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1. My favourite drink is mead. 2. I collect heavy metal and prog rock LPs. 3. I play 2nd Edition Warhammer 40,000 4. I had to wear an eyepatch for a while. I suit it. 5. Although I have a driving licence I've never owned a car and I got my pilot.s licence before my driver's. 6. My family...

I'm the elder of two children by two years.

Sometimes. I'm not quite as impervious to the full horror of some of the stuff that goes on out in the world as I used to be. No longer 'comfortably numb'.

'A Life In Uniform: How To Save Money By Getting The Queen To Buy All Your Clothes' Or... 'Another One Off The List: One Man's Struggle To Be Everything He Wanted To Be When He Was Five.'

Today has been interesting. I'm at work and took my lunchbreak to accompany my wife to get scanned at the hospital. I now have on my desk the first sonar picture of the future Minion #1. Tonight is a drill night at the fire station, so I'm going to be busy most of the night, but I'm looking...

I just get a clipper cut. #4 on top, #3 on the sides. Not much scope for harm there. Not like when I get the barber to shave me. One thing I don't like, though, is when the barber is busy and I end up going to a unisex place and getting a woman to cut my hair. I never think women really...

Hmmm. Actually new, rather than merely 'available in a more advanced version'? Not much, in terms of household gadgets. I'm a child of the early '80s and most stuff that's around now was available back then, albeit sometimes in a very primitive version. That's almost disappointing, really. Bah.

My question was directed at the original poster, actually. Just for info, though, I'm not 'military offspring', I'm ex-military.

Are you asking why you hate the people who make your entire way of life possible because someone who wasn't one of those people abused you? If you are, I have no idea.

I have a few very close friends that I've known for a long time, including a couple I know from my flight training days, and lots of people that I get on with. I seem to make friends pretty easily among certain types of people.

I think it's less likely to be a failed coping mechanism than a deliberate choice to occupy a position of authority with easy access to children and vulnerable people. In many Catholic countries even the police are afraid of tackling the church, which is ridiculous. 'Render unto Caesar' and all...

With the stories coming out of Ireland, Belgium, France and the US (and pretty much everywhere it is present) it does seem that the Catholic clergy has become little more than a hiding place for paedophiles and other criminals.

Spinning

Blimey. Well, if old St. Malachy is right, the next one is the last...

Had a couple of call outs so far, including a fire at an industrial lab. I've got to say, this is pretty fun.

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Thanks, guys. I'm a retained firefighter (auxiliary firefighter, I think they're called in some places?) in the village (well, small town these days) where I live. It means I'm based in the station where my mum works full time in fire safety and inspection, which is kind of strange. My dad and...

Not well. Dreamed of the Army. Dreamed of smoke in the sky and empty rooms where people I used to know should have been.

Gung-ho.

Today I'm reading Dead Link Removed. It's a fairly harrowing account of the Piper Alpha disaster, the response to which was coordinated by the coastguard station I work at (about 20 years before my time, mind you). My dad was at that time in the department of the local police force that dealt...

I talk with my Gods fairly regularly, but I don't know if it's the same as what Christians call 'prayer', as it's a two-way thing. I tend to do it when I need advice on something or if I suddenly get the feeling that They have something to tell me.

The snow's been thawing here for two days. I hope we get some more. I like snow. I also like laughing my head off at the BBC reporting about folk completely flipping out about the slightest little flurry. Hundreds trapped overnight on the M6 because of half an inch of snow? I nearly choked on my...

Finished my basic firefighting course. I'm a fireman! Yay!

All soap is antibacterial. That's the whole point of soap. I don't use the foul-smelling stuff that's advertised as 'antibacterial', though. Smells too much like engine coolant or something for my liking. Probably is engine coolant, knowing what cosmetics companies are like. I mean, these are...

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