The wii fit!

I have noticed that I usually rant about things that bug me, and I know why this is. As any one who knows me I don't get cross alot or lose my temper in person I actually come across very calm so I decided to make this blog so I could vent and not implode from the everyday annoyances that do bug me. But I do want to praise things when I think they are good so..
I just bought the Wii Fit and I read online reviews about it that are a bit average and tend to have alot of moaning on them , so i just wanted to have my say: I think the Wii FIt is excellent, speaking as someone who wants to get abit fitter but gets embarrassed running in my street or doesn't like gym's this is just the biz. I have only had it for 3 days so far but I absolutely love it and want to say well done Nintendo no wonder there selling out every where. If you don't have one and you have a Wii you should go out and buy one now!

Why july the 12th sucks! In N.I

Okay it is now the 13th of July and it has all calmed down a wee but here in N. Ireland but the last three days before where insane as usual round this time of year. I could not help but laugh when I saw that they are trying to call this "holiday" a family friendly experience hmmm yes I have lived here 28 years and that is not an expression I would use to describe it!
This part of Ireland practically closes down for three days and people flee to the south, or hide indoors if they where gifted enough to have a live brain cell. The streets become a wash of drunken arses yelling abusive slur's and insults and littering the place so it look's like a right dump.

I was disgusted while I was in the City centre on the 10th as the place was already starting to look like it had reversed in time to when Belfast was like before the cease fire and a Place my Mum used to warned me about that stank of prejudice and ignorance, not the Belfast today that I have grown to love which has a diverse community and a rich culture and history that we have embraced but shook of to glorously arise from like a phoenix from the ashes to a place that now has a good tourist over turn, not just people coming here expecting to see riots and see people running from gunfire! .
But on thursday as I was walking around in town the drunken assholes had started early and where stumbling about polluting the streets in more ways than one, I felt physically ill when I witnessed two drunken men coming up to two asian men walking and minding their own business only to hurl abusive racist language at them, I wanted to say something but like most people on this "so called holiday" who is of a non- protestant,white, bigot persuation you learn to keep your head down as they just love harassing the "different" looking people I know from personal experience. I later saw an another racist incident involving verbal abuse in the same area.
I came home as quick as my proudly odd little legs would take me as I was so enraged with people like that being allowed to exist and that the Police where not patrolling well enough to pick up the drunks on the main streets as per-fucking usual on this "holiday".

I find it hilarious that on the pride march (which i may mention is actually a good family event as my whole family always join me and I'm hoping my baby niece may come along this year) the police would not think twice about taking your drink off you on the street or arresting someone being rowdy or disorderly on the main streets, of which I have never seen as no violence ever happens ( that I've seen) except verbal bitching from the drag queens but thats all indoors or one stage ;) so it's lovely that the police turn the other cheek so these loyalist dick heads can litter the place, scream words like faggot and Fenian etc at passer's by and start violence and cause such a horrible atmosphere to loom over Belfast and N.I for 3 or so days every year.

My GF made a funny suggestion, that alot of the people that protest at the Gay pride march every year are part of the orange parade and that a bunch of us "Mo's" should go down to their march and protest with placards saying 'down with this sorta thing" and "careful now" (yes thats from father ted .lol) but as funny as that sounds I fail to think that we would be treated with as much freedom of speech or non violence as they are granted on the gay pride parades. As we let them protest because its their right to have freedom of speech but on filpside I know if anyone protests against the orange marches riots start and violence and electric black outs and all hell breaks lose, (sigh)..how we all remember.

This "holiday" is a bloody embarrassment to most people who live in N.I and I REALLY wish they would stop trying to sell it as a family fun time, bonfire night yes last time I checked setting fire to things was not considered child safe, pyromania is a lovely tradition to uphold.

The other annoying thing is that most people in these parades marching and celebrating don't even know the real history of the battle of the boyne they just have stupid beliefs and stories about it that are inaccurate and uninformed (which is no surprise regarding the sort that love this holiday).

I am so glad it is over for another year and Belfast can return back to sanity and peace. And a tip to people wearing orange sashes this season: Orange is not a good colour to wear if you suffer from red drunken cheeks, as they clash, darling really! you look terrible!

peace out and back thank fuck :)

Gender Roles lets blame the media yet again!

Adverts are something if we're honest that bug most people, but if your remote is fucked like mine then sometimes you just watch them,lol...and I could not help but notice the dozens of adverts that have so many old fashioned views on family life and gender roles, when here was me thinking it was 2008. One ad that bugged me to no end was the anti smoking around your kids ad which yes thats a good message (even tho my mum smoked and I don't but hmmm ok) but this ad showed all the things your kids do whilst copying their parents and apparently men work on computers and play golf and shave and read, while women push prams, cook and like putting makeup on, (grr) . The one before last there seems to be what more kids are copying anyways getting themselves knocked up right and early let alone smoking!

All washing up liquid ads show women as mothers and wives saying this stuff is great for my kids clothes and my husband "blush oh he's such a messy beast" basically depicting that single men walk around in 5 year old stained pants and sporting shirts with stinky pits, as clearly only if you have a x chromosome are you capable of looking after your own hygiene lol! this sends stupid messages about men and women and kids that are growing up now in a very diverse changing society and still watching this old fashion sexist bullshit and sexist to both sexes I think.

My GF got very annoyed at another ad by 'fairy liquid' that showed all the things your hands can go through, so yet again it was a woman's hands. She was peeling potatoes, scrubbing a carpet, and cycling( the last one must of been when she was fleeing her cave for more potatoes to please the master!) come on! when is any company gonna make an advert that shows modern families, intelligent single men and women and maybe even a few alternative lifestyles, (sway.... faint, they aren't wholesome my dears! pronounces the consumer village appointed idiot)

We now live in a society that apparently has made more girls want to aspire to be a WAG( wife and girlfriend of footballer) or a glamour model when the higher percentage used to be teachers,lawyers and Doctors/Vets. These adverts just remind me this every day and I know that media has had a direct link to the down fall of peoples gray matter changing to a bloody green mush, so why oh why do they keep plugging this 1940's crap but with less style into the adverts, where women are just home keepers, heat readers or half naked for dick heads to wank over, and the adverts are crap about men too they depict them as stupid as they can not care for themselves and they only live on pot noodles and beer and love football and like driving down big hills in a car! when last time I checked alot of men out there are not stupid and are not living in a box eating a pot noodle waiting for a woman to feed them and clothe them and some don't even drive cars, shock!.

I have decided every time these ads come on tv I am going to close my eyes and chant very loudly " I am a woman and I hate cleaning, and celebrity magazines and I will read a whole grown up novel and not faint because it's not on cooking or glossy ahhh!" over and over till I calm again and watch a nice documentary about other ppl that whine as much as I do, or I cld get up and change channel but wooo thats radical.