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Leading by example I suppose, following on from a suggestion I made here, might as well give it a crack, if nothing else it'd be a way to generalise my questions, comments, and whatnot.

You might learn something interesting

You might learn something you didn't want to know

Or you just might be entertained for a few minutes

Internet memes, what are they about eh?

You find a list of preset questions, and you answer them in varying degrees of originality, they're quick, easy, and a great way to make peopl exercise that scroll button

So here's mine



1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
Learning what "rule 34" was

2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
....spaceman...wallpaper, no money to redecorate...it's a good idea when you're 7, you don't really plan for inability to renovate at that age

3. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP?
I'm asleep when that's supposed to happen, so I've got other people's word for it, and when other people say I've occasionally spoken in another language that I can't speak a word of conciously in my sleep...I'm not inclined to believe them

4. WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?
Everything minus that "YO! YO! WE'Z GONNA CUT'Z YA!" crap, \"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR\" type death metal crap

And the just plain crap

5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
You have birthDAYs, if you had birth "instants" I might count the time

6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
...

7. WHAT DO YOU MISS?
Usually, the enemy, when I play games

8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION(S)?
MY MEGA AWSOME MANAGA NAD ANIME COLLECTION THEY'RE SO KAWAI!!!!

I jest

9. HOW TALL ARE YOU?
6'1'' I think...might be 6'2'' if they turn the gravity off

10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC?
not really.

11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK?
It's not the dark, it's what's IN it, I'll answer that one again when I see a worthy candidate

12. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY?
...

13. WHAT'S YOUR WORST FEAR?
...

14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
If it works and looks good on that person, who cares?

15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF PROPOSING?
Forward thinking are we?

16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK?
Neither, I make my own sugar

17. FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
Ham, pineapple, cheeze

18. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I'm suprised no-ones made an innuendo out of that one

19. FAVORITE COLOR OF ALL TIME?
Preferably one I could see

20. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH?
Actually I have recently

It was chocolate

21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU'VE EVER RECEIVED?
...

22. DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH?
I've got squash
ba-dum-tish

23. ARE YOU DOUBLE JOINTED?
uhm...

24. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND?
Can a price-tag can count as a brand....

30. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED:
Correction, you mean WRITE the number, and that number is 13

31. BLONDES OR BRUNETTES?
See question 14

32. FAVORITE QUOTE?
"Thout Shalt not question Stephen Fry"

33. FAVORITE PLACE?
...

34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE USA?
Permamently, Live in the UK, been abroad once, to Sweeden

35. YOUR WEAKNESSES?
Red Kryptonite

36. MET ANYONE FAMOUS?
Nope

37. FIRST JOB?
Kitchen assistant, as exciting as it sounds

38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
Nope

39. DO YOU THINK EVERYONE OUT THERE HAS A SOULMATE?
probably, but people die along the way, and never meet in their lifetimes

40. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED THIS OUT?
Trying to fill out non-existant waistline

41. HAVE YOU EVER HAD SURGERY?
Never been to hospital

42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST?
Being too silent

43. HAVE YOU EVER HAD BRACES?
Unfortuantely, yes

44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?
I want to know WHAT TIME I WAS BORN!

45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT AND THEIR NAMES?
Right now? None

46. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Probably some guy named "Steven" I suppose

47. WHAT IS THE BIGGEST TURN OFF OF THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Being a right cow?

48. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU LIKE(D) ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL?
Was easy as hell, English lessons gave me the ability to pick anything apart instantly

49. WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE?
One that works

50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
it's not me who has trouble with it

51. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Thats another innuendo in the bag

52. ANY BAD HABITS?
Probably

53. ARE YOU A JEALOUS PERSON?
Depends on the subject

54. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
No, because I'd be a different person, wouldn't I?

55. DO YOU AGREE WITH FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS?
...I actually had to look up what "friends with benifits" was...we use a different term over here

56. DO LOOKS MATTER?
Looks create stereotypes, not only how you want to see yourself, but how other see you, very very important in public
Not so privately

57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
I don't need to normally

58. WOULD YOU RATHER GAIN 58 POUNDS OR LOSE 58 POUNDS
If you talk about money (UK currency), Gain first, it depends how I inevitably lose that money in the end that matters

If you're talking abotu weight, still gain

60. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
Freaking Micro machines

61. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE?
We're in britian, its "mobile"

62. WERE YOU A FAN OF BARNEY AS A LITTLE KID?
Never seen him in the same light after some kids changed his song lyrics...

63. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Who doesn't?

64. MASHED POTATOES OR MACARONI AND CHEESE?
Mash

65. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Doesn't matter, if you're attracted to someone, its a natural instinct, not through list-making

66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?
Steve, peewee, weevil, mr G, Stevie, Steve-Steve, "Sylar", Doctor Cox, 'Male' Yuki Nagato (Whoever she is)

67. FAVORITE SUPER POWER?
Power of suggestion

68. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW?
No idea

69. WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH YOUR ENEMIES?
Put a stop to it, it's a very simple concept

70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
My teeth are too sensitive for ice cream =(

71. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES?
Last I counted

72 DO YOU HAVE A COMPUTER IN YOUR ROOM?
yep

73. PLANS FOR TONIGHT?
sleeeeeeeeeeeep...

74. WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE WHEN YOU ARE OLDER?
Scandinavia somwhere, Denmark, maybe Norway

75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
eh?

76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
Metroid metal, some great stuff

77. LAST THING YOU DRANK?
More squash

78. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
a whole lot of static

79. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Probably the fact that they're the opposite sex, like most people I suppose, if you were oblivious to gender you might need your eyes tested...or they're really good at disguising

80. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME?
See my DA page

81. FAVORITE THING TO HATE?
"Internet"-y stuff that seems to originate from that god awful "4chan"

82. FAVORITE SEASON OF THE YEAR?
Probably winter

83. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TYPE OF CANDY?
I ain't a conniseur

84. HAVE YOU EVER REALLY AND TRULY HAD A BEST FRIEND?
More than likely

85. WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR?
Either get told it's blonde or brown, so "fair" hair, or "sand" if we're getting technical

86. EYE COLOR?
Blue

87. SHOE SIZE?
11

88. FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
Good lord none

89. FAVORITE RESTAURANT?
I'd say cafe nero, it's what a few of us from my class seem to do on thursdays

90. DO YOU LIKE SUSHI?
never tried it

91. WATCH TV TODAY?
No

92. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?
None really

93. PLAY ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS?
Guitar, piano, and the triangle

94. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?
Don't you mean "terrorist" or "racist"?

95. KISSES OR HUGS?
They can both come at the same time usually

96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS?
People say relationships to be "good people" and "moral", others say "one night stands" because they're players and are "cool", or just plain haven't had sex in ages, at the time, you probably won't think about it, and sometimes, one can lead to the other

97. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?
Something amazingly un-interesting

98. WOULD YOU EVER BE A HOUSEWIFE?
im a Bloke

99. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?
"Dragonmaster"-Chris bunch

Random Fact #100
We had a tree outside our house, I went downstairs to get lunch, when I came back, it was gone
True



Now, let this be the only meme I ever do

That looks like far too much work.

That was funny as hell. But seems like a lot of work to do that.

Thanks for the good laughs

PS: I might start a member box too.

I think that was one of the longer ones....albeit one of the few that don't ask totally snooker loopy questions. It's only really work if I have to think about it. Certainly filled a spare 15 minutes when I wasn't doing anything else.

For those who read through the nicknames or "likeys" I've been given (none of them were self made) in that meme, you'll notice someone in there called "Yuki Nagato".
I actually went and looked that girl up, once again google to the rescue

Here she is
Here
Also here

(We at least own the same guitar, so it's a start)

Anyone who's been around the internet long enough will have seen at least a glimpse of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", it's a slice of life comedy about a group of Japaenese high schoolers who get dragged into some sort of club.

Now then, those familiar with anime will know it's not, and never is going to be very straight forward so try to keep up. An unbelievably eccentric and shortsighted girl (known as Haruhi) where anything she wishes for becomes a reality, and is blissfully unaware of this and drags various people into a club looking for supernatural happenings including Yuki Nagato who also just so happens to be a "humanoid interface" created by aliens (and turns out to be a hyper intelligent "total badass" as well who is on orders to monitor Haruhi) along with a time travelling girl called Mikuru Asahina (who is also sent back in time to monitor Haruhi) with the self esteem lower than low and an unusually happy-calm esper known as itski koizumi (who suprise suprise has been ordered to monitor Haruhi and stop her being bored and goes around quietly cleaning up any supernatural mess she wishs up) and a reluctant ordinary human who was chosen by Haruhi...yaaaaaaaaah!

So crazier than a box of frogs, and twice as lively. Because on top of that this is all happening in a school in Japan, as such it is also juggling the "slice of life" business, so if any of you fancy looking up a bit of it on youtube to see if you might like it, don't bother, you'll have to watch it from the begginning of the series or else you'll being "what the hell"-ing all the way through....best example, they have to win an amateur baseball game or the world is destroyed...not lying. Second example, how the hell does a badass humanoid interface who goes about manipulating real world data end up in a witches costume and playing guitar

And as anime's go this is one of the less surreal, so why is it I found myself asking one of my classmates for a weblink to watch this?


Now being the easily amused chappie that I am, I actually enjoyed it, to a degree, I'll be honest, it would just been better if they cut out the alien, time travelling squad of esper boys monitoring "god" and left the weird things unexplained but whatever, I'll dig it. Oddly enough the most 3 dimensional characters (albeit slightly predictable) are Yuki and the "ordinary human", kyon (where the entire anime is given from his perspective, you hear his thoughts, and half of them are getting slightly pervy with the Mikuru, but again, whatever). The rest are one dimensional and also just as predictable.

Mikuru="sexy fan service", draws attention to herself by not wanting attention
Esper boy="happy calm instantly likable yet intelligent", draws attention to himself when needed
Haruhi=Everything you shouldn't do or say in high school/social situation....said and done, and got away with

yea yea, cute, kawaii, likeable, school fantasy desu desu you get the picture

One dimensional characters with overtones of "ecchiness", surreal and science fiction. Why did it actually come together into something watchable?

Rather simple really, it has tapped into more or less every extreme of social position.

Socialite
The social glue of the group, totally dominant, literally just by going out and saying "hi" that person can drag the most unlikely people together and they will get along, why? The common "good" or "goal". Usually being the social glue also comes coupled with being the worst enemy at the same time. Everyone spends their time stepping around the socialite that they don't need to get annoyed at each other.

The submissive
Becuase no-one can be dominant without someone being submissive...but still attracts as much attention because they spend all their time telling everyone they're invisible. Usually down to low self esteem (or apparent low self esteem) or extreme levels of trust. Usually to balance out any social circle

That person
the third person, who phases in an out depending on whether there's a problem or crisis, and can break away to do his or her own thing for varying amounts of time, who can only be introduced as someone elses established friend, and will never go out and say hi, for whatever reason, yet somehow cuts out the introductory phase when introduced and just goes straight to aqquaintence, yet nothing more for quite a while

The awareness
For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. This is the person that goes about voicing objections left right and centre, being the "thinking" man or woman, or police of the group, in an attempt to balance out and reign in the socialite or any crazy things that comes up. Yet still goes along with the crazy plans anyway.

Happy
A more upbeat version of "that person". Thinks for him/herself but instead of going off and doing his or her own thing just follows along in the background. Enjoys sitting back and watching everyone else do their thing.


Each of these roles can overlap in any sort of way with others, try it yourself, sort out the people you know using those categories, it does work.

I have an interview with Stafford univeristy on wednesday, a 3 and 1/2 train journey on a ticket that will cost £127 there and back, and that's not even the hard part

When you put a portfolio together, it's only after you finished compiling do you think that you've crammed far too much into it for it to be considered streamlined and efictively showing your best work, what have I got?
My best (only) 3D works
A montage of clips of my best music (comes to about 5 minutes)
(As suggested by my tutor) the design document and WIP video for Broken Skies (20 odd A4 pages)

Now that's all fine, that'll sort me out quite well for what I'm applying for, games design.

Except it is a course that has two halves
The other being "Aeronautical technologies"

I haven't, when it boils down to it, got anything for that except my various pieces of artwork of planes and only my 'say so' that I know more than just the fundamentals of flight, and that I've handled planes and their workings before

Thank god on the letter it said "If you have any, please bring examples of your work ,(although this is not neccesary)" eh?

So it looks like I'm attempting to prove to the interviewer I have, pretty pictures, a pretty video, pretty music, well phrased documents, shiney looking GCSEs and college grades and a whole lot of verbal acrobatic skills that somehow can also apply to a totally non-related subject

Sounds about par for the course, despite my £127 handicap

Good Luck Man! Follow your dreams.

Yes, Stafford university is for me

Very much so

I'll be honest, there are lots of things i could include about the area, the back killing train journey, waiting on the wrong side of the bus stop, the way it runs, the scenery, perhaps the module where we have to build a radio controlled aircraft....done that....7 times before
Or the module where you join a flying club, or even a few limited spaces on an active RAF air squadron...yes please, yes please a lot

In a nutshell then
Nice area, the trains suck like crazy and the station feels like stockholm, but once you step outside it's very well built. An extremely people person-y university, the interview was nearly integrated into the open day tour, and it was just a ten mintue chat with the lecturer just to make sure that both me and the uni itself were sure we'd get along and we'd gel with each other

To that I'll say yes, big time, I didn't even need to wheel out my full portfolio, they were very interested to hear in what the students do outside of the course, hobbies, their social plans, living ideas and the like, it lasted only ten minutes and the final words are "I highly suspect I'll be seeing you in September" (they don't make the offers there and then)

--
On the side of things where money is involved, I'm working as many extra shifts as possible at the moment, and as such I'm getting filthy rich by getting filthy in the kitchen, I'm hearing the words "fitness training" ringing quite strongly in my ears, there's been a rather suprising amount of running around you don't normally expect from an assistant in a small kitchen, or even a retirment home, or both coupled together. It's not like I have much better to do at the moment anyway so I'm getting money for keeping myself from dying of sheer boredom. That'll do nicely

BUT
The dishwasher for the past week has been backed up the wazoo, so it only rinses and not wash, that sets us back 1 and a half times what it should take, being understaffed in the kitchen and on the resident's floors means we'll get the trolleys and stackers back late to clean anyway, so would one of the carers hyperventilating once serving the residents' lunches make much of an impact on our punctuality? No, not really, it certainly added variety to things though, and luckily it happened the ONE day the 'official' kitchen first aider decided to come in and help things out because we're so understaffed and under equipped

And only six months prior I remember saying to him "do you think i should take the first aid course just in case?" and got a "nah shouldn't worry" reply back.

The girl managed to give herself concussion she hit the floor so hard, and the ambulance service was what was described as "not really very punctual". What do we do, keep calm and carry on, that's what, the residents certainly managed to eat their food with an almost alarming amount of neutrality, or maybe I should be more alarmed that the bowl she was carrying at the time didn't smash, and htere was no food over the floor, she collapsed and had a fit in such a tidy manner.

But do remind me to take the first aid course this time, whether the kitchen needs a second first aider or not it's really useful when people decide to start malfunctioning

Yes sir, three new songs for your ear'oles.

First two are original pieces. The third a remix of Jame's blunts "1973"

Next on the list, viva la vida by coldplay or the way love goes by lemar...not sure which is wackier to kit out with guitars and orchestras
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/ ... Weevil.mp3"
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/ ... Weevil.mp3"