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I'm the eldest sibling of two in my family and I've always thought it was preferable. I think it helps that my brother and I are very disparate in age though: if you're older by only one year or so then perhaps there'd be more conflict.

Biceps: Bayesian curls. Doing these on a cable tower is best - replicating the movement pattern with a dumbbell is the next best thing, although you'll have no resistance in the bottom position when your bicep is lengthened, so you'll have reduced stretch-mediated hypertrophy. The bicep can also produce the most active tension when it's in the stretched position, so it is key to do these exercises with a full range of motion. Triceps: Skullcrushers, either with one dumbbell in each hand or an ezcurl bar. Again, the maximum load is placed on your triceps when they're in the lengthened position with this exercise, so it will stimulate a greater amount of hypertrophy than something like a rope pulldown. If you have absolutely no gym equipment at all, dips are probably your best bet. Pullups and pushups are great exercises but are going to do precisely the square root of jack shit for your biceps and triceps, unless you're doing them incorrectly intentionally. The above two exercises are absolutely the best.

Would love to play the accordion.

Anything except pineapple. Whoever first conceived of that as an idea should be arrested immediately

Nothing in person but I don't photograph well for some reason, I always seem to be pulling some sort of face and I have no idea why - so that definitely irritates me

Depends on how much I'm drinking. Could be anywhere from twice to about eight times. Almost always somewhere in the middle of the two

Helps I guess. I'm pretty strong and I can't think of any way that it's hindered me (fingers cross it won't start doing so!)

Not a big pizza guy but would've said "anything with a lot of meat" until a few months ago. However, I watched the JRE podcast with Elon Musk, and in it, the former extolled the brilliance of pineapple and anchovies as a topping combo. I was always firmly in the "pineapple does not belong on a pizza" camp, and despite liking anchovies never would've chosen to put them on a pizza preferentially over other toppings, but I did try this exact combination for the first time a few weeks ago and I must say that I'm a convert. Simply delightful, and I'd seriously recommend that people here actually give it a go before they knock it. So, yeah. Pineapple and anchovies. Fight me

Literally speaking, anything with gluten as I'm intolerant to it. Figuratively speaking, broccoli for sure. Tastes horrendous, looks terrifying, and makes me feel queasy after I eat it. Think I might have some kind of intolerance to that too!

I can't whistle, and I can't click my fingers. Can do almost everything else though. Touch my toes, the splits (as an over-6ft male I think this is pretty impressive at least?), curl my tongue, cartwheels, walking on my hands, etc

January is the only correct answer. Cold, dark, nothing happens in it, and it seems to last an eternity

No idea and I simply don't care either. When the time comes I'm going to just propose with something cheap, and then subsequently ask her to pick out her favourite ring with me and we'll buy that

You'd have to be insane to legitimately fall in love with an inanimate object, but I do believe that it's possible to bond with cars, and to start to see them as a trusty companion.

I sleep on my back, with my legs spread far apart and my feet pointing outwards. Hands and arms are just running parallel down my side. No idea why, it's comfy to me

Yeah. By the time I was 13 I was over 6ft tall, had full facial hair and a deep voice, so naturally I always looked much older than my age (I actually got into an argument with a train conductor about this once). I'm 27 now, and if anything I think that I'm "reverse aging". Most people tell me that they think I look about 20, which makes me incredibly happy.

Coffee, if that counts. Most energy drinks are disgustingly sweet and I can't enjoy them. The last time I had one was when I had to wake up at 5am to drive across the country to be at a work conference for 9am (I work locally, this conference just happened to be in an incredibly far-away location for some reason), and I took an energy drink in the car with me. It was absolutely vile, but I can't deny that it did the job of giving me some early energy.

An extrovert would probably consider it depressing, but I'm extremely happy with my social life. I usually see my best friends once a week, my family once a week, and I get a decent amount of socialising at work too. I sort of need the rest as downtime.

Not very often. I used to swear a great deal, but an ex-girlfriend hammered the behaviour out of me and most of those habits have still stuck (such as saying 'what the heck' instead of 'hell' etc) - sometimes when I'm under a lot of stress, or extremely surprised, a few swear words slip out though. I do try my best to generally curtail them, but I have varying success with that.

As a 4-year old I ran into a sharp dead branch of a tree (was just being careless I guess) and it sliced the skin of my cheek open, about an inch below my eye - if I were an inch shorter, it would have sliced my eyeball open and I'd be blind in one eye to this day, so I count myself very, very lucky. I still have a faint scar below my eye (I always forget which one it is, you can't really see it these days unless you're looking for it). It has been over 20 years since that accident happened, so I'm happy it has mostly healed.

Almost everywhere, but it doesn't bother me.

I'm 27. Determined to do a great deal this year before I turn 28.

Dark chocolate is generally my favourite, but can sometimes be in the mood for milk too. I don't like most of the chocolate we have here in England, and the stuff in America is even worse (legitimately disgusting) - but some of the European brands are quite nice, I must admit. The Scandinavian brand Freia/Marabou (same company but under a different name, depending on the country) make some of the best chocolate you'll find in a supermarket anywhere, as do Frey and Caillier in Switzerland. The two best brands that I've had overall are Läderach and Godiva (Swiss and Belgian brands, respectively).

Maybe an 8? Negatives: The year actually started off quite badly, with an incredibly toxic person from my past making a brief reappearance in the early January and then being involved in a 4-car collision on a motorway (highway for Americans) in February, which resulted in a minor injury and my car being written off (totalled? for Americans?), and the replacement car I bought having a major defect which led to me selling it for a heavy loss. Then the week after that I got a throat infection that made me miss one of my exams for my degree, so I had to resit it - and a few weeks later, I found out that my now-ex-girlfriend had planned to get with her now-boyfriend a few weeks before we broke up the previous year (the break-up was mutual so there are no hard feelings regarding this (small chance that she may read this, so if that happens: I'm serious, we're all good!) but it was still a little disheartening to hear at the time), and my grandma's dementia seems to be worsening. Positives: Completed my masters degree, got a much better job in the field I actually want to work in (and enjoying it even more than I thought I would), got a much nicer car, entered a relationship with someone who I'm incredibly excited about, I've become stronger and leaner physically through taking my training more seriously than ever before, had some great times with some fantastic friends, I feel like I've gotten closer to God with my faith this year, my family and I are all in fantastic health. I guess this year has proven for me that even if you go through brief periods of being disappointed in things, or wishing that things would turn out differently, to just keep putting one foot in front of the other and to put your trust in God to work things out for you. This year has, in all honesty, probably been the best of my life so far, despite some initial setbacks at the beginning. I'm incredibly thankful to be where I am now and hope that my good fortune will continue into 2024, which will hopefully be a fantastic year for everyone reading this too!

I'd go as far as to say that steak which has been cooked properly and is a decent quality cut, is actually significantly better without sauce on it. I'd never put sauce on a steak I make at home. If I'm eating a minute steak or something though I'd probably go with béarnaise.

I've always found it strange that these two factors have been considered to be mutually exclusive. The future that most people think they want is usually based on their feelings - either those at the time, or factors that they're worried about and want to avoid/etc in the future. And if you choose to pursue a future which is antithetical to these feelings for the sake of some misguided idea of "success", then you'll often end up feeling unfulfilled and potentially even miserable, until you do actually start to listen to them. When channeled appropriately and tempered properly, feelings can become a powerful tool that self-styled emotionless robots like me can even feel comfortable employing to achieve one's goals. 😉 I do think that, provided you have some semblance of control over your feelings, they're always the way to go. Feelings vs Logic would be a better comparison. But even then, I'd make the argument that they're not inherently incompatible.