5 Random Facts About You

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1. I'm technically Jewish. I'll explain if you want.
2. I'm apparently really sensitive to sound.
3. I get nervous around weapons and sharp objects.
4. I pushed my sister down the (CARPETED) stairs when I was 5. She was 3.
5. 10 + 9 = 21.
 
1. It seems like I support pain quite well. When I was 4, I apparently hit a furniture corner with my forehead, and the wound went nearly to the bone, but it wasn't bleeging and I just kept playing like nothing happened, while my parents were calling the emergencies.
2. Due to different education systems, I was one class level late when we moved from Switzerland to France (I was 5). I had some psychomotor troubles and other medical histories and I was having hard times at school. My mother taught me herself how to read and write, and one year later, I skipped a class and ruled scolarship like a boss since then.
3. I have a first degree cousin who used to have the exact same name as me, but he then changed his surname (because his father was a dick basically). I never met him.
4. I bought my first car one year before having my driving licence. During that time, my dad nearly crashed it, and he went full speed in front of an automatic speed trap with it (fortunately, the thing was out of service). That made me laugh.
5. I have a natural abilty to tame nearly any cat. When I was kid, there was a hurt female always wandering around our house, and nobody could get even close to her. I managed to approach her on my first attempt and pet her, and she then followed me. A week later, she sneaked into our garage and later gave birth to a bunch of kittens. One of them is still living with my grandma today, and the neighbor's cats run to see me when they hear me or my car outside. One of them likes to spend his days sleeping on my soft top, takes the elevator with me and always try to follow me in my appartment.
 
5. I have a natural abilty to tame nearly any cat.

I think this ability boils down to pheromones or something. It's not a common thing to be able to have any cat feel confident around you and I could never work out how it works so I'm guessing there must be something given off that the cat picks up on.
 
6. My best karting result is 2nd, if you don't count club races.
7. I weight just 60 kg.
8. I need glasses to see properly.
9. I learned to use clutch pedal same day as I acquired my racing license when I was 14 years old.
10. I drove in my first car race this year.
 
I make @Legro look heavy, despite not usually being underweight.
I had an upset stomach on Wednesday night.
I own an Australian DVD that I bought from a secondhand bookshop.
I have a picture of Miles "Tails" Prower for my avatar
I used to have a link in my signature to a YouTube video which contained a mashup of the trailer for Inception with scenes from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but no longer do.
 
1. I manage to distinguish car models at the age of 3, by saying their names and drawing their logos even before the parents teach me how to write.

2. Used to be afraid of dogs (yep, even puppies). Now i like them so much.

3. I weight at just 57 kg. @Legro , not feeling so light anymore huh ? :lol:

4. Riding shotgun with my uncle in his R32 GTR is one of the best thing that ever happened in my life.

5. Able to use manual once, since the driving school i was in is manual only but i don't think i could use manual again since the cars at home are all automatic. Really want to use manual again though.
 
1. I work at a fast food restaurant and it's my first job ever.
2. To add on, I did not start working at a job until this year simply because I never needed to.
3. I've read a Spanish car magazine once that my dad brought back from a trip.
4. I've sat in 4 Porsches; 3 were 911s and 1 was a Panamera.
5. I think Jumping Spiders are cute and awesome.
 
1. I am fascinated with left-handed people.
2. I weight 64kg and I'm 1,74m tall (~5ft7)
3. My eye colour is so wierd that nobody I met could identify it. People have said that it's half blue and half green
4. I am very sloppy with the way I dress.
5. I am an adrenaline junkie yet when sujected to higher G's that regular humans are used to I tend to vomit quite easily and I hate that, because I can't enjoy a good roller-coaster or any other radical activties.
 
1. I am more comfortable telling people things over the internet than face-to-face (dunno why)
2. I'm happy that Iowa isn't a heavily populated state. Makes for good living.
3. My favorite video game character is Jetstream Sam from Metal Gear Rising.
4. I want to own at least one Daihatsu at some point during my life.
5. I have an unhealthy obsession for Kimi Raikkonen.
 
1. I can trace my family history (Father's side) back to the Vikings who were 'given' Normandy.

2. I have a pretty sweet beard. Not very long at the moment, but nice and thick.

3. I keep snakes.

4. I make knives.

5. I once slapped the vocalist of Cradle Of Filth.
 
Here's some lame things:
1. I've never left the U.S.
2. I ate a 24 ounce strip steak (plus more stuff) the night before a meet and managed not to throw up.
3. Very few photos exist of me wearing glasses
4. I know how to make simple explosives although I've never actually have blown anything up.
5. When I go to museums I have a little game with myself to try and touch as much stuff as possible without getting caught.
 
1. Asparagus makes me vomit, violently.
2. I don't watch broadcast television except motorsports online.
3. I met Germaine Greer in a petrol station
4. I'm completely pitch-deaf but passed a degree at the pianoforte.
5. I once sold a car that was on fire at the time.
 
5. When I go to museums I have a little game with myself to try and touch as much stuff as possible without getting caught.

Sounds fun.

I play a game in which I attempt to guess the production company/ studio as early as possible into the opening titles. After 4 years of playing there aren't many (mainstream) production companies' or studios' opening title I can't guess within the first few moments of its opening. Of course there are 1000s of production companies and film studios out there so I can't guess niche stuff because there so small or anything outside of Hollywood, UK or Europe because of languages I'm not familiar with.
 
1. I've travelled all over Europe and Asia. All I need to do is conquer South America and North America.
2. I'm an automotive buff.
3. Favorite car manufacturer is Pontiac, followed by Oldsmobile.
4. I'm an avid biker. Favorite brand is Kawasaki.
5. I hate boiled leek. (Soup)
 
This should be an interesting story.

Many years ago as a student a friend and I ran a beige Citroen Visa. It took £5 of petrol every 4 weeks or something crazy, but what a terrible car. We splashed out on a new(er) Ford Fiesta and were directed to a guy on a nearby estate who bought/sold crappy "runners" such as the Citroen. He took a look and said he'd take it for £50, we agreed to go back to drop it off later.

As I parked outside later on smoke started curling from under the dashboard and there was that lovely smell of scorched plastic (probably because we'd put the radio back in as an "advertised feature"). The chap was down the side of his house elbows-deep in some old Ford so he handed over the £50, I passed the keys over and we made a quick escape. As we drove off in the Fiesta we could see the Citroen had filled with a lot of smoke. We never went back or heard anything more, thank goodness :D

EDIT: A Citroen Visa, same colour, less internal smouldering.

visa1.jpg
 
Even Tibet? You're lucky if you've been there. That's the one place I really wanted to go but didn't have the chance.



Avid biker? Kawasaki favourer? Does not compute!

Yes. Even Tibet. Didn't really go deep into Tibet. Just the trading posts. Still a beautiful people and culture and land (from what I got to see). I bought a couple of 8 inch knifes, and paintings, and other miscellaneous souvenirs (a small revolver that's actually a lighter :lol:)

And yes Kawasaki is my go-to brand, but I have favorites from each era and manufacturer.

Have you seen/heard a Jawa 500? Beautiful bike. Hands down, my favorite bodystyle. (With the exception of the Sokól 1000)

Also love the old (1940-1960) Moto Guzzi's, Vespa's, Ducati's, etc.

So yeah. Could say, avid biker :P


Also, are you in mainland China right now? I used to live in ChengDu, Sichuan, China. So I was pretty close to Tibet.

Guess that's more facts about me :D

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Derp'd. Thought you resided in China.
 
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1: I'm British.
2: I love JDM cars.
3: I think fast. (Too fast sometimes XD)
4: My favourite color is Blue. (Any shade too XD)
And 5: I like Call of Duty. :T

(I would list that I like to use "XD" a lot but that's uh... Yeah XD)
 
Uh... Five facts?

1: I'm obsessed with classic cars (Especially American ones).
2: I'm a Christian (Evangelical).
3: I wear glasses for a stigmatism and nearsightedness.
4: I suck at Gran Turismo.
5: I'm accurate with a bb gun from long distances.
 
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@Dagger311... something about #3 made #5 surprising :D
Well, I'm not accurate without them. :P I can't see very far at all without my glasses, let alone hit a target from any decent length away.

Would that happen to be that extremely rare genetic makeup that renders you a tame racing driver whose sweat is used to polish precious metals and drink Castrol GTX as if its coffee? :confused:

:P
No, but that would be so much better than what it really is!

Funny shaped eyes.
 
1. Sometimes, I'm the only one who doesn't talk in the middle of a real conversation. Just listening.

2. My inner child is always kickin' in.

3. I like Cappuccinos.

4. I find drag racing (in GT6) useless and idiotic. "There are better things to do than going to the backyard, you know?"

5. There is no 5.
 
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