Doing the Yonmei Quiz
Jun. 17th, 2003 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker1. Why did you friend me?
Lessee, you were on BrandNewGun's friends list, you disagreed with me in a logical and reasonable way (while still being obviously passionate about them) and you're both interesting and smart.
Oh, and I'm incapable of of seeing your LJ name without imagining hot lesbian sex, but you knew that, right?
2. You're about the only person I know who has their real address published in the user info of your journal: why?
So that people can find me. When I started this LiveJournal I made a conscious decision to throw away my 'masks', used my real name as a username for pretty much the first time ever and am about as open about things as I can be (barring the occasional work-related post, which obviously go friends only). Havign done so, and having given out my phone/address to a few people since then, and because a 10 second search online will turn them up anyway, I didn't see any reason not to make myself fairly public. I have a general trust in people, and I'm fairly picky about my LJ friends, and so far I've had no reason to think there'll be a problem with my address being there.
3. With special reference to deep-fried puppies, is there anything you wouldn't eat?
I hate: cheese, nuts, liver and a few other things (most things that are a recognisable 'organ' rather than a slab of meat). But I suspect that wasn't the question you were asking. I wouldn't eat anything above a certain level of sentience - dogs, dolphins, elephants,etc.. Horses are on the borderline, deer just below the borderline and sheep/cows are a fair bit below. Chickens/turkeys are a long way below and broccoli is somewhere deep in the fathoms of munchability. Of course, in a 'starving to death' situation, all bets are off.
4. You have been appointed Benevolent Dictator for Europe for a five-year span. What do you want to accomplish over those five years?
Legalise and regulate drugs and prostitution, phase in Universal Benefit, get rid of the CAP, radically revamp the education system, persuade OPEC to move to the Euro, fund a study into how we can ameliorate the problems with having the different economic areas all on the same interest rate/inflation, increase the levels of 'pure' research, get renewable energy sorted out, put in place a framework to make people feel that they have a connection to their government, remove business and software patents, reduce copyright to the length of the author's lifetime (or less, this needs more study), get several films that I want to see made and have fabulous parties at my palace with various people that I've always wanted to meet.
5. Which do you think is going to be sillier: The Hulk or Pirates of the Carribean?
Pirates of the Carribean. Ang Lee, a director I respect very much for "Sense and Sensibility", "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman" and "The Ice Storm" says that The Hulk will be a greek tragedy about the power of Rage and our relationship with our parents. With kickass CGI.
Pirates... on the other hand, will be a fabulous romp with an amazing cast hamming it up beyond belief.
If anyone hasn't been interviewed yet, but wants to be, let me know.
Lessee, you were on BrandNewGun's friends list, you disagreed with me in a logical and reasonable way (while still being obviously passionate about them) and you're both interesting and smart.
Oh, and I'm incapable of of seeing your LJ name without imagining hot lesbian sex, but you knew that, right?
2. You're about the only person I know who has their real address published in the user info of your journal: why?
So that people can find me. When I started this LiveJournal I made a conscious decision to throw away my 'masks', used my real name as a username for pretty much the first time ever and am about as open about things as I can be (barring the occasional work-related post, which obviously go friends only). Havign done so, and having given out my phone/address to a few people since then, and because a 10 second search online will turn them up anyway, I didn't see any reason not to make myself fairly public. I have a general trust in people, and I'm fairly picky about my LJ friends, and so far I've had no reason to think there'll be a problem with my address being there.
3. With special reference to deep-fried puppies, is there anything you wouldn't eat?
I hate: cheese, nuts, liver and a few other things (most things that are a recognisable 'organ' rather than a slab of meat). But I suspect that wasn't the question you were asking. I wouldn't eat anything above a certain level of sentience - dogs, dolphins, elephants,etc.. Horses are on the borderline, deer just below the borderline and sheep/cows are a fair bit below. Chickens/turkeys are a long way below and broccoli is somewhere deep in the fathoms of munchability. Of course, in a 'starving to death' situation, all bets are off.
4. You have been appointed Benevolent Dictator for Europe for a five-year span. What do you want to accomplish over those five years?
Legalise and regulate drugs and prostitution, phase in Universal Benefit, get rid of the CAP, radically revamp the education system, persuade OPEC to move to the Euro, fund a study into how we can ameliorate the problems with having the different economic areas all on the same interest rate/inflation, increase the levels of 'pure' research, get renewable energy sorted out, put in place a framework to make people feel that they have a connection to their government, remove business and software patents, reduce copyright to the length of the author's lifetime (or less, this needs more study), get several films that I want to see made and have fabulous parties at my palace with various people that I've always wanted to meet.
5. Which do you think is going to be sillier: The Hulk or Pirates of the Carribean?
Pirates of the Carribean. Ang Lee, a director I respect very much for "Sense and Sensibility", "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman" and "The Ice Storm" says that The Hulk will be a greek tragedy about the power of Rage and our relationship with our parents. With kickass CGI.
Pirates... on the other hand, will be a fabulous romp with an amazing cast hamming it up beyond belief.
If anyone hasn't been interviewed yet, but wants to be, let me know.
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Date: 2003-06-17 03:53 am (UTC)*snicker* Imagine away. Regrettably, I'm having a lot less hot lesbian sex than you imagine...
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Date: 2003-06-17 03:57 am (UTC)So, do I get your vote for European Dictator 2003-2008? :->
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Date: 2003-06-17 04:11 am (UTC)*snicker snicker* Yep, you do come across as about that age from time to time...
So, do I get your vote for European Dictator 2003-2008? :->
Nope. I will be out in the streets demonstrating against the concept of Benevolent Dictator, not voting for one.
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Date: 2003-06-17 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-17 04:52 am (UTC)That's how democracy works isn't it?
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Date: 2003-06-17 04:52 am (UTC)What, you mean when he's not sleeping?
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Date: 2003-06-17 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-17 09:57 am (UTC)Which has the same effect (typing goes to shit and my mind is elsewhere)
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Date: 2003-06-17 10:07 am (UTC)Do you actually have any rational basis for ranking animals this way or is it just based on which ones are tasty? ;-)
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Date: 2003-06-17 10:53 am (UTC)I won't eat anything that I can empathise with - I have less empathy for stupid things.
I really can't muster any empathy for chickens at all - they have slightly more brains than a cabbage, but only just.
I have lots of empathy for dogs, which seem very smart and can understand quite a lot.
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Date: 2003-06-17 12:18 pm (UTC)slightly more brains than a cabbage
I love this!! Having had the misfortune to have actually had to feed & water the dratted things (parents live in the backwoods of Mississippi & thought raising farm animals would be a good idea), I can verify that you've pretty much nailed chicken intelligence! Or, actually, I think you might be giving them a bit of extra credit......
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Date: 2003-06-17 02:32 pm (UTC)That must put a damper on your sex life :-D OK, sorry. Um... I guess we all have our own standards, and not necessarily consistent ones, but it's still striking to me how your hierarchy of intelligence seems to rank exactly the animals that are traditionally considered "food" as "dumb", and the animals that are traditionally considered "pets" and/or "cute" as "smart". Notwithstanding the opinion expressed in the other reply to this, a lot of people who have spent time with chickens, cows, or sheep the way most people have spent time with dogs (and not in the Rick Santorum sense, either) will attest to their intelligence. That's anecdotal, of course. But in this arena, most of the evidence seems to be anecdotal, making it easy for unrelated biases to creep in and color one's reasoning. Which is fine, if you're up front about that.
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Date: 2003-06-17 02:40 pm (UTC)Now, they may be hiding it, but I've read studies about dog intelligence and cat intelligence, but precious little about sheep except for anecdotal "sheep are so dumb" stories.
I suspect that the reason that people have no hesitation about eating sheep is their stupidity, and if sheep were very smart they'd be more empathised with.
Of course, pigs _are_ smarter than sheep and aren't well respected - there's certainly some bias there.
Well,..
Date: 2003-06-17 02:57 pm (UTC)He says sheep are stupid and mean.
Katja
p.s. He emphasizes "mean".
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Date: 2003-06-17 03:01 pm (UTC)But I'd find it easier to force myself over that than I would to make myself eat something I thought was 'smart'.
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Date: 2003-06-18 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-18 06:31 pm (UTC)I can't really empathize well with fish, though. Even though I have no desire to kill or eat them, trying to empathize with them still sort of gives me the creeps.... being underwater, most likely in cold water, with other bigger fish just waiting around to chomp on me... yeekes. And, no, I haven't seen Finding Nemo yet... The last time I went to see an animated movie, Monsters Inc, they later ended up showing it at my place of employment as a (first-and-only, so far) friday movie break-treat-thing. It was good watching once, but not twice.
I'm afraid to be asked to be interviewed, although it sounds like potential fun. I don't think I could reciprocate - I wasn't even easily able to come up with one question for your poll, at least not one that was totally out of whack. (Maybe I will, yet, one day.) I've been realizing lately that I'm extremely bad at asking questions. This idea of an interview also gives me a slight unease... job interviews...
But... interview me, if you don't mind, please. Ask hard questions; make me extremely uncomfortable; make me flee from lj and be afraid to look back... or... err... whatever you like.
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Date: 2003-06-19 02:28 am (UTC)2) Do you think that emotions are learned or inbuilt? Why?
3) If you were suddeny rich, how would you spend your time?
4) What's the activity you engage in that uses your imagination the most?
5) What question are you most afraid of being asked?
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Date: 2003-06-17 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-18 01:34 am (UTC)2) What are your thoughts on gender?
3) Gamespot - how long for and what next?
4) Who are your favourite authors and why?
5) Having been declare God-Emperor of America, what are your plans?
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Date: 2003-06-18 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-19 02:18 am (UTC)