Are you Blingin' or Mingin'? | Take the test

Illustration: Aerosol deodorant

1. You’re late for meeting your mates, but you’ve just got home from a long, hot day. Do you…

	Jump in the shower: you have your image to think of!
	Wave a flannel around your stinkiest areas
	Spray yourself liberally with deodorant…they’ll never notice
	Hit the road: you’d rather miss the soap than the gossip

2. You’re trying on clothes for your big night out, and you hate EVERYTHING. What do you do with the clothes?

	What do you mean? Once they’re out of your hand they cease to exist
	Hang them back up
	Drape them all over a chair… but carefully
	Chuck them angrily to the back of your cupboard

Illustration: Man throwing rubbish out of a car window

3. You see some bloke parked up in your road, cleaning out his car – and his idea of cleaning it is to chuck his rubbish on the kerb. What do you do?

	Ignore him – the council will sweep it up later, won’t they?
	Get annoyed but walk past. It’s not your place to say anything
	Shout something about him being a litter lout from across the street
	Ask him if he’d like you to show him the nearest bin

Illustration: A packet of 'Crunchy Munch" snacks

4. You’re waiting for the bus home and you’re starving. There’s a Fried Chicken takeaway, a sandwich shop, a newsagent and a burger bar near the stop. Which do you decide to subject your fellow passengers to on the top deck of the 63?

Illustration: Takeaway Burger box giving off green toxic fumes

	Fried chicken – mmm!
	A nice ham ‘n’ cheese sandwich
	Burger…and chips… and make ‘em large
	Cheese & onion crisps

5. OK, you’ve finished the food and you’re still squashed onto the top deck… what do you do with the wrapper?

Illustration: Man knocked over by rubbish spilling out of the doors of a double-decker bus

	Slide it surreptitiously under the seat
	Chuck it out of the window – aiming roughly for a street bin, but missing badly
	Stuff it in your pocket/bag to throw away when you get home
	Squeeze it into the bus’s used-ticket bin on your way off

6. Your brother has always been a really good artist, but he’s started getting into graffiti... What do you do?

Illustration: Young grafitti artist standing by an example of his work with a 'sold' sticker on it

	Help him find a wall round the back of some garages. It’s ugly anyway, so it doesn’t matter
	Tell your mum
	Buy him a canvas and enrol him in an art class – he could get rich and famous!
	Shrug – whatever he wants to do is fine by you

Illustration: A recycling bin carefully packed with empty bottles, cans and newspapers

7. How much do YOU do for your planet?

	Recycle paper, glass and cans at home and school as much as possible
	Recycle paper at school
	Nothing – the planet can take care of itself just fine
	Try to remember to use a bottle bank if you’re near one

8. Which one of these is closest to your dirty habit?

	Leaving the sheets on your bed for weeks
	Wiping your nose on sleeves/gloves/whatever’s handy…
	Spitting or spitting out gum on the street
	None of them– you’re perfect!

9. Who do you rate as most blingin’?

	J-Lo
	Beyonce
	P Diddy
	R Kelly

10. And who’s most mingin’?

	Christina Aguilera
	Paris Hilton
	Justin from The Darkness
	Nadia from Big Brother