When were you happiest?
When I was last deeply in love.
What is your greatest fear?
My own cowardice.
What is your earliest memory?
Of deciding whether or not to cut myself with a sharp object, expecting it to hurt, doing it anyway, and crying when it hurt. I was an Empiricist then at 5 or 6. Now I am a Rationalist.
Which living person do you most admire?
Mishal Husain - who is as clever as she is beautful.
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Barach Obama for his audacity.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Sloth
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Irrational cowardice, preferring to remain ignorant because they would rather not upset themselves.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
There have been so many I have lost count and repressed those memories.
Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?
A camera.
What is your most treasured possession?
My tools of communication, memory and reference – computer, TV, camera, mobile, books
Where would you like to live?
Anywhere that feels like home.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
She probably hasn’t been born yet.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Untidiness.
What is your favourite smell?
Curry cooking, the best kind
What is your favourite word?
Pleasure
What is your favourite book?
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
What would you most like to wear to a fancy dress party?
A beard or perhaps a burqa.
Cat or dog?
Cat
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Admiring myself
To whom would you like to say sorry, and why?
To my parents for being a worry to them and being less than they had hoped.
Which living person do you most despise, and why?
David Cameron, for his smarmy convictionlessness.
Which words or phrase do you most overuse?
“Crikey”
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Myself
If you could go back in time, when would you go?
When Moses parted the Red Sea.
How do you relax?
TV, talking, reading, writing, thinking, which is also “work”.
What song you would you liked played at your funeral?
Je ne regrette rien
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
That we are our own worst enemy, and that the enemy within is more intractable than the visible enemy. The Muslims talk about “the greater jihad”, ie the greater struggle (with onesef).
Tell us a joke
A couple and their 11 year old daughter with her friend are sitting down to dinner. Daughter asks mother what it is. Mother says it is venison. Daughter asks what venison is. Mother coyly says it is something Daddy occasionally calls her. Daughter thinks for a moment, turns to her friend and says: “I wouldn’t eat it if I were you. It’s a f*cking c*nt.”
1 comment:
I enjoy the updates. Blair and Bush - mass murderers both who transformed Iraq into the bottom of a shake n' bake bag - have been downscaled now to David Cameron, who is, like, smarmy and convictionless. Who next in the most despicable slot? Boris the Doris for his unruly hair and terrible ties?
And why is Ken Livingstone like Dick Whittington (and no pantomime jokes such as: 'Your career - it's behind you!')
I quite agree about cats.
Is Mishal Husain a newsreader? Good to see that multiculturalism has brought at least one tangible benefit. Maybe I should stay in more and watch television.
The venison joke was good, although initially I mixed it up with mutton and wondered why in any case he fancied being called a sheep. But, as you say, the unconscious blots out such embarrassments.
‘Je ne regrette rien’ is a shade classier than ‘My Way’ and is therefore the better choice.
Still, I dunno. I always admired Mrs Thatcher for saying that her favourite song was ‘How much is that doggie in the window?’ Though probably she doesn’t want it played at her funeral. May I recommend Purcell’s 'Funeral March for the death of Queen Mary' (1695) as an excellent dirge? You just can’t beat it. I always dig out that CD when someone dies.
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