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Game: Pick one
I'm going to say "I Love Rock N Roll." I loved Joan Jett! I like Fishing in the Dark too. Used to listen to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band all the time, no so much anymore.When going to a fancy event, like a formal wedding: Do you go shopping and buy a new outfit or do you make do with what you have?
I wear the same thing to wedding after wedding.sapphires or emeralds?
Jim you are hogging all the woman questions. Don't you know this is the advice section?@Kim - It depends on whose wedding it is. If some stranger, then make do, if family then heck yeah going shopping for a new on cause you know they've seen your dresses before. "Didn't you wear that last wedding?" And glad to make you LOL! Jim is apparently in denial though.
@Jim - Sapphires. I like the color blue and it goes with everything like jeans goes with everything.
Frozen lunch or salad?
Sapphires, idk why thoughContemporary romance or Historical romance
Sej, fresh over frozen any day. And hogging all the woman questions? If I waited for a man question on this site I would never bother logging on.Fahmida, I will answer because I fear someone may actually pick historical. I'm just trying to save them from themselves. CONTEMPORARY!
photo coloring: black and white or sepia?
Depends on the photo, but mostly probably black and white.Paranormal romance or urban fantasy?
Urban Fantasy ( I just love a kick ass heroine)Mystery or Chick lit
Mystery. Sometimes chick lit is a little too silly for me.Jim, fishin or huntin?
Fishing of course. While hunting has it's own appeal, fishing is more my style. (thanks for throwing me the bone there Nissie)Gucci or Louis Vuitton?
Louis bags, Gucci clothesHere's another Jim,
T or A?
LOL! Well if you must know, I'm an A guy. That question could certainly have been opened to everyone as there are certainly ladies here who appreciate both ends of the spectrum. A long slender neck is also very nice.There's someone selling first rate knockoffs on the street. You decide your going to purchase one of the handbags. $20 for the 'Gucci' purse with shoulder strap or $10 for the 'Coach' wallet with wristlet?
I'll take the 'Gucci'. I already have a Coach wallet.Singing in the shower or singing in the rain?
Singing in the shower of course. Good acoustics.By the way what the heck is T or A? I dare you to post it on here. No censoring here, unless of course Yz censors.
Powdering or washing face and starting over.
Tangerines or Apples? LOL!I'll start over if at all possible
An invigorating shower or relaxing bath?
Wash, exfoliating scrub, soothing cream, and build from there. At least that's what I've seen.Sej - You've never heard of T&A? It stands for Tits and Ass. To expound upon this theme would be to push the bounds of our gracious hosts generosity. So I will leave it at that.
Flossing or Waterpik?
Sometimes I feel old when people post questions like "What's T&A." Sigh! Sorry Sej, it just hits me in the gut. Flossing. I don't think I've ever used a waterpik.
Walk under a ladder or spill the salt?
Spill the salt. I'm a fairly large guy (6' 225lbs) I don't usually fit under the ladder.White cotton or red silk?
White cotton. Hate silk.Toilet paper the house or egg the car?
If it happened to me,I'd rather the TP,but if I was the offender,I think the eggs would be more fun.Go to a rock concert or a sporting event?
Rock concert. At least I'll know when it'll be over.And I've heard of T&A, my mind just was not in the gutter. And Kim you are not old!
Watching TV or watching shows on internet?
Watching tv-the screens so much bigger :)Grape juice or orange juice?
Orange juice, lots of pulp please.(Thanks, Sej! You're sweet!)
Okay, I'm bored, let's see if I can come up with something creative.
You are in line at the grocery store and the person in front of you is only buying a few things, bread, milk, peanut butter, they count out change but don't have enough money. They look fairly well off, do you offer to make up for the difference or do you just keep quiet and they have to leave without their food because they can't pay for it?
I reach in my pocket and make up the difference.A 20 YO kid asks you to buy beer for him. Do you?
I would pay for it. I'd like to think someone would do the same for me and even if they wouldn't, at least I made someone's day better. Even if they're filthy rich it would still be an inconvenience to have to leave the food there and go get the money and come back.Manhattan or Mayberry?
Hell no to the buying beer for a minor! Uh, I don't know the difference between a Manhattan or Mayberry, can I phone a friend (Jim, you can take that one).
Admitting you don't know what something is or flubbing your way through it hoping no one will catch on.
I believe Nissie is referring to two cities. One a rather urban location which has been ravaged by Godzilla, taken over by Muppets, and terrorized by the god Zul before taking the form of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. The other city is somewhat smaller and was the home of Ritchie Cunningham when he was still Matlock's son. (How's that for cultural reference mash-up?)Now to answer the current question: If it's something important admit I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground and look for someone who does. Otherwise, fake some bravado and bullshit my way through with confidence.
Staying up late and be grumpy by yourself of toss and turn and keep your spouse awake?
Thanks,Jim! You're exactly right! In fact I live in the latter and was honestly shocked that no one knew what I was talking about! I've been single for quite sometime now,so I'm used to staying up late by myself anyway,so I guess I'll go with that.
Going to bed angry or stay up all night fighting it out?
You have to fight it out. A fight ends in one of two ways. Either there's screaming and yelling and things end with an ambulance and the police or you work it out and things end in sex. Knowing these are the only two possible outcomes, I try not to fight with many of my guy friends.Angry cold shoulder or saccharine sarcastic subservience. (oh try saying that one ten times fast)
LMAO! Sounds like a good idea!Oh the saccharine sarcastic subservience! I'm too much of a smart ass when I'm pissed to give the cold shoulder for any length of time.
Get involved with a sibling's dispute with their spouse or run like hell?
OK, last one and then I have to go to bed. Alarm goes off in two and a half hours.I'll wade into the middle of the dispute. I never was very smart.
Have people say mean things about you because of your ethnic heritage or your gender?
Well,I've experienced both. I'm female and my grandmother is Native American. The "Injun squaw" comments upset me far more than being called a bitch or a c**t.Being the peacemaker or the instigator?
Of course I take the instigator.Being pissed off or pissed on? (hey there are people that actually prefer the second)
I was going to ask what T and A means, then I almost believed the tangerine and apples until I scrolled down and read the other one :) I knew it can't be an innocent remark thus the abbreviation.being pissed off. I couldn't imagine being pissed on.
Eating something you don't like because its suddenly good for your health or just taking the prescribed medicines?
The eating something I don't like. I hate meds, hate them. Currently I don't take any regularly (except the occasional migraine pill) and I'd like to keep it that way.Saying yes to friends that put you in an awkward position you don't want to be in (hey, my kid is selling shirts for band and they are $25.00 a piece, how many do you want?) or telling them no and standing your ground for yourself because you really don't want to buy the damn shirt because you are on a budget.
My good intentions are for the second choice, but I usually end up caving and pick the first one.Coffee from a chain (Starbucks) or coffee from a local coffee shop?
buy the shirt already! Ya' cheapskate. And don't you forget them when it's time to sell scouting pop-corn, band tickets, wrapping paper, cheese spreads, or the hundreds of other sales that pop-up every year.Graffiti artist or vandal?
Geez, tough crowd, though I'm still on the fence about the shirt, especially since the request was sent by the mom by text, not by the daughter selling the shirt (who is a teenager).Graffiti artist, some of it is rather nice, though I suppose it does lend to gang activity.
Highly manucured lawn or just mow it and that's that.
Vandal"Graffiti artist" is a cover up for vandalism, unless it's on the artists own wall.
Night or day?
ILL - just cuz that's the only show I watched.Staying home to shop online or going out to shop live.
I hate shopping. Hmmm, going out I guess. No wait online. Crap shoot either way. Boy, I'm in a mood today!Thinking "Hell yeah, you go dude, one for the little guy!" when you heard about what the Jet Blue flight attendent (Steven Slater) did when he got pissed off at a passenger or thinking "What the hell were you thinking and now you don't have a job you moron!"
Cue Twisted Sister "We're not going to take it." music.
Some passenger hit him in the head with some luggage getting it out of the overhead bin before he was supposed to, the passenger got out of his seat before the plane stopped. Anyway, so Slater (flight attendant) got ticked at the passenger and long story short, got pissed off, grabbed some beer, opened the emergency door and let the emergency slide open and slid down it to the tarmac, beer in hand, basically saying to hell with it.
That was probably the last straw in a job that he didn't want so my reaction would have been "hell yeah!" But now he won't be able to get a job b/c it's all over the news.Staying at a job where you're miserable or quitting and finding someplace where they'll appreciate you.
Laurie wrote: "Lindy-Lane wrote: "Stay home and catch up on the shows.Read a true Jane Austen or a deviant Jane Austen?"
Always a true Jane Austen! What is a deviant Jane Austen?!
Kathy Anne wrote: "Sandr..."
Deviant Jane Austen would be like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Answer to message #1519:I tend to stay in a job (I'm not easily open to change). Usually I leave a job because of relocation due to family needs.
Start a new book series with book #1 or serendipitously jump into the series at any number?
Start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.thunderstorm or freezing rain?
Freezing rain.Nora Roberts or J.D. Robb?
I love the In Death series,but I'm gonna have to say Nora Roberts. She writes a larger variety under that name.Catherine Coulter's Regency Era novels or FBI series?
Haven't read either, but ANYTHING is better than a Regency Era novel. (Well, maybe not American Revolution era novels, but most everything else.)Post Apocalyptic books where man is reduced to wearing rags and scavenging for food or pre-Bronze Age books where man hasn't gotten beyond wearing rags and scavenging for food.
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I'll go with cassette. 8 tracks were on the out when I started driving, though I DID drive a car with an 8 track player and used to have to shove stuff in the player (a small piece of cardboard or someething) to make the 8 track work. I just always hated how they broke off in the middle of a song at the end of the tape, I mean, what the heck?
When an awesome song comes on the radio that you love do you: Turn it up, roll down the windows in your car and blast it so everyone can hear it or do you just keep the radio at the normal volume.