Things You'd Like to Know

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
A. No, us extremely rich people don't do that.

Q. Is it the done thing to buy a neighbour's house, just to knock it down to improve one's view?

A: Yes and most especially if the obstructed view it caused was of another neighbours partly clad guests swimming.

B: Are swimsuits (bathing suits) optional in your pool?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Q. Is it the done thing to buy a neighbour's house, just to knock it down to improve one's view?

A: Not only is it OK, but if one could find a way to monetize the time used up brushing your teeth and tying your shoe laces, the transaction could be virtually painless financially.

Q: Are swimsuits (bathing suits) optional in your pool? [Very good, Great Big Stees, as you were]

Originally posted by FMF
A: Not only is it OK, but if one could find a way to monetize the time used up brushing your teeth and tying your shoe laces, the transaction could be virtually painless financially.

Q: Are swimsuits (bathing suits) optional in your pool? [Very good, Great Big Stees, as you were]

A: Optional, although those who chose to go without tend to be my partner and I, late at night.

Q: Did you watch the Democratic party's candidates last debate yesterday?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Did you watch the Democratic party's candidates last debate yesterday?

A: Sort of. I saw a photograph of them on the stage. I looked at the photograph rather that watched it.

Q: Have you ever betted successfully on a tennis match that you knew was fixed?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Sort of. I saw a photograph of them on the stage. I looked at the photograph rather that watched it.

Q: Have you ever betted successfully on a tennis match that you knew was fixed?

A: No but I did have some "insider" information on some horse races involving standardbreds for which I took "advantage"... once. 😉

Edit: I keep forgetting to ask the question 🙄

Q: Have you ever used insider information to you advantage?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Have you ever used insider information to you advantage?

A: This information is only available to friends and business associates and only if they cut me in.

Q: How much would you charge per hour in your local currency for sitting at your computer and surfing the internet and sending cease and desist e-mails to web sites offering illegal downloads of music by artists on the record label employing you?

Originally posted by FMF
A: This information is only available to friends and business associates and only if they cut me in.

Q: How much would you charge per hour in your local currency for sitting at your computer and surfing the internet and sending cease and desist e-mails to web sites offering illegal downloads of music by artists on the record label employing you?

A: A lot.

Q: Have you ever had a lover?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Have you ever had a lover?

A. Define had.

Q. What can we do to make Canada stop sending frigid weather south to the U.S.?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Q. What can we do to make Canada stop sending frigid weather south to the U.S.?

A: Get the US National Weather Service to redefine "frigid".

Q: Did I buy an RHP subscription for someone anonymously recently?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Get the US National Weather Service to redefine "frigid".

Q: Did I buy an RHP subscription for someone anonymously recently?

A. Perhaps pose this question in a Feedback Message to Russ.

Q. At what point in your life did you realize how much of your life was already in your rear view mirror?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. At what point in your life did you realize how much of your life was already in your rear view mirror?

A: Does not compute. This is not an aspect of my approach to life.

Q: My answer to this question is True Detective series 2. Name a TV series you watched in 2015 that very much did not live up to its hype and/or meet your preconceptions/expectations.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. Why do some people get their kicks out of criticizing other people in public?

A: You are probably better placed than anyone here to answer your own question: why do you get kicks out of criticizing other people in public?

Q: Why are numbers so often the last thing to get truly internalized and second-nature-to-say-without-thinking when one learns a foreign language to the point of being bilingual?

Originally posted by FMF
A: You are probably better placed than anyone here to answer your own question: why do you get kicks out of criticizing other people in public?

Q: Why are numbers so often the last thing to get truly internalized and second-nature-to-say-without-thinking when one learns a foreign language to the point of being bilingual?

A: I don't remember having that issue.

Q: Why are the building codes different for houses and animal structures (barns)?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: I don't remember having that issue.

Q: Why are the building codes different for houses and animal structures (barns)?

A. Our human residential vs. "animal" habitat requirements (maybe).

Q. At what point in your life did you realize how much of your life was already in your rear view mirror?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why are the building codes different for houses and animal structures (barns)?

A: Animals don't yet have representation in human decision making circles.

Q: If falling oil prices are good news for maybe 90% of the world's population, why is the situation being handled as if it were a "crisis" ~ i.e. the viewpoint of the 10% or so who make a mint out of oil being expensive ~ by so much of the world's mainstream media?