Your secret confessions

Shameless and Blameless

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:50:19 GMT

What's the worst thing you've done, that someone else got the blame for?

I have spent most of Christmas surrounded by sprout-eating Irishmen with a talent for casting accusatory looks at their neighbours, and it occurs to me that this is actually a valuable skill in 21^st-Century society. The accusatory looks, I mean, the skill of ensuring that some other sap gets the blame, the odium and the disciplinary hearing.

So confess your sordid and disgraceful deeds, and tell us how it is that someone else got blamed.

What You Can't Say?

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:46:18 GMT

Paul Graham wrote a long and interesting essay on What you can't say?

What do you believe to be true but are normally reluctant to say for fear of the reaction?

A confession about debt

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:02:38 GMT

Are you in debt at the moment? Doesn't necessarily have to be a financial debt, could be a debt to someone who has helped you out with their time or energy. Do you think that you're going to repay that debt? Is it fair that you're in the situation of being in debt?

Conversely is anyone in debt to you? Do you think they'll ever repay you or have you just written it off as a "bad debt"? How do you feel towards that person who is in debt to you?

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:14:52 GMT

What is the worst thing you have every wished upon somebody and actually ment? Did it every become reality? Did you ever regret thinking it?

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:07:11 GMT

When is the last time you cried? Why did you cry? Were you alone, or with someone else? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse?

A twist on the "change one thing" question

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:49:55 GMT

If you could magically change one thing about someone else's life, who would you choose and what would you change?

Would you be altruistic and improve their life, or would you take the opportunity to get revenge?

Witty comebacks with lousy timing

Fri, 05 May 2006 12:47:57 GMT

We've all done it; thought of the perfect, witty retort ... about 4 hours after the conversation actually ended.

So, what did you actually say, who did you say it to - and what should you have really said?

Confess the truth, part II

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:19:59 GMT

A while back I asked you the worse question you could be asked.

Now imagine, for some reason or other, the Men in Black owed you a favour and they were offering to find one person of your choice, strap them to a polygraph, feed them truth serum and make them promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and they'd know if they didn't. Afterward they'd get out the neuralizers and the person would have no memory of the event.

Who would you choose and what question would you ask?

Worst thing.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:12:06 GMT

Today, I remembered a time when someone asked me what the worst thing I have ever done was.
I have done a few things that I'm not proud of, but I was curious to see the types of things others have done.
So... What is it? What's the worst thing *or things* you've ever done?

Random damage

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:06:06 GMT

Have you ever secretly wished that you could turn up to work one morning and find the office building is gone?

Picture the scene: a police cordon with a huge smoking crater in the middle of it, the Fire Brigade in attendance and Men From The Ministry peering over the edge with monitoring equipment on a long, long pole.

What imaginary scenes of apocalyptic violence replace your place of work and the denizens therein?

...Asked hairyears, who left an 'Exit' interview last year with a sudden premonition that he'd locked the door behind him, and turned a great big valve to the London Intercepting Main... Turned and sneered in his best Bond Villain style as the office filled to the very top with sewage, stained tissues, dead rats, condoms, medical waste, half-eaten burgers, drowning managers and the cow from Human Resources, all swirling in the turbulence and bumping against the glass partition before disappearing in the murk forever.

A confession that's away with the fairies

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:46:51 GMT

What do you fantasise about?

I don't necessarily mean sexual fantasies. What we're talking about here are day-dreams, those idle thoughts you have when you end up staring off into space wondering "what if?".

The yearly popularity contest

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:00:53 GMT

So, admit it - which of you has been trawling 14022006 and 21406 hopefully, looking for your own name?

Did you find it? Were there fewer mentions than last year - or none at all? Depressing, huh?

Do you stare hard at the more cryptic ones addressed only to a letter, trying to figure out if they were addressed to you - or try to kid yourself they were when you know they probably weren't, really?

Share your valentine dissappointments here.

Sins of Omission

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:33:50 GMT

What do you leave off your CV?

Officially:

"I supported myself by casual and part-time work while studying."

Truthfully:

"Shelf-stacker at Do-It-All. Seasonal caterer for a pub in Ballylynan. Pizza-Delivery boy. Telesales. Greasy insurance salesman. Cleaning gunk off machines in factories. Filing and microfiching insurance policies. Counting bolts in a warehouse. I am a Silver-Service waiter."

Omitted completely:

And I flatly deny that I have ever learned or written COBOL.

I suspect that there are far worse things missing from yours... Confess all.

Millstone confession

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:11:18 GMT

What's dragging you down at the moment? What's sapping you of energy, grinding away at your will to get up in the mornings, or just generally making life seem like a chore. Could be financial burdens, relationship problems, health issues or something else.

Travel fears?

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:06:47 GMT

Loads of people are afraid of flying; it's a common fear. But what about other forms of transport? Are you bothered by buses? Do trams terrify you? Is there a reason for your apprehensions, or is it a strange nebulous fealing of unease for which you have no explanation?

Share your confessions on the subject of transportation fears!

An angry confession

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:32:34 GMT

Are you an angry person? What does it take to flip your switch? Do you try to control your anger, or do you just give it full vent?

Have you ever had a "red mist" moment, where you have no memory of what happened during that time?

What's the worse thing you've done while angry?

Fake confessions

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:25:55 GMT

How often do you "fake it"? Are you always skiving off work ill when actually you're feeling fine, or exaggerate illness or other bad events in your life to get sympathy? Do you blag your way into clubs, lie at job interviews or pretend to be an expert on something you know nothing about?

Do you have a friend who you think is faking it. Are they always coming up with wild stories that you never quite believe? Does what they say never quite tie up with the known facts? Have you ever confronted them about it?

Assumptions make an ASS out of U and ME.... or do they?

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:36:39 GMT

Everyone makes assumptions. We know we shouldn't do it, but it happens anyway; we make assumptions about our friends, and they in turn make assumptions about us.

Was does everyone assume about you? How far off-base are they, and how surprised/shocked would they be if they knew the truth? Will you set them straight, or is it easier to go along with it all?

Friends confession

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:29:53 GMT

Is there something about a friend that really bugs you, but you could never say (or you suspect mey be a bit unreasonable)?

A physical confession

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:27:16 GMT

What do you like about your body? What do you dislike?

If someone could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your body, what would you choose?

What ill-advised actions have you considered or actually taken in pursuit of the "body beautiful"?

Announcement from the Maintainer

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:51:02 GMT

Hi folks; just a quick head-up to let you know I'm not going to be around for the next 2 weeks as I'll be in Wales with limited internet access. However all is not lost - I'd like to introduce ali_in_london, who has just become your new moderator.

Excuses, excuses...

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:29:39 GMT

What's the best excuse you've had reason to use recently?

What's the best excuse you've heard from someone recently? What's the worse you've heard?

What are your big, long-standing excuses? Do you use excuses that you know deep down that aren't really valid?

What do you think is inexcusable?

Onanistic confessions

Wed, 11 May 2005 12:38:54 GMT

You know the old saying, that 90% of people play with themselves and the other 10% are lying.

So how often do you do it?
Got any weird techniques?
Have you ever been caught?
Ever spied on anyone else doing it?

(sorry about the coy phrasing, I'm trying to not get anyone in trouble with work/school content filters)

Confess the truth

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:07:20 GMT

Imagine, for some reason or other, someone had strapped you to a polygraph, fed you truth serum and made you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and they'd know if you didn't.

What would be the worse question that they could ask you?

Confess your disgusting habits

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:36:00 GMT

Got any really gross habits?

Or do you know someone else who has a particularly revolting habit?