Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Graham Richardson

Your online/nickname: ^Erased^ (used on IRC and ICQ)

Web page URL: http://website.lineone.net/~erased/graham/index.html (under construction!)

Age: 19

Birthday: 27/04

Gender: male

Location: East Kilbride (just South of Glasgow), Scotland

Height/weight: 6'01' / 11stn (buggered if I know it in metric)

Current haircolour/style: red/brown - short and unfortunately curly in style
 

Natural hair colour: red/brown

Eye colour: green

Religion: none

Siblings: 1 sister

Children: none

Relationship status: lets just say distant

Occupation: part-time retail slave until funds to return to college are available

Pets: 1 dog called 'Lucky' (ironic as all his siblings died young)

Computer you're on: PC, PII-333

Favorites

Books: Pretty much anything by Frank Herbert and Douglas Adams. Also 'Sybil' and 'Flowers in the Attic'.

Movies: Shallow Grave and Pulp Fiction

Poems: I write them now and again but rarely read other peoples. My friend, Summer, is good if that counts.

Television shows: Just films really, it's mostly crap

Songs: 'This Corrosion', 'Our House', '13X Forever', 'Heroin Lite', 'Knives'.. etc etc - I could go on all day.

Bands/musicians: The Horatii, Garbage, Depeche Mode, Narcissus Pool, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Japan, NIN, Die Laughing, Orgy, Rosetta Stone, Joy Division, Madness (bet ya didn't expect that one :) - more, but my hands grow tired so I'll shut up.

Board games: I always lose at them so none of the bloody things.

Computer games: Quake 2 and a natty little shareware thing called X-Evil

Other games: The Eye Contact Game - you walk through a busy shopping mall and make eye contact with, and thus freak out, as many people as you can. First person to get the shit kicked out of them by an irate passer-by wins! ;)

Magazines: Naked Truth

Places to visit: London

Food: Toast

Colours: black, purple

Drinks: tea, Aftershock, milk, vodka (not all at once)

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: none

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: allegedly Scot-goth (or whatever the name is) but I think I've been dropped.

How long have you been reading UPG: since March

What has been your favorite thread on UPG: any that don't concern bloody american gun controls (or lack thereof)

What are some of your hobbies: reading, IRC, HTML, going out (when I have money - ie. not often), searching shops for bigger and better boots

What's the motto you adhere to: don't eat anything you can't pronounce, try drinking it though ;)

What's is your personal stupid human trick: letting my nails grow to long and tearing them off painfully by accident (not exactly a trick but human and stupid)

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: being with a certain Karine. also something that'll make me more money than what i'm doing now! However, i think i'll probably just be sitting worrying about being 30 and still flat broke.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: a second language

What do you think is your best asset: my considerable tallness

What do you think is the worst thing about you: my quiet voice

What do you value most in a friend: trust

How do you picture UPG: like a big messy...uh.... thing. with useful bits of info stuck to it in places. okay, forget that - go on to the next bit. :P

Do you have another question: does anyone actually really want to know this junk about me?