Short and Bitter

It is about time for another moan I think;

1) If public transport gets any more expensive I will simply start eating bits of it because I wont be able to afford peak-time returns and food. “Can I sit here?” “No it’s my lunch fuck off.”
2) Why, no matter how much you pay for it, is every freeview box useless?
3) And if one more Christian sits next to me on the bus and tries to ‘save my soul’ I’ll nail them to a cross so they can do it for me properly.

Phew! Anyway results, woo! Or not as the case may be. As more and more students compete to get into uni the places are filling up fast and the required grades are getting higher. Bad news, or is it? Do we really live in a world where it is mandatory to get into huge amounts of debt before earning over the minimum wage? Some of you out there have decided not. With the growing amounts of apprenticeships; who says we have to become a slave to the student finance team? Food for thought for any of you who just missed out.

See you again next month and, uh, are you gonna eat that bus pass…?
SKA

Long Time no Blog

I’m afraid that I’ve been neglecting my poor blog lately, I say lately it’s been four months since my last (and only) post. I’d like to blame it on important sounding things like deadlines, but ashamedly I admit it’s due to the serious lack of views its had. So instead of wallowing in my unpopular induced melancholy like a desperate facebooker I’m going to pull my finger out, and hopefully gain some loyal followers with the promise of regular posts, and a bit of photography here and there. I suppose I should talk about the general election then eh? Well that’s the last time I take a chance, we are left with a ‘Brokeback coalition’, fantastic. And yes it must be very funny for you, David Davis (hats off to your mother for such an imaginative name by the way), but I can’t help but feel somewhat unsatisfied with the result, as if the country is left in limbo. I think I'm going to wait a little longer, and let the government settle until I start complaining though.

So until next time…
SKA

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Next Generation.

Just like Johnny Rotten, who so eloquently told Virgin Records to forget about the ‘bollocks’ (the album cover, title, sleeve notes etc) when asked about the design on his first official album. The government seems to have taken a similar approach to dealing with the younger generation, to be fair most of us can’t even vote yet, and with the media ramming language such as ‘yobs’ and ‘hoodlums’ down the forty-something’s throat it’s probably in the government’s best interests to push us adolescents to the back of it’s mind. The government is more interested in what the tabloids have got to say, I mean after all ‘it’s the Sun what won it’.

Take the illegalisation of the drug Mephedrone; sold as a ‘plant fertiliser’ the drug can induce feelings of euphoria and alertness, great. Side effects include; nosebleeds, paranoia, fits and death. Not so great. Although the drug became the fourth most popular drug in the UK at the beginning of 2009, it wasn’t until now in 2010 and the newspapers started publishing reports of teenagers running riot that the government even contemplated banning the substance. Now let me think, if there were enough people taking the drug in 2009 to make it the fourth most popular drug then there must have been enough people who experienced the negative effects of the drugs too. Oh, and there’s the whole ‘it’s killed teenagers and been banned in other countries’ thing too.

Politics affects everyone but somehow we seem to have been swept under the rug and forgotten about. Well until one day a naïve party leader will take a peek under the rug at these strange creatures and come up with an insanity such as ‘Web-Cameron’ to give an impression of a ‘cool’ ‘hip’ ‘young’ leader we all want as our Prime Minister (FYI David, trying to be cool makes you seriously uncool. Any seven year old will tell you that).

With the general election looming it’s important all those of you who can vote, vote! Don’t just sit there, get involved! Write letters to your local MP, find out who your local MP is! Make your voice heard.

SKA