Sunday, March 04, 2007

Yet another political quiz

Yet another political quiz. I get:

Overall, the PoliticsForum quiz considers you a materialist, small-government, internationalist, free-trade, kind of person. These characteristics would put you in the overall category of libertarian.

On each indicator I get (/100):

Individual/Social 42
Theist/Materialist 63
Big/Small government 88
Nationalist/Internationalist 91
Protectionist/Free Trader 84
Absolutist/Non-Absolutist 55
Controlled/Liberal Market 54
Marxist/Non-Marxist 59

[Hat-tip to Antonia Bance]

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Sunday, December 24, 2006

10 things I will never do...

Paul Linford tagged me ages ago with this... Bit of a hard one since never say never... but... in no particular order:

1. Conform
2. Vote BNP
3. Mark Oaten, 'acts of unspeakable degradation'... Do I need to say any more?
4. Buy a Mills & Boon novel (do those things still exist?)
5. Eat octopus (or pulpo in Spanish)... or eel...
6. Grow a beard
7. Read "That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between"
8. Take a vow of silence
9. Knit bootees
10. A PhD (again)

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

All memed out - feline edition

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

  • Finish my thesis
  • Learn to sing
  • Get my French up to the point where I can read Volatire, Montesquieu and Condorcet in the original language, then do so
  • Drive across America
  • Play in the main event at the World Series of Poker
  • Get elected to public office
  • Go to my childrens' weddings and my grandchildrens' christenings

7 THINGS I CANNOT DO

  • Suffer fools gladly
  • Feel your pain, unless I caused it
  • Play any sport involving co-ordination
  • Keep in touch with old friends as often as they deserve
  • Read on trains with greater than 80% recall
  • Understand Christians, despite having spent a term studying theology as part of history A-level
  • Work hard without the pressure of deadlines
7 THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO LONDON
  • Mummy
  • Daddy
  • My sister
  • My friends
  • Fond memories of a well-spent youth
  • Every period in history and every country in the world is there to see if you look for it
  • Knowing that you are in the world's greatest city

THINGS I OFTEN SAY

  • You are looking at the world as it should be, not as it is
  • My soul is only for sale to the highest bidder
  • Yes, that's right, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq too(to someone making implausible factual claims in political debate)
  • Dogs are evil and should be put down at birth
  • Awwwwwwwwwww (about cats)
  • Can I get back to you about that?
  • Excuse me

7 BOOKS THAT I LOVE

  • The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
  • The Ender Saga - Orson Scott Card
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • August 1914- Barbara Tuchman
  • The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  • Great Liberal Speeches - ed. Duncan Brack & Tony Little
  • Parliament of Whores - P.J. O'Rourke

7 MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN

  • Casablanca
  • Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • The Snatch
  • Shrek
  • Any Bond movie starring Sean Connery
  • Men in Black

7 PEOPLE I WANT TO JOIN IN TOO

I'm going to cheat on this one - Liberal England's tag was to both of us together, so there should only be 7 outgoing tags. To replace the one Femme-de-R passed to me, I tag Will Howells

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