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It's the far future and time travel to the past exists. A giant meteor is about to wipe out life on earth: the only escape is to travel backwards in time, to a secret location in Europe. Your choice is between the following periods: 200sBCE, 1300sCE, 1500sCE, 1700sCE. Which do you choose and why?

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I'd live in the 18th century and be a good old English Whig aristocrat. I'd be obese from all that roast beef, plum pudding and best brandy and I'd own massive tracts of land and cheer on our victories against dastardly Frenchmen and Spaniards. What a time :)
I would rather stay here and try to save this time and place though really. We need to be opposing all these right-wing people who think the planet's resources can just be squandered like there was no tomorrow, for religious or just plain selfish reasons.
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Has the weather cooled down at all where you live yet? Or is it still hot and humid?

It is quite temperate, it was never really that hot at all. But I am still waiting for these bleedin' leaves to turn! Since I recovered from my thyroid I've been more active and went to places in the spring and summer, but I can't go to any of my places (of which there are 14!) for something like three weeks.
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Do you have a greater tendency to complicate things or to simplify them?

As you may have guessed, anon, I'm the world's worst offender for pointless over complication. It's even more so in speech than in writing. My speech is filled with overelaboration and silliness and pointless random phrases ("you may, young man, you may" being a favourite for me, if not anyone else). I know how much it annoys people so I try to hold it in check, but it just makes its way out naturally. That's one of the many "joys" of diversity, anon.
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What is your favorite thing about summer?

I don't, anon, like summer that much: too hot and the run rises too early and wakes me up, also I prefer autumn trees to summer trees really. But one consolation's to be had, I live an hour a way from vast tracts of moorland (in the Peak District, which I gather is quite famous, though it's normal to us) and only in a brief August window does this hapen:
What is your favorite thing about summer
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What are some ways you think might decrease the amount of drama on this site?

This will seem rude but a lot of people need to grow up, leave home, get jobs and if they're lucky get some lovin' done. I think one of the major downsides to the internet is the way people can segregate themselves. If I spent my whole life on white supremacist or jihadist websites, I'd start thinking that was normal and lose all ability to interact with others. And I've heard about communities getting increasingly polarised as young, liberal people leave small towns and move to the city and conservatives move to the suburbs, and some immigrants (please note that much/most of this is the government's fault because of the way it allocates refugees to certain places) clustering in ghettos.
As part of the general growing up process, I think it's important to seek out- easily done online, this- th best of opposition thought, as in opposed to your own tendency. I used to read a right-wing Catholic blog, unfortunately it's no longer around but that's what I was aiming at. I think if your party loses an election you need to understand why the other side won, apart from anything else you'll nevr win floating voters back round otherwise.
And so what I am not for is an echo chamber, I acknowledge how seductive this is on Twitter and Tumblr but it's not a good tendency.

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Most people associate beauty with perfection. What are some imperfections you consider beautiful?

Excellent question, this. I make no secret of the fact that I love autumn trees, I don't like the cold and I've got mixed views on the darkening sky but somehow I prefer autumn to spring (ok but not as good as autumn), summer (a bit too much and it gets boring) and the bleak midwinter. Unlike a previous answerer I don't like old buildings, there's a sadness to them. But I do like what's called the "edgelands", where country meets town, such as ex-industrial sites now abandoned to nature, which ar often more "wild" than farmland or manicured "nature" reserves.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/edgelands
Most people associate beauty with perfection What are some imperfections you
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Can you please give 8 likes to @ltsNinaDobrev ? You'll get 20 likes back :)

First time I've got this anon spam, and also the last. Further such will be deleted without mercy. I woke up too early by mistake and I'm in a proper unforgiving mood, anon.

Isolation training for a peopled expedition to Mars has begun in Hawaii. What would you do to cope being isolated with the same few people with limited space for a couple of years?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Excellent question this. I'm afraid I've not given it that much thought, but surely I'd be able to handle it well enough I think. It's easy when you're a space lord.
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Do you think you've changed in the last year? In what way?

Through recovering from my thyroid, anon, I've got a new lease of life and now I can do things like this:
Nice and September-y, don't you think?
Do you think youve changed in the last year In what way
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What's the last photo you took on your phone? Post it!

I don't take pictures on my phone because I have a real camera. Howbeit, since you've asked so nicely, you can have a picture of the time I spotted Francis our pope in the rather unlikely setting of Crewe.
Whats the last photo you took on your phone Post it
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autumn

When summer's end is nighing
And skies at evening cloud,
I muse on change and fortune
And all the feats I vowed
When I was young and proud.
The weathercock at sunset
Would lose the slanted ray,
And I would climb the beacon
That looked to Wales away
And saw the last of day.
From hill and cloud and heaven
The hues of evening died;
Night welled through lane and hollow
And hushed the countryside,
But I had youth and pride.
And I with earth and nightfall
In converse high would stand,
Late, till the west was ashen
And darkness hard at hand,
And the eye lost the land.
The year might age, and cloudy
The lessening day might close,
But air of other summers
Breathed from beyond the snows,
And I had hope of those.
They came and were and are not
And come no more anew;
And all the years and seasons
That ever can ensue
Must now be worse and few.
So here's an end of roaming
On eves when autumn nighs:
The ear too fondly listens
For summer's parting sighs,
And then the heart replies.

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What are a few things you find aesthetic?

Well, anon, I've been aesthetically pleased twice today, by nature and by the works of (religious) man:
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/127725144779/1-near-oakamoor-2-at-the-top-near
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/127718037404/at-cheadle-perfect-cheadle-for-saint-giless
I am just waiting for autumn so I can revisit my places, and set spring, summer, autumn and winter photos of the same place through time.
As an agnostic I am interested in the phenomenon of religion. I am interested about how soldiers going into battle and people on their deathbeds are saying prayers, which the religious would say proves that they KNOW they have to arm themselves with faith despite saying otherwise, and atheists would say represents the power religion has over the human mind, for better or worse.
I do think that sometimes. "I stand at the door and knock". Whether that be God or the voices in my head, I don't know.
The aesthetic pleasure I get is from walking/cycling and eating, the intellectual pleasure from reading/writing and making plans for where I'll go on a trip, and I do like a bit of that filthy dirty stuff :)

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What's the worst type of job you've ever done?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Working at a place, and I think I'll name them since there won't be any repercussions, called Boxmore Plastics in Crewe. Mercifully I didn't have to stay there (it was a warehouse/factory, the only thing nastier than the plastic smell was my "colleagues") because I got a job at the vastly superior Royal Mail, which I didn't like but was bliss compared to that :)
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Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

I am of course the deepest of introverts. I can be social and popular, much more than a number of naturally extroverted people, but I'll always need to recharge my shields alone in silence.
I try to avoid sterotyping about how I'm deeper and more meaningful, but yeah :)
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What bad habit are you most proud of breaking? If you haven't done this recently, what is one habit you'd like to change in the future?

Well, the most recent changes in my life have been to do with my thyroid and subsequent recovery, so I don't think I can be praised or blamed for that.
Funnily, pride is the thing I'm trying to rid myself of, I was too proud to go to the doctor long after most people had noticed I was ill and I've got an acquaintance who is the most prideful person this side of that manbaby Donald Trump. So with any luck I won't be as stubborn, easily offended, etc in future.
Though I fully intend to carry on being right about everything :)
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PAP of where you want to be right now?!

The problem is tho, anon, I want to be there in autumn, not today... as a photographer, I've been so busy since recovering from my thyroid, but most of my pictures are spring or summer. And I'm after pictures that capture what is recognisably the same place, but in different seasons, so I need yellow and brown leaves for that. Autumn needs to rush up :)
PAP of where you want to be right now

What is your favorite hobby?

The most fun activity in the world, reading the Daily Mail! None of that filthy dirty business for me!
(Please note that this picture dates from 2009 and unfortunately I no longer look like that, but still)
What is your favorite hobby
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What's your dreamtime like? Do you dream regularly, or have nightmares, or Lucid Dream? What importance, if any, do you attach to your dreams?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
I don't remember most of my dreams, but I have tried lucid dreaming at about that 4-5am time. It's remarkable, isn't it?
Though that comes more from the time when I was ill with my thyroid, since my recovery I've slept less (to a fault!) and it's less common now.
I've had a dream, though not for some time, where I don't like a situation so I fly away from it. I move my arms up and down in a certain way and that enables me to fly like a bird. But I'm not that much of a dreamer in general.
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What is your favorite restaurant? Where is it located?

This one, in Birmingham! I go there with my girlfriend. Special mention to Malaysian Delight whih is only a stone's throw from this. Not everything in Chinatown is god, but when the chefs in certain places are on form they're unstoppable :)
What is your favorite restaurant Where is it located

If you could eliminate any word from the dictionary, meaning no one can ever use it again, what word would you choose?

Probably, "inappropriate". It's just the most finger-wagging, censorious, IRRITATING word that I imagine coming out of the mouths of vaguely left-liberal, public sector workers, mostly women. The sort who, to stereotype further, have children that support Jeremy Corbyn but are for Yvette Cooper themselves. Who think one day the whole world will have to come round to their way of thinking, and they can bring this about by disapproving of anyone who isn't exactly like themselves.

What is your favorite kind of cocktail?

A proper Singapore Sling (beware of imitations, there are many). It's like a silent killer, you actually enjoy drinking them, which is why you get drunk unexpectedly :)
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Have you ever been called up for Jury Duty? If so what were your feelings about it? I was once called up but was working abroad and so couldn't do it.

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
No, I've never got the call. I don't know whether I'd like it or not, how could I when I know so little?
I shouldn't like to have a different opinion to the majority, especially when someone big wants to railroad a suspect through or let one of their friends/family off, which I'm told happens.
Hello, btw :)
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It's Relaxation Day. How will you unwind?

I won't actually be drinking cocktails, but here's a picture of me doing that in 2013. I was starting to get ill with my thyroid, but didn't know it, so I look healthier now. Howbeit, it's a great picture of me having a nice time. And sorry boys, but despite appearances I'm still not gay :)
Its Relaxation Day How will you unwind
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