Tell me something I don't know (literally)

[AlienALX]

So come on we've all known each other a while now, but there is obviously lots we don't know.

So as I type this I am 17.5 stone. I am pretty badly over weight.

However, when I was a child I was a good dancer. In fact, that would be a massive understatement. I was the best dancer in my school, ran the school's Breakdance crew and we used to put on shows/displays for other schools etc. In fact what with my athletics (I used to run long distance) I was set to be a fantastic dancer.

And then one day I went to a local paddling pool*. It was me, my brother and my (at the time) best friend Lee. We got there OK, had a great water fight etc. Then as we were coming home something went wrong. My brother and Lee crossed the road but I found myself frozen in fear. I didn't look and just ran for it. I was hit full on by a car doing about 40 MPH.

I spent three months in hospital. I broke my left femur, right arm, right leg (below the knee) small fracture to my skull and etc. I was in a really bad way. Even after all of these years I still remember lying on the bed in A&E and saying "I am tired. So tired. I want to sleep" and them freaking out and yelling at me trying to keep me awake. I am pretty sure that had I gone to sleep I would have died. I think it was my body's way of saying "Look mate, you're f****d just let go".

The biggest issue was my femur. These days they would just pin you all up and send you home. But this was 1981 and there were no pins. The only way to repair a broken femur then was to basically strap a load of weights to my lower leg, pull on the bone until it separated, then guide the bone back in, slowly, and release the weight. They called it traction. This took about 10 weeks. 10 weeks of lying in a bed (literally chained to it) and then months of rehab, learning how to walk again and ETC. My left leg is now longer than my right (I'm not joking either).

I did dance a lot after that, but never as gracefully. I'd done my body too much damage for it to become my career.

* for the people in the USA or Aus who may not know what a paddling pool is.. It's a swimming pool sized pool but it's only about 12" deep. They are outdoor (or were, they don't exist any more, thanks health and safety !)

 

[trawetSluaP]

Had my leg broken for me in Oct 16 playing football (or soccer).

Now have a 6" plate and 11 pins in my leg and can't walk without it being painful.

All cos some knob wanted to "let me know he was there" etc.

My PC is my prized possession closely followed by the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon 75192 I have (but haven't yet built).

 

[FTLN]

F***, that sounds like a very bad accident, but hey at least your here today. I'm pretty overweight too, Im a 39 year old network engineer and I sit at a desk all they, apart from lunch time when I nip out for a fast foot meal. I also had a bad accident in 2002, i broke my femur and tibia in a motorbike accident head on with a ford mondeo. I also spent 3 1/2 months in hostpital, should have only been six weeks but I got one of them dodgy hospital infections and they had to open it all up a again. Ive still got the pin in the tibia but havent got around to taking it out. The accident was completely my fault, I was drunk, my sister was with me and 5 minutes before the accident I offered to take her home on the back. Thank god i didnt and Thank god I was the only one injured. The drive of the ford mondeo was an off duty firmeman, if it wasnt for him I would be dead because my femoral artery was severed. Ive calmed down a lot since then.

Ive been through a few relationships, but I tend to back out when things get serious.

These days I kind of geek out on IT stuff learning new stuff, at the moment Im learning an application called Zabbix but really need to brush up on my python skills to fully exploit the API's.

With regards to freinds, I kind of keep myself to myself, I live in Paris and most people here party at the weekends, as I have an addictive personality and dont know when to stop, I try to keep away.

Ive been coming back and forth to this forum I think since 2011, I really like the vids Tom does but I really wish he could go a bit deeper with some of the products sometimes but I do understand he has time constraints.

Gaming wise, Fallout series, Fifa and f1 have been the only games I have enjoyed over the past couple of years.

Voila, thats something you dont know, about me

 

[AlienALX]

Had my leg broken for me in Oct 16 playing football (or soccer).

Now have a 6" plate and 11 pins in my leg and can't walk without it being painful.

All cos some knob wanted to "let me know he was there" etc.

My PC is my prized possession closely followed by the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon 75192 I have (but haven't yet built).

It's funny how people think that a broken limb will just heal and that's it, problem solved. It doesn't work like that tbh. If it is cold and wet my entire body hurts. Like I am 80 years old. When I was about 11 I got into a fight with my friend. We had a disagreement over something stupid and it got physical. So I kicked his ass, he goes home crying. About ten minutes later the ba****d comes up behind me and swings a golf club. I stick my hand out, broken thumb. I still kicked his ass again though lmao.

But yeah, that now clicks if I bend it. And hurts all winter.

 

[AlienALX]

F***, that sounds like a very bad accident, but hey at least your here today. I'm pretty overweight too, Im a 39 year old network engineer and I sit at a desk all they, apart from lunch time when I nip out for a fast foot meal. I also had a bad accident in 2002, i broke my femur and tibia in a motorbike accident head on with a ford mondeo. I also spent 3 1/2 months in hostpital, should have only been six weeks but I got one of them dodgy hospital infections and they had to open it all up a again. Ive still got the pin in the tibia but havent got around to taking it out. The accident was completely my fault, I was drunk, my sister was with me and 5 minutes before the accident I offered to take her home on the back. Thank god i didnt and Thank god I was the only one injured. The drive of the ford mondeo was an off duty firmeman, if it wasnt for him I would be dead because my femoral artery was severed. Ive calmed down a lot since then.

Yeah I had a bad slam on a BMX in 2000 and I didn't even own another bike until 2013. It scared me that much. Amazing how when you are young pain doesn't last too long..

Ive been through a few relationships, but I tend to back out when things get serious.

I never used to be like that at all, but that is how I am becoming now. I was very standoffish with my last wife. I told her I did not want to get married again, didn't see the point (my dreams had been shattered by then).

With regards to freinds, I kind of keep myself to myself, I live in Paris and most people here party at the weekends, as I have an addictive personality and dont know when to stop, I try to keep away.

That just describes me to a tee tbh. Anything I get involved in I got OTT like crazy. I got addicted to cannabis (people saying it's not addictive talk crap) and E. I totally over did it. I mean, my friends would all smoke and take pills when they went raving. Me? I raved all day lol. Taking pills and smoking crazy amounts. I thought I could only have one obsession, computers. But now I have three, all at the same time. Headphones/amps, bikes AND computers lmao. It's expensive

Gaming wise, Fallout series, Fifa and f1 have been the only games I have enjoyed over the past couple of years.

Voila, thats me

Yeah pretty much. I don't like F1 but had it not been for Fallout I have a very strong suspicion that PCs and etc would have all fallen to the wayside had it not been for Fallout 4. I didn't like it much when I played it through at launch, but I did still put a good 70 hours into it. Now they've sorted the graphics etc? yeah now I am dumping serious time into it.

 

[scubasteve]

Well you might wonder how i got my name SS it could be i like the film big daddy and chose it myself,, but twas others who baptized me that after saw me in my gear and it just stuck , how so you ask well .....

back in the days of ''standing'' used to do a bit of spearfishing(btw any other fishing fans loitering about?) days of fighting fit could stay under a good 3 n half 4 min easy peasy lemon squeezy

ff to these days and some idiots thought it would be a great idea to put lampposts in the streets i mean come on so many empty fields ... well hit one doing 70 on a bike

hence now im thinking of changing my name to Scuba Wheels been about 9-10 year or so in wheelchair , spleen out plus half digestive track ...boooo
could of been worse could of hit head and brain damage tho doubt ppl would know the difference or could of been tetraplegic not para ,not that life was good to me before but you make do with what you get handed i guess... ppl might say this should of been in FML thread but really what for

been saving up for about 6 year now for something life changing its been a year in the making if interested keep eye out in what purchased recently thread should be in there if all go's to plan in a few days dont wana jinx it im bit excited and anxious at the same time..... grumpy old antisocial git acting like a 5 year old lol

 

[scubasteve]

any accident that land you in intensive care is bad for me was even worse in this backward country woke up after surgery was ok then they gave me some hospital bacteria MRSA so going from just a broke back to life threatening into a coma ,collapsed lungs nearly died 3 times,3 different types of antibiotics igot so weak cos couldnt eat i looked like one of them poor souls in auschwitzn

i was in hospital 3 months without having spinal fusion cos this stuff messed me up so much , i got bed sores the size of a fist finally got transferred to Israeli ,they said one more week and i would of killed over lol if didnt get there immediately stopped over 20 different pills i was been force fed ,got my apatite back right away
they gave me 2 rods to hold my spine in place but was to late by then(your nerves in your spine are made from same kinda cells brain made of so if damaged will not work again-cos they were squished for so long wihtout having spinal fusion it was game over)
fixed up my bed sores , was over there for 8 to 9 months

 

[AlienALX]

Motorbikes are the devil's creation. They really are. I had a Vespa BITD and I came off it twice. I didn't suffer any terrible injuries but I had both forearms covered in thick scabs.

That was enough for me. Both times it wasn't my fault, and my brother's friend died instantly in a crash. I've seen the injuries they cause. My cousin lost a kneecap.

 

[tannji]

Some people live normal lives, with the occasional oddity, some of us just end up taking the path less traveled every time we leave the house. I started off life as a member of a "Hippie" commune. Not the drugs and sex hippes, tho there were plenty of both, more the political, organic, save the planet type. That's where I got my nickname, as a matter of fact. After it became obvious we were not changing the planet significantly, my parents joined a cult. Because, you know, change the planet or leave the planet, right? I spent my childhood up to high school not in school, studying religion, and entertaining myself with projects. So, weird, mostly alone, but I was free to do lots of cool stuff. I finished high school on my own, as my view of my place in the world was no longer compatible with living with my family. Joined the Navy as a Nuke Submariner, spent 9 months in a hospital with a hemorrhaging ulcer, and got my discharge. Been in sales and/or technology pretty much ever since.
When I was still a kid I was into bikes in a big way, albeit without the budget anyone else had. I funded my bikes and such by fixing or modding bikes for people, or snatching junkers and selling them refurbed. Used to make choppers and what we called stump jumpers, back before anyone had heard of a mountain bike. When I was 14 I was racing a friend and the rear wheel axle snapped. In that situation the wheel did not skid, it bounced, and I flew off the front and took a long tumble down the road. Ended up with road rash on almost the entire left side of my body, a broken collar bone, cracked ribs, fracture orbital (bone around the eye) broken toes, and a ruptured spleen. Not to worry, we called the minister (cult, remember?) and I got anointed. We called it The Laying On of Hands, and because our minister lived about 1500 miles away, it was over the phone. My mother had some veterinary experience and sussed out that my "hematoma" was likely a little more serious, and we went to a doctor, nominally for a harness to correct my clavicle, but really because my mother was nervous about what turned out to be the spleen. So after confirming with the doctor that I had something that would kill me if not removed, we went home and did a lot of praying. Take from it what you will, but I am still here today, and am a quiet but firm Atheist.

 

[AlienALX]

I'm not really an atheist. I was raised Christian and we did go to church sometimes but after the bad stuff started happening I lost faith completely.

However, I do believe and would go as far as to say there is an after life. I have had this conclusively proven to me and I don't fool easy. Maybe if there is any interest in that sort of thing (EVP and so on) I will divulge a little more.

I also believe something/some one created us. Whilst science "Definitely proved that we were created by Higgs Boson and therefore there is no afterlife etc !" science is now doing a U-turn as it always does and now all of a sudden DNA is actually code. Like written, computer code. And it is errors and bugs in that code that makes us who we are, cause cancer and etc.

It has also been scientifically proven recently that when we die our brains go into overload and stay active for a long time after death.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-death-after-eeg-study-research-a7620131.html

What is it doing? uploading code, maybe? transferring code?

Seriously, I wouldn't be so quick to be an atheist. I have also read studies by ITC researchers that says that when you die you go to where you believe you will go.

It sounds to me like you've been the victim of some sort of over done religious nut house. When I was a kid my friend's mother died because her religion wouldn't let her have a blood transfusion. Now that is hard core.

I am a very logical sort of person. I believe there is most certainly a higher power, or, some one/thing that created us be him or her alive or dead, and I definitely believe there is an afterlife. The sort of stuff I have heard and seen have absolutely confirmed it for me.

 

[FTLN]

I also believe something/some one created us. Whilst science "Definitely proved that we were created by Higgs Boson and therefore there is no afterlife etc !" science is now doing a U-turn as it always does and now all of a sudden DNA is actually code. Like written, computer code. And it is errors and bugs in that code that makes us who we are, cause cancer and etc.

It has also been scientifically proven recently that when we die our brains go into overload and stay active for a long time after death.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-death-after-eeg-study-research-a7620131.html

What is it doing? uploading code, maybe? transferring code?

Seriously, I wouldn't be so quick to be an atheist. I have also read studies by ITC researchers that says that when you die you go to where you believe you will go.

A friend of mine recently tried some N,N-Dimethyltryptamine , apperently it activates areas of the brain that become active during death. You vape it like an electronic ciggarete. This experience has changed him from a nervous non trusting, aggressive person to somebody who has now been able to face up to his personal issues and get on with life. He told me that he has seen the otherside and no longer has any fear about anything. Crazy ! ! They call it the Spirit Molecule. Loads of vids on you tube..

**I do not condone using illegal drugs**

 

[scubasteve]

Some people live normal lives, with the occasional oddity, some of us just end up taking the path less traveled every time we leave the house. Take from it what you will, but I am still here today, and am a quiet but firm Atheist.

wow sounds like you the kinda person i could sit and listen to the wacky stuff you been through all day long lol met a few people that have been in places like that and the amount of lack of critical thinking and brainwashing is astounding glad to hear you got out that must of been a feat of its own


as for

However, I do believe and would go as far as to say there is an after life. I have had this conclusively proven to me and I don't fool easy. Maybe if there is any interest in that sort of thing (EVP and so on) I will divulge a little more.

I also believe something/some one created us. Whilst science "Definitely proved that we were created by Higgs Boson and therefore there is no afterlife etc !" science is now doing a U-turn as it always does and now all of a sudden DNA is actually code. Like written, computer code. And it is errors and bugs in that code that makes us who we are, cause cancer and etc.

Hmmm

For one thing, computer code has no physical properties, and cannot exist without some sort of medium where as DNA has physical properties. It seems DNA, when you get down to it, is just chemical reactions, and terms like “genetic code” are a bit of a misnomer. That or the “genetic code” is something we humans came up with to help us explain easier how DNA works.
What it does is just a function of the laws of chemistry and physics working through specific chemical interactions. If it’s a code, then so is every other chemical formula. Therefore, water (H2O) is a code.


also as for proof of afterlife i can give you first hand experience - what people think there is an after life or experience one after a near death experience is your brain trying to peace together missing /blank spots after you come back -and mostly you will see what ever your beliefs are ,thats your brain in panic mode stringing together crap so you dont go bonkers lol



example when i killed over as said previously '''nearly'' died 3 times one time they did have to bring me back i saw myself on operating table in a massive under ground lab and surgeons were transforming me into a whale to carry on ... that was my brain tryin to put together what happened
while others i talked to and i talked to a lot of people same boat as i done all that time in Israeli the christians saw Jesus the Muslims saw Mohamed ect ect you get were im going

this will explain it better -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxAIdshklk

 

[trawetSluaP]

It's funny how people think that a broken limb will just heal and that's it, problem solved. It doesn't work like that tbh. If it is cold and wet my entire body hurts. Like I am 80 years old. When I was about 11 I got into a fight with my friend. We had a disagreement over something stupid and it got physical. So I kicked his ass, he goes home crying. About ten minutes later the ba****d comes up behind me and swings a golf club. I stick my hand out, broken thumb. I still kicked his ass again though lmao.

But yeah, that now clicks if I bend it. And hurts all winter.

Yeah I know what you mean, I just didn't expect it to have such prominent lasting effects.

Golf club is a bit OTT...

 

[AlienALX]

OK let me explain my experiences with the after life. Do note, these are not first hand as I used to take the urine out of my ex and call her a "Ghost buster" and etc. God that used to wind her up..

Any way, I am THE most skeptical person on this forum. It's a fact, because people who suffer from depression (and I have tried to take my life three times now...) are the most cynical skeptical people alive. That is why the UK race does not get ripped off by people anywhere near as the USA because they are generally nicer, more trusting people.

OK, so it goes a little something like this. Modern EVP is just that, electronic voice phenomenon. Now before I got into this please read this part, as this is critically important. My ex wife has a very "Checkered" past. That is putting it mildly. I am not here to judge her, put her down ETC.I accepted her for who she was, I am very liberal like that as you may have noticed when Dice gets all Bin Laden and makes women out to be controllable objects.

Any way, I did warn her that not everybody is as liberal or forgiving when it comes to the things she has done. Morally? some of it is purely rotten. I will use one example, just so that you understand. My ex had a best friend. No names going on here, but she basically used to "Madam" her best friend and sell her to men, taking a chunk of the profit. It was me who put a stop to it, I could not sleep at night.She on the other hand couldn't give AF.

So yes, I've always believed that there is an afterlife. I just wanted proof, as we all do.

Now firstly there was this guy called Montague Keen.

http://www.montaguekeen.com/page127.html

He spent his entire life devoted to EVP and so on. My ex did her research and tried to contact him using EVP. I heard plenty of reasonably clear messages from him. Some of it I could not hear at all, but there was a good chunk of fully understandable English there...

Now let me explain the method of EVP. Basically you need a computer with a mic, and something like Audacity to record "What you hear".

OK, so then what you do is get yourself a gibberish file. By Gibberish I mean complete nonsense, *or* a file in another language completely, so if anything legible in English does come through you know what you are getting. However, just to up the ante a little my ex also reversed it. IE - played the gibberish file, of the entire Portuguese language backward. So when I say gibberish let me absolutely assure you this was complete nonsense and sounded like an alien speaking.

You then (whilst playing this gibberish file and recording it and yourself) talk, and wait for answers. I heard *plenty* of messages from Monty, even in his accent (look on YT for his stuff) and so on. However, EVEN THEN I completely didn't buy it. Until something happened...

Now one day my ex came into the living room (she used to lock herself in the bedroom to do it, meaning I wouldn't even see her for 15 hours a day, part of the reason why I chucked her out) crying her eyes out. I asked her what was wrong, trying to be sympathetic (because I really didn't care about it, I will find out when I'm dead, right?) and she said that "Monty" had basically told her that because of her past he could not use her for his research as his "team" on the other side all said no way. She was absolutely beside herself. Now bear in mind I can be a real unempathic a-hole at times, and was sick of hearing about it, but I decided to be nice and at least hear what they had to say. I really thought she was losing her mind....

So I goes into the bedroom and she plays me these messages from "Wayne" he clearly said his name aloud in clear English. She then asked why he didn't like her, to which he replied, as clear as day and as blatant as morning -

"F**k off you c**t" Now I made her play it back probably twenty times, but I could 100% tell you that the line above was exactly what I heard. Even though she wasn't medicated *I* was. I have not heard voices or had any hallucinations in over ten years, since starting Seroquel.

I asked her to give me the recording, but of course she was in denial and refused to hand it over. However, any one who even REMOTELY knows me knows I don't stand for BS. That will be the Brixton in me, and where I grew up.

But I'm telling you, that is what it said. As clear as crystal. And tbh? with a slight joke inserted here, they about had it spot on.

As I said, I warned her before she even started. Even though I am pessimistic, cynical, skeptical and all of those things I have always believed something or some one created us, we were somewhere before we were born and we go somewhere when we die.

P.S near death experience doesn't count. That isn't death. Some parts of your brain are still alive and interacting with your body. My uncle once had a heart operation and they stopped his heart for however long it takes. However, they were feeding his brain oxygen so he was not technically dead. IE - his body parts did not start to release chemicals, he didn't crap himself and so on.

The fact is? unless we can find out scientifically EXACTLY what the brain is doing we will never know for sure until we are dead. Me? I don't care either way. At the end of the day if there is nothing at all at least I won't worry/stress/be depressed any more and if there is something nice? then it's a no lose situation.

However, I've always had this feeling there is something, and that bad people go to a different place.. That was why I warned her before she started, because even I knew with a large grain of salt there were more evil spirits than good ones, as the good ones pass over and the evil ones stay stuck where they are.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Only just seen this thread so here we go:

I'm 23, doing an IT Honours through Open University since I ditched A-Levels to look after my mum (Spinal op, won't go into more detail from there). I'm in final year, doing my final project on Wireless QoS. Going to get my CCNA, CompTia N+ and Microsoft certs after I've finished.

I was an Air Cadet for 7 years, raising to the top of the cadet ranks. Went to multiple place including Wales, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Gibraltar. Did a gliding scholarship through the cadets, I was supposed to fly solo at some point but it was the wet and windy summer of 2011 so that never happened. I was one of the best shots out of everyone in the wing (I once managed a grouping small enough to make a single hole in a target in the shape of a p**is as well)

I would love to be a pilot but my bank account says no and scholarships are notoriously hard to get.

I've been to Chernobyl (My picture is from the Ferris Wheel in Pripyat). Going to Cuba later this year and then Japan once I've learned the language to a good standard.

With PC building:
My first rig went up in smoke, can't remember exactly why because it was 10 years ago, safe to say it was dead.
I've never built a custom Water Cooling setup
I favour part manufacturers with good reliability records over all out performance (Ironic considering my MSI board)

 

[Arne Saknussemm]

I have spent over 1000 nights sleeping outdoors and also spent over 1000 days at sea...

 

[Dicehunter]

My Mom translates English movies into German for the German film industry, She's done over 50 films so far.

My brother has worked with Til Schweiger and Christoph Waltz both from Inglorious Basterds as he also works in the German film industry.

My dad and Michael Caine once bumped into eachother in London many years ago and they both looked confused as they could be mistaken for brothers, He then did some research and it turns out Caines family originates from the same part of Ireland as my dad so there could be a connection there as the looks are uncanny.

I escorted a few girlfriends to the Mission Impossible premier in Berlin, We got there early and so did Tom Cruise so we all spent 30 minutes chatting, Really nice guy and also very into his families Irish roots which apparently his film "Far and Away" is loosely based upon.

There we go, Some things you didn't know ^_^

 

[creme_]

I am scared of being alone, so I try to be surrounded by people as much as possible and pretend like everything is fine, but actually, it is not! Currently, I found out that there is nothing wrong with being left alone, only then I can find some time to find out what really bothers me and change it, or just have some time for myself.

 

[Tolemac]

If I told you then you would know and seeing as you don't hard luck ^_^

 

[AlienALX]

I am scared of being alone, so I try to be surrounded by people as much as possible and pretend like everything is fine, but actually, it is not! Currently, I found out that there is nothing wrong with being left alone, only then I can find some time to find out what really bothers me and change it, or just have some time for myself.

I was like that when I was younger. I felt like I had to be around people all the time. Then I got to 16 and it completely reversed. Problem is I lived in a very busy part of London and everywhere I went there was at least some one who knew me. That really used to annoy me as I got older, as I felt I couldn't get any peace.

So I upped and moved.. To America that fixed it

Since then I have been a lot more picky about who I let into my life (that would be pretty much no one).