Welcome to the Couch, introduce yourself!

[luke]

hi shillax, bay and joe, welcome to the couch

[taiwan4lee]

thought i should get my second post in, i'm lee, living in taiwan at the moment. what got me to finally post was after a few years (i think) of visiting couch i finally had an in depth look at almost all of the forums and to my surprise most posters seemed reasonable.
after posting on you tube vids and being banned also being called everything from a chink to a muslim terrorist and the gratuitous faggot, just because i didn't agree with the racist views and maniacal solutions they offered. so it was a bit of a surprise to read posters that wanted to kill everything in sight. thx

btw, couch good work

[taiwan4lee]

opps edit:so it was a bit of a surprise to read posters that didn't want to kill everything in sight.

it's age sorry

[major.tom]

[faceless]

hi Lee, good to see that you've taken a look about. I can be a right unreasonable bastard at times (haha), but you'll not get banned here for being against racism or the usual crap that boneheads are into.

cheers

[taiwan4lee]

mr. faceless, i'm having probs uploading an avatar. the file is a jpeg is that different from a jpg? believe me just a few years ago this stuff was a piece of piss for me. i've lost it i think. thx

[faceless]

yeah, try renaming it to jpg, that should work, though it can only be max 150 pixels wide

[eefanincan]

Hi Lee - glad to see you've found your way to the Couch We're a pretty great bunch to get along with, so we'll look forward to even more posts from you

[SpursFan1902]

Welcome, Lee. Face is really a big Teddy Bear, even though he tries to be gruff.

[taiwan4lee]

thx, i've read a lot of his posts and i can judge he seems fair and balanced (not the fox version of "fair and balanced") mind you.

"Even if you are a minority of one. Truth is still truth"

[taiwan4lee]

can someone help me, i want to post a link

thx

[eefanincan]

[Sylvia's Father]

Hi,
I just wanted to introduce myself after signing up half-an-hour ago.
Thank you for having me incidentally.
A quick glance through the site shows an international composition which I like the idea of.

I chose the user name Sylvia's Father because my younger grandaughter is called Sylvia, but it's also a play on Sylvia's Mother, an irreverant song by Dr Hook and a hit in 1972. I met my wife when this was top of the charts and her mother didn't take to me in the early days. I wore my hair long and was at university studying economics, politics & philosophy; the dear lady thought it was a bit odd for a proletarian youth ("these places ar not for the likes of US!") and was keen for me to join my future father-in-law in a giant steel works, where he drove a crane.

I've been lecturing in philosophy for almost 20 years now. I live just outside Glasgow and have been married to Sylvia's granny for 30 years, we have 3 daughters (2 teachers, 1 in her final year training as a dentist) and 4 grandchildren. I'll wait until I'm more familiar with the site and characters before taking part. I'm looking forward to it.

[Skylace]

Welcome Sylvia's Father and thank you for the little big of background on yourself. Please feel free to pop in wherever and don't worry about our character at all

[faceless]

That's a good intro, nice to see you. If you've been lecturing in philsophy around Glasgow for 20 years, you've probably taught a few of my pals.

Here's the song for anyone who might not know it...