tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16919364365870207892024-03-19T00:34:40.581-07:00People suck.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-34468597846574114672011-08-14T10:57:00.000-07:002011-08-14T10:57:25.276-07:00Hacking Controversy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://reface.me/wp-content/uploads/julian-assange-vs-mark-zuckerberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://reface.me/wp-content/uploads/julian-assange-vs-mark-zuckerberg.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><br />
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Now this is interesting as it is a good place to start when trying to understand what is going on with the hacking which has been in the news lately.<br />
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When Julian Assange was the topic of mass controversy in the news last year for releasing classified US Government documents, what was the centre of the discussion - the fact that he dared obtain and post them and how he was immoral for doing so or the actual content of the documents published ?<br />
It was, of course, the former.<br />
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This bring me on to Lulzsec (<a class="postlink" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/lulzsec">Lulz Security</a>). In the last few months, Lulzsec have been 'hacking' into many large corporations and releasing data which they obtain.<br />
One of the first and most notable was that of Sony's Playstation Network. Lulzsec managed to get into Sony's systems and compromise millions of user accounts - ultimately forcing Sony to close down the PSN temporarily and face huge public embarrassment as well as profit loss.<br />
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The point however is, Sony is a massive corporation which almost all of us have used. Many of us trust this company to store our personal information with integrity and security - and its outdated security breaks that trust. This can be said for all of the corporations which Lulzsec have breached. Shouldn't we be glad that security breaches are being exploited and making the companies focus on fixing them to further protect our sensitive data in the future of this digital age?<br />
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Apparently not.<br />
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The way I see it is that it raises a moral question for governments, in particular US and UK, of how to handle this Robin Hood approach:<br />
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1.) They let Lulzsec continue to exploit these massive corporations since they aren't really abusing any individual user's data - this isn't their agenda, but rather the security of the company as a whole. This means the companies will need to pay out millions of dollars to fix and update their security so it is sustainable for the future.<br />
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2.)Instead of allowing the companies to use their profits as stated in point 1, the governments pay out millions of taxpayers money to fund law enforcement agencies to apprehend the Lulzsec group, leaving the security of these companies still outdated and <span style="font-style: italic;">our</span> information insecure.<br />
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See <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/05/met-police-quadruples-cybercrime-unit">here </a>for the approach which was ultimately taken. I don't see how this can be justified, call it vigilantism or hacking - the consequences of what will happen if it is not supported are far greater.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-53519174327551137392011-08-14T10:43:00.000-07:002011-08-14T10:43:53.774-07:00Starbucks<a href="http://www.scottfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/starbucks-hand.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.scottfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/starbucks-hand.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 222px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 334px;" /></a>I like the coffee and when I am there I get a Hazelnut Americano, which is essentially just a black coffee with a hazelnut shot in it. Starbucks don't do just a 'coffee' - the equivalent is the Americano, so named because the Americans in Europe in WW2 would pour hot water into their espresso for coffee.<br />
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The reason I started drinking this is because when I worked at a local guitar store 2 years ago, I always came in with just an Americano. One of the guys I worked with always came in with a Hazelnut Americano - which smelled amazing. So I went and asked for one and it tasted as good as it smelled. To me - this is a normal drink.<br />
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Now for my point - I can't stand people who go into Starbucks and order really fancy drinks. It's those people who work in an office and decide to have 'coffee meetings' and come in on their lunch to look cultured and order really long complicated drinks which just makes them look pretentious and ridiculous. Either that or students who, also, are pretentious twats.<br />
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I've been studying a lot recently and I was in Starbucks the other day and the woman who was behind me in the queue ordered an <span style="font-style: italic;">extra wet triple shot grande skinny latte</span>. No joke.<br />
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In my relatively greater than average knowledge of coffee, I will write what I take this drink to be:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Extra wet</span> - No idea. I think it is with regards to the amount (or lack of) foam in the drink?<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Triple shot</span> - 3 times the espresso shot, ie. stronger.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Grande</span> - Medium sized.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Skinny</span> - Skimmed milk?<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Latte</span> - A common drink made with a wee bit of coffee and mainly steamed milk.<br />
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S0, what she ordered was a stronger milk based coffee with skimmed milk. To me, the weakness of the latte is compensated for by the triple shot to make it..well, a coffee and in essence, the ostentatious woman behind me asked for a <span style="font-style: italic;">skimmed coffee</span>.<br />
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What. An. Asshole.<br />
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I blame Starbucks for inventing this form of scum by encouraging it:<br />
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There are some statistics which I have found which I believe truly show the importance of Iraqi occupation;<br />
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So far, roughly <span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">55000</span> Iraqi civilians have died due to the war with a further <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">50000 - 100000</span></span> Iraqi insurgents killed.<br />
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<span style="color: #006600; font-weight: bold;">316</span> casualties from non-US troops. <span style="color: #006600; font-size: 100%;">179</span> of which being British.<br />
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Does this sound like a war?<br />
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Since the start of the war, <span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">141</span> journalists have been killed, <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span></span> of which by American Forces.<br />
Yes, <span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">10%</span> of the journalists killed in Iraq were killed by the US.<br />
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In fact, for every <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">12.8</span> British soldiers killed in Iraq - the Americans killed a journalist.<br />
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And one more;<br />
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<div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">'Iraqis without access to adequate water supplies - 70%'</div><br />
That is fucking absurd !<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">This info is correct as of 23rd August 2010, <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm">take a look at the statistics</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-39132092191817474932010-09-17T07:27:00.000-07:002011-08-14T11:31:54.485-07:00Irony<a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/polopoly_fs/the-pope-1.1029613%21image/3621230815.JPG_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/3621230815.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.heraldscotland.com/polopoly_fs/the-pope-1.1029613%21image/3621230815.JPG_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/3621230815.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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" Do not have any other gods before me.</span> <br />
<div style="font-style: italic;">You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.</div><div style="font-style: italic;">You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me,</div><div style="font-style: italic;">but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments."</div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 20:3-6</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-36469750414438814542010-09-01T03:30:00.000-07:002011-08-14T11:32:29.360-07:00Catholic Schools<a href="http://www.newamerica.net/blog/files/pope_children.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.isthmuscatholic.org/pictures/Becoming%20Catholic%20Pope%20Benedict%20XVI.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 332px;" /></a><br />
In Glasgow there are hundreds of Catholic Schools, where pupils can receive a Catholic Education. Religious Studies are taught in a manner which largely favours the RC church.<br />
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I have no idea why this is allowed...<br />
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The Catholic church expressed great discontent at the voice they had in government a few months ago, Cardinal O'Brien said:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"A tangible example by the government over the last decade that it acknowledged or endorsed religious values would also have been welcomed. Instead we have witnessed this government undertake a systematic and unrelenting attack on family values. "<br />
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They have their own schools where they can influence the education our children attain , what more influence do they want ?!<br />
Try responsibility, the schools are state-funded. In my view, this shouldn't be legal. Why doesn't the government fund Jewish Schools, Muslim schools, Hindu Schools etc. ? That way all the children can receive an education based upon their given religion all courtesy of the British taxpayer and we can all grow up 'separate but equal'.<br />
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How can the government slam sectarianism so strongly with one hand yet fund separate Catholic schools with the other?<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"It's tradition, Catholics worked hard for those schools" </span>-Okay, granted they did work hard to achieve education for their children when they immigrated to Glasgow, and schools were built onto churches. Celtic Football Club started out as a charitable club to fund meals for Catholic children whose families were too poor too afford them. But that was then, and this is now and separation in education is nothing but a fuel for the ongoing hatred between ignorant Catholics and Protestants in the country.<br />
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It's a surprise that they even teach about the existence of other religions. Or science - I would have imagined the RC church to replace science with creationism. Sexual Education to be replaced with Celibacy Lessons. The pope last year went on a tour of Africa to preach that condoms were bad, come on...that's just fucked up. Why do we allow this ?!<br />
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I believe that all children should be entitled to a free and equal education, even the smelly ones, and it's up to the child what they make of it. It's up to the person to receive the facts and both sides to the stories and to make up their own mind based on what they believe to be right, Biased education is just a total backwards hypocrisy now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-36851222630262969762010-08-07T15:11:00.000-07:002010-08-07T15:16:09.597-07:00TGI FridaysTGIs have succeeded in ruining a perfectly good meal of mine due to how petty I am when it comes to topics I feel strongly about. I wrote a letter of compaint to them and am optimistically awaiting a reply, the letter itself will sum up my complaint:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dear TGI Fridays,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I must start by stating that I am not the type of person to complain about anything. Whenever I receive bad service or bad food somewhere I attribute it to an unfortunate ‘one-off’ and so leave it at that. However I saw something in your restaurant recently which really confused me – and so felt the necessity to point it out to you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">There is a wall (at the Gordon Street side) of your restaurant with pictures of iconic artists and bands. On the wall is a ticket from The Police, Woodstock, The Rolling Stones and pictures of Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, Led Zeppelin and Lady Gaga.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Can you spot the odd one out?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">May I ask what Lady Gaga is doing on that wall? I’m sorry to sound petty – but musical technique and artistic integrity is something which I am rather passionate about. “But Lady Gaga has both of those!” you might say…well, true – but not quite on the scales of the artists on that wall. She’s no Bruce Springsteen is she?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Lady Gaga, at best, is just this generation’s Madonna. She is the product of corporate imperialism and musical demand of 15 year old girls with too much birthday money. She may be ‘unique’ and ‘something different’ but not on the bigger scale of things. Not like Led Zeppelin and Michael Jackson were unique.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">She does not fit in on that wall. She stands for something entirely different than the rest of the artists did. They have a passion and they play from their hearts - they set foundations for music that all the artists of today, the Lady Gagas and all the other pop artists, have risen up within.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">As I say, just an observation…</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Yours faithfully,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Josh</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-25007073480962486752010-07-20T17:18:00.000-07:002011-08-14T11:33:22.604-07:00Reality TV<a href="http://blogmusic.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/jimi_hendrix.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.rokpool.com/files/u1/mank_jimi_0.jpg" style="float: left; height: 431px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 350px;" /></a><br />
Although this blog is titled Reality TV, it is really about entertainment today. What exactly has become of it? So called 'celebrities' are televising their every move and people doing whatever it takes for any form of fame - however good or bad that may be.<br />
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Where has the integrity gone? Whatever happened to Jimi Hendrix? Bill Hicks? Jeff Buckley? It seems that integrity is an ever distancing subject and soon, it will be a thing of the past.<br />
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Let me quote Bill Hicks:<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">"Any performer that ever sells a product on television is now and forever and for all eternity removed from the artistic world, I don’t care if you shit Mona Lisas out of your ass on cue. You’ve made your fucking choice.”</span><br />
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If Bill Hicks were alive today to see <span style="font-style: italic;">What Katie Did Next...</span><br />
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Who watches this? Who finds watching society's finest on Big Brother entertaining? If one of these people sat next to you on a train would you give them the time of day?<br />
It's perverse, to watch scum live their lives - every single move.<br />
Philo Farnsworth would be so proud...<br />
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Where did it all go wrong ? When did our musicians and other celebrities become this obsessed with any form of short term fame that they had to completely sell out ?<br />
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Corporate Imperialism. Everything has become about advertising, morals and money. I wish I grew up in an era when music was about passion, integrity and artistic merit.<br />
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I'll keep this short and finish with a video clip of the Extras christmas special, I think Ricky summed it up rather nicely:<br />
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Let me start by stating this not very well known fact from BBC news.<br />
<i>In Britain, each Catholic diocese has an exorcist, but they are forbidden to speak publicly about the ritual and are rarely identified.</i><br />
Now not to belittle a major religion, disagree with irrefutable logic the Catholic Church is so reputed for or sound like I’m overreacting to this, but is it just me or does that not scare the living shit out of you?<br />
To know that the Catholic Church has an exorcist at disposal anywhere in the country?!<br />
Now the Church states that it’s priests are encouraged to work closely with medical professionals to distinguish between demonic influence and mental illness and if the latter can be ruled out, fire ahead with battle for the soul !<br />
In this day and age I think the majority have accepted that this type of stuff can be expected from Catholicism, however I took a different look at this fact. That means that in this country we have medical professionals, who have undergone all their education and are in a career where their position is to treat ill patients and they are the ones who can rule out mental illness and give a thumbs up to Satan secretly hiding within. How fucked are you when even your doctor suggests you are possessed?<br />
It is said that most exorcisms performed do in fact turn out to be some form of mental problem as opposed to demons. There are priests all over the world performing extreme exorcisms on ill people and turning round afterwards and saying “oops…looks like he was just coming down” <br />
Which brings me to Father Gabriele Amorth. The deaths of Alois <img align="left" src="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00695/1003church_695324a.jpg" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" />Estermann and family in 1998, church sex abuse scandals, the attempt on Pope John Paul II’s life in 1981 and the woman who lunged at Pope Benedictine XVI at Midnight Mass…apparently all demonic influence. For how could these good god loving men who sexually abuse children be condemned? Of course they are lovely harmless old men, it is the devil at work; when you look at it that way it all makes sense now ! Bull. Shit.<br />
He claims that when performing exorcisms his ‘patients?’ sometimes need be heavily restrained and that they tend to throw up exotic materials:<br />
<i>"Anything can come out of their mouths – finger-length pieces of iron, but also rose petals."</i><br />
Right…why isn’t this guy in jail ?!<br />
The Roman Ritual of Exorcism states the following criteria as signs of being possessed:<br />
<ul><li>Victim speaks or understands unknown languages without ever studying the language being spoken or heard </li>
<li>Victim clearly knows things that are distant or hidden </li>
<li>Victim can predict future events (sometimes through dreams) </li>
<li>Victim has an intense hatred for holy things </li>
<li>Victim shows a physical strength far above his age or normal condition </li>
</ul>I’ll start with the first point by adding that this is not to be mistaken with talking in tongues, which is a sign of religious ecstasy. So speaking literately in a foreign language – bad, demon ! Speaking absolute fucking jibberish – good, god !<br />
The point I find fascinating is the 4<sup>th</sup> one, about an intense hatred for holy things. Ehm… does that make me possessed? I think there are quite a lot of people who fall under that category. That’s sort of saying “Ok you either agree with our religion, or you are possessed by the devil ?”<br />
I should watch what I’m saying, since half of my family are all Catholics and all attend cult institutional education and so there’s a chance I might walk in one day to find my family standing there with a priest…time for my exorcism intervention. Although if I did walk in and see a priest standing next to my bed holding restraints, I’d get on my knees and pray to god that it was just an exorcism I was getting….Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-73818672985349891482010-02-22T10:35:00.000-08:002011-08-14T11:35:20.491-07:00The GymRecently I've been going to the gym a lot and with every visit I've been getting increasingly angrier at the type of scum who inhabit the place, so felt it relevant to blog about my annoyances of the gym.<br />
First off, I hate about 90%+ of the guys who attend the gym. Notice I used the word <i>attend</i> as opposed to the word <i>use</i>, there is a difference. As most guys in the gym don't use it in the way of getting maximum benefit of keeping themselves fit through the various equipment provided by the gym. Instead they have certain rituals which normal people wishing to use the gym find all too irritating.<br />
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They seem to conjugate in the changing rooms for hours walking about naked and talking about that football game which you very much doubt they ever partook in as it would involve them exiting their haven of bullshit talk and nudity and doing some actual exercise. The swimming changing rooms being worse as you actually do wish to use the hairdryer which is unfortunately perpetually glued to some pretentious jock's balls !<br />
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<a href="http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/animals/140503/fitmouse.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/animals/140503/fitmouse.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 290px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 387px;" /></a>Eventually when they emerge from their prolonged act of 'getting ready', they all have the same fucking routine ! Yes, around 90% of guys in the gym follow the exact same routine when it comes to exercise: Leave the changing room and walk to the select few machines which concentrate on working your biceps (and sometimes stomach) then totally putting themselves through pain by calibrating the machines with far more mass than they can handle and then overworking their arms just so as they can maintain their out of proportion massive show-offy biceps and forced 6 pack all accountable to overweighted pain and protein shakes. Totally contrasting with the rest of their unworked bodies.<br />
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Now I'm not exactly one to talk about muscular build or anything, being rather skinny myself, however I do work out my whole body when I do go to the gym. I'd rather try to improve my fitness in general as opposed to build a certain muscle or two to add to some stupid conceited image. And when I do go and try to exercise, I always have that overhanging feeling of intimidation which seems to pervade the minds of not so...prickish people?<br />
I've worked out an effective way of avoiding gym wankers, and it's rather simple. Just do your normal exercise away from any mirrors. I've noticed that these twats when doing weights, as always to enlarge the biceps, seem to look at themselves in the mirror when doing so ! So by being avoidant of mirrors, you can escape the frame of intimidation and actually get on with your workout in peace !<br />
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I believe there should exist two separate gyms, for normal people and for show-off pricks. Imagine, if all gym wankers had a separate gym, preferably Auschwitz or something. And then normal gyms only consisted of normal people doing normal exercise ?!<br />
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However there is another form of intimidation within the gym. You know that feeling when you step up on the crosstrainer and start to run and just think "I can't do my full half hour today! I really really can't!" It happens every so often that you just don't have it in you to do anything, so you think, "ah 15 minutes and that's me!" Then at 14 minutes in, when you're on that glorious home run, 14 fucking minutes ! Some girl comes to the cross trainer next to you. A girl. A pretty wee girl who by stereotype should be far less adequate than you and starts pounding that machine !<br />
So obviously it's the natural masculine need to prove himself which makes you think "fuck, i <i>need</i> to finish now!" We're all so scared of being shown up by woman within the gym ! That familiar constant glance over to their machine to see how well they're doing while constantly increasing your challenge and sweating like a bitch over yours !<br />
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I'm sorry, there's nothing attractive about a woman who pounds weights or sprints that treadmill faster than you can.<br />
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Anyway, I'll keep this short and contain my rant to the above points only :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691936436587020789.post-86878833309302362832009-02-26T13:01:00.000-08:002009-10-21T12:48:39.565-07:00First Scotrail, Fat people2 things I absolutely hate, as gathered from the title, are <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/letdown">First Scotrail</a>, the unreliable overpriced train company, and fat people...<br /><br /><strong>First Scotrail</strong><br />The funny thing about this company is that absolutely everybody who uses it hates it. I've yet to meet somebody who, during my constant moanings of their disappointing service, stops me to defend the company.<br />Every person who uses trains in Glasgow knows the usual ticket examiners that do their trains. There are a few who are always on your route, and you hate them all...fact.<br />It's as if in the job description for becoming a ticket examiner, being a heartless prick is an essential quality for all applicants. As if they're £10 per hour salary (approximately) isn't enough, they get paid commission on every single ticket they sell, hence why they are determined to prove your ticket is invalid.<br />Even when you have a valid ticket, such as a season ticket or zonecard, you always fear showing it to a ticket examiner as they always know how to pick a fault with it!<br />Although I believe the reason for such high pay for such a job is because after work, when they just go to the pub or something, everybody there recognises them as a prick from the trains and they're hated... They go to say £1 a drink somewhere and get charged like £5 per drink and when they ask why the barstaff jsut say "Should have bought your drink before entering the bar shouldn't you!"<br />I really don't understand that....why should you buiy tickets before boarding a train? The ticket examiners have the full facilities to sell you a ticket on the train, they are trained to do so, so why is it that you get charged extra?<br />That is another illogical idea from Scotland's biggest letdown....besides <a href="http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/pictures/nedgal149.jpg">these</a>.<br />On the subject of tickets, the country is in the middle of a recession, VAT is temporarily dropped by 2.5%, mass redundancies and job losses, people can't afford to spend, banks can't afford to loan and what do first scotrail do? They rise prices.<br />A return for me now from my village to Glasgow central, 25 minutes away, costs £5. That's the price of a return for a student who chose to stay 'locally' to his university....<br />The cheapest way to travel into university would be with a zonecard, which I believe all Glasgow students probably have, as it is far cheaper than any ticket first scotrail would give you.<br />But I guess when we are paying around £5 for a return and the ticket examiners get paid twice that every hour to do their job we can expect good trains on time? Ha!<br />I am begining to think that First Scotrail just deliberately cancel/delay trains for the fun of it? They are always late, or cancelled due to stupid excuses (best one is one Monday morning when we were asked to get off the train halfway into Glasgow as there was a "fault with the signal fault"....What exactly is a fault with a fault??)<br />The trains themselves are old and crap. I know most lines now have more comfortable trains, my line doesn't. We sit on these uncomfortable seats which are forever gettingg ripped off by the millions of school children which come on and feel the need to scream everything they say.<br />I just hate the company....Crap, heartless staff on old beat up trains which never run on time.<br /><br /><strong>Fat People</strong><br />I don't really know how to word my hate for fat people. It's not the fact that people are fat that annoy me, it's the fat people who either don't know why or don't accept blame.<br />To start, there's no such thing as "big boned"....if you say that, you're fat.<br />If you notice, fat people feel the need to blame absolutely everything on their weight apart from themselves. Like "I'm fat because working out doesn't make me lose weight"....Sorry, that's not 'how' you're fat, you're fat cause you you eat too much and when you do work out, you don't work out enough to burn off all the fat which you've eaten.<br />Fat people who blame the food.... where's the logic in that?<br />I <em>hate</em> how so many nice sweets and crisps etc. now taste crap because fat people who eat them and become fat complain that it's the food that's making them fat and so the manufacturers have to make like "fat free sugar free chocolate"...I DO NOT WANT HEALTHY SHITTY SUBSTITUTES, I want to eat the same unhealthy chocolate it always has been, and if by chance I start consuming enough of it so I put on weight, then instead of blaming the bars ingredients and making them change to accomodate my greed, I'll stop eating the fucking things and buy salad or some other healthy shit instead!<br />If you are fat, don't moan about a galaxy having too much fat in it or whatever, just don't buy the thing, you're fat you shouldn't be allowed it!<br />I saw a fat woman on the train the other day, now obviously everyone is entitled to use public transport and if one person just so happens to need 2 seats...bit selfish on a morning train but ok we'll allow it for the sake of this next point, the woman took off her jacket and jumper so she was just sitting engulfing the two seats she was on and her fat red disgusting arms and her belly were just pouring out her shirt exposing themselves to all other commuters. That's disgusting. She eat a packet of crisps by the way, showing her ignorance to how sickening she actually looked. It's jsut that attitude I hate, if you do ever get to a stage where you need to sit on 2 seats...why would you still eat packets of crisps and that? And you must realise how sickening you look....don't let everyone on a train see your obese stomach!<br />Taking this woman as an example, she never woke up one morning grossly overweight. So at some point in her life, she was fat, she was overweight to a level where she <em>must </em>have told herself "ok now I need to just stop consuming crap!" But now she's even more overweight, which means that she has grown even more, so instead of getting a grip of her diet and losing weight, she put it on by continuing to eat. Now I assume my ignorance to 'food addiction' makes it ahrder for me to understand but why would you actually let yourself ever get from that stage of "ok..too much, let's lose some weight here" to "i need 2 seats on a train!"<br />In short, fat people....Don't blame anyone but your own eating habbits. Don't buy fat free chocolate or anything, just don't eat unhealthy stuff. Don't moan, don't blame ...just lose weight.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0