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am i still ill? Archive for March, 2005
March 31, 2005 at 15:17 · Filed under Comment, News
Jamies School Dinners. Never watched it, but it seems as though it is making some difference. How much? Well it’s left to be seen.
The government has pledged, in England, £280m to improve school meals. Now, we all know what school meals are like, we all had them, we all did our best to make it look as though we had eaten more than we actually had by putting the mashed potato in your pocket and as many peas as possible underneath a slice of bread.
But, was I surprised to see in a BBC News report that Cardiff council spend the least in Wales, per pupil, than anywhere else in Wales? No.
A whopping 40p per child per meal.
On the high street today, what can you buy for 40p?
A mars bar, just about..
A packet of crisps, with 5p change.
Just what do they make these meals out of is what I would like to know.
Also, will the Welsh Assembly follow suit in driving to give the children of Wales the nutrition they need in these days of Big Mac’s and Coca-Cola by the bucket?
After all, school is a place of learning, why can health not be a part of that education in the classroom and at break times?
March 28, 2005 at 12:36 · Filed under Uncategorised
I knew there was something more to Morrissey and The Smiths than just great music and handsome lyrics.
The Smiths are going to be studied by scholars from around the world for two days next week, reports BBC News.
“They looked like nobody else and sounded like nobody else, and their music had an emotional depth that moved people in a way that no band has managed before or since.”
March 22, 2005 at 15:37 · Filed under Comment
The Aussies are at it again with their future telling madness.
“Parker Bowles is to marry Prince Charles, who will take the throne once his mother Queen Elizabeth dies, on April 8″ says todays Sydney Morning Herald.
After reading it however, I think they may have formatted their sentance a little wrongly. Or, I could go to the betting shop and place a £5,000 bet now and bank on them being right?
March 22, 2005 at 10:38 · Filed under Uncategorised
Uh Oh, another school shooting.
I wonder which celebrity the crazy christians and republicans will use as a scapegoat this time. Marilyn Manson isn’t as popular as he was in 1999 during the Columbine era, so it won’t be him. Eminem has had his day, I think they have used him a bit too much.
A movie this time perhaps? There have been quite a few violent movies out in the past few years.
Hey, perhaps they’ll go all out this time and blame an event!
Perhaps the holocaust? Or the Rwanandan genocide? After all they were very violent and kids could easily have learned from them.
I mean, it wasn’t like this kid was fucked up anyway.
His father commited only suicide, his mother is in a nursing home with brain damage after a car accident and the other kids at school taunt him constantly because he’s a “Goth kid”. Who hasn’t had this happen to them at least once in their lives? What a crybaby.
What I’m getting at here is, as the story is just breaking here there is no doubt in my mind there are numerous groups getting together to find the new face of their smear campain to ban anything other than love of your leader and love of the lord when the real issue is about child support. Was this child being cared for properly given his situation? Was he getting councelling, being visited by support workers, social services?
After the Columbine shootings in 1999 Christians started picketing Marilyn Manson concerts and burning Eminem CD’s. They even tried to get Marilyn Manson prosecuted in Italy because they claimed that two girls who killed a nun was influenced by his music.
It will be a sad day when they decide on their new target.
March 12, 2005 at 09:56 · Filed under Uncategorised
Why don’t we just start giving arrogant wankers and drug addicts medals? Pete Doherty, everyones favourite smackhead is certainly making a great living being a festering boozehound and crackhead.
Seriously though, why are they so lax on this man?
Just a month or so ago, the new chief of the MET comes in, and his opening statement was that he will be cracking down on drugs and made a special point of including the fact that “weekend drug users”, the white collar people who use just a little amount on the weekend in the privacy of their own homes or at private parties are not above the law and will be targeted.
Pete Doherty runs amok around Londons top clubs, picture on the front of the tabloids absolutely fucked out of his skull, you can tell he’s not drunk, everyone knows he’s not drunk, yet, when he is arrested (not on drugs charges, might I add), he gets out on bail, of which the conditions seem “flexible”.
At the end of February, his curfew was extended to midnight so that he could play a gig at Brixton Academy.
This man is out on bail, after charges of robbery and blackmail, and he gets special treatment? Seriously, what is going on?
So I say, why don’t we give all criminals a little special treatment now and again? They deservee it don’t they? Being locked up all day in a dingy cell can’t be nice.
March 6, 2005 at 23:52 · Filed under Uncategorised
Who doesn’t bathe with Mr T?
Come on, if this isn’t the best in eBay junk, then what is?
Contemplating buying one? Yeah, me too…..
[through, A Welsh View]
March 6, 2005 at 20:39 · Filed under Uncategorised
The BBC have posted an article in which it claims The Office has come top of a poll to find the funniest TV show of all time.
Who have they been polling? Certainly not me or anybody else that truley appreciates comedy, I can assure you of that.
Whilst The Office was good, it certainly is not the best of all time.
Fawlty Towers should definitely have won this one by a clear landslide.
It is a classic, a British institution, I dare you to try and show me of a whole 30 minutes worth of non stop hilarity that is better than the Basil Fawlty “Germans” episode (pictured above).
Do the poll again in a few years when the fuss over Gervais’ show has died down and we once again start to remember the real classic comedy series.
The poll does however, reaffirm the fact that we all knew anyway, the British make the best comedy.
Apparently, Out of the top 30, 19 were British and 11 were American shows.
March 4, 2005 at 12:02 · Filed under Uncategorised
After reading BBC News article “Baby is refused St Davids photo“, I’m left quite confused as to why the BBC are carrying this as news.
I know we all know that nothing much goes on in Wales, thus BBC Wales has to use even the most mundane stories just to fill the pages, but I don’t quite get what angle they are taking here.
Basically, if the rules for getting a free photo are that you have to be wearing a Welsh rugby shirt, or traditional Welsh costume, and you do not comply with that, then is it not right that you do not get it?
I mean, we have terms & conditions for a reason, do we not? Else, as i’m sure you can appreciate, there would be anarchy.
I mean, if this was a store, there was an offer whereby if you spent £25 to qualify for £5 off, and you spent £24, could you complain?
Well, you could, but you’d be shot down citing the rules of the offer.
Are BBC Wales highlighting this story because of the race of the people involved? Trying to hint that Swansea council’s decision was somehow race related?
The BBC are definitley taking the side of Mrs Nessa, rather than that of the council, this point is clearly made through the tone of the article.
I do fail to see the point of this story, Wake up BBC! Comments appreciated.
March 2, 2005 at 14:09 · Filed under Uncategorised
Happy birthday to you..
Ah, I remember the days between ICQ and MSN Messenger, the hours spent with Yahoo Messenger, screaming at Yahoo mail because the receive time for mail was about 10 minutes after it was sent, the hours spent playing Yahoo Pool and Checkers with a comeplete stranger on the other side of the world.
Yahoo is almost as old as my sister, yet strangely I feel more attached to “it” then her, even though I haven’t really utilised its services in about 4 years now, but now they’re giving away free ice-cream I think that might be the clincher that brings me back…Yum.
March 1, 2005 at 21:31 · Filed under Uncategorised
Getting back from a holiday is quite possibly the most depressing time of the year. Trying to fit back into your old routine after being free and easy for so long, even if it’s just a week.
The New York lifestyle fits me down to the bone, nobody looks at you funny if you pull out a camera and photograph something that may seem trivial to them. Nobody cares if you’re out running at 7am when the temperature is -1 degree and it’s snowing. Everybody just takes everything in their stride, they’ve seen it all. I love that.
After my last post, we managed to do all the NYC Touristy stuff, Empire State, Brooklyn Bridge, Madame Tussauds, Times Square (thrice) etc. etc. Oh, and a lot of shopping. The Bankruptcy proceeding are next week (joke..)
But seriously, New York is the greatest city. If I ever pack up and leave my native Wales, that is my place of choice. I want a little pad in SoHo, with my own iMac and groovy stuff on the walls, it’s my dream.
Flights are boring, hot, awkward and from the flight back, I’ve now added a new adjective to go with flying. Annoying. And, my dismay of the attitudes of American people has also been reaffirmed.
In general the average Yank is an obnoxious arse*, I tell you. Ask any normal Brit, when flying, do you lean your chair the entire way back so that it crushes the person behind you? 9.5 out of 10 will answer, NO.
Americans however think that it is their right, part of the Bill of Rights if you will, to lay their seats right the way back without considering the poor person(s) (namely Laura & I) behind them, then when asked if would go forward just a little so that we can at least breath a little, snarl and sigh before letting up about half an inch.
I have more to blog, later. I promise.
I’m sure this generalisation only applies to the percentage of the population that vote for Republican, I mean, what person who doesn’t think only about themselves and their wellbeing votes Republican?
