I work 12 hour shifts on weekends. No girlfriend (12 hr shifts on weekends do really allow me to meet girls). Only see friends for a short period of time during the week, so no partys. During the week sucks, there ain’t shit to do, so that sucks. I’m shy, afraid to approach women. I have red hair, glasses and had braces for 7 years in school (It doesn’t get any better than this!!). I was also very shy in school (This all helped immensely!!) I do have $1000 plus stereo system. And when drunk enough, can sing karoke (very well I might add). Along with having a VERY bad habit of procrastination.
Aside from losing anyone close to me or having my health go south, that is just some of the worst things I couldn’t wish on anyone. Alone and bored. Help!
(I had heard of SiS but was not aware that it and MI6 were the same thing, until now)
That’s another thing that’s not fair - I am not a crack SAS anti-terrorist rambo.
I am not native manx.
I am native Blackburn (born), and then spent 90% of my life in happy sunny not at all miserable and dull Accrington.
Then I left for the Isle of Man and IMMEDIATELY they built a cinema,bowling alley, mcdonalds, and KFC there. The bastards were WAITING for me to leave!
More of a secret DBA, than secret agent. It was cool in some ways (loads of security stuff, like what to do if someone forces you to drive in with a car bomb [simple really, don’t blow anyone else up !]) worked with lots of very highly skilled people but ultimately dull with lots of pressure. (If you balls up in industry, your company might loose a $1,000,000 , if you balls up in GCHQ Bin Laden might get away ! )
Blackburn, well your a Lancastrian then, the greatest people on God’s Earth. The way you were complaining I thought you might be a Yorkshire man <fake spitting sound>.
You say your not a risk taker, yet you prove that you are by moving out to Isle of Man, wasn’t too bad was it. You say you are timid and shy, well you aren’t timid and shy on this board. Use it to gain confidence in yourself and what you have to say (that is what I am doing here). Then maybe one day we can both find Hollywood Starlets who want to marry us, and we can say NO, and instead marry sensible intelligent ‘real’ women.
( Note to anyone interested, MI5 and MI6 are out of date terms used when the intelligence services were part of the UK military. The terms that are current are SS (Security Service) for MI5 and SIS (Special Intelligence Service) for MI6. The SS deal with internal security whilst SIS deal with external security. James Bond would be a member of SIS. Code names such as M and Q do exist (M may have been removed from the code names since my time). All I have said here is public domain info, so I am not breaking the law saying it. All I say about any political event etc. is my own speculation, I have been away from GCHQ work for over 3 years, and certainly have no ‘insider’ information.
I am probably breaking/stretching the law to say this, but when I had the chance I tried to find info about Alien landings, and found nothing. Of course, I may not have had high enough security clearance (my security clearance was to Top Secret, but whose to say higher clearances didn’t exist on a need to know basis). And if you are a true believer in Area 51, then maybe I am still working for GCHQ (or NIS as I’m over the pond these days) and am deliberately spreading misinformation.
Bippy, do they really refer to (what we proles call) MI5 as the SS? Because that strikes me as really bad public relations … of course, if their work is largely secret, then they might not care about PR, but still …
(This is not a hijack. Because it is a hijack, and it’s not fair to hijack Lobsang’s thread, and since it’s a thread about things that aren’t fair to Lobsang, then unfairly hijacking it is still on topic. I think.)
Lob-
just so you know, I am just about everything on your list. And then, somehow, an incredible gorgeous hot famous hollywood 18-25 down-to-earth talented beautiful funny female became my girlfriend, and then, my wife.
The SS acronym is a sore point for obvious reasons. What I heard was that the use of the acronym SS for Security (or Secret) Service pre dates the German use in WW II, and so the idea is why should they not use the acronym now. It was used by UK for internal security department (of the MOD I think, UK govermental departments are very mixed up at the best of times) before the Nazis existed, so it would be seen as somewhat giving way to them to stop using the acronym just because they used it more famously.
As for the “Ask the former secret agent” thread idea, I had thought about that, but I want to be able to return to UK legally (ie without having broken the Official Secrets Act), and there are just too many questions that I would have to answer “sorry I am not allowed to talk about that” to. For instance though I mentioned security when forced to carry a car bomb to work at GCHQ, I sertainly won’t mention what is entailed in “don’t blow anyone else up !”
I will tell you that GCHQ is Nerd Heaven, not that you have to be a nerd, but since this is the organisation that created the Enigma computer, you will understand why.
Lobsang, get the bike and join a bike club. That’ll fix the finding cute girls problem. And bad fashion sense is a requirement for cyclists since they all seem to wear lycra bike shorts.
since they all seem to wear lycra bike shorts.