January 2010
1 post
Check Your Pulse
Are you still alive?
I fucking hope so.
October 2009
3 posts
Facebook In The Workplace?
Me and my brothers were having a conversation with my father about facebook last night, as he was having a corporate meeting about it the next day. I am no facebook expert and rarely use it, but I’m not sure either of my brothers even know how to sign out. Every time I do go on facebook however, I am inundated with pointless status updates by people I rarely talk to. The surprising thing...
Sitcoms On TV.
I haven’t seen a fresh new sitcom that’s good in a while. Normally I manage to find one, or hear about one as soon as the last sitcom i’ve been watching finishes. I’ve watched the pilot to so many recently and they have all been dire. Not just the scripts but the acting as well.
My two least favourites are Lunch Monkeys and Off The Hook. Lunch Monkeys is about…...
Universal Truths.
Some universal truths have become apparent to me throughout my lifetime. Here are just a few:
Everyone wants more money.
Everyone tells the truth more when their drunk.
Everybody lies at least once a day.
Everyone is insecure.
Age has almost nothing to do with maturity.
September 2009
3 posts
the goodwill of hooligans.
I was at a football game in London recently when the drunk guy in the seat in front lit up a cigarette. It was a football game, and I was engrossed in the action and I didn’t even notice until a women sitting a few seats away made the point of asking him to put it out. For some the public shaming would have been enough to persuade him to put it out. However, he refused and kept on smoking....
I Can't Stop Myself.
I just love to play football. I really do. Its been well over 24 hours since I played on Sunday morning and there are still places that hurt (shin splits, bruised rib, sliced open knee, sliced open hip, bruised bicep). It’s nearly always like this after I have played - I really put my body into the game and I always end up with some minor gripe that lasts for a few days. It doesn’t...
High Fidelity.
Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity is a great, great book. It’s the male version of Bridget Jones’ Diary. It’s a great breakup book. It basically just explains to you in its own subtle way that ‘yes, you are a jackass, but so are all men, so it’s okay’. I’ve completely stolen what I’m about to do from the book. That’s right, my top 5...
August 2009
3 posts
Good/Bad Week
GOOD
Playing football - Playing your debut at right back then going straight to work = a long shift.
Dukes - Night out drinking with the boys in Chelmsford and not going to sleep. Haven’t done that for a while.
Lie to Me - Series finale was immense. Great TV.
Downloads - So much music and so many films for free. (we’ll all end up paying in the end)
BAD
Money - I’ve...
Free News?
Rupert Murdoch has announced the end of free news on the internet from his company, NewsCorp. In the UK he owns The Sun and The Times and of course, their websites (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm). Now, I don’t personally use either of these websites. I use, almost exclusively, the BBC website for my news, sport and weather. However, had I been an avid user of these sites,...
Joseph Croot is...
Why does everybody use facebook so much? Serious Question. Is the anybody under the age of thirty I know that doesn’t have a facebook? More to the point, why the hell is everyone hell bent on constant status updates? (So much so the next craze was Twitter - which from what I gather is only status updates. Sadly I have never used Twitter so it would be hypocritical of me to criticise it. Oh...
July 2009
4 posts
Education.
What the hell did I learn in school? I spent years there going and having lessons in geography, history, science and french. All I now do with that information is answer a few questions on eggheads when they come up about Long Shore Drift or the Magna Carta.
What I really should have been learning all those years was how to write my CV, find the cheapest electricity prices, fill out my tax return...
Review of my week.
Inspired by Ben Gilchrists’ blog (bengilchrist.tumblr.com) I’m gonna review a few things from my week.
Not Eating Sugar: 5/5
Having decided I’m too addicted to sugar (constant sugar cravings, spiking energy levels, sudden mood swings), I decided to cut down drastically on my processed sugar (the stuff that hits your system instantly). I feel much more refreshed all the time, I...
Greed.
Last Saturday I worked from 10.30am until 3am. I worked 16.5 hours. Straight. With no real break. I didn’t get to sit down once and ate scraps of food from the kitchen when I could. I work in a restaurant on the bar. Making drinks and cocktails for the restaurant guests as well as the guests at the bar.
There were about 200 eating on saturday, something which would on average require 5...
The Lying Newsreader.
Why the fuck can no-one understand statistics? Especially the news. They can’t understand medical reports either. And they make shit up constantly.
Where’s this anger coming from. Well for one, from a media report about race and crime (a can of worms i’m not gonna open) and the other from an article I saw about Peter Andre. Yes, that’s right Peter Andre himself. You see,...