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Hey everyone!

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So about more than a month ago, I asked on Instagram to ask me questions for a Q&A video,

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and I'm finally doing it!

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Sorry it's taken so long.

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I thought it was about time to do another one of these,

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because the last one I did was when I had

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something like 250,000 less subscribers than I do now,

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which is nuts!

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I can't even comprehend how many people that is,

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it- it blows my mind,

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But, hi!

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Thanks for being here,

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thanks for subscribing,

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and lets get into a Q&A session!

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"What is your favourite thrift store in Sydney?"

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Villawood Anglicare

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I'm gonna regret saying this to so many people,

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because you're all gonna steal all my stuff now,

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but, it's the greatest op shop.

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It's like a sorting warehouse,

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and all of the clothes are put into giant bins,

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and you basically go dumpster diving into those bins.

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It's like all the men's, women's and children's clothes are all thrown in together,

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and then you buy by the kilo,

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so everything is 8 dollars a kilo.

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It's an amazing place,

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but also quite far out, it's hard to get to, so,

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when I'm able to go that's my favourite place in the world to visit.

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"If you were a vegetable which one would you like to be?"

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I'd be a sweet potato.

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Kinda matches my hair colour,

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yeah, and I love sweet potato,

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which means I would eat myself...

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[silence]

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I also got a lot of questions about dogs,

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because on my Instagram I have made it well known that I am obsessed with dogs at the moment,

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I'm so sad that I don't actually own a dog,

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and my life goal is to own two dogs.

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I'll answer a couple of these

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"What's your favourite breed of dog?"

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My favourite breed, aesthetically, is Dachshunds - Sausage dogs - Dachshunds? Dachshunds? Dachshunds.

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Not sure how to pronounce that.

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They're so cute,

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they have such silly little legs

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But I personally wouldn't get one because I don't think their personalities are particularly what would suit me.

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If I were to choose a breed of dog to own for myself it would be a mutt, a rescue mutt,

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Labrador-ish size,

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A mix of Labrador and Golden Retriever and Terrier would be awesome.

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Yeah.

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"What sort of music do you enjoy?"

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Well, if you have watched the videos on my channel,

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you will know

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I really like chiptunes, and glitch-hop

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The genres of music that I generally listen to are

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glitch-hop, alternative rock, indie music, electronic dance music,

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modern swing, Australian hip-hop,

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Basically anything that you can dance to, anything that's upbeat and positive, I really like.

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Yeah!!

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"Do you think it's cool to have an accent?"

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I don't have an accent.

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You have an accent.

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It's all relative.

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I don't have a particularly strong Australian accent,

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so oftentimes, um,

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people in Australia will actually ask me where I'm from,

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'cause they think I have an accent.

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They often think I'm from England or America?

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[pause] um...

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My voice does not sound like that either.

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Yup, that's what I have to say about that. Yup!

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"Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?"

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Crunchy, always, who are those psychopaths that like smooth peanut butter?

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"Who is your favorite Power Puff Girl?"

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Definitely Blossom, I even have a Blossom handbag,

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and it's the most amazing thing that I own.

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Actually, I say that about half of the clothes that i own.

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But it's one of the amazing things that I own.

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"What's a weird food combo that you enjoy?

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Mine is banana, cheese, and eggs on toast."

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That's disgusting!

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[laugh]

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But so's mine, my weird food combo that I really like

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is vinegar on chips, not like hot chips,

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like, crisps, chips, like the...

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Like salt and vinegar chips.

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With more vinegar on top.

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I really like vinegar, basically vinegar on anything.

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I like vinegar on dried noodles as well,

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especially when it makes it go all soggy.

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Pretty disgusting.

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"I love you!? Does that count as a question?! Gahhhhh!!!??"

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No. Not a question.

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"What is your favourite lollies?" Anything that's extremely sour.

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Just, I love sour things

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so much!

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"Would you rather have cereal dust permanently stuck under your nails, or nails permanently stuck in your cereal?"

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I guess I would just not eat cereal.

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'Cause I don't want cereal dust stuck under my nails, gross.

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I would just have to forego cereal, which would be really sad because I love cereal, but

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if there's always gonna be nails in my cereal, that's a definite choking hazard, so...

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Yeah.

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Nails in my cereal, and then not eat cereal.

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If I'm allowed to do that.

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"Why do you dye your hair in orange?"

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[pause]

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Because I've always wanted to be a natural redhead.

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[gasp] Oh my gosh and the other day, I was waiting for a tram,

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and it was a really hot day, it was really sunny,

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and I didn't have any sunscreen on,

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and this redheaded guy holding a bottle of sunscreen came up to me and was like,

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"Yeah, you and me, we're both redheads, we need to look after each other,

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have some sunscreen."

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He totally mistook me for a natural redhead and I was like,

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"Thaaaaanks."

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And, um, hoped he wouldn't notice my- my roots, that aren't red.

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But I was so excited in being mistaken for a natural redhead.

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Anyway,

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why does anyone do anything? That's a weird question.

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Next! Ooh! Here's a question I get asked a lot.

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"If you're Australian, then why don't you use the metric system when you sew?"

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So, I have four reasons for this.

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One, is that by using inches you're working with smaller numbers, which is just easier to work with,

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easier to do maths with in your head and stuff.

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Two is that I learned to sew by using inches,

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because I watched a lot of American YouTube tutorials, and read a lot of American sewing blogs,

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and I also learned to sew using vintage patterns, which also used inches.

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Three, vintage patterns,

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they also use inches, so if you're using them, it's just easier

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if your brain's already working in inches.

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And four is that most of my audience come from America, so using inches is just kind of easier

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for the majority of my audience.

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Sorry if you do use the metric system,

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but there's plenty of calculators

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that you can use to convert one to the other, online.

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And any maths that I do,

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with dividing or multiplying things,

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you can use either centimeters or inches, it doesn't matter.

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"Do you know anyone that calls sandals 'double pluggers'?"

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[laughing] No? What?

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Who calls sandals double pluggers?

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Is that like an Australian thing?

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"Would you rather always have to say what's on your mind, or never speak again?"

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The first one.

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I pretty much do anyway,

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so I don't think it would change things too much for me.

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I would definitely seem a lot more rude,

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but,

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I generally, I don't

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think mean things about people, generally?

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And I would absolutely hate not being able to speak again, so,

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the first one.

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If worse came to worse, I'd always just

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lock myself in my apartment and make YouTube videos,

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and edit out the things that I said that were horrible.

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It's better than never having to speak again, I guess.

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"If you were to become an animal,

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a) based on your personality,

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and b) at will,

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which animals would they be and why?

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Talk about the ways in which your answers differ slash are similar and why."

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Is this like an essay question?

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That was worded in a very, very formal way.

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If I was to become an animal,

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I'd become a cat.

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Cats have it pretty easy,

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they just get to lay around, sleep,

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and eat, lay around in the sun.

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They're also pretty good at surviving,

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they're pretty flexible,

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they can jump high,

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they can jump on things... Yeah, I'd be a cat.

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"What did the man say when you entered the ham contest,

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he said, 'You can't enter, you won last time.'"

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[silence]

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That's not a question.

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"Do you think Hermione should have married Harry or Ron?"

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Ron!

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What the heck!?

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How is this even a question?

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How could Hermione have married Harry?

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Sorry, no.

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No, no, no.

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"If you could have one Adventure Time character come to life, who would it be?"

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Obviously Princess Bubblegum.

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We'd be best friends.

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We'd do all the science together. Plus she's got the most awesome fashion sense.

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"Read something in Hungarian slash say something if you already speak it."

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This person knows that I'm half Hungarian, and I think they're also Hungarian as well.

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Hello!

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Uh, say something in Hungarian.

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*Hol a sapka?*

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*Hol a kalapja?*

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Yeah, that's basically all I know how to say in Hungarian,

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and I'm sure that I pronounced those atrociously, as well,

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feel free to correct me, anyone who's Hungarian.

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"What is your favorite lipstick?"

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[silence]

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This is Aria by Stila Cosmetics.

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"Can you wink? You said you have been practicing."

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Check this out.

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[silence]

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I can also do this now, I've been practicing this, too.

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Wait, wait.

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[silence]

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That was something I couldn't do before either.

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Very exciting, learning to do things with my body.

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And face.

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"Favourite song?"

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Right now, it's Santigold's "Can't Get Enough of Myself."

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Go look it up, right now. Highly recommend it.

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"Also, how many pets have you had in your life?"

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I've had...

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eight.

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Three cats,

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one dog,

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two hermit crabs,

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and two fish.

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A lot of people want to know about my relationship!

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I do have a boyfriend,

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and he's camera shy,

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and I don't know if he'll ever be on my YouTube channel.

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Sorry.

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If it was up to me, he would be, tomorrow.

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But, it's not up to me,

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he doesn't really wanna be...

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I've been working on it though,

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he's... sometimes he's been like, "Yeah, maybe sometime in the future."

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So, [clicks]

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Maybe you'll see him one day.

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You can see a couple of photos of him on my Instagram account though,

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if you're just dying with curiosity to find out who he is, though.

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"Moose or meese?"

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Uhhhhhhhh.....

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Moose?

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I have a couple questions about ethical clothing,

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so,

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"Tips on how to source your clothing ethically?" and "Favourite brands?"

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I've actually written a couple of resources about this,

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which I'll link in the description box below,

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which you can find on my blog.

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I have both a letter that I responded to about ethical clothing,

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and also,

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an ethical clothing directory.

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So you guys should go check them out.

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"Would you rather be a piece of corn for one day of the year,

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so that you would live like a corn and

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and you could get digested but not die,

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or be invisible for one day of the year,

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but you have to be completely naked to be completely invisible,

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because only your body becomes invisible?"

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Obviously the invisible one.

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I don't care about being naked,

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and no one would be able to see me 'cause I'm invisible,

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so no one would be able to see that I'm naked

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so obviously the invisibility one, that would be awesome.

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I don't wanna be a piece of corn.

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"What is the hardest part about living with a chronic illness?"

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You guys wanted to get deep, huh?

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I guess the toughest part is that, it's...

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it's always there.

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Like, it affects me every single day.

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I can't just have a day where I wake up and I'm not sick.

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And things are always coming up because of it,

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I actually started trying to film this Q and A about a month ago,

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um,

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and then.

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as I was talking, I actually stopped being able to breathe properly, and ended up at the emergency room.

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The things I do for you guys!

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But that ended up being a side-effect of a medication I take

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to stop me dying from my illness.

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It's just something I have to deal with, all the time.

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Um, if you actually wanna know what

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it's like to live with a chronic illness,

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this YouTuber Hot Pink Sun makes some really, really awesome videos

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about disability and chronic illness.

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And you should go watch them.

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"If you had to choose a superpower, which would you pick?"

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The ability to stop time.

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Definitely.

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I've thought about this a lot, in the past.

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"If you could only make one DIY for the rest of your life, what would it be?"

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Now, I thought this was gonna be a harder question to answer, but

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[laughs]
T-shirts!

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I really like making t-shirts!

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At the moment, I've been making a lot of cute crop t-shirts to wear,

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and putting different prints on them,

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and doing contrasting ribbing, and...

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[sigh]

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That's a tough question though, I'd get really sick of it.

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But, if I had to, I have to choose one, it'd be t-shirts.

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"Would you rather be a planet, or the universe itself, controlling everything and everyone?"

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Oh, man.

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Well, if I was a planet, I'd just be a hunk of rock, so...

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I guess the universe?

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That's a lot of pressure. I get to control everything though.

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Actually, I like the sound of that!

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"What part of clothes making do you hate the most?"

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This used to be cutting out the fabric, until I got myself a rotary cutter.

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Now cutting out fabric's really easy, so,

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I actually really like all the parts of clothing making,

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a lot now.

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If you hate cutting like I did, don't suffer for four years,

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like I also did.

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Get yourself a rotary cutter and a cutting mat,

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those two things are amazing and will make your life so much easier.

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"If you had a useless superpower what would it be?

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For example: the power to fly, but only in enclosed spaces,

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or the power to sneeze garlic. It must be useless."

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I don't know, I think that the power to sneeze garlic

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would be useful in some situations.

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Like, if you run out of garlic, and,

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you had a recipe that needed garlic,

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who else is gonna be able to sneeze garlic?

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You would save the day!

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So,

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in a similar vein, I would have the power to change my lip colour

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to whatever I wanted

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it to be.

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Just using my mind.

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Not 100 percent useless, but pretty useless as a superpower.

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I think that fits your criteria.

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"What's your favourite protein slash protein complex?"

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Okay,

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so this will make sense to about 2 percent of the audience,

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my favorite protein is Leghemoglobin.
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Stop texting me!

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Oh, it's Katie.

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Oh! She wants to hang out tomorrow, okay!

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Now I'm gonna try and make the non-science-y people

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in my audience get interested in this.

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It's my favourite because

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two totally different species provide both components of the protein,

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and it only works once both species are together.

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So it's a protein that carries

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nitrogen and oxygen around plants,

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but it only exists when bacteria which are living in the plant's roots

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in a symbiosis, are in the plant

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and the plant produces the other half,

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and together,

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the protein comes together to make a thing that's similar to hemoglobin,

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which carries oxygen around blood,

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if you're a human.

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Which I'm assuming you are.

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So, the protein can only exist if there's bacteria living in the plant's roots.

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Also another reason why I love microbiology, because that's so freakin' cool.

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"Do you have any other talents aside from sewing?"

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I like to think I'm pretty good at science,

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I also know how to drum,

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and I'm pretty good at Scrabble.

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"Do you believe that there's life on other planets?"

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Yes, I do, definitely.

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I don't think that aliens have ever visited Earth,

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but, I think that there's so many planets

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in the universe, that there just has to be life, somewhere.

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"Have you ever seriously injured yourself with a sewing machine?"

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Yeah, I once, while I was sewing, I

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got my finger wedged underneath the foot somehow,

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and drove the- the- s- the needle right through my finger.

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Okay, not right through,

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but it, uh, cracked my fingernail, and

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went into the flash underneath.

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Pretty horrific.

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Be careful while sewing, guys, it's actually an extreme sport!

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Don't know if you knew that about sewing, but it is!

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Okay,

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I mean, yeah

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uh, that's

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that's all the questions I feel like answering.

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So, thanks for asking them,

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thanks for being lovely and supportive human beings,

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and, I'll see you all for my next video!

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Bye!

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