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Pistol Pete

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About Me

I have now joined the other Canvey Island refugees and live in Westcliff, on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, which is about 30 miles east of London. I also head tup' North one or two weekends per month to visit my Mum who lives between Barnsley and Sheffield. I am a Control Systems Engineer, which I have been doing since October 2001. We are specialists in Machinery & Process Control, Building Automation & Surveillance System Technology. Before that, I worked for HSBC for just over 4 years. I love my girlfriend, my friends and my family, jokes and laughter, Manchester United, football in general, Christmas dinner, beer, JD or Captain Morgan & Coke, cups of tea, shortbread biscuits, crisps (potato chips), going on vacation, visiting new places, snowboarding through fresh powder, sunrises/sunsets, the sound of an American V8, listening to loud music, other people's mullets, rollercoasters, and speed (not the drug).
Rooooooney!! (I was at this game)
Champions League Final 1999, to win the Treble. Also the first time I said the F-word in front of my Dad - "F**king hell, I can't believe it!! Oops, sorry."
Magical! I hate Chav scum, thugs, football hooligans, racists, teenagers on scooters, the EU and it's political correctness mumbo jumbo, Tony Blair and George W Bush (dumb & dumber), Michael Schumacher, cling film, Liverpool FC, BMW drivers, drivers who 'straight line' a roundabout (you've picked a lane, now stay in it and don't cut people up!), speed cameras, bands that are up their own arses, txt spk, tHe mYspAce tHinG oF pUtTinG cApiTaL leTterS iN tHe miDdle oF wOrdS (what's that all about?) Vanessa Feltz, Jordan/Katie Price, X-Factor, WWE Wrestling, Crazy Frog, Oasis, lottery winners (it should be my turn!).
Watched this ..........................thought this! My ambitions are to learn to play guitar, continue to learn piano / keyboard, be fluent in another language, get my motorbike license, see all the states in the US on a Harley, tour Australia, see the Great Wall of China, see the rest of the World, take up some sort of motor racing, see a Monaco Grand Prix & Indy 500, have my 15 minutes of fame..... Oh, and World peace

My Interests

As a big Manchester United fan I try to go up to Old Trafford for as many games as I can. I also like to watch my local team, Southend United.
Other pastimes of mine include playing football and squash with friends (although I'm not very good), watching most kinds of motorsport, listening to music (loud preferably), going to gigs, travel and learning about the World, playing pool, playing Texas Hold'Em, bowling, going to the cinema, eating out, and socialising with friends a lot.

I'd like to meet:

The Hoff, Joe Mangel, Pele, any of the 1966 World Cup winning squad, Mohammad Ali, Alex Zanardi, Helen Chamberlain, Kiera Knightley, Natalie Portman, Amanda Tapping, Rebekah Teasdale. However, I'm sure that I'd be star-stuck and wouldn't know what to say to them.

I also want to meet The A-Team, like JLC did!

Music:

Rock and Metal (old and new), plus a bit of Punk, Hardcore, Indie, Ska, Hip-Hop and House: ..
Story of the Year - Taste of Chaos International 2005 (very funny!)
Story Of The Year
Thrice
Bullet For My Valentine
Boy Sets Fire
Thursday
Coheed And Cambria
Stretch Arm Strong
Fall Of Troy
Killswitch Engage
Trivium
Sick Of It All
Comeback Kid
Terror
Madball
Rage Against The Machine
Deftones
Alexisonfire
Feneral For A Friend
My Chemical Romance
Incubus
Queens Of A Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Guns N Roses
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Hawkwind
Jimi Hendrix
Queen
The Who
Pink Floyd
Velvet Revolver
Seether
The Darkness
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rival Schools
Hundred Reasons
Sum 41
Kasabian
Hot Hot Heat
Kings Of Leon
The Strokes
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
Maroon 5
Snow Patrol
Blur
Green Day
311
Less Than Jake
Real Big Fish
Bloodhound Gang
De La Soul
Cypress Hill
Beastie Boys

Movies:

The Matrix
Star Wars
The Italian Job (original)
The Great Escape
Quadrophenia
2001 : A Space Odyssey
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Fight Club
Sin City
Kill Bill
Battle Royale
Layer Cake
Lock Stock
Pulp Fiction
Swordfish
the Die Hards
Team America
Mr Deeds
Ali G Indahouse
Austin Powers
Wayne's World
Bill & Ted

Television:

24
Lost
Prison Break
Hustle
ER
Star Treks
Stargate SG1
Malcolm In The Middle
Little Britain
Family Guy
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Top Gear
That 70's Show
Extras
Friends
Neighbours
Dream Team
Match Of The Day
Soccer Am
and you can't go wrong with repeats of Fresh Prince, MacGyver, Knight Rider and A-Team (I grew up watching them!)

Books:

Anything by David Morrell or Tom Clancy. Although I'm currently reading The Da Vinci Code. I also read a lot of magazines (not the top shelf kind, before your dirty mind runs away with you!).

Heroes:

Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Alex Zanardi, any Manchester United player (past and present) especially those of the Munich air crash on 6th February 1958, and the 1966 World Cup winning squad.