An hour of work

Everyone else is doing it so here is a list of 110 things you didn't know about me.

1. I hate beer
2. My first drunken experience was at the age of 16
3. I had my first drink in a pub at 17
4. I hate the premiership though I like international matches
5. My favourite sports are cricket, golf and rugby
6. I only play golf
7. My best score in golf is 5 over par
8. I was the chess champion of my school
9. I analyze and think about almost everything I do
10. I once had a 15 minute long conversation in French.
11. I hate to argue
12. My friends are the most important thing to me
13. I spend too much money
14. I have shares in five different companies
15. I love to fly but hate to travel
16. I’m going to learn to fly next year
17. My dream is to go into space
18. I love being high up
19. I want to do a skydive
20. The scariest thing I have done is my driving test
21. I have had major surgery four times
22. None of them where under general anaesthetic
23. I love spell-check
24. My worst subject at school was English
25. My best was Maths
26. I have only ever been on one date
27. I plan to fail
28. I’m a pessimist
29. In my opinion, religion is the worst thing on this planet
30. I believe in war solving some problems
31. I’m quite accurate with guns
32. Grenades are my favourite weapon in games
33. I have driven a tank
34. I have had a knife through my hand
35. I have been mugged twice, both times involved me beating off said mugger and keeping my stuff
36. The previous points aren’t related
37. I hate stereotypical Americans
38. I would like to visit America
39. I have never left Europe
40. My favourite holiday was in Finland
41. I have eaten reindeer, and it is delicious
42. I rarely eat breakfast
43. I was for the Iraq war and still am
44. I think Tony Blair isn’t doing too bad a job
45. I’m probably the shyest guy on earth
46. Nothing turns me on more than intellect
47. Repeating myself annoys me a lot
48. I think the euro is an awful idea
49. I get depressed almost every day
50. I think about certain people approximately ten times a day
51. I hate and fear all dogs
52. I love and adore all cats
53. I have always been a little scared of the telephone
54. I speak very little
55. I skipped a year of primary school
56. I always try and choose red things
57. I watch the matrix every few days.
58. My favourite meal is lasagne
59. I once had a meal that cost £130 (That is just my meal!)
60. I think that acupuncture works wonders
61. Failing in anything gets me depressed
62. I always feel I should be the best at everything or I fail my parents
63. I try to please everyone (except myself)
64. I think that the British government works
65. I hate any sort of change
66. I only have 3 close friends
67. Too much milk can kill me
68. I love to learn
69. I hate only one person
70. I believe in other life in the universe
71. I don’t believe we will come into contact any time soon
72. I would be a hit man if forced to be
73. I think that the Concorde should be re-commissioned
74. I understood most of “a brief history of the universe”
75. I think that the meaning of life is to live
76. I am for stem cell research
77. I will try almost anything
78. I love cartoons and anime
79. I believe that I will never find love
80. I am not afraid of death
81. I can do, read, watch, play the same thing a few times in a row without getting bored of it
82. I have never broken a bone
83. I have had a glass of diet coke nearly every day since I was eight
84. I can say “hello, how are you” in Irish
85. I went to secondary school in Ireland
86. I went to primary school in England
87. I have always been the youngest in a group
88. I gave the school bully a black eye
89. I would love to learn to fence
90. I get jealous of almost everyone
91. I spend more time on the computer then I do sleeping
92. I wake up at least three times every night
93. In my opinion, no crime is worse than rape
94. I think that life in prison is worse than the death penalty
95. I had two years of handwriting classes, my handwriting is still awful
96. I can’t watch serious programs with time-travel in and not get annoyed
97. My favourite book is “The Bear and the Dragon” by Tom Clancy
98. I know what the letters of the alphabet are in binary code
99. I sometimes imagine myself as emperor of humanity
100. I admire the ancient Egyptians
101. I like to be different
102. I know a lot about Greek mythology
103. My worst nightmare is being alone
104. I bottle many things up
105. I am almost always thinking of something else
106. I have been told that I'm smarter than I think
107. I wish I was more proactive
108. I have massages every six months
109. I dislike Christmas
110. I love useless gadgets

Exciting stuff!

"I have a hammer in my desk....."

After reading blogs on Ks, Ps, and Bs blogs(I read them once a week and catch up), I have decided to take a shot at the things I read on each.

First, on Kierans blog, he talked about getting a job in military intelligence. I am assuming he means the GCHQ (British version of NSA). First off, I'm pretty neutral when it comes to fighting, I mean, I thought about going into the army or RAF for a while and would gladly go fight for my country. I say I am neutral in that I think that war should ALWAYS be the last option when it comes to things in this world to do with politics. The intelligence services let the MoD know when it should think about going to war with accurate information, with people like Kieran in the job, I am sure that the information would be as accurate as can be. I think Kieran would do well in the GCHQ and I'm amazed he didn't think of it sooner.

Second, on Pauls blog is a reference to people not liking him (or something like that) and it's true :)

Third, on Bens blog is a reference to people being idiots. I have never heard a more true statement(except maybe the fact that everyone hates Paul). People are stupid, when I work in Game, I see someone stupid and idiotic everyday. These are the people that keep rubbish going on tele like big brother and eastenders(yuck!). I swear that sometimes I want to hit people over the head with a frying pan when I see them. Me and Paul saw two people putting a trolley on top of a car in Sainsburys, very odd. I think this might be why I don't have much anxiety about killing people, they are probably stupid anyway.

Finally, before I get shot or arrested, I would like to say................something. I can't think what it is. I managed to forget it in the space of about one and a half seconds. Im stupid. I go kill myself now. Bye x-P

A basic human emotion

Finished F.E.A.R. yesterday. I have played it pretty much none stop since i got it. I have to say that it is awesomely awesome. The first thing that hit me is the way it feels like a story more than a random killing spree, alot of games don't have that depth to it. The graphics are sublime, esspecially in slow-mo when you can see all the effects of bullets, explosions and deaths in full and near perfect detail. The apprehension over the little girl, coupled with never knowing when the next attack is coming lends the game a unique and breathtaking experience. My only dissapointment with the game, as tends to be the case with alot of games, was its length. It could of been a tad longer and filled a few holes in the plot that never got explained. But I think that it has at least got into my top 5 games and may well get to that top spot after a never play or two. Play it people, this game will rock your world.

E=MC²

I have just finished reading Kierans blog from the last few days about his little debate for and against meat eating. Now any of you who know me will know that I love my meat. It would take an apocalyptic disease infecting every bovine and poultry form of life on the planet to stop me eating meat. However, I am not completely biased and I do see the vegetarian argument (but don't get me started on vegans). I would like to propose some of my reasons for eating meat or the reasons against not eating meat:

1. I like the meat - simple but a good starting point.
2. Circle of life - not the song by Elton John, but a reference to how creatures will do what is in their DNA, humans are omnivorous, we eat plants (for vitamins, minerals, antioxidents, carbs, and other things I can't think of at the moment) and meat (for protein, fats, various acids and apparently for making testosterone and other hormones). Now you may be able to get these thing from other vegetables, but the quantities of these nutrients are greater in meat. Granted, if you take the trouble you can be healthy without meat, but I still believe that meat always provides something that no amount of vegetables can satisfy, maybe it's blood.
3. How far does it go - This world sucks. Nothing that we do in this world is anywhere near perfect. I myself believe that horse racing, hound hunts, smoking, George Bush, premiership football, and of course religion are all things that the world would be a better place without. But society and human beings need to be lazy or in a perfect world will always be an underlining factor in all human feats from now to eternity. Meat eating is the lazy satisfying option, the world might be better without meat eating (I doubt it) but it won't happen.
4. Useful - As Kieran mentioned, a lot of the animals on the planet are hear by our bidding. We bring a lot of things into this world to serve us. In ye olden times, a mans cow or sheep, was his income, his living. The cow is useful for industry, leather, milk, meat(obviously), grazing(used in plantation process to grow better vegetables) and for keeping the grass short. Sheep for their wool, milk, two types of meat, etc. Most animals that we breed for meat will also provide other uses either by necessity or tradition.
5. Morals - Vegetarianism boils down to morals in the long run. I have seen a cow being slaughtered and made into meat for sainsburys but the only thing it did to me was realize that I don't really care that much. That may sound a little insensitive but I have a lower appreciation of life than most people. I think of life as nothing but a by-product of solar creation and a collection of nerves and electrical impulses. Life should be cared for true, I would save children from fires, kittens from trees and so on, but I won't change or believe that we should change our eating habits from the way we have been made to be because of the death of a (mostly) well cared for, lived, and unaware animal life.

That is pretty much my arguments for my eating of meat. I think that now a lot of you will hate me, but I think that in the long run all life should be is to try and fufill our potential. Humans potential is to discover, we will try to find out everything about everything until the day the insects take over. Other life forms have different goals in their Evolution, and who is to say that some of the animals aren't around to feed other animals. Plants are here to provide life to other things. Cats, dogs, eagles, sharks and other animals at the top of the food chains all rule other their various domains in the animal kingdoms because of their brains, eating habits and killer instincts. Why can't humans be the rulers other our domain?

Species have come and gone in the history of this world, the vast majority of which have not been caused by humanity. Life is constantly improving itself and getting rid of other inferior beings to make way for the new and better versions. Basically life and evolution is a giant computer program constantly being patched and updated. Occasionally said program (Windows?) gets infected with a virus (humanity? Morals?) and it upsets the program. But the program will probably never be perfect.

I may be using too many smilies to say how I feel about meat eating and somehow comparing it to Microsoft (coincidence?) but I hope I got my point across. Now all this typing is hard work so I'm gonna grab a drink. Please post away to any point, I will soon post a counter argument :)thanks for reading.

Onomatopoeia

*cough*... I feel like crap at the moment. Had a sore throat and an upset stomach for a few days now and it is just getting annoying, on top of that my gum hurts because I either have a bad tooth or the wisdom ones are beginning their trip *cough* north. On the bright side however is that I have managed to spend so some quality time on WoW and obtain the big 60! Awesome stuff. Uni is going well at the moment but I was a bit distracted yesterday because of this damn cough/bug that I have. Not too long left till F.E.A.R., and the anticipation is killing me, I have a feeling that Paul will be a little bit *cough* cautious around me while I am playing because I have a habit of letting things slip about games, the old "this bit is good" syndrome. Anyway, I am gonna go and rub my gums with bonjela. I like the taste*cough*.

I would be called "Red Eric: The slightly hot"

I'm quite bored at the moment. There are few things that I hate more in life than being bored or doing nothing. I'm at a state where I'm not tired enough to go to bed but also tired enough to...... drift.....away.....**thinks about flying away as a dragon to destroy the world**......!!! Anyway, I am off to work in the morning and Uni on Monday, so the fun of the last few days; drinking; puking; sleeping; eating; scrubs; playing; cinema; not cleaning; and imagining things I can do to Kieran with a large hammer and a flamethrower, is to all be forgotten. But now, I will eat some grub, as is what I do when I can't do anything else.