36 posts tagged “qotd”
What's the biggest obstacle you've had to overcome within the last 24 hours?
Submitted by ILoveYouMr.Dragon.
This new car thing, to abuse a cliche, was too good to be true. Sitting in the dealership across from the salesman, next to my dad, I spoke with a credit union's representative over the phone about financing a bright red, 2003 Honda Civic EX. The representative, given all speculations of the vehicle, told me that I could finance the car for a five year term. This five year term would ensue sixty monthly payments of $onehundredfifty. Thrilled with the deal, I sell my car to the dealership as down payment and purchase the '03.
Come Monday, I receive a call from my credit union that knocks me on my ass. The new correspondent I'm speaking with tells me that I can only be financed for a two year term. This would bring my payments to $fourhundredfifty a month. Fuck that. I need more cushion in my life. For me to exert so much of my time for money only to drop it on a car... well... it just doesn't feel like me. I don't particular care for cars in my life. I can identify many cars, find beauty in their design and speed... I maintain my own cars and keep them clean-ish, but I don't hold much value in cars beyond their intrinsic value as a means of transportation (and a sentimentality attached to my own vehicles).
So, push come to shove, the past twenty-four hours have consisted of tread marks across my opinions and a sudden down-shift in my emotions.
I'm kinda feeling in limbo... like nothing can be done until I settle this.
Who do you write down as your Emergency Contact? Why did you pick this person?
I've always written my Aunt Julie as my emergency contact. Ever since I was filling out permission slips for my parents to sign, I wrote her name down. I'm sure it was because my mother told me to. Aunt Julie did live a few houses down from us and ran a daycare from her kitchen and backyard. She was always around to answer the phone... except Tuesdays because the Carlsbad Shopping Mall had entertainment for kids midday.
What question do you ask when you really want to get to know someone better?
wanna fuck?
What do you think would make your life better?
Submitted by Simon.
Winning a Nobel Prize Medal for Literature would make my life better... with it would come a sense of life-time achievement and the notion that my work has reached the hearts and minds of others.
Santa has it easy what with all those elves and reindeer lending him a helping hand (and hooves), but we have technology to make our lives easier. How does technology make your holiday shopping and planning easier?
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken
I've always wanted to fly. My dreams, when I was younger, would often be based around my desire to fly. When I'd finally make it off of the ground, the feeling in my stomach, in my arms, in my feet, was sensational. The only problem with the new-found ability to fly was that no one could see me while I was in flight. If I'd ever try to show someone, I'd merely levitate a couple of centimeters off of the ground. It was frustrating.
Rosh Hashanah is now in full swing, do you have any fun plans?
yeah... eat bacon, jerk off, and shave.
What is your favorite quote and why?
I don't have an absolute favorite quote. There are a few. To have a single favorite quote is too one-sided for me, I can't cover enough ground. So here's a couple of my favorites:
"I am shit and crazy, to you and this whole fucking world, but I'm your responsibility." Jack says this to his boss. It doesn't matter where in the social ladder you sit, you still have a voice, a strength, an ability to do something.
"There is a fist pressing against anyone who thinks something compelling/Our intuit we're taught to deny/And our soul we're told is for selling." From Brandon Boyd of incubus. I still believe that Boyd had a great voice for political and social change. I wish that he had stuck to those guns.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by/madness, starving hysterical naked,/dragging themselves/through the negro streets at dawn/looking for an angry fix" The opening lines of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. These lines opened more than the poem. They opened discussion, anger, excitement, refreshed vision, dialectics, beauty, disgust, power, vulnerability, art, an epoch, and style.
You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?
What kind of question is this!? Fucking dumb, but I'm answering it only because I've done the crashing.
The person who crashed the car, most definitely, should pay the deductible. It's their damn fault, they should pay. However, if the owner of the car's insurance doesn't insure anyone else who might drive the car (only the owner is insured to drive it) the owner deserves the marks against their record, while the crasher still should pay the deductible.
When I crashed my dad's Porche, I paid the deductible and got the crash on my record. I deserved it.
If you could perform alongside any artist (actor, dancer, musician, etc.), who would it be, and what would you perform?
Submitted by Kristin.
I would like to perform Down in a Hole alongside Layne Staley... He's dead now, but alive or dead wasn't specified.
