The Winehouse. 750 Words Saturday, 23 July 2011.

So, this blog shall be written as the day moves on.

And right now I’m watching the extra features on my ‘Back to the Future’ Blu-Ray. I love this film and learning about its making is fascinating. Nerdy but fascinating. I’m also eating donuts, glazed and chocolate icing (frosting).

And also if you are reading this on wordpress I think I need to redo the header.

Went down stairs and had a some banter with my Sisters kids, they're about 16 now and would weigh about 7 stone wet (98lbs) but have big mouths and are good for a laugh.

For some reason my brain won't engage properly today, sorry guys.

Sometime later....

Amy Winehouse died. Oh well... Moving on.

I mean lets face it, this is a long time coming, sure its sad that a great talent has died, and so young, only 27, like Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin, but honestly, are you surprised, I mean at all. I haven’t seen the details of her death yet, like how it happened, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be drug related. I’ve dealt with a lot of people who not only use drugs like Heroin but also sell it, I was in the Prison service for a time and every day I’d see more of these people, every now and then you’d see one that actually wanted to quit, and after a few verbal slaps to the face they give you the impression that they might actually try to quit. I remember one woman who actually walked into a court house and demanded to go to prison, she hadn’t actually done anything, she just wanted in because its drug rehab was better then most drug rehabs outside of prison.

What I’m getting at is Winehouse’s death is most likely self inflicted and even though its sad, why on earth should I care, there are others out there who are addicted to drugs and are willing to go to prison to if it’ll help them get free of it. Sure every bodies addiction is different because we all have a different reaction to stimuli, and a lot of them think that they have a handle on it and can quit when ever they can. So when the whole world, family and friends, want you to quit doing drugs, and the only person who wants you to continue is your dealer, you should really take a step back and look at your self, sober.

I guess I’m trying to say that, why should I have sympathy for someone who basically killed herself. Was her public displays of bewilderment really a call for help, why not just say “Help me” but when your boyfriend, which ever one it is/was now is also a druggie, I guess it could be more difficult because your not seeing something or your distracted from seeing it.

What I mean is the one emotion that drug users, especially those on heroin, have no trouble seeing in others, and thats shame. If she wasn’t so distracted or out of it on drugs and or booze all the time she might have seen the shame on pretty much every one she mets face. Knowing that everyone around her looks at her with shame and pity she might have, one day looked at her self and thought “What the fuck am I doing to myself”.

Of course we live in the days of instant news, and most people will believe everything that read online, like when some idiot posted on Twitter that Jeff Goldblum was died, the internet basically exploded. I was on Google+ when I saw the first posting of Winehouse’s death, and the second comment was “Guessing this is a hack since no one else is reporting it? Plus the article looks terrible.” The article was on the DailyMail website, I hadn’t yet seen it reported anywhere else, a few moments later it appeared on Twitter by Sky News then BBC news 24, I guess making it ‘Official’. But even I thought it was a fake.

The speed it which you can get information out into the world now is almost at the speed of light or rather at the speed of thought, all it takes is to click ‘Send’ or ‘Tweet’ and the whole world has access to your “News” and if it goes viral more people will see it, and if enough people re-send or re-tweet that lie, it starts to gain validity and more and more people start to believe it.

Internet 101: Never believe anything you read online if its from Joe Bloggs or John Doe.

And if its a real event, like the tsunami in Japan, you’ll be getting not only tweets and facebook status updates, but pictures and video, plus the news networks will be on it faster then bacteria on shit. Remember, news networks have ways to verify news in ways you don’t. If you see something on a social network, and your wondering if its real news or not, do what I do, and google it. Less then an hour after the first report of her death and the first google hit is ‘Amy Winehouse 1983-2011’ and the hosting site is the Telegraph.co.uk.

Anyway, to end this, Amy Winehouse is dead. Meh.

Veggies. 750 Words Friday, 22 July 2011.

Before I get into this I just want to say that I have nothing against vegetarians.

I like to eat meat, you don’t. Wheres the problem.

I will always eat meat, no matter how much you pester me to stop, not matter how much Vegan propaganda you show me. I will always eat meat.

I eat Meat because I like the taste. Not just of the meat, but also the myoglobin. That would be the juice that comes out when you cut into a rare steak. Mmmmmm Steeaaaaak I love steak and roast chicken. Tender roast chicken, where the meat just falls of the bone.

I’m making myself hungry and getting off topic, sorry.

I guess my question is, if vegetarians hate meat so much, why do they make their meat substitute in the form of meat products, like veggie burgers or veggie hot dogs. I even saw something shaped in the form an an entire turkey. Why. If eating meat is so bad why on earth would you make your substitute in the form of a freaking turkey. BUY A FUCKING TURKEY, a real one.

I guess as an omnivore I’ll never understand the mentality of the vegetarian and or vegan, people who shape something to look like a meat product. It makes no sense to me. Surely it can’t be in order to “fit in” because I always thought that veggies and vegans were proud to be veggies and vegans, so why, I ask you, Why shape it like a turkey. Tofukey, seriously give me a brake. Besides Tofu tastes like week old grease scrapped off the bottom frying pan.

To any vegetarians who I date in the future, like I said I have nothing against them, but if I want meat, I’m going to eat meat, like it or not, we can go out to a veggie restaurant, and you can cook me veggie foods, I like to eat healthy foods, but after a workout in the gym, after my two whey proteins shakes. I’m eating a freaking steak and or roast chicken. And if I want a bacon sandwich or a sausage sandwich, or a bacon, egg and sausage sandwich I’m going to have one. I will never end a relationship because your a vegetarian. Why, because I’ll always respect your decision to be, a vegetarian.

I think a visit to the chippy is in order, I was going to go last night, but, I’ll to lazy. I’ll go as soon as I’ve finished with this.

So, let me ask you, and this is hypothetical by the way. If I was dumped by a vegetarian because I refused to stop eating meat. Even though I never once tried to get her to eat meat. Does that make me a better person?

I guess I came up with this blog for a few reasons, one being a TV show I watched yesterday where this guy gave up eating meat because his girlfriend was a veggie, but would sneak a quick burger when ever he could, and once she found out, the relationship was over. And I watched a youtube video earlier, the tuber is a veggie and always expresses that eating meat is wrong, when ever she sees someone eating meat. I used to like this bird, but lately, she just spends more time annoying me then entertaining me. Its sad really that I keep watching them, but she is cute, annoying but cute.

Oh may good, I’m so far away from 750 words. Damn it. Why can’t I say what I really mean..?

How about the next time someone tells me that eating meat is wrong I simply say, loud enough for everyone to hear “FUCK OFF!!1!”.

Ramble ramble ramble.

I just tried to get three words they, sorry guys.

I’m bored. I can’t imagine how bored you are reading this. I would say sorry, but I just can’t be bothered.

Now I’m just writing crap to fill out the rest.

I may need a bag of chips, and a few cans of gut rod (Diet Coke) I know I know I should be drinking water instead of diet coke but I really do like the taste. And the fizzy. Shut up!

Geez, will I ever actually reach 750 words, I don’t think I’ve had this much trouble reaching 750 words before, I hate it.

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750 Words Thursday, 21 July 2011

I forgot all about you, sorry.

Before I start down this road I just want to say right now that I think the argument as to which is best Mac or PC (Windows) is ridicules. You just use which ever system best suits your needs and ignore all the Mac fan boys and PC lovers.

So. I posted a joke photo of my Gym mixer cup last night on Google+. Its a normal £3 mixer cup I just put an Apple sticker on it. For no really reason I just thought it would be funny. This is a response I got;

“iThinkiWanttovomit! In what ways won't Apple fanbois embarrass themselves in order to show how fanatically brain dead they can be? "Yes Master Steve, iZombie #149384 will now spend $50 on $2 cup because it have Apple logo on it!" YEESH! Jason.... SLAP! Snap out of it man! It's a friggin' computer! It isn't even a GOOD computer! COME BACK TO US MAN!!! There's still hope! Here, sniff this, yes, that's a big pile of software you can't run on a Mac, sniff it again, come back to us! Here, look, a second mouse button! Look, even more mouse buttons! See? Computers with 10 times the processing power, discrete graphics, twice the memory and larger hard drives at a tenth the price, you remember those don'tcha? Yeah! You can be saved! I know it!”

Now it could just be a joke or he could be serious it doesn’t really matter. Because what it details is a typical response in the argument of Mac Vs PC. The guy who wrote it is a friend and we have crossed swords on this topic before and I do believe this is just a joke.

But like I said its a typical response. Why does it matter if I use a Apple Macintosh computer over a PC and why should it matter to me weather someone uses a Windows based PC over an Apple? The Answer it fucking does matter, it never did, the only people that actually care about this are those small minded fools who thing that its an argument that actually matters.

A friend of mine, incidentally the guy who got me into Mac’s in the first place, thinks that this is an important discussion/argument. I for the life of me I can’t figure out why that is or why he even cares so much about it.

True enough at first I was in the Mac Fan Boy corner defending Mac’s to the death, but later came the enlightened reasoning that it simply doesn’t matter who uses what, both have their merits and if you can’t deal with that you really need to get out more, there are far more important things in life the Mac Vs PC, seriously people. GET OVER IT, Mac nut jobs and PC pricks both. Get the fuck over it. Cause I don’t care.

I’ve been using a Mac for about 5 years now and I’ve never had the troubles or issues I’ve had with PC’s. I’m told that I need to learn how to use a PC properly...? What the fuck people, I just want to use a computer not go to school. I just don’t care weather you like Mac or not, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

But what I am getting sick of is that as soon as some posts something on a social network about either a Mac or a PC some prick stands up and points, then laughs, and shouts “You should have bought a Mac/PC” trust me all these people are the same, tired old sexually repressed numpties. Ignore them all.

Personally I would rather not have that crap following me where ever I go. And now something new has entered the fold. The Google Android mobile operating system. When ever Apple does something wrong with either the iPhone or the iOS you can be sure there will be an Android user, creeping out from behind a dark corner, ready  to pounce screaming about how awesome the Android is that you made a mistake in going with the iPhone.

These people really irk me, seriously, get a FUCKING LIFE and please fuck the fuck off.

The next personal to stand in front of me while I’m checking my eMails and say “iPhone, pfft you should have gotten an Android mate” is going to get fucking decked.

To all you people out there, Mac users. PC users. Android and iPhone users. Grow the fuck up you dumb a fuck cunts. It means nothings.

And besides, you will only ever know for sure which is best between Mac and PC once neither is being used and we have something new. We can then look back in hindsight and judge which is best.

And I’d bet that which ever one looses that pathetic argument. The people that used the other thing will say, “You have wasted you life hahaha” to them I say, seriously, if you actually still care about this, FUCK OFF and get a life.

I’m sick of this bullshit.

750 Words Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Good god my muscles ache.

I had a 6 mile round trip to the job centre again this morning, and this afternoon I had a back, bi-cepts and abs workout. Apart from the aching I feel pretty good, which is becoming the usual thing after a workout, I used to leave the gym feeling a little crappy and tired now, now I leave that place feeling stronger, a little drained of energy but stronger. Of course I then drink a Whey Protein shake (In water not milk) as soon as I finish the workout, in fact before I leave the place then again once I get home about 30 to 40 minutes later. Then about an hour after that I treat myself to some meat protein, todays it was a steak, and just to get a little energy back I had it with rice. I like rice. Is it wrong that I add brown sauce, of the HP variety, with the rice. What! Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Its awesome. Of course I have it with Pilau rice, yellow in colour. I would try it with egg fried, but I’ve learned to hate egg fried rice. Just tastes like shit to me now.

And so Google+ carries on, in an invite only way, not sure when its going to open its doors, but right now, and I just checked this out, I can only upload 1024mb of images to G+. Google uses its own Picasa, a site to upload and store pictures, as its Google+ image store place, and I only have 1024mb. I wonder it at some point they’ll lets up link Flickr to our G+ accounts, because I have unlimited space for pictures on Flickr. That would be nice. Also I’m hoping that the next time they update the site I’m hoping I can link my Youtube channel as well.

Oddly, you’d think you could already do that, both being owned my Google and all. If you want to post a video in the Streams, its really easy, just copy and paste the URL of the video. You can also get a video from your youtube channel. But on your own profile under the videos tap, you can’t. You have to upload a video instead. And even then its on youtube, being that the video viewer is a Youtube viewer. Confusing. What is Google+ doing. You’d think that when someone said “Yea lets add a videos tab to the profiles” someone else should have said “Cool, and we can let people link their youtube channels, if they have one” “Cool idea yea” But no, I guess that conversation never happened.

I keep going on about Google+ and the Gym. Sorry about that. But be warned it may continue, if I have nothing else to write about. But then isn’t this what 750 words is all about, right?

Okay now I have nothing...

As tomorrow is a Thursday, and I have no appointments, and no Gym, unless Lee calls and wants to go, in which case I shall don my gym stuff and jump on a bus. I like going to the gym :)  Do you know what the word Gymnasium means, well its etymology, it means ‘Workout Naked’ them zany Greeks. Also, the first ever Olympic medal was given to a naked chef. Seriously a chef won the first ever Olympic medal, there was only one race, I believe it was 120 meters, and all runners were naked. Again, them zany Greeks.

Sorry got a little off topic there, as I have nothing to do tomorrow after my usual morning bull crap. I guess I can go back to my new book, which has only had one sitting so far, I’ve been slacking on the reading folks, sorry again. But tomorrow I shall endeavor to read as much as I can, hopefully to a point where I don’t want to stop, because then the only thing that stops me reading is no light, sun light that is, I hate reading under the artificial stuff. It hurts my eyes.

[Randombling]

I hate adverts that display old people behaving like young people. Sorry, but I just hate seeing it.

And now I’m lost again....

My sister (CRS = Skin and Blister) bought me a £15 iTunes voucher a few days agin, as I ‘m unemployed she treated me :) and I bought two Rammstein albums and the new single by Blink-182, which I’m listening to right now. Its as if they never broke up 6 years ago. New album out soon I hope, it sounds good. Waiting to see if they’ve matured at all..?

As for Rammstein, I just like the heavy german tones, they call it New German Hardness. Yea I’d agree with that.

Times up folks, laters.

750 Words Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Ok, I’ve been putting this off all morning, and yes unlike my last two postings this one has been started before 3pm. I have my iTunes playing, right now ‘Show me how to live’ by Audioslave.

And so on to a more important subject. Me ;P

So every morning I wake up and just before I pull my top down over my gut I take a quick look at it and every morning it seems flatter then it does the night before. Not sure how that it but I do have a theory.

I guess the fat that lives in my gut, its been there so long now I really should start charging ti rent, anyway I guess it digs deeper in, spreading out over my insides as I sleep and once I wake up it all move back down to give me that belly I hate so much.

Of course it this were true the fat inside us would have to be a new to move liquid, which we all know it isn’t. Or is it?

I know that as I loose fat, the cells themselves do not just disappear. Fat cells are like balloons, they inflate to store fat and when you use up that fat as a source of energy they deflate, but always remain. If I have 58 billion fat cells now, with my belly the way it is. Once I loose that belly and have a flat stomach I’ll still have 58 billion fat cells they will just be, empty. Only storing enough energy to keep me moving around in my daily life. Fact is we need fat, if you had 0% fat you’d never have the energy to do anything.

I have come to realise that if I want to burn the fat around and inside my gut quicker then I need to exercise that area, I could run or use a cross trainer but that will take longer. I want to get rid of it ASAP. So if I do my sit ups every day, start off quickly, for the first few sets and make the last set slowly and controls, as my muscles contract slower the energy they need to go on will have to come from the fat and not the glucose. Slow twitch muscles burn fat first, and with ample fat reserves around my gut, if it did this each and every day, which was my plan, I’d most likely start to see results week by week.

A friend thinks that all you need to do to get a lat stomach is eat the right diet, and he’s right, but that way your’ll only get that flat stomach once your body has eaten all the fat, so your fat intake has to be less then your fat intake. Of course doing that purely by eating low fat food will take longer then exercising that area and forcing your body to use that fat as energy. So eating the right food so not to add to much fatty tissue to your gut plus exercising your gut which uses up energy in that area equals and much larger fat off set. You’ll be using far more fat then your taking in via food. Meaning that your stomach will decrease much faster.

Simply doing three sets of fifteen each day will do.

Every time I do a hard abdominal workout I notice a subtle difference a few days later. Only because I’m very familiar with my gut.

Honestly what you want is to have the training aches afterwards. Thats a good indication that you’ve had a great workout, especially if you want to build muscle. If you just want a six pack then crunches are enough. But personally a six pack just isn’t enough, if I’m going to have a flat stomach with good abs I need them to be strong abs. Because strong abs equals a strong core, this also means you’ll need to workout your lower back area, all this will mean that there we’ll be less chance of you throwing your back out in your later years. If you keep your core strong that is.

Oddly doing things like dead lifts will teach you not only your lifting limits but how to lift properly.

I used to hurt my back muscles a lot just getting up from the couch before I started my gym sessions, but I haven’t since I started, which tells me that my back muscles are a lot stronger now then they were.

So, going to a gym is mostly about vanity, and if anyone at a gym says any different I think they’re deluding themselves. Not that thats the only reason but it is always a part of it, maybe not to begin with but it always ends up that way. You might start going to a gym simply because you want to get fit, and there isn’t anything wrong with that, thats way I started, but as you start to loose fat and gain muscle you start to see a difference in the mirror and you start to spend a lot of gym time looking in that mirror at yourself. And you might think “Well I could do with evening out my tri-cepts to really fill out my arms” now going to a gym is about getting that perfect shape, your already fitter, now its about shape, you want to walk on a beach wearing, not very much and not be self conscious, on the contrary you’ll want people look at you.

If you do end up like this, don’t beat yourself up over it, its natural, its human nature. But remember this, do your leg work outs as well, having a build upper body is great and all but having that and legs like tooth picks just looks wrong. Case in point, this big ass black dude at my gym, his upper body is massive but his legs are smaller then mine. Its like turning a beer bottle upside down. And that why I spend one day a week just working on my legs.