10 Random Facts About You

Archangelus · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:18

jcb33 said:
Ah Right, Thought you had one of them things there working on that rigs up a small camera to your brain, was reading about that a while ago, quite interesting..... Can you see into your brain if you take it out?

That sort of technology is still complete Sci-fi, I'm afraid. They've done experiments with cameras wired directly into the brain, but the vision it gave was just a series of large square blocks, 4 or 16, if I remember right, that gave an indication of when something moved in front of the camera. Mine's 'just' a plastic cresent, painted with an iris and pupil to match my real one that's held in place by my eye lids.

Biohazard said:
Don't be so flippin stupid

I've been asked sillier questions about it, like one girl I worked with who asked me if I could still see things through it when I take it out...

jcb33 · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:20

Archangelus said:
I've been asked sillier questions about it, like one girl I worked with who asked me if I could still see things through it when I take it out...

Even I the master of questions know that this is imposible.... "Hey everyone lets take our eyes out so we can see better!"

Archangelus · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:23

MiGSY said:
You should insert a small red LED into the prosthetic eye, then you'd look like the terminator. Damn that'd be cool.

I heard about one guy who did something similar using an LED and a watch battery, but it was so uncomfortable he could only wear it for short periods of time. The Artificial eye service used to offer 'custom' jobs, such as 8 balls, cats eyes, fluorescent ones, etc for a fee, but don;t do it anymore because they have a backlog of normal ones as it is.

Biohazard · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:24

cross-hair would be cool :cool:

Archangelus · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:25

jcb33 said:
Even I the master of questions know that this is imposible.... "Hey everyone lets take our eyes out so we can see better!"

It'd give a whole new slant on the phrase 'keeping an eye on something'

And a crosshair would be cool, Bio, and was available as a custom job.

ElvisFan · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:35

1) I get paid to dress up and sing like Elvis Presley
2) I'm terrified of Earthworms
3) I have a randomly-disappearing acid burn scar at the bridge of my nose
4) I have a blue "Gatecrasher" tattoo on my left arm
5) My Uncle Geoff is the chairman of the F.A.
6) The little finger of my left hand is crooked due to a motorbike crash
7) The big toe of my right foot is MAHOOSIVE! (Socks don't last long)
8) I am obsessed with womens legs
9) I've been on "Calendar" and "Fifteen-To-One"
10) I look like John Belushi from "The Blues Brothers".

flump · 1 Nov 2006 at 09:39

1 - First year of my life was spent behind the iron curtain (Romania)
2 - Next 4 years of my life was spent in Tehran
3 - I was on the last BA flight out during the revolution
4 - I love Alfa Romeo
5 - I work on the 30th floor or a 42 story building
6 - I just bought a house with my partner
7 - I was married at 24, divorced at 31
8 - It takes 2.5 hours to mow my lawn
9 - I hate tube travel
10 - I nearly got kicked out of school for smoking something I shouldn't

Treefrog · 1 Nov 2006 at 10:50

1. I'd love to take a bike trip across the US.
2. I want a Wharram catamaran.
3. I have wonderful children.
4. I don't like people all that much anymore.
5. I cba to do anymore.

Mickey_D - if I win the lottery and take that trip I am sooooo going to call by your place for a couple of nights.

Mr_L · 1 Nov 2006 at 11:15

I don't drive and don't plan to any time soon.
I have four nieces and they all mistake me for a climbing frame.
I like making things look pretty.
I don't like heights. For some reason whenever I am up high I have an huge urge to jump over the edge.
I don't have the patience to read a book. The last one I read was Of Mice and Men eight years ago for my English GCSE.
During the summer I did jury service and sat on one interesting case. I subsequently got in to an argument with another juror during deliberation, he was a complete door handle.
When I was little I had really bad ecxema.
One of my sisters is a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
There is a strong artistic streak in my most immediate family.
I use the words ****, ****, **** and **** far too much.

Superdude · 1 Nov 2006 at 12:16

1) Im 19 and studying Digial Media and Broadcasting Tech at Glamorgan
2) I'm not a big fan of curry but i'll eat it
3) Most of my sexual conquests have taken place on beaches

4) I'm dyslexic but despise people who use their disability as an excuse for everything especially late or below normal standards of work
5) I love to travel and take every chance I can to disapear and backpack around other countries.
6) I like scaring my mum with my plans to visit the middle east
7) I have a bad shoulder from a freestyle sking accident and thus can't lift weights properly
8) My girlfriend has plans to settle down after education, I have no such plans.
9) I'm continually stopped in the street and told I look like Pete Doherty
10) My grandma thinks im gay and doesn't hesitate to tell me

!bluetonic! · 1 Nov 2006 at 12:22

Archangelus said:
Random facts

9) I slept with one of my teachers while I was in sixth form.

Can you tell us(me) the story please? Always intrigued by things like this.

Nix · 1 Nov 2006 at 12:24

Superdude said:
8) My girlfriend has plans to settle down after education, I have no such plans.

Does she know?

Superdude said:
10) My grandma thinks im gay and doesn't hesitate to tell me

lol

Superdude · 1 Nov 2006 at 13:48

Nix said:
Does she know?

I've made it clear and we have broken up before about it but we are now seeing how it goes.

Archangelus · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:01

!bluetonic! said:
Can you tell us(me) the story please? Always intrigued by things like this.

Pretty straightforward, really. I was 17, she was 24, we had shared interests outside of education, became friends through that, became more than friends, and the rest is history. I should clarify something at this point - I should have written 'slept with one of the teachers at my school while I was in Sixth Form'. What I wrote makes it sound like I was sleeping with one of my class teachers. Wasn't deliberatly misleading, just late when I posted.

B&W · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:05

jcb33 said:
Ah Right, Thought you had one of them things there working on that rigs up a small camera to your brain, was reading about that a while ago, quite interesting..... Can you see into your brain if you take it out?

sum1s been watchin too much sci fi..

Archangelus · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:28

B&W said:
sum1s been watchin too much sci fi..

I think he means can you see through from the eye socket into my head, rather than actually using the eye to see into my brain. Either way, the answer's no!

[DOD]Asprilla · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:32

flump said:
5 - I work on the 30th floor or a 42 story building

Tower 42 perhaps?

Mr_L said:
4. I don't like heights. For some reason whenever I am up high I have an huge urge to jump over the edge.

That's vertigo to a T. In most cases it's not the height you fear (that's normal), what scares most vertigens is the fact you feel and almost overwhelming urge to go closer and possibly jump.

flump · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:39

(DOD)Asprilla said:
Tower 42 perhaps?

Look east a couple of miles

[DOD]Asprilla · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:45

flump said:
Look east a couple of miles

25 or 8 Canada Square? I didn't know they were that tall!

I used to look down on you

Inquisitor · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:48

[DOD]Asprilla said:
Tower 42 perhaps?

That's vertigo to a T. In most cases it's not the height you fear (that's normal), what scares most vertigens is the fact you feel and almost overwhelming urge to go closer and possibly jump.

Aye, I get this as well :confused: