User:R. John Lloyd

 

Hello, I am Reece Lloyd (had to abbreviate because there was somebody else called Reece Lloyd) and I am sixteen. I have been using the Wikipedia for some time, only in November 2006 becoming a member. Forgive me if I haven't been adding more to this page recently: I have been very busy of late, what with A-levels and so on. I suffer from Type 1 diabetes mellitus, and have had it since 1998. I do not like to say so, but I "suffer" from Asperger's syndrome and I think it high time I tell you before someone else does it without me knowing. I used to go to Argoed High School, but now I go to Deeside College for my A-levels, and have recently sat three exams.

I speak English (mother tongue), French, Welsh, and German. I can accurately "write" in the IPA, when I use the Wikipedia guide at all times. I was born in St. Asaph in the then-Clwyd, now in Denbighshire, but I have lived in Flintshire for a great many years, and I am extremely proud of my county, so much so I could never forgive Denbighshire for taking Rhyl, Prestatyn and my native city St. Asaph from us in the 1990s. It is for this reason I call those three places the lost three.

My heroes are Aung San Suu Kyi for her bravery against the dictatorship of Myanmar, and I would rank those monks who tried to protest against this government (if they deserve that name) only recently as heroes too. I believe Konrad Adenauer an inspiration for his capability of bringing Germany to worldwide respect once more, a respect that is richly deserved I think, and I heartfully would have approved Kemal Atatürk for his fleeting reforms in Turkey. Also I admire Gwynfor Evans for his efforts to cement the mother language in the public conscience. Being an avid viewer of Ugly Betty, I would count America Ferrera as one of my fancies, shall we say, because not only of how beautiful she is in or out of costume, but because she stands up and speaks out for every woman and urges them to believe in themselves - isn't that beauty enough?

My favourite radio stations are Signal 2, Dee 106.3, Radio City 96.7 and any mediumwave station I can get my hands on. I was quite surprised to receive BBC Radio Scotland on my apparatus one night. I listen to Pete Price most evenings, and I got his autobiography one Christmas. My favourite TV shows include Stupid!, The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, Father Ted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Ugly Betty and The Catherine Tate Show (has somebody done one of those templates I put up there for Catherine Tate Show yet?). I have a range of very wide interests, from political geography, history, art, the theatre, flags (as you can tell from above). I support Liverpool F.C., and am very proud to say so. I am that proud I will not mention the name of Liverpool's scourge M****ester U****d, but thankfully, few "supporters" (quotation marks mine) go to my college, or so I think! I also support Chester City F.C., a trait shared with my uncles, and even though I once felt like supporting Wrexham A.F.C., I now decry it. Not only do I support LFC, I also support the worthy Justice for the 96 campaign. Speaking as an LFC supporter, I believe the Heysel disaster, whilst I was presented with all the facts, that part of the responsibility should be put to UEFA, for allowing the match to take place at a stadium they themselves admitted eventually was unfit for such an event and a significant amount to the club's supporters, whose awful acts led to the death of 39 people. The latter fact I most certainly regret.

My French trip I mentioned earlier, was absolutely fine - the best thing I could remember was breakfast with two croissants and two bread rolls with ham and cheese. Lovely! Another of my interests is building a fictitious history of the Motherland, where in 1937, Wales became an independent state and a sovereign republic. I have also imagined that my friends north of the border fell to a communist régime following a war in the 1940s and had overthrown the yoke of dictatorship at the same time as Eastern Europe, and as violently as Romania did. I plan to write a comedy/investigative satire parodying Turkmenistan's Niyazov entitled Last Will and Testament: A Novel About an Obscure Central Asian Country, and had - at one point - written twenty-three or twenty-two pages in my notebook, while I've typed sixty pages or so on my Imperial Litton, but I feel like rewriting most of it. Then I intend to write a novella about a fictitious lower-league club from the Wirral whose supporters successfully overthrow the greedy and selfish chairman in a reasonably peaceful coup, entitled The Glorious Twenty-first of March being inspired by the fact that for a lot of lower-league clubs and most Premier League clubs, the supporters play no part in the administration of their club and feel short-changed by supporting them.

Let me tell you this, nothing they can do should make you change your mind. Let them change theirs and see what you can do.

Please feel free to post comments, and every suggestion welcome.

Yours

Reece.