A bit late, but I'll have a go.
I'm not giving my name to retain some anonymity, but it is a typical name, though one which isn't as common as it used to be. I'm an atheist and the son of two deists who agree with me about the pitfalls of religion more than they disagree. I'm British and originate from Scunthorpe, though have been more nomadic over the last five years due to university commitments.
Not overly bothered about fashion, but does like shopping down the local independent designer clothes shop, as the clothes there are stylish and have longevity. I have ginger hair, green eyes, freckles on the face and arms, and I am white. I am English, but I only have to go back a few generations to find gypsy, Scottish and Northern Irish heritage.
I like watching sport, but not so much playing given that I have mild dyspraxia. Football and Formula One are my main sports and I have been a supporter of Scunthorpe Utd, my hometown club, since a boy, and I still go when I have the opportunity. My music taste has varied from being purely metal as an angst ridden teen to incorporate indie, psychedelic rock, garage rock, folk and anything that catches my ear. Favourite bands and musicians include Arcade Fire, Young Galaxy, Pixies, R.E.M., Miracle Legion, Primal Scream, Drenge, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Punpkins, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Thee Oh Sees, Helmet, Deftones, Metallica, Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Ramones, The Pogues, Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan. The Wire is the best drama to have existed, in my opinion, and The League of Gentlemen pips Father Ted and Red Dwarf to the top comedy.
A heterosexual male, had a brief fling a few years ago, but didn't last long. Have been too busy since to focus on my love life. Maybe when I settle down in my chosen career path the 'one' will appear.
Started off in politics as very naive and very left wing. I was a member of my university's Socialist Workers Party society for the first year, and that experience shattered my confidence in the hard left, then I became soft left and still seeing being leftist as a synonym of being virtuous. I gradually lost confidence in that, but the final moment came after the left's clueless and sometimes victim blaming response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. When Jeremy Corbyn was running for leader I realised that I was no longer the person I once was politically and wondered what the 18 year old me would make of me giving first preference to Liz Kendall, who I would have once sneered at for being a 'Blairite.' I still consider myself to have Labour values, but I can no longer vote for them with the current leader in charge, and consider myself to be a Eustonite. I am somewhat of a muscular liberal who believes in making a solid stand for secularism and democracy against those who hate it, be it Islamists, the far right or far left, and I am probably more hawkish than the average left leaning person. Regardless, I feel a sense of solidarity with those victim of intolerable ideologies and regimes, regardless of whether the regime is pro or anti-western.
Generally I am quite shy and unassuming, which has made it hard for people to truly get to know me, but when they do I can become very open and appear extroverted when in the company of close friends. I like to think that I am caring and compassionate. The perception of time whizzing by sometimes disconcerts me. It doesn't seem long ago when I was at college doing my A levels at age 17, but now I am 23 approaching 24 and life feels very real.
On most days I'd rather be down the pub with mates, trying out the real ales that are on cask.
