Yes, yes, memes are evil, and so is Plumpernickel for tagging me with one. However, limiting the process to three things makes it just about tolerable. So, here goes (answers correct at time of going to press, but subject to change over the course of the day).
3 Things that scare me: Being in a plane crash - not the death part, but the 5 minutes of plunging to earth beforehand; choking; poverty in old age.
3 People who make me laugh: Seinfeld, Ross Noble, Tony Hancock/Sid James
3 Things I love: Well, I hate to think of her as a ‘thing’, but Veronika, my special inflatable friend; KY Jelly; Bicycle repair kit
3 Things I hate: Pins, tacks, needles.
3 Things I do not understand: Quantum physics, Chinese script, Ashura
3 Things on my desk: computer, photographs, pile of accounts that I’ll sort out tomorrow - honest.
3 Things I am doing right now: writing this post, drinking tea, eating a melton mowbray pork pie.
3 Things I want to do before I die: Run a marathon in 2hours 59′ 59″ or less, have children, be confident in being myself (no matter how weird that is).
3 Things I can do: make tadpoles with two heads, speak German, run a marathon in 3 hours 00′ 43″.
3 Things you should listen to: Duke Ellington, earlyish Primal Scream (Screamadelica
3 Things you should never listen to: Primal Scream (after the Screamadelica phase), The Jeremy Vine Show, This American Life
3 Things I would like to learn: Italian, a functional relaxation technique, when to keep my mouth shut and just listen.
3 Favourite foods: Salmon, wild, freshly caught; Danette chocolat noir extra; Aloo Paratha
3 Beverages I drink regularly: Tea, Black Sheep Ale, Elderflower cordial.
3 Shows I watched as a kid child: Knight Rider, Space 1999, Dukes of Hazzard
I am Inactualfact, killer of memes, so I’m not passing this on, but feel free to pick one (or more) of your 3 favo(u)rites and drop it in the comments.
Song playing as this was published: The Velvet Underground & Nico - Venus In Furs
:-) See, it wasn’t too bad, was it?
Knight Rider? I had almost forgotten about that!
Learn Italian! What a lovely boy you are
here I am, a teacher for Italian (in Austria, right now), at your disposal 
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Plumpernickel: Well, it took a while for me to build up the courage to do it.
liseuse: Great to see you back! I’m not sure about “what a lovely boy you are” though…..
Now, I take it I have to be in Austria for the lessons?
My three favourite things? The three Ms.Lears
3 things before I die? Live in a house that looks over water,watch the trees grow in Transylvania, have an Internet business.
3 favourite plays? Tempest, Midsummer Nights Dream,Uncle Vanya.
King Lear: For your house overlooking water, what about one on slightly higher ground in Gloucestershire?
Hm - good thought!
3 Things I would like to learn:… when to keep my mouth shut and just listen.
sounds familiar, could do with a bit of that…. after having pushed my bike for 10 miles (on one of the few summer days we had this year) I concur with the fondness for a bicycle repair kit. among the things I love and/or are on my desk - safety pins. they are great!
On the subject of inflatables, my local used to sell vibrators and inflatable sheep, we would write numbers on the side of the sheep, insert item 1 into item 2, activate item 1, and watch them race across the table. Ah, quality entertainment.
Your local *what* though, Devonboy?
What’s the problem with This American Life, if I may ask? Is it Ira Glass’s whiny voice that drives over the edge?
By the way, there is a bizarre feud between NPR and PRI. As a result NPR Berlin FM is neither carrying This American Life nor Whatdaya Know.
I think it’s best summed up by the Onion….
And if NPR Berlin doesn’t have it there are always the podcasts….
my local pub, of course
hmmmm!!!
It’s true, a pub in my town used to sell them. Then, one sunday morning, a child found one left from the night before, he took he’s new “bouncing sheep” to show his mother. The novelty items were shortly after discontinued
As summer in the OC once said: “Is that that show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are?” *Snort* “Gawd!”
Pramila: I’ve met Devonboy - it sounds like the kind of thing he and ‘those sort of people down there’ would do.
Devonboy: I take it you use natural substitutes now?
INOAP: Oh, you can quote from The O.C.? - that is, like, so cute.
i’ve never tried it, but i imagine the results would curiously similar
that sentence should have “be” in it somewhere
knight Rider is still showing on TV in Germany (Unfortunately!)
Glad to see Devonboy is upholding our yokel image in a mighty fine way!
Devonboy: And capital letters, etc. But we get your drift….
Haddock: Bizarrely, Hasselhoff appears to have become some kind of self-parodying cult-figure in the UK - and I bet Knight Rider is on the Men & Motors (it’s great!) channel here. And isn’t Devonboy great as a yokel? You should see him chewing a stalk of grass and wearing a smock….