[Jelena]

Originally Posted by tsa

1. How many hours do you spend on [insert local winter festivity involving presents] shopping?
2. Do you like [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?
3. Will you see your parents or other family during [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?

1. So far 0.5 h. I plan to do the Christmas shopping as fast as possible.
2. I still have a hard time with Christmas, trying to feel the joy though.
3. Not much. I'll most likely meet up with my sister and family before Christmas, but during the actual holidays I'll be home with hubby and children.

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1. What's your favourite food for [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?
2. What's your favourite [insert local winter festivity involving presents]-tradition?
3. What do you plan on giving on [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

So, to answer your question, I'm not sure, but I think the answer might be here: *HUGS*

Thank you, sweetheart. *HUGS BACK*

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What's your favourite food for [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?
2. What's your favourite [insert local winter festivity involving presents]-tradition?
3. What do you plan on giving on [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?

1. Besides the usual turkey & mashed potatoes-type fare, which is always a classic, I'm also partial to arroz caldo, due to my Filipina heritage.
2. Contact sports. (I'm serious.)
3. It depends who I get in the annual gift exchange draw.

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1. What's the weirdest gift you've ever received?
2. Do you follow gender stereotypes when buying gifts for children, or do you ignore them? (If there aren't any children in your life who you buy gifts for, pretend there are.)
3. What's the first ending you got in the Haircut choose-your-own-adventure song? (You can put it in a spoiler tag if you're so inclined.)

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by tsa

1. How many hours do you spend on [insert local winter festivity involving presents] shopping?
2. Do you like [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?
3. Will you see your parents or other family during [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?

1. As few as possible. I abhor shopping in general, and Christmas shopping always makes me extra-angsty.
2. I kind of like Christmas, but I'm leaning more towards Cephalopodmas this year.
3. Probably. If I don't make at least a brief appearance, I'll be disowned and my vast inheritance will go to my ne'er-do-well biker sister.

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What's your favourite food for [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?
2. What's your favourite [insert local winter festivity involving presents]-tradition?
3. What do you plan on giving on [insert local winter festivity involving presents]?

1. I'm so boring. I love roast turkey with stuffing and cranberries. I probably can expect ham and potatoes.
2. The aprés-dinner orgy. What? You don't have that?
3. A CD of new music, written, performed and recorded largely by me.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What's the weirdest gift you've ever received?
2. Do you follow gender stereotypes when buying gifts for children, or do you ignore them? (If there aren't any children in your life who you buy gifts for, pretend there are.)
3. What's the first ending you got in the Haircut choose-your-own-adventure song? (You can put it in a spoiler tag if you're so inclined.)

1. I'm having trouble recalling every present I've ever received (they say memory's the first thing to go. At least, that's what I recall them saying. Or was it earrings?), but the weirdest present I remember receiving was a small rubber Killer Tomato, which served absolutely no practical purpose that I've been able to devise in the last sixteen years of ownership. Kind of like a BA in English.
2. I don't buy gifts for children. however, on those rare occasions in the past when I have partaken of such folly, I seem to recall buying fairly gender-neutral Sesame Street-type stuff.
3. I regret to inform you that I apparently banged Oprah. *sigh* Now, if it had been Whoopie Goldberg...
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1) Do you really care if anyone gives you anything for [insert gift giving holiday here] this year?
2) Do you think I care?
3) Do you want me to send you the album, or not?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

The aprés-dinner orgy. What? You don't have that?

Considering I usually spend Christmas with blood relatives, my first reaction was EW EW DO NOT WANT. Then, I realised it's a little bit sad that I've never actually spent Christmas with a lover before. Oh well, could be worse.

...besides, aren't you supposed to wait at least 30 minutes?

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

I regret to inform you that I apparently banged Oprah. *sigh* Now, if it had been Whoopie Goldberg...

That's my least favourite ending, I think. I myself got my boobs signed by Hugh Laurie and was like "yay, it didn't assume I'm a dude!" until I saw the other endings. Still, fun times. Trapezoid's still got it, and it's hard to believe the animutation era was a decade ago.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) Do you really care if anyone gives you anything for [insert gift giving holiday here] this year?
2) Do you think I care?
3) Do you want me to send you the album, or not?

1. Not really, but I'd appreciate the sentiment behind it.
2. I think you care to the extent that it's your loved ones letting you know they love you, if anything.
3. YES YES SEND IT TO ME.

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1. Are you eagerly awaiting Lee's album, too?
2. What's your favourite thing to read in the bathroom?
3. If you were an ugly Christmas sweater, what colour(s) would you be?

[Aahzmandus]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Are you eagerly awaiting Lee's album, too?
2. What's your favourite thing to read in the bathroom?
3. If you were an ugly Christmas sweater, what colour(s) would you be?

A:

1. No, I honestly can't say that I do.
2. Currently, it's another one of Robert Asprin's MYTH novels.
3. Pink, for sure.

Q:

1. Name one thing you like to eat, that everyone else finds disgusting.
2. In a perfect world, who would you sleep with?
3. If you don't mind me asking, what's your favorite drug/medicine?

[Squinky]

1. My own boogers. What? Why are you looking at me like that?
2. Interesting, inspiring dreams that I can remember afterwards.
3. Music.

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1. If you could change your eye colour, what would you change it to?
2. If there were some technology that allowed you to get a bachelor's degree in anything by implanting all the relevant knowledge into your brain in seconds, what would you get it in?
3. If someone you found attractive suddenly grew facial tentacles, would you still find them attractive?

[Trunkyo]

1. Ice blue, violet or Eternal Mangekyô Sharingan (extreme Naruto reference). Sorry, I can't decide.
2. A BA in BA (Bad-Assitude) or Kelp Harvesting Technology.
3. Yes, once I overcame the initial shock and horror. We'd have very interesting Christmas card photos, and, since I'm very ticklish, I'd derive more um... intense physical pleasure because of the almost-involuntary wriggling of said tentacles. What? Why are you looking at me like that?

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1. What's the best way to convince someone to finally switch from dial-up to high-speed/broadband internet (besides mentioning faster downloading of porn or bootleg movies)?
2. Is there an effective way to squash Bieber fever sooner, short of squashing Justin Bieber himself?
3. Is the decline in sending out physical Christmas cards regrettable?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Trunkyo

1. What's the best way to convince someone to finally switch from dial-up to high-speed/broadband internet (besides mentioning faster downloading of porn or bootleg movies)?
2. Is there an effective way to squash Bieber fever sooner, short of squashing Justin Bieber himself?
3. Is the decline in sending out physical Christmas cards regrettable?

1. Just tell 'em that dial-up is sooooo 1990s! We live in the teenage years of the 21st century now. Go with the times!
2. Give everyone a Justin Bieber doll!
3. Yes, I like paper Christmas cards. You can hang them up

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1. Why do people go all wild over someone like Justin Bieber?
2. Did you ever get aroused by a piece of technology?
3. Does the audio- and video quality of your A/V equipment matter much to you?

[Hammerite]

1. It's hardly surprising given the shit people go wild over.
2. Not aroused in that sense. If in the sense of "ah, my interest has been piqued!" then yeah, plenty of times.
3. Not really, but I obviously prefer better quality; and dislike terrible quality.
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1. In what environment do you feel most comfortable?
2. What piece of technology or equipment do you find the most impacting on what you do in your life?
3. What would you say makes good art, music, literature?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) Do you really care if anyone gives you anything for [insert gift giving holiday here] this year?
2) Do you think I care?
3) Do you want me to send you the album, or not?

1. There are three people I would kind of like to receive gifts from, but I'm not fussy. If I don't receive any gifts, I'll be just fine with that, especially considering my own financial state.
2. Of course. You just want people to think you don't care. Tosser.
3. No. Please, no.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Are you eagerly awaiting Lee's album, too?
2. What's your favourite thing to read in the bathroom?
3. If you were an ugly Christmas sweater, what colour(s) would you be?

1. Not in the slightest. Wanker probably won't finish it.
2. I don't read in the bathroom. In fact, I hardly read at all anymore.
3. Grass green with reindeer crocheted on it.

Originally Posted by Aahzmandus

1. Name one thing you like to eat, that everyone else finds disgusting.
2. In a perfect world, who would you sleep with?
3. If you don't mind me asking, what's your favorite drug/medicine?

1. Christmas cake.
2. Everyone, because in a perfect world, everyone would be totally up for it.
3. Guinness or single malt scotch.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. If you could change your eye colour, what would you change it to?
2. If there were some technology that allowed you to get a bachelor's degree in anything by implanting all the relevant knowledge into your brain in seconds, what would you get it in?
3. If someone you found attractive suddenly grew facial tentacles, would you still find them attractive?

1. I honestly don't think I would. I actually really like my eye colour. I think it makes me look intense and mysterious. That said, I'd probably be prettier if I had stormy grey-blue eyes.
2. Any damned organ it worked best in. I'd totally go in for higher learning out of the box.
3. Well, probably, but I have to admit, I'd feel a little weird about kissing them... until we got to the oral sex. Then I'd be a complete convert.

Originally Posted by Trunkyo

1. What's the best way to convince someone to finally switch from dial-up to high-speed/broadband internet (besides mentioning faster downloading of porn or bootleg movies)?
2. Is there an effective way to squash Bieber fever sooner, short of squashing Justin Bieber himself?
3. Is the decline in sending out physical Christmas cards regrettable?

1. Promise them that I will write them a song and dedicate the video to them, but they have to get broadband to see it.
2. No. Bieber Fever will only be cured with blood sacrifice.
3. Probably, but it's kind of a delicate issue for me, because up until a few years ago, I used to draw and send out my own special Christmas cards, until I started to choke at the drawing table. I haven't sent a proper Christmas card since something like 2005 or thereabouts. *hangs head in shame*

Originally Posted by tsa

1. Why do people go all wild over someone like Justin Bieber?
2. Did you ever get aroused by a piece of technology?
3. Does the audio- and video quality of your A/V equipment matter much to you?

1. I don't think anyone is crazy about Justin Bieber. I honestly believe it's just a fad that lots of folks on the internet have latched onto because they were looking for the latest disposable celeb to plotz over. In another year, everyone will have forgotten about Bieber and Lady Gaga and moved onto something else just as insipid and pointless. And my album will be almost completely ignored, not because it's good or bad but simply because there's nothing glamourous about me. I'm a slightly overweight, slightly balding, over-the-hill second generation hippy with the beginnings of grey hair, a history of mild mental instability, and an incomplete demo pop album to peddle. Compared to that Beiber sounds delicious.
2. Hmm. I think the first time I saw my multi-track, I got a little aroused. Then I learned how high-maintenance it is, and the bloom was off the rose.
3. I'm not a true audiophile, but decent sound equipment is important to me. I'm also fairly fussy without being spectacularly so about my computer equipment, which I use to do commercial graphic design. that's about as important as video quality ever gets for me, although it IS nice to see certain video games in high resolution glory.

Originally Posted by Hammerite

1. In what environment do you feel most comfortable?
2. What piece of technology or equipment do you find the most impacting on what you do in your life?
3. What would you say makes good art, music, literature?

1. Oxygen-rich, I find, is necessary for my comfort levels and ability to be productive, and, you know, not dead.
2. My computer, hands down. I place great stock in my multi-track and my guitars and other musical instruments, and I certainly appreciate having a television set with lots of movies and great television series to watch more than I used to. But my computer is indispensable to my way of life. I'm not embarrassed to admit I'd be severely handicapped without it.
3. Learning to give yourself permission to play. Nothing else communicates as well as the ability to capture the art of play. Have. Fun.
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1) Have you ever just picked up a tool, instrument or piece of equipment and been able to do great stuff without with very little practice or effort?
2) How young were you when you discovered your most favourite hobby or pursuit?
3) Have you ever wondered if you might be more sexually promiscuous in a world where you knew you couldn't get sick or hurt?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

Christmas cake.

Like the Japanese kind? Well, you have expressed a preference for older women, and I did just turn 25...

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

I actually really like my eye colour. I think it makes me look intense and mysterious.

I like your natural eye colour, too, if only because it's the same as mine.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

Well, probably, but I have to admit, I'd feel a little weird about kissing them... until we got to the oral sex. Then I'd be a complete convert.

*giggles*

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

And my album will be almost completely ignored, not because it's good or bad but simply because there's nothing glamourous about me. I'm a slightly overweight, slightly balding, over-the-hill second generation hippy with the beginnings of grey hair, a history of mild mental instability, and an incomplete demo pop album to peddle. Compared to that Beiber sounds delicious.

And yet, I still like what I've heard of your album way better than anything I've heard from the Bieb™. Well, except for when they slowed him down 600% and he sounded like Sigur Rós. That was kind of cool. But still, slightly unstable grey-haired man is teh sexy.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) Have you ever just picked up a tool, instrument or piece of equipment and been able to do great stuff without with very little practice or effort?
2) How young were you when you discovered your most favourite hobby or pursuit?
3) Have you ever wondered if you might be more sexually promiscuous in a world where you knew you couldn't get sick or hurt?

1. Nope. Socially awkward as I am, I can't even be an autistic savant to compensate; everything has to take practice and effort. *hangs head in shame*
2. I learned to read when I was 3. The rest naturally followed from that.
3. Yes. In fact, that would make things extremely convenient. The only thing I'd have to worry about would be boredom.

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1. Do you like it when characters in fiction talk like real people do, or do you prefer their words to have a certain authored style and substance to them?
2. How much of the author's presence do you like to see (or hear, or whatever) in your fiction?
3. Do you think you could live a fulfilling life as a stay at home parent, if it meant you'd still be able to pursue your favourite hobbies?

[Hammerite]

1. I like both equally probably -- for example, I love the use of improvisation in some realist films and how that creates the sense of real people talking; but another thing I love almost equally is stuff like the work of Chris Morris, where characters sometimes say things bizarrely surreal (e.g. a news reporter saying that a convicted paedophile was "quadrospazzed on a lifeglug").

2. I like the sort of auteur theory where you can determine certain signifiers of an author/director/whatever's style. I can't really think of many examples, though at the mo.

3. Depends how stay-at-home you meant -- if it meant never leaving the house and just looking after the kids, then not really. The ideal relationship pour moi would be one where this sort of stuff is divided equally. Won't be having to worry about that for quite a while, though.
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1. Would anyone be interested in hearing my musical endeavours?

2. To what extent are you interested in experimental music/art/cinema/whatev?

3. What's one game or film or book that you keep coming back to?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) Have you ever just picked up a tool, instrument or piece of equipment and been able to do great stuff with very little practice or effort?
2) How young were you when you discovered your most favourite hobby or pursuit?
3) Have you ever wondered if you might be more sexually promiscuous in a world where you knew you couldn't get sick or hurt?

1. I used to be pretty good at picking up new musical instruments, although I never got the hand of flute. Same went for art and writing. These days, I'm happy if I can pick up something I used to be pretty good at and not embarrass myself completely.
2. I was probably eight when I discovered writing and art, and I'm sure music wasn't far behind those, though I didn't start making music of my own until my mid-teens. Which is sad, because I had a guitar and a little Bontempi organ when I was a kid, but couldn't play them for the life of me. I'm sure it was a disappointment to my step-dad, who probably hoped I'd be the next <insert 70's rock icon here>.
3. Actually, I've slowed down a great deal, but I was pretty promiscuous in my twenties, and I had none of those assurances. That said, if it were still acceptable, I would probably have a few lovers, so long as there wasn't any serious drama involved.

Originally Posted by Squinky

Like the Japanese kind? Well, you have expressed a preference for older women, and I did just turn 25...

I won't lie. the fact that you're a little older now actually does make you even more appealing to me. That said, there's still a certain naughty charm to the notion that you're almost fifteen years younger than me.

Originally Posted by Squinky

*giggles*

I should warn you, your girlish giggling is arousing my face tentacles.

Originally Posted by Squinky

Well, except for when they slowed him down 600% and he sounded like Sigur Rós.

That does sound pretty cool. I don't have anything that sounds as cool as Sigur Ros. Well, at least, not as cool as their first album. And thank you, dear.

Originally Posted by Squinky

3. Yes. In fact, that would make things extremely convenient. The only thing I'd have to worry about would be boredom.

Not if I could help it.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Do you like it when characters in fiction talk like real people do, or do you prefer their words to have a certain authored style and substance to them?
2. How much of the author's presence do you like to see (or hear, or whatever) in your fiction?
3. Do you think you could live a fulfilling life as a stay at home parent, if it meant you'd still be able to pursue your favourite hobbies?

1. I think different writers approach dialogue differently, and the fashionable trend of the time for dialogue writing really shouldn't figure into it too much. I suppose we're still in a 'brief and snappy' phase, particularly in comics (or so I remember; I've been falling behind over the last few years), but I don't mind expository dialogue if it's done well, and I certainly don't mind authorial voice if it's not too preachy. YMMV.
2. Personally, I don't read habitually, so when I do read, I prefer the tone to be an interesting and memorable one. The last book I read front to back was Terry Pratchett, and I'm currently rereading Genesis: Chapter and Verse, a biography of the band written in their own words. So while my training as a writer insists that people want to read stories with as little authorial presence as possible, my actual preferences seem to indicate that this is a fallacy, and that most folks really want as much authorial presence as possible, so long as they're not boring.
3. Well, I actually have some experience with that, helping to raise an ex-girlfriend's child while I worked on music, and while I must say it wasn't easy making the time for both, and would probably be much harder if I tried it today with my medication and such, I'd say it's not undoable. Why? Were you thinking of getting me pregnant?

Originally Posted by Hammerite

1. Would anyone be interested in hearing my musical endeavours?
2. To what extent are you interested in experimental music/art/cinema/whatev?
3. What's one game or film or book that you keep coming back to?

1. Sure!
2. Not as interested as I used to be, but I used to be very keen, so I feel like I've put in my time and understand what I'm seeing/hearing when I come across new experiments.
3. It used to be Myst, Brazil or Blade Runner, and The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, but these days, I'd say I default to Doctor Who. Being married to a woman who bores easily makes repeated viewings difficult.
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1) If someone you loved suddenly grew face tentacles, would you kiss them just to see if you liked it?
2) If you woke up in a Dystopian future, what story world would you hope it was most closely modelled after (regardless of how difficult/scary that world might be)?
3) If you lived in a dystopian future world with a lover who had face tentacles, would you run away and live in the underworld, or would you stay at home and make little tentacle-faced babies and collaborate on future creative projects with your highly prodigious lover?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Hammerite

1. Would anyone be interested in hearing my musical endeavours?
2. To what extent are you interested in experimental music/art/cinema/whatev?
3. What's one game or film or book that you keep coming back to?

1. Sure. What you've posted of your work so far was pretty cool, as I remember.
2. I'm all for experimental, but not really a fan of poseurs who try too hard to be "edgy".
3. These days, it's Echo Bazaar. Up until a couple weeks or so ago, it was Life Flashes By, because, well, I was making it.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

I used to be pretty good at picking up new musical instruments, although I never got the hang of flute.

I don't blame you. Flute is haaard.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

I won't lie. the fact that you're a little older now actually does make you even more appealing to me. That said, there's still a certain naughty charm to the notion that you're almost fifteen years younger than me.

Well, fortunately for you, I'll only be getting even older from here on out, while still continuing to be almost fifteen years younger than you. Meanwhile, I get to see you turn into a silver fox. Everybody wins!

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) If someone you loved suddenly grew face tentacles, would you kiss them just to see if you liked it?
2) If you woke up in a Dystopian future, what story world would you hope it was most closely modelled after (regardless of how difficult/scary that world might be)?
3) If you lived in a dystopian future world with a lover who had face tentacles, would you run away and live in the underworld, or would you stay at home and make little tentacle-faced babies and collaborate on future creative projects with your highly prodigious lover?

1. I would. I've always loved eating squid and octopus, anyway.
2. Futurama!
3. The thought of making creative projects and collaborating on tentacle-faced babies together appeals to me very much, dear.

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1. Do you find it easier to fall in love with people when they show emotional vulnerability?
2. In the movie of your life, who would play your love interest?
3. Would you ever (temporarily or permanently) switch reproductive organs with your (real or hypothetical) partner, if the technology existed?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Everybody wins!

Yay for our team!

Originally Posted by Squinky

3. The thought of making creative projects and collaborating on tentacle-faced babies together appeals to me very much, dear.

Oh my. *HUGE HUGS*

I'm gonna let somebody else have a turn at your questions before I give my answers.

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Do you find it easier to fall in love with people when they show emotional vulnerability?
2. In the movie of your life, who would play your love interest?
3. Would you ever (temporarily or permanently) switch reproductive organs with your (real or hypothetical) partner, if the technology existed?

1. It's been so long ago since I fell in love, but from what I remember: no.
2. Hrm...George Clooney would manage to play the coolest man on earth fairly well I guess.
3. It would be interesting to try out a penis, at least once.

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1. In the movie of your life, who would play your mum?
2. In the movie of your life, who would play you?
3. What would be the title of the movie of your life?

[Giligan]

Originally Posted by Jelena

3. It would be interesting to try out a penis, at least once.

THAT is what she said.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. In the movie of your life, who would play your mum?
2. In the movie of your life, who would play you?
3. What would be the title of the movie of your life?

1. Sally Field.
2. Gérard Depardieu.
3. Somewhere in Tome.

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1. Art or love?
2. Art or life?
3. Art or science?

[tsa]

Love, life, and science.

It's 4:40 AM. I'm not going to make up questions at this hour.

[bulldog]

Love
Life
Science

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1. Is there leife after death?
2. Do you believe in ghost ?
3. What scares you ?