Back home

Well here I am, back at home, it took two trips on the bus with bags upon bags of stuff!

 

Anyways I am going to spend the next two weeks trying to do my work and hopefully finishing it all off before I get back to Uni.  You might not see much of my on my blog for that time but I am still about lol!

 

Marty

The Budget

Okay so bad news from the Chancellor as widely predicted Alcohol and Tobacco prices are going up!

 

There's a lot of debate over quite how the country seems to have run out of money, allot of people seem to think they could do better, I'd like to see that!

 

Below is a section of the Have Your Say BBC page there's a surprise which I think sum's it up quite well.

 

Fuel tax does what it's meant to do - it discourages people from driving.
We demand that action is taken to lower CO2 emissions and then complain when action is taken.
We demand that NHS facilities are upgraded and then complain when we have to pay for it.
We demand that the army is given better equipment and complain when we have to pay for it.

 

That's it for now see you when the next news story breaks!

 

Marty the Budget Maker

Thanks to the CA Forum for this gem

Men are like ...Laxatives...They irritate the Sh*it out of you.

Men are like ...Snowstorms... You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.

Men are like ...Lava Lamps... Fun to look at, but not very bright.

Men are like ...Parking Spots... All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Men are like ...computers...they are only useful when turned on!

Men are like ... public bathrooms... either taken or full of Sh*it

Men are like... hardwood floors... If they're laid right the first time you can walk all over them for a lifetime.

Men are like... children... need I say more?

Men are like... roses... You have to watch out for the pricks.

Men are like... Slinkys... They're not really good for much, but you can't help but smile when you see one falling down the stairs.

Men are like... mascara... They usually run at the first sign of emotion.

Men are like... bank accounts... Without a lot of money, they don't generate much interest.

Men are like... dogs... If they can't eat it or screw it, then they just piss on it

My mood is improving lol

Well after a nasty little E-mail from a lecturer and a very dry Seminar about Final Year Projects I was officially in a bad mood.

Thankfully things started to look up, Monica got in touch and told me she'd dealt with some students so I didn't need to go help, then I found out my library books wern't infact late as I thought they were! Even Chris managed to make me laugh when I got back to halls which I hadn't been in the mood to do since after 1pm!

Anyway things are looking up again, I'm currently loading all the pics from Saturdays York trip up, its taken a while because I had to use my laptop to do it! But there up finally.

Well suppose I better get on with some of this mountain of work, least when I've finished it I never have to deal with Managment Centre lecturers ever again!

Oh and the photo up top was me in York I found the skip quite funny really!

Citizenship

I never thought I'd hear myself utter the words I am about to! The American's have got it right! there's been some fuss on the BBC website about a suggestion that's correct a suggestion not a law) saying

Pupils should be encouraged to swear allegiance to the Queen, a review of British citizenship suggests. Thanks to http://news.bbc.co.uk

As usual there is a have your say article and as usual I was stupid enough to read it!

Whatever you views on America I have seen first hand just how strong there allegiance to there country is. Okay so they don't have a monarch but isn't the monarch simply a symbol of the country they represent? In effect aren't they simply like the American flag?

Some of the arguments centered around America's attitude that they are more important and there supposed arrogance towards other cultures. One post even went so far as to say that we should not do anything like them as they don't even known the other country's in the world! i.e. there knowledge of Geography leaves a lot to be desired.

However, that is a simplistic view of the problem. In the UK we have a country of approx. 50,346 sq mi which makes studying it quite straight forwards and can leave allot of time for other country's as we are, as country's go, in the middle of the road size wise. However, the USA is approx. 3,794,066 sq mi the USA is 75 times larger than the UK!

If you were to test a school leave in America and one in UK my bet would be that there knowledge (measured according to land mass) would be better in America than the UK.

I've drifted off topic I know but it something that always annoys me, I hear people talking about Americans like there somehow inferior to the British and how "there all the same" to those of you who do that think of it this way, would you say a Scot and an Englishman were the same? Thought not! In only 50,000 sq miles we have massive differences in our population so imagine what a land with over 3,000,000 sq miles is like!

Going back to my original point, the America I have seen truly are proud of there country and there pledge of allegiance helps them to stay together even with the massive distances of there country! If it works for them, why on earth can't it work for us, oh yeah I forgot the Middle Classes want everyone to think Americas bad .....


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Monday, Monday ... I hate that day

Okay so I don't really hate it that much. However, I've got so much work to do I'm slightly worried!

Question is if I have so much work to do why oh why am I on here?

Good point better go get some work done!

Oh and in other news more photos from York will be loaded up soon.

Marty

Saturdays Late blog*

York was amazing!  The National Railway Museum was as cool as I remember and!  

Unfortunately on the way there we ended up having to stand/sit in the vestibule ends as the train was so full, but thankfully it was only 20 mins to not that bad.

I think me and Chris spent about 4 hours taking photos and wandering around the NRM in the end, Chris was definitely enjoying himself, I on the other hand was at home lol.  I suppose having grown up around Steam trains this was all very cool but not that surprising to me. 

Unfortunately the other two members of the trip from the Uni weren't quite as enthused about it all, sorry guys didn't realise you'd get bored but hope you enjoyed being out of Bradford for a bit!

All this time around trains reminded me however, that I really do love em.  It also reminded me how much I can remember about them and I felt quite embarrassed when I was recognising trains and there numbers within a split second of seeing them.

After the NRM me and Chris wandered around York, we got lots of photos of the Minster and all the other old buildings in York.  Unfortunately I found out that being on York City walls with no hand rail on the other side is not a good thing for me.  I don't have a fear of hights only falling from them!  The sections with railways were fine.

Oh and York is full of Chemo's … there not quite Chav's not quite Emo's …. Ahhh thanks to Lyanne arriving I now know that's there really Scene kids!

Hmm so a very good day really and Chris had a good day too and wasn't annoying once!