If it's a hot topic and they include their own opinion, they're basically telling you "This is the right answer" when they state their opinion. If some people happen to disagree with that opinion, they're likely to sugar-coat their answer a bit, so as not to offend anyone. If the questioner wants an honest, straightforward answer they shouldn't lead the person on or influence their response in any way.

Is SnapChat the one where the picture is deleted forever after a few seconds? Be careful who you share your info with... you're bound to get some freaky nudes from weird people you might not want to see. ;)

I have family on Facebook but I don't allow them on my friends list. I just like to have those two worlds separate. The internet is the only place I have where I can express myself somewhat freely. If I want to rant about a family member I can do so without them reading it and saying "Heeyy, man!" Or if I have some screwy random thought in my head, I can write it online and not have to worry about my mother saying "You really shouldn't say things like that...people will think you're weird."

I have two nieces in New York who are now on my friend list on Facebook, but I only accepted them because we live so far apart and that's the only way we have to keep up to date with what's going on in their lives (they communicate more on Facebook than they do in real life). But my mother, sisters, brothers-in-law, and other nieces and nephews are on Facebook too, and they are friends with some people I don't want to associate with anymore, so it's just much easier to not accept those family members as friends, and draw that fine line in the sand. :)

You know the one where you both light your nipples on fire and toss Frisbees into each others' buttcracks and then throw darts at each others' genitals and take turns drinking shots of Anti-Freeze until one of you passes out so the other one can have their way with you? Yeah, I don't like that one so much...

Seriously, what's considered "normal" nowadays?

How many pounds of waste I've deposited in the sewer system.

How many people have had any sort of romantic interest in me, who are they, and why didn't they ever say anything about it.

How many people have had any hatred towards me and why.

How long my hair would be if I had never gotten a haircut in my life.

How long my fingernails and toenails would be if they had never been trimmed.

How many hours I've spent sleeping.

How many times I used the word "hate".

How many times I used the word "love".

How many times I used the word "fuck".

How many opportunities I missed, simply because of my own self-doubt.

How many times people from my past have thought about me and wondered whatever happened to me (if they did at all).

How many times I've disappointed people.

How many times I've made someone happy, proud or made their lives better somehow.

How many times I've failed.

How many times I've succeeded.

How many bowls of cereal I've eaten in my lifetime, and would that number qualify to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.

I've never mentioned @CautionWetFloor, so I'll choose her. I've only been following her for about a month, but she's very artistic, highly intelligent, can express herself well and her responses can be both thoughtful and funny, depending on the subject matter. :)

It's hard to imagine any common means of transportation that would be faster than a jet airplane, isn't it? But I guess 100 years ago when the Wright Brothers made their first flight, there was no way anyone could have predicted the advances that were made in flight in the coming years, and airplane design and the birth of the jet engine. I suppose it will happen one day, but I'm guessing it will just be faster, more advanced jet planes. I was at an air & space museum once and if I remember correctly, there was a military jet that had been retired...so when the two pilots took it on it's final flight to the museum they had to fly from the west coast to the east coast. Since it was the final flight they decided to see just what the jet could do, and they ended up crossing the county in just two hours, when it normally take commercial jets about five hours. So faster flight is possible, but making it work with mass transportation is going to take some time.

And when the hell are we going to be able to teleport and "beam" places like on "Star Trek"? Why isn't anyone working on that? ;)

I wouldn't be opposed to them using it. The public restroom is for everyone...I've been in some restrooms where the handicap stall was the ONLY stall available besides the urinals, so if you gotta go, you gotta go. ;) The disabled would get first dibs of course, but if no one is using it, I say it's free for everyone to use.

I'd say about once a year or so, but fortunately it usually isn't anything too serious. I'll get seriously ill maybe every three years or so...unfortunately it's been about two years since I've had any serious illnesses, so I'm worried that I might be due for a major whopper of a cold. :/

Any genre can be formulaic....horror, sci-fi, romance...a general formula formula can be found for all of them. A particular genre might be easier for certain authors, simply because it's their strong point, but I wouldn't say that the entire genre is "easy"...if it were easy then every author would have a hit novel. The main challenge in writing is to create an interesting story that steps outside of that formula...those are the books that are remembered.

Just general deceitfulness. I don't like it when people are untrustworthy or they "use" people for their own benefit. Any kind of cheating, perpetual lying, shallowness, double-standards and elitist notions won't be tolerated very well.

I think so. I don't know when we all became so important that we have to have a phone with us at all times, just in case we miss that "important" info that some random friend has...why do we always need to be on call? We're not all doctors, I think we can take a break from it once in a while. God forbid you have to resort to calling them back later. And have you seen Twitter lately? There are millions of people on there who constantly update their statuses but have absolutely nothing to say. It's almost a compulsion with some people.

I rarely buy DVDs anymore, but when I do they're almost always new, and I'll only get them if they're at a decent price. Books are usually new too, if they're cheap enough. Or if I'm looking for an older book which is out of print I'll look for it at a used book store...but used book stores are harder and harder to find around here. But lately I've just been checking out if it's available on my Kindle at a decent price first. Special Editions don't usually interest me, unless it's a particular book that's a particular favorite, and the special edition offers something spectacular, but that rarely happens and more likely than not it's not worth the money they're asking for it.

We have a Blu-Ray player which plays both Blu-Ray and regular DVDs. Both have a clear picture, but to really see the difference in Blu-Ray I think you would need a really big screen...one of those giant ones that fills up the entire wall, like a screening room. We have a 46 inch screen, which is big enough for us, but to my eyes, there's not much quality difference between Blu-Ray and DVD on that size screen.

But for some reason our Blu-Ray player isn't working right now...you put a disc in and it only says "Blu-Ray" on the screen, and when you go to turn off the player it won't shut off, we have to unplug it. We've only had this thing a year or so, so I hope it hasn't crapped out on us already.

Did they really have to do a study on this? ;) How would you like to have been one of the researchers on this project...

"What'd you do at work today, honey?"

"Oh, just the usual...I showed a bunch of women some pictures of penises and asked them which ones they liked the best."

And how creepy would it have been to be one of the women asked to take part in this study? Some weird dude offers to show you pictures of random guys' junk...under normal circumstances he'd get punched in the face.

Of course they're going to prefer the bigger guys! If a guy is packing a baby carrot a girl's not going to say "Yep! That's for me!"


In another scientific study by Doctor Obvious, it's been determined that men seem overly fond of women's breasts...

Joints are stiff, muscles ache, discs have slipped and wrinkles are starting to appear at a faster rate. Once I turned 30 I became very aware of my body because of all the aches and pains I was feeling. Up until that point I sort of took my health and youth for granted, but then I started to feel discomfort and pain that I never thought possible. I'm still able-bodied and fully functional, but I'm just aware of every ache and pain that comes along. ] Do all you can while you're young. If you set aside things to do for when you retire, chances are you won't have the energy/strength/desire to do them anymore because your body might have crapped out on you.

Pretty much when I'm in my own home, or when I'm at my family's vacation home in Lake Arrowhead, which is in the mountains about a two hour drive from Los Angeles. I feel very content there. :)

Yeah, we have that here. When it's Daylight Savings Time here, it's light until about 8 O' Clock or so, which is nice. I don't like it when it gets dark early...if it's 5 pm and people are on their way home from work, it's sort of depressing to have to drive home in the dark...it makes it seem like they've wasted the whole day and have no life outside of your work.

They're not usually really disturbing (although that happens too) but they're usually just strange. They are set in the real world and in familiar surrounding to me, but everything is slightly "off". In my old dream journal I wrote about a man who in my mind I knew to be my uncle, only he looked exactly like the actor Dennis Hopper. Or weird things will happen like a little kid picking up an ottoman with one hand and chucking it out the door and across the street, without any effort at all. My dreams are always filled with weird characters and situations. I never wake up thinking the dream was pleasant or realistic or fantastical...I usually just wake up thinking "What the hell what THAT about?" ;)

Yeah, I'm still here...and so is Formspring, apparently. They haven't updated their "Important Message" in a while, so I have no idea what the future holds for Formspring yet. But it does feel sort of dead around here lately.