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davywavy1) describe your perfect day?
Sunny day, fast car, lying in long grass by water staring at the sky, good book, Baron Munchausen with intelligent & witty competition, food, bed.
2) when are you going to publish Vietnam Bloodbath?
When I have a pile of money that I don't mind never seeing again. See question 5.
3) Tony Martin: saint or sinner?
Man with a gun. Neither Saint nor Sinner, but somewhere in between. Completely justified in his actions.
4) How do you think other people see you and how much does it differ from the real you?
That depends on the person seeing me; 'Aryan poster boy'? 'Twat'? 'Genius'? All comments that I've had made about me recently, at least one of them by someone who doesn't know that I know they said it :)
Like any person I'm a complex conglomeration of facets, and people see different ones at different times resulting in them seeing me in different ways. In addition, it's human nature to interpret the actions of others in the light of our own attitudes, so how people see me - and the aspects of the me they see - is in some way a reflection of themselves in the same way that the aspects I see of others are in some way reflections of parts of me.
I actually find this sort of question astonishingly difficult to answer; I spend most of my life confused and unsure as to how other people see me and so crysallising my opinions is astonishingly difficult. Ultimately, I decided that it's something that I'm best off not worrying about it; there are 6,000,000,000 people out there and if a few of them don't like me then there's bound to be other people with rather better taste.
5) You just got given £1,000,000 (tax free): what do you do with it?
Put it all in a big pile of £5 notes & gloat over it, all the while muttering 'Mine! Mine! All mine!"
Buy a new tent (Spot the quote).
£600,000k to invest aggressively.
£100,000k to save the tiger.
£100,000k to spend in the most pointless & ostentatious fashion possible.
£100,000 on fast cars, women and booze.
I'd waste the rest.
I wouldn't give anything to poor kids. Screw them.
Anyone want questioning by me?
Sunny day, fast car, lying in long grass by water staring at the sky, good book, Baron Munchausen with intelligent & witty competition, food, bed.
2) when are you going to publish Vietnam Bloodbath?
When I have a pile of money that I don't mind never seeing again. See question 5.
3) Tony Martin: saint or sinner?
Man with a gun. Neither Saint nor Sinner, but somewhere in between. Completely justified in his actions.
4) How do you think other people see you and how much does it differ from the real you?
That depends on the person seeing me; 'Aryan poster boy'? 'Twat'? 'Genius'? All comments that I've had made about me recently, at least one of them by someone who doesn't know that I know they said it :)
Like any person I'm a complex conglomeration of facets, and people see different ones at different times resulting in them seeing me in different ways. In addition, it's human nature to interpret the actions of others in the light of our own attitudes, so how people see me - and the aspects of the me they see - is in some way a reflection of themselves in the same way that the aspects I see of others are in some way reflections of parts of me.
I actually find this sort of question astonishingly difficult to answer; I spend most of my life confused and unsure as to how other people see me and so crysallising my opinions is astonishingly difficult. Ultimately, I decided that it's something that I'm best off not worrying about it; there are 6,000,000,000 people out there and if a few of them don't like me then there's bound to be other people with rather better taste.
5) You just got given £1,000,000 (tax free): what do you do with it?
Put it all in a big pile of £5 notes & gloat over it, all the while muttering 'Mine! Mine! All mine!"
Buy a new tent (Spot the quote).
£600,000k to invest aggressively.
£100,000k to save the tiger.
£100,000k to spend in the most pointless & ostentatious fashion possible.
£100,000 on fast cars, women and booze.
I'd waste the rest.
I wouldn't give anything to poor kids. Screw them.
Anyone want questioning by me?
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:07 am (UTC)Go on then
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:12 am (UTC)Aw, g'wan; it's a slow work day. :)
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 02:18 am (UTC)2: you have to lose the functioning of one eye, one arm, or one leg. Which do you choose?
3: You have to give up either beer or pies or die. What do you do?
4: Someone puts a button in front of you and tells you that every time you push it, a peasant in China who you will never meet otherwise dies and you get a million quid. How often do you push it?
5: Why? Just Why?
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 02:23 am (UTC)2: Who will be first against the wall when your revolution comes?
3: What have you got in your pocketses?
4: Tell me something about yourself that most people would think isn't true, but is.
5: Why Penguins?
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:39 am (UTC)Oh, I see what you mean.
1: How would you go about committing the perfect murder?
2: What ho?
3: You find Bill Gates' wallet in the street and his credit card signature is easily forged. What do you do?
4: Stephen Speilberg offers you the role of your choice in his next film. What do you ask for?
5: You are abducted by aliens for vile experiments. How do you get out of this situation?
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:46 am (UTC)Ok...am interested
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:57 am (UTC)2: Why didn't you kill either me, robin or ritchie when sharing houses with us?
3: Someone puts a million quid in front of you and says that you can take as much as you like, but whatever is left over will be used to help poor starving third world kids. How much do you take?
4: Your 5th level dwarf fighter has a +3 axe and scalemail, plus 56 hit points. Is he the toughtest member of the party?
5: What is the most frightening thing you ever did, and would you do it again?
Hell, sign me up
Date: 2003-08-15 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 04:01 am (UTC)2: Why did you stick at being a national officer? I found the stress outwieghed the rewards, so what do you get out of it?
3: What are your desert island discs?
4: Explain yourself, boy! What's the meaning of all this!
5: Leaving out atheism, which religious viewpoint attracts you most, and why? And which attracts you least?
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Date: 2003-08-15 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 04:34 am (UTC)(See...have exorcised the need to shout "Do me! Do me!")
Re: Hell, sign me up
Date: 2003-08-15 05:00 am (UTC)2: If I suggested you came and had a go if you thought you were hard enough, would you think you were?
3: Which spaceship from popular science fiction would you choose to own?
4: Hitler as a baby is put in front of you and you have 10 seconds to decide whether to kill it. What do you do?
5: Do you think it is better for a society to use it's resources to help people to rise or to catch them if they fall?
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Date: 2003-08-15 05:01 am (UTC)2: What do you think of the recent rise in house prices?
3: How many people did I meet on the road to St Ives?
4: Can it be truthfully said that one person is superior to another on a genetic level? And if so, in what way, and why?
5: Tell me a joke.
you don't know me but...
Date: 2003-08-15 06:58 am (UTC)Re: you don't know me but...
Date: 2003-08-15 07:02 am (UTC)2: What do you regard as being the most significant human invention of the twentieth century? Give reasons.
3: Do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger would make a good governor of California?
4: Waking up one morning you find you can't remember anything about the night before and there is a dead body next to your bed. What do you do?
5: Tell me three things about yourself that I can't work out from reading your LJ.
Re: you don't know me but...
Date: 2003-08-15 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-15 08:10 am (UTC)2: Bismark once said that the greatest influence on the 20th century would be that the New World spoke English. With the benefit of hindsight, do you agree?
3: If you had just one wish, what would you go for?
4: Which world record are you most likely to break?
5: If you could have dinner with one historical person, who and why?
Go on
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-18 01:15 am (UTC)Re: Go on
Date: 2003-08-18 02:16 am (UTC)2: Would you rather be rich & bored or poor & interested?
3: What was the least appetising thing you ever ate?
4: What true fact about yourself would you tell a girl in order to impress her?
5: Three surgeons and a clumsy cook go camping in the remote wilderness. The clumsy cook stumbles over the campfire as he is serving the surgeons, injuring himself and dumping hot stew on the hands of the surgeons.
The cook's injuries need surgical treatment. The surgeons' injuries are minor but open. It turns out they brought the equipment necessary for the cook's surgery with them, and they can use the campfire to sterilize the tools. But there are only two rubber gloves. Because of the different surgeons' skills, all three of the surgeons are needed to operate on the cook, in sequence.
How can this be done without any of them being exposed to the blood of any of the others?
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Date: 2003-08-18 02:17 am (UTC)2: Can you lend me some money?
3: I have this great share tip, are you interested?
4: How about it, baby?
5: Three logicians are given each a letter, so that nobody has the same letter, each logician can only see his own letter, and so that their letters can form one of the following words:
NET, CAT, MEN, DRY, MAN, RUN
They answer "Do you know which word can be spelled by your letters?" again, but this time say their answers at the same time, such that they can hear everyone's answers for the following questions, but not for the current one.
First time: All say No.
Second time: All say No.
Third time: All say Yes.
What word do their letters spell?
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Date: 2003-08-18 02:22 am (UTC)2: What in your opinion was the greatest human invention of the last century? Give reasons?
3: Tell me something about yourself that I would find genuinely surprising?
4: So...what's it all about, then?
5: Place the following in order of importance: Freedom, water, hope, love, the vote, the sense of sight, penicillin. Justify the order.
Re: Go on
1a. Honestly, probably Swiss Chocolates, Kisses, Hugs, Pictures, and other gifts unmentionable. ;-)
2. How about rich & interested? No, well, probably rich & bored then...I've seen genuine poverty, and any interest would quickly be extinguished by grinding, driving, need.
3. Sea slug.
4. When it comes to impressing the opposite sex, I rarely resort to a mere singular discrete item...more like a complex of strategy and tactics. ;-) I dunno, probably admit to my world travels and living...
5. Damn logic problems! ;-p OK, here's a shot:
One surgeon each takes a glove, using an ungloved hand for a long tool/instrument. The 3rd surgeon does likewise, without any gloves.
or...
The third surgeon uses one of the gloves that has been carefully removed by one of the other surgeons for their phase of the operation. Or, wears the reused glove, inverted, exposing himself to the blood of the cook, but protecting the patient from his own wounds.
or...
Tell the damn cook to go fuck himself, the bastard, and attend to their own wounds. ;-)
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