Recent content by wyrdsister

A friend of mine once tried combining Iron Bru and milk, which didn't go well. In fact, milkshakes from fast food places are the worst. Thick artificially sweet drinks with gristly textures... -shudder- Also, alcohol in general. No matter how strongly flavoured the drink is, I can always...

Oh, thank you! Someone else who thinks so. David's going to be a hard act to follow, sure, but Matt Smith has a quirk to him that I can't wait to see! The sudden strange hand movements and that slightly maniacal energy endeared him to me in just a couple of minutes. I just hope with Stephen...

Two years? Can't beat that, but mine is also Mass Effect related. I bought a copy of the PC adaption when it first came out, and I'm still trying to get the thing to work. It simply refuses to be played, sitting in a corner pouting about how my computer just isn't quite right for it, and neither...

My mother knew she would never have to. She just used my love of reading to her advantage. She threw a book into my lap when I was nine, knowing that I would read it all simply because it was there. From what I remember, it made a lot of things a whole lot clearer. It also disappointed the prats...

The absolute best of wishes to ace_of_something. I really hope that he recovers.

I have no idea what set off mine, but it lasted for years. I was really, really small and there was this colossal black silhouette towering in front of me, just this big block of black, not really the shape of a person or a monster or anything. But all it ever did was scream, shouting on and on...

I'd like to have memories erased of quite a lot of games, mostly because people I know have the infuriating habit of throwing spoilers my way before I can play them. It'd be nice going in with a blank mind for once... I'd have appreciated games like KOTOR and Bioshock so much more if it hadn't...

My parents were married for 23 years, but divorced four years ago. My father re-married this summer, but my mother has refused to re-commit. I and my two brothers lived with her until two of us left for University, and I have three step-brothers who are much older than me. In my family...

I know a woman who's a social worker, and the amount of dumb names she comes across in her line of work... It's ridiculous. She once came across a toddler named Koolaboy. -headdesk- And that's not the worst of it, my neighbours are the Waters family. They have two daughters, one called Blue...

I know a girl who's a big fan of all three, and she's going on nineteen now. It's a bit of a shame really, considering that every single one of her friends hates Twilight and the Disney Devils with a passion. She just about hit the roof a few weeks ago, when the others, me included, took it upon...

Swim with sharks. I love sharks.

I've seen a couple of threads around asking Escapists whether or not they have any siblings, and that made me curious. Everyone who's got a brother or sister has to have some sort of anecdote to tell about them, so what are yours? Any interesting, entertaining or just messed-up stories to tell...

Jennifer: A Cornish variant of Guinevere, which is a Norman-derived Middle English form of the Old Welsh Gwenhwyfar, meaning white wave; white phantom. Mort: Directly translated from French, meaning Death. White Wave of Death, White Phantom of Death... I don't know which one makes me laugh...

My family. I'm a triplet, and people are apparently fascinated by it. Every time I tell someone, it's an automatic double-take, and then comes the deluge of questions. They even come back later to ask some more, and it's normally how I'm brought up in conversation or recognised. Some people...

Kanye West getting owned by the President, that's an absolute classic. I knew there was a reason why I liked him.