BF2S Forums D&ST - Introductions

(Stealing Serge's format)

Name: Pierre
Age: 47
Finaly settled with my wife, no kids
From: Antwerp, Belgium
Profession: lawyer and judge
Education: law (Duh...)
Languages: Dutch, French, English, some German and Italian.
Instruments: none (anymore)
Interests: motorriding, videogames (BF2 was my first and only so far)
Political Leanings: pretty conservative in the early days, moderate left euro style nowadays (I've seen the light)
Religion: christian
Music: all sorts of music, from classical (Rachmaninov, Puccini, etc.) to U2 and many others
Movies: depends on the mood, sci-fi, history, drama, I liked 'Saving Pvt Ryan
Books: very little time, used to be fiction and thrillers (Ludlum)

Name: Tyler

Age: 30

From: Born in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Reside: Columbus, Ohio

Profession: Airline Management

Education: BS Aviation Management.  Numerous FAA licenses.

Languages: English

Instruments: I don't play shit.

Interests: Football, airplanes, beer, military style video games

Political Leanings: I just hate liberals.

Religion: None

Music: Rock

Video: As long as it is close to real life.  (no sci-fi)

Hero: Marines

Books: "Because they hate"

ATG wrote:

stryyker wrote:

Can we participate in this if we frequent the D&ST in bursts?

you can fer sure.

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=63921

Most excellence


Name: Tyler

Age: 17

From: Irvine, CA

Reside: Dana Point, CA

Profession: Student/Part time graphics designer/wedding video helper guy

Education: 11th Grade, and all it entails

Languages: English, broken Spanish, Sign Language

Instruments: Flute (gay, I know), Concert Violin (gave up in 6th grade)

Interests: Weapons, explosives, war (WWII in particular), Photoshop, cars, computers, Gears of War (>you)

Political Leanings: I have been branded by my teachers as both sides of the scale, so my answer stands at militant midfielder (with most hits going right)

Religion: Raised Catholic/Christian, was a Mormon for a year, now I am not oriented.

Music: Rock, classical, techno, trance, blues

Video: All the great directors, Scorseze, Jackson, Hitchcock, Tarentino to name a few.

Hero: Carlos Hathcock

Books: "The Art of War", "Band of Brothers", "East of Eden"

The names Teddy and I'm 17. Im a pretty international guy as I lived in various places due to my parents work. I lived in Sydney, Australia, London, Singapore and now Oslo. I am half Norwegian half English and I am currently doing the IB course at the international school. However, Im soon done and Ill be heading off to uni in England most likely to study either buisness or law. I speak Norwegian, English, French and a bit of spanish and I gues you can subcatorgorize Swedish and Danish.

My hobbies include football, rock climbing, twin tipping, badminton, socializing ,playing games occasionally and partying like fuckin' crazy.

I have a twin

Music: Rock and party music(elektro,etc)

Last edited by ..teddy..jimmy (2007-02-14 21:53:39)

Well... since everyone's using that format I'll redo mine

Name: HongAn Le

Age: 15

Residence: Canberra, Australia

Profession (or aim): Quantum/particle physics

Religion: Montheistic/Atheistic

Music: All except heavy metal

Languages: English, a bit of Vietnamese and a bit of Chinese and a very very small bit of French

Books: Take Back the Right (Philip Gold)

Interests: All sciences, basically. Except human biology.

Poltical leanings: centre-left

Age: 19

From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The suburbs, actually, but likely you've never heard of my hometown.

Education: History Major at Simon Fraser University

Languages: English, rudimentary French

Interests: Politics, skiing, golfing, classic rock music, RPGs, history, literature (poetry, especially Keats and Shelley), hockey.

Political Leanings: Traditionally, left-wing. But my views do differ on some subjects. I belong to the Liberal Party of Canada, officially.

Religion: None.

Music: Classic Rock. The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Supertramp, Steve Miller Band, Van Halen, Boston, Aerosmith, April Wine, The Doors, Lynard Skynard, The Kinks, The Guess Who, Journey, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, ZZ Top, The Police, Queen, CSNY, Neil Young, Heart, The Beatles, Rush, Eric Clapton, Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek & The Dominoes, T. Rex, Allman Brothers Band, Trooper, The Cars, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Nazareth

Films: [i]Die Hard, The Waterboy, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorius Nation of Kazakhstan, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Wayne's World, Snakes On A Plane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blood Diamond, Remember The Titans, Con Air, Happy Gilmore, Shanghai Noon, Hot Shots! Part Deux, The Truman Show, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tommy, Three Kings, The Kids Are Alright, The Transformers: The Movie, Transformers, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, The Blues Brothers

Last edited by Drakef (2007-08-05 18:31:20)

Well I'm probably gonna be a regular, so here goes. And I'm stealing Marco's format 'cause it's spiffy.

Name: Let's just keep it as Skull, shall we. Our given name, we hatess it

Age: 35

From: Born in NY

Reside: Oregon

Profession: I don't have to pick just one do I? Leatherworker, metalworker, troublemaker

Education: Some from college and lots from the results of some stupid choices

Languages: English and bastardized Netspeak.

Instruments: Usually surgical in nature.

Interests: Firearms, knives and swords, gaming both video and rpg, coffee, women, BDSM, big frickin' stompy boots with spiky bits, comic books, action figures and other collectible knicknacks, politics, coffee, women and other stuff I can't think of because it's 4 in the frickin' morning

Political Leanings: Pretty damn leftist. I tend to refer to myself as an anarcho-cynicalist. I'd love to see an end to heirarchy in human society but I know humanity is too damn immature to function like that at this point in our development.

Religion: Neopagan

Music: Lots of stuff. I tend to go for old Goth stuff, obscure soundtrack material, some death metal, old-school rap before it went so horribly commercial, etc.

Video: Anime, asian horror as long as it's not a complete gorefest with no plot, comedy, action as long as it's not some boneheaded "America saves teh world" crap

Hero: Bruce Campbell.

Books: A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin, American Gods and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

And just because I'm feeling unpleasant, possibly one of the worst ever pictures of me:

Last edited by HunterOfSkulls (2007-02-17 04:58:27)

*updated my post - new format, more info*

Parker wrote:

another welcome from one knife enthusiast to another.
and that is one cool pic man....

Thanks, but I look like hammered goatshit in it.

Anyway, you'll probably dig this one though, just a link because the pic is way too big.

Rob Criswell Prototype

Picked that up about three or four years ago at a local knife shop in Portland.

Hello everybody...

Time to step out slightly from behind the veil of secrecy an internet forum affords... My name is Sean (like shed with an 'n' instead of the 'd') but my slave name is Johnny, I'm from the North West of Ireland originally but I've been living in Dublin for the last 7 years. I'm 25 years old.

I'm a graphic designer working for a small publishing company that run a number of magazines but I'm also studying for a masters in Multimedia at the same time (I have an honours degree in Visual Communication already). I'm a proud Irish Republican who has no faith whatsoever in any of the mainstream Political parties but is a little wary of what Sinn Fein might do to our economy if they got in.

I speak English, Gaeilge and French and have traveled, thus far, to England (Mansfield & London), Scotland (Glasgow & Edinburgh), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), Belgium (Bus-stop on the way to Amsterdam), France (Paris), Spain (Barcelona, Reus & Ibiza), Germany (Berlin & Frankfurt) and the US (New York).

My hobbies include:

Music: I have been playing bass for 10 years and own a Washburn MB-6 six string, an Ibanez custom made fretless and a Dean Pace electric upright bass. My favourite bands are Pink Floyd, Primus, Frank Zappa, Nine Inch Nails, Einstürzende Neubauten, Aphex Twin, Talking Heads, Radiohead and so on and so on. I hate Boy Bands, James Blunt, anything that gets played on the radio and anything that anyone else likes before I do!

Films: I have an intimidating DVD collection of about 600 or so DVDs. I like mostly world cinema; mainly modern French movies like 'Irreversible' and 'Doberman' and weird movies that no one has heard of and make no ostensible sense like 'Possession' by Andrej Zulawski and 'Fear X' by Nicholas Winding Refn. I also love American independent film (e.g. L.I.E. by Michael Cuesta, 'The Machinist' by Brad Anderson, anything by David Lynch and the early work of the Coen Bros.) but hate 98% of what comes out of Hollywood.

Sport: Soccer (devoted Celtic and Arsenal supporter; i have family connections to both teams but if they played each other I'd support Celtic), I used to be a goalkeeper but don't get the chance to play as much these days. I'm big into Kickboxing and weight lifting and have been training for the last 5 years or so, I used to fight for a club in Dublin but again I don't seem to have enough time these days and can only train in my gym at home. I also follow professional boxing, mostly American fights, I find them more entertaining and competitive.

Religion/Philosophy: I'm an atheist but consider myself to still be quite a spiritual person, of all 'religions' I think Buddhism has something to it as it doesn't necesarily adhere to the idea of a God but to the idea that we all came from the one beginning and are all made of the same cosmic material ...I like that! Nature and the universe are enough of a miracle for me, I don't need the idea of a God or a heaven.

Musical Hero: Les Claypool

Movie Hero(es): Robert DeNiro, Takeshi Kitano & Mickey Rourke (great tough guy who supports the Irish cause)

Political Hero: Che Guevara

Name: Stig

Age:36

Status: Married with 3 children, Station Wagon but no dog (allergy)

From: Norway

Reside: Kolbotn (small town just south of Oslo)

Education: Electrician, Logistics, Millitary

Profession: Logistics Engineer at a Toyota dealership

Languages: English and tads of German (enough to not starve to death should i find myself alone in Germany)

Interests: Computer games, Movies, History (ancient in particular), Books, Music and Nature

Political Leanings: Moderate (not member of any political party)

Religion: Guess i`m a Christian, haven`t really thought much about it

'Heroes': The guy tough enough stand up for himself and his believes

Music Taste: A wide range spanning from Mozart/Verdi to Linkin Park/Rage against the machine

Movie Taste: Kelly`s Heroes, Star Wars (all of them), Peter Sellers movies, Monty Python of course, Black Comedy, LOTR and quite a few others (collection currently at 450 Dvd`s)

Travels: Most of Europe with Italy as my fav so far, Jamaica, Barbados, USA (New York only), want to go to South America next ...

Television veiwing: Seldom watch television

Video Games: BF series, Total War series, Pirates, Medal of Honor series, Baldurs Gate, all the early Sid Meier titles

Name: Tim

Age: 25 (I think, usually ask the G/f what age I am.)

From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Great Britain.

Reside: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Great Britain.

Education: Bsc Hons Internet Software Development.

Profession: Web Developer / Web Designer

Languages: English, very small bit of German.

Interests: Watching football (soccer), playing football (soccer), playing computer games, watching movies, getting fit, girlfriend, enjoying life. (in no particular order)

Political Leanings: None right now.

Religion: None (Jedi!)

Music Taste: Indie, Indie Rock, Rock, Hard Rock, Metal(ish), Classical, brit pop

Movie Taste: Very wide taste from Akita to the Breakup, from Babe to SAW, from Munich to The Wedding Crashers, from Hero to Trainspotters.

Travels: Been to England, Wales, N.Irland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxenburg, Cyprus, Canada and America. Want to go to China, Japan, Hong Kong, Oz, Egypt and basically anywhere of historic value which has some wonders of the world (past and present).

Name: Joel

Age: 20

Background: Australian, of Australian for approximately 5 generations (yes that's quite a while in this country) and European heritage.

Interests: Gaming (in a BF2 and BF2142 clan) , Any kind of competitive sport (Running, Tennis, Football, Paintball, Pool),  News and Current Affairs and subsequent debate on issues arising from them, Beer and Red Wine on occasion, Cars, Technology.

Education / Work: Currently studying a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, through high school and this first year of uni I've focused on the english language, history, politics and economics. Work part time whenever and wherever I can to keep money going in, rather than going out.

Likely Debate Leaning: In my teenage years, I was very far left, I generally supported the idea of socialism, though I always maintained that communism may have been an ideal theory, but was thoroughly impractical with greed being an essential component of humanity. Now I'm probably just left of centre, I feel passionate about human rights, especially the rights of refugees, a big issue in Australia, and in general on social issues I'll lean left, though not without exception. Yet I also have strident views on defence, in terms of Australia, and I believe this country and the USA and the UK entering Iraq was a mistake, and I marched against it at the time. The situation now is a terribly complicated and messy one, and I don't think a definitive answer has emerged yet of how we should act, though like all people, I'd like to see the troops from my country come home. Finally, in economic terms, I have accepted the way the world will increasingly be capitalist and consumerist, though I do not think this should be allowed to exist completely unfettered. There must always be controls and measures to protect the consumer from oligarchical or monopolistic corporations, and a safety net for those not as fortunate, not as skilled and even those who cannot work hard, through choice or otherwise. A fundamental level of living should be available to all people when there are so many with so much.