On the Independent's website today I saw this headline: "Father, 11, hides as pregnant girl faces the media".
YOU ARE THE MEDIA! Don't turn on some poor 11 year old who's ONLY 11 because he's hiding, as kids do, whilst the pregnant mother has to face the inevitable media alone. What about leaving them both alone, you ever think of that?
Other bits in this article that wound me up:
"Six weeks on, they [her parents] have adjusted to the news and are impressed by the way the youngsters have handled the situation." So apparently breaking the law and getting pregnant at 15 is 'impressive'.
"Sean's mother, Theresa, is said to be unhappy with the situation." Really? You mean his mum thinks her 11 year old son being a Dad isn't an ideal situation? I thought the news is meant to tell us stuff we don't know.
"She reportedly said, before disappearing to an unknown address: "He [Sean] is only a child. He doesn't really understand what is going on. This has put him under tremendous pressure. She [Emma] is much more mature and experienced than him, and I worry as any mother would.""
Um...she's only 15, she's not THAT much mature and experienced than him. Bloody hell. Although, to be fair, at 11, Sean is now much more experienced than me.
Saturday 25 February 2012
Sunday 19 February 2012
Blog 126: Groovy Graduation
At the end of this year I'll be graduating from Leeds Uni, and joining many other graduates, many of whom were at the top or very well known within their fields. These include Jack Straw, former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary as well as former Lord High Chancellor for Great Britain, Mark Knopfler, lead singer of the band Dire Straits, Piers Sellers, veteran of 3 space shuttle missions, and Harold Shipman, one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history. So it's nice to know that I'm graduating from a University that produces the best of all fields: politics, music, science and murder.
Saturday 18 February 2012
Blog 125: Emotional Over Emoticons
Hey, it's my 125th post! That's gotta mean something right? I dunno if I'm meant to do something special... although I now realise I've probably done about 25 posts in the last year which isn't very much if you think about it.
SO, emoticons, we all know what they are because you're on the internet right now and if you've been on the internet EVER you've no doubt been pestered by tiny little yellow faces mimicking expressions so that the robots can learn how to do our emotions back to us so we think they're human and then they suddenly reveal the little switchboard under their tummies and shred us up with their suddently metal razor hand.
But obviously, as they're learning, the robots haven't quite got it right yet. The facebook robots have probably perfected the :P face from the amount of times I've done it, let alone everyone else, but skype hasn't quite got the nack, and when you do :P on skype, which I do alot because of my facebook-learned habits, there's a little yellow man doing a very explicit tongue gesture at whoever you're talking to: possibly a girl you kinda have a crush on, or a guy mate who's very homophobic, or even you're own mother :/
Then there's the progression of the standard smileys. So you start with the best of the best :D a smiley grin. Next step down :), then :/ then :( then :'( and they're progressively getting sadder and sadder, which makes me feel :(. But they never go far enough, and this is my main complaint. Where do you go from :D or :'( ? the amount of times I've written :( followed by :'( and then realising I need to burst into tears is mad, and yet there's never any emoticon to satisfy this needs. However, on facebook you can get these faces: o:) angel, 3:) devil, <(") penguin (^^^) shark, :3 man with inexplicable cat expression and even a robot that I can't remember the code for. But seriously, when was the last time something was said to you on facebook chat that made you feel like a penguin, shark or catman? But if I wanna cry all over facebook, I can't! It's ridiculous.
Of course the only reason I wanna cry on facebook is because I'm clearly unstable. Crying on it's own is a sign of sadness, but crying via facebook emoticons is wrong. But the fact that I want to and I can't just makes me want to cry more, so yes it's screwed up but it'd get more screwed up if they don't fix it.
:'(
SO, emoticons, we all know what they are because you're on the internet right now and if you've been on the internet EVER you've no doubt been pestered by tiny little yellow faces mimicking expressions so that the robots can learn how to do our emotions back to us so we think they're human and then they suddenly reveal the little switchboard under their tummies and shred us up with their suddently metal razor hand.
But obviously, as they're learning, the robots haven't quite got it right yet. The facebook robots have probably perfected the :P face from the amount of times I've done it, let alone everyone else, but skype hasn't quite got the nack, and when you do :P on skype, which I do alot because of my facebook-learned habits, there's a little yellow man doing a very explicit tongue gesture at whoever you're talking to: possibly a girl you kinda have a crush on, or a guy mate who's very homophobic, or even you're own mother :/
Then there's the progression of the standard smileys. So you start with the best of the best :D a smiley grin. Next step down :), then :/ then :( then :'( and they're progressively getting sadder and sadder, which makes me feel :(. But they never go far enough, and this is my main complaint. Where do you go from :D or :'( ? the amount of times I've written :( followed by :'( and then realising I need to burst into tears is mad, and yet there's never any emoticon to satisfy this needs. However, on facebook you can get these faces: o:) angel, 3:) devil, <(") penguin (^^^) shark, :3 man with inexplicable cat expression and even a robot that I can't remember the code for. But seriously, when was the last time something was said to you on facebook chat that made you feel like a penguin, shark or catman? But if I wanna cry all over facebook, I can't! It's ridiculous.
Of course the only reason I wanna cry on facebook is because I'm clearly unstable. Crying on it's own is a sign of sadness, but crying via facebook emoticons is wrong. But the fact that I want to and I can't just makes me want to cry more, so yes it's screwed up but it'd get more screwed up if they don't fix it.
:'(
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