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- What is your name?
Jenia
- How old are you?
51
- Are you male or female?
F
- Which country are you from?
US
- Which city/area do you live in?
Small mill village in NC
- Are you religious?
No
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Sarcastic, friendly, can’t think of another
- Do you have any pets?
2 cats and 2 dogs
- Microsoft or Apple?
Apple
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
NA
- Do you get angry easily?
Only if I’m hungry
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
2 tattoos one on back of neck and other between shoulder blades
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Can’t think of 5. I have varied tastes.
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Anything but country
- What is your favourite flag?
Blanking
- Ever gone camping?
Yes
- Ever been in love?
Yes
- Ever used fake tan?
No
- Which countries have you visited?
England
- Favourite city?
London
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Escape to the Country, various crime shows
- List your five favourite films.

- Are you wealthy?
No
- Do you work? If so, as what?
Yes. Scientist
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Economics
Natural Resource Management

- What do you like most about yourself?
Easy going and adaptable
- What do you like least about yourself?
Having diabetes
 
Hello everyone, I'm new.
Already the sense of distress has lessened and warm support is taking its place. Thank you. So much to read. So much to understand and so much to normalise.
Probably time I emptied my baking cupboard out!
 
Oooh, this feels like a job application! Here goes....
- Include a photo here if you wish to.
I will look for one
- What is your name?
cd667, IRL Chris
- How old are you?
43
- Are you male or female?
Male
- Which country are you from?
UK
- Which city/area do you live in?
Derbyshire, right on the edge of the Peak District
- Are you religious?
I'm agnostic.
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Kind, independent, quirky
- Do you have any pets?
A mahoosive dog
- Microsoft or Apple?
Linux since 1995!
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
Getting back into cycling.
- Do you get angry easily?
I am working on that.
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
Not any more.
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Cliff Edwards
Patsy Monteleone
Leon Redbone
Annette Hanshaw
Fats Waller
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
1920s-1940s popular music.
- What is your favourite flag?
I don't know if I like the "otherness" of having a favourite flag. If you asked me where I came from, I'd say "Earth".
- Ever gone camping?
I was a traveller for 12 years. Does that count?
- Ever been in love?
Yes.
- Ever used fake tan?
No.
- Which countries have you visited?
Lots.
- Favourite city?
I try and avoid cities. I suppose London, because it's tied to my history. But London isn't a place for Londoners anymore.
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
TV isn't my thing.
- List your five favourite films.
No idea.
- Are you wealthy?
Somewhere in the middle.
- Do you work? If so, as what?
I write people's Wills.
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
Law, computer science, social care.
- What do you like most about yourself?
I am kind, and open minded.
- What do you like least about yourself?
I can be the opposite of those things.
 
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- What is your name?
Pete
- How old are you?
54
- Are you male or female?
Male last time I looked
- Which country are you from?
Uk
- Which city/area do you live in?
Leeds
- Are you religious?
No
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
I’d like to think funny,loyal and happy
- Do you have any pets?
Yes Two children
- Microsoft or Apple?
Apple all the way
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
rugby stopped playing at 48. General sports lover
- Do you get angry easily?
Used to Now mellowing as getting older
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
No
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
ac/dc, Ed , led zeppelin,
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Like all genres
- What is your favourite flag
Union Jack
- Ever gone camping?
Yes love it
- Ever been in love?
id like to think so
- Ever used fake tan?
No
- Which countries have you visited?
To many to list but well traveled
- Favourite city?
barcelona
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Family guy, modern family
- List your five favourite films
Casino, top gun, scarface, shriek,
- Are you wealthy?
No
- Do you work? If so, as what
Self employed electrician
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
electrical engineering, book keeping
- What do you like most about yourself?
I like to help people if I can
- What do you like least about yourself?
I sometimes jump the gun
 
- What is your name? Amanda

- How old are you? 48

- Are you male or female? Female

- Which country are you from? Born in Scotland. Live in New Zealand

- Which city/area do you live in? Ruakaka, Northland, NZ

- Are you religious? No

- Pick three words to describe your personality. Introverted, Analytical, Easy-going.

- Do you have any pets? 2 dogs
, 2 rabbits
& a chinchilla


- Microsoft or Apple? Microsoft

- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play? Soccer
️ and ten-pin bowls

- Do you get angry easily? No

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? yes, pierced ears

- Ever gone camping? Yes

- Ever been in love? Yes

- Ever used fake tan? No

- Which countries have you visited? England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand

- Favourite city? Wellington, New Zealand

- List your five favourite TV programmes. Neighbours, Shortland Street, Casualty, Holby, & Wentworth

- List your five favourite films. Shrek, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Psycho, & Silence of the Lambs

- Are you wealthy? Average

- Do you work? If so, as what? Counsellor (voluntary)

- List the subjects you study/have studied. Mental health & Addictions, Counselling & Guidance (currently doing potgrad study in this area). My degree is in Science (Psychology major).

- What do you like most about yourself? My resilient nature and drive to be the best version of myself that I can be.

- What do you like least about yourself? Being overweight, and having a multitude of health issues as a result of that.
 
Welcome @Haddo16 . Love the idea of children as pets.
What type of diabetes do you have?
 
Welcome @SQ71
I love Northland NZ. Was there only a few months ago.
How are coping with diabetes. Any questions?
 
- What is your name? Daithi

- How old are you? 26

- Are you male or female? Male

- Which country are you from? England

- Which city/area do you live in? Essex

- Are you religious? Yes

- Pick three words to describe your personality. Caring, introspective, stubborn

- Do you have any pets? No

- Microsoft or Apple? Microsoft

- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play? I like rugby!

- Do you get angry easily? Nope

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? 3 tattoos, arm, chest and left leg

- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Halestorm, Hans Zimmer, gorillaz, Frank Sinatra, mint royale

- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Alt rock

- What is your favourite flag?
Nepal, it's triangular!

- Ever gone camping?
Yes

- Ever been in love?
Twice

- Ever used fake tan?
Haha, no

- Which countries have you visited?
Italy, Puerto Rico, France, Wales, Scotland

- Favourite city?
Vatican city

- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Falling skies, Six feet under, breaking bad, black mirror, Doctor Who

- List your five favourite films.
V for Vendetta, the purge, the imitation game, inception, Kingsman

- Are you wealthy?
No

- Do you work? If so, as what?
Not currently

- List the subjects you study/have studied.
Law and international law

- What do you like most about yourself?
That I'm compassionate

- What do you like least about yourself?
I'm not very good at the whole social thing
 
HI I am euan pre diabetes stage i am trying to find an easy printable chart of foods to avoid, foods to eat in quantity and and limited foods can any help please.

I am age 53 and ate too much pasta, pizza and processed lasagne and now have to watch as im not eating proerley
 
- What is your name?
Christine
- How old are you?
72

- Are you male or female?
Female

- Which country are you from?
United Kingdom

- Which city/area do you live in?
Swindon

- Are you religious?
I wouldn't say so, no

- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Caring, hopeful,funny

- Do you have any pets?
I have a cat called daffy

- Microsoft or Apple?
Microsoft!

- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
none
- Do you get angry easily?
rarely

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
Tatoos on both arms
( much to my daughters disgust....)
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.

Deep Purple. Killers Coldplay, Keane, Whitesnake.

- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
rock

- What is your favourite flag?
?
- Ever gone camping?

never

- Ever been in love?
of course

- Ever used fake tan?
yes

- Which countries have you visited?
spain, greece, switzerland, most of europe, north africa, malta

Favourite city?
Venice



- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Balthazar, Agents of shield, ancient aliens discovery

- List your five favourite films.
Beaches, Princess Bride

- Are you wealthy?
not.

- Do you work? If so, as what?
no


- What do you like most about yourself?
I am easy going
- What do you like least about yourself?
my too trusting nature,


Think that sums it up.
 
I should be working but this looks like the perfect procrastination activity.

- What is your name?
Emma
- How old are you?
26
- Are you male or female?
Female
- Which country are you from?
UK
- Which city/area do you live in?
Leeds
- Are you religious?
No
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Funny, awkward, friendly
- Do you have any pets?
2 cats
- Microsoft or Apple?
Apple
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
I swim, does that count?
- Do you get angry easily?
Sort of...
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
I have a thundercloud tattooed on my wrist.
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
REM, Veruca Salt, Sleater-Kinney, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Nine Inch Nails
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
I lean more towards the rock/indie side of things, but I'm fairly eclectic.
- What is your favourite flag?
I quite like the simplicity of the Japanese flag.
- Ever gone camping?
Yep, mostly for festivals in my misspent youth, but I'm far too old for that now. These days I prefer the luxuries a hotel has to offer.
- Ever been in love?
Oh very much so.
- Ever used fake tan?
No, I prefer to maintain my "naturally gothic" skin. Some may say pasty, I prefer pale and interesting...
- Which countries have you visited?
France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Tunisia & the USA.
- Favourite city?
I'm quite fond of the one I live in.
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Twin Peaks, Spaced, Taskmaster, Parks & Recreation, Lost.
- List your five favourite films.
The Lego Movie, Being John Malkovich, Happiness, Waking Life, Wall-E
- Are you wealthy?
No, but I'm comfortable.
- Do you work? If so, as what?
Self employed instructional designer/graphics/video production
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
I have a BA in TV Production for all it's worth.
- What do you like most about yourself?
My sense of humour
- What do you like least about yourself?
Oh where do we start? This is the kind of thing I pay my therapist for...
 
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- What is your name? -
David
- How old are you?
44
- Are you male or female?
Male
- Which country are you from?
Scotland
- Which city/area do you live in?
Glasgow
- Are you religious?
NO
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
WITTY CARING SPEAK MY MIND
- Do you have any pets?
Staffy Called Lexi
- Microsoft or Apple?
Microsoft
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
Gym
- Do you get angry easily?
Depends
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
Chest arms back of leg
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Iron maiden five finger death punch acdc Metallica
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
metal
- What is your favourite flag?
Saltire
- Ever gone camping?
yes
- Ever been in love?
yes
- Ever used fake tan?
NO
- Which countries have you visited?
USA Italy France Greece Spain
- Favourite city?
Rome
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
To many to count
- List your five favourite films.
Still to many to count
- Are you wealthy?
Far from it
- Do you work? If so, as what?
Look after my wife
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
IT Support technician
- What do you like most about yourself?
My outlook on life
- What do you like least about yourself
Being 28 Stone
 
I have started a thread in the Type 2 forum and have received two replies. I have tried to reply to the two people who posted but I get the message "Your content can not be submitted. This is likely because your content is spam-like or contains inappropriate elements. Please change your content or try again later. If you still have problems, please contact an administrator" There is nothing offensive or spam-like in my replies but I cannot post them. Also, I have no idea how I am supposed to contact Admin. What is the process? Thank you.
 
Hi I’m John a type 2 diabetic. I’m 36 from Stockport. I use Microsoft
 
If you were trying to reply to me: there was a link in my post, and new members have to post a few times before they can put in links. It keeps the spammers at bay. If you hit reply, the link gets incorporated in your post, which might be the reason for the hiccup. If you delete that bit it should be fine, or you could just post a message and put a @ in front of the name of the person you want to talk to rather than hitting reply, they'll get a notification that way.

I think that's what is going on, anyway...
 

In the first instance you can contact one of the moderation team - our names appear in green rather than red, or email forum@diabetes.co.uk if you need help. It is likely to be something like what @JoKalsbeek said preventing you posting.
 
Hello All
My name is Marilyn, I am 56 years (in a few weeks). I m a female, I live in London but NOT originally form UK. I used to be religious but NOT anymore.

- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Funny. Friendly. Conscientious.
- Do you have any pets?
I do not like to have animals in my house/flat but I like animals.
- Microsoft or Apple? Both
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play? I do no play sport.
- Do you get angry easily? Trying NOT to...
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? Secret!
- List your five favourite musicians/bands is? too many to mention... but I always like Celine , Whitney, JLo, Beatles, Abba
- What is your favourite flag? I like Nepalese flag, so different from the rest of the world...
- Ever gone camping? many times ( most memorable was camping in the continent - France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary), they take their camping there seriously!
- Ever been in love? I am married! I m always in love... with life and everything.
- Ever used fake tan? NO need to . I have a permanent natural (in-born) tan.
- Which countries have you visited? So far I have been to 69 countries, I would love to travel to a 100 countries before my 60th birthday. I missed out on 13 visiting countries due to CoVid19. All my holidays have been cancelled! Most annoying... hopefully, next year is a better travelling year...
- Favourite city? London ( but closely followed by Quito, Lima. Beijing, Istabul ...)
- List your five favourite TV programmes. I love documentaries... especally about histories and places...
- List your five favourite films...
- Are you wealthy? Define what is meant by wealthy? If is is being able to afford 5 holidays a year, own more than two properties, 50 pairs of shoes, more than 40 bags, etc, then perhaps...
- Do you work? If so, as what? Teacher of IT in a sixth form college.
- List the subjects you study/have studied. Is relevant? Too many, I studied for a total of 20 yeast.. up to postgraduate and masters level.
- What do you like most about yourself? Always happy and always look for the best in people no matter how nasty they are.
- What do you like least about yourself? Many things... I am my most habitual critique!
 
Hi everyone, new member - forgive any lack of appropriate formatting / mark-up, I'm being lazy!

- Include a photo here if you wish to.


Maybe later when I can sort out hosting ;-)

- What is your name?
John

- How old are you?
40

- Are you male or female?
Male

- Which country are you from?
United Kingdom

- Which city/area do you live in?
Leeds

- Are you religious?
Spiritual, certainly. I'm Wiccan.

- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Quirky, Ascerbic, Cynical

- Do you have any pets?
A geriatric cat called Sapphire.

- Microsoft or Apple?
Both. I've been a Mac user since 1992 but Microsoft have some really great products. But give me an Atari ST or Amiga any day...

- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
Use to enjoy snooker but I'm too sedentary now and have bad knees.

- Do you get angry easily?
Depends on the stupidity level of the customer I'm talking to...

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
Big blackwork chest piece (8 hours total), both nipples, left ear lobe, PA.

- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Human Waste Project, Rammstein, Kraftwerk, theSTART, Therion

- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Anything combining synthesizers and guitars in varying degrees

- What is your favourite flag?
The white flag of peace

- Ever gone camping?
Eactly three times. Struggled to enjoy it although there were moments. Got trench-foot first time.

- Ever been in love?
For 17 years to a wonderful man.

- Ever used fake tan?
Prefer being pale and interesting. Former goth.

- Which countries have you visited?
Wales, Scotland and USA.

- Favourite city?
Cardiff

- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Doctor Who, Star Trek, Firefly, Sapphire and Steel, Black Books

- List your five favourite films.
Serenity, Aliens, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Tron

- Are you wealthy?
No.

- Do you work? If so, as what?
IT Specialist at a University.


- What do you like most about yourself?
I've got a wicked acid tongue which never fails to get a chuckle from my co-workers. Natural affinity for languages and technology. Comfortable with this limiting human form. Accept I'm seen as a pretty decent guy. I love my metre long hair.

- What do you like least about yourself?
I hate having anxiety and depression. I wish I weren't quite so dependent on alcohol. Would like to be able to ask for help more.
 
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