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  • Do you have a unique pet name for your sweetheart?

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  • Yes. But you have to understand - to my mind, the purpose of a pet name is to entertain me, while mildly annoying her, by being unforgivably twee.

    I call her my little Smoddy-Dimble.

  • What's a strange food combination you love?

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  • It looks like most of the strange combos in the thread are variations on the theme of sweet + savoury. Lives up to the premise - that's weird and bad and wrong.

  • Do you have any tattoos, piercings, or scars that you regret?

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  • I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that's how I learned I'm allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.

  • How many countries have you been to?

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  • I've been back and forth to Australia, because I have family there. Melbourne and a dusty little coastal town in South Australia called Whyalla. I've also attended a Worldcon there, and I think, accidentally insulted Charles Stross.

    I've also been on a month-long trip to Europe which covered the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. I fell in love with each and every one of those countries as I toured through them, although it was a little bit disappointing to be trapped in Essen while my wife attended Der Spiel because of a public transport strike.

    We had plans for a trip to the US next year, which may not happen now. Perhaps we'll head back to Europe.

  • The best Admiral Starfleet ever had

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  • That's not a high bar, though. To be the best you just need to not get infected by an alien worm parasite or betray your organisation's founding principles for the prospect of immortality.

  • Apparently a right-wing deacon said this

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  • Who's the other guy?

  • Apparently a right-wing deacon said this

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  • Yeah, it was the moneychangers and the stall keepers that tolerated them.

    It was a religious duty to contribute money for the upkeep of the temple. So people would come from out of town and try to hand over their cash and the priests would say "we can't accept foreign coinage... go talk to that dude over there with the heavy pockets, he'll help you". And the moneychanger would convert their currency, but not without keeping a fat percentage for himself.

    The lesson (as I read it) is that setting yourself up as a gatekeeper and forcing people to pay you in order to do the right thing is an especially odious behaviour, even if it's legal.

  • 🙂 - Adam Ellis

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  • Look closer at the third panel.

  • 🙂 - Adam Ellis

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  • Is exaggeration for humour something you're unaware of?

  • Besides a tourist trap, what would you do if you found yourself with a puzzle house surrounded by a maze?

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  • Solve the puzzles. One of them's gotta lead to a magical fantasy kingdom.

  • How is your closet organized?

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  • ...you can do that?

  • In an effort to be more positive amidst all the negativity and bad stuff going on right now, what are you looking forward to?

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  • I'm taking three days of annual leave between Easter and ANZAC day next month. I'll be out of the office eleven days straight. Time to properly unwind.

  • People outside the US, do you still consider America a democracy?

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  • Not for quite some time now. Not since I learned about the electoral college.

  • What's your version of "I DON'T like it but I do like people who do like it"?

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  • Boardgaming. I play an occasional boardgame with my friends, but I'm not searching youtube clips for strategies, importing first-print Euro games in the original German and printing English-language stickers for the boards, or watching Essen livestreams every year.

  • It's like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up hill

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  • "One must imagine Sisyphus happy".

  • What redditisms do you hope don't come to lemmy?

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  • Karma-farming. Please lets just be our genuine, authentic, awful selves.

  • Did you (like me) take up drinking Earl Grey because it was Picard's beverage?

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  • I tried it because it was the captain's favourite. Regrettably, bergamot oil is not for me.

  • Why is it that you can't buy a 2 Liter container of beer or coffee?

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  • If you're buying two litres of cider, it's not because you like cider.

  • Why is it that you can't buy a 2 Liter container of beer or coffee?

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  • You can buy 2L beer containers in New Zealand, but they're a specialty item. Largest I've ever seen at the supermarket or bottle shop is 1L.

    As for coffee, it's probably because our laws are weirdly restrictive on how much caffeine you can have in one drink. Energy drinks can't contain more than an equal amount of coffee, for example.