Beerwalk. 29th May 2010.
If you're gonna walk 11 miles across country, drinking beer...do it in style!
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Wallowing In Grief.
Why the hell do people wallow in grief? Do they like being miserable and sad? Do they not want to be happy?
The reason I ask is because of the stupid practice of putting flowers by the side of the road where there's been an accident. It seems to me that people want to be reminded of someones death constantly and want others to see just how much their grief means. Why? Who cares how much you loved someone who got killed? I don't. Who wants to see bunches of rotting flowers stuck to lamp posts? I don't. Who else wonders why these people don't just keep their grieving to themselves? I do. Cemetaries are for that, not streets.
Plus, I have seen this kind of shit outside pubs. There's one pub in Gorton in Manchester where this goes on. As far as I remember, some random guy stumbled into the road pissed, got hit by a car and died. 2 days later the flowers appeared as did the 'R.I.P. He was lovely, sadly missed' bullshit tributes. Why? He was drunk, too stupid to stay on a fucking pavement, fell into the road and died. Why the outpouring of grief? One less idiot in the world. A good start as far as I can see.
And I'm not saying the car driver is blameless. I've been driving before now when idiots have stepped into the road but I've either been in control of my vehicle and avoided them, despite some of them being almost determined to die, or lucky. Whoever was driving the car which hit the guy I'm refering to will live with that incident for the rest of his or her life.
But why are the rest of us subjected to someone elses grief? I don't see why we should see bunches of flowers, or similarly dumb floral tributes, at the side of the road. Aren't they hazards, in and of themselves? How many people drive past them and look to see what the pictures are and what the words say, taking their eyes off the road and basically being out of control? See? These idiots are causing more accidents! Not content with going 'oh woe is me, I've lost some random numpty from my family who was too dumb to cross a fucking road', they have to attempt to get other people killed. Bit selfish and insensitive if you ask me, which you didn't but fuck it, you get my opinion anyway.
So can we please stop this stupid practice? It's pointless, unnecessary and only makes the place look untidy when the flowers die. Do something more worthwhile with your money like donate to road safety campaigns or some such worthy cause. That makes more sense to me than wasting money on some plants that'll eventually die and go the same way as your fuckwit (insert relative or friend here) did.
Rotten, forgotten and thrown away. Move on. Life has, why can't you?
The reason I ask is because of the stupid practice of putting flowers by the side of the road where there's been an accident. It seems to me that people want to be reminded of someones death constantly and want others to see just how much their grief means. Why? Who cares how much you loved someone who got killed? I don't. Who wants to see bunches of rotting flowers stuck to lamp posts? I don't. Who else wonders why these people don't just keep their grieving to themselves? I do. Cemetaries are for that, not streets.
Plus, I have seen this kind of shit outside pubs. There's one pub in Gorton in Manchester where this goes on. As far as I remember, some random guy stumbled into the road pissed, got hit by a car and died. 2 days later the flowers appeared as did the 'R.I.P. He was lovely, sadly missed' bullshit tributes. Why? He was drunk, too stupid to stay on a fucking pavement, fell into the road and died. Why the outpouring of grief? One less idiot in the world. A good start as far as I can see.
And I'm not saying the car driver is blameless. I've been driving before now when idiots have stepped into the road but I've either been in control of my vehicle and avoided them, despite some of them being almost determined to die, or lucky. Whoever was driving the car which hit the guy I'm refering to will live with that incident for the rest of his or her life.
But why are the rest of us subjected to someone elses grief? I don't see why we should see bunches of flowers, or similarly dumb floral tributes, at the side of the road. Aren't they hazards, in and of themselves? How many people drive past them and look to see what the pictures are and what the words say, taking their eyes off the road and basically being out of control? See? These idiots are causing more accidents! Not content with going 'oh woe is me, I've lost some random numpty from my family who was too dumb to cross a fucking road', they have to attempt to get other people killed. Bit selfish and insensitive if you ask me, which you didn't but fuck it, you get my opinion anyway.
So can we please stop this stupid practice? It's pointless, unnecessary and only makes the place look untidy when the flowers die. Do something more worthwhile with your money like donate to road safety campaigns or some such worthy cause. That makes more sense to me than wasting money on some plants that'll eventually die and go the same way as your fuckwit (insert relative or friend here) did.
Rotten, forgotten and thrown away. Move on. Life has, why can't you?
What happened to the English language?
Rant begins.
I despair at the lack of correct grammar in use today. I blame SMS and the Internet. I know that at the dawn on the SMS age, people had to make full use of their 160 characters. 10 pence, or however much you paid, didn't go very far in those days. Still doesn't, really. That 160 constraint meant that words had to be abbreviated, terms cut down to just the initial letters. CU L8R, bcos, shit like that.
Now, when the Internet became more accessible to people I thought that would stop and everyone would switch back to proper English. How wrong I was.
I don't claim to be the most eloquent person, and I'm sure I myself have a few slip ups where grammar and punctuation are concerned, but I'm not one of the retarded masses. I am able to construct a sentence, spell words correctly and get my point across with a minimum of fuss and to some degree of clarity. Most people who reside online, it seems, are unable to do this simple task.
Only just the other day I was sat on the bus and a woman, maybe in her 40's, sat in front of me and started sending a text. She had a blackberry, which is important simply for the fact that it was probably on contract with a text allowance of a few hundred messages. Why, then, did she choose to express herself in a way that I can only describe as, and I quote myself, 'fucking stupid'? She wrote things like, 'cant w8 2 c ma fewwa'. Eh? What? There's no apostrophe in the word 'can't', for one thing. Don't even get me started on why the fuck she spells 'fella' in such a fucked up manner. She then proceeded to say that she couldn't wait to be with, 'her chewwy twee and her bwakk cuwwants'. No, me either!
Maybe it was that baby talk shit that some couples do, maybe she was mentally retarded. Whatever the case, she's a fucking moron.
Before you all leap at me with shouts of, 'It's a free country! People can spell things any way they want!', let me defend myself by saying that, yes, I am being a totally judgemental prick. I don't care. I make every effort to write legibly and also to type in the same manner. To do things the way this woman does is plain lazy. It also shows a lack of eduacation. Why would you want to give people the impression that you were in the special class at school? That, maybe, you failed remedial English? That you are a fucking moron? I hope one of you who are reading this have an answer because I have no clue!
What I want, crave even, is a return to the use of the English language. It's a wonderful language that is criminally underused by the majority of the population. If it takes me going on a one man crusade and pointing out where people are going wrong then so be it. I don't mind being everyones hero. Fine. I'll take this job, gladly.
So let this serve as a warning to all of those who're misfortunate enough to, firstly, be on my friends list and, secondly, read this. Use correct grammar, spell words properly and avoid shit like LOL, ROFL and that 'nom nom nom' bollocks. It's childish and fucking stupid. I say so and you know I'm always right.
Rant ends.
I despair at the lack of correct grammar in use today. I blame SMS and the Internet. I know that at the dawn on the SMS age, people had to make full use of their 160 characters. 10 pence, or however much you paid, didn't go very far in those days. Still doesn't, really. That 160 constraint meant that words had to be abbreviated, terms cut down to just the initial letters. CU L8R, bcos, shit like that.
Now, when the Internet became more accessible to people I thought that would stop and everyone would switch back to proper English. How wrong I was.
I don't claim to be the most eloquent person, and I'm sure I myself have a few slip ups where grammar and punctuation are concerned, but I'm not one of the retarded masses. I am able to construct a sentence, spell words correctly and get my point across with a minimum of fuss and to some degree of clarity. Most people who reside online, it seems, are unable to do this simple task.
Only just the other day I was sat on the bus and a woman, maybe in her 40's, sat in front of me and started sending a text. She had a blackberry, which is important simply for the fact that it was probably on contract with a text allowance of a few hundred messages. Why, then, did she choose to express herself in a way that I can only describe as, and I quote myself, 'fucking stupid'? She wrote things like, 'cant w8 2 c ma fewwa'. Eh? What? There's no apostrophe in the word 'can't', for one thing. Don't even get me started on why the fuck she spells 'fella' in such a fucked up manner. She then proceeded to say that she couldn't wait to be with, 'her chewwy twee and her bwakk cuwwants'. No, me either!
Maybe it was that baby talk shit that some couples do, maybe she was mentally retarded. Whatever the case, she's a fucking moron.
Before you all leap at me with shouts of, 'It's a free country! People can spell things any way they want!', let me defend myself by saying that, yes, I am being a totally judgemental prick. I don't care. I make every effort to write legibly and also to type in the same manner. To do things the way this woman does is plain lazy. It also shows a lack of eduacation. Why would you want to give people the impression that you were in the special class at school? That, maybe, you failed remedial English? That you are a fucking moron? I hope one of you who are reading this have an answer because I have no clue!
What I want, crave even, is a return to the use of the English language. It's a wonderful language that is criminally underused by the majority of the population. If it takes me going on a one man crusade and pointing out where people are going wrong then so be it. I don't mind being everyones hero. Fine. I'll take this job, gladly.
So let this serve as a warning to all of those who're misfortunate enough to, firstly, be on my friends list and, secondly, read this. Use correct grammar, spell words properly and avoid shit like LOL, ROFL and that 'nom nom nom' bollocks. It's childish and fucking stupid. I say so and you know I'm always right.
Rant ends.
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