Jesus Christ I was being polite and you still are offensive back. Clearly you are still hurting over having been found out as a liar.
Really good thread, enjoyed reading the posts. Naturally spending time with friends and family is massive for me but I'm sure that's the same for all on here, so I'll get that out the way to begin with. My Grandad incredibly celebrated his 90th birthday a couple weeks back, my Nan is 88 and they've been married for about 65/66 years and have been together since my Nan was 16, so if you're one for a good romantic story with a happy ever after, I'd say they're exactly that. Number one hobby/ joy is of course being a Spurs fan, I love going to the Lane and I'm a proud season ticket holder. My family are Spurs-mad and I do my best to ensure I never miss a game, regardless of where I am in the world. Like B&W said, it really can affect my mood though, if Spurs lose I tend to really go in a depressed state but the feeling of winning is unparalleled. While Spurs sits at the top of the mantle, football itself isn't my favourite sport these days, MMA is. I'd heard of the UFC for a while but the first event I watched was Chuck Liddell vs Rampage Jackson at UFC 71 which I think was in 2007 or 2008 (Jackson won by KO in the 1st), ever since watching that, I was hooked. I've been to many MMA events, from UFC to Bellator to BAMMA to local ones in which friends of family have fought, I'm also the sad and crazy type who stays up until 7am watching the PPV events. I have a subscription to UFC Fight Pass and have probably watched over 200-300 hours worth of fights from all different organisations, as well as the shows and features also on the site. I listen to music a lot. Growing up in the Tottenham/ Edmonton/ Enfield area, it's known for it's garage and grime roots and I do really enjoy it although appreciate it's somewhat of an acquired taste lol. I love Indie, Reggae and many of the old classics too. I can skip from CASisDead to Royal Blood to Bob Marley to Frank Sinatra within the space of a few seconds on my iPhone. I don't really watch much TV (make up for that on Fight Pass though) but I do enjoy a good movie. Favourite has to be The Rock, 1996, with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, could watch that over and over again. I've been getting the travel bug over the past 18 months, I've been Brussels, Ghent, Barcelona and Amsterdam (Brussels was for Spurs vs Anderlecht though, while I've been Dam about 5 times), next year I'm looking at going Dublin, Budapest and Prague while also considering the possibility of a 2-3 week trip to South America to explore Argentina, Colombia and Peru. I've also been self-teaching myself Spanish for the past few months, surprising not doing so badly!
I'm too young to have got punk at the start - and I thought there was too much of a comedy element to many of the British bands anyway. I got into what followed post (the first wave of) punk, especially the U.S. pop punk bands of the '90s. No, not Green Day, but the Ramonescore bands like The Queers and Screeching Weasel. I now download countless Ramonescore and Queaselcore bands, who pay homage to the Ramones. Leather jackets, Ramones T-shirts, torn jeans, sneakers, 3 chord poppy punk tunes played with fast drums and guitars, name dropping da Brudders and singing about girls, mental health, basements, beach parties etc. Got about 200-300 such bands on my iPod. From The Apers in Holland to The Promdates in Norway to Batfoot and the Spazzys in Oz and tons of bands in Japan (where the Ramones were really big). My big passion away from sport. Like some others who have posted, I love watching comedy too - L&H, M&W in particular.
HIAG has got more hobbies than a ****ing beards convention. From card tricks to Iron man races, in between he crams in a miriade of other interests from shooting to wum mastery. What a hero As you were
A real life, as opposed to some fantasy I play golf on the rare occasion I have the time, I like gardening these days, walking, football, cooking and muff diving.
Why is you playing golf any more unbelievable than my, for example, playing in a rock band? As for running marathons, have a look at the people who entered this year's London Marathon (or any other marathon around the Globe), and you might be surprised to find that there are thousands of people who do it. You might learn something, like how to take your head out of your arse.
I PM'd you ages ago cos I actually did a reverse image search of your avatar (was wondering if it was Harry Hotspur) and found it to be Thomas Tallis which was intriguing cos I'd just been introduced to his stuff in a fantastic way. So I just did a google image search of Thomas Tallis again and then one of Thomas Weelkes. What did I get? Same picture used over and over again for both of them. Bloody musicians called Thomas from the Tudor period - all look the same. Am listening to some Wheelkes now. Cheers for the heads up. I should, at this point, share the fantastic ad that I saw posted up on a notice board at my local college recently. Here in California people tend to pronounce their 'T's as "D"s (so I ask for "warder" rather than "water" in restaurants so as to be understood). And hence the following: I've not really thought about my hobbies but if I had to list them I guess they would be playing chess (almost entirely online - I'd be ****ed if I had to play live and didn't have three days to think about every move), watching movies (mostly foreign, clever-sounding stuff that would make me sound like either a show-off or a twat if I listed it), reading slowly (am loving Confederacy of Dunces right now. Holy **** the main character is hilarious and reminds me so much of a poster on here), podcasts (History of Rome, Diane, This American Life, Hardcore History, Revolutions - I love the amateurishness (in the original sense of being derived from "love") of podcasts. that people with a passion can just get going and some even then turn it into a living. It's great to see) and disc golf. I keep telling myself that I'm gonna get back to playing football whenever the current ailment of the moment clears up but I dunno if I'm kidding myself. I miss playing a LOT though - no other exercise comes close to being as effective and as fun. Running is boring as **** but give me a ball to run around after and I'll be running for hours harder than anyone (effort always trumped skill in my game).
I've never said you don't play in a band. Sure mate loads of people run marathons, but you just have to run the San Fran one though eh, you complete fantasist
If you are prepared to accept that I have run a marathon, why is it so unbelievable that I should have run the San Fran marathon? Go online and book it for next year. Anyone can. It's hardly rocket science.
I'll have to embaras myself and admit to having Spurs taking over my late teens and early twenties.It was all Spurs.I'd defend them to the death....well,almost!My Sunday would be a game in the Tottenham or Edmonton Sunday Leagues and a few nights snooker at the clubs. Sad wasn't it?.......but I was a contented twit! as were my mates. Into my thirties and my love for classical music at The Albert Hall,etc. and an occasional hop on a plane to see various sites,culminating in a trip to Russia in the late 70's where they put the Brits in the Russian plane with the Yanks....where I met my wife.....(and she's been blaming the Russians ever since!). I still love my Spurs but somehow.....it's not the same............!
In between being a dad to my 2 daughters, spending time with mrs rcl (the coolest adult I know) and working with other people's lunatic kids I have a few interests. When my kids were tiny I wanted them to be able to understand food so grew carrots and potatoes with them in old tyres in the garden (they thought we grew all our own food at one point!). Have kept it going and grow potatoes, carrots, beetroot, chillies, tomatoes, herbs, peas and raspberries most years. I have been into photography for about 25 years. Used to have a 2nd hand Olympus OM10 back in the early 1990s. Moved on to digital Olympus SLR cameras but now tend to use my phone camera as they are pretty fantastic for every day shots. Have even done the photographs for a couple of mates weddings. I have got into walking to get a little fitter now I am nearly 50. My back is too dodgy to jog but I walk before work, at lunch time and after work. Have built up to 13,000 steps a day which I am sadly quite proud of. My sob story is that I grew up in a house with an arse of a mother and her child beating husband. Being a spurs fan got me through my childhood (if I could cope with relegation, losing 5 nil to Arsenal at home and 7 nil to Liverpool then coping with those arses was a doddle ) and I used to make scrapbooks of spurs matches and collect programmes of the matches I went to as a young teen. Anyway ... the ****ers threw all my stuff out went I left home at around 17. About 5 years ago I started to recollect programmes from eBay and market stalls and have got most of them again. Have also found spurs scrapbooks from when I was a kid. Bizarrely they make me feel like a kid again (but in a good way). I also collect original press photos of spurs matches. My pride is an original press photo of Ricky Villa scoring in the 1981 semi final replay at Highbury (my first spurs match) and an original of the best cup final goal ever scored to win the final replay that year. My final hobby is not606. It's a fun place to natter when I have a few minutes to kill (as long as you stay away from some of the lunatics on the EU thread on the premier league forum ). I have a lovely family and good mates but enjoy chatting, sharing ideas, learning from and disagreeing with people who do not actually know me. Great thread...cheers for reading And feck you if you didn't.
