Bernard Pivot Questionnaire

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

This post is an answer to Roger’s Blaugust post. I also like quizzes and questionnaires, so here’s my answers to the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire (the post byRoger omits question 4, but I’ve answered all 10 here).

Q1: What is your favourite word?

There’s lots of Scots words that I like – dreich is one that I use a lot as it describes so many Glasgow days.

Q2: What is your least favourite word?

Any word that describes dead animals. Steak, yuck!

Q3: What turns you on?

Any creative challenges, like the Daily Create and anything else inspired by the DS106 community, or the annual calendar that we do as CLMOOC.  Talking about remix and bricolage, and writing about it.

Q4: What turns you off?

Selfish behaviour of any type. Arrogant arses taking others for granted. Competitive games. All sport.

Q5: What sound do you love?

The sound of a cat curled up in an Amaxon box licking a paw. It expresses safety and comfort.

Q6: What sound do you hate?

Any song by Dido. She’s awful.

Q7: What is your favourite curse word?

I like the phrase ‘hell’s bells and buckets of blood’. Dad used to say it when I as young, and I still hear it in his voice.

Q8: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

I’d quite like to have been a politician. Not one of the self-serving ones that are the majority at the moment, one that actually believed in “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Actually, I’d really have preferred to live in a real anarchist society, or a direct democracy, but that’s a thought to another post.

Q9: What profession would you not like to participate in?

Anything to do with sales or marketing. I did some sales jobs when I was young – I wasn’t very good at them.

Q10: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

Well, I could quip here about god being a woman. But given all of the evil in this world I’d be too busy shouting at her to hear what she was saying. I used to really enjoy teaching philosophy of religion, and I do think the problem of evil is proof that the theistic god does not exist.