10 interesting facts about you

[screenman]

Do not believe everything Welshie says, the dogs name is Cyril, not Cecil.

 

[oreo_muncher]

As a student be interesting. It's one of the few times you get the chance to do something different. So, as a student at Coleraine in Northern Ireland I:

1. Was arrested for being upside down naked tied to a surfboard on the top of a stolen van careering down Portstewart promenade. That got me a big telling off from the university.
2. Got to perform backing vocals on a no. 1 single in N.I. as I was the only one there who wasn't from 'Norn Irn' and sounded different.
3. Had someone point a shotgun at me whilst I was asking him politely about his farm in the back end of Co. Antrim as part of a field trip.
4. Sold a fellow student for 3,000 camels (in cash equivalent) whilst on a field trip to Morocco because she had blonde hair and green eyes - neither she or I thought the buyer was serious until he arrived with the money.
5. Dated a now very senior N.I. politician.
6. Also dated an Eurovision song contest winner. A female one.
7. Got arrested in Belfast for protesting against the introduction of student loans - wasn't me throwing a brick but still ... - and was sprayed purple by the police water cannon.
8. Had to return home to England for Christmas still looking like a Ribena-berry.
9. Wrote my Dissertation in 24 hours.
10. Somehow got a degree. A good one at that.

And that's just a bit of what I did. Go be a student ...

Things were only normal in uni for about 6 months before lockdown and now I'm 2nd year everything is online. There is no student experience 😞 nothing interesting is happening. How did you even end up nude in fact no. 1? I haven't been on a first date. I never went clubbing and I don't drink alcohol. The last few years I've been too busy being plagued with mental health problems to do anything interesting with my life.

 

[DCLane]

Things were only normal in uni for about 6 months before lockdown and now I'm 2nd year everything is online. There is no student experience 😞 nothing interesting is happening. How did you even end up nude in fact no. 1? I haven't been on a first date. I never went clubbing and I don't drink alcohol. The last few years I've been too busy being plagued with mental health problems to do anything interesting with my life.

Alcohol was involved - illegal poitín. We'd won a sports event and were celebrating a bit too much at a beach party. That's all I can remember.

If you can't get into university you can still start to organise things online for what you can do afterwards. In my case we had multiple nights on/around the beach, travels across the country and other things. There's loads of things around Nottingham that are interesting and accessible.

My eldest doesn't drink alcohol and hasn't been to a club. It's about organising yourself with others - there are more out there than you think, particularly at a large university.

 

[oreo_muncher]

Alcohol was involved - illegal poitín. We'd won a sports event and were celebrating a bit too much at a beach party. That's all I can remember.

If you can't get into university you can still start to organise things online for what you can do afterwards. In my case we had multiple nights on/around the beach, travels across the country and other things.

My eldest doesn't drink alcohol and hasn't been to a club. It's about organising yourself with others - there are more out there than you think, particularly at a large university.

No one knows when this is over so hard to organise things. I stopped speaking to most of the people I called friends in first year anyway. I used to be very social and found covid isolating initially and now I can only handle limited human interaction. I just find most people irritating or overwhelming or both, nowadays. This pandemic changed me. I'm okay now with my own company.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

1. As a student I hitch hiked to Scarborough and climbed over the castle walls to get in. Unfortunately we were spotted and escorted out.
2. In my second year as a student I was kidnapped on Valentine’s Day and ended up at a toga party at Loughborough University. I hitch hiked back to my university a couple of days later.
3. I saved the life of a friend (and mine) when he fell off a short climb on the Aonagh Eagach ridge, Glen Coe in winter. I jumped the other side of the ridge so we both didn’t fall to our deaths when the rope came taut. He ended up dangling upside down over a 1000ft drop.
4. I have been to all 7 continents and swum in the sea in Antarctica. I’ve also been to the Arctic.
5. I’ve danced with the Masai in Kenya. I’ve been on the back of an open pickup when a cheetah jumped on the back and bit the ankle of one of my fellow travellers.
6. I’ve fallen out when rowing a dinghy on the Zambezi, below Victoria Falls. Despite the life jacket I went under a few times before managing to get to the shore.
7. I met the Red Army in China. I was trying to climb a mountain near the Tibet border. After a chat they allowed me to complete my ascent.
8. I’ve mountain biked across Tibet including cycling up to Everest Base Camp. I met and became friends with the head of Tibetan TV during an earlier long bus trip in China. I’ve been inside Potala palace and seen 750 year old books.
9. I’ve hung on a cable under a helicopter, at about 11,000ft in the Swiss Alps following an accident when hit by rockfall whilst climbing on a snow / ice slope above a glacier.
10. In the 1990s I summited a few Himalayan Peaks. Now days I stick to the Alps as the trips used to take all my annual leave plus some unpaid.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

10's a *lot*

I'm struggling fur one...

 

[oreo_muncher]

1. As a student I hitch hiked to Scarborough and climbed over the castle walls to get in. Unfortunately we were spotted and escorted out.
2. In my second year as a student I was kidnapped on Valentine’s Day and ended up at a toga party at Loughborough University. I hitch hiked back to my university a couple of days later.
3. I saved the life of a friend (and mine) when he fell off a short climb on the Aonagh Eagach ridge, Glen Coe in winter. I jumped the other side of the ridge so we both didn’t fall to our deaths when the rope came taut. He ended up dangling upside down over a 1000ft drop.
4. I have been to all 7 continents and swum in the sea in Antarctica. I’ve also been to the Arctic.
5. I’ve danced with the Masai in Kenya. I’ve been on the back of an open pickup when a cheetah jumped on the back and bit the ankle of one of my fellow travellers.
6. I’ve fallen out when rowing a dinghy on the Zambezi, below Victoria Falls. Despite the life jacket I went under a few times before managing to get to the shore.
7. I met the Red Army in China. I was trying to climb a mountain near the Tibet border. After a chat they allowed me to complete my ascent.
8. I’ve mountain biked across Tibet including cycling up to Everest Base Camp. I met and became friends with the head of Tibetan TV during an earlier long bus trip in China.
9. I’ve hung on a cable under a helicopter, at about 11,000ft in the Swiss Alps following an accident when hit by rockfall whilst climbing on a snow / ice slope above a glacier.
10. In the 1990s I summited a few Himalayan Peaks. Now days I stick to the Alps as the trips used to take all my annual leave plus some unpaid.

Sounds like you lived your life quite a bit.

 

[Dave 123]

As a student be interesting. It's one of the few times you get the chance to do something different. So, as a student at Coleraine in Northern Ireland I:

1. Was arrested for being upside down naked tied to a surfboard on the top of a stolen van careering down Portstewart promenade. That got me a big telling off from the university.
2. Got to perform backing vocals on a no. 1 single in N.I. as I was the only one there who wasn't from 'Norn Irn' and sounded different.
3. Had someone point a shotgun at me whilst I was asking him politely about his farm in the back end of Co. Antrim as part of a field trip.
4. Sold a fellow student for 3,000 camels (in cash equivalent) whilst on a field trip to Morocco because she had blonde hair and green eyes - neither she or I thought the buyer was serious until he arrived with the money.
5. Dated a now very senior N.I. politician.
6. Also dated an Eurovision song contest winner. A female one.
7. Got arrested in Belfast for protesting against the introduction of student loans - wasn't me throwing a brick but still ... - and was sprayed purple by the police water cannon.
8. Had to return home to England for Christmas still looking like a Ribena-berry.
9. Wrote my Dissertation in 24 hours.
10. Somehow got a degree. A good one at that.

And that's just a bit of what I did. Go be a student ...

Cum on Arlene?

 

[screenman]

I will add a few a day.

1. I was 11 pound 2 ounces at birth.
2. My first two wheeled bike snapped in half the first time I rode it when I bumped down a kerb.few
3. My first lead role in a play at school might make some people think had an effect on a later career, I played Duck Turpin.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sounds like you lived your life quite a bit.

I sought out adventure and travel whilst I was fit enough and healthy enough to do so. I went to some remote places I could not do in a typical 2-3 or even 4 week holiday. Never put off today what you may not be able to do tomorrow.

I still have my fitness and health but circumstances are no longer suitable for the big adventures. As you get older acceptable risks you are prepared to take also decline. Most of my adventure these days is long bike tours or audaxes or mountaineering in the UK or Europe. Though did manage a trip to Western Australia last year as a belated joint 50th birthday present.

Still getting the trips in though. Walked from the northern end to southern end of Dolomites just a few years back. Starting Innsbruck, Finishing Venice.

 

[HLaB]

You aren't serious about any of these facts except fact 1?

He's serious about fact two, he sleeps with a gun under his pillow 🔫

 

[HLaB]

Fact 1 - I am alive
Fact 2 - See above
Fact 3 - That's about it

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm okay now with my own company.

Sounds like you’ve been made ready for long rides and audax 😊

 

[Ming the Merciless]

He's serious about fact two, he sleeps with a gun under his pillow 🔫

I heard @Drago also sleeps with a gurn on top of the pillow.

 

[oreo_muncher]

I heard @Drago also sleeps with a gurn on top of the pillow.

Still confused which of these facts are right...