Stuart Ford I speak my mind involuntarily. It's both a blessing and a curse.

4Oct/100

What’s your favorite city?

New York.

When I first went to New York I wasn't a city-type person and the place scared the living shit out of me. I didn't like it at all. It was big and very fucking scary and I really wasn't comfortable there. It then didn't help matters that I left the day before 9/11.

But then a couple of years later, after having moved to Manchester, I ended up there again, quite randomly in fact, and this time I really loved the place and I've been going back there whenever I can ever since. It's an absolutely amazing place. Its scale, diversity, history and what it has to offer is breathtaking. Nothing in Europe even come close.

Ideally I would like to live and work there for a few years sometime during my life. I don't want to spend forever there, because I don't want to die young from the stress that it would inevitably bring eventually, but to have that experience I think would be a really fantastic thing to tick off my bucket list.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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4Oct/100

Who was the best boss you’ve ever had?

My first boss. I think a lot of people would say the same thing as your first boss more often than not has a very important role in shaping the future of your career. A manager taking on someone who hasn't had a ("proper") job before must taken on and embrace a very important mentor role, and if they don't then they're frankly not a very good boss.

I would like to think I've played a similar role on people who I've taken on under me in the past and I hope to continue to do so in the future. It's as important to me that I do this as Mr. Sandeep Sharma was to me when I started working. I have endless respect for the man.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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5Sep/100

Do you believe in angels?

I'm by no means a religious person whatsoever, I'm a scientist through and through. All I can process is 1s and 0s. However, I do believe in spirits. I lost my Mum 8 years ago to cancer and, although I've not been able to conclusively prove it, I do believe her spirit lives on, mainly in my cat, with whom I'm so in tune with and who looks after when when I'm upset and herself should have succumbed to a fatal illness when she was a kitten, but survived it. The vet couldn't explain it. The logical side of me would like to chalk it up to a freak recovery (because they do happen), but the human side of me wants to believe that someone else had something to do with it, because she could see that I was somewhat struggling without her. I still am to a certain extent, but I don't think that'll ever completely end.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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29Jul/101

If you had to shoot one person, who would it be and why?

It's going to have to be The Pope. Il Papa sprang to mind immediately, I tried to think of others, but they were always trumped by him.

That man and his wretched organisation is responsible for more misery and poverty on this planet than any other in history and it needs to fucking stop. It needs to drag itself into the last century, let alone the present one. It simply isn't on any more.

They had a fantastic opportunity when JPII died to modernise with a more progressive Pope, but no, they took a bad situation and managed to make it *even worse*. I was very (and genuinely) disappointed with this and frankly so should be all followers of the Catholic faith.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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29Jul/100

Who is the most famous person you’ve met?

I bumped into GLS or whatever they're called in Hilton Park services on the M6 once. That really is as good as it gets, I'm afraid, I don't seem to be a celebrity magnet like you are :)

I *have*, however, told a number of celebrities to fuck off. These include (but are not limited to) Jack Dee and Jools Holland. I'm not sure that counts as "meeting" them, per-se.

I also sat next to Joan Rivers in a New York restaurant and endured several hours of almost constant swearing throughout the meal. It was hilarious, but, again, this probably doesn't count as meeting since I never actually spoke to her.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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23Jul/100

Would your life be much different without the internet, and if so, how?

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I've much to thank the Internet for and I'm only sorry that it didn't come along earlier. It certainly would be different without it.

It's provided me with a career if nothing else, although since I'm an old-school educated software engineer I can in theory turn my hand to any kind of software development, regardless of the application. It just happens that I cut my teeth on web software applications.

When I was coming out I didn't have access to the Internet and neither did the Internet have the sort of resources for gay people it has now even if I did have access to it, so I was pretty much fending for myself. I can only imagine how different my life would have been had I been born ten years later.

Glamourous visions of the future in old films told us that we would have flying cars and have almost everything automated. They never predicted that the whole world would one day be connected in the way that it is now. A flying car would be great, but I wouldn't swap it for the Internet.

Decided to give Formspring a go. I will answer most questions but if you want to insult me then please do it to my face.

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