Why do we do it?

We are all  guilty of this (assumption, we are almost definitely not), leaving cups. We hate the dirty cups when we find them and we say things like:

"FOR GOD'S SAKE WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS? IT'S NOT HARD JUST TAKE THE CUP DOWNSTAIRS INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT TO GO FUCKING MOULDY! IT IS SO DISGUSTING!", et cetera whilst we secretly wonder whether the cup is ours, or most certainly know

but really people (including me) why do you do it?

Because we secretly like the excitement of having germs growing in our rooms that's why!
In this clean, clean world we need the little adrenaline rush that knowing things that could kill (harm) us are growing near at night.
Because we love the SPORES!

well that's one theory anyway.

I put it to you psychologists, why do we never learn?
Why do we repeatedly leave cups around our houses?

Citzenship

Today in citizenship we were asked to research AV and write a piece for or against it. This is what I handed into my teacher...

AV or first past the post? Either way, there will be people like me who are just not concerned. Some of us think of politics and the phrase “be afraid, be very afraid” pops into our heads, or just a blankness. Having the AV / first past the post scenario pushed in through our front doors only makes the matter worse. We will shy away the more you try to force it on us. The question is, does AV count who doesn’t vote and leave empty spaces in parliament? That is real democracy. Really, a lot of us do not want to make uninformed choices and simultaneously can’t be bothered to become informed so we continue with our lives doing nothing, or perhaps making remarks such as, the government suck, or I’m a punk! To be honest, the days of the monarchy were easier. People aren’t ready for the responsibility of democracy. We end up with politicians elected by the only people who can be bothered to vote who are really not most of us. I want to see dictatorships back.

I would like to add a disclaimer - how does one do that?

ahem: you may have detected a touch of sarcasm here. No I do not want to see dictatorships back... also copyrighting stuff :) have a nice day

Destiny

Some people are panicked by the idea of destiny but I don't see why. In fact, it's kind of comforting. If your life is planned out for you then it takes a whole lot of stress out of decision making (because really, there is no decision making). You can't mess things up, because it was always going to go a certain way. Nothing that happens bad is your fault.
If you are one of these people panicked by the idea that your life is not in your hands, instead just relax. You can do nowt, so don't try. Enjoy the now :)

I feel obliged to post something, don't feel obliged to read it

My last post was in January and that may be a good thing because I largely post about things that annoy me but now, annoyed or not, I feel I should blog

Even as I sit and ponder witty observations are coming to me

that's a joke, they are not

I recently got a mysterious foot injury in the night and am up obscenely early (in the six o'clock hours) to go walking but now I am forced to find entertainment on the computer which is in the form of this mindless ramble

did you know that in a snickers duo bar they manage to cram nearly five hundred calories? I was amazed when I found this out and slightly in awe of that innocent looking bar and then I ate it anyway

and also I ate a toasted (effectively fried as it was made in the toasty sandwich maker and I put butter on the outside too) nutella and golden syrup sandwich - at first, as you probably are, I was disgusted with myself, but then I thought, if  can't eat this now, when can I? food worries are for later in life. I put my sister on ambulance watch nonetheless

and that's all for this awful post

Year7s

I am aware that this may be a controversial issue, and I am opening myself up to being accused of being ageist but I think that everyone will agree that year 7s are annoying. Year 8s are barely better.
I am pretty sure that when I was in year 7 (note: I was never a year seven, the two things are different) I swear there was a hierarchy system in place. You know, year sevens do not walk into year 8s, neither walk into year 9s e.t.c. now however, that seems to be abandoned. These midgets (I was never that short) shove into me and then tell me to watch it.

The little bastards.

I put it down to the sudden transition from top of the school to annoying children.
those screaming, rude, short, immature annoyances are the pain of every secondary school-dweller's lives.

Blog Properly Now

So I am searching for a blog by making up names and they normally exist except my joy at finding them is often quickly crushed by the 0-3 posts I see infront of me. Why not delete your blog if you are not going to post on it? Or when I comment and the owner doesn't check except annually, again - delete. I want only dedicated users on blogspot and all you others can leave and take your awful blogs with you.

People that won`t let me argue with them.

Now this habit might be peculiar to myself, but when I am annoyed at somebody I like to shout at them. The appropriate response to being shouted at by someone you have annoyed is to stay still, shut up and meekly apologize at the end of it all. With that done your relationship with that person (or me anyway) can continue as normal. What I hate is when somebody will not let this happen. They have to smooth talk their way out of it, disarm you, put things in a way that make you seem unreasonable, the manipulative bastards. This in the end makes your relationship worse because steam is unable to be blown off annoyance that you can't vent builds until you want to mutilate them. People who are like this in arguments to be promptly subtly drifted from in life.

Good Food

So I come downstairs feeling not peachy perfect and sit down at the table where my family are having a positively gormet lunch. My tender nostrils at this delicate stage of my illness are assualted with blue cheese and suchlike and it continues until I meekly ask for heinz spaghetti on toast. This prompted a thought, why do our (or maybe just my) parents try to bring me up on wonderful expensive tasteful food when we want rubbish? It would be easier to feed me crap, I want to eat crap and it would be cheaper for me to eat crap. I am sixteen now, I am responsible for my own malnutrition so let me eat out of cans please!

The new era of music playing

I remember wondering some time ago, we've hd records tapes and cds, what will be next?
Will the discs get even smaller? The answer to this pondering is that now we have ipods. Not only a mobile device for playing music on the move but for transporting music too. Cds are becoming less and less used and now what we do is plug our ipods or computers straight into the speakers.

Ipods

Although I have often mildly wanted to own an ipod, I have decided against it. This is because in my view, they make a person insociable. Of course it may be exactly what you are aiming for when you plug those earphones in but when you are listening to your ipod you are not listening to anything else. Too often a person sits and doesn't talk to anyone around them or is oblivious to their surroundings with an ipod in. I looked around on my school bus before and everybody sat in my area but me, all six of them were just listening to their music. Not talking, sulky and miserable. My friend I notice cuts herself off with her ipod in tutor. It's not the real world. Music should be played outloud for everyone to hear. You should be brought together in listening. I do however think they are good for running. The rythm of tunes to excercise to is good.

Good Book

There will always be those people who look down on you for reading say, Darren Shan. They sit there with their penguin classics and their books about serious grown up issues like love, rape and real life. Because your books aren't worth anything because they're about vampires, sci-fi and made-up stuff.
Not only are the books I read just as good (maybe even better as they're not half as boring) they can actually explore deep issues. Don't even get me started about Lord of The Rings. The more I read up on J R R Tolkein the more I realise his books actually are about a lot more than the story. The Shire for example (I think) is very much the place where Tolkein wanted to live - he hated industrialism. The whole story was about how far people would go (the hobbits) to protect their way of life.
I will continue to read fantasy and enjoy it and firmly believe it is good reading!

Ben & Jerry's' betrayal

Anyone know who Unilever are? maybe not. They manufacture loads of brands such as dove, cif, marmite, walls, lynx basically loads. They are a huge company.
If you, like me, have seen the Ben and Jerry's advert about how they got picked last for gym and stuff then you too I think will feel betrayed to know that Ben and Jerry's is a Unilever brand! It is not the ice cream we thought it was... although I don't really know why it changes things?

Petty Officials

This has been mildly annoying me for a while, one of the bus drivers won't let me get off where my Dad lives although it is en route but I have never really objected massively because I can reason with myself that it is his job. He says if I got off in the wrong place and was hurt (not that i'd tell the school I was hurt or even mention that I didn't get off where I live) he could get in trouble.
Fair do's I say but it still bugs me. The other drivers are fine.
But this man on the train tried to make me pay £20 because I didn't buy a ticket at the platform. I was unaware you could no longer buy it on the train. I never did pay the £20 but I don't know why these people grasp the tiny bit of authority they have to be arseholes. There's no reason why he can't say: alright, you know you have to buy them on the platform from now on, I'll let you off. They take their crap jobs so seriously. I could understand if they were actually important but they're not, they suck.

What the correlation?

Many a teacher has said to the class, you are behaving like a bottom set.
I'd like to ask: What correlation does set and behavior have?
I see that people who do well at school are likely to be the ones that try hard but perhaps you are just naturally intelligent? and who says bottom sets mess about anyway? They could be doing their very best! Indeed, intelligent students are often badly behaved because they are bored, or can be and still keep up with the work.
I don't know why grades should dictate behavior and I'm sick of teachers telling us that their bottom set they have just had did better than us.
I once pointed out to a teacher who asked why people in the second set should be so badly behaved that it was probably because we were all potentially top set but messed around too much. They actually agreed with me that it was a fairly good description of the group.

Food Packaging

I find it funny that they write on i.e. snickers, enjoy as part of a balanced diet when it's obviously bad for you.
And alcohol when they write: drink responsibly when their main concern is clearly to sell as much of their product as possible. And also the things they put into foods like omega three in bread,
a. how much bread would you have to eat to get that omega three? (probably the whole loaf)
b. and they are clearly still bad for you, people just want to have an excuse to buy things they shouldn't

French Tests

Today I have a French speaking test which I have in no way prepared for. It will be a very embarrasing experience, sat there for fifteen minutes being asked questions that I don't even understand let alone know the answer to. All week I have been thinking about sitting there going red mumbling french that doesn't even make sense whilst my caring teacher tries her best to get from me what I need for a good grade. She will one day (not today) realise I am no good at French. The silences are the worst.
I wonder, why do they teach languages so badly? This is my fifth year of doing French and yet when asked what did you do taday? I can only just about string a sentence together. If I had has lessons outside of school I would expect to be fluent by now. We don't even get taught grammar, just a multitude of phrases we are meant to be able to use, to minimise mistakes is the thinking behind it. No verb tables, nothing. I blame the system because by looking at my English I know that I am not actually bad at languages. Hopefully this year I can wing it and scrape a C or a B if I'm feeling good but I want the way languages are taught at school to change.

Public Transport

I'm all for public transport if they could just make it cheap and efficient. It seems somehow wasteful that all the time, everywhere, cars are driving places with one person in when they could seat five. So car pooles might not be necesary from a cost point of view but it doesn make sense.
we are always urged, use public transport but it is expensive and not very good.
They can't improve it because it has no money because nobody uses it because they need to improve it.
There needs to be a MASSIVE initial investment.
If everyone could get about by train and bus cheaply and easily they would.
And also why is there so much freight on the roads?
surely that can be bunged on a train?
There used to be trains to everywhere - not anymore
a friend of mine thinks we should re use the canals - good idea me reckons, I must research it

Just Thought I'd Share

To all you other bloggers, tired of clicking next blog hoping to find a good one but all you get is chinese? (not that chinese is bad, I just can't read it)
well, in the search bar just make up blog names and search them
chances are they're made
anyway this is a much more acurate process of finding blogs you might actually want to read

Wasting Food

I often get annoyed when food is wasted and someone makes the oh so intelligent comment "that could have gone to a starving child in Africa" because
a. People in England starve too you know and not only children
b. there is absolutely no way it could have gone to a starving child in Africa unless it is meant to somehow materialize onto another continent. Us eating all our food really does the children no benefit at all. So please, stop saying that and maybe also buy food for an English tramp near you.

you love rock?

I have noticed a large amount of t-shirts about that say I love rock on them, like the I love NY t-shirt
it annoys me because people obvs just wear them because that's what in at the moment
I mean, if you really loved rock, you would be wearing a band t-shirt no? yet when they get home on goes the likes of Leona Lewis and Miley Cyrus, not that there's anything wrong with them
but I find it stupid. You clearly do not love rock.