A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Marketing Manager - Finance
2. Office Manager - Finance
3. Sales Executive - Paper Mill
4. Salesman Jewellery store

B) Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Fear and loathing in las vegas
2. Big Fish
3. Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
4. Bugsy Malone

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Frankfurt
2. Sittingbourne, Kent
3. Teynham, Kent
4. Geneva

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. MTV
2. Sky News
3. Sky Sports
4. Simpsons

E) Four places I have been "on vacation"
1. California, San Francisco, LA
2. A million alpine resorts
3. Valencia
4. Las Vegas

F) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Mexican Fajitas
2. Thai Green Curry
3. Chinese Chicken Satay
4. Tagliatelli Carbonara

G) Four places I would like to be/go right now:
1. Bed
2. Sauna
3. Pub
4. Bathtub

H) Four dislikes:
1. Dishonesty
2. Crime
3. Pessimism
4. Crap TV

Jobs:
- apple picker in Tasmania
- brickies labourer in Melbourne
- University Professor
- software enginner

Movies
- The English Patient
- Spirit of the Beehive
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Braveheart

Places I have lived
- Melbourne
- Christchurch
- Dublin
- Scotland
- Zurich

TV
- ?

Places I have visited
- Annapurna
- Bend, Oregon
- Greenland
- Alaska, fly fishing
- Macchu Picchu

Foods
- game pie (cooked by my wife)
- seafood chowder
- tuna steaks, thai-style
- fish and chips, and mushie peas

Places I would like to be
- sailing in the Ionian sea
- diving in Sharm
- fly fishing on the Kenai (in summer)
- camping beside Lake Tarli Karng

Try it, it will bring a smile to your face!

Thanks to the thread-starter; great idea.

Macchu Picchu? One of my friends got bitten by a snake on the Inca trail years ago, and had to be medivac'd out by helicopter. It cost some insane amount at the time, eg USD$15000...

this sounds like fun to do...

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. lifeguard in a swimming pool
2. telemarketeer
3. data enterer (bah)
4. scientist (yay)

B) Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. pulp fiction
2. land and freedom
3. man bites dog
4. a streetcar called desire

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Brussels, Belgium
2. Lusaka, Zambia
3. State College, PA
4. Zurich

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Six feet under
2. greys anatomy
3. the office
4. six feet under (again)

E) Four places I have been "on vacation"
1. Alaska
2. Tanzania
3. Ecuador
4. Argentina

F) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Indian curry
2. plaetzli
3. vol-au-vent
4. pie!

G) Four places I would like to be/go right now:
1. Vals
2. Iceland/Ethiopia/Japan
3. my favorite pub in Brussels
4. Buenos Aires

H) Four dislikes:
1. Dislikes

erm refresh my memory... what's plaetzli? I've had a sheltered life...

And we're looking at going to Iceland in mid summer for a few days. It's got Europe's largest waterfall, and a pretty anarchic nightlife. It's expensive but not toooo bad. One of my mates was in Rekjavik(sp?) a couple of weeks ago for a stag night; he reckons beers there are about chf 2 more expensive than Zurich.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. construction - roofing company
2. calculation engineer
3. data typist
4. Field and Battery Oilfield Operator

B) Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Twin Town
2. 8-tracks (snowboarding)
3. The Straight Story
4. The Invisible Kid

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Provost, Canada
2. Edmonton, Canada
3. Calgary, Canada
4. Basel

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. National Geographic
2. Lost
3. Animal Planet
4. Family Guy

E) Four places I have been "on vacation"
1. New Zealand
2. Galapagos Islands
3. Malaysia
4. Bolivia

F) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Fondue
2. Good ol' Grandma style country cooking
3. Thai
4. Mexican

G) Four places I would like to be/go right now:
1. at home sleeping
2. driving a porsche around the Nuremberg ring
3. snowboarding in BC
4. camping / hiking in the mountains

H) Four dislikes:
1. "stand-off-ish" attitudes
2. the Fiat Multipla ( http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/F...-%20better.jpg )
3. celine dion
4. being stuck in an office all day!

I love Six Feet Under too!
best gift last xmas was the entire box set!
great show

yes,

six feet under absolutely made me re-discover my existential side. My boyfriend gave me the poster of the 5th season (you know, everything, everywhere, ...ends) as a present. Brilliant! Unforte I had to leave him (the boyfriend, not the poster) behind in central PA.
Plaetzli are those 'pancakes' filled with cheese (my favourite) or spinach or mushrooms which you can find in the frozen section in your supermarket (Findus). The perfect-I-don't-want-to-cook, but need some comfort food in 5 minutes-food. Missed them a lot in the US and been addicted to them since I moved back to Europe.

Iceland in mid-summer sounds like a dream... enjoy!

Yeah, I want to go and see this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dettifoss

It only seems to operate in mid summer, during the snow melt....

To quote a nice German idiom:

"Everything has an end, only a sausage has two."

dave

I thought Brits like to beat around the bush? Ah well, I love the Brits humor so I don't mind your style.

But don't people just love to talk about themselves? We all do, everyone wants to tell others who we are. In my experience, to woo a person, you talk about THEM. It's if you want to woo them or not.

But how many people read all the posts that had 4 things about each person for each category??

And who enjoyed it when others responded to those categories?

I like receiving pats too.

"Talk to someone about something that the other person is most interested in: themselves." (Dale Carneague, How to Win Friends and Influence People)

There is something slightly distasteful IMO about spontaneous "I am really interesting and this is why" posts. It tends to be a gushing US thing in my experience, to which my "Brit humour" answer is often "Why are you telling me this ?"

"Anyway, enough about me. Lets talk about you... "

dave

Oh Dave, you have proved yourself to be so interesting though... so even if the Americans are out to talk about themselves, the Brits win in being more interesting to listen to... even if they avoid the topic of themselves.
Thanks for the spelling lesson. So kind of you. Interesting and giving! My my...

To which the stateside answer - as featured in so many dramas would be :

"I'm just doin' my job. It's what I do."

or translated for English viewers :

"You're welcome."

dave

What do you do Dave? If I may be so forward...to a Brit that is.

If you may be so bold as to enquire...? Of course, as now we have been introduced...

I do nothing particularly exciting, but it is very hightech , but it's not IT, finance or pharma - all of which leave me colder than a swiss Parteee.

Things I am least likely to say unless I morph into a Valley-Girl:
"Geeee ! Are we having a great time yet ?"

On the other hand the English translation, I am likely to say :
"We had a great time."

Note the assessment made after the event rather than during it. A subtle difference.

Any more about me would be too much for one sitting

dave

Yes, this 'four things' about me stuff actually tells you bugger all about the person, most of the post's may as well by from machines - very american!

I don't know anything about any of the people that have posted here.

I suppose, though, that it could be considered 'chit chat', break the ice kind of thing, an excuse to get personal maybe.

But as no one follows up, it's a waste of space.....

Argh .... I hate this question!!!!

It is the second question after what's your name which many Swiss will ask while at a party.

Did you make that initial step for that follow up?

Or in the words of the great Michael Barrymore:
"Whats yer name and where d'ya come from ?"

I've always found anyone that says "That's what I do." to be really strange, as though this answer justifies their raison-d'etre.

dave