Another survey thingy

[enismirdal]

Ripped from lifes_a_dream's LJ:

People have you loved?:	Define what you mean by 'loved'!
People have you kissed?:	5, 2 female and 3 male
Commandments have you broken?:	8 out of 10 - go me!
Places have you lived in (for over 3 months)?:	4 towns (Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge), but 7 'residences'
Countries have you been to?:	10 not UK (France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Estonia, Finland)
Languages can you speak fluently?:	English and Nonsense (and used to know enough German to follow kids' TV, but not any more!)
People are you talking to right now?:	Only 1! (only loaded up Y!IM, mwahaha!)
Times have you been in a car today?:	0
Different kinds of meat have you eaten?:	Loads...about 15, once I start thinking about game and stuff
Different kinds of liquor have you tasted?:	Not many...about half a dozen, maybe?
Jobs you have held?:	1 - babysitting. LOL. I'm too lazy!
Years of school have you attended?:	14, I guess. Plus 1 of Uni.
Shows have you been to this month?:	None!
Friends would you call "close"?:	A lot! But half are online friends...still close though.

How Many.... brought to you by BZOINK!

Weird heavy rain shower earlier. Aside from that, nothing to report. Apart from the fact that I was, weirdly, dreaming about ilye_elf, which is entirely illogical but there you go! *laughs at brain*

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Which commandments? I'm guessing you haven't killed anyone, or committed adultery, or worshipped graven images. How actively do you have to not covet thy neighbour's ass? Does false witness include general lying, or just perjury?

Not sure where I come... In fact not sure on several, except I'm confident meat=~0.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm pretty sure I have worshipped images; although 'graven' might not quite be accurate, 'printed' may be. I'm sure Ronan the Poster counts, and I do have a small Lord of the Rings shrine...

And does wanting to kill someone count, morally, if not actually legally?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I know people of many religions, eg. Islam, would disagree with me, but I would interpret that as actually *worshipping*. So you *might* count, say, money if it means enough to you, but not a poster you love unless you really would kill for it.

Hmmm. Again with the comparative religion. I think wanting to kill someone is a definite no-no, but I don't think that's covered by the commandment: "shalt not" is pretty clearly talkiong about DOIGN it, isn't it?

Besides, most people even if they wanted to kill someone would not in the end, so that probably counts even less, though it's not exactly forgiving your enemies.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Enismirdal, for reminding me why I sometimes use random jumps to other LJ's: they contain stuff it would never have occurred to me to look for.

If I decide to answer that particular quiz - and some questions will be answered without a statistical breakdown - the 'Jobs you have held' will contain Failed medical student, civil engineer, silver service waiter, private dinner-party chef, cartoonist, speechwriter, charity fundraiser and organiser, insurance salesman, conference organiser, kamikaze pizza-delivery boy, shelf stacker, impoverished part-time student, stock controller, DIY instructor & demonstrator, layabout, programmer, database developer, Visual Basic über-anorak, seasonal caterer for a pub in Ballylynan, systems analyst, consulting nerd.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Impressive CV! It must be pretty interesting, having done so many different things.

So that was how you found my LJ - random jumps? *grins* I do the jump thing, occasionally, as well (usually when I'm having such a slow evening that I'm up to date with my friends, friendsfriends and the various journals on which I quietly lurk).

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Er, most of them weren't very interesting. At all. Many had moments of interest separated by days of boredom - I took to memorising 13-figure barcodes when I had a job stacking tins of paint in a shop, a feat that so impressed the Management that I was promoted to Stock Controller. Duties: counting tins of paint.

Mind you, the 'Golden Graduate' promotion-by-destiny professionals I keep running into are very, very dull: suburban childhood, good A-levels, interesting (but not worryingly different) year out, redbrick or Oxford upper second, trained by one company and poached by another to do the same thing over again. They dress the same, talk the same, desire the same suburban semi and a Ford Focus which will, if they are successful, become a detached house and a Mercedes.

And they have no problem-solving ability whatsoever.

Best of all, they all think the same way, so if they find a problem one of them can't solve, they call their colleagues around, they all try the same failed approaches, fail, and declare to one another that the problem must be very difficult indeed. At which point anyone who thinks slightly differently can solve the problem without being particularly clever at all. Then, as they don't want to feel stupid, they will all declare that their problem must have been solved by a genius. There's no point trying to persuade them otherwise! When I was a consultant, we screwed absurd amounts of money out of the companies that have fallen under the domination of this intellectual monoculture because they never realise that their problem isn't the problem in hand, it's their refusal to employ people with nonstandard backgrounds who can solve problems.

Er, end of rant. I do go on a bit at times.