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[In The Noclight] Thaedydal

  • 17-04-2009 8:42pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭


    last one for a while people, so make it count :)

    Q- how'd you end up on boards?


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    • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


      What pisses you about society?

      What's the worst thing you've ever witnessed happening (doesn't have to be necessarily personal, it could be just something you saw on a night out, whatever you want!)?

      What's the best thing you've learned from boards?

      What's the worst thing you've learned from boards?

      If you could travel back in time to change one event, what would it be, and why?


    • Registered Users Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


      what would you consider to be your greatest achievment in life?


      Is their anything that you still strive to achieve?


    • Registered Users Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


      favourite food?

      best holiday you've been on?

      favourite song at the moment?

      favourite colour?

      any beauty things that you couldnt go without?

      if you could change three things about yourself what would they be?


    • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


      <snip>


    • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


      Tayto or King...or Hunky Dory's?

      Favourite time of year?

      Your Desert Island Discs?

      First Beers you remember?

      Was said beers of epic proportion, or not quite what you made of it?

      Favourite movie?

      Vampyri or Lycan?;)


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    • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


      Ok this is your only warning.

      If I see anything which even smells like an insult from here on in I will ban and infract.

      No one is using these threads for a personal vendetta.

      Thanks.


    • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


      Hero or villian?
      Favorite movie?
      Favorite book?
      Fondest memory?


    • Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


      3 most beautiful moments in film history?

      3 most beautiful moments in your life?

      3 most beautiful sentences from literature?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


      What are your goals in life?

      What are your main academic areas of interest?

      Most influential people or things in your life and why?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


      On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being awful, 10 being fantastic) how would you rate your life right now?

      What song is guaranteed to get you out on the dancefloor?

      Do you have any interest in sport?

      Who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party? (Living or dead)

      If you were a Pokemon, what type would you like to be?


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    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      Nerin wrote: »
      Q- how'd you end up on boards?

      Reading about the Darkside Lan which I was planning on going to.
      LZ5by5 wrote: »
      What pisses you about society?

      I have a list, it's a long list.
      Lack of accountability, intolerance and lack of education on topics which really matter would be the top three.
      LZ5by5 wrote: »
      What's the worst thing you've ever witnessed happening (doesn't have to be necessarily personal, it could be just something you saw on a night out, whatever you want!)?

      Watching someone dying off a heroin over dose while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
      LZ5by5 wrote: »
      What's the best thing you've learned from boards?

      That there are people who think the way I do.
      LZ5by5 wrote: »
      What's the worst thing you've learned from boards?

      That there are many more people who don't think the way I do.
      LZ5by5 wrote: »
      If you could travel back in time to change one event, what would it be, and why?

      Not a thing, as it would change the universe I live in too much and I have gotten the hang of this one, I think.
      what would you consider to be your greatest achievment in life?

      My kids if they grow up well and are happy.
      Is their anything that you still strive to achieve?

      Many things, there are several books I want to finish and get published.
      favourite food?

      Chocolate, no wait chocolate is a drug not food, fillet of steak blue with mushrooms.
      best holiday you've been on?

      The summer I was 13.
      favourite song at the moment?

      'Star Wars' a cappella tribute by Moosebutter
      myself and the kids sing that a lot, atm.
      Favourite colour?

      Crimson
      any beauty things that you couldnt go without?

      Like make up ? eh no, but I do believe in using a good moisturiser if that's what you mean.
      if you could change three things about yourself what would they be?

      My procrastination, self doubt and putting others before myself too much.
      Tayto or King...or Hunky Dory's?

      Hunky Dory's cheese and onion every time.
      Favourite time of year?

      Autumn.
      Your Desert Island Discs?

      The Cure and Tori Amos discographys.
      First Beers you remember?

      The first boards award beers in Viva.
      Was said beers of epic proportion, or not quite what you made of it?

      Very epic first beer and meet DeV, Kharn, Beruthiel, Angelwhore and a few others.
      Favourite movie?

      Blade runner second last directors cut.
      Vampyri or Lycan?;)

      Lycan.
      Hero or villian?

      Hero turned villan :D
      Favorite book?

      Tam lin.
      Fondest memory?

      Birthday mornings when my kids pile into my bed for snuggles and to be told the story of the day they were born and how they got their names and what they mean.


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


      Favourite kind of flowers?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being awful, 10 being fantastic) how would you rate your life right now?

      7
      What song is guaranteed to get you out on the dancefloor?

      Temple of love.
      Do you have any interest in sport?

      Yes, rugby and hockey.
      Who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party? (Living or dead)

      Thats another long long list, I'll get back to you on that one.
      If you were a Pokemon,

      I wouldn't be.
      JC 2K3 wrote: »
      What are your goals in life?

      To be happy and have a positive impact on others.
      What are your main academic areas of interest?

      eh um it's pretty wide ranging tbh.
      I read a lot, and the oddest thing for fun, cos it interests me.
      From how the new toyta hybrid engines work to of late homeopathy, freuds
      phyco-sexual theory is on my bed side locker as well as the complete guide to Asperger's syndrome.

      So tbh the human condition and all matters pertaining to it and how developments in tech influences it and how each evolved as a result.

      Most influential people or things in your life and why?

      My parents for encouraging me to read and think for myself and bringing me to where the books live at a very early age.
      Rozabeez wrote: »
      Favourite kind of flowers?

      Roses, hybrid perpetual and yes red.
      By the way missy, when am I getting my red velvet shirt back, nope haven't forgotten :P


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


      Do you have a motto that you live by? If so, what is it?

      If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?

      Do you have any regrets?

      What is the most valuable lesson you have learnt in life?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      orestes wrote: »
      Do you have a motto that you live by? If so, what is it?

      "Better to do it and regret it, then regret you never did do it."
      orestes wrote: »
      If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?

      gods that is a huge one but picking 1 thing...
      Apathy, if I could remove apathy from people.

      orestes wrote: »
      Do you have any regrets?

      Yup some of them huge but anything I learn from eventually I consider to be a win personally.
      orestes wrote: »
      What is the most valuable lesson you have learnt in life?

      People are the most glorious and heinous thing on the planet, myself included.


    • Moderators Posts: 51,707 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


      Can you play any musicial instruments??

      Are there any instruments you'd like to be able to play??

      You seem to have a wide range of reading interests, is there anything that you avoid reading??

      If you can read this, you're too close!



    • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


      Thaedydal wrote: »
      By the way missy, when am I getting my red velvet shirt back, nope haven't forgotten :P

      ^_^ I know, tomorrow week!

      Ooh, what's your earliest memory?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      koth wrote: »
      Can you play any musicial instruments??

      Piano, tin whistle and like 6 chords on the guitar.
      koth wrote: »
      Are there any instruments you'd like to be able to play??

      Cello.
      koth wrote: »
      You seem to have a wide range of reading interests, is there anything that you avoid reading??

      Tabloids, wimmens mags, chick lit, slock scifi/fantasy.
      Rozabeez wrote: »
      Ooh, what's your earliest memory?

      Christmas 1977, I was two and a half, I remember going down to see what santa had brought with my granddad, it was a trike and how the pedals hurt my feet as I didn't have slippers on. I have a loooong memory which can be pretty detailed.


    • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


      What food would you never share? :pac:


    • Registered Users Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


      do you have a favourite stand up comedian?


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    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      What food would you never share? :pac:

      Define share?
      I would often offer a bite or a taste but like split things in half and share?
      What madness is that, really no one gets half of my steak/lasanga.
      do you have a favourite stand up comedian?

      Why yes I do.


    • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


      Thaedydal wrote: »
      Define share?
      I would often offer a bite or a taste but like split things in half and share?
      What madness is that, really no one gets half of my steak/lasanga.


      Well what do you just pig out on and guard like a lioness. :pac:


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,805 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


      do you have a favourite stand up comedian?

      I'd guess that it's not you anyway :p


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      Well what do you just pig out on and guard like a lioness. :pac:

      Funny I have found that if you embed a fork in the back of one person's hand just the once, you no longer ever have to do that.


    • Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


      what's your earliest memory?

      have you always been as confident/self-assured as you are now or has that just come with maturity/whatever?

      what famous person (musician/writer/artist etc) has influenced your ideas/philosophies/self most? ok, so famous person is a crap phrasing of it, but im mind-melted today.

      how did you first become interested paganism?


    • Registered Users Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Futurecrook


      What is your greatest fear?

      Do you have any regrets?

      If you could be the heroine in any novel who would you be and why?

      If you had to choose a lifetime of sex without love or love without sex which would you choose?


      Do you agree with society's view that monogamy is the only "acceptable" form of relationship?


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      have you always been as confident/self-assured as you are now or has that just come with maturity/whatever?

      I have always been bolshy even as a kid, my Mam would tell how I sat stubbornly for over an hour in the back garden arms folded at age of 3 refusing to pick the toys and stayed there until it got dark and she had to take me as it was bed time.

      I've always done my own thing and ever took the easier path but with age
      came really not caring what 'people' thought rather then doing what I wanted and then being 'concerned' after wards.

      I like me and if I can live with me and I am happy in my own company then
      that has always been what has counted form the time I was about 10.
      Much to the despair of my parents and siblings over the years :p
      what famous person (musician/writer/artist etc) has influenced your ideas/philosophies/self most? ok, so famous person is a crap phrasing of it, but im mind-melted today.

      Gods there is no way I could pick just one,
      Never Jam Today by Carole Bolton was a book I got when I was 12,
      it's about the story of what happened to Alice Paul and the other suffragettes in their fight for votes for women, that had a profound effect.
      As did Emmaneulle and all the hard core scifi which read as a teen from Clark to Heinlein, Harry Harrison, Anne McCafftery, Piers Anthony, Marrion Zimmer Bradley and Ms Dickenson. There has never been just one influence.
      how did you first become interested paganism?

      When I realised that the catholic faith I had been reared in didn't fill me up
      and I went exploring the root of judaic reglion and back to the tree of life and the Kabbalah and came cross the concept of Binah and that started me looking at the possible divine feminine, at Lilth and going older again looking at Sumerian goddess and Egyptian godesses and finally to those closer to home.
      What is your greatest fear?

      That my kids will get a wasting illness and there will be nothing I can do other then to ease their suffering and passing from this life before me.
      Do you have any regrets?

      A few but who doesn't but I would not be who I am to day or were I am to day if it wasn't for the sum of all my choices and actions.
      If you could be the heroine in any novel who would you be and why?

      Sharrow from "Against a dark back ground" because she survives it all no matter what is pitted against her or who she looses.
      If you had to choose a lifetime of sex without love or love without sex which would you choose?

      I don't think that there can be sex with out love and there are many types of love.
      Do you agree with society's view that monogamy is the only "acceptable" form of relationship?

      I don't have any time for one true wayisms. Anything thing that limits my choices or the choices of others in life in order to be happy and be loved is not acceptable to me.


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


      Thaedydal wrote: »
      When I realised that the catholic faith I had been reared in didn't fill me up
      and I went exploring the root of judaic reglion and back to the tree of life and the Kabbalah and came cross the concept of Binah and that started me looking at the possible divine feminine, at Lilth and going older again looking at Sumerian goddess and Egyptian godesses and finally to those closer to home.
      Did you ever consider atheism?

      That's not intended to be smart or patronising btw, I just find it interesting how people arrive at positions of belief, especially non-mainstream ones.


    • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


      JC 2K3 wrote: »
      Did you ever consider atheism?

      Nope, never doubted the existence of the christain god but I knew he wasn't the one for me so I went looking to see what other possibilities there were I guess I was a hard polytheist even before I left christainity and eventually got excommunicated.


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    • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


      Thaedydal wrote: »
      ... and eventually got excommunicated.
      Ooh, I really want to ask about the details of how that happened! ... but in fairness you've had your three nights in the stocks! :)

      (I keep forgetting that it's supposed to be just 3 nights! :o)

      Thanks Thaed for some typically honest answers ... and I for one refuse to believe you were ever a bolshy kid! :D


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