This Is This

I saw this and thought of me. This quiz was online and I took out some of the more personal questions about sex and regret and crap like which historical figure you most admire and the ones which you answer and they make you look like you are showing off.

But you’ll get an idea. Ask yourself these questions sometime. It’s not easy.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting outside with people I love

2. What is your greatest fear?
Without going into too much detail, feeling helpless while others suffer.

3. Which living person do you most admire and why?
The Dalai Lama for his humility, eloquence and good nature.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
The way I start something with the interntion of finishing it and then too easily get

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Apathy

6. What has been your most embarrassing moment?
1977 -I thought I saw my mother out of the corner of my eye. I tugged her sleeve and called said “Mummy” and when I looked up it was this long haired biker guy.

7. What vehicles do you own?
A four wheel drive thing and a bicycle.

8. What is your greatest extravagance?
Cuban cigars and Peroni beer

9. What objects do you always carry with you?
Keys, phone, wallet containing: organ donor card, picture of kids, note from wife, fortune cookie from a New York Chinese restaurant which says “The day will happen whether or not you get up”

10. Where would you like to live?
Distance and expense being equal, I’d say Seward, Alaska hands down.

11. What makes you depressed?
Lack of sunshine and boredom. Contradicts the above I know. I’m a complex individual.

12. What is your most unappealing habit?
Going off in my own little world or behaving in ways which don’t make me or others happy.

13. What are your favourite smell?
Italian food, fresh bread, chickory coffee

14. What is your favourite word?
Time

15. What is your favourite building?
Goodison Park

16. What is your favourite journey?
Driving from Nice to Italy on the basse corniche

17. What is your favourite book?
The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson

18. What is your favourite fantasy?
Complete financial security, perfect health and never having to sleep.

19. How will you vote in the next election?
That is a good question. I don’t know the answer. I think Labour need a good spell in the wilderness, but I don’t want to see my country go to ruin.

20. Should the Royal Family be scrapped?
No, but they should be equal to the rest of us. Until that happens, the whole argument of everyone being born equal is just bullshit.

21. Do you believe in capital punishment?
No

22. For what cause would you die?
I would die to save the lives of others. How many? Depends. A mum and a dad maybe, 25 strangers, a heart surgeon, one child? Tricky to say, but answers like “freedom” are just too glib.

23. Do you believe in monogamy?
Yes, but I think people enter into it lightly or don’t take it seriously

24. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My family

25. Which living person do you most despise and why?
Bernie Ecclestone for being greedy and cunning

26. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Discipline

27. Have you ever said “I love you” without meaning it?
No

28. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Cheers, fuck, jesus, right

29. How do you relax?
Playing guitar, gardening

30. What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Not having to work for a living, although I would still work.

31. What would your motto be?
Per ardua ad astra (Through our struggle, the stars)

32. What keeps you awake at night?
Things left undone.

33. How would you like to die?
Suddenly, without pain and with no regret. Also something clean and quiet. I’d like the death itself to be low-key.

34. Do you believe in life after death?
No, not as such, but I believe your spirit continues after you are gone. If it doesn?t then the laws of energy are wrong.

35. How would you like to be remembered?
That Cliff - nice guy.

36. What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
You get one shot - use your time constructively, productively, be strong but remain flexible and always trust your instincts.

Pop Quiz (Introspective) A clunky title, I admit, and it was originally “Introspective Pop Quiz” until I thought it sounded like a questionnaire about The Smiths back catalogue. The quiz is introspective, not the pop. Right? Well then maybe I should scrap it then and not have a quiz at all. Is that what you want? Why do you have to be so difficult? You don’t understand me.

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