[Panthera]

Originally Posted by Jelena

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1. What are your thoughts about donating your organs (from your body, just saying...) for transplantation after you've died?
2. Are you a blood donor? Why/why not?
3. Why doesn't this winter end?

1. I have a hard time deciding this one. I want to donate my body to science, but do I want to donate the organs first? I have no use for my organs when dead, and I don't want to be buried, but the cynic in me thinks medical science has reach a place were we just heal too many, fanning the over-population problem and creating worse and worse strains of resistant diseases.

That makes me sound like a bastard I know, and my compassionate side would love to save somebody's life (and a possible pig's life as they wouldn't use a pig organ if they had mine). At the moment I have not filled out a donor card, but I have told family that I want my body donated and then cremated.

2. I'm not a blood donor for three rather natural reasons; 1. I've suffered and still occasionally suffer from iron deficiency/anemia, 2. I'm terrified of needles, 3. I have small and deep veins that most nurses never hit the first times they try to draw my blood (and that hurts!)

3. Somebody killed the groundhogs


1. Why can't I bake? I cook well and like making food, but everything I try to bake is ruined
2. What do you think of training games, like the balance board for Wii?
3. How cold is too cold?

[Isak]

Originally Posted by Panthera

1. Why can't I bake? I cook well and like making food, but everything I try to bake is ruined
2. What do you think of training games, like the balance board for Wii?
3. How cold is too cold?

1. Becasue you follow a recipe exactly how it's written. Or maybe your oven just sucks.
2. They seem ok to me, although I'd like my workouts at the gym. But it's a good alternative for those who doesn't want to visit a gym or such.

3. Below -5 Celsius is too cold. At the moment it's - 20 C here in Stockholm. Now THAT is cold

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1. What do you think about apartments that is furnished almost completely by only one store? For example: an apartment that looks like something taken from the IKEA catalouge - good or bad?

2. Like i mentioned earlier. It is currently - 20 C in Stockholm.
What is the lowest temperature you have experienced when being outdoors?

3. In which month and when (start-mid-end of month) does the winter end in the city/area you live in?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by tsa

1. What do you think about harsh interrogation methods?
2. What do you think about sending prisoners of war to friends whilst knowing these prisoners will be tortured?
3. Should Bush be tried for his crimes against humanity?

1. They are wrong, but it's a hard lien to draw if you believe in interrogation at all.
2. Wrong.
3. Yes. Won't happen, but yes, he should.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Am I bothering you?
2. How do I keep myself from feeling sad when I see cutesy people in love?
3. Have you ever worn a corset? If not, would you?

1. Not in the least.
2. *HUGS*
3. No, and I'm not sure I ever would, for any reason.

Originally Posted by tsa

1. My bunny Annabel looks a bit like a panda bear in the sense that she is also black and white and has those black spots around her eyes. Why do I love Annabel while I hate panda bears with a passion?
2. When was the last time you thought rationally?
3. When was the last time you spoke your mind to someone and told that person what you thought about him/her?

1. I think Annabel is your gateway into learning to love Pandas.
2. ??
3. It's been a while.

Originally Posted by Isak

1. A male barber shaves all and only those men who do not shave themselves. Does he shave himself?
2. Why is the night sky black if there is an infinity of stars?
3. Should one tolerate intolerance; if intolerance would destroy the possibility of tolerance?

1. o_O
2. There is a cosmic thief who steals all of the light from the night sky, so that I can sleep.
3. o_O

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. You have to write something of a certain word count. Generally speaking, do you tend to go over or under?
2. What's something you tolerate, but don't accept?
3. What makes you feel better in the morning: a good breakfast, or an extra hour of sleep?

1. It's different every time, but I have noticed that, when writing longer forms of fiction, I sometimes sail well past the given word count limit.
2. Ignorance.
3. You forgot oral sex again, hon.

Originally Posted by stepurhan

1. You can give everyone in the world an instruction that they have to obey. You have 10 words or less. What instruction do you give?
2. What person/cause would you be willing to sacrifice your life for (if any)?
3. What is your favourite dessert? (Let's finish on a lighter note )

1. Stop being an asshole and think about what you're doing.
2. I already have given my life to the pursuit of truth, beauty and love. It's just taking a while for the waiter to come collect the tab.
3. Ice cream.

Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

1. Do you prefer to watch/read friendships or relationships?
2. If you could get rid of one prejudice view in the world, what would it be? (Race, Age, Gender, Sexual preference, etc?)
3. Do you like me? (That's right, I asked it. lol) And to go along with that, what do you like about me, or dislike if you don't like me...lol

1. I prefer to be in them.
2. I would get rid of the prejudice against people thinking for themselves.
3. Sure! I think you're neat and sweet.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. How many keys are on your keychain, and what are they for?
2. What was the best (or least annoying, depending) pop song of the last decade?
3. Have you ever eaten at a restaurant alone?

1. Three: apartment key, mailbox key, and laundry room key.
2. Paul McCartney - Fine Line
3. Yes, but it's not as much fun... unless you're getting over Bad Love, in which case it's a healing thing.

Originally Posted by bulldog

1. Have you ever done something that you regretted just as soon as you did it ?
2. Do you enjoy Science ? Why ?
3. Do you think monkyes are cute ?

1. Almost always.
2. I'm not sure if I 'enjoy' science per se, but I definitely prefer it to most other non-story-based explanations of how things work.
3. Yeah. I'm still not letting you bring one home, though.

Originally Posted by tsa

1. Why did the chicken cross the road?
2. When is a bus not a bus?
3. If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to listen, does it make a sound?

1. Because someone had removed its eyes, so it had no idea where it was going.
2. o_O
3. Yes. Science, dammit!

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Tell me something that is a complete lie.
2. Tell me something that is a partial lie.
3. Tell me something that is completely true.

1. I hate women.
2. I'm afraid to show my feelings.
3. I don't really fall out of love.

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What are your thoughts about donating your organs (from your body, just saying...) for transplantation after you've died?
2. Are you a blood donor? Why/why not?
3. Why doesn't this winter end?

1. I'm signed up to donate my organs should I die in an accident.
2. No, because clinical loss of blood makes me faint.
3. Because it keeps falling in the wrong location.

Originally Posted by Panthera

1. Why can't I bake? I cook well and like making food, but everything I try to bake is ruined
2. What do you think of training games, like the balance board for Wii?
3. How cold is too cold?

1. Baking requires patience and a really good feel for dough.
2. I hate the Wii's idea of balance games.
3. Bright sunny day, minus 10 degrees Celsius (or below), minus 15 (or lower) with the wind chill factor. I love winter, but I hate those days.

Originally Posted by Isak

1. What do you think about apartments that is furnished almost completely by only one store? For example: an apartment that looks like something taken from the IKEA catalouge - good or bad?
2. Like i mentioned earlier. It is currently - 20 C in Stockholm.
What is the lowest temperature you have experienced when being outdoors?
3. In which month and when (start-mid-end of month) does the winter end in the city/area you live in?

1. My bedroom is almost entirely IKEA, and I love it. You have to choose wisely, though.
2. I can't remember, but I've had some brutally cold lows. the worst in recent memory was a handful of years ago working at a recycling plant through the night under freezing conditions. One guy got frostbite, and I developed a horrible cold that eventually knocked me out of the job. Never again.
3. Generally, mid-to-late April.
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1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

1. It's almost impossible to answer this question. There are so many songs that have meant much to me through the years. One of them is Teo Torriate by Queen. That's my choice today.
2. One of the most amazing books I ever read is called Den vidunderliga kärlekens historia by Carl-Johan Vallgren. The English title is Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred which is quite far from the Swedish title that translates more like: The history of marvellous love.
3. Easier to answer:
Diva by Jean-Jaques Beineix

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It's not out of laziness I'm using Lee's questions again. I'd love to see answers from more than just me.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

[Intense Degree]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

1. I'm with Jelena in that there are so many, and the answer is likely to change day to day. Many of the songs that I really loved as a teenager are no longer my favourites on their respective albums, and many of the songs that "got me into" different genres etc. I don't listen to so much anymore.

As far as a song that I have loved consistently over a number of years goes, I'll go for "An ode to no-one" by Smashing Pumpkins.

2. In all honesty I would have to say the Bible. If that is disallowed under the "Radio 4 Desert Island Discs Princple"(!) then either Lord of the Rings or one of Asimov's "Foundation" books.

3. Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. Beautiful.

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Lee's questions are simply too good to die here!

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

[Isak]

Originally Posted by Intense Degree

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

1. No point even asking. There no favorite song. There are songs.

2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle / Kafka On The Shore - Murakami

3. Vanilla Sky

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1. What do you think the worst part of being blind is?

2. How do you eat your Snicker; by your hands or by knife and fork?

3. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Isak

1. What do you think the worst part of being blind is?

2. How do you eat your Snicker; by your hands or by knife and fork?

3. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?

1. Not being able to use a computer with ease.

2. I never eat Snickers; far too sweet for my taste.

3. Because Pengiuns live on the other side of the world. Smartypants

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1. What did you want to be when you were a kid?

2. What do you think of making your hobby your job?

3. How about a radical career change like Jelena did?

[Squinky]

1. An older kid.
2. I would if music were more lucrative than tech stuff.
3. It's possible, if I ever get bored enough. But that time is not now.

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1. What were you afraid of when you were a kid?
2. When was the last time you ate a burger?
3. When was the last time you peed your pants?

[Panthera]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What were you afraid of when you were a kid?
2. When was the last time you ate a burger?
3. When was the last time you peed your pants?

1. The nothing from The Neverending Story! I was certain that if I had anything outside the bed (because the nothing only reached up to the mattress) it would disappear like it did with the nothing people.

2. I had a fish burger a few days ago, because we were hungry and far from home. Since I don't eat meat (only fish and (free-range) egg) I have never had an actual hamburger.

3. Err, can't remember? I'm fortunate enough to have a party bladder, so it would probably be some time in secondary school when I'd gone the whole day without going to the toilet (not using public bathrooms, no way!) and somebody made me laugh really bad.

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1. How are you spending your Easter holiday?
2. What type of cuisine would you be happy eating the rest of your life?
3. One part of your childhood that has stuck with you ever since?

[Squinky]

1. You know, I have no idea! Easter isn't that big a holiday where I come from. I think I'd spend it like any other long weekend: relaxing at home, playing band gigs where applicable, or visiting my family.
2. A variety of things that are delicious, filling, and hopefully healthy. Especially sushi.
3. Low self-esteem?

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1. What's your favourite caffeinated beverage?
2. Do you consume drinks/food with artificial sweeteners?
3. Have you ever made up a new word that caught on with people you know?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Intense Degree

1. What is your most favourite song of all time?
2. What is your most favourite book of all time?
3. What is your most favourite movie of all time?

1. I have trouble with this one, too, folks. However, though several songs rush to the front to be considered, I suspect the one closest to my heart is this.
2. It used to be The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, which is still a wonderful book, but somehow, it just doesn't seem to command my attention as much as it used to. I think my favourite book now is one of mine: Terminal Monday.
3. This one seems to have changed, too, though in a weird way that's hard to explain. It used to be a toss-up between Blade Runner and Brazil, which are both still very important movies to me. However, I think the 'movie' that is most important to me now doesn't actually exist yet, except in my mind, and will probably only ever make it as far as a plan with some scenery and dialogue written to illustrate what I'm thinking about. I have this very tricky idea for an MMO based on all those classic adventure movies, and that idea seems to be eating up all of my brainspace for favourite movies right now.

Originally Posted by Isak

1. What do you think the worst part of being blind is?
2. How do you eat your Snicker; by your hands or by knife and fork?
3. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?

1. Not seeing her smile.
2. I rarely eat Snickers bars, but when I do, it is by hand.
3. Because penguins live in the Antarctic.

Originally Posted by tsa

1. What did you want to be when you were a kid?
2. What do you think of making your hobby your job?
3. How about a radical career change like Jelena did?

1. Charles M. Schulz.
2. Hobby? What is this 'hobby' you speak of?
3. That seems to happen to me about every ten years without fail.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What were you afraid of when you were a kid?
2. When was the last time you ate a burger?
3. When was the last time you peed your pants?

1. Flying insects.
2. Probably some time last week or the week before.
3. I suspect it was back when I was a schoolboy. When I was very young, I had a bit of trouble with bladder control.

Originally Posted by Panthera

1. How are you spending your Easter holiday?
2. What type of cuisine would you be happy eating the rest of your life?
3. One part of your childhood that has stuck with you ever since?

1. Quietly, no doubt.
2. Canadian.
3. My love of making up stuff.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What's your favourite caffeinated beverage?
2. Do you consume drinks/food with artificial sweeteners?
3. Have you ever made up a new word that caught on with people you know?

1. tea, followed closely by Coke.
2. Not if I can help it. I also don't like HFCS.
3. Not that I know of. I've always sort of hoped that MetFall might, though.
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1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

[Panthera]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

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1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

(I know I just answered some questions, I just really wanted to answer these)

1. I think it is of a song group/kinder garden I attended in Sweden when I lived there from I was 2-4. I remember a room, a female teacher and us singing children's rhymes. Other than that I mostly remember my early years in my grandmother's garden (Horten), climbing trees and "rescuing" snails I kept in a little house in my bedroom. (yup, still scared there are snails there to this day)

2. I'm not sure I have a singular, distinct one, but my childhood in Horten before we moved to Bodo (north in Norway) always seems so sunny and care-free.

3. Some might think this is a bit silly, but I have to say the first day my current boy friend and I spent together after we stepped over the "just friends" barrier.
First I must explain that I have had trouble saying no or hurting people all my life, so most of my boy friends have been people I've not been that interested in, but who asked me..

I had been interested in my (now) bf for ages, and in love with him the last six months (before we got together), but unfortunately I had been in a recently ended relationship with his best friend (read, he asked me "is it okay if I tell people we are together" after having kissed and then not talked in 3 days, I couldn't bring myself to hurt him and said yes. Then all his friend were ecstatic over him finally having found someone, and having a real relationship, etc, I didn't find a way out before after 6 months) so there were some boundaries there.

We had gone to the cinema as friends, where I very subtly tried out the boundaries, and we ended up holding hands. He followed me home, I invited him in, and we ended up kissing, all through the night ('Not hyperbole, my lips were raw). The next day (he spent the night, just sleeping) it just seemed natural, no dating, no getting to know each other (we had been friends around 8 months), it was like our latent feelings had just been allowed freedom, and we were together.
I just remember the next morning as really sunny, we went out together to eat lunch at a restaurant, and couldn't take our eyes or hands of each other, giggling all the time.

We've spent nearly every day together since, and moved together two months after.
Our one year anniversary is coming up; the 12th of April.

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And since I really liked these questions and you deserve them for reading through that wall of text, I'm recycling Lee in Limbo's questions:

1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Panthera

1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

1. I have a faint memory of playing in my room when I was a small child. I can see the room in front of me, but that's about it.
2. I have fond memories of my summer holidays at my grandparents' who lived in a tiny village in the very north of Sweden right by the Finnish border. Those summers were great since all my aunts and uncles and cousins were there too. Lots of kids to play with and the lake with a small beach within a few minutes walk. Absolutely perfect!
3. I can't pick a single day, but all those occasions where my family and I have done something fun together are really special to me. Last Christmas holiday were 16 great days for instance. It's not often one get, as a parent to almost grown up children, the chance to really spend lots of time together for so many days in a row.

Lee's questions deserve to be answered by yet another forumite. They're interesting.

1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Panthera

1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

1. I was two or three years old and stepping on snails. They made interesting crackling sounds.
2. Playing with my friends and our toys.
3. September 23, 1999; the day I got my Ph.D. I'm proud to have achieved that.

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I like those questions too and will pass them on again:

1) What is your earliest memory?
2) What is your favourite childhood memory?
3) What has been your very best day so far?

[Squinky]

1. The earliest memory that I have that isn't assisted by photographs or family anecdotes is of my Montessori school circa 1989, at age 3. I know it was 1989 because my teacher would always tell us the date at the beginning of class.
2. Playing the lead in a school play and getting a standing ovation for it, and actually experiencing how it felt to be liked by my classmates for the next few weeks.
3. I think any one of the days during the week I went to Hawaii for a band trip, circa March 2001. (Also, I can't believe that was ten years ago. OMG.)

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1. Would you be a child again, if you could?
2. Would you be a teenager again, if you could?
3. Would you let one of your younger selves inhabit your current body for a few days, if you could?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Would you be a child again, if you could?
2. Would you be a teenager again, if you could?
3. Would you let one of your younger selves inhabit your current body for a few days, if you could?

1. No, no, no! Been there, done that, have had kids of my own.
2. No again, for the same reason as above.
3. No. I believe all the agonies and hardships of growing up is necessary. Being able to get a glimpse of the future would alter it anyway. Don't want to mess up the space time continuum.

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1. What disease do you fear the most?
2. What animal do you fear the most?
3. What kind of people do you fear the most?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What disease do you fear the most?
2. What animal do you fear the most?
3. What kind of people do you fear the most?

1. Cancer
2. That's a hard one. I could answer something like Lions or Crocodiles, but they are far away. So I guess I have to answer with: goats that are carrying Q-fever. They are a real danger here in the Netherlands.
3. I don't like people who openly show their religion with the help of beards, kippahs etc.

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I like Jelena's questions and pass them on to the next person:

1. What disease do you fear the most?
2. What animal do you fear the most?
3. What kind of people do you fear the most?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by tsa

1. What disease do you fear the most?
2. What animal do you fear the most?
3. What kind of people do you fear the most?

1. Prejudice.
2. Humans.
3. The kinds of people who could do horrible things to me and no one would believe me when I told them, because the perpetrators do such a good job of being affable and well-liked in their communities that the idea of them committing a crime would be unthinkable; therefore, the community in question would think me some kind of harlot who's making it all up for the attention and I'd never feel safe ever again.

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1. Do you look young for your age, old for your age, or exactly your age?
2. Would you like to look younger/older for your age?
3. If I think twenty/thirtysomething women who look like teenage boys are hot, does that make me a cougar?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Do you look young for your age, old for your age, or exactly your age?
2. Would you like to look younger/older for your age?
3. If I think twenty/thirtysomething women who look like teenage boys are hot, does that make me a cougar?

1. I think I look pretty much exactly my age.
2. I wouldn't mind looking younger again. It's not fun at all to see and feel all the signs in your face and body that you're growing older.
2. Aren't cougars supposed to be thirty to fortysomething? I think you're too young to be a cougar.

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1. What age group do you find most attractive?
2. What style of clothing do you find most attractive?
3. Is being attractive important to you?

[beat!the!champ!]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What age group do you find most attractive?
2. What style of clothing do you find most attractive?
3. Is being attractive important to you?

1. Mid 20's until I get old and creepy
2. Something I'd like to call "effortless asymmetry"
3. Being yourself is ok. Being comfortable is ok. But I think everyone should have some consideration in attracting the type of people they want to attract. My answer is yes.

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1. Can people really change?
2. I'm an absolutely merciless badass. What more can I do to prevent old ladies working at Michael's craft supplies from calling me "honey" and "sweetie" and "dear"?
3. Hey, what's your favourite Madonna song?