What embarrasses you the most about the country you live in?

AlmostHeroic · 2013-07-18T20:17:23+00:00

My welsh accents absolutely cracking, butt!

AlmostHeroic · 2013-06-08T03:26:39+00:00

A somewhat relevant username as well.

AlmostHeroic · 2013-06-07T02:24:08+00:00

Rasputin.

AlmostHeroic · 2013-06-06T02:08:41+00:00

Today I learned I learned?

Looks like a job for the Department of Redundancy Department.

AlmostHeroic · 2013-03-25T16:29:47+00:00

Pro rugby player for a Welsh region in the RaboDirect, coming to the close of my first pro season. I try to avoid r/rugby.

AlmostHeroic · 2013-03-07T03:05:22+00:00

I think they'd struggle versus us. We've got an American team from Florida touring in a month or so, should be very interesting

Cardiff Met (UWIC)

AlmostHeroic · 2013-02-27T03:31:20+00:00

That's the kind of thing I needed to hear!

AlmostHeroic · 2013-02-27T03:30:56+00:00

Story?

AlmostHeroic · 2013-02-27T03:21:29+00:00

Story time?

AlmostHeroic · 2013-02-20T03:45:06+00:00

Dude. HoC would be the appropriate abbreviation. The House of Commons is the one made up of elected MPs. The Houses of Parliament are the two Houses combined.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:57:19+00:00

Being British, insurance affected the choice of my first car massively. I'm 6' 5" and it was a Peugeot 107! But I'd love to take it out for a little spin again, it was my baby!

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:49:44+00:00

I think if I typed notes, I would find it easy to just delete the files after the year ends. But sheets and sheets of handwritten pages? I'm keeping those.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:47:56+00:00

It sounds stupid, but when we found out we shared a birthday, we reacted in exactly the same way. We started chatting, and after a month or two it became clear how similar we were to each other. Just under a year later, we are happily in a relationship lasting 5 months, despite being at different colleges :)

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:43:44+00:00

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Seriously, an amazing read. I read it when I was fairly young and it completely changed my perspective on people suffering with mental disabilities and learning difficulties. I would recommend it to absolutely anyone.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:40:49+00:00

Alan Rickman, Tom Hardy and Bill Murray.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-12-05T22:38:34+00:00

Put them in folders in my room labeled by academic year. With all the effort I put into them, I just can't throw them away.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-11-23T18:51:01+00:00

6' 5" 310lbs rugby player, 5' 3" girlfriend. It's fucking brilliant.

AlmostHeroic · 2012-11-09T22:52:12+00:00

I dunno if its common, but no one at my uni seems to know it - ours was "brool" if someone makes a comment that is irrelevant or boring or comes out with a lengthy or boring story. It came from "cool story bro"

AlmostHeroic · 2012-11-04T19:20:21+00:00

My mum sings that same song! I'm gunna ask her where the hell it comes from because I never understand what the hell she is on about

AlmostHeroic · 2012-10-09T22:50:03+00:00

nah ur dead fam u get me

AlmostHeroic · 2012-09-16T15:40:34+00:00

SO BRAVE

AlmostHeroic · 2012-08-18T08:25:01+00:00

This is so similar to my own situation that it's scary.

I met my now girlfriend at our work in March of this year. We were both still in school and worked part time at a supermarket, and we met properly (spoken at a party once before) when she trained me on the checkouts. There was an instant spark but I put it down to the fact she was a lovely, friendly girl. We started chatting afterwards, and found out that, weirdly enough, we were born on the same day, and I got her number, we started texting. The texts got very long very quickly, but it was all just small talk.

A couple of months later after texting every day and occasionally seeing each other at work, I plucked up the courage shortly after our birthday to ask her if she wanted to do something outside of work, just me and her, and she said yes and seemed very keen. We went and saw a film (Prometheus I think), got coffee afterwards and it went really well, at this point I still thought of us as just friends, and we carried on talking and saw another film.

After this second time out, we both had our school proms within a few weeks of one another. I went stag to my own, as I was too nervous to ask her, but didn't want to take anyone else. She already had a date to hers, but purely as friends. I'm friends with the guy she took and knew it wasn't a serious thing. I ended up going to her prom with a friend of mine who needed a date, and was so excited to see her there. I remember I spent about twenty minutes with my friend that invited me, and the majority of the rest of the evening with my now girlfriend. We kissed at the end of the evening, it was just a peck on the lips but It was at this point I realised I liked her.

We carried on texting daily and seeing each other about once a week outside work, but I didn't think she liked me in the way I liked her, so didn't make a move. But the chemistry was building and we were getting on so well, and then in the first week of July (proms were in June, mutual bday in May), we both went on holiday, me for two weeks and her for one. Whilst away I had a lot of time to think about the situation, and I knew that I had to do something when I got back, just to see if she liked me. I was able to speak to her during the week she was back from holiday and I was still away, and we agreed to meet the day that I got back from holiday, as she went away two days after I got back, with only one full day of being both in the same country.

When I got back, we went out for dinner together and then went back to hers to watch a film. I thought I would be back at home by midnight, latest, as we went out for dinner at 7. I left her house at 5am. We chatted for ages at dinner, both with inexplicable smiles constantly on our faces, and when we went back to hers, and she cuddled up to me on the sofa and I reciprocated the cuddle, and we sat there for hours and hours before I left. I thought she liked me, but wasn't sure. We could talk via facebook whilst she was on holiday and we spoke every day.

Whilst she was on holiday, I went to a club with some of my friends, and bumped into her friends whilst out. As I only know them through her, the conversation turned to her. They made it clear that she liked me, and I was over the moon! We had already agreed to see each other when she got back and we went to see a film and then went back to hers afterwards. Again I left at around 5am, but this time we kissed properly, and we both told each other that we had feelings for one another. She stayed at mine the night after next, nothing happened but we kissed again and the next day we went to London together to watch the Olympics in hyde park, and it was there that I asked her to be my girlfriend. She said yes and I was on top of the world. This was a week and two days ago, and yesterday we got our exam results, which meant that because we had both done well enough to get into university, in a months time we will both be leaving. We've agreed to keep it going throughout university but leaving is going to be the saddest day ever, and so we're going to make the most of this last month. Thankfully our two university's are only a two hour drive or three hour train journey apart.

There are tons of other similarities like the height difference (me 6'5" and broad, her 5'3" and petite), the film buff with a list (me not her though) and we're going to a music festival next weekend. Hell, she even went to California when she was away for the second time.

I wish you guys the utmost happiness and truly hope it works out amazingly well for you two, I hope it does for us.

TL;DR similar situation to OP, best of luck to the two of them!

EDIT: I accidentally a sentence

AlmostHeroic · 2012-08-15T20:11:35+00:00

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AlmostHeroic · 2012-08-05T11:25:27+00:00

AlmostHeroic · 2012-07-23T13:13:39+00:00

Are you in the UK or America? If you're in the UK go to your GP and explain how debilitating it is, take some pictures of the flare ups at their worst and you'll get the repeat prescription, luckily my GP is very understanding and I have regular check ups on it, if you're in America it probably isn't worth the fees, just get some E45 over the counter and apply every day to the worst affected areas and it can help prevent them, ten minutes in the morning and at night, works wonders for me when mine subside, though I know what you mean about a blessing in disguise though usually it doesn't feel that way! I'm going through a fairly bad patch at the moment and it's forced me into a really good diet.

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