The evil Sin has tagged me, the gobsite, and I thought he liked me!
The rules are as follows:
each player lists 8 facts about themselves, the rules of the game appear before the facts do the player ends by tagging 8 people, which means listing their names and then going to their blogs to tell them that they’ve been tagged, then going back and commenting on their lists.
- I am to be a best man for the first time in 2009 (I have twice been an usher, though I have a habit of being either intercontinental or in hospital when people get married!), it is scarcely credible just how honoured I am!
- I was pronounced ESN (Educationally Sub-Normal) aged 7. The educational psychologist my Mother brought in for a second opinion said I was most likely bored, probably dyslexic and that my memory was significantly cleverer than I was!
- I have been told at various points in my life that I am dyslexic, bi-polar and obsessive compulsive, I have always been a little reticent to do anything about it because I am also very lazy!
- The taste of tomato makes me honk, I can for some reason eat it as a base for italian food provided it is pureed but chunks of it and I’m blowing chunks. People ask me how can I possibly live without tomato. I usually tell these fuckwits that it is surprising how quickly you find a way when the alternative is to reacquaint yourself with your dinner some moments later.
- I panic when things flap around my face. I was kept hostage in my living room last Summer for 4 hours by an errant bat, my Mother, between her guffaws, told me it was probably more scared than I was, both the bat and I managed to control our urge to shit on the carpet! “It can’t hit you it has sonar!” “Yeah Ma and it’s sonar was so bloody good it flew into my fecking flat!”
- For nearly a year when I was 20 I worked as a lumberjack. I did not wear women’s clothing, but I did hang around in bars!
- I am an atheist but I have lived with a ghost, it made noises, I thought it was a burglar and called the police and fecked off to me best mate’s for the night. The Plod shat themselves but didn’t find anything. After that I just talked to it. It wasn’t much of a conversationalist but never did me any harm.
- I have occasionally had things published, the highest profile of which being a thoroughly riveting article on the Eschede train crash in Germany and its implications for risk management, for a globally-distributed insurance publication. However I have never been paid for something I have written and consequently cannot claim to be a professional writer.
I shall now besmirch my good name by tagging:
Sarah
Donna
Big John
Rayts
Sister Spikey Mace
Bob Red
Haddock
Haywood
Song Of The Day ~ The Bravery – Believe
i can’t believe about your tomato revelation. i can easily imagine you being an atheist, an OC, or a lumberjack but err, a tomato hater? honk, honk! i’ve been meaning to give you a bunch of huge, red, fresh tomatow (one of those genetically-modified variety, that I can’t even afford to eat because they’re just too beautiful to eat)…oh well.
i usually hate being tagged. not that a lot of people tag me anyways, either they’re afraid of the consequence or they just find me boring and lazy that i would continue on with such a chain but well, i was happy with your tomato thingie so…
p.s. i hope haywood would get on with this, he has to beat that tomato rev of yours.
I shall do it as an addendum to Friday’s post. I want to know what you and the ghost talked about. Please. That fascinates me.
I’m glad you read that Kristie since your blog was ‘commentator non grata’ I was going to send you a mail. As for the ghost well I used to greet it whenever I got home and kind of use it in a way to make out that I was not actually talking to myself. I’m the sort of person who is pleased to have some company in the sense of feeling there is someone around, but often I, being a miserable sod generally, would rather they are around but not in my immediate vicinity! I’m sure it would creak the floorboards in a benenvolent fashion at the right point in the conversation!
I DID stop by at 5 but you didn’t have this up.
i LOVE tomatoes. that and potatoes are my favourite things to eat, ever! the real question is: do you still have ketchup? cause my li’l bro is exactly like you and can’t stand tomatoes but LOVES ketchup, which makes him slightly bearable.
you’ve never told me the ghost story! i don’t believe in them but thats easy to say cause i’ve never had an experience like yours either.
That isn’t an excuse you know!!!
I don’t mind ketchup as such, I wouldn’t want to eat a load of it but I don’t think it tastes of tomato unless you eat a shed load it tastes to me of solid vinegar with a touch of fruit. I tend actually to use some Balkan relish stuff called Ajvar which is made from red pepper and chillis, you never go back to ketchup oonce you’ve had that.
I am aware I had not previously recounted the ghost story, I thought I had to keep something in reserve for when we’re both old and grey and in the retirement home otherwise you’ll have heard it all! I did not previously believe in ghosts at all being an atheist etc. I’m still not sure I do per se but there was a lot of investigation carried out and yet no satisfactory explanation was ever offered for the ghost and I really tried to rationalise it out believe me in the end it became just one of those things you get used to, it didn’t do anything malevolent and the woman who lived downstairs who was very much still alive was a great deal more scary.
Personally, I rather like ghosts. My mother swears that when I was a baby, there was a djinn under one of the mango trees in our back-yard (sadly chopped down now), with whom I used to play/converse for absolute hours. When I asked if it was really there or just an imaginary friend, she mentioned it was difficult to play catch with something imaginary. I’m still not quite sure if I believe her, but she’s always managed to say it with complete sincerity thus far, so…
I’ll try and get around to this in a day or two Baron, although it’s likely to be the same old stuff.
Interesting stuff, espcially the ghost. The jury is still out on whether I believe in them though
– I’ve already done this tag last month ( http://greenhaddock2.blogspot.com/2007/06/tagged.html )