Questions and answers meme

[reggie11]

Stolen from quickreaver and everybody else that is doing this because it looks like a fun meme...that is if anyone is actually interested to know any of these things about me, I'm kind of boring. Pick a question, or as many questions as you want and comment with the number(s).

0: Height
1: Virgin?
2: Shoe size
3: Do you smoke?
4: Do you drink?
5: Do you take drugs?
6: Have tattoos
7: Want any tattoos?
8: Got any piercings?
9: Want any piercings?
10: Best Friend?
11: Relationship status
12: Biggest turn ons
13: Biggest turn offs
14: Favourite movie
15: I'll love you if...
16: Someone you miss
17: Most traumatic experience
18: A fact about your personality
19: What I hate most about myself
20: What I love most about myself
21: What I want to be when I get older
22: My relationship with sibling(s)
23: My relationship with my parent(s)
24: My idea of a perfect date
25: My biggest pet peeves
26: A description of the girl/boy I like
27: A reason I've lied to a friend
28: What I hae most about work/school
29: what your last text message says
30: What words upset me the most
31: What words make me feel the best about myself
32 What I find attractive in women
33: What I find attractive in men
34: Where I would like to live
35: One of my insecurities
36: My childhood career choice
37: My favorite ice cream flavor
38: Where I want to be right now
39: The last thing I ate
40: Sexiest person that comes to mind immediately

Comments

[alexisjane.livejournal.com]

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24, 36 and 37: ) x

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

I had to really think about 24. It's not as easy to answer as I thought it might be. If I could have my dream date it would be a picnic dinner on a rooftop garden of a building that is just high enough to have a good view but not so high that I'd be scared and not another soul around. I'd want lots of fairy lights, a double hammock, some chilled beers, and some equally chilled tunes. It sounds like a chick flick cliche doesn't it?
36 - When I was really young I wanted to be a doctor but when I hit eighth grade I staged a protest and a walk out when we were told dissect frogs in science class. Yep, giant L for loser! Had they asked me to cut into a human I wouldn't have had a problem, lol!
37: Sara Lee Caramel peanut brittle ice cream is the bestest!!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

6, 8, 18 and 36 please :D Dang it, ignore 36 I didn;t see the other comment there when I posted, lol!

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

6: Nope, no tattoos. I've very rarely seen any I like on women, and I don't even really like them much on men...although sometimes they can look hot.
8: My ears are pierced twice but I let one set pretty much close up. I have a belly button ring.
18. If someone needs help I'll do anything and everything I can to provide it no matter how it difficult it might be, sometimes to my own detriment. It doesn't matter if it's a friend or a stranger. I think I have an extra empathy gene ;)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the answers hun, and you know what, I kinda figured that out about you (#18) because you just seem the kind of lass who would lay down in a puddle so someone wouldn't get wet feet. It's a lovely quality and more people should be out to help thier fellow man, although sometimes pulling back a little so you don't end up getting yourself into trouble would be better. I tend not to see that line either :)

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

I really do need to learn to pull back a bit. I've caused myself a lot of problems over the years by not having a line in the sand. I still can't regret helping anyone though, it's just in my nature. It sounds like we're both sometimes too compassionate for our own good :)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I'd rather be that way inclined than someone who steps on or over people, any day of the week :)

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

You just reminded me of an incident with an old flatmate. I used to live across the road from a major train station. I was crossing the very busy road to my house when a homeless man stumbled, fell and broke his skull on the pavement. He was lying there on the footpath with blood pouring out of his ears and people were literally stepping over him and completely ignoring the fact that he was severely injured. I ran back through 4 lanes of traffic, called an ambulance and was about to do CPR when an off-duty cop ran up and took over, bless him. He was much better trained than me. My flatmate was astonished that I was going to do CPR on a heavily bleeding, drunk, smelly old homeless man. I asked him what the hell else should I have done, he was dying! Flatmate said, walk way, it wasn't your concern. JFC, I can't understand that at all. He remarked the man may have been HIV positive (which I had already thought of) and asked why would I risk it. I know it would have been a risk, but I wasn't just going to stand there and do nothing. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. Even if nobody was prepared to do CPR which I totally understand, I don't get how nobody else even attempted to call an ambulance even though pretty much everyone carries a mobile phone. My flatmate's attitude shocked the hell out of me, but so did every single person who stepped over an obviously injured person. I lost my faith in humanity for a while after that.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is completely atrocious! I can understand people not wanting to physically get too close, you know, if they're robots...O_O but come on, the man was in trouble! Kudos to you for making the effort where everyone else was so obviously not going to bother! *hugs* Did he survive?

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

I had to give my details to the cops as I witnessed what happened but I never heard from them. I'm not sure if that meant he survived or died. I'd like to think it meant he survived as surely there would be an inquest if he hadn't. But honestly, it really didn't look like he would. He had blood pouring out of both ears, it was horrible. I've seen some pretty horrific accidents and this one looked very grim. Incredibly sad. Especially as people acted like he was an annoyance instead of a human being.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Well you got extra good Karma that week and he at least new, if there was any part of his mind aware of it, that you were willing to help, that probably meant the world. You're a good person hun :)

[apocalipskiss.livejournal.com]

12, 13, 15, 28! xD

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

12: Intelligence, beautiful eyes, a twisted sense of humor, kindness, people who can laugh at themselves, tall men (I LOVE tall men), geeks, creativity, a great smile, and a nice butt ;)
13: Bad personal hygiene (eeeuw), cruelty, stupidity, people who take themselves too seriously, any kind of douchy behaviour, and although I love confidence in men, I despise cockiness - it makes my skin crawl.
15: If you can make me laugh, if you inspire me, if you're a nice person, if you keep making beautiful art ;)
28: I hate that I don't work anymore because of my illness. I miss going to work and having the daily interaction. So I hate NOT having a job.

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

14 and 29!

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

14: Hmmm, not sure I have a favourite movie because I love so many, although I'm sure I'll have a middle of the night epiphany ;) Movies that I really love that come to mind (in no particular order) are The Princess Bride, I am Sam, Mystic River, Serenity, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Blade Runner, Good Will Hunting, Rear Window. There are just so many!
My last received message is "Hi, your cat Pixel is camped out in my living room. Is she lost or just very friendly? [plus an address]" LOL! My last sent message is, "Way too friendly, I'm on my way."
I swear my cat is way more sociable than I am, but I'm meeting lots of new people because of her. :D

[fufaraw]

How about 20, 30, and 31?

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

20: I guess my capacity for compassion and empathy. I think it's the most important part of being human.

30: Any kind of hate speech. I get horribly upset when I hear people being cruel to anyone. Also, even though I try not to care, if people don't like me I feel stupidly hurt. It's dumb, because there are always going to be people that don't like you, and a lot of the time it's on them, and it's not really about you at all.

31: When someone compliments something I've done or compliments my intelligence. Both give me an enormous boost. If I've worked hard on something and someone tells me I did a good job I'd be wagging my tail if I had one. And because I dropped out of school very early due to bullying and other issues, it's nice if someone compliments my ability for critical thinking and problem solving. People sometimes automatically assume a person is stupid if they didn't finish high school.

[fufaraw]

Compassion, empathy, cruelty, and assumption--I agree with all those answers. No wonder I like you! *g*

You are so right about assumption. My inlaws were immigrants, and have thick accents. My FiL was a concert violist and tenor. He built prototype machines--machining each part by hand after he'd drawn every piece dimensionally and how it all fit and worked. But even people who knew him raised their voice to speak to him, as if he couldn't understand them, or he was dumb.

I was fiercely introverted all through school, and the assumption was that I was "slow."

Going into acting, I worked my tuchus off getting rid of my southern accent, as all people from the southern US are assumed to be dumb rednecks and hillbillies.

Assumptions make an ass out of u and umption, is what I always say (thanks to Samuel L. Jackson).

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

People who speak to people who have heavy accents, or are deaf or disabled, like they are dim-witted absolutely infuriate me. It doesn't surprise me though, as some people are ignorant assholes. There is a friend of a friend who always speaks to me like I'm some sort of dim-witted fool because I'm much more reserved than that group of friends. I must admit I felt a sort of vicious glee at a party over the weekend when said person, who had been speaking down to me minutes before, got totally blindsided when I got into deep discussion on intellectual property and start-up business capital with another party-goer, and he was unable to understand half of what we were discussing. I may be quiet but it doesn't mean I'm stupid.

School must have been so hard for you with attitudes like that. I was shy but not overly introverted at school, yet I still got bullied terribly.

Do people really assume southerners are all dumb rednecks? Good grief! I love the accents of the southern states. They're as sexy as hell.

[fufaraw]

Yeah, you know, Jared has done more to popularize and erase the "stupid" assumption from southern accents than anybody I can think of in a very long time. It's quite amusing, really. Almost every actor can "do" a southern accent, but it's like England--every region's accent is different. Tidewater Virginia from N'awlins from Kentucky from Savannah Georgia from Charleston, SC. And then you have the Appalachians, where the Scots-Irish kept the idioms of their forebears, and in some of the SC islands African traditions remain and Gullah is spoken, while on others, speech retains Shakespearean cadence and idiom. There really is no "south," as such, just as there is no one true "British" accent.

[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

39 & 40!

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

39: This is embarrassing. I just polished off an entire block of white chocolate...sorry hips and thighs.
40. Jared Padalecki is the sexiest man alive. He's not only hot as sin and tall, he's funny, compassionate, nerdy, and fiercely intelligent. I find all of those qualities a complete turn-on.

[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

lol, there has been a time or two when I polished off a small block of cheese in one sitting. I blame the cheese for tasting so good. :D