Odd, Surreal, Surreal, Odd

This is my last day in college. Just under an hour and I'll be going home for the last time. Seems odd. Very surreal. Also sat in the same computer centre that I wrote my first blog post in. Also very surreal. And odd.

In this weeks ego-boost news, I've had about 1100 people look at this blog. Wow!

A2 Over!

Just had my last exam. Overall, I'd say they've gone pretty average-ish. It's nice to have abit of freedom now. It means I can beef up the blog with more news stories about foreign people with extra limbs and snakes that smoke cigarettes etc. You've missed it, haven't you?

Capello

The medias grasp is tightening on the England manager, and many people are saying he should resign. unfortunately, he's already signed a contract that bounds him to the club for another 4 years. Rumours say that he's on about £6,000,000 a year, which you'd think could afford him some common sense. It's a shame that England's World Cup dream has sunk like the Titanic (actually abit quicker than the Titanic) because it would have been amazing to see the hype justified.

I can't work out whether to feel sorry for the team or angry that they performed so badly. I'm undecided. I'll stay sat on the fence for this one, I think. Doesn't matter if the Enland team try and kick me off the fence. They'd miss.

Goodbye World Cup!

England have crashed out of the World Cup in fantastic style, loosing to a German team that may aswell have pulled the trousers down of each and every English player on that pitch and spanked them. Because that's what the match was - A graphic, 1-sided spanking.

Controversially, our second goal went in. It crossed the line by about a foot, and the linesman didn't see it. Naturally, that linesman's hated in England now. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sniper lying in wait on a roof across the street from his house. An English sniper; obviously.

Admittedly we deserved to loose. Our defence was about as useful as a pencil with no lead, and Wayne Rooney (who's meant to be one of our 'dark horses') was about as good as an actual horse, if not worse. I'm pretty sure even Black Beauty could have at least got a touch on the ball before the Germans dribbled past.

Daisy

I haven't mentioned my dog much on this blog really, which is unusual seeing as she's done so many weird, bandwidth-worthy things. Anyway, mother nature has seen her blossom into a dribbling, water-trough diving mess. Here she is, sat in a field looking like there should be a beauty magazine title photoshopped above her head.

Vein bitch. No really, she's a bitch.

Toe

Stubbed my toe the other day and spent about 30 minutes mounted to the kitchen sink soon after. Here's some evidence for you:



The weirdest thing about it was the aftermath. I didn't even notice I'd stubbed it until I looked down at the kitchen floor and it looked like a scene from a SAW film.

Annoyingly, I had to resort to wearing 3 socks on the same foot which meant I walked lop-sided, like a dazed, clumsy bleeding drunk.

The World Cup

I can't think of any sport that brings people together like Football does. England vs. Slovenia was being shown at college today. It's the first time I've seen the plasma screens used for something other than displaying students 'artwork', which often looks like somebody took a gulp of paint and sneezed it back out. Still, they can get away with it because it's art. The problem with art is if you slag it off you always get somebody defending it by saying something along the lines, "Of course you don't like it. You don't know good art when you see it!" or "you've got to look beyond the picture!"

England VS. Germany - World Cup 2010

The whole nation rolled its eyes to the sky and muttered 'shite' under its breath today after England were knocked out of the World Cup following a 4-1 defeat.

Admittedly, we were outplayed in terms of creativity, vision and finish.

But - One of our efforts at goal did actually cross the line. It was about a foot over. Anybody could have seen that. Anybody. Yet, the referee played on, and the goal was disallowed. I think the fact that Football is arguably the most wide-played and popular sport in the world and yet Goal-line technology has not been implemented at professional level (especially for a large scale event like the World Cup) is completely ridiculous and unjustified.

Having that goal disallowed completely changed the psychology of the English team. Understandably, they were dispirited. So was the rest of England.

Here's a video of the goal that was disallowed:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8BQrV4koM

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Finally, here's an artists impression of what the linesman probably saw:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-saw-Lampard-SCORE-against-Germany-2010/128077717229017?v=wall#!/photo.php?pid=132048&id=128077717229017

Muse - Glastonbury

It's very hard to put into words Muse's incredible performance this year at Glastonbury music festival 2010. Starting at 10:30 and going into the early hours of the morning, the set proved something we all already knew. An incredible band with incredible music, creativity, talent and spectacle. Muse are the one and only reason I'll ever want to go to festivals like Glastonbury and Reading.

Full Circle

Today's my last day at college! I'm going to miss everybody that made it such a laugh. Thankfully I didn't have any bad teachers over the years which helped make lessons slightly more bearable.

To mark my final period at college me and my friend attempted to get the I.T man to put the infamous 'THE COMPUTERS ARE FOR COLLEGE USE ONLY' by going on Youtube.

He wasn't interested. Seems a shame, really. It's also weird to think I started this blog at this college, sat in the I.T centre, twiddling my thumbs.

Microsoft and STD's

Is it somehow tragic that I found this amusing? I was putting some notes together for my Media exam revision and at the bottom of the page it said 'INSRT STD', which to me translates as 'Insert sexually transmitted disease'

Since when were Microsoft so filthy?

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Cobwebs

Hello everybody. Yep, I'm still alive. I haven't even looked back at this blog recently. I've had so much else occupying my time. I mainly mean revision. June is exam month and if I want to get anywhere I need to do well in these exams. I've been doing well in terms of dedicating lots of time to studying. It'll be a shame if my efforts don't prove to be worthwhile.

As soon as my exams are over, I can focus more attention on this blog. I miss having the freedom to research news stories and write about then. Thankfully, when the exams are over I'll be able to bulk up both the 'News' section and the 'Reviews' section of the blog. I haven't written in either of those sections in what seems like ages.

I'm going on holiday in the summer and so plan to write daily while I'm there. Spain; if you're asking. Naturally, my daily logs will be full to the brim with wit and sarcasm, traits you've learnt to love / put up with.

Watch this space!