The "Get to know you" game.

(I have a long commute.)


What's something you're really bad at?

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"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."

Maintaining a house in any way. Wallpapering, painting, carpentry, fixing stuff. I can’t do any of that.

Are you a good cook?

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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

I am. I always was pretty good, but I got even better, when an Italian neighbor reaIly taught me the nitty gritty of great Italian cuisine.Wish I had a bigger kitchen though.

If you could have another home as a vacation home, anywhere in the world: where would it be?

Tough call, but Belize comes to mind for some reason.

Given the chance, would you go to Mars?

Well, it depends on several parameters:
- would it be a safe travel and a safe stay?
- would I come back home on Earth?
- how long would I stay there?
- what human and technological environment there?

It's a bit like being asked: would you go to Antarctica?

At this stage in our civilization, no Earthling has been to Mars yet. While I find the destination highly interesting, I don't want to suffer there and take too high risks so far away from my source.

If travel and stay were 100% safe (but they're not), I could stay on Mars a few months, I guess.

But too risky travel and stay, way too cold and desertic. If non-harmful living life forms were discovered on Mars, I would surely change my mind - a bit.

Still a very long way to go.

Olympus Mons ( /əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ-, -ˈmɒns/;[4][5] Latin for Mount Olympus) is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. By one measure, it has a height of nearly 22 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft).[6] Olympus Mons stands about two and a half times as tall as Mount Everest's height above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the Solar System. It is the youngest of the large volcanoes on Mars, having formed during Mars's Hesperian Period.



What would you do if you had all the money you'd have ever wanted?
(this could be trillions of US dollars: what would you do with all that money?)

Save the world's rain forest. Heck, you said ALL the money you ever wanted, So I would save all the forest, and oceans and wildlife.

If I gave you a dollar what would spend it on?

- I wouldn't spend that dollar on anything. I live in France. Only a few people here accept to be paid in dollars. Trying to get euros out of that dollar would cost me much more money. I would simply give that dollar to some kid or I would put that dollar somewhere among my things then forget it.

- If you mean you give me a dollar worth, it's 0.84 euro (today). I can't even buy a croissant with that (price = 0.90 - 0.95 euro in my area). And croissants are the cheapest things I buy. I would keep that 0.84 euro in my purse and would use it to buy something more expensive.

And thanks for that dollar!

What piece of news has especially caught your attention today and why?

https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.co...bengals-ravens

Go Steelers!!!!

Because I am a long time fan .

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Favorite fish to eat - if you don't eat fish then favorite non fish dish

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

(Go Steelers!!!)

I hesitate between (non-smoked) salmon and monkfish.







What's disproportionate in the country you live in?

Sports program funding vs. funding for almost everything else

What's your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

Turkey stuffing.


What's your least favorite?

- My least favorite Thanksgiving side dish?
I've never celebrated Thanksgiving. Only a small minority celebrates Thanksgiving in the World.

- My least favorite thing about what I imagine the American Thanksgiving is is:
gluttony.

- My least favorite (in general):
I'd spontaneously say "hatred" but there's worse than that, upon reflexion.



How have you improved yourself?

I now make a conscious effort not to enter into conversation with people that can't even comprehend there might be more points of view in the world than just theirs

Have you ever slept with someone purely out of sympathy?

Like a pity shag or more like a comforting thing?

Either fits.

Did you just pun?

I never pun - 100% dead serious all the time me

Well in that case, yes. But it wasn't pity.

Do you mutter to yourself?

That's not what they said

No, but the wife does....a lot - probably about me most of the time in fairness though

Do you ever feel sad at leaving somewhere?

Yes. I cry every time I leave Ireland. So...in about an hour.

Do you ever wish teleportation was a feasible method of transport?