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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 15:11:02 GMT
;D i could be totally wrong about this but i thought it would be interesting to find out what some of you people do outside of karate. this is probably what the intro section is for but i'm far too lazy to look through a bunch of threads, so anyway i'll go first. i'm chad, i'm from Kentucky (which means i can usually get away with going barefoot, even outside of karate). i love sports, especially skiing and bicycling, and spend way too much money on movies. and for work i'm a software engineer  |
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Post by andym on Jan 26, 2006 15:27:13 GMT
I'm Andy, I'm from Bracknell, UK. At work I'm a Capcity Planner at Cable & Wireless, but work for Nortel (contractor). I like watching the Rally, Football and Rugby. I'm usually found in a gutter most weekends, after drinking too much! ;D
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Post by AngelaG on Jan 26, 2006 15:52:12 GMT
I'm Angela, and I'm an alcoholic.... Oh hang on, no I'm not... Angela, 26 years old but still getting IDed to go into Wetherspoons  I'm a local Government Officer within Social Services (Hey, you there at the back, wake up!!). When I'm not at work I can usually be found at the dojo or sat in front of my PC surfing and designing websites. Other than that I no longer go clubbing, instead preferring to find old pubs with character that don't sell a pint of horse piss at extortionate prices. This would all be in Devon, in the UK, and to be more exact Torbay, the so called "English Riviera"... using the broadest sense of the work Riviera I guess. At one point I'd like to be making enough money from my freelance ventures, so that I can be my own boss and have a lot more time to dedicate to my karate training and instructing. I intend to win the Euro lottery on Friday and thus be a multi millionaire. |
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Post by andym on Jan 26, 2006 16:04:04 GMT
I'm luke, and I'm 5...
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 16:58:44 GMT
I'm Andy, I'm from Bracknell, UK. At work I'm a Capcity Planner at Cable & Wireless, but work for Nortel (contractor). I like watching the Rally, Football and Rugby. I'm usually found in a gutter most weekends, after drinking too much! ;D  i suppose by football you mean soccer, i caught some soccer games on tv when i was over in germany last year, i must say watching sports on tv there is a lot more enjoyable than it is here in the US. you could actaully sit and enjoy the game without the announcers chiming in every two seconds, seemed like there were a lot less comericals too. edit: not to say that you're from germany, only that i assume that is kind of the way it is all over europe? |
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 17:01:31 GMT
I intend to win the Euro lottery on Friday and thus be a multi millionaire. i decided last week that i should start playing the lottery, don't wanna program computers the rest of my life |
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Post by andym on Jan 26, 2006 17:08:58 GMT
Yes mate...'Soccer' or 'Football' as we like to call it.
The Americans got it all wrong when they called a sport 'Football' and used their hands to get the ball where it needed to be! hehehe ;D
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 17:11:07 GMT
yea, i wonder how it got that name anyway...good point
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Post by Aefibird on Jan 26, 2006 17:25:40 GMT
I'm Rachael, I'm 26 and I'm a Higher Level Teaching Assistant/Learning Mentor for children with Special Educational Needs. My job is frustrating, stressful, underpaid, contains too much work and not enough rcognition...but I love it. ;D Aside from Martial Arts (which take up most of my out-of-work time) I like reading, astronomy, playing pool, horseriding and talking to strangers (or do I mean strange people??) on internet forums. I like watching ice hockey, football (that's soccer to you Yanks), rugby, cricket and equestrian sports, although I like most sports. I live in a crappy little (but with a deadly expensive mortgage) terraced house in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire. There's worse places to live, but that brings me no comfort when the druggies are setting my wheelie bin on fire or trying to nick anything that isn't nailed down... |
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 18:29:34 GMT
I'm Rachael, I'm 26 and I'm a Higher Level Teaching Assistant/Learning Mentor for children with Special Educational Needs. My job is frustrating, stressful, underpaid, contains too much work and not enough rcognition...but I love it. ;D Aside from Martial Arts (which take up most of my out-of-work time) I like reading, astronomy, playing pool, horseriding and talking to strangers (or do I mean strange people??) on internet forums. I like watching ice hockey, football (that's soccer to you Yanks), rugby, cricket and equestrian sports, although I like most sports. I live in a crappy little (but with a deadly expensive mortgage) terraced house in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire. There's worse places to live, but that brings me no comfort when the druggies are setting my wheelie bin on fire or trying to nick anything that isn't nailed down... rugby, i've seen some of that on tv, i guess its not too popular here though...looks brutal. teachers here get very little recognition too, i guess its like that everywhere, but here the teachers also get very little respect from the students, i didn't used to be like that but i guess times they are a changing. how are teachers treated by the students there? oh yeah, and whats a terraced house? |
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Post by AngelaG on Jan 26, 2006 20:53:46 GMT
Terraced house means attached on both sides to another house. I like football and rugby too, although at the moment Torquay United are doing their darndest to break my heart  |
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 20:58:05 GMT
Terraced house means attached on both sides to another house. I like football and rugby too, although at the moment Torquay United are doing their darndest to break my heart ohhh...got ya, we call those town houses here. i've been thinking about moving into one of those soon...taking care of a yard can take up a lot of time in the summer and i don't really need as much space as i have right now. so i'm sure some of you guys have seen "Euro Trip"...do they really have soccer hooligans(however you spell that) over there? |
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Post by AngelaG on Jan 26, 2006 21:08:30 GMT
Certain clubs have bad reputations for so called football fans, who are actually out to cause as much trouble as possible. Torquay isn't one of them... I guess we are all too busy being utterly depressed at our teams (lack of) prowess.
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Post by nkudahc on Jan 26, 2006 21:15:18 GMT
cheer up, atleast you have a football team |
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Post by andym on Jan 27, 2006 9:26:48 GMT
Is that because Torquay's fan base consists of Cyril who's 95, his son who stopped going after the sex change, and you? ;D  |
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I'm a local Government Officer within Social Services (Hey, you there at the back, wake up!!). When I'm not at work I can usually be found at the dojo or sat in front of my PC surfing and designing websites. Other than that I no longer go clubbing, instead preferring to find old pubs with character that don't sell a pint of horse piss at extortionate prices. This would all be in Devon, in the UK, and to be more exact Torbay, the so called "English Riviera"... using the broadest sense of the work Riviera I guess.
i suppose by football you mean soccer, i caught some soccer games on tv when i was over in germany last year, i must say watching sports on tv there is a lot more enjoyable than it is here in the US. you could actaully sit and enjoy the game without the announcers chiming in every two seconds, seemed like there were a lot less comericals too.
