Such encouraging words

While talking about the safety of The Valley, the most popular nightclub strip in Brisbane, with a friend’s mother the following sentence was said by dad:

“I’m more worried about [me]. Like I mean, someone could just kinghit him and that’d be it. The aggression is just out there. They always pick on the weakest link.”

Wow, thanks dad. Glad to know I’m the weaklest link in the family…

On a happier note I’m writing this post on my iPod, which I’m quite excited about

A short preview of 2012

As you’ll probably see on the news Brisbane was covered by a huge amount of dust from the outback today; on top of this there were really gusty winds. You would think that you would be choking or something in it but the air didn’t taste any different and it didn’t make you suffocate. It just looked really really cool. Here’s some photos I took on my mobile while I was in the city:

This last one is definitely my favourite, it was taken from the other side of the river looking towards Queen Street.

Changing the topic completely, I saw 500 Days of Summer today and it was definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen all year. But there was a group of fucktards at the back of the cinema who constantly talked and screamed. I hope they choked on the dust…

It’s a sad day for television

I assured myself it could never happen. But no, America has decided to fuck up the world even more.

America is remaking Skins.

MTV has apparently been trying to get their hands on the show for two years, and well now they’ve succeeded. The show will be set in Baltimore, which is something to be optimistic about I guess, at least it’s not set it “upper east-side Manhattan.” I wish Showtime were the ones remaking it, at least they’re a bit more daring…and at least they’re not afraid to say fuck.

MTV will probably censor it to death. The original screens on BBC America, with most of the swearing and nudity and well basically the whole show cut out.

Seriously can America not watch anything that is not made by America? Is watching a British show really that bad? Sure, there may be the cultural differences, but get over it already! They’re not that hard figure out! And as for the language barrier, you’re both English speaking countries! If you don’t understand the slang (which is also not that hard to figure out) then Google it or something. If you’re really that dumb turn on the bloody subtitles.

I hope this show can pull it off. I think the different social issues will be interesting, if they dare go near them. And ten bucks says Channel Ten will pick it up at some point.

This made my day

 

LOL! My friend took it, it was on the back of the toilet door.

So…he’s dead.

I heard about it on Sunrise and then The Morning show. It was like the September 11 footage; they just kept showing it over and over again.

Did anyone else automatically think of The Eulogy Song when they heard the news?

End of Term Craziness

I have a new theory on why there are holidays. It could be because we need a break. But it’s really to keep the murder rate down. Everyone is sick of everyone else and everything by the end of term.

Evidence? One of my friends is having a meltdown because of the amount of people bitching to her.

I think it just gets to everyone.

It’s getting to me that’s for sure. Remember when I mentioned way back when about the whole being angry for no reason? Yeah, it’s that again. She mentioned something about me introducing her to Lizzie and her friends. I was like “yeah, um, sure.” I think I like having a separate group of friends and I don’t really want them to mix…or something like that I don’t know…

Speaking of separate groups of friends, I’ve been invited to a semi-formal! Who’s excited scared shitless?!?!?! Although it’s a private school one so it’s a bit more fancier than ours probably, so can’t wear what I wore to ours. It’s on a boat, whereas ours was at a Bowls Club (so yeah, its fancier).

Also exciting news is that I got a B on my music exam! Which is FUCKING awesome because music is really really really fucking hard (no, seriously).

And in some completely unrelated news my friend’s ex is going off the rails. I don’t really give a shit but I was kinda dumbfounded when his mum complained to my friend that she never see’s him anymore, and that he always just comes home then goes out everyday. Like is it seriously not obvious?!? He goes out and drinks! How about you fucking ask! and then when he lies: find out the truth!

And something else that’s bothering me at the moment is the freakishly large amount of Grade 8’s and 9’s who are having sex. It’s creepy, they’re children it’s like fucking child pornography. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Everyone’s going fucking crazy!!!

Fuck I hate Michael Carr Gregg

So according to that guy (who is anything but a doctor) teens are born with a “spiritual black hole” and we don’t have a complete soul. Forgive me for not being religious enough for you.

On that topic, I remember when that big Catholic Youth Week thing was on and Kochie was talking about how they had a big celebration or something and he was commending them on how they could have a really good time without drugs and alcohol. Well sorrrrrrry for fitting the “good little religious image.”

Oh no, another one of the “parent squad” says over half of year 12 students are having sex. How is that wrong? If it’s under the right circumstances sex isn’t wrong.

And then they say not to let your child have a computer in their bedroom. How about parents actually understand the internet and how to work a computer, then make a decision on what to do. Banning computers in the bedroom is not the answer.

Michael Carr Gregg is an idiot.

Just a little bit racist [update: THEY'RE STILL PLAYING IT! ARGH!]

I just saw an ad about the Rio Tinto/China thing. I don’t even understand the whole thing, but the ad they just played was just pathetic.

It basically said China is a “brutal regime” and that Kevin Rudd was “rewarding” them for that by giving then Rio Tinto as a gift.And they mentioned some massacre that the Chinese carried out, I can’t remember what it was. But apparently they killed lots of people and that’s why we shouldn’t have anything to do with them. Does anyone not remember the My Lai massacre? We still let American companies come in and do whatever they want.

This is bullshit fear mongering! And if this works on Australians, then you’re all a bunch of idiots! Stupid fucking racists. It’s weird because I’m doing all this fear stuff in Modern History at the moment, so I guess I’m just pissed off that this shit that we’re learning about in class is still happening. They even had the nerve to put Chinese subtitles at the bottom of the ad and say that Australia was giving them a safe refuge by accepting asylum seekers from China. Could they have accepted them maybe because we signed the treaty?! No, of course not! Plus if we’re so god damn accepting then why aren’t we accepting the current asylum seeker non-problem?

If you’re going to protest against the sale, don’t do it with mindless racist arguments.

My Internet’s Gone Fucking Crazy

I’m with AAPT, and the computer used to only download at about 50kb/s on it’s good days, and around 16kb/s on it’s bad days. So it took me about 3 or 4 weeks to download a 6GB file and about 6 to 8 hours to download a 800MB file.

For the last week it’s been going at a minimum of 100kb/s and a maximum of up to 700kb/s! It took like 5 minutes to download a 50MB file through the browser, 15 minutes to download an audiobook through Vuze, about 45 minutes to download a 500MB file and about an hour and a half to download a 750MB file through Vuze!

This is so fucking cool!!! I don’t see why people are against this National Broadband Network, I could download these files in like 10 seconds.

Any theories as to why my internet is on steroids?

How To: Fail

I have to write a feature article for that Modern History assignment I mentioned in my last post. I was originally going to do an essay, but the teacher was like “no, do a feature article.” So I was like “ok” because I suppose it’s good practice. But now I’ve come to realise this:

I have no fucking idea how to write a feature article.