Friday Five 23-June-2023

[elusivek]

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1. What is your favorite fruit?
Has to be apple. I really like apples. I like sour apples. I also like other fruits but those are less easily procured here. Flat peach, grapes, honey dew melon, etc...

2. What is the most overrated fruit?
Strawberries. I dunno. It's like, if you buy import strawberries you'll never get the good stuff, so don't waste time and money at home. That time when I went to that strawberry farm in Tochigi and had a whole hour of free reign picking strawberries and eating them... yummy!

3. What is the most underrated fruit?
Custard apples maybe. Nobody seems to like them here.

4. Which fruit is the most beautiful?
Dragon fruit, probably.

5. When you're making a fruit salad, how many fruits do you put in it, and which ones?
I don't make fruit salads. I much prefer to just eat the fruit like that. But I can still repeat that old joke, Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. But I must insist. Cherry tomatoes!


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1. How do you feel about (or what do you think of) soccer, the sport known everywhere but in the U.S. as football?
I don't really know and care LOL.

2. What have you been forgiven for?
That implies I need to have done something wrong first, which I haven't (yet).

3. Who is the most joyful person you know?
There's a few of them! My colleague that sits behind me at work, definitely. Totally happy-go-lucky type.

4. When were you most recently a fish out of water?
I've been able to keep myself in familiar waters, so, can't think of anything.

5. Under which circumstances are you the best version of yourself?
I don't mind a little stress, but what I need is proper direction. There's some projects the boss wanted me to do but it's all exploratory, but even exploratory I want to know a vague intended direction, that maybe after some research we realize the intended direction isn't good so have to go another direction. But, there is no direction, and I'm really at a loss about that.

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[einhornmaedchen]

1. What is your favorite fruit?
Apples, strawberries, pineapples, cherries, nectarines (though they can't be too soft or my sensory issues kick in and make me unable to bite them :()...

2. What is the most overrated fruit?
Watermelon. 98% of the time, they just taste like nothing but water.

3. What is the most underrated fruit?
Starfruit.

4. Which fruit is the most beautiful?
I would say starfruit as well, especially when it's cut open and you can really see the star shape of the...pieces? Slices?

5. When you're making a fruit salad, how many fruits do you put in it, and which ones?
It has been years since I last made a fruit salad.

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1. How do you feel about (or what do you think of) soccer, the sport known everywhere but in the U.S. as football?
I am not as much into it as the average German - seeing as it's pretty much our "national sport" - but I usually watch Germany's matches in the EU or World cup. (Except last year's because I didn't want to support the World Cup being held in Quatar with the way people are being treated there.)

2. What have you been forgiven for?
Like, recently, or random things that happened before? I guess I've been forgiven for treating people like shit when I was ill and didn't know how to deal with it/before therapy, which lead to me taking out my emotions on others. Which, to note, is not an attempt at excusing the things I did and said. Just an explanation.

3. Who is the most joyful person you know?
My co-worker Vanessa.

4. When were you most recently a fish out of water?
Not sure.

5. Under which circumstances are you the best version of yourself?
When I feel secure somewhere/with somebody.

[elusivek]

Interesting about watermelon. I don't mind a tasteless or sweet watermelon, but the very important thing for watermelon is it must be chilled!.