## The weirdest question...

Post by Ducttapestar » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:59 am

Tugs related, or in general?

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Post by Jay Feely » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:30 am

Does my feet smell good?
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

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Post by Ducttapestar » Tue Dec 24, 2013 11:12 am

A few years back, me and some friends decided to play "kick the can" which is like "single-flag Capture The Flag." Anyhoo, I was explaing the rules, and I asked "any questions?"
This one kid spoke up and says "How can tampons be comfortable?!"
I'm not sure why he was thinking that way, nor do I want to. But I was so taken aback, I had to laugh.

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Post by Ducttapestar » Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:30 pm

Now THAT'S creepy-weird, not random-weird.

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Post by Jason Toddman » Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:07 pm

The weirdest questions I've experienced are probably the ones *I* ask other people, not ones that others ask me.
Offhand I can't think of any really weird questions anyone's ever asked me; just silly/geeky ones along the lines of "Would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf?" (This was asked me by a 30-year-old, I might add), or "Who was the better starship captain; Kirk or Picard?"
Now, if you were to ask about the most annoying questions, then I could write a whole book about that!
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by sarobah » Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:31 pm

> First off everyone knows the girl captain was the best just because she was a girl. ;)

At the risk of starting a Geek War... Janeway was far and away the greatest of the Star Trek captains. No question about it. It was not her fault that her crew was composed of the also-rans at Starfleet Academy.

> Would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf?

In the Age of Buffy ("I'm gonna pull out your rib cage and wear it as a hat"), it wouldn't matter. They would both be dead.
Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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Post by Jason Toddman » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:55 pm

> Kimmi wrote: I totally will have to start an annoying question thread after this one!!

Or also a silly question thread. Like, who would win the fight: Super saiyan 4 Goku or Superman? That sort of thing.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
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Post by MoonDust » Fri Dec 27, 2013 2:43 pm

Hmm, lemme think. I guess the weirdest question I've ever had is "Are you a boy or a girl?" Or well.. The three first times was weird, a thousand times after it appeared as normal. xD
Friggin cold =_=

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Post by Jason Toddman » Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:14 pm

> MoonDust wrote:Hmm, lemme think. I guess the weirdest question I've ever had is "Are you a boy or a girl?" Or well.. The three first times was weird, a thousand times after it appeared as normal. xD

Not so weird considering how androgynous some younger people seem to look these days. I've seen a number of teens where i couldn't tell at first look if they were a guy or a girl because of the way they wore their hair, or because guys use lipstick and make-up and ear-rings nowadays, and so on. I once worked in a place where one boy was so feminine looking and wore such loose clothing that I thought for over a week that he was a woman! It happens.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by MoonDust » Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:42 pm

First time someone asked me I was thirteen so to me it was really weird, but you got a point there, Jason. It's scary how things have changed through the years. Male looks like female and vice versa. Many a person have believed I'm a guy, like you said, it happens.
Friggin cold =_=

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Post by FelixSH » Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:53 pm

After a friend found out that I´m gay, he asked "Would you be the man or the woman in a relationship?".

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Post by Nexus » Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:53 pm

> Kimmi wrote:Do 30 year olds even know what Twilight is to ask that question? So random! I love it.

Don't need to be a fan of Twilight to ask that question, could be a fan of the far superior Underworld series.

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Post by Jason Toddman » Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:04 pm

> MoonDust wrote:First time someone asked me I was thirteen so to me it was really weird, but you got a point there, Jason. It's scary how things have changed through the years. Male looks like female and vice versa. Many a person have believed I'm a guy, like you said, it happens.

Only difference was; I was wise enough not to ask a person such a question! And I have Asperger's; which means I am usually good at asking socially inept questions of people!
In the Air force I knew someone in my dorm who was about my age at the time (24) but looked more like a twelve-year-old girl with a short haircut; he was that small, slender, and - well - elfin-looking. He could have played Peter Pan; he was that androgynous looking.
On the other hand a couple of women i have known looked just as heavyset and tough-looking as any truck driver; you'd only know they were women when they spoke out loud! Neither were trans-sexuals either;in fact both were mothers.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by MoonDust » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:30 am

You've been in the Air force? That's really cool!
Well, when it comes to people and appearances it usually reflect the concious self, while the non concious self is hidden and can be exposed the more you get to know somebody. It's like a present. You can kind of guess what's inside if you look at the shape of it, but then again you might just be surprised.
Friggin cold =_=

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Post by Jason Toddman » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:42 am

> MoonDust wrote:You've been in the Air force? That's really cool!
> Well, when it comes to people and appearances it usually reflect the concious self, while the non concious self is hidden and can be exposed the more you get to know somebody. It's like a present. You can kind of guess what's inside if you look at the shape of it, but then again you might just be surprised.

Hmmm... they say you can't judge a book by its cover; that a person can't be judged only on appearance alone.
I personally have never found this to be the case. To date, I have never as far as as I can recall seriously misjudged what kind of person (nasty or nice, intelligent or dull, religious or atheist, that sort of thing) someone I got to know turned out to be like after my first few minutes with him/her, and whether or not they'd be someone i could get along with if I simply tried a little. I never met someone I disliked at first sight who proved nicer than I'd initially estimated, though occasionally i have encountered the reverse.
Me, I always try to get along with everyone I encounter, but I've learned that some people are impossible (for me that is) to get along with. Sometimes it's not easy to tell at first, but usually (especially those I ultimately don't get along with) it's too darned easy... especially when they can't be bothered to exchange a simple friendly hello. For most people, it seems to me; what you see IS what you get.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by MoonDust » Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:52 am

Perhaps you're very observive or perhaps you're just lucky to meet the right people at times. It's not always like that, though. How can you know there is a mad man behind the layers of a smile and kind voice? I don't everything in the world, but if there is one thing I know it's that some people are better at hiding than others. Some people are open to the surroundings and the people around them, while others are closed up, even disguise with a friendly smile. Not that I've encountered it before, usually I see through most people. I met a guy once. Don't exactly know how to explain it, but I had this feeling from the moment I met him that I shouldn't trust him. I put it aside of course since I hate judging people before I know them. After all, I was right about it. He was not a trustable person, and less than that, he was... idk, fucked up. But what I actually tried saying before is that more can hide under the layers, we are complicated creatures, humans always have. (I'm trying so hard not to get too deep xD Cause nobody truly understands me when I start with my deep poetic stuff xD )
Friggin cold =_=

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Post by Jay Feely » Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:21 am

Another question- I was 10 when my friend asked me, can I be gay?
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

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Post by Jason Toddman » Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:39 am

> MoonDust wrote:Perhaps you're very observive or perhaps you're just lucky to meet the right people at times. It's not always like that, though. How can you know there is a mad man behind the layers of a smile and kind voice? I don't everything in the world, but if there is one thing I know it's that some people are better at hiding than others. Some people are open to the surroundings and the people around them, while others are closed up, even disguise with a friendly smile. Not that I've encountered it before, usually I see through most people. I met a guy once. Don't exactly know how to explain it, but I had this feeling from the moment I met him that I shouldn't trust him. I put it aside of course since I hate judging people before I know them. After all, I was right about it. He was not a trustable person, and less than that, he was... idk, fucked up. But what I actually tried saying before is that more can hide under the layers, we are complicated creatures, humans always have. (I'm trying so hard not to get too deep xD Cause nobody truly understands me when I start with my deep poetic stuff xD )

I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions; just that most people aren't all that hard to judge. I feel I am right about a person much more often than not... but i don't claim to be right all the time. Heck, as I said, I have encountered people I liked who proved later not to be trustworthy. It's the other way around I've never encountered; I've never been wrong (as far as I can recall) about judging a person too harshly. I have never met a person who I've had to spend a lot of time around who proved later to be a (at least significantly) nicer, more trustworthy person than I'd earlier estimated.
I have however, as you said, been fooled by the 'smiles and kind voice' type of persn more than once (at least from someone not worthy of trust; not necessarily someone who was insane) and have endured my share of disappointments and betrayals. I may not have sounded it, but I am actually an overly trusting person by nature, and as a result some such people have even stolen quite a bit from me by borrowing and never returning. This has not happened more than a handful of times, but this handful did me enough harm all by themselves.
Hell, one was even a person I'd trusted to tie me up! Stole all my money and left me! Fortunately he hadn't tied me so well that I couldn't get away after some time and effort, nor had he hurt me physically. It was however the very last time i ever let myself be tied up by anyone. This was in 2000.
As for the madman scenario, I find that extreme an example to be unlikely though not of course impossible. It's hard for a crazy person as you describe to act sane all the time. Usually (as in the case of characters like the Newtown or Aurora shooters), there has proved to be something rather 'off' about people like that which people around them noticed. Maybe I wouldn't have known they were potential mass murderers, but something about them would still have more than likely screamed to me, "I'm a nut! Stay away from me." I have in fact met people that bothered me like that ( I think we all have). None afaik ever killed anyone, but the bad vibes were there telling me that they were potentially violent and nto so hard to set off, and i tend to avoid such people if at all possible.
Of course, then there are the usually nice people that just suddenly snap and change abruptly; there is often no predicting those.
But I have never met a person I disliked that I regretted disliking; not once. And, really, that is really what the saying "You can't judge a book by its cover" is supposed to be disproving; it's point is that people are often nicer than we at first suppose. And as far as I am concerned, that meaning of that saying is - if one is sufficiently careful, unbiased, and observant, that is - pure drivel.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by mistofoleese » Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:55 pm

I tend to agree with Jasons words. Like Him I spent many o year in the military al be it a different branch mind you BUT regardless of WHICH branch or What Nations Military you serve in there are always going to be those people you look at and say WOW to. Fact is you dont even really need to be in the military to see these kinda people they are around you .
Its ALSO depends on you as well and how you perceive others and HOW they perceive you as well. THAT is pretty much a very hard lesson I had to learn after I retired here a few years back. as a usually jovial person there are days when my aches and pains have me quiet this tends to unnerve quite a few as either OK whats wrong of if I just look at them and smile they think OK WHATS HE UP TO NOW??!
Moon , Take it from this old Soldier learn to relax kick back and smile atleast every once in a while when I finally retired I looked like I could be a part of Duck Dynasty I got pulled over on my way to work one morning when I gave the cop both my Drivers licence Military ID and Veterans Ad min Card he Still didnt belive it was me which lead me to my LAST resort I knew the guys Boss who was a good friend of mine who I shoot with from time to time or if he needs work on his or his families cars done he will get ahold of me .
Well this young rookie got the surprise of his life when he heard his Boss on MY phone telling the young officer YES HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS .
Whats even funnier about it a second cruiser rolled up and I saw it was another of my friends Needless to say I was sent on my way I later found out that the young officer was fired doing something REALLY stupid while OFF duty
Point is perception is key as is also situational awareness ei being aware of surroundings
Hope that helps a bit Moon NEVER be afraid to speak your mind if something makes you feel uncomfortable then by all means you speak up
Take it from Jason ,Drawscore and I as we are pretty much the old Vets here We have done a whole mess of screwy things though Jason was Airforce and DS and I were Army all weve done our fair share so we are pretty much a fountain of knowledge
Happy new year every one

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Post by MoonDust » Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:58 pm

Truth is, I'm young, still got alot to learn. I can kind of say that I still havn't lived half my life yet and I look forward to learn and experience. That's always been my motto as I'm curious about nearly anything I can get my hands on. Also I'm open to everything new in particular. And my opinion is that I've learned something and that will be I've learned of other's point of views, which can be taken as a great gift.
Guess I do speak my mind when needed to, though I also accept other's choice of words and believes. No one is perfect, we all have flaws and that is something you sometimes have to ignore as it ruin yourself more than it ruin others. Mistofolees, I do appreaciate your advice, it's nice to know. Perhaps I'm not the bravest and I do not always speak my mind as much as I should have as I have always placed other's in front of myself. Though there is one thing I'm not afraid of and that's showing who I am, I have never ever tried to be someone else, cause the someone else is already taken. Actually I would have been embarrassed if I one day tried to be someone else and not being me. I'm gay, and I'm probably stuck in a female body so I walk around in male clothes and want a flat chest and being masculine, stuff like that and never could anyone step on my face and say it's wrong. So yeah, I know no one should ever take shit from anyone. We should all speak our minds as long as it doesn't involve being rude and such.
Happy new year!
Friggin cold =_=

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Post by Jason Toddman » Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:12 pm

Rule of thumb; Go with your first instinct until more evidence comes in that convinces you to do otherwise.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by mistofoleese » Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:52 pm

> Jason Toddman wrote:Rule of thumb; Go with your first instinct until more evidence comes in that convinces you to do otherwise.

I would agree to that trust your instincts

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Post by Jason Toddman » Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:39 am

Some people don't get the difference between being gay and acting effeminate either. Some gays ARE both (i personally know two gay men that are, but neither is a cross dresser) but not all are by any means.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by Jason Toddman » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:23 am

It's understandable to be embarrassed when you realize that such people reinforce the assumptions/stereotypes some people have of gay men in general, and assume you must be like that as well.
I know quite a few gay men myself - even though technically i am not gay myself (I identify as asexual these days) - and they are just as widely varied a group as any similar-sized group of heterosexual men are. Than than the obvious one of sexual orientation, there is no one defining characteristic of gay men (or women) any more than there is between hetero men (or women). In most cases, it's not even evident what their sexual orientation is until you get to know them!
And I'm willing to bet I (and most everyone else in general) know some guys/gals who are gay without our even being aware of it!
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

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Post by horserider » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:01 am

Got asked "Are you gay? Thought only girls do horse riding?" . Well been asked worse but that's one that annoyed me the most.
Same reason I never said to anyone I liked dance when growing up. Not the best of things to do when go to an all boys school sadly. Oh well

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Post by mistofoleese » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:15 pm

> horserider wrote:Got asked "Are you gay? Thought only girls do horse riding?" . Well been asked worse but that's one that annoyed me the most.
> Same reason I never said to anyone I liked dance when growing up. Not the best of things to do when go to an all boys school sadly. Oh well

Seriously?? Let me tell you something my friend you EVER see that SOB who said that to you all you need tell them to look up the 1st CAV and see for themselves I'll betcha a Guinnesss they shut up REAL quick

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