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So... yes... a profile type thing.... bear in mind this will be a work in progress for a while... Also bear in mind I'm a physicist and therfore rubbish at writing...
I'm currently a physics student at Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall, so not quite as posh as the rest of the uni). My actual home is in Surrey, but I assure you that despite the above I am actually a normal person, and not some kind of overly posh twat (or at least I don't act like one).
Being a student (and therefore lazy) I'll be on at entirely random times, generally lurking in QOTW, OT, and links, and very occasionally (i.e. once...) putting something badly made on Board.
Despite being a student, I'm generally sensible, which is probably mainly due to not being able to drink massive amounts due to various medications (2 permanent problems, both diagnosed within the last 6 months (well, more recently than that but I don't want to have to update this). This may explain the lack of good stories for QOTW's so far.
Oh yeh, having just made a totally androgynous profile (even the physics at Oxford bit isn't as gender-unbalanced as you'd think, about 60/40 from a quick scan of the lecture theatre), I'm a bloke, couldn't think of a subtle way to shoehorn it in there
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So... yes... a profile type thing.... bear in mind this will be a work in progress for a while... Also bear in mind I'm a physicist and therfore rubbish at writing...
I'm currently a physics student at Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall, so not quite as posh as the rest of the uni). My actual home is in Surrey, but I assure you that despite the above I am actually a normal person, and not some kind of overly posh twat (or at least I don't act like one).
Being a student (and therefore lazy) I'll be on at entirely random times, generally lurking in QOTW, OT, and links, and very occasionally (i.e. once...) putting something badly made on Board.
Despite being a student, I'm generally sensible, which is probably mainly due to not being able to drink massive amounts due to various medications (2 permanent problems, both diagnosed within the last 6 months (well, more recently than that but I don't want to have to update this). This may explain the lack of good stories for QOTW's so far.
Oh yeh, having just made a totally androgynous profile (even the physics at Oxford bit isn't as gender-unbalanced as you'd think, about 60/40 from a quick scan of the lecture theatre), I'm a bloke, couldn't think of a subtle way to shoehorn it in there
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» The most childish thing you've done as an adult
Last summer
Me and my friends made a trebuchet in my garden (we have a nice big field that doubles rather well as a target range). That's not really childish, just geeky.
What was childish was sending Dave to clear up the water balloons we'd been throwing while it was armed. To reassure him we stood well away so that there was no way we could set it off.
Well, there would have been no way if we hadn't:
Extended the firing cord
Tied it around someones leg.
A quick jerk of the leg later, and a water balloon arcs its way over to Dave, who was now standing in the dead centre of where the balloons had been falling all day.
Got him right on the arse. He never quite trusted us again after that
(Thu 17th Sep 2009, 17:48, More)
Last summer
Me and my friends made a trebuchet in my garden (we have a nice big field that doubles rather well as a target range). That's not really childish, just geeky.
What was childish was sending Dave to clear up the water balloons we'd been throwing while it was armed. To reassure him we stood well away so that there was no way we could set it off.
Well, there would have been no way if we hadn't:
Extended the firing cord
Tied it around someones leg.
A quick jerk of the leg later, and a water balloon arcs its way over to Dave, who was now standing in the dead centre of where the balloons had been falling all day.
Got him right on the arse. He never quite trusted us again after that
(Thu 17th Sep 2009, 17:48, More)
» I'm your biggest Fan
Not me.... but my sister.....
My sister has always been a helpful person, so, when she saw someone looking lost on the streets of out local town, offered to help out. She takes him where he's heading to (some slightly upmarket bar place), they get chatting, and he mentions that he's going to be on the Top of the Pops thats on telly that afternoon.
Now this was a fair few years ago, and my sister was into various pop, including Savage Garden (who I even grudgingly admitted were not too bad). Darran Hayes, one of the members, had just changed style from being rather long haired to short haired, and looking completely different in the process.
You can see where this is going.
She watches, being somewhat taken by this random person she met (though he was a fair bit older), is somewhat dissapointed when she can't see him in the crowd for the first few songs.
Then Savage Garden come on.
I could hear the shriek from the attic.
Hope she's not on b3ta
(Thu 16th Apr 2009, 22:33, More)
Not me.... but my sister.....
My sister has always been a helpful person, so, when she saw someone looking lost on the streets of out local town, offered to help out. She takes him where he's heading to (some slightly upmarket bar place), they get chatting, and he mentions that he's going to be on the Top of the Pops thats on telly that afternoon.
Now this was a fair few years ago, and my sister was into various pop, including Savage Garden (who I even grudgingly admitted were not too bad). Darran Hayes, one of the members, had just changed style from being rather long haired to short haired, and looking completely different in the process.
You can see where this is going.
She watches, being somewhat taken by this random person she met (though he was a fair bit older), is somewhat dissapointed when she can't see him in the crowd for the first few songs.
Then Savage Garden come on.
I could hear the shriek from the attic.
Hope she's not on b3ta
(Thu 16th Apr 2009, 22:33, More)
» PE Lessons
I went to a somewhat posh school
This meant that rugby and cricket were taken ludicrously seriously. Being 6' by the time I arrived (in 1st form (year 7 in the state reckoning)) meant that I started in the B team in rugby. Despite my total lack of interest, ability or speed. I was down to the Cs by the first match, proceeded to do sod all, and was in the socials by the end of the first term.
After a couple years of throwing the short kids around (my record was getting one person from the try line to the one behind it), the school offered another choice. Fencing.
Which was perfect, I generally enjoy combat sports (done my fair share of martial arts), so I took to it rather well.
Those complaining about injuries in rugby or football dont know pain until you have seen a man take a running fléche (probably spelt wrongly, but basically a leaping/running attack with the sword stuck out infront of you) right to the nads, during a badly timed lunge (so both comatants were moving at a fair lick), He spent the next 10 minutes writhing in agony on the floor.
This choice also let me get an A at French, working on the assumption that if you could make the teachers laugh enough they wouldnt notice the mistakes in the oral, I memorised the following line:
"J'aime l'escrime, pace que je peux poignarder des autres personnes et m'echapper belle"
Which, roughly translated, means "I like fencing, because I can stab other people and get away with it"
Length? Well, it wasnt just my height that grew early...
(Thu 19th Nov 2009, 23:32, More)
I went to a somewhat posh school
This meant that rugby and cricket were taken ludicrously seriously. Being 6' by the time I arrived (in 1st form (year 7 in the state reckoning)) meant that I started in the B team in rugby. Despite my total lack of interest, ability or speed. I was down to the Cs by the first match, proceeded to do sod all, and was in the socials by the end of the first term.
After a couple years of throwing the short kids around (my record was getting one person from the try line to the one behind it), the school offered another choice. Fencing.
Which was perfect, I generally enjoy combat sports (done my fair share of martial arts), so I took to it rather well.
Those complaining about injuries in rugby or football dont know pain until you have seen a man take a running fléche (probably spelt wrongly, but basically a leaping/running attack with the sword stuck out infront of you) right to the nads, during a badly timed lunge (so both comatants were moving at a fair lick), He spent the next 10 minutes writhing in agony on the floor.
This choice also let me get an A at French, working on the assumption that if you could make the teachers laugh enough they wouldnt notice the mistakes in the oral, I memorised the following line:
"J'aime l'escrime, pace que je peux poignarder des autres personnes et m'echapper belle"
Which, roughly translated, means "I like fencing, because I can stab other people and get away with it"
Length? Well, it wasnt just my height that grew early...
(Thu 19th Nov 2009, 23:32, More)