18 posts tagged “qotd”
How can I reduce my "carbon footprint"?
Here are some ways I can think of:
1. Stop buying fizzy drinks. Every time you open a can of coke, over a kilo of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Hoarding bottles of soda water in your basement is fine tho, as it prevents CO2 from escaping.
2. Don't make cakes. The use of one tin of baking powder is equivalent to flying from Heathrow to the Winnersh Triangle in a jumbo jet.
3. If you must make a "home volcano" with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda, do it just once when the whole family is watching. Several demonstrations are just multiplying greenhouse gas production.
4. Stop eating carbohydrates. Metabolizing those babies plays merry hell with the atmosphere. Eat only proteins - even fats are dodgy.
5. Reduce cell respiration in one or other limb of your body by applying regular tourniquets. Modern gangrene treatments are excellent.
6. Try to breathe out as little as possible. Breathing in is fine, however. You can do it as much as you like.
In 5 words or less, who are you?
Submitted by dejablu503.
I was adored once too.
If you put together a time capsule today, what would you put in it?
Submitted by Lilia.
Cake. In the future we will all need cake. In fact, I need cake right now.
So, no cake in the capsule then.
A prize for anyone who can identify this objet (pound coin for scale):
What will you be recommending this season?
Play us something Christmassy. (suggested by ME, cos no-one else can say 'Christmas')
I love the mantra-like repetitions in this, which by the end are making meaning fade away.
When I worked as a bookseller I once had a manager (a Scot) who would use the expression 'my Christmas' as in 'I wonder what I'll get for my Christmas'. Sonny Boy's doing the same sort of thing here but a stage further compressed: 'the boy was just lookin' for his Santa Claus.' Hilarious stuff.
Tell us some good music to smooch to.
The Heilige Dankgesang from Beethoven's Op.132. Without a shadow.
What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?
It'd have to be moorish Spain, I think. Cordoba, sometime in the region of 1000AD. Around about then Cordoba's university was second only to Baghdad's (in the western hemisphere), and while the rest of Europe's nobility could barely write their own name, the Omayyad dynasty was running an empire where children went to school to become philosophers, astronomers, poets.
Tell us some weird stuff about yourself.
I have a lifelong alphabet (Roman) peculiarity which I've only just yesterday noticed sufficiently to verbalise, so here goes. I recite the alphabet, and I find that not all the letters have an equal emotional weight, thus:
ABCDEFGH - no problems so far except a tiny blip on the F. F seems just a little strange.
IJKLM - strangeness sets in just here: I J and K seem like odd, alien letters, L is a return towards normality and M is home again.
NOPQRST - N is OK but not as good as M, and the rest are fine except the fact that T comes after S is very prominent. It's the one recurring sequence-remembering blip I still have, I have to think carefully every time (though by now I can pass it off with some nonchalance), S comes before T.
UVW - U and V are plain weird, W is less odd.
XYZ - these are fine, set in their familiar aspic at the end. Phew.
All this seems to have been hard-wired into my head at quite an early age, infant school or so.
