HD? Who cares?!

HD channel this, HD channel that... I am sick of hearing about HD. I have watched programmes on a friends HD tv and I cant see what all the fuss is about. Seriously!

Im sure there are many people who will disagree with me but you see, I come from a generation of kids who had indoor areials. We were just happy that we got any picture, never mind a crystal clear one!

My first TV was a black n white one with a dial to change the channels. My first colour set was given to me when I was about nine years old but this one had buttons. I mustve been in my late teens before I got a set with a remote. still remember the betamax video player my dad got where the remote was attached to it via a wire. I thought that was the dogs bollocks!!!

I constantly see commercials for HD channels and HD sets... What next? A HD microwave??? "The new Toshiba HD Microwave. Its like youre actually cooking food"

So this is why I will never get excited about HD and I will resist buying a set or subscribing to a HD channel for as long as I can. The history of man has been fraught with scams... analog to digital... the decimalization of Britain in 1971... theyre nothing more than money making schemes!

None of the above!

Brewsters Millions was one of my fave movies as a kid.

The general election in Britain will be on the 6th of May. As usual I am completely undecided about who to vote for.

At the moment we have a Labour government, who I have to say I have lost faith in over the years. I have always been a Labour voter but this year I will be defecting, possibly.

Ive always thought, since I was old enough to vote, that there should be a space on the ballot paper where you can make you feelings known... like the "None of the above" in Brewsters Millions. Just a small box at the bottom, where you can express that you wish to vote for no one because you are disatisfied.

Like I said, I have always voted labour but this past 4 years have gone from bad to worse. The first thing that really pissed me off was the fact that all of a sudden Tony Blair decides to step down and Gordon Brown takes over. Errr excuse me! We didnt vote you in, we voted your mate in! Apparetnly this was a deal struck by the pair of them many years ago.

Secondly, their immigration policy blows! We have more and more immigrants coming into the country which is absolutely fine by me, if they are bringing a skill or a trade with them and they work. If theyre coming to scrounge and get benefits then they should be kicked the fuck out! We already have a generation of wastes of space who were born here and who decide to sit on their arses all day and take out of the system. I live two streets away from a housing estate full of them. All they do is knock out a new kid every year, drink and cause trouble.

So that is the third reason why I wont vote for them again... giving ridiculous amounts of benefits to people who can work but choose not to. If you honestly cant work, coz of illness or if youre a single parent the I have no gripe with you. But dont try and tell me you cant work coz you have irritable bowel syndrome (I heard one guy say this in the street the other week) I wanted to beat him to death with a tree branch!

So yea, I am undecided who Im going to vote for. Is it a case of better the devil you know than the devil you dont???

just a quick one...

Wow, I really havent ranted for a while.

I doubt this is because I havent found anything in my life that has been rant-worthy. Ive just been busy with other things.

I guess this is more of a touch base blog than anything else.

Although now I come to think of it. I do have a rant! Go me!

Wednesday, as some of my friends will know, was my "me" day. This is the day that I dont get to take very often. It is the day when I go out and do things that I like. I guess some people call it a mental health day.

So this Wednesday gone, I decided to go do a bit of shopping and I also went to see a movie. As I dont drive, I had to take the bus. My partner drives, which means it has been a while since I have had to take a bus. Let me say, they have got worse, not better!!!

It took me one hour and forty-five minutes to travel less than twenty miles.

I know!

What a fucking palava it was. The first bus arrived after fifty minutes of waiting and told me that it didnt go as far as I needed. Which meant I had to get on another bus half way. Which of course, was late too!

By the time I got to the movie I was ready to come home.

Seriously, we are constantly badgered by the British government to use more public transport, to leave our cars at home. AND THEY WONDER WHY PEOPLE ARENT DOING IT? The transport system in this country fucking sucks!

My bus to take me home was late too. Luckily by this time my partner had finished work so I called him for a lift.

Fuck the ozone layer. Im never going on another bus again!

Out of the darkness

Vampires really have come into the light in recent years. Literally!

Like so many movies e.g. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings… Twilight is a movie which I have resisted seeing. In regards to Twilight I had a fear of the whole vampire lore being bastardized or “hollywooded up” It has been done so many times before with so many issues. Charmed was guilty of it with witchcraft. I think the closest interpretation of witchcraft was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I was a huge fan of.

The evolution of vampires, I guess, is inevitable. The vampire has come along way from cult classics The Lost Boys and Fright Night and after relenting and watching Twilight I am pleased to say that the humble vampire is still dead and well.

There are the purists out there that will scoff and stamp their feet at the very mention of Edward Cullen although I will say that Edward Cullen should be the last generation of the new age vamp. Where else could they possibly go with vampires without them losing their basic natures? True Blood is also an example, a brilliant example, of last chance saloon with the humble vampire. Integrating them into society is a noble and brilliant idea and works but where can you go from there?

Vampire with a soul has been done. Angel was the ultimate tortured monster and will always be in the top half of my 10 greatest vampires list. Joss Whedon is a genius and you could say the granddaddy of the modern day vampire.

Stefan and Damon are great characters and I like the Kane and Able aspect of The Vampire Diaries but as a show I’m finding it hard to get my teeth into. For me, it’s a little too much like 90210. Too many pretty people makes boring watching. The history of the Salvatore brothers is interesting and I’m hoping more will be done with it. Also the relationship between Stefan and Elena seems to have more going on when the cameras aren’t rolling. One minute they’re meeting and the next they’re in love and he’s walking away from her. Maybe Stefan isn’t enough of a monster for me but then again if he was, they wouldn’t need Damon!

As for vampires and humans together, well, who can get enough of the complexities of those relationships? I know I cant! I’m glad that we are now more than food to them. Sookie and Bill, Buffy and Angel, Mick and Beth are all relationships that left us hungry for the next instalment. Which reminds me, I was very sad when I heard the news that the second series of Moonlight was cancelled. Mick St John and Beth Turner were a delight to watch. It still puzzles me why it wasn’t more popular. Again another vampire show which brought vampire lore into the 21st century.

So back to dear old Edward and his family, which by the way I am loving. The idea of a vampire family makes me wanna be part of one. The scene in Twilight where they’re playing baseball is priceless. I am very glad that I watched it and have New Moon in my bag waiting to be watched. Long live the Cullen’s and long live my enjoyment of watching them.

I am no expert. I am a self confessed vampire groupie and fetishist and I know what I like. So as far as I’m concerned, the modern day vampire can bite me anytime!

Death and Taxes

I can understand why that dude flew his airplane into the IRS building in Texas. Really I can!

I wont go into details, if I can help it but have been waiting on a decision, a financial decision for some weeks now. I have been constantly jumping thro whatever hoops they have put infront of me. I have done everyhing they have asked to the point where I have had to reach into my pocket with no hope of reinbursment. Meeting after meeting... I even had a meeting today and as far I was concerned everyting was hunky dory.

Then I make a call to check some details today and I am told that the decision has not gone my way and I shouldve been informed by letter weeks ago.

WTFF ( thats abbreviation for what the fucking fuck? It isnt a typo)

Why the hell do we bother? WHY? Why do we try better ourselves? Why do we get good jobs that make us work all hours and put us into an early grave. What is the point? I can walk two streets away and find a housing estate full of people who choose not to work and knock out several kids and yet money is thrown at them. They come up with excuses why they cant or wont work but yet theyre living the life of riley and not contributing anything to society. All they do is take take take.

I choose to work, I choose to work hard but yet at every turn there is something to smack me in the face and make my life that little bit harder.

I am so mad. I am fuming. I am livid. I am ready to rip someones head off and shit down their throat!

All it is is taxes and bills and charges for this that and the other and the moment you are making a small amount of money they tax you at a higher rate so theres nothing left!


ARRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Your offense offends me!

Talking with some friends this morning about radio in general, someone made the valid point that one of the reasons why radio has become so bad is that too many people are complaining about the content of what is being broadcast.

I have to say that this is one of my pet peeves. I constantly hear and see people writing or emailing shows whether it be on the radio of television complaining that the content of the show was offensive, not suitable for children, they didnt like it blah blah blah.

Am I the one not getting this? If you see something on the televison or hear something on the radio that you dont like then switch it over. Dont watch it. Dont listen to it. No one is forcing you! There isnt a guy behind you with a gun pointing at your head, is there?

The problem with a few people complaining about something is that when the masses hear about it, then everyone and their dog begins to complain. We had a case of this recently here in the UK. Two radio hosts played a telephone prank on an actor which a few of their listeners found bad taste and they complained. Problem is, when it was leaked to the media everyone heard the replay of it and then called in to complain that they too found it offensive even tho they didnt hear it first hand. I think it went from 30 orginal complaints to 30,000 complaints. How ridiculous is that?

If the show is factually incorrect then yeah, contact them and tell them. If the show you are watching isnt suitable for children and it is before the 9pm watershed then yeah, feel free to write or email and give them a piece of your mind. If its just a case of youre offended by what youre watching or listening to then for god's sake shut the fuck up, switch it off and go read a book.

Who's living next to you?

I heard a radio ad yesterday asking people to keep an eye on their neighbours and if there acting suspiciously then urging you to call the terrorist helpline. Of course theyre not allowed to say "if youre neighbour is an arab and acting suspiciously" they just said neighbours. Hell if thats the case then I should call them about my whole bloody street. The criteria of "suspicious" behavior applies to all of us at some point in our lives.

Then this morning on the news, I hear that the detainees at guantanamo bay arent being treated very well but neither the British or American government want to admit to it. I have one thing to say on this matter SO FUCKING WHAT! These are people, that through intelligence, are being detained coz their actions have lead authorities to believe that they are terrorists or they are friends or part of a group with terrorists in them. I don’t care if theyre not being treated well. I don’t care if theyre torturing puppies infront of them to get them to talk. These people are animals. They take lives, lives of ordinary people who are just trying to live theirs. Why should we be nice to them? Why should we treat them fairly? As far as Im concerned they have no civil rights so don’t tell me that they should have them when they are trying or planning to murder people on a mass scale.

When it comes to these people we should go back to the medieval way of thinking… the bloodlust that was rampant through the masses back then should apply now. We should hang them publicly in the streets. We should be allowed to throw rotten fruit and stones at them. We should cheer when we see the last drop of life leave their bodies. Am I being excessive? I think not. Im sure there are liberal bunnies out there who will oppose my views but I wont apologize for my feelings. I will say it again… they are animals!

My motto in life has always been live and let live but when someone puts a rucksack on their back with a bomb in it or hijacks a plane with plans to crash it in a building with the intention of killing thousands of people it becomes personal and tolerance for these people should never come into the equation. So before you come spouting your human rights bullshit at me think about the horror of 9/11 or 7/7 ( to name two) if you can still tell me that terrorists or members of a terrorist group should be treated as human beings then youre no better than they are!