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Hello. I'm DenmarkKilo, and I'm an Alcoholic.

Not really of course (I drink only twice a year, personal rule), but I couldn't think of a decent and funny introduction to myself that hasn't been done before. I have no connection to the name DenmarkKilo at all, since I haven't even been to the country and I weigh more than 1kg. The name just comes from random words that popped into my head, and they sounded good.

Anyway, I'm a call centre operative in South Wales that has an interest in magic (call centre work is mindnumbing enough to multitask) among other things (like games and Japan).

As far as magic goes, I've had an interest since I was in single digits. I've had many of those magic sets given to me for Christmas over the years (along with the occasional finger guillotine), and have watched many hours of magic shows on TV. I've recently started going through Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic whilst handling calls in work (ever so much depth to my job...) which has somehow made me feel less stressed when talking to callers. Something about shuffling cards relaxes me. Dunno Why.

Other stuff: Fascinated with poker chips, am a non-smoker, hate tomato, accent is described as "BBC Continuity Announcer English" by some people despite being brought up in the "Here Be Dragons" part of Wales, love the Jonathan Coulton song "RE: Your Brains", and was mistaken for a pregnant woman by Ainsley Harriott (He asked "When is it due", I told him I was a man, and we'll leave it at that).

Hi Denmark, welcome to TM, hope you have fun here

Hi mate,

what a cracking intro! Welcome to Talk magic

Where abouts in sunny south Wales you from? Originally I'm from Treharris!

Hi and welcome. Most of the TM members only drink once a year - it starts 00.01am January 1st and ends 11.59pm December 31st....(or is that just me?)

call centre work is mindnumbing enough to multitask

So THATS why i always get put on hold ??

Hello and welcome.......

Fairie x

Hi Denmark and welcome to TM

Hope that you turn out to be a great Dane on these boards

You're madder than a box of frogs! Welcome to TM.

Where abouts in sunny south Wales you from? Originally I'm from Treharris!

I'm from one of the hefty rural bits of Carmarthenshire (the place even Ordnance Survey fear to tread). Now in one of the hefty urban bits to the east of there.

So THATS why i always get put on hold ??

No, I'm doing it when there isn't heavy typing sections in the calls. You get put on hold because:

a - The office is understaffed as someone screwed up on the call volume statistics a bit
b - We have to find a supervisor because a caller requested them, despite the supervisor not knowing half of the systems and service rules themselves
c - We're trying to get through to another department and therefore get put into a queue ourselves to get through to someone in some sort of demonic circular irony hell
d - We have to do something long and tedious on the system and we can't really think of anything funny, informative or useful at the time
e- The caller is a Twelve O'clock Flasher (someone so inept, stupid or cavemanesque that you think every electronic device in their house is flashing midnight) and we are letting off some steam by stringing random obscenities at the computer and you don't want to hear that...

I have witnessed a colleague put a caller on hold and then just walked out of the job because they had enough. No-one in management noticed for 2 hours...