Make me less ignorant

[Pekka]

So I want to learn something about you. Well not YOU, but something about you.
1. Where do you come from. Country.
2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.
3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?
4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)
5. Marital status
6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Thanks.

[Pekka]

Agh forgot few questions:

7. What is your favourite hobby?
8. What is the most proud moment of your life? The highlight.
9. Your worst bad habit

That's it.

[Stuie]

1. USA
2. Guess.
3. I'm an atheist. It differs from Christianity in the fact that I don't believe the Judeo-Christian mythology is "real" and I don't believe there is a supreme being that created stuff and we should abase ourselves before. Simply, there is no god.
4. Oxymoron. Although "cartography" has a nice ring to it.
5. Married, three kids, one more on the way, vasectomy a week ago Thursday.
6. 5k. Anything longer and I'd probably pass out.

[Stuie]

7. Computer games.
8. [this is just a placeholder - I'll have to come back later]
9. Alcoholism.

[Pekka]

Stuie, thanks! Answer the rest of the questions if you have time too...
What is 5k? Is that like UltraHyper KKK ?

[FrustratedPoet]

1. UK
2. Small rainy island. Population is about 70 million or something. No shortage of living celebrities, if you can't name 10 yourself then you probably live on Mars. English people are a paradox: humble and self-effacing, and also arrogantly imperialistic; famed both for our sense of humour and joviality, but also for being stuck-up and far too serious.
5. Unmarried, but in a long-term relationship. Not gay, despite what some might have you believe.
7. Watching or playing soccer; reading; computer games.
8. I honestly have no idea, which now I think of it is incredibly pathetic.
9. I tend to ignore parts of surveys that I find dull.

[cinch]

How mysterious.

1. Where do you come from. Country.

Canada.

2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.

It's a cold, barren wasteland filled with maple syrup and socialism.

Actually, it's a large country with a varied climate. The population hovers around 30million. Most of our celebrities are exported to America (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Donald Sutherland, Pamela Anderson, Michael J. Fox, Phil Hartman, etc.).

As for celebs who are known mostly in Canada.... uh... well, our culture is so Americanized it's hard to say, so I'd have to go with folks like... Rick Mercer (TV Comedian), Don Cherry (Hockey personality), and... Sean Cullen? Well, I think he's pretty funny, anyway.

Hmmm... Who am I missing? Gordon Pinsent? Shawn Majumder? Christopher Plummer? Yeah.

Let's see, what else... Hockey is extremely popular, with football (CFL) being a distant second. Baseball is growing in popularity, and I suppose basketball has a steady following.

The 'center line' of our national political spectrum is to the left of the United Statesians. State health care is taken as standard and the welfare state is still fairly firmly entrenched, so things seem to be trending away from this.

We also have a brand of chips called "Old Dutch", which are quite tasty, though perhaps the uberconglomerate of Hostess-FritoLay has surpassed them at times.

Yeah.


3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?

I'm a spiritual free agent. I don't want to get into the buzzwords, really, so I'll just say I'm not an atheist.

4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)

Toggle.

5. Marital status

Single.

6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Homo sapiens sapiens.

approx. 35000 ya-- we finish off those damn neanderthals
approx 10000ya-- we discover domestication
approx 5ya-- we invent TIVO

We have reached the pinnacle my friends.

[Immortal Wombat]

1. UK
2. Those of who aren't sociopathic xenophobes are apathetic and cynical.
3. I put Christian on the forms. I'm developing my own philosophy based on the irrelevance of deitic existence, and the maxim of not being a jackass.
4. Ambiguous
5. Unmarried.
6. British. We conquered the world just to prove we could, and then gave it back.
7. Extreme Lifepervading Randomness
8. Having sat and thought about this question for several minutes, I either conclude I have no pride, or I've wasted my life.
9. Apolyton

[Nubclear]

1. Russia.
2. It's a very nice country Russians are typically very intelligent but closed minded. We tend to be divided into two groups: Really nice people and really bad people. Nice people will allow a stranger to come in for lunch Bad people kidnap tourists and hold them for ransom. A lot of your pirated games come from Russia. We have an annoying tendency to steal things.
I'm out of touch with Russian modern culture. The population is in decline but were over the 100mil mark I believe.
3. Monotheisic Buddhist Universalist. Basically: I believe in buddhist teachings, I'm a universalist, and I believe in one god.
4. I don't have favourite words, in any language
5. Married.
6. White or Russo-Indian, depending on what you mean. Russians were/are a ***** to the United States. Indians were/are a ***** to Pakistan.
7. I love writing.
8. Um...I don't know.
9. I tend to pick at my lips until they bleed. This leads people to believe I'm some sort of vampire.

Now you fill the form, Pekka

[Verres]

1. England
2. umm...I'm guessing you already know. Afternoon tea and public schools
3. Officially Roman Catholic; and I do like all the ritual, symbolism, belief in hell/purgatory etc...but being realistic I would have to say I dont actually practice any religion.
4. Pretentious
5. Unmarried; but certainly not single
6. A rather odd mixture....some French and Irish with a bit of English thrown in. Nothing im particularly proud of.
7. Films
8. Never really felt 'proud' as such...
9. Not talking to people face to face.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
8. Having sat and thought about this question for several minutes, I either conclude I have no pride, or I've wasted my life.

Snap

[Pekka]

Great answers everyone I know so much more about the ones who answered . Keep'em coming.

It's also interesting that no one has answered to question number 8 yet .

[Asher]

Originally posted by Pekka
1. Where do you come from. Country.

The Empire of Canadia.

2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.

Cold and huge. We have no culture.

3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?

Agnostic.

4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)

Abomination

5. Marital status

Seeing someone.

6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Caucasian -- I think we invented hockey.

7. What is your favourite hobby?

Computer.

8. What is the most proud moment of your life? The highlight.

Coming out to my family.

9. Your worst bad habit

Apolyton

[FrustratedPoet]

Finally somebody has done something in their life worth being proud about. I knew somebody must have.

[Verres]

Oooo I have an answer for number 8!

Hitting my (ex)best friend so hard it made her nose bleed when we were walking dow the street and she shouted racial abuse at a family walking past. Yes, i know violence isnt the answer...but everyone loved me for it really

[OzzyKP]

1. USA
2. Us Americans are diverse, individualistic, very proud, charitiable, enterprizing, industrious, and all 'round good folks. Check out DeToqueville. We invented celebrity.
3. Catholic. We invented Christianity.
4. Anything with a rolling R. Like Carto (spanish). Or Puerto Rico.
5. Single.
6. Hungarian, and proud. The Magyars terrorized the western world in the dark ages, then settled down and built a powerful kingdom that was one of the biggest in Europe for a few centuries. Then we got beat down by the Turks and haven't been the same since. Golden age in later part of Austro-Hungarian empire. Hungarians revolted against the Austrians and the Commies, and many others i'm sure.
7. Civ2-MP I suppose. Diplogames. And TBS games. I guess this is true for everyone here.
8. Hmm, I suppose a debate I was in last summer. A debate about lowering the drinking age at a large conference, my opponent had been an anti-alcohol advocate for longer than I've been alive and I wiped the floor with her. She was cocky and arrogant coming into the debate, but was totally defeated and humbled. She backed out of our second scheduled debate, refusing to face me again. Quite a wonderful feeling of victory, and feeling the love and admiration of the crowd who nearly hoisted me on their sholders.
9. Procrastination

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Pekka
1. Where do you come from. Country.

UK

Originally posted by Pekka
2. What is that country like?

As FP put it. However I cannot compare to most others, having only lived in one nation.

Originally posted by Pekka
3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?

Atheism. Differs from Christianity by not believing in God, and by being (personally) more tolerant. However I have my own moral set and spiritual/philosophical thoughts, and so other than a belief in there being no divine order, nor indeed any order, I don't really conform to any religion.

Originally posted by Pekka
4. Your favourite word.

Changes regularly. Chaotic and beautiful are particularly apparent though.

Originally posted by Pekka
5. Relationship status.

In love

Originally posted by Pekka
6. Ethnicity.

English (which can mean anything, ethnically) Caucasian. Personally, my mother's side of the family is decended from Scandinavians (Vikings), and my father's from Romans.

Originally posted by Pekka
7. What is your favourite hobby?

Going out (Cinema/eating/drinking/etc.).

Originally posted by Pekka
8. What is the most proud moment of your life? The highlight.

Two different ones:
Most proud: The first athletics race I won. The response was awesome
Highlight: Falling in love
I don't think pride is the right feeling to have for something I have no control over, nor would wish to.

Originally posted by Pekka
9. Your worst bad habit

Way to many to mention. From immodesty to insecurity, from thinking I've always done something wrong to never knowing what it is and from my inability to be able to do something I want to be able to do to my ability to make others feel inadiquate.

To be honest, I have no idea. Ask Verres, and she will be able to tell you

[Verto]

1. Texas, United States of America
2. Everyone knows about us.
3. Latter-day Saint(Mormon)
4. N/A
5. Single
6. European-American (I am very PC)
7. You
8. Responding to this thread.
9. Not taking threads like this 100% seriously.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
2. Those of who aren't sociopathic xenophobes are apathetic and cynical.

I am neither. I could hardly be called apathetic, I am certainly not cynical, I am not afraid of other cultures/nationalities and I do not consider myself a sociopath

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
I'm developing my own philosophy based on the irrelevance of deitic existence, and the maxim of not being a jackass.

[Whaleboy]

1. England
2. Sex, drugs, rock n roll.
3. Agnostic, in a kind of Buddhist way
4. Phenomenological
5. Working on it
6. Polish, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, French, English on my mothers side. Portugese, Spanish, Indian, Native American, Israeli, Russian on my fathers. Its far too confusing and I'm sure theres more... damn geneologist uncle!
7. Writing, music, films, playig guitar, getting drunk, getting stoned.
8. I don't feel pride, I think its a dangerous emotion.
9. Hypersensitive, nervous twitch in my leg, overly honest when drunk.

Ask Verres, and she will be able to tell you

Ok!

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Asher
Cold and huge. We have no culture.

Aww, thats not true. I credit the Canucks with popularizing Salt & Vinegar chips. I first had them visiting relatives in Ontario, and now a few years later they are all over American stores. God bless ya, I'm having some now.

Yum.

[Verres]

To be honest, I have no idea. Ask Verres, and she will be able to tell you

Definitely insecurity

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Drogue
I am neither. I could hardly be called apathetic, I am certainly not cynical, I am not afraid of other cultures/nationalities and I do not consider myself a sociopath

Give it 20 years.

[Pekka]

I first thought I wouldn't give my own answers.. but who am I kidding, I can't resist!

1. Fun.. err Finland
2. Population little over 5 million. There are some celebs, but no international movie stars or actors. I guess they all come from sports. We are stubborn folks. We are quiet and tough to be our friends because we will not talk to you. We just want you to ignore us in the streets and everywhere. In heart we are good, about justice and well being for everyone, even though it's sometimes difficult to see. We can't do small talk. Talk is cheap. Do what you say you'd do. These days we're also pretty smart folks technology wise. We are not enemies with anyone, but if necessary we are tough mofos.
99% of the country is real nature and it's beautiful. Our lands are wide and gorgeous. Clean water, clean air. 4 seasons. Beautiful winter. Beautiful summer. Beautiful spring. Horrible fall. Excellent country, excellent potential, but doomed because of the socialist buttholes.
3. Christian. Lutheran. Our God is REAL!
4. In english? Bubba. Fun to say. Bubba bubba.
5. Single. Working on it.
6. Caucaisian.
7. Snowboarding, wrestling (free rules), eating and having sex.
8. When I scored my first goal in hockey. It was soooo great, I still remember it. Carrying passed out drunken girl to bed and NOT touching her boobies though I had a chance. My first backside 360 with my snowboard. When I was promoted to Sergeant in front of whole lots of troopers and they all applauded. I know, pretty lame stuff, but I felt good and never forget these.
9. smoking. Trying to stop it.

[Whaleboy]

Definitely insecurity

Inability to grasp the metaphoric..... jk

Give it 20 years

You underestimate me!

[OzzyKP]

What prompted this, Pekka?

[Pekka]

OzzyKP, I just wanted to know about people... why not?

[OzzyKP]

Ok, just wondering if this was for some survey or something.

Curiousity

[Pekka]

Nah.. not for anything.. just curiosity.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Verres
Definitely insecurity

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Give it 20 years.

I don't know. I know an Englishman who is in his 70s, who is neither apathetic nor cynical, and his many friends come from many nations (from a Russian arms dealer to a Bollywood actress).