The 20 random things you may not have known about me... thread.

[joetronic]

1. I'm 22
2. I am a very active enviromentalist
3. Have been arrested 4 times becuase of number 2.
4. I can't spell is my life depended on it.
5. I look at the keys when I type, but can type pretty fast.
6. I have over 100 tarantulas, and over 25 snakes of different sp.
7. I like girls with glasses
8. I HATE Paris Hilton, and think she is fugly
9. My family hates me becuase I'm a liberal
10. I am a vegan, but will not preach about it
11. My wife has very large breasts.
12. I used to smoke 2 packs a day, and quit cold turkey 2 years ago.
13. I hate to drive, but my Job is 1hour away, so I have to.
14. I used to race downhill mountain bikes.
15. I do not want kids, and wife does nto either.
16. I married a PC user (I know, I know)
17. I used to grow all my own veggies, untill I moved to the new house
18. I got Direct TV last night. I never had cable or anything like it since I moved out of my parents house at 18.
19. My wife and I both own hybrid cars
20. I am a level 3 systems specialist

 

[MattG]

8. I HATE Paris Hilton, and think she is fugly

Oooh ooh!! I want this one on my list too

 

[leftbanke7]

8. I HATE Paris Hilton, and think she is fugly

Everybody at work gives me crap because I agree with this. Her personality and lack of intelligence makes her really ugly. I also think that because Tara Reid is a raging alcoholic, she is ugly as well; also a source of contention between me and my friends.

 

[joetronic]

Everybody at work gives me crap because I agree with this. Her personality and lack of intelligence makes her really ugly. I also think that because Tara Reid is a raging alcoholic, she is ugly as well; also a source of contention between me and my friends.

Her lack of intelligence is part of it, also her crackbaby eyes, bone thin body (she looks disgusting), and she also stands for everything that I am against.

now I have watched "one night in paris", but it was at a freinds, and just for a good laugh.

Tara Reid is a scank too.

 

[bartelby]

1)I’m 4/4 English, but live in Wales.
2)I have 9 GCSEs, 1 A level, 1 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and
I’m currently doing a Multimedia degree for the second time.
3)I’m a civil servant, so I pay my own wages!
4)I married (4 years on 15th March)
5)I have an insane Chocolate Labrador called Caleb
6)I play bass, guitar, a bit of keyboards, drums and program drum machines.
7)I own 3 basses, 2 guitars, 1 synth, 2 drum machines and about 10 FX units.
8)I love cars and motorsport, but can’t drive!
9)I’m an Einsturzende Neubauten supporter.
10)I have ‘Fugazi’ tattooed across my back.
11)I used to smoke 20 a day, but gave up 15 years ago.
12)My dad used to do light shows for Led Zeppelin
13)My friends have a successful MTV series.
14)I’ve had 2 solo photographic exhibitions
15)Favourite music: TOOL, Fugazi, Neubauten, Tom Waits, PWEI, Shellac…
16)Favourite films: Aliens films (but not 4), Amelie, Bladerunner, Suburbia…
17) Favourite authors: Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, Arthur C. Clarke
18) Favourite drink: Black Sheep ale (actually most real ales), single malt whisky (The Balvenie Portwood and Bowmore are current choices)
19) Favourite food: sushi (homemade), pizza (homemade) and curry (takeaway)
20)I’m 32.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

16. I married a PC user (I know, I know)

No offence, but given #11, so what...?

 

[joetronic]

No offence, but given #11, so what...?

lol. I guess thats one of the reasons I let it slide. At least I talked her into buying a MAc Mini for herself as her PC is on its way out.

 

[Doctor Q]

16. I like to chase thunderstorms.

I've got to stop skimming these lists and read a bit more carefully. I did a double-take after first reading your #16 as "I like to cause thunderstorms." I thought "Gee, Awimoway has more talent than we knew." Then I read it again, and changed my thought to "Awimoway has an interesting hobby."

 

[Awimoway]

I've got to stop skimming these lists and read a bit more carefully. I did a double-take after first reading your #16 as "I like to cause thunderstorms." I thought "Gee, Awimoway has more talent than we knew." Then I read it again, and changed my thought to "Awimoway has an interesting hobby."

I think that would be a really cool superpower though.

My last really good chase was interrupted by my wife going into labor with our third child. Alas.

 

[Doctor Q]

21. I failed my 10th grade math final.

Don't feel bad. I got a "C" on my 10th grade math final...

You're math class must have been repainted that morning...

11. In high school, I once had a report card with a 3.5 GPA and one F. Needless to say, math isn't my strong suit.

Nobody asked me why I failed my 10th grade math test, when math seems to be my speciality, but I'll tell the story anyway...

My math teacher computed grades by a formula we all knew, with a certain percentage for the final and various points assigned for homework, quizzes, extra credit, etc. Using his formula, I figured out that I already had enough points for an A, no matter what score I got on the final. The final was multiple choice and true/false, so for fun I worked out each problem's answer and purposely picked the wrong choice. It would have been pretty embarrassing to do this and get one of them accidentally correct (easy to do with true/false questions), so I double-checked everything. Sure enough, I got a 0 on the final, an A in the class, and it was the test score I'm most proud of.

The next school year, I overheard my math teacher talking to another teacher. He was proudly telling the story of how one of his students last year purposely got a 0 on the final, even though he couldn't remember the name of the student!

 

[jsw]

Sure enough, I got a 0 on the final...

Just out of curiosity, did you put a little tail on the "0" to turn it into your nickname?

Nice story! As sort of an inverse, in college I would often go to classes in which I wasn't enrolled and outside my major (high-enrollment, lecture hall ones, with a friend who had enrolled to fetch my grade), and take tests under the alias "Gern Blanston". I never failed any of them. Oddly, every single one of them was graded before anyone realized I didn't belong, even when the class had multiple TAs, each with a small group of "their" students, and my friends always managed to retrieve them. Good times....

 

[emw]

he couldn't remember the name of the student!

And 'Q' seems so simple...

My math story is a little different. Freshman year of college. Advanced Calculus. 8am. Let me repeat - Freshman. 8am class. Not a good mix.

Anyway, I went to the first class (before I discovered the joys of late-night bar activities) and was told the dates of the tests and that the prof didn't collect or grade homework.

Sweet. I only have to go to class 7 more times. 3 times for each of the tests, 3 times to get my test back, and once for the final. I got an 'A' for the class. Which was probably the most unfortunate thing in my entire college career because I now considered college to be "easy." Ah, the fallacies of youth.

 

[stubeeef]

Well I am a comparative math "rock". I was in Cal III with a prof from Equador, seemed to be constantly yelling (btw made the B+ in Cal II) and doing with lots of rolling R's. Drove me insane, every question I asked came back with a redeyed mad man, yelling R's at me! Quit mid semester, never took the final even though I stayed at school the rest of the semester! The only final I took was Econ, and Fencing! (ya just like the dreams where you can't find the class, it is the day of the final, and you don't know crap! ) I lived the dream, hahahahaha!

Not all is bad, left school, hooked up with wealthy friends in Vail, lived at the Raquet Club, played and skied for a year!

I hate infinite series now!

 

[Westside guy]

I don't need twenty - I think I can sum myself up with two:

1) Everyone who knows me well says I'm possibly the most cynical person they know.
2) My two favorite movies, by far, are "The Sound of Music" and "Singing in the Rain".

But I'll add a third, just because it loosely fits a theme running thoughout this thread...

3) The first thing I notice about a woman is whether or not she has pretty hair (of any color).

 

[Dros]

3. Have been arrested 4 times becuase of number 2.

You've been arrested four times for pooping?

 

[evoluzione]

and finally...

ok, so i too saw this thread's title days ago and it took me a couple of days to view it, as i thought it would be crap. it's taken me this long to read through and get to a point where i can post....so here goes:


01 - My mind just went blank
02 - I'm 100% English, as far as I know...my surname is Smith, classic.
03 - I've never dated an English girl.
04 - Am looking forward to being a father so much, but not until I'm financially stable.
05 - Recently planned on becoming vegetarian by the end of this year and have already almost succeeded.
06 - I believe I'm a great driver and could be successful on a racetrack if presented with the opportunity (but iGAV may beat me)
07 - Was once arrested and escorted to the nearby Police Station 1/4 mile away by 5 cops, when I was a scrawny teenager
08 - Think New York City is crap these days, full of sheep.
09 - I wish I still had my G3 Wall St Powerbook with OS 9
10 - I'm good at most things I do, but have never been able to "bunny hop" or "ollie"
11 - Looking forward to moving to Australia with my girlfriend (and future wife) to start fresh and finally be happy.
12 - It wasn't until my girlfriend pointed it out that orange is my favourite colour, all these years I could never figure it out.
13 - Have been anti-PC ever since I had a Commodore Amiga 500 and also spent ridiculous amounts of money on an 80MB hard drive for my Amiga 1200 back in the day.
14 - Once carried 3 brand spanking new 17" Powerbooks and a 15" home on the N train back to Brooklyn from Manhattan one Friday evening, and didn't get mugged. I have however got into a fight on the F train for no other reason than the guy that started at me was extremely high on something.
15 - Never got a speeding ticket despite being street-racing almost every night back home in England (no-one can ever believe this if they've seen me race)
16 - 13 is my favourite number
17 - Never liked cats until I got one, who is called Monkey, and thinks she's a dog. I also miss my dogs back home (and my folks)
18 - taught myself trigonometry back in school, but have no idea about mathematics these days, other than adding, subtracting etc
19 - Am a big fan of Liverpool Football Club, and am on the "board of directors" of the NY Supporters Club.
20 - Think all politicians are inherently evil.

 

[iGary]

Can someon explain these English GCSE thingies to me?

 

[Dalriada]

Can someon explain these English GCSE thingies to me?

General Certificate of Secondary Education. It's what you get if you behaved yourself during the last years of mandatory school (used to be called 'O' levels) and prior going onto what we call in the UK as College.

 

[iGav]

Can someon explain these English GCSE thingies to me?

rinky dink link

 

[Blue Velvet]

Can someon explain these English GCSE thingies to me?

Sure.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&oi=defmore&q=define:GCSE

 

[Dalriada]

Wow so I was faster than Google for a change.....

- Dal

 

[kristo]

1) I hate self agrandesment disguised as information
2) I am excellent
3) And you didn't know that
4) I am 1/2 Maori (that is actually true)
5) The other 1/2 is Irish (I wish that wasn't true)
6) I am allergic to the colour pink (thats colour with a U mofos)
7) I sit with my chair way to low, maybe I was a gang member in a previous life
8) I have a incredible need for meat/starch based food products
9) I suck at CS
10) I get paid way to much
11) 20 is alot
12) I have had about 8 different phone numbers in the past 5 years
13) No, I don't remember them all
14) Neither does my wife
15) I have 3 cats
16) And a dog (kick ass boxer called Max)
17) God I feel stupid
18) Might be cause I am too old for this (27)
19) If I was early 20s, late teens, well, I guess I would find this interesting
20) I am a CCIE and IBM p-series certified (p4 and p5) (ahhh, the actual agrandasing information....well, being part Maori is also pretty cool, especially cause VERY few people know what you are on about....now cue people to run to google and then say.....but, would they fall for it?)

I am gonna go kill myself now for doing this.....well, slowly.....with beer, I like a challenge.

 

[Blue Velvet]

well, being part Maori is also pretty cool, especially cause VERY few people know what you are on about...

Haere mai.

Welcome to MR forums -- there's quite a few Kiwis here.

 

[rueyeet]

This thread is growing as I read it...I better post now, because if I wait 'till I get to the end, I'll be here all day!

1. I can trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower, and am simultaneously 1/2 Italian.
2. I loathe and despise the color pink.
3. I am thoroughly un-domestic (can't cook, hate cleaning, etc.)
4. I am completely sure I do not want to have children.
5. I'm allergic to peanuts (and most other nuts too).
6. I wear a hella lot of black, but have long ago given up on the goth thing.
7. I learned to walk when I was seven months old.
8. Shortly after that, I had to have an eye operation to uncross my eyes. That hospital stay is credited with my long-lasting fear of sirens.
9. I only watch TV with other people. On my own, I almost never turn the thing on.
10. I find alcohol most yummy, the harder liquors especially so.
11. This may be why I'm turning into a bit of a lush.
12. I'm a very bad liar.
13. My eyes have a tendency to change color, and this doesn't seem to have anything to do with surroundings or what I'm wearing or anything.
14. I have big feet for a woman, and it's hard to find shoes.
15. This doesn't matter as much as it would for most women, because I really only wear one pair of shoes to death at a time.
16. In fact I am practically the antithesis of "girly".
17. For this and other reasons, I will probably end my days as a spinster, and this thought does not displease me.
18. I believe very strongly in the value of faith, though not necessarily religion, to the human experience.
19. Give me half a chance and I will talk your ear off, despite the fact that I am terribly shy. This may be compensation, coping, or just because I like the sound of my own voice (even in text!)
20. I never thought I'd get to 20, and I haven't even told you that I still watch cartoons (Teen Titans rocks!) or that I'm a sci-fi geek, or that I hate dogs, or any other of a dozen other things. Who'd have figured?

 

[jsw]

12. I'm a very bad liar.

Sure... a really good liar would never say that they were a bad liar, right?