Simon

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The things that make me tick:

being happy, being myself, doing things the way I want to, photography, collecting cameras, travel, driving on empty roads, classic cars, computers, the countryside, non fiction books covering photography, topography (Ireland, the UK and the EU), history & cars, music, both listening to it and composing it, Poitin, Guinness, guns.. and shooting, having the last word in an argument, good movies, rich coffee, the black midget gems, privacy, a good curry, cheese on toast, spuds, windmills, the Rubik's cube, the smell of freshly baked bread, the smell of freshly roasted coffee, the smell of the countryside, the internet, fountain pens, cute lesbians (the butch ones with skin heads just don't look right!!), bright coloured buildings, U2's "Beautiful Day", Les Rythmes Digitales, castles, thatched cottages, Ireland, the colour lilac, dreaming, sending email, getting email, kebabs, 80's synth pop, nature, the Raleigh Grifter, old black & white photographs, Top Gear with James May & Jeremy Clarkson, creating websites, canoeing, photographs of the country, root beer, TVR Sagaris, the sound of an American V8 engine at tickover and full throttle, camping, Triumph Spitfires, walking over the hills, The Corrs, U2, licorice drops, licorice sticks, ferry travel, les rythmes digitales, magazines, Chronograph watches, Peter Kay, synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, cosy country pubs, hot spicy food, petite girls with dark hair, girls that dress casual, fiery redhead girls, monster trucks, the low winter sun, snow, cats, squirrels, the smell of burning Irish peat on an open fire, I'd like to fly a helicopter, the Irish countryside, Depeche Mode, the sound of the shutter being released on a Nikon F5, being indoors when it's raining, trance music, welding, spraying cars, sunny days, Linux, museums, motorhomes, butterflies, a field full of sunflowers, Guinness (made & pulled in Ireland), mountain bikes, the Raleigh Chopper, walking, Snatch (the movie) , taking a new electronic gizmo out of it's box and playing with it, cookies, solving problems, Vodka & Red Bull, old book shops, time team, go carts, fast cars, pressing buttons, the smell of Play-Doh, early 90's dance music, minimoog, AC Cobra, roller coasters, being a sarcastic cunt, turkey salad sandwiches with stuffing, driving, antique shops, home made apple crumble with custard, quirky cars, breaking rules, eBay, good paintings, the sunshine, watching an open fire, getting free software!!, off-roading, Google Earth, Train Spotting (the movie!), winding people up in authority, beef & mustard sandwiches, Human Traffic (the movie), caravans, Apple Mac's, woodworking, Prodigy, American muscle cars, electronics, uzi's, my Nikon D1 , fire engines, steam trains, TVR's, E-mu Emulator, Orange County Choppers, Ford RS 200, restoring old cars, the sounds from a Minimoog, old cottages, popping the bubbles on bubble wrap, Road Trip, Killinaskully, Pat Shortt, Podge & Rodge, not taking crap from anyone, Dragons Den, hiking, rice pudding, Dodge Viper, Nikon cameras, the Oberheim Xpander, Aston Martin Bulldog, aluminium, sheet metal working, staying up late, getting up late, Snow Patrol, Prodigy, collecting firewood, 1970's British comedy films, 1970's LED watches, watching the sun rolling over the hills, being in control, Lancia Delta Integrale, William Orbit, dark chocolate, walnut whips , Ronnie Barker, Orbital, New Order, Depeche Mode, the Renault Twingo, blue skies with fluffy white clouds, France, Germany, bananas, Harley-Davidson, bargains, car boot sales, Morgan cars, smoothing the foil on sweet wrappers, fine craftsmanship, Caterham Super 7 , rainbows, speaking my mind, interesting people, apples, popcorn, Christmas dinners, , The Killers, Keane, Moby, silence, dramatic skylines, Porridge (with Ronnie Barker), Erasure, Discovery Channel, Mango Chutney, Erasure, David Gray, Coldplay, Sat-Nav, The Irish people!!!!, Sinclair ZX Spectrum (I had fun with that!), Peugeot 205 t16, Barber's Adagio for Strings by William Orbit, The Thrillseekers.. Synaesthesia, Shameless, Still Game, Rab C Nesbitt, Tommy Tiernan, Human Remains with Rob Brydon, home baked cakes, the words "fuck" & "fucking", Yorkshire pudding, did I mention Podge & Rodge?? 2 old Irish farmers with a fuckin' great sense of humour!! see them here , early 90's rave music (Q- "Mental Cube, 2 Bad Mice-"Bombscare", Hardcore Uproar-"High on Hope" + many others), did I say I like the synthesizer??, I just love twisting those knobs and creating different sounds..... being with Susan is guaranteed to put a smile on my face.

The things that piss me off:

Authority (Government, Police, in fact any fucker that tell me what to do!), the tax man, council tax, tax in general, we pay far to much tax and get little in return, speed cameras , parking restrictions, this nanny state, traffic wardens, noisy neighbours, chavs, dogs, modern architecture, big brother, the price of petrol, football, footballers are so fuckin' gay, they cry when they break a toe, look at rugby players, hard as nails!!, people that think they are upper class (it's all the banks money!), the whole class thing, road hogs, women that fuck their way up the ladder, prostitutes, men that use prostitutes, the UK government, Tony Blair, The Royal Family, Eastenders, bling, Oz Clarke, getting my post late, immigration laws, a person should have the right to live wherever they want without hindrance so long as they don't sponge off the state!!, immigrants that get preferential treatment , telesales people, the colour pink, men that wear pink, I hate Glaxo, read this to find out why!!! , sandals, shorts, ties, suits, wank ring tones, stupid looking bluetooth headsets, parties, the inlaws, fat people that show the fat off by wearing shorts and skimpy tops, drinking out of cups in cafes, the cap being left off the toothpaste, Ant & Dec , public transport (never on time and is always filthy), wheel clamps, people that get in my way, sheep (people that can't think for themselves and follow the crowds), running out of batteries when taking photographs, mopeds, reality TV, crowds,citroen saxo's, baseball caps, smoking (marijuana is fine), people braking wind in front of you, new labour, dole scum, homelessness, lazy fuckers on the sick driving around in disability cars (the government should give them the AC Invacar to drive about in, that would cut out people that abuse the system!!), David Beckham, x-factor, soaps, Blackpool (in decline and no wonder, it's a shit hole!), standing in dog shit, dogs licking your hand, cold tea, computer virus, passwords, CCTV, Microsoft, spam, November the 5th, bank holidays, weekends, cheap pens, silver widescreen TV's, excessive bank charges, fuck it, I don't like any bank charges, missing the boat, Glaxo, I would love to see Glaxo suffer for what they have done to people with their evil drug Seroxat, doctors that prescribe drugs without thinking about it properly, the state of the NHS, the state of the roads (we pay our road tax, wheres the money going, it isn't on the roads!), wars, the TV licence, fuckers that drive without insurance, barking dogs, litter louts, adverts in magazines, fiction books, Sir Trevor Macdonald, in fact, I dislike anyone with the title Sir, it is for wankers, Will Young, Westlife, John Wayne, Status Quo, drama queens, piss on the floor in public toilets, public toilets, drugs (pot is fine!), council estates, the name Tim!!, cheap coffee, pedophiles (fucking hang the bastards!!), skin on my cocoa, childrens homes, mental institutions, trojan horses, cunts that sneeze over you, fat cats, the possible introduction of the ID card, Gone with the wind (why did they make such a dull film last so long??) ,arse lickers, instruction manuals, going to bed early, getting up early, fuckers that try to keep up with the Joneses, BMW drivers, Ford Focus, daytime TV, Vanessa Feltz, when you sit on the toilet havin' a crap and the phone rings, Teletubbies, the howling wind, over populated areas, abstract art, frozen food, fish fingers, fried eggs, Google, Canon cameras, my childhood, Richard Hammond, lazy bastards that have to drive everywhere, including to the local shop, other peoples hair in the showers on camp sites, Hyacinth Bucket, people saying no, uniforms, , back stabbers, alarm clocks,sovereign rings, Little Chef, two-faced arseholes, seeing men kissing or even touching each other, tap water, the crazy frog, Heartbeat, the crappy music in Heartbeat, dirty hotel rooms, Nissan Micra's and any twat that drives them, they always seem to hold you up!!, boy racers with little 1 litre cars chaved up to fuck with silly chrome wheels, huge spoilers and massive exhaust pipes, chavs on mopeds, anti-social behaviour, Pepsi, Poodles, gold watches, wars, Dawn French!!, appointments, the death penalty, Angela, this class divide, people that only take the time to phone you when they need something, people that pull out at junctions as fast as fuck, then proceed to annoy you even further by driving slowly in front of you!!..Political Correctness, all this racist bull on Big Brother, racist comments my arse!!, traffic police that are there simply to rob the motorist, Christmas, People phoning you up from Pakistan or India in an accent you can't understand, trying to sell you some shite then hang up on you when you say "sorry, what was that you said, can you speak English??!!", the number 666.

I am surprised you got this far down the page!!

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