Misty's Meme
Picking up from a lil something last week
1. Things that scare me
Heights – its why I used to jump out of perfectly serviceable aeroplanes
Imprudent fiscal policy
Low alcohol lager
2. People who make me laugh
The emasculated Tony Blair & entire Labour party
People that cant sppell my surname (that includes both the Passport Agency & the DVLA who each, in the spirit of joined up government have come up with different incorrect versions)
Lord MacPherson whose report into the Stephen Lawence murder & institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police concluded that your race/ethnicity was self defined & indeed could change over time (bidet ferret!)
3. Things I hate the most
Unintentional rudeness (“a gentleman is never unintentionally rude”)
Eletronic data rooms made available during due diligence exercises (select all documents, then select download all & watch as your laptop dies a slow & lingering death from binary asphixiation)
People that offer to make you a drink - drinks are built, damn your eyes man!
4. Things I don't understand
Governments that can afford over 3,000 ‘press officers’ but not the proper equipment for the soldiers they commit to battle
Why I still have a modicum of kidney & liver function
How many orders of nuns there are in France
5. Things I'm doing right now
Watching corporate totty across the office
Drinking black coffee
Smoking
6. Things I want to do before I die
Patent the worlds first free range lo-so dolphin/tuna combo sandwich
Grow very very old &
Make sure that I take a lot of ‘em with me
7. Things I can do
At the end of a (cough cough) errrr long evening, speak the international language of flubberdub
Bind a team of highly expirenced yet disparate professionals together & over a period of time not only bend to my will, but thru a combination of encouragement, example, personal threats & all day lunches, bind them into a team & achieve a result
Annoy the living bejesus out of Mrs FM
8. Ways to describe my personality
Inconsistant
Intemperate
Incontinent
9. Things I can't do (anymore)
Consisantly hit the centre of a target at 1,000 yrds
Drink my age in pints
Function the next next morning have tried to drink my age in pints the night before
10. Things I think you should listen to
The voices from behind the microwave telling to to get all the guns ready as you will be needing them rrrrrreal soon
Mr Blah’s resignation speech
Anyone advocating swingeing cuts to our tax burden
11. Things you should never listen to
Mr Kipling's cake advertisments
The voices from behind the microwave telling to to get all the guns ready as you will be needing them rrrrrreal soon
White noise (because the gentlemen from MI5/Ashford are probably going to work on you & that’s generally not considered to be a very good sign)
12. Things I'd like to learn
Quite how Gutmans algorithm works
How to get the recycling facists to collectively die in pain. Soon.
To be a better father
13. Favorite foods
Curry (chicken napalm preferably)
”Meat … burnt like St Joan, Calvin’s horseraddish & mustards to perice the tounge like Cardigan’s lances”
Anything I have shot & prepared – brock stew anyone?
14. Beverages I drink regularly
Coffee
Beer
Whiskey/whisky
15. Shows I watched as a kid
The Clangers
Captain Scarlet
Double Deckers
Comments
Cheers, pet!
And I'm glad it's not just me that hears the voices from behind the microwave ;)
Posted by: Misty | September 6, 2006 10:01 AM
double deckers!..hooray!
Posted by: jamie | September 6, 2006 12:15 PM