Getting to know you part 1

boxedjoy

Well-known member
  1. Who is your hero?
    take no heroes, only inspiration

  2. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
    in comfort

  3. What is your biggest fear?
    animals and the future

  4. What is your favorite family vacation?
    we went to Portugal when I was 15 and when we got to the resort I ditched my family and went drinking with the other teenagers who were sat around the resort pool

  5. What would you change about yourself if you could?
    the part of me that wants to change everything about myself

  6. What really makes you angry?
    inequality of opportunity, also my local Chinese restaurant closes for New Year and Chinese New Year - make up your mind lads, you can't get both

  7. What motivates you to work hard?
    other people, wanting to keep up and be liked, it gets harder as I get older

  8. What is your favorite thing about your career?
    the people I've made friends with through it

  9. What is your biggest complaint about your job?
    that it is making me redundant in a fortnight

  10. What is your proudest accomplishment?
    the first time I put music on Bandcamp an old friend from school heard it and asked me join his video agency doing soundtrack work for content they produced, my music ended up in adverts for an online campaign for a charity, hardly any views of course but it was still a buzz
 

Woebot

Well-known member
  1. Who is your hero?
The Buddha.
  1. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
London.
  1. What is your biggest fear?
Unemployment.
  1. What is your favorite family vacation?
The Alps.
  1. What would you change about yourself if you could?
  1. What really makes you angry?
The abuse of animals.
  1. What motivates you to work hard?
Energy to expend.
  1. What is your favorite thing about your career?
Animating.
  1. What is your biggest complaint about your job?
Deranged and abusive employers.
  1. What is your proudest accomplishment?
Always the last project I completed.
 

mvuent

Void Dweller
  1. Who is your hero?
    cboyardee, pilotredsun
  2. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
    somewhere dreary and mysterious that's quiet and generally safe to walk around.
  3. What is your biggest fear?
    house centipedes
  4. What is your favorite family vacation?
    the drive from atlanta to greenville and from there to myrtle beach. very different sights and vibes from minnesota down there. also any trip to the great pacific northwest.
  5. What would you change about yourself if you could?
    i’d be really funny
  6. What really makes you angry?
    when arrogant aloof fictional characters don’t get sufficiently punished by the story-universe. (really tempted to delete that and replace it with something less childish, but if there's one thing i learned from house of leaves, it's that the sentences that we want to omit can be the most telling... uh, for any potential employer reading this, i'd add that i volunteer a lot!!)
  7. What motivates you to work hard?
    believing on an instinctive level that the work in question will make me or others better off in some way. but not when i only believe it on a conscious/intellectual one.
  8. What is your favorite thing about your career?
    lol
  9. What is your biggest complaint about your job?
    that i have to interact with the unwashed masses.
  10. What is your proudest accomplishment?
    how over the past year i was finally somewhat focused and hit all the creative milestones i envisioned for myself.
 
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DLaurent

Well-known member
  1. Who is your hero? Werner Herzog
  2. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Where I do now to be honest, I love the fishing
  3. What is your biggest fear? Forced Participation in Murder/Third Party Assassination
  4. What is your favorite family vacation? Chard Reservoir, or a campsite nearby in Dorset for the Bream Fishing
  5. What would you change about yourself if you could? Would never have got involved with Mail Online
  6. What really makes you angry? Bullies
  7. What motivates you to work hard? Money
  8. What is your favorite thing about your career? I work on my own
  9. What is your biggest complaint about your job? I have to drive too far
  10. What is your proudest accomplishment? Having a girlfriend for more than two years
 

DLaurent

Well-known member
So reading between the lines you were arrested for harassing the Mail Online? Definitely nothing to be embarrassed about.
Yeah they were the online newspaper. I wouldn't advise going on there and being an Uber Troll as 'they' are watching lol. Or I could just be Delusional. :LOL:
 

sus

Moderator
I think everyone should fill Corpse's questions out, they're very important. Mind you I could never answer any of them. But still. Very important.
 

linebaugh

Well-known member
  1. Who is your hero? Don’t have one. Version maybe
  2. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? NYC or the desert
  3. What is your biggest fear? Cockroaches
  4. What is your favorite family vacation?memphis, or grandparents lake house
  5. What would you change about yourself if you could? More handsome
  6. What really makes you angry? Technology, small things that run your whole life I.e car/house keys, an ID and etc
  7. What motivates you to work hard? Improving at something is fun
  8. What is your favorite thing about your career? It’s a total joke and it supports me
  9. What is your biggest complaint about your job? It’s a little precarious re: job security
  10. What is your proudest accomplishment? Don’t have a single one but I think in total I’ve done enough to where if I look at my life with distance I think I’m pretty cool and that’s what I hang my hat on
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire.
  1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
  2. What is your greatest fear?
  3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
  4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
  5. Which living person do you most admire?
  6. What is your greatest extravagance?
  7. What is your current state of mind?
  8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
  9. On what occasion do you lie?
  10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
  11. Which living person do you most despise?
  12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
  13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
  14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
  15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
  16. When and where were you happiest?
  17. Which talent would you most like to have?
  18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
  19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
  20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
  21. Where would you most like to live?
  22. What is your most treasured possession?
  23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
  24. What is your favorite occupation?
  25. What is your most marked characteristic?
  26. What do you most value in your friends?
  27. Who are your favorite writers?
  28. Who is your hero of fiction?
  29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
  30. Who are your heroes in real life?
  31. What are your favorite names?
  32. What is it that you most dislike?
  33. What is your greatest regret?
  34. How would you like to die?
  35. What is your motto?
 
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