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With a volcano I'd be worried about pyroclastic flow.
Hurricanes and tornadoes would undoubtedly see me skewered by debris.
Earthquakes are fun.(Assuming you're outside.)

All my extension leads?.... At least 210 metres, and that's without incorporating power boards.
There are 90 metres of power lead in my railway carriage alone. (20 years on and I still haven't connected the carriage's internal wiring)

What were the biggest and smallest animals you have looked after?

It's almost always been cats and dogs for me. I did have a lizard, some fish, and a hermit crab once.

If you had a twin, would you be the good half or the evil half?

I have an (Irish) twin.
Apparently he's always been the good one.

What's your favourite gemstone?

I like malachite the best because it sounds like Malachi, which is a name I like.

Do you believe in ghosts?

A little bit.

When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn't breathe and what was it that made you laugh that hard?

Earlier today when I saw Reid Hoffman battling his personality disorders on CNN.
The Doner, the expert, the venture capitalist and the board member



Well...

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Love is all ♪

That goodnight wish that I got last night.

What is your philosophy of life?

My philosophy is that my life consists only of the thoughts that pass through my brain, so I try to be mindful of what I am thinking as much as possible, because at the end of the day, that is all my life is.

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Most people are terrible not because they are inherently so but because they are not given the opportunity to be truly good. I have met people who were capable of selflessness but constrained by their surroundings, the situations they were in, etc. I do not think our current society leaves room for a person to do the right thing, so the snake eats itself. Society sucks because people suck, people suck because society sucks. Incredibly cynical, but I like cynics and am happy to be one.

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When you do so many things right over a period of time, you're tempting fate to make something go wrong.

What was the worst birthday you ever had?

I remember back in middle school, I invited what friends I had to a restaurant on my birthday and none of them showed up. It was just me and my family sitting at a largely empty long table. I got stares from all the other restaurant patrons. I resented my "friends" after that.

Probably my 30th birthday when I'd been away on a work conference for a few days by bus, and came back with my suitcase only to be left on a street corner for several hours because my then-partner who was supposed to pick me up with my car got drunk and passed out in my house, and then screamed at me for waking him up with repeat phone calls. Then he totally forgot it was my birthday and angrily gave me a chocolate bar with an orange price sticker on it after going to the store to get smokes. I hate chocolate and it makes me sick for days, btw.

Maybe it was also the year he gave me a dildo that I was supposed to use on him.


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Damn. I'm sorry for both of your horrible birthdays.

I think the worst birthday I ever had wasn't even all that monumental. My mother bought me a cake, and we lived in this crappy trailer, and my grandmother was there, and they sat the cake down on this wobbly table that they wouldn't replace and that nobody wanted to fix. We had moved from the suburbs to the straight up country to take care of my grandmother a month before I graduated high school. By then, I had graduated, but I was still pretty young. Anyway there was just something really depressing about nobody but my mother and grandmother being there, so I cried and cried, and I feel bad looking back because I remember how my mother's face fell. This of course, is nowhere near as bad as being left on a streetcorner or being ditched by friends in middle school. I've always been terrible at making friends, so there was no one to invite anyway. I just can't stand birthdays.

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Oh hey, how could I forget the year my grandfather blew his brains out with a gun?


That was my Sweet 16.


Birthdays suck.


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Birthday parties were never that bad as a kid. I always had a few kids who pretended to be my friends. Those were on the nearest weekend to my birthday.
On the actual day of my 12th birthday, I remembered too late that the school principal always announced everyone's birthdays in the morning. All day everyone was saying happy birthday to me. Everyone was paying attention to me. Ugh. It felt pretty horrible at the time, although obviously not comparable to most of the other stories here.

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Ughhh, I'd hate that too. I hate people saying happy birthday to me in person because then I'm expected to smile and act the right way - which is still a mystery to me. I remembered another one about five years ago when I went horseback riding with my daughter instead of visiting my mother like I normally feel obligated to do. My mother went batshit crazy and phoned me up yelling about how I didn't love her and I was a horrible daughter because I didn't want to go see her on my birthday. She was sobbing and irrational and she was angry with me for at least a week. Then there's this year's birthday when mum was in hospital and forgot it completely but went all-out for my SIL's birthday by throwing her a party with 45 people, flying her sister and grandmother here from Philippines as a surprise, paying for a maid to clean the house, going out for dinner, paying for brother and SIL to go on holiday, and giving her lavish gifts.

It takes all kinds.

What about good birthdays?

Alright, a good birthday. I remember when I was a kid, I came home and my mom told me we didn't have enough money to do anything, and she apologized. And as a kid, I was sad, but you've got to have a stiff upper lip about these things so I said it was alright. When we walked inside, there was a big surprise. And I remember how my sadness just vanished and I was immediately flooded with all this warm joy. I don't remember what the presents were or what we ate or what we did, I just remember the feeling, and so I think that must've been a good birthday.

That's a nice question, made me smile to recall.

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