...Said the Joker to the Thief.

2006-10-16T15:20:00.000Z

Suicide is no more damaging than life.

While she's having a smoke... and he's taking a drag.

2006-04-26T12:59:00.000Z

Okay, last night I actually made one of (I think) the most important decisions of my life so far, the result of these decisions lies beneath:

... I really hope I've made the right decisions now...

Update:

I've just discovered this.

UPDATE!

I use google.toolbar for firefox and I feel a lil' shit so I just typed in 'I feel li" and the first suggestion it gives is "I feel like shit"! How... strange... now, come to think of it.

Here endeth the updates.

Maria, Maria, where did you go?

2006-04-10T14:50:00.000Z

Yo. You may remember that ages ago I watched an episode of The Weakest Link and complained about it on here. I watched another episode last week, some of the questions I had most difficulty with follow in this post.

Weakest Link.
Episode Aired on 06/04/06, 17.30 on BBC2.
Up until this week I thought the show had an actual requirement for people with dodgy spelled names, last time I complained we saw 'Ann' and 'Clare', which are just plain silly; 'Ann' should always be spelt Anne and 'Clare' should always be spelled Claire or, occasionally, as Clara. However, this week they even managed to spell 'Kain' correctly, unfortunately it appears that the research team for the show had employed too much energy correctly spelling the contestants names and therefore could not properly research questions. We were thus dealt these conundrums:

What is the name given to a complex at which planes board and disembark passengers?

The correct answer was not given by the contestant, surprisingly, but is, of course, Air Port.

In relation to consumerism, what does the abbreviation "Ad" stand for?

Again, the poor contestant could not complete this intellectual quest and failed to answer. The correct answer is 'Advertisement'.

... and my favourite:

What is the name given to the little bits of bread left out in gardens for birds?

Once more the contestant failed! ... The correct answer, crumbs!

... Unfortunately the contestants weren't the only ones who had difficulty answering the questions, when my dad was asked by ol' Anne, "What is the only vowel used in Roman Numerals?" his answer, and not even immediate answer, was "C! It's C!". I now have an excuse in waiting for my crap A-level grades...

Toodles,
Marin

Finding It Hard To Smile*

2006-04-05T19:25:00.000Z

Okay, I might've done something naughty. About a month ago I discovered this fantastic thing called 'Google Analytics' and put my name down for an account when one became available, because the graphs looked cool and I liked traffic counters...
Thing is, having received and accepted the invitation today I've discovered that the stat's are aimed at marketing and keyword analysis. I'm not sure whether this blog counts as a business, see...
However, upon having a quick dash through the TaC of the service I can't find anything that says individuals cannot make use of the service... so I'll see if I get any criticism and maybe ask Mullany on his take on it, but I don't think there should be any problem using it :)
More Google News, they have a new 'beta' service. It has GOT TO BE SEEN! I think it's the funniest thing I have ever seen sprout from old Google!
... and that's me shutting up about internet-tech for the time being.
Oh, just watching "Davina" on BBC1. It's fucking awful. No bullshitting about with clever metaphors, just plain fucking awful. Actually, it's so awful the BBC doesn't even have a dedicated page for me to link to!
Ohhh... thank you bbc.co.uk, you just found me the new random link.
Anyway, back to Private Eye!

*Bastard life.

Half of what we're saying is halfway near the truth.

2006-03-24T19:53:00.000Z

This was originally a comment to Marin's post (below), but it became quite long so I thought I'd post it:

Firstly, just because you haven't had MFL lessons in the GS lessons doesn't mean you're disadvantaged in the paper. Students who have had those lessons are at just as much of a disadvantage: I did, but all we did was look at practice papers, not learn the MFL so I still don't have a clue. So, it's not a "great fortune" although I will admit that it's better than not looking at any at all: I went into the maths and science paper in January not having seen an example of the science paper and trust me it was not fun. Anyway, don't insult Fred. After all she's not exactly equipped to teach a MFL: She's an English Teacher.

Moreover, everyone is disadvantaged in some respect in GS. For example: I'm disadvantaged because I can't do maths or science and therefore I'm likely to fail that paper. Whereas people who do sciences are more likely to struggle with the English and Culture paper as they are likely to struggle with the writing style. Unit 3 is a difficult one to judge.

GS is only good if you don't do as well as you expected in your other subjects, in which case you might be able to use it to get into your first choice Uni. Other than that it just distracts time away from other subjects. There are plenty of times when I've been stuck in a GS lesson when I could have been doing some other, more valuable, work. For example: when I was actually sitting that annoying 'test paper' I could have been doing History Coursework or catching up on the work that I had to neglect because of my History Coursework.

Oh, and by the way, I don't think the real MFL GS paper is out of 50 marks. In the real thing there's a section about morality and culture etc, which makes up the other half of the marks. The test paper was just an example of the type of questions that could come up, which were (in my opinion) harder than the real questions, not a true example of the paper.

And finally, Sophie asked me to say that she hasn't actually taken it.

Conclusion: GS = silly.

Relax, I need some information first.

2006-03-23T09:44:00.000Z

Okay, I've just taken a General Studies Trial Test Paper for French. I'm not the only one to have taken it, both Kay and Sophie have already suffered, it's just that I'm the first one to post complaining about it.
After taking the paper my feelings toward General Studies have become reinforced.
Firstly, this paper is out of 50 marks. FIFTY MARKS. The Science and Maths Paper only has 25 marks "devoted" to each section. I think this entirely unfair to those like Kay and I who didn't study a MFL (Modern Foreign Language) as it means there is heavy emphasis on your MFL ability in your final result; which is totally unfair, it should be weighted just as lowly as Maths and Science.
Secondly, I'm not entirely sure, but quite sure that during the GCSE our MFL reading paper simply got you to pick which statement was true (i.e. A) Is Martin a fool in this example? B) Is Betroot mentioned in this example? And such forth) it did not ask you to pick out the incorrect phrase. This paper did. Not only that, but it deliberately tried to trick you. Well, maybe it didn't, but I haven't done French in TWO YEARS so I'm going to have difficulty with any question, let alone questions on NEW STUFF.
Which brings me on to my third point. Some students have had the great fortune of actually having MFL General Studies lessons, but not I. Instead I've been learning, for the past FOUR WEEKS, about Moral Panics and how the media presents information, which is basically how authority can influence you, how you should be wary of biased data and generally pissed off at GS. I cannot think of one subject where at least one of these ideas is not discussed (and it's already mandatory! We have a Politics paper that's about the same stuff) so I cannot see why they even bother teaching it; ever heard of a handout, Fred?

Ergo (yes, I just used a [weak] three part syllagism), the MFL General Studies Paper sucks. They'll regret telling me I could leave comments on the paper.

"Can you show me where it hurts..."

Marin.

I don't need the Spanish inquisition, darling

2006-03-04T17:55:00.000Z

...You know what annoys me? Those TV adverts for lawyers... Actually, it's not the advert that I mind so much, it's the content of one particular one. I see it most mornings on ITV and I can't remember what firm it advertises. It involves a polygraph test and a lady asking a lawyer if she'll recieve 100% of the compensation if she wins her claim, to which the lawyer replies "yes". I assume that this is supposed to shock and/or amaze us into thinking "Wow! I'll make them my lawyers!". However, it quite conveniently forgets the small fact that no matter what law firm you decide to use if you win your claim you *will* recieve 100% of the compensation, as in English Law the party that loses has to pay the costs of the other party.

And, yes I know that the intention is probably to play up to the fact that alot of people won't know this, but it really does irritate me... especially first thing in the morning.

2006-03-02T22:01:00.000Z

Hey guys, just wanted to post something (so yes, this does mean I'm just wasting time, you can stop reading now, and don't worry, there's a proper post comming up from the intellectual of this blog, Kay :P) ... there's a new section! It's located somewhere in the sidebar, it's a pull-down menu (a poor pull-down menu) containing all of (currently) my debts. This section doesn't look very good at the moment, but it will do, soon as I start Uni and the section "Marin owes the Government..." is introduced!

Oh, House!

Marin

"Brilliant, make me look like a whore, iTunes."

2006-02-14T18:41:00.000Z

Put iTunes or Windows Media Player on shuffle and see what you get. (Take the first song as your answer to Question #1, and so on and so forth.)
1. What's my mood like right now?
Handbags and The Gladrags - Travis
(shit… it would be one of the songs I don’t understand)
2. How's tomorrow going to be for me?
The Mule – The Magic Numbers
(Bollocks! I have an Uni interview tomoz! This is not a good omen)
3. What kind of person am I?
Kite – U2
(Aww! I’m a kite!)
4. Am I loved?
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
(“A message from my eyes says leave it alone”, f’ack off)
5. How can I achieve my highest potential?
Sand In My Shoes - Dido
(Err… this songs about life being too hectic. So, yay? I’ll be busy, and hopefully happy)
6. What should I do with my life?
Good People – Jack Johnson
(LMAO! I love this game!)
7. Is everything really going to be alright in the end?
Step On My Old Size Nines – Stereophonics
(“Will I get what I want from this world?”, that’s just another question, really.)
8. What is my best quality?
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
(Wow! This is actually relevant, but I won’t listen; too skared.)
9. How does my sex life look?
I really am not going to write that.
10. What's the meaning of life?
Long Legs – The Magic Numbers
(Brilliant, make me look like a whore, iTunes.)
11. What do people think of me?
Until The End Of The World – U2
(Shame that isn’t true really, would be heartwarming.)
12. Would I make a good lover?
I’m With You – Avril Lavigne
(DUDE!)
13. How crazy am I?
Grace – U2
14. Will I have a good life in general?
Hero – Chad Kroeger
(Dude…!)
15. Can (insert name here) ever really love me?
Asthenia – Blink 182
(That means what?)
16. Can me and (insert name here) ever be more than friends?
Sunday Morning – Maroon 5
Score!
17. What's going to happen to me this week?
Welcome to Paradise - Greenday
SCORE!

...I can't even think of a title for this, so here goes...

2006-02-13T18:54:00.000Z

I've just heard that there are plans to introduce policies whereby people who are overweight could be denied knee/hip operations. I thought I was dreaming, especially when I heard this had already happened to a man. Seriously though, I thought for a moment that I'd somehow woken up in a different universe and gone through the day without noticing - surely this can't be the England I know? We're supposed to be honest, traditional people, not people who deny much needed healthcare to individuals over something like weight.

This man was told that he needed to lose 20 pounds before he could have the operation, what's that really? He wasn't so overweight that he couldn't walk - no, his hip problems took care of that. He can't exercise because of his condition, so he's resorted to practically starving himself in order to lose weight so that he can have this operation. I think it's sick to let something like that happen. I don't care how little money the NHS has, that man, and others like him, should not be made to suffer because they're overweight.

It's terrible to think that weight could decide whether a person gets an operation or not. It's unfair if you stop and think about it, not only because these people blatantly need treatment because of the pain that they're in, but also because we don't deny healthcare to other groups of people, for example alcoholics or smokers*. So, why should one group of people be punished for their condition? People don't choose to be overweight, well some people might do but others don't and actually want to lose weight - but either way why should they be denied healthcare? That would be like saying to an alcoholic who wanted to kick alcohol that they can't have a liver transplant - it's not the done thing.

Anyway, back to my point: why should these people be punished for being overweight? At the end of the day that's what these policies look as though they're doing: they classify one group of people as a lower priority than another because of their weight. Why should they be told that in order to have an operation they must lose weight, something which becomes very difficult if you're having knee/hip problmems and can't exercise? This, to me at least, isn't right. It's a dangerous state to be in, what's next? Denying healthcare to those who weren't born in Britain? Healthcare should be accessible to everyone. Operations should be available to everyone when they're needed.

So tell me, how can these policies be justifed?

*NB: I'm NOT stating that we should deny healthcare to these groups, they're merely examples.

Don't laugh at me, don't look away....

2006-02-11T18:15:00.000Z

....Why is it that when newspapers need filler-articles they simply insult and pick on Bono? I'm not just posting this because I love Bono, even Dave agreed that the article was petty. There's simply no need.

The article, which was about Bono's Grammy speech, basically turned into something which just insulted Bono and then ended with the phrase "Bono, a word of advice: say as little as possible". It also claimed that he frequently gets "carried away with his own importance" and then failed to justify it. Personally, I'd like to know exactly what consitutes getting "carried away with his own importance". I'll be the first to admit that the speech was a little odd, but that's nothing unusual at an award ceremony.

This isn't the first time which this newspaper has resorted to insulting Bono in order to fill up space. Unfortunately at this time my memory fails me and I cannot remember the exact thing it was complaining about. I have a feeling it was either to do with Africa or with his sunglasses, but don't hold me to that.

Leave Bono alone!

I love James Nesbitt

2006-02-08T13:53:00.000Z

I love him!

Well. That's all I've got to say really.

Anyway, must now return to my migraine.

Chow.

Marin.

When you're high, it just makes me low...

2006-01-29T12:38:00.000Z

I'm not some kind of computing genius (in fact, I'm not really any kind of genius), but this isn't right:

I turned my computer on and before Windows began to load it told me that I had a keyboard error (in that it won't work). Windows then continued to load, but instead of loading normally it wanted me to select how I wanted it to start up (ie. in safe mode, normally etc) with my keyboard. "How? How do you expect me to do that!?" Luckily, it was doing its countdown thing and so loaded up normally and I was able to turn it off... don't ask how that's lucky.

Now, again, I'm not a computing genius... but that's what internal buses are for, right? The bus (forgive me for not knowing the exact one, but it's been a long time since I did computing... some months = long, right?) must have done its thing and told the CPU that the keyboard wasn't working, hence the error, but surely this should have resulted in Windows not asking me to select something with my keyboard.

Oh well, I know computers can't think for themselves.... am I just being pedantic and trying to avoid coursework?

...Over!

Bastards!

2006-01-26T10:52:00.000Z

Damned Americans!
For the past week I've been really pissed off because the links section in the sidebar was screwed up, and I could not for the life of me work out why!
Granted, I have only logged onto the blog about three times in the past 2-3 weeks so that's not much worrying, but still.
Anyhow, I just finished getting another question wrong on Mechanics 2 so decided to have a bit of vent on the code. When, much to my amazement, I discovered the problem.
Here it is, here's what I typed; < centre >
Now why does that constitute as a problem? Well, it's because HTML seems, invariably, to be Americanised English, so my command was simply not recognised because the dumbasses can't spell.

I've switched it round now to the uneducated version, so all is virtually right in the template... I think.

Marin

We love short-shorts

2006-01-18T21:57:00.000Z

Hey,
Just a very quick post to apologise for the lack of updates really, but it's exam time and we're pretty stressed/exhausted, thus no updates.
Well, that's not strictly true, I saw a new car insurance company advertised and thus had to change Kay's Link of The Moment (how terribly hyperbolic is that?!) to suit, I've also updated mine and the random one... please keep on checking back though as I know that there's at least 2 posts in the pipeline from Kay; after the exams!

So, yeah, check back soon.
Oh, lastly, it seems most blogs I come to via blogexplosion/other have some sort of donation-page to raise money... a well funded trip to Ireland for college students is a worthy cause, right?

Marin.

... Its the blue ones that worry you

2006-01-04T14:15:00.000Z

Some Quick Advice: While working in the Argos Stock Room Do NOT use your face as a third arm, however clever you think you're being.

What am I going to do now?! I've just been reading through some Apple Blogs and discovered that the contract between Microsoft and Apple for "Microsoft Office For Mac" is comming to an end. This means that when I finally save enough money to get a Mac I'm going to have absolutely NO idea how to do anything on it, as opposed to my current situation where I know how to do very little. Apparently this process has been going on for a while, the same blog informs that me I.E was dropped from new Macs in April 2005 (which is understandable as it is shite).
However, apparently (according to The Rumour Man) Google are considering an online java-run office, so all may be well in the world. Well, except for Neighbours; that's always gonna be crap.

Anyway, I've got to finish updating the template(s), please have a look at Kay and mines 'Most Recent Link' (this is a cop out from me having to update them religiously, lol) and cast your opinion on our poll hidden somewhere on the bulky sidebar. Oh! You must see this; I can't decide whether it's creepy or cute.

Yours,
Marin

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs

2005-12-30T12:52:00.000Z

A belated but still relevant complaint*.

Many of you will recall that in July 2005 an event called Live 8 was staged in 9 countries around the world: Britain, America, Italy, Germany, France, Russia, Africa, Japan and Canada. I'm not going to summarise its aims and whatnot, because if you don't know already and really want to find out you can visit www.live8live.com and find out about it there.

But anyway, according to the Daily Mail, these main aims were not the most important issues of the day. An article was published the following day in the Daily Mail where the columnist, whose name escapes me, complained about a number of things. Amazingly, none of these were the grave injustices going on. He chose to complain about the fact that he wasn't in the "VIP enclosure", instead he was in "the third world" of Live 8. By this point of the article I was peeved, to say the least, but kept reading nevertheless - after all I had to see if he was just taking the piss.

He then went on to complain about the fact that the video screens in the park did not correspond exactly with the sound - there was a small delay! At this stage I decided to stop reading - after all, why should I get angry because a man feels the need to complain about the most trivial things?

I mean, seriously, how small minded is it to sit there and write an article about Live 8 and complain about trivial things like where you're standing or the delay on the video? How can he even justify such complaints considering what the day was about?

* This complaint is still relevant because last week I watched a series of programmes about Live 8, which reminded me at my anger when I first read this article.

**Edited due to the fact that I was already in a bad mood when I wrote the original... and, well, it got the better of me.

Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

2005-12-21T18:59:00.000Z

I've just finished watching The Weakest Link (Wed 21/12 BBc 2) and I'm disgusted in the quality of the questions. Here are two of the worst.

- From the First Round.
A week is divided into seven equal segments, what is the name given to the segments?

- From the Final Round
What does L.P stand for when written on a VCR?

Additionally, the contestants can't spell their names correctly. There was an 'Ann' (sic) and a 'Clare' (sic).
However, Kay will be happy with one of the questions;
- From the Second Round.
In British History, what was the christian name of the Naval Commander, Lord Nelson?*

Also, sometime soon I'm going to post a massive expose on Orange... well, the most recent ways they've managed to piss me about. However, for now I'd just like to say that this Samsung D600 sucks. I can't send MMS messages to email addresses.
This is unfortunate as I was going to publish bi-daily photos of my 'goatee' on here. That's to say, I was going to publish photos of the parts of my face where hair/stubble should be.

Anyway, I'm off as I need to update the template (Links of the Week etc.) and get coffee.

Marin.

*The answer is, of course, Horatio.

We shared the same tailor...

2005-12-09T23:37:00.000Z

I thought you might like to know I've changed my political views on something.

Last week I would have told you that I completely agree with denying free health services to people who have forced themselves into ill-health via smoking, glutony or some other stupidity.

However, I've realised that this is completely wrong, everybody should be given free health services (unless they're health tourists, but more on that later).

The reason for this is that the NHS, being as damned beuaracratic as it is, would then deny free services for old people.

Why? Well, it's obvious. It's their own fault that they managed to survive long enough for living itself to be dangerous to their health.

On the other hand, my views on the maths department have not changed.
It's still as crap as ever.

Marin

Oh, also, I cannot believe that The Avengers was actually allowed to be televised! I've seen episodes of Neighbours that have been better choreographed, staged, acted, scripted, set, produced... even the accents on The Avengers annoy me more!

For all the good it's done me....

2005-12-02T15:42:00.000Z

I'd just like to say... Well done UCAS.

....No I haven't lost my mind - I am, of course, being sarcastic.

Today, I got home from college and saw two letters from UCAS lying on the doormat. So, I went and sat down and looked at them, figuring that one was from a mystery uni (I remember where I've had offers from, honest) and that the other was my rejection. I opened the first one:

"Oh! It's my offer details from Swansea! ...That means the other must be my rejection..."

So, I opened the other letter...

"...Swansea is offering me a place... hang on, haven't I already read this letter?"

Yes. That's right. UCAS have sent me two letters telling me about the exact same offer from Swansea. One is dated the 28th November and the other is dated the 29th November. The two letters are the same... except for the date.

I dont think I'll ever understand UCAS....

And I'm off.

Toodles!

This is not a food.

2005-11-11T12:32:00.000Z

This was originally a post about the NHS but my broswer decided it didn't approve and proceeded to delete it.
I'm too lazy to re-write it so instead I shall (also) steal this questionnaire thing from Beena's blog.

Okay, I've filled it in and discovered it slightly messed up the template. Thus, here's a link to it. It'll open up in a new window and is hosted on another blog, enjoy:
Survey 1

What's the consolation prize?

2005-11-08T20:48:00.000Z

Oh, society... why do you fail me?

Why do you place Ronan Keating higher than U2 on a count down of the greatest selling records of this century? In fact, why do you only put U2 at 18 (I'm pretty sure that was the number)? Thankfully they were above The Darkness- I would be unbearable to live with if that hadn't happened.

But still, I can't argue with record sales... I suppose...

Anyway, it was this countdown that led me to have a conversation with Dave about why U2 weren't higher than 18. He said he didn't actually know many people who liked U2, because of Bono's politicalness. Which brings me to why I'm updating this. It really irritates me when people claim they don't like a band because one member of it (or all of the band) are involved in politics. How can people possibly look at what Bono does politcally and then decide they don't like U2! Seriously though, Bono's politcal work has nothing to do with the band! Surely it's the music that counts. It's like saying that you hate Coldplay because Chris Martin is involved in the Make Trade Fair Campaign. It's dumb. It's not like these bands release whole albums declaring their political stance. And surely if you're going to start saying that you don't like U2 or Coldplay because they're taking a politcal stance then you have to dislike Busted because they backed the Conservatives, and you have to dislike Green Day (and a number of other artists) because they made it clear what they thought about George Bush.

I think I'm done.

Toodles!

NB: Please note, I don't like Busted - I was simply trying to make a point.

Screw the N.H.S. Give me batteries instead.

2005-11-08T02:18:00.000Z

I dispise batteries! Whenever you need them they simply do not exist.

Okay, that's a hyperbole. I went to visit Dave in his Pit of Squalor And Inhumanely Kept Fish and he had EIGHT batteries in the piggery, apparently "they're all definitely dead... you can't have them". Personally, I think he doesn't wash, I mean, is lying.

Anyway, because of this battery crisis another money crisis will ensue as I now need to purchase batteries in order for the digi-cam to work.

Oh, I had a dream this morning where I was singing James Blunt lyrics, I think, I've listened to his album for over an hour now and I can't find the words so maybe I can predict his upcomming songs? Also, I've updated the random links in the side-bar this morning, you'll all be glad to know theres no physics there this time. Actually, keep up to date with the template because I'm drafting an update after Kay suggested a newspaper article thing...

Oh, also, I can't believe it took me a week to find. I'm disgusted.

Marin.

...I love history.

2005-10-21T19:26:00.000Z

Y'arr! I'm back. Just when you thought you were rid of me, I managed to tear myself away from History and update this.

Now, I could complain about work and I could complain about essays- but I'm not going to. I'm not quite sure why I decided not to, it could be because I'm listening to Jools Holland and the CD is so good that I can't bring myself to complain, but it could also be because Dave said I could borrow his book on the Battle of Trafalgar and because I love History so much this has made me happy. Normally I'd put it down to the first one cause I love jazzy piano, but because I love History so much it's hard to say which it really is.

Um, I'm not actually sure I have anything to complain about... how rare. So, instead, lets just talk about Nelson. I went to Toast him today. And no, that does not involve Pop-Tarts (that's just in case Marin's physics group reads this post), it involves Real Enlgish Ale. That was interesting, I was reading displays and looking at this painting of the HMS Victory (which I've totally been on by the way... yes, I'm even skaring myself). Then they gave us glasses of Real English Ale (Yes, I have to capitalise that) and we Toasted Nelson. It was interesting, and fun. And I was talking to the guy who organised it about a display he's going to do about the Gun Powder Plotters who hid in Holbeache House.

I'm skaring myself too much now, so I'm going to go... and do none-history things.

Toodles!

What!

2005-10-05T13:21:00.000Z

What are they doing to my beloved Stargate!

Make it stop! Make it stop!

I'll cry!

Everybody loves a jelly baby

2005-09-28T18:42:00.000Z

Egh.
I am not a happy chappie. Well, that's not entirely true, Kay has cheered me up with her phone call, but I'm still a lil' miffed. Unfortunately, I can't follow Kay's advice and drink because we don't have any - which is terrible! So, instead, I decided to post on 'ere.
I hate math. I do not understand a bloody thing in my homework. "Vector Equation For The Point Of Intersection." My arse. What it should read is "Vector Equation That Makes You Want To Die"
I think this wouldn't normally piss me off as much as it has, it's just I thought I was doing almost okay at college; in Physics I'm upto date with work and understanding it, in English I'm contributing a lot (possibly too much, according to Lewis) and in Stats I'm making, erm, some progress? And I still don't like my glasses, I really did not like the amount of time I had to look in mirrors today - I really do not like them.
... this is turning into more of a rant than I wanted... but I'm going to carry on regardless...
I'm scared I'm becomming a Christian at the moment. In Cambridge I actually began to happily read the Bib-el without critising it and was humming hymns at the same time. How creepy!? Oh, and I've had to remove one of James Blunts tracks from my playlist as it depressed me now - it's rediculous, that's at least 2 songs I can't listen to now without crying.
Oh, yeah, I told Nev that I had decided to not apply to Oxford in this batch of UCAS but instead see how my results go and blah, his response could not possibly have been more nonchalent. I seriously got the impression that he isn't happy with me applying to University at all, that I'm destined to become some sort of benefit-junkie. That's whats pissed me off! No matter, I'm onto his ass, I know where he lives now.
Also, yeah, Beena, I really didn't want to know that much :P.
Okay that has cheered me up, I should make idle death threats to lecturers more often.

I'm going to go and... install photoshop! Thanks again Kay for ringing me, you're lovelly.
>.<
Marin.

Bastards.

2005-08-21T19:07:00.000Z

Firstly, I'd like to complain about the Daily Mail, it's a crock of shite. However, more importantly, it's pissed me off this weekend. You know they give those free cd's out on Saturday's? One of them is called "Summer Days", it was released earlier this year. Another CD was released under the same title this weekend. It contained the exact same piss-poor tracks as the first, and if isn't bad enough that the paper can't afford to generate another album I've rummaged through the entire selection of free Cd's and they [all] contain piss-poor songs to.
That's a bit trivial though, my second issue is more important.
Though to understand it I enforce you - yes, enforce - to read this post first "People always expect more when you have curly hair". [Note: Unfortunately the commenting system has been disabled on the post and thus I have to respond with an individual post, you see.]
This ACTUALLY disgusted me. You should see Kayleigh's hair, it rocks. I really love Kay's hair, almost as much as her suspiciously white teeth - almost, but not quite. I even enjoy Sarah Jessica Parkers hair (although, the person herself I have more than quibbles with). So, for people to belittle the gene-dependent feature to such extents as to predict extortionately low IQ's annoys me quite considerably.
I'm gonna stop now, cus it looks (at least to me) like I'm monopolising on Kay's territory...

Marin.

Note: The darling Kay has now fixed the previous post to accept comments, obviously done to humiliate me :P

"People always expect more when you have curly hair"

2005-08-16T11:06:00.000Z

Right. I've been meaning to do this for ages. ..honest. I've wanted to use it to complain (on a few occassions) and just to generally get feelings out (a coupla times...), but as you can tell none of these enteries actually surfaced, living as drafts for a while before getting deleted, or accidentally published onto to be deleted moments later.

Right. So, what am I planning on rambling on about!? Well, I have no idea. Um...

You know, it's taken me about 10 years to finally accept how fantabulous my hair actually is. I don't care how ego-tastic (that is so a word) that sounds, because I love my hair- finally. I've been on this curly-haired people forum, I'm sure there's a proper name for it but still, and it's made me realise that I'm so lucky to have my hair, no matter how un-ruly it can be and how crap it can look sometimes. Reading what some people have gone through - it sucks the treatment they get. One woman on there actually told a story where she was treated as stupid at school and at job interviews because she has curly hair, yet when she straighted it she was treated with respect. What a crock. It's ridiculous whats in the media too:

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Fashion/Archive2001/010516.html

http://www.icircle.com/html/BEAUTY/Perfect_hair/ARTICLE/15993.html

What shite. What about all the pretty people with curly hair!? Like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman, Debra Messing, Alex Kingston, Lisa Nicole Carson and loads more! I'ma stop now before I get incredibly irritated. Thankfully I can only recall one incident when I was insulted for having curly hair (all other incidents where when I ruined my hair daily for school, the least said about that the better). I just hope to god I don't lose my curl.

That's it. Rant over.

Toodles!

Downloading for eternity...

2005-08-15T19:48:00.000Z

Eventually the world's population will increase to such an extent that everything has to be rationed, every individual will be limited to one just one channel of LivingTv as opposed to the thirty-something you get nowadays, just the youghurt section of a Muller Crumble and just one pet-hate.
Fortunately, I've already chosen my pet-hate today. Microsoft.
This time it's not just because they're an evil, faceless and Australian [see this post] organisation, I actually have a reason.
I turned automatic updates on for the first time today, happily installed the 'minor' security updates which would stop hackers and phishers from stealing my souls and then began Service Pack Two. It started downloading, and downloading, and downloading... and downloading.
It took a total of 5 1/4 hours to complete the 113MB download. That's roughly 2.7mb/min, which is crap.
What's even crappier is that it takes it that 5 1/4 hours AND 15 minutes installing time for it to tell me I need a legal version of Windows to install it. Why the frigging hell couldn't they have told me that BEFORE I started the bloody download? Actually, I would have been happy if they hadn't of let me download ANY updates, rather than lulling me into a full sense of security.
Also, I have no idea where the bloody files been downloaded to, so I can't get rid of it! That's 0.412Gb of my harddrive already wasted (the other 0.2991Gb resulting from The Rasmus Album, I've Been Expecting You by Robbie and one particularly dreadful free song from iTunes Music Store).

Anyway, Toodle-ooy

Marin

Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly...

2005-06-30T20:32:00.000Z

Ok, I'm back... at least for now. I haven't bothered updating this in a while... mostly because I was busy with exams... and then.... well then I was too lazy really- or in too much of a U2 daze to bother complaining. But alas, I'm back and I feel like complaining because I'm having a shitty evening. I don't think I have anything specific to complain about.... but maybe ranting in this will get some stuff off my mind and help.. maybe? I hope so anyway.

Ugh. I hate my mind. And human nature. Why is it human nature to want something you can't have!? And yeah, I'm talking about a person. It's completely rediculous because it doesn't just stop does it? You don't just acknowledge that you could never be with the person do you? Your mind actually works against you by constantly finding references to this person and by constantly thinking about them. Then! Then the time that you actually manage to stop thinking about them and begin to be more sane and lead a healthier life for a few days and you think "Aha! I win!" you see them and it all just falls apart and you're right back to the beginning. What a bitch.

So yes, right now I'm at a stage where if I don't stop thinking about this person I'm going to lose it, but I can't stop thinking about the person because I see them almost everyday. And basically I hate my mind because it won't let me not think about this person, and when I do actually stop thinking about the person and I'm doing well an' stuff all of a sudden they appear, I see them... and I'm right back where I started.

If anyone can think of anyways to get over this, then please comment... if not then I'll just have to grin an' bear it or something... maybe drink some JDs.

...I've said too much.

Customer Satisfaction/Company Desatisfaction

2005-06-02T13:07:00.000Z

Hey,

I'm going to break from tradition today, instead of complaining about things I'm going to marvel at how brilliant some (albiet, a minute proportion of things in the Universe) things are.
For instance, the Postal Service. Usually a completely shite, beurocratic 'company' that fails to meet it's mission statement of actually delivering items to people within their [natural] life-span. However, I posted my app. to St. Johns yesterday at 12.30 in the Wordsley Post Box. Today. That's right, TODAY, I got an email confirming my booking. How fantastic is that?!
Also, the war between Firefox and Opera (well, the seemingly insignificant battle that takes place on my computer) has taken a new, brilliant leap. Opera has Tetris! AND Snake! Dude!

Lastly, some good news for the people. Microsoft is being sued! To be more precise, the E.U is sueing them £2million EVERY DAY until they release some of their codes and stop releasing computers with Media Player already installed. Granted, the big M makes £100million a week, so this isn't really a massive triumph - but it's a step in the right direction.

Anyway, toodles for now.

"All this time you were pretending, so much for my happy ending"

I take my twist with a shout

2005-05-27T00:10:00.001Z

Right. I have things to complain about. Firstly Q competitions. You spend bloody ages registering and what-not to win the prize... and then you answer the question and it submits your answer and then, THEN it displays a message saying "Thank you for entering. Winners must be over 18"

....Grr! If I'd have known that BEFORE I wouldn't have bothered wasting my time and filling the form to enter the damned competition.... actually, no. Because it was for U2 things, I'd have lied. Or entered on behalf of Dave.

I also need to complain about supermarkets... and manufacturers.... possibly Cadburys. But seeing as I'm not sure about the latter or if this is a problem in all supermarkets I'm just going to complain about Morrisons. They don't sell mini-eggs! Except at Easter! How totally un-pro. They sell creme-eggs... and galaxy eggs and crap all year round (I think, I wouldn't know- I don't buy them) so why not mini-eggs? I mean, lets face it- we all know mini-eggs are far classier.

Ok, that's all.

I can't be arsed to think of a snazzy goodbye... so...

Bye...

Say what you feel girl. Say what you wanna do.

2005-05-22T20:00:00.000Z

Bloody Firefox.
Bloody Opera.
Bloody Bullguard.
Smegging Windows!

I'm not going to dwell for long on why Firefox sucks because it will embarras me and cause Kali to laugh at me, and while that might not be as damaging as the Yellow-Cheese-Holder it will still hurt my punished ego...
So onto Opera. How can a programme that rocks in so many ways decide to fail in such a catastrophic manner?! You [notice the inclusive pronoun here people? I think you can tell me English exam is on Tuesday] can't actually write/edit posts in Opera, at all. It's utter shite. Which is a shame, considering it's potential... oh, apparently livejournal RSS's don't work, how bloody brilliant...
Bullguard sucks. It's told me FOUR times in the hour I've been on my computer that I have a virus and that it's contained it, which would be fine, but for the fact it's the SAME frigging virus! If it can't deal with one smeggin' virus the least it could do is not interupt my 'Windows Experience'.
I hate those Windows adverts. Helping children acheive what? Multi-billion dollar monopolies which operate virtually entirely illegally? Oh, yeah, good moral targets.

"Closer to finding out it doesn't mean anything" - gotta love Lifehouse

Fake after fake. Year after year.

2005-05-16T20:17:00.000Z

You do make a good point about the firefox security issue Kay, and I did actually run the safety check on my javascript controls and was horrified to ACTUALLY find my credit card number un-encrypted. However. For me, my security and general well being are much lower priorities than keeping away from any Microsoft affiliated product, and Rasums. Eww. Rasmus.

Wow. Bono.

One complaint I have, today, is with Blogger. We all know my internet connections sucks horrifically, but Blogger just seems to accentuate the problem! Even when it's working at a near reasonable level Blogger.com/dashboard takes about 5 minutes to load. Damn blogger.
Oh! Last complaint for today. Ian told Kali to hit me! AND she did! Grr.. I hate it when people gang up on me... :P

'Rodger that.

It's not always rainbows and butterflies...

2005-05-16T16:15:00.000Z

....Grrr! Exams started today, on the FIRST day of Study Leave, I mean come on! How mean is that!? Although, its nothing compared to the first year when the exam was one week before study leave.

Um, I was supposed to update this a long time ago, and I did have a draft saved but I never got round to actually posting it... and I figured that seeing as I'm avoiding work I may as well actually post something. So here I am.

I actually have something to complain about too: I hate IE. And I hate it even more because FireFox sucks and has security flaws and thus I am being forced to use IE. This is all Marin's fault... if he hadn't got me used to using Firefox this would never have happened. (Just kidding, I love you really... don't hit me)

...I don't hate IE that much really... I'm at least thankful that it is working...

Black coffee is so good.. I mean I'm not a caffiene junky.. heh.

I'd better go at least look at my work and pretend that it might get done.

Bon soir!

Shocking, appaling. All I can do to you...

2005-04-25T18:35:00.000Z

This is a complaint blog right?

I have a complaint. And the subject of said complaint? Telewest.

I hate every damned thing about them. From the random disconnections every 30 minutes, to the deliberately crap communication with Blogger and even their Staff.
I mean, exactly how hard is it to maintain a connection to the internet for longer than half a friggin' hour? Even damned Arr-goose have an internet-providing affiliate that works.

Oh, one last thing. Why the hell did they nick off with the Co-Op logo? It's taken them THREE years to come up with the idea that it's an optical fibre.

It's complete buffoonary if you ask me.

My first official post.

2005-04-24T21:41:00.000Z

Right. I've had this thing how long now? An hour? Maybe- I don't know, I don't do time. Anyway, I've already found something to complain about! That must be some form of record.

My profile won't display U2 under favourite music! Or under Interests. I'm most upset. It's probably some form of punishment for being "too" obessed with them. Although, I'm sure Blogspot has it's own explanation of why it won't display "U2". It's madness! I'm too lazy to find out... so I guess I shall just have to live without "U2" on my profile... for now.. maybe it'll accept Bono under interests? Meh, worth a try I guess.

Also, I'm going to apologise now for any bad grammar/spelling in this blog, I'm too lazy to spell check and well my spelling and grammar has a lot to be desired.

Merci beaucoup, bonsoir!

How You Remind Me..

2005-04-24T20:17:00.000Z

While I might not be the creator of this Blog, or even an Admin, I would like to say that Kali will be updating this often.. for, should she not, she will be punished.. by.. err.. deprivation of Bono and all other things Irish?

Lol.. I don't mean that though, for I know it will only mean Kali attacking me.. :P

Marin.

In the land of the free, muted are we.

2005-04-24T19:34:00.000Z

Howdy.

I created this... because Marin made me actually. And when he suggested I create it I was in a rather bad mood and decided I would purely so I could complain in it (though it's not like I don't just complain anyways). Yeah, so god knows when I'll actually use this thing...

Toodles for now!