Tell Us Something We Don't Know

[Gizmogle]

We all have the same thing in common, but apart from that, what do we really know about each other?

Tell us something about yourself that we don't know. However strange or unusual you want. You can do as many as you like!

I'll start.

I'm scared of hospitals and old people.
I don't eat properly, and I pretty much live off pasta and Subway.
All of my best friends are from RailUK.
I was always really embarrassed about people looking through my phone pictures, so I put them on the internet.
Despite my love for trains, I hardly know anything about them!

 

[JoshW1992]

Hmmmmmm

Well I'm pretty much new here, so I better introduce myself a bit better... lol

Scared of Spiders
I eat too much McDonalds
Some of my freinds hate trains, so my real friends are those that understand my hobby.
I'm good at railwayish things, and I like photography....
Apart from that, I'm normal

 

[me123]

I could probably write a book Seriously, though:

• I was until recently Principal Clarinet and Principal Bass Clarinet in one of the top youth orchestras in Scotland. I have also participated in three international concert tours.
• I have never been on a service train outwith Scotland. (The NYMR doesn't count)
• Outwith the forum, less than 10 people know about my railway interests.
• In my Summer job, I earn more p.a. than my mother currently does!
• I own a region-free DVD player because I am opposed to region-coding on DVDs.
• (Embarassing) I own all episodes of "Frasier" and "Friends" on DVD
• I refuse to eat "fast food" from major chains, with the exception of Subway.

 

[Darandio]

My name is Darren
I have 2 very young children
I have been interested in anything railway related through my father who worked on the track for 42 years but I miss the free travel.
I am a “professional” CV writer
I am still rubbish at railway photography but hope to improve soon.
Oh, I also like cooking

 

[eezypeazy]

It's easy enough to do a scout around and find out what I do for a living, and where I work...

... but we're supposed to be telling things which you Don't Know...

... well, very few people on the Forums know that I'm studying to be a Methodist Lay Preacher.....

... and today, I cycled the twelve miles into the office in my best-ever time of 51min 32sec - If I'd been seven seconds faster, that would have been an average of exactly 14mph!

Regards

eezypeazy

 

[Phoenix]

Well Hi my name is Scott Turner
Im 19
I smoke
I have been into trains since I was about 1
I would like to make more friends in the railway
my old house in Water Orton used to be the station masters house
I have a west highland terrier called Hamish
Im allergic to cats and wasp stings
I also love skateboarding
I have a girlfriend I have been with for one and a half years

 

[Gizmogle]

[*]I own a region-free DVD player because I am opposed to region-coding on DVDs.
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You don't actually have to buy region free DVD players. Most DVD players have a certain button combination that will set them to region free. That's what I did with mine.

 

[me123]

My player is very old and was actually cheaper than most of the region 2 players. I did find the codes for some others, but I didn't really want to try them...

I now use my laptop which can switch between regions when you put a disk in and I'm giving up my TV (there's another thing to add to the list!) 'cos I only watch things on BBC anyway.

 

[Bayum]

Im in and outta hospital like a yoyo
I love being independent
Hate wheelchairs
Doesn't mind injections
Likes trains but doesnt know anything about them
Likes singing
Cooking
Doesn't like fruit or Veg

 

[Gizmogle]

I like Pendolinos.
I'm afraid that people won't like me if I'm not acting so happy and bouncy all the time.
All I drink at the moment is orange squash and I hate it.
I couldn't live without the internet.
I probably couldn't live without my priv.
I really, really like lists and numbers and stuff like that, which is the main reason that I track my coverage and mileage and try to clear classes.
I like to sing and play guitar. But my singing is dreadful. I don't care. I do it anyway.

 

[jv3531]

Be your self. If people don't like you for who you are, they aint worth knowing! I like trains and buses - I own the one on the left! Like watching lightning storms. Also collect tickets, ticket machines and anything to do with trains and buses realy!

 

[Bayum]

Ooooh, I like lightning and Thunderstorms
But im scared of them when i'm in bed
I dont like Ghosts and Aliens
Im scared if there is a god, will I ever get to Heaven??
I'm in two minds about Shirley Phelps Roper
I like the News
I like Pendolinos, Voyagers, 158s, Desiros - Modern Passenger Stuff!!
WAS a Straight A Student Near enough
Wants to be a doctor/Clinical Psychologist/Speech Therapist
Likes Pokemon!!

 

[jv3531]

Everybody has their own believes ideas and theories. Not sure on ghosts myself, think that there is something there but more of a suppressed though from your deep self consiousness than anything else. Hate dentists, cant even go near one without breaking into a cold sweat!

 

[Mojo]

You don't actually have to buy region free DVD players. Most DVD players have a certain button combination that will set them to region free. That's what I did with mine.

I bought my DVD player from Sainsburys for £19 about 4 years ago and it doesn't object to any regions... unlike the £50 one upstairs!

 

[westcoaster]

hate dentist,
got a fear of hairdressers and getting my hair cut
hate the sun/summer and love the cold/winter

can you still buy xploder for games consouls to let you play regional games

 

[Z12XE]

I'm part of our Town's "In Bloom" committee, and also look after the flowers and gardens at the local station - I know nothing about gardening

 

[D306]

I'm an altar server for my church
I play keyboard
I never clean my room
I have LUL stuff in my room
I have a crap computer
I have family from all over the world (NZ, Cyprus, soon to be Ireland)
I like Casualty
I hate injections
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just thaught of something else

I have a hearing problem

 

[me123]

Seeing as how a few people have had another go...

• I don't like Prime Numbers... except 2 and 17. I also think e is a beautiful number
• I have a tuxedo cat called Zak
• I'm a blood donor, and I have A+ blood. (I'm A positive person...)
• I like opera

That's all for now...

 

[Mintona]

My name is Mintona and I'm an alcoholic....

Sorry, this whole set up just reminds me of the AA.

Anyway, seriously.

- I dropped out of Sixth Form less than 1 month before my A Level exams to start my dream job.
- I love listening to Radio 1, especially Moyles and Mills.
- I've never been in a relationship
- I would love to be in the RAF or Police if I didn't work for the railways.
- I like Irish punk rock, and other more indie styles of music.
- I have the best 2 friends anyone could ever have, even though I don't live anywhere near either of them.
- I would love to visit New Zealand or Canada but am too scared of getting on a plane.
- I have Grade 5 Distinction in trumpet.

Over to someone else....

 

[mbonwick]

Umm...well....there's not all that much special that you don't know

• I'm forever being used as a sounding board to talk things over with people and offer advice
• I've managed to get about 6 friends interested in Railways and Buses
• I spend 2 hours a day on a Trident 2 to go to and from school
• I'm taking History, Geography, Spanish at GCSE
• I've never had a girlfriend, even though several girls would like to go out with me (it's complicated and I cba to explain)
• I'm in the CCF RAF section and I've got about 5hrs flighing in Grob Tutors.

I think that's just about all I can think of just now.

 

[Gizmogle]

I like Casualty.
I have very low self esteem.
I like all forums of piercing, tattooing and body modification.
I just got another ear piercing in my dinner break from college.
I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
I'm currently on a course for drop out troublemakers.
I hate getting my hands wet so, so much.
I'm obsessed with Final Fantasy VII for PS1.
I really like crossing things off lists and adding up numbers and stuff. This is the main reason that I track my mileage, number crunch and track my coverage.

 

[AlexS]

I have two cats, one fat and fluffy and one thin and shorthaired, and 2 rabbits, who are identical twins but are worlds apart in personality.

I spend a fair quantity of my spare time up railway signals or down holes.

I'm a station master at one of the largest preserved railway stations in Britain.

Nobody I know knows everything there is to know about me

 

[Bayum]

I really like crossing things off lists and adding up numbers and stuff. This is the main reason that I track my mileage, number crunch and track my coverage.

You already said that!!:grin:8)

Btw - why do we have two things for the big smiley face on the right?

 

[Gizmogle]

Oh, sorry, I wrote some when I was on my phone, but it gayed up and didn't let me post.

 

[Phoenix]

To be fair I told you guys the boring stuff soooo....
I have low confidence
I have great aspirations
I don't want to be anything in particular I just want to be happy and have a family.
Whenever a see very rare classes of loco's I sometimes get nervous before taking the picture.
My parents are divorced.
I have never been to Ireland and Scotland.
I don't like being in the ass end of nowhere it annoy's me.
I have never been able to use punctuation properly.

 

[Techniquest]

• I own all episodes of "Frasier" on DVD

Lucky you, I have to put up with trying to watch it on Paramount Comedy instead. Much easier to have them all on DVD I would imagine.

Random fact: I have all seasons of Family Guy on DVD.

Random fact 2: I use a Nokia 1112.

 

[bunnahabhain]

I say I know something when I don't, and when I know something I say I don't know it.

I'm always very happy unless there's nobody around, in which case I return to my default setting of neutral.

I hate TV soaps and watch Hollyoaks.

I tend to get really angry with people who don't seem to be as intelligent as me, and therefore are less able to work as fast as I can, and understand things as fast as I can, which is a really really bad habit I have.

I'm the Super Nazi Welly Monsters nemesis.

I tend to do strange things with tail lamps, from running with none, two, one of the drawhook, bardics and flashers on the rear in the past three years, always running with them lit during bright daylight; and I always aim to run with a lamp on the back of DMUs but refuse to have one on EMUs.

I like to do things differently to everybody else, purely because I can, this has normally involved making far more hard work for myself than would have been required.

I eat far too many cakes, and am more than happy to leave the train for a long time to get a Panino.

 

[Ilove165's]

I'm Sam,
19
From Yorkshire originally(belive it or not!)
Only recently got into trains....aviation is my thing
I'm 1/4 Italian
I have an extensive military background
Techno geek
Like reading
Not an outdoors-type person
Until last december, I was in the Army Cadet Force
A bit of a perfectionist....
Like Guinness

 

[Gizmogle]

I HATE getting my hands wet, so, so much.

 

[mbonwick]

I have low confidence, well I suppose I do
I have great aspirations..I think
I don't want to be anything in particular, just so long as I make a lot of money, am happy and have a family. But then, you don't know what hand life will deal you.
I'm 1/2 Scottish
Like: Reading, outdoors, buses
Love: Computers, trains, certain people...
Hardly ever watch TV, documentaries or the news is my thing.