So last night I was browsing all of my usual comedians on YouTube like Russell Howard, Frankie Boyle, Stephen K Amos, Ed Byrne and the likes, when I came across a new comedian who I found very funny indeed. His stand up included your every day life stuff and much of his stand up was based around being disabled and getting through life. The comedians name is Josh Blue and he has Cerebral Palsy and such, a lot of his comedy comes from experience.
Josh Blue first made his appearance in the American TV show Last Comic Standing and instantly became favourite and he eventually went on to win the show, with little surprise. His guts and daring coupled with his ability to turn his Cerebral Palsy into something for comedy is remarkable and he is a true inspiration for everyone. He doesn't feel sorry for himself and doing stand up, he obviously doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for him either. Otherwise, why would he do stand up?
Check him out here. This is his first legendary appearance on Last Comic Standing. A must see!
31 July 2009
29 July 2009
Union Jack Ruled As 'Offensive'
It has been in and out of the news a lot over the last few years, that the Union Jack is deemed 'offensive'. I reject that statement. It's a fucking flag for fucks sake! The people calling this flag 'offensive' are the Neo-fascist Political Correctness brigade and far-right Islamists and Extremists living in this country, stating that it is "offensive to Muslims and non-British".
Now I may be old fashioned here, but doesn't going to another country mean that you should accept their culture and their traditions? -- I mean, you made the decision to go there right? And all this PC bullshit is beginning to fuck me off as well. The PC cunts responsible for turning this country into a bunch of submissive pussies are the typical "Yes let's bring the foreigners over here, it is their right as much as it is ours... But don't bring them into the suburbs where we live, oh God no" Upper-classes and everyone is fucking listening to them and letting them control this country through this cancer called Political Correctness.
Something that I read in today's London Lite newspaper which inspired me to write this post: Met Police Chiefs have banned their force from wearing Union Jack badges on their uniforms in support of out troops overseas dubbing it as "offensive" and not being "part of the dress code". The paper says "The row started last month when 200 officers at Heathrow were told that the badges were in breach of the Met's dress code. The order is believed to have come after a member of the public complained that the symbol was 'offensive'".
Many units within the Met have ignored the order to remove their badges despite disciplinary action and have all joined the revolt, and good on them, too! By giving in and removing the Union Jack from clothes and even in extremes, car and house windows, we are sending a very important message to people everywhere else in the world. That message being "Come to our country and complain that everything is offensive to you and your traditions and we will do what ever we can to change this because we are a bunch of submissive PC-conscious cunts".
Seriously, though... I am not a racist but if we start off with something as petty as a flag on a badge, where will it end? Changing our traditions and our langauge and our culture to suit every single minority coming over here and abusing their un-fairly given rights to contradict a country in which that has given them a second chance at life?!
It is fucking ridiculous and people claiming the Union Jack is offensive should be ashamed of themselves. After all it is their heritage, their country (whether they are born and bred here or not, they live here now) and it's JUST A FUCKING FLAG!
Now I may be old fashioned here, but doesn't going to another country mean that you should accept their culture and their traditions? -- I mean, you made the decision to go there right? And all this PC bullshit is beginning to fuck me off as well. The PC cunts responsible for turning this country into a bunch of submissive pussies are the typical "Yes let's bring the foreigners over here, it is their right as much as it is ours... But don't bring them into the suburbs where we live, oh God no" Upper-classes and everyone is fucking listening to them and letting them control this country through this cancer called Political Correctness.
Something that I read in today's London Lite newspaper which inspired me to write this post: Met Police Chiefs have banned their force from wearing Union Jack badges on their uniforms in support of out troops overseas dubbing it as "offensive" and not being "part of the dress code". The paper says "The row started last month when 200 officers at Heathrow were told that the badges were in breach of the Met's dress code. The order is believed to have come after a member of the public complained that the symbol was 'offensive'".
Many units within the Met have ignored the order to remove their badges despite disciplinary action and have all joined the revolt, and good on them, too! By giving in and removing the Union Jack from clothes and even in extremes, car and house windows, we are sending a very important message to people everywhere else in the world. That message being "Come to our country and complain that everything is offensive to you and your traditions and we will do what ever we can to change this because we are a bunch of submissive PC-conscious cunts".
Seriously, though... I am not a racist but if we start off with something as petty as a flag on a badge, where will it end? Changing our traditions and our langauge and our culture to suit every single minority coming over here and abusing their un-fairly given rights to contradict a country in which that has given them a second chance at life?!
It is fucking ridiculous and people claiming the Union Jack is offensive should be ashamed of themselves. After all it is their heritage, their country (whether they are born and bred here or not, they live here now) and it's JUST A FUCKING FLAG!
24 July 2009
Religion In Modern Society
Okay because it has been over two weeks since I last posted, I thought I would do something worthwhile and something that I feel strongly about. This being religion.
First of I would like to say that I am an Atheist. There are two types of Atheists. Those who reject the idea of a personal god or gods and those who just simply do not believe in God. I consider myself 1/3 of the former and 2/3 of the latter.
Being an Atheist doesn't mean that I am against the belief of a god or gods, in fact I am quite the opposite. I think the belief in something, whether it is a god or a generic higher being/entity, is a good thing for people to have because it gives them a sense of security. So you may ask why I do not believe in God... To put it simply, the idea of a big fat man sat on a cloud, sporting a long grey beard and a white toga, who judges every move I make and condemns me for not praising him just does not seem feasible to me, what-so-ever.
My problem is with the oppressive, contradictory, controlling, brain-washing force known as religion. It stops people from free-thought, something that I believe to be vital to the human existence. People are roped in and told how to act, what to do, what do think and how to live their lives, therefore being controlling and oppressive. When people are roped in from an early age, they are made to believe that a virgin fell pregnant and gave birth to the son of God. This is brain-washing.
This is surely against basic human rights that allow people to think for themselves and make their own decisions but children are impressionable and when caught from an early age, you can tell them anything over and over again and they will believe it. Children need a point of view from both sides, one from the side of the religious and one from the side of the irreligious, and this is exactly what I will do with my children if and when I have them.
I have always been very skeptical of the existence of God, even from an early age when I went to a Roman Catholic primary school and I was taught to believe. I always questioned religion and why it said the things it did. For a few years, until recently I was Agnostic and a few months ago I became an Atheist, primarily due to to the contradictions in religion. Such as God being the good and all-powerful being who refuses to eradicate all evil on Earth. In the "Holy" Bible, God killed almost 3 million people for not listening to him, not praising him and not doing what he wanted etc., and Satan only killed 10 people in the very same book! Now you tell me who the evil one really is.
If God gave everyone set paths to follow in life, why did he give people free-thought and make certain people Atheists and Agnostics. Why does he make people "evil"? Why does he judge us and our lives when he himself set those paths for us? If God really did set our paths out, why didn't he make it so that everyone praises him? The only way religious people can answer this is by saying "Satan did it". Hang on, isn't God all powerful? Why doesn't he just destroy Satan and make everyone good, surely it would save God a lot of trouble in the future.
Control, oppression and contradiction goes for all religions, I don't care what it is but it is mainly pointed to the Abrahamic religions; Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
In today's world of science, we do not need religion either to control us, or guide us. Religion originally started as a means to explain the unexplainable, such as where we come from, why we are here and what happens after death. Science has explained most of these away and with the constant advancement of knowledge and understanding we no longer need religion in today's world. It just makes no sense.
Instead of worshiping some Jewish carpenter with an invisible dad, who lived 2000 years ago, we should be worshiping those who are constantly advancing the limits of human knowledge and understanding into the un-imaginable. We should not be giving God the credit for OUR work as it only undermines all the work that we have done as a human race.
Most of the most powerful and important minds in the world are and have been Atheists. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Paul Dirac, Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs, James Watson and Francis Crick. The absence of the oppression of religion allowed these people to work to their full potential and become some of the most celebrated people who have ever lived.
"Is God willing to prevent evil but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God." - Epicurus.
First of I would like to say that I am an Atheist. There are two types of Atheists. Those who reject the idea of a personal god or gods and those who just simply do not believe in God. I consider myself 1/3 of the former and 2/3 of the latter.
Being an Atheist doesn't mean that I am against the belief of a god or gods, in fact I am quite the opposite. I think the belief in something, whether it is a god or a generic higher being/entity, is a good thing for people to have because it gives them a sense of security. So you may ask why I do not believe in God... To put it simply, the idea of a big fat man sat on a cloud, sporting a long grey beard and a white toga, who judges every move I make and condemns me for not praising him just does not seem feasible to me, what-so-ever.
My problem is with the oppressive, contradictory, controlling, brain-washing force known as religion. It stops people from free-thought, something that I believe to be vital to the human existence. People are roped in and told how to act, what to do, what do think and how to live their lives, therefore being controlling and oppressive. When people are roped in from an early age, they are made to believe that a virgin fell pregnant and gave birth to the son of God. This is brain-washing.
This is surely against basic human rights that allow people to think for themselves and make their own decisions but children are impressionable and when caught from an early age, you can tell them anything over and over again and they will believe it. Children need a point of view from both sides, one from the side of the religious and one from the side of the irreligious, and this is exactly what I will do with my children if and when I have them.
I have always been very skeptical of the existence of God, even from an early age when I went to a Roman Catholic primary school and I was taught to believe. I always questioned religion and why it said the things it did. For a few years, until recently I was Agnostic and a few months ago I became an Atheist, primarily due to to the contradictions in religion. Such as God being the good and all-powerful being who refuses to eradicate all evil on Earth. In the "Holy" Bible, God killed almost 3 million people for not listening to him, not praising him and not doing what he wanted etc., and Satan only killed 10 people in the very same book! Now you tell me who the evil one really is.
If God gave everyone set paths to follow in life, why did he give people free-thought and make certain people Atheists and Agnostics. Why does he make people "evil"? Why does he judge us and our lives when he himself set those paths for us? If God really did set our paths out, why didn't he make it so that everyone praises him? The only way religious people can answer this is by saying "Satan did it". Hang on, isn't God all powerful? Why doesn't he just destroy Satan and make everyone good, surely it would save God a lot of trouble in the future.
Control, oppression and contradiction goes for all religions, I don't care what it is but it is mainly pointed to the Abrahamic religions; Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
In today's world of science, we do not need religion either to control us, or guide us. Religion originally started as a means to explain the unexplainable, such as where we come from, why we are here and what happens after death. Science has explained most of these away and with the constant advancement of knowledge and understanding we no longer need religion in today's world. It just makes no sense.
Instead of worshiping some Jewish carpenter with an invisible dad, who lived 2000 years ago, we should be worshiping those who are constantly advancing the limits of human knowledge and understanding into the un-imaginable. We should not be giving God the credit for OUR work as it only undermines all the work that we have done as a human race.
Most of the most powerful and important minds in the world are and have been Atheists. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Paul Dirac, Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs, James Watson and Francis Crick. The absence of the oppression of religion allowed these people to work to their full potential and become some of the most celebrated people who have ever lived.
"Is God willing to prevent evil but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God." - Epicurus.
8 July 2009
So I Finally Got a Haircut...
As the title suggests, I finally got my haircut after letting it grow untouched for over two years. I hadn't even had any split ends cut whilst I was growing it, and I only decided to grow it becuase I was too lazy to go and get it cut. Eventually I got to the point where I didn't want to get my hair cut out of fear that the hairdresser would get it wrong, and completely fuck up my hair.
Fortunatley this wasn't the case. The woman doing it was really professional and did exactly what I asked for. It was a shame to see my hair go and a real shock to see it all on the floor when the woman was done. I feel good for getting it done though, I feel like a new person.
My brother now has longer hair than me for the first time in over 10 years and he is massively elated, and at least I can now tell him to get a haircut, instead of him being the one to tell me.
Pictures to come...
2 July 2009
I'm Sweating Balls, Here...
So the heatwave has been with us for a few days now and is expected to last a little while longer and temperatures are set to reach the mid-30s. Great! I love the hot weather, it actually makes a really nice change to the typical 24°C summer temperatures that we normally get here in South-east England, but genie mac, does it need to be so damn humid? It's killing me!
Now, I am not normally one to complain of the weather because I like all the weather types (especially the milder and slightly wetter spring) but when the humidity seems to top out, I just can't hack it. Much like everyone else I lose sleep, I get irritable, I find it hard to concentrate, it's very uncomfortable, I sweat buckets but worst of all... my appetite drops!
Oh well, I suppose I best make the most of it because this will be our summer and it will be been-and-gone before we know it!
Now, I am not normally one to complain of the weather because I like all the weather types (especially the milder and slightly wetter spring) but when the humidity seems to top out, I just can't hack it. Much like everyone else I lose sleep, I get irritable, I find it hard to concentrate, it's very uncomfortable, I sweat buckets but worst of all... my appetite drops!
Oh well, I suppose I best make the most of it because this will be our summer and it will be been-and-gone before we know it!
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