Good god. I hate to sound like an old guy, but my hasn’t everything gone up in price! I went into town today with a mate of mine and went into Next. I went to get two t-shirts, £36! Why is it so expensive? Next, have you never heard of slave labour? 
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Oh great, the iPhones got a UK price on Amazon. £329 for a 8gig, about $650. Thats a bit much. I know that it won’t be sub £100, but I mean it could be less than £300. £299 would be great and a £199 4gig would work fine.
Also, it’s release date is December 1st. December 1st! Thats ages away! If any new iPods are gonna come out, they’ll be out by then. If a Multi-Touch iPod with WiFi and OS X comes out by then, then less iPhones will be sold this side of the pond.
Time will tell, and so will my wallet.
Prom. One of the worst words in the world. Its all American. It reeks of cheese. Nothing about it is elegent. The word is a whore of the english laungage. Created in the 50’s, still used today. The right of passage for each and every teenager. Anyone who is anyone is there. Shame about the people who are there though. For some girls its one of those things which must be done correctly. If something fucks up, the night is ruined. Some of the girls at my (ex) school are Gas Mark 9 in human form. Others are brass monkeys. Yes, its whats on the inside that counts, but some of these girls are living proof you can’t polish a turd.
“I spent £1000 on a one of a kind dress. It was made by Jewish concentration camp workers in World War Two. The Nazis stole it and hid it with secrete piles of plunded gold. The Alleys found it on D-day. Its been in a safe in the Bank of England ever since. Wow, its amazing!”.
Shame your not though love. Nice dress, Internal Mess. Go back to MySpace. My mutantion of a suite comes from three well known names in fashion. George, Clarks and MyTuxido.co.uk (which is powered by Perl fyi).
Girls, its like an entirley different world. Hell, there are great girls out there with great personalities, but my (ex) school is like a pack of pokemon cards. You hope to find a rare Charazard, but end up with some self obsessed Pikachu. I better get off to bed, I’m getting grumpy. Perhaps I’m just being mean? Nah!
Why the hell do Apple keyboards come without a hash key? Hash is the one little key that all programmers use but all users don’t. Every programming language under the sun uses a hash (#) somewhere.
In programming, one of the most comman uses of # is for comments. An example of Perl code with a useage of #.
#Prints out the words "Hello World!".
print "Hello World!";
Without the noble #, the programmers talents will go to waste. Apple’s keyboards are lovely, but without a # key, 3rd parties will have the upper hand. Please Apple, if you’ve done so well with the iPhone’s “Magical” Multi-Touch, can’t you add one little key to a keyboard?
I can take a @ key in the wrong place, but now their taking the piss.
Update: Turns out that I can press alt-3 for # symbol. No more copying it of the net for me. Thanks Harry.
I was baby-sitting last night, so I flipped though the TV channels in search for something to watch after Dr Who. Channel 4 was filling its normal Saturday evening film slot, its aired “Mean Girls“. A high school comedy about social status and girls being bitches. It gave me a good laugh for a couple of hours, but mainly due to the amount of resemblances I could see with people I know.
Schools will always have cliques. I mean, in the 80’s there where Punks, Goths, Jocks, Populars and Nerds. Now the Punks have turned to Chavs, and the Goths are outnumbered by Emos and Stoners. The same systems still there though. Some people go there own way, but you can normally work out whose who.
The main enemy of the film is a Popular. Self obsessed, boy friends galore, bitchy and spiteful. God, I’ve known a few. The Asian Maths Campion / Bad Ass MC I’ve known since my first year at Kings. Burnouts, Indy, Geeks, Nerds, Jocks, Chavs, Stoners, All in the film. For each on screen character, I know a real life equivalent.
So what am I trying to get at with this post? Purely that a well done High School comedy, written about real life teen situations, will always be better than any dozen writers thinking of “hilarious antics” will ever be. The one thing that is missing though is an English high school stories. Sure, your big breasted, all American actresses will do an so-so job, but you need something real. The UK has limited movies about Secondary school. Just hope that one day a writer will see this and start to jot down some ideas.
Just leave you with a tit bit from one of my secondary school memories. I’m walking to school with a friend of mine, a popularistic female chav comes up behind me. “Oi Sam, why you walking to school with a Geek!”. I reply, “Because he’d rather walk to school with a Geek than a Slut!”.
