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Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:10 am
by Charlie Reams
I used to shave my armpits.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:31 pm
by Kirk Bevins
I sometimes actually socialise.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:49 pm
by Matt Morrison
I used to collect X-Files trading cards.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:57 pm
by Kieran Child
I'm scared of bubbles.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:09 pm
by Ian Volante
I'm fascinated by diggers.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:17 pm
by Phil Reynolds
I snogged a girl at an office Christmas party in 1981.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:18 pm
by Ben Wilson
I enjoy collecting teddy bears. :)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:42 pm
by Matthew Green
I am actually Jason Larsen. He is a fictional character I created using my other email account and all you suckers fell for it.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:07 pm
by Kai Laddiman
I am actually Matthew Green. He is a fictional character I created using my other email account and all you suckers fell for it.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:01 pm
by Matthew Green
I only use this site to groom Kai and his brother.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:12 pm
by JackHurst
Charlie Reams wrote:I used to shave my armpits.
I hoarded some of this shaven hair, and to this day, it is kept in my wallet.



I have false teeth, and im only 17.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:32 pm
by Ben Hunter
I'm a post-op transexual.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:36 pm
by Matt Morrison
Ben Hunter wrote:I'm a post-op transexual.
Which direction?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:28 pm
by David Williams
Kieran Child wrote:I'm scared of bubbles.
marlo, omar, snoop in particular. but bubbles?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:33 pm
by Derek Hazell
David Williams wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:I'm scared of bubbles.
marlo, omar, snoop in particular. but bubbles?
Another post where I had to resort to Google to get it. I really am living in a different world!

Oh, and despite my shiny coat and seal pup eyes, I live alone.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:20 pm
by Jennifer Turner
I have a resting heart rate around 40, which is extremely rare for a woman (quite rare for a man too, but really exceptionally freakish for a woman).

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:26 pm
by Ian Volante
Jennifer Turner wrote:I have a resting heart rate around 40, which is extremely rare for a woman (quite rare for a man too, but really exceptionally freakish for a woman).
Ever tried professional cycling? Miguel Indurain won Le Tour five times with a resting heart rate of that order :)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:48 pm
by Jason Larsen
I was born 3 months premature!

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:00 pm
by Brian Moore
I can do artificial insemination on cows (though I'm a bit rusty these days).

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:55 pm
by Alice Moore
Brian Moore wrote:though I'm a bit rusty these days
...which is why all the cows round your way are an attractive reddish-brown.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:51 am
by John Bosley
I sometimes secretly look in on the forum at c4countdown.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:17 am
by Matthew Green
Kieran Child wrote:I'm scared of bubbles.
I'm scared of Michael Jackson

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:32 am
by Philip Jarvis
I'm a Justice of the Peace.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:15 pm
by Jimmy Gough
My face is itchy.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:25 pm
by Ben Hunter
Matt Morrison wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:I'm a post-op transexual.
Which direction?
Both.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:53 pm
by Rosemary Roberts
For several years we kept a colony of guineapigs running wild in our garden.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:30 pm
by Chris Corby
My youngest son was not conceived in the traditional manner.


But don't tell him (he doesn't know....)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:25 pm
by Ian Volante
Chris Corby wrote:My youngest son was not conceived in the traditional manner.


But don't tell him (he doesn't know....)
Is he the exception that proves the "Up the bum no babies" rule?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:37 am
by Phil Reynolds
I was once interviewed at home by a Daily Mail journalist about my connection to David Icke.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:43 am
by Marc Meakin
Phil Reynolds wrote:I was once interviewed at home by a Daily Mail journalist about my connection to David Icke.
Which is?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:26 am
by Phil Reynolds
Marc Meakin wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:I was once interviewed at home by a Daily Mail journalist about my connection to David Icke.
Which is?
Tenuous. :) Those of you old enough to remember when the "DAVID ICKE PROCLAIMS HIMSELF MESSIAH" story first broke may recall one aspect that the press seized on with particularly salacious glee, namely that Icke had taken a disciple: a rather attractive young blonde woman called Deborah Shaw who (reborn as "Mari Shawsun") had moved in with Icke, his wife and family and whom he had declared to be "a daughter of Christ". (I think she eventually had a child with him, though I may be wrong.)

The thing was, although I hadn't seen her for a while, I'd known Debbie Shaw for a couple of years in the late 1980s and worked with her in a local amateur theatre company. I was as gobsmacked as anyone at the revelations in the press, as she'd always seemed to me to be pretty down-to-earth and not remotely bonkers, but there you are. At the time the story broke, I was a press officer for said theatre company, which I guess is how the Mail journalist got hold of me. He rang me at work one day, said they were doing a big feature about the Icke story, looking "sympathetically" at the other people involved and putting their side of the story, usual tabloid doublespeak. Would I be willing to talk about Debbie? I thought it could be a bit of a laugh, and I knew I wasn't in a position to give him any seriously juicy gossip about her, so I said yes.

He turned up at my house the next evening and was a perfect manifestation of the stereotypical old-school sleazy tabloid hack - raincoat, corduroy jacket, bushy moustache, purple-veined face and bulbous nose from drink, reeking of Old Spice, the works. I swear I'm not making this up. He asked me stuff about Debbie for an hour or so, refused my offer of a cup of tea and headed off into the pub across the road to file his report.

When the article appeared in the Mail a couple of weeks later, it was a four-page spread in which my contribution was covered by seven words: "Friends in Warwickshire remember her as unremarkable."

I received no fee. :(

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:14 pm
by Clive Brooker
The following events are all unconnected:

As a pre-teenage trainspotter, I once forgot that I was leaning on a level crossing barrier.

I was reminded ths evening that I once delivered a telegram sent by Brigadier Gerard.

I've tasted my own urine.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:44 pm
by Sue Sanders
Ben Hunter wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:
Ben Hunter wrote:I'm a post-op transexual.
Which direction?
Both.
Which half did you get done first...top or bottom? Or did you buck the trend and do left side then right side??

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:35 pm
by Julie T
Kai Laddiman wrote:I am actually Matthew Green. He is a fictional character I created using my other email account and all you suckers fell for it.
No, Kai, I am Matthew Green.
I pretend to be appalled at the sick and twisted posts 'he' writes in order to throw you off the scent.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:47 am
by Derek Hazell
Julie T wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:I am actually Matthew Green. He is a fictional character I created using my other email account and all you suckers fell for it.
No, Kai, I am Matthew Green.
I pretend to be appalled at the sick and twisted posts 'he' writes in order to throw you off the scent.
I don't think I've ever A-lolled at a Julie T. post before - but that was worth the wait!

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:14 am
by Kathleen Batlle
I am still married to my first husband, after almost 38 years! Amazing, in this day and age......

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:15 am
by Phil Reynolds
Kathleen Batlle wrote:I am still married to my first husband
Does your second husband know?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:09 pm
by Kathleen Batlle
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kathleen Batlle wrote:I am still married to my first husband
Does your second husband know?
I couldn't find a second one........

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:13 pm
by Julie T
Derek Hazell wrote: I don't think I've ever A-lolled at a Julie T. post before - but that was worth the wait!
ty, Derek! :D

I did consider not posting it in case it backfired, but glad it was taken in the spirit in which it was intended! :)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:04 pm
by Alec Rivers
1. I played keyboards with a band at a charity gig in Bob Geldof's back garden (Davington Priory, Faversham) in 1993.

2. I played in four matches at The Emirates Stadium in a charity tournament in May 2008 and, three days later, flew with our veteran team to Madrid where we played a Real Madrid veterans XI. We drew 3-3.

:D

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:29 pm
by Richard Adams
I didn't write Watership Down

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:38 pm
by Sue Sanders
Richard Adams wrote:I didn't write Watership Down
:lol:

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:49 pm
by Davy Affleck
Brian Moore wrote:I can do artificial insemination on cows (though I'm a bit rusty these days).


I used to work beside a guy whose dad was an artificial inseminator. He was known locally as " Tam the bull-wankers boy"

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:57 pm
by Brian Moore
Davy Affleck wrote:
Brian Moore wrote:I can do artificial insemination on cows (though I'm a bit rusty these days).
I used to work beside a guy whose dad was an artificial inseminator. He was known locally as " Tam the bull-wankers boy"
I didn't do collection, only delivery. I wish I'd kept my hand in.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:20 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Richard Adams wrote:I didn't write Watership Down
Not writing things down is a sign of a disorganised mind. Be sure to make a note of it next time.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:23 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Phil Reynolds wrote: Not writing things down is a sign of a disorganised mind.
Proof? I didn't write TOWNEES down and that's because I got it on 29 seconds. I also don't write my phone number down as I have an organised mind and can remember it.

It may have been a joke but it was a shit one.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:43 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Kirk Bevins wrote:It may have been a joke but it was a shit one.
That's what I love about this message board - the constructive criticism. :( I thought it was quite an inspired and original bit of wordplay myself, but there you go.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:03 pm
by Sue Sanders
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:It may have been a joke but it was a shit one.
That's what I love about this message board - the constructive criticism. :( I thought it was quite an inspired and original bit of wordplay myself, but there you go.
It was. :D

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:23 pm
by Lesley Hines
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Richard Adams wrote:I didn't write Watership Down
Not writing things down is a sign of a disorganised mind. Be sure to make a note of it next time.
Yeah, you're risking 18 points there. (Just as well it's not valid.)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:37 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote: Not writing things down is a sign of a disorganised mind.
Proof? I didn't write TOWNEES down and that's because I got it on 29 seconds. I also don't write my phone number down as I have an organised mind and can remember it.

It may have been a joke but it was a shit one.
Did you definitely get the joke?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:52 pm
by Lesley Hines
I've done the can-can while holding a glass of red wine in each hand. (You've never seen a mess like it :lol:)

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:06 pm
by Matthew Green
The Nicaraguan word for 'Yourself' is 'Assfuca'.

Surprised?

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:50 pm
by Rosemary Roberts
Matthew Green wrote:The Nicaraguan word for 'Yourself' is 'Assfuca'.
^citation needed

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:52 pm
by Marc Meakin
Rosemary Roberts wrote:
Matthew Green wrote:The Nicaraguan word for 'Yourself' is 'Assfuca'.
^citation needed
Methinks it was a joke

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:35 pm
by Rosemary Roberts
Marc Meakin wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:
Matthew Green wrote:The Nicaraguan word for 'Yourself' is 'Assfuca'.
^citation needed
Methinks it was a joke
No doubt. But that doesn't make it surprising. It would only be surprising if it were true.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:18 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Did you definitely get the joke?
That he didn't write "watership" down. Yes. I only commented because there's been a barrage of correction posts by Reynolds recently and I wanted to throw one back at him. Sorry, Phil. xx

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:29 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Kirk Bevins wrote:Sorry, Phil. xx
Aww. :) Thanks Kirk - I'll claim those kisses off you next time we meet.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:24 pm
by Charlie Reams
FTR I enjoyed the joke by Philip "Phil" Reynolds and would definitely considering reading future posts by this gentleman.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:16 pm
by Ben Wilson
I have asymmetrical earlobes.

Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:14 am
by Phil Makepeace
Due to several operations on said joint, my left knee is about half an inch lower than my right. My wearing shorts terrifies observant children.