Sunday Round-Up #4
I feel tired, Let’s all imagine I said something witty to introduce this one.
My abstract distraction this week is : The Football365 Forum
You’ll find this forum here. It’s a very busy forum, and despite the name, you don’t have to be a football fan to enjoy it (though it does help). It’s so busy that registration is closed most of the time, and it only opens up once every so often, and if you do try to register, you’ll need a work or university email address, not hotmail or gmail. Sounds a bit strict, but it’s necessary really. I managed to get an account last time, in July, and have racked up well over 200 posts at this stage, and I’m quite a casual poster on there! This is the only forum that frequently has me properly laughing at my screen when I’m browsing. Even the smileys (smilies?) on there are brilliant, and I actually want to steal them to use on this blog.
As a sample, here’s one of the funniest threads I’ve ever read, entitled “Your worst public fart” - Click here.
Great forum for passing time when you should be working.
Something that made me laugh this week :
This video is something I watch regularly, it just doesn’t get old for me. It’s particularly good for nerds or those who work in IT in any way, having to help people who don’t really know that much about what you’re doing for them. It’s just so so accurate.The official site for the video is here, but I’ve embedded a youtube video here for your convenience.
Curses on :
Actually being busy. I’ve been genuinely busy this week, and frankly it’s very odd. I like having lots of time to lounge around and waste my time. Bah, productivity!
I’m pleased with :
Having money. Granted, this relates a little bit to previous bit, in that I’ve been earning money, but relatives have also contributed to this, giving me money for my sheer luck efforts with the Leaving Cert. It’s fucking brilliant anyway.
Also I’ve tidied my room a bit, so my DVDs and CDs are now sorted well, and I’ve found most of my old concert tickets (I always try to keep them) and have them stuck on my wall. Beside me now I see tickets for Oxegen 2007, Kings of Leon (November 2007), Cat Power (May 2007), The Redneck Manifesto (December 2007), Delorentos (June 2008), Tool (November 2006), Presidents of the United States (April 2008) and Babyshambles (September 2006 - my first proper gig!). I even have some bus tickets, venue receipts and pit passes from some of those gigs. Sadly I seem to have lost the tickets for Dirty Pretty Things and Explosions in the Sky, which is annoying, because I met Carl Barat before the DPT one, and EITS are possibly my favourite ever band, and I’m not sure I’ll get to see them again. I think that’s all though.
A pointless anecdote from this week :
I was a good boy this week, I was. One day in particular stands out as me being a good citizen. When I go to my place of work, I have to get two buses in and two back home. So on my first bus of the day, there was an empty beer can rolling around annoying people. As everyone left they merely stepped over it, but when it came to my stop I decided to put an end to this wretched can’s bus journey, and took it off the bus and into a bin that was right at the bus stop. Sounds like nothing, but normally I just wouldn’t be arsed with this sort of thing, so it made feel like I was Mother Theresa or something. Then, on my way to my next bus, I get asked for directions, and actually bothered giving them, whereas usually I just claim ignorance because I’m shit at giving directions.
On my next bus, it was getting a bit packed, and then some pensioner’s day out crew came on, and I promptly stood up to allow those tired old bones to have my seat.
After work I was arriving at a bus stop, getting rained on, and tired. The bus stop is packed but some lovely old dear moved aside a bit to let me in under the shelter. I went to the strenuous effort of removing my earphones to thank her, and get this : I made a comment about the weather - to an old lady. This normally means they’re going to talk for a long time now, which stops me listening to my music. But I continued to smile and say things like “God, yeah” and laugh occasionally even though I didn’t really understand a fucking word of what the aul’ bag was saying.
On their own, these things aren’t much, but take them all together in the space of a few hours, and I’m an old lady’s dream.
Great guy/gal of this week :
That chap at the bar who, when asked for his order, pointed to me and said “I think that chap’s ahead of me”. There’s not many that do that any more.We then had a lovely chat.
That chap <3
Product/Service I like this week :
Bus passes. I used one for the first time in my life this week. Now I’m a regular user. They’re so handy. Not only do I save a lot of money on bus fares, but it saves the whole bother of trying to get the right change etc.
A quote :
This isn’t a small quote like usual, but a full poem, probably my favourite ever piece of poetry.
If
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling.
Great poem.
And finally,
Favourite song this week :
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong - by Mogwai.
Mogwai are a fantastic instrumental band, hailing from Scotland I believe. They’re similar to Explosions in the Sky, who I’ve mentioned above, and who also were my first ever song of the week on here. This is the first kind of song of this genre I ever heard, and I loved it straight away. This song led on getting more of Mogwai’s stuff, which then led to Explosions in the Sky. Very relaxing song.
Enjoy.
That’s it for this week. This post was a bit late too, my laptop shut down half way through typing the post up, so I had to get have some breakfast to avoid smashing it against the wall.
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August 24th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
That Football365 thread is possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever read, had to recommend it for stumbleupon
August 24th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Dan : I know, it’s absolutely brilliant. My favourite one was at the end of page 3, the one in the classroom. I’ve never laughed so hard at something in text form.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Oh God…i’m getting wet just reading that…