Memes 7: Revenge Of The Memes

[awmperry]

Lifted this meme from a friend of mine, running_swift. So what the hey, here goes nothing.



A

• Available: As far as I know, for now


• Age: 26, for now


• Annoyance: Pull up a chair and get a drink, this could take a while


• Animal: Dogs, horses, apes


• Airsoft, Paintball or Hammock: Airsoft, unless I'm tired, in which case I'll take the hammock

B

• Beer: Urgh, no. Tastes like it came out the wrong end of a camel. Which could be either end, I suppose


• Birthday: 14th of June


• Best feeling in world: Don't know, really. Never used to have many. But being around friends who actually like one is well up there.


• Blind or Deaf: Not at the moment, but no sense in taking it for granted


• Best weather: Rain. Lots of heavy rain. Either while suitably dressed, or viewed from inside.


• Been on stage: As much as I can


• Believe in Santa: More likely than God. ;-)

C

• Candy: No - crisps


• Color: Red


• Chocolate/Vanilla: VANILLA. The one true way.


• Chinese/Mexican: Swedish, really - don't like exotic food much. Although I do own four woks, three cleavers, and an extensive collection of partially oriental spices.


• Cake or pie: Depends. Apple pie or Princess cake is going to be a tough call... but probably the cake.


• Cheese: NO. Just... no.

D

• Day or Night: Night, usually, but days are nice too, when I see them.


• Dance in the rain: If it's nice rain and not too much of an audience around, sure.


• Diets: I'm on a very strict diet. Fried food only. Healthy eating can't be good for you.


• Dictionary or Thesaurus: Thesaurus, though I don't use either much these days


• Distinctive noises: [SCRATCH, SCRATCH]


• Drink: Irn-Bru, Päronsoda, Zingo

E

• Eyes: Green, I think


• Everyone has: ...an embuggerance at some point. The trick is to find the minor ones.


• Ever failed a class? Yup. But it was sports, so that's OK. (And English once, because my teacher managed to make the average of eight tens and a 12 (out of 10) a 3.25...)


• Excesses: Books. Just in the bookcases behind my desk I have over 500, and scores of thousands more dotted about.


• Elvis or Elton: Elvis.

F

• Full name: Andrew, followed by some other stuff


• First thoughts waking up: "Oh bollocks, bloody morning again. Can someone turn out the sun so I can go back to sleep?"


• Food: Chips. Bacon. Chips and bacon, or bacon with chips. Fried potatoes. You get the idea.


• Firearm: Yes please. Particularly keen on the P226 and HK's roller-locked series.


• Foxtrot or Quickstep: Quickstep

G

• Greatest Fear: Too many to remember, too irritating to consider.


• Goals: Live life, get rich, get a nice house and a few nice cars, be happy.


• Gum: Urgh


• Get along with your parents: Yup, on the whole


• Good luck charm: Does a well-stocked belt count?

H

• Hair Color: Dark brownish


• Happy: Pretty much, at the moment


• Holiday: What's one of them?


• How do you want to die: Late, ideally. Failing that, quickly and comfortably. In my sleep at the age of 140 would be about right.


• Hardest thing to do: Figuring out what to do and daring to do it. Getting the motivation to change oneself.

I

• Ice Cream: ...is the purest form of pleasure. Real vanilla is best, though I'm also partial to raspberry ripple, strawberry, pear and watermelon.


• Instrument: Drums, piano, trumpet, kazoo


• Ice or Fire: Fire


• India, Japan, USA or Milton Keynes: Sweden. Failing that, USA - at least I can understand a similar language.


• IPCONFIG: 192.168... behind NAT over 802.11g


• Irn-Bru: Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesplease

J

• Jewelry: My dogtags, but that's about it


• Job: Should get one. Might apply for the police, if I get fit enough.


• Journal much? Nope. Probably should.


• Jungle essentials: Travel arrangements out of there.


• Journey: As little as possible. But across the US in a nice car would be fun.

K

• Kids: None of my own, but I've always got on well with them. Goes with talking to them as if they're adults, I suppose.


• Kickboxing or karate: Aikido


• K9 or Feline: K9, definitely, but cats are nice too


• Kilogrammes: A bit over 100


• Kiss, first: I dunno, but I imagine I'll enjoy finding out.


• Kitchen: I wants one, I does


• Killed anyone: Nope. Maybe I could, maybe I couldn't; I think I could if I had to, but don't want to have to find out.

L

• Longest car ride: With a two-hour break for loading and snacking, Scotland-Dover-Calais-Brussels-Denmark-Stockholm. Just over 24 hours all told.


• Love: Who knows?


• Letter: Email


• Laughed so hard you cried: Can't remember exactly, but Zero Punctuation or Frankie Boyle are likely to have featured.


• Lender, Borrower, Both or Neither: Neither, as far as possible

M

• Movies: Yes. Lots.


• Music: Yes. Also lots. Jazz, R&B, rock & roll, swing, funk, blues, and so on


• Motion sickness: Generally, no.


• McD’s or BK: McDonalds.


• Military: Yes, ex-air force.

N

• Number of Siblings: 1


• Number of Piercings: Er... they use NEEDLES for those!


• Number of Tattoos: Again, NEEDLES! I dodge vaccinations given half a chance!


• Number: 13


• Neuroses: Very many and very few, all at once.

O

• One wish: Perfect health and fitness.


• Only the young: Can get away with playing with Playmobil without anyone telling them you're too old... bastards.


• Once and never again: Norovirus, I hope


• Orthodontists - hate 'em or love 'em: HATE. HATE, HATE, HATE. Bastards. At least the one that ruined my teeth...


• Orthodox or individualist: Very individual

P

• Perfect Pizza: No cheese, no tomato. Just bacon, pineapple and mushrooms. In fact, skip the pizza, I'll just have the bacon.


• Period - before your time, after your time, in your time: After my time in dress and music, before my time in so many things... at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.


• Petrolhead: Not really. Except yes.


• Pigmentation: Not much


• Party person? Not really, at least not what most people think of as parties.

Q

• Quote: "There's literally no quote so stupid that some idiot won't put it on a t-shirt."


• Quest: To get a Corvette.


• Queries: The only stupid question is the one that goes unasked.


• Quintessentially you: Wearing camouflage, sitting behind a drum kit, drinking Zingo


• Quasar or Laserquest: Either or both

R

• Reason to cry: "Cry"? What is this "cry"?


• Reality TV: Waste of time, money, and people who would be better employed as landfill.


• Radio Station: Vinyl 107.1


• Roll your tongue in a circle: Yes


• Religion: I don't bother it, it doesn't bother me.

S

• Song: Um... I have over 3000 favourite tunes...


• Salad Dressing: Oh god no.


• Sushi: I can barely stand fish cooked.


• Skipped school: Once. It was sports.


• Smoked: Nope. I like my lungs.


• Skinny dipped: Nope.


• Sing well: So I'm told, at least.


• Showers: A wonderful habit, which is why I'm so annoyed that the one working bathroom at home has no working shower...


• Swear: Not on the whole, though more in writing than speech.


• Strawberries/Blueberries: Strawberries, but raspberries leave them both in the dust.

T

• Time for bed: About two hours ago


• Take time to: Talk to friends who need to talk


• Tea or coffee: Coffee


• T-shirt, polo or shirt: Shirt


• Ties: evil or genius? Greatest clothing-related invention ever! (After belts, large pockets, roll-up sleeves, comfy boots, lycra socks, and some other stuff.)

U

• Unpredictable: Yes. But then you knew I was going to say that.


• Under my bed: At the moment, a holdall full of DPM kit and a Mk12 SPR rifle. Airsoft, of course.


• Ugliest thing you own: I have a spectacularly hideous knitted jumper somewhere.


• Unimpressive moment: "She seems nice. I should talk to her." (Three hours later, gets off train.) "She seemed nice. I should have talked to her. Bugger."


• Usually doing: Reading, writing, sleeping or eating.

V

• Vacation spot: Don't know. One day I hope to have one.


• Vacuuming: Yes, given the choice.


• Vinegar: Apple cider for potato, raspberry infusion for meat.


• Vehicle, current: Ex-RAF 1987 Land Rover 90.


• Vehicle, dream: Corvette

W

• Weakness: Not as much self-discipline as I like to think


• Which friend acts like you: running_swift, probably


• Worst feeling: That of wanting to help a friend but not being able to


• Where do we go when we die: Hopefully nowhere; utter oblivion seems the least terrifying of all prospects, and eternity must get dull sooner or later. But somewhere nice would also work.


• Worst Weather: Too darn hot.

X

• X-Rays: When I broke my arm falling into a snowdrift. And dental x-rays, of course.


• Xerox any body parts? A hand, when I was nine.


• latest eX: None.


• eXtended family: Like 'em, as long as I can choose when to see 'em.


• eXaggerrations? I absolutely never exaggerrate.

Y

• Yes: No


• Yellow: and blue is a nice combination


• Yearly: Discworld cons, or as near as possible


• Young at heart: I like Lego


• YMCA: Cheesy song, cheesier video, fun when drunk people try to do the moves.

Z

• Zoo animal: Probably a tiger, zebra or ape of some kind. But elephants are nice too.


• Zulu or The Italian Job: Zulu.


• Zen: Cl-


• Zip or buttons: Zips


• Zealous: Not at all, and if you disagree you MUST BE BURNED AT THE STAKE, HERETIC!!! WAAAAAAGH! ...hrm.

LAST PERSON WHO...

1. Slept in a bed beside you: In a bed beside mine, or beside me in the same bed? Because the latter would have been shortly after I was born, and it was my mother. I did share a room - but not a bed - in the air force, though.


2. You went to the mall with: The "mall"? I'm not in America... That said, I did go to a mall in Canada with some folks on a school trip.


3. You went to dinner with: Probably the friends I had round for a barbecue in December.


4. You talked to on the phone: Dad.


5. Made you laugh: running_swift


6. Hugged you: bean_an_oiche


7. Said they loved you: It's nice when friends like you muchly.


8. You spoke with: running_swift


9. Made you mad: A... friend of a friend, shall we say.


10. Made you cry: No idea. It's been at least a decade, probably more.


11. Made you consider moving to Mars: The Labour government


12. Convinced you they should be Prime Minister, President, or whatever: Boris Johnson


13. Went so far beyond the bounds of tastefulness that they went through bad taste and out the other side: Frankie Boyle


14. Didn't return your call: Skype tech support, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Ireland


15. Gave you a moment in the spotlight: Derrick Walker at the Wirströms Blues Jam. Funky drum solos are fun.