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Hmm. I think an artful adventure would be best. First, I would return to somewhere when I could listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing somewhere small and live...a jazz house in New York or something. And then back to witness a performance of Titus Andronicus at The Rose or other Elizabethan theatre. I would happily remain in Elizabethan England and die of the plague.
 
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Hmm. I think an artful adventure would be best. First, I would return to somewhere when I could listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing somewhere small and live...a jazz house in New York or something. And then back to witness a performance of Titus Andronicus at The Rose or other Elizabethan theatre. I would happily remain in Elizabethan England and die of the plague.
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You like a lot of jazz or Ella Fitzgerald specifically? You like a bloody tragedy too then. Ooh so many more questions spring to mind!
 
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@Firefly Why Elizabethan England?
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Lots of reasons. I think it was a time that allowed for a certain stability in the UK allowing for the identity of the nation to kind of begin to solidify. I think that is a most exciting era to be a part of. Women held a weird sort of status. I think in more ways we were free to just be. We were allowed to work, expected to work. Community was more necessary and so I want to believe there were stronger social/familial bonds. And if i were an upper class lady (which I would not be...if I were me but whatever) all the corsets and battledore and shuttlecock...i mean who wouldn't want to be an Elizabethan?
 
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Lots of reasons. I think it was a time that allowed for a certain stability in the UK allowing for the identity of the nation to kind of begin to solidify. I think that is a most exciting era to be a part of. Women held a weird sort of status. I think in more ways we were free to just be. We were allowed to work, expected to work. Community was more necessary and so I want to believe there were stronger social/familial bonds. And if i were an upper class lady (which I would not be...if I were me but whatever) all the corsets and battledore and shuttlecock...i mean who wouldn't want to be an Elizabethan?
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Community is as strong as you want to make it. My neighbours are elder than I and I always have a chat to them, see if they need anything getting etc.

I'm sure you're a very classy lady at times and other times perhaps less so! ;):p

Great answers by the way. Even if you have missed the question about jazz and Ella Fitzgerald. ;)
 
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@Walks Have you ever lost your wallet? What happened?
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Weirdly yes, went missing from home and has never been found, just the normal had to replace cards and driving licence etc, thankfully only had about £30 in it and nothing of any sentimental value
 
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@Firefly have you ever broken any bones?
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Yes, unfortunately.
On my 16th birthday, on my way to the driving school to get my learners permit, I was rudely interrupted by a driver not stopping when he should have. The bonnet of his car and my ribs had a bit of pissing contest...Most of my ribs won their test...two of them lost that one.

Needless to say, I didn't start learning to drive that day.

I also cracked the tip of a finger when it was crushed between two wooden swords playing melee in the forest with my brothers.
And put a hairline fracture in a vertebrae in my neck driving into shallow water. That was, what some might call, a lucky break.

After the ribs, I decided not to break any more bones as it is not pleasant...and so far have managed to honour that life choice.
 
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Community is as strong as you want to make it. My neighbours are elder than I and I always have a chat to them, see if they need anything getting etc.

I'm sure you're a very classy lady at times and other times perhaps less so! ;):p

Great answers by the way. Even if you have missed the question about jazz and Ella Fitzgerald. ;)
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Life is Jazz.

I was actually at a jazz live house over the weekend and had a deep philosophical meditation with a bottle of cognac and the owner/saxist about how the Japanese ideal of "wabi sabi" and the American ideal of "that's Jazz" are the same thing. How the error is what makes something beautiful. The absence of sound, stillness of breath, devastation of a diminished chord reverberates and then life goes on. Or doesn't.

The point of it is that it is just alive in that moment.

And Ella. Her and Aretha Franklin are absolutely my most favourite vocalists.

@VIP Do you jazz?
 
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Life is Jazz.

I was actually at a jazz live house over the weekend and had a deep philosophical meditation with a bottle of cognac and the owner/saxist about how the Japanese ideal of "wabi sabi" and the American ideal of "that's Jazz" are the same thing. How the error is what makes something beautiful. The absence of sound, stillness of breath, devastation of a diminished chord reverberates and then life goes on. Or doesn't.

The point of it is that it is just alive in that moment.

And Ella. Her and Aretha Franklin are absolutely my most favourite vocalists.

@VIP Do you jazz?
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Not a swinger ;) but….

What a chat up line!! Definitely if you’re asking :p

I absolutely do jazz, love it. Some wonderful musicians artists and a lot of music has originated from it too.

It can be both stimulating and relaxing too.

I like most style of music to be fair and agree that Aretha and Ella are brilliant vocalist.
 
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Bigkingdongxx said:
It would have to be a mutant virus that only effects a type of blood group with gives them a rage effect to kill everything in sight
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One of the very rare blood types right like not B neg…

And to battle these angry mutants… is there any recourse against them?
 
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