The Sportsdirect.com @ St James Park Stadium

What a stupid name. Firstly it's stupidly long, I mean, if someone scores and they need to say in sports soccer saturday, they'd be like "And there's a goal at the sportsdirect.com @ St James Park stadium" bit of a mouthful.

And secondly, if we're selling the naming rights, how come they were sold to Mike Ashley's company?

Surely this is getting little money for us, as the owner could already fund us. Say when a buyer for the name comes in, we could sell it then.

Meh, I'm annoyed :@

Bibbz xxx

Photoshop...

Hmmm, today involved some photoshopping of certain people.

It all started when Dan (Shrimpdude) (original blogger) (wierdo ;)....) photoshopped himself into a picture over the face of someone else, to cheer someone up. Whether this worked, we can only speculate..

However, Shrimpy then decides to post it on twitter and facebook for everyone to see, and being the good friends we are, we all take the michael out of him :) yay

And here is where the genius comes into play (aka me). A few of us were viewing this photo and I thought it would be a good idea to stick someone else's head onto the photo too (me ofc being the 'joker of the pack' in this instance, a rare occurence) and this person happened to be Conor. :)

We then scanned facebook looking for a photo of Conor to stick onto the photo. After much searching (2 seconds) we found the perfect picture :) Someone then went onto paint and carried out the deed (you see it was about a 4 man job).

And you can view it on shrimpdude's facebook profile :P

heheheheh.

Bibbz

xxx

P.S. All people in any of these photos agreed to being photoshopped into the pictures and it was viewed as 'friendly banter'

Alan Partridge

This man (who is obv a real person, not played by Steve Coogan....) is an absolute legend!!!

He was introduced to me by a dear friend 'Johnaldinho', and ever since his introduction, I have been enlightened to the comedy that this man possesses. :) color

One blog could surely not do him justice, and so i'm just going to go over some basic quotes that he has :)

When you hire me you don't just get some guy in a cheap suit who used to be on the telly...well you do - but you also get The Voice.

Der's more to Oireland.. dan dis.

go for the area where all the major organs are, or if you're close enough take a head shot

EITHER WAY THEY'RE GOING DOWN

some monsters in the system....a few gremlins in the machine....perhaps a metaphor for..... ........Good evening!

Tune in next time for some more Alan Partridge quotes :D

Lal

Bibbz

xxx

P.S. Some of these quotes may not make sense to 'un-partridge' brains and so please watch some of this shows to understand the context of the quote.

x

Zombieland

I went to see this film today. And can i say, it is mint :)

Got quite a good cast (including one of the girls from superbad :D) and one of the ghost busters. Telling you would spoil it eh? lol well not quite, but it is so funny.

Yeah basically classic storyline of a zombie film, virus and it spreads and wipes out everyone on earth, apart from this typical college geek (who is hillarious, similar to micheal sera), who has these rules to survive zombie attacks (Y)

He meets a redneck kind of guy and then after that 2 sisters (one of them is Emma Stone ;) from superbad). They do some stuff, zombies attack etc, it's gory at the start, but then gets soooooo hilhairyarse. lol

Also it has For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica as the opening song, which fits really well :)

So yeah, i recommend it, because it's well sick :)

Bibbz

xxx

Robbers....

I'm next to my old pal John Henry Towler, who has just nicked my phone.
Other than that he's a swell guy. Colon Capital d.

This conveniently brings me onto the topic of 'stealing'. Now, I don't like stealers. I'm not perfect myself though. At the tender age of 3 years, I was set loose in a bike shop and stole some puncture repair kits. After negotiations with my mother, I gave in to the pressure and returned these kits back to the shop. However, I didn't know any better and if I had known the true consequences of stealing, then I would not have stolen the goods. I guess I got off lightly as thieves usually have to go through the judicial process and could face court action. And I believe this is correct.

Now we move onto phone stealers. I didn't mind John doing it earlier, as.....
Ok, he nicked it again.
(He then looks at the picture on it and is in awe at Megan Fox and returns the phone)
Well, the thing is, he returned it.
Anyway, I was at a PGL camp with my homies a few years ago, however myself and Ash had to share with some common chavs. As the week went on, things (all over the camp) started to go missing. I noticed that my phone was missing too.
It turned out these nasty low-life chavs stole the phone and other possessions from other members of the camp.
What losers.
I got my phone back in the end, but without the sim card.
That is why stealing is bad, because I end up worse off.... :(
Cya
Bibbz
xxx

I love you Beth Cooper

Well, today, had a rave in town, before certain people ditched us and missed out on the cinema. Tut tut. Aside from john and conor buying capes and looking super cool (Y), we went to see the film I love you Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere (Claire from Heroes). You can see the obvious reason for seeing the film... Well, looking as fit as usual, she was really the only good point of the movie. The rest was not really great and if it didn't have Hayden in it, we may have walked out. However, it was definitely worth paying for.... A shower scene.... =) and also a part where she whips off a graduation gown and reveals hot pants. 

It balanced it out (Y)

So yeah, other than that it wasn't a fab movie.

But it had Hayden in it :) :) :) :) (:

The 17th Century

Huge cba today. So big it deserves to be in capitals. But cba to do it.
Gotta do a bit of research on the 17th century literature. Boring. Why can't we do modern stuff.

I don't even know many 17th century authors or stuff, i mean shakespeare was there, but that was only at the very start.

I want help.

Anyone wanna do some posters about it for me?

No?

Sure?

Your loss.
xxx

Official Rules of Ghosting

A sport widely tipped to take the 2012 olympics by storm (if they allow it to be included) is one that has been invented by well known Australians, Hamish and Andy.

To start off with, the whole sport comes under the category of getting into someone's personal space. Anyway, the original 'ghosting' involves the competitor walking as close as they can behind the 'target', without being caught by the 'target'. The time starts when the ghost is 'engaged'. Usually competed between two teams, the winner is the team who can stay behind the person for the longest amount of time.

This is only the beginning, one on one. There is then a progression if the competition needs to be spiced up a bit. Again, if at the end of the competition there is a tie (equal number of 'ghosting' rounds won) then there is a tie breaker. For the one on one stage there is 'speed ghosting'. The rules for this are very similar to that of original ghosting, except the competitor follows a jogger. Same rules about time apply. 

There are also other variations of the game. If more than 2 people want to play, then they can be split into teams. For example a 2 on 2 situation. If this were to occur, then they could take part in a 'tag-team' ghosting session. Again similar rules applying, however with 2 people this time, and the competitors need to 'tag' each other to swap over the ghost. (This can be used to incorporate a third person if necessary). Furthermore if there is another draw, then a tie breaker needs to be completed. A widely used example of this is 'free-style' ghosting, where the team creatively follow the target. One such is example is the 'shoulders' technique (famously used by Hamish and Ryan in the recent ghosting championships held in Australia) where one of the competitors rides on the other person's shoulders and ghosts a person. Another method (also used in the ghosting championships this time by Andy and Peter) was the 'tandem-ghost', where they follow two people who are walking side by side. 

Now for the up-coming ghosters. Firstly we have John David Robert McCrea from Naboo. He actually opened the majority of the world's eyes to ghosting, including myself. On saturday in the warm-up games in Nottingham, he attempted to ghost a delivery van. Very impressive. 

Another man goes by the name of Conor O'hare. This guy also was competing on saturday and showed impressive ghosting skills, while ghosting an old man. Impressive also.

And finally we come to yours truly. Matthew English (AKA ME) ghosted a postman who was delivering in Nottingham.

These three made up Team Spoon on saturday. Now, there were reasonable attempts in the games, including 2 particular examples of tandem tag-team ghosting (Part of the new combined area of the sport) where we actually went completely undetected, and another on Haydn Clarke, going into the cornerhouse, where we were undetected for a long time, blowing all other competition out of the way. However, what made the day truly spectacular was a, never before attempted ghost, christened 'Conga ghosting'. The three of us were about to embark on a triple ghost on 'guy in a camo coat', when there was a couple who got between us, however, they followed closely behind 'guy in a camo coat' and unwittingly participated in a 6, that's right, 6 man conga ghost, for around half a minute. A new recored for the games, and making us strong competitors in the upcoming world cup. 

Next time, another sport invented by Hamish and Andy, 3 step nick knocking.

Thank you and goodnight :)

xxxxxxx

A Review of this morning.

Early start today, went to see terminator salvation in Nottingham.

Stayed the night at John M's. Was pretty good. Brapped people on gears of war.

Woke at 7 :)

In Nottingham for 8.

Was pretty good actually, not many people about, starbucks, lovely cappuccino. Yum.

Then met Conor. Good times.

Hmmm, i'll leave the short sentence thing for now and continue the rest of the epic tale with a different style of syntax. Well, after meeting Conor in the Vic centre, we happened to walk past, what can only be described as a 'mentos fest'. They were giving out free mints.

Mint!

So we grabbed a handful and went on our way, towards the wonderful, the fantastic, John Lewis. Now, we stumbled upon some 70p spoons in there.... 

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE.

Well we each bought one and walked up to the counter separately and bought them, with the shop assistants trying not to laugh. 

Oh but the fun didn't end there...... Now it was time to return to the 'mentos fest' that was manifesting its self in the vic centre outside hawkin's Bazaar. Now they had a special game on! Spin the wheel and win a prize. So being the hyper characters that we were, one of us just HAD to have a go. John stepped up to the plate and duly delivered with a free pack of mentos! Sexy.

Alas after this, it was time to meet Haydn at the cinema. However, we weren't just going to walk up to the cornerhouse and greet him, no no no. The previous night, john and myself had viewed a video about a new sport called 'ghosting' (gonna do a blog on it another time) and we decided to employ this against Haydn. Basically you follow behind them very closely without them knowing. It worked, was funny, watched the film, went home.

Good day :)

Bibbzi xxx

A decade of BB

Big Brother started again today, and can i just say, i think i'm gonna like this series :)

Sophie is one to look out for. Seems very nice person.

The fact that she is a model has nothing to do with my opinion of her though.

There were some characters in there.

One particular quote stood out. I personally feel it was a bit.. forward lets say, first thing someone said on their vid.

"I don't have a nasty bone in my body, except the one up my boyfriend's ass last night."

This person, can't remember the name, but i think they're gay.

There's also the lesbian and rodrigo the bisexual.

so there you go

i want sophie to win.

:) bibbzi xxx

Supply-Side Policies in the UK Economy.

Supply-Side policies are used by the UK government to increase the long-term capacity of the economy. This helps to stimulate the long-run aggregate supply of the economy and therefore increase the potential output.

One of the key ways in which supply-side policies are used by the government, is through education and training. This is where workers who are out of work or unemployed have the opportunity to become more productive. This increases the labour productivity of the Uk, and as labour productivity is defined as being output per worker over time, the long run aggregate supply of the economy would increase (ceterus paribus). This can be useful as it helps to achieve many of the macroeconomic objectives set by the government. Firstly 'growth'. The increase of the potential output of the economy means that the UK economy would experience a stable rate of growth, similar to the target of the government. However, if the UK is not operating on it's production possibility frontier (PPF), then the long-term increase in potential output would have no effect on the economy as aggregate demand would not be sufficient and so the government would need to concentrate on stimulating aggregate demand.


BRAP

xxx

Guitar Hero Metallica

When the game was announced, I was sceptical, I mean, I'm not really a huge fan of Metallica, they have good songs etc, but nothing spectacular. Plus the other songs on the game from the 'guest acts' were mediocre. However I decided to purchase the game despite this.

The game is good I'd say. Although Ride the Lightening isn't included i don't think, but they've changed the notes in 'one' which appeared in GH:3, which is good.

The game is....hard.

I'm trying to complete it on expert, but songs like war ensemble by slayer are near impossible. I probably could get it if i went on it all day, but i'm revising for economics :)

I'd recommend it, but not for a beginner, or someone who doesn't like metallica...

Bibbz xxx

Warmth

God it was hot today, and what better way to cool one's self down than a nice bit of ice-cream, or even a cold drink.

Well, it would have been nice, but there seemed to be no nice cool refreshing drinks or snacks in the house today. And what a day to have that problem, not a cloud in the sky.

But yeah, i was annoyed because i was outside, and got really hot, so decided to come inside to look for a drink or something, only to be greeted by an AGA. Seriously it is the most annoying thing in the summer, why is there a need for it. Too warm. Ugh

And to top it off, there was no ice-cream.

Bad times.

But i bought a wicked shirt from pulp, so s'all good :)

init xxx

The Roland Garros

This year's Roland Garros tournament (AKA The French Open) has had it's ups and downs. So at the 'Half-way' point, i'm going to say what my highlights are and also the not-so-great parts.

1. The Underdogs

There have been many 'underdog' stories over the years in tennis, and this year particularly has included many, including Kohlschreiber's victory over Novak Djokovic in the third round and in the women's draw, a particular woman being knocked out, whom i shall discuss later on in the downsides section, however the biggest shock of the tournament so far has come today, when 23rd seed Robin Soderling beat the favourite for the tournament, Rafael Nadal, the defending champion who has not lost a match at the competition ever. This story is truly surprising as no-one expected Soderling to win today, everyone just thought that Nadal would breeze through and win the tournament. What a shame eh? This has left the tournament wide open.

2. Amazing Rallies

One particular point caught has caught my attention, which occurred in the match between Gael Monfils and Jurgen Melzer. Just check it out and see for yourself. It's the middle point btw.                                

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukNmtceAHY

3. Maria

This lovely woman has been praised for her amazing tennis ability throughout her career as a tennis player and that is the sole reason why she is one of my favourite 

players :)This tournament has been particularly good for her as it is only her second one after returning from a horrific injury, meaning that she has been absent for the majority of the past year.

Bad times

However this tournament she has managed to find a way into the quarter-finals. 

This is an amazing feat, as she has had few matches to practice for it, and she has never won the frenchopen before, the only grand slam to evade her collection of wins. So she is my hope for the title :)

A lovely unposed picture of her mid-game... :)

Now for the negatives :(

1. Caroline :(

The obvious favourite in everyones eyes this year for the French open, and indeed every tournament that she enters, is (or was) Caroline Wozniacki. The world number 10 was knocked out disastrously this year in the third round. :( I cannot truly express my feelings about this.

She'll bounce back for wimbledon and win that. Easy.

I think that it's enough of a negative to cover the whole section to be brutally honest.

Very bad times indeed.

Meh.

BIbbzi xxxxxxxxx

lv yas.

'Lyrical Madness'

Why do you like certain types of music?

Rhythm?

Pace?

The voice?

The lyrics?!?

Some songs I love because of the lyrics, they evoke so much emotion and can make you consider a song to be amazing.

So, here are 10 lines from some of my favourites and you have to guess what the songs are...

Vale?

Ok Number 1:

"All the time I've spent alone now, won't comfort me."

2.

"You made yourself look bad at the bottom of the blackest hole and convinced yourself that it's not the reason you don't see the sun any more."

3.

"When I'm gone, you'll need love, to light the shadows on your face."

4.

"Will you be the same as when I saw you last? Tell me how much time has past."

5.

"It started off with a kiss, how did it end up like this?"

6.

"Lost faith in everything, I'm lost, so lost, I'm lost without you."

7.

"Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars, drenched in my pain again, becoming who we are."

8.

"Sometimes I wish I could save you, and there's so many things I want you to know."

9.

"Names on her sidewalks, they move through her body, like razors they cut through her heart."

10. (The song with the best lyrics ever btw)

"What would you think of me now, so lucky, so strong, so proud. I never said thank you for that. And now I'll never have a chance."

So yeah, try and guess the songs and artists, and if you want, give them a listen, because they are beautiful init.

Bibbz

xxx

Shuttz

Well, i'm currently sitting next to a lovely young woman, by the name of Alice JEAN Shuttleworth, who should be doing ENGLISH coursework.

But got distracted.
By not me.

obv.


She is a bit random
(crazy)

visit her blog at www.fabulousalice.blogspot.com

it's not as good as mine but w/e.



If you wish to stalk her, then you can't.
and you are sad.


anyway
She has no friends except for the ones that she talks to and the ones that she doesn't.

y habla español muy bien y es muy cariñoso porque estudiamos español en un clase con flo, quien es un poco loca como alice. desafortunadamente flo tambien no tiene amigos...
bjs.


(alice likes cheese on toast)

anywhom
add her on facebook for SHAGS.

she's ma wife
xxx

Silica Gel....

MMMM...

I'm sure you've seen the 'Silica Gel, DO NOT EAT' packets in everything.

well...

just for SHAGS...

what would happen if you disobeyed this order?

who knows?

shotgun not.

Kookaburra Hockey sticks..

Right, what is the point of buying a stick if it breaks in two?

Literally

In 2, two, dos, zwei, deux... need I continue?

Not just slightly broken, but yeah.

and it was expensive.

admittedly a vereh good hockey stick, but what is the point of it, if it breaks after 6 months?

Silly

Pheonix..

is bad

I now use a marina, which is my old stick

reliable, but not as good...

but it doesn't break...

:(

I'm sad

My stupid luck!

Btw, to clear this up, none of the above was innuendo or euphemisms. 

because that wouldn't be good...

inabibble xxx

catch up

Anyone wanna volunteer to catch me up on my postings?

hehe

xxx

Small Talk...

Right, where would we be without small talk.... Some people are obsessed by it, so much so that it takes a while to have a meaningful conversation with them. But yesterday while walking back from an english lesson with raj and becky, we thought, "What would the world be like without small talk?". 

The results were not good.

If one could imagine one's self living in a world like this, the could one imagine having people coming up to you, totally out of the blue saying, "What are your opinions on China's growing economy?" No 'Hey' or 'How are you', just plain old, big questions which require a debate. Ooo what fun that would be...

Well, I think that without small talk nothing would happen, one wouldn't find out about people, about day to day activities... even right down to the weather... Quite shocking to think about a dystopia such as this. Whom could imagine something like it....? Yeah...

YOU

yeah you, 

think 

about

it...

inabibble xxx