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Are you a New Puritan?

Peterkro said:
...how can humans be this dumb and yet almost each and every single one think they are a celebrity in the making....
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:D I think you've answered your own question. Most celebrities are not intellectual powerhouses.

-kev
 
Feel free to be a puritan, just don't expect me to be one too. And don't try to make me be one, that's where I really take offense.
 
2 A; 3 B; 3 C

What on earth am I? Actually, I think this caught me a bit off guard. I noticed that the 'quiz' gets more wacky as it goes along. Both A's were in the first three questions. The problem is that for someone who believes in personal responsibility, the early questions are about you, the later about dealing with others.
 
I'm with Nickygoat and Applespider.

I'll admit I don't understand committing property damage to make a holier-than-thou point, like deflating SUV tires. Pointless and stupid.

However, I agree that I don't want to pay for anyone's self-inflicted diabetes treatments, either through some government (taxpayer) funded healthcare or privately funded healthcare (to which group I might belong). Not to say that McD's (customers) should pay a tax either. People who intentionally put themselves at higher risk should pay more for healthcare coverage. Example -- hospitals should be easily able to recover their costs by going after the assets of any motorcyclist who suffers a head injury whilst choosing not to wear a helmet. I'm "live and let live" if something truly affects no one else but the one person. Unfortunately, that is a rare situation.

I'm close to an "A" on the dog one -- though without the lecture, and most likely I would render the charging dog unconscious with a well-placed bullet.
 
7 Your best friend has been piling on the pounds. You bump into her in the high street - she's coming out of a fast food restaurant. Do you:

a) Throw her food in a bin - saving the plastic container for recycling - then lecture her on how you don't want to pay for her future diabetes treatment
b) Persuade her to go back in and swap the burger for a new Ranch salad and water
c) Cheerfully say hello and ask if you can have a chicken wing
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I was really thinking like an A tonight. I got on the bus home and a woman got on behind me. She was huge; it would have taken 3 of my thighs to make up one of hers. Her butt took up 2 seats but she managed to overhang into a third (it was the back row of the bus). My seat faced as opposed to being next to. She was speaking to someone at home to let them know she'd be back in 30 minutes for dinner.

Then she pulled out a bottle of bright pink fizzy juice that look laden in sugar and a big box of fried chicken, squirted 3 sachets of ketchup in and started munching. She tore off the main meat on the drumstick and then put most of it in her mouth to suck off anything else worth having before spitting it out back into the box. She dropped a couple of bits of chicken onto the highest protruding roll of fat (below her breasts) which, after she'd eaten all the chicken, she hoovered up too.

I confess, very big A thoughts...
 
One A, Four B's, Three C's. A healthy balance :) As for the absinthe... well, let's just say I'll be enjoying myself an awful lot when I'm in Paris next month...
 
I think my ideas are sort of a combination of those iGary and Wintermute had...live and let live and don't get involved with the stupid, heaving throng that is the human race. :p
 
I hate all these new grouping thingies. I saw this thread knocking around here but only took interest after reading an article in some magazine.

Basically I dont drink alcohol, mainly mineral water. if im going somewhere within walking distance; I'll walk. I love dogs though. I love working hard on something, pushing my limits and all that. BUT! This is what gets me; NEW puritan? I've been doing that since I was 15. Call me whatever but I don't see the point in doing pointless things that make our planet or bodies any worse. Thats why me or my mates don't go out drinking. we go jogging, rock climbing, rafting or paintballing. that sort of thing.

New? pah! I just call it no nonsense living.
Maybe I just get my kicks hearing about yet another drunk in trouble.

EDIT: actually im mostly B's. A-3, B-4, C-1 (i'd let my dog get into a fight! go Muffy!).
 
raggedjimmi said:
Thats why me or my mates don't go out drinking. we go jogging, rock climbing, rafting or paintballing. that sort of thing.
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I think people would have a lot more fun if they spent more time doing your kind of activities than the same old alcohol based activities.

That said, I wouldn't want to be straight-edge all the time, and I'm glad most people don't either.
 
QCassidy352 said:
A is A. (But "A" people on this poll suck. :p )

Anyone want to guess who my favorite author is? :)
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Ayn Rand.


Or, Aristotle.

Or both...



As for me, I am not a new puritan, but I do have an inner puritan who makes me turn red when coversation turns risque....
 
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