Description : What bad habits are you successfully controling?
Last Answer : Eating sweets more than once a week.
Description : How much time do you spend thinking about how you’re going to spend the day?
Last Answer : Maybe two minutes as I have a long list of things to get done: Projects: Researching a Family History lead. Cross Stitch kits (2) to finish, Get an early start on Spring Cleaning ( did some already ... on the go and can choose to do this or sometimes just relax listening to music once in a while.
Description : What is one habit that has changed your life for the better?
Last Answer : Walking regularly.
Description : Do you have any habits that your friends or relatives think are gross?
Last Answer : When I talk with someone, I absent mindedly scratch at the psoriasis on my elbows. They haven’t said anything, but my wife motions to me to stop. Oddly, this same thing disgusted me when my Mom did it.
Description : When loading your dishwasher's silverware basket, do you pre-sort the silver (forks with forks, spoons with spoons) or do you randomly place them?
Last Answer : Haha, No. It does not make too much difference when they get sorted anyway. It’s pretty random at my place. It’s probably better random so that things don’t stick together and prevent proper cleaning. All surfaces need to be exposed.
Description : Why bad habits are easy to create and so hard to break?
Last Answer : Same reason good habits are easy to create and hard to break. How easy would it be to suddenly stop hooking up a seat belt?
Description : What were the habits you had in childhood for which you were punished?
Last Answer : I was a picky eater. My food could not touch and if it did, I wouldn’t eat it. I had to sit at the table until I ate. I never would. So then I went without dinner. But my dad would sneak in a peanut butter sandwich to me after I was sent to bed. I think he was worried that I didn’t eat.
Description : Old habits die hard?
Last Answer : answer:Your mother was right though. Splitting with a fork helps create those delicious nooks and crannies that attract butter! After marrying, I switched from my Mom's way for folding socks and t-shirts ... router and then that I would not think about it again until after the dental work was done.
Description : What are the things you have picked up from your parents?
Last Answer : When I grew up with my mom, I learned not to wake up till 10am. Even on school days. My grandpa taught me to stay awake till after the weather news at 10pm. With my mom I learned to watch educational ... read text books for fun. My dad taught me to love Star Trek and Star Wars, and TV in general.
Description : Fluff time: is it easier to pick up a habit or break one?
Last Answer : Harder to break. I’ve been trying cut back on my soda intake but it’s been really difficult.
Description : Ok, you are in the shower, how do you handle the 'leg situation'?
Last Answer : I bend over to soap and scrub my legs, but I lift my foot to wash my soles. And I use a washcloth.
Description : What are some strange, irrational things about you?
Last Answer : - I love sleeping, but I can't sleep early. - I love socializing, but I refuse to hang out with a group. - I can be talkative to some but taciturn to others. - I can eat any kind of seafood, but I can't ... I'm a funny person, but I'm no good at writing a funny story (I do better with a sad story).
Description : Can you name one habit that has changed your life drastically?
Last Answer : Checking Fluther constantly. It is positive, I need the company.
Description : Do you have any useful methods for seeing?
Last Answer : If you half close your eyes (squint) on a pixelated image, the picture becomes clearer. So much so that the subject can be readily identified.
Description : If neatness can be obsessive compulsive, what is the term for someone who is the ultimate in messiness?
Last Answer : A hoarder?
Description : Women: does your purse fairly accurately reflect how much of a neatnick or slob you are?
Last Answer : answer:Yes, and we sound very similar. My handbag is organised but messy. I know where things are but it's not beautifully organised. I remember seeing this insert you could put in your bag so everything was ... in my house. I find when I do organise things that way, I keep things a lot tidier.
Description : What do you only do because it's habitual?
Last Answer : Fluther, ha.
Description : How disorganized or organized are you, and how much of the organizing is work?
Last Answer : I would say I'm a 1.5. I have no natural tendencies toward neatness and it is a constant battle. All of the activities you listed, I would consider straightening up work. I have actually been thinking lately ... help, I think we probably just have too much stuff and need to get rid of some of it.
Description : When do you glance at the toilet paper holder?
Last Answer : A
Description : Do you have any habits most people find peculiar?
Last Answer : I much prefer looking at the night sky to watching television. I’m very out of touch with pop culture as a result of that; and I’m sure most find it very odd.
Description : Could we all sign in with our specialization?
Last Answer : rebbel – “The First” @rebbel – “The Oblivious”
Description : Did (or do) your grandparents have any odd habits?
Last Answer : answer:Sure. My grandmother rolls female babies in the family in dough, because she believes it will make them less hirsute in the future. Also, it’s supposed to be good luck. I could probably list a hundred weird little things, but that was the first one to jump to mind.
Description : What areas in your life do you seem to fail in? What can be done to change that?
Last Answer : Sleep. I have tried everything to improve my ability to sleep in and the only time I get more than 5 hours sleep is when I am camping in a tent. Must be the fresh air! ;)
Description : Do you have a way of making sure you did not leave the stove on?
Last Answer : Well, I have a smooth-top electric stove and I also have cats that like to hop up on my counters when they think I'm not looking. I keep two (attractive) tea kettles on my stove at all time, and ... their paws. If it starts whistling a little bit later, I know that I forgot to turn off the burner.
Description : What kind of rut are you in?
Last Answer : I am working on paying off a rather large student loan (almost done!), so, I’m in a broke as a joke rut.
Description : If someone were to jump the queue you were standing in, would you speak up or let it go?
Last Answer : I would ask politely if they were really ahead of me.
Description : What are some of your pet peeves?
Last Answer : answer:People who don't thank you after you've held a door open for them People who say Should of , Would of instead of Should have , Would have etc. Pointless live outside broadcasts on ... DVD warnings on DVDs I've legally bought People who throw litter from the window of a moving car.
Description : Do you have any habits caused by past experiences/situations/traumas?
Last Answer : I sleep with a pillow over my head because as a child I was always scared someone was looking in my window and I didn’t want them to see any part of my skin, not even my face.
Description : What are some things such as habits you have grown out of?
Last Answer : I don’t smoke anymore.I am glad I stopped.I don’t miss it at all.As for cartoons…I still love Bugs Bunny :)
Description : Do you have a nervous habit?
Last Answer : Chewing my toenails.
Description : Do you have a weird phobia?
Last Answer : whispering. well… its not so much a phobia as it just makes me gag. like, actually gag. i nearly throw up.
Description : Do you really practice the principle that "anything worth doing is worth doing well"?
Last Answer : If I really believed that, I wouldn't have time to do everything that needs done. Sometimes, as they say, Good enough is good enough. The things vary, depending on need and, frankly, level of ... accurate person in my department. That's worth doing well because I'm paid a premium to do so.
Description : What's your guiltiest pleasure?
Last Answer : Watching X Factor on UK TV. I admit it, I’m hooked. I despise most reality TV, but this just gets me.
Description : How do you stop a procrastinator from procrastinating?
Last Answer : I’ll tell you tomorrow.
Description : How to encourage eye contact... ?
Last Answer : try doing it in small steps. Working yourself up to it. Perhaps just look at someones face in general without specifically focussing on their eyes. See how that works out for you and go on from there ... and you will grow closer to those around you by looking in their eyes and them looking in yours.
Description : When did the practice of clapping your hands to show approval start?
Last Answer : all i can say is good question. needs investigation. probably at prehistoric times when words could not express.
Description : How can i stop cracking my knuckles/neck/toes?
Last Answer : why?
Description : Horrible habits?
Last Answer : Wearing fur. That’s the most disgusting thing I’ve seen.
Description : Which statements are characteristic of virtue ethics? A. Our character traits are easily modified, almost on a day-to-day basis if we so choose. B. Like Kantian ethical theory, virtue ethics requires that we disregard ... in his or her decision-making. E. All of the above. F. None of the above.
Last Answer : F. None of the above.
Description : According to the immoral traffic (prevention) act of 1956, which of the following is not a punishable offence a) keeping or allowing your premises to be used as brothel b) an adult earning ... a person into prostitution d) prostitution in a private place and sufficiently far from any public place
Last Answer : d) prostitution in a private place and sufficiently far from any public place
Description : Power based upon identification with a person who has desirable resources or personal traits is known as (a) Coercive power ; (b) Legitimate power ; (c) Expert power ; (d) Referent power
Last Answer : (d) Referent power
Description : Why does a person talking on the cell phone annoy more than two people having a conversation with the same amounts of volume and stupidity?
Last Answer : Maybe because you can not understand the content of the conversation. I hate listening to other people telephoning, and I am similarly annoyed by people conversing in a language that I can not understand.
Description : Why does a person talking on the cell phone annoy more than two people having a conversation (with the same amounts of volume and stupidity)?
Last Answer : answer:I find loud conversations annoying regardless of whether they are talking on their phone or face-to-face. Some people seem to underestimate the sensitivity of their phone's mic and are ... now that telephones no longer have cords and are cheap enough for practically everyone to have.
Description : Does it annoy you when the news folks are interviewing someone who is obviously not well educated, but that person uses "legal" terms like, “The vehicle impacted the side of the building”?
Last Answer : No, because I’s not a pretentious, pompous elitist.
Last Answer : Exactly. Variance in amplitude. When you hear both parties of a conversation the volume remains fairly constant and your brain can put the conversation in background and you can pretty much ignore it ( ... the unheard part of the conversation: annoys the **** out of the inconsiderate cel phoner.
Description : What character traits do you think Greek men have?
Last Answer : I try not to generalize.
Description : Do different names lend themselves to different character traits?
Last Answer : answer:There are many people who live in fear of a mere sneer by me. It completely unhinges them. They talk about it at dinner parties for hours. This is not intentional on my part, but there it is. It ... have me over for dinner. Yeah. Fearsome Wundy! No. It's not the name. Not the name at all.
Description : How can this family of four all have the same character traits?
Last Answer : Ever sit next to a lefty at the dinner table? You crack elbows the entire time! You will soon learn to eat with your left hand if you do so long enough! XD
Description : What are Batmans's character traits?
Last Answer : Sneaky, Sly, Robust, Stealthy, Intense, Mischievous, Swift,Agile, Just, Law Abiding, and most importantly nice hair.
Description : What are Bob Cratchit's character traits?
Last Answer : Loving family man, faithful, optimistic and hard working