Rivka's Meme

[ailbhe]

Ask me a question or give me a topic that isn't about my children or parenting, and I will write you a post in which I pretend to be an interesting and well-rounded person.

I'm not sure I can do this, because it seems to me that everything in my life relates to ethical consumerism, children, and feminism, all linked in together, but I'll try! I think as long as I don't mention how things are directly related to my children or parenting I might get away with it.

Challenge me.

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Understanding the UK class system when you immigrate from Ireland. Finding your place in it, and being horrified.

[miriammoules.livejournal.com]

Poetry

[songster.livejournal.com]

1) In a fight between a badger and an ocelot, which would win and why?

2) Is there a place in your life for a spork?

3) What is your favourite smell?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

The languages of the Hyperborean Archipelago.

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

If you were given, I dunno, £1000 which you had to spend entirely on yourself, what would you buy/do? (Assume everything your family need is taken care of).

[ailbhe]

Where, precisely? Do I get a latitude? There seems to be some disagreement, similar to whether you're "Really Irish" if you weren't born there.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I was just being silly with the "hyperborean" bit, really.

But if you did want to write about anything having to do with language, that would be interesting indeed.

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

Do you support the 'Million Women Rise' aim of a national holiday for international women's day.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Do you have an opinion on the status of the Irish language? Is it moribund, vital, in between? Is the money being put into sustaining/promoting it well spent, or is it too much, too little, or put into the wrong areas?

(And, out of curiosity, though it has little bearing on being interesting or well-rounded: do you speak Irish? How well? Did you learn it at home or at school?)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Is it moribund, vital, in between?

"Vital" is probably a false friend from German. FWIW, I meant "full of vitality; alive and kicking" rather than "essential; necessary".