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| Below the Line with MostUncivilised: 'I met my partner over CiF' | Below the Line with MostUncivilised: 'I met my partner over CiF' |
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| BTL (below the line) is a weekly profile of a particularly delightful, prolific or controversial member of the Guardian comment community. Nominate yourself or someone else. | BTL (below the line) is a weekly profile of a particularly delightful, prolific or controversial member of the Guardian comment community. Nominate yourself or someone else. |
| Need to know: MostUncivilised | Need to know: MostUncivilised |
| Comments: 6,449 Abuse reports: 99 Joined: August 2010 Avatar changes: 4 | Comments: 6,449 Abuse reports: 99 Joined: August 2010 Avatar changes: 4 |
| Tell us about your username. What, if anything, does it mean? | Tell us about your username. What, if anything, does it mean? |
| The username comes from a close friend's description of his first mosh pit after a gig several years ago: "So many people, all jumping and shouting and swearing. It was all most uncivilised!" | The username comes from a close friend's description of his first mosh pit after a gig several years ago: "So many people, all jumping and shouting and swearing. It was all most uncivilised!" |
| Have you learned anything about yourself (or the world) since you started commenting? | Have you learned anything about yourself (or the world) since you started commenting? |
| I've learned that I'd really love to be a successful freelance writer someday. Commenting on CiF eventually led to a few ATL gigs and now I'm one of several (unpaid) sci-fi and gaming writers for WhatCulture. If there was any financial payment involved I'd be living the dream by now. | I've learned that I'd really love to be a successful freelance writer someday. Commenting on CiF eventually led to a few ATL gigs and now I'm one of several (unpaid) sci-fi and gaming writers for WhatCulture. If there was any financial payment involved I'd be living the dream by now. |
| I've also discovered that ireadnews (my partner, met over CiF) is terrible for messing up piles of laundry. Totally worth it though, we've been living together for almost a year now." | I've also discovered that ireadnews (my partner, met over CiF) is terrible for messing up piles of laundry. Totally worth it though, we've been living together for almost a year now." |
| What's your commenter theme song? | What's your commenter theme song? |
| Can't go wrong with anything by Aphex Twin, Rammstein or Type O-Negative, but the current track I have on is by the excellent The Damned. Best played loud. | Can't go wrong with anything by Aphex Twin, Rammstein or Type O-Negative, but the current track I have on is by the excellent The Damned. Best played loud. |
| In what ways does your online personality differ from who you are in real life? | In what ways does your online personality differ from who you are in real life? |
| I study, work and socialise online, which helps with unpredictable chronic pain and fatigue flare-ups, so having a strong identity online helps keep me sane on days when I can't go out. Online I'm a physics student, journalist and competitive gamer; offline I'm making the most of a good day of health with friends and stumbling around in huge goth platform boots like a drunken Edward Scissorhands. | I study, work and socialise online, which helps with unpredictable chronic pain and fatigue flare-ups, so having a strong identity online helps keep me sane on days when I can't go out. Online I'm a physics student, journalist and competitive gamer; offline I'm making the most of a good day of health with friends and stumbling around in huge goth platform boots like a drunken Edward Scissorhands. |
| What do you think of the term troll? What does it mean to you? | What do you think of the term troll? What does it mean to you? |
| Someone who derails conversations with stupid comments and questions. I subscribe to the idea of the word being shorthand for 'being a bit of a dick', anything deliberately malicious is just plain bullying. | Someone who derails conversations with stupid comments and questions. I subscribe to the idea of the word being shorthand for 'being a bit of a dick', anything deliberately malicious is just plain bullying. |
| Tell us a secret: | Tell us a secret: |
| I took on Linux Ubuntu and lost. That's probably fine to admit on here, but I can never show my face in the geek realm again until I learn how to use the command-line terminal sensibly. | I took on Linux Ubuntu and lost. That's probably fine to admit on here, but I can never show my face in the geek realm again until I learn how to use the command-line terminal sensibly. |
| Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? | Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? |
| Although I don't have any crushes I do have a lot of respect for Charlie Brooker's work, which I consider as one of several influences in where I'd like to go with my writing. Couldn't hold a candle to the guy's skill from amateur level, but I can dream. | Although I don't have any crushes I do have a lot of respect for Charlie Brooker's work, which I consider as one of several influences in where I'd like to go with my writing. Couldn't hold a candle to the guy's skill from amateur level, but I can dream. |
| Which commenter do you most admire? | Which commenter do you most admire? |
| A lot of people I've talked to on various CiF Belief and science threads are full of valuable knowledge and it's been a joy to learn from them. Epeeist in particular is brilliant for formal logic and the obscure areas of science. | A lot of people I've talked to on various CiF Belief and science threads are full of valuable knowledge and it's been a joy to learn from them. Epeeist in particular is brilliant for formal logic and the obscure areas of science. |
| Has a comment ever made you cry? | Has a comment ever made you cry? |
| No. I've laughed, sure, but crying at a comment strikes me as taking the interwebs far too seriously when really it's just the equivalent of World of Warcraft for politics nerds. | No. I've laughed, sure, but crying at a comment strikes me as taking the interwebs far too seriously when really it's just the equivalent of World of Warcraft for politics nerds. |
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