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The 20 random things you may not have known about me... thread.
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It's beautiful when it's barbecued, or grilled.
Or do you mean the musical instrument?
Actually just bassy sounds in general...
Meh. I'm bored.
EDIT: Got another: When I went to Amsterdam from Leeds-Bradford Airport I bought Mac Format (a magazine) in the airport. The clerk was so ignorant that he actually said "you arn't a Mac user are you?"! I said "what...you arn't" and walked off! The look on his face was brilliant!
EDIT 2: Got another: I'm always tired at 5PM until about 6:30PM. Dunno why.
- I get bored easily...infact, I'm nearly always bored
- When I have a cold I go in the bath and its gone!
- I'm British, but I *think* my ancestors were French
- My grandma is Irish
- So is my German/French teacher
- I am always telling my school's IT dept to switch to Macs
- The same IT Dept uses Windows, which is *always* crashes yet they say Macs crash more
- I really really like America-so much that I wanna live there when I'm older
- Because Puddick will eventually read this, Linux sucks!
- Apparently I talk in my sleep yet I don't belive I do (its kinda hard to check...)
- Whenever something computer-wise goes wrong, I blame Windows even if it has nothing to do with it
EDIT: Got another: When I went to Amsterdam from Leeds-Bradford Airport I bought Mac Format (a magazine) in the airport. The clerk was so ignorant that he actually said "you arn't a Mac user are you?"! I said "what...you arn't" and walked off! The look on his face was brilliant!
EDIT 2: Got another: I'm always tired at 5PM until about 6:30PM. Dunno why.
OK, Ill play. I already had these ten facts about me up on my Friendster profile:
1). Broke my back from falling off a cliff
2). I'm seriously addicted to Starbucks soy chai
3). Lived in Japan for two years and never learned the language (ok... I was 2 & 3)
4). Went to the Academy Awards & Golden Globes (both twice)
5). Was stalked by a crazy girl AND her mother
6). Owned and ran a comic-book store by myself (but never really wanted to)
7). Had a pet rattlesnake
8). Found true love in a hot tub
9). Created a popular web-site community for gay comic-book fans
10). Ive never ridden a bike
And heres ten more:
11). Ive never done a drug (not even pot), I only smoked once (for a community college play I was in), and Im allergic to alcohol (but wish I wasnt).
12). The one time I drove a car, I was half-blind and the driving instructor never knew
13) I love snow and cold weather
14). Im an atheist but I believe in ghosts
15). I'm attracted to guys with hairy chests/arms
16). I love Korean food and could eat it every day
17). Im obsessed with Morrissey (but not in a sexual way)
18). Ive been patiently waiting to be 35 all my life (just a couple months away).
19). I HATE mint-flavored toothpastes!!
20). Ive always had Macs at home, work and even school (have only used PCs in public places out of necessity).
1). Broke my back from falling off a cliff
2). I'm seriously addicted to Starbucks soy chai
3). Lived in Japan for two years and never learned the language (ok... I was 2 & 3)
4). Went to the Academy Awards & Golden Globes (both twice)
5). Was stalked by a crazy girl AND her mother
6). Owned and ran a comic-book store by myself (but never really wanted to)
7). Had a pet rattlesnake
8). Found true love in a hot tub
9). Created a popular web-site community for gay comic-book fans
10). Ive never ridden a bike
And heres ten more:
11). Ive never done a drug (not even pot), I only smoked once (for a community college play I was in), and Im allergic to alcohol (but wish I wasnt).
12). The one time I drove a car, I was half-blind and the driving instructor never knew
13) I love snow and cold weather
14). Im an atheist but I believe in ghosts
15). I'm attracted to guys with hairy chests/arms
16). I love Korean food and could eat it every day
17). Im obsessed with Morrissey (but not in a sexual way)
18). Ive been patiently waiting to be 35 all my life (just a couple months away).
19). I HATE mint-flavored toothpastes!!
20). Ive always had Macs at home, work and even school (have only used PCs in public places out of necessity).
Seriously? Brushing it actually makes it turn straight? I have long long long hair and its more wavy then anything. Ive even gotten it relaxed
Seriously? Brushing it actually makes it turn straight? I have long long long hair and its more wavy then anything. Ive even gotten it relaxed
My hair is rather thick and heavy, the last 2" of it curls a bit but everything above is weighed down, the last time Lau, or any other of the uk gang saw it I had a bob cut and the curl was faceing in on the bottom so it was not so noticeable, right now it's at sholder length the curl is outwards, which seems to work ok.
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Me too I remember saying this to my mum when I was a teenager and she said it was definitely hard-wired, because when I was a toddler I wouldn't have a nap in the afternoon, but would fall asleep about 5pm. She'd always try and get dinner in me first, and if she managed to, I'd usually manage to stay awake. There were definitely a few asleep in the dinner moments though.
To this day, I could cheerfully go to sleep about 5 o' clock most days.
It's disgusting but I deal with colgate bicarb stuff (in the blue sparkley tube), I can't eat anything for the next three hours as it ruins the taste.
I have nothing against mint toothpaste, but there's really not that much else to choose from is there (or at least here there isn't). I tried a Zesty Blast one not long ago and it was ok, but mint was still more refreshing.
Thought of a few more:
- I mak ton's of promises but rarley keep them
- I like working, but I never do it (eps school work)
- I find people who use TXT-style language on MSN really annoying (like sxc for 'sexy') and I tell people who do it to stop talking to me
- is my most commoly used emoticon on MSN
- MSN once deleted all my MSN contacts when I was using the Live Messenger Beta
- My music collection has about 870 songs
- I always listen to the same playlist when I go to sleep and ut has exactly 8 songs but I hate 1 of them
- I've only had 5 BSoDs in my life
- I've never seen a Mac crash (the actual OS, not just apps)
- I use Expose a lot
- I hate my desktop having more than 3 icons on
- I love going on rollercoasters (I'm an adrenaline junkie)
- I've never been sick from a ride
- If I hadn't met SBT and used his Mac I would never have got one
- I nearly got fired from my job because I told another 'employee' the password
- I spend ages in the shower
- All my pets apart from my cat have died
Just a tip about posting in this thread. If you use
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- , so your "things" are numbered, it makes it more fun to read and count them.
1) Play the blues guitar, mainly acoustic
2) Spent 2 years bumming around Asia and the South Pacific (with a couple Aussies)
3) Lived in Mexico for a couple years
4) Paid my way through college as a bail bondsman
5) Worked a year on the Alaska Pipeline
6) Speciality is designing manufacturing (MRP) systems
7) Made a comfortable living without 'selling out'
8) Have been a whitewater rafter for many years
9) I love the British Isles - the countries and the people. Plan on a 6 month visit in 2008
10) Am looking for a nice beach front retirement place in Costa Rica, somewhere off the beaten track
11) Wish I had discovered video production long ago
12) Am working (not too hard) on a play
13) Totally dislike manipulation, exploitation and greed
14) I am a devout civil libertarian
15) I am a devout environmentalist
16) I miss the hippies
17) I live on a secluded 3 acres, in the foothills, and have a great deal of wild animal friends
18) Michael Bloomfield is my favorite musician
19) I have seen Pink Floyd 7 times
20) My favorite hobby is cooking, especially Italian cuisine
2) Spent 2 years bumming around Asia and the South Pacific (with a couple Aussies)
3) Lived in Mexico for a couple years
4) Paid my way through college as a bail bondsman
5) Worked a year on the Alaska Pipeline
6) Speciality is designing manufacturing (MRP) systems
7) Made a comfortable living without 'selling out'
8) Have been a whitewater rafter for many years
9) I love the British Isles - the countries and the people. Plan on a 6 month visit in 2008
10) Am looking for a nice beach front retirement place in Costa Rica, somewhere off the beaten track
11) Wish I had discovered video production long ago
12) Am working (not too hard) on a play
13) Totally dislike manipulation, exploitation and greed
14) I am a devout civil libertarian
15) I am a devout environmentalist
16) I miss the hippies
17) I live on a secluded 3 acres, in the foothills, and have a great deal of wild animal friends
18) Michael Bloomfield is my favorite musician
19) I have seen Pink Floyd 7 times
20) My favorite hobby is cooking, especially Italian cuisine
Lets do 20 more.
1.I cannot stand Orange Pekoe(if thats how its spelled) tea. Other than my bro, I am the only one in my famliy who cant stand it. But I love almost every other type of tea.
2.I can only drink coffee if its a latte
3.I had a horrid start to today.
4. I love pizza.
5.I am a CoffeeAddict™
6.I use my HotMail for MSN chatting, and my Yahoo! for everything else.
7.No one I know excpet for one girl and a boy use macs. The girl has an eMac, and the boy has a PowerBook 15 inch.
8.I had an argument with my schools teck about whick was better: OS X and windows. A bunch of people started chanting "Windows! Windows!" And then I listed 80 reasons why macs and os x are better. They ran away crying
9.I have made exactly 2 songs in GB.
10.I sent people my music and they asked "How do you do that? And I say go buy a mac and find out for yourself..
11.I love bagels.
12.I love fattening foods.
13.I love candy.
14.yes, i am fat. Well not fat, but, bit on the chubby side.
15.I am the only one in my class who knows anything about the mac. Two people in one of my classes spent 2 hours looking for internet explorer.
16.I hate when people say that Windows is better. Maybe for people who don't use computers for anything rpoductive. Boy am I sick of people who say lets play games on the internet.
17.I make 4.7 posts a day
18.I want my name to be Demi-God, but I am too lazy.
19.I hate microsoft, but I am using the wireless mouse/keyboard.
20.I just kicked 3 printers out of the house..
21.Signing off.Bye.
1.I cannot stand Orange Pekoe(if thats how its spelled) tea. Other than my bro, I am the only one in my famliy who cant stand it. But I love almost every other type of tea.
2.I can only drink coffee if its a latte
3.I had a horrid start to today.
4. I love pizza.
5.I am a CoffeeAddict™
6.I use my HotMail for MSN chatting, and my Yahoo! for everything else.
7.No one I know excpet for one girl and a boy use macs. The girl has an eMac, and the boy has a PowerBook 15 inch.
8.I had an argument with my schools teck about whick was better: OS X and windows. A bunch of people started chanting "Windows! Windows!" And then I listed 80 reasons why macs and os x are better. They ran away crying
9.I have made exactly 2 songs in GB.
10.I sent people my music and they asked "How do you do that? And I say go buy a mac and find out for yourself.
.11.I love bagels.
12.I love fattening foods.
13.I love candy.
14.yes, i am fat. Well not fat, but, bit on the chubby side.
15.I am the only one in my class who knows anything about the mac. Two people in one of my classes spent 2 hours looking for internet explorer.
16.I hate when people say that Windows is better. Maybe for people who don't use computers for anything rpoductive. Boy am I sick of people who say lets play games on the internet.
17.I make 4.7 posts a day
18.I want my name to be Demi-God, but I am too lazy.
19.I hate microsoft, but I am using the wireless mouse/keyboard.
20.I just kicked 3 printers out of the house..
21.Signing off.Bye.
It might be safer to just say you'd like to become a Demi-God here, but you cannot afford it at this time.
I arrived up there late in the game 1976. I had to start on the laborers dobie list. It was tough getting out at first. Then everyone blew town (Fairbanks) in December and I got three nice long jobs in a row (Livengood and Chandalar). Of course, it was dead of winter. After breakup people started returning, but I had enough hours for the high B list. Still, it became harder to get out. I did manage one good long job with BP at Barrow. So, I had about 40K cash and decided to go back down to Mexico and do some 'investing'. I never made it back to Alaska, even though I really liked it. I do plan on returning.
1. I'm 15
2. I don't consider these points random as I had to think about them
3. My desk is productive not cluttered, yet it produces nothing
4. I'm an aethisist
5. I cannot spell atheist
6. I just drank about 1 and 1/2 pints of milk
7. I'm 6'1"
8. I weigh 10 Stone 5 Ounce
9. I spend too much time on MR
10. On my computer I bourght the speakers and extra ram, thats it
11. I have 2 iPods, 512mb Shuffle and 1gb 2g Shuffle
12. I was going to buy a dell, untill I saw the ibook and then bourght an iMac
13. dell people at school say macs are crap, I laugh
14. I hate piczo sites
15. I got elbowed in the eye in rugby, had impaired vision for the rest of the day and set a newspaper on fire in cooking class
16. I took cooking spanish graphics stats and business for GCSE
17. I hate mixed ability teaching groups
18. I got a level 6 in english 7 in science and 8 in maths for my SATS and has 66% attendence
19. I am scared because I have 428mb free space at the moment, thats on a 250gb HDD
20. I went for a stats lecture today at a private school and laughed because the statistician got an example wrong, and everyone looked at me confused.
2. I don't consider these points random as I had to think about them
3. My desk is productive not cluttered, yet it produces nothing
4. I'm an aethisist
5. I cannot spell atheist
6. I just drank about 1 and 1/2 pints of milk
7. I'm 6'1"
8. I weigh 10 Stone 5 Ounce
9. I spend too much time on MR
10. On my computer I bourght the speakers and extra ram, thats it
11. I have 2 iPods, 512mb Shuffle and 1gb 2g Shuffle
12. I was going to buy a dell, untill I saw the ibook and then bourght an iMac
13. dell people at school say macs are crap, I laugh
14. I hate piczo sites
15. I got elbowed in the eye in rugby, had impaired vision for the rest of the day and set a newspaper on fire in cooking class
16. I took cooking spanish graphics stats and business for GCSE
17. I hate mixed ability teaching groups
18. I got a level 6 in english 7 in science and 8 in maths for my SATS and has 66% attendence
19. I am scared because I have 428mb free space at the moment, thats on a 250gb HDD
20. I went for a stats lecture today at a private school and laughed because the statistician got an example wrong, and everyone looked at me confused.