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Not at all. I don't read or watch any news. I really have no idea about politics or pop culture.

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Yes, I'm an avid reader of online news - Guardian, Telegraph, even the Daily Mail. Also like to look at the comments sections of those publications and contribute to them.

Are you a frequent contributor to other online forums apart from WP?

No, I'm not. I didn't know there were other online forums. lol. Honestly, I'm that far removed from popular culture that I didn't know the word "forum" until I found WP. I suppose I've heard of Reddit now but I've never used it.

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A few related to my interests.

In what do you find inspiration?

(Isabella Linton): WP is the forum to which I most regularly contribute,by a considerable margin. However, I also have input into the forums of the previously mentioned publications, and also to Doomworld and Linux Questions.

(Antrax): Not much these days, to be honest...


When did you first begin to use the internet?

I used the internet in the late 90s. I remember explaining to a friend what the "world wide web" was. lol. I think I explained it like a spider web.

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Same here. First had experience of the internet in 1998 during a training session at the school I was working at. I ordered a takeaway meal for our headmaster from a place in Seattle. Pretty sure he never received it.

How many meals a day do you have?

Harvard

Alas, I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to supernatural matters, though I'd love, as I've already stated in this thread, to find reasons to become a Christian. As an Englishman, my loyalties are ancestrally with the Church of England, though I can't accept the politicised (frankly) mess it's become, so I'd have to skip five centuries and become a Catholic - not that they'd want me (I have enquired about joining the RC Church and they were completely unenthusiastic).

I still don't think I'll reach sixty. I don't think anybody will be left in thirty-seven years, the way the world is going. I suppose this too is part of my need for God - without his intervention, I think we're all doomed.

I read the Peter Hitchens column on the Mail on Sunday's website each week. I read other bits and pieces as they take my interest. I prefer real newspapers.

There is one other forum I post on frequently, though it concerns an illness I have which I don't want to divulge. Other than that, it's just Reddit.

I find inspiration in thinking about what the world used to be like - when things still worked. I find some inspiration in reading the lives of great men (all long dead) and the philosophy and literature of times also long past.

I first started using the internet in 2001 or 2002, when my family bought its first PC. We were on the NTL network, now defunct.

Being slightly underweight, I try to get in three reasonably calorific meals a day - it still doesn't help.

I have one or two meals a day, and both at odd hours.

Have you ever held a snake?

(@ Prometheus 18): Peter Hitchens is a very intelligent and relevant commentator, though it's unfashionable and politically incorrect to say so. A much needed alternative viewpoint to the socially liberal (and illiberal) left and 'libertarian' right. I also read his articles with interest.

(Isabella) No, never held a snake!


What is your favourite snake?

Yes. I've had a huge boa-constrictor type snake round my neck. I love snakes - just not human ones.

Peter Hitchens is one of my heroes. I have more respect for Mr Hitchens than almost any other living man. There's still hope while his like is around.

What's the greatest speed you've ever driven a car at?

My favourite kind of snake is the python - only because I like the language.

Leonard is my favourite snake.

I also like the ones with pretty patterns. Not the big fat white ones.

Maybe 80 mph.

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Seventy miles an hour or so.

What's your favourite company to fly with?

(Isabella) Probably around 95 mph. I once held down the accelerator on my Triumph 2.5 in the outside lane (third lane) of the M1 motorway, just to see how fast it could go, then the engine suddenly cut out completely, and in a panic I swerved across to the slow lane (first lane) without checking my mirrors. Somehow avoided causing an almighty pile-up, but never tried that stunt again...

(Prometheus) Probably British Airways, though I've not travelled by air with them or any other company since 2001, and by all accounts they've gone downhill since then. They're not even a British company any more, are they?


How old were you when you acquired your first car?

I like West Jet. They have the best customer service and most reasonable fees for baggage, changing tickets, etc.

First car: I was ... ? ... 23. I drove at 18 though. I took trains for Uni.

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