Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2000 Edition
The Physical:
Your name: Noelle
Your online/nickname: noelle, nollichu, nollipop.....etc
Web page url: www.fetishsteel.demon.co.uk/noelle
Age: 20
Birthday/birthplace: 23/05/79 Todmorden
Gender: female
Location: Todmorden: Still stuck in the blinkin' place
Height/weight: 5'5" / 7st 8lb
Current haircolour/style: waistlength straight in black/white/purple/lilac streaks, neon purple fringe.
Natural hair colour: ash blonde
Eye colour: odd blue/green/grey kind of shade
Piercings/tattoos: 21 piercings
Religion: Anxiety. It's a way of life.
Siblings: One brother and a sister
Children: !!!!!
Relationship status: Happily matched
Occupation: Undergrad English Student, circuit board design/manufacture
Pets: One randy tomcat called Dante
Computer you are on: Souped-up Celeron 266
Favourites:
Books/authors/type of literature: Sci/Fi general, Pratchett, Romantic (Period, not Mills and Boon!) Victorian, Modernist...And so on...
Magazines: More! Bizarre, Skin Deep, MBR
Movies/directors/actors...: Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Wes Snipes, Johnny Depp
Poems/poets: Coleridge, Wordsworth, e.e.cummings, Eliot
Television shows: Buffy (of course!) PokEmon, Simpsons, Fast Show, Anything with cute animals (Animal Hospital, etc)
Radios/radio shows: Used to be Talk Radio, but Talk Sport is useless before 10pm now, tortured at work by Radio 1, which everybody has on their workbenches
Songs: Faaaar too many to even start
Bands/musicians: As above, but today's were: VNV, ECO, FLA, CJ Bolland, Lucid, Wumpscut
Paintings/artists/work of art...: Pretty ignorant in this department, but Dali is suitably strange
Games: Lemmings Paintball, Dungeon Keeper 2
Places to visit: Plymouth, London, Berlin
Food and drinks: Lots of. Especially chocolate. But Mexican, Chinese, Italian and Microwave are top. And Voddie.
Colours: Purple, silver, white, purple, black, pink and purple.
Miscellaneous Questions:
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.gothic.fashion, rec.music.industrial
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Mancgoff (Or at least I was. Help, Alex!!! 
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How long have you been reading upg: About 18 months
What has been your favorite thread on upg: Pass
What are some of your hobbies: Kickboxing, Thai boxing, veggie cooking, hair fiddling, Mountain- biking, writing.
What's the motto you adhere to:
"Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, don't matter a bit. I have had plenty of each and they have only encouraged me." Jeanette Winterson.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Bending my thumb backwards until it touches my wrist.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Writing professionally, lecturing?
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: More confidence in public speaking
What do you think is your best asset: Open-mindedness
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Shyness and quietness, not staying in contact with people enough.
What do you value most in a friend: Patience, understanding (for when I forget to call them!) intelligence
What do you hate most in others: People who engage their mouth before their brain has even had a chance to warm up.
How do you picture upg:
A large boxing-ring with several 'mums' and 'girlfriends' on the sidelines with fire extinguishers for the flames, and/or brick-laden handbags to join in.
Any question you would like added: