Question game

[Zilverzmurfen]

What do you require?

Actually I only require air, sleep and food but there are lots of things I would like.


What's the best thing you've ever found in a pack of cornflakes?

[ThatReallyHurt]

Uh, other than the corn flakes... probably a little wind-up helicopter.

What's your favourite cereal?

[Zilverzmurfen]

What's your favourite cereal?

Cornflakes. But rather those 'bran' type of flakes.


What's the place where you would absolutely not want to live?

[ThatReallyHurt]

Inside one of those ocean floor volcano vents. Apparently, it gets pretty warm, and it wouldn't just be the heat, it'd be the humidity!

Yourself?

[fencerontheline]

Upper east side of manhattan... The people are snobby, the art is old and dull... to me, it's a very stuffy atmosphere


Who's the master?

[Zilverzmurfen]

Yourself?

I'm sure there are worse places but I actually found a spot last month where I would definitely not want to live.

I had a map fetisch attack last month, on Valentines Day actually, and had a closer look at the US states (I admit to not being too familiar with those). I thought to myself "Poor souls who live here!" pointing my finger to a spot right in the middle of nowhere.

It was far, far off from the sea (The poor sods!) and ironically the name of the place was called --- Valentine.


So what's the place you would want the most to live (you may not chose your current location)?

[ThatReallyHurt]

So what's the place you would want the most to live (you may not chose your current location)?

Wow, that's a tough one... I'm really not all that well traveled - I haven't been off this particular continent yet. Hmm... I wouldn't mind British Columbia, ocean through one window, mountains and forests through another... I'd also entertained the thought of the UK or another European country with a good coastline... New Zealand is also high on my list. Hmm... I'll need to do some travelling before I can really answer that one well.

Youself? (again, I'm taking the lazy way out for my question)

[Zilverzmurfen]

Youself? (again, I'm taking the lazy way out for my question)

There are lots of places that interests me, and I have never travelled outside of Europe. However, if I had to chose now, today I'd say Bern (capital of Switzerland). I am so in LOVE with that city! (And they have a very decent fencing club too.)


What computer do you have? (Boring question, soryy, but I'm in a bit of a rush off from work... )

[ThatReallyHurt]

The computer I'm currently using is a Dell Dimension 8250. P4 2.4GHz, 512MB of RAM, a whole bunch of hard drives, and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card. I shelled out a whole pile of money for the video card, just so I could say I had the fastest desktop video card on the planet. Eighteen hours after I first turned on the computer, it was the second fastest desktop video card on the market.

Does what I need it to do.

I've got a bunch of other machines doing other random tasks, too.

If you could get anything you wanted right at this instant, what would it be?

[InweCiryatan]

To get rid of my allergies. I sneeze and cough at pollen, cats, dogs, wool, dust, little sisters Plus I have an auto-immune condition called vitiligo which causes depigmentation, i.e. white spots, and they have no cure for it. I'm one of the lucky ones though because my white spots slowly return to normal, so at least I’m not going to end up like Michael Jackson.

Have you ever seen a ghost?

[ThatReallyHurt]

I don't think so. I've been creeped out by things and thought I saw something, but in the end was able to rationalize it. Who knows, maybe I have...

Have you?

[InweCiryatan]

No, but my grandparents and great-grandparents were staying in an old cabin in the woods of North Carolina when they said they saw a ghost. For three nights in a row Grandma, Pa, Goggy, and Poppy swear they saw a blue light shining from under their door and the sound of shuffling feet. On the third night they decided to leave their door open but all they saw was a small, faintly glowing column of blue light. Needless to say they left early.

The next year they decided to visit again, but during that trip things kept disappearing, then reappearing in odd places, like on the top of the refrigerator. They nicknamed the 'ghost' Frankie, after Frankie Silver, the first woman to be hanged for killing her abusive husband, and whose old cabin used to be right down the road. My great-grandma got fed up one day and hollered "Frankie, get out of this house, hear? We don't want you here anymore so get!" Oddly enough, whatever it was never came back again. Later, when my family was comparing stories, my aunt said when they stayed in the house, her daughter April, who was a baby then, used to look over her shoulder, grin, say "baby." Her toys left in the floor at night used to play randomly. Weird.

What is the scariest thing that ever happened to you?

[Lady Riposter]

My cancer scare. We thought I had lymphoma for a day. I could have kissed the oncologist who told me it was just a cyst in my neck....

Have you ever had to stay in a hospital?

[ThatReallyHurt]

Yep. Appendectomy. I actually quite enjoyed myself until the painkillers wore off... I'm not a big fan of hospital stays, though - I hate being sick or hurt.

Do you wear socks, slippers, or shoes around the house?

[Zilverzmurfen]

Do you wear socks, slippers, or shoes around the house?

Socks. Unless it's summer and really hot, in which case I'm sometimes barefoot. Or if it's cold (mostly during winter time, I also live on the 1st floor in my house) I might wear my fluffy, nice sheepskin slippers.


Why do people in American film, when entering a house/flat, appear right in the LIVINGROOM! Don't you people have hallways like normal houses/flats..?!

[ThatReallyHurt]

Socks. Unless it's summer and really hot, in which case I'm sometimes barefoot. Or if it's cold (mostly during winter time, I also live on the 1st floor in my house) I might wear my fluffy, nice sheepskin slippers.


Why do people in American film, when entering a house/flat, appear right in the LIVINGROOM! Don't you people have hallways like normal houses/flats..?!

Hmm... I think a lot of houses here are built that way. A lot of newer houses don't seem to have porches built onto them anymore - just a little wee alcove area and then right into the living room.

Where do people in films from other places end up when they enter a house/flat?

[Zilverzmurfen]

Hmm... I think a lot of houses here are built that way. A lot of newer houses don't seem to have porches built onto them anymore - just a little wee alcove area and then right into the living room.

Where do people in films from other places end up when they enter a house/flat?

In the hallway, of course...


So...if you enter a house in the livingroom, where do you take off your coats, jackets and shoes? Do you have to walk through the whole house - with dirty shoes - and take them off somewhere else?

(Two questions, I know. But this is a question that has bugged me my ENTIRE life. YOU can provide the answer to this riddle! )

[Lady Riposter]

If I'm lucky there's a coat rack right inside the door, maybe with a shoe rack underneath, or at the very least a pile of shoes. I'm usually told to leave my shoes on, however.

How high of heels should one wear, were one to wear high heels?

[Go? Fencing?]

As high as one wishes, while still being able to walk in them.

Do you like wearing high heels?

[keith]

oh yes, but I have trouble finding them in my size.

how high is to high?