Meccano

Just watched James May's Toy Stories on the BBC iPlayer, more specifically the one where he builds a bridge out of Meccano.

I'm not as old as May actually no where near, I'm 20 and in junior school I remember playing with and making loads of stuff with Meccano.

This show made me remember once when I borrowed Meccano from our schools toy library. I took it home and spend all evening making the thing. After what seemed like hours and a lot of sweat I finally made the Meccano. I ran downstairs to show it really proudly to my dad and he shrugged me off. I ran back upstairs and threw what I'd just made with tears running down my face. On the way up the stairs I heard my mum shouting and scolding my dad.

Later my mum came upstairs to come and praise me for what I'd made and she saw that I'd thrown it and broken my work of art and she hugged me and said my dad didn't really mean it.

All throughout the episode of James May's Toy Stories I kept on recollecting this memory which I had forgotten about. The worse part of it is that I still haven't earned my dads true acknowledgement after 13 plus years making many different things.

I would like to say that I don't really care about what he thinks but in all honesty I admire what my dad can do with his own hands and I want to be able to show him that I can do the same and earn his respect so I'll continue to try and one day he will acknowledge my hand working skills and ability.

Christmas is Not a Holiday

It's Christmas. That time of year when you get a couple of weeks off education and put your legs up. Unless of course you're a uni student, you most likely won't be putting your legs up and relaxing but more likely to do the opposite and work hard and get stressed because of the all important exams and assignments they give you. That's what the universities like to call a holiday.

I've got two exams and an assignment all of which I have to do or hand in January around the same dates too.

Knowing myself I probably will put everything off until the last minute and then promise myself it won't happen again. Obviously I don't want it to happen.

Older People with Headphones

Riding the train to and from uni throughout the week there's one thing that really intrigues me and that is seeing the older lot wearing headphones usually iPods/iPhones but there are the odd other MP3's.

By older lot I mean the 40+ lot who have got some grey hair. I've always seen technology as being more embraced by the young and in the past haven't really seen the older generation embrace technology so much. Maybe it's something to do with Apples 'hip' advertising that makes them feel young again.

I also sometimes wonder what an old man will be listening to. I seriously doubt it's R&B or punk rock, for some odd reason I picture them listening to some opera or Mozart or listening to some audio books, which would really be an interesting evolution from reading books on the train. I just use my iPhone to read the morning news instead of the daily Metro, this way I don't litter after reading the newspaper.

Maybe I should take off my own headphones off and ask next time I see an old guy.

Deleted All My Movies

Today morning I just deleted my entire collection of downloaded movies, some 500gb's worth and I don't plan on downloading any more.

It took many years and long hours to download all those movies and I never really saw myself deleting them however it took just a couple of seconds to clear out all the crap I'd saved up and organised.

Now I don't need to worry about HDD space or transferring all my stuff before I re-install Windows again.

A good start to the day.

Swiss Vote on Minarets

The Swiss thing really does concern me. The way I see it is that they used a relatively minor part of Islam and doesn't stop Islam being carried out so that they can see what the result of this would be (think of it as a test case) so that now they have this precedent they'll slowly move to other more important parts of Islam. I'm betting they'll follow France and attack the veil.

The arguments against minarets practically showed you what their real intentions are.
Stop Islamification: 5% of the population taking over? not in the near future. Do you know what I view the term Islamification as to mean? it means stopping non-Muslims getting interested in Islam and finding out that what their views on Islam was is actually grossly inaccurate.

Women getting abused: This is just from ignorance. I can say there are loads of domestic abuse cases in England amongst the white demographic, does that mean lets ban these assholes? no because that would mean no demographic is left in England. Islam does not encourage or promote domestic violence, hell you should have been there when my Hadith teacher was talking about this he would have even convinced Nick Griffin too.

The veil: Connected to the above, these non-Muslim women complaining about women being forced to wear the veil when maybe a very small portion might be forced, that doesn't mean you ban it for everyone. Lets ban miniskirts and crop tops and other shit because women get raped because they show too much. I remember something my law teacher in college said, he said, if there was a rape case and the jury box was of oldies the man would get off light, why? because they used to say 'she was asking for it.' so lets ban that too.
Out of my Madrasa class 4 guys are married only one of the women wear the veil. These are the wives of educated Muslims scholars to be.

Sharia law: WTF?!? how the hell is a 5% going to even get the chance of putting up the idea let a lone actually implementing it? As a law student, I would love Sharia law in the West, it would sort a lot of shit that happens here and clear out a lot of the prisons, but it's not going to happen.

Trying to Install Windows 7

I downloaded the student copy and then tried to install it. Everything goes fine until there's hardly anything left and BAM! I get this:
An error has occurred. Unspecified error

WTF is that supposed to mean? I thought let's try this once more but same shit again. Then I thought let me restart my comp and see what happens. I install it again and BAM! I get the same message.

So I decided to ask uncle Google and I found out that Digital River know about this and they recommend I download the file again. Do you know just how big the file is? 3gb! and as it's peak time here my ISP is sure to throttle my internet and slow the download down.

At the moment it's downloading at around 300kb/s the first time I did it it was downloading at 1.1mb/s.

Nick Griffins Mother In-Law

Muriel Cook, 72, the mother of Griffin’s wife Jackie, described her son-in-law as a “work-shy pretender” who put his politics ahead of his family.

She said: “Nick is still a racist. He still holds those views – always has. He wants to see an all-white Britain, but that will never happen... he’s living in the Dark Ages."

Jackie Griffin, 46, met her husband in the late 1970s whilst he was a Cambridge student.

Mrs Cook said that her daughter claimed he would turn his back on the far right, but when they married in 1985 he remained active and she became the main breadwinner.

“She did everything – brought money into the house and raised the children. Nick played at his silly politics but never really contributed financially,” she told the Sunday Mirror.

Mrs Cook, who lives near Chester, added: “He pretends to be a man of the people, but the truth is he hasn’t done an honest day's work in his life. My daughter is a nurse and has always had a full-time job. She was working 12-hour shifts even when their children were babies.

Mr Griffin lives with his wife and four children in a remote farmhouse outside Welshpool in Powys.

Mrs Cook, a widow, said her son-in-law had toned down his views in recent years.

She said: “Nick’s not half as bad as he used to be, but he still believes black people and Muslims have no place in this country. He’s been forced to change his views now he’s in Parliament, but whether that’s out of want or necessity ... you decide.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6431159/Nick-Griffins-mother-in-law-says-the-BNP-leader-is-a-racist.html

Is this true or is this just mother in-law hating on the man who married her hard working daughter?