15 Random Things About You

[Revoltingest]

9. As far as I’m concerned, Las Vegas is the armpit of the earth.

It's one of my favorite cities. I like the vibrant economy, the architecture, hiking the desert around it, the food, the shows & the comfortable winter temperature.

10. Politics bore me to death and I am embarrassingly uninformed.

You ain't missing anything useful.

 

[Songbird]

They found nodules in one of my lungs and told me I had cancer and 6 months to live. Drew up a will. Ran all the tests they could.
6 months came and went. The doctor that did the initial diagnoses left me hanging, so to speak, so I called my GP. He did an x-ray, looked at the end results from the other tests and said, "They were wrong, obviously, because it's been longer than 6 months. It was probably worms." (I don't know, I don't wanna know, but they are gone and have been gone)

That's crazy, rakhel! What an experience. I've said before I want a cancer experience without the cancer, but not like that. Did you ever circle back to the first doc?

 

[Songbird]

1. I actually enjoy my job (mostly)
2. I enjoy building or assembling things.
3. I read way too much sci fi.
4. I can sit seiza for about 30 minutes at a time.
5. I am a "contraption Captain"
6. I am a workaholic.
7. except when I am extremely lazy.
8. My wife is an ordained Buddhist minister.
9. I have two elderly Akitas.
10. I have broad musical taste.
11. I am obsessive about pockets.
12. I am allergic to shoelaces.
13. I wear hats.
14. I am seldom found without an implement of higher education.
15. Puns! The worse, the better!

KT #15 - where did it go?

4 - My feet just fell asleep out of empathy.
8 - Cool!
15 - Yay! I'll be testing that tidbit out.

S'right, people, I'm goin in chronological order!

 

[Vendetta]

I think katzpur was coming from a more religious point of view about las vegas

 

[Songbird]

1. My first name starts with the letter R.
2. I have more than 20 years old.
3. I have less than 40 years old.
4. I like to play games.
5. I have a dog.
6. I eat pizza 3 times a week.
7. I am not fat.
8. One of my grandfathers is/was portuguese.
9. Men, in my family, live a lot less than women.
10. I would love to learn how to draw properly.
11. I practice tai chi chuan.
12. I like chess
13. I didn't question religion until the day my father died.
14. I am pessimist.
15. I hate the heat.

Ouch...took me longer than i expected....

2-3 - 21?
11 - Is it an RF requirement to practice some kind of martial art?
14 - You really don't seem like it. The posts I've seen from you look cheery.

 

[Songbird]

1. I'm at peace
2. My family is my life.
3. I love the outdoors.
4. After the 3rd snow storm I hate the winter.
5. I love the beach.
6. Would rather walk.
7. Fall is my favorite season.
8. Traveling is fun.
9. My house is a money pit.
10. Cars are just for going places.
11. I don't travel enough.
12. People are interesting.
13. I like NY City.
14. I like Atlantic City.
15. I don't have enough money.

1 - Excellent.
4 - Ha! Me too.
10 - Yes! Motorcycles, on the other hand...

 

[Songbird]

1. According to family legend, I'm descended from a Danish sailor who jumped ship in Belfast.

2. Also according to family legend (though on the other side of the family), one of my ancestors hid William Lyon Mackenzie on his farm for four days after his rebellion failed, until he left to make his escape into the US.

3. I'm an auto racing nut. I've done just about every role in racing at one time or another except:
- steward
- starter
- race car driver

4. Unlike Engyo, I cannot sit in seiza for 30 minutes at a time. My limit is about 5 minutes. However, I'm pretty good at jumping up from tatehiza to block or strike with a sword.

5. In addition to being an auto racing nut, I'm also a martial arts nut. Specifically, about iaido - the best martial art that nobody's ever heard of, IMO.

6. Unlike a few other people here, I was already a fairly firm atheist when my father died.

7. My "religious texts" shelf used to hold the Bible, the Quran, a book of Upanishads, and the Brew Master's Bible... until my wife moved the brewing book.

8. I'm a licensed amateur radio operator.

9. I still have a black dot on my left thigh from where one of my classmates semi-accidentally jabbed me with a pencil. The tip broke off and made a quasi-tattoo.

10. I hate taking my car to the mechanic. It feels like an admission of failure about my own car repair skills.

11. I am very allergic to cats.

12. Because of an allergy test when I was little, I grew up thinking that I was allergic to corn. For most of my childhood, I was forbidden from having anything with any sort of corn product in it (BTW - do you have any idea how much stuff has corn in it?!) When I was 14, I got re-tested and corn came up negative. I asked the allergist what happened, and he told me that my previous test was probably a false positive, because the allergen in corn is pretty close to grass, which I am allergic to (but don't eat, normally).

13. In my entire life, I've only had a massage by a massage therapist once.

14. I like summer and I like winter. Spring and fall, not so much. Warm weather's fine, snow's fine, mud I could do without.

15. I'm an awful swimmer. When I was doing kiddie swimming lessons, I failed "sharks" (the level before Red Cross blue in our local Parks & Rec grading system).

1-2 - wow!
4-5 - Penguins doing martial arts = beauty.
6 - Ha.
15. - Penguins doing martial arts who can't swim = sad. But funny.

 

[Vendetta]

Songbird I notice you make replies to everyone else except mines.....not really making a big deal but I am just curious

 

[Songbird]

1) I have little discipline.
2) My facility with a shovel is a divine gift.
3) I've crushed fingers & toes several times.
4) I plan to stop doing #3.
5) I play go, but not very often.
6) I have over 400 Hawaiian/loud shirts.
7) I hate travel.
8) I was a draft resister.
9) I'm pretty frugal, except that when I make bad financial decisions, they're on a large scale.
10) I think Aliens is the greatest movie ever made.
11) I buy 30 lbs of chocolate at a time.
12) I like chocolate.
13) I once scored an E- on a thermodynamics test.
14) I have a masters degree in mechanical engineering.
15) The best decision I ever made was letting my real estate broker license lapse.
16) I've been married 32 years & have 2 kids who haven't served any jail time.
17) I sometimes ignore limits & rules.

This is neither here nor there for you, but you so remind me of someone from another forum who I adored. He was also a Canadian cauldron of rage around the same age with food fondness, Hawaiian shirts, and a machinery affinity.

4 - Good plan.
6 - You do not! Do you...?

 

[Songbird]

Songbird I notice you make replies to everyone else except mines.....not really making a big deal but I am just curious

Oh, V, I'm getting to yours!! I started going from most recent to least, then changed to going chronologically. I'm not ignoring you, and I'll do you right now.

 

[Vendetta]

Oh, V, I'm getting to yours!! I started going from most recent to least, then changed to going chronologically. I'm not ignoring you, and I'll do you right now.

Hey not on the first date!

 

[Songbird]

1. Was in the Navy SEALs BUD/S (basic underwater demolitions SEAL program) but was severely injured in "hell week" Class 235
2. Received a B.A. in psychology and B.S. (not to be mistaken for bull s***) in biology and currently pursuing a doctoral degree.

3. I love sex with women from different countries (I can easily count to 100 in several countries most of them in Europe and Middle East)

4. I write poetry

5. Lost both parents to cancer

6. Have an assortment of guns (and a member of the NRA)

7. Wrestled a great dane once (it was trying to attack me)

8. Jog 14 miles a day

9. I like the movie "V, for Vendetta" for its symbolism in politics

10. Loves to learn from people

11. Wants to learn Arabic

12. Jumped out of a plane once with a snag in my chute (obviously I survived)

13. I can drink Bicardi 151 along with another pint and not be drunk

14. Not religious but have an avid fascination for world religions.

15. I love to cook exotic foods.

1 - cool! Not cool about the severe injury. Does it still cause trouble?
4 - Post some...?
5 - That sucks. I'm sorry.
8 - Whoa. I only do that when a marathon deadline looms.
9 - Me too!
12 - Holy ****.
15 - I love to eat exotic foods!

 

[Songbird]

Hey not on the first date!

Oh, bummer.

 

[Revoltingest]

This is neither here nor there for you, but you so remind me of someone from another forum who I adored. He was also a Canadian cauldron of rage around the same age with food fondness, Hawaiian shirts, and a machinery affinity.

Two of us? The world is in great danger.

6 - You do not! Do you...?

You betcha! I wear'm every day....just not all at the same time.

 

[Katzpur]

I think katzpur was coming from a more religious point of view about las vegas

Not in the slightest. It just all seems so fake to me, like an attempt to make a Disneyland for adults and doing a crappy job of it. See, I love New York City and part of it is that (aside from Times Square, which almost reminds me of Las Vegas) it's just so real. I love the energy the city emanates, but it's a genuine, deep-down, gutsy kind of thing, not phony like Las Vegas.

 

[Vendetta]

1 - cool! Not cool about the severe injury. Does it still cause trouble?
4 - Post some...?
5 - That sucks. I'm sorry.
8 - Whoa. I only do that when a marathon deadline looms.
9 - Me too!
12 - Holy ****.
15 - I love to eat exotic foods!

Well leaving SEAL training was tough since I had two weeks left in Hell week....for those that don't know what Hell week is, its essentially the end of SEAL training where all the hard training you do gets idoubled...essentially my severe injury was a compound fracture in my foot that turned into a simple broken foot to me being in the navy hospital for months. Instructors would've put me in another class but I missed too many classes to.come back so I went back to the ship =(

The parachute thing was scary however that is why we have reserve chutes right? 30,000 feet in the air and spiraling to the ground you think a lot lol

Oh and the jogging thing its not bad. However I slowed down on the daily thing....I do it once a week now

 

[Vendetta]

Not in the slightest. It just all seems so fake to me, like an attempt to make a Disneyland for adults and doing a crappy job of it. See, I love New York City and part of it is that (aside from Times Square, which almost reminds me of Las Vegas) it's just so real. I love the energy the city emanates, but it's a genuine, deep-down, gutsy kind of thing, not phony like Las Vegas.

I hear what you're saying....that is what attracts people to las vegas perhaps.

 

[Rakhel]

That's crazy, rakhel! What an experience. I've said before I want a cancer experience without the cancer, but not like that. Did you ever circle back to the first doc?

Probably should have, but I was so happy not to have cancer that I just went back to raising my two kids

 

[FluentYank3825]

Here's my 15 for all of those curious fellows and fellettes out there:

1. I am the youngest of three children and a second son. I was blond-haired and blue-eyed until I was about ten while my older brother and sister had dark hair and dark eyes. Talk about those recessive genes!
2. I was baptized twice as an infant in the Roman Catholic rite, the first time right after birth due to complications with respiratory distress syndrome, the second time about a month and half later. I slept through all of it
3. I share my birthday with such celebrities as Bing Crosby, Catherine the Great, the Red Baron, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
4. I can quote all the original Star Wars movies, The Princess Bride, most of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the Last Starfighter word for word, as well as some lines from some other famous films.
5. I think Whose Line is it Anyway is the funniest TV show ever made.
6. Two of my great-grandfathers on both sides of my family served in WWI; one was an infantryman, the other a battlefield engineer who was among the first Americans to reach France with General Pershing in 1917.
7. I am at least 3% Cherokee Indian by blood.
8. I love cheese of all kinds but haven't tried very many flavors. Any suggestions?
9. I am currently a Social Sciences student working on my B.S. with dual minors in English and Philosophy. I am considering a career in the Sociology of Religion.
10. I find almost impossible to lie (Be assured I am telling the truth here)
11. My short-term memory is terrible. I've lost items ranging from gloves and car keys to my own mind. My long-term memory though is quite impressive.
12. I was raised in the Catholic faith for the first six years of my life. After about three years in limbo my family was baptized into the LDS Church in 1991 after my mom met my future step-father. I was active member in this church for about seventeen years but recently stopped participating due to my issues with some of its teachings and practices. Currently my religious views lie somewhere around agnosticism and theological noncognitivism.
13. I eat meat but I don't buy it.
14. I love to think about deep philosophical subjects everyday. My current thoughts center on David Hume's views on religion. I have reputable streak of introspection it seems.
15. I am an impulsive, hopeless romantic who has yet to learn the value of patience, who still loves to play with legos, and is sometimes a little too hard on himself, and loves to play video games.

1. I am a vegetarian and nearly vegan.
2. I have a black belt and am pretty good at fighting.
4. I never wear any makeup, ever. (Except maybe on Halloween).
8. I am extremely flexible.
11. I like a little bit of anime and manga, but not too much. The ones I like I tend to really like, though.
12. Sometimes I cry a little bit during movies.

All admirable things IMO.
2-I got my green belt recently in the last style I was in, but left because I didn't agree with some of its practices, namely its strict focus on LDS principles and doctrine.
4-As a man, I find that the less makeup and jewelry a woman has on, the more attractive she is.
8-I can put both my legs behind my head. It hurts but feels great afterwards. For some reason other people find this weird.
11- I am much the same way. I'm no anime geek by any means but still love to watch it. My favorites are DBZ, Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Bebop but I wouldn't mind getting into more of them.
12-I do too, especially if it's a chick-flick or a serious drama

12. I have read the entire Wheel of Time series. Sure wish I had that year of my life back.
14. I do not drink alcohol
15. I would leave my Christmas lights up all year 'round if it were socially acceptible

12-I've read all the current books once, and books 1-6 twice. When I first started, it took me 6 months to read all the way up through Knife of Dreams. Despite its length it's one of the best high fantasy series I've ever read. I also like the series by George R.R. Martin.
14- Me neither. When I took my first sip of beer at age 2 I swore it off for the rest of my life. Twenty plus years later, I am still sober. Perhaps my time as a Mormon really trained me to for sticking with this decision
15-Yes, me too. One of the qualities I look for in a woman is someone who'll let me do this without calling me lazy.

 

[FluentYank3825]

P.S.-My favorite ancient philosopher so far is Epictetus.