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[rosiedoes]

Seeing as I'm bored...

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

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[edgiko.livejournal.com]

You may or may have not told me, but why did you become sxe?

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Because intoxicated people make me want to punch them in the face and it seemed a bit hypocritical not to.

[vinagrette.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha - I know this is a serious answer but it is A - an excellent reason and B - amusingly put.

I think you're the only person I know who is sxe but I think it's pretty cool. <3

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dude. A lot of my friends are becoming straight edge, now.

[tiny-tear.livejournal.com]

relating to what you said above, I think the problem with some people is they don't know to limit themselves to one drink.

many times I go to a pub and have one drink, and then water for the rest of the time. I don't find it amusing to be totally pissed anymore. but many people I know only drink to get drunk, they don't even enjoy the taste... I do like the taste of a good wine, so I do drink - but I know when to stop, even if it's just one glass

[zeenell]

Hmmm. What's your favorite Book? Fic?

What book, or poem, or quote holds the most meaning to you?

Maybe not something that should be obvious, but it's always interesting to see the answers.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

My favourite books: Jarhead by Anthony Swofford (also my favourite film); Notes from A Small Island, by Bill Bryson; Band of Brothers by Stephen E.Ambrose (I have the jumpwings of the US Airborne Paratroopers the book - which is a true story - follows, tattooed on the back of my neck). The military books are because the military is just something that has always moved me. I was going to go into the RAF at 16, but was eventually unable. I spent four years in the Air Training Corps, before that, learning to fly and being prepped for service.

Band of Brothers, set toward the end of WWII, and Jarhed, set in the Gulf War, are such deeply contrasting stories. The last Good War - the last war which felt as though it had true moral foundation, with its honourable and humble every-day men, fighting with their brothers for the world we live in today - versus the oil war of the early 1990s, and the tedium and frustration of career marines who are brainwashed to believe in what they do.

I would definitely recommend reading or watching both, if you can.

As for my favourite poem, there is only one I ever remembered - ever memorised - and that I first heard on another war movie, based in fact - Memphis Belle. The plane the film is about is my all-time favourite aircraft evereverver; the B17 Flying Fortress. An absolutely amazing craft (see icon).

The poem itself was 'An Irish Airman Forsees His Death', by W.B. Yeats. I'll type it from memory.

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above.
Those I fight I do not hate,
Those I guard, I do not love.

My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor;
No likely end could bring them loss,
Or leave them happier than before.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight;
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.
A lowly impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

I balanced all, brought all to mind.
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind,
In balance with this life, this death.