One interesting fact about you that no one else knows about - Help!

[Forestdweller11]

At a company wide workshop this weekend. We have to introduce ourselves and give an interesting fact about me that no one else will know.

I lead a very boring life and always have done; I didn't do Duke of Edinburgh, I've no Blue Peter Badges, my grandad wasn't a Spitfire pilot, I didn't go out to China and teach for my gap year.

What can I say? I don't mind lying. But would like it to be interesting, and not too far fetched!

I wouldn’t worry too much. Nobody will be listening because they’ll all be inventing their own ‘interesting fact’.

'I hate icebreakers'?

‘I’m one of the six people who write all the posts on Mumsnet’?

I'd be really fanciful and wait to see if you are challenged on it

I can't believe workplaces aren't still trotting this tired old rubbish out! My DM was asked to do this back in the 1980s. She said her interesting fact was that there was nothing interesting whatsoever about her.

Well there you go then - you have a motorbike license and you used to be a Hells Angel. Problem solved

Do not say this, you'll get lumbered with them in Secret Santa forever.

Really really tenuous celebrity links are good. My great aunt lives in the same road as Greg Davies' mum, that sort of thing. If they're madly tenuous then that's funny.

You have no pubic hair, it never grew

You’re descended from Charlemagne & The Plantagenets

you’ve 5% Neanderthal DNA

you worked as an Artists model

You’ve had a star named after you.

I'm wearing a pair of socks with giraffes on them?

I play bass in a punk band.

I trained to be a body piercer.

I once wee'd in front of Dave Vanian (he doesn't know that though, I was concealed in a bush but he was about 20 feet away 🤣)

I like those because I have a very respectable career now.

You must have done something...

I was once able to announce a pregnancy at a company ice breaker of this sort. That was a good one!

Some of these are making me laugh out loud.

I think "I have a pet X called Y, here's a photo (show photo on phone)" would both go down well and get your turn over quickly.

Ever in the paper as a kid at some event or other?

Stubby Kaye once complimented my hair.

Don't say you have a pet tortoise. I used this lie once - why I do not know, people still politely enquire about Hermann. And tortoises live so long I can't even kill him off without a real tragedy which would feel really disloyal to the little imaginary fella

Just a thought:

If you lie, be prepared to be asked further questions.

If you lie about something physical, they may ask you to demonstrate.

Deffo this. Eg if ot is a World record thing, you should say you were in an attempt to have the most people doing the Time warp in one place (Bognor Regis, 1992 or whatever), not that you can do the most backflips in 3 minutes.

My ex won the euro millions

I missed out on being head girl at my school by one vote

If I were a boy, my parents would have named me Cuthbert

God almighty, when will the pendulum swing so these stupid HR wastes of time are no longer a thing...and over a weekend as well, do HR folk not see that this rubbish is less likely make you cohere as a team????? Where I am now they adore them, I can't help feeling it's to hide the fact they don't actually do much in their jobs and if somebody pushed them off a mountain ledge no one would notice....(actually productivity and morale would probably improve and the annual wages bill would definitely fall by about half a million...)

Anyway no one will know if it's true or not, so...

I once drove a fire engine

I once looked after a friend's lizards for a week

I once dressed up as a dalek

I hate chocolate

I once climbed on to the roof of my house to get away from a mouse

I talk to magpies

In fact given that we have yet another stupid away day coming up in 2 weeks (the 3rd in 3 months) I think I might stick some of these on post its so I'm ready...) one of the main reasons I hate this kind of thing so much is that I know it will be a lost day when I could be doing actual work and I'll end up having to do the work at home. As HR where I currently work don't actually seem to be accountable to anyone or to produce anything except hot air it doesn't bother them...

I think you should re-interpret ‘interesting’. Any stupendously mundane fact will do for this kind of icebreaker crap.

this kind of thing: vm.tiktok.com/ZMFfXwyYs/

I’d completely forgotten that I was part of a group that was in the Guinness book of world records in the 80s, I’ve no idea how I’d forgotten I’m a world record breaker until this thread!

Try "My Uncle was one of the Milky Bar kids from the 1980s ads"

Nobody will be able to prove otherwise.

Came on to say this 😂

We had something similar at work a few years ago and the new guy told us he had a button phobia. Ive never forgotten it and think about it every time I speak to him 😂

@WellThatsAnotherFineMess
I once wee'd in front of Dave Vanian (he doesn't know that though, I was concealed in a bush but he was about 20 feet away 🤣)

I was at a Damned gig the other week. That Dave Vanian introduced himself on stage and said that he once pretended not to notice a bass player weeing in a bush, to spare their blushes. It was a bit of an icebreaker.