Tell us something about you that we don't know

[Buce]

 

I sneeze uncontrollably for several minutes after eating my evening meal.

 

I believe it to be something called a snatation reflex, the cause of which is unknown.

[Innovindil]

I have a fairly rare blood disorder that runs through the family called activated protein c deficiency. Pretty much a nothing disorder when mild that only effects people in already dire circumstances, say being in a coma. In serious cases it can be life threatening in children, one more worry about reproducing. 

[StanSP]

I had shingles. 

[Unabomber]

I read a book a week 

[Wymsey]

I'm quite a bright individual.

[pSinatra]

I once caught scabies in Amsterdam & nobody believes I didn't catch it in the red light district.  I've only ever window shopped.

 

The prescription was for the same cream that treats crab lice.  Worked a treat to be fair & was gone in a few days.  My mates have been social distancing ever since

[Dr The Singh]

@DANGEROUS TIGER is really a black dude and me and him were lovers

Edited 15 July 2021 by Dr The Singh

[Alf Bentley]

I have a long and mixed history with H.M. Customs/HMRC.....

- As a scruffy young backpacker, they always searched me coming off the Dover ferry & even strip-searched me once, after I cheeked them (warned them they'd find nothing in my bag & told them I'd dress as a nun if smuggling drugs)

- A couple of years later, I was doing a temp job washing dishes on the ferry & they conducted a corrupt raid on my flat on New Year's Eve, snaffling my illicit cache of crew-issue booze/tobacco, under-declaring their haul and reducing my fine

- A few years later, they employed me as a VAT Inspector for 9 months before I quit, as I'd hoped to work with languages at Customs

- A few years later again, when I'd gone self-employed as a translator, they became my best client for several years (before they handed all outsourced work to a couple of large, exploitative corporations)

 

[cambridgefox]

This still haunts me as I think I’m quite a decent bloke and look out for people.

when I was at primary school I made the other kids carry me around the playground calling me the King.

should have dropped me on my head.

[Samilktray]

2 hours ago, Unabomber said:

I read a book a week 

Quite interesting this is, how do you find the time to do it? 

[Unabomber]

4 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Quite interesting this is, how do you find the time to do it? 

I’m just really into fiction books. I’ve wanted to read a book a week for a year for a while but this year I am going to do it. The main thing is I have found a few series which I have really enjoyed where there are quite a few books in each series. So I am just smashing through them. Also helps having a kindle massively as I can read whenever. In terms of the time the average book is prob 6 hours read time. I’ll read in the morning for abit, each night in bed etc and just whenever I have spare time.

Edited 15 July 2021 by Unabomber

[Stuntman_Mike]

One of my ancestors is credited to have saved George Washington's life on a couple of occasions.

[VLC86]

I’m actually quite a nice guy

[HighPeakFox]

I used to occasionally be Freddie Mercury in a tribute band.

[tom27111]

I'm a member of the Footgolf European Tour.

 

I haven't managed to play an official tournament yet, due to covid and work commitments, but hoping to this year.

 

I'm quite good at it.

[Smudge]

7 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I used to occasionally be Freddie Mercury in a tribute band.

Thunderbolts and lightning 

[Alf Bentley]

9 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I used to occasionally be Freddie Mercury in a tribute band.

 

You should change your name to HighCampFox

[Alf Bentley]

43 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

One of my ancestors is credited to have saved George Washington's life on a couple of occasions.

 

Caught the cherry tree before it could fall on little George, I expect?

 

Now, if we're getting into ancestors....

- My grandfather emigrated to New York on a ship captained by Edward Smith 8 years before Smith sailed the Titanic into an iceberg

- My other grandfather reportedly "told America about the WW1 armistice" and "told Sheffield about the abdication of Edward VIII" (he was a cable operator in Kerry in 1918 and telegraphist on the local paper in Sheffield in 1936). The second story is only slightly overstated, I think, but the first one......I'm assuming he cabled someone in the USA to give them the news! 

- In the 1940s, my father shared a Dublin flat with the father of BBC journalist Fergal Keane (the father became a semi-famous actor who took to the drink)

 

Edited 15 July 2021 by Alf Bentley

[UpTheLeagueFox]

If my paternal grandad was still alive, he'd be 153.

[He was 66 when my dad was born, the old so and so]

[bovril]

I'm related to one of LCFC's all time leading goalscorers. 

[Alf Bentley]

6 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

If my paternal grandad was still alive, he'd be 153.

[He was 66 when my dad was born, the old so and so]

 

Impressive going, the old goat.

 

Official records show that one of my great-great-grandfathers fathered 9 children between the ages of 62 and 80.

Even assuming his age was slightly overstated, as ages often were in 19thC records, I find that impressive for a geriatric peasant farmer.....unless someone else was performing his duties? 

[Mike Oxlong]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

I'm related to one of LCFC's all time leading goalscorers. 

Elvis Hammond ? 

[z-layrex]

I am fascinated by u-boats to the point I spend half the day thinking about them.

[Mike Oxlong]

1 minute ago, z-layrex said:

I am fascinated by u-boats to the point I spend half the day thinking about them.

Did an emergency submerge manoeuvre whilst dreaming result in those busted slats ? 

[Houdini Logic]

I once got so drunk that I brought a girl back to mine not realising I had a girlfriend who was asleep at my house