100 Things

Monday, February 21, 2005

See Also: 100 Things, Q & A, Ego.

I have no idea where this started (I HAVE looked but can’t find the origin) but I like the idea. In principle. In reality I was finding it hard to complete the list, so I asked for some help. If you just want to see the answer to a question you asked, or want a nosey at who asked what, then check out the Q&A page.

1. The obvious ones first: Blue, The Shawshank Redemption, Chocolate, Guinness, Mercedes Benz 500SL, Helena Christensen.
2. I am an INTJ
3. I have never met the Queen.
4. I DO have a Queen’s Badge from my days in the Boys Brigade.
5. I once stole £50 from a guy at college. Him being an complete asshole made it much easier to justify (and I couldn’t be bothered going to the bank).
6. My favourites soft toys were my panda and my horse (I still have the horse).
7. Do not ask me to do arithmetic. God invented calculators for a reason (yes, I know it’s bad).
8. I’m Economic Left/Right: -4.50 and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33 on the Political Compass.
9. If I could introduce one law, it would be compulsory testing for the right to have a child.
10. Yes, I am a snob.
11. My first job was for McDonald’s. I enjoyed it and sometimes consider going back.
12. So far I’ve broken a finger, a toe, and a foot. I’ve torn ligaments in both ankles, and cracked my sternum. One day I’ll learn to stop throwing myself about like a 10 year old.
13. I had my first migraine aged 30. I hope it was my last.
14. I don’t like heights but refused to let that get in the road of getting to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
15. I would happily spend the rest of my life eating chilli nachos as a starter, fillets of beef with new potatoes as a main course, and creme caramel for dessert.
16. I was bullied for a while, in primary school. He knows who he is, but that was a long time ago, and isn’t worth an iota of my time anymore.
17. I like well designed things. The more minimal the better.
18. You had better NOT be the person who denies me my morning coffee. You DO NOT want to be that person.
19. I have every Queen album on CD.
20. I’m not fond of the colour brown. Unless it’s leather, and shoes. I own no brown clothes.
21. My biggest turn on is probably a self confident woman. Sure I could be specific but a nice pair of boobs isn’t all that’s needed. Gimme a woman who knows that she IS a woman and is confident in and of herself and you got me hooked. Of course a killer rack and nice curvy bum always help.
22. I have a good memory for faces, not for names.
23. I have no time for arrogant people who think they know everything.
24. I don’t like fish. I’ll eat some seafood (prawns) and the occasional piece of salmon or sushi but that’s about it. Definitely not Anchovies though. Not sure why.
25. If I didn’t have to shave, I wouldn’t.
26. I secretly love Christmas, but more the “Wonderful Life” side of it than the “decorations on sale in September” side of it.
27. I’ll happily spend an entire afternoon sitting in a cafe, drinking coffee and watching the world go by.
28. I have two scars, one very faint one near my left eye when a girl at school gouged me, the other on my right wrist from when I fell out of a neighbour’s VW Camper van into a rose bush.
29. The ringtone on my mobile is the theme tune to Rocky.
30. The bravest thing I’ve ever done is to climb, and then abseil back down, a rockface. I was 16 and completely petrified.
31. I was born in Alexandria. No, not that one, this one.
32. I think schools should introduce courtesy lessons. Awareness of others is a prerequisite of society and appears to be on the decline.
33. The psychology behind BDSM intrigues me. OK, and the PVC outfits…
34. I am an excellent flirt.
35. Sometimes I can be obsessive and order and tidiness. Other times I’m a slob.
36. I grew up with a dog called Sintra. She was a golden retriever. Sometimes I still miss her.
37. My ideal dinner party would involve Stephen Fry, Martin Luther King, Germaine Greer, and Bill Bryson. Ask me again later and I’ll change my mind.
38. I have no piercings.
39. I’ve taken several IQ Tests and the results range from 129 to 157. I’m not smart enough to figure out what that means.
40. I have never been arrested but I have been “cautioned”.
41. I’m the most argumentative person I know.
42. I don’t drink tea. It is the devil’s brew.
43. I prefer playing basketball to football.
44. Miss Scott, my English teacher, inspired me to see things through my own eyes and trust what I was seeing. I’m forever in her debt.
45. I often wish I was more impulsive, but I’m too sensible to ever be reckless.
46. I have few close friends, but they are the best a man could want, and yes I do think I am measured by the friends I keep.
47. I can play the piano. I never sat my Grade 7 exam though (the top level) but only apathy stopped me, not talent.. no, honestly…
48. I have a goatee. I once had a moustache as well but I compromised and shaved it off. The goatee is to hide my small chin (inherited from my full bearded father).
49. Yes, I am a natural blonde. That’s why my goatee and sideburns grow in ginger. I think.
50. When I die, I’d like it to be painlessly. That’s my only ‘dying wish’. No pain. I hate pain. I’m a big woose and the worst thing imaginable would be to die a painful, terrifying death. Quietly in my sleep will do for me thanks.
51. I used to collect keyrings. I had over 100. I have no idea what happened to them.
52. I’m very proud of my aim, and get most annoyed when I miss.
53. My CDs are ordered in four different sections – band (A-Z), male artist (A-Z), female artist (A-Z) and compilations/soundtracks. Recently acquired classical CDs are causing a major problem.
54. Sometimes I get bored in the middle of a conversation. Thankfully I was brought up to be polite so don’t worry, I won’t just wander off, leaving you in mid-sentence.
55. I often want to just go and lie down in a field and watch the clouds roll overhead.
56. I would love to live on a beach. Somewhere warm (not too hot), quiet and remote. Or Watermead near Aylesbury. Or in a big city, London, Sydney, San Francisco.
57. I created my first website in 1996.
58. I am, at random, contradictory.
59. I once thought about becoming a vegetarian, but I couldn’t live without bacon rolls or a good steak.
60. I lost my virginity aged 15 (no I’m not telling you where!)
61. If I could improve one part of me it would be something to do with removing my selfishness.
62. My first crush was either Jakki Brambles or a very young Nicole Kidman in BMX Bandits.
63. I remember virtually nothing about our wedding day, aside from saying “I do” and signing the registry.
64. I applied to Glasgow College of Technology, went to Glasgow Polytechnic and left Caledonian University two years later. They are all the same place.
65. I’ve always been an ‘outside looking in’ kinda person. I like that.
66. I am not religious.
67. But I respect people who have deep-seated beliefs they’ve really thought about, even if I don’t agree with them.
68. Sometimes I hear noises and can’t sleep until I’ve gotten up and made sure there are no axe-weilding burglars in the house (why would a burglar need an axe anyway?)
69. I fight it, and fight it, and fight it, but I can’t resist dancing.
70. We were married a year to the day after Princess Diana died.
71. I always wanted a Big Trak when I was kid. In fact, I STILL want one!! (stamps feet)
72. I cry watching Lassie. In fact any kind of mild emotional wrangling will bring a tear to my eye – yes I cried when E.T. ‘died’.
73. My favourite book when I was growing up was Trillions by Nicholas Fisk.
74. I feel most at home when I’m near water, probably because I grew up in a town which sat on the banks of two rivers – Leven and Clyde.
75. Yes, I do masturbate.
76. The most memorable thing I’ve ever watched was a harrier jump jet skimming along the water in a reservoir BENEATH where we sat on the hill.
77. The glass is always full, just sometimes it’s a mix of water and air.
78. I’m a fund of information on popular music, can sing along with songs released long before I was born, yet still forget to put my watch on some mornings.
79. I own more t-shirts than shirts.
80. My biggest turn off is loud, brash women. The type who wear enough gold to sink a small navy, and who have no idea what I mean by “womanly charms” as they have none.
81. I’m an eighties child. People need to remember that most of it was BAD. The fashion, BAD. The music, BAD.
82. I take great pleasure in trying to be a wee bit different. Not unique but I tend not to follow any fashion other than mine.
83. I have two tattoos. One, of a large chinese dragon, on my right shoulder blade, and the other, of a two headed serpent shaped in a circle, on my upper left arm (at the shoulder joint). One day I’ll expand the one on my arm.
84. The place I call home is wherever Louise and I are – she IS home.
85. If you borrow a CD, DVD or book from me, let ME put it back in the right place. Thank you.
86. My appendix and tonsils are mine and you can’t have them!
87. I’m crap at remembering jokes, despite hearing all the dirtiest ones I know from my mother.
88. I have inherited most of my ideals from my father, this is a very good thing.
89. My sister is infinitely ‘cooler’ than me (I think even using the word ‘cooler’ tells you enough).
90. I hate Gordon the Gopher for making my childhood hell.
91. I used to enjoy fly fishing, the peaceful early mornings on the river. Didn’t catch much but that wasn’t why I did it.
92. If you ever see me in a bar, a Guinness or a Southern Comfort and lemonade are the best drinks to buy me. Thanks.
93. I guarantee I cook a better omelette than you do.. it’s all in the whisking.
94. Seemingly I have very neat handwriting. Several people have commented on it. I didn’t inherit THAT from my Dad (he’d put a doctor to shame).
95. If I could have my time over, I wouldn’t change a thing. I am who am I because of my past.
96. No. I can’t roll my tongue. Please stop asking me to try. It’s not funny anymore.
97. I love boiled potatoes. I often have a plate of them for dinner. Just them, some salt, some butter and a glass of milk. Heaven.
98. Sometimes there is nothing better than putting on some Status Quo and turning it up very loud.
99. Eastern culture, ideals and style fascinate me. One day I’ll travel there, but I fear I may not return.
100. There is so much more to me than this list.
101. Told you I had to be different (see 82).