foolfillment: the blog

Well, it’s all over adn not before time. I stopped watching it years ago, so when I saw tonight’s episode (which I watched out of curiosity) it was only about the 5th or 6th new episode I’ve seen in about 4 years and it was dross! It reminded me why I stopped watching it, I don’t really have aything insightful or revolutionary to say about it, just that I cannot understand how anyone can find it funny. I’ve seen old shows recently and even ones from the 3rd or so series seemed tired and limp. How on earth did it keep running? Oh well, at least it’s all over now and we can get on with watching Frasier. Or something

Oh, dear. There are strong words being sent their way by me again, I await their reply. Hang on, no there aren’t because the useless bint I spoke to one the phone gave me the wrong email address and it’s bounced back!

More angry words will be added to the email when I do find the right address.

Very soon I may have a new phone number. I’ve had too much bad experience with o2 so I’m going elsewhere, who would you recommend?

And by the way I can’t recommend highly enough this website which has a huge database of alternative numbers for companies who want to rip you off over the phone.

No matter how hard they try to convince people otherwise, Glasgow will always be a city riddled with poverty and horrible people looking for a fight, and as far as this quote goes :

They can claim him all they like, his stuff was rubbish, in my opinion at least. His buildings were okay, but nothing special and the stuff he put in them was dirty and cluttered looking. I find it funny that people buy Mackintosh style things nowadays, they seem to only be able to justify it by saying ‘oh, but it’s Mackintosh, it must be good’ Another example of people taken in by popular opinion, if I were to get a few people extolling the virtues of having a pile of dung in the middle of kitchens then it wouldn’t take long before people started following the lead. Gah, I hate people, they’re all stupid.

I quite like argueing, it’s instinctive for me to vocalise any disagreement I may have with what people say. It seems o2 like argueing too because they say things that I disagree with. Everytime I have any contact with them.

I have a tariff which (according to o2) meant I could send an infinite amount of text messages, or a third of an infinite amount of media messages, or a combiniation of the two. I didn’t have anyopne to send media messages to untill recently but I do now and when I tried to I found that I can’t. The problem you see (according to o2, fancy that!) is that my tariff doesn’t allow me to send media messages.

However, they don’t bother telling you this when you download the settings from their website, you see, on the website you enter your phone number to see if your tariff and phone are compatible. My tariff and phone are compatible (according to o2) so there should be no problem, but there is. The problem being o2 are useless. Utterly useless and incompetant and on the whole they just smell a bit of poo.

And they irritate me and make me want to argue with them and hit them with a big stick and so, because I like a good arguement most of the time, their totally inept support services actually help me to enjoy myself.

A particular favourite line from the most recent email : “O2 Online endeavour to resolve your query on your initial contact and “Get It Right”. If we have failed to attain the high standards we set for ourselves please reply to this email”

What terrifyingly high standards they set for their staff?! No wonder they’re useless, they’re completely petrified of not achiveing the high standards that they cannot do anything as a result.

The battle continues.

It’s a bit rubbish, living in Glasgow that is, when you consider it all. There are good bits but when it comes down to it, it’s a city which is always going to be a bad thing in my book and it’s not even a very good city. Sure there are good bits, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and the University building and the riverside are all quite nice to look at, untill you look at the surroundig area and people.

It’s the people I object to most of all. You always about how friendly and kind they are but it’s just a lie, the people are, almost without exception, all horrible, evil, diseased, antagonistic cretins. Even the dogs are unfriendly and blank you in the street.

And they’re damn rude too.

What always happens to me in shops I don’t know is I wait and wait and finally have it kindly pointed out to me that I’m not being served because I’m waiting to be served by a manikin. It doesn’t get pointed out to you in Glasgow unless you’re in someone’s way, in which case you get a walking stick in the back of your knee and an umbrella smacked against your head. I digress…

Today in the chemist, when I was picking up the grease for my skin that I told you all about, I asked a guy if he was in the queue so that the same embarrasing episode wouldn’t occur yet again. And so began a scene not disimilar to one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Stuart : “Excuse me, is this the queue?”
Weedgie Twunt* : Silence
S : “Excuse me?”
WT : Silence, looks other way
S : (raises voice) “I was just wondering, Excuse me? HELLO”
WT : grunts and generally looks diseased and contagious
S : Gives up and makes towards the counter
WT : Blocks S’s path, (says something indeciferable and probably actually much more foul mouthed than this but as I said it was undeciferable) “NONE SHALL PASS”
S : “Oh, sorry, but I did ask, are you in the queue then?”
WT : Silence
S : (muttering under breath) “Right then, nice of you to say, lovely day isn’t it?” makes towards counter again
WT : Makes to crack S’s head open with bottle of Buckie before realising there are two people available at the counter.

Useless twunt.

*Twunt being used courtesy of Scaryduck in order to make this page suitable for my Mum

What is that anyway? It only seems to be referenced on the internet as a lyric in a B&S song from the soundtrack for a Tom Solondz film (indicentally isn’t the new single good? I mean, not the single but the other songs. I mean the single is good but we knew that already. Oh hang on, I have something to say about this, I’ll come back to Mandingo Cliche later. Bracket, what bracket?

I hate stuff, I’m not sure which particular stuff, this isn’t going to be a rant about The Darkness but I suppose it is connected. I hate that people like what I like. This isn’t because I strive to be individual or don’t want to have anything in common with people, that’s not true. I hate that people like what I like because it means they ruin it. The problem is people like listening to a song. Over and over. and then some more. Or at least that’s what the radio stations think and people listen to the radio, for some reason, the only reason I can think of is that they like to listen to songs over and over. and over again.

For me that ruins a song, and often an entire album too. A good current example is Snow Patrol. I remember hearing Snow Patrol when I was in second year, about 6 years ago, I didn’t really listen to them untill about 5th/6th year (When it’s all over we still have to clear up) and just after this Christmas I got the current album, Final Straw. I really like it, (I’m not going to do a review here, you don’t need it, I’m sure Mr Lumby could though if he’s out there?) but now everywhere you go it’s being played, or rather bits of it are which is worse. One bit in particular is the start to ‘Spitting Games’ which is backing any sporting clips collage you see at the moment. It really annoys me because I hear it too much and it’s overkill. One of the more obvious songs to sing along to, it is catchy and it is good but hearing it too much means I can’t listen to the album any more without skipping the song. And it annoys me. And it’s happening to other bands I like too.

Grrr.

I have a point, just not the words.

Oh, yes, that was something, stupid radio listeners only like what they’re told to like by the radio, Dido anyone?

It has a backlash on me. Just because Snow Patrol are popular now, whenever someone like me asks someone else like me what music they like and the someone else like me responds ‘Snow Patrol’ then the first prerson like me thinks that the someone else like me is just a stupid radio listener, when in fact that’s not true and the someone else like me has liked Snow Patrol just as long as the someone like me. If you follow. I hope you do because my fingers are tired from typing and I don’t want to have to explain it again.

Now where was I? Mandingo Cliche! Yes, what does it mean? I’ll write something about it later maybe.

Incidentally, my PC has just chosen to sandwich a Reindeer Section song with two Snow patrol songs. And Microsoft say they aren’t watching what we do!

Now, I’m not one to complain, as you know, but there ie one thing that annoys me and that is East Lothian Council. Every time I come home from Glasgow I find that they have done something unbelievably stupid and irritating and deserving of the death penalty. I won’t go into details here because it will only bore you but if today you see a member of the council give them a scailp for me will you please?

Oh and by the way, it’s just this minute started snowing!

when I sit down after lunch at 1.40 I want Neighbours, not Macauley Culkin in this dross. Christmas or no.

… does anyone know anything about setting up photoblogs? can it be done with MT2.21? or do i have to go through all the kafuffle of installing 2.51? is it worth installing it anyway? or will you all say i should move to greymatter or conversant?

why isn’t it snowing here? i was promised snow but none has come. why?

why? why? why?why? why? why? why? why?

If it doesn’t snow soon I’m going to get very grumpy.