there were three great reasons to come here; the TV show, the trespass history (shown in the TV programme where Bert's father is knocked unconscious by a gamekeeper), and climbing Kinder Scout which I failed to do the last time I tried, in 2014, but have made good now, so I'm grateful for that!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/apr/17/kinder-scout-mass-trespass-anniversary
There was a superb TV show called The Village which was on in 2013-14, which was intended to show the life of a very old man called Bert Middleton, who lived for more than 100 years. It starts when Bert is 12, just before World War 1 (in which his brother is executed for 'cowardice', when in fact we now know he had PTSD).
So it was an excellent, gritty showing of Bert's early life but then sadly the programme was cancelled after 2 seasons leaving it totally in the air, I suppose because all the philistines would rather watch some shit like Love Island.
Anyway, there were three great reasons to come here; the TV show, the trespass history (shown in the TV programme where Bert's father is knocked unconscious by a gamekeeper), and climbing Kinder Scout which I failed to do the last time I tried, in 2014, but have made good now, so I'm grateful for that!
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If you could have anything you want for dinner tonight, what would you have?
I've already eaten (we are an hour in front so it's 8pm).
I had chilli & garlic bread, followed by sticky toffee pudding & ice cream, nice!
I had chilli & garlic bread, followed by sticky toffee pudding & ice cream, nice!
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If you were to get a tattoo today, what would you get and where would you have it placed?
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If people had a warning label, what would yours say?
It would be erected on my desk at work and say Do Not Disturb!
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