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ER- have you read a lot of Emile Bronte and Louise May Alcott?
I only ask because you seem like the kind of person who would.

It would help to spell the authors names right...

That's... pretty personal, RC.

I've never read anything by Alcott except her diary, and I did read Wuthering Heights by Bronte.

Excuse me! Louisa!
Personal question, John- do you like baked potatoes?  :question:

Yeah, I know it's not ....I don't know.
I just get that vibe.
And I never read any of these authors.  :bluesad:
Of old writers- I admire the style of Charles Fort who questioned everything- but never really took any of it too serious.

Yes, I ate one last night. 
That's "personal"?   :question:

Yes! Who else am I going to ask if you like baked potatoes?
Would you ask a stranger on the street- " Do you like baked potatoes?"

RC, what is your favourite issue of your favourite magazine and why?

Alex, is there a relationship you regret so much you wish it had never happened?

^ Castle of Frankenstein #25, 1975- the final issue. I bought it in 1975. It had a lengthy review of the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and none of all the 'monster' magazines at the time even gave a passing comment on it. And, unlike those other mags, CoF was a mag written for adults, not 12 year olds.

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Yes.

Hallows- Have you ever read Charles Fort?

That's one helluva personal question!  Nope. 

OK- I'll ask something else.
Have you ever lost faith in your religion?

Cerebus- Do you have any religious preference?

You don't have to state it. Yes or no; none of your f**king business; I'm a Satanist, et. al.

Hey, I was kidding.  The answer was "nope". 

All kidding aside, how could you not understand that that IS a personal question?  I answer: yes. 

I was testing the waters.
You know me- I don't want to p**s people off.





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Hey, I answered you!  And in the long run, I'm a clown. 

I'm a Teenage Werewolf!  :drink:

RC - have you ever considered giving up pot altogether?

 ^ YES! between 1981 and 1986 I smoked no weed.
In fact, I rarely smoked weed at all until it was legalized in Michigan a couple years ago. I couldn't afford it. Plus it made me paranoid. But about 5 years ago, I started smoking more. It stopped me from drinking myself to death.
But I'm an addictive personality- so no. Not in the near future. And I'm almost 60.

RC, have you ever had a night terror?

 ^ I've had  episodes of sleep paralysis as a child and in my 20's,  and it was terrifying, if that counts.

To you all: you all do know how much I love you all?  :smile:

That's sweet of you to say, Trevor. You're cared about and valued by others here too.  :smile:




But as for personal questions, so, are we done probing each other?

Hey, Trevor, what's the longest you've ever worn a pair of underwear between changes?

In 1983 at boarding school, we attended a two week long "cadet camp". Marvelous fun, they even gave me a 7.62 caliber rifle to shoot at targets with  :buggedout:.

Answer: I didn't change my clothes, including socks and undies for almost 2 weeks: my undies stood up on their own after that.  :buggedout: :tongueout: :twirl: :wink:

Rev- what drew you to Bad/ Psychotronic films?

Everything makes sense now!

A PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE screening on PBS. The idea of a movie that was so bad it was funny sounded appealing, and it turned out I loved it. Later I moved to Dallas and Joe Bob Briggs expanded my knowledge and appreciation of exploitation movies (this was when he was just a local columnist, before his TV show). A little later I bought Michael Weldon's books and I was off.

 ^I loved PBS in the 70's. They played NOSFERATU, the BATTLESHIP POTMEKIN, MABUSE THE GAMBLER, The CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and many other silent films.

Hey, indy, y'ever sleep wearing socks?

I'm trying to think . . . not that I can remember.   Even when it's cold, I rarely wear more than my skivvies to bed.
Maybe once, when I was camping out about 30 years ago - I do remember sleeping fully clothed that trip.
I presume that included socks.

John- do you ever chuckle to yourself when you're alone?

Often. 

Anyone else here ever throw loose change into open fields and along riverbanks, seeding future artifacts for people to find someday?

Can't say I have.

Never. I put it in a dish on a desk.

I normally chuck random loose change out of my window and then I hear "Yo! WTF is the matter with you?" from outside.  :teddyr:

Hey Alex, do Scots still eat traditional sheep-stomach haggis? Have you ever had it and if so do you like it?

Yes they do (although there are other versions available), and I do enjoy it. Most people find it tastes entirely different to what they expect. I'd say 80% of the people I've seen try it from the US have liked it (normally to their surprise).

Hey, Rev, what do you think of Southeast Christian Church?

I don't think much of any Church. However, I do think that's the church my ex-addict cousin goes to and receives support that keeps him from going back to drugs, so they're good in that regard.

Also, every time we drive past it my mother says she's glad my father doesn't make her go there anymore. Neither of them have ever been inside in their lives.

Somebody ask me something and I will likely answer. After all, couldn't be rougher than my little "Ask Me Anything" event last year.

What happened?  :question:

Ha, I told people I knew to "Ask Me Anything" and they shore did....

So how many times have you...oops.  Editing myself.   :smile:

Do you usually put your left shoe on before your right?

 ^I never paid attention. Whatever shoe is closest, I guess.

edit:  Oh yeah, these days the left first...  :bouncegiggle:

What is one fact about you that would surprise other people if they knew?


Something that those who don't know me closely may not guess is that I have lived a lot of my life afraid of someone.

That person who scares you: I have a cricket bat with their name on it.  :hatred:

There's a lot of things I keep secret about myself and some people would be surprised if they knew.

1. I am an abuse survivor: people who know me well and have kids will quite happily let me look after their kids as they know no harm will come to them as I won't allow it.
2. I lived through a war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War) which messed me up mentally.
3. Most adults find me very scary: I have been told I have a madness in my eyes at times but kids like me for some weird reason and they don't find me scary at all.
4. Some people think I am either homophobic, racist or both: I am neither.
5. I am the son of a former criminal turned cop and a radical feminist.

I once (briefly) held an Australian death adder.

when i was very young, i stuttered, and had a severe lisp. i took speech classes for 3 years, but it( the stutter)  still shows up when i'm under severe stress. the lisp came back when my wisdom teeth grew out of the roof of my mouth, but i can work around it, mostly.

What movie do you wish you could forget watching so you could enjoy watching it again as if it were the first time?

I'd go with the first Saw movie.

David Millin ASC's landmark war film Shangani Patrol (1970): I would like to watch it as for the first time I screened it publicly with 120 people in the cinema in 1999. Mom was in the audience and Dad was with me in the projection booth  :smile:

Here's the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pcpzY6mE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pcpzY6mE)

Most of the movies I love are because I have looked at them numerous times.  I watched THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) last night and immediately thought of it with your question... in a way, the fun of discovering a movie I love is seldom and one of life's great joys.  If I forgot THE LAST EMPEROR and discovered it anew last night that would've been wonderful.

5 Centimeters Per Second

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? (Not like x-ray vision, something doable.)

I think I'd like to have artistic talent. Or to be better at sleeping.

Hmmmm.
That's a good question.
I'd make myself a lot richer, I guess!  So tired of scrimping and saving and barely getting bills paid each month.

You would be me.

MONEY SEX, POWER....

In order of most important to you to least important to you, rank which you'd want to have: money, sex, power?

Me, I think that's the order I'd choose, money, sex, power, since money can get the other two, assuming I even wanted power, which I don't, but I can think of cases where an excess of the other two doesn't bring money. (Like a streetwalker who has sex for a living but has no money or power, or a religious or civil rights leader who might have power but isn't rich, and in the case of Gandhi or a Pope, supposedly celibate.)

So, yeah, money, sex, power, in that order.

Anyone?

Eh- I can't say. I've never had to choose because it was never a problem. I never had any of it. I didn't even care. I still don't care. Except money...I gotta pay the bills.

what id'd change about myself? i'd be a great deal more cynical and a great deal less trusting.
what i'd want? money. that allows people to hide from reality.

I do not ever wish for any of those.  My sister (whom I don't speak with) thinks I'm "rich", I could always get sex and was pursued but lived like a monk, and power I've had and was pressured or resented for it.

Do you leave the water running when you brush your teeth?

Is this some kind of trap joke I don’t know about?  Does this have something to do with your winky nightmare?

 I do let the water run, but I don’t understand why this is controversial?  Does everyone else’s tap water warm up instantly?  When I turn the hot water on, it’s cold/coldish right away, I fill my rinse cup and rinse my toothbrush with it and leave the water running to warm up while I brush.  By the time I’m done brushing (which is like a minute, not 40 years - maybe I'm a bad brusher) the water is hot/warm enough to rinse the frothy toothbrush, then I wash my face and hands with the warm water.  Every where I’ve ever been to tend to personal toilet - home, hotels, etc. - the water more often than not takes about a minute or 2 to reach maximum warmness.  If I want warm water, I need to let it run so I think I’m being more efficient by using the cold water to fill my cup and rinse my brush and letting the water warm up while I brush then using the warm water to wash my face and hands. 

My daughter was just criticizing me for this too and I was like what the heck you don’t know how to wash!  Am I a monster?

I leave the water running too. I don't think it's a big deal. Sometimes the hot water smells like rotton eggs.

Running water while you brush your teeth must make you some kind of eco-terrorist, because even Barney the Purple Dinosaur sings against it, and he's pretty darn accepting.

He'd just lose his purple mind if he knew my son runs the sink water when he pees.

In the morning, part of my routine when I wake up involves going into the toilet, turning on the tap, then going for a pee after which I will then brush my teeth and if I haven't done so the night before, then shaving.

I do that when I poop at other peoples houses sometimes.  For that I accept the title of eco-terrorist.

Now I think I've made this the TMI thread instead of Personal Questions.

Guilty.

When I think of purple I think of the color Prince used to wear. Barney isn't a purple dinosaur, he's more of a violet dinosaur.

If you asked your friends to guess how many people you've had sex with, do you think they'd get it right?

(I should try this. Now where can I make some friends?)

No way! I don't tell anyone about people I've had sex with. (If you saw the people I've had sex with, you'd understand why!)

Shrug, just declare bankruptcy on your sex life and wipe it clean. It's easy....

It depends. If it's a really ugly woman, no.

I doubt they'd get it right. I never considered the looks of the woman to be important though, it was more about the experience itself for me.

I really don't want to gross anyone out with this but the person I was with in my so far last relationship said that I was the best lover she ever had. 😳

Respect!! :cheers:

The old claim is that men tend to inflate their body count and women to downplay it, but I don't know I've found that to seem true.

One thing I have noticed is women will be more detailed and descriptive about sexual events than most men are. Men will say, "I banged her." Women will....tell you extreme details. I've had my late friend Amy in my thoughts lately, even written about her here, and she more than any human being I ever knew in my life would regale everyone with near-pornographic accounts of what she'd been getting up to, and she was prolific in her adventuring too.

Annnnnieway, just had crossed my mind to wonder if friends would make an accurate guess. ("Let's go with 25!") I wonder all kinds of things at random through the day, like if local girls in Nazareth had the hots for Jesus and wondered if he was gay for hanging with men and not having a girlfriend. Or if newborn babies assume this world is just a terrible dream that'll end soon. Or if it's true jungle rot could get under eyelids. Or if Walt Disney had a mistress. Or if Taco Bell realizes its food is basically all the same, like Thomas Kincaid paintings. Or if Bob Ross ever painted sad little trees. You know, unanswerable things.

I mean I just spend my life wondering about stuff. Wonder if that makes me rare? (See, I did it again!)

Problem is, most would. I'm blatantly honest and open with everyone so like, I mean.

Assuming reincarnation and karma exist, realistically, what would your next earthly lifetime be like, based on the way in which you've lived your current life, its excesses and failings and lessons learned?


Me, I figure I'd come back as a professional insect catcher for the wealthy in Dhaka, since I spent this life working for powerful people without growing wise, so I'd try again from a lower rung. Bug catcher. Fourth World.

My husband would be a celibate nun in Nigeria. Gee, he'd love that.

My late neighbor Mrs. Glenn would be a Chinese girl with an eating disorder.

My friend Hugh would be a helpless child born with a debilitating disease, to teach him existence is not about power and control.

My mom would teach classes in sociology in Canberra.

RC Merchant would transmigrate into an ant for a few months just for the sheer fun of being an ant, since he enjoys watching them.

indy will ascend to a higher plane with my grandma; like her he's done with the world.

Dana will come back as a fluffy Persian cat much loved by a gay couple in Malibu, whom she'll befriend but bite sometimes for no reason.

Lester will Quantum Leap into Tony Hawk circa 1999.

My Uncle Jerk will get eaten by roaches for ten straight lives as lepers.

And my buddy Edie will for sure be German.

As for my children, hey, they're going to live forever.


But seriously, what would fill the tracks you made in this lifetime?

I would become the next South African President and bring in the following laws which should fix our broken country:

1. No appointment to jobs on the basis of race or gender: merit only.
2. Closure of the apartheid style censorship board.
3. GBV and abuse - against women and children -to be declared a crime and punishable with a very long prison term.
4. Re-institution of the death penalty.
5. Re-introduction of armed forces conscription.
6. Sex work to be legalized.
7. Marijuana use to be legalized but only for religious or medicinal use.
8. Whole scale theft and corruption are to be punished severely.
9. No more re-naming of places in this country: it destroys history.

Hmm . . .
Given my lifelong record of premarital celibacy and marital fidelity, I'd probably come back as a gigolo.

As a punishment, of course . . .  :wink:

I used to think reincarnation was hogwash, but then I heard some perspectives on it that I hadn’t thought of.  What made sense to me was that there are a multitude of experiences one must go through for the soul to reach maturity, far too many to complete in a single lifetime.  Once those have been achieved you can move on to the next thing which I guess would be a spirit guide or something cool like that.  I also heard that souls travel in circles, so someone’s brother in one life might be their child or best friend in the next – my best friend is exactly 9 months younger than me to the day so… sounds legit.

I like to think that we have a checklist on our nightstand on the “otherside” and when we’re done, we look at it and have a Homer Simpson “doh!” moment because we missed one or two simple things like “hug a Jewish person”. Then in our next life we get pre-loaded with certain attributes to help us out and that’s where those weird “huggers” come from.

That said, I’d probably come back as ER 2.0 because I think the life you’ve led is so polar opposite to mine that anything I didn’t check off in this life would be checked off living yours. 

Hug a Jewish person?  :question:

That's how you can feel if they're wearing the secret treasure map to their hidden Judengeld. Hey, I've listened to Eric Cartman, I know the score....

Is that a personal question?  Sheesh.  I answer yes! 

^ I dunno. See what Paquita wrote.

I suspect I'd end up being a pacifist vegan, but I would not be happy about it.

I do not understand what Paquita wrote, but I now understand why you asked.   :question:  :twirl:

Ever held a secret so dark and deep that if it were known it would change your life?

Er, not me, nope.

Yes. And no, I can't tell you what any of them are.

Nope. I blurt out all sortsa stupid sh!t.

Yeah, me too, only in my case I merrily post them on this one obscure message board.

Same here 😳😊😊🐢

Jellybeans or peeps?

Jellybeans. I find those marshmallow things kind of disgusting, wouldn't eat one by choice.

Jelly beans. Peeps are gross. Like sugar coated styrafoam.

When I was a kid, marshmallows made me gag as they tasted (to me) like they were made from snot. I will only eat toasted ones.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?

No, friend computer. (I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference).

No. But I would party with a commie!

In my last year of high school (1984) my parents went to a PTA meeting and the headmaster greeted my Dad with the words "Ah, you must be Comrade Moses." Dad's reply? "Who the *EXPLETIVE DELETED* is your *EXPLETIVE DELETED* comrade?"  :teddyr: :teddyr:

That was the last PTA meeting my folks went to  :buggedout: :wink: :wink:

You know, I have had to sign papers attesting to the fact I am not and never have been a member of the Communist Party.

^ When? 1950?  :question:
It's not against the law, you know.

I had to do the same thing when I joined up mate. It isn't uncommon.

Yeah, they ask about all sorts of affiliations, though they've by that time investigated you so thoroughly that it's half formality, half control measure, since if they ever did miss something and you lied about it they could prosecute you. (Though they would probably be less about punishing you at that point and more about using you, since facing jail time you might prove malleable.)

One of my positions, albeit briefly and late in things, was handling federal background checks.

ER- Have you ever seen a horror film in the theater?

I have. Let's see....
The Sixth Sense
The Others
The Blair Witch Project
The Ring

Uhhhj.... I'm sure there were more.

Ever faked being drunk to fit in someplace?

AHAHAHAHAHA!  :bouncegiggle:

What do you think?  :drink:

Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?

Man you are so weird.

Sooo, putcha down two copies? :teddyr:

Life story? I can't even remember what I did last week!

Well, it isn't like I'd have a use for it any more.

That's how I always feel at the BMV when I'm renewing my license and they read this rote pitch to me about putting "organ donor" on my license so they can harvest my parts if I die suddenly. I think well I'm not going to need them anymore, but I also do wonder if I could have arranged to sell them, maybe leave my family a few extra bob.

For some reason, the only part of me it would bother me to donate is my eyes. I just don't like the thought of doing that for whatever reason.

Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.

I enjoy shaking hands, hugging, and generally having physical contact with people I'm fond of.

Well yeah, but you're a living saint.

No. I like connecting with folks.

I think that's a BIT of an exaggeration.  I just like people until they give me a reason not to.

^ I like folks- and like Indy said.

In the wake of Covid, I am less inclined towards physical contact, but shaking hands, hugging and even kissing are things I enjoy when warm feelings are mutual. 

If you were offered a 2,000 square foot new house at no cost, an acre of ground with it, and $25,000 per year, tax free, in addition to any other income you earned, would you be willing to relocate permanently to an isolated town in rural North Dakota?

I'd say no.

way

In a NY minute!

Ever had a dream in which you murdered someone?

On a stupefyingly hot night in 1997 I dreamed I murdered an old lady who worked in a library in a small town. (The old lady and the library were only in my dream, not real.) The feeling of sheer dread I experienced in the dream, the sickening certainty I was going to be caught, the awfulness of being at my victim's funeral, not caught yet but sure I would be, and feeling remorse, too, was like few dreams I've ever had, and I was so glad to wake up and realize it wasn't real.

Rate in order of personal importance:

Sex
Drugs
Rock and Roll

(R&R, sex, drugs.)

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll a distant, distant third. I'm reminded of a stand-up's line that after the 60s passed, he realized that when you took out the sex and drugs, rock and roll wasn't all that good.

Rock and Roll, drugs (as in pot), sex.

If you lost your sense of touch (a condition called hypoesthesia) and felt nothing, would you still want to have sex? And if so, why? Procreation, nostalgia, for the status of it? Think about it....wouldn't that kind of make the act ....meaningless?

Well, I've had sex with people I haven't enjoyed, but did so on the basis that I knew it would make them happy, so I'd have to go with yes.

Do other people have conversations that include lines like "What about Juanita, the transsexual rage mage. How does she fit into your theory?" or is that just me and my circle of friends?

Altruistic sex gets you into Heaven, you know.

No! Can you believe I never have had that sentence in a single one of my conversations?

I don't have sex now. If I lost my sense of touch, it wouldn't bother me.

No. I never had anyone say that around me.

No, I don't know anyone named Juanita. 

If you see a penny lying on the ground, how likely are you to pick it up?

^ Always.

Even if the penny is face-down, and bad luck? ;-)

Yeah, I usually pick up coins too.

Very likely.  However, a neighbor I don't know has a little display sign with cup that reads " Garden Tour 5c " so if I had a coin, I'd typically leave a dime.  They always disappeared. 

Ever in your entire life, even once, even for a second, experienced the strange feeling that land masses have relocated on printed maps in your house, making you wonder if you are in another reality, another dimension, on another plane, have taken too much sugar with your peyote, are being pranked, were wrong the day before, or are just plain bats**t nuts?

Can't say it has, Ma'am.  :buggedout:

Dang, really? I could swear on a stack of (insert chosen holy book) that Sri Lanka suddenly up and moved a few years ago, and I am obsessed with geography.

I dunno, man!  :question:

The weird thing is I looked online and other people said the same thing, "It ain't where it used to be!" I mean....islands don't just get up and waltz somewhere else like that, I have found no maps whatsoever that show Sri Lanka sitting where all my life I always took it for granted it was (due south of  the Indian subcontinent) but I admit it was one of the rare times when I felt some sympathy for the Mandela Effect tinfoil beanie crowd because it puzzled me too. Shrug.

Nope, Sri Lanka is still off the eastern coast of Canada, where it's always been.

Once while playing World of Warcraft, it was mentioned that I'd spent time in the Falkland Isles. One of the players went looking for it, thinking it was somewhere off the coast of Kalimdor.

Ah, thanks, you guys are making this former empress of Russia feel so reassured about Sri Lanka that I will put in a good word for you with my husband Jesus.

I remember seeing a classroom globe for sale about ten years ago where it had RHODESIA printed over the country of Zimbabwe 😳

Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall?

(Guess which one I say...)

For me, it's Wish You Were Here- I'll say you like the Wall.
Animals is also good.

I agree with RC - Wish You Were Here is their peak. Dark Side of the Moon > The Wall.

Dark Side of the Moon is probably the superior album between the two, but I actually prefer The Wall, but then I find I often favor a book or song or movie that isn't considered the maker's best work over one that is. (For instance Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite Kubrick movie, even though it's not his best.)

Wish You Were Here has a couple of songs I like a lot but Pink Floyd almost seems to demand the album be listened to as a whole, a single entity with many bodies conjoined and somehow....

"Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say?"

"Too many notes, Your Majesty?"

"Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes."

PINK FLOYD's best album is Wish You Were Here.  I agree with ER that it almost demands listening in its entirety.  
I suspect ER prefers The Wall as its PINK FLOYD's most Pop record.  That would be my own normal inclination.  
I listen to The Wall more than Dark Side... and Atom Heart Mother more than either! 

The Wall was banned in South Africa in 1980 😳

Who's your favorite movie star? 

I honestly don't think I have one. 

Hmmm...I dunno?  :tongueout:

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:teddyr:  One of the few I'm always interested in watching, like this lady: INGRID BERGMAN

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I like Hepburn, but Bette Davis has got to be one of my favorite actresses of that era- or any era!

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Uhm... the picture is INGRID BERGMAN...

Yup! I'm an idiot!  :lookingup:

Do you like seafood?

As far as meat goes, yeah. About once a year I'll have shrimp.

I love seafood. The only seafood that I don't like are oysters and salmon.

I hate seafood. Freshwater fish- yeah. Seafood- NO.

Like it all, with one exception: Oysters.  I'll eat them, but I don't really care for them.
Anything else that comes out of the ocean, I'm in.

"Pray, never eat oysters!"
---Oscar Wilde

Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?

No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.

Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.

OK, if it's out of line to ask this, feel free to throw shade at me, but where are the bodies buried I have known a lot of people who say they married their best friend (or lived with them a long time, etc.) and that idea has always seemed foreign to me, because, well, how do you have sex with your best friend? To me the nature of a best friend is entirely different from the relationship you have with a lover. Have I been deprived one of life's best experiences?

The two deepest and most personal relationships of my life are on opposite sides of that question.
My wife I've known now since we were 7 - that's 52 years - and we are both emotionally close and physically intimate.
The deepest friendship/relationship I've ever had beyond that is with a person whom I've never met face to face.  We are incredibly intimate, but not in the physical sense.

No, I think my most intimate relationship was with my mother. Particularly considering the very earliest years of my life.

Mostly my most intimate ones have been non-carnal. There are a few exceptions, but I've generally kept myself emotionally separate from people I was just having sex with.

Like Alex says, sex is just sex.  And yes, you can have sex with your friends. Who else would you have sex with? Your enemies? A stranger, I guess, or a hooker.

Not to gross anyone out but I stayed a virgin until I was 36.  :buggedout:

I feel like one of the games where someone says something and if you've done it, you need to take a drink. Yes, I've had sex with an enemy and strangers. Even a strange enemy.

Congratulations, you just triggered one of my uncontrolled laughing fits.

Oh, man, I need help.

No.  Undoubtedly the most intimate relationship I've had is with my brother's wife.  We were always close, but we experienced perhaps the most difficult time of our lives together which forged an unbreakable bond.  Death breaks all bonds. 

Not gross, you were being who you are, and who you are seems like a pretty decent bloke.

So which of those two relationships would you consider the more intimate? Considering you've known me since I was twenty-one, since two months before Brian died, actually, when I was apparently more flirty and lighthearted with everyone, as you once described, ha, I can probably get away with asking you that, and I am curious. The spouse or the mouse?
PS I won't tell either one.

I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.

Dude, that was a slow pitch over home plate to say your wife.  Be abashed, Indy, be abashed. :bouncegiggle:

What is your relationship with this third party you are intimate with that you've never met?

If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?

BTW, as much as I oppose the death penalty---which isn't that passionately, though I do think it's wrong---I believe in that case I would trust American justice enough to think the greater evil would be releasing a presumably convicted murderer out into society, so I'd choose to be the executioner, and hope it would be just throwing a switch and I didn't have to stab or beat someone to death.

Simply the closest friend I've ever had, who knows all my secrets and the depths of my soul.
I love my wife more, of course, but this person knows some things about me I've never told another soul.

No. Such an absurd condition would suggest a corrupt motive.

Oh hell no. I am for the death penalty, but under those rules- f**k no.
That's Nazi s**t.

Indy, I don't mean to pull teeth.  How did you come in contact? 

A rather long story, TBH.  Our friendship grew very slowly for the first ten years.
We became much closer over the last decade.

You guys have minds that work differently from mine. I enjoy contemplating strange scenarios like that.  :teddyr:

Like today I was pondering, if two people were drowning in front of me and I could only save one, and one was a five year old, the other a much-hated middle-aged billionaire jerk who vowed to build a children's cancer hospital if I saved him, what would I do, save one child directly, or potentially save thousands of children indirectly? I thought about that all the time I sat through this extremely remedial lecture I had to go to.

Middle-aged billionaire jerks have a lousy track record of keeping their promises.

Yeah, but remember, Hitler was once a five year old. Do I gamble on the odds of this one being another Hitler and pull the mite out of the water?

Yeah- but I bet on the present- not the future. A child is innocent. f**k rich scumbags.

Aw, you know I'm just bumblefuggin' around, RC, I'd pull the child out without thinking twice. I just amuse myself constructing odd scenarios.

Goodnight to you and all. I hope you're doing well.  :cheers:

^ I might even help him die!
Not the kid. Well, maybe. Depending on how hungry I am at the time.

Seriously, what the hell are you all talking about? 

^ Drowning babies and billonaires, of course.  :bouncegiggle:

But of course!

(Insomnia yet again.)

Have you ever had a memorable bodily accident?

Yes. I totaled a truck. I broke both my legs, got a big ass scar on my chin. Second car wreck (I wasn't driving this time) I went threw a sunroof while the car was doing endos in a cornfield and broke my neck.

The one-car crash I've been in, was the day we later found out that Kristi was pregnant with Ash. Pretty sure I'll remember that day.

Oh my yes. One almost killed me when I was fifteen.

Waaaait. You didn't mean "accident" as in like needing to change undergarments, did you? (Oh, Trevor's starting to influence me.)

Have you ever p**sed on someone. I mean take a p**s on them.

Does being a baby count?

I reckon!
I lived in an old trailer across from a biker bar in Marcellus, Michigan. Melvilles!
Anyway, me and my brother were sh!tfaced. Glenn passed out on a couch, I was trying to find the bathroom half asleep, and p**sed on Glenn by mistake. He was p**sed! More ways than one!  :bouncegiggle:

When he was a newborn my son peed in my mouth. Perfect shot as I was talking while changing him, zing, a splash of it went bullseye. I thought my husband was gonna die laughing and all I could think of to say to him  with the faintly sweet taste of baby pee in my mouth was come give a kiss.

But did YOU ever p**s on somebody?
My son's Jed and Eddie p**sed on me all the time.

My buddie Eathon was hammered. I was too. I passed out on the couch with him, and he p**sed himself.
We were watching some horror movie. His girlfreind Destiny was there too. She thought it was funny!
I guess it was!

Yes, I did!   :teddyr:

As my friend Empreror Palapatine said "Good, good, let my influence flow through you....."  :buggedout: :wink:

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Mine was - don't laugh!!! - Debby Boone.

I think Carrie Fisher, but it might have been Debbie Harry.

Dame Joan Collins very closely followed by Princess Diana.

Singers: I had quite a crush on Sheena Easton and Dame Olivia Newton-John too.

I feel left out but I don't think I ever had a thing for celebrities or celebrity culture. The closest I got was liking certain characters on screen, but more because they were in shows I enjoyed.

At various times Catharine Bach, Lynda Carter, Jacklyn Smith, Dawn French, and Barbara Eden. Not really "crushes" per se, just the women I found attractive.

Nobody.

Dou you like horseradish?

Love it!  The hotter the better!

Yes, I like the sting.

Not so much by itself, but in things like wasabi and cocktail sauce, ABSOLUTELY!

Me too.

Ever known a Flat Earther?

I have, and it's amazing how detailed and thought-out their erroneous views can be. Some of them may be crazy but they aren't all stupid.

I haven't met any flat earthers, but I did used to spar with a holocaust denier, and it's the same thing - they're incredibly invested in their flawed worldview and can cite "evidence" to support it while finding creative ways to dismiss all real evidence to the contrary.

Holocaust deniers are hard to get. Where do they think the Jewish population of the Pale and elsewhere in Europe went? What about all the eyewitnesses? I heard one on TV say the Holocaust couldn't have happened because Germany didn't have enough fuel to incinerate so many bodies. That was his evidence. I think the default setting of far to many people is to believe what they want and then try to find evidence to support it. (I also remember on September 11, 2001, literally ON that day, before it was over there were people saying in effect it never happened.)

The guy I got into it with claimed that there was not trace evidence of cyanide on the gas chamber walls at Auschwitz, therefore they were just showers, not gas chambers.
Beneath his veil of polite skepticism lurked a nasty anti-Semitism.  I asked him once about the tens of thousands of eyewitnesses who had seen the horrors in the camps, who had lost loved ones there, etc.  The mask dropped for a minute and he said:
"They've gotten away with this for far too long!"

Yes. Tara Sue's son Jim was one, just before he died.
At least flat-earthers are harmless. Holocaust deniers- f**k them all to hell.

Whenever a holocaust denier starts with me I always say the same thing: My granddad was one of the guys who liberated Belsin. Might want to be very careful what you say next, cos it might just be engraved on your gravestone.

None of them have ever said anything next.

Let me think up one of these before bed....


OK, here's one. Have you ever been so afraid you couldn't seem to move a muscle?

I felt that way one night alone in a tent in a forest in Maine, miles from where anyone was supposed to be. It was as dark as the interior of a cave outside, and someone was walking around very close to me, taking small quiet footsteps. It was absolutely terrifying.

Never. Nothing scares me. I swear to...? My Ma's grave.
I may get scared for a second- but that turns into anger very fast. I don't think that's a healthy reaction, but it's the truth.

One of my earliest memories involves waking up from a night terror (I still remember what I was dreaming of. We left that house where I had that dream when I was 3), and being unable to move or cry out.

How long do you sleep?

I average about five hours a night, which I'm told is not enough, and will bite me in some way down the road.

Generally 4 hours and night and ditto on the shortened lifespan as a result.

I shoot for (and average) 8 hours a night, prefer 9 if I can get it. If I have less than 7 hours I drag noticeably the next day.

Because of issues I have with anxiety and depression, I'm happy if I can get five hours of sleep per night.

I get about 5 - 6 hours' sleep nightly when I'm working, rarely more.  In the summers, when I'm off, I generally sleep till I wake up - which is usually after about 7 hours.

This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?

(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)

Uhm. I'll PM you a story (not involving me directly, but it is pretty damn dark).

I don't think it's OFTEN, but it does happen.

^ Hey, look at that, indy's got 2,500 karma!  :cheers:

Ugh.  I hope not.  I'd put mortician in the realm of proctologist; money must be the motivation.  And somebody has to do it.

Did you ever hear that in France under Napoleon III the government paid doctors a modest sum to conduct medical exams on sex workers in brothels in order to try to curb the spread of diseases, but so many doctors applied for these relatively low-paying jobs that someone got the idea of charging doctors for the license to perform this formerly salaried task, and the government actually found it a lucrative source of revenue? I've often thought about that when people have suggested phsicians become asexual when examining patients. (Maybe some do but apparently some at least find other motivations beyond the application of their medical training.)