The A2Ker game

Inuit

Jigolo (who, if you haven't guessed yet, is a bad speller.)

About 70 - 80 degrees (Fahrenheit), no/low humidty would be PERFECT for me! I know it's expensive to live in Hawaii. I'm not sure about other tropical locations.
As for the mimicry, it's an odd entiy unto itself! I can do lots of characters from movies. (My kids have many of the Disney ones!) Not so many famous people pe rse, but I'm pretty good with accents and certain quirks of people I know. I can do a dead on impression of one of my girlfriend's laughs that'll make her wet her pants! I live to amuse! :wink: In fact, I'm more child-like i(sometimes) n my personality than when I was a (an abused) kid. Analyze that!

kidnapper

Lollypop-woman.

Oh, if I were to choose, I would choose to live somewhere where the weather is changeable enough, where it is rainy without being cold, right by the sea/ocean and with not many people around. If you want tropical at cheap prices, perhaps it were a good idea to check out Latin and South America, 'though the big cities' prices are often best avoided.

Has this mimicry trait passed onto your children? Analysing I don't go for; I find it offensive, really, especially when people try to analyse blanketedly. It's no Freudian this or Jungian that; it's just getting the most out of life now. I'm not really childlike, nor was I then; I was detached... and I still am, in certain ways.

man-handled

My children do a little bit of it. It's hard to tell. I wonder if they'll pick it up?
I know what you mean about the detached thing. I don't know if your parents were abusive, but I can definitely relate. There is that part of me that is detached as well. It's hard to explain.
I like watching people, not in a vouyeur-ish way, but I don't know, people just fascinate me. It's part of why I went into psychology.

Narcissistic.

I don't know-- it depends on when and how you picked it up, (when? and, did you practise, or was it natural?) and whether it's something just gifted upon you.

Yeah, my childhood was not the greatest at all. Physically and mentally abused, though, not sexually, but I tried to fight back. First my abusive father chose a house above me, and left to London with his mistress. Then, a while later, my mother took home an uncultured thug, her first love, from some bar, and got rid of her artist boyfriend who was always really nice to me. The thug and she married, and then he persuaded her into pubs. He was always really awful to me, because I knew that he was stealing thousands of pounds from us; he used the stupidest excuses to beat me. Then, my mother left him after I told her, finally, but then she became just as bad as him.

I like people too; particularly writing about them... but there we go, I guess.

Overly concerned about the plight of the rich and famous...

I think I just picked up the mimicking thing. Sometimes it's just that I can quote a line from a movie, play or somethoing with the (almost) exact same inflection of the character. Too bad that isn't true for me musically. I'd love to have perfect pitch AND play the piano - wah!

Funny how alike we are in our abuse situations. My parents (still married BTW - ugh! but I disgress...)
were physically and especially very abusive into my teens. Without telling the awful details, that's my story.

Pudding-pie assistant at the motel on Baxters road.

Maybe they will pick it up, too. Is there any one else in your family who can mimic like you do? I can't mimic people, but I can speak in accents that always make people think that I'm from here or there... it's weird. As for the piano; if only we all had more co-ordination. I am certainly better with occupations that don't involve my hands, unfortunately; (though I type 'too' fast; when I type, without fail people come around me and ask whether I learnt. I don't touch type; in fact I use just three fingers, but I can do one-hundred-twenty-five words a minute.)

It's weird- but I don't think about things much. I don't think that the past should have repercussions; the past is the past. At least you and I got through it.

Queen of all the fairies.

Hey, it's just to pay the bills, all right?

Signing copies of Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' in two Waterstones-- Milton Keynes and Slough. Catch him now before it's tooooo late.

Tiny Tim's one true love

Drom-, No one in my family does the mimicking thing like I do, but I have a friend I love to chat with who can & we can do accents too. I think that is the most fun!
You are so unconventional! Typing with three fingers at 125 wpm works for me (I mean you!). I know I can't type that fast and I took 'keyboard typing' in high school!
I like what you said about repercussions. It's true. Although, being a counselor I do tend to analyze a little bit too much I suppose.

:LOL: Tiny Tim's one true love. Alas, it was never to be.

Unarmed but dangerous.

O! Is this a friend from your school-days, or did you meet later on? Would it be better to be able to speak a quarter of people's voices exactly than all the dialects in the world, do you think?

The funny thing is that I never took any typing classes, which is why I have awful stress on a few of them. Perhaps I should learn-- but, weirdly, whenever I type properly, I am always far slower. Being unconventional can be lonely, but I think that it's better to be true to oneself thus.

At least you are qualified to counsel; other people just read whatever they like without having no knowledge apart from the first chapter of 'Men are from Mars' under their belts. That's what irritates me. If you had to analyse some of the people here, what would you conclude?

Viking!

The friend, I met later on. In fact she is the sister-in-law to my best friend growing up. (She also finds me hysterically funny which is why I keep her around. Just kidding!!)
Oh! I would rather be able to do all the dialects! If I could just travel, can you imagine the fun that would be?
Amen to being true to oneself! I don't know about you, but being abused, it took me longer than most to 'find myself' so-to-speak.
My counseling experience is mostly with kids. I like working with the young ones, especially elementary (primary, for you?) school age, but I've worked more with teen-agers than any other group followed closely by pre-teens. So, I don't feel qualified to analyze a2ker's, although some might be immature, insane, ...? Man, everyone is so different! I'd really have to consider each person & that'd just take up all my time! (I'm a very careful analyzer!) BUT, if you would like it in thesis form it would probably take me a year. Is that satisfactory?
:wink:

William from As you like it's thirty-sixth biggest fan.

I would agree; even if that did not mean that one could speak the accepted dialect of each country, it would be easier to learn it (knowing its derivative forms.) From all the translating that you could do, you would be able to travel for life! (Speaking of languages, I might be starting to teach Vietnamese to myself soon-- the grammar is easy; I just hope that I get accustomed to the rest of it!)

Yeah, it's primary here until year 6 (5th grade,) and then they go up to secondary school (like middle and junior-high (??) school, I guess) until year 11 (10th grade.) Then, what was the 6th form (your but in England, the last two years of education are not compulsory; most people never do their A-levels.

Incidentally; I always knew myself since adolescence, and never gave up on it: that was one reason why they disliked me.

Xanadu-bound

Yes person

zealot

Argentine

bad egg