| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 1031 | When "nuclear" is pronounced NUK-yu-lr. Do you see a second 'u'? I do not see a second 'u'. | What is your biggest pet peeve? |
| 1032 | I don't think I use any shareware; if I do it's at work and I haven't dealt with paying. (I chose the last option.) | Do you pay for your shareware? |
| 1033 | It was that Vortexer that I mentioned in the other recent stealing survey; I stole it from a lab in the about-to-be-defunct department of Applied Biological Sciences at MIT; I was about 20; I stole it because my TA was an obnoxious fool who had, that day, lost 2/3 of my hard-won sample; I didn't actually feel very guilty about it (amazing for me!) and still don't. | What's the biggest thing you ever stole? |
| 1034 | I was going to check other and say "COUNSELING", but then I realized that that's not punishment. (Some people may consider it punishing, but that's irrelevant.) But the reason I want to include it is that incarceration without counseling seems to me more likely to make someone more angry and violent than to deter future aggressive behavior. (Hurray for the spell-checker, which actually caught a bona fide spelling error this time!) ***Yes, I really do think that. I just don't view assault as a minor crime. I apologize in advance for the self-righteous tone of what's coming up, but the fact is that the last time I attacked anyone I was 9. It's not as if I haven't been angry in that time; civilized adults do not attack one another. If you haul off and break someone's nose, you need to learn ways to deal with your anger so that you don't do it again. And I agree with Romkey about fines. | Crime and Punishment |
| 1035 | I use "My feelings on this question are not adequately expressed above and are explored more fully in my comments." whenever I think I need an "other" option; the "Believe it or not" in the music question was just 'cause I had so damn many answers already. | What is your favorite alternate answer? |
| 1036 | I was adopted, so my mother wasn't lactating. I suppose it's possible that I was breast fed very briefly, but I wouldn't know anything about that. (I was only 2 months old when adopted.) | Were you breast fed as a child? |
| 1037 | I used to worry a whole lot about the health of my Loved One, during what I refer to as Tom's Medical Adventure, but that's fading into the past now and I manage not to think of it very often. | Which of the following do you WORRY about fairly often? |
| 1038 | I love to drum. What I'd REALLY like to do is be the percussionist/backup drummer (like the Feelies had) so that someone else would have to do the boring work of keeping the rest of the band together and I could just make interesting rhythmic filigree over the top. | If you were in a rock band, which of the following roles would you fill, assuming you were equally talented at all of them? |
| 1039 | Solitaire, cribbage, computer pinball, Tetris. | Do you like your computer games (not stand-up arcade games)... |
| 1040 | I just don't know. I can't remember how I met most of my friends. None that I can think of. | Have you ever had a friendship that began with an argument or a fight? |
