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triviaphilia

10 Questions All The Cool Kids Are Answering

Apr 20, 2011 14:47

Welcome to all my new friends :)

I want to keep everyone straight (no pun intended) so if you've just added me, or even if you've known me for a while, I'd like to ask you ten questions so I can connect the person with the username :3 You can answer in the comments or in your own journal. If you're reading this then YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY TAGGED, SO ( Read more... )

survey meme, i tagged you yes you!

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nightfall404 April 20 2011, 14:09:43 UTC

What's the story behind your username?
I was a pretentious prick when I was younger. Nah, while I was at Uni, I was largely nocturnal, communicating with people in the US over the interwebs at silly o'clock in the morning so I wanted a handle that reflected that. The '404' was supposed to lend it an air of mystery, named after the HTTP 404 error 'Page not found'.

What's the story behind your favorite icon?

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triviaphilia April 20 2011, 14:15:42 UTC

Yay, thanks for answering. You probably get asked this all the time, but what's so scary about statues?

nightfall404 April 20 2011, 14:41:16 UTC

You're right, I do.

I watched a fascinating program on the nature of disgust, years ago. Apparently, the brain divides things into bonary categories such as things which belong inside the body and things that belong outside. See something in the wrong category and it triggers a disgust reflex e.g. a metal spike through the body or a lung outside.

I believe the mind also does this with alive things and dead things. Statues, waxworks, manakins etc. I know to be inanimate but they appear to be animate. My brain can't reconcile that into a binary category and freaks out.

tl;dr They look alive but they're not.

triviaphilia April 22 2011, 11:52:05 UTC

Well, you've got a point there. I've never given statues a second thought, but now I'll probably find them creepy. Thanks :P

rainbow_vagina April 20 2011, 15:19:57 UTC

1. What's the story behind your username ( ... )

dbearsden April 20 2011, 16:04:54 UTC

I stole your questions and posted an entry on my page. Thanks for sharing yours. Have a good one :)

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triviaphilia April 22 2011, 12:02:22 UTC

*dorky high-five*

What are you studying? I graduated at the end of last year and I still have no idea what I'm doing with my life xD

fred2303 April 21 2011, 20:59:27 UTC

I'm a cool kid so I'm going to answer the questions. :)

1. What's the story behind your username?
Well, actually the story is pretty boring. I'm a fan of the Buffy- & Angelvers and I love the character Fred. After writing some fanfictions and some other stories where I named a girl Fred that actually became my nickname. 2303 is my birthday. So that's it.

2. What's the story behind your favorite icon?
I don't really have a favorite icon of mine. I like all of my icons. Well, I'm going to talk about my default icon then, 'kay? It shows one of my favorite characters on The Vampire Diaries. So it represents my liking the show and being a TV show addicted ( ... )

triviaphilia April 22 2011, 12:07:49 UTC

#9 I'm exactly the same way :-/

So you like bridges then? I've never seen an epic bridge. I mean, we have Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg, but it's just a glorified roadway.

fred2303 April 22 2011, 15:16:41 UTC

So we totally click on that one. :)

Yes, I do. I haven't seen an epic bridge yet, but somehow I like them. Don't even know why I like them.