Absconded from Melodramatic Diary of a Cynic. Hate was a little strong for me, so I used “dislike” instead.

1. Most hated disliked food.
Anything with Bell peppers in it. *barf*
Spanish rice is a close second.

2. Most hated disliked person.
Not sure. There are people I have issue with, is that the same thing?

3. Most hated disliked job.
That I’ve had? Working for my father on his plant nursery.

4. Most hated disliked city.
I really haven’t been to a city yet that I haven’t found something I could like in it. Probably the first one I get mugged or bashed in would be it though.

5. Most hated disliked band.
Almost every band in both the “Rap” and the “Religious” sections of music stores.

6. Most hated disliked website.
Oddly enough, my tattoo studio’s. Which I created and maintain. I’m never happy with it.

7. Most hated disliked TV program.
All the tattoo “reality” shows on TV. Drama! They give people an incorrect perception of what it’s like to get a tattoo. And then some of the things they do go against my bloodborne pathogens training, and sometimes common sense!

8. Most hated disliked politician.
All of them that I know of so far! They got to where they are by promising the world and delivering none of it. And why do we still have this system of government?? Oh yeah… sheeple.

9. Most hated disliked artist.
Since #5 was about bands, I’m assuming this means “artist” of the non-musical sort. And I mostly dislike those who produce “conceptual art“.

10. Most hated disliked book.
The Bible, the Qur’an, Mein Kampf, etc. Seriously. Weigh the amount of hate these volumes have inspired versus the amount of good works done over their history.

11. Most hated disliked shop or store.
I want to say Walmart, but that wouldn’t be entirely true. As a business owner myself, I respect many of the early business practices that Mr. Sam followed and created when he started his company. Since his death those have changed, and with that, so has the company.

12. Most hated disliked organization.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., or the HRC. I’m not sure which I dislike more now.

13. Most hated disliked historical event.
The creation of organized religions.

14. Most hated disliked sport.
That would imply I watch sports… right? Which I don’t. Unless I’m in a sports bar and there’s some hot daddy on the television at the moment.

15. Most hated disliked technology.
DRM: Worst. Idea. Ever.

16. Most hated disliked annual event.
Pretty much every event Hallmark makes a card for, but mostly Christmas.

17. Most hated disliked daily task.
Sleeping. Maybe because of the fact that I do not sleep well.

18. Most hated disliked comedian.
I have no idea. Most of them are hit and miss, just like everyone else I know.

19. Most hated disliked blog.
My own. Because I have a hard time coming up with things to write about.

20. Most hated disliked song.
Most songs that inspire patriotic fervor, but especially Lee Greenwood’s “Proud To Be An American”. *blech*

I’ve been mulling over this one for a while. Five months, actually. I had an extremely difficult time finding seven on a lot of these. Which is why I posted it: it took massive effort on my part.

Taken from John at Rejected Reality.

7 Things That Scare Me
1. Me being naked, anywhere;
2. Seeing PVC pipes on the roof of oncoming vehicles;
3. The thought of my Husbear dying;
4. Heights, and me at them;
5. Me speaking in public;
6. The thought of losing any of my 5 senses;
7. A paper-cut on my tongue.

7 Things I Like
1. Three Olives Root Beer vodka;
2. Hairy chests (Sorry ladies, but just on men!);
3. Beer (hence the title of my blog);
4. Men in kilts;
5. Critiquing porn (redubbing it in a MST3K sort of way);
6. Google;
7. Bagpipe music.

7 Things I Hate
1. Circus clowns;
2. People who use cellphones during movies;
3. Children that are not behaved;
4. People who let their children be not behaved;
5. Cold weather;
6. People who “preach” about love and acceptance, but don’t practice either;
7. The fact that I’m getting hair on the top of my ears.

7 Things In My Room
(By “room”, I mean my home office.)
1. My computer, and all the things required for it to function and a desk for it to be used on;
2. Business paperwork, sharing same said desk that computer sits upon;
3. Books, and the two black shelving units that hold them;
4. An old lounge chair, to read said books in;
5. A weight bench, which the Husbear uses to work out on;
6. A closet, to store holiday stuffs in (a closet is a big deal when you have a 117 year old house that didn’t originally contain any!);
7. A rack of DVDs.

7 Things About Me
1. I’m peculiar about how my towels are folded;
2. I eat food one item at a time and don’t go back and forth between items;
3. I dress to the left;
4. I have body/self-image issues;
5. I’m adopted, and have no idea who my biologicals are;
6. I don’t like being in a crowd;
7. I doubt myself, often.

7 Things To Do Before I Die
1. Learn how to play the banjo;
2. Make sure my Husbear knows I love him;
3. Lose my inhibitions without the assistance of massive quantities of alcohol;
4. Gain my family’s acceptance;
5. Visit somewhere OUTSIDE the continental U.S.;
6. Be in a porn;
7. Validate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

7 Things I Can Do
1. Bite my toenails;
2. Fix your Windows-based computer;
3. Change the lyrics to any song (in that “Weird Al” fashion);
4. Send text messages like a maniac;
5. Tattoo others, and myself;
6. Build things, around the house;
7. Sound like a Howler monkey.

7 Things I Can’t Do
1. Autofellatio;
2. Walk into any church building without thinking horrible thoughts;
3. Skillfully play *any* musical instrument;
4. Figure out that someone is flirting with me until about an hour after the fact;
5. Carry on a conversation without feeling like an idiot at some point during it;
6. Sleep through the night without having a nightmare;
7. Work for Wal-Mart again!

7 Favorite Movies
1. Dogma;
2. The Fifth Element;
3. The Gods Must Be Crazy;
4. V for Vendetta;
5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC 6 part mini-series version);
6. Back to the Future;
7. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.

7 Things I Say The Most
1. “Google for it”;
2. “I love you, honey”;
3. “Umm…”;
4. “Huh?”;
5. “Odyssey Art Studio. This is Erik. How may I help you?”;
6. “Frak!”;
7. “Not now, dear.”

Stolen from YvesPaul at Melodramatic Diary of a Cynic. The questions have been sitting in my drafts folder since July. Just in case I needed something to do?

1. What was your FIRST job?
By “job” I’m assuming we’re talking one that earned a paycheck? Which for me would be working for my father at his nursery. (The website is just hideous. Frames? Ack!) Working in the nursery was not my cup of tea. I am *so* not the working outside kind of person.

2. What was your FIRST car?
That was in my name? It was my 1991 Honda CRX Hf. Rio Red. It’s still sitting in my car-park, actually. It needs new windows after a hailstorm destroyed all six. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. After all, every Arkansas home needs at least one car in the car-park that’s not functional.

3. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Love. That’s difficult. A one-way love would be stalking, right?

4. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
Hell if I remember. I think I may have once tried one of my father’s beer when I was a kid. If not that, I I know I had a few beverages when I was a counselor at Boy Scout camp during the summer.

5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
My Husbear.

6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
My Husbear.

7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
I don’t remember anymore. I still remember my kindergarten teacher though.

8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride in an airplane?
I don’t remember. My parents would take us on vacations every year so we were always going here and there, either by car or by airplane.

9. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
Chris Nape. The only neighbor we had when were we lived was still in the sticks. And no.

10. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
Probably Chris’ house. (See above.)

11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Define “talked”: verbally? Nathan, one of my old co-workers from the OGRE.

12. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Pulled the covers back over my head and wished I had a remote control to turn the fan off.

13. FIRST tattoo?
An eagle, on my back. It’s mostly faded and disappeared now. Which I’m okay with.

14. FIRST piercing?
I was going to say “ear”, but I actually think I had one of my nipples pierced first.

15. FIRST foreign country you’ve gone to?
None. I’ve never been to another country yet. I’ve only been out in International waters.

16. FIRST movie you remember seeing?
In a movie theater? I would have to say “Fox and the Hound” (1981).

17. When was your FIRST detention?
I don’t know that I ever had detention. I went to schools that still allowed paddling. Which looking back, I’m still entirely okay with to this day.

18. Who was your FIRST roommate?
Chad. From De Queen, Arkansas. Freshman year. College. I always wondered if he would end up being a serial killer.

19. If you had one wish?
I’d wish for unlimited non-used wishes that I could use without all the normal legal mumbo-jumbo that seems to go along with the wishes.

20. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
How to play the banjo. I hear you snickering.

21. Did you marry the FIRST person who asked for your hand in marriage?
Gay “marriage” is still not legal, so I guess no would be the answer at this point.

22. What was the FIRST sport that you were involved in?
Organized? Besides Physical Education in school? I think it was soccer. In 5th grade. I think I was a midfielder.

23. What were the FIRST lessons you ever took?
Clarinet. Not my choice. Kill me. Bassoon or bagpipes would have been so much cooler.

24. What is the FIRST thing you do when you get home?
Walk in the door, and hang my keys on the rack.

25. Who do you think will be the next person to post this?
As old is this meme is, and as much as we all love the memes, probably no one.

Today’s meme comes from Melodramatic Diary of a Cynic, who stole it from elsewhere on the Internet.

I always find it odd what people consider “controversial”. I guess I’m just wired differently.

1. Would you do meth if it was legalized?

I was going to say I wouldn’t do anything that was concocted in a bathtub or the like but then I realized I was drinking a Coca-Cola.

I would personally have to say “no”. But I can barely handle what alcohol does to me.

2. Abortion: for or against?

I would say I’m against it. But I probably have a slightly skewed perception on this since I was adopted. I could have just as easily been aborted and then no one would have had to endure knowing the pain that is me… although some might say that would have been a good thing.

However, since I have a penis I feel my opinion shouldn’t really matter on the subject.

3. Would our country fall with a woman president?

Males on average sure don’t seem to have done it all that well for the last 200 years. Why not give females a shot?

I think it would do better run by a woman. There’s that “females of the species are more deadlier than the males” bit. And how many mothers wouldn’t kick someone’s ass that messed with her children? Seriously. My mom ran our household far better than my father did.

4. Do you believe in the death penalty?

It really depends on the the reason behind the penalty, but I’m all about the eye-for-an eye business. And public executions. I think they are an effective—and if properly done, money-making—deterrent to crime.

5. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?

Forget pot! There are many more important things I wish were legal—like oral and anal sex between consenting adults.

Why do governments make something illegal when it could just as easily be legal and taxed? I think the governments are missing a huge money-making opportunity here. Quit taxing income; legalize and tax vices.

6. Do you believe in God?

Whose “God” you are talking about? Beliefs are funny like that—believe in the “wrong” thing and you are going to be tormented.

Since I have to assume most of my readers read the question in the context of the Christian God, I’ll address the question in that light. I have always thought the dichotomy of the Christian God odd. Why change course from a wrathful, vengeful deity (Pentateuch/Old Testament) to a loving, caring deity (New Testament)? If a deity is truly omniscient, should not it have stayed the course? To do otherwise suggests the deity is not actually omniscient. And if not, how is the deity any different than a feeble human in that it can’t deliver a consistent message?

7. Do you think same-sex marriage should be legalized?

I am torn on this. I’m sure many of my readers already have their own answer on the tip of their tongue.

But marriage—as shown by recorded history—was about the transfer of “property” (i.e., the dowry and the wife being the property). Marriage was not even considered a “romantic notion” until the last 150 years or so (depending on your location). I know the tradition has changed, but do I really want to be “chained” to the tradition of being property?

Then there is the “Sanctity of Marriage” argument which has only surfaced in the last few decades. If marriage is such a sacred device then why not make divorce illegal first before deciding who can and cannot marry? I am pretty sure that if any couple knew they only had one shot—and it was forever (sans the big three as laid out by the Bible, if you must)—there would be a lot less marriage… of any kind.

For me it is an issue about not having the same rights. Sure, there are other methods to accomplish receiving some of the benefits gained through the act of “marriage”, but it’s a pain in the ass and they can be challenged. How would those of you with spouses handle not being allowed into the hospital room of your spouse if something happened to them? Or when your spouse dies having your spouses’ kin come and take everything you worked so hard to build together?

8. Do you think it’s wrong that so many Hispanics are moving to the USA?

No—and why should I? I don’t care where anyone is from as long as everyone does it in a legal fashion.

9. A 12 year old girl has a baby… should she keep it?

If she was old enough to spread her legs in the first place, then she should be old enough to get a job and support whatever pops out.

Actually, who the hell has sex with a 12 year old person? That is so beyond not right. This is why Chris Hansen should still be doing the “To Catch A Predator” stuff.

10. The alcohol age be lowered to 18?

I know a lot of people over the age of 21 who shouldn’t be allowed to drink.

If you are old enough to fight and die in armed service then you should be allowed to drink. If the drinking age was lowered to around 13 years old (or how about not one at all!), how much less binge drinking would there be by young adults because it wouldn’t be a big deal to do anymore?

11. Should the war in Iraq be called off?

If we are not there (or anywhere) to take over and keep their resources, then we shouldn’t be there. I seriously miss the days of “colonial” conquest. You invade a country, kick their butts, then keep the land. Even better if you start displacing people and move them all around so they can’t be pissed off in a group together (and a faster way to homogenize Earth’s population!). The Babylonians had it right—they just failed to follow through properly.

12. Assisted suicide is illegal… do you agree?

If someone wants to die, why not let them?

13. Do you believe in spanking your children?

I think everyone deserves a good whack now and again—both children AND adults. How many times have you wanted to hit someone else’s child in the grocery store or restaurant because they weren’t doing it?

14. Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?

A flag is just a collection of different pieces of cloth that meant nothing until they were sewn together in a specific configuration. At what point did they become “special” and not burnable?

I know the flag is a symbol: to some it means everything; to others it means nothing. Flag burning can be used to make a statement, or to respectful dispose of a worn flag. (The U.S. Flag Code states, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning”.)

15. A mother is declared innocent after murdering her 5 children in a temporary insanity case… what do you think?

She has to live with it the rest of her life. But as I stated above, I’m all about an eye-for-an-eye.

16. It’s between you and a person who is being kept alive by life support machines… one has to die? Who?

Are we both kept alive by life support machines, or just the other person? If just the other person, I’ll gladly pull the plug for them.

I have never wanted to be kept alive artificially, and I have a DNR order in my health records. Whether or not the Husbear honors that when the time comes might be a different matter though, as no one wants to let a loved one go.

17. Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?

I’m accustomed to being judged. And everyone judges. It is a human’s way to make sense of things to which we object.

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I’m curious as to what others may think actually. I know these things stir up passion in people, but that’s no reason we can’t have a civil discourse about it.