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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GentleGiant" data-source="post: 2544163" data-attributes="member: 11829">30-year-old "Viking" from the beautiful country of Denmark.Grew up in a mid-sized (by Danish standards) city where I, finally, in '99 got my high school degree (well, the quivalent anyway - it's separate from elementary/middle school over here and I did some other high school equivalent studying before that but never finished). Moved to the second largest city here in Denmark in 2000 to attend university... but so far hasn't been able to finish a whole year.Not that it's intellectually difficult (that's never been a problem, finished my high school exams with a very good GPA without ever opening a book - oh, and our last year of high school is equivalent to the first year of college in the US <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), but I've been suffering from depression for quite a while now, which has made a lot of things difficult (plus it's not exactly contributing to improving my abysmal financial problems). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Was planning on becoming a teacher, but not so sure about that now... not so sure about what I want to do at all, actually.  :\ Much more active before I moved, though. Started gaming in '89. I was the chairman of a local roleplaying club since '93 (about 50 members, sometimes more), started 3 different courses at a local youth school/center (a special thing we have here in Denmark, courses are for 14-18-year-olds, they're free, usually happen in the evening (7 - 9.30) and there's a huge selection of courses to choose from (from learning to play guitar, motorshop, woodshop, math, English, potterymaking etc... and my 3 courses: Roleplaying, Live-Action Roleplaying, and Painting Miniatures for Wargames)) and arranged a small con at the youth school too (all of which, the con and the courses, are still going strong today <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).I also play football (American football) and have played semi-pro football in LA in 2004 (Inglewood Blackhawks - they've invited me back but I can't afford the travel expenses).I've had two stints to the US, one in late 2003/early 2004 to visit a ladyfriend at the time (managed to visit my cousin and her American husband down in Florida too... and experienced a tropical storm, an ice storm and a snow storm on the way back up to WV) and then my trip later in 2004 to visit another ladyfriend and play football. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />My parents are recently divorced (this year). My brother is a trained carpenter and is currently living on his own, with his beautiful daughter staying at his place every other week (planning to move in with his new girlfriend as far as I've heard, though - well "new" in the sense that they've started dating again, which they've done before).Currently dating a girl in London long distance (sigh).Got a couple of close friends (about 4), all roleplayers, but haven't really made a lot of new friends in the last 5-6 years.Had some difficult years in elementary school where I was bullied a lot, most likely because of my vicious temper, but the temper seemed to dissipate about the same time that I started roleplaying... interestingly enough <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now I'm 6'6" and 300 lbs, so noone has bullied me for quite a while now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> - I'm also the most down to earth and calm guy you'll meet, so it's not exactly as if I'm instigating fights, despite of my (as I've been told) at times fairly fearsome appearance (because of my size I think).Phew, I think those are the major points in this sad story. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, and my name is Claus... and yes, I've heard pretty much all the Santa jokes out there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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