» I Drank Meths (pointless teenage things you did to shock)

Bad Vibrations
I decided it would be a great idea to try acid for the first time during a double Maths lesson back when I was about 15. Suffice to say I was vastly unprepared for its effects and soon found myself stumbling out of the classroom and toward the toilets, where I spent half an hour trying to make it to the cubicle whilst trying not to fall into the huge void that had opened up at either side of me.
Unsurprisingly, the rest of the day played out like some depraved version of CITV's 'Knightmare'. Plus my mates, in their infinite wisdom, tried their best to 'help' me by taking me to one of their houses at lunch time and giving me a load of vodka. Nice.
Somewhat amazingly this entire event was never discovered by either my teachers nor my parents. The only thing I can't figure out these days is why the fuck I didn't just go home. Ah well, good times.
(Fri 20th Jul 2007, 3:22, More)

» Rubbish Towns

Stoke and Ust Barguzin
Yet another vote for Stoke.
What a massive shithole that place is. I spent three long and miserable years there while at Uni. Just thinking about it makes me feel a bit sick, and I've vowed I will never return there for any reason whatsoever.

That said, the crap town crown has got to go Ust Barguzin, Russia. Some friends and I stopped off there for a few days during a Trans Siberian trip last year. The place is a sort of post-apocalyptic shanty town on the edge of Lake Baikal, where the only pastime is drinking vodka. The only thing to see/do/visit is a small local shop that sells mainly bread and vodka and as there is no plumbing throughout the town you are forced to shit in a pit wherever you go.
Also, the only way to reach this wonderful place is to take an 8 hour ride in a cramped taxi, surrounded by grumpy, drunk Russians on a "road" that would be considered too dangerous to drive on in any other part of the world.
Also, after we left we heard that a Japanese couple once went there and were so horrified by it they actually hired a chopper to get them out of there! "Get to the chooo-paaah"

If you're struggling to imagine what a ridiculous place this might be, I invite you to check out their coat of arms;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ust-Barguzin

Says it all really.
(Fri 30th Oct 2009, 15:31, More)

» Picky Eaters

Not at all
I currently live in Japan, and as such eat the following things on a weekly basis; raw fish, seaweed, salmon eggs, whale, snails, intestines, diaphram etc

Suffice to say, fussy eaters do my head in.
(Thu 8th Mar 2007, 3:49, More)

» My first experience of porn

Good old Dad
Found it behind the whiskey bottles in his drinks cabinet when I was about 10. A blank-looking video tape that contained some ropey 70s grot-flick. Everytime my parents left the house after that that puppy would be straight in the video player. Can't tell how scared I was of it somehow getting stuck in there though.

Anyway, the discovery of said video at such a tender age left me in shock that my old man was such a grubby git. Of course this eventually wore off, at least until the time I came back to visit from Uni and found one of my old porn mags in his drawer. Oh Dad...
(Fri 26th Jan 2007, 1:26, More)