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Braingle Interview #89: The_Spider

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The_Spider

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Posted: 10:36AM May 25, 2012

locked_in_hell wrote:

Hello.

1. What are your hobbies?

2. What is your biggest pet peeve?

3. Can I have a cookie?

4. What are your life goals?

1. MMA, Chess, WWG, Cracked.com (this site is a masterpiece) and getting other tidbits of info off the internet haha

2. Inactive WWG players

and terrible drivers, most bad drivers are just oblivious to the fact that other people are on the road, I could list so many different ways they annoy me but Ive rage stroked once already this week

3. I dont know, will it spoil your appetite?

4. Well, I dont know exactly, Id like to work my way up to Black Belt I guess. In jiu jitsu that is typicall 12-15 years not handed out to 6 year olds in like karate

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The_Spider

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Posted: 10:38AM May 25, 2012

StewieGriffin wrote:

1) Hmm,Have you ever been ob holiday?
2) If yes, what is your favourite place you ever visited.
3)Favoruite school school subject/when you were there?
4) Favourite car?
5) If you could travel back in time to meet any historic figure, who would it be and why?
6) If you don't mind a sixth question. Do you like the show How I bet your mother?

Stu.

1) Im sorry, is that what americans call vacation? Yeah...nothing really amazingly spectacular though in any of them haha. Disney World was really fun, nothing else jumps to mind, Im really boring.

2) Prbly history

3) Not really a car guy, really couldnt answer you.

5) I trapped myself into having to answer you with #2 didnt I

. Good question, Alexander the Great was always my boy. You never know how facts are distorted, and as you get older he goes more and more from being Comic Book hero to Flawed human being, but some of the stuff he did was so bad#ss, he was a winner. My favorite story is when he was attacking some Mediterranean island and the people wouldnt surrender because Alexander had no ships, so he had the men literally startt building a rock bridge out to the island. It didnt go well for the island. Id like to see a timelapse of them starting the bridge and the islanders laughing it up "Aww look at the cute little bridge they are making how adorable

" Then after about a week they realize, oh snap %$%#$ is getting real here. haha

6) Never saw it

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debc1

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Posted: 11:06AM May 25, 2012

hey dan

1. i like locked's question about life goals so other than sports, what are your life's goals?

2. are you anything like the jersey shore/jerseylicious/real housewives of new jersey people??

3. are you a sweet genius?

4. do you think you take yourself to seriously?

5. which is more important to you money or love?

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The_Spider

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Posted: 11:25AM May 25, 2012

debc1 wrote:

hey dan

1) Damn I thought I had successfully dodged admitting I have limited ambitions

I'm still young...sort of....right? Ill think of something

2) No, and I think very few actual people are haha

3) Yeah, and its about damn time people recognized it.

4) No, and how dare you ask ME that question

5) Love......unless there is some kind of scheme you're running then I want in...but then I guess I'd have both anyway

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ka-ching

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Posted: 11:35AM May 25, 2012

The_Spider wrote:

4. Well, I dont know exactly, Id like to work my way up to Black Belt I guess. In jiu jitsu that is typicall 12-15 years not handed out to 6 year olds in like karate

I felt that jab.

Would you rather have a horrible job with tolerable coworkers or a great job with unbearable ones?
Is the armbar still *your* move or have you picked another one by now?
Political question. which of the republican candidates do you hope will make the cut? [think I know the answer to this one, too]
Do you have a proven method for getting that obnoxious plastic wrapper off new CDs?
How proficient were you ever with a hacky sack?

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Smithy

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Posted: 02:24PM May 25, 2012

The_Spider wrote:

when Smithy is around, I like learning from him because his sarcasm and wit is second to none

I dont think I pulled that joke off, sorry Mentor

The sincerity was too strong for the joke to work, I think.

1. What is your proudest WWG/WTB moment?

2. (At the risk of opening a can of worms...) What was your most frustrating WWG/WTB moment?

3. Favourite WWG/WTB adversary? (Can do one for each or one overall daddy.)

4. Favourite worst movie?

5. Please sum up your political views in two or three sentences. (Pleading apathy doesn't cut it.)

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The_Spider

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Posted: 12:15PM May 26, 2012

Smithy wrote:

The_Spider wrote:

when Smithy is around, I like learning from him because his sarcasm and wit is second to none

I dont think I pulled that joke off, sorry Mentor

I know Im answering out of order but these questions are the now we're talking type

1) Proudest...hmmm there are so many many of those for me that singling out one is a bit of a monumental task you have saddled me with. As with anybody Ive had good streaks and bad streaks (good usually bad minimally

) Actually I had one moment where I was spot on but I was too big of a coward for whatever reason to simply post my theory. It involved SirHar getting eaten in round 1 and I went over the roster and I thought the only person I could see doing that was ppjones...but I sort of didnt commit to it, in the post mortem there it was, a night vote from ppjones for SirHar...WTB...I dont know....probly when I got Glade fired in the last round, but only cause Camillee was moderating...that counts for extra

2) What? I never get frustrated in WWG, thats unproffesional and unhelpful! Ive been shot as a human once (yeah Smithy THAT game :roll

Even though I was the only human really trying and the wolf I was crusading against was obvious as heck...two humans voted me for strange reasons. Also in earlier rounds (there were a lot of weird roles in that game) people made strong statements of surety about players as if their role hinted at it when no such thing existed...sorry if this was confusing haha no one cares anyway

3) WWG: Harry (Markus can lean toward more of the unfriendly rival territory

) The things he is able to figure out in the game are astounding sometimes. His best moment for me, is a game where he cleared Cab based on Longhorns post where she tried to shoot Cab then Harry (who were both human) Long story but it was very shrews, Ching - not as a rival per se, but when Im a wolf she always presents a challenge to me.

WTB: I dont know, WTB isnt really a rivals type game, do you want me to talk about how great Harry is again

4) Birdemic: SHOCK AND TERROR hands down without a doubt no questions asked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5tH_H5aN0

5) I use to have fairly strong political views but sorry to say Ive grown more and more apathetic over time. Its just hard to really care because it gets frustrating. People often engage in arguments where they present "facts" that may or may not be true, cite non existant cause and effect arguments....basically people think they know way more than they do and its rarely worth discussing anything so Ive stopped trying, but if you had to press, Im a Marxist who believes in total government control so that the people are SLAVES

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The_Spider

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Posted: 03:22PM May 26, 2012

ka-ching wrote:

The_Spider wrote:

4. Well, I dont know exactly, Id like to work my way up to Black Belt I guess. In jiu jitsu that is typicall 12-15 years not handed out to 6 year olds in like karate

1) Depends on a lot, how different is the pay, the commute.
2) No, maybe the armtriangle, or Americana, working more sweeps than subs lately
3) Couldnt care less
4) Fork
5) What am I some hippy??

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HarryPutter

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Posted: 09:48AM May 29, 2012

Hey spid

1. Which Disney movie would you personally want to be true?

2. What's a topic or question is often discussed, but is not worth discussing?

3. Who would you choose as a partner for Fear Factor and why?

4. If 1000 bumblebees surrounded your house, and all you had was 3 bottles of vodka, 2 cans of coors light, a pack of matches, and really long blanket, how would you get out?

5. One day you go on a drunken rampage and get cited for a DUI. You probably kill someone in the process. You're caught and put in jail for 3 years to think about what you've done. What do you do while you're in jail?

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The_Spider

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Posted: 10:36AM May 29, 2012

HarryPutter wrote:

Hey spid

Ahh, the gauntlet has been cast down, I will rise to meet your challenge Harry

1) Gotta admit I'm not the biggest Disney fan.....Ohhh but I think I know in my heart. I have always been a bit gruff, aloof, reserved. I must admit my Beastlike exterior is mostly a facad, for inside is a gentle, compassion, senstive man who just needs to right Beauty to set him free. I still haven't found her

Aside: Well played you sly beast...Now watch as the ladies come rushing in

.....HEY WTF you cant print an Aside

2) I don't know if their is something specific i cna come up with, but there are a lot of political arguments..it's not that the subjects aren't worthwile, but most people arguing do so from half educated positions where instead of honestly discussing something, you get a lot of people taking shortcuts. I'm not much into politics but I do know how logic works, and you see the same fallacies, tricks, and downright lies used all the time..to me at least, it's not worth getting into a lot of discussions

3) That's the show where you just gotta do disgusting things? Probly Markus, if someone is gonna eat 30 scorpions with me it's gonna be Markus

4) Probly walk out very drunk (ok very very drunk)...Bumblebees dont sting

5) Well I would spend a little time recalling the event iin my head. I remember some Canadian chump thought he had the funniest practical joke ever. "I'll surround his house with Bumblebees he he he" his shrill nasaly voice still echoing in my head. Canadiens arn't very funny. With nothing but some alcohol to amuse myself, I down them all and make my escape. I do my typical cool swagger out the front door, falling ONLY 6 times, a personal best. My car is just ahead when the bees start stinging, "Whtaat is thisssss Madnesss!!!" I scream, questioning the validity of my source, Dr Seuss' Bumble in The Jungle.

I make it two miles or so before the sirens appear in the rearview (it was actually my frontview but it was a whole vertigo/equilibrium/drunk thing). I'm locked away and despite the best efforts of my public defendant I get three years after they somehow link me to the Kennedy assasination. In that time, well I got a lot of thinking to do. I continue my martial arts training, rising to the top of the inmate hierarchy. I begin a drug trafficking empire involving 80% of the population. College textbooks use the Spider Model as classic textbook example of successful business strategy for decades to come. Despite getting sentenced to 5 life terms for my actions, I tunnel through the wall with my Right Straight punches alone. Screaming a vindicated and exhilirated FREEEEEEEDOM that even Mel Gibson would be proud of

Also the less said about #2 the better, I once got into an argument with some idiot on another site who wanted to tell me the sky wasnt blue. He thought he won because I had mispelled the word argument twice and called him an idiot after his consistent inabiltiy to use logic, thus ruining my credibility. Worse still is the people who took one 30 minute class on logical fallacies and toss the term Ad Hominem around any time someone (rightly) calls them an idiot. Seriously, whether the sky is or isnt blue hinges on whether or not I called you an idiot or mispelled a word??? Some people are just beyond hope

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Smithy

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Posted: 08:19PM May 30, 2012

I don't really have any more questions, but I just wanted to say that that (^) was probably the greatest post I've ever read.

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The_Spider

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Posted: 07:14AM May 31, 2012

I'm partial to the big lug who posted this (^)