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Bad influence meme (from moderndayviking



Apparently, if you go over 45, you're a bad influence. For answering this meme, I used a strict interpretation of the answers, as I would for answering a purity test. Technicalities count, ya'll.

Have you ever:

1. smoked
2. consumed alcohol
3. slept in the same bed with someone of the opposite sex
4. slept in the same bed with someone of the same sex
5. kissed someone of the same sex
6. had sex
7. had someone in your room other than family
8. watched porn
9. bought porn
10. done drugs

TOTAL SO FAR: 10

1. taken painkillers
2. taken someone else's prescription medicine
3. lied to your parents
4. lied to a friend
5. snuck out of the house
6. done something illegal
7. cut yourself
8. hurt someone
9. wished someone to die
10. seen someone die

TOTAL SO FAR: 18

1. missed curfew
2. stayed out all night
3. eaten a carton of ice cream by yourself
4. been to a therapist
5. been to rehab
6. dyed your hair
7. received a ticket
8. been in an accident
9. been to a club
10. been to a bar

T0TAL SO FAR: 24

1. been to a wild party
2. seen the Mardi Gras
3. drank more than four beers in a night
4. had a spring break in Florida
5. sniffed anything
6. wore black nail polish
7. wore arm band
8. wore t-shirts with band names
9. listen to rap
10. own a 50 Cent CD

TOTAL SO FAR: 29

1. dressed gothic
2. dressed prep
3. dressed punk
4. dressed grunge
5. stole something
6. been too drunk to remember anything
7. blacked out
8. fainted
9. had a crush on your neighbor
10. had someone sneak into your room

TOTAL SO FAR: 35

1. snuck into someone else's room
2. had a crush on your best friend
3. been to a concert
4. dry-humped someone
5. been called a slut
6. called someone a slut
7. installed speakers in your car
8. broken a mirror
9. showered at someone of the opposites sex's house.
10. brushed your teeth with someone else's toothbrush

TOTAL SO FAR: 41

1. consider/considered Ludacris your favorite rapper
2. seen an R-rated movie in theater
3. cruised the mall
4. skipped school
5. had surgery
6. had an injury
7. gone to court
8. walked out of a restaraunt without paying
9. caught something on fire
10. lied about your age

TOTAL SO FAR: 48

1. owned an apartment
2. broke the law in the police's presence
3. cheated with someone
4. got in trouble with the police
5. talked to a stranger
6. hugged a stranger
7. kissed a stranger
8. rode in the car with a stranger
9. been sexually harrassed
10. been verbally harrassed

TOTAL SO FAR: 55


1. met face-to-face with someone you met online
2. stayed online for 12 hours straight
3. talked on the phone for more than 4 hours straight
4. watched TV for 12 hours straight
5. been to a fair
6. been called a bad influence
7. drink and drive
8. prank-called someone
9. laid on a couch with someone of the opposite sex
10. cheated on a test

TOTAL SO FAR: 63

1. cheated on homework
2. held hands with someone of the opposite sex
3. been pushed into a pool
4. played pool
5. watched 5 hours of MTV straight
6. had a crush on someone 5 years older than you
7. had a crush on someone younger than you
8. worn eyeliner
9. skinny-dipped
10. laughed at a retarded person in a wheelchair

Grand total: 71

I take issue with this meme on the grounds that what I do does not, ipso facto, make me a bad influence. If I were out there going, for example, "I drank when I was underage and YOU SHOULD TOO!" then I'd be a bad influence. I don't much try to make other people be like me. (Mostly, other people just point and laugh, anyway.)

I did consider, in reading this meme, that it was aimed at people who are a lot younger than I am. "Stay out all night?" WTF? "Bought porn?" Come on, people. I'm not twelve or something. If I want porn, I'm allowed to buy it. "Cheated on homework?" Uhm, okay, does more than twenty years ago count? (It wasn't *my* homework. I never turned in anything but my own work... but I did occasionally do OTHER people's homework for amusement purposes. Example: I wrote Dan A.'s sentences for vocabulary once. One of the sentences was as follows: "Miss Lentz is the only extant virgin on the faculty." :) Dan did not ever ask me to write his sentences again.)

Also, I have never "owned an apartment" so I didn't answer that one as a yes. I own stock in assorted corporations that own apartments and I betcha I am a fuck of a lot closer to being able to answer yes to own an apartment than most of the people who answer this damn thing. The question is written poorly. The author probably MEANS "Rented an apartment?" but since the damn quiz was probably written by a fourteen-year-old, subtleties like that are a bit much to hope for.

But whatever. I'm a bad influence. Yippee.

Comments

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Why would you lie on anything in your journal? It's yours, after all. You're probably not going to be able to fool yourself.

And you gotta love a quiz that ranks hand-holding as a bad influence. Maybe during influenza pandemics?

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

um. I got 61.

I wasn't cheap in the sex sense, I was cheap in the sense that I would not pay for a hotel room if I could stay at a friend's. So stayed in someone else's room? Yes. Does that mean I had sex with them? No! Slept in a bed with someone of the same sex? Duh.

I've been married for 17 years. I have two children. Of course I've had sex.

I have kissed males and females who were not blood kin. But not like I kiss my spouse. Kissing does not make you a bad influence, neither does hugging.

And how does *being* harassed make you a bad influence?

hmmm. Don't like this meme.



I've taken pain killers. I had surgery. How do those make me a bad influence?

[galena417.livejournal.com]

Me too...and I teach high school!

and, you're right, these things are most likely aimed at my students, and not people our age.