9 Random Facts About You | Page 21 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Thanks for those trying to keep this thread on topic. More of that please.

Before we do so, though, I just want to speak in broad terms about behaviour on this forum. This isn’t a school, and if someone is baiting you please try to walk away. If you feed the trolls it always gets worse. It’s natural to want to defend yourself and those things you hold dear, but sometimes it simply isn’t worth the expenditure of energy.

More specifically, a response like “Well, enjoy your pedo music” isn’t likely to defuse a situation, and is more likely to exacerbate it. While I have a degree of sympathy if someone is being a dick to you, please try to be the better person and rise above it.

I don’t think I’ve ever posted on this thread before, so here we go.

1. I’m an Englishman living in Wales. I moved here to do my degree, never thought I’d stay longer, but apart from nine months in London I never really left.
2. When I was growing up I wanted to be a spaceman, a flying milkman with a helicopter, or a journalist. Only one of those came to fruition.
3. I was once made homeless by The Big Issue (a homeless charity). They offered me an editorial job, I quit my London job and flat to change cities, but three days before the start date they phoned me up to make me redundant. I ended up coach-surfing before it was a thing. It’s a decent anecdote now but at the time it was dismal.
4. I come from a long line of artists and designers (on my dad’s side), but for some reason my artistic skills are barely better than a seven-year-old’s.
5. I have too much stuff. I’d love to live a minimalist lifestyle, but have trouble letting go. Books and records are my main weakness.
6. I’m 40 and my social skills are terrible. I recently started working from home, which I love because I rarely have to interact with anyone in real life. I like getting lost in my head, and still find myself saying the wrong thing at parties. I think I’m actually very bad at reading people. In my old job I was tested for (among other things) emotional intelligence, and I scored very low.
7. I’d have loved to have become a musician, and still get envious of people on stage. But the truth is I’m a very amateur musician and never really bothered to improve. It’s quite nice to make music for my own amusement, as an end in itself, rather than fulfilling dreams of stardom.
8. I was never sure if I wanted kids, but they’re funny and endlessly interesting and have taught me a lot about myself. I still don’t really care about other people’s children though.
9. I wish I could get more sleep. My concentration is shot nowadays.

Edit: Numbered lists don’t seem to render properly. I didn’t know that. I’ll add it to the to-do list.