Really, why bother?

I’m 21 and I think this guy is pretty much right, although I wouldn’t argue quite so passionately.

“Clubs are despicable. Cramped, overpriced furnaces with sticky walls and the latest idiot theme tunes thumping through the humid air so loud you can’t hold a conversation, just bellow inanities at megaphone-level.”

“Clubs are such insufferable dungeons of misery, the inmates have to take mood-altering substances to make their ordeal seem halfway tolerable. This leads them to believe they “enjoy” clubbing. They don’t. No one does. They just enjoy drugs.”

“Why not just stay at home punching yourself in the face? Invite a few friends round and make a night of it.”

“Clubs have always been vapid and awful and boring and blah – but I can’t remember clubbers documenting their every moment before. Not to this demented extent. It’s not enough to pretend you’re having fun in the club any more – you’ve got to pretend you’re having fun in your Flickr gallery, and your friends’ Flickr galleries.”

Probably my least original post yet, I already wrote about the stupidity of getting drunk, I found this article thanks to James P posting the link on facebook, and I’ve not added anything to the best bits of Charlie Brooker’s original rant. 

What’s cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots? – Charlie Brooker @ The Guardian

55% of you are criminals

Have you ever copied a CD onto your computer?

I’m surprised it’s only 55% of us that have.

I remember hearing about the law changing in Canada to allow people to put music they’ve bought onto their ipods (I think it was about a year ago I read about it), although they did add a tax to mp3 players to compensate artists (‘cos they’re really struggling for cash, aren’t they).

I didn’t realise our government was quite so ridiculous as to still have this law.

I don’t think there’s really any more to say.

UK ‘has the worst copyright laws’

AIDS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7951839.stm

I’m anti-pope, but you can’t accuse him of being responsible for the spread of Aids if people are only listening to half of what he says.

He is saying people should stick with one partner, Aids would not be able to spread if people would actually listen to him. Handing out condoms encourages the idea that it’s ok to sleep with as many different people as you want.

We may not have millions of people dying of Aids, but some people are starting to see the increasing problem in this country. The Bath Uni Student Sabbatical Trustee Elections are going on right now and both candidates for VP Welfare said in their manifestos (http://www.bathstudent.com/elections/candidates/82/) that they want to provide free testing for STDs. I think it’s amazing how stupid people are to have got into this mess.

Pointless Rants #1 & 2

1. Why can’t things just work?

I’ve now had my laptop for 2 months and Dell has finally given up trying to tell me how to fix the problems with it myself, they’re gonna collect it and do it themselves.

I have a Studio 1537 Laptop.

The initial problem I had was that when I tried to watch movies, the disc drive seemed to get tired after about 1/2 an hour and would start skipping. That was fixed by some download, can’t remember what it was exactly, but now the drive keeps ejecting for no apparent reason, there’s not usually a disc in the drive, so it just makes a lot of noise trying to eject nothing. Their solution was to send me a replacement hinge cover (with the eject button on it), but rather than fix the ejecting, there’s now the added fun of the volume going up for no good reason.

This leads me to wonder why things don’t just work, but I guess some things do, it’s just that I only notice the things that go wrong.

2. Murphy’s Law*?

It’s winter, so it’s gonna be cold outside, but the sky is blue, so I think I’ll wear my nice suede coat that’s warm, but not rain-friendly.

I don’t know how many times I thought that as I looked out my bedroom window before leaving the house over the last few months. I’ve learnt not to trust British weather, cold but clear conditions do not last. I don’t think I’ve worn the coat once this year without it starting to rain. Yet when I wear a more waterproof coat because it’s grey outside, it very rarely seems to rain. Maybe this is just another case of me only noticing when things go wrong.

A couple of Sundays ago was a good(?!) example of this, my grandad commented on the beautiful day as I gave him a lift to church. I had decided to wear the aforementioned coat, but said that I doubted it would last, hoping I would be wrong. I wasn’t. It was in fact so wet within a couple of hours that my hosts for Sunday lunch gifted me an umbrella.

Now, less than two weeks later, it’s too warm to walk around outside in more than just a t-shirt.

Rant over. I love this song.

*Murphy’s Law states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. As an engineer, I’m also interested in Grave’s Law: Whenever you make something idiot-proof, the world will produce a better idiot.