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vraag van de dag de dato 17-10-2008


have you ever been abducted by aliens?

something funny one afternoon of my tenth summer. a daydream thing, yet somehow not - a lot of noise in the treetops, a freak wind and a lost chunk of time. i forgot all about it until recent years when bonnybridge (where it happened) emerged as a world-renowned UFO hotspot. check it.

ACK! ACK-ACK ACK!
probed

No ufos.... unless they took all my memory ;)
If they abduct me with leaving my memory one day
I wanna be freed by 'Mulder' cos 'Mulder' is hot :D (being my opinion since 1994!)

yes, of course.

"abducted" implies lack of consent...so, no.

I am an alien

On the advice of my attorney I respectfully decline to answer based on my Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination.

i;m in the NLs, i don't give a fwk about your 5th amemdenendmmmtnet.

please asnwer the qotd! :D

I lost a day as a kid in about Grade 4. There was a lot of stuff going on that could have led me to make that conclusion, but there was something about phoning someone who later denied that I ever called (and the vivid memory of our black wall phone in the entry with the stretched-out cord that hung above a wire and veneer phone desk with a black-and-brown-patterned vinyl chair in a cozy alcove formed by the staircase landing meeting one of the kitchen walls) in the memory of the lost day. I always wondered about that lost day until

As a pre-teen I often had sleep paralysis. I assumed that it meant I was afraid of the dark and began to read horror suspense novels to cure myself of the fear. At some point in my early twenties sleep deprivation fueled the sleep paralysis to the extent that I mentioned it to my boyfriend at the time. After donning a tinfoil hat and reading a library book or two, he suggested that I had been abducted by aliens on my missing day, and that the sleep paralysis episodes were really efforts by the aliens to revisit their territory and see how I was doing. This notion, however skeptically viewed by me personally, destroyed whatever comfort I had around the act of sleeping. The sleep deprivation got worse and I could no longer even nap without "waking" to vaguely threatening hallucinations, howling in my ears, and paralysis. So finally I went to a mediclinic, and the family practitioner told me my boyfriend was stupid and put me on a short course of low dose tricyclic. Actually, he just prescribed the drug and I drew my own conclusions about the boyfriend. My sleep pattern was restored to normal within two months and I have rarely been visited by the aliens since.

In all fairness I should mention that the boyfriend was well endowed and had a nice cleft chin.

No, but I do believe that some people maybe (10 or 5 percent or so) go though a sort of "brain expansion" thingy ;)
for me it was 29 years and 10 months
and 2 or 4 times since then
I once did not sleep for seven days but I was happy and did not feel sleep deprived whatsoever. (trivia>I have basically been laughing even since)

I've never been abducted by aliens. I don't think I would like that. Hanging out with aliens I would not object to, particularly in some cool neon liquid bar on the other side of the known universe.

qotd 19-10-2008

when's the last time you ate cauliflower and what did it cost?

I ate fried cauliflower with boiled potatoes at work in the school canteen two weeks ago.
I'm ashamed to disclose how little it cost...

but in spite of that, if anyone's interested... it costs 20 Slovak crowns for teachers to get a bowl of soup plus the second course.

last week, $1.49 a pound

no idea, no idea :(

I shall make some with cheese sauce tomorrow to remedy this sad situation :p

i haven't eaten cauliflower in ages. Last time that I can remember I had some in a vegetable assortment that I steamed. Can't remember what it cost, but it must have been an arm and a leg because I got it at Whole Foods.

I had a heaping plate of fried cauliflower with a yummy cilantro/lemon dressing at a fantastic Indian restaurant called "Swagat" about three months ago and it was part of an "all-you-can-eat buffet" for $4.99 thank you very much for the lovely reminder! I ate it with my alien friends.

funn-eh

i don't even remember when i last ate cauliflower-- i don't like cauliflower much.. in my search for Cheap Foodstuffs To Buy At The Supermarket Because I Need Some Extra Cash i spotted one for 1,79 euros for 500 grams whihc is i believe a bit expensive if i see the reactions here.

did my post count go down?? :confused:

oh probably not never mind SUHT UP

20081020QOTD
 

the 20081020QOTD is




why bother?

because i care :)

because life would be monotonous without bother

I try not to bother.

but I like "bother"

bother bother bother

:p

zero, you just don't get it do you ??

Oh, it's no bother.
Really.

no mo

"face memry test.

blah blah blah skills like memory are the first blah to blah blah go when we're tired

blah blah test assesses your blah blah blahbility to remember how long ago blah blah happened - your 'temporal' memory. if you're tired you won't be as good at remembering when you saw or did or blah blah blah something spmething.

the test blah blah bah three parts and we suggest you take a five minute break in between each blah blah blah part blah blah blah

¿21102008QOTD - can you be arsed to do yet another one of these things? if so, what was your score? (i was too tired)

Your score: 95%
Average score: 92%


Your score: 82%
Average score: 68%

no

I got 100% couldn't be arsed on Parts 1, 2, and 3.

The elderly gent with the ciggy and the girl with the beetle-brows. :) Do I win?

oh oh oh
I've seen that one before, I just know it.

arsebook!

ArseFace!

Recog score: 100%
Temp mem score: 95%

Yeah, like in real life: if is clear, when (where, why etc) not always.... ;)

& mmm arse I love you!! :)

New QOTD (a serious one for just a moment):
wtf????!!!?



the website

I'm going to let this also serve as my answer to "why bother?" :eek: