Quotes And Boredom

When I started writing on here, trying to keep up with the blogging hype it was part of my course. I never quite liked it and I’m still not into this because it’s useless. I remember something that one of my lecturers said about blogging that went something like this: “The hard part is not to begin a blog but to keep it going and to do that you need motivation.” I paraphrased it a little but the point he was trying to make remains the same.- I hope.

Well the reason why I decided to write another entry on here, is because I have something to add on that quote. It’s not only motivation that will keep you going writing on your blog but also boredom. A moment when you have been on facebook, been through various videos on youtube, checked e-mails more than once just to realize that nothing could have been sent to you in the last one minute and then you sit back and decide to write an entry. About what bothers you or maybe what amazes you. Maybe an entry about an event that was in the news. BAM BARABAM BAAAAAAAAAAM.

You sit down, type down a few lines about one of the pre-mentioned subjects and you’re done. Feeling better. What is going on today, the way I see it, is that people know how to blog better than taking a crap. Although they’re quite similar. I JUST TOOK A CRAP ON THE WEBSPACE AND I FEEL BETTER.

Well in this situation, I have another quote, again from a University lecturer. She wrote it on the back of my final project and I find it funny and true even though I believe that she was not kidding at all. Anyway, the quote which was standing next to my mark was this: “Nobody cares what you think”. And the mark was low.

I'm hungry, cigaretteless and nobody cares what I think. I'm going to go and get some food and cigarettes since I'm done blogging about it.

Ooooh We're On Fire

It has become something like a tradition in Athens Greece, during the summer time –mostly during July and August- a fire to be spreading and burning a great extend of forest ground but also residences.

Same images on T.V every year around same time on the evening news, residents running amok trying to stop the fire and complaining of not having enough help from the authorities.

But I’m one of those who always see the light at the end of the tunnel. I always find happiness and reason to believe even in the toughest of the situations. Think about these facts: 1 Greece, 2 Athens, 3 fire, 4 evening news, 5 top story in 3 international channels…and number 6…of course…*drum roll* FAME!

1: http://www.newser.com/article/d99nlhe00/greek-firefighters-contain-blazes-near-athens.html

2:http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Greece-Forest-Fire-Villages-Near-Athens-Threatened-By-Growing-Blaze/Article/200908415367012?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15367012_Greece_Forest_Fire%3A_Villages_Near_Athens_Threatened_By_Growing_Blaze

3:http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/22/wildfire-rages-outside-greek-capital/

That’s fame for us folks and don’t pretend you don’t just love it. We are the Greeks who own beautiful islands and charge crazy amounts of money for our famous greek salads and sell cheap impure alcohol to teenage English tourists and then complain about them passing out on the streets, we are the Greeks who became famous for the 2004 Olympic Games and our laziness (we are the Greeks who invented homosexuality as one might would like to add to that…); and to this wall of glory, the bush-fire and conflagration have been added as a “glorified” tradition since 2007.

Two years have gone by and we’re still keeping strong. Burning down the forests, building resorts and villas on the burnt ground. Let me reveal a secret here, that the news won’t tell…the fires and the residents running in panic trying to save the properties is not an accident. It’s another sort of Big Brother, it’s more like an emergency test for the end of the world. It’s an emergency test turned into a reality show which is broadcasted not as a television programme but through the news. Clever huh? Beat that if you can. Take it away Bruce...

The Word

In a former blog of mine I was talking about 20 year old University students that after 2 years or 3 studying in a University, have learnt EVERYTHING about politics when infact what they know best is to produce idiotic puns and reciting words that not even a book in the fascist Germany of 1940 would have.

You can't be left, you can't be right, you can't be labelled as a "commie", "anarchist" or whatever label you want to put. But you can do that and look like a rumbling idiot if you wish, because simply you can't know everything and have opinion about EVERYTHING when you're only 20 or 21 years old. Get it straight.

"OOOOH look at me I'm gonna start rumbling about politics like I know every little thing...I'll tell all my friends and try to get the message across for someone that doesn't even know me and probably doesn't give two flying fucks if I exist or not...you know what else is so cool...using the word "commie" it gives an essence of 40's in my speech and makes me look sooooo cool" good job...that's why you're officially a MORON...it seems that you did your homework before you get out of your parents' loving arms and out to the cruel society and you're ready to impress everyone. Good Luck

Here piggy piggy...

Well, this the first time that I write a second entry in such a small period of time, but as you will see further down there is a reason why.

We are all aware of these new “cool” screamo bands, with a lead singer looking like a girl and screaming like he is being penetrated by an army of stud-horses. You know the ones that wear real tight jeans and believe with passion in Jesus Christ and Christianity.

Worse than hearing a 20-something year old guy with long hair, who before every song mentions the name of Jesus Christ like he’s met him, is watching kids on youtube trying to imitate the “abilities” of the "singer" by doing what they call “pig squeals”.

Believe it or not, a random guy, that thank god I don’t know or I’ll ever get to know, posted a video as a challenge towards his “breed”. Apparently, being able to do that, a good pig squealing noise, requires some sort of a talent.

I can do the sound of a running horse, the sound of a duck, the sound of a cat, the sound of a cat in heat AND I can make loads of fart noises using my mouth and my hand or my hand and my armpit. Do I have a talent?

Now I fully understand what a musician that I interviewed as part of my course, meant when he said “as some people shouldn’t cook, some others simply shouldn’t make music”

Is it alright if someone punches one of these guys or P.E.T.A will go crazy and come after you?




And if you found the previous video distrubing...here's something funny..just look at the guy's face.

A death a week...or so I think.

On Saturday, 8th of February, a man got stabbed around 3 times in the center of the city I live in. Just the idea of getting stabbed is scary, but what occurs to me as scarier is the fact that something similar happens every month or every other month.

Someone will be found dead in the river, someone will jump off the bridge or even worse someone will get stabbed or die in a fight.

While having a cigarette with one of my house-mates I mentioned to him my concern about how everyone is keep dieing in this town, and he answered that this happens in every city in the world, any time.

Don’t get me wrong here, I do know that people are meant to die and I believe that I have comforted myself with that idea; but I have comforted myself with the idea of death from natural causes and not by a knife or jumping of a high bridge.

I heard about that man getting stabbed from a friend of mine who was on a night out in town, so I thought to confirm what I heard, by looking on the local newspaper’s website before I start writing anything on here and being inaccurate and make a fool of myself.

Well, after a short research on the newspaper’s website I found out that I was not being irrational for worrying about that.

Here are the links to the pages where you can read all about it and as you can see it’s only a month or so that separates the “stabbing events”.

7 January 2009: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Man-stabbed-as-he-sat.4850319.jp

16 Febuary 2009: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Man-charged-after-double-stabbing.4983564.jp

Here’s another one that only happened yesterday, not in Sunderland but close enough, Newcastle.

5 March 2009: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2008/07/04/man-in-court-over-double-stabbing-in-newcastle-72703-21268177/

I decided to expand my research and check for same events on other cities in U.K and as it seems, stabbing people here is more like a monthly tradition.

Some might say that it is the cultural difference that I don't understand or I'm scared of; but I’m not worried about the English beer, English accent, manners, music, or food because from what I’ve seen until now all these things are fine and every person I’ve met have treated me with respect and really friendly; what I’m worried about, is that weird "stabbing thing" that is going on, that I like to call “monthly stabbing tradition”.

If two months go by without someone getting stabbed I quit smoking and I start going to church every Sunday. My cigarettes and "God" as my witness.

Congratulations!

The headline is what everyone hears on graduation day, but remember... The hat does not make you smarter. Even if you wear the hat the possibilities are if you are an idiot you'll still be an idiot but you'll be an idiot with a hat for that one day.

America's 2-step dancing (Proposition 8)

The New Year arrived with an amazing 2-step/ tango dance in the world of politics in America. Everyone all around the world is excited about the new president of the United States and the changes that he’s going to bring in American politics; but on the other hand who doesn’t love a good old dance of 2-step (one step forth and one step back.)

But let’s take it from the start. Along with all the significant changes in the “fascinating” world of politics, we should also give credit to the “green” people that kept fighting the good fight by keeping cows and pork away from their plate doing the best to save the environment, and the police forces in Greece using excessive force, that lead to the death of a 15 year old teenager, so as to keep the safety on the streets.

So, America got its first black president and it seems like it begins its liberation and democratization. But this small step forward was followed by a step backwards, with the Proposition 8 passing in the state of California. The protectmarriage.com website reads: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California." (http://www.protectmarriage.com , go there it's funny)

So, let me put it this way, if two married lesbians with a kid from Holland move to California, they are not classed as “married” but a couple of heterosexuals that might not give a damn about their kids is blessed by God as married?

It was only 42 years ago, 1967, when the same fuss has been raised about interracial marriage in the United States with the Supreme Court canceling a law enacted by a legislature so as to prevent white people from getting married with non-white people.

Let comedians be in charge of the world as the rest of the men who are supposed to be in charge it seems to blow it up big time, all the time.