Interests (though possibly not interesting) meme

[puddingcat]

Stolen from snapesbabe while she wasn't looking.
Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have less than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between 50 and 75 interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over 75 interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.

1. Beer
Mmm, beer. Though I don't much like bitter. Wheat beers & fruit beers & good old wifebeater. Gets me drunk as a skunk on a pint and a half - unlike wine, which plays dead until I've had too much to do anything about it.

2. Bobbin lace
I can make this. I like Bucks point best (its based on 60% angles) although Torchon's quick & easy, and Honiton's pretty for pictures & stuff. Beds is horrible & ugly.

3. Chocolate bottoms
Because of the valentine chocolate heart I got a few years ago. Held upside down, the curvy bit looked just like a pair of buttocks :) And face it, bottoms are much nicer than hearts.

4.Denial
Who needs reality? Well, so long as I know *somewhere* in my head that I'm in denial, daydreaming's a wonderful thing :)

5.Flaming Bentleys
Not a new cocktail (a classier version of the Flaming Lamborghini?) but a reference to the other Good Book, Good Omens by Messrs. Pratchett & Gaiman. Mmmm, Bentleys :)

6. Hammond / May.
Believe it or not, not all fandom involves rampant, unlikely sex with no sweat or squelchy noises. For example, Hammond/May and the thoroughly old-married-couple relationship they have on Top Gear. Pure chemistry without nudity :)

7. Karate
From before I had my worst broken. It was great fun, until the style changed to a more freestyle streetfighting one; I don't like sparring, but loved the discipline of kata.

8. Lucifer
Both the Alan Moore graphic novel series, but also the general idea of the original fallen angel. Even though I'm a hardcore atheist, I like the idea of a beautiful creation that gets in trouble for thinking for itself.

9. Music
Pretty much anything, done well. I have a good ear, and like learning new instruments. I'd love to try piano, if they weren't so pricy. One of the best courses at uni was S&M (sound & music) which covered the physics of sound waves, vibrations, harmonics, and the beginnings of music theory from a mathematical point of view.

10. Plastic surgery
I've had some; I'd have more if I could afford it. No different from piercings, tattoos, or gym memberships, imo.

11. Rocket science
After the following conversation during a deferred tax course:
"Jenny, it's not rocket science!"
"I wish it was, then I might understand it better.."

12. Shoes
Mmmm, shoes :) Not with ankle straps though - make anyone's legs look short & fat.

13.The Wheel of Liz
nurse_liz is fantastic and has her own fan club. 'Nuff said.

14.Werewolves
Initially because of Remus Lupin, but also cos I like the variety of myths depending where in the world they come from. And without werewolves, we'd never have had the idea of werekittens or werehamsters :)

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I used to make bobbin lace when I was a young un but I doubt I could do it now. I still have a few bits of the stuff lying about though.

Old-married-couple relationship = lots of sweating and squelchy noises and falling asleep straight afterwards?

;)

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking, nice comfortable knowing-each-other-inside-out (but not literally) with the odd weekend away, but a distict lack of horizontal intimacy.

But then I'm not married, so don't know what I'm talking about ;)

[claire-wain.livejournal.com]

In my experience, marriage contains a distinct lack of horizontal intimacy. ;P

Bobbin lace? Cool! I always thought it seemed too fiddly and complicated. Maybe you need a maths-brain for bobbin lace?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I can certainly get you all the beginning stuff you need; Mum has just about every book ever published & loads of beginner-style bits & pieces. From what I remember, you can *make* it if you understand thread tension, and can put either left-over-right, or right-over-left. Designing's harder, but still more about drawing lines than maths :)

[wendy-lady.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to learn bobbin lace. Maybe when you eventually make it out to see me, you can teach me!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

When I get out there, sure! I remember teaching my old biology teacher...