The "HARD CHEESE" meme
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fpb"Hard Cheese!" is a British slang expression for "tough luck!" This is a meme about all the unlucky, irritating or bloody stupid things that regularly happen. Answer it, then copy it in your LJ and snigger as others tell you about their "hard cheese" moments.
1)Name one nasty, unlucky or painful thing that recently happened to you.
2)Name a severe disappointment in your life.
3)Without naming names, describe the behaviour of someone in LJ or real life that really honks you off.
4)Describe an injustice you have met.
5)Would you say that anything you ever met or dealt with personally was really evil?
6)List as many public figures, from singers to politicians, who honk you off, and try and explain why. George W.Bush and Osama Bin Laden are excluded - too easy.
7)What would you rather watch paint dry for a month than do?
8)What would you rather watch paint dry for a month than do again?
9)What would you change about yourself?
10)"If I had been present on the day of Creation, I might have given the Creator some useful suggestions." What would you change about the world?
These are my answers:
1)I fell over and nearly smashed my left hand. It is still aching and may take days to get right.
2)The worst, of course, is not having married Debbie. The second worst is never to have learned to play the piano and read music scores.
3)There is a member of my family who really behaves like the young Dolores Umbridge in my fic It was all on account of the little Russian girl. Need I say more?
4)I once had to save the life and sanity of a young man whose mind had been literally destroyed by the Scientologists. He ended up in the local mental hospital, but eventually he recovered.
5)Scientology (see previous answer).
6)Well, I thoroughly agree with Bufo Viridis: there is nothing strange about wanting to fly millions of miles for the chance of killing Tom Cruise. (Does anyone see a theme developping here?) And I never recovered from the mind-threatening trauma of eleven years of rule by Margaret Thatcher. Her nails-scraping-on-blackboard voice alone was enough to make me want to scream.
7)Listen to modern jazz.
8)Have to defend myself in HP fandom against charges of homophobia.
9)Whatever it is that made three women I loved refuse me.
10)Some extraordinarily stinky flowers, and the misguided people who actually use them for houseplants.
1)Name one nasty, unlucky or painful thing that recently happened to you.
2)Name a severe disappointment in your life.
3)Without naming names, describe the behaviour of someone in LJ or real life that really honks you off.
4)Describe an injustice you have met.
5)Would you say that anything you ever met or dealt with personally was really evil?
6)List as many public figures, from singers to politicians, who honk you off, and try and explain why. George W.Bush and Osama Bin Laden are excluded - too easy.
7)What would you rather watch paint dry for a month than do?
8)What would you rather watch paint dry for a month than do again?
9)What would you change about yourself?
10)"If I had been present on the day of Creation, I might have given the Creator some useful suggestions." What would you change about the world?
These are my answers:
1)I fell over and nearly smashed my left hand. It is still aching and may take days to get right.
2)The worst, of course, is not having married Debbie. The second worst is never to have learned to play the piano and read music scores.
3)There is a member of my family who really behaves like the young Dolores Umbridge in my fic It was all on account of the little Russian girl. Need I say more?
4)I once had to save the life and sanity of a young man whose mind had been literally destroyed by the Scientologists. He ended up in the local mental hospital, but eventually he recovered.
5)Scientology (see previous answer).
6)Well, I thoroughly agree with Bufo Viridis: there is nothing strange about wanting to fly millions of miles for the chance of killing Tom Cruise. (Does anyone see a theme developping here?) And I never recovered from the mind-threatening trauma of eleven years of rule by Margaret Thatcher. Her nails-scraping-on-blackboard voice alone was enough to make me want to scream.
7)Listen to modern jazz.
8)Have to defend myself in HP fandom against charges of homophobia.
9)Whatever it is that made three women I loved refuse me.
10)Some extraordinarily stinky flowers, and the misguided people who actually use them for houseplants.
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A Very Boring Part II....
Date: 2005-07-31 05:25 am (UTC)10. There's so much I don't understand, always starting w/ why children have to suffer. But what your question brings to mind is the comment Neils Bohr made in a debate w/ Albert Einstein, when Einstein ranted on that, "God does not play dice w/ the universe!" Bohr replied, "Al, quit telling God how to do His job." I'm also reminded of the comment by one of my great teachers, Eugene Gendlin, who talked about a larger wisdom present in all of us. "If I cut my finger, and I had to line up all those capillaries & nerves, I'd surely fuck it up." And so, I think, I'll give it a pass and let someone wiser do the advising.
Probably off from what you wanted. But then I cheerfully march to a different drummer.
Re: A Very Boring Part II....
Date: 2005-07-31 05:39 am (UTC)Scientology, on the other hand, I am in dead earnest about. I thought that, as a historian, I knew what evil looked like, until I saw their handiwork.
Re: A Very Boring Part II....
Date: 2005-07-31 06:01 am (UTC):) I'm happy to hear someone else say something like that. I'm just saddened that Catherine Bell (of JAG fame) is a Scientologist (and married but so am I so I can't go down that road).
Re: A Very Boring Part II....
Date: 2005-07-31 06:08 am (UTC)