Update...

Well, it's been a fair bit since i could be bothered to write a Blog, and now that I have no school anymore I eventually convinced myself to post another Blog. Yey! How amazing! Well, not really. I'm sure Duncan is the only reader of this Blog... then again, he probably gave up reading it like I gave up writing it. Ah well, maybe one day, when this Blog is famous, people will read this post as they happily surf through the archives of this useless Blog. Anyhoo, it's almost five past one in the morning, and Dad wants me to knock the internet off, *Sigh.* Now, this is what I call a pointless Blog. I may update again soon, if I can be bothered. Bye bye.

Don't Judge Me!

Hey kids! This is your favourite self-harming muppet teaching you the only alphabet you need to know, ever. It's the Emo-bet! The ultimate pre-school self mutilation guide. Sing along with me now kids...

A is angst. The perfect reason to be the way you are.
B is for bullet. The perfect valentine’s gift.
C is for cut. Every great Emo does this. Lots.
D is for depressed. You wish you were dead.
E is for everyone. See letter ‘H’
F is for fuck you. An essential term for your vocabulary. See how deep you are?
G is for gay. You’re not gay. You’re bi.
H is for hate. See letter ‘E’
I is for insecure. Every Emo is insecure. Nobody knows why. Maybe because you’re ugly.
J is for jugular. Leave this well alone. If you cut it you will actually die. You don’t want that, do you?
K is for kutting. To sound kewl.
L is for liked. I liked you once last year. I wrote a song about it.
M is for Myspace. You MUST have a Myspace account. Possibly two so you can pretend you’re a bisexual girl.
N is for need. You don’t need anybody.
O is for oxygen. You don’t need it, you’re constantly suffocating, therefore you’re used to it.
P is for pierce. Do this to as many square inches of your face as possible.
Q is for Quasimodo. The grandfather of Emo.
R is for ramification. One of the big words you use in your poetry that you don’t understand.
S is for suicide. Emos need suicide to survive.
T is for tear. I’ll send you a tear in the mail everyday.
U is for unwanted. You are and you always will be. Nobody understands you and they’re not near deep enough to understand your beautiful poetry.
V is for vampire. Your image had to come from somewhere you know.
W is for wish. I wish you were dead.
X is for Xtreme. You kissed a guy once that you didn’t even know. Chances are, you are a guy.
Y is for “Y dont u lyk me?” Rule of thumb, you can’t spell.
Z is for Zebra. You’re soul is black with white stripes. You hate White Stripes. And your soul. Your blackened soul.

Is killing 300,000 seals such a big deal?

Yes. It is, in fact, a very big deal.

These seals living in Canada will be subject to an impressive show of human contempt as they will be shot and/or beaten to death in order to obtain fur... for money. What's worse is that when this has been done in the past, apparently 42% of the seals were still alive while being skinned. That will be about 126,000 seals skinned alive this time round. Most of them won't even be 12 days old.

What else that's crap about it is that this carnage will commence in just over 9 days from the posting of this blog. Thankfully, though, this can be prevented due to Canada having a new Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, and a new party being in power. With enough public support, they may consider ending this terrible hunt forever. What you can do to help is go to http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047?z00m=76043&z00m=76043&ltl=1142794578 and sign the petition, or alternatively you can go to www.care2.com. The latter is, in my opinion, an organisation worthy of your membership. A bit like Amnesty International or Greenpeace.

Please help. It only takes a couple of minutes.

Image courtesy of www.thepetitionsite.com

Rock References

I went to Keswick on Saturday in the Lake District. I was trying, as well to have a nice day out, to take some pictures that I could post. But, of course, the weather was really, really crap. So... Has anyone ever noticed, among many other subtle things in The Simpsons (the best show on earth), there is a 'Rock Reference' (as I call them) in possibly every episode. By Rock Reference I mean the referral or appearance of a Rock, Metal or Blues song, Guitar, Guitar music, Rock or Metal bands, song name or song lyrics, or Rock Musician. There are a lot of obvious examples like when the bands are actually on the cartoon (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Who, Spinal Tap, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, The Rolling Stones, etc.), but there are less prominent references that you could easily miss, like on the episode where Arthur Fortune opens up a new Mall in Springfield and Otto, as he is listening to a CD in a music store, says something along the lines of "This band doesn't sound anything like Judas Priest!" or when Bart gets a Guitar and Otto plays Freebird on the school bus, or even when Homer had a flashback in one episode about how he started drinking beer, there is a Queen poster in the background. As far as I can tell there is hardly any episodes where there isn't a Rock Reference (I don't think the very first one does), but they are very subtle and even though Rock Music is basically my life, I am not a veteran of the Genre (as I'm only 17), so I might have missed many references that older Rockers may not have. Just thought I'd point that out because it's quite interesting I reckon.

All Your Base Are Belong To Me

It is common knowledge that there are many languages in this big world of ours. A lot of people would agree with me when I say many of them could easily be laughed at purely because of the way they sound... like French for example, or maybe being in angry in German, that's quite funny. Anyway, I reckon that there is no funnier language on this whole planet than Engrish. No, that isn't a mispelling of the world's second most widely spoken language, it's a variation of it often spoken by oriental people or those from the far East who don't have English as their first language. I'm dragging on a bit now... Um, you see the picture above? Yeah, well that's a farely funny example of Engrish. It's from a game called 'Zero Wing' for the Sega Megadrive (or Genesis or whatever it is in America), and it has to be the worst, yet funniest, translation of a Japanese game. The quote "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" sparked off a big thing with internet geeks a few years ago, like a big continuous joke thing that nobody else understands. It even made it all the way to a game I have on my Sidekick II called 'Rock and Rocket' where it appears as a comment from the pilot of the ship you control. The image is courtesy of Wikipedia, and there is an excellent article about "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" (or aybabtu as it's also known) and also an equelly excellent article about Engrish. Take a look for yourself at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aybabtu and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish. Wikipedia is a damn good website for learning stuff. There's a good article about Doom on there too.
Oh, and here's my picture for today:

It's another picture of the local town Workington, and if you look closely you may be able to see some geese on there, which are in fact the same geese as on the other Workington picture taken about three weeks ago! Anyhoo, gotta go...
See ya later!

Fleming Square

Another quick blog.
This is a picture of Fleming Sqaure in Maryport. It used to be know as Market Square. Bet you didn't know that eh?

Guess what! I've figured out how to change the publish time! Yey!!!

Solway Field

Just a quick post, here's a picture I took on the top of Camp Road in Maryport.

True publish time: 16:40