Past

• Do good things always have to come to an end?
• If you could invent a new orifice, what would it do and where would you put it?
• Do you think Chris Brown’s music should be judged solely on its own merits? (Regarding no star reviews for recent album because of brutality against Rihanna)
• Can you imagine an Olympic event you could realistically compete for a medal in?
• In making decisions, what weight should we give to the interests of future generations?
• Why is caffeine such a popular stimulant?
• What are the essential elements of a legal system?
• Is world government a bad idea?
• Signs it’s time to consider euthanasia
• Is scoring within 15 minutes a healthy relationship goal?
• Where has all the imagination gone?
• What’s inside the box?
• I could have been a doctor. Couldn’t I?
• Does the economy work?
• Is this capitalist world destined to one day be owned completely by two rival super-corporations?
• How would the world be different if men had periods too?
• “What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!” Discuss.
• If every letter in the alphabet had a personality, which one do you think you would get along with best?
• Is this an easy question to answer?
• Slugbear is a cute combination of a slug and a bear. Purpose: mainly to amuse me. What Oryx and Crake – style animal hybrid would you like to create?
• If you agree with the statement ‘I have identity because I create myself through my free choices’, how far does the act of choosing entirely in itself satisfy the need for assurance of identity?
• Jesus: Mad, Bad or God?
• What is cute?
• In relation to the beginning of the Universe, is science saying ‘Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation’?
• What’s your solution?
• How about now: Are you OK? Are they OK?
• When you were a child what did you think of other people? Were they OK?
• When you were a child what did you think of yourself? Were you OK?
• What’s your problem? (asked in a genuinely concerned manner)
• Is suicide truly selfish?
• Which is more significant, being or doing?
• How much fuck could a flux capacitor flux if a flux capacitor could flux fucks?
• What are the five practical steps towards your creative place in the Noosphere?
• Can you ever really know when it’s love?
• Why do people do things that are bad for them, even though they know they’re bad?
• WTF?
• What makes a good hermit?
• Why are wasps so angry?
• What is the best weather?
• Is Steampunk intrinsically a fascist aesthetic through a seemingly playful back door?
• Does nature know when we care for it, and does it reciprocate that care?
• Why?
• When?
• Where?
• Who?
• Is it possible to be surprised by a lunar eclipse?
• What is the worst thing one human can do to another human?
• Which would you rather lose, a hand or a foot?
• What time is love?
• Do you reckon an extra arm would be more hindrance or help?
• Getting from A to B. Where is A and why do I want to get away from it? Where is B and why do I want to go there?
• Which is the most aesthetically attractive alphabet/language?
• Can you make a Dovetail joint?
• Wouldn’t it be cool if pavements were giant, sentient, interconnected living organisms. Do you think we would treat them with a bit more care?
• Who was the greatest ever athlete?
• Is there a grammar to everthing?
• Where does happiness come from?
• Are humans still evolving, does it matter?
• Which is better Sunrise or Sunset?
• Should I hold my peace?
• What can change the nature of humanity?
• “No-one has ever lived in the past. No-one will ever live in the future. The present is the form of all life. ” Discuss.
• What is the privilege of the dead?
• “Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.” Discuss.
• What does this diagram mean?
• Why is Ian McKellan scared of the dark?
• Check this out. You win five million dollars from the Publisher’s Sweepstakes, and the same day that that big Ed guy gives you the cheque, aliens land on the earth and say they’re going to blow up the world in two days. What do you do?
• Is there ever an appropriate time and place to carry out a half-assed autopsy on a fish?
• Can you write me a Petrarchan sonnet featuring four of the following five items? a) Ed Miliband solving a rubiks cube in under 1½ minutes b) A half assed autopsy on a fish c) Art Garfunkel being gunned down by fedora wearing state troopers d) The number 81 bus e) A well timed solar eclipse
• If not now, when?
• “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?”
• Do you believe in reincarnation and if so what were your previous lives?
• If everyone I know comes across as so right on why do they bank with Barclays or the other deeply unethical High St banks when an effective way to create change is as simple as switching bank account?
• What came first, consciousness or the material universe?
• Is Stephen Pinker right to say that the world is becoming less violent?
• Who are we to judge?
• What is the purpose of those who write in library books?
• Is this a good idea?
• What is Bravery?
• Who Invented the Leaf-blower and Why? (AKA What the Hell is Wrong with a Broom?) WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT OUR SOCIETY?
• How Do You Motivate A Depressed 15 Year Old Boy Who is Addicted to Computer Games and Hates the Outside World?
• What Is The Point of the BBFC? Do We Need It?
• Why is it that when I drink two cups of coffee I start to roll my eyes about and feel like I am having a panic attack?
• If you can get the entire contents of a physical library onto a small portable hard drive, why keep public library buildings?
• Are the people in charge cynical or deluded? (cunts or idiots)
• Is CERN (and similar) worth it?
• What makes good music good?
• What will this country be like to live in in five years?
• Why do wolves get such a bad rap in nursery rhymes?
• Would the world be a better place if the Industrial Revolution never happened?
• Why do nurses get paid less than bankers?
• Is it ever a good idea to google your symptoms?
• Why can’t you see stars when you go above Earth’s atmosphere?
• When should you forgive?
• How important are role-models?
• Is being recognised as a victim empowering?
• Are daydreams a good thing?
• When should you apologise?
• What would Britain look like under a utilitarian government?
• “Bow ties are cool.” Yes/no?
• Do creators of popular fiction have a right to change the canon at whim or will?
• Should we resume the 4 day working week?
• What can change the nature of a man?
• What’s worse, the frustration of being woken in the middle of a amazing dream before it reaches it’s end, or having an amazing dream but sleeping right through it and not remembering anything?
• Does IQ bear any relation to a person’s ability to function on a day to day basis?
• Aren’t buses GREAT?
• Pareidolia is a really great word. Interesting meaning too. Did you know what it meant before I asked this question?
• Do you think there will come a time where no one sends post to each other any more? (Excluding birthday salutations and christmas wishes or even including them, if you will)
• Should we be recording the sum of our knowledge onto something more lasting than digital media?
• Will we see proof of telepathy in our lifetime?
• Is there a state of pure understanding?
• What will future historians call the era in which we live?
• We are separate, but we are one, but are we?
• Is it acceptable to wear odd socks?
• Which type of animal is most friendly?
• What would be a pedant’s worst nightmare?
• Do people still have penpals?
• Why is punctuation so important?
• What is the most effective form of communication?
• Hello? Is it me you are looking for?
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• When will I be famous?
• Is OK Cupid a happy place?
• How would you deal with noisy neighbours?
• What’s sexier, seeing someone you’re attracted to naked, or clothed?
• In the face of adverse climate change, well exceeding the 2 degrees that has been deemed ‘safe’ by climate scientists, should we consider injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or covering the Sahara in tinfoil?
• What’s the most important kitchen utensil?
• Would the world be a better place if no one was allowed to wear shoes?
• Why is one’s libido at its highest when one is trying to study? (Considering that there is nothing inherently sexy about the subject matter)
• Could a vegan revolution and presumed eradication of speciesism bring an end to sexism/racism/ageism and other forms of interhuman discrimination. (No, I’m not sure that ‘interhuman’ is a word)
• Would it impede on your holiday to Barry island if you found out that it was Fred West’s destination of choice?
• Bearing in mind that (1) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD) has been suggested to have an incubation period of anything up to decades, and (2) that during the 1990s I ate a LOT of cruddy Birdseye burgers, should I be concerned that I may be struck down with the brain wasting disease?
• Will someone please bring this madman to justice for the crimes he has committed?
• Why do we have such different personalities when we’re online? Or do we?
• In retrospect, who seemed to have the best outlook, Mulder or Scully?
• Why does no-one (apart from other poets) read poetry any more?
• What is the best question ever?
• Is there confusion between ‘fitness’ and ‘wellness’ in contemporary culture?
• Why do we doodle? (semi-conscious scribbling as opposed to casual drawing)
• What is the destiny of humankind? (best case scenario)
• What will happen in 2012 in regards to the Mayan calendar?
• Does appreciation of beauty have a survival advantage?
• Who should be the “highly prestigious” Celebrity of the Year?
• Are things getting better?
• Is gender a spectrum?
• Where do Ohrwurms come from?
• What is the best hobby/leisure activity?
• Is silence golden?
• Do you know where you’re going to?
• Have we become human doings rather than human beings?
• Should we let sleeping gods lie?
• Should we let sleeping dogs lie?
• How important is sleep?
• Is a little bit of chicken soup good for the soul?
• If you’re the king of the castle, am I the dirty rascal?
• Why are tomatoes red?
• Why do birds suddenly appear?
• To what extent does someone’s personality depend on their surroundings?
• Will there be anything left of our social democracy by the time this government loses an election? [apologies, this is an academic sounding question but still a good one]
• Why on earth did anyone believe that the wealth would trickle down?
• What is this spirituality I’ve heard so much about and how do I get in on it?
• Could cats climbing creatively conceive of their comicality?
• Why do washing machines have clocks? Dingle, Dongle or Dangle?
• Quod erat demonstrandum or not?
• Do other species enjoy debauched sexual activities?
• Is an alternating current really the superior system of delivering electricity?
• What are dreams literally made of?
• What’s the fine, but deadly, line between comfort and complacency?
• What is the great motivator? In other words: why existence?
• What’s the best way to keep the Heart light?
• Why not?
• How many times a day should one fall in love?
• A cow?
• What is the greatest gift a person can be given?
• Why does only a little of what you fancy do you good?
• Is it true that “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”? (Congreve)
• What have the Romans ever done for us?
• When are the best days of our lives?
• Are high heels a purely misogynistic invention?
• Where do bad poodles go when they die?
• Are we nearly there yet?
• Why decorate ourselves?
• What’s in the dark?
• What ought we to forget?
• Sheep and unicorns?
• What stories should we tell?
• Is there anything we all know the words to?
• What kind of ancestors will we be?
• How long does it take to feel at home somewhere?
• Have i been bitten?
• Is starting over a fortune or misfortune?
• 3 feet high and rising – true or false?
• Is it all about education?
• Have Karen and Kat had a nice week in Devon?
• Living on the edge, why the hell not?
• Which is more valuable, time or money?
• What is the most selfless thing that someone can do?
• Malcolm Reynolds, would you? (It should be noted the questioner is unaware of who Malcolm Reynolds is.)
• Is there anything unmeaningful?
• What are you doing?
• 120 rainbows starve
• Two rights make a wrong?
• Two wrongs make a right?
• What or who are your discipline’s false gods?
• Is dislike of politicians a sensible default position?
• Should we worry about a language dying out?
• Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?
• Why is it when women put on mascara and men play computer games we both make identical strange open mouthed expressions?
• Are plasters a relatively pointless slightly evil invention?
• What is the possibility of forming a fully fledged four piece rubber band?
• Are Jaffa Cakes biscuits or cakes?
• What?
• Sweating, woo or boo?
• Arms or legs?
• What makes internet access a human right?
• If a tree falls in the wood and there is no one to hear it, does it make a noise?
• Bellybutton fluff, why?
• What is the world’s fastest fish?
• What would it be like to literally vent your spleen?
• Why now?
• What is the ideal temperature?
• What does purple taste like?
• Is there such a thing as an Unstruck question which is impossible to illustrate?
• Is it better to drive on the left hand side or the right hand side of the road?
• In a multiverse where I hadn’t agreed to ask this week’s questions, what would have happened instead and how might it have impacted the development of the future?
• Would you like a cup of tea?
• Would this question be better if I asked it in Norwegian?
• Should I dye my hair red again?
• No, I didn’t even know it was possible.
• Corpses are hard and stiff.
• No, not departing- returning.
• That will is bound up with fear, and sovereignty is never shaped from above, or in other words, on the basis of a decision taken by the strong, the victor or the parents.
• Won’t you take me to Funkytown? And if you would, how would we get there?
• If misery loves company, what does happiness love?
• Led Zeppelin or Status Quo?
• If you go down to the woods today, what surprises will you find? Extra points for detail, minus points for over reliance on the negative effects of climate change, etc
• In a battle between bees and spiders for world domination, which would win and why?
• Is it, in fact, nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? And if not, what is the alternative?
• The True Finns party doesn’t want to give financial support to Portugal in it’s current situation. They suggest that portugal should be removed temporarily from the euro, until Portugal “is back on it’s feet again”. Discuss.
• How do you see EU? How has it developed, what has it improved and what should be done differently in the future?
• True Finns want to cut the support for modern art completely. They want to move the cultural allowances to support art that aims to strengthen the national identity. Finland’s other big parties think this is impossible – only in totalitarian societies the politicians have taken the right to decide what art can be like. Discuss.
• Finland’s third biggest party True Finns wants to significantly make cuts in these areas: development aid, EU-membership fees, Immigration. If all these cuts were made, how would it affect the country and it’s international relations?
• If a snowman came to life, what would he do?
• Does it matter whether the chicken or the egg came first?
• Why do some people prefer spoons, and others forks?
• Warum warum warum ist die Banane krumm?
• Why are there so many ‘knock knock’ jokes?
• How do you calm a cat on heat?
• Walk out the front door of your house/flat. Take a die with you. Walk to the nearest crossroad. Roll die. 1-2, turn left; 3-4, straight ahead; 5-6, turn right. Walk until you reach another crossroad. Please repeat as many times as desired and write about where you end up.
• What is the Big Society?
• Take the nearest book. Turn to page 96 and read the second sentence in the second paragraph on the page. If it is continuous prose, please just read the second sentence. That is today’s question. Question: “Das wären Küsse fein”?
• Please decribe getting up in the morning in as accurate and honest manner possible.
• Is it possible to “live and let die”?
• Can you sleep too much?
• What is stupid o’clock?
• Is it possible to cook a work of Art?
• In certain contexts, can arrogance be considered a positive personality trait?
• Are there situations in which violence is the only viable solution?
• Do the great classical works of art have an inherent greater value to the productions of the modern day, or are they more out of relevance than some would like to admit?
• Is our society’s current obsession with “individualism”, and defining ourselves through ownership and habits, a form of defence against being swamped in our well connected, overpopulated world?
• Imagine Charlie Sheen and Gaddafi are stuck on a deserted island together. Please script the first two minutes of their conversation.
• If we fall in love in our brains, why does it always ache in our chest when we’re heartbroken?
• If you could invent an entirely new animal, what would it be? Latin name, eating habits, preferred habitat and mating call to be included please.
• What is the chemical formula for ‘love’? Misty late autumn mornings or misty early spring mornings?
• What is the worst fate anyone should wish on their worst enemy?
• If you can’t hum the tune, is it music?
• Which sense would it be easiest/hardest to live without?
• My kingdom for a horse?
• Chicken or Egg – and does it really matter?
• Perpetually confused or blissfully ignorant?
• Is imitation really the sincerest form of flattery?
• Alex, I’m happy for you and I’ma let you finish, but did Beyoncé have one of the best videos of all time?
• By observing something do we also change it? (N.B. Attempting to answer this question might change it.)
• Sex or the city?
• Should I make war on the Persians? (If this question makes no sense, read this: http://bit.ly/ftamps)
• Team vampire or team werewolf?
• How long does a potato take to bake?
• Have the English adapted to the loss of empire?
• Is Jean-Paul Sartre boring or do I just not understand him? (You cannot use the letter ‘e’ in your response)
• Why was the answer 42?
• What is the best recipe for disaster? Please answer in at least three distinct styles or forms (e.g. Gothic, Romantic, sonnet, etc.).
• Is there a greater tragedy in televisual history than the cancellation of Firefly?
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Can you ever trust a politician?
• Hey, little boy, would you like to know what’s in my pocket, or not?
• Why is morris dancing seen to be uncool?
• Was Mozart the Stock/Aitken/Waterman of his day?
• Why do we cry tears when we are upset? (alex note- in the sense that an expression of sadness is not enough)
• Why, according to Sod’s law, does toast land butter side down?
• Why don’t potatoes count towards your 5-a-day?
• How many handbags is too many?
• Why does absence make the heart grow fonder?
• Do doctors go to the doctors?
• What price dignity?
• Would Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieve nowadays what he achieved in his lifetime?
• How much is culture affected by the weather?
• Was Adam Smith right?
• whats the sharpest, most interesting, yet not necessarily the most pleasant, salad you can think of?
• Define ‘post-modern’ in a way that someone who’s heard the phrase 1000+ times might actually understand what it means.
• What is magick?
• What happened during the time of the enlightenment?
• Will you share your stream of consciousness with us?
• On the importance of reflection
• We can’t control the consequences of our actions, so should we even try?
• Why do our sexual desires and behaviour sometimes make us feel ashamed?
• Give an account of evolution
• Where do thoughts come from?
• Cake or Death?
• Has this country “gone to shit”? Hasn’t it always been a bit shit?
• What is the what?
• Christmas
• Solstice
• If Sigmund Freud had just had a fortnight’s holiday in today’s Brighton would he be revising his theory of sexuality?
• What do we want?
• Do flowers like each other?
• Why are snow flakes white?
• Why are dogs hearts so true?
• What is magic?
• Which one?
• What about the voice of Geddy Lee, how did it get so high?
• How on earth did you think you’d get away with that one?
• Wherefore?
• What’s under the blanket?
• Are Spongebob’s pants square because Spongebob is square or is Spongebob square because he needs to fit in his Squarepants?
• If the world was ending tomorrow and you were asked to make a speech, what would you say?
• What is fire made of?
• Why does the female orgasm exist, physiologically?
• Who would win in a fight between you and a seal?
• Are hatters still mad? Can mooredraw do this one?
• Why do people say things like “25 mins to 9″ instead of just giving the time?
• What’s the fabric of reality made of? And where’s the best place to shop for it? I tried C&H Fabrics on Western Road but they don’t have any…
• Why do people wear those slotted glasses? (You know the ones that are all plastic in lines hung on stands in the Laines in Brighton)
• Why do different languages exist?
• Why is it so hard to find people who don’t think sleeping with dogs is horrible?
• Could you care less?
• Why is the sky blue?
• How would one go about relighting one’s fire?
• Irish stereotypes, discuss.
• Why are boobs referred to as melons?
• Why do the bottom area of pajamas always sag? Even if one is pert in the manner of a ripe peach?
• Why does the truly crazy person always sit next to me on the bus?
• Why Bother?
• Would it make a difference if pigs could fly?
• Is the UK getting more segregated even as it gets more diverse? Why?
• Would life be better if the whales were in charge?
• Why have so few people heard of the Mighty Ethnicz?
• Where is my libido? Would putting up signs on lamp posts result in someone calling me to inform me they’d found it squashed on a road or up a tree? Are there too many questions?
• What does it feel like when we die?
• Why Is The Night Time The Right Time? (it is by the way)
• Should we preserve living creatures harmful to human interests, such as the tick, the locust and the tapeworm?
• Why does fried food taste so good?
• How do you think the Indian troops who were accommodated in the Brighton Pavilion during the Second World War felt?
• Where’s Wally?
• Is milky tea the most comforting drink in the world?
• Would poodles look good if they had straightened hair?
• Why don’t dogs wear shoes?
• Is subjectivity possible under the current administration?
• Does the Catholic hierarchy operate on who has the biggest hat?
• Why did Kafka never finish any of his novels?
• Would you go too far?
• What can outsmart a bullet?
• “There was a time when people simply wanted to sense the moon, but now they want to see it” [Goethe]. Discuss.
• Should we regret the loss of grand narratives in history?
• Why hug a hoodie?
• ‘Love is as strong as death.’ [Song of Solomon, 8.6] Discuss
• Should people agree to disagree?
• What’s an elaborate stage show worth? How important is an outfit to a musician?
• If you keep ageing at normal speed and george Osborne getting younger at normal speed when will you be exactly the same age as George osborne and what will happen?
• My cousin Carlton is such a loser, and my Uncle Phil and Auntie Viv have grounded me for playing some kind of madcap prank. What should I do?
• Is Hitler a meme?
• Why are dogs and cats considered enemies?
• Learning to whistle….is it possible?
• How do you live knowing that you’re going to die anytime?
• Is there something as too much perspective?
• How would you explain videogames if you time travelled and met someone in the early 1900s?
• Why do I care about Chantelle and Preston?
• Are things getting better or worse? Not money, more important things than that.
• Would it be better (how much?) if we described people in shades of brown and pink rather than black and white?
• Why do so many young writers choose weird (to me – sorry!) genres like steampunk instead of engaging with/exploring the world they live in?
• Why is there so little political resistance/activism these days? We know about the lying and cheating and they still get back into parliament – why?
• The higher you build your barriers
• Picking up something good
• Is it better to follow our hearts or our heads? (or Stephen Fry..)
• What’s the best way to get gender equality balanced to a level similar to Finland or Iceland? (it’s really good over there)
• Why doesn’t Mr T like getting on planes, fool?
• Today is today – What else can it be? (ie the present moment, today is never yesterday)
• Is it better to put on three staggered alarms and snooze through them all, or to put on one alarm and get up straight away? ie. Why’s it so hard to get up in the morning?
• What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
• Do you believe in magic?
• Life on Mars?
• (Have you ever been to) Electric Ladyland?
• How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?
• Do moms even know who Ice Cube is?
• Is an apple made of puberty?
• Do black people like white wine?
• Is a zebra a retarded horse?
• Can a man shit sculptures?
• Purple is the colour of frustration, what is yellow the colour of?
• How sure are you that the sea shells she sells on the sea shore are sea shells?
• Batman, superhero or not?
• What is the line between introspection and obsession?
• Why do birds sing so gay?
• Anna-Kaisa
• Lucy
• Unstruck
• Maria
• Adam
• Spaceships or dinosaurs, which are better?
• Is this a question?
• Can men ever really be feminists?
• You are going walking in bear country. What important things should you know?
• Are we human or are we dancer?
• Who’s bigger Jesus or the Beatles?
• Why do people oppress each other?
• Is it possible to be a hard core supporter of a national football team without becoming slightly nationalistic?
• Are there any English language sayings that are as black ethnocentric as the saying “let your hair down” or “red in the face” is ethnoexclusive?
• Where do red and green colour associations come from?
• In this modern era, is it possible to live a life without the usage of the internet, mobile phones, and the usage of social networking sites? And if so, how is it?
• Is it possible to ”fall in love” online?
• Is there life on other planets? Are they like us?
• Should I move to Brighton ? If yes, where would be a good place to live ?
• With the way modern technology is developing, do you think that inventors/scientists are getting closer to developing the ”hoverboard” like it appeared in the film “Back to the future : part II”?
• Sink or Swim?
• What skills would it be a shame to lose as a populace due to the advent of new technologies?
• Did George Osborne step up to the mark?
• Why are there only 24 hours in a day?
• Do people still use dictionaries?
• Why did people stop wearing hats?
• Who will win the last Big Brother?
• Is development of female masturbation different to men’s and does this make their attitudes to sex different?
• Why is menstruation a taboo subject?
• Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach?
• Tao Te Ching (Chapter 22) – Lao Tzu
• Lost at Sea – Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Gemini (Birthday Song) – Why?
• Kurt Vonnegut – Born Ruffians
• At what point can you call yourself ‘old’?
• Will the machines ever take over?
• Is time a straight line?
• How deep is your love?
• Was there ever a day when there was, literally, no news?
• Is every mother a single mother?
• On the importance and difficulties of non sexual physical intimacy…
• Compassion ‘to suffer together’, a life dissaffirming act. Discuss.
• What is intuition?
• Environmentalism and fascism go hand in hand. Can they ever be kept apart?
• Is Xander a sexist jerk or just an average guy trying to deal with the pressures of sustaining masculinity in the face of strong female friends?
• Given that god is infinite, and that the universes is also infinite, would you like a toasted teacake?
• What actually was it about BSG series 4 that made it less good than the previous years?
• Which of the main political parties best represents the duality of man?
• Why are the Solomon islands called the Solomon islands?
• What superhero would you create if you had the chance?
• If you had to lose one limb which would it be? If you had to lose three limbs which would you save?
• Would you throw a pint in Nick Clegg’s face?
• Who’s holding back the electric car?
• Is finding balance necessary?
• How do you find the balance?
• How could you be in two places at a time?
• How can you live in a moment?
• But is it art?
• When and where were you last lost? How did it make you feel?
• In the wake of the whole iPad hype/hysteria – do you do gadgets? Why (not)?
• Looking back, was New Labour a good thing?
• What are we to make of Anish and Boris’ plans for the ArcelorMittal Orbit (the big steel squiggle for the 2012 Olympics)?
• What was the most important moment of the 2000s?
• Happy or interesting?
• A gun, a bullet, a single-use time machine. Which world-historical figure would we have been better off without?
• Can community be created?
• What is the medium in which Being is conducted?
• Why was the strike cancelled?
• Can you think of an object which cannot be used for evil?
• How can you distinguish between fantasy and reality?
• Does the internet make me stupid?
• Whose horrible globe is this? Why do leaders of nations age so quickly & get that terrible glass-eyed look?
• Future?
• What, sir, is the barber’s shop quartet of your dreams?
• You are trapped in a locked room in a castle, around which there is a deep moat. All the windows to the room are barred. The door is made from 6 inch thick oak. In the fireplace there burns a hearty fire. The room is decorated with red velvet drapes, each tied with a gold cord. On the table are three wine glasses, one of which contains a quantity of sediment. Upon the floor is an ornate oriental rug. There is a half-full decanter of brandy and a corkscrew on the dresser. There is also an ornate gold rope leading up to a bell concealed in the ceiling. How do you escape?
• What will happen to all the TV aerials on the top of houses now that no-one needs them any more?
• Compare and contrast: ‘Oh, it’s a small world!’ and ‘My, over 61 million people live in the UK alone’. Is a coincidence just a coincidence? Or rather, how likely is a coincidence, and what does it mean to you?
• Who, what, where, when, why?
• What if the world is flat?
• What colour is Thursday?
• What do you think of this video?
• Who would win in a fight between Shakespeare, Picasso and Einstein?
• What’s your poison?
• Can you smoke, sleep and eat to storage?
• What has been good about this experiment, and what could we improve?
• Is teenagerism a recurring condition of a human being?
• What if all the large things become small and vice versa?
• What is the new album from Joanna Newsom like?
• Is it sometimes good to lie?
• Why is there a Taj Mahal in the middle of Brighton?
• Could you tell me an alternative explanation for stars?
• How does it feel when things change and shift in life?
• What shape is happiness?
• Could everyone start walking with their hands?
• Why is this a classic?
• What’s for Breakfast?
• What is Creativity?
• Bean or the Sprout?
• What’s it like in another person’s pocket?
• What colour is happiness?