Vick is Back!!!!

Michael Vick made the start of his comeback this week for the Eagles. I'm gutted the Falcons axed him. He's done his time (dog fighting? 2 years? For the love of god!!) and looked promising

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d812313b4/Pre-WK-3-Michael-Vick-highlights

Caster Semenya - Update

She's a girl!!!!
I hope she comes back at the next meet and bets the opposition by a mile!

Caster Semenya

You've got to feel sorry for this girl.  Trains hard, runs fast, beats the opposition by miles and how do we think she does it?? 

Drugs?  No she must be a man!!

 

It may turn out that she is but at the moment she is a woman so give her a break.  Apparently her father was gutted she was a girl because he had 3 others so her up bringing was very male orientated.  She wears mens clothes.  I know loads of women like that.  She likes WWE.  Have you seen the crowds at those events?  Are all those women men??  She's got loads of testosterone in her system.  Maybe she just has loads and that's why she is fast?

 

It's now descended into a "the Europeans are being racist" thing.  Black South Africans get the chip off your shoulder.  If it was a racist thing do you not think Bolt would have been accused of something by now???

 

I hope she is proved to be a woman (how hard can it be to prove or disprove?) and that she breaks records all over the place.  I do think it's jealousy on the other teams part and it's a shame.

I hope it doesn't effect her too much either as it sounds like she's had a crap childhood as well.

 

Oh, Martin Gillingham in the Nottingham Evening Post thinks we won't see her run again.  He also writes a shit column that I can't believe I read sometimes!!!  Really, don't bother reading it if you're ever in Notts!!!

Stock Markets

 

Haven't heard in the media how the FTSE 100 is nearly back to where it was last year, have you?

 

Oh no, of course not that might be good news and we can't have that can we??

Microsoft Sorry Over Race Row Photo Blunder

Apparently there was a picture on their website of 3 racial diverse people in a boardroom.  However when it appeared on a Polish website the black man had been magically replaced by a white man.

So???

Let's be honest Eastern Europe isn't renowed for it's tolerance of non-whites.  I haven't got a problem with that, it's just the way things are.  Hated by the West for a long time etc..  Let's put it this way, I wouldn't advertise my company over there with Tiger Woods as the face of it!!  

Before all you Eastern European's start complaining (Like anyone reads this!) the ones that would write on here wouldn't be the sort to habour these feelings.  Stereotypes are there for a reason.  Because most of the time they're right.  Do you honestly think all the white folk in South Africa were cheering when that female (is she?) athelete got off the plane?  Oh come on!  There were still shit loads of them laughing their tits off at the darkie who looks like a bloke!  

I could go on for pages and pages about these sort of stereotypes.  Deal with it.  So what if a black guy got taken off a picture.  How many white people have not been included in pictures or adverts because of exactly the same reason.  Because it didn't fit the profile of an area.  (Nice white American on a billboard in Iraq? Or blonde cheerleader in a Pakistani magazine? I think not)

Get over it.  Why waste the time to take another picture.  I'm sure the woman got taken out of it somewhere else as well.  Just because it was a black man.

Bored of it all now

England's 2018 World Cup bid team has added its condemnation to the violence at Tuesday's Carling Cup match between West Ham and Millwall.

England's 2018 World Cup bid team has added its condemnation to the violence at Tuesday's Carling Cup match between West Ham and Millwall.

Of course they have.  They are shitting themselves in case FIFA turn round and tell them to bog off and bang goes their money train.  I dread to think how much this 'Team' are going to make and waste in making this bid.  I mean, the back handers and VIP trips for the FIFA officials alone probably equates to the finances of a medium sized European country......

Mayor of Nottingham's Husband in sex scandal

Who cares??  I tell you what, local councillors are the worst when it comes to thinking they are so important. 

More than likely failed politicians and have such a high opinion of themselves.  I couldn't name or point out one of my councillors.

And now this 'scandal' is all over the Evening Post.  I didn't even realise we had a lady Mayor!!

 

Idiots!

 

Oh, this is my first email blog post.  If this works I could be spending a lot of time sending in random, moaning blog posts!!!

 

 

Radio 5

Middle class news throughout the day.

Pretty good sports coverage in the night.

But the news coverage......why do I bother listening to it!!  They are so naive.  They have no idea about the real world.  They really think that the world of Politicians and financial markets are the real world.  That all of us care what goes on in Parliment.  That me and the rest of my council estate give a damn that some Tory MP has slagged off a Labour MP who has then had a go back etc., etc.........

But they have been trying to be more 'tabloid' of late.  OK a better description should be 'Argumentitive for the sake of being argumentitive'

An example could be:

Presenter: So you've created a clean, free fuel, Mr Smith?

Mr Smith: Yes. Anyone can make it, it's free and doesn't harm anyone

Presenter: Very good, BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE COAL MINERS,THE JOBS THAT WILL BE LOST IN POWER STATIONS, WHAT ABOUT THEM HEY???

Mr Smith: but......

Presenter: All those families that you are ruining, what about them hey?

Mr Smith: but...clean fuel...free..

Presenter: Doesn't matter. Too many lives ruined, you heartless bastard.  Phone in and let me know what you think of this family destroyer.  And now the news

Get the idea?  All the time.  It's a bit embarassing at times.  I think they are trying to be cooler but these middle to upper class presenters, posh Londoners just make fools of themselves.

EXTREME sports

Clues in the title.  There's a reason they are called this.  It's the reason that most of us won't even try some of them.

The reason I bring this up is because of a tragic death that occured about 16 months ago in New Zealand of an English girl doing some sort of body boarding down a white water river.  She got stuck under a boulder and died.  I only heard about this on the radio today as the mother was on because the New Zealand courts have found that the company who organised this event were in breach of 2 Health and Safety protocols.  Turns out (according to the mother) that the company cannot be done for anything like Corporate manslaughter and they will probably get a fine, a "slap on their wrists".

What I am about to say is in no way meant to belittle the girls life.  It annoys me that I've only heard about it because the media have got hold of the fact that they are being done for health and safety violations only.   It's awful that someones adventure abroad ended their life.

But she didn't have to get on a flimsy board without a life jacket and jump into a river full of rocks, boulders and fast rushing water.  You can't blame others because they offer you something (which you pay for) and don't give you the right equipment or don't have the knowledge.  If someone offered me the opportunity to do anything around water and didn't offer me a floatation device of some sort I wouldn't go anywhere near it.  It would be like being offered a go in a racing car round a race circuit and the people in charge not offering you a race suit, helmet and seat belt.  You just wouldn't trust what they were offering.

It isn't just this instance.  We all feel the need to blame others when something bad happens to us.  Who's fault is it?  Will they pay for it?  I want justice!  It's not my fault.  

Sorry if this touches a nerve. Not that anyone will read this but I had to get it off my chest.

What is the point....

....of cricket Umpires??

No really, why bother with them at International level?  They all just want to be in the limelight and make sure they get noticed that any decision they have to make takes an eternity and then they have to add their own style to the hand motion etc., etc..

Just let a TV Umpire sort it all out and be done with all this eccentric behaviour.  No need for them anymore.  It's a slow enough sport to allow this.

Oh, wait....hang on.....won't happen.  Why you might ask?  Because of the 'Old Boys Network'.  All the posh blokes who used to bum each other at Public School who scratch each others backs and don't like any changes from traditional things.

Essentially they will kill the game.  But hey, who cares?  We can always watch American Baseball if we want to be bored senseless.  At least they finish it in one sitting!

An appolgy

This won't happen very often but I do need to do this in order to clear my conscience.

My mum recently upgraded her phone and gave me her old one (which I kindly gave to my wife as hers was like about 100 years old!!).  I needed to unlock it so paid for a code from Unlocksolutions.

I didn't read the terms (who does?) and entered all my details of the phone etc. and then paid £3.99 through Paypal and then checked out the report for my code.  No code. Just an explanation saying that as my phone wasn't on their list in their terms they couldn't help me but they would allow me to unlock a different phone from their list for free.  Now I wasn't in the best of moods that day (I was tired and grumpy!) and I lost the plot in the only way I knew how.  I wrote a strongly worded email!  Anyway I got a very quick response saying that they were sorry and giving me a full refund.  How much of a twat did I feel then?  I emailed back thanking them for their quick response and apologising if my mail seemed rude (the refund went straight back into my Paypal account).

So, if you need your phone unlocking and it is in the list on their terms page (link below) I recommend them, especially for £3.99.  I didn't actually get a code but they seem to be a good site who aren't ripping people off.

www.UnlockSolution.co.uk/terms.asp

Sorry Unlock Solutions for misjudging you.

Sharif

What is the point......

.....of going to the Cinema to see a film?

Went to the cinema yesterday to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with my gorgeous wife.  We very rarely get to go out together and took the opportunity while down here in Penarth, South Wales staying with my parents.  Now this moan isn't about the film.  It certainly isn't about the company (had a lovely time with my wife, holding hands, kissing......like out on a date before having kids!).  It's about the cinema.

More precisely the quality of the film.  Not the content of the movie, but the actual quality of the film being projected onto the screen.

Why in God's name does anyone put up with it?  It's fu@#ing dreadful!!  It's not sharp.  It crackles.  There are little marks, sometimes lines flickering vertically.  It jumps.  Essentially it's SHIT!!!

Now, if I was the sort of person who might download a.....no don't say it Sharif.....pirated copy of a film and it turned out to be of the quality of the film that we saw last night I'd just delete and wouldn't even bother burning it.  Having sat through it last night I'm starting to see why cam versions of films on DVD are so popular!

Mind you I think the cinema's have realised this and have come up with an ingenius scheme to make up for the poor quality.  I can see the meeting of the cinema head's now......

Exec 1:"Picture quality is shit"

Exec 2:"Yep, what can we do? Invest in new projectors? Nice crisp sharp pictures like HD TV?"

Exec 3: "Too much money.  Don't want to spend our bonuses when these idiot's keep coming back for more because they think the cinema experience of a film is better"

[Laughs all round the boardroom]

Exec 1+2: "I know what to do...."

[They exchange glances and smile]

Exec 1+2: "Let's TURN UP THE VOLUME REALLY HIGH!!!"

Genius.  Let's make it so loud your brain vibrates and your eyes can't tell if the picture is  fuzzy or not!!!  Who gives a damn if you can hear someone talking in the background 3 miles away from the main character?  I want a HD quality picture.

Suffice to say I won't be going to the cinema again soon.  At least not until I've forgotten how bad it is!!  I won't start on how much of a rip off it is.......

£1.68 Billion...

...That's how much profit the British Government made due RBS making a profit this quarter.  I know the government invested £20 odd billion but why hasn't this been on the news?  Had the government announced that they were giving some organisation this amount of money we'd all be screaming for the "one-eyed" leader of this countries head!!!!

Come on people, let's give them a bit of a pat on the back when they do have some success.

I mean I only just realised that the pound was back up to $1.70.  I had no idea.  Last I heard it was on it's way down to about $1.30.  The reason I found out about it being back up at $1.7? Because it's suddenly stopped climbing back up due to the Bank of England ploughing more money into the economy somewhere.

FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!  WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MEDIA????  I knew, normally by the hour, where Sterling was in several currencies and how shit everything was for the UK thanks to huge tickers going across the bottom of Sky News (or as I like to call it "Tabloid Shite") and BBC News 24 (or "The poor actually live like this" news).  Where was the one saying that things were looking a little better?  Makes me sick.

There's no such thing as balanced news reporting anymore.  Just the League of Gentlemen way of deeming if a news story is worthy or not........."Yeah but how many killings".......