I only got 13. Damn it.

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1523670]

Comments

[simont]

I presume, in the standard fashion for this sort of game, that technicalities should count if you can think of any excuse for them to?

[andrewducker]

Yes. And then explained in comments if not deathly embarassing.

[simont]

Naturally :-)

It's not normally terminology I approve of, but for these purposes I'm prepared to count myself a thief based on having made an unauthorised copy of a copyrighted work on at least one occasion. And I decided that anyone who's engaged in any kind of shares-based investment ever can just about count "gambler".

[andlosers.livejournal.com]

Ah. True in both cases over here too. I should revise my score up to 9.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Hey, no zero! :-^

[andrewducker]

You can only have 20 options on a sliding scale in an LJ poll - so I chopped of 0 and 21/22...

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know how you know someone so virtuous that they only scored 4!

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I wish to lodge a formal protest at the fact that lesbians get 2-for-1 with "homosexuals" on there too.

Clearly not fair and blatantly sexist *sulks*

Also: "Sports-fans"? WTF?!? I mean I'm pleased to get the bonus point and proud to piss off the Christimentals in one extra way but still, WTF?

[andrewducker]

Sports are eeeevil distractions from The Lord's work. Everyone knows that.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Ah fair point, and the Bruins did sign Satan as a free-agent a couple of months back.... See! :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I agree with Simon, I do feel little like I'm getting a 2 for 1.

In addition (in the spirit of things):

- I'm going to take Pagan as well as Atheist because it originally just meant 'non-Christian'(/Jewish/popular monotheistic faith of the time).

- I'm also going to take 'Witches' because I'm outspoken enough that there's no way I wouldn't have been accused and burned/hanged for a witch had I been around when they were doing that.

- I'm going to take 'Porn-Lovers' because although I do not own or watch porn, I have seen/read and been amused by it, and I like a lot of HBO and Showtime shows, and I'm pretty sure they count. Plus I just watched up-to-date on Secret Diary of a Call Girl last night.

- Again, I probably get an extra on 'masturbators' since although I don't really myself particularly, hello, lesbian sex.

- Erin and I displayed our psychic abilities to Simon and Alex last night; just ask them.

Which brings me up to a respectable 17.

[simont]

I'm going to take Pagan as well as Atheist because it originally just meant 'non-Christian'(/Jewish/popular monotheistic faith of the time)

Ooh, do you reckon? I think I'd have been happy to count Pagan on those grounds if I'd had some sort of nonstandard faith even if it wasn't the thing nowadays referred to as paganism, but I couldn't quite bring myself to do so with no faith at all. Perhaps andrewducker should adjudicate :-)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I think it's fair - it was used interchangeably with 'godless heathen' and other such terms. It just so happens that we follow the 'faith' of science and reason.

[simont]

Fair enough. I've awarded myself an extra point, in that case!

[zz]

sweet. ditto. :>

[marrog.livejournal.com]

(Besides, I also said I was psychic - I'm clearly grasping at technicalities here)

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

- I'm also going to take 'Witches' because I'm outspoken enough that there's no way I wouldn't have been accused and burned/hanged for a witch had I been around when they were doing that.

It's true. She turned me into a newt!

I got better....

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

*Giggles*

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oh! I'm a really crap pyschic aren't I! yay 16

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I feel cheated that I can't count lesbian OR homosexual, because I'm bi.

:(

[zz]

i counted it, on the principle that bi = straight + gay.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

From context, I guess they mean primarily male homosexuals, although that would mean no-one can get no marks. For that matter I notice that essentially everyone is a masturbator, and that no-one is a psychic.

It also seems unlikely that very many people are lesbians, whores, AND whore-mongers.

[simont]

I may be half asleep, but why does that mean no-one can get no marks?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doh. That should read "no-one can get FULL marks" in the first paragraph. I was thinking ahead to other examples which everyone/no-one is and got it the wrong way round.

[zz]

lesbians get 2-for-1 with "homosexuals" on there too.

perhaps it's because it's evil to be gay AND evil to be female? :)

[cdave]

I have something similar on my kitchen door. Me and iBon are tied (but not matched) in the race to hell.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

Things I am not: Thief, Sports Fan, Pagan, Prostitute, Witch, Whoremonger, Child M*l*st*r, Pot Smoker, Lesbian, or Psychic.

I think dancers and singers should be added, on account of the Puritans having outlawed those hobbies. Also, I shop on both the Sabbath and the Sunday -- surely that should count for something.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is, it seems that most fundamentalists of any religion, tend to be the biggest sinners.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

I'm not a child molesting psychic. But the rest? HELLS TO THE YEAH

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

A measly 12. I feel ashamed.

[andrewducker]

There's still time!

[matgb]

I had ticked 11, but am going to go give myself another point for pagan--I might not be one, but I did go to a pagan festival (Imbolc) on Saturday.

So I suspect the idiot would count that.

I feel so fucking virtuous. Blech.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Only 10 even if I count 'homosexual' and 'pagan', both of which are arguably pushing definitions (especially since I also ticket 'atheist').

(I'm refusing to go along with simont's argument and count myself as a 'thief' on grounds of piracy, though. But I probably have physically taken things I shouldn't have at some point, so I could have pushed it up on those grounds...)

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Hm 14 - still, better than half way!