There are a few things that facebook world can do that the real world cannot.
Whilst having a 'discussion' 'with' a Cambridge lecturer about how dangerous the word 'autonomy' may or may not be when repeated 3 times I was made aware of this little foreign - legal gem.
Under the Sharia law which is upheld in Saudi Arabia a man can divorce his wife by saying the phrase 'I divorce you!' three times.
Thus meaning that in April of this year Saudia Arabias first text only divorce was finalised.
http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE5383SG20090409
Monday, 12 October 2009
Monday, 7 September 2009
This summer went by way to fast...
I've been writing for a local magazine, hence why I haven't been writing on here. Why give it out for free when I could be er, giving it out for free in print.
I've been to a few festivals which I may write about, this is however seeming to turn into Livejournal so I'll leave it out for a bit.
I started writing a response to a blog from DJ - I haven no idea what happened to that.
Was there a point? No.
Twitter it.
I've been to a few festivals which I may write about, this is however seeming to turn into Livejournal so I'll leave it out for a bit.
I started writing a response to a blog from DJ - I haven no idea what happened to that.
Was there a point? No.
Twitter it.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Friday, 6 March 2009
Scarlett Johanssons body
I am fascinated that people seem to envision Scarlett Johansson as a role model for the 'normal' woman, and proof that men prefer a larger lady. SJ is probably around a UK 6 - 8. So all it really proves when men say that they prefer her over the average skinny Hollywood starlet is that they'd prefer a skinny girl with boobs and a waist than an overworked-and-malnurished-teenage-boy-at-the-gym look.
If anything she is doing the normal woman a disservice by epitomising an unattainable-for-most perfect figure.
The only way for someone without lucky-bitch genes to attain such a slender but curvy figure would be through surgery.
That is assuming the failure of wrapping your waist in cling film and sweating it out for a few days whilst doing 'I must, I must, I must increase my bust' exercises. I'll let you know.
Yet people are almost constantly harping on to gossip magazines about how she presents a healthy image of the natural woman to young girls and is proof that men aren't quite as shallow as we first thought.
I've spent some time trying to think of the male equivilent and decided that her counterpart may be someone around the Brad Pitt mark. So the equivilent would be saying that Brad Pitt is proof that girls don't go for attractive men. Because Brad Pitt is also quite a talented actor.
If anything she is doing the normal woman a disservice by epitomising an unattainable-for-most perfect figure.
The only way for someone without lucky-bitch genes to attain such a slender but curvy figure would be through surgery.
That is assuming the failure of wrapping your waist in cling film and sweating it out for a few days whilst doing 'I must, I must, I must increase my bust' exercises. I'll let you know.
Yet people are almost constantly harping on to gossip magazines about how she presents a healthy image of the natural woman to young girls and is proof that men aren't quite as shallow as we first thought.
I've spent some time trying to think of the male equivilent and decided that her counterpart may be someone around the Brad Pitt mark. So the equivilent would be saying that Brad Pitt is proof that girls don't go for attractive men. Because Brad Pitt is also quite a talented actor.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Jeremy Kyle vs. Matthew Wright
Before leaving for work I'll ussually flick back and forwards between Matthew Wright (The Wright Stuff, 9am, weekdays) and Jeremy Kyleface (about the same time, ITV) .
Matthew Wright despises Kyle. Jeremy doesn't really have the same kind of opportunity to bring up any dislike for Matthew Wright. Talking about Matthew Wright doesn't really fit with Jeremy's favourite subjects: Jeremy Kyle and bad fathers.
If you didn't know them as well as I do (ha: student) you'd be forgiven for thinking they were the same guy. They're both run of the mill watery looking dark haired midlife crisises in suits who look like an everyman but you can only actually liken to each other.
Jeremy Kyle likes to be disagreeing yet agreeing with everybody at the same time. By the time he's got to the end of any given sentence he'll ussually have argued for and against the same point.
Example:
The Pratts are a couple who have four children, of whom the paternity of 3 is under question (the other being the product of a known affair)
Kyle "Mr Pratt you are a bad father you don't even pay child support and you represent everything I hate about people, I really like you, I hope you come back on the show"
"Mrs Pratt how can you expect Mr Pratt here to believe you when you've told him there are 4 potential fathers? He knows those kids are his and if he doesn't make an effort then walk away"
"Stay together for the kids but NEVER see each other again"
On the other hand Matthew Wright will argue about anything and never budge in his opinion. Never more so than in his dislike of Jeremy Kyle, posh people and the unemployed. I'm not sure how good an idea it is to target the majority of your audience in your dislike (the unemployed and ladies who lunch) but he gets by.
His format is slightly more sophisticated than Kyles 'give a couple of dole-ites £30 worth of alcohol and see what happens'.
Matthew Wright's format consisting of "public debate" through phone calls to a tired looking blond who makes her living from answering a phone whilst sitting inside a small cube for an hour a day, 15 minutes spent reading the front cover of The Daily Mail and a couple of extreme and opposing views.
Matthew Wright despises Kyle. Jeremy doesn't really have the same kind of opportunity to bring up any dislike for Matthew Wright. Talking about Matthew Wright doesn't really fit with Jeremy's favourite subjects: Jeremy Kyle and bad fathers.
If you didn't know them as well as I do (ha: student) you'd be forgiven for thinking they were the same guy. They're both run of the mill watery looking dark haired midlife crisises in suits who look like an everyman but you can only actually liken to each other.
Jeremy Kyle likes to be disagreeing yet agreeing with everybody at the same time. By the time he's got to the end of any given sentence he'll ussually have argued for and against the same point.
Example:
The Pratts are a couple who have four children, of whom the paternity of 3 is under question (the other being the product of a known affair)
Kyle "Mr Pratt you are a bad father you don't even pay child support and you represent everything I hate about people, I really like you, I hope you come back on the show"
"Mrs Pratt how can you expect Mr Pratt here to believe you when you've told him there are 4 potential fathers? He knows those kids are his and if he doesn't make an effort then walk away"
"Stay together for the kids but NEVER see each other again"
On the other hand Matthew Wright will argue about anything and never budge in his opinion. Never more so than in his dislike of Jeremy Kyle, posh people and the unemployed. I'm not sure how good an idea it is to target the majority of your audience in your dislike (the unemployed and ladies who lunch) but he gets by.
His format is slightly more sophisticated than Kyles 'give a couple of dole-ites £30 worth of alcohol and see what happens'.
Matthew Wright's format consisting of "public debate" through phone calls to a tired looking blond who makes her living from answering a phone whilst sitting inside a small cube for an hour a day, 15 minutes spent reading the front cover of The Daily Mail and a couple of extreme and opposing views.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Hunger Strikes - greedy RBS fat cat pockets phat pay packet
So, as thousands of his employees fear redundancy and Mister Taxpayer dips into his ever depleting cash pot in order to stump up £24.1billion to cover RBS losses, Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin has decided he deserves to hang on to his £693000 a year pension.
His punishment for his costly mistakes has been to be awarded an early and lucrative retirement. I wish I'd known about this career plan. Fuck up as hard as you can and retire to the Bahamas with a yacht age 25.
Much of the public opinion has been that the Shredder should concede this fortune. The money would make a dent in the debt he has run up and he has 15 working years ahead of him. With such a massive over sight which has become so damaging surely RBS would have justifiable cause for sacking him.
The government finally decided to take action after Fred's refusal to give up any of his pension by starting procedings to halve the total amount awarded to him. However even with this loss he'll still be receiving almost £1000 a day for the rest of his life. And where is this coming from? The same tax money which has just been used to bail him out.
Those who are sympathetic towards Goodwin should think about what he's actually doing to help his situation. He made a massive cock-up and he has the means to make a large gesture of goodwill to his employees and customers by putting some money towards aid. At the moment he is cutting and running and getting rewarded richly to do so.
He isn't single handedly responsible for the mess but at the end of the day, and as was seen in light of the investigation into the death of Baby P, as the person at the top he had the ultimate power and should take responsibility for the mistake.
Presumably he could get by fairly well on the £5.5 he has earned over the past two years.
Even if Shred kept a cushty amount for himself, maybe £100,000 a year, and put the rest towards paying for his mistakes that could amount to £20million.
The ever irking Katie 'will never find gainful employment again' Hopkins was quick to jump to Shreddies defence. What she lacked in supporting argument she made up for in ridiculous-iosity by responding to the point that this pension could end up amounting to tens of millions of pounds that Fred 'could be hit by a bus tomorrow' and the pension be worthless.
This is the kind of response that if deemed acceptable could be utilised in any argument.
FYI there is an age at which the name 'Katie' is no longer acceptable. Being photographed having extramarital sex in a field is not a career or something to be smug about.
His punishment for his costly mistakes has been to be awarded an early and lucrative retirement. I wish I'd known about this career plan. Fuck up as hard as you can and retire to the Bahamas with a yacht age 25.
Much of the public opinion has been that the Shredder should concede this fortune. The money would make a dent in the debt he has run up and he has 15 working years ahead of him. With such a massive over sight which has become so damaging surely RBS would have justifiable cause for sacking him.
The government finally decided to take action after Fred's refusal to give up any of his pension by starting procedings to halve the total amount awarded to him. However even with this loss he'll still be receiving almost £1000 a day for the rest of his life. And where is this coming from? The same tax money which has just been used to bail him out.
Those who are sympathetic towards Goodwin should think about what he's actually doing to help his situation. He made a massive cock-up and he has the means to make a large gesture of goodwill to his employees and customers by putting some money towards aid. At the moment he is cutting and running and getting rewarded richly to do so.
He isn't single handedly responsible for the mess but at the end of the day, and as was seen in light of the investigation into the death of Baby P, as the person at the top he had the ultimate power and should take responsibility for the mistake.
Presumably he could get by fairly well on the £5.5 he has earned over the past two years.
Even if Shred kept a cushty amount for himself, maybe £100,000 a year, and put the rest towards paying for his mistakes that could amount to £20million.
The ever irking Katie 'will never find gainful employment again' Hopkins was quick to jump to Shreddies defence. What she lacked in supporting argument she made up for in ridiculous-iosity by responding to the point that this pension could end up amounting to tens of millions of pounds that Fred 'could be hit by a bus tomorrow' and the pension be worthless.
This is the kind of response that if deemed acceptable could be utilised in any argument.
FYI there is an age at which the name 'Katie' is no longer acceptable. Being photographed having extramarital sex in a field is not a career or something to be smug about.
Friday, 13 February 2009
Testing: Squirrel Crisps... Walker's Brand New Bag
Our local post office stocks the new Walkers crisps flavours so I've been stocking up every time I'm down there. Trying out the new flavours, because that's the kind of crazy/susceptible-to-advertising person I am.
So far my experiments have included the tasting of;
Builder's Breakfast
I was put off by the strong smell of ketchup, but the bizarre and rather disgusting egg flavour kept me interest for about 2/3rds of the bag.
Cajun Squirrel
Well.. I've never eaten or squirrell or had anything cajun flavoured so I don't know about the authenticity of the flavour. I asked a bonafide meat eater and he said that it 'tastes like cajun chicken'.
Fish 'n' Chips
i was hoping that this would just taste like really strong salt and vinegar crisps. this is probably because when I get fish and chips i drown everything in vinegar and just eat the chips and batter. Unsurprisingly these did actually taste of fish. Of all the fish crisps, this is the least offensive. If they'll keep people off the Scampi Fries I'm all for them.
Onion Bhaji
The taste of the onion bhaji... but not it's general bhajiness. This could be argued as a good thing since generally bhajis are soggy.
It says something about the British public that asked to come up with new novel crisp flavours the best they could come up with was 5 forms of take-away and something from a cookery programme.
They have all been fairly vile and I'm not holding out much hope for 'Chilli and Chocolate' either; meaning it's fingers crossed for 'Crispy Duck and Hoisin'.
So there you go, hopefully I've saved somebody out there approximately £2.48 and a few thousand calories.
So far my experiments have included the tasting of;
Builder's Breakfast
I was put off by the strong smell of ketchup, but the bizarre and rather disgusting egg flavour kept me interest for about 2/3rds of the bag.
Cajun Squirrel
Well.. I've never eaten or squirrell or had anything cajun flavoured so I don't know about the authenticity of the flavour. I asked a bonafide meat eater and he said that it 'tastes like cajun chicken'.
Fish 'n' Chips
i was hoping that this would just taste like really strong salt and vinegar crisps. this is probably because when I get fish and chips i drown everything in vinegar and just eat the chips and batter. Unsurprisingly these did actually taste of fish. Of all the fish crisps, this is the least offensive. If they'll keep people off the Scampi Fries I'm all for them.
Onion Bhaji
The taste of the onion bhaji... but not it's general bhajiness. This could be argued as a good thing since generally bhajis are soggy.
It says something about the British public that asked to come up with new novel crisp flavours the best they could come up with was 5 forms of take-away and something from a cookery programme.
They have all been fairly vile and I'm not holding out much hope for 'Chilli and Chocolate' either; meaning it's fingers crossed for 'Crispy Duck and Hoisin'.
So there you go, hopefully I've saved somebody out there approximately £2.48 and a few thousand calories.
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