User:Brianlacey

The Basics

I'm a Wikipedian because I love to learn and I love to share the knowledge!

I'm was born on 5th September 1978 in sunny Belfast, Northern Ireland, and I've lived within a 40 square mile area of it ever since!

Career

I've worked in a toy shop, a pet shop, a cinema, a grocery store, I taught nurses how to use computers, I've managed an off-license, I've been a sales administrator, I've been a school secretary, I've been a glorified tea-boy, I'm currently Personal Secretary to a government agency Director (for archaeology/architecture), I'm about to start work as the sexton of a Cathedral, and I hope to be an ordained minister within the next five or so years.

Education

I passed the 11+ in primary school, and my education's been going downhill ever since! I have 9 GCSE's, 3 A-Levels, a BSc in Archaeology-Palaeoecology, a certificate in Administration, an Intermediate Wine & Spirit Tasting Certificate (my greatest honour!), and I'm currently doing a Youth Work course.

Interests

Constitutional History I think that I have the most boring interest that was ever devised... constitutional history! Give me a handful of constitutions, some tea and a cadbury's cream egg, and I'll pretty much be your slave.

Sport I'm not particularly sporty, although I do go to gym and swimming pool a few times a week. I don't have any particular favourite sports teams, although I tend to support Glasgow Rangers FC just to annoy my Celtic-supporting mates. I'm also interested in politics (it's hard not to be in Northern Ireland), and sadly it's a fact of life that some narrow-minded Celtic supporting bigot is bound to vandalise this page as soon as they see the word "Rangers"! God, I love this country!

Politics Now that get's me on nicely to the subject of nationality... I'm a fully fledged European Irish Briton, or should that be European British Irishman (I'll leave it up to you, I'm easy). I generally vote for the Alliance Party, but I'm holding out for a truly Liberal party to emerge in Ulster politics! I come from a Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist background, but throw me into a United Ireland tomorrow and I dare say I'd be relatively unaffected in an emotional sense - if anything I'd be sad that all those lovely financial subsidies that we get from our English brothers and sisters would be cut off!

Science Fiction / Horror

I love Star Trek, Star Wars, and such like. Never really got into Babylon 5 or Stargate, and I couldn't keep up with SeaQuest! I've a weird fondness for the film Sphere, but I really think they could have done so much more with it. And the Golden Child is my favourite Eddie Murphy film - you'll probably disagree, but tough.

And I just have to say...

Jar Jar Binks must DIE. He really makes me cry. I hate his face, his entire race, I really hate that guy.

Christianity And last but certainly not least... I'm a Christian, and more specifically a Church of Ireland Anglican. My friends would agree that I always end up bring religion into any conversation - it's not intentional (must be a subconscious thing!). My number one problem with so many people is that nomatter how simply the Gospel is presented to them, they just don't get it in any rational sense! It's easy... God's good, we're bad, God loves us anyway, God said that he would punish our badness with death, God came up with the superb idea of becoming a human himself (that's Jesus!), punishing himself, dying himself, so that we wouldn't have to bear that punishment! And all we have to do is believe. But but but surely blah blah blah we have to blah blah blah! No BUTS! God is victorious over sin and death. Get over it! Love him. Love everyone round you. Love yourself. Ah what's the point?! You probably still don't get it!!!

My Biggest Regret

Up until a couple of years ago I would have said that my biggest regret in life was not making up after a fight with an ex-girlfriend who I honestly thought I would have married, but I'm over that now, and my biggest regret is...

Selling my Commodore 64 with printer, disk drive, cartridges, games, neos mouse, magazines, etc to my nextdoor neighbour in 1995 so that I could buy an Amiga 1200 (which was dumped in the bin about 2 years ago). Why oh why oh why oh why?! I loved that computer. Let it go, Brian. Let it go.

Pages I've Created

Sexton (office) Fellowship of Vocation St Thomas Church, Belfast