Meme - If there is any interest

[ariaflame]

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[catundra]

Do you feel more Scottish or Australian?

[ariaflame]

That's a tricky one. I have the Scottish roots alright, having grown up there, and a lot of my personality (though not my accent) has been formed by the Scottish outlook. And I still retain interests in my original culture. I do Scottish Country Dancing, I'm learning Scottish Gaelic and I still adore the sound of a Scottish accent even though, or possibly because I never actually got one myself.

However, Australia is my home now. I don't see myself going back to Scotland for anything more than holidays, or possibly Gaidhlig study trips. Most of my family is here. Most of my friends are here, or at least on the same continent. So I think of myself on the whole as an ex-Scot Australian.

And I'm not even going to worry about who I'd support in an Australia vs Scotland match of whatever since I find sport watching incredibly dull.

[splanky]

What is your favourite TV series?

[ariaflame]

Very hard to pick a favourite. I like SF shows of course, and forensics/whodunnits. The latter I think my favourites are NCIS and CSI (the original), though on the criteria that it's a series that I like enough to buy on DVD it may be Jonathan Creek, or Monk.

Ones from my childhood that I enjoyed enough to buy the DVDs were Press Gang and Monkey. I'd probably buy the Mysterious Cities of Gold if I find it too.

I don't like horror much but don't mind the shading towards that area of Buffy. Less taken with Angel.

Liked Firefly, Red Dwarf,(some seasons more than others), Doctor Who. But the one that my nostalgia raises up more than most would be MacGyver which I've not looked at in years lest my memories be spoiled.

[redbraids]

What is your best ever dancing experience?

[ariaflame]

Oddly, while I enjoy the Swancon masquerades mostly (unless the music is too loud, too techno, or the room too smoky) I often feel that I don't know what to do with my hands.

I actually most enjoy the scottish country. I couldn't pinpoint a single experience, but I tend to like the more complex dances. When I can dance those, in a set of people who know what they're doing, one of the fast complex dances, which rely on everyone being in the right place at the right time. That's what I most enjoy. The movement, the pattern, and the challenge.

The swancon style dancing (and I don't like clubbing so that's the nearest I get) is freeing and less constrained, but I get self-conscious dancing with other people around in that manner so don't enjoy myself as much as when I know exactly what I'm doing. Sometimes dancing in my home is OK, but I don't feel the urge that often.

[redbraids]

I hear you on how wonderful the group-dancing is when it works!

Sometimes i dance at home too. Just to cool music, or sometimes to practice steps when no one is watching.

[ariaflame]

My main problem with dancing at home is that since I got the coffee table there's not a huge deal of open space for dancing in. But sometimes you just gotta. I think most of my 'dancing' at home is of the order of moving in time with the music while doing dishes.

[dalmeny]

I somehow didn't realize you're also Scottish-Australian. How old were you when you moved here?

[ariaflame]

I was 14 when we moved. I didn't lose my accent. I never actually had it. We lived in a town that was a support town for a nearby naval base and there were people from all over there. I think I picked this BBC British accent as I call it from tv and so everyone would be able to understand it.

[dalmeny]

Rosyth?

I moved here when I was 16. I definitely had an accent, because it still comes back when I talk to fellow Scots. But I think my accent now is also quasi-BBC, albeit with Scottish-American-Australian undertones.

[ariaflame]

Helensburgh. My dad was a submariner out of Faslane. We moved here after his stint in the RN was up.

I have to concentrate to produce the accent and I don't know how convincing it is. I mostly only ever did it for Rabbie Burns poetry reading. I still have no trouble understanding most scots accents though (well possibly not pub glaswegian). Though not that great at pinning them down to particular regions.