Make me less ignorant

[Pekka]

So I want to learn something about you. Well not YOU, but something about you.
1. Where do you come from. Country.
2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.
3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?
4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)
5. Marital status
6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Thanks.

[Pekka]

Agh forgot few questions:

7. What is your favourite hobby?
8. What is the most proud moment of your life? The highlight.
9. Your worst bad habit

That's it.

[Stuie]

1. USA
2. Guess.
3. I'm an atheist. It differs from Christianity in the fact that I don't believe the Judeo-Christian mythology is "real" and I don't believe there is a supreme being that created stuff and we should abase ourselves before. Simply, there is no god.
4. Oxymoron. Although "cartography" has a nice ring to it.
5. Married, three kids, one more on the way, vasectomy a week ago Thursday.
6. 5k. Anything longer and I'd probably pass out.

[Stuie]

7. Computer games.
8. [this is just a placeholder - I'll have to come back later]
9. Alcoholism.

[Pekka]

Stuie, thanks! Answer the rest of the questions if you have time too...
What is 5k? Is that like UltraHyper KKK ?

[FrustratedPoet]

1. UK
2. Small rainy island. Population is about 70 million or something. No shortage of living celebrities, if you can't name 10 yourself then you probably live on Mars. English people are a paradox: humble and self-effacing, and also arrogantly imperialistic; famed both for our sense of humour and joviality, but also for being stuck-up and far too serious.
5. Unmarried, but in a long-term relationship. Not gay, despite what some might have you believe.
7. Watching or playing soccer; reading; computer games.
8. I honestly have no idea, which now I think of it is incredibly pathetic.
9. I tend to ignore parts of surveys that I find dull.

[cinch]

How mysterious.

1. Where do you come from. Country.

Canada.

2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.

It's a cold, barren wasteland filled with maple syrup and socialism.

Actually, it's a large country with a varied climate. The population hovers around 30million. Most of our celebrities are exported to America (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Donald Sutherland, Pamela Anderson, Michael J. Fox, Phil Hartman, etc.).

As for celebs who are known mostly in Canada.... uh... well, our culture is so Americanized it's hard to say, so I'd have to go with folks like... Rick Mercer (TV Comedian), Don Cherry (Hockey personality), and... Sean Cullen? Well, I think he's pretty funny, anyway.

Hmmm... Who am I missing? Gordon Pinsent? Shawn Majumder? Christopher Plummer? Yeah.

Let's see, what else... Hockey is extremely popular, with football (CFL) being a distant second. Baseball is growing in popularity, and I suppose basketball has a steady following.

The 'center line' of our national political spectrum is to the left of the United Statesians. State health care is taken as standard and the welfare state is still fairly firmly entrenched, so things seem to be trending away from this.

We also have a brand of chips called "Old Dutch", which are quite tasty, though perhaps the uberconglomerate of Hostess-FritoLay has surpassed them at times.

Yeah.


3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?

I'm a spiritual free agent. I don't want to get into the buzzwords, really, so I'll just say I'm not an atheist.

4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)

Toggle.

5. Marital status

Single.

6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Homo sapiens sapiens.

approx. 35000 ya-- we finish off those damn neanderthals
approx 10000ya-- we discover domestication
approx 5ya-- we invent TIVO

We have reached the pinnacle my friends.

[Immortal Wombat]

1. UK
2. Those of who aren't sociopathic xenophobes are apathetic and cynical.
3. I put Christian on the forms. I'm developing my own philosophy based on the irrelevance of deitic existence, and the maxim of not being a jackass.
4. Ambiguous
5. Unmarried.
6. British. We conquered the world just to prove we could, and then gave it back.
7. Extreme Lifepervading Randomness
8. Having sat and thought about this question for several minutes, I either conclude I have no pride, or I've wasted my life.
9. Apolyton

[Nubclear]

1. Russia.
2. It's a very nice country Russians are typically very intelligent but closed minded. We tend to be divided into two groups: Really nice people and really bad people. Nice people will allow a stranger to come in for lunch Bad people kidnap tourists and hold them for ransom. A lot of your pirated games come from Russia. We have an annoying tendency to steal things.
I'm out of touch with Russian modern culture. The population is in decline but were over the 100mil mark I believe.
3. Monotheisic Buddhist Universalist. Basically: I believe in buddhist teachings, I'm a universalist, and I believe in one god.
4. I don't have favourite words, in any language
5. Married.
6. White or Russo-Indian, depending on what you mean. Russians were/are a ***** to the United States. Indians were/are a ***** to Pakistan.
7. I love writing.
8. Um...I don't know.
9. I tend to pick at my lips until they bleed. This leads people to believe I'm some sort of vampire.

Now you fill the form, Pekka

[Verres]

1. England
2. umm...I'm guessing you already know. Afternoon tea and public schools
3. Officially Roman Catholic; and I do like all the ritual, symbolism, belief in hell/purgatory etc...but being realistic I would have to say I dont actually practice any religion.
4. Pretentious
5. Unmarried; but certainly not single
6. A rather odd mixture....some French and Irish with a bit of English thrown in. Nothing im particularly proud of.
7. Films
8. Never really felt 'proud' as such...
9. Not talking to people face to face.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
8. Having sat and thought about this question for several minutes, I either conclude I have no pride, or I've wasted my life.

Snap

[Pekka]

Great answers everyone I know so much more about the ones who answered . Keep'em coming.

It's also interesting that no one has answered to question number 8 yet .

[Asher]

Re: Make me less ignorant

Originally posted by Pekka
1. Where do you come from. Country.

The Empire of Canadia.

2. What is that country like? Some specs please. Population, few celebs if you have, and what is typical to your country and your countrymen? Nice things preferred.

Cold and huge. We have no culture.

3. What is your religion and what are the basics of it. How it differs from Christianity?

Agnostic.

4. Your favourite word (and can't be curse word)

Abomination

5. Marital status

Seeing someone.

6. Race. What is the quick history of your races most important things in history?

Caucasian -- I think we invented hockey.

7. What is your favourite hobby?

Computer.

8. What is the most proud moment of your life? The highlight.

Coming out to my family.

9. Your worst bad habit

Apolyton

[FrustratedPoet]

Finally somebody has done something in their life worth being proud about. I knew somebody must have.

[Verres]

Oooo I have an answer for number 8!

Hitting my (ex)best friend so hard it made her nose bleed when we were walking dow the street and she shouted racial abuse at a family walking past. Yes, i know violence isnt the answer...but everyone loved me for it really