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"Earlier today Tony Blair got much love from his party when they decided to support him over Iraq. Loads of people thought Tony would get totally whooped in the vote but he won anyway..."
WHAAAAT? I think I know how they came up with this crap because it was almost identical to the Radio 1 bulletin: pasty faced journalist dumbs down the news as much as possible and then hands the script to a media student yoof who makes it more street by putting his baseball cap on backwards and:
Replacing the words 'much needed support' with 'much love'.
Replacing the words 'many political analysts' with 'loads of people'
Replacing the words 'soundly beaten' with 'whooped'.
I wonder how many people heard that and thought, "Well I was totally apathetic to politics before but, y'know, those guys are really talking my language and I might just go out and vote. For Tony!" None, perhaps? If the BBC are so desperate to give us the news the way actual people speak then why not refer to Tony Blair as a crackwhore and George Bush as a spack-faced chimp? That I would listen to.
"Earlier today Tony Blair got much love from his party when they decided to support him over Iraq. Loads of people thought Tony would get totally whooped in the vote but he won anyway..."
WHAAAAT? I think I know how they came up with this crap because it was almost identical to the Radio 1 bulletin: pasty faced journalist dumbs down the news as much as possible and then hands the script to a media student yoof who makes it more street by putting his baseball cap on backwards and:
Replacing the words 'much needed support' with 'much love'.
Replacing the words 'many political analysts' with 'loads of people'
Replacing the words 'soundly beaten' with 'whooped'.
I wonder how many people heard that and thought, "Well I was totally apathetic to politics before but, y'know, those guys are really talking my language and I might just go out and vote. For Tony!" None, perhaps? If the BBC are so desperate to give us the news the way actual people speak then why not refer to Tony Blair as a crackwhore and George Bush as a spack-faced chimp? That I would listen to.
What does that mean? People who sit around and complain about how bad they believe things to be are just as guilty as those who directly change things for the worse.
Who among us is doing something to change it? Goatboy is, who else? Come on, step forward.
Until people start doing something to rectify the problems the world faces, they have no right to complain about how bad those problems are.
Come on, let's see some exclamation marks!!!!!!
But, anyway, people can't complain unless they're doing stuff to change the world? Why not?
After I left uni I worked for an international development NGO because, of all the things that annoy me about the world, that is the thing that bothers me most. I wanted to go back to uni to get a masters and phd, but to do that I needed to save money and pay off my student loan, so I quit and got a job that paid more. I still work in economic development, but now its local rather than international; I'll go back to the third world stuff when I'm done learning. But I don't think that means I'm not allowed to moan about that type of thing while I'm taking a break from it, and it doesn't make my opinion on it any more valid than other people's.
There are plenty of people who would like to change the world but can't because they have lives to lead. I don't think my mum had much spare time when she was looking after three kids and working, so she just moaned about apartheid and didn't buy South African fruit.
And since I don't have a vote in America (for which I blame the news on 1xtra), all I can do about George Bush is complain and give him some personal abuse. It's very upsetting for me, but I do it anyway.
> Jeez guys, lighten up. This forum has undergone a major humour bypass
> over the last few weeks.
>
> Come on, let's see some exclamation marks!!!!!!
Exclamation marks don't make it funnier.
...You dick!!!!!!