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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 521 | A friend of mine was pro-Bush and pro-Dole but voted for Clinton because of their abortion positions. I had no problem with this -- she studied the candidates and took her best shot -- but I felt kinda bad for her and wish she hadn't had to do it that way. | Which of the following groups should not be allowed to vote? |
| 522 | I find children delightful and tiresome and amazing and annoying and beautiful and repulsive... depends a lot on how tired I am and on what the child is doing. I like individual children about as often as I like individual adults, but can enjoy them only in much smaller doses. Given a forced choice like this one, I'd say I like children. If this had been multichoice I'd have picked both. | Do you like children? |
| 523 | I'm usually reading or writing while watching TV, so the light is usually on. | When you watch TV, do you do so with a light on in the room? |
| 524 | lisashea - I often listen to music while reading, too. It's hard to answer "what does the TV offer?" without answering "what does X offer?" where X is watching TV, reading SF paperbacks, listening to music, hanging out on SC, etc. They are all things I do because they entertain me. Sometimes I read text, sometimes I write text, sometimes I listen to sounds, sometimes I view images, and often I combine these experiences. It depends on what I'm in the mood for. I do realize that if you have a "TV is bad" mindset (many people do) this answer won't satisfy you... but neither will any other answer I've got. Try to explain to a music-lover what reading a book offers you while you're listening to music. | When you watch TV, do you do so with a light on in the room? |
| 525 | yeah, I can't listen to music and TV at the same time either, though I can listen to a conversation with music in the background, so it's not as simple as "two aurals" for me. And I do sometimes read, listen, or watch in isolation. Reading and watching TV doesn't bug me so much, though... it's rare for TV visuals to matter much in what I tend to watch, and I can usually tell from the dialog or soundtrack if something visually interesting is going on. Then again, I can also listen to several conversations at once while reading, although I'm losing this ability as I get older (or perhaps as I grow less interested in what people have to say). | When you watch TV, do you do so with a light on in the room? |
| 526 | I suffer anxiety when in tight spaces or immobilized, around insects, and to a lesser degree around dirty kitchen counters. I wouldn't call it fear, but it is often described that way. I suffer from mild vertigo in heights and also at high speeds, but not acrophobia. I feel fear in the dark, when landing in airplanes, and around certain animals (dangerous/violent-seeming ones) people (mostly young people in packs and surly-, crazy-, or angry-looking people). I'm afraid of dying but I don't often think about it. None of these are debilitating or even particularly severe. | What scares you? |
| 527 | Turning 20 was pretty meaningless; 18 was a more symbolic age for me. My upcoming 30th sometimes feels meaningful but usually doesn't... the times that it does it makes me feel old, in a bad way. | Does turning a significant age (like 20, 30, 40, 50, 60) scare you? |
| 528 | nope... I'm running an 8600 at work and a 7600 at home and see no reason to swap. | Are you interested in the new Apple computer iMac? |
| 529 | hm. Some thoughts: If someone gives me a gift out of a sense of obligation and it ttotbD, I'd feel compelled not to mention it, to avoid making them feel bad. If they found out and offered to deal with it, I'd feel obligated to turn down the offer. So in that case, the receiver (me) should handle (or not handle) it. If someone gives me gift out of a desire to make my life better and it ttotbD, I'd feel compelled to let them know about it to avoid having the purpose of their action negated through no fault of theirs. If they did nothing about it that would be perfectly OK, but if they offered to deal I'd accept and that would be OK too. So in that case, either should handle (or not handle) it. If I give someone a gift, I feel I should have it be a functional gift and not a defective one. In that case the giver (me) should handle it. So I guess I don't agree with either option as stated. | Defective Gifts |
| 530 | I guess "when it's convenient" about sums it up. Certain kinds of wastefulness set my teeth on edge and I avoid them, but that's not really indicative of a general "conservation consciousness," it's just particular stuff that sets me off, and it would continue to set me off even if someone convinced me it wasn't really wasteful. I recycle everything that cambridge picks up -- glass, metal, some plastics, paper, newspapers -- but have a fairly low threshold of "no longer worth the effort" (eg, I don't bother chopping pizza boxes into individual pieces so the recyclers will take it). | How good are you at conserving natural resources? |
