A low obligation meme

[sqbr]

Recently there have been a spate of "Reply to this post and I'll tell you 3 things I love about you, then post in your lj" posts, which I haven't replied to since neither part of it appeals to me (consumed as I am with hate and bile. No offense intended to those of you who aren't :)) On the whole I find those "reply to this" posts a bit scary, since there's so much baggage with replying when what I want to say is generally something tangential like "These memes are scary" or a reply to someone else's comment.

Anyway, I came up with an alternative:
Reply to this post (NOT one of the comments, or it'll all get confused) with a question. Then post a separate comment with an answer to the question immediately above yours, as a reply to the comment containing the question.

Everyone is free to answer as many questions as they feel like whether or not they post any. I guess that technically, if you want you can also post extra questions (or whatever) in the comments to other replies, but I probably will refuse to answer them on principle :P

To repeat: Each question is a separate comment to this post, with all the replies to that question being replies to that comment. You are only obliged to reply to the question posted immediately before your own (that way everyone gets at least one answer)(*)

There is no obligation to post this in your own lj(**). There is also no obligation on me to reply to any of the questions, though I probably will.

(First question is in the comments)

(*) If it assumes things that don't apply, ie you're colourblind and it asks what your favourite colour is, make up a similar question and answer that instead :)
(**)Making it a rather evolutionarily unfit meme. Especially because it turns out to be a lot harder for people to grasp than I expected (I've edited three times for clarity already)

Comments

So....

[alias_sqbr]

What should you be doing right now instead of reading lj?

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[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Booking a room for some interviews.

Would you put up a cheesecake/beefcake calendar at work, and would you object if a colleague did?

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[ilumiari.livejournal.com]

Cheesecake would be fine, I have no idea what a beefcake is, but probably no.

What is the scariest horror movie you've ever seen?

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[alias_sqbr]

Oops, should have said: the question has to be in a separate comment otherwise it'll get all confused. I will answer it if you do that :)

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[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Beefcake = same as cheesecake, only with boys.

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Repeating the above qn:

Would you put up a cheesecake/beefcake calendar at work, and would you object if a colleague did?

(No reason.)

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[ilumiari.livejournal.com]

I think I'm missing something here...

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[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Uh - Princeton Wordnet has "a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire." Basically, a girly calendar; the step before soft porn.

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[ilumiari.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. I've never come across that before. Thankyou for providing me with my knowledge of the day.

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[alias_sqbr]

Hm. I clearly did not explain this clearly (I was editing the post while you replied!). You need to post your question in a separate comment, or it'll very quickly turn into a confusing mess where noone can find the previous question!

I promise to answer your question if you repost it :)

(That said, I think having it as one long thread would be kind of cool, but that's not what I had in mind and dammit it's my meme! *stamps foot*)

[alias_sqbr]

I totally would not, ever. For a start, my taste in men is not generally reflected by those sorts of calenders. Also I try not to do things which will bug other people.

As to whether I'd object, well...I probably wouldn't like it that much, but I think it would depend on circumstances and the nature of the calender. (Also I'm pretty passive, so if they didn't respond to me complaining to them would probably just quietly seethe).

For example, my female Phd supervisor had a firemen calender in her office, and they looked really happy and healthy, and the proceeds all went to charity, so it didn't bug me (I can't speak for her male students :)) I don't think I'd mind a female version of that.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Why is alias_sqbr so annoyingly meta- about things like this?

[alias_sqbr]

Hey, we can't all be big irrational softies like you.

But I blame my genes. Being unemotional, annoying, and overly analytical run as deeply in my family as being short, dumpy and brown-haired.

And way to give the next person a hard time answering the question without implicitly insulting me (of course, they may see this as a plus...)

*resists urge to reply with "Why is ataxi such a big meanie?" because I am above that sort of thing unlike some people*

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Mm. My colleagues have just put up a fireman calendar, and have said they'd be ok with the female equivalent.

But, I'm not particularly offended, and by and large prefer my Dalek calendar, so it's a non-issue. But it got me thinking. :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

No.

How would you improve democracy?

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[flyingmopsy.livejournal.com]

Studying. Doing dermatology and self-diagnosing my skin lesions at the moment.

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[alias_sqbr]

It took me quite a while to figure it out, since I first encountered the word in a webcomic which would do regular "gratuitous cheesecake comics" of a female character, scantily dressed....holding a cheesecake :)

[alias_sqbr]

You know it's a pity, that's an interesting question but I can't answer it because you POSTED IT IN THE WRONG PLACE. THIS ARE SRS MEME U NO.

Of course the fact that every question poster so far has done this is perhaps a sign I didn't explain it very well....(Or you're being annoying on purpose. Or both. Or neither. Or all of the above!)

Either the wind is not southerly, or I'm not really looking at a hawk and a handsaw ...

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

"Reply to this post (NOT one of the comments, or it'll all get confused) with a question. Then post a separate comment with an answer to the question immediately above yours, as a reply to the comment containing the question. "

I think you explained what we did with great clarity. What you're now talking about, I have absolutely no idea!

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

"Being unemotional, annoying, and overly analytical run as deeply in my family as being short, dumpy and brown-haired"

Are you related to Woody Allen by any chance?

*ducks*

Still, it would've mean nice to see you play this meme with a straight bat!

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[tevriel.livejournal.com]

Washing my hair.

[tevriel.livejournal.com]

What's your favourite geek joke?

(Mine is still "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.")

[tevriel.livejournal.com]

I think it's part and parcel of the intellectual rigour that let her become A DOCTOR.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

So, how would you improve democracy?

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

*is deafened by the sound of heavyweight credentials being slammed down onto a resonant surface*