Hello

[Mark Reynolds]

I found this forum through the Wikipedia link. Sorry my username isn’t terribly imaginative.

I live in the market town of Crickhowell, a bustling metropolis by the standards of Mid Wales, with over 2,000 inhabitants!

I recently turned thirty, which was something as a relief as people no longer expect me to actually like clubbing; an activity that I quickly learned combines the pleasures of being a battery chicken with being blinded by lasers and deafened by horrible music. And as an added bonus, there’s a fair chance that some drunk will decide you looked at him (or her) in a funny way and offer to allow you to partake in the quaint old tradition of a punch up.

I was first diagnosed with dyspraxia when I was about 12, so I haven’t really had the problem of making the adjustment to the diagnosis. I had the advantage of knowing why I was rubbish at woodwork and why I was the person team captains hoped they wouldn’t be stuck with during team sports at school.

My hobbies include:
computing/computer games
astronomy
fishkeeping
watching football
reading
writing - I've posted a couple of stories on another website, although I can't see myself ever making a career out of it.

My pet hates include:
John Prescott
Tourists who think that Wales and Scotland are part of England
Football managers who complain about the referee even when their team wins

[Greg]

Yay for wiki. Truely it belives it knows everything.

I object strongly to unimaginative usernames ;)

Wait a min...I have to wait 9 years before people will stop trying to make me go clubbing? Ach aye! Can't I just torch all of the clubs in the UK or somesuch?

Everyone likes computer games :D (Early on I realised my life goes more smoothly if I dictate everyone elses preferences to them)

Such tourists are in fact works of genius. Seriously it's endlessly amusing to befuddle them with the whole britian/england/UK thing. If they get it then you just start throwing history that mixes it up some more at them (the scots being an irish tribe and so on) Either their heads explode or they give up and avoid the subject ever again, whichever comes to pass you win.

I think you can complain about a ref even if you win. The same way you can resent someone setting fire to you even if you survive. I also think refs should set fire to people more often, there'd be much less violence in football...well in the long term. Most people know to disagree with what I think. I think these people are right to do so. This confuses them.

I'm not going to try to defend Mr Prescott. Even my twistey logic has it's limts.

Anyway, welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy yourself :)

[Mark Reynolds]

You can't burn down all the nightclubs in the country; you don't have enough matches And I can definatly think of one or two Premiership managers that referees would love to take a flamethrower to...

I don't think it takes much to get a tourist's head to explode. One time recently I was going for a walk on the towpath of my local canal, and a met a group of around twenty students who had spent the previous four hours walking by the canal without working out what that long stretch of water actually was...

[nick]

Hi mark, i have a realy unimaginative username as well, damm.

I have some bad news, i am 45 and people still expect me to enjoy clubbing, in fact i do, and it was only until i was thirty that i started to enjoy them.

[Greg]

That's not tourists, that's just students. All students exist in a prepetual daze that they use to protect themselves from reality. It's quite normal.

I should've been a boyscout. Then I could burn things down without resorting to matches :P

[Daniel]

Welcome to the forum, Mark! Finally someone who comes from a smaller hometown than me! (Mine is thought to be over 3000, yet despite its size I keep meeting people across the world who have been there and can recommend at least one of the town's pubs - scary!)

While I've been travelling I've come across the geographical ignorance of which you talk; the whole "north of London" meaning anything from Stratford upon Avon to Scotland, and I as with so many others live in the considerable swathe inbetween. (In my experience this ignorance extends to many native Londoners as much as tourists - although some Londoners on the forum might want to defend themselves against this snub, lol.) I don't take much interest in football but I do follow the world cup, even if Fuzzy (group mod) ensures I show no support for England

[nick]

Hi Daniel, we Londoners regard everything north of the Watford gap as the north and are therefore ignorant of it.

[david456]

Hi Mark,

Welcome to the forum

David