Leon over at My Thoughts on Stuff tagged me a few weeks back for a meme and at long last, I'm ready to deliver on it.
Now memes are not my favorite things in the world but since it's Leon, I'll make an exception. And Leon, if I'm ever in Jamaica, you owe me a nice cold Red Stripe.
The rules are as follows:
* Link the person who tagged you.
* Mention the rules in your blog.
* Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
* Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
* Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
And with that we begin with the quirks:
1. I will not wear shirts with corporate logos on them. This includes things "fashionable" like DKNY, Calvin Kline or Nike to "corporate wear" which displays the logo of the company I work for or a company they are affiliated with. The exception for "corporate wear" is if I'm at a company function and have to. For the "fashionable" goods, let me just say this, if you have a shirt that says CK or DKNY or Armani and so on, then you you're not dressing hip, your just a billboard. Also, the really nice cloths made by these companies DON'T have the logos on the chest. They're nowhere to be found on the outside actually. My theory is they (fashion companies) depend on the poor to advertise with the logo shirts, which reminds the rich that they have to go shopping at Saks 5th Avenue for their fall fashions.
2. While I consider myself an easy going guy I become very cranky and abrupt if I get hungry. This is not good because I don't discriminate. I've managed to control this better by only giving one word answers and I've managed to warm my temperature from cold to lukewarm. This makes me seem more distracted than mad. But I'm actually mad.
3. Without exception, I must have a bowl of grapes and strawberries post workout. There's nothing better than coming out of the shower, crashing on my couch and feasting on natures goodness. The grapes MUST be seedless. If not, I'll be annoyed big time.
4. It must be a nice 72 degrees in my apartment in order to sleep in the summer. I will NOT lay in bed sweating. It's a disgusting feeling and if I'm going to sweat in bed it better be due to sex. If not, the A/C goes on in the summer.
5. I prefer my Guinness be served at cellar temperature as opposed to ice cold. While I enjoy other beers ice cold, Guinness is it's most flavorful at cellar temperature. This is how it's done in Europe and I understand why after I had it in a very authentic Irish bar here. At first I thought I was being ripped off by being served warm beer until the upstanding Irish man behind the bar told me that this is the way it ought to be. Skeptical, I drank further and realized he spoke the truth. Bless those Irish!
6.Do not ask me to go camping!!! The answer is NO! Even if you're a beautiful woman who promises to go skinny dipping with me, the answer is.....maybe.....NO! I do not find being eaten alive by mosquitoes and pooping in the woods to be enjoyable at all. I don't find laying on the ground in a sleeping bag to be fun at all. I have no desire to pitch a tent which may be destroyed by a grizzly bear. And while I'd never want to kill an animal, I want a large powerful assault rifle to take out any bear that comes too close. Have you seen the size of those things!?!?! No way people!! No way!! Flinging myself out in the middle of nowhere, without electricity, cell phone service, access to clean toilets and showers is NOT a getaway for me, it's HELL!!
I now tag Monique, Maritza, Meleah, Ms.Q, Jill and SJ. Enjoy.
Coming up next.....
A big thanks to a few bloggers out there.
Also....
Normalcy
And.....
If I had a BB gun.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
6 Quirks
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I grew up in a Irish household...and what you describe sounds so much like it. Us Irish do have a way of convincing, yes?
Éireann go Brách
I knew you would tag me. I don't want to discuss my sex quirks... what? Oh SIX! That's ok then.
You owe me a Guinness for no particular person and I like that poster.
1. I cannot go for those big names on shirts either. That is some bogus mess. I've already paid for it. Why do I have to be a walking advertisement? Besides, if it is a brand of quality most people who are up on it will be able to tell without having to look at a tag/logo.
3. Fruit after a workout is a great recovery snack. I'm with you on the seedless, minus the anger.
4. I don't own an A/C but I'm all for comfort. But if it was one degree off would you really be upset?
5. I learned how to truly drink from the Irish. I don't think anyone does it better... Well, except those south of the border. But that is another type of beverage.
1) I don't think I have ever worn anything with a logo on it, but I'm not sure. It isn't something I consciously stay away from, it is just sort of natural. Though I do like brand name clothing because I think it fits better and lasts longer, doesn't stretch and fade etc...
2)I'm a mess when I don't eat. I can't even function. When you work in a hospital, strangely enough, they don't think its important that you eat. If you've got a patient to take care of, you are supposed to sacrifice your lunch. That doesn't work for me, not to mention that it's just wrong. But since most other people, apparently, can skip their meal without it having these affects, I was viewed as whiney. Oh well.
You don't like to camp because your a city guy, plain and simple.
It's probably like eating spam, it's something you had to have done as a kid or you'll probably never like it.:)
I hate beer. It makes me get horrible migraines that make me wish that I was dead and it makes me throw up.
I hate grapes with seeds in them too, though seeds in watermelon don't bother me.
Don't come over to my house if you like 72degrees. My house does not cool off well.
Dude.You're quirky. :)
I'm with ya on camping believe it or not. I could spend an entire day in the woods talking to plants & animals; I love & take great delight in everything nature has to offet and all that stuff-but no thanks on the tent or trailer camping. blah.
Hey sweety! I am BACK from vacation!!
I agree with needing Climate Control to sleep. If its too hot I freak out. But thats coming from someone who sleeps with the windows WIDE OPEN in the DEAD OF WINTER!
xxxooo
JohnB - I'm glad this rings a bell for you! And yes Ireland is beautiful. :-)
SJ - OK you can have Guinness on me. Actually you can have a few. Actually I'm requiring that you get drunk.
Urban - Wearing a shirt with the giant Puma logo or Tommy Hilfiger or whatever is just plain ugly. And yes, the rich folk who can wear all the DKNY and CK stuff get the real cloths from them. The kind that have the logo nowhere on the clothing except the inside tags. Now I realize that some of the apparel that I work out in has logos on them, buy I pick the ones with the very small and discreet tags that you have to get up close to see.
BBE -the name brand clothing is fine. I love looking my best but not at the expense of being a walking talking billboard. It's cheesy.
I have had jobs where lunch was optional and frowned upon but isn't there a labor law that allows us to eat during work!?!!?
I am a city guy and was forced to go to camp as a youngster. I hated it. HATED IT!!!
Fruit after a workout is better than a Gatorade which will do in a pinch. The seedless anger stems from the fact that I had a craving for them and picked up a pack at the grocery store advertised as seedless but in fact were not.
The 72 degrees is an optimum level. Gave or take a degree I can live with that.
I'd agree that south of the border and the Irish have got drinking down to an art and I thank the Irish graciously for their knowledge.
I would not be happy in your balmy household :-)
Leah - I am not at all against a brief hike or excursion into the wilderness for a few hours. I too will look at he plants, the squirrels and the birds-but lets not go crazy here.
Meleah - Welcome Back!!! I'll be over. Windows wide open in the winter. You are a crazy gal I tell you.
Ah, I do like you!! I like my guiness, or any other beer warm, odd because I'm not a brit. I totally agree with the shirt thing. You hit the bulls eye with that.
Camping, ah, well I don't like it that much, but I can survive in the forest. Lived in the Northwest for around 9 years. I had encounters with grizzly, black, moose, eld, mule deer, white tail deer, and many others. I never hunted; I just loved the solitude, and seeing the animals. Alot of the assholes that I knew in those areas had the opinion that they'd just "drop" a grizzly if they saw one. There endangered. I never told those pricks, but when your in a million acres of nothing no would notice me drop their worthless ass either. Their attitude toward the grizzly in particular really makes me mean what I said about dropping their ass. Come on, who's habitat is it? Not theirs!!! As far as the most dangerous, I got news for ya' Ricardo, it's the moose. They'll fuck you up ten times worse than a grizzly could begin. ON that note I am falling asleep on my over the counter 80mg of honduran valume
Peace and Freedom
Oh, I forgot. I am sicilian so, Like any other greek or italian. I don't get bit by any bugs. My wife and cunada constantly do, but I guess my blood is just plane poison!!
Okay...I will play along shortly!!
xxoo
Take your time getting settled in Meleah.
I have to agree with you about camping. I love the outdoors and beautiful scenery, but at night I want the creature comforts of a motel room.
Funny thing about those corporate T-shirts. One company where I used to work had a strict rule against wearing T-shirts with any logo or any writing on them. But one day they issued T-shirts to everybody with their own company logo on them. So I wore mine one Casual Friday, figuring it would be OK since it was the company's own logo and the company had given us the T-shirts. I was wrong and I got chewed out for violating the company dress code.
i personally like some logowear in that i identify with the athletic nature of soccer players who wear nike for instance, and they make really nice boots.....and besides the fact that you make good points about clothing manufacturers and logo t-shirts, all of the good soccer kit has logos all over it.
air conditioning; essential.
guiness; room temp.
hungry=cranky.
camping? she would have to be hot......and even so, there is a perfectly good hotel right there......or sleep in the back of the suv. nature is nice, but not when it`s trying to digest me.
I could have sworn I left a comment here. Anyway, thanks for not tagging me.
Try pouring Guinness into ice trays, freeze and serve into a stein of Miller Lite. Now that is a beverage....
Enemy of the state that is interesting. I never thought about something like that.
Tom,
We are on the same page. Usually almost guaranteed you can stay for under $50 at a nice motel in beautiful country. I'd rather have a hot shower and fall asleep to the boob tube. The day I find religion, I know to look in the night stand God Bless Everyone!!LOL actually ROTFLMAO!!
Mr. Hillbilly--I used to bartend as Ricardo knows--I come up with all sorts of stuff!
Off to visit SJ.
Tom - Sounds like the cut off their nose to spite their face. That's a bit too militant if you ask me. But a good story none the less.
Dr.A - I totally agree with the camping thing. As far as athletic wear goes, I can tolerate a discrete logo but beyond that my patience is tried. And yes the European football players are covered with sponsorships. I believe it's to offset costs of paying the players and such.
Enemy - That sounds very potent actually. I will give that a try. Yum!
AH- Even a modest motel will do me fine. None of this...nature 24/7 stuff. What the hell am I? Captain Caveman over here?
LOL!! I'm getting closer to being able to write that unauthorized biography of Ricardo. It's fun to read about people and their quirks. I find it hard to believe that you would turn down an invitation to skinny dip with a beautiful girl for any reason. :)
the sad truth about athletic sponsorship is that we wouldn`t see the games if it wasn`t for the money given for the advertising spots on the players uniforms and equipment.
my new nike soccer shoes have giant swooshes on them and i paid nearly $400 for them......and they tore after less than 20 games. my equipment guy said nike will replace them though.
the pros wear a new pair for each game, so it doesn`t matter that they tear.
Marsha - Maybe on the 1st day I would be happy as can be with her. But as they days go on and the lack of proper sanitation and grooming take hold...I'm afraid skinny dipping may be a bit daunting for both of us. And sleeping in the same tent at day 2 or 3? Imagine the stench. No thank you.
Dr.A - The leagues would not survive if not for that corporate spnsorship. So perhaps they do serve some purpose after all. We see it here with NASCAR. But it would not shock me if this spills over into other major American sports.
Ack! I just noticed you tagged me!
We share 2 quirks: the no logo and no camping ones.
I do end up wearing some logos but when it comes to LL Bean, I wear it with PRIDE (but it's not like their name is emblazoned all over the freakin' place).
Sigh on the Quirks but heck, it starts with a Q and I have many. I will ponder and since I've tagged you in the past, I probably owe you.
Hmm. on your #2 Quirk. I went out on a date (!!) Actually the 5th (!!!) date with the same man and he was curt and abrupt and failed to compliment (I laughed a bit at this I made so little impact) me on my Fetching Attire (bare legs, sleeveless above the knee dress, 17% body fat and a gleam in my eye).
Since I figgered it wasn't me, I pondered how he was in the past (attentive, funny, kind) and asked, "Are you hungry?"
He paused, answered, "Hmm. I am, actually."
Once we finished the appetizer, he was once again in his Happy Place.
Well it seems as if you're busy in all the right ways. the way through a real man's heart is through his stomach. Take your time.
His stomach, huh?
Dang.
I've been going at this all wrong.
Well there are other ways you just need to know when to to use the right "tools."
Narrowed down to six, huh? I'm pretty sure I'm mostly all quirk, but...I'll try! :-) :-) :-)
I don't do the clothing advertisement thing either - I think my kids were probably among the few who weren't a walking advertisement for Disney during preschool. I mean, seriously, shouldn't Disney be paying for space on their little bodies if the kids are going to be doing all that advertising for them?
Oh Ms.Q - date five?!?!?!? Does this mean you know if he flosses?!?!?!?!
jill - I have it on good word that she's actually flossing his teeth for him! That's how intimate they are.
Too funny Ricardo! :-)
No prob Ric. Interesting thought about the corporate logo thing. I wear a lot of clothes with logos myself.
I may have had Date 6 and he's cooked for me twice but NO, I have no idea if he flosses nor do I floss for him (that's kinda kinky, right up there with gerbils - pun intended) despite what Ricardo wrote.
"when" and "tools" huh?
Well...I don't think I have the wrong "tools" so it must be all in my timing...
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