The Nice, Never Mean, Slightly Intrusive At Times, Personal Questions Thread

[RCMerchant]

Card. I'm on SSI, and my monthly check is direct deposit. So I only pull out cash if I go garage saleing or flea marketing.

[Leah]

I mainly use my card over cash.

[indianasmith]

I use cash when I can, cards when I can't.

[ER]

I asked this of someone today and she said, "What is this 'money' of which you speak? And where do I acquire it?"   

[Rev. Powell]

My card whenever possible. I earn points which I convert to gift cards which I convert to Blu-rays, books and CDs.

[Paquita]

If you had the ability to turn your emotions off and on, is that something you'd do never, rarely, often, or leave it your default setting?

I would sometimes prefer to be able to defer emotions to a later time when appropriate. I have a really bad problem with holding back tears, even for non-sad just really joyful or moving emotional things and it's so embarrassing.  I have to leave the room during movies sometimes so my family doesn't tease me.  I missed out on some banger speeches at my cousins wake because I didn't think it was appropriate for me to cry more than his immediate family.  If anyone has any tips I am all ears.

Which do you use more, paper money, or pay by card?

Card. Anytime I have cash when I go out I end up giving it all away to family, charities, or homeless people before I get home.

[ER]

What do you guys think of Siskel & Ebert?

When I was a kid it felt like they'd always been around and always would, which isn't to say I adored them, but today they're nostalgic. That said, they didn't always have the best taste in movies, and were lousy prognosticators.

[Trevor]

What do you guys think of Siskell & Ebert?

When I was a kid it felt like they'd always been around and always would, which isn't to say I adored them, but today they're nostalgic. That said, they didn't always have the best taste in movies, and were lousy prognosticators.

The only film critics I listen to are the people on this site: if you say that a movie is good, I will go see it and if you say a movie is 💩 without being good/bad, I won't go see it 😉

[RCMerchant]

I guess they were ok guys.  I never watched them too much.
Did you folks know Ebert co-wrote  the cult classic BEYOND THE VALLY OF THE DOLLS (1970)?

[ER]

^ I did not. I did have the thought that just as some people are seemingly born into the wrong gender, so Ebert was probably meant to be black. He was obsessed with black culture, married a black woman, kind of had a black vibe, almost all his close friends were black, he lived in a part of Chicago where successful black people tended to dwell, endowed a black college, consistently named black films to his best of lists, called Hoop Dreams the greatest movie of all time, and even said it was racist to have "blond" Arnold chopping off the head of a black man in Conan the Barbarian. I wonder if he were around today he would say he identifies as African American?

[ER]

Was Anne Frank right in saying people are good at heart?

[Alex]

No. Some are, some aren't, although most believe they are good people.

Self delusion is a powerful thing.

[RCMerchant]

Was Anne Frank right in saying people are good at heart?

No. She must have been, though- to have faith in mankind when she was surrounded by so much evil.

[ER]

I think Stephen King got it right when he said the two warring natures in humans were GOD and DOG, though that demeans dogs, who unlike humans never act from motives of evil.

Alex nailed it up there, echoing a line by Patricia Highsmith that lodges rent-free in my brain: "You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person." Though that's a better generality than an absolute, for example I used to know a man in England who would enter these depressive states after his equally common frenzies of mania and tell me he deserved to die, that he was so bad a person he couldn't stand to live with himself.

Quite honestly, he died in prison.

I do admire Anne's idealism, and hope she kept it to the end, poor girl.

[ER]

Burn out, or fade away?