Sunday 5th September 2010

STUFF

June 30, 2006

Tim Henman

I hate Wimbledon. This year it’s interrupting the continous flow of World Cup information from radio 5Live (now off). If I hear one word about Wimbledon I am liable to fly into an uncontrollable rage.

10 reasons why Wimbledon is so crap:

1. Obsession with pedantic petty rules.
2. Tennis (which I also hate).
3. Idiots queueing for eternity as corporate ticket holders waltz past.
4. Timbo ‘the tiger’ Henman.
5. Over priced Strawberrys.
6. Interuption of TV Schedules.
7. Middle England shouting lame things like ‘come on Tim’ but ONLY when they are allowed to.
8. Stupid over enthusiastiuc ball collectors.
9. Cliff Fucking Richard.
10. Tennis Pundits.

I feel sorry for Tim Henman. He has dedicated his life to Tennis. And he isn’t going to win Wimbledon.. ever. Therefore he is crap (according to the pundits, who he could probably beat at Tennis any day of the week). Soon he will retire and become a TV Tennis pundit and minor celebrity. That is a fate worse than death. It is so awful it has inspired me to write my first poem:

Tim Tim you’ll never win,
Why don’t you fuck off,
and do somthing more interesting instead.

June 29, 2006


It seems that the kitchen has become ‘dirty’. It has also been brought to my attention that I am ‘messy’. Initial ideas such as ‘ignore it and maybe it will go away’ have not been met with approval. It seems that a “Wash it as you use it for Gods sake” policy is now to be brought into operation. While I am unfamiliar with this approach it appears that implementation is compulsory. Suggestions such as ‘why not heat beans by placing the (open) can in hot water there by only requiring the cleaning of forks’ and ‘ready meals and chips need not be taken out of wrapping when eaten’ are also unsuitable.¬†

A useful guide

June 25, 2006


Last night I was sitting in the pub and the entertaining footage of the German riot police pummeling England fans came on the TV at the exact same time as ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ by Guns and Roses started on the jukebox.

June 22, 2006

OK I can’t resist it. I have a Blog and its my duty as ‘one who blogs’ to pass comment on Big Brother. The normal clich√©d phrase when writing an article like this is to say “unless you‚Äôve been under a rock you’ll know that Big Brother..blah..blah..blah..”. I would like to rephrase it. Unless you have a normal fufilling life, rich in activities and diverse interests, you’ll know we are in mid Big Brother season, and you will have been wasting your precious minutes of life watching it.

There have been countless column inches and furore generated over Big Brother. Usually its people obsessively commenting on it or otherwise lamenting the state of the world that watches this shite. I would like to fit into the latter category. Of course I have already lost the battle by mentioning it. Big Brother can only be stopped by denial of the oxygen of publicity. It must be written out of history.

Big Brother is the omnipresent media being that everyone loves, everyone knows and everyone talks about. The main concept, re-education of members of the public into celebrities. Willing victims are kept in a state of perpetual war, we watch them commit thought crimes. We see as they inform on each other. Ever aware of their actions they must conform to a code of behaviour, but they don‚Äôt know what that is, they will never know what the correct answer is. The punishment will only stop when we decide. And when faced with their greatest fear they scream ‘do it to the other one, not me, do it to them’. As a result we learn to hate them, and as they are expelled we see the massed hordes screaming abuse at them. Then they disappear.

The worst thing about this inescapable entity is Big Brother will have won if I go to my grave hating Big Brother. If I even think about Big Brother on my deathbed they will have won.

For further reading check out this, the ultimate Big Brother site

June 11, 2006

Well last night I attended the Bon Jovi concert with the GF.

Milton Keynes Bowl is a really good venue. It’s an open air grassy ampitheatre with plenty of room for the 65,000+ people watching JBJ.

The concert itself was fantastic. It was highly enjoyable classic pop rock, JBJ was a total professional as he theatrically leapt about the stage. Starting right on time at 8pm the show really began as they blasted into their second number ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’.

The atmosphere was really positive, everyone there loved Bon Jovi! The setlist was peppered with the classics, ‘Bad Medicine’, a splendid rendition of ‘Living on a Prayer’ and the crowd took over for ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’. Surprisingly ‘Runaway’ was there too, which is rare for JBJ these days. In a moment reminiscent of when Mick lets Kieth sing. guitarist Richie Sambora took over for rock ballad ‘Ill be there for you’ which he growled through in a bluesy fashion. JBJ finished the 2nd encore with fiery rendition of ‘Keep the Faith’. All in all a quality bit of stadium rock, and incredibly good fun too!