Self's the Man.

peepster @ 2009-06-08T02:49:00

2009-06-08T01:54:35Z

Firstly, don't read this. I need to write my crap down somewhere. I never share my opinions on this crap, except to Michelle the poor sod, I always keep my thoughts to myself, where they are best kept. But I neeeeeed to write this down, I need to get it out somewhere. I feel better from writing it so it's served it's purpose. You don't have to agree with anything. It won't make sense, it's flawed and incomplete, but I feel damned better for getting it out somewhere. You've been warned.

I don't condone the BNP in any way, shape or form. It does sadden me that it came to it, to them winning two seats, but it merely acts as a flex in the arm of British Democracy, and I'm happy to know that come a couple of years, those seats will fairly be contested and only the people of that constituency, of the electorate will have a say in who represents them in Europe.

The people who are currently passing judgement on those people of Yorkshire, the BNP and all inbetween need to see the bigger picture. If the people of Yorkshire identify, right now, here in 2009, best with the BNP for European matters, then they've got every damned right to vote for them. Just like you have to vote for Labour, Tories or the Monster Raving Loony Party. That, my dear reader, is the point of a democracy. I know it's difficult to not be jaded about the word considering how Brown got to be in No.10, and I agree whole heartedly with that the very fact he waltzed in unquestioned is nothing short of sickeningly unacceptable (let alone Bush/Gore in 2000), but we must never wane from the true idea of Democracy.

I may be dangerously liberal, but I believe that anybody should be able to vote for whoever they like without fear of judgement or incitement. Be they racist, socialist, marxist, capitalist or Jewish, the whole point is that we live in a free world, and many people have been far braver than I ever would to create and protect this system, and we owe it to them to defend it. It doesn't matter that some people seek to weaken it, or worse, the point is is that for as long as we are voting in a democratic society, then the people who ought to be in leadership, are voted in there fairly. We've been doing it for some 3000 years, and it's worked out pretty well so far.

I understand why people voted for the BNP. This government is doing nothing about anything but keeping it's fingers in it's ears while continually bum fucking the poor and unemployed while still somehow being totally unaccountable, so they reacted and voted for the complete opposite - the extreme. No better way to start a fire than with a petrol bomb, right? But all the BNP will do is hit the floor with a small boom with little aftermath. The rest of us know this, hence why they only won one seat out of nearly a thousand. This is not some radical movement in British disposition, it's a couple of seats. The newshits don't help either. They'll report the crap out of it because that's why they do these days, they go over things again and again until you can't help but think it's a big deal. But that's a different matter altogether.

The point is, hating the BNP and the people who vote for them serves nothing to help the situation. Fire with fire, and all that jazz. Hate doesn't get rid of hate, it makes more hate, and so on until one hate kills the other hate and we're back where we started. They didn't win in your constituency, you didn't vote for them, and you don't know who or why they did. Therefore, passing judgement is nothing but highly audacious and hypocritical, and undermines the meaning of democracy, because the point is people are Free to Vote for whoever they so please. Free.

The people have every right to be angry, this government has to go. But, I doubt for one second that Cameron's government, or Clegg's, or Griffin's could do a better job. There's a fundamental flaw in the entire perception of the roles and the people who fill them. I cringe whenever anyone refers to a politician as a 'leader' or having 'power'. We don't have a leader, we have a Government who Governs and nothing more. They do not lead, they do not have power. They are an elected cabinet who serve to govern my country. I vote for them, I pay their wages, I am their employer and they listen to me. At least, that's how it used to be. We've since adopted the American way, the one-man-with-all-the-power approach, like we have with so much else in our British lives. And thanks to this, the current government can now sit there, pointblank refusing us an election when the want for one is clearer than ever, who goes to war that the majority of the nation was against, who makes decisions about education and health that went against the majority of the public's wishes and is still in 'power'. Our democracy has never looked closer to death, but that's because for so many years it benefited people to just let them get on with it. What Thatcher did with the markets and the council housing and jobs in the mid-80s meant that for a period from around '88 until '08, lots of people were earning more and more money. People were getting richer, new economies, the digital era, people who had come from the poorest of backgrounds were now earning themselves a lot of money for the first time in their lives. They had credit, which was beautiful, and they had cheap loans, and it was worry-free. It's only now, and this 'downturn', when people have realised that they never actually had the money that bought them that new car 5 years ago, or got them to Florida, that they turn their attention back to the government. But in that time the government, lead by Blair, had crept slowly into the perception of leadership and power. Now we're heading back to the 70s with a government that resembles something more from 1930s Germany than a 21st Century democratic government.

The Government now is void. Brown, and Blair and co, all seem to think they answer to someone higher than the British Electorate. Well, we need to remind them that there is no one more important to them than us. The voters. The tax payers. The nation. To some people, that means voting for the BNP and I agree that it is a shame they feel that way, but I care more about upholding our right to vote as a democratic nation than a couple of seats.

There's a lot of issues out there that are splitting our nation up. Immigration, taxes, education, Scotland. But we need to act in moderation, we can't afford to swing from left to right like an axe on a string, we'll all just get chopped to bits. We need to fuck political correctness because primarily, we shouldn't need it. Race is just not a fucking issue anymore. We need to see past rich or poor, black or white, clever or stupid and see the bigger picture. We need a government that has it's ear to the ground and it's sights in the middle. The middle is wherever the voters put it - be that New Labour's once love for Unions and education, or the Tories'

I'm coming back to this tomorrow.

i am a poopface

2008-12-26T17:16:47Z

I am a poopface. That is all.

Apocalypse Please

2008-12-03T12:39:06Z

C#maj, Amaj, C#maj
C#sus4, C#maj, F#, Dmaj x2
Bm, Bm9b, C#.
Yum yum yum. Such lovely chords.

On the Metro to go see Dean for abit before Michelle gets home. Started at Comet yesterday, with Darren who too left the Odeon some 7 months ago. It was fun, and I got good hours and I get paid £5.75 plus bonuses if I really rip people off. Its crap and unfulfilling, but good crack and money. Gonna hand in my notice at the Odeon tomorrow. Finally. Wankers.

Just finished disc one in 17hrs. I'm already level 40 with regen, level 3 limits and stuff. I'm just playing through it far too quickly. I want to make it last weeks, but I'll be done in little over a week at this rate.

Anyway, there's more but I need to call Jan so I'll be back later.
Post a pic of your tat, Jake.
- Peter. x

Quick edit; for the record, I was not in Broomfield Ave like my gps thought I was, the retard. I was moving but still. My phone has add I swear.

I am never going to put thought into a subject ever again.

2008-11-26T23:20:48Z

I just found a saved entry from ages ago that I never finished. I make me lol sometimes.
Currently having a massive uni dilemma. Do I go to Sunderland (EWW OMWTFGBBQOPLO) and do a rather spastic, but probably highly fun and Mickey Mouse Sound & Music Technology, followed by a more astute and apt Music Masters, or suck it up and do Microbiology at the more respectable Newcastle, and continue with music as a hobby? I have no idea. There's so many pros and cons that I cannot think straight about the whole thing anymore.
I think I will apply for Newcastle. At least I will definitely get into Sunderland in clearing if I change my mind.
I'm reading too much into it but hey.

On the FF7 front, I just finished Midgar and am half way through Cloud's past. I remember far too much of it. The numbers of the floors you land on in the Shin-Ra HQ, the one liners, how to get a Gold Chocobo (lol Jake). Awesome. Currently just shy of 4 hours in 2 days, not bad. I never finished FF9 the other week, but hey. Currently donning the old Cloud, Barret Obama and Aeris team right now. I'll keep you posted.

My toe is nearly fixed. No blood or out today at all! Hoorah! Stupid toe toe. Though it does feel nice to not be walking like a cripple everywhere though. And not having to take my shoe off every chance I get.

Alas, gonna don an hour or so more of the PSP and hit the pit. Long day tomorrow, gotta meet with some work people to help Meg the Welsh Stallion with her uni work? I don't know, but she promised cake. I ought to do some college work too. I have some time during the day. I'll give it a shot. But I'm really losing the will to bother with it at all tbh. I'll stick it out.

Work's do is on the 16th. Can't wait. Assuming they haven't sacked me yet. I've invited Charlotte of Death Cab fame as my guest for the evening. I've only seen her once for about 15 minutes while I was at work since the gig. But we text fairly regularly. She's quite the party animal. I hope to offer her a place to come chill out, but she seems so very level headed enough that she'll never need to take me up on it. But I believe she appreciates the fact that there's someone very close by who will look after her, while she's so far from home. I am interested in the development of her and Chris' relationship. I'd love to see that go somewhere. He deserves someone as nice as her, he deserves her more than anyone I know.

Night.x

Oh, to be nine again!

2008-11-25T23:26:12Z

Playing through FF7 again, this time on my PSP. No idea how many times I've played through this game now, it must be at least 20, surely many more. But it makes me happy in a way only music can compare to. It's perfect. I don't need to spend hundreds of pounds on new games and consoles. All I need is my copy of FF7 and I'm good.
I miss my youth! Oh to be nine again!