Ok I am not really a meme guy, but if you're on any social networking platform it is impossible to escape them, like trying not to tread in dog excrement whilst walking through a dog shit infested park at night. So most of us have seen the video of Solange Knowles doing her best impression of Jean Claude Van Damme in Kick Boxer. Practising her moves on her brother in law Jay-z who wasn't a willing sparring partner. Her violent attack on him in that elevator has sparked a online meme frenzy across twitter, instagram and Facebook. Out of all them I've picked the ones that did make me giggle...a little.
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Tuesday 13 May 2014
The malevolent treatment of Tim Sherwood
It was coming, we could all see it coming, like the Di
Matteo sacking a few seasons ago, you just knew like Abramovich Levy didn’t
have much faith in Tim Sherwood to take the club to where he envisions it to
be, only seeing him as a stop gap, a band aid on a bullet wound, water instead
of milk on your cereal…you catch my drift a means to a end. I think Sherwood
did a good job, it was never going to be an easy one and I believe he did well.
I also think the way in which Spurs have treated him during his tenure to be
utterly disgraceful. Sherwood was one of their own, a much liked figure at the
club who was a Spurs player during his career, going on to work at the club as a technical co-ordinator,
to then to answer the call to take over from AVB to only be much maligned and
treated with contempt during his managerial reign.
Do I
believe as Sherwood said himself If he was in charge for the whole season he
would have guided Tottenham to a top 4 finish ‘No!’ I don’t believe anyone
could have got Tottenahm fourth place this season. Not even Paul Daniels and
his a magician. It would have taken a
miracle, a Derren Brown magic trick of epic proportions for Tottenham to finish
fourth, for one sole fact, the sale of Gareth Bale. You can’t expect to sell
your best players and push on, Bale was their match winner plain and simple, he
scored 8 winning goals last season, literally winning games for Tottenham
himself. Then you sell him, going on to buy 7 players, 7 players who have never
played in the Premier league, if the addictive football simulator game ‘Football
Manager’ has taught anyone is that ‘too many new signings in a short space of
time can upset the balance and rhythm of your team’. This was ever so apparent in the early stages
of this season, Tottenham were out of sorts, the balance of the team was all
over the place. Couple this with the
fact AVB didn’t want half of these players makes a recipe for disaster.
Sherwood
came in and steadied the ship. He said he felt like a "supply
teacher", with players being told by their agents he would not be at the club next
season. How any manager could work under
these conditions is a mystery, you wake up to endless sport gossip columns of
this manager and that manager being linked with your job, while your barley
into a 12 month contract, your fending off questions about ‘will you
still be the manager next season?’ on a
regular basis, it’s embarrassing and it comes from the top. If Levy was
supportive of Sherwood squashing all qualms, it would have stopped the
humiliating questions and articles, but he didn’t which I see as disrespectful
to Tim Sherwood.
Sherwood
was the 12th Manager to be sacked this season, in a climate where
it’s the done thing to hire foreign managers for the top teams rather than
English ones. I believe Sherwood will be back at another club to showcase his
evident managerial abilities.
Labels:
spurs,
tim sherwood,
tim sherwood sacking,
tottenham
Friday 4 April 2014
Not all Men are Wankers…Just the ones you pick
‘All men are cheating scumbags’
‘All men are pricks’
‘You can’t trust men’
‘Men are wankers’
‘All men are players’
We all know that woman that constantly verbally bashes men
in this way to anyone who will listen.
Telling you for a fact that there is ‘No
good men out there’ Jog on! Now I am not saying us men are 100 per cent
benevolent, nobody is man or woman. My gripe is if you actual look at the
choice of men that these women have picked then you will see the actual
problem.
‘The guys are
complete wankers…and the women in question knew it before they even got with
them’
If you walk through a dog shit infested park, expect to
tread in dog shit. If you hook up with a narcissistic, player expect to be
shitted on. You can’t knowingly get into something that you know is bad and
then expect to cry about it and say all men are the same, when you constantly
knowingly get with idiots.
Now there are many cases where women fall victim to guys who
just totally trick them into believing they’re serious about them, that they
want a relationship with them. Then soon as the men get what they want, they
are gone, but I’m not talking about those tricksters or those situations. I’m
talking about women who get involved with men knowing that they’re players and
wankers.
I was watching First dates, and there was a guy on there that
had a really exciting good job, ambitious, and had a lot in common with his
date. Who then put him in the friend zone. This women in question called herself
a massive raver, loved partying, described herself as spontaneous. One person
on twitter said this about her
Chelsea is
"spontaneous"apparently! I often find that is usually just polite for
raving psycho!!!! #firstdates
And another guy described her like this
Another girl called Corinne went on two awful dates with
guys that were pretty much wankers, with her second date resorting her to
tears. To which she asked herself the
question along this lines ‘Why can’t I found a nice guy who will like me for
me?’
She then goes on a real good 3rd date, with a
real nice guy. At the end we found out nothing comes of the date.
My point of these examples is that there are tons of nice
guys out there who will treat women with the respect they’re looking for and
give them the romance they’re seeking, but they constantly overlook these guys
for the wankers that they moan about. Repeating
the same pattern over and over again:
Meet wanker – give
heart to wanker – wanker shits on it - Meet wanker – give heart to wanker –
wanker shits on it - Meet wanker – give heart to wanker – wanker shits on it
Till finally the penny drops;
‘I’m getting on a bit
now, all I’ve been dating is players and bad-boys I need to settle down and
found myself a nice guy’
Those nice guys who chased after you, with you only to
ignore them and friendzone them, are not around anymore, as they have settled
down with nice girls who didn’t overlook them.
To quote that tweet again
Don’t be a Chelsea.
Friday 21 March 2014
The Texting Blues: The Post first Date Text
We’ve all
been there with the post first date blues. You’ve gone on a date with someone
whose company you really enjoyed and for a brucey bonus you also find them
physically attractive. You get home, you text them to let them know you got
home safely and to see if they did as well, and you think fuck it I will throw
in I had a good time as well, you get a benevolent reply back and you find
yourself imagining how good it would be to be their partner, the couple
holidays your going to go on sun bathing by the pool hand in hand, your wedding
your kid’s names, where in which you then softly fall asleep with optimism in
the air.
You awake
with a newfound energy, and a MGM musical spring in your step. Your commute to
work doesn't seem so drag as you re-read the text from last night with optimism
still filling the air. Then BANG!!!! Reality hits you:
‘I told them I was attracted to them telling
them I would like to see them again, but they didn't say they was attracted to
me back. Are they just being diplomatic?’
You start
nitpicking and the paranoia kicks in
‘If they were attracted to me surely they would
have said it back?’
You re-read
the text again and now it reads like a standard auto reply for a polite fuck
off. The post date text that actual means:
‘You’re a nice person sane and not weird, I
don’t find you attractive, I had a nice time in the sense of, the time I
allotted myself before making my getaway wasn't that painful. Please don’t text
me as that way I don’t have to make up shitty excuses to get out of dates with
you bye’
Your smile
turns to a frown; your MGM musical spring has turned into a limp walk you’re
crushed. You then start to think you reading too much into it, that you’re just
being weird and paranoid, you tell yourself to chill the fuck out. Then the eternal battle that men and women
have been fighting since the birth of the SMS, do I text them again or do I wait
for them to text me?
It’s
horrible the waiting its simply horrible. Waiting for that reply text after
you’ve bitten the bullet and asked for another date or you’ve told them your
undying love and now you’re waiting patiently with anguish like it's your
GCSE’S, A-levels, degree and Gum clinic results all rolled into one.
Sometimes
you get a reply back, other times you get total air-pie nothing at all. I don’t
know what sex does it more brutal women or men? Women will argue men are total
wankers for this, but ladies you’re just as brutal, but we blokes are guilty
for the ‘Out of the Blue Horny Text.’ Which is a guy will take a girl out on a
first date. The date will go well, really well the girl will text, won’t get a
reply back, she will text again due to the fact both parties had such a good
time ‘why would he ignore me?’ she will then get the shittest excuse ever for
why he can’t see her again and then 5 months later without no contact the guy
will send a message out of the blue with something along the lines of ‘Do you fancy a fuck?’
To conclude
women and men, don’t be that wanker and put someone through the texting blues.
Just be straight up and honest about if you’re on it or not. To be fair you get
called a wanker for being honest (no matter how polite you’re about it)
anyways, but its better to be honest and get an earful of abuse than giving
someone radio silence leaving them thinking
‘what did they do wrong?’ Better to be a wanker for doing the right
thing.
Labels:
dating,
first date,
Men and women relations,
post date text
Sunday 16 February 2014
Assassins Creed 4: The Best Ending to a Video Game ever?
After the much-maligned Assassins Creed
3 (which I actual enjoyed) Assassins Creed 4 has been much praised, even
setting a new precedent in open world gaming with its ambitious scope.
What makes the ending of this game so
impressive for me, is the journey that you're taken on with Edward. Unlike the
previous main protagonists since Altair, Edward isn’t thrust into the world of
the Assassins through personal tragedy, it’s his lust for treasures that
unwittingly does.
In the beginning he only sides with the
Assassins as the alliance benefits him in his quest for the great wealth that
he yearns for, but as his actions cause disastrous consequences for others he
sets out to make things right. Which makes his journey more heartfelt, in my
opinion a warts and all sort of tale.
Hands down my eyes did water at the ending. There has only ever been two video game endings that have left me an emotional wreak, the wreaked feeling you get at the end of a film or episode of a TV Show, which has a tear-jerking ending. Red Dead Redemption is one of them and Assassin Creed 4 is the other. I would go further to say this is one of the greatest moments in the whole franchise it is that good. Because it really gets you, right there in the heart, it’s naked and it’s raw, it’s simply brilliant.
You can can watch the ending here: AC4 Ending Scene
Sunday 2 February 2014
Revolution a must watch TV Show
After much deliberation from me, if I should watch this show
or not, I finally have. Much of my deliberation in watching this show was based
on some of its reviews. Some people said one of the main protagonist’s Charlie
Matheson (Tracy Spiridakos) was incredibly ignoring, others said the science
behind the premise of the show was too far out there and unbelievable, others
moaned that the characters where far too clean looking to belong in a post-apocalyptic world.
The
moans & groans about the science of the premise being to far fetch and the
characters too clean looking, flew over my head by a country mile. Hello its
Television it’s a genre show it doesn’t matter if it’s far fetched its science
fiction. For the too clean part
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz is what I think to do that.
What I did found off-putting was the moans & groans about the main
protagonist Charlie Matheson being overly annoying. It doesn’t bold well for
any show if one of the main characters is annoying.
So after bingeing on the first season, in which I watched 20
episodes back to back within a week and a half, is Charlie annoying? Yes in
certain parts but not enough for you not to turn of or not root for her. The
problems with the character lay within the writing rather than the actress and
her acting abilities. At times it seems the writers have hit a brick wall with
how to develop Charlie’s character and they make her do and say things that
don’t ring true with her personality. As
Season 1 progressed the writing of her character has gotten better to the point
where in Season 2 you can see the writers know where they are at with her
character as the writing has been spot on.
Charlie’s journey is a joy to behold from the naïve girl we
saw in the early days of season 1 to an arse kicking Buffy the Vampire slayer
type strong woman we see now. Her transformation was solid and believable
Billy Burke who plays Miles Matheson, shines as a leading man from the very first
minute we see him on screen. I believe his character and everything he is
about. He is a well-written and developed character and Billy Burke excels with
the material showcasing his acting abilities.
There isn’t a dull performance in this show. The acting is solid from all the actors everybody
shines. You’ve actors who have to portray good and bad within their characters.
You’ve characters that are good people
doing bad things to fix bad things they’ve done. You’ve characters that are bad
due to the circumstances that they have been placed. The duality of the good
and bad within them is expanded on through flashbacks, which sheds light on their
motives.
This show will surprise you. It’s a show where the stakes
are very high very, very high. This was showcased to me by episode 4. These frighteningly
high stakes have continued. As a viewer
you’re constantly unsure how things will pan out for the main characters you
fear for their safety, you think you know how it will all work out but then
you’re surprised with the actual outcome.
It's a show in which make you come back for more, making you
literally count the days till next the episode because the last one ended on a
jaw dropping hook. Watch this show I can’t stress this enough you will not be disappointed.
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