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| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 121 | and on the other hand, all the intellectual knowledge in the world doesn't actually change what you're feeling. In fact, the feeling that you oughta be old enough to know better just makes it worse. I'm not sure that "prior knowledge" has to relate to age either. I've noticed that lots of people much younger than me, particularly if their parents have divorced, are much more cynical about relationships working out than I am. | How should I get over him? |
| 122 | see my comment to ASB, I don't know if that's the same point I was trying to make, but it sounds close. | How should I get over him? |
| 123 | I didn't think that watching other people's relationships go bad teaches much of anything (or for that matter watching other people's relationships go right). I've observed a number of people who seem to have been profoundly and negatively affected in their ability to cope with adult relationships by being bystanders as their parents get divorced. Oddly this doesn't seem to correlate to how much of a flaming mess the divorce seemed to be to people on the outside. And it doesn't happen to everyone whose parents get divorced either. Not trying to overgeneralize. | How should I get over him? |
| 124 | I don't have a VCR, but if I did, I am sure I would want to watch Chutney Popcorn over and over. Hmm, but would anyone snicker and point? | Do you have a "guilty pleasure" movie that you watch on a regular basis? |
| 125 | "first you put on the blue and then you put on the white" Long ago, an artist friend of ours was walking around an artshow with us, and we stopped in front of an incredible oil painting. The most memorable thing about it were the eyes, they looked so deep and like they were looking out of the painting at you. Our friend had done some work with the artist who'd done the painting, and we asked, "how does she get the eyes like that?" He replied, "first you put on the blue, then you put on the white". Which has become a household expression meaning, roughly, "its a very simple answer to a very complicated question, and it probably doesn't help you at all..." The first expression I thought of, the one that sparked the idea for this survey was "Look at those dinosaurs!" which is what one of our kids said when studying a fantasy art picture of a woman falling out of a stainless bikini while running away from the aforementioned dinosaurs. Since then, "look at those dinosaurs" has been a catchphrase referring to "adult stuff going on, children in the audience are oblivious". Now that I've started thinking about it, our family conversation is full of references to stories like that, but I'll stop here. | Tell us the story behind an expression you use. |
| 126 | rice pudding syndrome makes me think of the A.A. Milne poem... What is the matter with Mary Jane? She's crying with all her might and main. She hasn't a stitch and she hasn't a pain, and it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again! | Tell us the story behind an expression you use. |
| 127 | Firmly joining the camp of the old farts, that's me. I noticed as I picked it how old it was, but it's had that many more years to be annoying, I guess. | Which one of the following songs do you find the most annoying? (Part 2) |
| 128 | What's on the stereo right now is a mix of various obscure folk stuff. Clam Chowder, and a wonderful but little known guitarist named Harvey Reid, and Mediaeval Baebes. | What CDs/LPs/MP3s/Cassettes are you currently listening to? |
| 129 | I started to answer this with a list of things that came to mind, but I think they are more basic skills than values: the ability to be responsible, the ability to think and create for yourself, the ability to love and be loved. But if those were translated into underlying values, I think integrity, independence, and compassion would describe it. | In your opinion, what are the three most important values parents should teach their children? |
| 130 | To me, tolerance, kindness, affection, and accepting others as they are are all aspects of compassion, these I think do come up on in daily life. Compassion is broader, somehow, than any of these specific things. | In your opinion, what are the three most important values parents should teach their children? |
