I believed ~ or at least claimed to believe ~ that I had been born on the ferry between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire because in my mind - or perhaps I wanted other people's minds to think - it accounted for my cognitive dissonance - as a 7 year old in his fifth primary school - regarding my combination of Irishness and Britishness, and northerness and southerness.
@rank-outsider said...and I believed "good sense of humour" was an absolute
I thought women went for men with a good sense of humour.