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    Home > Lifestyle

    99 problems and spelling is one

    Jul 23, 2014 by Ian Carruthers | This post may contain affiliate links.

    So there seems to have been a little thing in blogland to tell readers about you in 50  useless facts, the latest being the wife's 51 useless fact. Now given that 52 uselessfacts doesn't roll of the tonuge and backwards is a direction I don't go in, I had to go over the top and go to 99. Now I started of thinking yeah easy, I though of loads, but then by the time I came to write it up I'd forgotten them all (see 79).

    1. I was born on a Friday at around 4pm
    2. I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering
    3. I taught myself plumbing, wiring and plastering
    4. I've refurbished two houses
    5. I want to build my own house
    6. I hate waste
    7. I want an electric car
    8. I want to rebuild a Landrover, or any car but I see Landrovers like mechano / lego
    9. I can't grow vegetables
    10. I can grow fruit, but alway miss ahrvesting it and feed the birds
    11. My only memories fo my first house (aged 3) are
      • Sitting in a washing basket on moving day
      • The cupboard under the stairs
    12. I have a tendency to try dangerous activities
    13. I get scared doing them
    14. I want a LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz Unimog
    15. I may be responsable for my 3yr old nephew's LEGO, he skipped Duplo and went for my LEGO Technic Mobile Crane
    16. My GCSE French result was higher than my English language
    17. I strive for perfection
    18. I don't always achieve the perfection I'm going for
    19. This annoys me
    20. Sometimes I take awesome photographs
    21. I don't like having my photo taken
    22. My music taste is like no other
    23. I once delivered cake to a Playmate at Silverstone MotoGP
    24. I'm fluent in several languages, not one of them spoken or conversational
    25. I can't sit still and relax
    26. I've only been paid to work one Saturday
    27. I've never been paid to work on a Sunday
    28. I a lot of the cooking in our house
    29. Half of that I make up as I go
    30. I'm still convinced that a dream about a tree falling down in my old street was real
    31. I don't like larger
    32. I could eat cheese all day
    33. I'd rather not wear shoes
    34. I don't like being to hot
    35. I don't like being cold
    36. Anything above 15 degrees is shorts weather
    37. I'd go 'off grid' to save my wallet first, the enviroment second
    38. I've eaten at 1,2 & 3 * restaurants
    39. I'd still have a bacon roll from a van at the side of the road
    40. I don't like poached salmon not even ala Heston
    41. I love smoked salmon
    42. I like strong tea
    43. I struggle to remember the first song at our wedding (Train, Drops of Jupiter)
    44. I always remember the last song (Rage Against the Machine, Killing in the Name)
    45. Bright sunlight makes me sneeze
    46. I've dived of all four coasts of the UK
    47. I own more specialsed (sporting) footware than normal shoes
    48. I don't like inefficiency
    49. Before the age of 15 I can't remember not spending my birthdays anywere other than at my Grandparents and up mountains
    50. I want a large plot of land on a hill with a stream, to build my house
    51. I can't type the t at the begining of a word that follows a word ending with t (that the: that he)
    52. 90% of my T-Shirts come from Decimal
    53. I can dress head to toe in North face
    54. All my trainers are Salomon
    55. My back won't let me have an Aston Martin DB9 and walk
    56. I want a fast car, I'd settle for a van
    57. My perminant residance has always been near the Thames or its tributries
    58. I learn't to talk with a Cumbrian accent I was living in Oxfordshire
    59. I was born on the banks of the Thames (not literally)
    60. I'm a country boy, I don't do cities
    61. I've never had a pet
    62. I have hair that grows like horns from the front of my head
    63. I have at least one bruise, cut or graze at any time
    64. I don't know where half of them come from
    65. I don't have a middle name
    66. I can't even think of going potholing, but I've happily dived in caves and shipwrecks
    67. I can't put things away unless they have a place to live
    68. I could never be vegatarian
    69. The temperature of my feet control my body comfort
    70. I work best with music playing
    71. I lost count of how many dives I'd done
    72. I had logged over 100 hrs of trimix rebreather diving
    73. I've serviced all of my own cars
    74. I hate the smell of cigarettes
    75. But like the smell of pipes and cigars
    76. I met my wife on a dive forum
    77. I don't like football
    78. Horses scare me
    79. I have a terrible short term memory
    80. I often read what I want to read not what it says
    81. I'll make life change decisions in an instant but can't decide what to have for dinner
    82. I like to take things apart to see how they work
    83. I can't always put them back together
    84. I shouldn't be left alone without something to keep me occupied
    85. I don't like going out without a watch
    86. I could drive a boat before I could drive a car
    87. I’m a terrible procrastinator
    88. I really don't like going back on things
    89. If I could once I start something I'd rather not stop until its finished
    90. I don't like to start thing I know I can't finish in one go
    91. I still love the randomness of our wedding music, bring your daughter to the slaughter and the imperial march (instrimental)
    92. Love it even more that no one picked up on it
    93. I'm half convinced I build a time machine in the future and come back
    94. I hate being late
    95. I don't like being so early I have to wait around for ages
    96. I get really restless if not occupied
    97. I'm competative, even if I don't win that often
    98. I want to learn something new everyday
    99. I often do

    So now you have the completly usless guide to me, it won't help you and you've just wasted a fair amount of time if you read all of them, not a problem if you like 87 🙂

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