- The Old Firestation is unceremonious with it’s cut-off points.
- Lecturers are people too.
- Rayman doesn’t get any easier to play when you’re older.
- There are no unfunny memes.
- A dog’s business can earn you money.
Christmas Caption Fail
Rhett and Link’s recent foray into videos have come from YouTube’s Auto Caption service.
It’s not unlike that video I did a couple of years back, but they do take it that one step further. Well, several. But whatever.
And this place needed Christmasifying up, so why not do it in a funny way?
“Students are driving us out of our homes!”
A story in the Bournemouth Echo has rattled a few cages within the Bournemouth Uni student community thanks to the abhorrent one-sided view of the whole ordeal.
To sum up the story – Winton is going to the dogs or, more accurately, the students. Long-term residents of the suburb just outside the Bournemouth University Talbot Campus have been complaining about all the students making Winton an unpleasant place to live.
Conor Burns (the MP for Bournemouth West) held a meeting for residents to discuss the problem of students in the area, which is great. But it was a closed one, consisting of 15 residents. None of those were students, and BU’s Student’s Union were also denied entrance.
Right. Okay then. I’m not going to get all student rally up in here (we all know how that ended) but it’s time to get the other side of the story seeing as other residents and our MP seem reluctant to.
I live in Winton. I have done for a couple of years now. I’ve got friends who have lived in Winton and Bournemouth in general most of, if not all of, their lives. It is, at it’s furthest point, about a half hour walk to the campus. There’s little wonder, therefore, why students choose to live here. It’s close, it’s cheap and it doesn’t look half bad neither.
My room has a window facing the road, where it’s pretty hard not to see or hear what’s happening on the street. The loudest thing I hear is cars going down the road. The last anti-social thing I saw was the bloke who lives opposite us put the litter from his car in our bin.
Right now we’ve got a dog turd on the pavement just outside of our house. Clearly that’s down to drunken, anti-social dogs coming along and shitting all over the pavement at 3am while your kids are trying to sleep.
Obviously, that’s codswallop, but it’s about as logical. Take Lisa Simpson’s tiger-repelling rock idea. Students (or, as we’re commonly referred to as, youths) are referred to as loud, partying, obnoxious members of society. There’s a problem with anti-social behaviour. So it must be students, and we must clear them away.
I think it’s griped me more simply because our MP didn’t allow any student or anyone related to the Student’s Union in on their meeting. Conor Burns who, when the elections were running, appeared on BU’s beloved Nerve Radio with their Party Political Playlist said himself that “[students] are full citizens of our country” and “are concerned as much as anybody else about crime and anti-social behaviour”. The reasoning behind doing as he did was to avoid “retaliation” which, forgive me if I’m wrong, is just a loaded word for “another opinion”.
Although that gripe is burdened further by the realisation of that it wasn’t just our MP, but the other residents of Winton saying this. The website for Winton – wintonforum.co.uk – couples every mention of the word ‘student’ with words like ‘issues’, ‘problems’ and of all things ‘ghetto’. The comments on the Bournemouth Echo article are worse still. It’s kind of like when old people are casually racist, but not all of them as labelling them all as one thing you saw one time would be wrong, wouldn’t it.
In short, I guess I’m disappointed. Winton’s awesome. We plough a shed-load of money into Bournemouth University who, in turn, use it to improve it’s surrounding areas. Seeing as it’s virtually in Winton, it’s certainly seeing the benefits of students being around it. You might just want to think about that next time some drunken idiot wanders down the high street. If we were all like that, you would have 17,000 people shouting obscenities at your wheelie bin.
Remember, Remember, wonderful Movember.
Today is the 1st December. That means, the end of Movember, where I actually grew a full-on beard (so I didn’t look like a massive pillock). Over 30 long days I went from smooth to Viking in the facial department. I looked officially old. I was looking back at pictures from a month ago wondering why I looked so young.
But today, at one minute past midnight, it met it’s maker. Me. Obviously.
You can see the progression and there’s a video that’s encoding as we speak which documents the process, but I thought I best show you the various stages of it’s life.
No guy can have facial hair, shave it off, but not go through a strategic process of trying out different styles. These are those styles.
I call this one “A little bit more than what Noel Edmonds has”.
This one is what I would have looked like had I just continued with Movember like you’re supposed to. Or what MySpace pictures may have looked like in the 90s.
This one’s just racist.
UPDATE: It’s here. Hooray, etc.
My Tram Experience
See, this is why you can’t be a dick in the modern age.
This video – titled “My Tram Experience” – is a video of a guy recording this overly racist and loud woman on a tram in London. Mouthing off something awful about the people from “Sybernigragua” ruining her beloved country, while her child seemingly appears to eat a Burberry cap.
I get it. People are entitled to their opinion, and I’m not mixing my words when I say there’s a bunch of racist people in the UK. But there’s no reason (or, indeed, law) allowing you to be overly racist in public.
So the Internet took that on board and made this little video go viral in order to catch this lady who looks a bit too much like Kat from EastEnders.
And guess what. She was found.
This really serves as a lesson to people looking to commit crimes in the modern age. We’re not just talking public order offenses, but burglaries, muggings and the like also. People have the technology to track you down now, not just a handful of people.
It’s called the Internet. And you better get used to it. Lol.
5 Other Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
- Iceland employees are the best at pretending they are happy in their jobs.
- I’m not the only person who forgets there’s a CD in their laptop.
- Games are only games if they have short and long term goals.
- The Bournemouth Christmas Market is like entering another dimension.
- American Samoa’s nation team are worse than the Cobblers.
It’s all a bit serious
This week’s been a bit full on, really. No real time to do anything of any value, other than pretty important adult stuff. I don’t mean adult stuff in that way, I mean stuff I’m going to have to do constantly for the rest of my life has got in the way of doing fun stuff. Boring.
I’m a student. Student’s get a bad rep for either being lazy or setting fire to things. But really since starting back in late September all I’ve done is work constantly. Whether it’s working on a pitch for my final year project, my final year project itself, dissertation stuff, freelance work, other personal projects or generally just helping other people out, I’m constantly doing work. But I know that’s exactly what life’s like (assuming you want to get out and make something of yourself) so I do it however mind-numbing that is.
There’s even people that are doing more work than I am, which really is a miracle.
I had a pitch for my major project on Monday (which went alright thanks for asking) which dominated my third year up to now, and now it’s hard and fast onto the dissertation which is a barrel of laughs.
We had a meeting for our NHS project this morning too through which I was thinking “This is me for the next 40 years. Sat in meetings discussing deadlines and targets. It’s all very exciting, isn’t it…” but I suppose that’s what I got into when I signed up for the course. It’s all part of the experience, you could say. Hmm.
Hey ho. Onwards and upwards. You need to make time to have a break, so I’m off to the shops. For once, it isn’t just Lidl. Toodles!
FENTON!
Thanks to the uni course I’m on, I spend a lot of time on the Interwebs. Even so, it’s still rare I get to see videos that go viral before they are viral. This was the exception.
I hate to go all hipster on you guys, but I saw this video before we knew the dog’s name was Fenton and we just called it Benton. That’s what I hear when I watch it but hey I’m not going to argue with the dog’s owner. That guy looks pissed.
Then again maybe if it was called Benton it wouldn’t want to run away so much. It’s a far cooler name. Who calls their dog Fenton, anyways?
Anyway. Enjoy. This is the furthest the Internet’s been from cats in a long time. But if you still crave a viral cat video, then here’s a blind cat playing with a ball.
Movember 2011–One Week To Go
This was me as of this morning. Attractive, I know.
It’s officially gotten to the point now where I can’t wait to get rid of this thing. It’s driving me mental. It’s officially measurable on a ruler. My facial hair should not be measurable with a ruler.
The progress over at uk.movember.com is nearing £80, which is super cool. It’s never too late to get me over that £100 mark though. I’m just sayin’.
I’m planning a little montage video of my beard’s life and I’ll share that with you guys in due course. Including it’s timely demise, of course. But until that time all the pictures have been uploaded to Skydrive for your remote viewing pleasure.
