About Me

  • About Me: Moral ponderer by choice, optimist by nature, pessimist by experience.sceptic by necessity. Uncertain as to what's going on and about received explanations. Hopeful of a few proposals but rarely of proponents or implementation. Consequently, hesitant to commit but content to remain a fellow traveller. Reasonably civilised and principled but probably a hypocrite. Mildly ascetic leanings with reprobate tendencies. Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum, ummmm, cogito.

Books

  • Favorite Books: Animal Farm, Age of Reason
  • Favorite Authors: Thomas Paine, George Orwell
  • Favorite Genres: Lone man against the odds
  • Favorite Characters: Quasimodo, Sydney Carton, Jean Valjean, Winston Smith
  • Favorite Quotes: All men are equal! Some are more equal than others!
  • Recent Reads: Age of Reason, Salems Lot, The Jackel, Jeffersons Bible

Music

  • Favorite Genre: Italian Opera
  • Favorite Songs: Hasta siempre Comandante Che Guevara

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Call me anything as long as it is not too late for Tiffin
  • Nationality: Allegiance: Le Soleil Trois. ... Site: minor arm of the Orion Spur, "Milky Way" galaxy, Local Group. ... Category: Sentient Being. ... Type: Bipedal Humanoid (carbon-based, oxygen respiring). ... Kind: Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Subgroup: Smart Alec Limey.
  • Religion: Apart from Methuselahism I suppose. A very good question which deserves the best attention one can give. Before I respond, hang on a tick while I finish my coffee.
  • Heroes: Tom Paine, Karl Marx, Mark Steele, George Orwell, Baruch Spinoza, Socrates, Sydney Carton, St. Francis. Serpico, John Pilger, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara
  • Interests: Eternal and Essential Questions regarding injustice and ethics: But before I ponder what you say nigh, regarding great truths that you insist run, You must first tell me where your feelings lie, on the events in Numbers 31.
  • Expertise: The older I get, the more I realize that the vast amount of knowledge that has eluded me, has decreased not a visible wit.
  • Occupation: Pontificator extraordinaire. Proof Reader
  • Industry: Searching for meaning
  • Website: A good time to have a web sight is on damp sunny dawns, when dew drops glisten on intricate, delicate threads. It annoys the hell out of the spiders though. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Danton; Reds; The Jackel; Life of Brian; The Getaway; The Wild Bunch; The Dictator; Modern Times; Casablanca.
  • Favorite Genre: Lone man against the odds.
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Music is preferable to noise. Where rap falls in that division would appear to be the latter, but I digress.
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Anyone quoting movie lines all the time, needs help. Personally, I'd make 'em an offer they can't refuse. Nevertheless, one of my favourites is Gold Hat in Sierra Madre : « Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges! »
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Life is too short to redo entertainment.
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Woody Allen if he was more Celtic looking.

Video Games

  • Games I Play: I pretend to know what I'm talking about and that I believe that others know what they are talking about.
  • Consoles: As I ponder the state of this horrendous world, I find a bottle of red is a mite consoling.
  • Favorite Characters: I've always thought my uncle Charlie was a bit of a character.
  • Servers I Play On: French waitresses are a favourite.
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: As a lad, i used to love running through an arcade pressing all the buttons of the machines just in case someone left some pennies in the slot.
  • Proudest Achievements: Never having played a video game.
  • Favorite Soundtrack: Anything from Mozart will suffice.
  • Clans: The MacGregors are quite a notable clan but a trifle too Scottish for my taste. I'm of the O'Connails myself, a notable Kerry clan loyal to the McCarthy Mor of Munster and tending to shag anyone who attempts to pick up a shamrock. There's millions of O'Connails. I'm not sure if there is a connection.

Style

  • Where I shop: I don't shop people. Not economic criminals at least. I'd drop a call from a public phone box to the Peelers though, if there was a serial killer next door.
  • Brands I love: The "Lazy Y" as seeing the cow reminds me of how I tend to approach philosophical questions.
  • I like to wear: out my welcome. Seems to come naturally.
  • Can't live without: Wondering what's going on
  • Prized Possessions: Consciousness
  • Guilty Pleasure: I get no pleasure from my guilt

Travel

  • Places I love: where there's "money for nothing and the chicks are free"
  • Places I've been: Easier to say where I haven't been
  • Places to see before I die: The other side of the universe
  • Dream Vacation: I go to many places in my dreams.

Food

  • Favorite Dishes: My wife
  • Favorite Desserts: The Sahara
  • Favorite Drinks: The North Atlantic. Once the Puritans crossed it, they had difficulty getting back. That's good enough for me.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Do they serve food on Junks? My knowledge on Chinese naval procedures is somewhat limited

Television

  • Favorite Channels: The English Channel. It keeps all those dastardly foreigners at bay. "This is the BBC! Today, there is fog in the Channel. Europe is cut off!"
  • Favorite Reruns: The News, except where they keep on showing politicians shaking hands, showing both rows of their teeth like carnivorous Americans and waving at the camera. Fair makes me want to puke.
  • Most Addictive Show: any series is addictive and should be banned.
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: "Should hanging be revived for writers of TV series?"
  • Favorite Episode: "The Long Drop" That's the one where the creator of Desperate Housewives pleads for mercy just as the trapdoor opens. Great fun!
  • Characters you relate to: Consonants, but I do get a bit verbal at times
  • Show I Secretly Watch: I love horror shows, so I often cruise the God Channel for tips on how to fleece the naive and desperate.
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: The Crusades! Especially the sack of Constantinople before they even got to the Musselmen. What lovable scamps!

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  • Lovegrove
    Now you've gone and messed it up.
  • earlybirdie_chewingworms
    Your chatboard looks very clean and empty. A pity to leave it all fresh and new! Cheers!