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This may well fall flat on it's face, but I had an idea about getting to know people on the forum better. If everybody takes part then it should (could) be quite amusing.
All together now...........
Post 1 Interesting fact about yourself that nobody on here knows about!
Me? oh yeah, I have no spleen as it was taken out when I was 14 as it was the cause of a very serious blood disease. :thinking:
P.s. You'd never guess I was bored would you?
Marianne
05-05-2006, 15:35
hmm.....18 months ago I left my 30 year old marriage....
im actually at work, working, right now....
Marianne
05-05-2006, 15:48
you man you don't just keep an eye on us on here? you work too? ;)
you man you don't just keep an eye on us on here? you work too? ;)
no he doesn't work, apparently,lol :p :D
Marianne
05-05-2006, 15:58
oh and there I was expecting to hear a secret about you Jules!
hmm.....18 months ago I left my 30 year old marriage....
Wow that's deep, thanks for sharing. :)
Ok a bit about me,hmmmm I was a bully as a child. :shrug: boooo I know! :D
great thread btw,cookie for gandhi.:)
I left school right on my 15th birfday and started work in the coal mines like my dad and his dad before him (mining village). Went on the coal face at 18, and when I was 22 I suddenly had this moment of clarity on the night shift about 3 in the morning.. "WTF am I doing here?" :thinking:
Not as deep as others but here goes.....
I like the taste of some dog biscuits. :D
im actually at work, working, right now....
They have to be truthful facts, not half-truths ;)
Forbiddenbiker
05-05-2006, 16:23
I used to break wild horses for the for the military.
:)
I've been married and divorced twice in the last five years. :lol:
[edit] Oh, I tell a lie - its 6 years now. So, thats ok then. ;)
Gary Bagshawe
05-05-2006, 16:31
After a near fatal accident last year I changed my whole outlook on life and live every minute as if it were my last. I stopped worrying about bills and things that are out of my control and every day I set out to make at least 1 person laugh properley.
minimeeze
05-05-2006, 16:56
Not as deep as others but here goes.....
I like the taste of some dog biscuits. :D
Interesting? That's scary.... :lol:
Ok, I met my fella via the internet and decided to move down south to live with him after only meeting him 'in the flesh' about 6 times. Almost 2 years on and we're still v happy :D
Marianne
05-05-2006, 16:58
I knew that cos I did almost the same but in the other direction!
If I'm not playing around with my cameras then I'm playing games on my games consoles sad but true, but then again it does keep me out of trouble
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I've worked for Ford Motor Co. for nearly 27 years so far. My Dad managed 37 years before he retired.
fancy not believing that i was working...
Ok how about this
I only shave once every 4 weeks, cos my skin goes like a pimply 16 year when i shave....
chuckles
05-05-2006, 17:33
when I was a little boy I peed in the fireplace of a new bungalow because I didn't like the toilet in the building site my Dad was working at
when I was a little boy I peed in the fireplace of a new bungalow because I didn't like the toilet in the building site my Dad was working at
:clap: :lol:
Marianne
05-05-2006, 17:40
wah...I didn't know that and I live with him!
Warspite
05-05-2006, 17:52
wah...I didn't know that and I live with him!
Maybe hes kicked the habit:)
My real names Glyn and Im an insomniac, but anyone whos played the music game will probably have guessed that;)
(not very interesting, but then Im not;) )
Marianne
05-05-2006, 17:55
good job we don't have a fireplace!
I inflated a condom 10 metres below sea level while diving.
Nearly drowned my buddy because he was laughing so much.
I walked away from a crummy 21 year marriage 4 years ago.
Packed my job and band in.
Loaded my car up with all my worldly possesions and did a bunk up to Scotland to move in with the present Mrs Bachs who I met in an MSN Chatroom.
Scary thing to do but I've never looked back.
Got a vasectomy done in 1985 reversed 2 years ago and now have a wonderful baby daughter.
Thats the last time anyone is taking a knife to my Nads (unless I accidentally bump into the ex-wife)
I can ride a unicycle :nuts:, used to like icecream in bread rolls & am currently in month 11 of 16 month sabattical from work.
Thats the last time anyone is taking a knife to my Nads (unless I accidentally bump into the ex-wife)
I'm sure I've got a couple stashed away like that ;)
I used to like icecream in bread rolls
All the freaks are coming out of the woodwork now! And what's with 'used to'
did you realise it was deeply wrong and an arrestable offence?
This thread is coming along nicely, ta everybody.
Gary Bagshawe
05-05-2006, 19:03
I know who john prescotts current mistress is and where she lives:naughty:
orangepeel
05-05-2006, 19:04
When I found out I may be being made redundant from my last work, one evening I sneaked into the directors offices and left a kippers in the fake ceiling of the management I found particularly offensive (Owner of the company, Sales Director and Health & Safety Director).
DiddyDave
05-05-2006, 19:07
Mothers Pride - thick with butter & vanilla ice-cream - fab
Any other flavour and you're wierd
I was at the last ever gig that Joy Division played before Ian Curtis hung himself ... probably the sight of me 2ft away that did it!
Some of you know this, but im a fully qualified Helicopter pilot ! ROFL
I know who john prescotts current mistress is and where she lives:naughty:
Nice.
I was at the last ever gig that Joy Division played before Ian Curtis hung himself ... probably the sight of me 2ft away that did it!
My flat mate will be sooo jealous of that!
My favourite sandwich is cheese and jam.
Once, when having drunk a tad too much beer, I wiped my a*** with nettles. Not recommended. :nono:
I once drove a Transit Luton through the Blackwall tunnel whilst travelling in the outside lane.
I kind of forgot about the height restriction in that lane until the weights hanging on chains above the roadway hit the roof and reminded me it wasn't a normal transit. :eek: I quickly changed lanes to the inside lane and just continued back to the factory.
Once safely back I opened the back door to see how bad the roof was damaged - what roof? Never did find out where it ended up:lol:
It was a rental from a firm we used regularly. We lost the deposit on that one but they did let me drive again :)
After only 4 or 5 years the guys at work stopped mentioning it everytime they saw a Transit luton :nuts:
:lol: very interesting thread folks :D
Am going to enjoy reading this thread:lol:
I did a charity road-rally from John O Groats a couple of years ago, and have a certificate from the "end to end" club to prove it! The vehicle sadly was not the most interesting (a Ford Galaxy :| ) but the experience was amazing!
Met my wife when i was painting the out side of the block of flats where she lived on the tenth floor And I have never made a conscious decision in my life
just go with the flow
When I was in the Scouts (in about 1485) I was pushed into a swimming pool when I couldn't swim and whilst struggling in the water, I could clearly see my parents, who weren't at the campsite at all, urging me to get across the pool.
I joined the Guides soon after...
Keltic Ice Man
06-05-2006, 07:20
I have done stage work with the likes of Thunder, Whitesnake, Eric Clapton, Texas, The Fall, Beverly Cravan, ZZ Top, Chris de Burgh and many many others.
I've also worked at GCHQ during the first gulf war and spent a lot of my time being flown betweeen RAF bases. and lastly I played pro Ice Hockey for a couple of years till I broke my ankle in loads of places :)
Forbiddenbiker
06-05-2006, 07:52
After only 4 or 5 years the guys at work stopped mentioning it everytime they saw a Transit luton :nuts:
:lol: :lol:
There’s one outside... its not yours though, it still has a roof.
Fact #2 for me.
Don't assume a big wood mallet is actually heavy, miscalculations can lead to you smashing yourself in the face with it when you first pick it up.
mfwild13
06-05-2006, 08:42
Did 67 days sailing in the year before I got engaged - I have done no sailing since I got married.
Met my wife at the photocopier in our office
Am in month 14 of a planned 6'ish month 'rest from work'
Have travelled in the same taxi that took Charles and Di around Barra
Have been on the worlds shortest scheduled air crossing between Westray and Papa Westray (http://www.papawestray.co.uk/papay/pw_official3.html) several times
Some great people that I have met - Margaret Thatcher, Prince Phil, Peter Osgood.
When living on a farm when v young I used to love clotted cream sandwiches :)
I've also worked at GCHQ.....me2. horrible place. Full of idle civil servants.
Don't assume a big wood mallet is actually heavy, miscalculations can lead to you smashing yourself in the face with it when you first pick it up.
:D I can relate to that.... and picking up a heavy box that is actually an empty box :lol:
Marianne
06-05-2006, 09:47
I love this thread!
hmmm ok a proper interesting fact about me
Things ive made have been seen on TV
hmmm ok a proper interesting fact about me
Things ive made have been seen on TV
Not on House Invaders, I hope?
Not on House Invaders, I hope?
thankfully no!:p
Ah, so your the true father of the late Paula Yates !!
Ah, so your the true father of the late Paula Yates !!
nope, that sort of made:D
minimeeze
06-05-2006, 11:26
Come on Matty - elaborate!
Venomator
06-05-2006, 11:47
Finisher in the London Marathon in my 50th year and have the medal and scars from my blisters to prove it ! :cuckoo:
Raised nearly £1,500 for Marie Curie and it truly was an ab fab day that year ... an experience I am so pleased to have been a part of ... but am unlikely to repeat. :shake:
Great thread Ghandhi ! :thumbs:
Finisher in the London Marathon in my 50th yearBlimey, it only takes most people a couple of hours!
[edit]Er... congrats on doing it for a very worthy cause, though.
Venomator
06-05-2006, 11:58
Blimey, it only takes most people a couple of hours!
[edit]Er... congrats on doing it for a very worthy cause, though.
HeHe ... :lol: confess it did take more than a couple of hours though !
Er ... and thanx ! :thumbs:
well done Rog, that explains where you have been the last 5 weeks....
what ive made is nothing exciting, but the idea is cool!
Venomator
06-05-2006, 11:59
well done Rog, that explains where you have been the last 5 weeks....
what ive made is nothing exciting, but the idea is cool!
Cheers Matty ... you guys really crease me up ! :thinking:
Ice cream ??? :p
Cheers Matty ... you guys really crease me up ! :thinking:
Ice cream ??? :p
lolol
no :D
Sure I've seen it on kids TV......" & here we have a special painting of a stick man with a big gun by Matty aged 33 & three quarters"
When I found out I may be being made redundant from my last work, one evening I sneaked into the directors offices and left a kippers in the fake ceiling of the management I found particularly offensive (Owner of the company, Sales Director and Health & Safety Director).
LOL. Reminds me of 1st place I worked, when working nights found an Execs office & desk was open....found a postcard in his desk from his obvious mistress stating she couldn't wait to play with his lighthouse again :eek:
AHHHHH, just remembered somehting I try to forget. About 18 years ago as a computer operator of a large Building Society I accidentaly ran the wrong program at the end of a Business day & wiped the whole days transactions for the whole Society !!!! It took 1 month of O/T by all branches to retype all data back in. Thought I'd lose my job that day ;)
Sure I've seen it on kids TV......" & here we have a special painting of a stick man with a big gun by Matty aged 33 & three quarters"
heh, nope..lol
The things i have made have been seen on TV but they are normally installed in recording studios and the like...
Just thought I'd drop another one into the mix........
My user name is so because my so called mates happen to think I look like Ben Kingsley, only less handsome.
I've never worn a lungi (sp?) or had anything to do with the overthrowing of the Raj!
heh, nope..lol
The things i have made have been seen on TV but they are normally installed in recording studios and the like...
Spendor BC1's......& if they are not, then they are not good enough ;)
nope
you can have the best equipement in the world in the studios, but if the sound within it is crap, your on a loser..
My Dad's Cousin (my 2nd cousin I think) was Sir Alf Ramsey. Never met him though.
Warspite
06-05-2006, 15:24
nope
you can have the best equipement in the world in the studios, but if the sound within it is crap, your on a loser..
Bet its all the sound proofing ? (or whatever the technical term is for this)
;)
Bet its all the sound proofing ? (or whatever the technical term is for this)
;)
indeed. Acoustic Treatments including Diffusors and Bass traps, but specifically diffusors, ive laquered and made a few that have been on telly behind people on things like X factor, lol! anything filmed in Soho is 99% likely to have been made by us, clients include Peter Gabriels Real World Studios, BBC Maida Vale and Chris Tarrent(no, really) :) not really interesting though was it. lol
Liberalis
06-05-2006, 18:55
Hmmm, what can I say about me....
I've been stabbed, shot and ran over as a teenager (now that was a crap day, lol)
My chatup live to my soon-to-be wife was "I may be little down there, but I can lick my own eyebrows" (yeah I'm an old romantic)
I hate bad manners.
Ah, egg boxes ;)
Heretic!!!!! leave the eggbox stuff to ebay snakeoil salesmen :D
my father has not spoken to me for 7 years, even though he lives less than half a mile from me.
Marianne
06-05-2006, 19:14
oh that's sad Boon......life's too short and all that....go and see him...
I used to play a fair bit of football until the day I accepted a game for a pub team. Got my cheekbone and eye socket smashed and had to get my face peeled off to rebuild them. You can feel the screws under the right eye :lol:
my father has not spoken to me for 7 years, even though he lives less than half a mile from me.
I know how you feel Boon. I had a sister I didnt' speak too for a few years as well. Then decided one day life is too short yes, I'm better for it. Marianne's right, go see your dad before it's too late. It's just so not worth it. :)
jewel
Forbiddenbiker
06-05-2006, 19:44
my father has not spoken to me for 7 years, even though he lives less than half a mile from me.
Mate, that’s too long. :(
I've Been their myself and if I may suggest, YOU must be the bigger man.
Do it soon, before you regret not doing it... for the rest of your life.
Marianne
06-05-2006, 19:56
can I add that my sister simply won't talk to me....every now and then I try to sort things out but she can't hack it for long and stops talking to me, it breaks my heart, upsets my Mum but my sister sure is an odd bod. The way I see it is this, if she needs me I will run to her, I come from a close family so I get to know of stuff more or less as soon as it happens.....
Mate, that’s too long. :(
I've Been their myself and if I may suggest, YOU must be the bigger man.
Do it soon, before you regret not doing it... for the rest of your life.
I'll echo those comments.
I went for years at a time without speaking to my Dad.
I bit the bullet and made the peace about a year before he died and it was the best year we ever had.
I would have had nothing but sadness and regrets if I hadn't.
What I do have now is contentment, peace of mind and fond memories.
can I add that my sister simply won't talk to me....every now and then I try to sort things out but she can't hack it for long and stops talking to me, it breaks my heart, upsets my Mum but my sister sure is an odd bod. The way I see it is this, if she needs me I will run to her, I come from a close family so I get to know of stuff more or less as soon as it happens.....
We were the same, pretty close too until **** hit the fan,lol I come from a family of three girls and a baby brother. I think ya just have to stop trying to 'sort' things out and just let it be water under the bridge. Like they say, there is no truth, only interpretation right? We all want our feelings validated. Life is just too short!!! :D
Cheers,
jewel
Marianne
06-05-2006, 20:10
guess what Jules, I am the third daughter and have a younger brother....its my sister that is two years older than me that is the difficult one of the family, we were so very close but as I grew older and less dependant on her she grew more angry, she is like it to a certain extent with the rest of the family, which is reassuring in a way cos its not just directed at me although I get the brunt of her peculiarities....we just get on with our lifes now but it still makes me sad that she won't let me in any more.
Heh, Marianne I am the third daughter too,lol (baby girl) Isn't that a quinky dink,lol It's my oldest sister that butts heads with me. The middle one just watches,lol Were both hardheaded so it's bound to happen,lol
jewel
I was part of a team that broke a world record (nothing to do with egg boxes).
Keltic Ice Man
06-05-2006, 21:55
GCHQ. horrible place. Full of idle civil servants.
Couldn't agree more! - Crap place to work, but I enjoyed the flying :)
Allan
My dad died suddenly when I was 18 & my biggest regret was not telling him I loved him. Makes the grieving process so much harder.....so as others say, don't hold back...sort things out.
minimeeze
07-05-2006, 08:42
I was part of a team that broke a world record (nothing to do with egg boxes).
For eating baked beans or something??? :lol:
minimeeze
07-05-2006, 08:45
my father has not spoken to me for 7 years, even though he lives less than half a mile from me.
My father walked out on my mum when I was about 8 years old and took off to Australia. I didn't see or speak to him again until I was 24 when I went to visit him, then it was like meeting a total stranger who I couldn't relate to. I haven't seen or spoken to him since (I'm 33 now). It's his loss, not mine!
Even though an IT consultant at the time, on a whim booked a flight to Japan, went to some car Auctions, bought 2 cars & imported them back into UK. At the time had only been abroad via package hols :lol:
Re Japan probably one of the biggest culture shocks I experienced :-
- Oldest son of family stays home to look after parents
- If only children are girls, then they marry a bloke who then has to look after her parents
- Men have a fascination with forceful *** with women, which is shown via comics, films etc
- 40 year old blokes still read comics
- Some Teenage girls at rich schools prostitute themselves at luchtimes for fun
- The used girl panty vending machine is real !!!
- Kids have dried octupus skin packaged like sweets are here
& the list goes on .....
My father walked out on my mum when I was about 8 years old and took off to Australia. I didn't see or speak to him again until I was 24 when I went to visit him, then it was like meeting a total stranger who I couldn't relate to. I haven't seen or spoken to him since (I'm 33 now). It's his loss, not mine!<DEEP BREATH>
OK... here's something most of you probably don't know.
I have a five year old son that I never see (bitch of an ex-wife, you see. She basically wanted a kid so she could brand herself a 'parent', dump him on HER parents, and spend the rest of her life sitting on her ass and living on benefits).
You lot are making me think I'm gonna regret it if I don't do something about it.
We were fighting about it in court for ages. I'd recently been made redundant, and my ex made up all sorts of horrible lies about me; she said that I hit him twice - this later changed to three times in court despite the fact that I'd never even seen him, she made me see a psychiatrist who I spoke to for over four hours before he basically said to me "I don't know what the hell you're doing here", and various other hoops to jump through. When all else failed, I all of a sudden had the RSPCA round - someone had reported me for, in their words "kicking and beating the dog". They took one look at the dog (who was and still is in perfect health) and asked me if there were marital problems going on - guess they've seen it all before.
After all that, with not a shred of evidence to support any of the lies she had made up, CAFCASS made their court report and described my wife as "escaping from a violent relationship" - WTF??? With that I was given one hour of supervised access per two weeks. ONE HOUR???
The first 'hour', CAFCASS booked for when I was away on holiday - I called and told them this and they said "no problem, we'll be in touch with a new date".
They never called.
Several weeks later, I'd started a new job, and was at work when I got a call on my mobile. It was CAFCASS, asking where I was. My son and ex were at the contact centre waiting to see me. I told them they hadn't even told me about this appointment so how did they expect me to attend? They wanted me to drop everything and go. I told them I was working and couldn't do that.
Two failed appointments and we ended up in court again. CAFCASS must've told the Legal Services Commission I was working, so I lost my Legal Aid. I was only in a £10k a year job, and couldn't afford to fight it by myself, so I made the decision to cut my losses and it wasn't a decision I took lightly, but I felt I'd been left with no choice. My ex and her parents had taken out a string of restraining orders based on her stories - I would have been arrested if I'd gone within 100 metres of them, or the house. They changed their phone number too - made themselves unapproachable, so bypassing the legal system and being 'reasonable' was not an option... not that they ever did 'reasonable'... it was always solicitor, solicitor, solicitor (he once tried to get a solicitor involved because someone's dog crapped on his lawn!).
He was a month old when I last saw him. 22nd April 2006 was his 5th birthday. I've never sent presents or cards etc - I can't because I don't know what she's told him about me. If anything I'm pretty sure she's either a) told him somebody else is his dad (and believe me, that's another story), or b) told him I'm dead.
I'm not about to just barge my way back into the life of a 5 year old - I don't think its the right time. Don't know if it ever will be.
Sorry for going on a bit.
I have a 17 year old daughter I have had no contact with since she was approx 2 years old.........just pay my CSA every week and thats it.
The sad thing is she wants to see me but I have the problem and I don't know what it is....fear maybe:shrug: ......that I can't reply to her mother's letters which includes both mobile no's for both my daughter and mother.
The last letter which was now over a year ago told me "how proud I would be of my daughter but how confused she doesn't know her real dad".
Everyone tells me I will regret not contacting her and deep down I know I will but I can't explain why I don't.......it's a personal torment I have and will probably live with for the rest of my life.
Forbiddenbiker
07-05-2006, 10:09
I'm not about to just barge my way back into the life of a 5 year old - I don't think its the right time. Don't know if it ever will be.
Sorry for going on a bit.
Don't worry about it fella, your words nearly had me in tears though.
I got close to your position years ago (My sons now 12) but I was lucky enough to be given some good advice to help me cope with the onslaught of lies and untruths, deceit and the extreme bias of the law towards the mothers opinions and blatant ignoring of the fathers.
'Don't fight, just stand your ground'.
I think you should try again, be gentle with your approach. NO barging...somehow, you've got to ignore the pain and terrible betrayal that you've been through; and will have to go through again.
Bend like a reed grasshopper. :D
It was about 8 years ago when she took at the last injunction against me. I see Danny all the time now.
Three months ago... she apologised. Now that brings a tear, a tear of joy.
Were all so fragile really, just very hard to tell sometimes.
Good luck fella, what ever you chose. :)
Marianne
07-05-2006, 10:11
oh my.....all these burdens we live with and I too have my own, wouldn't it be a great place if we could just do what we wanted, guilt free.....the fear of hurting people stops me from telling all, I am getting the impression that there are an awful lot of people out there living their lives feeling either sad or guilty...perhaps just living with it makes us better people because we are protecting others.
Forbiddenbiker
07-05-2006, 10:22
I have a 17 year old daughter I have had no contact with since she was approx 2 years old.........just pay my CSA every week and thats it.
The sad thing is she wants to see me but I have the problem and I don't know what it is....fear maybe:shrug: ......that I can't reply to her mother's letters which includes both mobile no's for both my daughter and mother.
The last letter which was now over a year ago told me "how proud I would be of my daughter but how confused she doesn't know her real dad".
Everyone tells me I will regret not contacting her and deep down I know I will but I can't explain why I don't.......it's a personal torment I have and will probably live with for the rest of my life.
Mate, :eek: flipping sake. Tell her exactly that^^^. Your only human. Just like the rest of us.
Your making her suffer. :thinking:
Excuse me; I'm getting sooo emotional over this thread....and breath...and relax. :)
Taken aback by what you guys are going through. The bond between parent & child is the strongest feeling you can have, so I can only imagine what you are going through. For those that have an opportunity then remember the saying "It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done"
This thread is making me well-up
I once raced karts in a British champs against a certain Mr. Button. I think he was at the front and I was at the back, but I was in the A final none the less! :D
oh that's sad Boon......life's too short and all that....go and see him...
its not me.. its him.
My wife has spoken to him on a few occasions, and mentioned me, but he just clams up, (its his partner's fault i reckon)
i bought the flat i live in from him, i took out a mortgage and paid him off, the partner he met used to live on her own in her own bungalow, and she was claiming single occupier, he was claiming for all sorts from th NCB, and get this, he claimed from them the money it cost to have the gas piped in, and he wasn't even living here, as well as he was being sent benefits from all over the place, so he was using MY address to commit his fraud, sod that.
i told him not to use my address anymore, and he's never spoken to me since
stuff him - sorry.
@GFK- my ex wife was a bitch too, she had her boyfriend move into the house i was thrown out of, while i was still paying the damn mortgage there, the fat ugly git.
Marianne
08-05-2006, 09:07
sorry Boon, I can feel your anger with him, understandably too....
@GFK- my ex wife was a bitch too, she had her boyfriend move into the house i was thrown out of, while i was still paying the damn mortgage there, the fat ugly git.Blimey.... all sounding very familiar. I split with my 2nd wife back in October - bizarre chain of events, really.
1. She had miscarriage June 2004 - things never right after that. :(
2. She asked me to move out October 16th 2005.
3. I asked her if she was seeing somebody else, she said no.
4. A week later she tells me she's seeing this guy from work. He has a wife, kids, cancer, and calipers, and drives a Renault Espace. Says a lot for me, eh?
5. I take a drive to his place of work. Fortunately for him, its his day off.
5a. Work colleagues apparently call him and tell him I'm on the warpath. Later found out he came to the house to "get his kicking over with", saw my car on the drive, thought better of it and buggered off.
6. Go back to the house and liberate the 28" telly (got my priorities right!) :lol:
7. 3 days - yes THREE DAYS later, she tells me this guy is moving in. Just to remind you - she denied she was even seeing him when she was with me, and I only moved out 10 days before. Chinny ********* reckon.
8. December 2005 she tells me they got engaged Christmas Day. Same day me and her got engaged in 2001. :suspect:
9. January 2006 - she's pregnant with his kid, and siezes every opportunity to jabber on and on about babies to me, like I care, given the events of 2004.
But hey, her £30k credit card bill isn't my problem any more. Every cloud... etc... :D
I once raced karts in a British champs against a certain Mr. Button. I think he was at the front and I was at the back, but I was in the A final none the less! :D
Saw Mr Button practising at Clay Pigeon ?, Yeovil way, when he was a kid. Best fun I've had driving a 100 UK cart on that track
Gary Bagshawe
08-05-2006, 12:17
But hey, her £30k credit card bill isn't my problem any more. Every cloud... etc...
AHahhhahahahahaha fantastic
Wow, we are all really getting to know one another aren't we?lol Where's Gandhi in all of this?, he started it. :suspect: :D Nice thread!
Jewel
I'm still here. I've dropped a couple in there along the lines!
Another one for you......
My last school's address was.....
Sexey's School,
Bruton.
Nobody beleives me when I told them I went there!
Saw Mr Button practising at Clay Pigeon ?, Yeovil way, when he was a kid. Best fun I've had driving a 100 UK cart on that track
Never driven at Clay but pit crewed for a mate there a couple of times.
Marianne
08-05-2006, 12:55
I've got a signed photo of David Essex which says 'to Marianne' woh.....heart stopper eh? I did write to him first ;)
I like Brussel Sprouts :love:
Sexey's School,
Bruton.
If I was to tell anyone that I went to that school, there would be mutterings of "Money back" and "False advertising"...:lol:
Feeling a little small in comparison of revelations, I'm named after the group of 60's fame. The Marcels.
But hey, her £30k credit card bill isn't my problem any more. Every cloud... etc...
wait for it...
2 years later she won £175,000 on the lottery, PAH:'( !!!
Pink Fairy
08-05-2006, 15:51
I'm a convicted radio pirate (aged 18 in mid 80's)
I'm a convicted radio pirate (aged 18 in mid 80's)
Did you board Radio 1 & pillage/rape the DJ's :eek:
Pink Fairy
08-05-2006, 16:04
Did you board Radio 1 & pillage/rape the DJ's :eek:
Yeah, I'm on the DJ offenders register.
minimeeze
08-05-2006, 16:11
I had a schoolgirl crush on Martin Daniels who used to be on tv in the early 80's (son of Paul Daniels). Imagine my shock a few years back when his wife had a baby and I was their midwife :eek: I never did confess :lol:
Here's an interesting bit about me....or not,lol
My favourite sandwich is peanut butter and side bacon! :nuts: :D
Jewel
side bacon! Jewel
WTF?
Bacon is smoked or green. back or streaky where we come from.
I didn't know you could get bacon on the side as it were!
Pink Fairy
08-05-2006, 17:33
WTF?
Bacon is smoked or green. back or streaky where we come from.
I didn't know you could get bacon on the side as it were!
The peanut butter is the scary aspect :eek:
WTF?
Bacon is smoked or green. back or streaky where we come from.
I didn't know you could get bacon on the side as it were!
back or streaky? Well in that case it's streaky bacon, :lol:
minimeeze
08-05-2006, 19:00
WTF?
Bacon is smoked or green. back or streaky where we come from.
I didn't know you could get bacon on the side as it were!
GREEN??? Never heard that one before
Marianne
08-05-2006, 19:03
green bacon has that sort of oily rainbow effect on it, I remember being fascinated when my Mum used to asked for green back bacon!
minimeeze
08-05-2006, 19:08
Well, you learn something new everyday! have just done a Google search for green bacon as I've never heard of it, and now I know that unsmoked bacon is 'green bacon' :)
MR HANKEY!!!!
Hiiiiiiidiiiiii Hooooooo everybody!!!!!
minimeeze
08-05-2006, 19:13
MR HANKEY!!!!
Hiiiiiiidiiiiii Hooooooo everybody!!!!!
:D
MR HANKEY!!!!
Hiiiiiiidiiiiii Hooooooo everybody!!!!!
:lol:
im sure i could have used Cartman saying 'Screw you guys, im going home..' a little while ago :D
Marianne
08-05-2006, 19:41
I don't understand the Mr Hankey bit...
mr hanky the Christmas Poo....Southpark....
Marianne
08-05-2006, 19:53
oh....erm....ok
mr hanky the Christmas Poo....Southpark....
Not more southpark fans,lol All I remember from that show is chocolate salty balls,lol :p
Linky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Hankey) to the PooChoo train!
Interesting choice of avatar mini.
I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere!
Wait - when did this thread degenerate into a discussion about South Park? :shake:
minimeeze
09-05-2006, 08:53
Interesting choice of avatar mini.
I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere!
;)
Wait - when did this thread degenerate into a discussion about South Park? :shake:
Yesterday at about 20:12.
HTH
:)
Hmm. When I was 18, I had my first girlfriend. She was out with her ex-bf one night and in my fit of jealousy, I drove rather dangerously trying to get to her. The back end stepped out more than once but I just kept flooring the accelerator. Thinking back, it was the most stupid thing I've ever done and since then I've become a more responsible driver. I'm quite ashamed of it really, but luckily I didn't cause an accident or involved anyone in an accident.
Also, I've had dinner with Louise Nurding (now Redknapp). :love:
Everyone tells me I will regret not contacting her and deep down I know I will but I can't explain why I don't.......it's a personal torment I have and will probably live with for the rest of my life.
I'm guessing, don't shoot me if I'm totally off the mark, that it's fear of being rejected plus guilt of not making the effort to see her sooner and confronted with that guilt fully when you have to face her.
You just have to bite the bullet, meet up with your daughter, apologise and hope that she will forgive you and still want to form a father-daughter relationship with you.
The longer you wait, the harder it will be. The guild will only get worse, not better. Make the effort now. You only change the present and the future. The past cannot be changed, don't let it weigh you down.
Gary Bagshawe
09-05-2006, 13:23
In all the years I have been taking photographs I still don't consider that I have taken a GREAT photograph yet.
When I see some of the work that is posted on this forum it puts me to shame that I make a living out of it.
stepheno
09-05-2006, 13:52
A great thread, Gandhi and well done to all who have contributed - particularly those who have had to do some real soul searching. After reading some posts I think my life must be abnormally normal so I'll just add a few bits of trivia.
1 I've been introduced to the Queen three times
2 I married a Croatian woman, in her hometown, and the reception lasted three days.
3 My daughter is called Tara which is, in fact, a man's name.
4 I have had three, totally different careers and enjoyed them all.
5 I once had a Mini with a Chrysler V6 engine where the back seats were and concrete ballast in the front.
6 I was an extra on Quadraphenia
as I said just trivia compared to some people's problems.
regards
Just thought I'd drop another one into the mix........
My user name is so because my so called mates happen to think I look like Ben Kingsley, only less handsome.
I've never worn a lungi (sp?) or had anything to do with the overthrowing of the Raj!
Another illusion shattered :lol:
[Edit - I once saw Jack Hargreaves at a Steam Rally in about 1485 - oh yes. /waits for the "who?"s]
Another illusion shattered :lol:
[Edit - I once saw Jack Hargreaves at a Steam Rally in about 1485 - oh yes. /waits for the "who?"s]
Wasn't he the bloke who appeared on Sunday morning/lunchtime TV in programmes about the countryside.
Marianne
10-05-2006, 05:58
Out of Town....near Beaulieu, Hampshire, I loved watching his programmes, my Dad used to watch him religiously, he was a fisherman too :)
Pink Fairy
10-05-2006, 07:56
Out of Town....near Beaulieu, Hampshire, I loved watching his programmes, my Dad used to watch him religiously, he was a fisherman too :)
Yep, Out of Town... sunday lunchtime just after Thunderbirds, smell of a joint wafting thru the air (joint of meat, I may add ;) )
I wrote to Jim'll Fix It in my childhood, wanting to go fishing with Jack Hargreves... hardly likely, as he was on the other tv channel. Apparantly Jack was a devil with the drink and plenty of stories around about him being drunk whilst filming.
Top bloke, even though they sometimes attached pre-caught fish to his line for the sake of filming. Of course, he's well remembered for 'How' as well.
Marianne
10-05-2006, 08:08
oh yes....lovely thoughts and memories :)
Pink Fairy
10-05-2006, 08:25
In fact, the late Jack Hargreves was a significant influence in my childhood...leading to myself becoming a bird photographer and making my living in the nature/wildlife world.
Have a double on me, Jack, I'm having a great time :thumbs:
5 I once had a Mini with a Chrysler V6 engine where the back seats were and concrete ballast in the front.
Jeepers! That's scary!
That's another illusion shattered
Yeah, sorry about that one. I know you'd all rather I was a petite indian gentleman with a very persuasive attitude and rather dry, smelly flip-flops. Apparently.
Now then, who hasn't 'fessed up with somehing interesting :suspect:
For the original Arcade layabouts......I clocked Williams Defender ...eg. Over 1,000,000 . When you get to that magical figure, everything you hit gives you an extra life & smart bomb....great noise. From memory it took about 90 mins. Oh & I did own a s/h Defender machine at the time ;)
I once told Bono of U2 to put his fag out...
...and he did
What did the fag say once chucked outside ? ;)
I once told Bono of U2 to put his fag out...
...and he did
I once told Bono my name in the club where U2 were playing and when he got on stage he said '& this one's for Gloria'.... and launched into said song! Ive told that one so many times over the years & the bigger U2 got, the less peeps believed me! :shrug:
What did the fag say once chucked outside ? ;)
I was working for Texaco at the time and he was smoking next to the petrol pumps while their tour bus was filling up with diesel
Warspite
10-05-2006, 18:43
I was working for Texaco at the time and he was smoking next to the petrol pumps while their tour bus was filling up with diesel
Should have let him continue (sorry I am joking;) )
whitewash
10-05-2006, 19:08
ive been single for nearly 5 years, due mainly to the fact that im "friend material"
isnt that just rivetting information!
some other things-i was bullied pretty much all the way through high school (my schools did not of course have a bullying problem..) the height of this was being pushed infront of a bus on the way home from school, luckily it missed. my life lacked direction until i went to college, met new people and completely changed myself as a person, im now slightly less selfconcious although i still lack any ability to talk to strangers and still find it very difficult to hold a conversation with people for more than a few minutes. i have absolutely no confidence in anything i do (apart from my job, as i know what im doing) and cannot accept complements, im also incredibly self critical which doesnt help with that. at the moment i feel better than i have done for a very long time, dispite the fact that im surrounded by very few people i know after having moved away from my friends.
anything else interesting about me-
i got dumped by a girl because "i didnt go to cambridge university"
ive rowed the boat race course in london
i restored my first car when i was 12, i still own it
my job takes the ****, i get paid pretty much bugger all for doing what i do
i ahve a degree in engineering, dispite not revising and doing my final year project in 2 weeks
whitewash
10-05-2006, 19:24
Should have let him continue (sorry I am joking;) )
then doused him in petrol and thrown bob geldoff ontop of him for good measure....
ive met, in no particular order, Micheal Palin and some random newsreader off TyneTees TV, and i saw Billy Joel in london, in the street.....
whitewash
10-05-2006, 19:54
jeez reading through this is quite eye opening, are there any photographers who havent been divorced about 3 times already......?
whoever it was who said about not having contact with there daughter, this makes me sad, i simply could not imagine how horrid it must be for you, but also for your daughter, i couldnt imagine not knowing my father because he was dead etc, but to know my father was still alive, still recieved letters etc but wont make contact must be truely unimaginable, shes missing so much, my only advice would be that no matter how hard it is, you should really try, whats the worst that can happen? write back explaining your fears etc, maybe just start with writing letters and then move it up a gear to actually meeting etc
My life is so dull compared to you lot :(
But I am *only* 24 I guess.
minimeeze
10-05-2006, 20:04
ive been single for nearly 5 years, due mainly to the fact that im "friend material"
isnt that just rivetting information!
AWWWW...my fella was single was over 8 years before I came along - now he doesn't quite know what's hit him...:lol:
whitewash
10-05-2006, 20:13
i say single, ive had about 2 one week relationships in that time before panicking and running away, the reason for which was when i went out with a girl for about a month, but her mind was clearly on other things (she managed to successfully cheat on me INFRONT of my sister, denied it all and then went on to accidentally send me a text message destined for someone else, slagging me off and explaining how she couldnt wait to **** them, then continued to deny cheating on me!!!!) so now im afraid of girls! and have thrown everything i have away because i dont want to be ****ed around. i finally got over this irasional fear of relationships about 3 months ago, but the girl who was waiting for me got erm bored and buggered off!
i count it as being single anyway
I've been shot at :eek:
on four different occasions :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
whitewash
10-05-2006, 20:55
fiddycent....
Marianne
10-05-2006, 21:57
I've been shot at :eek:
on four different occasions :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
you must stop wearing that target as a necklace!
Nice. All good peeps.
Whitewash, keep at it dude. When I was at school I was pariared for being the ugliest kid in my year and consistently bullied by all the boys in my year. So I hung around with girls ;)
I never used to have any confidence with women either, but somebody changed all that for me in about 30 seconds one day. The relationship lasted 6 years. Then she left me for a little boy (17, she was 24) with plastic hair and a vauxhall nova! Destroyed my self confidence for a good long while and I was extremely bitter for a very very long time. After a few failed attempts at relationships I met my current g/f who is truly my soul mate and loves me for all I am and supports everything I do without any pressure.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't worry or stress about these things. When the times right and you're right, it'll happen.
Bit patronising I know, but I'm drunk and been on the funny fags again!
BTW, (and mod's please delete this if it oversteps the mark)
When I was 11 I got rather 'overexcited' sat on Sharon Davies lap when the superstars thing came to my school. lol.
Oh, and if anybody ever tells you I wet myself aged 14 in my CDT lesson. They're LYING, ALRIGHT?
whitewash
10-05-2006, 22:25
i know dude, i also happen to be, ugly, ginger and have a stupid name, my parents thus ensured i was going to be bullied at school
If we're talking claims to fame, I've sold Tony Knowles a set of AA batteries and sold Kate Bush a radio cassette :)
Nothin wrong with being ginger. I've dated girls with ginger hair. well, one maybe ;) I don't wanna sound harsh, but girls do not find a man wallowing in self pity attractive. If chris evans can pull the piper then there is hope for even the most reppelent of us. I know, I count myself among them ;)
And I've served Trude Mostue, Rrrrrrrrrrrrula Lenska and John Nettles in my filling station!
Marianne
10-05-2006, 22:37
where's somerserset?
some other things-i was bullied pretty much all the way through high school (my schools did not of course have a bullying problem..)Hmm... none of 'em do :thinking:
I got bullied at school too. Mostly mental torment but it got physical on a couple of occasions. On one such occasion I got pushed that far I actually snapped. I belted some kid in the face so hard that he ended up on the floor, and I ended up in A&E with 3 broken fingers. When I hit people (not that I do often) I wanna get in first and make it count. I worked out after a while that getting straight A's on report cards for the first 3 years made me an obvious target. I don't think being tall and skinny helped, either. So I started to deliberately screw up, to the point that my exams went completely tits-up and the best I got was four grade C's. :thumbsdown:
When I left school I made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to be pushed around forever. I do come across as aggressive sometimes but its mostly just a front... but I can still be pushed into a reaction and I will always say what I think.
I'm 6ft3 and 20st now, and recently completed City & Guilds National Certificate for Door Supervisors. Can't wait for the school reunion.
Marianne
10-05-2006, 22:41
good for you GFK!
My son was bullied at school, he was tall, ginger, lanky and brainy....he soon learned to pretend to be less of a boffin and failed at school, he is still now at the age of 23 struggling to find himself, I hate those bullies for making his life a misery....nothing I say to him makes any difference, I just hope that one day he gets strong and finds himself!
I'm 6ft3 and 20st now, and recently completed City & Guilds National Certificate for Door Supervisors. Can't wait for the school reunion.
We want pics! :)
minimeeze
11-05-2006, 07:12
i know dude, i also happen to be, ugly, ginger and have a stupid name, my parents thus ensured i was going to be bullied at school
But you posted a pic of yourself (the one you have as your avatar) - you are NOT ugly. It's more of a self esteem / confidence thing, and as Ghandi rightly said, it will happen when you least expect it :) That was the probelm with my fella - no self esteem or confidence (and probably why he was single for so long). I was the one who did all the chasing, until I finally snared him :D
You only get one shot at life - make the most of it, enjoy it and think positive :rules: ;)
where's somerserset?
Quite close to somerset apparently.
You know, I had't even noticed that one :lol: :D
My advice for anyone with self doubt etc is to go find yourself. Sounds mad, but after a 10 year relationship that was pretty argumentive etc in last few years, I lost complete sight of the person I used to be.
When I finished the relationship I booked 6 weeks off work & went travelling round Australia on my own. I soon was back to my happy go lucky, extrovert self, meeting new people all the time. Made a promise to myself never to let other people change the way I am (unless for the better)......still working 7 years on :)
I too was bullied at school. Had a terrible self-esteem problem etc etc.
Tried to join the Para Reg at 17 and was told to go away as I "wasn't what they were looking for" - at the time I was skinny and very weedy-looking.
So I went away. To France, where I'd spent many happy holidays as a kid. Got to Paris and joined the Foreign Legion!
Where I found myself at Home for the first time in my life - I discovered that if pushed I could actually run 5 miles without dying in the process - and boy, do they ever push you. Getting beaten by the corporals on 'Appell' at 03.00 hours during basic at Castelnaudrey was just more of the same **** that I'd had all my life, so it was easy to endure.
I found that firing a rifle is stupidly easy (though to this day I meet people in the military who can't hit the inside of a barn) and that I hit whatever I aimed at at almost any distance.
Eventually found myself in Chad in 1982 up in the mountains fighting insurgents being supported by Libya. We had a contact every three of four days or so.
Discovered that the war stories are all true - that incoming rockets and mortars always feel like they're going to land between your shoulder-blades - that a cup of hot coffee, freshly-made is more important on a cold morning than taking cover from incoming rounds (and wearing the scars to prove it!).
That killing people in a fire-fight is as much fun as it's ever possible to have, even when people around you are dying. I vividly remember the whoops of joy as we fired back at the men who moments before had been killing us, having circled round and surprised them. Then killing the ones who tried to surender.
Looking back I feel slightly uneasy about it, but at the time, I remember thinking that life just didn't get better. All the pent-up anger just burst out, I guess - doesn't matter how big and tough you are - you're just a better target at 300m to me.
My biggest regret was not taking a camera with me.
Edit: Just to clarify - these things happen in war. We didn't capture these guys then execute them, we over-ran a gun position (twin 12.7mm machine-gun known as a 'Dushka' from the Soviet designation) that had blown away a truck full of people and had us pinned down for almost 30 minutes. When we finally got to them they decided that they'd had enough and didn't want to play any more: too bad for them - three grenades into the gun-pit and then emptied our weapons into them that was left. That's how it's done. In my time in the British Army, we train exactly the same way.
To paraphrase George C. Scott as Patton: " Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country - wars are won by getting the poor b*st*rd on the other side to die for his country..."
Marianne
11-05-2006, 10:24
wooh
Beau Geste then Rob? :D
A mate of mine was in the Marines and stationed at Gibraltar, where the Marines went on the rampage and wrecked the place after several run-ins with the local police. The army rounded up the lot and splashed the ringleaders to the four winds. Roy was seconded to the French Foreign Legion. They had these toureg scouts who used to act as outriders on patrols, with orders to shoot anyone who tried to run. They had old Lee Enfields but could shoot the ass hole out of a rat at 300 yards and they wanted you to run. :D
It seems these guys spent all their money on having gold teeth fitted, so every time you looked at them you saw a big shiney grin and a Lee Enfield hovering in your direction. :lol:
Beau Diddley more like...
Wow, this thread is deep folks,lol I have nothing 'that' interesting to share, sorry.LOL
Jewel
on a lighter note, i got an order to supply a certain TV program with acoustic materials today...16 weeks of looking to see if i can see my products are on the cards....
whitewash
11-05-2006, 18:42
the sole reason i have been bullied throughout my entire life is down to my first name, of which i have never ever been called since birth (so why the **** my parents couldnt just have used a bit of initiative and called me that as my middle name i will never know, and is the sole reason i actually resent my parents for, fthey are otherwise the most amazing people in the whole world)
i originally found out my real name (no one had the forsight to tell me) when my head teacher at my junior school, used my name as a cheap laugh during assembly on morning, i didnt understand it, but everyone was looking at me and laughing, everyone elsen understood it but i didnt, as far as i was aware my name was jamie (even my sister didnt know, but after she realised everyone was laughing at me, she came across the assembly and dragged me out of there.
this amusement at my name continued throughout my entire life, and made practically every day of my life at school a living hell. something i until very recently attributed to the fact i went out of my way to disguise my real name (after all wouldnt you if it caused every day of your life to be a living hell..?)
anyway when i started my current job i presumed that adults were more grown up and it wouldnt matter, especially if i was honest, but sadly not, now my life is **** again, all because of my name
hence my thread about changing my name, i didnt realise until recently that i could change my name, which im currently considering doing. it will probably deeply upset my family, but after 18 years of torture because of it, ive decided enough is enough and as well as swapping my names around, im actually considering loosing it all together, its something i just have to do.
who would have thought having the name harold would really make someones school life a living hell for so long, but then again if your 3rd in line to the thrown people probably wont use it as ammo.
please let this be a warning to anyone whos considering giving there child a first name and calling there child by there second name, its not going to make any difference, but dont do it, your mearly leading them directly towards a life of name calling, torment, beatings and mental anguish, which isnt really fair.
the thing is that if i had always been called harold, rather than jamie (which ive been know as since birth- never once have my parents or anyone ever called me anything different) it would be a problem, but people see the act of trying to cover my first name as some sort of weakness, and as we know, kids love to use peoples weaknesses against them.
also its weird, make a joke of the fact that im ginger, (unconventionally unattractive i.e. ugly..., lanky, rubbish at things and i will actively laugh along with you, non of these things bother me as im comfortable with them, but make fun of my name and you have crossed that line...
whitewash
11-05-2006, 18:44
also on a lighter note- im off on holiday to the other side of the world on my own in 4 weeks and i simply cannot wait!
minimeeze
11-05-2006, 20:21
I know a harold, but have always known him simply as 'H'. Have no idea whether anyone took the p*ss out of him because of his name though.
Have you ever asked your parents why they gave you a name and never called you by it?
As you mentioned, changing your name by deed poll is relatively simple - just see a solicitor. It costs somewhere in the region of £50-100, and will be well worth it judging by your past troubles with your name :)
whitewash
11-05-2006, 20:44
Have you ever asked your parents why they gave you a name and never called you by it?
ive asked plenty of times, but the answer never seems to add, up, they claim they gave never used the name because it was the same as one of my relatives (who died when i was about 5) however, by calling me james or jamie, they gave me exactly the same name as a closer relative, so it doesnt really add up.
im sure they had there reasons but to me it doesnt make sense. im considering changing my name, simply because its caused me so much asnguish throughout my life, i guess its something ill have to do, dispite it allowing the bullys win, it;ll stop them in the future and its the future that matters right?!
oh and if you cant find out whats so amusingm or bullyworthy about the name harold? have you ever sat in a room of 30-40 people all doing steptoe impressions, its neither funny, nor amusing, its actually ****ing iritating but theres no way of making it stop because they find it so amusing, but its ok, its all at my expense..........
Hey Jamie,
On the bullying... I can relate.
On the ginger ... I can kinda relate, I was the gorky, shy, dark girl that everyone called racist names!
On the name...I can defo relate!!!
They called me Gloria ... Gloria for godsake!
Everyone else was a Tracy or Michelle & I was bloody Gloria!
I always cringed when the register was called & the other kids couldnt even say it properly, it was always Goria, Gworwia, Or Groria!
If youve used to being called Jamie... drop the 'H'. The bullies havent won... youre changing it cos YOU want to, and cos YOU dont like it.
Im to too old & too used to mine now but I still cringe when I hear 'Gloria' called out in a public place!
whitewash
11-05-2006, 21:16
kids can be such *******s, theres never any excuse for bullying and definetely not anything vaguely racist... but let me guess, your school didnt have a bullying problem neither...?
i used to detest the start of every year, because new teaches meant they would read the register which would as usual have my full name, and not the name i had repeatedly asked them to put on the registers!!!!!)
teacher - "harold barber"
me - "its pronounced jamie" (got me a laugh and a detention for being cheaky.....)
its such a hastle having to explain something to everyone and i cant be bothered to deal with it. i might have to talk to my parents at the weekend, see what they think
Hey mate, its your name, you do what you want with it.
I have an 'interesting' middle name and it caused me no end of hassle at school too, so you have my understanding. Why is it teachers think its funny to fuel the other kids with your strange name! :(
Oh, and now I really like my middle name as I couldn't give a toss what anyone else thinks. Laugh if you want, step up to the mark if you want, I'm game.
Sammy 'Farnell' C
:D
Keltic Ice Man
11-05-2006, 22:15
I've got a first name I've never use, my mother hates me called it and she choose it. Sort of a scottish tradition that myself and my brother and our families all get called by their middle name.
So now I just use it as an initial, looks better :) K.Allan
and if you wondering its Kenneth named after a king of Scotland. Yep kids loved finding out and used that and anything else about me against me - and I even had a member of staff that thought it was funny to call me Ken all day long ... but then I sacked them :D oops might easily have been unfair dismisal if they had had any brain.:nono:
When it came to my kids I stopped the tradition of ignoring the first name ... and instead they all got Gaelic names - Which even though yep they sometimes get teased with, they tell me they love the names because the're different. - Colum Patric, Aidan Connall and Ruaridh Fintan
Jamie - if its such a hastle get it changed even to just the initial H - its very popular in the music world to have initials.
Allan ... my signature with a pen is even K.Allan
On the subject of names.
Mine caused me a few problems at school.
I did get picked on in primary school for it, purely because it was different to the norm.
My surname is Booth, so that got a going over too. Telephone Booth etc etc.
I still to this day get called Marcel Marceu (sp).
It used to make me cringe, but now, TBH I really couldn't give a rats nadger what I get called.
The thing is though, with Marcel, it's also a girls name (Marcelle), which most people though.
When I started high school, which is a tough time for ANY 11 yr old. I had to go through all my new classes, on my own (had been separated from my mates due to just bad luck in the allocations)...I had to go through the classes all on my own, with my name on the girls register.
Right in the middle of the girls, I'd shout "Yes Miss", and the whole class would be sniggering and I just wanted the ground to swallow me up.
In PE, and single sex classes, my name wouldn't get shouted out, I wouldn't have any class materials prepared for me, or desks set aside, and I had to explain to the teacher, much to the amusement of the rest of the classes.
Now though, I really couldn't care less. I could be called Egamemnon the third or whatever, and it wouldn't phase me. I'm mature enough to realise, to me, my name is just that, a name. It's me, it's unique. If someone else thinks its funny, then that's great, I've made someone smile today. All the better.
I don't feel down about someone else thinking my name is funny, or doing Marcel Marceu impressions (which can get very tiring, I just laugh and say "Original" with a ;)) OR being asked if I'm French (which happens ALL the time).
Nah, if someone else thinks my name is funny, why the hell should it upset me? I couldn't care less. My life doesn't change in any way whatsoever if someone laughs at my name. My wife still loves me. My kids love me. I have what's important.
Sounds crazy, but sticks and stones etc is very very true, once you truly look at things like that. Call me names, call me fat, call me stupid, call me ugly, and I'll probably laugh and walk away, thinking to myself "That guy has such a shallow and pathetic life of his own, that he thinks that passes as funny...sad really"
Don't let the buggers grind you down :)
Besides, I think Harold is an ace name. I'd like to be a Harold. And I'd join in with the Steptoe impressions too..get it down to a T and show em how it's done :)
A school pal was mine was once assaulted by a squirrel on a school trip at Danebury Ring, the Iron-age hill fort nr Andover, Hampshire. Ran down a tree apparently and tried to nick his sarnie.
Marianne
11-05-2006, 23:04
I learnt to drive in Jersey
mfwild13
11-05-2006, 23:08
I learnt to drive on Orkney. No roundabouts and one set of traffic lights :)
Marianne
11-05-2006, 23:09
did you have to retake your test when you came to the mainland?
mfwild13
11-05-2006, 23:12
did you have to retake your test when you came to the mainland?
No :)
Marianne
11-05-2006, 23:15
nor me.....the main roads scared me and as for roundabouts and motorways well!!! I soon overcame my fears though, one benefit being that I am fine driving down coutry lanes and can park sort of easily in a tight spot!
mfwild13
11-05-2006, 23:23
nor me.....the main roads scared me and as for roundabouts and motorways well!!! I soon overcame my fears though, one benefit being that I am fine driving down coutry lanes and can park sort of easily in a tight spot!
I have to admit to motorcycling a couple of years around Central Scotland before doing my car lessons/test on Orkney. I got to drive the company Landrover around Orkney for a few months before moving back south(ish). I bought my first car soon after and immediately had to drive 250+ miles on the M6/A74/M74 so pretty quickly got over any motorway fear.
I had an accident 20 minutes before I was due to take my driving test in Folkestone. I hit a brand new top-of-the-range Rover that was trying to do a three-point turn in a one-way street :thinking:
I was mightily ******ed off when told I wouldn't be allowed to take my test because of it. But I passed at the first attempt the following day :)
My ex hit another car on her driving test. And not just any car - it was a police car.
She failed. :D
My ex hit another car on her driving test. And not just any car - it was a police car.
She failed. :D
So did I, on my first test.
OK I clipped a wing mirror but it wasn't my fault. I was trying to nudge to the left because another car wanted to get past and there was only room for one of us really. Parked cars both sides, and he turned into my road.
Ideally he should have seen me and waited, but he didn't.
Then I should have stopped, but I didn't I tried to tuck in, and clipped the wing mirror as the examiner was shouting "Pull out!", and me going "I cant, there's no room!"
I got a big "D" on the test sheet for that. I know it was Dangerous but everyone took the mick and kept saying it was for "Destructive driving"
Passed second time with flying colours, and both wing mirrors intact.
i failed my finals part 1 exams in my 4 th year of medicine last year. i only failed 1 exam, but i failed it badly. they don't allow retakes in cardiff for the fourth year of medicine, every other year they do... but the fourth they do not. it's a shame as i passed all 5 of my clinicals with ease, it was one of the book exams i had trouble with.
i'm about the sit the final exams again after doing the whole year and other 5 exams during it so far in a weeks time and i'm terrified.
i've worked much harder than i did last year and tried to get my book knowledge up to scratch but it has just dawned on me that there is £20,000 of my money and 5 years of my life pending on me passing this time round. if i pass i have a hell of a reward, i'm into the 5th yr and will soon be a doctor and i get a 10 week trip across the other side of the world to work in tropical hospitals.
it's hitting the stage where i'm just plaiin exhausted, i'm fed up with revision and it seems like a never ending subject (...well that would be about right with medicine, should've thought abotu that before i started really!) i'm off home this weekend to get some help from friends and a little home cooking to sort me out, hopefully it will do the trick.
fingers crossed.
I have to admit to motorcycling a couple of years around Central Scotland before doing my car lessons/test on Orkney. I got to drive the company Landrover around Orkney for a few months before moving back south(ish). I bought my first car soon after and immediately had to drive 250+ miles on the M6/A74/M74 so pretty quickly got over any motorway fear.
I drove from the midlands to Southhampton when I was 15, ran over a deer en route, and best of all it was my parents idea and they were the passengers. To this day I have no idea why my dad said 'Fancy driving?', and, more importantly, my mum didn't stop me! :cuckoo:
:D
minimeeze
12-05-2006, 12:06
Good luck with the exams Noah! I did 3 years of midwifery (not quite the same, I know), so I sort of know where you're coming from. It will be worth it in the end when you're a rich GP ;)
minimeeze
12-05-2006, 12:06
It took me 6 attempts to pass my driving test - I think the valium worked on the last one :D
....more importantly, my mum didn't stop me! :cuckoo:
But Bambi did :'(
Managed to put 20 Refresher sweets (the chews with sherbert in middle) in my mouth in one go & ate them without throwing up..... did dribble quite a bit though ;)
*snip*
Good luck buddy. :)
Managed to put 20 Refresher sweets (the chews with sherbert in middle) in my mouth in one go & ate them without throwing up..... did dribble quite a bit though ;)
I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it. I was able to do this as a kid too. I also used to fold Mars bars in half and eat them in one go too.
I can also get my tongue up my nostril.
Not necessarily all the above at the same time though:lol:
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I can also get my tongue up my nostril.
You must therefore have a lot of luck with the ladeeez?
My wife makes no complaints:naughty:
My wife makes no complaints:naughty:
lol
whitewash
12-05-2006, 22:52
I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it. I was able to do this as a kid too. I also used to fold Mars bars in half and eat them in one go too.
I can also get my tongue up my nostril.
Not necessarily all the above at the same time though:lol:
i can fit pretty much a whole bag of haribo starmix into my mouth at one go, its my party peice
I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it.Damn. And here's me thinking I'm unique.
Damn. And here's me thinking I'm unique.
nope sorry :p
in my younger days i would go to macdonalds and eat, in one sitting, 2 big macs, 6 nuggets, quarterpounder with cheese, large fries, strawbshake and a cheeseburger.....*rubs belly* :gag:
Good Luck Noah!
Marianne
13-05-2006, 10:10
this thread is so funny! really brightens up my day!
nope sorry :p
in my younger days i would go to macdonalds and eat, in one sitting, 2 big macs, 6 nuggets, quarterpounder with cheese, large fries, strawbshake and a cheeseburger.....*rubs belly* :gag:
Good Luck Noah!
When serving my apprenticeship I would eat a couple of cornish pasties, at least three ham rolls and drink a pint of milk in a 10 minute teabreak.
For some absurd reason (can't for the life of me remember why) I used to pour fizzy orange drink on my steak and kidney pies before eating them. Did taste nice though , honest.
fizzy orange on a pie! ...might have to try that one
thanks for the lucky thoughts guys ;)
When serving my apprenticeship I would eat a couple of cornish pasties, at least three ham rolls and drink a pint of milk in a 10 minute teabreak.
For some absurd reason (can't for the life of me remember why) I used to pour fizzy orange drink on my steak and kidney pies before eating them. Did taste nice though , honest.
...eeewwwwww.....:gag:
whitewash
13-05-2006, 13:41
it's hitting the stage where i'm just plaiin exhausted, i'm fed up with revision and it seems like a never ending subject (...well that would be about right with medicine, should've thought abotu that before i started really!) i'm off home this weekend to get some help from friends and a little home cooking to sort me out, hopefully it will do the trick.
fingers crossed.
i know what you mean, i completely fudged up my final year of my degree, simply because i was simply absolutely shattered from working all hours (4years of constant work as you say) constant working long days to go to uni, do coursework, spent 5-7hrs a day designing and building a racing car as well as attempt to have a socail life as well, and in my final 2 years i was out practicaly every night taking pictures) i also wasnt sure whether i really wanted to do as i was sick to death of it all. i got behind with my work (doing my work that is, not handing it in, i never missed a deadline or anything - i only missed 3 lectures in 4 years) this came to a head when with 2 weeks to go til my project hand in date i had hardly done anything on it, as well as having 2 other peices of coursework. so i just put my head down (after explaining to one of the lecturers that i wanted to give up) nuckled down and did the work, i got a 2:2 which after fudging an exam at the end of the year was really the best i could hope for, when really i should have got a very high 2:1 (i was and still am aparently one of the best students that they've had through the course)
so dont give up, plug down and get on with it and reap the benefits after you've finished. (your uni is ****ing stupid IMHO for not letting you resit a single exam- seems utterly retarded in my mind, you clearly didnt fudge up the entire year, so why should you have to resit it - id hazard a guess that one of the lecturers is too bone idle to write a resit exam)
.................
your uni is ****ing stupid IMHO for not letting you resit a single exam- seems utterly retarded in my mind, you clearly didnt fudge up the entire year, so why should you have to resit it - id hazard a guess that one of the lecturers is too bone idle to write a resit exam
yup, just about the most frustrating rule ever made. cost me thousands of pounds. there's definately an element of truth in the lack of exam writing. they don't let us have any past papers as they use the questions again and again instead of writing new ones. seems rather silly really, surely that's why we pay them?
congrats on getting through yours. i've thought about chucking it in more than once but then there's nothing else i can see myself doing, and i do enjoy the clinical side of things so i hope it will be an ejoyable career. i considered photography but that seems even harder work so i'll leave it as a hobby for now i think!
whitewash
13-05-2006, 14:49
you should be allowed passed papers or at the very least example (as used in exam) questions, otherwise you'll be going into the exam blind, which isnt on.
its only (cant remember how long a medicine degree is - i know my mates bro's vetsceince degree was 7 years and he had to resit an entire year after failing an exam by 2 maraks) a few years, which on the grand scheme of things isnt much when you've got nearly 40 (probably about 60 once they've stopped increasing the retirement age) of work ahead of you.
Im bumping this thread, because it's a damn good thread :thumbs:
I have middle name[s]. Not one. Not even a double barreled middle name. It's long. Really long - long to the extent that I can't actually tell you all of it, cos' I just don't know it!
Here's what I do know :
Hoodi Lawrence Arshad Sadiq Jaffa Salamon Dauoud Ansari
That's about half of it!
Why such a long name? It's kind of tradition. Starting with the second middle name, you've got my grandfather. After that my great grandfather, etc. etc.
This goes on for as far as your family tree stretches back in known existence. For most in the middle east that's not actually very long - it is rather for me, though.
So there you have it.
thats not a traditional welsh name is it
namllihs
17-07-2006, 07:20
I once beat Sebastian Coe in a race.
The London Marathon, it was his first Marathon and my 4th.
Great thread and thanks to Marcel for bumping it! Some real interesting and moving stories on here, particularly where kids/marriage/families are involved.
Nothing too interesting at this end although with a surname of Greenlees you can imagine the cr*p I had to put up with at school, and even as an adult people can't seem to get it right, Greenleaves, Greensleeves, Greenless, Greenways and so on, I've heard them all but the best was when someone called me and asked to speak to "Mr Creamteas". :shake:
Other stuff? I've worked in the security/close protection field all round the world for various clients and spent a lot of time in the Middle East, Far East and the States as well as closer to home in Europe but gave it up when we started a family as it was definitely more suited to a single lifestyle. :naughty: Much as I love my kids I still miss it at times, especially the people I worked with, the camaraderie, the laughs and adventures. Getting caught up in an African civil war and never thinking I'd see home again is one memory that always brings back mixed emotions.
I still work in security but within the corporate world and I hate it. All the *********, playground politics and muppets who are supposed to be 'leaders' who are spineless and self-serving get on my nerves, the majority of whom couldn't have a dump without first having a meeting. :bang:
I'm crap with money, if I've got it I'll spend it, but hey, there's no pockets in a shroud.
I was never going to get married or have kids, I was way too selfish. How things have changed! (for the better I must add)
OK, seeing as I didn't share any 'juicy' details about myself earlier in this thread I will now! :D
Back in 2002 I left my hubby(highschool sweetheart)and moved in with someone I met off the internet! :eek:
The story is,
Hubby and I had bought our first home, we were on our second child, just purchased a 40 ft trailer, and so on and so forth. We had it all so it would seem to the rest of the world, just not enough money to pay for it all,lol. So hubby had to work more to keep up, so I was left at home with the youngings, (18 months apart) more and it just got to be too much. I swear I went crazy with no help form him. Any of you with kids know what I mean,lol. So I literally gave up and walked out. Thought life would be different with someone else.
Turns out I was wrong,:lol: The grass isn't always greener on the other side,lol. Long story short, I am back with hubby, the kids, the trailor and on our 'second' home. Life couldn't be better. :)
Even to this day though my hubby and I don't ever "not' talk about it, it was a mistake yes, but we both learned alot and came out of it different people in the end. Were better for it and don't take anything for granted anymore!
Sometimes one doesn't realize what we have until it's gone. I'm just glad I didn't lose it all in the end.
Julie :)
thats not a traditional welsh name is it
Just because I'm Welsh doesn't mean my heritage is ¬_¬
Lots of interesting stories here!
Just because I'm Welsh doesn't mean my heritage is ¬_¬
Lots of interesting stories here!
didnt mean any offence, used quick reply so didnt get any smilies in, add this one to the end of what i posted: :p
neonpollen
17-07-2006, 15:13
I lived in a convent for a year :) and no I'm not a nun or even female.
Neither myself or my daughter or my father has a spleen :) hey ghandi we can start a club.
Sometimes one doesn't realize what we have until it's gone. I'm just glad I didn't lose it all in the end.
Wow. What a story. Glad to hear that you and ur hubby are back together. :thumbs: How often does that happen? I mean people getting back together, not you two breaking up. :lol:
Even to this day though my hubby and I don't ever "not' talk about it
Sorry, do you mean you don't talk about it or do you mean you talk about it openly?
The love between you two must be really strong for the two of you to forgive each other. :clap: I always think that trust is like glass. Once it breaks, it can never mend to the way it was. I like it that I am proven wrong (in this case). Kinda gives me hope.
[QUOTE=kamion]Sorry, do you mean you don't talk about it or do you mean you talk about it openly?{QUOTE]
After reading my post I should clarify something first cause it didn't look right when I read it a second time, :D
When I left hubby, I did exactly that. I took the kiddies with me of course. Nothing means more to me then my kids and I would never, EVER walk out on them. Those of you with kids understand that. My life is with them no matter where I am or who I am with. I am a mom first and foremost.
To answer your question Kamion, I meant we talk about it openly. All of us, the kids too. The children had developed a relationship with this "other" person because we all lived together as a family briefly. So when the kids bring it up, even to this day we have no choice but to talk about it. It's not like a 'dirty' little secret or anything. I am the one who had the affair yes, but infidelity is the end result of a relationship gone wrong, not the cause. We both realised that and slowly put things back together.
Jewel :)
it's another frankenthread, back from the dead!
I'm trying to think of more interesting things about me now.............
nope. Will have to come back to that one lol.
That's a genuinely heart-warming story jules. Glad you're happy now!
Andy, how come the lack of spleens? I had Thrombocytopaenia when I was younger and my spleen was destroying all my platelets so I bled for about 3 days from even the smallest of scratches!
neonpollen
17-07-2006, 18:06
We all have Hereditary Spherocytosis, which means a portion of our red bloods cells are football shaped instead of doughnut shaped and the spleen tries to destroy them, so we all suffered from aneamia.
Now we have no spleens we suffer no other side effects at all :), we are tad more suseptable to infections and both my father & daughter are on penecillin for life, though I'm not, are you ?
Supposed to be, to prevent fulminating pneumothoraxial infections apparently. However, I don't believe taking penicillin long-term is very wise, causes all sorts of other problems in your body as it's a wide-spectrum antibiotic. I do have my 5 yearly pneumovax protection against pneumonia though!
I don't think there are any real side-effects apart from the slightly reduced effectiveness of the immune system. Better that than bleeding to death in my case!
I'm anemic as well, for years just thought I was lazy,lol j/k :lol: :D
Truely amazing thread! I've been dipping in and out of this one reading it for the past day or so. As a newcomer to this forum it really does show that there's a great community spirit here, I almost feel saddened in a way I wasn't a member when most of this thread was going on!
If people don't mind I just wanted to say to the ones who mentioned not having spoken to, or made up with, relatives - please do so! Even if you just let them know that you're there for them if need be, and even if you don't speak much afterwards - if something were to happen in yours or their lives you know at least you've done what you can to put things right. And to the chap who wanted to change his name - you only get one life, if you feel it's the thing that will let you put everything to rest then do it!
Life can be an amazing thing if we open ourselves up to new opportunities, but one must be free of the past to do so!
Wow, what a thread!
I have just read all 8 pages and I have so many things that I want to reply to.
Since it is late and I have to get up early tomorrow I won't go into them now but there are so many experiences that people have shared here that I can identify with and will maybe go into more detail when I have more time.
One semi interesting fact:
Some of you may remember opportunity knocks, and some guy that won it 6 weeks on the trot with his "muscle dancing".
His name is Tony Holland and he is the person that is reponsible for me taking steps which led to me turning my life around. Tony used to work in a childrens home in Clitheroe, Lancs and I was one of the children that lived there.
He got me into bodybuilding in quite a big way (he trained me for around a year), but he was also a committed Christian and was the first person that I ever felt actually cared about me. In the two years I knew him, he slowly but surely showed me that the way I was living my life was destructive to all around me as well as myself. I didn't listen or act on his advice straight away of course (no 17 year old thug would) but looking back on it, he was definitely the catalyst that eventually led to me turning away from the lifestyle that I was leading (gangs, fights, drugs and alchohol all figured highly) and becoming more like the person I am now.
busterboy
21-07-2006, 04:49
One semi interesting fact:
Some of you may remember opportunity knocks, and some guy that won it 6 weeks on the trot with his "muscle dancing".
His name is Tony Holland and he is the person that is reponsible for me taking steps which led to me turning my life around. Tony used to work in a childrens home in Clitheroe, Lancs and I was one of the children that lived there..
I remember Tony Holland on that program and funnily enough was only talking about him the other day, He won that program in the days before steroids were out and making body builders are today.
Quite a chap he was/is now.:)
Hughie Green and Monica...:geek:
rushnp774
08-03-2009, 00:51
I watched a 4-hour long brain surgery on TV when I was 12.
oldfella
08-03-2009, 07:00
I knew that cos I did almost the same but in the other direction!
YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE TO SPECSAVERS :lol:
Wow, 2006 that thread was dung up from!
I think my interesting fact that dispite my current health/weight/fitness etc I used to be a rather good footballer, I had trails with Everton, Played for my local town (U16's), Played with the "school of excellence" in he north west, and told the Reserve team of my local town that I didn't want to play for them when I had the oppertunity.
How things have changed!
WeddingHack
08-03-2009, 08:14
I once found an unexploded WW2 bomb in a neighbours garden.
And then carried it home for my dad to look at ...
The bomb squad came and blew it up later the same day. I think my dads face is still a little bit paler because of it :)
FRANKENTHREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
jeebus. That was nearly 3 years ago now.
Oh how times have changed.
But this has been a very interesting read, each and every post.
Many sad stories here, but never the less an interesting read. Great idea for a thread.
I cycled from John o groats to Lands end years ago, and made some money for Milton Keynes hospital's baby unit, had a really great time we did it in ten day's, with no back up.
On a lighter note i once got caught speeding, nothing to unusual about that you might say, only thing is i was gritting the roads about 4am in the morning in a council lorry :lol:
OK since you dredged it up I'll add mine :)
Life changed, for me, five years ago. My hubby was diagnosed as being terminally ill. Bad enough you would think. Then three months into a nine month terminal phase I was diagnosed with a tumour in my liver. Now they tend not to be too good and at one point we both thought we were staring the grim reaper in the face. Turned out that mine (though the size of a tennis ball) was benign. I had to have an urgent op to remove it though, because if it ruptured I'd be dead in minutes. So off I went to London to have it removed.
I died on the operating table and had to be resuscitated to complete the op. Went back home to recover/look after hubby who died a few months later. Then my father died three months after him.
What a C*** year that was!
Made me look at life in a totally different way. I do wish I could say that it changed me for the better but I can't honestly say that it did. I find it difficult to settle at times, tend to retreat into myself on occasion which is not good. It also makes it very hard to have a normal relationship again because there is always a little part of me that is scared at being hurt like that again. But I'm trying.
I'm very lucky to have my new family, I'm certainly well looked after. I just wish I didn't need to be looked after sometimes.
Then I pull myself up by my bootstraps and go "Oh sod it, life is what you make it" I'm generally quite a happy person and photography has helped a lot in that it allows me to be creative. I didn't express my creative side before that happened so the fact that I now do it, is one good thing that came out of it.
cripes this is an ollllldddd thread.
Well, I should be at home on it then Matty :)
An oldie but a goodie :thumbs:
C'mon peeps, let's keep it going..............
raven07866
08-03-2009, 09:39
My favourite sandwich is cheese and jam.
Meeee tooooo
something not many people know about me:
i'm a moderator on TPF :)
raven07866
08-03-2009, 10:16
I read the entire thread now and have caught up and just thought i would drop one in.
When i was really young my next door neighbor was my best friend she was a girl called roxanne, i never stayed over at her house but one night when i was about 6 i did. Bare in mind the house i lived in was attached to hers so every thing was in exact opposite. Her mum and dad like to (break dance) and went to new york every year and bought her back some brand new limited edition trainers. This one night where i stayed over in my sleep i walked what would have been my route to the toilet, this lead me to, where of all places or closet, where all of the never worn limited edition trainers were neatly lying. I was soon woken up by her mum shouting my name as i was ****ing allllll over them.......i never stayed over again lol
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