Lets get to know eachother a bit better.... cuz, well, why not?

[classicrawker]

3. How do you bring home the bacon? Engineering Manager for a famous audio/video company

Don't know if I've brought this up before, please tell me it isn't Bose.

Sorry but I have been sworn to secrecy............

1. Do you have any pets? Had cats before I got married but wife is allergic so no pets

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to? Met my wife on a two vacation tour of Egypt before the Middle East went completely sideways....and no she is not Egyptian as she was on the same tour as me

3. What's your favourite drink? Any kind of good wine

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? I ate a lot of unidentifiable stuff in China but it all tasted good

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? no idea

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? I am a big fan of Monet

7. Do you practise any sports? I played baseball until I had shoulder surgery for a partially torn rotator cuff now it is just golf

8. What's your dream place to visit? Cabo Wabo

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? My two daugthers...second would be working my way through Engineering school

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? Wish I had had children when I was younger

Edited October 13, 2015 by classicrawker

[AxlisOld]

Bose...

[username]

1. Do you have any pets?

Two huge cats (Maine Coons) and two bunnies. I've also had rats for about 15 years. If we ever have the space the Mrs would like having goats or chickens. I just want a dog. But only if we have enough time for it.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to?

So many places for so many reasons. The Canadian Rockies were just mindblowing, as was Yellowstone. I'll forever be in love with Scotland too. But man, Slovenia (Bled, Piran), Zakynthos in Greece, London, Berlin, the French Alps... So much beauty!

3. What's your favourite drink?

Whisky. Especially single malt Scotch. But I love craft beer and fine wine as well.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten?

Probably Haggis. I was so scared to try it, but I absolutely loved it. Delicious stuff!

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be?

Can I just be a hot chick for a day and masturbate my brains out? I'm actually quite content with my undoubtedly flawed looks.

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry?

My favorite pieces of art are music. When I was 13 we had a school trip to an art museum that happened to have an exposition of pee-sex pictures at the time. Having to hear your teacher spend 10 minutes explaining how artsy the picture of the woman peeing in the guys mouth is, is just... traumatizing.

But since then I did find out that I quite like things like Van Gogh, Escher, Dali... And photography really.

7. Do you practise any sports?

At the moment it's mainly running. And not as much as I'd like. Played football for years and I also did a lot of inline skating as a hobby. I miss that. Some long tours ice skating occasionally. If weather permits..

8. What's your dream place to visit?

Again, so many. I'm planning trips to Iceland, the national parks in Utah/Nevada/Arizona, a trip through California, one in Norway. Many places to go.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment?

Generally just working to where I am now, on my own. Finishing uni, my job, our house etc. Nothing handed, everything earned.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life?

Winning the lottery would be nice. Mildly more realistic I wouldn't mind a bigger house with a fair bit of land around it, but still close to the city (10 km max).

[Chris1989]

I'm not an audio guy, so what's wrong with Bose?

[Powerage5]

1. Do you have any pets?

2 dachshunds, a bearded dragon, and an Amazon parrot

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to?

So many choices. For rural, it's gotta be Norway - nothing more beautiful than being up in the mountains there. For urban, probably either St. Petersburg or Istanbul.

3. What's your favourite drink?

Beer.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten?

I love exotic meats. Most interesting is probably either Ostrich or Kangaroo.

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be?

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry?

I'm really not up to snuff on poetry or art. So I'll go ahead and say the painting of the two lesbians in Grand Budapest Hotel.

7. Do you practise any sports?

Bowling

8. What's your dream place to visit?

Again, so many choices. China is high on my list and I'll be crossing that off next year. Others I REALLY want to get to are Australia, Iceland, and Cuba.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment?

Probably just how much of the world I've managed to see at my age.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life?

Wish I were more outgoing.

[SoulMonster]

1. What's your real (first) name? Trond.

2. Where are you from? Farsund, Norway. Live in Trondheim, Norway.

3. How do you bring home the bacon? I work as a CEO for a small biotech cmpany that I co-founded som years ago. I also have a small basement business.

4. Are you married, dating or single? Married with two small girls (5 and 3).

5. What's your excuse for spending too much time on here? I like being here. No need to excuse that. When I don't have time I am not here.

6. Justin Bieber. Pity or punch? Neither. He is insignificant to me.

7. Do you play a musical instrument? I play the guitar and sing, sort of.

8. What would your closest friend or partner say is your best/worst trait? Hmm... Generous and never stressed. Impatient, annoying.

9. Tell us an embarrassing pastime.... I don't think I have any. Or maybe I am unable to be embarassed about something? Probably spending time here and on Appetite for Discussion (AFD). Well, having made AFD and all the time I have put into it is in itself probably a cause of embarassment to some people.

10. Do you actually like Guns N Roses? Absolutely. I loved them as a kid, now I just like them. The drama has surpassed the music, for me.

1. Do you have any pets? Various ornamental reef fish and animals. We have also started feeding a neighbourhood cat that comes by our house occasionally.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to? Borneo.

3. What's your favourite drink? Coca cola.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? Probably unripe almonds in salt. But it was interesting due to the context of where I ate it and not necessarily the food itself. To people outside of Norway, probably rakfisk.

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? A more handsome version of myself?

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? I'd have to go with the discography of Beatles. Then probably the LOTR books. I am not high-brow in my art tastes

7. Do you practise any sports? Just running and biking.

8. What's your dream place to visit? Anywhere I haven't been before, preferably with jungles. So large tracts of South America and Asia.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? I'd like to say my daughters, but I feel only partly responsible for how they have turned out so far. Probably choosing to found my own company rather than take an offered post doc position, and then hanging in there in the valley of death when things were bleak, and now reaching some important market achievment and getting recognition for it. Also fixing the fucking Polish piece of shit automatic garage door.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? The inevitable slumbering march forward towards old age and death.

Edited October 14, 2015 by SoulMonster

[Gracii Guns]

1. Do you have any pets? A hamster called Bo. After Saint Princess Agnes of Bohemia.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to? Barcelona.

3. What's your favourite drink? White Russians. It's basically a pudding.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? Barracuda.

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? Christina Hendricks or anyone else with flawless hair 100% of the time,

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? Choosing a single favourite is hard, but right now I'm appreciating Salvador Dali's experimental work with crosses and crucifix.

7. Do you practise any sports? Cake marathons.

8. What's your dream place to visit? I'd like to meet Dirty Deeds. Otherwise, New York.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? Basically a few things happened surrounding my mum's death, which some people really wouldn't have coped with well- to the point where they'd be putting their lives on hold and become reliant on medical help. I got through all that ok.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? Right now, I'd like a sense of purpose.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Gracii Guns

[Orsys]

10 more questions to get to know each other even better.

1. Do you have any pets? Cat died of cancer recently. may get more cats. I'm allergic but can tolerate it for what you get from a relationship with cats.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to? Hmmm, tie between Tanzania and Kauii

3. What's your favourite drink? Mojitos but a pain to make. So a nice white wine sometimes. Water usually.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? rattlesnake

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? Maybe Cindy Crawford but might not like all the attention.

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? I have a few Eschers that still grab my attention

7. Do you practise any sports? Not team sports. Just walk and hike a lot.

8. What's your dream place to visit? So many places. China, Croatia, Jordan, Italy

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? My son

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? Remove all the pain and suffering in my family for the last two years. And reducing stress from my job, but that's in the works! And maybe make me 30 again.

[Len Cnut]

1 - no pets

2 - nowhere

3 - favorite drink? Uh...not sure, I'll have most things. Dont like fuckin' Guava flavoured anything, Guava, Grapefruit, cant be having em.

4 - Cant think of anything to be honest, all pretty normal type food, maybe octopus or something, which aint that fuckin' different

5 - Bruce Lee physique-wise, maybe Muhammad Ali.

6 - Ballad of Reading Gaol, Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac, most anything by William Blake, Easter 1916, loads of things, love poetry

7 - No, fuck that, i aint moving, you must be off your tits!

8 - Anfield, 1989, Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2

'Its Thomas! Its up for grabs now...Thomas! '

9 - Dunno, I've not done fuck all really!

10 - I'd like to have Arsenals goalscoring record.

[Graeme]

1. What's your real (first) name? Graeme
2. Where are you from? Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (But I grew up in Ayrshire).
3. How do you bring home the bacon? Currently a night-shift stock handler at a clothes shop, but I'm leaving on Friday to start studying for a PhD in Volcanology.
4. Are you married, dating or single? Single
5. What's your excuse for spending too much time on here? I like it here.
6. Justin Bieber. Pity or punch? Ignore...?
7. Do you play a musical instrument? I play guitar, sing and write songs. I once played the trombone live in front of 2000 people, but I gave it up.
8. What would your closest friend or partner say is your best/worst trait? I'm very loyal and affectionate/If I dislike or am bored by something, I'm not good at feigning enthusiasm at all.
9. Tell us an embarrassing pastime... I love reading TVTropes pages.
10. Do you actually like Guns N Roses? Yeah, love all eras, but I developed a strong attachment to the post '06 era of the band after enjoying their gigs. I'm not interested in a reunion.

1. Do you have any pets? No, used to have tropical fish.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever travelled to? The summit of Evermann Volcano on Isla Socorro, an island 700 miles off the West coast of Mexico, it's owned by the Mexican military, so you can only go there as a researcher under naval escort. No tourists allowed. None of the wildlife is scared of people, so there're multi-coloured parrots in the trees that will just come down and sit next to your head. Or the crater of El Chichon Volcano in the south of Mexico, there's a huge, green, bubbling lake of acid in the middle of it, and it's so remote, it took us three days of travelling to get there (including the hardest climb I have ever had to do, in the dark and in 35 degree heat).

3. What's your favourite drink? Coca-Cola with lime cordial.

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? I eat haggis a lot, so I don't know that it counts... I once ate grasshopper with chocolate sauce, but I thought it was mushrooms.

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? Temple-of-Doom era Harrison Ford?

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? Tam O' Shanter by Robert Burns

7. Do you practise any sports? I walk, run, swim and cycle. My favourite sport is Short Tennis, tennis on a badminton court with a sponge ball. It's tough to find the facilities though.

8. What's your dream place to visit? Volcan Nevado del Ruiz, Tolima/Caldas, Colombia.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? I've wanted to be a volcanologist since I was 3 years old, getting my Masters' degree in volcanology was a big one.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? Ask the first girl I fancied out at age 14, rather than 21.

[SoulMonster]

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Edited October 14, 2015 by SoulMonster

[Len Cnut]

I once played the trombone live in front of 2000 people,

Is that what they call it in Scotland?

I've wanted to be a volcanologist since I was 3 years old, getting my Masters' degree in volcanology was a big one.

How does a three yr old know what volcanology is?!?

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Starship Enterprise, obviously!

[Graeme]

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Lancaster University in Northwest England. It's got one of the best Volcanology departments in Europe .

I've wanted to be a volcanologist since I was 3 years old, getting my Masters' degree in volcanology was a big one.

How does a three yr old know what volcanology is?!?

I watched the Disney film Fantasia and the visualisation to the Rite of Spring was the formation of the earth, lots of volcanoes. My parents noticed that I would keep asking to see that bit again and again, so my Dad started taping documentaries about volcanoes off the TV for me, and from that moment on, I was more-or-less hooked. I have memories of making a volcano out of chairs in my parents' first house.

[SoulMonster]

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Lancaster University in Northwest England. It's got one of the best Volcanology departments in Europe .

I suppose there will be quite a few field trips?

[Dazey]

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Lancaster University in Northwest England. It's got one of the best Volcanology departments in Europe .

I suppose there will be quite a few field trips?

It's also only a short distance from Old Trafford.

[Len Cnut]

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Lancaster University in Northwest England. It's got one of the best Volcanology departments in Europe .

I suppose there will be quite a few field trips?

It's also only a short distance from Old Trafford.

Ugh, theres a good reason not to go right there, fuckin' shithole.

[Johnny Drama]

1. Do you have any pets? Nah animals are gay.

2. What's the coolest place you've ever traveled to? Adelaide. Love a place that is closed by half 6.

3. What's your favourite drink? Jameson/Glenmorangie Lasanta/Arrack/Pale Ale

4. Most interesting thing you've eaten? Cock and Balls

5. If you could look like another person, who would it be? I'll stick with Orsys suggestion and go with Cindy Crawford. I'd strum myself instead of a guitar.

6. Favourite piece of art or poetry? "Any hole's the goal".

7. Do you practise any sports? I lift things and put them down.

8. What's your dream place to visit? India, 'Murica, Japan, Europe.

9. What's your proudest accomplishment? I used to work as a casual store assistant. Got callouses on my palms now.

10. What's the one thing you'd want to change in your life? Finally finished with studying and a penis that was smaller so I didn't have to store it externally of my pants.

Really cool you'll be doing a PhD in vulcanology. Where will you take it?

Lancaster University in Northwest England. It's got one of the best Volcanology departments in Europe .

I suppose there will be quite a few field trips?

It's also only a short distance from Old Trafford.

Ugh, theres a good reason not to go right there, fuckin' shithole.

Man U is only a plus or minus a letter from anus, so you're not half wrong yeah.

[Len Cnut]

And two letters from manure

[The Real McCoy]

I can't remember if I've ever filled this out or not...

Regardless, you folks probably know far too much about me the way that it is!

[SoulMonster]

I can't remember if I've ever filled this out or not...

Regardless, you folks probably know far too much about me the way that it is!

A really decent guy with a few neuroses and lack of self-esteem who has finally started to get some of the love and happiness that destiny really owed you after years of being mistreated? And yeah, an unaware gay.

[DR DOOM]

I really enjoy masturbating with one of my thumbs up my ass...I call it "TURBO"

[wasted]

1. We'll make great pets.

2. Shangri-la

3. Nothing like a cold beer on a hot day.

4. Marmite.

5. A young Monica Bellucci.

6. The day I fucked the alarm clock - The Buk

7. Kinect Sports Volleyball

8. San Francisco.

9. 15000 gamerscore points

10. Eat more Papa John's pizza.

[Johnny Drama]

I really enjoy masturbating with one of my thumbs up my ass...I call it "TURBO"

Thumb Up Rear Bottom Orifice?

[Len Cnut]

*stands up and applauds*

You're an artist Drama, a fuckin' artist!

[Dazey]

I really enjoy masturbating with one of my thumbs up my ass...I call it "TURBO"

Thumb Up Rear Bottom Orifice?

I always called it a pokey bum wank but then maybe that's just me.