Printable View
I'm a relatively poor swimmer, but growing up, we always swam outdoors in the river or lake. I haven't done any swimming in recent memory. :goof:
Does people talking on cell phones in public places and not paying the slightest attention to what they are doing annoy you? :flare:
...huh? Oh, sorry, I was talking on my cell phone and not paying the slightest attention to what I was doing...um, I'd have to say yes.
Same question!
Oooohh yes it does annoy me . . . especially when they bump into you & yell at you "watch out where youre going" !!!!!!!!!!!
Same ques.
It does annoy me a bit, but I think it's an interesting aspect of globalizing culture and therefore worthy of observation.
How do you listen to your favourite music?
Quite loudly.
Same question:
How do you listen to your favourite music?
Depending on my surroundings, usually fairly loudly; other times, I do not mind blasting my music on headphones also. :lol:
To the person below me: how do you prefer your coffee/espresso? :brow:
Coffee: Make mine a movie star... sweet and blonde
Espresso: I'd rather have a cappacino instead, and I always put granulated raw sugar in it.
Next person: same question
Since I frankly am not a coffee drinker, let the question past to the next person.
To the person below me: how do you prefer your coffee/espresso?
With sugar, but strong.
Do you like Starbucks?
Not for their coffee, but they make very good coffee icecream!Quote:
Originally Posted by thevintagepiper
Do you ever like a food but only in certain ways?
For example, I like raisins but cannot stand them in other foods like cookies. Or some people never drink coffee, but like coffee icecream. That type of thing.
I don't like brocolli, uhm...wait, I never like brocolli in anything. Let me think, Chocolate, I can't chocolate Icecream in any form, or chocolate covered ice, or anything icy with chocolate. But I love a chocolate in bar form.
Same Q. (brain is still at the dry cleaners.)
Oh, yes! I do not necessarily consider myself a finnicky food conoisseur, but, especially while I cook, I consider myself a 'creature of habit,' and always have to cook perfectly so everything tastes just right. With that foods? The list goes endlessly.
When others cook, however, I do not get too picky at all - only in accordance to my strict vegetarianism.
To the person below me: have you ever stopped endorsing and/or purchasing a product merely because a corporation you dislike produced it?
(a friend of mine struggles with this precise dilemma)
No I dont think so. I usually dont have anything against any corp. My choices are determined more by the product they offer.
To the person below me: Which of your parent do you think has had a tougher life and why? (it could be in terms of their early days, or trying to manage work and home, finances, their nature, aspirations, etc.)
My mother. She raised three children with no help from my dad, and she had two sons die as children, one in her arms on the way to the hospital. That's a lot to ask of anyone.
Do you feel that you were treated well as a child growing up?
That is tragic Pen. It must have been devastating for your mother. I remember how my grandmother used to talk about her two sons and the only daughter who died when they were kids. She had five kids and only two survived, she was very attached to her daughter.
To answer your question:
I am really not sure how to answer it, I think it was fairly reasonable now that I can look back as a more mature person.
I think the way they brought us up was the best they could think of. I was definitely treated equally as my two brothers. But there was this thing about respect and love that was mandatory for me to impart, then. As being the second child and a girl, I was supposed to show compassion and lovey dovey nature towards my brothers. Not that I do not love them, but it was sort of expected of me, and I was never and still am not very fond of rules or boundations. If certain behaviour was expected of me, I rarely fulfilled those expectations, eventhough I knew that it was the best way. If left on my own I would do it, if as a rule I could never.
My parents wanted us to be alike, maybe because then it would have been easier for them to manage raising three kids rather than dealing with three different individuals, which we are in anycase today. They would always say to me "Why cant you be like your brothers, see how well they perform in exams?" "Why cant you take up the same academic course that they have taken?" or "Why cant you behave like your brothers?"
I think my parents had a tough life trying to manage their careers, finances involved in raising kids, dealing with us as different individuals.
But, also there were times when I could get away with what I wanted by taking advantage of being the only daughter of the house. :D :D
So, all in all my childhood days were a mixture of both good and not so good experiences. (I am not really able to sum up my childhood, as while writing I can see my childhood days in flashback)
I love my parents, although I rarely show them that I do.
I would like to know how different or similar were other people's experiences. So the question passes on.