March 2012
14 posts
Cave Painting
You and I, pursed lips - parched and thirsty on bare rock. A dreamscape - Aboriginal painting on time-carved walls. Ground stone pigment Eden. A flower bursts from spit and powder, man creates. He builds the sky and birds. Trees tower as a dusty smear leaves his thumb. Oh what a pleasant world. A vibrant vision of love. A pale golden sun’s outline, warm and fuzzy. The creatures too -...
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More Arrests for Tweeting!?
I think most of us (at least those with sense) would agree that racism is a terrible thing. The deliberate prejudice against another human being based on aspects such as country of origin, skin colour, religion etc. is utterly pointless, base, and serves no purpose in our modern world other than to create discord and separation in communities. So why, then, can the world’s media - for...
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Wishing Well
In case you did not know, I am a follower of football - or Soccer as some of you may call it. Recently, during an FA Cup game between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton player Fabrice Muamba collapsed on pitch and had a cardiac arrest. If not for the hurried intervention of the medical teams - and a cardiac specialist who happened to be in the crowd - Fabrice may have died on pitch, and I...
Negativity (The +s always blame the -s)
Negativity is a magnificent tool for perspective. Negativity gives us the scope to see that everything is NOT OKAY. So why then does it appear to be so frowned upon in this world? Why are there shelves and shelves of books offering easy advice on how people can be more positive and think more positive and act more positive. People see someone with a frown and they don’t offer a helping hand...
NHS-Factor
I was feeling ill, so I called the Doctor. Calls cost £1.20 a minute from a BT landline. Other providers may vary. Calls from mobiles will be significantly higher. All part of the new initiative to make more money. Vote for your favourite GP - least votes is out Sunday night. He sent me for tests. First, they tested my capacity to sacrifice. Gave me an appointment in the middle of a work day....
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The Extradition Act - A Hammy Act At Best
I have been meaning to get around to a scathing piece on the Extradition Act 2003 for some time, but me being me I do not like to run into these things without a bit of research and figured the best research one could do would be to read the act itself. …This was a mistake. In all my previous encounters with law (and I did study it for a while, albeit at a low academic level) I had always...
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Pentecost, St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.
How should I start this review? Every other one I have seen seems to start with mentioning how apt a place to stage Pentecost St. Leonard’s church is. A church with a rich theatrical history and an atmosphere suited to this play even if it does play havoc with the acoustics somewhat. When you watching a Swedish Man about to Sodomise a prostitute (all acting, of course!) in front of you and...
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Stop Stupid 2012
In the scope of tragic diseases, there is one which is often overlooked, but deserves no less attention. That disease is The Stupid. DO YOU HAVE THE STUPID!? If you do, you probably won’t donate to us! The Stupid has a long and horrific history. Plaguing mankind through the centuries in a way that we won’t go into in too much details because we’re the marketing department. A...
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Further notes on Intl. Women's Day and Gender...
Yesterday I wrote a post quite rightfully claiming that while International Women’s Day is not a bad idea per se, it does hold certain fundamental flaws in the whole gender equality issue. As a result of this occasion many facts were being bandied about, some of which only sought to emphasise my point. I believe I saw a twitter post that claimed something like 80% of refugees were...
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Why No International Men's Day?
Today is, apparently, international women’s day. Some arbitrarily named period of twenty-four hours probably created by men, to make women feel they are being heard. Is it a bad thing? No, there are many issues of fairness and equality facing women both domestically and abroad (indeed, abroad even more so, where often the levels of disparity and bad treatment can be shocking) but the...
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Crappy History-Bending Conspiracy Fiction
Alan Boresworth yawned as he glanced at his antique Grandfather clock. It was well past his bedtime, and well into the small hours. But something about the documents he had received that day had grabbed his attention like nothing ever before. Alan was a cryptographer/archaeological academic/professor of something or other. He was a tedious academic, basically and yet somehow when the action...
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Shitty Cockpleasing Phallic Warfiction
*Warning: Contains intense satire - If you are offended, you don’t get the joke. Which is not my fault, so don’t moan about it.* *Edit - Someone moaned about it! Surprise surprise!* Chip McHardbastard stood with his long, erect gun in his hand. Pumping it with a satisfying ‘ch-chunk’ sound he aimed it at someone who was presumably evil, because he looked vaguely Middle-Eastern or had...
Political Redundancy
Your part is merely just to put an X in a box. You try to do more, they’ll have the police arresting the lot. There’s no room for trouble-makers, that’s how you are labelled, When you fight for your rights; whether elderly, female, gay or disabled. The election’s the main attraction, a detraction from the attention of your lack of true political interaction. Just tick a...
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Wanky Teenage Vampire Fuckfiction
Catherine was your everyday kind of normal, teenage, emo girl. She had a floppy fringe that covered half of her face, and it was dyed a different colour to the rest of her hair. She wore far too much make up, because underneath it all, she looked very plain Jane. Her eye-liner was always thick because, you know, emo guys love pandas and she liked to wear many bangles and plastic bands around her...
