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If you could arrange the letters in your name to make up another name, word or phrase, what would it be?

By: | Post date: June 4, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

As I was informed by someone at Uni with an anagram generator: Lickin’ Nachos. Which I have done, but no guacamole for me, thanks. Just sour cream and tomato. And NO CHEEZ WIZ! Jeez, GettyImages®, are you trying to kill me?! Answered 2016-06-04 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/If-you-could-arrange-the-letters-in-your-name-to-make-up-another-name-word-or-phrase-what-would-it-be/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

What would you do if you found US$500 in a parking lot?

By: | Post date: June 4, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

Not a hypothetical for me, nor it seems for most respondents. I found AUD 300 bundled with a rubber band under my car tire, twenty years ago. I did not know then, and my wife has kindly informed me since, that the location and presentation of the $300 is consistent with a drug deal. No, […]

What are some down sides of doing PhD in an Australian university than that of the USA?

By: | Post date: June 4, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Academia

The other respondents have covered it well. I’ll still answer redundantly. No coursework; so you can emerge with gaps in your knowledge about the discipline. I know I did. Not necessarily much of a seminar culture (may vary by faculty); so much less opportunity to refine your ideas against your peers. Much less networking opportunities, […]

What do you suck at?

By: | Post date: May 19, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

Ah, a soon-to-be 100+ answers question that Quora would block as a poll question, but should not because it is community building. Reflexes. When I was in high school, I went to the Victoria-wide tryouts for the student version of the Sale of the Century game show. I do believe I can find some pictorial […]

What are some facile equivalences between European countries and Asian countries?

By: | Post date: May 16, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Countries

Here’s one that isn’t mine (it’s my friend Suresh’s), but it triggered the question. Japan is the Britain of Asia. Consider: Island nation Never invaded Industrial powerhouse (at least historically) Home of whisky (Suntory, Nikka Whisky Distilling) Belief in its superiority over, well, everyone Emotional constipation. I mean, I defy you to read Jay Liu’s […]

What comes to your mind when someone mentions Turkey (the country)?

By: | Post date: May 16, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Countries

I am Greek. (And Australian, but a lot more of my reactions are going to be informed by being Greek than being Australian, for obvious reasons. In fact, Gallipoli to me is more about the manuscript of Gallipoli dialect I saw in Athens, than the ANZACs. But to me, Australian history started in 1942 anyway.) […]

In a TV show where people get eaten alive by zombies or worse why is saying “fuck” a big deal?

By: | Post date: May 16, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture

American Network TV-specific, Anon. “Fuck” gets used in quite innocuous contexts in Australia. Such as Gogglebox Australia, a show showing couch potatoes yelling at Reality TV shows. (And only the Real Housewives of Melbourne say “fuck” unbleeped.) And in the States, there’s lots of profanity on HBO shows. Walking Dead is cable too, but I […]

What are your five favourite operas?

By: | Post date: May 2, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Music

I… don’t actually like opera, with the following exceptions. So my answers are (a) not representative, and (b) damn good, if they got past my “I don’t like opera” filter. John Adams, Nixon in China. Alban Berg, Wozzeck. Wolfgang Mozart, Don Giovanni. Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier. Need a fifth, OK: Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes. Thirty […]

What cultures don’t value gold?

By: | Post date: April 29, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture

Australia during the gold rush? I can’t find online corroboration of this, probably because I read this on a tourist placard somewhere. But apparently when Prince Alfred came to visit Australia in 1868, the streets of Bendigo (or was it Ballarat?) were paved with silver. Gold was too plentiful. Answered 2016-04-29 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-cultures-dont-value-gold/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

What’s it like to be mistaken for being a different ethnicity than you actually are?

By: | Post date: April 28, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

*Stumbles on Quora question with 100+ answers* *Quora, instead of futzing around with UI details that already work, should be working on 100+ answer navigation* By virtue of my surname and my un-Hellenically pale skin, I got Russian in high school. Given the high intellectual caliber of Russian Jews that I socialised with in high […]

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