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If you could fire anyone from their current job, who would you fire and why?

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Boris Johnson or disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox, how the hell either of them has a job is beyond me.
It says a lot for the sheer chutzpah of our ruling class that they dare show their faces, never mind anything else. I'd admire their self-confidence in bullshitting their way through if it weren't tragic.
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What’s the best place to go to on the first date?

The museum, I often go there with my girlfriend because it's free (though we make a donation, it still costs less than most places).
And if they don't like museums, they can fuck off!
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Who is the winner on to the journey of a Happy Life with consideration to a well disciplined mind Vs a spontaneous free hearted soul?

Surely it depends on who you are, a person who is naturally spontaneous won't be happy with a regular life and a person (like me) who is orderly and prefers everything just so, won't appreciate the life of a gypsy because it has its good point but it doesn't suit us.
If only there was a Rush song about balance :)
If you know about the Myers-Briggs typology (look it up if you don't) Rush are very much INTJ, like me. And it's about balance between the extremes of a civilised, cultured but dull life and a wild, free but perilous life.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qqbOS97euUHadacol’s Video 141035584764 2qqbOS97euUHadacol’s Video 141035584764 2qqbOS97euU
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Do you favor an active lifestyle or are you a couch potato?

I like an active lifestyle fam, if I won the lottery I wouldn't go to my day job ever again but I'd continue to "work", climbing mountains, volunteering for my environment work, studying purely out of intellectual curiosity rather than to try and get a job.
It's human nature that we need to work, as in make an effort & a sacrifice to gain the only reward worth having. That's why so many rich people are unhappy because they have no purpose to their life.
The mistake society makes is to confuse work with paid employment, whereas in fact many jobs (cold calling peopke to sell them tat, for instance) are less fulfilling than forms of work that aren't paid, such as volunteering for a good cause or caring for ill relatives.
So I get more fulfilment from my outside "work" than from my job & here's my latest trip.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/159083732309/to-stand-alone-on-top-of-any-of-the-western-hills
This is where I'll be going at Easter ( I was scouting the area out) as seen from where I was yesterday.

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Have you ever lied about your age?

No, I grew up in the era before around 2005 when IDing people wasn't common, I started going to pubs when I was 15 & got served because no one actually asked :)
I'm drinking vodka & mango juice now fam
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So, meat wholly engineered in labs could be on our shelves within the next few years. It will be of course cruelty-free and good for the environment. Would you consume it or not, and why? [Doug] https://futurism.com/were-5-years-away-from-lab-grown-meat-hitting-store-shelves/

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
I haven't given much thought to this, especially since I've started drinking. I'm a carnivore but I feel vaguely queasy about it though I'm not completely sure why.
Best to see theTV series but you doubtless recall this :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEPkIeEaxT8Hadacol’s Video 140971762428 UEPkIeEaxT8Hadacol’s Video 140971762428 UEPkIeEaxT8
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Do you think love grows gradually and/or needs a conscious "build-up" to occur, or it strikes you like a lightning when you least expect it – even against your own will? Why?

In the (highly recommended) One Night In Winter by Simon Montefiore, two characters have an affair and reflect on the fact that they can do this because it's World War 2 and they are far away from their spouses, but they can't be together permanently. When both their families get into big trouble (no spoilers, I encourage you to read the book and find out!) Hercules Satinov is upset that he sleeps with Dashka Dorova and is passionately about her but can't be with her all the time, and he manages to simultaneously love her and his wife, in different ways.
"He hated Genrikh [Dashka's husband] because true possession is to share the fabric of someone else's life, he decided; it's about proximity; love as geography. He longed to know the soft sound of her sleeping and the sleepy smell of her hair in the morning; he wanted to be standing next to her when she brushed her teeth and at the foot of the stairs when she descended them".
Not only do they both return to their spouses, but several characters in the book decide they prefer the first kind of love you specify to the second, but that doesn't mean they don't feel a surge of passion.
While they made their decision, a wild passion can lead to a deepening and broadening love, or it can not.

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It’s Earth Hour today. How would you spend one hour in the dark?

I won't, but if you want to do something for the planet I encourage anyone to support www.treesforlife.org.uk or even go on one of their working holidays, I've been on one & I'm going on another in September.
We know what the problems are, and Donald Drumpf and Scott Pruitt won't help solve them, but you can see what can be achieved here. Our predecessors planted trees in a fenced-off area in 1991 and looking at both sides of the fence, you know that people who work together to achieve something constructive can get things done.
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
Its Earth Hour today How would you spend one hour in the dark
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Inspired by a reply from @tashaste : Here, "putting pineapple on pizza" has joined "Marmite" & "the pronunciation of scone" as trivial topics publicly argued across media. Do you like to join in with these and express an opinion, or, like me, are you suspicious it's a marketing invention? [Doug]

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I like it myself, I don't get into arguments about it though.
I haven't been reading my etiquette guide lately so I don't know what others think :)
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For years, people over here had been eating ham pizza (and other products) without realising the ham was turkey. Now, legally, it has to be labelled eg "Ham* Pizza (made with turkey ham). " Do you think such regulations stifle business or are useful for the public? [Doug]

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Yes, it should be labelled, there should be strict regulations requiring sellers to label country of origin, ingredients or lack thereof, halal or otherwise.
People can make up their own minds but there are no grounds for withholding the infirmation. I don't think, for instance, there's anything intrinsically wrong with eating a horse but the horsemeat scandal proves that the regulations are too lax as people weren't being told what they are eating.
Give people the information & allow them to decide, I also think it should be compulsory for firms to display their hygeine rating.
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What’s one thing that would make you extremely happy?

I actually think money would make me happy, I understand that some rich people are sad because they're still haunted by their demons or because they live empty, hedonistic lives that give them no pleasure.
But me, I'd go round having adventures like
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
I'd still be "working" in the sense of making an effort to get a reward, I just wouldn't ever go to the office again. So I'd get meaning from my photography and adventures and my voluntary work, of which I'd do more.
There might be periods of boredom or tiredness if I'd got back from a big trip, but never a Monday morning quite as blue as this one!
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Do you use your pc, laptop, smart phone, tablet, etc. interchangeably, or does every gadget have a specific use to you?

shehitsback’s Profile PhotoAllison
I use my laptop when I'm online for a good few hours and want to do serious reading of long-range articles. It takes about 5 minutes to switch on fully so if I'm flicking through things I use my ipad. I also carry my ipad round with webpages I might glance at loaded up, & try to find a wifi signal. So while at the moment I have both devices on, they do have different functions, chiefly because I find it hard to do serious reading from a small screen.
Almost all my photography posts,
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
are done on my laptop with photos from a camera, the one with the cows is from my ipad but the rest are all done from a camera.
My phone is only ever used for texting as it's too fiddly to try reading long articles etc from there, and I couldn't read this site from a phone, how could anyone concentrate on such a small screen?
Also there was this time when having too many random apps that I hadn't disabled caused my phone to switch itself off when I was talking to my girlfriend, who lives in another city, so I rushed home to a series of enraged text messages about how she couldn't believe what I'd done to her and never wanted to see me again. Which would have been understandable if I'd callously put my phone down but it was just carelessness.
So that reinforced my decision that yes, devices will be used for what I consider their best function and not try to do everything.

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Do you think people who work in scientific fields are less susceptible to magical thinking (belief in the paranormal, astrology, superstition etc.)? Why?

No, asurprising number of scientifically trained people have believed in nonsense!
I found this very interesting
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
Do you remember Harold Camping who "foresaw" the end of the world in 2017, he was an engineer, and plenty of others have followed. Before we even get to the Nazi and communist scientists.
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Have you ever become aware of a false memory you've had? For example a situation turns out to have happened completely differently to how you remembered it, or a building was somewhere totally different to where you were certain it was? [Doug]

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
I have the opposite actually.
The band Drive-By Truckers, if you've heard of them, I might have seen them in 2014 but I completely forgot that the whole thing happened. It was when my hypothyroidism was starting to get really bad so forgetting was starting to get more common.
After I recovered I wondered where I'd got one of their T shirts from and I started thinking I might have seen them in concert, but forgotten. I think I might remember one man at the front shouting out for them to play this song, "Steve McQueen", that was presumably his favourite.
When I went to see them two weeks ago I had no particular recollection of going to their other concert 3 years back but I probably did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPihc9a_3vIHadacol’s Video 140838177020 tPihc9a_3vIHadacol’s Video 140838177020 tPihc9a_3vI

So, it's been TWENTY years since Buffy The Vampire Slayer first aired, back when I was working at a university. It brings back lots of good memories. Over on FB however, it wasn't so popular with some of my friends. So - (a) have you seen the series and (b) if so, did you love it or hate it?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
As a teenager I wanted to shag Buffy, Cordelia & Willow so of course I watched it :)
Unfortunately, I neither did that nor achieved my goal of being like Giles as an adult. But I keep thinking about my favourite episode with the invisible girl.
http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Out_of_Mind,_Out_of_Sight
That bit at the end where they have a whole school full of invisible people, I've never forgotten it. Even at the time I was probably treating people the way Marcie Ross was treated, but I never considered it.
It's not something I've watched for years but I do remember that.
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