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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
Hey there everybody!
I'm a student at London uni and I live in Cambridge during my holidays. I don't drink cos of epilepsy but I do smoke (though I'm trying to cut down on that). I like all sorts of music but not country or manufactured pop. I love drum and bass, funk and chill, and I love my poi!
I first saw fire poi this year when I went to a party after my final exams at uni. There was live Drum and Bass being played on the roof of this house, and some people doing fire poi. I thought, 'I gotta get me some of those..' and despite remembering only about 5 names out of a possible 50 from the party, I remembered the poi!
Anyways, a little over two months ago I started using some comet poi, got addicted, and basically have been practising for about an hour a day since then. About a month ago I bought monkey fist fire poi, and practised with them to get used to the weight and feel of chains. Then a little over a week ago... FIRST BURN!! was a little timid at first, but then did wraps constantly when burning and blackened up my hoody and jeans until i wasn't worried about the flames anymore, now I feel free to revel in my pyromania! I LOVE POI!!

Edit: now updated to include basic info

Name: Guy

Location: Cambridge

Hometown: Born in Boston (the UK one!) moved to cambridge 5 years later

DOB:27/3/81

Age: 24

Sex:Male

Occupation(s):unemployed but soon to be a student yet again

Favorite Food(s): Chinese (especially Dim Sum), anything sweet, anything chocolate, mild curries, mushrooms with blue cheese

Favorite Color(s): Not sure really but I seem to wear blue a lot, and i like to have red colours in my room

Toys: poi, staff, nunchuks, flag on a pole (wielded sword style), rope dart, cj ball

Hobbies other than the obvious: shoddy guitar playing (and singing songs about pot when no-ones about), experimental cooking (very occasionally), reading, drawing on my hand on long journeys, listening to music all the time, worrying about the environment, playing compulsive computer games, photography (occassionally), watching Kung fu films (especially the badly dubbed old ones) and skinning up.

Education: BA Ancient World Studies 2:1, waiting for my MA in Public Archaeology marks, about to start a TEFL course hopefully

Favorite Book(s): Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman), Armageddon the musical trilogy (Robert Rankin), Dear Monkey (abr. Alison Waley), the Dark is Rising books, Satanic Verses (although I've only managed to read it once I really liked the ideas in it)

Favorite Movie(s): Any old school kung fu, Iron Monkey (kung fu film), Most Jackie Chan films, Hero, Catch me if you Can, Orange County, Cheech and Chong: up in smoke (funniest stoner movie EVER), Shaolin Soccer, Gladiator, Donnie Darko, Starsky and Hutch (the recent one), The Royal Tenenbaums

Favorite TV show(s): Lost, 'Allo 'Allo!, Dad's Army, Diagnosis Murder

Plans for life in general: still working on that one, interested in media, teaching, archaeology and the environment. Go figure.

Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Far too many for me too write them all here! Quantic, Fila Brazilia, Banco de Gaia, buddha bar type stuff, the Levellers, James Brown and a lot of other music from the seventies, also Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

Favorie ice cream flavor(s):Mint choc chip, raspberry ripple, mango sorbet, lemon sorbet, who am I kidding? I love all Ice cream!

Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella? Nutella first by a long way then vegemite then Marmite, but I don't hate any of them really

Edit: Photos from China at https://www.flickr.com/photos/7356164@N05/

EDITED_BY: LazyAngel (1293446362)

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YakumoSILVER Member
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Posted:
Welcome back smile

Tenner for 2 gig is ok, but there are tons of knock off drives that report fake sizes in china, so you don't know how big it really is till you fully format it, or fill it, hope you got lucky smile

you might have had a problem trying to bring the sword back they're really working on banning them atm.

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_Clare_BRONZE Member
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Posted:
hug

Welcome home biggrin

xx

Getting to the other side smile


Gayle......!SILVER Member
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Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom


Posted:
Are you home? Really?

Yay!!!!!!!!!!

bounce2 bounce bounce2

Gayle.....!


SkulduggeryGOLD Member
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Posted:
Yay! Silly Facial hair man is back! bounce

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
grouphug

thank you for all the welcomes back people!

yes, I'm really back and slightly jetlagged. I'm hoping to make it down to London sometime soon: I need to buy sort out/buy some stuff from there, so Linden I'll see you soon, although I don't have an elephant. I have a picture of one though!

As for the rest of you, I'll be seeing you at PLAY!! yay!!
biggrin
(actually, I really need to start planning those workshops)

grouphug

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Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

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IrinusBRONZE Member
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Location: London, United Kingdom


Posted:
Welcome back man smile

linden rathenGOLD Member
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Posted:
:o you disappoint me .. im sure you coulda snuck one past customs tongue

will rock to see you again man! drop me a PM with details etc or give me a call smile

take care! hug

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
in London tomorrow.... possibly

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
Right I'll be in London on Tuesday

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


linden rathenGOLD Member
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Posted:
was awesome to see you again man! hope you had fun at spitz - sorry i was flakey and didn't come just had a tiring week :S

damn work....

anyway hopefully see you at play unless your in london before then in which case give me a bell! hope your meet today goes well
take care

sam hug

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
Well, I now have a job (which I got within 12hrs of starting to look for one- that's a new record for me!): so I'll see you at PLAY first I reckon
hug

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


IrinusBRONZE Member
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Location: London, United Kingdom


Posted:
Good going smile I'm guessing the job is in Cambridge?

LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
Yep, 3 3/4 hours a day, and I'm doing 2 1/2 hour driving lessons as well, so I'm a bit of a busy bunny.

Got my PLAY time all booked off though! yay!!! biggrin

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
Driving test tomorrow! eek

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


linden rathenGOLD Member
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Posted:
you'll be fine

whats the job? tongue

see you soon mate!

good luck! hug

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
Passed: Yay!!! biggrin biggrin biggrin bounce

Linden: I'm working as an English teacher, mostly doing 1 to 1 work

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


MynciBRONZE Member
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Good luck dude wink no problems you'll be fine

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
confused

erm thanks mate, I passed already! see you were perfectly right! wink

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Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
btw, I've got a fair few of the china piccies on facebook now

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


MynciBRONZE Member
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Posted:
ubblol when I opened your intro it showed me the last post on the previous page ubblol sorry redface *goes to look at guys pics*

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
wheeeee! he's baaaaaack!!!

hug

good to be with your missus again? ubblove

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
mynci: ubblol

rouge: Thanks hug, yeah it's very good to be back, I've been soooo busy though!

by the way:


Poi in the Punt 2 is now scheduled for 29th September if anyones up for it?

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


MynciBRONZE Member
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8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
where is it dude? wave

hope summer treated you well biggrin

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
cheers mate: Been a good summer, although working has stopped me from going to Bristol and some other things, but at least my bank balance is looking more healthy!

Poi in the Punt is in Cambridge, thread here:

[Old link]

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


linden rathenGOLD Member
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Posted:
heya man,

glad to hear your back - i doubt i'll be along t' punt as its fresher's week so much crazyness likely

hopefully catch up soon!

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
*heavily late reply*

good to see you at Synergy, Sam!

today I explained a lot of poi terms to someone at work while they smoked a ciggy
I went through

Weave (2,3,5 beat)
butterfly
buzzsaw (normal + bf)
windmills
low wave
mexican wave
fountains
tangles (hyperloops (normal +extended/infinite) + airwraps (normal and bf))
isolations
whip catches
longarm
inversion
corkscrew
flowers
wraps (standard + spiral)
antispin
throws

poor dude: must have been bored senseless.
damn, I forgot wibbles and propellors.

Didn't go near plane theory/ polyrythm/hybrids either.
Damn there's a lot of this stuff!

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


linden rathenGOLD Member
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Location: London, UK


Posted:
awwwww you forgot hybrids? how could you!

hug was cool to see you man!

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
Awesome weekend just gone: biggrin
on friday night I went to peform glow with Karen, Aran and a couple of other guys at the Selwyn snowball in tribal costumes (what I sewed myself! *proud smile*), when it totally pissed it down but had a fab time nonetheless

Then on saturday night I went to decompression (fundraising event for BM festival) at the synergy centre to perform a glowstaff routine with Aran as part of a larger glo show with a prohibition theme. Then plenty of dancing like a loon before a total mission home.


Not so awesome part: Forgot the tube opens late on a sunday spent an hour waiting outside as I got there just after six, then found out the train would only take me halfway home, the rest of the way I had to go by bus: anyway, finally hit the sack at noon.

Have been feeling a tad sleepy at work since noon today, but hopefully i'll get my bodyclock sorted tonight.

Oh and all the above was done on caffeine and nothing else: yay for being hyper and sober!

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


IrinusBRONZE Member
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222 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom


Posted:
Hey dude, you know you've got a place to crash if you're ever stuck in London.

See you soon

T hug hug hug

LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
cheers dude, you know I have no idea where you live know though! confused

you in the Camden area?

Have been meaning to get down, especially with the ethno musicology thing happening, but there is pub crawl and street performance on friday and a reunion with my old uni mates this weekend, so looks unlikely I'll make it frown

good luck though biggrin hug

btw, what happened to the Balls4Balls DVD?

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


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