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"The Fair"

The ones with the big wheels and stuff, I think it's "fair", and I will spell it like this throughout the post.

Anyway, yes, last night the fair was in town. Me and some friends thought, 'yeah, why not? It's a little expensive, but it's an evening out.' and therefore decided to go.



What a weird evening...

a) An urban dweller (chav, hur hur) started on a friend of mine because the chavs brother had started on my friend. Hope that makes sense. Basically, he was angry at my friend for being threatened by his little brother. Riiiight.

b) The weather was utter, utter poo. It was actually a quagmire. If there had been enough sexy ladies then I believe that a mud wrestling tournament would have been an inevitability.

c) We officially proved that a certain 'arcade' game is impossible to win. It was that game where you control, the claw, and it goes down and, hopefully, retrieves your prize. Wrong. We have a video on a friends phone of the claw opening on the way back up, releasing the prize back into the bottom of the case. Now that is a scam.

d) Somebody I know has suddenly become addicted to drink. Now this is no laughing matter, but he's done this to look cool. I'm not even convinced he likes beer. Weird. He's a bit of a socail reject as well; if Mr Burns from the Simpsons and Randal from Recess had a baby, this would be it. Anyway, he came out with some classics, such as his idea of the whole alphabet backwards ("zxyz").

e) For whatever reason, nobody wanted to go on many rides this year. I don't know whether it was seen as 'uncool' or what, but, basically, everyone turned into boring little poofy fagheads.

f) An ex-girlfriend of mine was a little drunk, and we all thought 'this is great, she's going to do something, like flash, perhaps' as she is pretty hot, and, luckily, I got all the attention. She had a hold of me for about half an hour at a time, and kept pinning me up against walls etc, as if about to go a little further. Shame she wasn't a little more drunk really. This was the one main highlight of a truly obscure evening.

g) Another good thing though was that I met a couple of people who I haven't seen in ages. We all know the people that you may class as urban dwellers, but are perfectly fine to talk to on their own. A guy who is a year older than me, called Simon, is one of those that I saw. He's in Year 12, but didn't stay on for 6th Form at my school, so it was good to see him again. Another guy I saw, named Jack, was as surprised to see me as I was to see him. We went to primary school together, and haven't seen each other since. It's about...6 years I think, since I last saw him.

Anyway, yes, a very mixed evening. We did the usuals, offering urban dwellers candy sticks when they asked for cigarettes (always goes down a treat) and pretended to be drunk on Red Bull, but overall, I have no idea wheher I enjoyed myself or not.

That's a pretty crappy birthday present. I never find sea life centres very exciting either because most of the creatures are lifeless and do nothing. Occasionally you see some good things though, like giant sea turtles or octopusses, the sort of things you don't see very often.

There is a sea life centre in Brighton. Eb wants to go, maybe i'll take him for his birthday. Personally it would bore me silly.

I think i've come to a conclusion that Brigton and Blackpool are almost the same. Blackpool just has a tower.

I think there is one art gallery and a sea life centre too. Oh, and amusement arcades, lots and lots of amusement arcades. There's plenty of bingo but I don't count that as something interesting to be honest.

I'm sure we'll manage ;o)

There must be some museums there, or a bingo hall. He wants me to take him bingo.

A week in Blackpool is a bit much. Visit the tower and the pleasure beach and you've covered all of the interesting sites. I can't possibly think how you'd fill up those extra hours :)

Well, I live in Brighton so we got the fish and chips covered. We actually had fish and chips on the beach a few weekends back.

We are going Butlins in 3 weeks so maybe we'll go Blackpool next time. It'll take us about 4 hours to get there, so perhaps we'll go for a week.

I don't have that much sympathy for you. Just ask EB to take you for a weekend. Blackpool's extremely romantic you know with various fish and chip shops and blow-up dolls available for purchase on every street corner.

Oh well. I accept cash.

*Pats on head*

I'd offer you some chocolate too but that seems pretty pointless.

Is that all the sympathy I get?

I at least deserve a head pat.