Fifteen Questions About Some Stuff

[deeplyunhip]

The poll urge was really bad tonight. Thus this is especially long and the questions are especially unrelated. ;)



[Poll #1268832]



P.S. I thought Desperate Housewives was awesome tonight. Am the only person who still likes this show in its fifth season? Okay, I suppose that's a rhetorical question. :P

Comments

[applespicy.livejournal.com]

I said "other" on the first one because it depends on a few factors. First factor: is it my phone or the house phone? My phone has charming ringtones, so I don't mind it ringing longer. The house phone is just a boring phone ring-ring-ring, and that sound irritates me beyond belief. I'll snatch up the phone just to make it stop.

It also depends on who's calling me. If it's someone I like, I pick up right away. If it's someone I don't want to talk to but feel obligated to talk to/I don't really feel like talking but know I should pick up, I let it ring a bit. If it's someone I don't want to talk to, I just silence it and let it go to voicemail.

OMG TL;DR EXPLANATION WHAT.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Good point on ringtones. I definitely like to let me cell phone ring a bit loner because I always love to hear my "Eye of the Tiger". :P

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

Clearly, the best bear is the Avatar universe's PLATYPUSBEAR. Though Paddington comes close.

I'd link you to a picture right now, but I need to be sleeping. Maybe tomorrow!

[your-downfall.livejournal.com]

PLATYPUSBEAR IS AWESOME.

Just wanted to share that I agreed. :-)

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

That just "bear" the Earth King has is just plain old wierd.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

No worries, man - I can always google it. :)

[liaku.livejournal.com]

As for fictional bears, what was that bear in that kid's book about a Corduroy bear that got stuck in the laundry or something? I'd google it, but I'm lazy.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

That bear was named Corduroy, oddly enough. ;)

[hamsterwoman]

Many of the things I like about fall -- leaves changing color, leaf piles, e.g. -- are things that we don't get out here in San Francisco, alas. Oh, and I'm too lazy to go back and edit my answer to include "Other", but another thing I like about fall? Pumpkin spice lattes! :)~ Let's just pretend it's included under "Pumpkins".

Also, heh, from the limited sample size so far, your f-list is disproportionately full of trickster gods, not surprisingly.

So weird... Your dresscode question comes after I got into an entirely uncharacteristic-for-me "Someone is wrong on the Internet" argument last week in a journal I mostly lurk on about essentially that very thing... I think if I were starting right out of school or had worked at a job with stricter dress codes, my answer would be "that would depend on the requirements" or "occasionally frustrated". But my only jobs have been at very loose dresscode places -- like, jeans and a polo shirt being normal everyday wear, have worn my suit once since I stopped going to interviews, and that I could've gotten away without, too -- so it would be much, much harder for me to go to a place with a strict dresscode. (The argument, btw, was whether or not wearing makeup was a mandatory part of 'formal dresscode' for a woman.)

Occasionally, I will get into some totally silly video game and play it for hours a week (usually while multitasking on the phone or something), but usually I don't play any video games at all.

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, and: Columbus Day is now called "Indigenous People's Day" in San Francisco Bay Area (I think that change happened when I was in middle school, so... about 17 years ago?). It was also known as Dia de la Raza for a while, but I haven't heard that terminology in a while.

And my "Other" supernatural show is the canceled-after-one-season The Dresden Files (see icon)

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin spice lattes are absolutely included under pumpkins! Anything pumpkin related is. :)

Lol, hardly a surprise indeed. I love my tricksters (see: icon!).

The argument, btw, was whether or not wearing makeup was a mandatory part of 'formal dresscode' for a woman.)

Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

I do the same thing, which is why I averaged it out to something in the 1-5 hour bracket. ;)

Also, in response to your comment below, wow. You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

Her precise argument was something like, 'a woman who comes to the office with no makeup and her hair unbrushed will never be taken as seriously as a woman who is polished and nicely made up' (not a direct quote, because I don't feel like going back there and having it make me boggle all over again). And a couple of people stepped in to point out that 1) putting on makeup and brushing hair are NOT equivalent elements of grooming, and 2) um NO.

She was reacting to a comment that she thought was saying that people who wear makeup are not worth knowing (which, OK, also is NO), but she didn't seem to think *she* was saying anything insulting or generalizing, even when women who don't wear makeup to the office popped up to disagree. Anyway.

You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?

Yeah, I would expect any place with a significant Hispanic population to have at least been forced to consider the change... maybe it's the higher concentration of Italians in New York, who want their man Columbus recognized? I don't know...

[ladynyks.livejournal.com]

I don't answer the phone if the person I live with for the time being is there, and if they're not, nobody rings me, anyway, so I never answer it if can help it. Otherwise, doesn't it rather depend on how far from it you are?

I think Desperate Housewives is lame. Some of it might not be, and I supported Bree before ever even saw any (despite probably not agreeing with many of her opinions), but still. As for Hitchcock, haven't seen much. Rear Window in part, the end of North by, and the comedy one with the corpse, which I think was the first one listed. Haven't seen Atonement or Sideways either, or played Guitar Hero, and Brad Pitt is provisionally lame, or in parts, depending on what you focus on. No idea who the hell Elliot Smith is, but Flight of the Concords comes to mind as seeming lame, too, since refuse to check any videos out. It only just started here 2 weeks ago, but overlaps with something I'd rather watch, since hype -> hello, goodbye. It looks wrong and unfunny.

I think I would've liked frying pans as well though. And it's the person who can't change, but you provided third option, which just had to be taken. Never saw the "scary" shows I didn't tick. Plus I obviously have fabulous taste in TV shows nobody's ever heard of.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Desperate Housewives is totally lame, but the show knows how lame it is and I appreciate this - I love it in all its lame glory. And I especially love Bree, yes. ;)

Plus I obviously have fabulous taste in TV shows nobody's ever heard of.

Obviously. Or at least, you definitely have some kind of taste in shows I've personally never heard of. :P

[ladynyks.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, I'm sure my fave shows are much more lame than yours. TR2070 is based on Philip K. Dick's worlds and Blade Runner more so than the Arnie movie. Very dark world, but yet another cancelled after one series scifi thing.

CN:E is where my icon up there came from, also from '99, with aliens masquerading as humans to turn our atmosphere into breathable for their own form. I bet you're looking for downloads already, but yeah, Mr. Banning the main villain was such an mmmm-inducing case of villainy I loved watching whatever he did. Although without feeble narrative laws of good guys always winning no matter what the odds, he'd've won within the first couple of episodes what with his resources and futuristic tech or weapons to target DNA or anything. Potential for camp gayness also existed, and I suppose pretty boy lead + handsome man guest villain potential, but it wasn't exactly a hit I imagine. I just gained tremendous amounts of fun from most sides of it, including having something to pin the global warming and current state of environmental woes on. Blame the (stronger, smarter, faster than us) aliens.

Heartbeat is a British semi-soap (only ~6 episodes per season, hence not a real soap), with 18 seasons of jolly good ole 60s Yorkshire village life of village bobby + district nurses, and jolly ole rogues and their less than smart helping hands and whatnot. What fabulously quirky tastes I have, right?

I meant to start watching DH when Kyle MacLachlan appeared, but it was never on at a good time really, plus he didn't seem to elevate it enough to grab me. I suspect I'll have to check out the Conchords sometime, too, what with it being on telly and late enough as well.

[esc-key.livejournal.com]

Columbus Day is still a holiday because once you start telling people they can have the day off, you can't take it back even if it's the stupidest holiday ever in honor of a guy who raped and gave diseases to Native people's and pointedly did not discover anything.

CARE BEARS RULE!

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Lots of people don't get the day off, though. :(

And yes, I am not surprised that you picked this option. :)

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

The only thing I don't like about autumn is how short it is these days.

Umm so I missed the "and enjoyed" part on the Hitchcock question. I do not enjoy Vertigo. At all. And it pisses me off 'cause I want to so badly. But like, seriously, WTF, whole bunch of NOTHING I say. Rear Window is where it is at. And Psycho.

Waaah escalators! *hugs the escalators*

OMG remember the episode of Are You Afraid Of the Dark with the comic book and that big eraser that saved the day at the end??!!

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Rear Window and Psycho FTW, absolutely. Your reaction to Vertigo is actually the very reaction I had to North by Northwest. >.>

OMG remember the episode of Are You Afraid Of the Dark with the comic book and that big eraser that saved the day at the end??!!
OMG NO??? The only comic-related one I remember is the one with the green clown/riddler person. Is that the same one?

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think that's the same episode, the Ghastly Grinner I think.

I liked NxNW okay, nothing is cool as Rear Window and Psycho though. Ahhh you are clearly a gentlewoman and a scholar.

[your-downfall.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of lazy when it comes to answering my landline... partially because almost everyone who knows me will call my cell phone, and partially because I have a tendency to not hear the house phone ring! But if I do hear it, the number of rings I "let" it have really depends how long it takes me to get to the phone. When it comes to my cell phone, I usually pick up after the first ring (as soon as the caller ID pops up).

I haven't even starting reading ASOIAF yet, but I still caught your WINTER IS COMING joke. ;)

As for the dress code thing, I'd probably be okay with it. I can understand companies wanting a "professional" image, and it doesn't bother me to dress up. However, I'm much more comfortable with like, business casual... if I was expected to wear dresses and dress-suits and whatever every day, I'd probably have some issues.

I have never seen an Alfred Hitchcock film. I must fix this.

I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU FIND GUITAR HERO LAME. I cannot understand why that game is so popular. I do, however, really enjoy Rock Band... I like to play the drums and sing. :D I also found Sideways to be a terrible, overrated movie. I saw it on a plane coming home from Greece, and couldn't even finish watching it.

Which is worse: someone who will never change his or her beliefs/opinions regardless of anything, or someone who is constantly changing his her beliefs/opinions as they move through life?

Okay, question about wording: This person who will never change, is it because they CAN'T (as the answer seems to imply), or because they have evaluated other options and chose to stick with their original beliefs/opinions? If the person CAN'T, because of narrow-minded-ness or whatever, then that's worse. If they choose to stick by their beliefs after thinking and considering others, then I can get behind that, but then I think that neither not changing or changing all the time are necessarily bad. Does that make sense?

I really need to start watching Heroes and Supernatural. Heard great things about both. Have you seen a show called Fringe? It has terrible acting, but a somewhat interesting premise.

I was obsessed with the Berenstein Bears when I was younger. I have almost all of their books.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

I haven't even starting reading ASOIAF yet

But you will soon, of course? :P Even though I am taking forever on BSG because it is becoming impossible to find a good upload of season one, episode 11. :(

For Hitchcock, Rear Window and Psycho are the best. Just FYI. ;)

I AM SO GLAD THAT OTHER PEOPLE FIND THIS GAME LAME TOO, OMG. It's just pushing colored buttons! How the hell is that a game?! Or anything like a guitar?! Though, yeah, Irena's been going on to me about Rock Band and I have to admit that it does sound a lot better.

The person in the hypothetical can't change, no possibility of them considering other beliefs.

I haven't seen Fringe, but I may check it out eventually. I do kind of miss Pacey Joshua Jackson. :P

[guad.livejournal.com]

What a totally excellent poll. :D

Elaborating because you raise a lot of crucial issues here :P

Phone: Depends where I am obviously
Autumn: Where I live we don't really have autumn. And I don't like the cold therefore more meh. And pumpkins because the interpretations can be very varied *lol*
Hitchcock: I've probably seen more but I don't know the titles in english.
Lame: I'll make you love Rhaegar, you'll see. :PP
TV shows: I used to like Heroes, but sort of lost interest.
Computer games: Totally depends. When I have a phase, I can get very obsessive but the again not touching it for month.
Bears: ♥

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Why thank you, nothing like the support of a fellow poll crazy person. :D

Phone: Obviously I meant if you were somewhere right next to the phone. Otherwise the first option in the poll would not be possible. :P
Lame: Considering *you* are the one true Rhaegar, I don't know. I'd have to love *you*! Lol.
TV: Me too. Season 2 was crap. Or the first episode was. Because I stopped watching after that. >.>
Bears: YES!

[guad.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think I tried the first three episodes of season 2, and stopped then. Could we have similar taste? :O Don't let anybody know, my reputation would be ruined :PPP

You know I am actually quite happy on how many votes you have on the Rhaegar poll. It will go down to history that you are or almost are Rhaegar, muahahaha XD

[honest-illusion.livejournal.com]

Thank God someone else finds Sex and the City lame. I think that's overrated.

Lolz@ASOIAF references. They should definitely be included.

Iorek FTW!

Now I am craving Gummi Bears. T_T

[plasticactus.livejournal.com]

Wait, you play 1-5 hours of video games a week!?!?! Where am I during those times. How are you a cooler girlfriend than I even knew?

You hating Sideways and Brad Pitt makes the tears come. I really want you to watch Burn After Reading because there's absolutely no way you can hate him (and what happens to his character) in that movie.

I watched every episode of the Gummi Bears again last year. It really is one of the greatest cartoons of all time, right after Gargoyles (which I also rewatched every episode of earlier THIS year).

Finally, I couldn't really comment on your first questionbecause I haven't owned anything but a cell phone since I went to college in 2001.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

I don't really play anything on a terribly regular basis, but sometimes I'll either download some old school computer game (sometime last month it was Doom, lol) or play the Sims 2 or play some X-Box game my brother left...and I'll do it for a massive amount of time during one particular week. So I figure my "real" average would be somehwere in the 1-5 hour bracket. Of course, if you would like me to be "cooler" by playing more video games, you will have to let me play some of yours. ;)

Also, I will see Burn After Reading with you whenever you feel like seeing it again!

[haremstress.livejournal.com]

cloud_wolf and I gave identical answers to the "Which god/goddess is Kim" question. Clearly we are awesome.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Clearly. Also possibly the same person!!!

[g0newiththesin9.livejournal.com]

for the phone... i see who's on caller ID before deciding whether i should or shouldnt pick it up

[magicuddle.livejournal.com]

ALL the fictional bears are my favorite and there need to be MORE of them.

Other 'fictional' bears of note: Youk and Bart (both from The Bear, most excellent movie ever!!) and these have to be my favourite bears ever <3, and the Country Bears (the one with the band lololz!!), and Fozzy Bear (from the Muppets!).

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

Ah! How could I forget Fozzy?? Oh, dear.

And wow. What an appropriate icon!

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Had he been on, Fozzie would have dwarfed all other choices.