A lemming entry

[j4]

Ask me a question that you think I will be reluctant to answer.

(Anonymous comments, as always, allowed.)

Comments

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

But you talk so openly about everything! Well, almost everything.

[emperor]

I could think of a few, but I think they'd probably be rather intrusive, and I'm not sure I really want to, IYSWIM. If I was going to find out the answer, I'd rather you told me because you wanted to.

Anyway, is that sort of question really what you wanted?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'm just interested to know what (if anything) people might think I would be reluctant to answer, really.

And if I tell you anything it will be because (at some level) I want to tell you, or at least don't mind telling you. (Notice I didn't promise I'd answer all or indeed any of the questions!)

[(Anonymous)]

<meta>What other questions would you be reluctant to answer?</meta>

[(Anonymous)]

Are you expecting a specific person (or list of people) to ask a question?

[(Anonymous)]

Which way do you like it best?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Nope. Nor am I expecting specific questions, from specific people or otherwise. I really am just idly curious. (Or idle and curious, if you prefer.)

[keirf.livejournal.com]

But if there's a question that you're reluctant to answer, it has a good chance of also be one that you take offense at when being asked. In which case, you're potentially asking people to post something in your journal that will annoy you.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

If you had to rank every lover you have ever had in descending order of how much you enjoyed your sexual encounters with them, what would the order be?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

What are your parents' guilty secrets?

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it interesting thinking of questions, as I seem to be coming up with ones that I would be reluctant to answer, rather than a rather shakey guess of what j4 might not want to respond to.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

In order, what are the next 718,349 words of which you have thought?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I did think before posting, you know!

I can't actually think of anything that I'd take offence at being asked. That's one of the (several) reasons why I was interested to know what questions people would choose.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'd be quite happy to answer that but I'm not sure I'm capable of doing so! (And I certainly don't have time to sit here and list over 7,000 words right now...)

[(Anonymous)]

How much money is in your bank account?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Uhm, if they're secrets, I don't know them, right? So I can't answer, whether I want to or not.

Trying to interpret this openly enough that I can answer it, though, I really don't think there's anything they've told me that is supposed to remain secret from other people. I suspect if they have any guilty secrets, they know how bad I am at keeping secrets & therefore wouldn't have told me in the first place...

[(Anonymous)]

Is sorrel goth?

What's wrong with your arms?

Should we like you like we do?

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

You're making a good start. I'd be reluctant *not* to answer Chris's question by remaining silent for the rest of my life.

[(Anonymous)]

Is science fiction better than other fiction? (sorrel, moo, baah etc)

[j4.livejournal.com]

About 80 quid of ACTUAL POSITIVE MONEY, because I just got paid. Can't find my internet banking number or I'd give you the exact figure! Normally? About -£1500 of overdraft.

I've never understood the taboo on talking about money, possibly because I've never had enough money to care.

[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you, ah, get much relief that way?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Does it count as being "reluctant to answer" if you think the question is fundamentally flawed? (Have you stopped beating your wife?)

I think the short answer is "no, but nor is science fiction any worse than other fiction, and I think there are false or at least unhelpful assumptions informing the phrasing of the question".

[karen2205]

Why are you so hard on yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

... and why did I think that question had a hyphen?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

What are the things about yourself that you know you can change, and want to?
What are the things that you are reluctant to answer?
Who do you wish would stop posting here?
Which post do you most regret posting?