Politico-centric leanings and an eye on tweet by tweet history

My god, my childhood and faux rebellious teen self should hate me. Well okay, i'm still the nerd i was and probably more glued to the keyboard and somewhat better at spelling but being so politically and socially driven in some matters is just SHOCKING. Nah, i'm exaggerating a tiny wincey bit, oxymoronic i know but hey how else do you start a rant and a rave?





BANDWAGON!!!!!!!!


Tweet, tweet, tweet. No not the morning chorus, no not a bird in distress, no not some wierd childish girly girly getting on your nerves. No i am talking, as i do at an increasing rate about that little thing called Twitter. Possibly the fastest growing internet meme since, well the internet?

Because celbrities are there it draws in the gossip hungry. Because they are just like micro-bloggers they are semi-real "a-moral" people. If i want to see apulusk and his smokin wife tweet all lovey dovey i can, although i don't really. More the obnoxious joking's of bloglomaniac perez hilton at various celeb's especially his sometimes OTT abuse of tween star Miley Cyrus which provide's the odd laugh. But also for what twitter can do. Okay so you can find out who's making tea, who hate's the rain or a certain opinion on a news topic, but it's fast, it's simple and it works.


#AmazonFAIL was noticed so quickly because the deviant's, blogosphere members, message board posters and newsreaders of the web latch on to this stuff faster than a hobo on a 50! Such a massive mistake traveled fast on the statistics of Twitter and hit the trend's section attracting more and more people. A worthy thing as it helped make people aware of a news story they should look up, and help spread the outrage.

The G20 protests were prolifically tweeted upon and frankly that's a good thing, if not biast and some time's lacking in moral's as recent OTT scaremongering article's have stated. But it does inform you what those people think and that is the kind of news mob's like. Logical opinion doesn't need to exist when 140 charecters can simply make you aware of something that someone else is doing or witnessing.

The #Tea Party, a rather insane series of protests by right-wing conservative's and anti-income tax evaders is also another interesting example. No-taxation without representing our opinion on twitter first.... Of course there is no indian outfits, no poisoned diuretic boston harbour and of course no real uprising. But for a country with trillion dollar debt how they opperate on a pay your taxes once a year basis is beyond me. Irish workers are taxed out of their sallary. American's have to put aside money and balance credit in order to pay the government that has HEAVILY miss spent it's money on just 1 short season a year. Utter madness. Now of course the Constitution of those united state's doesn't mention income tax, remember it was written by rich landowners after 13 years of squabling over their newly independent land. How american economics works is beyond me but the fact that The conservative right wing that i inherently and automatically loath is using Twitter and hatred of taxes to make their voice's heard is an impressive sight.


However what is even cooler, what belong's in the history books is of course, the MOLDOVA TWITTER-loution! Yep, a 20,000 flash mob of angry voters who didn't agree with the ruling communist's winning a Russia backed election took to a popular square and stormed government. All via social networking site's and Twitter. It's main proponent is now "in hiding". She was kicked out of Russia for linking it's government to a certain death in opinionated blogs and articles. She thinks the Secret service's and Russia in general are after her and that the Moldovan police want her with or without a warrant. By talking with like minded and disillusioned youth a mob, more than a flash mob, descended on important buildings and stormed them. Thinks got out of hand and in theory they were thugs and vandal's for what they did, but they made themselves heard. I can't support everything they did but they were heard, there is apparently a re-count of the election results. Twitter, and large number's can be heard.


Unfortunatly as of yet such a progressive movement won't occur here in ireland. If FF win the next election by some kind of evil banker plot backed by jewish new yorker's in LA with Irish cousins and properties in the curradh and belarus.... Then we won't bat an eye lid. Sure those of us who do use modern media will cry wolf. But as Gynecovnastia-gate (moobgate) thought us, biffo doesn't like it when we subvert his non-elected position. Nah, we're still a republic, we will make ourselves heard, but things are shit and new social and political media will pave the way forward for "change".


Wow that point took a very very long time!



So for the gap, i know this isn't real time or anything but i went to the bathroom, got some more water for my behavioral polydypsia (i drink a lot by habit) and a few mini chocolate eggs that are V. bad but addictive like M+M's but about 60 calories a pop or more.


Beardage:
I have decided to let my facial growth, grow. Now i have very fair hair as it is, and i can only seem to grow hair thickly on my neck and chin but it's a start. I keep having to trim my tache and cheeks as it just looks awful or slightly downy. As for my beard area it's kind of scruffy and darker than my light brown hair so it's slightly odd and un-kept. I'm holding out for the possibility that i can actually grow a beard but based on progress and previous experience i just don't have the hair follicle's for it. A pity since i really can't be arsed sometimes. So much so that i had to shave manually for my sisters wedding because i forgot to charge my shaver. I BUTCHERED MY FACE. It really hurt. It was a disaster. However the make-up person for the bridesmade's/bridal party and family was able to turn the clots into "beauty spots". They itched, they looked odd but it covered the fact that i should not be allowed a razor, or to forget about shaving. Now of course i can do relatively well with the butcher knives the HSE provides when carrying for patients that need help, but my hair is light but in clumps and i generally just suck at taking care of my face.



My "Abi-Stance":

I'm kind of fed up with the whole "game" or whatever buzz word i use to describe it. After a lot of rejection and a lot on my plate i've temporarily given up on the whole seeking a partner. I just couldn't be arsed. Sure i find loads of girls, and the odd male attractive but after all the failure with female's i really don't feel like bothering. I would rather get my shit done and build up my self-confidence etc then keeping putting myself out there for yet more and more failure. 7 rejections in a year, it's seriously bad. Okay so i was up and down depressed for most of that time but whatever i was doing i wasn't making any impression on the female's i chose that would make them choose me. That and i chose a lot of crazies. NOTE TO SELF AVOID THE CRAZIES. Especially after the inflamitary obsession and disturbing idiation that occured in my head surrounding the whole Cleo thing. I want to avoid her like the plague, she just flicks the crazy switch in my head and she isn't even anything special. Yet another f'd up person that i want to help who refuse's help and copes far better than me with their problems and cause's me to be the only problem because i'm an idiot and latch onto the crazies. Same goes for PG i'd say. So for now i will be a lone wolf, but of course i'm a young male, i have urges, i won't be giving up on my nature or the possibility of admirers but i will not be actively seeking potential partners as i haven't the time or self strength left to bother or care.




Ssssssshhhhhhh:


Okay so after a hilarious private business meeting on wednesday afternoon, where sherminator failed to have his fine's revised nominations were opened. This means the potential future people of the society put themselves forward, ie talk to the Stonecutter leader, and then wait for people to vote for them after nominations close. Which is wednesday with elections on the friday. So other than talking to grand master we can't canvass in anyway what-so-ever. We put our name's forward for either an ordinary member of the committee or specific office's, mainly lower office's that are like deputee's and are just the office prefaced with pro-. You can run for both MC and Pro-whatever or for SMC who looks after the officers. It's an olde system and possibly a good one. It doesn't ruin friendships and it doesn't get in the way of our debating nature. That's saved for the debate's. If people like you they will vote, you have to count on that alone. It would suck for governement but for a society like this it's a good enough system.


Other than saying that i doubt i can say more. I will be talking to Percy at some stage, as for what reason's i can not say. However once the process is over i can disclose who the future is and if or if not i am involved.



Other political plan's:

It seemed odd in my head but i actually have considered running for class rep next year. Shocking i know. I suck at study, have a difficult task of passing this year the second time round but i feel i should try and represent the Nursing student cause. I don't know why. I'm a shit student. I don't want to continue being a nurse if or when i finish but i feel those girls need representation that will ask good questions and hopefully get something done. Now i have almost NO friends in this new year. I am just a repeating student that sits off to himself and most of the time with Chatterbox. I had brief friends while on placement but other than that i'm not exactly known or anything like that. But i am oppinionated and if a work at finishing and hopefully passing this year i feel there is a drive in me to want to also do that work. Awful i know, insane also, but i have an incling that i want to do it and that it could be a good idea. I must be insane. One issue i would like to raise is the awful introduction of electronic Sign in device's which will require student id cards to be swipped to register yourself for each class. What's insane is that the girl's will swap cards regardless. The class as a whole will pop in and out inbetween lec's to get coffee or junk, do they sign in each time. Some people don't leave there seats, do we have to get out of the large tight rows to sign in each time a class starts? The current system of a sheet of paper and your signature works just fine. But the contract is signed and it will be in place next year.

Another issue that i would "run" with is of course our representation and our possible job prospect's in what is a very bleak and unforgiving nation. The country seem's to be fucking us over. We may possibly loose our pay in 4th year. The class size for next year's first year has dropped by 300 nationwide. This drive's up the leaving certificate points making it a harder course to get into. Irish nurse's are slowly becoming a rarity in our own hospitals as all of our graduate's run to place's like australia. The tax payer pay's for 3 years of free education, then a partial salary that's taxed (i don't get that bit) and then with no guaranteed job the Newly qualified nurse moves to a country with a far better health care system and is unlikely to come back. Yes that is a wonderful system. I am very likely to do the same. I have a easy ticket with my sister marrying an Aussie and "owning" a house (as of yesterday) there. Although i welcome an irish contingent of hot nurse's i know joining me, i feel it's not right for this country to train us and then see us fuck off for an affordable life? If anything i would increase the nursing places and HEAVILY ENCOURAGE MALE'S to join. The rate is shocking, 10% or less compared to 40% in most of the western world. The profession needs male's. Pead's (care of children) needs make figures, Psych need's males (for strength and similar male figure status) and general need's us also for a more balanced work force. But yet few even think about it. It's madness. I may not want to continue at it but i feel it is a good job, it's very difficult and it is sometimes emotionally draining but it can be worth while, especially child care.




The Leher Circle:


An odd little thing i would like to mike light of. In primary school one of my best friends was the societies Lenn. He introduced me to the hilarious Tom Leher a comedic singer from the 50's. I then introduced Tom Leher to a friend in secondary school who was a best friend of Gammaman who is one of my best friends. In college and in the society Lenn is one of Gammaman's best friends. And i still share the music on to others recently sharing the Elements to Dona to help her learn the periodic table to a well known tune..





Video of the blog: Fever featuring Animal from the muppets: Possibly the funniest clip i know. The timing is just brilliant, it's one of my favorite sketch's ever.




Chow for now.

An ace on my forehead and 22 in my pocket.

Oh lookie here, i am back again. I really do have a blogging mood about me don't i. Now this is going to be a bit more wordy, i could grab some choice pics and a nice embedded clip but i thought no, this is a rant.


#AmazonFAIL and the blogosphere:

Yes i had a very slow weekend, it get's like that when procrastination rules and you have no easter eggs because you're poor and a heathen. Well less of that right now. No i would like to talk about my developing addiction to the blogosphere and celeb gossip and so on. Perez, oh perez, he's annoying, informative and rude, and damn addictive. I guess you have to love to hate him. His treatment of some celebs is just plain awful but at the same time he has become an almost "vital" source of pointless plastic up to the second gossip and general pointless trivia that won't be worth a damn in the history books. But i will still watch him and the celebs on the wonder of twitter. Where else can i see Miley Cyrus and Mark Hoppus complain of being awake at 3m while i grow weary of lecture's on the endocrine system. I love twitter, i plan and hope to use it more and more but for the moment if i want my friends to know my microblogging pointlessness i have facebook's status for that, but soon the world! (via twitter..)

Amazon and their FAIL. Wow, dumb move. Okay so most of the blogosphere was tweeting and blogging more about the outrage than actual facts but they won themselves no favors. This so called "glitch" is ridiculous. They were obviously trying to censor the website or on a lighter side make it less accessible to susceptible children and easily offended crybabies of America's conservative underbelly. Major failure! They are after all a website, a book source and did i mention that both of them combined are part of counter-culture's, subversive groups and so called deviants? Books and the internet are breeding grounds of free thought and expression. Books especially. To try and make it harder to find specific books that fit "adult" points of view is just censorship, especially when things such as playboys center folds catalog isn't labeled the same way. No instead it was gay and lesbian literature, politics, biography's/auto-biography's and education. Truly a face palm moment in internet history.

Armand de Brignac, aka Ace of Spades champ-hagen:

Wow. Just plain wow. Big fancy bottle, pretentious and pointless bitter liquid and a snobbery perpetuated by cali-trash in response to supposed racism from the makers of Cristal. Jay-z switching to a smaller less known and outrageous champ-hagen as a boycott of Cristal is just the oddest story i read today, but also the most interesting. Forget yet another revolt in Thailand, or piracy, this is the "REAL" news. Veiniculture has always baffled me. It's bitter or some other adverb-ed grapes mushed and fermented into several species of unbearable sickening acidic liquids some red and evil, some sweet and white, others powerful and sparkling. Now i liked the movie Bottle Shock about the Californians wining recognition for superior wine's to the French, it after all has the future Captain kirk in it. But wine to me, a non-drinker and someone with the worst palate imaginable is just an enigma i will never ever understand. It's awful stuff, acidic and downright awful. But Champ-hagen is the creme de le creme of it all. Sparkling, expensive and a sign of wealth or lack of sense. And the very idea that Hollywood and r'n'b hot heads are going nutzo over this new really rare and high demand champ-hagen is just crazy. I thank you english Independent for intriguing me with news as pointless as religiously following perez, Out with hot tubs of Cristal, in with ACE OF SPADES!


The recession loike, is loike this bad thing?:

Loike i didn't know what the fock was going on. Loike in passing over loike the last 2 years i saw this like new cereal that was on ch4 news a lot. Snowy was talking about this credit crunch thing like it was the bee's knee's. But then loike the sub-prime's went sour and it all got into this massive cathrine of banks foreclosing and loike Communists complaining of a black guy in the Cassa blanca up there in the O.C. But loike i didn't mind loike, i was fine this is, loike ireland? We're loaded roysh? I guess i was wrong there, i don't apologise but i'm sorry i got that wrong big time. Even Darcy and all those planks have to take a cut, and biffo, that lump of ham in the gallery, he has to like sort this all out and he was the wan who slow baked this in his easy bake oven in loike the first place. Now it's like the weather, if you've got nuttin' to say to a boird it's lioke how's the recession going for ya? Then it's loike everyone's a banker on dress down wednesday it's brilliant loike. That man about town old Rosser he'd be milkin' it for all he's worth if he weren't fictional loike.


HUSH HUSH, on the QT, Down low, get down and buggie!:

It's politics time. I don't even think i can say anything. I don't really have a clue of how restricted the NO CANVASSING rule's are. Can i even criticise and complement the potential new underdogs of tomorrow with nicknames and minor descriptions? I haven't a clue! But i may ask gammaman and then get back to it....


Okay i got a bit tired of waiting. Who really read's this anyway? It will also be delayed in appearing on facebook where it is most liable against people who's names i am protecting for several legitimate and pointless reason's.

I will be as cautious as possible:


The Fresher's/harem/posse who are eligable, i think, for positions are:

Nordie 2 (discribed long ago, talented and a great asset)

Sherminator: Oh sherminator. Great guy, very talented, great idea's, some times a trainwreck but a hilarious one and he can't really go wrong.

Ripper: Not exactly the most talented but a constant face, great sense of humor and it would be heard to imagine the group without him about the place.

Cailin: She's been rather sparse in sighting's lately but she ain't so bad, sort of an obvious person for at least some position.

Dona: Oh Dona, possibly the greatest of us all. Her personality is bigger than most people's combined talent or experiance. Even if she never speaks again she would still be one of the most valued people of the society.

Vickie: Ah the interloper. She is good, she has fire, she has ambition, but some have misgivings but she is bound to get something from either us or the others....

Boop: She is basically a combination of all the girls. Also a prodigy in the making, possibly the best female of our group at that. Love her or hate her, she's a keeper.

Roxy: I'm not sure if she has spoken but she is talented, in more ways than one.



That's as vague as i can leave it. Hope and IT unfortunately are erasmus students so they won't be with us next year but they are both amazing. IT is more cockiness, bravado and knowledge but damn does he do it well, he's basically flawed in tactic but it would take someone substantial to shoot him down the right way. I have yet to imagine how, but i doubt i will ever see it, it would be a chalange for even the greatest speaker.




Ah lectures and study:

I really have to hit the study plan tomorrow. Start the whole Sociology scene question thing that i've had for, what 8 weeks, and have less than 5 to do it in? Better get cracking. Then of course my fuck up with the assignment means i really need to get my head out and work flat out madness from tomorrow and election onwards. Charm offensive maybe but i doubt i have time or am allowed to do so. So i shall study from now on. I've said it before but i really really really really must.

As for in lectures, Chaterbox was around today so not so lonely. Still saw some odd instance's, like Jade almost sitting in my row but then turning away to sit else where. There was something about it that raised several paranoid and hypothetical question's. All of which don't matter. She wears ugg boots, is basically orange and even if she is a Mucker and i'm a Griffen it's not as set in stone as my fantasies suggest. I couldn't give a rat's arse at the moment about any of them. After all i don't know them. Sure Mystique and Jade are hot, and Daisy a missed oppertunity but who am i kidding why should i even bother? I think i'll ignore pursuing relationships for the moment and just let shizzle happen.



In other scary news that wasn't resolved or discussed how i would have prefered. It has come to my attention that during the fabled xmas that led to the downward spiral of my relationship with PG, apparently she didn't like me very much because i got on her nerve's or some such shit. But afterwards it was all fine and dandy to her and it continued for another 3 months. I feigned that relationship after that horrible month. If we had broken up over that stupid spat maybe things wouldn't be this way, and just maybe i might not have failed..... Although nothing convince's me that i would have worked.... Although the hypothetical of a relationship forming with the a-sexual hattrick would probably still have been a goal of mine that would probably have failed also.



Tuddle pip for now. And i hope my nicknames don't get me into trouble.