^not for me, plastic money makes me lose overview of how much money I spend, just use my EC card when I have no cash handy or for bigger sums which I don't wanna carry around on the streets, don't have a credit card (I couldn't travel to the US or?)

At the moment only something like 12 € - spent much this weekend...

In relationships, are you Canine or Feline?

That is are you pursuer or pursued?

canine

Canine sometimes, feline others.

Feline.
Always been the pursued.
Must be my charming wit and charismatic way.

avian (flighty) :p

human ( not susceptible to chasing )

roadkill


ha ha ha
:o

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^:D
Thanks for that.
I'm still sweeping out the cynicism, but I'm actually doing much better.

I take offense to the whole stereotypical Canine/Feline bigotted remarks.
Me, I just like to horse around.;)

ferret (squirmy)

i don't understand the question. canine is the pursuer and feline is the pursued? but cats are great hunters.

i neither hunt nor desire to be hunted. the way i've always seen it, if someone has to be pursued, they're not worth the chase.

i'd rather be a duck, waddling next to another duck, both of us muttering insane sub-vocal nonsense quacks.

I guess maybe I did it wrong, the whole falling in love thing, but it's all clicks and buzzes to me, baby.

^sounds like an early adopter of robo-lovin.

Pursue me hard, baby.

Who was your first non-parent non-teacher role model, and why?

A 14 year old girl in the hospital bed next to mine in paeds who needed skin grafting to her leg because she had been sniffing gasoline from a motorcycle tank, spilled some on her leg, and then lit a cigarette while stoned. Why? Because she seemed pretty happy and had a lot of friends.

Anne Tetley-Jones.

taught me how to garden. chain smoked. didn't give a shit about the world, really, and was very happy that way.

my best friend of many years
so tough
so kind
and so alive

and she loves sock monkeys, so what's not to like?

when i was 8: my teacher Gerdien-- always nice, very kind and fair. she made sure everybody felt comfortable. she really cared about us kids.

Apart from my grandma, who pretty much falls in the parental category (and about whom you have heard already some things ;)) I'd say my former colleague and close friend Vanya (whom I met when I was 21) because he knows much about life, is tough, cool, clever, honest and an extremely good fella towards those that came through his protective shell!

jesus.

what he said made sense to me.

... been thinking about this on & off throughout the day. maybe there's something wrong with me but honestly, acannie for the life of me think of anyone i personally have regarded in the terms described below:

Quote:

Originally Posted by wilipedia the term role model was introduced by Robert K. Merton [1910 -2003]. Merton says that individuals compare themselves with "reference groups" full of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires.the term has passed into general use to mean any "person who serves as an example of a positive behavior"

in fact having read that^, the very phrase "role model" now makes me feel quite queezy

yeah, apparently you've got to aspire to a social role.

i was in college before anyone non-parental or non-teacheriffical qualified as a role model.

i wrote up a description of the guy three times before i finally decided there was no way to do it in any kind of short quip kind of way appropriate for this thread.

so. yeah. some guy i knew when i was in college.

My cousin Nat. He's a junior in college, and some of my best memories are of exploring my grandparents' attic with him and finding old WWII helmets, a flashbulb camera, and a box full of love letters from two unknown relatives.

He's without a doubt one of the most intelligent and funny people I know, and has never had anything but the best advice.

That explains so much.

I never liked any-one enough to want to role model from them.

question of wednesday 19 december:

what's the last thing you bought at IKEA?

Bedclothes - somewhen in the long ago, don't buy much at IKEA.

drapes - to block out the vis-à-vis from my neighbors' apartment

a power outlet brick

knight and dragon printed storage boxes and a bed tent for my son's room

2 ornaments for my christmas tree (glass white birds with red printed pattern), 2 rolls of gift wrap and a box of gift labels shaped as a gnome

Neither do I -- and for, I think, the same reason: we know that 90% of the universe is made up of dark matter, and almost all of it is kept in warehouses at Ikea!

i like to think of it as parallel universes-- every IKEA warehouse in the world has the same 50 rooms set up. i mean, what would happen if i sit down on an EKTORP in amsterdam and you do the exact same at the exact same time--it might open a wormhole or something :eek:

I don't do Ikea. No way.

$144 worth of battery powered LED xmas light strings that were selling at $1.60 ea.

That's 85 sets :)

ikea is still a novelty to me so i shop there as often as i can stomach the idea of grappling with the crowds. it's such a bizarro shopping experience that i can't get enough of.

last weekend we bought a down pillow and a roll of gift wrap for this enormous present we bought for a 4 year old that demanded its own roll of wrap just to cover the damn thing.