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* Detto32 OfflineMember |
Last Activity: March 4th 2011 01:47 AM
About Me
- Basics
- Name
- Benedict
- Gender
- Male
- Location
- London, UK
- About
- About me
- Vegetarian, young carer, politics nut, history nerd, linguistics geek, musician and student.
That's me in a nutshell.
I'm not very good at internet forums so please bear with me :)
- Details
- Here for
- Like to help and be helped
- Relationship status
- Single
- Sexuality
- Heterosexual/Straight
- Ethnicity
- Caucasian/White
- Education
- On my gap year
- Occupation
- Student
- Politics
- Social Democrat
- Religion
- Buddhist (Zen)
- Zodiac sign
- Taurus
- Interests
- Hobbies
- Reading, playing music, acting, studying, cooking, learning
- Music
- Tons, but to name a few:
-Badly Drawn Boy
-Andy McKee
-Penguin Cafe
-Newton Faulkner
-Broadcast 2000
-Craig D'Andrea
-Salsa Celtica
-Snow Patrol
-KT Tunstall
-Leo Kottke
-Gotan Project
-The Beatles
Etc etc etc... I'm passionate about music and I'm always up for talking about it. - Movies
- Local Hero, Slumdog Millionaire, Brazil, anything Monty Python
- Television
- Coast, Tribe, History of Modern Britain... any nerdy documentaries really.
Stand-up comedy too... Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Rhod Gilbert ect. - Games
- Most board games... Cluedo, Buccaneer, Monopoly... even the odd game of Diplomacy now and again
Occasional video games when I have time... Nintendo is always good fun, and sometimes a strategy game like Total War or Age of Empires - Books
- Tons. Anything historical/political/linguistic/funny.
- Sports
- Rugby, cycling, kayaking
- Heroes
- My mum
The 14th Dalai Lama
Shunryu Suzuki
Nelson Mandela
David Penhaligon
Roy Jenkins
Wilfred Owen
Vladimir Lezak
Aung San Suu Kyi - Favorite quotes
- "Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement." - Shunryu Suzuki
"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together - Desmond Tutu - Other interests
- History, Anthropology, Politics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Genetics