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54%, apparently, though I wasn't sure how to answer most of the questions. Not being an American, I don't use the same terminology or make my coffee in the same way. Coffee comes as a powder, is made by the mug-full, needs milk and sugar and I drink it at work because the water makes tea taste...

I think probably the childhood...unpleasantness...resulted in PTSD and a slightly perverse tendency to put myself in really nasty situations. The thing that actually led to my getting diagnosed was a largely unsuccessful rescue operation after a 'plane crash.

Courage, integrity, sacrifice, responsibility, honesty, experience, achievement and, if I'm honest, reputation. It's important to me to have pride in the things I've done and to let people know (subtly) that I've done them. That's why I sometimes wear a baseball cap with my corps badge on it...

Had a nice evening with my family, which meant xmas wasn't ruined by my being on watch all day.

Thankyou for that. There was a brief upset to my firefighting applecart when my heart rate went too high during part of the medical, but I did have tonsilitis at the time, so they're letting me in anyway. I start on the 9th.

I'm happy enough to use public bogs generally, but if there are other people I tend to use a cubicle. That way people can't take advantage my attention being focused on matters 'in hand', so to speak...

Can I have an option for 'all of the above'? Well, not quite, but pretty damned close, actually. I was never sexually assaulted as an adult and the one abduction attempt made on me was unsuccessful, but apart from that...all of the above.

Yikes! I imagine that stuff is probably illegal now. Loose glass fibers are very dangerous. Like deadly.

I saw Avenged Sevenfold once. They were supporting Iron Maiden at Twickenham. I'm open to all sorts of music, really, though I have a preference for music with an enjoyable melody and/or lyrics that tell an interesting story. As far as rock goes I don't really go for Alternative, prefering...

Having been, in my time, both a trooper and a sailor my vocabulary is colourful and lively to say the least. I don't think I could swear more without all my speech becoming an unbroken string of expletives.

I've worked. In the same job that caused it, too. That said, since I've joined the fire brigade my symptoms have almost completely disappeared. It's bizarre.

I fly, grow fruit and veg, make homebrew, study Hermetic literature and debate theological matters with The Wife. Sometimes I go shooting with friends. I have a fiddle I need to learn to play and I've been meaning to get into clockmaking but it's very expensive. At the moment I also play...

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That reminds me of a shout the pump I'll be joining attended at the house across the road from me a few months back. The old woman across the road had gone to the shops, apparently forgetting that she was halfway through cooking a meal. Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen...

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Christmas is my favourite holiday of the entire year. Alas, I'm on watch during the day, so the dinner (at my parents' house, as per tradition) will have to wait until the evening. My wife is considering following me down to the ops room in the afternoon and cooking something for the guys on...

Exhausted. Bored. Uncertain beyond that...

fingers! (don't ask)

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emergency

Navigation lights!

It makes even more sense if you know that the Americans bury their dead in plastic outer boxes that look a bit like septic tanks, as well as just the coffins.

Unfortunately, in my case, there was a very real possibility that the actions of me and my team could have caused the deaths of those people. I mean, we did everything we could, but so much in our work is a judgement call and you won't know if you got it right until later on. It was two days...

I don't find it difficult, when I want to, but I usually choose not to. Going around letting people know what you're feeling all the time is a bad move. It's a conscious decision, the same as not taking all my clothes off in front of people: I could, but there would be consequences, so I...