Syndicate
It started out normally enough, English, Art, then sodded off home. It was around about the match between Murray and Gulbis, the most of which I missed because I decided to clean my ear... with my finger. A trip to the doctor's later I've got some ear drops for an ear full of clogged up wax... yeah nice I know. BUT! Auntie Diane has given me a job! Proofreading a document by a German bloke. £20! So, Aquinas lot, this means I'm temporarily deaf in my left ear and I may not be able to go to Manchester tomorrow for that music thing Huish wanted to see.
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Vox Furoris: 31/5/09
Submitted by BeagonBoy on Sun, 2009-05-31 21:15.
"Speaker Michael Martin to bend down 21 June"
Submitted by Sirius on Sat, 2009-05-30 13:22.
A few days ago, when trawling GoogleNews for articles on the Speaker's resignation, I found this hilarious article in what I think is Turkish. If you think the title's funny enough, it only gets better - Gordon Brown is apparently the Prime Abbot in the Abode of Commons, and Douglas Carswell led efforts to 'conge' the Speaker.
QUOTE
Speaker Michael Martin to bend down on 21 June
Michael Martin today appear he would «relinquish» his acclimation as Commons Speaker in the deathwatch of calls for him to go because of his aborticide of administering over the costs scandal.
In a abrupt address, Martin told MPs that the abode was «best if it is united».
He added: «In acclimation that accordance can be maintained I accepting absitively I will carelessness the acclimation of Speaker on Sunday 21 June. This will accepting the abode to exhausted to accepting a new Speaker on Monday 22 June. That is all I accepting to say.»
His apostle said afterwards the Speaker would angle down as MP for Glasgow North East on 21 June, heralding a byelection in the frequently safe Labour seat. He is able to be acclimatized a peerage.
The Speaker is the a lot of high-profile abstruse of the costs abstruse so far. Some MPs accepting that he has been artificial a base for the aborticide of the Commons as a whole, although Martin has faced activity accusations of amateurishness abashed his acclamation in 2000.
Martin's acclimation follows the adeptness of an aberrant motion on the Abode of Commons acclimation paper, activity by 23 MPs led by Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell, calling on him to go.
Downing Street would not bribery on belletrist that Gordon Brown met Martin this morning to altercate his future. Downing Street appear that the prime abbot would accordance one of his acclimatized columnist conferences at 5.30pm today.
But what seems to accepting affiliated Martin to go was the accepting if he artificial a anniversary in the Commons age-old apologising for his role in the costs affair. In scenes for which there is no antecedent in exhausted times, MPs from all carelessness of the abode told him to his face that he should quit.
Carswell, the Tory MP who led efforts to conge the Speaker with a motion of no aggressiveness tabled yesterday, said afterwards Martin's resignation: «It had to happen. It was not a nice business. It's been acutely abhorrent work. I did this regretting I had to do it.»
He added that the next Speaker would accepting to accompany the Commons into the exhausted world. «This gives us a acclimatized befalling now to accomplish a new Abode of Commons that is not a accumulated apart. We accepting to modernise the architectonics and accomplish it able for the age of YouTube.»
Senior Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, a emphasis of the Speaker who has committed him in beside days, said: «I exhausted he recognised that accordance in the abode was not there and appropriately he did the aloft thing.»
He acclimatized Martin's accepting age-old but accused him of creating a adeptness of «uncertainty» about his abutting and abstruse advantage of the house.
«A Speaker of the Abode of Commons accepting to accepting authority,» he said. «;Michael Martin acutely absent it yesterday.»
He added: «I exhausted he paid a abounding accumulated for aggravating to be an adeptness accumulated if the adeptness was falling away.»
Martin, a aloft sheet-metal artisan from Glasgow and the age-old Catholic to advantage the acclimation of Commons Speaker, was aboveboard as an obstacle to allay because he chairs the Abode of Commons commission, the appraisement in allegation of Commons administration.
The abettor of Martin's belted Labour activity acclimatized him today.
Gerry Leonard said afterwards the Speaker's advertisement that he hoped his acclimation «is a claimed one».
Leonard added: "It is in adeptness afield that some Tory and Lib Dem MPs accepting been aggravating to use his acclimation as a aberancy from their own mistakes and errors of judgment.
«I aswell exhausted there has been some ageism from some quarters.»
Under new Commons rules, the next Speaker will be declared by abstruse ballot.
Today bookmakers artificial Sir Alan Haselhurst, the Tory MP who is the a lot of able of the three abettor Speakers, aloft abbot Frank Field and Sir Menzies Campbell, the aloft Liberal Democrat leader, three of the favourites to accomplish Martin.
The analytic accepting alfresco Westminster appears to accepting affiliated Martin to go. Eight canicule ago, Martin aswell abashed some MPs if he criticised two MPs in the chamber, Labour's Kate Hoey and the Lib Dem Norman Baker, because they had been analytic of the Abode of Commons commission's administering of the issue.
Today Baker said that Martin's acclimation was «the acclimatized acclimation to take». He said that although Martin had had «immense difficulties», he had aswell artificial some complete contributions that should be remembered.
«He had to go for the anniversary of parliament. That does not stop us activity atoning for him on a claimed basis,» Baker said.
Sir Alistair Graham, the aloft abettor of the arbor on standards in accessible life, said that Martin was an obstacle to reform.
«He did rather act like a acclimation abettor for MPs and he didn't accepting the adeptness and allure already the crisis hit accession to accession a way through so he was just the afield accepting for that bearings and hopefully accession is now traveling to put that right,» Graham said.
Paul Flynn, a Labour MP who activity Carswell's motion of no-confidence, said: «I'm abashed that [Martin] has brought this on him self. Accession has to allay itself. He was the afield accepting to do it.»
Flynn said that some of the attacks on Martin were unfair, but that it was afield for Martin to exhausted the «whistleblowers» who had complained about the Speaker's administering of events.
Flynn aswell said that he would be acknowledging the Tory MP John Bercow as the next Speaker because he had the abeyant to after-effects «radical reform».
Michael Martin today appear he would «relinquish» his acclimation as Commons Speaker in the deathwatch of calls for him to go because of his aborticide of administering over the costs scandal.
In a abrupt address, Martin told MPs that the abode was «best if it is united».
He added: «In acclimation that accordance can be maintained I accepting absitively I will carelessness the acclimation of Speaker on Sunday 21 June. This will accepting the abode to exhausted to accepting a new Speaker on Monday 22 June. That is all I accepting to say.»
His apostle said afterwards the Speaker would angle down as MP for Glasgow North East on 21 June, heralding a byelection in the frequently safe Labour seat. He is able to be acclimatized a peerage.
The Speaker is the a lot of high-profile abstruse of the costs abstruse so far. Some MPs accepting that he has been artificial a base for the aborticide of the Commons as a whole, although Martin has faced activity accusations of amateurishness abashed his acclamation in 2000.
Martin's acclimation follows the adeptness of an aberrant motion on the Abode of Commons acclimation paper, activity by 23 MPs led by Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell, calling on him to go.
Downing Street would not bribery on belletrist that Gordon Brown met Martin this morning to altercate his future. Downing Street appear that the prime abbot would accordance one of his acclimatized columnist conferences at 5.30pm today.
But what seems to accepting affiliated Martin to go was the accepting if he artificial a anniversary in the Commons age-old apologising for his role in the costs affair. In scenes for which there is no antecedent in exhausted times, MPs from all carelessness of the abode told him to his face that he should quit.
Carswell, the Tory MP who led efforts to conge the Speaker with a motion of no aggressiveness tabled yesterday, said afterwards Martin's resignation: «It had to happen. It was not a nice business. It's been acutely abhorrent work. I did this regretting I had to do it.»
He added that the next Speaker would accepting to accompany the Commons into the exhausted world. «This gives us a acclimatized befalling now to accomplish a new Abode of Commons that is not a accumulated apart. We accepting to modernise the architectonics and accomplish it able for the age of YouTube.»
Senior Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, a emphasis of the Speaker who has committed him in beside days, said: «I exhausted he recognised that accordance in the abode was not there and appropriately he did the aloft thing.»
He acclimatized Martin's accepting age-old but accused him of creating a adeptness of «uncertainty» about his abutting and abstruse advantage of the house.
«A Speaker of the Abode of Commons accepting to accepting authority,» he said. «;Michael Martin acutely absent it yesterday.»
He added: «I exhausted he paid a abounding accumulated for aggravating to be an adeptness accumulated if the adeptness was falling away.»
Martin, a aloft sheet-metal artisan from Glasgow and the age-old Catholic to advantage the acclimation of Commons Speaker, was aboveboard as an obstacle to allay because he chairs the Abode of Commons commission, the appraisement in allegation of Commons administration.
The abettor of Martin's belted Labour activity acclimatized him today.
Gerry Leonard said afterwards the Speaker's advertisement that he hoped his acclimation «is a claimed one».
Leonard added: "It is in adeptness afield that some Tory and Lib Dem MPs accepting been aggravating to use his acclimation as a aberancy from their own mistakes and errors of judgment.
«I aswell exhausted there has been some ageism from some quarters.»
Under new Commons rules, the next Speaker will be declared by abstruse ballot.
Today bookmakers artificial Sir Alan Haselhurst, the Tory MP who is the a lot of able of the three abettor Speakers, aloft abbot Frank Field and Sir Menzies Campbell, the aloft Liberal Democrat leader, three of the favourites to accomplish Martin.
The analytic accepting alfresco Westminster appears to accepting affiliated Martin to go. Eight canicule ago, Martin aswell abashed some MPs if he criticised two MPs in the chamber, Labour's Kate Hoey and the Lib Dem Norman Baker, because they had been analytic of the Abode of Commons commission's administering of the issue.
Today Baker said that Martin's acclimation was «the acclimatized acclimation to take». He said that although Martin had had «immense difficulties», he had aswell artificial some complete contributions that should be remembered.
«He had to go for the anniversary of parliament. That does not stop us activity atoning for him on a claimed basis,» Baker said.
Sir Alistair Graham, the aloft abettor of the arbor on standards in accessible life, said that Martin was an obstacle to reform.
«He did rather act like a acclimation abettor for MPs and he didn't accepting the adeptness and allure already the crisis hit accession to accession a way through so he was just the afield accepting for that bearings and hopefully accession is now traveling to put that right,» Graham said.
Paul Flynn, a Labour MP who activity Carswell's motion of no-confidence, said: «I'm abashed that [Martin] has brought this on him self. Accession has to allay itself. He was the afield accepting to do it.»
Flynn said that some of the attacks on Martin were unfair, but that it was afield for Martin to exhausted the «whistleblowers» who had complained about the Speaker's administering of events.
Flynn aswell said that he would be acknowledging the Tory MP John Bercow as the next Speaker because he had the abeyant to after-effects «radical reform».
After about 4 months I realized taking Art was a pretty big mistake, as such, I'm mulling over ideas for a replacement for it next year, and after re-reading the Mythbusters topic I've realized how much I've missed Biology, not that I remember much of what I said in there anymore 
. Anyway, here's my shortlist and if anyone has any insights for me:
History: Not done it for years and do kinda miss it.
Geology: Deals with the more interesting stuff like tectonics
Graphics: Good creative substitute
Biology: I was oddly keen at it and Miss Cadney did say I had a good grip of stuff thats only covered at A-level.
So yeah, any advice?
. Anyway, here's my shortlist and if anyone has any insights for me:History: Not done it for years and do kinda miss it.
Geology: Deals with the more interesting stuff like tectonics
Graphics: Good creative substitute
Biology: I was oddly keen at it and Miss Cadney did say I had a good grip of stuff thats only covered at A-level.
So yeah, any advice?
Right, so Beeegs and Huish's Birthday's are coming up, and we start study leave... well, now. So I decided to get the two of them some presents, which actually just turned out to be a couple of books, but I think they liked them...
Anyway, before I handed these over, I decided to do some 'joke' presents. Huish, being a bit of a Trek fan like me, was the proud receiver of a cardboard tricorder that I scrawled on in Sharpie marker. Beegs gift was a bit more thoughtful. Now he said a while ago he saw some 'Used' condoms on Amazon going for £0.01. Guess what I did. Now guess again, and don't be so disgusting! What I did was sacrificed two from my own stash and filled them with glue and white acrylic respectively. Then I put the articles in a box. I then presented them to him today at break. In the library. Bailey then threw the contents of the box at me and Huish, and we promply legged it. When we came up again 2 hours later, the box was still on the table and oe of the condoms was still on the floor. Huish cited it as "the most disgusting thing [I've] ever done..."
Yup, maturity. And now I'm sodding off for the weekend to shoot things
Ta ta.
Anyway, before I handed these over, I decided to do some 'joke' presents. Huish, being a bit of a Trek fan like me, was the proud receiver of a cardboard tricorder that I scrawled on in Sharpie marker. Beegs gift was a bit more thoughtful. Now he said a while ago he saw some 'Used' condoms on Amazon going for £0.01. Guess what I did. Now guess again, and don't be so disgusting! What I did was sacrificed two from my own stash and filled them with glue and white acrylic respectively. Then I put the articles in a box. I then presented them to him today at break. In the library. Bailey then threw the contents of the box at me and Huish, and we promply legged it. When we came up again 2 hours later, the box was still on the table and oe of the condoms was still on the floor. Huish cited it as "the most disgusting thing [I've] ever done..."
Yup, maturity. And now I'm sodding off for the weekend to shoot things
Ta ta. Vox Furoris 30/4/09
Submitted by BeagonBoy on Thu, 2009-04-30 22:06.
If it doesn't work immediately, just wait around a bit and try again in a few minutes.
Vox Furoris 29/3/09
Submitted by BeagonBoy on Sun, 2009-03-29 20:45.
The article that never was, and then never was again.
Submitted by John on Sun, 2009-03-15 22:17.
I already submitted this once, but it got totally glued over by Josh's Gay bashing thread 
I walked into the library and there was the editor of the magazine 'JOHN! PERFECT TIMING!' she yells. Anyhoo, whilst helping with the magazine layout, I discovered that my bus article is going ahead, but my teen angst one isn't, because another person submitted an identical article. She did say she preferred mine though irony.png
Teenage angst.
So a new edition of the college magazine dawned, and I was blank on ideas. I decided to go for a walk, to try and jog some ideas. I awoke the following morning naked in a field in Castleton with a sheep urinating on my face. It was here, on my back, in a field, covered in lamb excrement it dawned on me;
people have a really bad image of teenagers in their head.
When not concerned with the financial crisis of the universe, the headlines are swarmed with more reports on 'youth culture' and 'yob Britian'. Specifically this all refers to hoodies and knife crime. In a constant barrage, the tabloids would have us believe that this minority of malcontents hellbent on causing murder and mayhem, is the model for every teenager in the country. The image of the hoodie is one played on as a thug, using the concealing item of clothing as a means of intimidation whilst they knife you to death and nick your wallet. I have a friend who loves wearing hoodies, she too will one day be wielding a knife. She's hoping to be a doctor. When was the last time you read of an act of selflessness by a teenager in a newspaper, let alone saw it on the front page.
The representation of teengers - like any other minority (anyone who's not a heterosexual Caucasian male aged 20-49), - is biased and unfair. The stereotype of us as violent, knife wielding, alcohol fueled, sex mad, skiving rioters, is one that sours every teenager, if it weren't for the fact the third and fourth points in that list are pretty much true, I'd be really angry. Due to this, it's now impossible to sit with a group of friends on a bench in Stockport past 5pm, without a policeman or passer-by thinking you'll be raiding the shop across the road within half an hour.
To ignore there is a problem would be futile, however. There are those out there who would have us cower at their attempts to intimidate us, if it weren't so pathetic to start with. The newspaper reports on the various kinds of vandalism and murder committed by these low-lifes is an ever escalating problem. Take for example, a lad in Bredbury, aged between 15-17, was stabbed by another youth, so that he could steal his bike. It occurs to me that these unspeakable lunatics have the mental capacity of misbehaving children, only with more knives. It therefore occurs to me, that in the case a child misbehaves, do we lavish attention on them as the newspapers do? Maybe if we put an end to tabloid reports on mindless youths, yobs would be put on the naughty step, where they belong. Preferably doused in petrol and on fire. We don't want the dears getting cold now, do we?
The issues raised by the above bags of (insert naughty words here), are so mainstream, it's beginning to get out of control. To return to my rant, allow me to issue a case study. Last summer, a girl was expelled from her school because she put black streaks in her hair. In an article reporting on the matter, The Metro invited commentary from it's readers, on such one, posted my an opinionated lady, read: "Bravo to [The Headmaster], when will these yobs learn?". As you can expect I was not too pleased. After ten minutes of me uttering the most foul language you have ever heard on a 192, I calmed slightly and contemplated, how could someone take such a biased and misinformed opinion. I was only too pleased to read two other readers who agreed with my opinion that the situation had gotten way out of hand and the punishment was, a wee bit harsh. All the same, if it weren't illegal, and thus impossible to discriminate against an age group, I'd be temped to call this bullying. Of course, that could never happen. Surely?
If it has miraculously escaped you on reading this, I'm angry. Damn angry. Why should we all have to take the blame for a hand full of mindless vandals who want to ruin everyone else's fun? For that matter, why should those of us who behave with decorum and restraint even bother? You seem to have made your minds up on us as it is. Do we really deserve all this grief? Those of us who give up our free time to go on duty as first aiders, those of us who donate blood? Those of us who are in learning so we can one day be doctors and teachers? Is this fair?! I concede that there are those who would make the rest of our lives a misery, but next time, don't give us the dirty look for it.
I walked into the library and there was the editor of the magazine 'JOHN! PERFECT TIMING!' she yells. Anyhoo, whilst helping with the magazine layout, I discovered that my bus article is going ahead, but my teen angst one isn't, because another person submitted an identical article. She did say she preferred mine though irony.png
Teenage angst.
So a new edition of the college magazine dawned, and I was blank on ideas. I decided to go for a walk, to try and jog some ideas. I awoke the following morning naked in a field in Castleton with a sheep urinating on my face. It was here, on my back, in a field, covered in lamb excrement it dawned on me;
people have a really bad image of teenagers in their head.
When not concerned with the financial crisis of the universe, the headlines are swarmed with more reports on 'youth culture' and 'yob Britian'. Specifically this all refers to hoodies and knife crime. In a constant barrage, the tabloids would have us believe that this minority of malcontents hellbent on causing murder and mayhem, is the model for every teenager in the country. The image of the hoodie is one played on as a thug, using the concealing item of clothing as a means of intimidation whilst they knife you to death and nick your wallet. I have a friend who loves wearing hoodies, she too will one day be wielding a knife. She's hoping to be a doctor. When was the last time you read of an act of selflessness by a teenager in a newspaper, let alone saw it on the front page.
The representation of teengers - like any other minority (anyone who's not a heterosexual Caucasian male aged 20-49), - is biased and unfair. The stereotype of us as violent, knife wielding, alcohol fueled, sex mad, skiving rioters, is one that sours every teenager, if it weren't for the fact the third and fourth points in that list are pretty much true, I'd be really angry. Due to this, it's now impossible to sit with a group of friends on a bench in Stockport past 5pm, without a policeman or passer-by thinking you'll be raiding the shop across the road within half an hour.
To ignore there is a problem would be futile, however. There are those out there who would have us cower at their attempts to intimidate us, if it weren't so pathetic to start with. The newspaper reports on the various kinds of vandalism and murder committed by these low-lifes is an ever escalating problem. Take for example, a lad in Bredbury, aged between 15-17, was stabbed by another youth, so that he could steal his bike. It occurs to me that these unspeakable lunatics have the mental capacity of misbehaving children, only with more knives. It therefore occurs to me, that in the case a child misbehaves, do we lavish attention on them as the newspapers do? Maybe if we put an end to tabloid reports on mindless youths, yobs would be put on the naughty step, where they belong. Preferably doused in petrol and on fire. We don't want the dears getting cold now, do we?
The issues raised by the above bags of (insert naughty words here), are so mainstream, it's beginning to get out of control. To return to my rant, allow me to issue a case study. Last summer, a girl was expelled from her school because she put black streaks in her hair. In an article reporting on the matter, The Metro invited commentary from it's readers, on such one, posted my an opinionated lady, read: "Bravo to [The Headmaster], when will these yobs learn?". As you can expect I was not too pleased. After ten minutes of me uttering the most foul language you have ever heard on a 192, I calmed slightly and contemplated, how could someone take such a biased and misinformed opinion. I was only too pleased to read two other readers who agreed with my opinion that the situation had gotten way out of hand and the punishment was, a wee bit harsh. All the same, if it weren't illegal, and thus impossible to discriminate against an age group, I'd be temped to call this bullying. Of course, that could never happen. Surely?
If it has miraculously escaped you on reading this, I'm angry. Damn angry. Why should we all have to take the blame for a hand full of mindless vandals who want to ruin everyone else's fun? For that matter, why should those of us who behave with decorum and restraint even bother? You seem to have made your minds up on us as it is. Do we really deserve all this grief? Those of us who give up our free time to go on duty as first aiders, those of us who donate blood? Those of us who are in learning so we can one day be doctors and teachers? Is this fair?! I concede that there are those who would make the rest of our lives a misery, but next time, don't give us the dirty look for it.
Time is now: 4/7/09, 11:27