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People Will Be The Death Of Me

So we’ve made it onto our cruise ship and it’s full of fat people and stupid people. Still it’s a break from the norm and who knows I might even get a tan.

I’ve been reminded by a couple of things today, that in the event of an emergency it won’t be any of my actions that will cause me to die, it’ll be other people. I’ll tell you for why.

At 16:30 today we had the mandatory ship evacuation drill. There were three rules.

  1. Keep right at all times.
  2. Go to the muster station printed on your life jacket.
  3. Don’t put your life jacket on

Fairly straight forward, no?

Still, what did about 50% of these chunky, brain dead bastards manage to do?

That’s right, scramble about the corridors in any old fashion headed for the first muster station they saw, with their life jackets on.

For fuck’s sake people it’s not difficult, just follow the instructions, they were clear enough.

I fear for my safety in the event of a proper evacuation, everyone of these bloody idiots will panic and start waving their flabby arms around and the whole system will fall apart.

God help us all.

It’s, Like, So, Like, Random?

I may have tweeted about this a couple of times but people, especially young women, seem to have some kind of affliction that leads them to use like way too much in regular conversation.

It was heartening then, when I saw this amazing poster linked in Digg.

Like, what?

So it is an epidemic!

A Very Modern Error

Nottingham station is currently undergoing a bit of refurbishment, consequently helpful signs have appeared dotted about, warning us busy commuters of the dangers of restricted access to footbridges and the like.

It was with great ire that I spotted one the other day at said:

Keep to left
Footbridge Access
as been moved

Now, aside from the bizarre use of capitalisation and the lack of the definite article before ‘left’, the wordsmith behind this piece of free form poetry masquerading as a sign, has committed one of the most irritating modern sins.

That sin is using ‘as’ when they mean ‘has’. For fuck’s sake, honestly how hard is it?

Before I boil up again I must reveal the silver lining behind this grubby, laminated cloud. There were two signs! The second had been helpfully annotated.

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I’m not alone!

Ouija Boards

You know what would really impress me during a Ouija board session? If the glass were to move by itself.

Yeah that’d do it for me.

You see, that glass, or planchette if you really want to give your made up shit some authority, is in fact moved by what is known as the ideomotor effect. Tiny subconscious motor movements that you don’t even register.

Perhaps they’re not enough to fling a glass across a room, leave that to the charlatan running the show, but certainly enough to move it a few inches.

So I repeat, if you want me to believe in your silly little ghost stories, I want that fucker to move by itself.

I Hope I Die Before I Get Old (Sorry, Too Late)

I had written the bit that follows as an entirely straight faced rant on how English as a language was in decline because of misuse by The Youth Of Today™. However on reading it back I decided it said more about me than them.

Have a read and see what you think.

If I hear one more person describe something as being blatantly obvious, I’m going to kill myself. You see I’ve reached the end of my tether and the breaking point came about this very afternoon when I had the misfortune of sitting across the aisle from a couple of teenagers on a train to London.

During this journey I had the great honour of hearing every word of their conversation. Having said that I could probably have heard it from the other end of the train given the volume of their incessant squawking.

Anyway, I digress, as they sat there opposite each other at the table seat, each of them with their feet up on the seats, their bags strategically placed on the seat beside them so no one would encroach on their personal space, they began talking about their friends relationships.

I managed to find out that Jeremy was dating a girl and whilst he was praised for this because she was like, really pretty he was (unbeknown to him I suspect) being given very black looks in the social circle because she was really, really young.

I have no idea how old the girls on the train were but given their description of Jeremy’s girlfriend I can only assume she was a foetus.

Anyway, I’ve derailed myself again. Where was I? Oh yes, abuses of English.

During their conversation I managed to note the following examples of sloppy English usage:

  • Blatant/Patent
    At one point Girl A (who looked astonishingly like Noel Fielding) turned to Girl B (who looked a bit like an anorexic version of Big Suze of off Peep Show) and said that something was blatantly obvious. As we all know the correct term is patently obvious (although this ass clown clearly doesn’t).
  • Random
    On several occasions both girls used the word random incorrectly. The choicest use of this modern day gem was when, describing her previous night’s escapades, Noel told Big Suze that she had been brought a drink by some random guy.
  • Brought/Bought
    See above.
    Unless of course said random guy was a waiter who had in fact quite correctly brought the girl her drink, not having paid for it himself. Although of course this would almost certainly preclude the gentleman in question from being described as random, unless waiters in the establishment they were drinking in were despatched to tables in a sequence that was decided by the roll of a die or some type of Wheel Of Fortune style rotating device of course. You never know.
  • Like
    I was like, so pissed off, cos she was like, completely in the wrong and I was like, no way and she was like, shut up and I was like
    Enough!
    I think I’ve made my point clear with that one.
  • HRT (High Rising Terminal)
    Every fucking word that came out of their mouths sounded like a question? Which after about two seconds became very irritating? I don’t know how they can listen to each other?

Of course there were more abuses than that, I think my mind switched off after a while though.

See what I mean? The upshot of this is that I have decided that I am going to buy a pair of slippers, a cardigan and a nice pipe and never leave the house again. I’ve clearly become a grumpy old man.

In fact I should have seen this coming ages ago, something’s changed in my head. If you want an example, look no further than this recent episode.

Earlier in the week whilst driving home from work I switched on the radio but instead of getting the soothing tones of Eddie Mair it had been left tuned into Radio 1 and all I got was a noise. A loud noise.

The noise in question was so offensive to my ears that I began muttering under my breath that modern music was shit, that it all sounded the same and that when I was a teenager we had proper rock music, etc, etc.

It was at that point I realised I was listening to the middle section of Paradise City by Guns ‘N’ Roses.

Anyone fancy a mug of cocoa?

Getting The Message Across

My post the other day about the anti-piracy ads on DVDs reminded me of this spot on piece from the IT Crowd.

That’s about the size of it really isn’t it? These overblown pieces of propaganda are obscene, why should I automatically be labeled a potential movie thief for buying a DVD?

Whenever I buy a magazine, which at £4 for Sci-Fi Now is the same price as most of the DVDs I buy, I’m not forced to watch a mini documentary with a voice over warning me that photocopying is a crime, do I?

Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack

I don’t really like watching Big Brother these days, it’s a great premise ruined by the production companies’ insistence on filling the house full of fame hungry idiots and the mentally ill. I’m sure if they put well balanced, ordinary run of the mill people in there it would be entertaining, as it is it just feels dirty.

Of course the annual ‘celebrity’ edition has had to be changed this year lest they put Eugene Terreblanche, Nick Griffin and the reanimated corpse of Adolf Hitler in the house with Miss J from America’s Next Top Model.

So their amazing new ‘twist’ on the tired old formula is that they put ordinary (see the first paragraph) members of the public in and let the ‘celebrities’ run it. ‘Mazin!

Anyway, whilst flicking up the channels tonight I happened upon E4 and have been mesmerised for the past fifteen minutes by the sight of this twat, hitting vegetables with an aluminium pole. Look at him.

John, he's a bit of a tool

Just watching him standing there giggling and wheezing like some weird, asthmatic, ginger child makes me want to puke. As if it could be much worse, it is he’s actually Chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament. What?! Really?! Yes! This is his ‘biog’ from Channel 4’s website.

John is the Chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament and was the first teenager ever to be appointed to this position. Although he is only 20, he manages a team of staff, most of whom are in their 30s and 40s. John hopes to run for office next year and is studying for a Politics and Sociology degree. John says one of his main aims in life is to tackle child poverty in the UK. John says he’d like to see a revival and attitude change towards red-haired people in the world and he would also like to show the world that being intelligent and politically active doesn’t mean you have to be boring or geeky.

He manages a team of staff! The overweight, peching, knob who’s just spent the best part of fifteen minutes hitting things with a stick has staff? How!

Of course as it says he’s not just satisfied with tackling child poverty (though how exactly hitting food with a pole brings that about I’m not certain, but let’s just assume he has a plan), he wants a change in the public attitude towards red-haired people too? John if you’re reading I’ll let you into a secret, I don’t have a problem with red-haired people, I do however have a problem with overweight dickwads who rate hitting a tomato with a stick, worthy of ten points.

Here’s a tip, perhaps it’s not your red hair that people have a problem with, maybe, just maybe, it’s your personality?

Breaking news! He’s just made up a new rule! If you don’t make every shot you get squirted with chocolate sauce! What a prick.

More news! John gets a rash if he gets in the hot tub, although he can sit beside it. So to be clear, he gets a rash if he gets in the hot tub, so that’s why he doesn’t get in. It’s definitely not his tits, ok? Not his tits.

Doctor Who: Voyage Of The Damned

Who told Russell T Davies he could write? Voyage Of The Damned is the worst piece of science fiction I have ever seen.

It is uniformly appalling. One of the reasons for this is that it’s trying too hard to do too many things, as a result any messages it may being trying to convey about prejudice or culture, or whatever, come out as heavy handed and obvious.

Davies needs to understand that exposition is not cool, too often in this (and in Doctor Who in general) characters come out with huge slugs of expositional dialogue. There never seems to be any attempt at subtlety, any attempt to just let the audience work out what’s going on for themselves.

It would appear he’d rather just dump massive bits of plot left, right and centre. It’s as if he’s shouting ‘Hey audience! Pay attention! I’m showing you a plot device, it’ll explain something that’s coming up in a bit.‘. As a result you know that nothing is revealed in Voyage Of The Damned without it becoming an incredibly useful part of the plot shortly after.

I’ll be writing more about this later. Trust me…

On Football

The scientists have all got it wrong. There is no super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It’s taken years of observation but I have now come to the conclusion that we have a ginormous shiny football sitting there instead.

I would imagine it to be surrounded by coach loads of aggressive, England shirted fuck wits, shouting half formed lager fuelled opinions at each other on topics as diverse as race relations and tits, all the while celebrating their own inherent manliness by mind-wanking about England’s 1966 World Cup win against Germany, with England played by eleven Sophie Andertons in wet vests.

Football is quite possibly the least entertaining sport on Earth (or in the Universe I should imagine). I’d rather spend an hour and a half locked under water in a steel cage with a shark that’s being relentlessly poked with sticks than go to a football match. If I could get rid of three things, wipe them out as if they had never existed, they would be football, religion and Derek Acorah.

People that like football are a feeble minded, crass, know nothing pricks who, if I had the chance, I’d brick up in Wembley before pumping it full of raw sewage. From Poland. Which would probably anger them even further. A furious tirade of abuse directed at mythical job stealers/scroungers would constitute their last words as they slowly drowned, the warm effluent burbling into their stupid, shouty lungs.

If you want to make football interesting to me you’d have to arm the goalies. I reckon that would make it pretty bloody entertaining. Each goalie would have a high powered sniper rifle and five rounds of ammunition, the only rule would be that you couldn’t snipe the other goalie. Let’s see how many ‘blistering runs at goal’ the over paid thickos that play the game would make then.

It truly is a game for the weak minded, played by the weak minded.

Only this morning Sol Campbell was on the radio demanding that ‘the fans’ stopped hurling nasty abuse at him. You see, from what I could glean, Sol has been involved in some pathetic on-off transfer deal with Tottenham United and Arsenal Rangers or something, and this has upset the psychopaths from both sides.

I can only imagine it to be a bit like going on to a gaming forum and admitting to owning a PlayStation 3 and an Xbox 360 and thinking that they’re both rather good, which on the interwebs would lead to nothing more than much badly spelt abuse by teenagers with mono-mania.

In the world of the football though, this sort of thing leads to you being castrated with a pen knife in an east end boozer. Short of that, and luckily for Campbell, all this cardinal sin has lead to is ‘the fans’ subjecting him to some horrid, horrid verbal abuse.

Please. You’re playing a game that can make millionaires out of men who would have difficulty writing a shopping list, expect a few hazards son. They’re called fans, which is an abbreviated form of fanatic, which if dictionary.com is to be believed means:

fa•nat•ic (fə-nāt’ĭk)
noun. A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

I’d be thankful they’re only shouting abuse and not leaping on to the pitch and stabbing you in the face with screwdrivers.

Then again he earns £96,000 a week, yes that’s right folks £96,000 a week, more money than a policeman earns in three years. He should be slightly less whiny I feel, I’d bet my brain that a policeman has to put up with more shit in a day than he does.

So what if you have to hear some thick, fat bastard calling you a talentless cunt? You’re safe in the knowledge that once the game’s over you can trot off to your twelve million pound Gloucestershire pad to get sucked off by an eighteen year old with the IQ of a satsuma.

Look at it with open eyes Campbell, if it wasn’t for the people lining the sides of the football court you’d be a fucking salesman in Phones4U. Every day would be spent desperately trying to sell single mums Pay As You Go handsets on Orange, creeping back to your bedsit to eat a tin of beans, then shuffling off to bed to wank yourself to sleep through a haze of tears before having to get up and do the same thing again, six days a week.

They’re your boss, they quite literally pay your exorbitant wages. You should be rejoicing in your luck and privilege, not cluttering up my radio with your badly articulated musings on your poor little life.

Talentless cunt.

Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave?

It’s ironic that the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner actually include a question mark at the end of the first stanza, because it’s a question I’ve been asking for a long time. How free are US citizens now? From all I can see from the sunny shores of the 51st state it looks like ‘not very’ might be the answer to that one.

The United States of America has long held a fascination for me, almost as much as Japan in fact, but recently I have become exceptionally disillusioned by the manner in which the US carries out its international affairs. A succession of Republican administrations have presided over the gradual decline of a proud independent country, founded on the principles of free speech and opportunity for all, into a police state.

George W. Bush and his associates managing to convince the world that Saddam Hussein was in league with Osama Bin Laden was a stroke of genius, especially considering that Hussein was in charge of a highly westernised country that had all but abolished Sharia law. This is not something that Bin Laden, a militant Islamist by all accounts, would hold sway with surely?

Why does the world fall for all this shit?

Watch this video, the young man asking the questions is intimating that John Kerry colluded with Bush during the 2001 elections, essentially claiming that Kerry conceded to Bush before the votes had properly been counted, or recounted.

Did he deserve that treatment in the land of the free? As the US slides closer and closer to a police state we have to wonder how this happened.

Well I guess it happened the way it always happens, scare the shit out of your populous and then you strip them of their rights in the name of security, ensuring along the way that you whip up a frenzy of hatred against a minority in your population. Hell, it worked for Hitler. Wonder when we’ll see the Nacht der langen Messer?

Anyway, I don’t know a whole lot about this but what I do know is that I’m worried.

I Blame Jayne Middlemiss

Was watching Orange Playlist the other night, Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters was on and it was great! That is if you can bear to watch a hugely talented individual being interviewed by a thick geordie.

While I was watching Mr Shears (not his real name one suspects) mentioned his love for David Bowie, this lead to a quick montage of Bowie moments, one of which bore the following subtitle.

Music by Bowie, subtitles by fucking idiots.

Compass? Interesting concept, what happened there then? Was he concentrating on traveling North and ended up walking into something? Perhaps the magnetic field of the compass caused some kind of mutation? Or could it be that they’re just really fucking stupid and actually meant pair of compasses?

While we’re at it the phrase ‘enhanced by an unfortunate school accident’ makes no sense, for three reasons. Firstly it should read ‘unfortunate accident at school’ and secondly how can something be unfortunately enhanced, an enhancement suggests good fortune to me.

Finally the whole wonky eye business has been the basis of his look for his entire career, so it wasn’t that unfortunate anyway was it?

Former ‘glamour model’ Middlemiss clearly had a hand in this.

Bernard Manning Is Dead

As we all know he was a kind caring man who loved his Mum, he just hated coons that’s all. Lovely man.

I agree that words are just words and as odd as it seems I defend Manning’s right to say anything he wants, about whoever he wants, I don’t have to agree with him though.

Using words is beautiful and even ugly words can be used in imaginative non-offensive ways, but singling out a couple of waitresses in Derby and calling them wogs isn’t exactly comedy gold, it’s just bullying and worse still it’s almost pack-mentality, this contradicts what all his close friends would say of course, to him he was a loving caring man who’s racist ‘banter’ was just an act.

I can respect somebody for being honest in the face of opposition but for taking something so vile and turning it in to an act is pathetic. If he truly hated blacks, asians and jews then fine he’s just a bigot but if he does it as an act he’s using people’s hatred and ignorance for profit.

Hopefully he was the last of his breed…