The Cheerful Insanity of Me

I'm a little teapot, must be one of the more memorable childhood songs, which makes it utterly confusing that I can't remember the 5th line.

I've heard lots of different versions of it as an adult, but they all sound wrong somehow.

Having ended up singing it last weekend, it seems appropriate time for a poll (especially as I haven't had one in ages)...

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Have a strange feeling I may have posted a very similar poll before, but as I'm still not enlightened, I reserve the right to repeat myself

So, judging by the results of my not exactly unbiased opinion poll and overly simplifing the electoral system to be entirely based on proportional representation, the UK representation of on the EU parlement should look something like this on Sunday:

Party	Votes	Proportion	Seats
Liberal Democrats	30	40.00%	28
Green Party	15	20.00%	14
Conservative	8	10.67%	8
UK Independence Party	7	9.33%	7
Plaid Cymru	2	2.67%	2
The Roman Party	2	2.67%	2
Yes2Europe	2	2.67%	2
English Democrats	1	1.33%	1
Fair Play Fair Trade Party	1	1.33%	1
Jury Team	1	1.33%	1
Liberatus	1	1.33%	1
Scottish National Party	1	1.33%	1
Socialist Democratic & Labour Party	1	1.33%	1
Socialist Party of Great Britain	1	1.33%	1
Ulster Conservatives & Unionists: New Force	1	1.33%	1
Independent	1	1.33%	1
Total	75	100%	72

A bit of a swing to the left there...

I somewhat expect it won't quite turn out that way, but it would be nice if it did.

As it's EU election day, it seems appropriate to have an election poll, to see what the EU representation would be if voted for entirely by people who stumble on this post.

Secret ballot, so detailed results not viewable (although shockingly lj doesn't seem to let me make them unviewable to me, so I'll just have to promise not to look and hope that wills suffice).

Don't feel you have to vote for the same party as you did in the real thing (because of course you have all voted, haven't you?) or even for a party that is represented in your constituency.

Full list of parties below taken from the BBC.

Of course, only one vote (although I've had to split it into separate polls as there seem to be lots of random parties).

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EDIT: Missed one

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There are mushrooms in this week's vegbox. The world is truely a glorous place today :-)

Don't worry, I do have more to say other than just "yum".

I had a conversation with my sister about mushrooms (yes, I talk to people about the most interesting of topics, don't I?) and how to prepare them, which we do very differently, so out of curiousity, a poll:

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Not a trick question, but I'm curious to know what you all call one of these (will explain why later):



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A conversation with morganmuffle yesterday, got me curious where people think the North-South divide is, so a poll:

This is probably going to completely fail due to people jumping on stereotypes, but without really thinking too hard about it, if you had to put a north-south divide line on a map where would you put it?

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Thinking about memories this morning (and not essays about eportfolios as I really should be *slaps wrist*), has got me wondering about when they start.

You hear a lot of people say "my earliest memory is when I was X and ... happened", but you never really hear people talking about when the main bulk of their memories start (which for me certainly is significantly later).

Probably, best not waste too much time trawling the internet to find out, so have a poll instead:

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My use of the word understanding as in "A understands B as C" is that C doesn't necessarily have to be correct. In fact misunderstandings and misconceptions are just special types of understanding where C is wrong.

i.e. the sentence "Bob understands a banana to be a small green kangaroo with three legs and a big blue nose" would be perfectly acceptable to me (assuming that was what Bob believed) even though I know this isn't what a banana is.

Obviously omitting "as C" yields "A understands B", which then implies A understands B as a suitably correct definition of B.

It hadn't occurred to me that people may take there to be a implication that C is a valid interpretation of B in the first sentence until the past few days.

It's been quite interesting to see how the discussion of this post has developed. Most people took the sentence to mean something along the lines of A uses B to mean C and interprets B as C when they hear it used by someone else. The question of whether C should be a correct understanding seems a little less straightforward however.

I suspect I've picked up this way of thinking about understanding when I was doing a PGCE a few years ago, as I'm fairly certain it was used this way in some of the articles I had to read.

Anyway, just to round the discussion off. A poll:

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...And for my next post I shall explain what I think the subject line of this post means just to continue the sequence...

...or maybe not as the case may be.

Following atreic's lead, fill in the following quiz imagining you're me and post the results as a comment:

Dating Strengths and Weaknesses Quiz

Won't be insulted if it's negative...

Have filled it in myself in a separate hidden post (don't want my results influencing this), will let you compare afterwards though...

If you don't know me... guess!

Something I just found on MDDL:

Dance books have a catagory for "Ethnic Dance - English". I've never heard anyone describe Morris Dancing as Ethnic before, but I suppose it is.

And it's also another excuse for a poll (yey, poll!)...

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