Registered: Jul 2001
Location: NYC
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Post things that you're really interested in and could talk about for hours. Maybe some of us have interests in common that we didn't know about.
For me:

Subways, mass transit, etc.

Urban archaeology, tunnels, catacombs, anything underground

Linguistics, including taxonomy

Architecture and city planning

And of course anything remotely related to Turkey

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Location: Boston, MA, Center of the Universe
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Ants. Seriously. There is nothing cooler than ants.

Medieval Japan.

Evolution.

Warfare.

Human depravity.

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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Anime

Umm...

Err...

I'm not a very interesting person.

[edit: Okay, Cage reminded me that I like Japanese stuff in general, and I'm interested in evolution, too. Guess I just can't think of my interests most of the time.]

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Location: Boston, MA, Center of the Universe
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Speaking of urban archeology, I just watched a quick segment highlighting some of the things they've dug up during the course of the Big Dig up here in Boston. They're planning on putting together a museum once they've finished. Prior to that I never even thought about urban archeology. It was some pretty cool stuff.

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Location: seattle-ish
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-mythology
-music, in all forms
-movies
-lives of various kings and queens of england(mostly tudor-related)
-funny stories in general(my co-worker dustin and I go on for hours upon end telling each other funny stories about any and everything...not much work gets done when we work together).
-my son
-agreeing with cage that I tend to find evolution discussions epecially fun to listen/participate in.
-theory about anything. conspiracy theories even better. these tend to be really funny discussions in the end.
-i like to listen to computer discussion, but will rarely participate in it.
-design of any sort.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Boston
Posts: 6561

Baseball... Opening Day is better than Christmas to me

Music

Movies

Economical issues

Art and art history

Comic books

Computers

That's all I can think of right now.

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Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 10178

Jenna Jameson

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Location: A New England
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Porn

Martial Arts

Warfare

Personal Perversions

Nerd stuff

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Location: Hilbert Space
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I really will talk about pretty much anything. But I prefer to talk about stuff that other people know more about than I do, so I can learn more.

I can bore the crap out of people talking about Tolkien's world and physics and fantasy books or role playing games or pretty much anything else that I know a little about. Just ask people who know me. Talking to people from different countries about their countries is interesting, as is talking about politics. And history. Even some philosophy.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: GA
Posts: 6953

gardening

world religions, philosophy

reading just about anything and writing mostly crap.

politics

D/s kink

traveling, different cultures

i also rode horses for years, and so i still have much interest in equestrian sports, particularly 3 day eventing.

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I really will talk about pretty much anything. I can bore the crap out of people talking.

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Location: Dublin, California
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controversial issues of any kind
WWII
Weird NJ type stuff (its more interesting since it goes on around here)

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Location: LfuckinA
Posts: 3350

existentialism (well, any philosophy really. i'm into an existentialism kick right now)

movies

music

the simpsons

baseball

guitars, not necessarily playing them but i talk about them in the same way some guys talk about cars

fbi profiling

education

books

the writing process

u.s. history

los angeles history

photography...did you know that dorthea lange was obsessed with toes due to her malformed toes? she always took pics of toes.

cultures (i do more listening than anything, i love learning about new [to me] cultures)

that's about all i can think of for now. yep.

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I like dogs and cows and good books. I like mowin grass and travelin around visitin with folks. I like flirtin with boys, no matter where I'm at or who they are.

If yer talkin bout what I like talkin bout? I dunno. Bring somethin up, and if I don't know nothin bout it, I'll speak with enough conviction that you might think otherwise. I can generally fake it for a while, at least, or until yer money runs out.

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I can bore the crap out of people talking about Tolkien's world and physics and fantasy books or role playing games or pretty much anything else that I know a little about. Just ask people who know me. Talking to people from different countries about their countries is interesting, as is talking about politics. And history. Even some philosophy.

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Sorry, really it takes one to know one.

I like motorycycles and computers. I think it's cool that OSX runs on Unix. It's just really cool to me.

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Location: 51N3, 114W3
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Kinks, Jenna Jamison -- something in common with Dingle... cause for alarm? I'd say so -- porn, video games, music, computers, history, politics, religion and, of course, anal fisting.

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Brains.

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In jars.

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Location: Mountains
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Ants. Seriously. There is nothing cooler than ants.

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my son.. architecture.. buckminster fuller.. autocad.. the ocean.. atlantis.. edgar cayce.. mythology.. fairy tales.. erotica.. porn.. bdsm.. whips.. chains.. pain.. food.. racing.. especially rally racing.. fast things.. fighting.. kung fu.. krav maga.. different cultures and religions.. business.. cleopatra.. money.. green deal.. psychology.. perversity.. einstein.. afghan whigs lyrics.. building things.. calvin klein underwear.. dreams.. growing things.. medicinal herbs.. computer games.. books.. museums (although I have this problem with not being allowed to touch things.)

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Location: Boston, MA, Center of the Universe
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I remember running out after I finished watching Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan and sticking grass stems into ant hills and eating the ants off of them like he did with termites in the movie. And then a big-ass carpenter ant bit my tongue. Incidentally, they taste foul. I'd recommend fire ants instead. They're more crunch than taste. Just make sure to crunch them quick.

Ants definitely kick ass. They account for > 50% of the world's biomass. Some of them wage war. Some of them harvest pieces of leaves which they then compost to cultivate fungi for food. Some of them cultivate fungi which they use to support aphids which they herd for food. They collect their dead and deposit them in "graveyards". They're amazing. I never did play SimAnt. I wish I had.

Squirrells are actually pretty bad-ass, too.

Oh yeah, and watersports videos.

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But I prefer to talk about stuff that other people know more about than I do, so I can learn more.

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I remember running out after I finished watching Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan and sticking grass stems into ant hills and eating the ants off of them like he did with termites in the movie. And then a big-ass carpenter ant bit my tongue. Incidentally, they taste foul. I'd recommend fire ants instead. They're more crunch than taste. Just make sure to crunch them quick.

Ants definitely kick ass. They account for > 50% of the world's biomass. Some of them wage war. Some of them harvest pieces of leaves which they then compost to cultivate fungi for food. Some of them cultivate fungi which they use to support aphids which they herd for food. They collect their dead and deposit them in "graveyards". They're amazing. I never did play SimAnt. I wish I had.

Squirrells are actually pretty bad-ass, too.

Oh yeah, and watersports videos.

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