The world at the moment seems to be quite a mixed up and messed up place, and it's not looking as if it's going to get any better any time soon, infact, my gut tells me, war is looming.
We have religious based groups trying to take over parts of the world to enforce their version of the faith's rules upon us. We have the likes of Russia who resorted to shooting down a plane. We have public cases where racism shows it's head and that it's still alive within our police services.... all horrible stuff, and I've not even scratched the surface here.
You know what I find more disturbing? The fact that we can't just see people for what they are... people. The saying is true that we are all just human being's, trying to be. We are all equal and should be treated as such, yet, we're not, far from it infact.
When I look at a person, I don't see a race, I don't see a sexuality, I don't see a sex... I see a person, whom, until they piss me off, should be treated with the same respect that I expect to be treated with... and doing this for years, has done me quite well.
In short, I'm worried about where we are headed at the moment as a human race. Are we really going into a world war to try and end all wars? Are we really going to allow the murders of innocent people for much longer, in any part of the world and for whatever reason?
No matter where you've been over the past few months, you cannot have ignored the assault on Gaza that has been launched by Israel. People on both side's of the fence with this are often very vocal and don't want to listen to what the other side have to say, yet, me being me, I have tried, really I have, but then I read a story and saw the video's about a young boy who if I remember rightly was 12 years old, and lost 17 members of his family, because of an attack by Israel.
Now what you're seeing there is still of course only one side of the story, and yes, I admit here, Gaza have launched their own attacks, with next to no effect and from what I can see into this, only as a retaliation to the attacks Israel are making.
It seems Israel wants rid of Gaza, and this is where my train of thought is coming from on the topic, because Israel is mainly made up of people of the jewish faith... so surely that community should be more resistant to wanting to rid the world of any people.... yet, it seems not so much.
I'm not against the jewish faith as a whole, I'm sure that as with other religion's, the faith is made up of all sorts of people, yet, I keep seeing stuff over and over again which I don't like.
... Like that video for example.
So why do I sometimes wish hitler was still around?
Because he is the PERFECT reminder for a place like Israel people and supporters, that killing somebody is NOT an acceptable thing to do. Israel has other options, it never had to take this to war, yet, it chose to, just as hitler chose to order the killing of people because they followed the jewish faith.
Plus I'm sure at the moment Gaza would hire him....
Moving on from this, it's important that we balance the books, so to speak. We ALL need to understand the argument from both sides, ask questions and all push for a peaceful, quick and long term effective end to all this trouble, because too many innocent people are losing their lives and it is NOT acceptable.
I will also point out here that the west doesn't seem to have gotten involved much, apart from America which has funded Israel's arm's... but nothing gets said about that in the media... And WHY haven't we got involved yet? Because... there's no oil involved.
Sad, but it's true.
If we want to push our countries in the west to be getting involved more to help working this into a peaceful ending, we need to take our arguments to the street and show that we, the people, will not sit by and watch this happen... DEMAND ACTION.
You know me with my opinion's and YES i've seen the news recently and YES i'm going to rant on about it.... but nothing will change.
Russia has invaded the Ukrane. No point in trying to dress it up anymore, i think even Russia has admitted it now, but, their recent action's are NOT acceptable and they MUST RECIEVE PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR ACTIONS.... oooft, feel the anger there?
I've kept it no secret, i don't like Russia for what it has done over recent years. I think putin is lower than dog shit and his "government", well, even hell would reject them for their crimes against humanity. Yet amazingly, they managed to sink to a new low recently, by shooting a passanger plane out of the sky.
When i first heard this news, you can be sure that yes, i was shocked at first. I actually thought it was some kind of sick joke, because yet again, it's Malaysian Airline's, who's track record of sucsessful flight's is beginning to dip. Alas.... not a joke.
News first reached me when Gay Family Value's youtuber Jay, posted on facebook asking "Why are they calling it a crash?". Now, i know that he works as a policeman, so is going to come across road traffic accidents.... but post about them on facebook? No... he wouldn't. I began scrolling through the rest of my facebook to see something about Russia... and a plane... i checked the BBC news and there it was, breaking news, Russia shoots down aircraft with the quote "don't fly in our air".
Our Air?
Exactly who the fuck does Russia and it's fighter's think they are? They think they own airspace now do they? Me think's mother nature might need to step in and remind them exactly who is in control of airspace maybe... but that's for another venture of my good friend, Karma.
So what appears to have happened here then?
Well, a flight has been going over and SOMETHING has made it fall out of the sky. Now, as a none-plane expert here, i can personally assure you that nothing "technical" made the plane come down. It wasn't pilot error, it wasn't a wing falling off... The Russian's used something, a device, to shoot the plane down. Recent reports say that they thought it was a cargo plane.... ERRR, COS THAT MAKES IT OK DOES IT?
LIKE FUCK!!!
Russia has now lost ALL credability for what it's doing, more people are going to bed tonight hoping that the russian economy does fold in on itself, hoping that putin gets a violent case of diorriah and that he shits out vital organs, leading to the collapse of his government.... or is this just me?
Look, seriously, their action's are out of order. As if starting this "war" that it's turned into wasn't bad enough, they should ALL now be accountable for mass murder, because that is what they have caused. Of course my thoughts will be with the friends and family's of those who have lost innocent loved one's because of all of this, and i hope that now our world leaders will actually impose some restrictions on russia. Infact no, i hope now, out of a reaction for their action, i hope we fuck russia over.
It's no secret if you've been following my facebook or twitter recently, to know that... I have a cold.
I really hate being un-well, with a passion, because it's always when i'm at a busy point in my life, i can't ever seem to get enough sleep and nobody seems to be able to look after me how i need it.
This time however, i am ill for the first time with Trey, my sort of, flatmate, if you please. I know from in the past he is rubbish with looking after me when im hungover, and to be fair, he's not doing much of a better job now that i'm unwell.
I've been feeling under the weather for about 4 days now, and gradually it's been getting worse and worse. Today however, is the worst, so maybe this is a sign of it getting better soon! Anyways, how has Trey been looking after me?
Well, i still have to feed and water him, so, he's not done well on that front. When i've been blowing my nose, he's been looking at me as if i'm a freak from another plannet and staying away from me for a while after i've blown my nose.
The times when he does come over, he can be found rolling on my head or face, or cuddling up next to me, before jabbing a paw into my tummy as he feels the need to stretch himself out. He's also spent most of the day looking at me in the bathroom blowing my nose and coughing my lungs up, from on the bed, where he's also been asleep, after last night meeting a new doggy for the first time, and being knackerd.
All in all, he's not botherd to look after me, clearly he's realised that he is immune to what i have, so is spending his time laughing at me as i suffer, and plotting what he can do next to make my time worse.
Today, has been one of the most worst days for news today, leading me to think that this world we live in is utterly fucked up and i really do not like it.
Let me start with the bad news, there's been the story run recently about a guy who while being in police custardy had his photo taken and when posted on the police facebook page for that county in america, the picture went viral because everyone thought he was so good looking. I've since seen other pictures of him, and he's really not.
But today's news is... he's been offerd a modeling contract... while he's in prison! WTF? Who in their right mind is going to want their brand to be advertised by such vile scum? Who is going to want a picture of him anyway? His victims?
It's a disgrace.
But the news for me just got worse.
A little while ago, around being 1 year old, Millie-Rose was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, which is basically, a very aggressive form of cancer which is more often found in children than adults. After being diagnosed of course treatment started straight away, as did fundraising, as the family were thrown a life-line in the form of an operation that could have taken place in europe, which could get rid of the cancer, and no, the treatment is not available on the NHS in the UK, nor, would any funding be available from the NHS.
Fundraising was doing well, up until about a month or so ago. Millie began to become ill with infections, but, she'd prove all the doubters wrong time after time and would bounce back. Only, recently, she became ill again and the decision was made to make her unconcious while the hospital tried a whole range of medication to try and beat off this round of infection. A few days ago, there was a slight sign of improvement, but, tonight, Millie-Rose passed away.
We all have a certain amount of fight in us, there really is, only so much we can take, this latest wave of illness was just too much. It hit me really hard though, because 3 years old is too young to be passing away, and nobody, ever, should have to say goodbye to a 3 year old. It's just not right or fair.
Which for me, brings into question, where is this "god" figure that we hear of? Hmm? I mean, god is supposed to keep the good ones here with us, and smite those who commit acts that... well... piss him off, isn't that the way it goes? And i'm on about all religions here... why would ANY god want to take a child away?
Yet here we are, 2014, a criminal getting a modeling contract and an innocent child being taken away.
There's really not alot i can say in this post, because i'm still abit in shock and truth be told, in need of a beer or two and a bloody good cry.
So that's it. Day's with news like today are not good days, and it makes me question what sort of world we live in.
For my birthday in 2014 me and some friends had decided a few months before that we'd spend the day at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It's a small amusement part located in the north-west of England. To my knowledge, it currently holds the record for being the most compact theme park in europe/the world, and in certain parts, you can see why.
In the morning we all met up having pre-booked our tickets and i was amazed at how friendly the staff where when we arrived half an hour before the park opend for the day, even the security guard wished me a happy birthday as i walked through their body scanners.
We made our way over to some of the rides to find out that apparently, rather than do it like other theme parks have done in the past, BPB staggers the opening of their rides, so some will open at 11 when the park officially opens, others will open at half 11 etc, some rides it seems.... are still being built.
One of our first rides was a visit to Valhalla, an indoor water coaster which has to be seen to be believed, and it's certainly one hell of a good ride. It tells the story of the vikings and i presume their battles against dragon's and such. Since the ride's opening and my last visit, more has been added to this ride, with the addition of flame throwers outside the front of the que area. My only criticism, is that they didn't seem to have many boats in operation. If my memory serves me right, the ride station always used to have boats in, getting people in and out of the ride all of the time... yet there was periods where the station would have no boats in, which was abit annoying to see, when you're in a que and just wanting to get on with the ride. Of course though, this ride lived up to it's expectations in every sense of the word (minus the one flame effect, which is cheap and tacky). Going around the final few corners and seeing fireballs exploding right next to you, just added to the whole ride.... and i loved it!
We had a go on the derby racer (as has to be done in a blackpool visit, because it's just a classic ride!) and we then met up with my other friends who'd spent the pervious two nights at Alton Towers resort (another rival theme park).
We made our way over to the newly refurbished area of the park now known as "nickeloden land" or something like that. Our first stop was to what used to be the gold mine train, now re-furbished to being the wallace and gromit ride... you travel around it in a slipper, it's VERY cute and a really good ride... i loved it!
We made our way down into the "new" area and i was abit taken a back if i was honest with you. For the new area don't get me wrong, theres several new rides, one of which i think is a great addition to the park especially for a hot day, but theres alot of the same OLD rides, which have seen a re-paint and maybe a few bits of new theme stuff added to it, but, it was just the same old ride.
I was sad to see aswel that the classic space mountain is no-longer in operation. I had previously read somewhere that the ride was under-going some heavy maintenance work and would one day be re-opening, but the outter part of the building has been coverd in some bright colour theme stuff for nickle' land, and i noticed later in the day, the old "space mountain" ride sign was gone too, of course meaning one thing only.... it ain't going to be coming back anytime soon!
Futher round the park and of course we had to go on to "the big one" as it's now known, although i noticed some pepsi max sign's are still around, so it's abit confusing if the ride is still a pepsi sponsored ride... or is it to just be called "the big one". Now, in the past with this ride, it's always been enjoyable... this time... not so much. We sat at the back of the train and all's i can say is... in future... don't, it hurts. It just seemed to me that the ride wheels weren't smooth at all, because we vibrated all the way around. We didn't enjoy it and i'm sad to say, didn't go back on it.
We visited "the steeple chase" ride next, after to my dissapointment, realised that an old ride on the side known as "bling" has gone. The area for the ride is still there, but yeah, no sign of the ride itself. Steeple chase to me, has always been a painful and unpleasent ride, but as my friends wanted to go on it, i went along too... and guess what, i still didn't enjoy it. The way the horses lean for me, is done too sharp, and if you're not ready for it, it's even more painful.
We moved back around and of course HAD to call in on the Iron-Bru "Revolution", which has been re-painted a sort of silver and black... presumeably, a sign that Irn-Bru have dropped out of their sponsorship of the ride. Needless to say, this is still a blackpool classic ride and is still VERY much enjoyable.
We wanted to move back futher into the park and as we made our way around, i got to be taken on a ride which is an old friend of mine.
Years ago, the owners of BPB bought over a rival site not too far away, and opened up a new rollercoaster on the site called the "Trauma-Tizer", which was of course sponsored by the drink brand "Tizer". I used to love that ride with all my heart and of course i was gutted to hear only a few years later that the southport site was closing for good.
The owners removed this ride from the site quite quickly and took it over to blackpool, sprayed it blue, stuck a few water fountains on it and called it "Infusion". Now granted, this was never designed to be a water coaster of any sorts and part way around the track where it's constantly wet, you can hear the wheels screatch along the track... but by the christ, i've missed that ride... to the point, i rode it twice... and once on my own!
However though, time was nearly upon us. From 11am, the park was only open until 5, so we really didn't have much time at all to go and play on the rides.
We visited a few more rides, before the que area's shut and the tannoy system of the park began to tell us to leave but "have a nice day" etc.
That, was when we went onto our next activity....
Passaje Del Terror is a walk-through underground haunted attraction and trust me, is not for the faint hearted. Since my last visit to this, even i noticed a few changes that left me wishing i'd have brought a change of underware. Like the mental asylum part, where you're walking through and a killer (i cannot remember from what film) steps out infront of you. He tilt's his head and looks at the group. A split seconds later, the area is plunged into darkness for several seconds, before the "patient breakout" activity takes place and basically, you run away to go and hide and maybe call a therapist.
After we'd ran out into the bar bit (which was closed) and we made our way upstairs, we made our way over to the cars and began to head home (via a quick stop for milkshakes at Yankee's in wigan... my fave place ever).
We all made our way over to my mother's, who'd put a buffet on and invited a load of my family and friends who couldn't make it to pleasure beach and we spent the evening there (which is where i had a few vodka's and began to chill out after a day of mental ness!).
It was a really nice evening and i can honestly say, it was an amazing birthday. I spent the whole day and night with people who i know love and care for me, and whom i love and care for too. I was given some amazing presents and i'm just able to say, it was a really incredable time. If i could do it all over again, i would.... and i wouldn't change a thing.
Thank you to everyone who came and made the day what it was, it really meant the world to me! :)
If recent headlines here are to be believed in the UK, then we have a major problem. Of course though, the media are hyping this story up which i first heard about a number of months ago now. The story goes that pupils in some schools are being treated differently due to them not being muslim, somehow, this is classed as extremeism, yet nothing was said years ago when it was the catholics or christians were doing this kind of thing.
Example? Hows about the time when my uncle (only in his teens at the time) was denied access to his own fathers funeral because he didn't follow that faith. That to me is extremeism, but of course the media at the time, infact, never, has had a campaign of hatred against that faith (i think it was the catholic faith).
What strikes me with this story is that i personally seem to have a view which isn't shared by others and the reaction from others really irritates me, because i can see the power the media has had in their damning of the muslim and islamic faith.
If this story is true, then like i say, yes, we might have a problem on our hands, unless their is muslim schools, as there is schools of all faiths in existance these days. All school's have to be honest and teach about other faith's which is why we have the lesson's dedicated to the studying of religions.
I personally don't believe this story though, i do think it's a bandwagon that the media are jumping on, and personally, after abit of thinking, this goes back to 9/11 in new york. That incident was blamed so much on these terrorists and how they brought down the world trade centres that people over-look the scientific reasonings behind these buildings being brought down, all 3 of them in new york.
What do i mean?
Let's for a moment look at the structure of the building and keep that in mind here. These buildings we're built to with-stand a plane crashing into it, from all angles, and you guessed right if you thought "but they did". We're told to believe that it was the heat from the flames that was caused by the ignition of the plane fuel, which heated up the metal, causing the whole of these buildings to come down within a matter of 11 seconds.
False. This cannot happen, it isn't possible. How to think of it? Well, remember here that the planes struck the top part of the buildings, surely the bottom half atleast should offer some support and even show resistance to collapse, should the tops of the towers begin to collapse.
Futhermore, what if i told you that many fire fighters, witnesses and suvivors have told their storys about hearing loud bangs, and seeing something like "malton metal lava" on the ruines. To me, 9/11 was an inside job, 100%. We'll never get the truth in our lifetime, but trust me, if you want to look into this and see what "the other side" are trying to shout about, then please look into this, you, as i was, will be suprised at what you find. Especially when you find a small programme where structure experts speak out.
Anyway, back to this story....
After this attack of course came the "war on terrorism", which during it's time saw an mass bombing of london, seen hundreds of soldiers killed, even one beheaded in london. Attempted bombings world over... and all blamed on the muslim faith. Yet surely if it was in the holy book for these people to do such actions, then more people who follow the faith would be doing them actions, right?
So, people are objecting to the way the pupils are being treated, segregated because of their faith.... the solution to that? We create muslim faith based schools, with parents free to choose where they want to send their children for their education.
People are saying that some staff are being forced out of their job, because they're not muslim. I personally haven't seen any evidance of this actually happening, but if it is true, then we need to look at who is forcing these people out of the jobs and their reason for it.... again, could a muslim faith based school be the answer to that problem?
People world over have a fear about islam and it's because it's a fear of the unknown. Islam isn't a faith of hatred, it doesn't say anywhere that gays are bad, that you should judge others by the colour of their skin, or that you should go and blow yourself up.
Spend some time, whenever you next have some spare time going through the muslim faith. Even talk to a muslim if you want. You'd be amazed what you can find out. There's really nothing to be scared of.
As for this news story, here's how it'll pan out. The education secretary for the UK will put a plan forward for drastic change to happen, he will condemn the actions of some people you have never heard of.... and the media will move onto the next story. In a few months time, no change will happen because it'll cost money the government isn't prepared to spend and you'll just go on happily through life thinking something changed.
