I do like a good angry blog, and this is a beauty. Which is more than can be said for most of the buildings here…
This has popped up four times so far, and I’m already pissed off.
Advertising is absolutely fucking everywhere, and now I’m getting @replies on Twitter from a motherfucking brand of cider because I happened to mention them on Sunday whilst in the pub.
Strongbow is admittedly my cider of choice when I’m having a Super Cider Sunday, purely because I like the taste. Over the years, they’ve probably had a couple of good adverts, but nothing that sticks in the mind in the manner of a Guinness campaign.
Just this weekend, they launched a new campaign, based around the slogan “Bowtime”. The TV advert is a spoof of the Mel Gibson “they’ll never take our freedom” speech from Braveheart, and to be honest it’s pretty fucking shit.
As part of this campaign, the Strongbow marketing bods have evidently come up with this character Marcus Graftus to be their voice on Twitter (and probably Facebook, etc, I haven’t checked). He’s only been active for an hour, but all he’s doing is @replying to people who have mentioned Strongbow recently.
Not in a mechanical fashion, but actually taking the trouble to read through people’s profiles and give them an individual @reply. Seriously, with thousands out of work, and in the media especially many hugely talented people currently jobless, some dozy cunt is being paid to write this crap.
Makes me so fucking angry.
So much so that my @reply in turn wasn’t the most polite thing I’ve ever written…
EDIT: Ha, they’ve now deleted the above tweet. Awesome. Unfortunately for them, I saved it for posterity. My reply to them is still there…
Crowdsourcing from angry cinemagoers, someone has created a map of IMAX-branded screens with a simple key as to whether they are “proper” IMAX screens or merely the watered-down versions. Submit your local LIEMAX! I’ve emailed him with the London ones I’ve been to, because it’s happening on this side of the Pond too.
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Found via iamdanw and deplorableword Firstly, the technology: this is a great example of something that just can’t be done in print. Yes, timelines are possible, but with this amount of interactivity and ability to use different media, it has to be done online. Secondly, the news: If all of this is true, and the eyewitness reports stand up, it’s shocking. Truly, truly shocking. To think that the police can use their monopoly on legal violence to intimidate the public to this extent is worrying. And I agree with various other commentators who are as cynical as me when it comes to government/police whitewashing: the police officer who hit this man (or officers, as it may turn out) are simply not going to face the kind of criminal charges that a member of the public would face for doing the same to him. And just think what the reaction of the police would be like if there was video footage of someone assaulting an officer! The CCTV footage would already be out and all over the media. Compare it to the riots in Manchester last May at the UEFA Cup final. There, a group of football fans targeted a small squad of police officers. The officers got split up, and one of them got an absolute shoeing from a few idiots in the crowd. The match was on 14th May. On the 15th (that’s the very next day!), CCTV footage was released to the media of the attack. There was literally a 12-hour gap between the timestamp on the video and it appearing on the BBC News website. Pretty quick turnaround, I’d say. Compare that case to the one we’re talking about here, where it’s the police that are the aggressors. Don’t give me any bullshit about CCTV not being available. That area of London is one of the most heavily camera-saturated places on Earth, and on that day in particular every Goddamn camera was being monitored, no doubt. It’s hypocrisy, pure and simple. When a police officer is attacked by the public, the footage is instantly available. Turn the tables, and nothing gets released. It’s a fucking joke. This is the kind of thing the public should be concerned about. Not whether the husband of an MP put some porn films on expenses. Not the latest internal grumblings about who should be leader of each political party. Not price rises of 5p on a pint of beer. Not Jade fucking Goody. Not some banker’s pension plan. We should care about the erosion of civil liberties, and how it is becoming almost impossible to get any kind of admission of guilt or responsibility from the state. Rant over. This subject (along with media hypocrisy) is just my pet topic, and this story in particular has really caught my attention.
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Originally posted on: Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London
I’m starting to look for a new flat/house, and dear God is it depressing. I definitely didn’t anticipate doing this so soon after moving last time, especially when the reasons for the move have been taken out of my hands.
I’ve got a long post that I want to write about the whole situation, but I guess that’ll just have to wait until I get home from work. Suffice it to say that my general mood today is angry. And ever more so, which means that I’ll probably be fuming by the time I get back home tonight. I really, really want to shout at my housemates. Massively.
It just annoys me that my hand is being forced through absolutely no fault of my own, and that it’s going to cost me both financially and in terms of hassle/time.
I want to pound something so hard right now. Just get the aggression out of me. I’m off to the gym to go pull a muscle by trying to do too much.
I’m thoroughly pissed off right now with my housemate. To cut a long story short, he’s said he’s moving out, and has told our landlord as such. The landlord has responded by saying that he expects my notice too, which means I’m homeless as of April 9th.
I’m thinking of moving in with him and another mate, but it involves going to a completely different area of London that I simply don’t know at all. I’m not thrilled about having a 3-person place rather than our current 2-person flat, and I don’t know the other guy all that well either.
I genuinely like my flat, its location, and my route to/from work. It’s easy, and it’s home. I moved into this place with the specific intention of living here for 2-3 years. I’ve moved on average every 9 months for the last 5 years, and just wanted to settle in a place. Should I move out of this flat, and into a new one with my housemate and another guy, I don’t foresee it being for much longer than 12 months, which kind of defeats the point.
Yes, it’ll be closer to a few mates, but it’s also further away from others. You can’t win them all.
I’ve got to sit down and have a serious think about the whole situation tonight. Either I find a new housemate in the next 10 days to move in as of April 9th, or I make the decision to move out.
And before anyone asks, myself and the girlfriend are definitely not yet at the stage of moving in together, something which I made (I hope) clear to her over the weekend.
