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Andy

Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.

About Me

Where to start?! Originally from Lindfield in West Sussex (near Brighton - don't worry, no one's heard of it), I managed to break free from its vice-like grip (not too dissimilar to that of the Spa's...) and went to Uni at Warwick. Finished that, got a boring job, got scared of the real world, so went back to Uni. Now I'm in my last year of a Ph.D. and am dreading having to go back to what I know will be a depressing 40 years of work.

I am also the least sure-footed person you could ever meet. I can trip over anything and generally do. Even flat ground. Flip flops are no friend of mine.

My Interests

Anything that gets me out of the house. I get bored very easily and have quite a short attention-span. Oh look... a blackbird.....So yeah, pretty much anything that keeps me occupied. I imagine I was a terrible child to parent.

I'd like to meet:

Boris Johnson, Stephen Fry and Fearne Cotton. Not at the same time though.

Seeing as I'm here, this chap as well (I'd like to make it clear that I hate football though)

My friends...
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After hours at Moo...

Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday night...)

Chav night, innit...

Music:

THIS SONG PLAYING RIGHT NOW. THAT'S RIGHT; THE SOUND COMING OUT OF YOUR SPEAKERS

Other than that, too much to mention - I can list the stuff I hate though: Jangly Rock (U2), any form of 80s/soft rock (U2 again?). Oh, and James Blunt, but that's a given.

Movies:

Taxi Driver, The Elephant Man, The Untouchables, The Usual Suspects, The Game (bloody brilliant), Memento, Eternal Sunshine, Lost in Translation, The Fifth Element, Meet The Parents (You tried to milk him, didn't you you sick son of a bitch?) , Zoolander (Mer-man....MER-MAN), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (sounds dirty, sadly isn't), 24 Hour Party People (I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think), 25th Hour (the sequel to 24 Hour Party People?), Made (just for the Screech cameo), Shaun of the Dead. A Cock and Bull Story (just watched that - brilliant). The Royal Tenenbaums (That's the last time you put a knife in me! Y'hear me?), Wihnail & I (There is a certain 'je ne sais quoi' about a firm, young carrot...)

Television:

Peep Show (She's ignoring me. Of course, she's ignoring me. I sent her a swastika.), Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name Is Earl, anything with Alan Partridge in (I mean ANYTHING), Lost, 24, Family Guy, Hollyoaks, Futurama ("Why'd you open your bong hole you smelly hippy? You'd sacrifice a beautiful woman to save a moderately attractive monkey?"), B.B. (I make no apologies for this), Bad Lads Army: Extreme (who thinks up these things? Genius). Jesus - I nearly forgot Spaced. How rude (Get off me you bummer!). Brasseye/The Day today ("Your child could be splatted... by a roboplegic wrongcock"). I'm sure there are plenty more, but I don't want to give the impression I do nothing but watch TV (sometimes I record Big Brother. Oh, the shame).

My Blog

What's happened to the world...?

This is why I hate all forms of small town media. Be it newspapers, local radio stations or the five minute "local" news at 6pm. What's the point? Welcome to my world. We have... All-seeing cats... ...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:14:00 PST

Jane Mills...

A real book, available from your nearest book shop&. Maybe. I haven't actually checked.   Did anyone else have anything like this at school? All we got was a naked family running around the beac...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:03:00 PST

Shit TV...

Why do I watch Deal or No Deal? There seems to be some sort of compulsion on my part to turn over to Channel 4 at 4.15pm and sit there, mind-numbingly bored, for 45 minutes.   When you look at th...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:20:00 PST

Buses and that...

People on daytime TV are stupid. I'm watching Vanessa Feltz's new programme (don't bother  it's shite) and it's really opened my eyes. There is a woman on there who is discussing her acute phobia of ...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:41:00 PST

Myspace freaks...

What is it with people and putting stupid prefixes before their display names? Having reached the end of my tether with these morons asking me to be their friend, I decided to create a little list of ...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:08:00 PST

The one and only...

This blog is in reply to my lovely friend Laura's comment on my other blog. I thought it deserved a whole blog of its own. Probably not much point anyone other Laura reading this, so don't waste your ...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:08:00 PST

Why did I just do this?

I feel slightly dirty for having lowered myself to this and actually filling out one of these things, but when in Rome/Myspace&.     Name as it appears on your birth certificate? Not telling...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:02:00 PST

Life, the universe and Kennington&

On Saturday night in London, I learned the following:   1. Walking from Clapham Junction to Clapham Common is much further than I thought.   2. The buses from Clapham Common to Kennington a...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:33:00 PST

Old people

I gave an old lady an unsolicited smile today in a shop and I think it made her day. I promptly stole her purse so as not to make her too trusting of unknowns in hoodies. It was for her own good. W...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:28:00 PST

Toilet humour

Drunk boys are such wags.....   And finally.... we were greeted with this when arrived at the bar. I've never felt so welcome.   Disclaimer: I may have been a little bit tipsy...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:53:00 PST