Fifteen Questions About Some Stuff

[deeplyunhip]

The poll urge was really bad tonight. Thus this is especially long and the questions are especially unrelated. ;)

Comments

[applespicy]

I said "other" on the first one because it depends on a few factors. First factor: is it my phone or the house phone? My phone has charming ringtones, so I don't mind it ringing longer. The house phone is just a boring phone ring-ring-ring, and that sound irritates me beyond belief. I'll snatch up the phone just to make it stop.

It also depends on who's calling me. If it's someone I like, I pick up right away. If it's someone I don't want to talk to but feel obligated to talk to/I don't really feel like talking but know I should pick up, I let it ring a bit. If it's someone I don't want to talk to, I just silence it and let it go to voicemail.

OMG TL;DR EXPLANATION WHAT.

[deeplyunhip]

Good point on ringtones. I definitely like to let me cell phone ring a bit loner because I always love to hear my "Eye of the Tiger". :P

[akeyoftime]

Clearly, the best bear is the Avatar universe's PLATYPUSBEAR. Though Paddington comes close.

I'd link you to a picture right now, but I need to be sleeping. Maybe tomorrow!

[your_downfall]

PLATYPUSBEAR IS AWESOME.

Just wanted to share that I agreed. :-)

[akeyoftime]

That just "bear" the Earth King has is just plain old wierd.

[deeplyunhip]

No worries, man - I can always google it. :)

[liaku]

As for fictional bears, what was that bear in that kid's book about a Corduroy bear that got stuck in the laundry or something? I'd google it, but I'm lazy.

[deeplyunhip]

That bear was named Corduroy, oddly enough. ;)

[hamsterwoman]

Many of the things I like about fall -- leaves changing color, leaf piles, e.g. -- are things that we don't get out here in San Francisco, alas. Oh, and I'm too lazy to go back and edit my answer to include "Other", but another thing I like about fall? Pumpkin spice lattes! :)~ Let's just pretend it's included under "Pumpkins

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, and: Columbus Day is now called "Indigenous People's Day" in San Francisco Bay Area (I think that change happened when I was in middle school, so... about 17 years ago?). It was also known as Dia de la Raza for a while, but I haven't heard that terminology in a while.

And my "Other" supernatural show is the canceled-after-one-season The Dresden Files (see icon)

[deeplyunhip]

Pumpkin spice lattes are absolutely included under pumpkins! Anything pumpkin related is. :)

Lol, hardly a surprise indeed. I love my tricksters (see: icon!).

The argument, btw, was whether or not wearing makeup was a mandatory part of 'formal dresscode' for a woman.)

Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

I do the same thing, which is why I averaged it out to something in the 1-5 hour bracket. ;)

Also, in response to your comment below, wow. You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

Her precise argument was something like, 'a woman who comes to the office with no makeup and her hair unbrushed will never be taken as seriously as a woman who is polished and nicely made up' (not a direct quote, because I don't feel like going back there and having it make me boggle all over again). And a couple of people stepped in to point out that 1) putting on makeup and brushing hair are NOT equivalent elements of grooming, and 2) um NO.

She was reacting to a comment that she thought was saying that people who wear makeup are not worth knowing (which, OK, also is NO), but she didn't seem to think *she* was saying anything insulting or generalizing, even when women who don't wear makeup to the office popped up to disagree. Anyway.

You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?Yeah, I would expect any place with a

[ladynyks]

I don't answer the phone if the person I live with for the time being is there, and if they're not, nobody rings me, anyway, so I never answer it if can help it. Otherwise, doesn't it rather depend on how far from it you are?

I think Desperate Housewives is lame. Some of it might not be, and I supported Bree before ever even saw any (despite probably not agreeing with many of her opinions), but still. As for Hitchcock, haven't seen much. Rear Window in part, the end of North by, and the comedy one with the corpse, which I think was the first one listed. Haven't seen Atonement or Sideways either, or played Guitar Hero, and Brad Pitt is provisionally lame, or in parts, depending on what you focus on. No idea who the hell Elliot Smith is, but Flight of the Concords comes to mind as seeming lame, too, since refuse to check any videos out. It only just started here 2 weeks ago, but overlaps with something I'd rather watch, since hype -> hello, goodbye. It looks wrong and unfunny

[deeplyunhip]

Desperate Housewives is totally lame, but the show knows how lame it is and I appreciate this - I love it in all its lame glory. And I especially love Bree, yes. ;)

Plus I obviously have fabulous taste in TV shows nobody's ever heard of.

Obviously. Or at least, you definitely have some kind of taste in shows I've personally never heard of. :P

[ladynyks]

Oh, don't worry, I'm sure my fave shows are much more lame than yours. TR2070 is based on Philip K. Dick's worlds and Blade Runner more so than the Arnie movie. Very dark world, but yet another cancelled after one series scifi thing