Things you wish you'd never asked

Stef Dawson is fifteen foot eleven — give or take ten feet — and lives on the cusp of insanity. Turn left out of Basingstoke, past The Duke of Unpleasance and you’re there. Black is white. Although tempting, he should not be confused with one of his many many many other inanimate serial-killer-esque redhead dopplegangers. Tramps fear him; pelicans regard him with obvious disdain. At University he helped co-ordinate a march against student apathy. Sadly, nobody turned up. He also believes academia is too close to macadamia to not be nuts. His favourite place on earth is in the sweet spot between two large speakers pumping out fat breakbeats; or drum n bass that makes what little remains of his hair vibrate. His party trick is to unwittingly dance like a tetraplegic orang-utan. Once, after a particularly searing bath, he pulled the plug out with his toe and laid there until all the water had gone just to see if his mass affected the direction of the water down the plughole. He's translucent on Thursdays, which really confuses the local villagers, and takes great pride in being more unstable than strontium. He likes everything except all the things that annoy him; such as peanut butter, know-it-alls and car engines. Eight out of ten cat owners said their cats preferred him. Perhaps the weirdest thing he ever witnessed was someone laminating an oversize chocolate chip cookie. He would appreciate the outside more if it were under cover and had sockets and network points at regular intervals. He has been interviewed, though probably more out of pity than curiosity. He avoids tea, coffee and lighter fuel whenever possible. He's currently typing this sentence. Now this one. He holds the record for typing the most wrong characters in a single sentence, has never run a marathon and feels that to do so would hurt his spleen. He admires people better than him yet has a healthy disrespect for authority. His DIY ineptitude is legendary. If he had a life, it would be called Eric. He once cut his back lawn with a pair of kitchen scissors because the mower was broken. He has exceptional ears -- sticky outy and incredibly useful for honing his music; he can spot an out-of-place cymbal to a density of 1143ppm and noticed that Chris De Burgh's Lady In Red was both off-key and atrocious from the very first listen. He has very little eye for style, and often wonders how Ethelred The Unready earned his name. In the past, his conquests included the Dewey Decimal System and Finland. From his vantage point overlooking the present tents, he enjoys the redundancy and ambiguities in the English language finding that if you squeeze hard enough, after a brief pause, sweat pours from the pores of the cat's paws. One of his goals in future is to write several best-selling novels that are astounding only through their glaring omission of the word 'hamper'. He speaks with a posh accent, which has somewhat diluted into a pretentious struggle between the Home Counties and Sheffield, resulting in a comedic hybrid pronunciation of the words 'garaarrge' and 'garridge'. Sculpting is not his calling in life. Nor is backgammon.