Archive for July 13th, 2006

Fantastic!

For those of you who haven’t seen this yet

…Isn’t that nice?

[For the record, can I just say I’ve no problem with the damn thing being named after a politician, and a Welsh politician would make sense, sure, even though it’s only ever going to be called the InterPol building, just like people only ever call Llandinam the Geography Tower…

…But if you were going to pick a Welsh politician, what’s wrong with one people have heard of? Like David “Old Age Pensions” Lloyd George, or Nye “NHS” Bevan?

O, yeah. They weren’t nationalists. Bloody UMCA.]

Hey ho. Currently wearing my rather shiny OSA tie; the pattern’s based on the balustrade on the walkway in the Old College, which is nice. I always did like that pattern…

Frankly quite a feeble meme…

…Since none of it’s very clear. As far as I can work out, blue crosses mean something doesn’t apply to me; red question marks means it does.

Red question marks? What in God’s name is wrong with a nice old-fashioned tick? Honestly. Way to start with one set of imagery and suddenly turn it arse about face, table-loving meme dude…

…O, aye, and Paul, yer meme’s coming. I just haven’t got round to it yet!
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

I miss somebody right now. I don’t watch much TV these days. I own lots of books.
I wear glasses or contact lenses. I love to play video games. × I’ve tried marijuana.
I’ve watched porn movies. × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
I curse sometimes. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

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× I have broken someone’s bones. × I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. × I hate the rain.
I’m paranoid at times. × I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. I need/want money right now.
× I love sushi. × I talk really, really fast. × I have fresh breath in the morning.
× I have long hair. × I have lost money in Las Vegas. I have at least one sibling.
I was born in a country outside of the U.S.  (Thank Christ. If I’d wanted to grow up in a society with values a hundred and fifty years old, I’d’ve been born a hundred and fifty years ago…) × I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. × I couldn’t survive without Caller I.D.
I like the way that I look. × I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months. × I am usually pessimistic.
× I have a lot of mood swings. I think prostitution should be legalized.  (And properly regulated, yes. Then we could raise taxes on it, impose a national standard and generally regulate things to reduce STD transmissions, etc.) × I slept with a roommate.
I have a hidden talent.  (Yeah. It’s called “not telling people what my talent is”) × I’m always hyper no matter how much sugar I have. I have a lot of friends.
I have pecked someone of the same sex.  (Pecked? Yeah, probably. Might’ve bushelled, as well, if only I knew what this one meant…) I enjoy talking on the phone.   (Unless it’s to someone grumpy. Like my bank.) × I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.  (Ik. No! I have a house!)
I love to shop and/or window shop. × I’m obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. × I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
I have a mobile phone. × I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months. I’ve rejected someone before.
I currently like/love someone. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. × I want to have children in the future.
× I have changed a diaper before. × I’ve called the cops on a friend before. × I’m not allergic to anything.  (Two months ago, I’d’ve ticked this. Bloody recurring hayfever…)
I have a lot to learn. × I am shy around the opposite sex. I’m online 24/7, even as an away message.  (Very nearly. But that’s “online” as in “on the Internet,” not “online” as in “on the internet and logged into an instant messaging client.” Sort the terminology out, wallybrains.)
I have at least 5 away messages saved. I have tried alcohol or drugs before. × I have made a move on a friend’s significant other or crush in the past.
I own the “South Park” movie.  (Do *not* get me started on how much I like BLU. Seriously, I can talk for almost twelve hours on that topic…) × I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal. × I enjoy some country music.
I would die for my best friends.  (Define ‘die’…? Hm. It would rather depend on the circs, to be fair…) × I’m obsessive, and often a perfectionist. × I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.  (No, you get teabags thrown at your house for hosing the blackmailing trick-or-money people dressed in KKK sheets.) × I have dated a close friend’s ex. I am happy at this moment.
× I’m obsessed with guys. × Democrat(Nope, they’re too right wing.) × Republican(Nope. They don’t even conceed the possibilty of ‘too right wing’)
× I don’t even know what I am. × I am punk rockish. I go for older guys/girls, not younger.  (Uh. Kina. By like, six months.)
× I study for tests most of the time. × I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I’ve ever met. I can work on a car.  (Car, train, bus, you name it…)
× I love my job(s)(Yeah, if I bloody had one.) I am comfortable with who I am right now. × I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can. I have jumped off a bridge. × I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup. × I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. × I am proficient on a musical instrument.
× I hate office jobs. I went to college out of state.  (Hell yeah. I went to Wales. Rock.) × I am adopted.
× I am a pyro. × I have thrown up from crying too much. × I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people. × I adore bright colours. × I usually like covers better than originals.
I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. × I can pick up things with my toes. I can’t whistle.  (Well… Not in tune, anyway.)
I have ridden/owned a horse. I still have every journal I’ve ever written in.  (Otherwise what would be the point?) I talk in my sleep.  (Rarely.)
I’ve often thought that I was born in the wrong century.  (Not quite. But wrong decade, yeah. Bring back the 1930’s!) × I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. × I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo. × I can’t stand at LEAST one person that I work with. I am a caffeine junkie.  (I’m not a junkie. I can quit any time I’ve had enough.)
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I’m not ashamed at all. × If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. × I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.  (Bearing in mind the USA-ness of this meme, the European transliteration for “Glass” would be “equal share of a bottle, between two-to-three people,” of course.) I’m an artist.  (Yeah. Science sucks.) × I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.  (I can hardly fit on my bed, anyway! It’s a two-foot-six folding thing as it is!) × If it weren’t for having to see other people naked, I’d live in a nudist colony(Yeah, ‘cos ticking that wouldn’t make me look a total wazzock. Why *else* would you live in a nudist colony? You can be naked at home, divot.) × I have terrible teeth(Nah, they’re all root-canaled and amalgam-filling reinforced.)
× I hate my toes. I did this meme even though I wasn’t tagged by the person who took it before me.  (Yeah. I was bored.) × I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries. × I am extremely flexible. × I love hugs more than kisses(Kinda. Maybe. Sortof. Nah, either’s good. Both is better, but either’s good.)
× I want to own my own business. × I smoke. × I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.  (No. I spend way *more* time on the computer than on anything else. Not way too much.)
Nobody has ever said I’m normal. Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.  (Well, yeah. Otherwise I wouldn’t be likely to think they were very sad, would I?) × I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
I like the way women look in stylized men’s suits.  (Although it depends on the suit, and the material, and such…) I don’t like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.  (Unless they’re dicks. Then I don’t care.) I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
I have played strip poker with someone else before. I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.  (I didn’t seek, I got given. Not that it helped, much. Any of youse buggers know what “The precious, meanwhile…” is supposed to mean? Thought not.) × I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can’t stand being alone. × I have at least one obsession at any given time. × I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment. × I’m a judgmental asshole. × I’m a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent. × I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. × I need people to tell me I’m good at something in order to feel that I am.
I am a Libertarian.  (Having just looked it up, yes, I am, to a greater or lesser extent.) × I can speak more than one language. I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.  (Or if, for example, it’s a biology lesson, and I’m sitting on a wobbly lab stool.)
I would rather read than watch TV. × I like reading fact more than fiction. I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.  (Usually a day or so after the deadline.)
× I have no piercings. I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. × I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night. × There have been times when I have wondered “Why was I born?” and may/may not have cried over it. × I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles(O I wish!) × The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver. × I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest. × I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired. × I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex. × I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.  (Inexplicably no. That’s having a narrow-minded genetic code, for you.) I sometimes won’t sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on. × I dislike milk. × I obsessively wash my hands.
I always carry something significant around with me.  (Or up to seven things, depending what you mean by “significant”) × Sometimes I’d rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair. × I’ve pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother. × I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. × I’ve liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time. × Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. × I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not ‘get’ most comedy acts. I don’t think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.  (Why would I?) × I don’t like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can’t wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. × I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.  (Yeah, and then some….)
I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other. × I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. × I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother’s basement when I grow up. I have a custom-built computer.  (Er. Doy.) × I want to create a certain someone’s babies, even though there’s a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human. × I’ve gone skinny-dipping. I’ve performed in three plays.  (Seven. Not enough, actually…)
× I enjoy burritos. × I’m Irish and loving it. I have a thing for redheads.  (Hell, yeah. As long as it’s “red” not “ginger” or “Strawberry blonde”)
× I am a twin! × Most of the times, I’d rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically ‘fun’. × Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.  (Aye. But it’s a lot quicker to erase future mistakes by learning from the past ones…) I sleep more than 12 hours a day. × I wish I could be prouder of what I’ve accomplished, but it’s never enough.
× I need more time to myself. × I wish I was more open-minded. I hope that I go really prematurely grey.  (Since the other option based on my family genes seems to be pattern baldness, yep.)
I download songs from the internet. × I’ve just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.  (Never heard of it.) × I say random things to freak people out.
× I’m still a little mad about the ending of Death Note. × I love playing Truth or Dare(What, do I look like I’m twelve?) × I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone. × Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. I think this survey is particularly long.  (And poorly formatted.)
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. × I can only hate someone that I love. × I’ve ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks(Wouldn’t be seen dead in the place.)