What differentiates you from most of DU?

[mvd]

I don't rule out modern pop music, and I'm proud of that fact. I have a feeling that more here like pop, but are afraid to post it like I do. There's no reason to be afraid. There's no best or worst music.

Also, I have a three letter username. :-)

oh and also: I like country, even much non-jingoistic new country.

[NightTrain]

1. I fart with pride.

:evilgrin:

[FuzzySlippers]

19. Surely that puts you solidly in the majority

in the lounge.

[mvd]

20. LOL

[bobbobbins]

What separates me is i don't like that modern pop crap you listen to

[mvd]

3. Not again

:eyes:

I will not let you bait me. I don't care about what you have to say about what music I like.

[bobbobbins]

11. i was just pointing out what makes me different from you

my superior musical taste.

[mvd]

13. Wrong again

[bobbobbins]

15. he has taken the bait...now to reel him in....

[meisje]

2. I don't believe Kerry won

[jellybelly]

4. me too

:shrug: but Bush stole the election anyway...:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

71. me either. and i thought his exit speech was graceful.

[Ron Green]

5. I have plenty of money and no debt.

[jellybelly]

7. LOL!!!

[Seabiscuit]

127. I could say the same, but since you did, I won't. :)

[SKKY]

6. I believe that some people really do deserve to pay for their crimes...

...with their life.

[Pithlet]

8. I love Survivor

And the Amazing Race. And I just started watching Project Runway on Bravo.

You hear that, DU? I love reality tv! Take that.

[mvd]

12. I like Big Brother and have followed Survivor more lately

:-)

[Seabiscuit]

128. Omigod... now I know I'm in trouble.

I watch Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, The Apprentice, and the Eccentric Billionaire guy's show (it has a burdensome title I can never remember - I like his daredevil stunt stuff).

[Solly Mack]

9. ....

"You 're all individuals"
"Yes, we are all individuals" - Monty Python


I'm so ordinary. :shrug:

[Placebo]

10. "There's no best or worst music."

Opinionated lil 'ol me would disagree. :D

But, hmm...what makes me special...

I got nothin'

[njdemocrat106]

44. "Good music is whatever you like...

but it's also whatever I like." Forgot where I heard that phrase, but I still think it rings true.

[NightTrain]

14. Know what Duke Ellington once said about music?

"If you like it, it's good."

[bobbobbins]

16. he was refering to me specifically when he said that...no one else

[mvd]

18. Actually no I didn't

[bobbobbins]

61. Not you, Duke Ellington

[jdots]

31. I am not from your planet Earth

just came for a super slurpy and a lard burger......Oy and this noise you listen to is like the vemtongs or whegloids without the funk.

[ProfessorGAC]

87. That's Not Unique. I'm Not Human Either

So, there's at least two of us.
The Professor

[IronLionZion]

17. politics

:P

[bo44]

21. My favorite current recording artist is unknown in these here parts

Anthony Hamilton. Writes ballads, grooves and love songs, can front a band, and sings like a motherfucker. No bling; just music.

[RagingInMiami]

22. I own three guns

And most of my family lives in Colombia.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. Pfffft

I have you beat by 9! Most of mine are collectibles, however. :)

[MisterP]

23. I don't agree with Marge Thatcher at all

:P

[JohnKleeb]

24. I get amused by stupid shit easily

[RevolutionaryActs]

26. OH OH! Like the magnet and the computer monitor?

:P

[JohnKleeb]

34. Yeah like that

and a thousand other things.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

25. Nothing

Since we are all Will Pitt, anyway.

[Allenberg]

27. I'd assume..

there aren't too many other people here that are intelligence analysts on active duty in the military. ;)

[LeftCoast]

37. Do you have any idea how many tinfoil hats you just sent spinning?

LOL

[Allenberg]

119. *snicker*

[eoberhauser]

28. Don't start with me

I'm against abortion - but I'm against the killing of anything so it just falls in line with my beliefs (vegetarian etc)

Erin

[bloodyjack]

35. So am I

Looks as though you're not so special after all =p

[DaveinMD]

29. I believe in pragmatism

and I don't like attacking other Democrats.

[put out]

32. Right.

It doesn't work. (get it?)

[qnr]

30. I hate everyone, but I'm still sweet and innocent. n/t

[Der Blaue Engel]

105. Dammit, I was just going to say that

Now I hate you even more than I hate everyone.

[qnr]

167. glad I could contribute in some small way :) n/t

[Skittles]

33. I have a habit of threatening to kick DUers asses

it's a vice

[hfojvt]

36. I do not know that much about the group

I am working class.
I have an MA.
I am quasi-left-handed. (Like my dad, I am left-handed for sports, but right handed for writing and eating.)

[Z_I_Peevey]

38. I drive a pickup with a gun rack,

but there's probably more of us here than you'd think.

[Baja Margie]

39. Holy Toledo!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

46. At least it's not an SUV

:eyes:

[HamdenRice]

41. I'm African American ...

and while DU is a great place to discuss progressive issues in general, it is often hopelessly clueless on issues of race and multiculturalism. That is because there are relatively few people of color who participate in DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=258&topic_id=129&mesg_id=129

[RadicalMom]

53. How would you know that? I don't recall filling out any forms...

that asked about my race. With such a strong support among people of color in the Democratic Party, why assume there are few here?

[HamdenRice]

73. They don't ask your race .. but there is a random sample

If you look at my post, I cross referenced a thread in the African American issues group that tried to estimate the racial composition of DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=258&topic_id=129&mesg_id=129

The method I used was to take the gallery as a random sample. Obviously, the group of people who posted their pictures to the gallery is a very small group compared to the total membership of DU. But if it is a random sample -- and there is no reason to believe it is not -- it should very accurately predict the overall racial composition of DU. This is the same methodology that is used in polling: a small but random sample can accurately predict the makeup of the whole.

On that basis, it is possible to predict that DU is about 1.4% African American, which makes it not at all similar in racial composition to the Democratic Party or the country as a whole. Put another way, black people make up a greater percentage of the republican party than they do of DU. The percentages are similiar for Asians and Latinos.

Also, if you check some of the threads in the African American group you will find the recurring lament that while DU is good on progressive issues, there is a lot of racial cluelessness and even latent racism.

[RadicalMom]

102. Not to make an issue of it, but I read your thread and I just don't

feel that the sample is necessarily representative at all, more that those in the gallery are perhaps more active members than many, and also happen to be people who are more computer savvy. Just my thinking on that.

[NorthernSpy]

115. errr...

I just don't feel that the sample is necessarily representative at all, more that those in the gallery are perhaps more active members than many, and also happen to be people who are more computer savvy.

Does that mean that being white linked to being "more computer savvy"?

My hypothesis is that nonwhites might hesitate to post their photos because they might enjoy the novelty of participating in conversations with whites as individual personalities, rather than as "the black guy", or otherwise as presumed representatives of a group.

[msgadget]

124. Good hypothesis, Spy.

[HamdenRice]

145. I forgot ...

to give you a shout out Ms Gadget! How've you been?

[msgadget]

146. Good Hamden,

how ya been? Haven't seen you around! :hi:

[HamdenRice]

174. I guess I took some time off for the holidays ...

like DU is a job or something!

I hope I'm not beginning to sound like a broken record on this diversity thing.

[msgadget]

176. Never fear that, Hamden,

shame on you! A top political adviser says you've got to repeat your message until you're sick of hearing it yourself and only THEN will a few finally be listening!

Carry on!

[RadicalMom]

140. Good God! Get off it! I didn't mean it in the least! I was referring...

to people like my own self, who AREN'T as computer savvy as those who have put their pictures up. I don't have the knowledge to do it, and don't choose to do it even if I knew what I was doing. I'm not embarrassed that I don't know how, and if it mattered to me, then I would figure it out. It has nothing to do with anyone's capacity to learn how to do it. Personally, I like my own anonymity. You have no idea what I look like, what race I am, or am married or related to. YOUR presumptions are uncalled for. I fit nicely into numerous "minority" categories, but I don't need to elaborate. If someone chooses to post their picture here, fine. There are only close to about 59,700something people(based on the approximate figure of 60,000 members of DU that I've seen quoted) who haven't felt the need or indeed didn't necessarily want to take the time to figure out how to post them. The only group we can be sure the people in the gallery really fit is the group of people who've posted their pictures. You seem to embrace labelling people. Just don't.

[NorthernSpy]

143. what the h...?

"Presumptions"? "Labelling people"? I'm not really sure what in the whole two sentences I wrote on this topic might have triggered this outburst. My post, in its entirety:

Does that mean that being white linked to being "more computer savvy"?
My hypothesis is that nonwhites might hesitate to post their photos because they might enjoy the novelty of participating in conversations with whites as individual personalities, rather than as "the black guy", or otherwise as presumed representatives of a group.

The first sentence points out a possible consequence of an answer you suggested. There is no value judgement there. I simply don't know whether whites are more likely to be computer savvy than blacks on the whole, although given that the black population is younger on average, I don't necessarily assume that their exposure to computers would be less.

The second is a possibility that occurred to me that might account for the perceived scarcity of nonwhite DUers. That's all.

A little hard to "get off it", when I was scarcely on it to begin with...


:shrug:


(edit: fixed typo)

[RadicalMom]

156. I'm sorry if I took your response in the wrong way. ...

It just hit me that way, and I'm sorry for the misinterpretation. I guess I'd been overloaded with a lot of yuck in the past few days, hence my actual post to the original thread regarding my current fun with flooding house and coming root canal.

[NorthernSpy]

162. it's okay

The flooding house sounds pretty grim. That happened to me once, and it was a hell of a shock. :o

I hope your root canal is successful and painless.

[RadicalMom]

164. FizzFuzz and my daughter recommend nitrous, My daughter says

it makes her dance in the chair. This root canal seems to be related to the one I just finished a few weeks ago, in its tooth neighbor. They don't make 2-for-1 deals either. My dentist thinks I just find him irresistible. He is kind of cute, though. As for the living room. I've now learned why they are called "sunken." They just said we have more rain coming. Maybe we'll turn the fireplace into an aquarium! Salt water,of course. We ARE near the ocean, after all.

[HamdenRice]

138. It's possible that it is not a random sample but ...

there really is almost no convincing reason that people of color would be less likely to post their pictures than white people. Moreover, the numbers are low for African Americans, Asians and Latinos, and you would expect that if there was some convincing reason blacks posted at a different rate from whites that the same would not apply to other minority groups. Lastly, even if the gallery is not a completely representative sample, and let's say whites were 200% more likely to post pictures than blacks, that would still put the percentage of DUers who are black at only 3%.

Finally, there is the subjective perceptions of people of color who do participate in DU -- that there is a general atmosphere of racial cluelessness in a lot of threads.

I just think it is hard to dispute the fact that despite its many good features, DU is not as diverse as the Democratic Party or the country in general.

[Nile]

42. I voted for Bush.

;-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

80. huh?

[njdemocrat106]

43. Music-wise...

I'm 24 years old and pretty much only listen to rock, pop, and R&B music from the 70s and 80s (with a smidgen of the 60s, a smattering of the 90s, and an inkling of the 00s thrown in for good measure :) )

[Historic NY]

45. I drive and SUV.........but save my old cars for summer use....

also own a bunch of guns...no rack for the truck the guns are too valuable.

[jadedcherub]

47. I don't automatically discount Republicans or Conservatives.

I don't wanna burn in hell.

.jc.

[jdonaldball]

48. I like the Bush Twins

[NewJeffCT]

49. Like in what way?

I mean, I have the hots for Michelle Malkin... but, I don't like her as a person or anything.

[jdonaldball]

50. In a few ways, like

1. They embarass their father, mostly in harmless ways
2. Laura really IS beautiful
3. They add a touch of Humanity and normality to an otherwise evil and sociopathic family
4. And after all, they didn't choose their parents. As spoiled brats go I think they're relatively decent ones.
5. Of course, I'd rather spend an evening with Chelsea Clinton, who would be interesting good company even if I were sober :-)

[sniffa]

51. absoLuteLy nuffin

[FizzFuzz]

130. I disagree!

you are distinguished by your capital L's.

:D

[Baclava]

52. I am immortal...

...thank Gawd I'm attracted to younger women...

[henslee]

54. I used to stutter as a child.

[porkrind]

57. Awwww

My 3-year old stutters sometimes. It is the cutest thing in the world, and just melts me. (She's also a genius who speaks and reads better than most 5-year olds) Now, I like you. :) :loveya:

[henslee]

60. Sounds like I'm in good company. Never was a full blown Mel Tillis

stutter and by 5th grade I grew out of it. I also had illegible "lefty" handwriting. I remember being sad because all 2nd grade, I never got a little shiny star sticker (remember them?) on any of my compositions. One day, my dad took me to the teacher's supply store and we bought a giant box of them. I put stars on all my own work and everything else for that matter. It was great.

[porkrind]

89. That's a great Dad.

(sniff, sniff) :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. NRA Lifetime Member, also member of the ACLU and support Greenpeace

So go figure that one out. :-)

I believe in protecting constitutional rights and in preserving the earth.

Nyah.

And I own a fair number of rifles and shotguns. Some of which are even - cue scary music chords here for all the gun-fearers - classifiable as assault weapons, but since they don't "look" like "assault weapons", no one would "know" that they "are".

[Insider]

56. own an original Rabrrrrrr

and i live in okinawa. anybody else in the littlest prefecture? LOL pm me so we can have pineapple sometime

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

63. When did you move to Okinawa?

Somehow, I missed a move in there, methinks...

I checked the record, and I see it was just last Spring you got the painting. Seems like two or three years ago. 2004 was a looooooong year.

[GOPisEvil]

65. I own an original Rabrrrrrr too!

So you have something in common with at least one other DUer. I'm not on Okinawa though.

[Rabrrrrrr]

67. Not on Okinawa, eh?

Last night you said you were when I called.

"Sorry, Rabrrrrrr, can't come over - I'm....uh,......I'm over at....I mean I'm having.....No, not having, it's that I'm on.....I'm, uh......oh! I'm on Okinawa."

That's what you said. I have it on tape.

:-)

[GOPisEvil]

70. That was last night.

:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

84. Oh. I see. It's all about "game playing" now.

Uh hunh. A little bit of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" aimed and directed at Rabrrrrrr's emotional weaknesses. I see. No, really, that's okay.

But if your intent was to put a poisoned arrow of ridicule and shame through my heart, well, then, mission accomplished.

[koneko]

93. Okinawa~~~~~~~~~~

I lived in a reasonably large prefecture north of Tokyo during the 90s. My city had a fan-TAS-tic Okinawan restaurant.

Have some awamori & brown sugar candy for me, 'k?

[TroubleMan]

186. I lived there a year....you might have seen me on "The Stage"...LOL

Actually I liked hanging out in Nago more than anywhere else.

[kick-ass-bob]

58. I have dashes and a bad word in my screen name.

Who else has both of those?

[short bus president]

59. Scavery.

With occasional bouts of cromulence. ;-)

[Guaranteed]

141. Man, you are NEVER cromulent.

:)

[jpgray]

62. The difference between you and us is we have brains

See--I like to quote my avatar.

O8)

[mvd]

75. You must be joking

:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

64. I'm probably much more boring than most here

Many people here on DU seem to be quick witted, funny and creative. It takes me a while to try to think of something semi-funny.

[TXlib]

66. I'm not very left on most issues

On some, I fall slightly to the right.

But I'm a social libertarian, and that is probably the single biggest reason I don't vote R.

[Zomby Woof]

68. I don't like the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'

I don't like hippies either. Or the painfully unfunny Margaret Cho. Or the wretchedly hipper-than-thou clique of college rock schlock like the Pixies or the Smiths. I don't like what most people like, on DU or in general. I am not a bleeding heart liberal, I am a kick-ass liberal - definitely a minority around here.

I also do not care about the awful, ugly, depressing details of your personal life (problems you likely caused yourself), how lonely you are, or how many medications you ingest on a daily basis. Spare us, please, from the gray despair of your lives!

[dolo amber]

69. Webbed toes

[sniffa]

76. heLLo there

:D

[Patiod]

77. Glad you alerted me so I won't insult you

I got people in my church riled up by saying something like "oh, we were always afraid to go there - there were rumors that they were so inbred that they had webbed feet".

Well, 2 out of the 10 people at the meeting had webbed feet, and let me know in no uncertain terms that it was NOT a result of inbreeding.

I was then telling the story at a family gathering (sort of a "what are the odds" thing) and my SIL got all huffy "Well, I have webbed feet, and not because of inbreeding!"

I believe the people at church. The jury is still out on my Red State/Red-Voting SIL, however.

How many of you people arethere?

[Rabrrrrrr]

85. Hey, me too! The second and third toes,

counting the big toe as toe No.1, are webbed.

WOO HOO!

[EstimatedProphet]

98. I have a small, evil head growing out of my left shoulder

It's a real pain in the ass too.

[FizzFuzz]

104. ha, looks like you don't know the difference between an ass and a shoulder

!!!

ha.

oh and my personal quirk is making jokes that fall flat. Go ahead, don't laugh, I ENJOY that. (I got 50% on the asshole/bitch quiz.) :D :hi:

[Der Blaue Engel]

109. Oh, I don't know about that

Personally, I'm ROTFL right now. :hi:

[FizzFuzz]

116. dammit! your levity has ruined my night!

I'm a stone cold bitch dammit and I hate the sound of laughter.

oh..... maybe things will brighten up though, and you will bump your knee whilst ROTFLing. :D


;)

[Der Blaue Engel]

121. Ha! My evil plan worked!

:evilgrin:

I will not rest until I have ruined EVERYONE'S night!

[FizzFuzz]

123. I am happy!

happy do you hear me?

best night of my life.
ever.


so put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, missy!

----------------uhhh, share some with me? beg? whimper?

[Der Blaue Engel]

137. Just keep telling yourself that

:smoke:

[FizzFuzz]

144. not that I'm SKEEERED of you, but oddly enough

I do have a sudden inclination to buy many bags of potatoes and arrange them in a protective bunker-like formation. Down in my basement....with some dry food and bottled water.....and a short-wave radio.........

^ ^
@ @
W----W--------
--------------
--------------

[Der Blaue Engel]

154. Well there, you've gone and done it again...

...I'm ROTFL. Hope you're proud of yourself.

[Left Is Write]

72. I'm a suburban stay-home mother. I make scrapbooks.

I drive around in a minivan. I'm a preschool mom, volunteering in the classroom, helping with parties, and baking treats. I'm a lacross mom in the spring, driving kids to and from practice and games and providing snacks. I'm a church-going Lutheran who teaches Sunday school. I pretty much fit the profile of a Republican "security mom."

[Magrittes Pipe]

74. I wear water wings into the shower.

They give me a sense of security.

[Patiod]

78. I was in a sorority in college

And really enjoyed it.

Most of my liberal friends find this horrifying.

[koneko]

91. I was in a sorority too!

And it truly boggles ALL of my friends' (& acquaintances') minds!!!

[Nikia]

182. I was also

I never found being liberal and in the Greek system inconpatible especially on my campus.

[VaYallaDawg]

79. Southern.

I like classical music, jazz, in other words old fart. Not so old I still can't learn a thing or two though.

[slackmaster]

81. I'm older than most, and have a nice collection of weapons

Mostly firearms, kept safely locked up in a sturdy safe.

[goodboy]

82. I don't have one single person on ignore. I want to hear what everyone

has to say...even if I don't respond.

[HEAVYHEART]

83. Me

I think I'm the only Asian in DU, but have been living in the US for 30 years.. As for my musical taste, I have no preference when it comes to genre. I just love good music...

[GOPBasher]

86. I'm a 5'3'' male.

That puts me in the minority anywhere.

[NorthernSpy]

111. there are places where a 5'3'' man is average

:)

[GOPBasher]

142. Yes, like Munchkin land in the Land of Oz :-)

:-)
If there's anywhere else, let me know. I'd like to go there. I always feel like getting out of the fascist theocracy anyway.
(I'm just kidding. I'm staying and fighting the fascist theocrats.)

[NorthernSpy]

163. no jumping ship now!

We've ALL got to stay and give the fascist theocrats hell.

Now, where do men tend to be shorter than the American average? Oh, many places. Southeast Asia, parts of the Andes region, Lapland...

In the US, men seem most likely to be shorter than the national average in New England, although that may just be my personal impression. Of the total number of male teachers I had in school (about 15, I think, and all Caucasians as far as I could tell), six of them were about 5'5'' or under; four would have been between approx. 5'5'' and 5'8''; three of them were somewhere in the 5'8'' to 6'0'' range; and two of them were clearly over six feet tall. Of course, that's a small sample, and my memory might be faulty; on the other hand, I've gotten a better idea of how tall some of these people were after meeting some of them again after I'd grown.

Dunno why, but I just find this sort of thing interesting. I started noticing traits like height more in 10th grade, when we did our unit on genes and phenotype in Bio. Some of our local averages (height, eye color, hair color) seemed to differ from the national averages.


:)

[cags]

88. I eat salted prunes

I'm anti-abortion

I love reality shows (except the dating ones)

The CD's currently in my car are:

Puddle of Mud
Evanescence
Nickelback
Clay Aiken
Kelly Clarkson
Maroon 5

I have a wierd fish phobia

[Must_B_Free]

166. I eat salted prunes too

and I'm anti abortion, but pro choice

I hate reality TV shows, except the dating ones

The CDs in my car are:

Bunny Wailer live at the warner theater in 1986
2 mixed CDs of hip hip Mp3s
Bubby Fan Judah Prayze
Wailing Souls: Inchpinchers

I have weird fish

[Texasgal]

90. I am proud to be a

TEXAN! Soooo pfft! on all of you Texas haters! :P

[2bfree]

94. Count me in as well!

I love living in Texas and am not ashamed to admit it either. :)

[Texasgal]

95. YAYYYY!!

Another PROUD Texan!

[Boswells_Johnson]

92. I like to smoke pot and listen to Charles Mingus

[SarahB]

96. Just when people think they've figured me out....

I like to shock them...

in good ways...
in bad ways...
in whatever ways...

I am multi-dimensional. I have layers. I can't be pigeonholed. There is no "one thing" about me. I'm a wonderfully complicated, intense, insightful, yet overall, very sentimental and nice woman.
Love me. Hate me. I don't care. :shrug:

[WCGreen]

97. I need O2 via a hose in my nose.........

Just to survive

[ZombieNixon]

99. I didn't vote for Kerry.

'Course that isn't to say I voted for Bush or even that I voted at all. Besides, what is "voting" after all? The etymological origin of the word is a most interesting story. Its immediate origin in is the Middle English "vow" which descended, through French, from the Latin "vo:tum" which in turn was the past participle (neuter gender) of the verb "vove:re," which also meant "to vow." Ultimately of course, all these words descended from the Proto-Indo-European *wegh(w)h-, also *eugh(w)h- or suffixed o-grade form (past tense) as *wogh(w)h-eyo- which meant "to preach" or "to speak solemnly." Obviously, over the years, the literal meaning gave way to a more figurative or metaphorical meaning, giving rise to expressions like "your vote is your voice." Oh, yeah. Why didn't I vote for Kerry?

I'm too young.

[JanMichael]

100. I'm a Socialist who's a registered Democrat.

And I voted Kerry, I voted Gore, and I voted Clinton, and...


When I say "Socialist" I mean it too, as in SPUSA.

[arwalden]

101. *** MORE People Have Me On IGNORE Than ANY OTHER Person Here ***

:hi:

[NorthernSpy]

107. no way, man!

I've gotten that huffy little "well, I'm through with you" retort more times than I care to count.

:)

[alittlelark]

114. The ignore option must be down!!!!!

....but really, why would anyone have you on 'ignore'??

Am I missing something?

[RadicalMom]

103. My living room flooded last night and I start root canal work on Friday...

Now don't be jealous!

[FizzFuzz]

106. get Nitrous and you'll be fine

Nitrous, the secret to happy root canaling.

I've had three (so far), and nitrous is the only way to fly.

[RadicalMom]

112. I've had a few of them, too, but I tough 'em out. I do take novocane...,..

but when I was much younger, I had all my fillings done without anything. I'm not that brave, or stupid, any more.

[FizzFuzz]

118. ARG!!you're too tough The nitrous really helps, it's worth the extra cost.

when I was a kid, I had a dentist, or should I say sadist, who insisted his drill was special and didn't require novocaine. I should find him and kick him in the kneecap.

Now, I insist on nitrous, even for cleaning. Dang those cleanings hurt!

[RadicalMom]

139. Well, I"ve never tried nitrous...

but my daughter won't face the drill without it, but mainly because her pediatric dentist never does one without it, unless there's nothing to it. I got really drunk once when I was 13, at my cousin's house, and didn't like the way I felt,not in control of my body. It was as much fun to me as an ear infection. So, I've never gotten really drunk, or done pot or recreational drugs of any kind, believe it or not. But, at the same time, I have no problem with legalizing them either.

[Swamp Rat]

108. Zillions of moving particles

[Dukkha]

110. I can go down on myself

jealous?
:P

[SeekerofTruth]

153. Oooh, that's just not right.

But maybe I am jealous in a sick and twisted way.

[Der Blaue Engel]

113. I have pink hair

Today.

Last week it was teal.

And I'm a published erotica writer.

[Behind the Aegis]

117. hmmm...

I speak and can read multiple languages. Although, I need some serious practice to get back to being fluent.

I have been unemployed for 18 months.

My house is filled with statues and busts of the goddess Athena.

I frequent the Atheist room, the Theology room, and started the Ancient wisdom room!

When faced with difficult situations or situations that went poorly, I act them out by myself, complete with conversations! That is a really weird thing I do.

And, I say a prayer to Artemis every time I see a dead animal.

I think I have said too much....another problem I have...I am verbose!

[FizzFuzz]

129. fellow verbosian

:hi: I do that too sometimes, especially when I'm on a hot rant or when a "trigger" health related subject comes up.

so, don't feel bad, you're not alone.

[Blue-Jay]

120. I don't overestimate my own uniqueness.

I suppose that differentiates me, eh?

[JI7]

122. i'm happy being a part of the Democratic Party

and don't have any need or feeling to want to leave it.

[jonnyblitz]

125. I don't like DEM party icons that most others ADORE

I think Harry Truman was bad for starting loyalty oaths and dropping, not one but TWO, nuke bombs on japan. nobody will EVER convince me THAT was necessary. I don't like Clintons for way too many reasons to list(though I picked up for him against the vast right wing conspiracy and voted for him). Despite his eloquent anti-war speeches, I think Robert Byrd is one of the nastiest homophobes ever ( I have seen him, bible in hand, raging against the homosexual agenda on C-SPAN) and I think the Kennedys are highly overrated and have heard horror stories about them from locals in Hyannisport. The whole "Camelot" thing makes me roll my eyes. I DO like Teddy ok as a politician but still...I dont WORSHIP that family like many seem to.

[Blue-Jay]

133. I doubt that you're as alone in those feelings as you think.

Most of them, anyway. :hi:

[Seabiscuit]

126. I may be one of the few here who don't keep track of poster's handles.

I don't mean to be rude, I just enjoy reading DU and posting a comment here or there. I've gotten into a few unpleasant arguments and generally try to avoid them. There are all kinds of people here. I'm not here to make either enemies or friends, just follow/add to interesting or humorous discussions.

Oh, and I'm one of the older DUers at 59. Hippie generation and all that. I know there are a few here like me in this respect.

[Seabiscuit]

131. The only 59 year old to have his first child born this year?

[NorthernSpy]

134. wow!

Congratulations! :)

[Seabiscuit]

136. Thank you. My little miracle is 3.5 months old now.

[Schema Thing]

159. Congrats

My father was 56 when I was born.

[Seabiscuit]

173. Thank you.

Your dad and I are in good company: Michael Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Al Pacino, etc. Our first child is a boy. Hoping for a girl in a year or two.

The key is to remain healthy, look at the world with fresh eyes every day, and outlive most people.

[OhioBlue]

183. congrats!!!!!!

[msgadget]

132. Barcelona Nights moves me.

Otmar Liebert is on my list of favorite artists.

[NorthernSpy]

135. I try NOT to distinguish myself

Some people do the whole enfant terrible thing, and they really work at it, you can tell.

Me, I try for white-bread normal, but I always seem to wind up scaring people anyway.

So I guess that's what differentiates me.

:(

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

147. I shop at Walmart. n/t

[warrens]

148. I've never started a poll, a copycat or an ask me anything thread

I'm one of a kind.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

149. i HATE gandhi (not personally as much as politically)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

150. Geographical location (nt)

[Catchawave]

151. A grandmother who likes Eminem :) -nt

[BeTheChange]

152. Hrmmm..

I listen to everything from Louis Armstrong to Tupac. Right now, Im obsessed with hip hop. Real hip hop, not little kim or 50 cent.

I am anti-abortion.

I am a 26 year old woman who could give a shit less about staying in the rat race and feel that children should be raised by a family, not a school system and television. I dont get miffed over most of today's feminist issues. I honestly would be thrilled to put my energy into making good healthy meals for my family, not take out... I like to have a clean house. I'd love to have the time to be involved in the local community.

I'm a Christian. I also tried Buddhism and Wicca in various phases of my late teens and early 20s.

I read Tarot Cards.

I actually have a job that hasnt been outsourced in technology and this year has been a truly blessed year for us financially.

Im a transplanted Californian that is actually starting to like the people of the south. They have been some of the kindest people Ive ever encountered.

I'm considering buying a weapon for protection.

We have a 5 year plan to get off the grid and deep in the forest or mountain somewhere.

I do believe we are living in a time that will be disasterous for the human race. Be it global annihilation, extreme weather, astroid or rapture. Suffice to say, Ive always wanted to be a mom but we arent having any children.

[LSK]

155. my username?

;)

[Solon]

157. Let's see...

I have a collection of weapons, mostly swords and daggers, buying a set of throwing daggers soon too. I think that makes me stand out a little.

[doc03]

158. I support the right to own guns, I am anti-abortion and pro-death penalty

[Hans Delbrook]

160. Fairly lib, practicing Catholic, scientist, happily married, child-free

It's the combination that seems to throw people for a loop! I love being unpredictable.

[RadicalMom]

165. I love your screen name! Taffeta, darling! n/t

[Hans Delbrook]

179. Thank you! Taffeta, dear. nt

[RetroLounge]

161. I'm the only one currently married

to my wife.

RL

[qnr]

169. But wait!

I'm married to "my wife" too!

[bling bling]

168. I smoke like a chimney while reading the DU at night.

I'm not supposed to smoke in our house. I just secretly do it in my office and only when I log on to the DU. Don't know why.

It gets pretty smoky in here when there are a lot of interesting threads to read. Like tonight, for instance.

[CanuckAmok]

170. I live deep under the sea, in a giant clam-shell.

n/t

[mr blur]

171. I don't like Queen, U2 or The Police,

the leader of my country is an idiot but not a moron, I have no idea what a WalMart is like and I've never even seen a gun.

[Coldwulf]

172. I'm a 50 YO punker?

I'd rather listen to NOFX and Flogging Molly than lynyrd skynyrd or Rush

[chenGOD]

175. I live in South Korea

[Taverner]

177. MY THIRD NIPPLE!!!

Or in other lingo, a Nirple...

[OhioBlue]

184. i also have birthmark under my

breast, but I'm female so it is now hidden.

[kmla]

178. I have a username that most people don't know if...

... they should pronounce it 'kim-la' or 'kay-em-ell-aye'. Or maybe some other derivative.

Mostly I just hope that people don't refer to me as "that geeky, mouth breathing smartass".

[Bok_Tukalo]

180. I actually exist

<eom>

[LanternWaste]

181. I'm a Fundamentalist Christian

I'm a Fundamentalist Christian and I live half the year in Cancun (not in the rich & famous sense... more in the destiture and transient sense).

What else....? Hmmm... I'm a prude (relative to most others on DU). I don't read trendy fiction and I don;t justify bad habits :)

Did I annoy enough people just now? :evilgrin:

ed: for spelling

[OhioBlue]

185. I love NASCAR

Mark Martin is my fav - I have the hats, the shirts, the mini cars etc. I also like Country Music.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

187. I've never had a beer or smoked a cigarette

I hate hot dogs, sandwiches and hamburgers.

[NNadir]

188. I'm much uglier than all of you.

[MLE]

189. I have a wiener dog named Lily!!! AND...

I'm probably younger than most of you here. I'm 17, a junior in high school.
And I don't know all of your musical tastes, but I am big into hip hop.
I also find myself addicted to Comedy Central & Court TV