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62-questions me-me swunked from Curia_Regis
62 question meme:
1. First name?
Fabio
2. Were you named after anyone?
I am not quite clear, but I suspect it was after the younger brother that my father always wished he had.
3. Do you wish on stars?
Urrrh... I have done it in very weak moments in the distant past (like, I don't know, 1993)
4. When did you last cry?
I think last night, watching a tremendous BBC documentary. At least, I had tears in my eyes.
5. Do you like your handwriting?
No. My usual descriptin of it is that it looks as if a million ants had got drunk on ink.
6. What's your favourite lunch meat?
I love most things. But if I had to single one, I would say Brasato al Barolo, a potent Italian stewed beef not unlike French Boeuf a la bourguignonne. Mind you, it's not the sort of thing you can have every day.
7. What is your birth date?
24 July 1962
8. What is your most embarrassing CD?
Some of the less useful among those that come free with Sunday or Saturday newspapers.
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
If I had a lot of patience.
10. Are you a daredevil?
Mentally. Or if they pay me sufficient money.
11. Early morning, or late at night?
At night, but not too late.
12. Do looks matter?
To some extent. But people make themselves neurotic about them and then delude themselves that the pressure comes from "society". Bullshit. "Society" never even paid anyone a cup of coffee.
13. How do you release anger?
In a number of highly efficient ways.
14. Where is your second home?
I guess my mother's flat in Rome might count.
15. Do you trust others easily?
Yes - a bad habit I am trying to break.
16. What was your favourite toy as a child?
I used to love anything you could build with, especially a sort of wood cabin made of beams of real wood. Also board games such as Monopoly and chess. I am the worst chess player in the world.
17. Which class in high school do you think was totally stupid?
I don't remember ever having a quarrel with subjects. I might have if I had been forced to do Woodwork, but it was not compulsory.
18. Do you have a journal?
This one.
19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
It can be useful.
20. What are your nicknames?
None. Only my enemies give me nicknames.
21. Would you bungee jump?
For money.
22. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Yes, unless I am dead tired.
23. Do you think that you are strong?
Physically - no. Mentally - more than people realize.
24. What is your favourite ice cream flavour?
Kulfi, or just about anything.
25. Shoe size?
Italian size 42, British 8 1/2
26. Red or pink?
Red.
27. What is your least favourite thing about yourself?
Fat. Lazy. Temperamental. Unsociable.
28. Who do you miss most?
Debbie Wallace and Laura Latini.
29. Do you want everyone to whom you send this to send it back?
-
30. What colour pants and shoes are you wearing?
Blue jeans and brown indoor slippers
31. What are you listening to right now?
Street traffic
32. Last thing you ate?
Some leftover Christmas Stollen.
33. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Red, I guess.
34. What is the weather like right now?
Nice... rather surprisingly... but cold.
35. Last person you talked to on the phone?
My mother.
36. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Is that a serious question?
37. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
I like the person I gacked it from.
38. What is your ethnicity?
Italian.
39. Favourite drink?
Port and that kind of thing.
40. Favourite sport?
Athletics.
41. Hair colour?
Black.
42. Eye colour?
Brown.
43. Do you wear contacts?
No.
44. Are you single?
Yes.
45. Favourite food?
I have very wide tastes, but if I should absolutely choose, probably pizza.
46. Last movie you watched?
Dodge City.
47. Favourite day of the year?
Any one I get money on.
48. Scary movies or happy endings?
Neither. Good, thoughtful, well-made movies, whether they end as happy as IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE or as tragic as LA REGLE DU JEU.
49. Summer or winter?
Mid-season.
50. Hugs or kisses?
As many of both as possible.
51. Do you have any favourite rants and, if so, what are they?
Read this LJ
52. What is your favourite dessert?
Something with ice cream in it.
53. Who is most likely to respond?
-
54. Who is most likely not to respond?
-
55. What books are you reading?
A lot that no-one has ever heard of.
56. What's on your mouse pad?
A trades union logo from a teachers trades union.
57. What did you watch last night on TV?
A breathtaking BBC documentary about the horrendous results of pederastic rape on a number of boys in Plymouth, England. It turned out that many of them had grown into violent, disturbed troublemakers and drugs and alcohol addicts. When you see a large, scarred, threatening-looking career criminal simply collapse into tears because he has realized that, twenty years ago, someone might have done something about the ring of abusers that was raping him, and nobody did anything, you need no more reason to lock up abusers for life. I think the climax of the story came when the judge who finally sentenced the head of the ring - a millionaire who thought that his wealth gave him immunity - to life in prison, said that he, the judge, understood what he was doing because he, the judge, saw among the witnesses in the case so many men he had sentenced before, and that this brought home to him all the cruel and lasting damage this monster had done. It was one of the most shattering things I have seen in my whole life. The idiots who write rape fics should watch it ten times before they write anything again.
58. Favourite smells?
Burnt tomato is an odd one. Whisky. Caster sugar.
59. Favourite sounds?
Music.
60. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
As time goes on, the Stones will seem less and less important, but the stature of the Beatles will never diminish. Musically, they were the best. The best group there has ever been.
61. What's the farthest you've been from home?
Australia.
62. Do you have a special talent?
Losing friends and failing to influence people.
1. First name?
Fabio
2. Were you named after anyone?
I am not quite clear, but I suspect it was after the younger brother that my father always wished he had.
3. Do you wish on stars?
Urrrh... I have done it in very weak moments in the distant past (like, I don't know, 1993)
4. When did you last cry?
I think last night, watching a tremendous BBC documentary. At least, I had tears in my eyes.
5. Do you like your handwriting?
No. My usual descriptin of it is that it looks as if a million ants had got drunk on ink.
6. What's your favourite lunch meat?
I love most things. But if I had to single one, I would say Brasato al Barolo, a potent Italian stewed beef not unlike French Boeuf a la bourguignonne. Mind you, it's not the sort of thing you can have every day.
7. What is your birth date?
24 July 1962
8. What is your most embarrassing CD?
Some of the less useful among those that come free with Sunday or Saturday newspapers.
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
If I had a lot of patience.
10. Are you a daredevil?
Mentally. Or if they pay me sufficient money.
11. Early morning, or late at night?
At night, but not too late.
12. Do looks matter?
To some extent. But people make themselves neurotic about them and then delude themselves that the pressure comes from "society". Bullshit. "Society" never even paid anyone a cup of coffee.
13. How do you release anger?
In a number of highly efficient ways.
14. Where is your second home?
I guess my mother's flat in Rome might count.
15. Do you trust others easily?
Yes - a bad habit I am trying to break.
16. What was your favourite toy as a child?
I used to love anything you could build with, especially a sort of wood cabin made of beams of real wood. Also board games such as Monopoly and chess. I am the worst chess player in the world.
17. Which class in high school do you think was totally stupid?
I don't remember ever having a quarrel with subjects. I might have if I had been forced to do Woodwork, but it was not compulsory.
18. Do you have a journal?
This one.
19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
It can be useful.
20. What are your nicknames?
None. Only my enemies give me nicknames.
21. Would you bungee jump?
For money.
22. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Yes, unless I am dead tired.
23. Do you think that you are strong?
Physically - no. Mentally - more than people realize.
24. What is your favourite ice cream flavour?
Kulfi, or just about anything.
25. Shoe size?
Italian size 42, British 8 1/2
26. Red or pink?
Red.
27. What is your least favourite thing about yourself?
Fat. Lazy. Temperamental. Unsociable.
28. Who do you miss most?
Debbie Wallace and Laura Latini.
29. Do you want everyone to whom you send this to send it back?
-
30. What colour pants and shoes are you wearing?
Blue jeans and brown indoor slippers
31. What are you listening to right now?
Street traffic
32. Last thing you ate?
Some leftover Christmas Stollen.
33. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Red, I guess.
34. What is the weather like right now?
Nice... rather surprisingly... but cold.
35. Last person you talked to on the phone?
My mother.
36. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Is that a serious question?
37. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
I like the person I gacked it from.
38. What is your ethnicity?
Italian.
39. Favourite drink?
Port and that kind of thing.
40. Favourite sport?
Athletics.
41. Hair colour?
Black.
42. Eye colour?
Brown.
43. Do you wear contacts?
No.
44. Are you single?
Yes.
45. Favourite food?
I have very wide tastes, but if I should absolutely choose, probably pizza.
46. Last movie you watched?
Dodge City.
47. Favourite day of the year?
Any one I get money on.
48. Scary movies or happy endings?
Neither. Good, thoughtful, well-made movies, whether they end as happy as IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE or as tragic as LA REGLE DU JEU.
49. Summer or winter?
Mid-season.
50. Hugs or kisses?
As many of both as possible.
51. Do you have any favourite rants and, if so, what are they?
Read this LJ
52. What is your favourite dessert?
Something with ice cream in it.
53. Who is most likely to respond?
-
54. Who is most likely not to respond?
-
55. What books are you reading?
A lot that no-one has ever heard of.
56. What's on your mouse pad?
A trades union logo from a teachers trades union.
57. What did you watch last night on TV?
A breathtaking BBC documentary about the horrendous results of pederastic rape on a number of boys in Plymouth, England. It turned out that many of them had grown into violent, disturbed troublemakers and drugs and alcohol addicts. When you see a large, scarred, threatening-looking career criminal simply collapse into tears because he has realized that, twenty years ago, someone might have done something about the ring of abusers that was raping him, and nobody did anything, you need no more reason to lock up abusers for life. I think the climax of the story came when the judge who finally sentenced the head of the ring - a millionaire who thought that his wealth gave him immunity - to life in prison, said that he, the judge, understood what he was doing because he, the judge, saw among the witnesses in the case so many men he had sentenced before, and that this brought home to him all the cruel and lasting damage this monster had done. It was one of the most shattering things I have seen in my whole life. The idiots who write rape fics should watch it ten times before they write anything again.
58. Favourite smells?
Burnt tomato is an odd one. Whisky. Caster sugar.
59. Favourite sounds?
Music.
60. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
As time goes on, the Stones will seem less and less important, but the stature of the Beatles will never diminish. Musically, they were the best. The best group there has ever been.
61. What's the farthest you've been from home?
Australia.
62. Do you have a special talent?
Losing friends and failing to influence people.
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I can recall several variations of what your initials might stand for from some past conflict. (And no, the "b" didn't stand for "brilliant".)
That documentary sounds heartbreaking. And I totally agree with you on rapefics. If you don't know what you're talking about, dont. touch, the subject. Child abuse is the most evil crime there is.
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Neither. Good, thoughtful, well-made movies, whether they end as happy as IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE or as tragic as LA REGLE DU JEU.
Agreed. A happy ending just for the sake of a happy ending is crap. Too bad Hollywood is obsessed with it. Have you seen the movie Closer? I think that's done beautifully. It's a kind of ambivalent ending.
The idiots who write rape fics should watch it ten times before they write anything again.
Er. Hmmm. Can I say that I have watched documentaries like that and try to base my fics on them? Of course, I really do have trouble seeing Hermione doing drugs but I can imagine her retreating into a shell.
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And kulfi! *squees* I haven't had that in ages...
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