Question of the Day!

Working my way through Van Richton’s Guide to Ravenloft while I wait for The Guise Book:wink:

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: I just began The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss, a couple of days ago. Recently, I’ve read The Last Hero, by Sir Terry Pratchett; Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, by R. A. Salvatore; and The Memoir of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

fjur’s Questions of the Day #72: How do you feel about spicey foods?

I love spicy foods!!! :smiley:

However, they do not like me. :unamused:

(I have a hole in the sphincter that closes off the top of my stomach. :roll_eyes: Anything that churns up stomach acids, such as spicy or otherwise hard-to-digest foods, causes both painful GERD and makes my nose run due to the fumes going up into my airways. :flushed: And bending over after eating is a horrible experience. :woozy_face: )

Oh, sorry to hear that, @Rabit!

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: I enjoy spicy foods because of their strong flavour. Of course, I don’t like extremely spicy things that are painfully hot to eat.

fjur’s Questions of the Day #73: Would you rather be able to control the temperature of your immediate area or the level of precipitation of your immediate area?

And sorry for bringing things down. :unamused:

Temperature!!! :smiley: That would be wonderful. I can deal with precipitation, but I also grew up in the Pacific Northwest. :smirk:

Temperature hands down.

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: I care more about precipitation than temperature, so I’d choose that one. And, of course, remember the immortal words of Ryan Frost: “Cold is all a matter of perspective.” ; )

fjur’s Questions of the Day #74: Hot Chocolate or Warm Apple Cider?

fjur’s Questions of the Day #75: Which cryptid would be most terrifying if it were real?

Oh, definitely the kraken. :flushed: The impact of actually shutting down sea travel would be impressive. I mean, native communities would probably have benefited significantly, as colonists would have had a much harder time justifying the cost of their expeditions, so there would be some positives coming out of it… but the world would be a far different place.

For me? gotta be any of the supposed cryptid genus Homo - most especially if homo floresiensis or h. luzonensis, or the found but not yet assigned Palau hominins - because they would have been successfully hiding for centuries, if not millennia.
If bigfoot exists, I expect it to be remnant Gigantopithecus, or maybe Australopithecus… which are right behind mini-humans.

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: Most likely one of those ones that can shapechange.

fjur’s Questions of the Day #76: What is the cutest animal?

Geoffroy’s Tamarin, hands down.

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: Oi, it’s too hard to choose just one. Some possibilities include Quokkas, Sugar Gliders, Slow Lorises, Hedgehogs, Stoats, and Pikas. Of course, cuteness is subjective.

fjur’s Questions of the Day #77: You’re famous! What are you famous for?

fjur’s Questions of the Day #78: What’s your favourite nut?

Macadamias are technically the best, but they’re insanely overpriced, so I almost never taste them. I’m a fiend for cashews, which are technically not nuts, so if you want to be that picky, I’d go for pecans. I also like hazelnuts, almonds, and the occasional black walnut. Peanuts (also technically not nuts) are extremely boring to me. Brazil-nuts are the absolute worst. (I think that’s everything that normally gets called a nut; did I miss any?)

Do- or doughnut. There is no trynut. :doughnut:

To answer the previous day’s question, what I actually am famous for, at least among a small group of people who’ve worked with me, is my nearly superhuman attention to detail. The number of times I’ve noticed a typo on a page just by glancing it or the like is beyond anyone’s ability to count; I was born to be an auditor or something, had I only taken the proper schooling to actually be able to make a career path out of such a thing (and been able to stand how boring it would be).

The thing I should be famous for is my ability to expand upon other people’s creative works, fact-checking their own made-up science and the like to ensure that it’s consistent, and thereby helping people who have the creative urge to also perform competently in such endeavors. The Star Trek franchise is a particularly relevant example of where I could have used such talents; three consecutive shows (four if you count a prequel which released after the others) throughout the Nineties formed a single 15-year story arc, and if I’d worked for Paramount that whole time (the version of me that I am now, specifically, not the 10-year-old I was IRL at the time), then the shows would not still to this day be infamous for their inconsistent canon and mixed writing quality. More relevantly, the majority of TV shows which are written in a similarly so-so fashion don’t get to stay on the air for a decade and a half; many of them don’t even get a year and a half. If they simply hired a Justifier to have final approval on their writing and other creative processes, they’d take a little longer to get done, but they’d have a far better chance of being held in high regard as creative accomplishments, rather than as forgettable contributions to an overglutted market.

My Answer to Yesterday’s Question: I’m not much of a nut nut, so let’s say almonds and pecans. I like peanut butter, not so much the “nut” itself, and of course I like doughnuts : ), although that’s pretty off-base, @Thunderbird.

fjur’s Questions of the Day #79: Favourite kind(s) of sandwich(s)?

Reuben, Cuban, and Club.

I feel like this is the name of a law firm somewhere.

All mine are from fast-food joints (and no I’m not being paid to endorse anyone, this is my actual opinion). My current favorite is the Bourbon Bacon Burger from Wendy’s, while my all-time favorite (assuming I didn’t forget something even better from years ago) was the Deep-Fried Cajun Turkey that Arby’s carried a few years ago (in October and early November, discontinuing before Thanksgiving - critical marketing fail on one of the best products ever sold). And my oldest favorite as far as I can remember was the Arch Deluxe from McDonald’s, which was my first ever experience of an amazing product being discontinued so I couldn’t buy it anymore, and I boycotted McDonald’s for 30 years because of my childish outrage with being deprived of this beloved meal.