1) Roy Hodgson was my English and PE teacher and managed our school team...
2) My first job after Uni was working for Jeremy Corbyn at the House of Commons for two years...
3) I once shared an office at the House of Commons with Gordon Brown and he gave me his ticket for the FA Cup Final in 1990...
4) John Salako leaves near me and Alan Pardew and I've met him at the hot chicken counter at the Sainsbury in Warlingham!
5) On a flight to New York I read a three page interview with Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin in the Weekend FT. When we landed I ended up in the immigration queue a few places behind him wearing exactly the same gear he was photographed in! As we passed each other I told him I had just read the FT interview and he said he thought it was one of the best he had done. He was a very nice man!

Slightly old post so I apologise if digging up old posts is frowned upon but although I've been secretly reading on here for years, I've only recently become active so would like to get to know some of you, and I must say it seems like there's some characters on here..

1) I'm a royal marines commando specialising in combat intelligence and have served 2 tours of afghan in combat operations.

2) my recently late grandad landed on the beaches of Normandy and is my all time hero, teaching me I can only take from this great country once I have served her.
My step dad also served in the Falklands as a royal marine.

3) in 2012 i was on a lads holiday in greece and swam out to a diving platform in the sea naked at night and got stung on my gentleman sausage by a jellyfish.

4) 2 weeks after passing my driving test in 2009 I managed to write my £400 corsa off into the back of an aston Martin DB5.

5) possibly the most shocking - I have ginger hair.

Just a couple of things there that I'd like to put out there as I'm always up for a bit of banter ( I hate the word banter by the way) so please feel free to chuck some friendly abuse my way whenever you feel necessary.

R.J

It was all going so well!

Slightly old post so I apologise if digging up old posts is frowned upon but although I've been secretly reading on here for years, I've only recently become active so would like to get to know some of you, and I must say it seems like there's some characters on here..

1) I'm a royal marines commando specialising in combat intelligence and have served 2 tours of afghan in combat operations.

2) my recently late grandad landed on the beaches of Normandy and is my all time hero, teaching me I can only take from this great country once I have served her.
My step dad also served in the Falklands as a royal marine.

3) in 2012 i was on a lads holiday in greece and swam out to a diving platform in the sea naked at night and got stung on my gentleman sausage by a jellyfish.

4) 2 weeks after passing my driving test in 2009 I managed to write my £400 corsa off into the back of an aston Martin DB5.

5) possibly the most shocking - I have ginger hair.

Just a couple of things there that I'd like to put out there as I'm always up for a bit of banter ( I hate the word banter by the way) so please feel free to chuck some friendly abuse my way whenever you feel necessary.

R.J

I'll bite

1) I'm profoundly deaf in both ears, I wear a hearing aid and a CI. these jokes about tinnitus are NOT funny.

1-i can't swim either
2-I'm Right handed but Left footed
3-I used to be Dave Swindlehurst's milkman
4-I had a donkey as a pet when I was a kid
5-I have Tinnitus