Brain power (lacking)

I was playing a brain training game on the nintendo DS against my niece who is eleven and my nephew who is almost 13.  When we did the memory round where you have a couple of minutes to memorise 28 numbers & their locations on a grid (I think – I forget), I could only remember 2 of them.  After those I was completely clueless.  My niece on the other hand could remember 13 of them straight off.  My nephew I think got 10.  It’s a bit worrying – my short term memory recall has always been bad, but this was really diabolical.  I need some serious memory training.  I blame working for a living.  It’s killing off my brain power!  Though I recently discovered I have some degree of discalculia which whilst it explains my life long ineptitude with numbers and basic maths, is also annoying because I don’t like putting labels like that on people.  I like to think that everyone can learn; we just all need different, individualised teaching methods to do so.

Cats – what are they up to?

Every time I’ve opened my front door so far today there has been a little cat sitting there. Now if it had been the same one each time, I would think nothing of it, however it was a different cat each time.  And they acted like they knew me.  What are they up to? Sneaky little things!  It’s not like they don’t have homes either – they had collars and name tags.  Must look up cat lore.  Or consult the SaesFerds! (they know who they are ).

Married couple slapped with ASBO then threatened with jail for noisy sex life

Read about it here.

Whilst there are some aspects of this couples behaviour that are quite off (for instance, children do not need to hear that), I can’t help but think that they are being subjected to a large amount of humiliation due to other people’s hangs ups about sex and the fact that generally we live in crappily built houses with tissue paper thin walls.  Who the hell thought up terraced houses for goodness sake?  And worst of all, flats.  They are the most hellish of homes to live in (unless you have money for some soundproofed luxury penthouse somewhere like Monaco).

They’re married and clearly enjoy a good sex life.  In the picture there they look really quite distraught and I feel a little bit sorry for them.  Why don’t they just move to a detached home with no neighbours in the countryside somewhere?   Then they can make as much noise as they want.   In effect the courts have basically reinforced that enjoying your sex life as a couple is a bad thing and this couple have been threatened with jail because other people can’t cope with them.  Note that the judge was reported as “Ms”.  Also, who decided that sex can sound unnatural?  Oh and the neighbour complaining about being kept awake by the couple – her picture is on one of the other links and she looks, well, pretty ugly to be honest.  Wonder if anyone will be taking her to court for offences against their eyes?

Why am I ranting on?  Well, I’m certain that council has way better things to spend the taxpayers money on.  They probably could have saved loads by paying for a sex counsellor to maybe help the couple tone the noise down a little and/or help re-house them so they are in a crowded neighbourhood.  Surely the Human Rights Act applies to them too?

Exposure

I was surfing like you do and came across this blog entry called the Exposure Movement.  Basically you take a half naked picture of yourself and write on it all the things that you like about your body.  Most women focus on the things they hate about their bodies rather than things that are good about them or that they like about them.  I should probably do it as it would be useful, but like the true chicken I am, I’ll probably wait until I’ve lost the weight I put back on.  It’s only a stone but a stone makes a hell of a difference!

iPod or iPhone or none of the above?

I still haven’t replaced my old ipod and it’s starting to pack in.  I originally wanted an ipod touch but I can’t justify buying one since they only hold 6hours of films regardless of the memory size you buy which is crap. I won’t use anything else on it except the music.  iPhone would seem a better option as I also need to update my phone but I only know one person who has one.  He did not recommend getting an iPhone contract unless it was for 12 months and most only do them for 24 months.  That leaves pay-as-you go which costs between £300 and £600 depending on which company you go with.  I was after some more opinions as online reviews can’t be trusted.  I’m also considering the iPod nano (which doesn’t play video) and the iPod classic (which does).

This is dangerously like a twitter entry!  Am I close to turning to the darkside?

I’m mad! Apparently

My Landlord is back from Aus and came to see me today as we hadn’t met.  He was very pleased with the house and said he was going to to report back to his wife that they have a mad woman living in the house! I guess I am a little eccentric.  I think he wasn’t expecting me to do a grand tour and basically entertain him.  He did rather rub it in that before he flew back they were bike riding in 37 degree sunshine and having BBQs on the beach.

He did ask me if I wanted to stay long term, so I guess that’s a good sign.  Though they are concerned I’m not having enough parties!  The neighbours reckon I’m too quiet.  Apparently.

Ross, BBC, /care

This is bandwagon post & I’m two days behind.  It would seem that all the show biz and media types love Jonathan Ross and think the BBC have made a big mistake getting rid of him.  Fortunately the business people at the BBC listen to their licence fee payers.  Generally the public, including myself, detest Jonathan Ross.  It was interesting watching the Wright stuff on Friday (I think) when the panel seemed almost heartbroken at Ross’ demise yet the callers and studio audience thought the opposite.  Ross is an awful interviewer (he talks over his guests and tries to belittle them at every opportunity), the failed ‘r’s are old and he’s just not funny.  As for a replacement for his Friday night show – to be honest I don’t care.  The ones in the running are no better in my opinion.  I keep getting the word puerile coming to mind.  Not bothered about his radio show either – just give it to that one who used to do never mind the buzzcocks – Mark Lamarr – I’m sure I heard him stand in for Ross and he way way better.  As for the movie show – give that to Mark Kermode – someone who knows about movies.  Don’t feel sorry for Jonathan Ross – he has millions of fans.  As pointed out in the right stuff all he need do is go digital, sell his podcast for a pound (he has tonnes of fans – they’ll all buy it) and he will be making £24,000,000 a month.

Treason.

Treason was how the uncle of one of the dead soldiers described the actions of British Muslims wanting to protest at the repatriation procession of British soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan/Iraq.

There have been numerous reports of Muslim protesters at Wooten Bassett and also there is currently a trial of the despicable protesters in Luton.  The actions of the supposedly “British” Muslims is nothing more than treasonous.  Our cowardly government should treat it as such and deport all of the protesters to their country of origin.  The problem here is that a number of our laws conflict or contradict.  Treason should override all.

Perhaps we should be more harsh like the French are.  There they take quite a strict stance against a lot of religion related issues, even legislating against them and they have no terrorism problems.  Here where it is more liberal (or lazy) we have a number of problems with violence, failure to integrate, intolerance, threats, security issues and terrorist acts.  Whoever gets in after the next election needs to take drastic action to sort this.

Facebook? Twitter?

Yes, I will admit to being the only person in the world who does not get the point of facebook or twitter.  When I go on it I see a number of people who can’ string a sentence together unless they put numerous swear words, and truly appalling abbreviations (which many seem to believe are real words).  I’d rather read a person’s blog or website.

What really put me off Facebook was a report this morning where one of their “executives” said he wanted all the world’s population to be in Facebook.  Clearly he has no understanding of the dire situation many millions of people are in.  Some don’t even have life’s basics (food, shelter, water, rights) so how the hell does he expect them to have access to a computer and facebook account?

As for Twitter, well I would just shorten that a bit and add an ‘S’.

Stick to wordpress!

Weather Lies & Driving Fools

I distinctly remember some woman on the BBC telling us in early autumn that we should expect a mild winter with very little snow.  I also remember someone on the local radio station saying something similar.

I think in the future I will check this guy who seems to be spot on when he says “…snowier than average UK winter”.

I find it interesting that so many people seem determined to carry on with their driving plans no matter what the risks are, yet in this country we do not learn ice driving, governments won’t put in the infrastructure to deal with snow (they say it’s not cost effective as we don’t get enough snow.  I’d like to see the figures on that poor excuse) and people are generally idiots.  You see people trying to drive at normal road speed on compacted snow & those overtaking sensible people who have slowed down for the road conditions.  In addition, people never have a plan B.  So what if you can’t drive 100 miles to your relatives for Christmas?  Stay at home and enjoy yourself there.  If you can’t do that get some help with your issues.