Monument ([info]marnanel) wrote,
@ 2009-06-29 23:34:00
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Questions from Misty
Are there any words you can't stand the sound of?
No, not really.  I think each word has its own special beauty and is useful in its own place.  I don't have the revulsion to words like moist that some people claim to have.  Even a word like phthisis (presumably the source of "phtheezles" in Christopher Robin), though a name for a horrible thing, has its own strange beauty as a word.

If you are a colour, which colour are you?
Orange on some days, black on others.

What is your comfort food?
Hm.  In this country, gummy bears and milk chocolate.  In England, probably jelly babies, pickled onions, licorice allsorts, softgrain bread, and milk chocolate.
                                                                                                                              
Do you consider yourself comfortable in your own skin?
Not really.  I tend to think it's rather ugly skin, covered with plaque as it is.  But a friend of mine took some pictures of it to show me it could be beautiful, and sometimes I look at them in order to remember.
                                                                                                                              
Tell me something true.
The Scottish parliament has the legal ability under the Scotland Act to raise or lower income tax by 3%.  This is theoretically called the Tartan Tax, but the power has never been used.  (I'm not sure whether this is the sort of thing you were looking for.)



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[info]bonne_a_rienne
2009-06-30 11:52 am UTC (link)
I think the neat thing about "tell me something true" is that everyone interprets it differently, some people answered it with soul-baring confessions, some people answered it with facts and figures, or the weather. I think it says something about the person, but I could be making that up.

I have a friend who has a physical reaction to the word "moist", it's actually really amusing, and the kind of thing you say as often as possible when she's drunk; she'll break furniture to get away from you.

There's a candy shop in Northampton that sells chocolate-covered gummy bears, and they're the best thing I've ever eaten. I look for them everywhere, and no one else seems to sell them.

It's good that you have something to remind you your skin can be beautiful- I think having skin issues makes it really hard to love your skin, even when other people do.

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[info]hitchhiker
2009-06-30 12:48 pm UTC (link)
'scrofula' is the only ugly word i can think of at the moment

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[info]ylla
2009-06-30 04:07 pm UTC (link)
This is theoretically called the Tartan Tax

Disparagingly, but why theoretically?

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[info]marnanel
2009-06-30 05:06 pm UTC (link)
I meant because it's not an actual real tax since it's never been levied.

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