@alice There was a girl in my class with very long hair. The girls always wanted to braid or just play with the hair. She started getting more and more annoyed so once she just got up and said "No, I don't want you to touch my hair, It's a lot of work to wash and dry and I can't keep doing it every day!". And can you believe it, they let her be after that 🙂
Our class was almost smokers free. But some boys were using that tobacco you put under the lip. The clothes smell revolting.
@alice Before the BBC made Junior Mastermind, my London borough trialled the format in a big library. My parents entered me and I came second.
I would have come first, but I had the same amount of points as someone else and she got the tiebreak question. I got a £15 book token and special mention in school for my troubles.
I hated blue cheese as a kid because my only experience with it was my mother baking frozen fish bricks tipped with it. The whole thing was nasty.
Once I experienced wings, I liked it.
Lol.
I have one too.
But from stabbing myself with a greasy wire while working in a wire rope factory,
50 years ago.
It's slowly fading, will probably be gone if I can make it another 20years 😀
@alice I was technically born dead. When I was coming out of the womb, I experienced a common phenomenon for babies in that my shoulder was moved weirdly which prompted me to stop breathing and was momentarily pronounced dead at birth. However, since it was such a common issue, they knew how to resuscitate me back to life.
Yay, I'm a zombie :3
@alice As a pet, I have a venomous snake.
This is less impressive and/or scary than it sounds. I have a plains hognose snake named Design. She's venomous in about the same way that a honeybee is venomous, as far as biting humans is concerned. She doesn't even have fangs, but has to chew with her back teeth to envenomate anything. I would literally be more worried about a dog bite getting infected than a bite from Design causing venom problems.
Picture attached; marked "sensitive" for the snake-phobic. #TellAlice
@alice In two short years (2011-2012):
1. The FBI tried to get me fired from my job
2. The FBI mentioned my 4chan username in a federal hacking case
3. The FBI delayed my wedding
And the most amusing part? as far as I can tell, all three of these events are /completely unrelated/.
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