Top 30 Likes…
- my beautiful Hungarian wife- known on this site as The Angel
- life
- taking photos (especially when using sophisticated digital SLR cameras)
- Hong Kong
- creative and imaginative thinkers
- clever and smart design
- Linux
- geese
- small handheld radio scanners
- driving fast open top cars
- velvet waistcoats (handy for cleaning the lenses)
- visiting far-off places
- midnight walks on deserted beaches
- ‘Private Eye‘ magazine (the covers are always outrageously funny)
- MP3’s (and OGGs)
- music made by friends
- torches – and pretty much anything that lights up or goes “ping“.
- maps
- Beer, especially Hungarian brewed Szalon – its Christmas beer is especially wonderful
- Beethoven symphonies (preferably the 6th)
- pretty much any movie starring Michael Caine. Sleuth is my favourite, with Educating Rita and the Italian Job (the original not the crappy Hollywood remake) are my joint second favourites.
- BBC World Service (especially ‘From Our Own Correspondent‘)
- my mum’s flapjacks (I’m trying to persuade her to let me put the recipe on the site!)
- red wine
- Southampton Common
- rainy Sunday afternoons
- Tux, the Linux penguin
- Large hard disks – I’m a data-junkie!
- digital multimeters, weather stations and any thing you can use to measure things with – I’m also a geek!
- unusual watches
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Top 20 Dislikes…
- Donald Trump – frankly I’m not particularly keen on any Republican US president, going back to and including Richard Nixon.
- violence
- racists
- banks
- spam emails and chain letters & those who send them
- corrupt politicians
- corporations that needlessly pollute the planet and put their profits before the needs of the people
- warmongers
- bigots
- religious zealots
- Microsoft (and any organisation that uses its corporate muscle to stifle innovation)
- pornography
- expensive machines that don’t work properly
- being woken up too early on Sunday mornings
- washing up
- Southampton’s nightclubs
- British Telecom
- people who let their dogs crap on the pavement & don’t clean it up
- Tony Blair (never trust a man who smiles that much). Actually I really dislike this grinning, lying two-faced shyster. But my contempt for the man is such that I do not think he deserves to be top of anything.
- those little packets of ketchup that split in the wrong place and squirt their contents all over your trousers!
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