While I'm here, avid motorsport fan, 2 wheels before 4, though these days of the 4 wheeled variety I only have time for F1 and Le Mans. Went to Le Mans one year...never saw a racecar! Jeez thats one piss up of a weekend! its like Petrolhead Glastonbury.
Cheers Notso Hoping so, doc says it was a bit of a freak occurance, but provided I take it a bit easier for a year or 3, I should be back to regular self
Been there a couple of times myself back in the nineties. Huge piss- up!....did wake up in the middle of the night once and attempted to watch. Not a clue what was going on though
On the same theme....... I have played for more than 90 minutes in a Football League game. I race greyhounds and I am in co-ownership of a dog with Harry Redknapp. I once took a major airline to court and won a five figure amount in compensation. I am an MBE for my many years of work for charity. I have met Ronald Biggs, the most famous Great Train robber. Many years ago, I was a contestant on The Generation Game. Two of these are true .
ah that kind of 'bike'!...haven't we all then! Yeah, love them, I've been very lucky and never done a Carlo!
My main interest outside of Spurs is skiing, used to be a ski instructor and spent my winters in Switzerland, not so much anymore since doing my ACL but still manage 3-4 weeks skiing a year. Other interests: Architectural History (my job), European history 17th-19th centuries, US Politics, PG Wodehouse, Golf, Half-Marathons.
Well since I stopped playing I took up tenpin bowling - found out I was rather good at it average about 170-200. Like reading crime novels jack reacher among them. Like music fav is jazz, but like soul and Motown too.in my spare time I support Spurs!
Rock climbing, tennis, languages (I'm illiterate in Yiddish). I get a lot of enjoyment out of finding fault with other people. Spurf's point is interesting, in that I wouldn't mention anything about myself that might seem very impressive (I have, of course, so much to choose from!), and it seems strange that anyone would. There's a meritocratic element to this board (you're judged for your knowledge of football, writing ability, sense of humor) which is nice. If you knew I was really the defense minister of a small African country it might unduly color your reaction to my posts.
I will mention my love of Jazz since I've noticed a couple of others have and I feel I ought to say just a bit more in view of the more straight forward posts on the thread. Defence redwhiteandermblue? or just a simple ole arms dealer, we all know how you Americans love their guns.
Into Reggae music Been known to smoke a little. Appeared on 15 to 1 (TV quiz show) (knocked out in the second round) Won the Radio 1 Bits and Pieces competition on the Radio 1 roadshow (08/08/1976) Own and continually rebuild a kit car (Vindicator-seven type car) Degree-B.Eng Civil Engineering 2:1. Job:- Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineer. (anything from house building to mining) Enjoy motor racing, mainly 4 wheels, I live in Kent so near to Brands Hatch. I used to go to the Bol D'or at Circuit Paul Ricard when I lived in France. The was no greater piss-up than the Bol D'or. Free Ricard all weekend, breakfast, dinner and tea. They spoilt it moving it to Many Cours. Brought up in Lewes, East Sussex. Member of the world famous Cliffe Bonfire Society (Google it to find out more) Likes: Having a Job, Africa, France, Ireland, African People, Food, Beer, good wine, fine Brandy, Malt Whisky, Travel (particularily off the beaten track-for work etc.), more Food, Cooking, Rugby, Cricket, more Food, Spurs, Photography, more food, Politics, more beer and wine, french bread with pate, hot curry, steak and kidney pie, Full english breakfast, Grilled kippers, Spanish ham and cured meat, roasted penuts, computers, EBay, Mercedes Benz, Italian design. Dislikes: Corrupt Politics particularly Afriican Politicians. I also hate UN sanctions against countries where the populations are already suffering. (just deleted a long rant re: politicians as this isn't the correct platform). Personal unemployment, Speed Cameras, Sleeping Policemen, Scouse accent( I like scousers, just dislike their accent- sounds like a Manc who has swallowed a Leprechaun), diets, healthy eating, arogant goons and chavs (only the arrogant ones, most are OK).
As music has been mentioned. I will add that it is, and always has been since the age of 11 or so, my abiding love. I studied music and was a pro for 2-3 years in my younger day. Then I got married and had to get a "proper" job - the income from music was too erratic. i think that I will always regret giving it up, it was all I ever wanted to do. I still play occasionally over here - mostly blues, jazz blues. At our ages, we play mostly to please ourselves. Hopefully, the audiences get something from it too. Well, we haven't been chased out of anywhere - yet!..
And of course Norse mythology. Actually it's not mythology. People who have had a long near death experience have witnessed a tunnel to a big green meadow and then a tree. Beyond the tree is a bridge with a rainbow road. Some say it's a flat bridge and others say it's a humpbacked bridge. Well when they've returned to consciousness they told others of this experience. Well,the Norsemen had a rainbow bridge which spanned Midgard to Asgard so it's obviously based on a viking being knocked out in battle and telling his experience. So it's not a myth but a fact.
So 'deedub93', your name/title, on this board, is a conscious reference to the "dub plate" as in dee regga music....then ?.
I have a keen interest in astronomy and cosmology, and physics/mathematics, in general. I read a lot. I do a lot of star-gazing, and am interested in ancient cultures, especially those who were master astrologers, such as the Sumatrans, Egyptians, Mayans, and Aztacs. I would like to have been a porn star, but I have a very, very small penis. Having said that, my devastatingly good looks have always got me top totty. You blokes simply would not believe the flange I have had, over the years. Most of them don't know about my nerdy pursuits, because I kept them well-hidden in my rat-up-a-drain-pipe days. All of them found out about my small-knob problem, though. One had the nerve to say to me, when we were getting down and (very) dirty between the sheets one lunch-time (between shifts), "Who the hell do you think you are going to pleasure with that?" "Me," I told her. And I did. About 7 times, as it turned out. It's a good thing her husband never found out, because he was a hard bastard. Yeah, sex is great. I still like to indulge, although I am married and have a family now. My bad days are over. I get more pleasure, these days, from reading star charts, and plotting the movements of the planets around the Winter Equinoxes and Summer Solstices. I have a massive telescope.
This place gets stranger by the minute... Me... Play tennis about 3-4 times a week. Bloody good sport. Currently watching the Stan Wawrinka v Djokovic match. Anyone that's doesn't watch much tennis but likes sport can even appreciate how bloody good these two are. It's a brutal match.
Leisure cycling , reading crime novels . social history , Live music. test cricket, real ale and hi class porn
