Given the current “naval gazing” I thought it would be informative to find out who we are. Please answer a few brief questions if you like. I am genuinely interested.
Gender
Age (within 5 yr range)
Job/Profession
Country of residence
Country of Birth
Gender: Male
Age: 55-60
Job/Profession: Electronic Engineer
Country of residence: Canada
Country of Birth: UK (Wales)
Another Electronic Engineer here. Male, 48, England, England (I’ve moved about 20 miles north since birth).
There’s some academic link between music and electronic engineers.
I think a number of musicians have engineers as parents e.g. David Byrne.
Male
45-50
Project Manager
UK
UK
Do you want Mothers maiden name and last four digits of Credit Card as well?
Send that in a PM please…
Gender: Male
Age: 55-60
Job/Profession: Programme Manager
Country of residence: UK
Country of Birth: UK
Male
50-55
Bookbinder/Print Finisher
UK.
UK.
Gender: male
Age 54
Job/profession: run a tiny (just me and my wife) limited company predominantly renting out presentation equipment for conferences eg sound/video/lighting/sets. I sit through a lot of corporate events. Also some sales.
Country of residence: England
Country of birth: England
Male
60-65
Sales & Marketing for a Wholesale Food company
England
England
Gender: Male
Age: 50-55
Job/Profession: Local Government data/mapping
Country of residence: UK [England]
Country of Birth: UK [Scotland]
Gender
Age (within 5 yr range): 51-55
Job/Profession: Project Delivery Manager
Country of residence: UK
Country of Birth: UK
Gender : Male
Age (within 5 year range) : 60-65
Job : retired civil servant
Country of residence : England
Country of birth : England
Gender : Male
Age (within 5 year range) : 55-60
Job : Tosser
Country of residence : England
Country of birth : Scotland
Cabers?
No, he works opposite a pitcher.
Landscape or portrait?
No, glass.
Sex (not gender): female
Age: 40-45
Job: primary school teaching assistant (I teach every afternoon)
C.O.R: England
C. O. B: England
I initially wrote “Sex” but wanted to avoid “Yes please” answers.
Get over yourself!
Gender: male
Age: 66-71
Job: publisher (retired), editor (semi-retired)
Country of residence: England and/or Australia depending
Country of birth: England
Make
60-65
Composer/musician
Live in Australia
Born in New Zealand
OK now things have really reached the pits. Out of here.
Answer: non-Bit. Thank god. Enjoy the journey up your own arseholes. it’s gonna be a rough fuck. And the world will be watching.
Is this our first post-HP flounce flounce? It’s been a double flounce weekend!
Did HP flounce again?? I missed that!
The nights are drawing in. It’s the flouncing season.
Oh I just found it. As you were.
Sorry you feel that way Tahir. I enjoy your contributions and I was just about to comment on your ‘hindsight’ post once I’d had a good ponder.
“The world is watching”. Twit.
He’s talking about Brexit, and the world probably is watching, to be fair
Bye Bye.
No loss there then!
That’s the strangest flounce I’ve ever seen here and I lived through Archie/Middlerabbit
Hey, ‘the world will be watching’? Will it ? Do you mean Brexit, or what?
If the ‘world is watching’ surely that will result in drumming up a few new members, no?
We can then ask them about their sex; age; profession, etc, etc,
Toodle-oo. Mwah, mwah.
Male
53
Museum curator
Slovenia
Slovenia
Fuck me Tahir who pissed on your cornflakes?
If you don’t like the post go to another one – responding is not mandatory.
Male
61
USA Trade development manager for a freight forwarding company.
UK
UK.
Male
50-55
Pharmacist
UK
UK
Male
45
In the insurance industry
Scotland
Scotland
Gender – male
Age – 55-60
Occupation – underachieving
Country of residence – England
Country of birth – England
Gender Male
Age 60-65
Job arts manager
Residence UK (England)
Birth UK (Northern Ireland)
Gender – male
Age 55-60
Job HR lackey
UK
UK
Gender – male
Age – 60-65
Job – Retired, hahahahaaaaaa… formerly IT project manager
UK
UK
Male, 45-50 (just), Team Assistant, Germany, UK
Boy
60 – 65
Semi-retired GP
UK
UK
Male
55-60
Chaplain
UK
UK
Gender – Male
Age (within 5 yr range) – 65-70
Job/Profession – retired. Formerly Business Analyst, computer programmer, art teacher, printer.
Country of residence – UK
Country of Birth – UK
Gender – Male
Age – 50-55
Job – Stock Manager for a small company
COR – Ireland
COB – Ireland
Male
45-60
Senior HR Lackey
Born in Scotland
Live in Virginia USA
Gender : Male
Age : 50-55
Job; Engineering Director at a major Hard Disk Drive company (My group bring up the electronics for all new products to volume production).
Residence : Singapore
Birth : UK
Male
55 – 60 (blimey, is that true? How time flies)
Forensic-clinical psychologist, associate professor
Lives in East Midlands
Born in London, U.K.
Sexy male
46-51
Sewer Robot (okay, not – to my employer’s chagrin – an actual robot)
One part of Ireland
Another part of Ireland
(DM me for vital statistics which would make your eyes water)
Male
63
Teacher
From Ireland
In Germany
Sex Male
Age 61
Job Retired
Aussie
Aussie
2 flounces in a few days is impressive. Who says the blog is waning. No longer just dislikes Australia and Australians but the Massive as well. Nastiness can be cyclical.
Sex: Male
Age: 67
Job: Retired Electrician
Country Of Birth: England
Country Of Residence: England
Ethnicity: Irish/English Hybrid
Male
55-60
Retired, from Financial Services
In Hong Kong
From England
Gender – Male
Age (within 5 yr range) – 51-ish
Job/Profession – Information Analyst (no, I don’t know either)
Country of residence – Australia
Country of Birth – England
Male, 69 a week ago, retired, Scotland, France
Male.
55, which seems almost obligatory
Train Driver / Instructor / Union Rep
Cheshire
Cheshire
Male
65 ( How did that happen ? )
Retired: Owned a Packaging Company ( manufacturing corrugated cardboard boxes ).
Mancunian
Born Salford, UK
Male
54
Sales/Marketing in healthcare
England
England
Boy
45- 50 (towards the younger end, thank you very much)
I flog records
West Country
West Country (but I took the long way round)
Where in the West Country do you flog records @Kid-Dynamite ? I am in Exmouth…
I was recently in Falmouth and very pleased to see it has a record shop. Although not the same one as when I was last there in 1986.
I used to live in Falmouth 93-96. Compact records and tapes on the high street – is that the one you mean?
There’s Sounds OK (second-hand) down by the quay now, a stones throw from Trago Mills (which is still there).
I’m sure I remember a shop upstairs, down an alleyway somewhere near there. I’d have followed my cousin’s lead to it back then. I’d ask him but he dropped dead 8 years ago – it turned out all those nights smoking and drinking in the Pirate Inn were bad for his health. Who’d have guessed? Still, he had a great time while it lasted.
Compact is now a tatoo parlour, next door to Jam, which I appear to have missed, having not walked far enough up the hill past the pier. I’m sure I’ll go back within another 30 years.
Are you thinking of the bookshop which is also a bar, up an alley opposite Boots?
I might well be. Is it the sort of place to have sold XTC and Talking Heads vinyl in 1983? I remember listening to Fear Of Music in my cousin’s bedroom for the first time, and how the production made me feel claustrophobic.
Sorry, Dai, I seem to have gone off-topic…
Drink-record buying. A terrible thing.
Trago Mills! Do you remember those bizarre adverts they used to run the Packet, where the owner would rant about the state of the world
I didn’t visit so often after 1987 or so, so I’ve just had a quick Google. He didn’t like The Homosexualists or The Foreign, did he? I’m now quite pleased I didn’t pop in to buy some old tat for old times sake.
Mike Robertson, he was (is?). My dad’s cousin was his solicitor, and did very well out of him being an irredeemable idiot.
And it’s Bristol these days, btw @NigelT (I was born in Saltash, which is a small town in Cornwall. It’s not on the tourist trail for a reason)
Male
40-45 (just in that bracket and it still rankles)
Archive technician
Scotland
Scotland
Wahey! A fellow youngblood to join me & mini!
Male
55–60
Copywriter
England
England
Male
50-55
finance director
England
England
Me too. Just turned 50.
Thought I might’ve been the only accountant here, but it seems not!
Male
55-60
Accounts/Finance bod
Born in London
Lives in England – but can see God’s Country (Wales) from the kitchen window
Male
63
Retired airline security
Scotland
England
XY62BAEUEU
Does BA stand for Bachelor of Arts, Brexit Analyst, Bovine Agriculturist, or a shorthand way of putting Dylan Thomas’ famous backwards Welsh town Llaggerub?!
Gender – Female
Age (within 5 yr range) – 45-ish
Job/Profession – Research/Factchecking/Design (Freelance)
Country of residence – Germany
Country of Education – Morocco
Country of Birth – England
Male
64
Retired from construction industry; various inc tunnelling engineer, Site Manager, Contracts Manager, HSQE Manager, Special Projects which my colleagues liked to refer to as Black Ops
England
England
Sri Emperor Moon Weasel
7th Avatar
Bhuloka
The Etheric Realm
Atlantis
Chap
40ish
Writer
Born in Pakistan
Grew up in the UK
Live in Berlin
Male
30-35
Offices
UK
UK
Tony, I think you must be our ‘yoof’ representative.
I’m just here to lower the averages.
Male
50-55
health service
UK
UK
Gender: Male
Age: 55-60
Job/Profession: Quantity Surveyor
Country of residence: India
Country of Birth: England
Gender: Male
Age: 45-50
Job/Profession: Graphic Designer/Photographer
COR: England
COB: England (Taunton)
Gender male….weekend, tranny
Age 55
Profession Mechanic…..stop laughing at the back.
UK
UK
Male
45-50
Postal Worker
England
England
Male
50-55
IT Contractor
UK
Germany (though I am, and have ever been, British)
Gender – Male
Age – 55 (like almost everyone here, it seems)
Job – Telecommunications Planner
COR – Scotland
COB – Scotland
Gender Male
Age (50-55)
Job/Profession Social Work with young offenders.
Country of residence Ireland
Country of Birth Ireland
Male
56
Teacher
England
England
Male
65
Retired social worker
England
England
I have nothing amusing to add to this – that might change when my first winter fuel allowance comes through.
I’m sure we’ve done this before at least twice… 😉
Woman
51
Grocery store (in charge of the non-food products + cooking inspiration + a ton of other bits and bobs)
Sweden
Sweden
Gender: Male
Age: 57-62
Job: Hah!
UK
UK
Gender: Male
Age: 45-50 (let’s say ‘towards’ the upper end!)
Job: Writer/Musician
From: Wales
Live: England
Male
50-55 (recently moved up into this bracket)
IT consultant/scapegoat
Resident: UK (Scotland)
Born: UK (England)
Male
47
Small windpower company
Ireland
Ireland
I also have a small wind power company
.
God, I’m so hilarious….
You can stop that right now.
Male
56-60 (but right at the lower end of this interval)
Translator
Resident in: Sweden
Born in: UK (England)
Male
63
Retired (previously software validation, and analytical chemist before that)
Resident near Yorkshire
Born in Yorkshire (how did you guess?)
Gender: male
Age: 55-60
Job: pharmacist (hi, Wheaty)
Resident in: Isle of Man
Born in: Glasgow, Scotland
And from The Island
Sex. Male.
Age: 51 and 2 thirds.
Job/Profession. Landscape Artist/ Drums.😉
Country of Residence: Earth. Canadian region.
County of Birth. Angus. Scottish region.
Favourite immigration song. The B’52’s. Roam…
I’m a sixty-year-old bloke born and living in England.
And I’m a copywriter, so there’s two of us on here wickedly separating the public from its hard-earned with our advertising wordsmith necromancy…
Male
Age: 55-60 – still in denial, however feeling like the right age demographic for the Afterword
Job: Risk & Change Manager – not anywhere near as exciting as it sounds ha ha
UK
UK
Risk Management is a great thing. Primarily because few other buggers understand the point of it. But when done properly, people begin to see the point.
And so the cycle begins again.
Similar to Change Management – most Change Projects I’ve worked spend the first 3 months answering the question ” Why change?”
Parklife!
Yin and Yang.
Immortal.
Paint whisperer.
The space between.
The space that was.
Whither the space beyond?
You hum it son, Squeezer’ll paint it.
Two coats, no mess.
I’d like him to paint the insides of my eyelids.
All three of ’em, yo.
62 year old male born & bred in england.
Rather not give my occupation (slightly ashamed/embarrassed).
Teresa May’s dance teacher?
Donald Trump’s comb-over technician.
Rank gong-banger.
…right about now
…check it out now
Gigolo?
Gender – male
Age (within 5 yr range) 55-60
Job/Profession – retired, formerly a mental health nurse then company director of a care home group.
Country of residence – England
Country of Birth – England