Let off Steam

Getting Served

You have three types of people who get served at the bar:

Type A) He or she is assertive. Instinctively, he or she knows the right place to stand to get served and it happens quickly. He or she never needs to kick up a fuss, because the universe is designed in such a way that they will never, ever have to wait.

And I hate them.

Type B) He or she is a bit less fortunate than type A). For him or her it’s a fight which happens each and every time he goes to the bar. Fortunately, this person is determined and always gets there in the end.

Type C) The he or she who meekly shouts “Um…excuse me can I…?” a few times, then resigns themselves to a fate worse than death: standing there for half an hour without getting served…while other people come and go, some of them collecting two or three rounds of drink in that time.

What Type do you fall into?

I wish I was Type A), but sadly I am Type B) and I always will be: there’s not much I can do about that, as it is genetic. But still, that’s a lot better than being a Type C). There really is no hope in the world for the Type C) people. We can only hope and pray that over time, they learn how to better themselves and survive in the great big cruel world of ours which cares more about international 3G mobile broadband than it does making poverty history.

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Street Brawls

I can’t believe that I actually got into a verbal altercation on the street. It isn’t like me, but I have simply had enough of ’tail gating’. That is what it is called when cars do it, they follow too closely and if you stop suddenly they hit you. There needs to be a word for what it is called when pedestrians do it. If tail gating is named after the rear part of a car, should it be called ’bumming’? Rear ending? perhaps. I was walking with my daughter in her pram in a somewhat busy but not the congestion of London urban shopping district. A group of young-ish people were behind me and they were following closely. Instead of simply saying excuse me and passing by, they surrounded me making me listen to their puerile conversation, until my daughter unexpectedly (like r4 ) hopped out of her pram forcing me to stop. As you can imagine they crashed into me, and I was so fed up. I couldn’t really control the look that crossed my face and the young woman turned around and said ’what’s your problem’. To which I replied ’I teach my 3 year old to say excuse me’. Unfortunately they got abusive and nasty as they were walking away, and fortunately they were walking away so I didn’t really hear what they said. I just don’t understand why people aren’t more considerate in crowded urban spaces. It isn’t like me to yell back, and I am still not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

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Lib Dem Lies

I cannot stand Nick Clegg. The only thing that makes me happy is the look of defeat on his face as he continues to assert that he is doing the right thing. It is absolutely insane that he keeps repeating over and over again the same mantra-’we have no choice’and ’its the mess we inherited from Labour’. Where is the bank bail out in all of this? Can’t he say ’its the mess we inherited from all of those people who invested in property and saw it devalued from its over inflated Enigin prices’? Its the mess we inherited from the greedy bankers who wanted the government to save capitalism?

Repeating over and over the words of the liberal democrat spin doctor helped in the beginning and people really believed him. Many of the party loyalists believed him. I spoke to MPs at their conference and they truly believed that the cuts at this scale at this moment were completely necessary and not driven by ideology.

I just didn’t think they were that stupid to begin with. I still don’t think Nick Clegg is stupid, I think he is a liar, but I could be wrong. I actually felt sorry for him as they began the campaigning for AV and David Cameron stabbed him in the back. Cameron didn’t have to come out against AV, he could have remained neutral. Instead, he launches the first volley from the opposition camp instead of helping the Lib Dems whose lies put them into government.

I don’t understand why the rank and file of the Lib Dems don’t do something drastic to save their party by bringing down the coalition. Do they still actually believe in the project and the lies that got them elected. Its infuriating.

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW: FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS – DEAD MONEY

To relieve my stress from all those teaching assistant jobs I have had I started playing video games. So now I am hooked and I recently played what I can only describe as a really special game, Fallout New Vegas-Dead Money. New Vegas – Dead Money (or simply Dead Money),is a new RPG single person video game, that was launched on December 21 2010 in the United States. It was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and is published by Bethesda Softworks. Its official rating is still pending, but it is aimed at the more mature player because of the profusion of serious violence, drug use, blood and guts, swearing and sex.

This video game falls under the genre of Role Playing Video Games, or more commonly RPGs. It is the follow on from Fallout: New Vegas, which was seen to be too easy. When purchasing New Vegas – Dead Money your cap will be raised by five.

The story line revolves around the Sierra Madre Casino and the wealth it contains. The game begins when you receive a Pip Boy message and, as in all RPGs, you use the map (which are confusing) to locate the enemy and special codes in order to access your Stimpaks – which are a necessity. At first the player has no weapons, but at least a level 20 for your character is recommended to start. As in all games of this genre, there is a full cast of misfits to interact with, but beware – if one of them is killed, you will also die.

Your character will need to have more unarmed skills than weapons to fight off the ghosts which inhabit the area. You will need special skills to deal with The Cloud, bear traps and the like and keep your exploding collar in tact.

Play New Vegas – Dead Money to find out more, but be forewarned – patience and caution are the name of this game.

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Vacant Homes

I hate boarded up buildings. It is a big plot to keep real estate prices high. I walk past rows of Victorian terraces all fitted with steel plates over the doors and window, somebody, undoubtedly had manual handling training. I imagine what it would be like if each of those houses that were vacant were filled with an artist and their family.

If those houses were given away, people fixed them up and lived there for free, the private landlords would be stuffed. The government would save so much money, on not having to pay housing benefit at an inflated level, but the landlords would see the value of the property decrease. Its the law of supply and demand and the thing that I hate is when the people who believe in it, don’t want to play fair.

If capitalism is supply and demand, and there is too much supply then the prices should be cheaper. By boarding up those houses, they decrease the supply to unfairly maintain a high level of demand. Its not just is it? Really? And it is costing the government a fortune.

It is the hidden welfare for the landed gentry. If there was truly free market capitalism, those houses would not have been bought by the city and not let to decay, the prices would simply keep going down, and 30 year olds would no longer have to live with their parents. People wouldn’t be squished into homes, with a lodger in every room, we could all afford to spread out a little bit.

I am thinking about simply asking the council to give me one. It makes me so angry every time I see the vacant property, and looking at how expensive it is in the estate agent.

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People Feeling Defeated

I really hate people who have power and privilege feeling sorry for themselves. This is everybody who hangs lace fabrics in their window, celebrates Christmas and has at least one living parent. I hate people who complain about their parents and don’t appreciate them. They will be gone someday and you won’t know how lonely you will feel until they are gone

This is similar to David Cameron’s declaration that multiculturalism didn’t work. He obviously has some interesting points that people want to deny. It is very difficult for people to accept and understand women who choose to wear a burka, hijab, or other tradtional Islamic covering. According to Cameron this is not with western liberal values. The point is often made, however, about the diversity of women that appear on Al Jazeera, and that women on the television station have choice about what they want to wear.

The question is-who cares? Why are people getting their knickers in a knot about other people’s choices? I think it is the media that is making white people who hold the majority of power in the United Kingdom, feel that they are somehow under siege. It is absolutely insane.

I suppose if I am going to really let off steam, then I would blame Thatcher for making people feel absolutely defeated. I would blame the fall of the empire which left entire swathes of people without anybody to feel superior to, and this has left them without a moral compass to skew. I would blame the entire clocking on culture of the industrial revolution for not encouraging people to think and dream for themselves. And now I will add to all of this, the fault of the parliament for raising the tuition fee cap to nine thousand pounds.

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Don’t give up

I sometimes find myself feeling too tired, too stressed out to do anything. I just loose the drive to live. I lay on my bead I just stare at the sealing and instead of ships I count balls made of paper towels. I feel pain in my head; I feel the pain of not being able to use my potential. I know that I have it all, I have the brains: I am relatively intelligent, I can think critically, I can link different things and I am very quick learner. The problem comes with my inability to deal with stress. Sometimes, especially in difficult situations I just freeze. My mind freezes and I get confused. In such times I am like the most stupid man on Earth. Then I get frustrated, because many people think that I am just stupid. But I am not, and there are many evidences of that. I used to have good grades at school, I understand complex information very fast. I believe that I am very intelligent, however when I am under stress I often turn all stupid. This is making my life so miserable at times that, as I said above, I just give up.. And I don’t really know what to do. But they, don’t feel sorry about me. Sooner or later I will find the way. The most important thing is that I have released my flaw. And now I need to work on it. If I give up, its like I give up form life itself. So I must be serious and very determined. I will not lay dawn as some tired old man, I will fight. Here you can see how I progress. How I fight stress and maybe, this can help you deal with this fierce enemy.

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All I want for Christmas

A friend of mine has a boss that keeps leaving brochures for laser tattoo removal on her desk. I know I should count my blessings, but I get so completely fed up with everybody this time of year that all I want for Christmas is a tranquillizer

I hate people who are pushy when getting on the bus and don’t give you room when getting off of the train. The driver is not going to take off with people waiting in the doorway. Are they pushing on hoping to get a seat? I have no idea, because the whole train is always half empty and people are never standing.

I hate people who sit at the front of the bus when they are healthy and have no bags or prams. It is usually young male university students. I don’t mean to make a sweeping generalization, but I just did. They only think of themselves and they talk in loud voices about a lifestyle that I don’t want to spend my bus journey listening to

The last one was terrible. There were two young students and they were talking about novels that they were writing, I wanted to swear at them, stand up and shout that they knew nothing of life they should just go out and live it.

Precarity makes people insecure, isolates them socially and renders them unable to have sympathy for others. I read that and it did not help. If your life is precarious, you are constantly struggling to top up the gas meter, you are scrounging for bus fare or bread money or 62 p for a pint of milk, it simply does not help to know that your immediate instability is part of a larger social experiment to get a more flexible work force that won’t organize itself.

There I am done, my steam is let off…..

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