October Babies

What Does My Birth Month Say About Me?

 You: born in October.

OCTOBER Birthdays: Loves to chat. Loves those who loves them. Loves to take things at the center. Inner and physical beauty. Lies but doesn't pretend. Gets angry often. Treats friends importantly. Always making friends. Easily hurt but recovers easily. Daydreamer. Opinionated. Does not care of what others think. Emotional. Decisive. Strong clairvoyance. Loves to travel, the arts and literature. Touchy and easily jealous. Concerned. Loves outdoors. Just and fair. Spendthrift. Easily influenced. Easily loses confidence. Loves children.

Ok, pretty accurate, but I feel this description would suit many other people who weren't born in October as well.

Sorry I can't link you to the meme as it was a Facebook application.

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Thundercats

A few of my readers have messaged me asking what the Thundercats movie from my last post was, so here it is in all its glory for your perusal.  I think it's quite impressive.

Thundercats Movie trailer (fanmade)

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Chomp chomp…

Ok, I was a little bit wrong in what I did, but they deserved it… So a few days off BookFace will do me some good…

Joe Sherman

21 March at 16:17

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Thundercats Movie trailer (fanmade)

Source: www.youtube.com

Thought you would like thislike this!!

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Gwyn Williams

22 March at 07:20

Fair play, that was impressive…

Dave James

22 March at 14:50

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I'm impressed. Look forward to that!

Larissa Angell

27 March at 03:37

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looked cool til saw the animated cat cnt stnd films that r half n half!

Dave James

27 March at 18:00

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Snarf!!!!!!!

Joe Sherman

27 March at 18:33

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i sent this out in the first place. its not a real film as far as i know it was made by some very techie people . its still great tho.

Jane Does

27 March at 18:53

Please do not add me to group messages I do not want to get pinked.

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 18:54

Yeah it's so annoying!

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 18:54

By the way, if you are astute enough you could name the movies that the trailer was made up from…

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:00

I've seen, He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Indiana Jones 3, Stargate, Pitch Black, Farscape, X-Men, Troy, Star Trek 6, Garfield, Galaxy Quest, Planet of the Apes…

Which ones can you see…….

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:00

Oh, I'll stop annoying people now…

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:00

Honest….

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:01

ok, just one more….

Jane Does

27 March at 19:02

This could be considered spam which is a reportable offense. I'm not joking I won't get pinked for this start a new group message if you want but leave me out of this one.

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:03

Get a grip..

Jane Does

27 March at 19:13

No you get a grip, I didn't ASK to be included in this and I asked nicely not to include me and you spam my inbox..

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:33

Correct me if I'm wrong folks, this is a social networking site isn't it? We are meant to be sharing stuff between friends are we not?  You could obviously just delete this message from our lovely Joe, but no, that's far to hard a task.

I sit here considering life, how millions of people are starving around the world, people losing their jobs due to the economic downturn, the price of 9p noodles now at a staggering 15p, and there you are moaning about a few e-mails. Piffle!

Anyhow, the rest of you, what time will you all be down the pub?

Jane Does

27 March at 19:48

Gwyn, every time you respond or add to this message it pops into my inbox, I have deleted it 12 times and of course it just comes back cuz my name was added to this.

The keyword being "friend" look next to my name does it say "add as friend" yes it does! So go network with friends I'm not one of them.

Gimme a break, I don't want this in my inbox and your forcing it there by responding. Set up your time at the pub in a new thread cuz frankly I DON'T FREAKING CARE!

Gwyn Williams

27 March at 19:55

The irony of all this is that you are perpetuating the spam, each time you reply you give each one of our friends another e-mail.

You obviously want to carry on a dialogue with me or you wouldn't answer, I know I'm a very sexy looking bloke, you could actually friend me and we could while away the wee hours trading e-mails. Mind you, you would have to show me a picture first, I wouldn't want to be corresponding with a hag.

Gwyn Williams

Today at 03:29

That was so easy wasn't it…

Chris Does

Today at 03:30

Lay off dick. Thundercats suck so let this die a slow death.

Larissa Angell

Today at 03:33

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i must say, my inbox is full i am laughing so much! wish i had this much time on my hands!

Gwyn Williams

Today at 03:33

ooh…. Does daddy play too?

I had to drag all these comments from my e-mail because I was blocked but I had to publish them just so you can see….

Chris Does

Today at 03:34

"Thundercats suck you egghead."

"You aren't worth a retard's time. They would rather play with crayons. Now piss off, bloke."

"You are a rude obnoxious stuck up English tart. Now piss off and die as the world would be a better place."

"Give it your best shot Brit. I bet Facebook would recognize a pissant as yourself. Knock yourself out as you have now been reported and blocked 3 times. Good luck talking to Larissa. Better get her email while you can. Moron."

Gwyn Williams

Today at 03:35

I'm just playing with the Yanks, they bite so….

Gwyn Williams

Today at 03:37

By the way Larz, you can play too, it's easy, all you have to do is spout nonsense and press enter, it's so much fun!

Larissa Angell

Today at 03:43

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lol thanks gwyn ur sooo kind!! wondering wat to watch on 4od tonight, any ideas?!

Gwyn Williams

Today at 03:44

yes, American Friends…

As you can see I wasn't blocked, because I was still able to chat away with my lovely friend Larz, so what really happened there? I should have drawn offence from being called English, but I will let that one pass… 😉

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Future Dissolution?

I read this article today, it got me thinking about a few things.  The article is about the Queen inviting Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, for a formal audience at Buckingham Palace for the first time since she ascended to the throne 57 years ago.

Nobody knows, or ever will know, what was spoken about, but we can guess.

I never was a Royalist in my youth, in fact being Welsh I was brought up to hate them, we considered them only as a rich family who had a vested interest in our tax payments.  This view was only bolstered by the tabloids due to their obsessive media coverage. But as time has gone on I have realised how much work the Queen does in regards to international relationships and in leading our country.  She is after all the longest serving diplomat that is still working in the world today, there isn't one head of state she doesn't know personally and she has from time to time negotiated between leaders to find common ground.  After 57 years in the same job, you would think that she is astute enough to understand how things work.

So back to the private audience, it surely wasn't for a little chat and a cup of tea.  The state of Britain's economy is serious, much more serious than people realise as our government is hiding much from us to stay in power, I feel the Queen might be thinking the same thing.  Mr King has gone on record saying that his hands are tied by the current leadership and it was their fiscal policies over the last ten years that have brought our nation to its knees. So much so, he warned that any further stimulus plans by the government will bankrupt the UK.

Imagine how the Queen will react to the confirmation of what she has perhaps been already advised.

She has the power to dissolve government and demand a general election, if she thinks that the country is under threat.  She will also realise that Gordon Brown is an unelected leader, we never had the chance to vote for our Prime Minister, he's still riding the wave that Tony Blair instigated, and as Brown was the Chancellor for the last decade, he was solely in charge of the British economy and under his direction Britain is not in a very good position to fight this current downturn.

I for one hope that she uses her power to dissolve government, we need a change, but alas we don't really have a viable alternative in the Tory party, as I doubt very much they will be able to do anything to save our economy either.  To many years of spending to make the Labour party look good, now the whole country is paying twice as hard as it should be. 

I still remember Mr Brown's greatest moment, he sold all of our gold reserves when the market was at rock bottom, he never replaced it either.  Do we really need a leader with such glaring ineptitude in charge of our country?  I certainly don't think so.

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End of Design

I'm from the vinyl age, I used to buy records, it was also a better time for quality music.  I moved onto tapes when they came out and then onto Cd's, now I download most of my music.

What has struck me is that the album cover art has gone from a 12"x12" worthy piece of something in your hands to what is now a postage stamp on the corner of my screen, or even smaller on my iPod.

A lot of these album covers were iconic, some are works of art which changed peoples perception of music and will forever live in our minds.

A few in my own collection which I think are amazing include

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield

Abbey Road, The Beatles

Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

The Doors, The Doors

Bat OUt of Hell, Meatloaf

Division Bell, Pink Floyd

Sgt Peppers, The Beatles

Nevermind, Nirvana

Animals, Pink Floyd

What will become of album art in the future?  Is it a dying art form?  I hope not…

Which albums in your collection have cover art that makes you proud to own the original?

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What Violence Begets

Another little blog post brought to you from my little trip into town.

As I was walking from the supermarket with my heavily laden shopping bags a kid of around 10-12 years of age karate kicked a shop sign which went flying into the road with a loud bang.  I had a good mind to cross the road to tell him off, but an older guy walking behind the kid shouted out his name, so I assumed he was his father, and ran towards him to tell him off, or so I expected.

What the father figure did was turn the kid around and punch him in the face, not really hard, but hard enough to make everyone within the vicinity stop and take notice.  The kid hardly flinched though, he just started shouting and swearing and both father and son proceeded to kick and slap each other whilst dad was trying to tell him off at the same time.

Normally you would expect someone to step in, but to me they seemed to be one of 'those families'.  It makes me wonder what will happen to this kid in later life, will he turn out a well groomed individual, a pillar of society? I doubt it very much.

Talking about violence, when I was watching the rugby on Saturday afternoon, around 1pm in fact, a guy in the pub started kicking off, he even punched my old boss for his troubles and the police had to attend.  This was just after lunchtime for goodness sake! What has the world come to?

Believe it or not I live in a very affluent area in one of the most sought after post codes in the country, so if we're getting all this kind of crap, I wonder what the slums of Manchester are like?!?!

Whatever happened to mutual respect?

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Dream Food?

As I was doing my stuff in town today I decided to have a quick pint down the local and read the paper before walking back home, it's not like I have much to do and I needed to kill some time.  So imagine my joy at finding out that one of the most disgusting foodstuffs ever has just come out with a new flavour!

Donner Noodle!

Yes folks, it's the Donner Kebab flavoured Pot Noodle!

What more could you ask for?  Two of the most unhealthy foods rolled into one!  Just add boiling water and voila!

I traipsed around all the shops in town searching for the hallowed Pot Noodle to no avail, our little town only has one large food store and it only had a limited range, certainly no Kebab flavour. 😦

So I think that this Saturday I will make it a mission to find one and travel the Cotswolds in search of this wonderous heart attack waiting to happen in a pot!  I'll even break out my trusty Pot Noodle spinning vibrator/fork.

Obviously all of this will be photographed and written about in the most stringent scientific manner, here's hoping I manage to find one!

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Solvent

Not in the glue sniffing type of way, but money-wise. Yes folks, the powers that be underneath Gordon Brown have seen fit to grant me some state help, after about five/six weeks they have finally paid out £60.50p.

I think I may go out and celebrate, perhaps buy one of those new cars that they are building in India, I might even go on holiday, I hear that flying to Thailand is quite cheap nowadays.  Hell, why not go silly and try and buy a weeks worth of groceries!

I can easily eat my way through £40 worth of food in less than a week, and this is buying all the basics rubbish.  Add to that a top-up on my cellphone, £10 and travel expenses £5, it will leave me a fiver to do what I can.  

Searching for work costs money, I need stamps, I need credit for my phone, I need to travel to interviews and job centres, ok, interviews was pushing it a bit seeing as I have heard nothing back from anyone.

How the hell do they expect people to live on that?

Ok, it is incentive to go out and find work, but I need to be healthy and able to find work, I have already lost the use of my car as I can't afford to insure and tax it, if I had to pay for petrol I'd have to take out even more from the measly sum they are paying me. Also, being without a car curtails me severely in finding work around here, the employment agencies look at me stupidly when I say I have a transport problem.

Is it any wonder that there are hundreds of thousands of people who don't bother looking for work because they simply can't afford to live and eat, they spend their dole money on a few beers and wallow in self-pity. They essentially give up on life.

I've paid my taxes and my national insurance contributions, other than one stint of a couple of months last year, I have worked since I was 14 continuously, so why am I forced to live from hand-to-mouth?  If I had no shame I'd be better off begging on the streets as most of them have iPhones or Blackberries and park their sports coupe around the corner.

I know my friends take the piss sometimes by saying I'm a layabout bum and that I should get a job, I am really trying though and it's like hitting my head against a brick wall when you get no response from your applications or the agencies don't call you when a friend of mine seems to get phonecalls all the time, granted she is very qualified in what she does, but surely there is something out there for me!

We have a couple of friends who are long-term bums, I'd hate to have to live my life for any length of time like they do.

Sure it's nice having the day to yourself, but above all, it's really boring.  Even the charity work I put myself forward for didn't bother contacting me back, how demoralising is that!

Anyhow, I'm going to walk the mile into town and buy some food and remind the local agency that I'm alive and willing for what it's worth.

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140

As some of my readers already know, I'm now an avid Twitter, and as those of you who use the macro-blogging service know, you only have 140 characters to make a post.

This is somewhat of a challenge for someone who likes to write full blog posts, even my Facebook status' are usually twice as long.  So I have become slightly obsessed by Tweeting at exactly 140 characters.  It's not as easy as it sounds.

I try to be concise with my updates as to let people know what I'm going on about, but I sometimes find myself with a few characters over or under, so I will sit there and think of different words to use so I reach the required amount of characters to post.  A bit OCD perhaps, but I find it challenging, much like taking on a good crossword.

Here are a few of my latest Tweets which are exactly 140 characters long.

Baked beans on toast, comfort food of the gods themselves, topped graciously with mature cheddar and a hint of tabasco sauce. Farts brewing!

@Jogosity I've yet to see it, but they said it was unfilmable, which I disagree with after reading the novel, I'm sure I could have done it.

Twilight, good if you're an angst ridden teenage female, otherwise if you like vampire films look at Interview With a Vampire or Salems Lot.

Badly written indeed, but with the constraints involved you will understand.  So an open challenge to my Twitter friends, can you go a week doing the same?  Exactly 140 characters each Tweet.

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*sigh*

I do really like her and I can't do anything about it.

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