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NIMBY - We've all heard the term being banded about, but what does it really mean to be a NIMBY ? Do we really understand the issues and thought processes that go into NIMBYism ? Why not take this simple test and find out. Award yourself 1 point for answering 'a', 2 points for answering 'b' and 3 points for answering 'c', and find out how much of a NIMBY you really are.
1.
You are on your summer holidays, and enjoying a pleasant afternoon in the sunshine on a lovely sandy beach. Some children start building a sandcastle in front of you. Do you:
(a) Lend some of your experience and expertise, muck in with the children and help them complete a spectacular sandcastle, complete with turretts, moat, a drawbridge and some seashells embedded evenly around the castle walls.
(b) Politely ask that the children build the sandcastle a little further away from you. Not that you want to spoil their fun, but you were about to have 40 winks, and their boistrous excitement can get a little wearing.
(c) Take away their bucket and spades, and leave the beach immediately to find the local council offices, with a view to reporting an unauthorised construction project in progress on the beach. Insist on a council officer accompanying you back to the beach to have the children thrown off.
2.
You decide to throw a party, and have a games night at your house. Several friends come round, and your wife suggests you all sit down to a game of Jenga. As your wife sets up the brick tower in the centre of the table, do you:
(a) Help your wife to get all the bricks in place, so the tower is nice and straight, ready for the start of the game.
(b) Suggest a game of cards instead. You've never much liked Jenga, as your fingers are too podgy to shift the bricks delicately enough.
(c) Wait for the bricks to be put in place, then fetch a saucepan from the kitchen and hurl it at full force into the tower, obliterating it completely and scattering the bricks amongst your bemused guests. Tell your wife she had "no right to build such an eyesore in the middle of my table", and then stand there looking smug.
3.
You are playing with your 7 year old nephew, and he asks you to help him put his new Scalextrics track together. Do you:
(a) Put the track together in an impressive "figure of 8", complete with flags, barriers and grandstand, then spend the afternoon happily racing the cars round the track with your nephew.
(b) Suggest you go outside and play football instead. After all, its a nice sunny day, and you don't really want to make too much of a mess in the lounge.
(c) Suggest your nephew first go away and draw up some detailed plans of his proposal for the track, its shape, where exactly it will go, how long it will be left up for, what furniture will need to be moved and where, and taking into account environmental issues such as whether it will have an adverse effect on your cat Tiddles. Inform your nephew that you will give him your decision by early June.
Well, how did you get on ?
1-3 points: You are clearly not NIMBY material. You have a relaxed outlook on life, and like to see people enjoying themselves. You will go out of your way to have fun, and as a result, you are a balanced and much-loved individual.
4-6 points: You are fairly easy going, and are reasonably tolerent of others, as long as it falls within your general terms. You are quite fair-minded, and always try to see the other persons point of view.
7-9 points: Well hello there Mr Nimby ! You are an utterly unreasonable and selfish scrote who will go out of his way to make sure absolutely nobody does anything anywhere near you, ever, that you don't agree with. You are small-minded, mean, self-centred, and utterly incapable of empathy. Nobody likes you, and you will die a lonely, bitter and twisted indivdual. You should move immediately to Falmer in order to live with like-minded toe-rags like yourself.
1.
You are on your summer holidays, and enjoying a pleasant afternoon in the sunshine on a lovely sandy beach. Some children start building a sandcastle in front of you. Do you:
(a) Lend some of your experience and expertise, muck in with the children and help them complete a spectacular sandcastle, complete with turretts, moat, a drawbridge and some seashells embedded evenly around the castle walls.
(b) Politely ask that the children build the sandcastle a little further away from you. Not that you want to spoil their fun, but you were about to have 40 winks, and their boistrous excitement can get a little wearing.
(c) Take away their bucket and spades, and leave the beach immediately to find the local council offices, with a view to reporting an unauthorised construction project in progress on the beach. Insist on a council officer accompanying you back to the beach to have the children thrown off.
2.
You decide to throw a party, and have a games night at your house. Several friends come round, and your wife suggests you all sit down to a game of Jenga. As your wife sets up the brick tower in the centre of the table, do you:
(a) Help your wife to get all the bricks in place, so the tower is nice and straight, ready for the start of the game.
(b) Suggest a game of cards instead. You've never much liked Jenga, as your fingers are too podgy to shift the bricks delicately enough.
(c) Wait for the bricks to be put in place, then fetch a saucepan from the kitchen and hurl it at full force into the tower, obliterating it completely and scattering the bricks amongst your bemused guests. Tell your wife she had "no right to build such an eyesore in the middle of my table", and then stand there looking smug.
3.
You are playing with your 7 year old nephew, and he asks you to help him put his new Scalextrics track together. Do you:
(a) Put the track together in an impressive "figure of 8", complete with flags, barriers and grandstand, then spend the afternoon happily racing the cars round the track with your nephew.
(b) Suggest you go outside and play football instead. After all, its a nice sunny day, and you don't really want to make too much of a mess in the lounge.
(c) Suggest your nephew first go away and draw up some detailed plans of his proposal for the track, its shape, where exactly it will go, how long it will be left up for, what furniture will need to be moved and where, and taking into account environmental issues such as whether it will have an adverse effect on your cat Tiddles. Inform your nephew that you will give him your decision by early June.
Well, how did you get on ?
1-3 points: You are clearly not NIMBY material. You have a relaxed outlook on life, and like to see people enjoying themselves. You will go out of your way to have fun, and as a result, you are a balanced and much-loved individual.
4-6 points: You are fairly easy going, and are reasonably tolerent of others, as long as it falls within your general terms. You are quite fair-minded, and always try to see the other persons point of view.
7-9 points: Well hello there Mr Nimby ! You are an utterly unreasonable and selfish scrote who will go out of his way to make sure absolutely nobody does anything anywhere near you, ever, that you don't agree with. You are small-minded, mean, self-centred, and utterly incapable of empathy. Nobody likes you, and you will die a lonely, bitter and twisted indivdual. You should move immediately to Falmer in order to live with like-minded toe-rags like yourself.
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