From middle-ish England, arseing about in Moscow since 1996. Taking myself very seriously. I've joined here because I realised I can make a resource so you can check my digital footprint out and see how little you'd like to employ me, hang out with me, look me in the eye, etc. Also it collects this junk for myself. The pics & video here don't show me, though I took the main, big page one myself. As for apes with guns, I don't have a gun. I never have had one or even shot one. Well, not one with bullets. Just those pellet rifle things. A friend had one. Plus I fired them at some shooting ranges at fairs and stuff. As a kid I thought I was a good shot until this soldier humiliated me when I missed again and again and he was quite condescending at the Timken show. I had trouble opening the gun to load it too. That was actually before I lived there in Northampton, just up the road from this event. This is the reason I didn't become a militaristic type but a pacifistic armchair anarchist. I was also deeply influenced by an episode of the Partridge Family where David Cassidy refuses to fight. Timken factory's now long gone and there are really nice houses there now. I went there for a job and apparently did well in the 3 and a half hour IQ test they used to give but they didn't offer me a job. I remember talking about the science of the skateboard at the interview, maybe punk rock too. I ended up at Express Lifts, not too far away, in Jimmy's End. Thing's didn't work out so well there either, though I got a BTEC while I was there. That factory has gone now too and is replaced by really nice houses. Though the 80s concrete lift testing tower remains looming over them. It's nice that they kept that, it gives people something to latch onto in their mind in order to feel the substance of the town, instead of all that other nonsense, and to give it a bit of pizzazz and quirkiness. Killdozer came back twice to the town to play with my band, and liked it very much, just ask Mike Gerald, who sings and plays guitar in the band. 'The Northampton Lighthouse', very far from the sea, everyone's impressed and amused. Terry Wogan liked it a lot. He's a nice, chirpy, cheeky geezer, though 'geezer' somehow is inappropriate for an Irishman, but anyway, he's nice. The Floral Dance was a laugh. And Blankety Blank, though I preferred Les Dawson in it. I still watch the telly especially when visiting England and with my Mum and Dad, when we watch 'Pointless' together.