My Little World10

well ive done the assignments i may or may not have mentioned, i hate this bit because i believe they are crap but now i have to hand them in anyway - of course here is the self doubt, i want a good mark and have got great marks from last term, so now the pressure to maintain that is doubled and i don't have a clue what ill get, personally i am pretty sure they aint first class material - no modesty, they really arent, but if they fall drastically below last terms marks then ill feel bad

anyway...

i have been playing ffV again at last, figure i can have a day of nothing now - it's pretty good actually, mainly the job system more than anything, the atb system is a bit unwieldy and it's annoyingly slow in general, story is a bit feeble but it's fun to play and i'm going to get back to it now! 

im still here! had assignments to write and i still have some left, so oh well

anyway time for a rant

now i hate man utd as much as the next bloke but i think it is outrageous that their fans have to pay double what other fans do at away games

firstly the facts - most of the smaller clubs, if not all, charge more for what is called an A+ team, so when Liverpool,Chelsea, Arsenal and Man U go to say fulham (who are being targetted this week as an example) their fans have to pay £45 as opposed to £25 (might be slightly out but its close enough)

i don't see how this is fair - football fans are not generally wealthy, and the smaller clubs claim they are redistributing the wealth by doing this?? they are taking money from normal people - not the club or players! and they get more money from tv rights from thos matches anyway

that was quite easy there's no real argument against me! peronally i would boycott away games

ok i really fancy this girl i cant have now! what is wrong with me!!? ahh damn damn damn

time to take my mind off things and spoil a few endings - stargate style

well atlantis is over, they took off and weir got maybe killed! woo i knew she was leaving and apparently carter is replacing her, thats good but also indicates that they will be reachable fairly soon into series 4 (they got lost in space at the end of series 3) what i dont get is their hyperspace thingy shut halfway but surely the ship could find them as they would be on a specific route?

anyway, i have work to do tomorrow 

yes its true - i, as in me, am bored

i have just finished an essay - sort of, im never happy with them but in this case i might be able to bugger about with it this week but anyway it's done to a hand-inable point and its probably the first one ive ever done early which is weird

but now i'm bored - i dont want to work on the next one til tomorrow so this is 'me' time but what do i do? i have the whole internet, food, tv but i dont want any of it and i dont want bed

i'm so restless 

ah i love top gear even more now..

i look around the net and some concerned yank or cheeky brit has posted top gear all over the place, and some got very upset...oo jeremy

firstly the whole rednecks chasing them strikes me as staged, they have staged several segments before (notably the caravan) but who knows, i doubt they would ever admit it, it's still bloody funny for the sheer insanity of it

i won't deny that you wouldnt get attacked over here in certain areas, flying a chelsea flag in north or east london probably not a good idea, but i think people would tolerate it mostly - the equivalent however of what they wrote would be man love rules ok - fine, david cameron for prime minister - laughable, football sucks - a few drunks might shout abuse etc

the point is that alabama is probably a comparable size to england, if not britain and having such a big place full of people like that is scary to us - i dont believe the reaction over here would be that bad if you stopped at a rural petrol station

if you want a reaction - jump a queue!

and seriously yanks - get a sense of humour, and a backbone 

yes that lovely man stan collymore is on the telly - on the jury of a (fake) rape case

poor guy - it must strike pretty deep when the pretend case you are witnessing is about a footballer acused of rape (note: collymore has never been convicted of rape but he was infamous for assaulting ulrika johnson and a bit of dogging)

i think this show is quite a good idea by the bbc, for once

it's still technically reality tv but at least it gives an insight into the inner workings of a trial and also looks at the whole rape issue and the often associated footballer line - ie footballers have lots of money, woman throws herself at footballer then cries rape

i personally aint gonna argue with myself over what is rape and what isnt, ive seen some bizarre feminist arguments and frankly they scare me but rape for me is a grey area (date rape and friend rape or whatever - not random bloke in the street obviously) and it is a very hard situation as it's often a matter of interpretation and one testimony against another, and then of course you throw in the money grabbing attention seeking element

anyway - stan shouldnt be quite so defensive

NEXT! i have noticed i have not been talking about me much - well bugger all is happening, one of my flatmates is slightly irritating me by being an inconsiderate oaf and one of my female friends is annoying as she is in a long term relationship and yet i swear im getting signals from her - just annoys me

oh yeah and ive found a lot of spelling errors all over the place - i am aware i am not perfect, this may have the odd typo and generally i ignore grammar in these things (such as capital I) - however in my essays i always spot check, as well as the comps spell checker because obviously if you write 'here' instead of 'hear' then no comp will spot this

in newspapers and the bbc i expect a decent level of english - very very bad! 

ah top gear - the best show on the planet and when it combines americans with jeremy clarkson you know it's gonna be awesome

i have many stereotypical views of yanks - but it's all true! when i think of Ireland i may think leprechauns but i won't actually find any and yet they go to yankland and find fat people, true red necks, awful engineering and religion

they actually got chased out of alabama by a bunch of hicks in a ute with a rottweiler, the cameramen were running for their lives - highly scary, yet funny

i admit they had written 'manlove rules ok' and 'hilary for president' on the side of the cars for a laugh but i dont think they really expected to get attacked - what sort of culture is that? can't even take a joke, i suppose humour is a fairly british thing, but that's no excuse - i dont expect west country farmers to attack me with pitchforks!

they also drove round new orleans, and i know ive seen the pics of new orleans on the news but it was different looking from their point of view - it wasnt a news report, it was 3 blokes and a camera or two buggering about who actually witnessed the destruction that still exists over a year later, they didnt go there expecting that and it was terrible

what sort of country allows a place to stay like that? supposedly the top world country (or rather just the most powerful) can't even repair one of it's own cities - if that was southampton or something i guarantee it wouldnt have been left in ruin for that long, it may not have been totally fixed but it wouldnt be an abandoned ghost town

anyway as clarkson put it - 'dont go to america' ill add a disclaimer here: i appreciate that this was just florida, alabama and new orleans - not the whole country, but it was pretty awful - im sure new york is lovely.. 

seriously running out of titles now

again, i have not done work, and now im all grumpy coz im tired and hungry - it's all my own fault and i just feel pathetic - part of it is having this bloody dissertation idea hanging over me - i dont have a clue what to do it on!

im depressed and angry - i dont understand my mind 

ok, enough with the jingoism and political controversies - onto women!

i know i said i wouldnt think about them any more and im not really but im slightly annoyed

basically there is a bird i met very briefly last year who is pretty fit and really cool etc but i didnt really get the chance to see her properly til this term - she is very friendly towards me however she predictably has a 'boyfriend' at some other uni

i do not know if she treats everyone the same and is just generally nice or if i have a chance, despite the bloke

annoying - im not that fussed really but you know how these things work - i need something to think/fantasise about

meanwhile im ignoring thinking about work for the moment - im still doing it early - honest! 

damn those irrational creatures and their hormones! 

todays topic class is   http://www.britishreparations.com/index.php (the facts is the best bit)

a highly amusing/scary website which demands 31 trillion pounds for all the bad things the british have done - many people on the internet have laughed, and many have gone nuts and argued with it, which would involve an immense amount of time because it is complete bollocks

i would love to argue with this bloody thing, but it is too time consuming and it's not stuff nobody knows anyway, arguments include - we (the british) invented the black death, machine guns, slums, bad hygiene and so on - as a historian i am sorely tempted to destroy this guy's logic but however i believe this is a joke

and that is where my dilemma lies - is it a joke? it is not particularly amusing but it is completely ludicrous, and i think this boils down to the problem with yanks - with all these whacko and religious groups they have some absolutely insane ideas which in this country would almost certainly be for comedy purposes - we are a very cynical people and love to mock ourselves as well as everyone else

i point you to the 'petition to revoke the independence of the USA' which is currently only a facebook group - and has 35,000 members - it is a highly entertaining piece and is pretty obviously not serious, however these strange yanks such as michael moore and this bloke do not understand humour and just attack others stupidly and think it's funny...i hope, otherwise this guy needs medical attention

it currently has 7000 signatures, many of which are british people signing as the queen - again with the british humour, we dont do sensitive - you can burn our flag and show nipples on tv!

i will give the yanks a bit of credit - stephen colbert is brilliant and would not be out of place as a british comedian, i love the way he tore apart george bush, something which happens here on an hourly basis (to any of our leaders) - we dont respect our shitty leaders! even if they do something good! 

oh one last thing - in the wonderful advert on that site it lists every type of person on the planet (except gays of course) and within that says welsh and scot - guess what - they're british too!! our home secretary is scottish and our next prime minister is scottish! humour tip - would be even funnier if you said english as well!