have you ever.

[Isidro]

Long years ago I ate billtong (cured dry meat) from Great Kudu and ostrich.

Have you ever eaten wild plants? (knowing that they're edible species)

[Lanthanotus]

Yes,.... more or less on a regular basis (I spend a lot of time outside).
If I do not know the species I rule out the edibility by 1. an optical rule,... does it look edible?; 2. taste only the tiniest bit... if it tastes good, chances are it is edible,.... if it tastes bad, discard it; 3. wait some time (ideally one day) and observe if there`s anything strange happening.... numb feeling on the tongue, headache, pain... if nothing happens, taste a bigger portion. Calculated risk, but it helps if you have a general knowledge of plants - I do not do this with mushrooms!

But that leads naturally to the question.... have you ever been (unintentionally) been poisoned by eating a wild plant? 

[sirenia]

Fortunately no.

Have you ever gone on safari?

[Lanthanotus]

Depends on how you define "safari".... if you mean a big game (photo) hunt in Africa, then no, but I`ve been on guided and self guided travels to spot wildlife of various size on sea and land.

Have you ever seen a comet?

[Advicot]

Yes I have, I saw a meteor shower over my farm at around 10pm

Have you ever been attacked by a bird of prey?

[Isidro]

I cared for several bird of prey, and some of them hate humans. So yes. One harris's hawk that I was training attacked me from behind inside a free flight cage, and injured my neck with its claws. Others try often, but being in enclosures with me outside, or tied, they cannot hit me. I remember especially a couple of great horne owls, the male was not hostile but the female always tried to attack me every time I put the food in the feeder. Once she was able to give me a small scratch through the fence in the second that I was closer.

Have you ever drinked water directly from rivers/lakes?

[Lanthanotus]

Yes, quite often in fact. Only once had issues with it when I drank 1 or 2 litres off a German River during a very hot summer canoe tour.

Have you ever changed a tyre?

[sirenia]

Yep.

Have you ever rode on the back on an animal other than a horse?

[Isidro]

A dromedary when child.

Have you ever grew carnivorous plants?

[Advicot]

Yes, I kept a Venus flytrap on my kitchen windowsill for about 2 years.


Have you ever stolen something quite expensive?

[Isidro]

Never, and I woud never do. I considere this highly deprecative and I never would be a friend with somebody able to do. However years ago I've stolen a very cheap thing (a little cactus in a pot, in the garden center where I worked).

Have you ever felt that your life is empty?

[endogenylove]

Yes, I have. I suffer from depression and several other chronic health problems, but I'm in a better place now.

Have you ever seen a species in the wild that's classified as critically endangered?

[Advicot]

Technically yes, I have seen Scottish wildcats

Have you ever driven an expensive car?

[sirenia]

No, sadly not.

Have you ever been in a film?

[Lanthanotus]

There's youtube videos made by people I do not know where I can be seen (scenes from concerts) and I appear in one or two short news on public tv from the early 2000s accounting our work for independent youth centres, but I do not appear in any movie or feature film.

Have you ever had a motorized vehicle accident other than a car?

[bmathison1972]

There's youtube videos made by people I do not know where I can be seen (scenes from concerts) and I appear in one or two short news on public tv from the early 2000s accounting our work for independent youth centres, but I do not appear in any movie or feature film.

Have you ever had a motorized vehicle accident other than a car?

Yes, as a passanger on a motorcycle when I was a child.

Have you every published in the scientific literature?

[Lanthanotus]

Yes, though internationally only with an article on husbandry and bredding yet (my works on ecology and taxonomy are still work in progress)....click...got a whooping two citations or so

Have you ever planted a tree that still lives on?

[Advicot]

100% yes I have grown over 100 trees over the course of my life to help battle the climate crisis, talking of trees I recently planted 7 cherry plums, 21 sycamores, 8 crimson king Norway maples, 2 Japanese maples, 1 rowan, 5 balsam poplars, 18 hazels and 6 ashes

Have you ever gone vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan?

[bmathison1972]

100% yes I have grown over 100 trees over the course of my life to help battle the climate crisis, talking of trees I recently planted 7 cherry plums, 21 sycamores, 8 crimson king Norway maples, 2 Japanese maples, 1 rowan, 5 balsam poplars, 18 hazels and 6 ashes

Have you ever gone vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan?

yes, vegetatarian usually for a month or so at a time. In fact, I am coming off 6 weeks of vegetarian. I usually do it early in the summer when my running ramps up. But then as my runs get longer, i feel I don't recover as well on a vegetarian diet so I incorporate meat again.

Speaking of running, have you ever run a marathon? I have run 7 (including 2 Ironman triathlons)

[Lanthanotus]

Woah....well, no...and I guess I never will.  Longest distance I ever ran was like 1.5 to 2 km.

Have you ever dived to the point of almost suffocating/drowning?