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QOTD Thread #332- Do you think that people should keep cats outdoors?
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Squishalot
Hey Boron - doesn't need to be updated exactly once a day on the hour, especially when it's the weekend and people don't reply. There's a certain rhythm to things - let it flow naturally.
Post by
gamerunknown
214: Yeah, voted Lib Dem last time. Never again. Learnt a bit about neo-liberalism, Mises, Friedman and Popper since. Mises claiming women didn't need suffrage as men would act dispassionately in their interests, Friedman claiming minimum wage laws were racist because blacks were worth less to employers and Popper... Well, Popper is a good egg from what I've read. He has valid criticisms of Communism with his "historicism" approach. Geoffrey Sampson, a follower of his, is a bit of a racist prick though. So, won't be voting "Liberal" reflexively again. My MP is actually (pro life) Labour, which suits me fine. That said, we're a fairly safe constituency so I'm free to vote Trade Unionist, Socialist or Green. I also voted in favour of the Alternative Vote. The voting card for Police and Crime Commissioner hasn't arrived, but if it does, I'll go for the least draconian candidate. My friend got a first in Criminology and is now studying a Masters in Cambridge and she said that jail sentences actually increase recidivism when I asked for advice on the upcoming elections, so I'll have that in mind.
Edit: Not that people should be indemnified for their followers. Marx would be convicted by Lenin and Stalin...
215. I lie best to my mother. Why do we hurt the people we're fondest of? When I failed my year at university, I said "My lecture was good... we did... uh... the parietal lobe" or something like that. I've had no occasion to lie to her, at least not on that scale, since though.
216. Oooh, tough question.
Musically:
Roy Zimmerman
and
Ryan Harvey
. Plus
Medium Troy
and
Scroobius Pip
. Maybe a little
Ravi Shankar
and
MrVoletron
thrown in. Then some
Billy Bragg
,
Omega
,
Mighty Matty
and
Wingnut Dishwashers Union
. At which point I have to stop because I'll just be hearing white noise.
Games: This is rather difficult actually. I'd love for Winterbells to be released on the Wii (maybe with Jazz Jackrabbit :o). I really enjoyed WoW and had ideas for improvements for it, but I'm not sure which game it could be grafted onto (funny story: RuneScape is getting an interface and combat system more like WoWs now). Maybe WoW and EVE so that characters could bot overnight legally and Bob Kotick wouldn't be in charge.
Books: Evelyn Waugh + Stephen J Gould. I have no idea what'd result from that.
Shops: Suma wholefoods and Walmart. That's right, the largest store in the world, worker owned.
Comedy: Stephen Fry and Milton Jones.
217. When I'm out of my skull,
like this
(and yes, you can now track me down and kill me).
Post by
Rystrave
The Redwall Series and WWII. I just imagined something like Animal Farm with huge amounts of genocide. I think it might end up an interesting read.
Look up Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Done - should be here Tuesday :)
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Post by
Rystrave
I don't remember the first time exactly, but I can just imagine it was in my friend's apartment while partying. I was probably 16-17. I have plenty of good memories involving it though.
Post by
HiVolt
I was 13, and it was New Year's Eve. I got ridiculously drunk on shots of Goldschlager and strawberry daquiris at my older sister's house. After enduring the worst hangover I've ever had, I didn't drink again until I was 17.
Post by
Haxzor
Was when I was young, at the Wake of my grandmother. My Grandpa let me have a sip of the red he was drinking.
Post by
Dragalthor
My earliest memory is of having a meal onboard one of the ship's my Dad was working on, I think it must have been over the festive period, and one of his colleagues was feeding my sister and I watered down red wine telling us it was Ribena.It tasted foul and I only had one glass.
Post by
Interest
I drank a little wine.
Didn't taste that good.
Post by
gamerunknown
My dad used to be an extraordinary minister for a lovely Irish woman. Whenever we'd go to her house she'd dote on us, making us cups of tea and giving us coins and telling us stories from her youth. Then every now and then she'd give me little shots of Irish cream if my dad wasn't looking. I still love it, haha.
Between like 16-18 I was convinced I wasn't going to drink, perhaps because a few people in my school had been found drunk and bunking off school. Once during an exam period we were sent home to study between them and instead of studying a peer of mine just got drunk and punched a wall. Then at 18 I felt I didn't really connect with my friends that well since the whole group of my friends met up at clubs weekly (I later found out one never went, since he used to be a bouncer and got sick of drunks and another was a recovering alcoholic so he drank alcohol free beer). So I decided to go along to a pub crawl with one of them. In order to prepare, I started drinking at my friend's 19th birthday on Christmas Eve at his house (his whole family, my dad and my sister were drinking there too, though everyone else dropped out except my sister and he). I ended up speaking in tongues, then passing out in his bathroom only to be woken up by his mother. Went home at 3-4am and slept till 12 on Christmas Day. It's since been a tradition to get stupefyingly drunk on his birthday and miss waking up with my younger siblings for Christmas, lol.
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Rystrave
lol @ gamer... I got caught drinking by my folks on Christmas Eve when I was 17. I was a mess. I was so hungover, and they woke me up to go to mass at 10 am. I made it thru mass, but walked outside and puked all over the sidewalk for about 5 minutes.
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Post by
Gumballs
Biology is my jam. I also enjoy chemistry but it's sooo much math which I don't like as much.
I just think biology is so fascinating, particularly genetics. My family is getting into breeding ball pythons so we have all been studying up on our genetics for that for specific morphs, and it's all very interesting.
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Post by
Rystrave
From a studying standpoint, neither. But if I haaad to, I would choose biology, simply because of basically what Gumballs said: genetics. Physics is definitely more intriguing and interesting overall.
English and Literature are my cup of tea.
Post by
OverZealous
#218: No alcohol, what so ever. That's a rule I live by.
#219: Physics! I've always been fascinated by astrophysics in particular, and while chemistry is also rather interesting, it doesn't hold a candle to physics.
Post by
gamerunknown
Ouch Rystrave. Wonder what they would have said if you puked during the ceremony? I threw up right after a friend's first holy communion and missed the party once, lol.
219. Tough one. Some concepts in physics I find really intriguing (others, like half-spin, befuddle me) and I loved Feynman's books, but my favourite book of all time is written by biologist Stephen J Gould (though not even on biology!). The one thing chemistry has going for it in my opinion is pleasing experiments, haha (stuff like eutectics are too taxing).
Btw, I claim 220!
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