hello again i am back
now i know that my only topic of conversation sometimes is Derren Brown, and well this is not about him but about something he writes about in his book which i found i took particular interest in and to not reference him could be considered plagiarism..... that and the fact that im secretly stalking him and want to be just like him.... in fact behind closed doors i dress up in silly little suits and draw on a ginger goatee beard and try to steal wallets off of Mitzy and Raz using my cunning!!!!
If there was a deadly virus and 1 in 10,000 people had it, (just imagine for a brief few seconds if you will) and you are terribly concerned that you may have in fact caught it (because you are melodramatic.... i neither know what that word really means or know if ive used it correctly!!!). you go to see the doctor (no this isn't a joke) who informs you that the test for this certain virus is 99% accurate, whether you have the virus or not (no medical test is ever 100% accurate). Now imagine to your shock horror the test comes back POSITIVE!!!! dun dun duuuuuun!
Now how worried should you be that you in fact have the virus?????? Read through the above once more and come to a decision on how likely it is that you have it as a percentage....do this before reading on.............
Did you come to the conclusion that it must be 99% as the test is 99% accurate??????
well you would be wrong........ you are actually about a hundred times less likely to have it then to not have it...... How? well remember that only 1 in10,000 people have the virus..... now lets say that 1million people take the test...... out of those 1million people only around 100 people are going to have the virus...... so out of that 100 people who have it, 99 will have been correctly diagnosed and been told that they have it which they do (as the test is 99% accurate). 1 of those will have been wrongly told they do not have it when they do........... But if you remember that the test is 99% accurate whether you have it or not...... out of the 1million people there will be 999,900 people who do not have the virus...... out of these people 1% of them will have been wrongly diagnosed as having the virus (test is 99% accurate) so 9,999 people will have been told they have it when in fact they dont!!! now which of the 2 groups are you more likely to be in, the group of 99 that have been correctly told they have it or the much larger group who have wrongly been told they have it??????????
It has been shown that we find it difficult to expand our thinking past a low scale, for example (if it was possible) if you fold a piece of paper in half 100 times how tall tall would it be? a house? a mountain? to the moon? in fact it would be as large as the known universe!!!!!! its hard to contemplate but this is why we are so amazed by amazing coincidences when if you look at the big picture its not that amazing. For example SOMEONE has to win the lottery and i can imagine that millions of people dream about winning or fantasize about winning so the chances are one of these people will win...... so when the person who wins it tells everyone they had a premonition of winning in a dream is it really seeing into the future? well obviously not to you and me but because there are millions of people who would have had the same 'premonitions' but will never win the lottery.... but people will truly believe they have these psychic powers because they cant understand the bigger picture.
I could really go on and on and on because i find this kind of stuff fascinating but its a bit crap writing all this stuff and not having someone to converse with about it..... thats this blogging in a nut shell for ya!
Anyway lets all hope that oneday i take my interest further by reading someone else's books on similar things so that i dont keep vomiting up Derren Brown all the time!!!
3...2...1... your back at the crossroads!!!!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Exercise!!!
ok you lot time for a boring blog of me demonstrating i officially have more rabbit than sainsbury!!!
Isn't exercise a funny old topic!? well yes it is if you find that kind of thing humerous!
the governments guideline for how much exercise an adult should be doing in an average week is 30min of moderate exercise 5 times a week.... now how many of us do this? I for one think i probably dont meet this target on an average week but i try to nonetheless! This is just to have a good level of day to day fitness and this is not just nonsense plucked out of a chickens bottom, it is scientifically shown that to sustain a healthy level of fitness you should be doing this much exercise.
Do you get out of breath just from running up a flight of stairs? you need to do more! and this is vital for maintaining not just physical well being, aiding against weight gain, aches and pains, struggling with normal daily physical demands etc (believe me the list is endless!) it also helps with your pschological well being too! it has been shown that regular exercise is effective with helping mild to moderate depression!
it seems very hard to be able to incorperate this much time exercising into your daily routine but once you force yourself into a routine of doing exercise then i assure you after 3 to 4 weeks it will seem effortless to do and whats more if you push yourself hard in this first phase then you will see big improvements and you will find you have loads of motivation to keep going which at the start seeems impossible! I know because i learn about all this stuff at uni but also i have experienced it first hand in weightlifting and more recently cardiovascular training.
You have options too people! you dont have to just go for a run, you could get a skipping rope and use that, buy a workout DVD and use that, find a mate who wants to exercise and think of ideas, go swimming, join a gym (if you have money to burn!), you could even spend half an hour walking or jogging up and down your stairs!!!!! and then you could do 30min stretching infront of the TV inproving your flexibility (the quickest and easiest ability which can be improved and can help with aches, pains, pulling muscles etc)!
See its simple and those are only a few suggestions.
anyway im gonna try to practice what i preach until you all think im a fitness nutjob!
oh yeah and im currently trying to go a month without alcohol just because i was thinking about the last time i went a whole month without it and i think it was probably when i was 14! scary huh!? I am currently 1 week and 2 days going strong! it really doesn't help that i have a fridge full of beers and a cupboard full of red wine!!!
well i think thats my half hour of exercise today... hard work typing on this keyboard!
Im off for a run down to the
CrossRoads
anyone care to join me???
Isn't exercise a funny old topic!? well yes it is if you find that kind of thing humerous!
the governments guideline for how much exercise an adult should be doing in an average week is 30min of moderate exercise 5 times a week.... now how many of us do this? I for one think i probably dont meet this target on an average week but i try to nonetheless! This is just to have a good level of day to day fitness and this is not just nonsense plucked out of a chickens bottom, it is scientifically shown that to sustain a healthy level of fitness you should be doing this much exercise.
Do you get out of breath just from running up a flight of stairs? you need to do more! and this is vital for maintaining not just physical well being, aiding against weight gain, aches and pains, struggling with normal daily physical demands etc (believe me the list is endless!) it also helps with your pschological well being too! it has been shown that regular exercise is effective with helping mild to moderate depression!
it seems very hard to be able to incorperate this much time exercising into your daily routine but once you force yourself into a routine of doing exercise then i assure you after 3 to 4 weeks it will seem effortless to do and whats more if you push yourself hard in this first phase then you will see big improvements and you will find you have loads of motivation to keep going which at the start seeems impossible! I know because i learn about all this stuff at uni but also i have experienced it first hand in weightlifting and more recently cardiovascular training.
You have options too people! you dont have to just go for a run, you could get a skipping rope and use that, buy a workout DVD and use that, find a mate who wants to exercise and think of ideas, go swimming, join a gym (if you have money to burn!), you could even spend half an hour walking or jogging up and down your stairs!!!!! and then you could do 30min stretching infront of the TV inproving your flexibility (the quickest and easiest ability which can be improved and can help with aches, pains, pulling muscles etc)!
See its simple and those are only a few suggestions.
anyway im gonna try to practice what i preach until you all think im a fitness nutjob!
oh yeah and im currently trying to go a month without alcohol just because i was thinking about the last time i went a whole month without it and i think it was probably when i was 14! scary huh!? I am currently 1 week and 2 days going strong! it really doesn't help that i have a fridge full of beers and a cupboard full of red wine!!!
well i think thats my half hour of exercise today... hard work typing on this keyboard!
Im off for a run down to the
CrossRoads
anyone care to join me???
Thursday, February 28, 2008
whats the difference??
hello again,
i dont know what i want to talk about so its all just gonna roll outta my mind... in little drops.
why do i always seem to have so much motivation for things in my head but when it comes to doing the thing i feel motivation for my legs drop off, my eyes go blind, my knees say 'nah'.... well actually they dont coz they fell off with my legs.... my mind goes blank and then my lazy sloth chemicals take over my body forcing me to watch jeremy kyle, look at stupid stuff on youtube, read the paper or just stare blankly into space waiting for a real life situation to smack me in the face and scream 'sort ya life out ya arse! get that marmite off your shoulder blades and do something productive!'............well life goes on....
i was thinkin of goin to see the world as ive not seen it yet, everyone says its great.... maybe i'll jst go up to space so i can see it more clearly...... oh no wait i've got it i can just look at it on google earth!!! dont even have to leave the computer! isn't that just like life nowadays? i remember back in the war when if you wanted to communicate with someone you went to see them or arranged to meet up with them and not just email, txt or skype them!
I hereby call for Strangeday to sort themselves out and start gettin loads of gigs again, it seems to me that they dont seem to gig it up very often which is a shame, i thought those guys would be all over my face after their al-bum release (he he i said bum!) maybe i just dont check out when their gigs are gonna be well enough!? if you are with me though give me a 'hell yeah'!...(....) ((....) means listening out for a chorus of hell yeah's).
did you hear about the one with the fat rabbi and 44 mischevous monkeyrats?...... maybe another time yeah!?
Come on you spurs!!!!!
cRoSsRoAdSiNnIt!
i dont know what i want to talk about so its all just gonna roll outta my mind... in little drops.
why do i always seem to have so much motivation for things in my head but when it comes to doing the thing i feel motivation for my legs drop off, my eyes go blind, my knees say 'nah'.... well actually they dont coz they fell off with my legs.... my mind goes blank and then my lazy sloth chemicals take over my body forcing me to watch jeremy kyle, look at stupid stuff on youtube, read the paper or just stare blankly into space waiting for a real life situation to smack me in the face and scream 'sort ya life out ya arse! get that marmite off your shoulder blades and do something productive!'............well life goes on....
i was thinkin of goin to see the world as ive not seen it yet, everyone says its great.... maybe i'll jst go up to space so i can see it more clearly...... oh no wait i've got it i can just look at it on google earth!!! dont even have to leave the computer! isn't that just like life nowadays? i remember back in the war when if you wanted to communicate with someone you went to see them or arranged to meet up with them and not just email, txt or skype them!
I hereby call for Strangeday to sort themselves out and start gettin loads of gigs again, it seems to me that they dont seem to gig it up very often which is a shame, i thought those guys would be all over my face after their al-bum release (he he i said bum!) maybe i just dont check out when their gigs are gonna be well enough!? if you are with me though give me a 'hell yeah'!...(....) ((....) means listening out for a chorus of hell yeah's).
did you hear about the one with the fat rabbi and 44 mischevous monkeyrats?...... maybe another time yeah!?
Come on you spurs!!!!!
cRoSsRoAdSiNnIt!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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i was kinda thinkin today how strange teaching methods can be.....
my examples will follow...... read it, think about it, relate it to your own experiences, go 'oh yeah i get wot u mean' and then store it away somewhere dark!........
At a basic level of learning.... for my examples this would be GCSE P.E or a young football team...... a basic bit of knowledge is given for pupils or players to learn.... for my examples this would be 'the cause of fatigue in muscles is the build up of lactic acid' for the football team a defensive principle 'when you have possession of the ball in defence dont pass it across the face of the goal'.... Now these things have elements of truth in them but fail to give the bigger picture and this makes sense to a point as this allows pupils/players to learn slowly and build up their knowledge.... lactic acid plays a part in fatigue. its presence in the muscle is created via pyruvate which is a by-product of glycolisis (breaking down of glycogen to produce energy). Lactic acid is so unstable that in the presence of lactate dehydrogenase it becomes both lactate in the muscle and hydrogen atoms in the muscle. The cause of fatigue is brought about via the presence of these hydrogen atoms building up due to lack of oxygen delivery to the muscles allowing the hydrogen to carried away....... the defensive principle is simply to give a basic rule of not passing across the goal as this can lead to the opposition intercepting a pass close to your own goal and gifting them a clear shot on goal. The bigger picture is that this is a guideline rule for when the defence is under tight pressure from the opposition, obviously if there is no pressure on then there is no reason at all why a ball should not be passed across the face of the goal and that is even maybe a preferred option as it switches the point of attack while also finding space to play....
anyway my point is that on most cases the pupil/player learns the basic bit and never goes on to learn the whole bit due to not going on to a higher level of that subject and this creates stupidity as then the person who learns that build up of lactic acid causes fatigue or not to pass across goal believes this to be fact or whatever and then tells other people and this kind of thing leads to weird facts coming up that are not true. It doesn't really matter about the lactic acid thing i suppose but the football thing does nothing to improve the quality of football at lower levels. An improved lower level has an effect all the way up to the top..... more players with better understanding of football..... more competition for places in teams..... masses of quality players to select for the country..... win the world cup...... lots of money for the country...... countries pockets get baggy..... i think we all know what that means!?
i dont really make much sense when i go on like this but it releases endorphines into my brain so im just gonna carry on!
I gues what i mean is... when teaching someone something basic so they understand slowly and its not all too much too soon why not make sure of going on to explain the whole thing later on in the term or just even brush over it so they realise there is more to it. A good example here is that stupid thing people say that we only use 10% of our brains!? absolutely no evidence suggesting this is true and loads of evidence to suggest the opposite..... it probably came from some basic level of teaching psychology somewhere.... maybe what was meant was that at any given time we are only using 10% of our brain on average. this doesn't mean we have 90% of brain power we could use for things such as telepathy it just means that for example when you are relaxed the part of your brain that controls excitement is not being used contributing to the 90% that is inactive at that time....... geddit?
I hereby take the opportunity to apologise whole heartedly for this post!
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my examples will follow...... read it, think about it, relate it to your own experiences, go 'oh yeah i get wot u mean' and then store it away somewhere dark!........
At a basic level of learning.... for my examples this would be GCSE P.E or a young football team...... a basic bit of knowledge is given for pupils or players to learn.... for my examples this would be 'the cause of fatigue in muscles is the build up of lactic acid' for the football team a defensive principle 'when you have possession of the ball in defence dont pass it across the face of the goal'.... Now these things have elements of truth in them but fail to give the bigger picture and this makes sense to a point as this allows pupils/players to learn slowly and build up their knowledge.... lactic acid plays a part in fatigue. its presence in the muscle is created via pyruvate which is a by-product of glycolisis (breaking down of glycogen to produce energy). Lactic acid is so unstable that in the presence of lactate dehydrogenase it becomes both lactate in the muscle and hydrogen atoms in the muscle. The cause of fatigue is brought about via the presence of these hydrogen atoms building up due to lack of oxygen delivery to the muscles allowing the hydrogen to carried away....... the defensive principle is simply to give a basic rule of not passing across the goal as this can lead to the opposition intercepting a pass close to your own goal and gifting them a clear shot on goal. The bigger picture is that this is a guideline rule for when the defence is under tight pressure from the opposition, obviously if there is no pressure on then there is no reason at all why a ball should not be passed across the face of the goal and that is even maybe a preferred option as it switches the point of attack while also finding space to play....
anyway my point is that on most cases the pupil/player learns the basic bit and never goes on to learn the whole bit due to not going on to a higher level of that subject and this creates stupidity as then the person who learns that build up of lactic acid causes fatigue or not to pass across goal believes this to be fact or whatever and then tells other people and this kind of thing leads to weird facts coming up that are not true. It doesn't really matter about the lactic acid thing i suppose but the football thing does nothing to improve the quality of football at lower levels. An improved lower level has an effect all the way up to the top..... more players with better understanding of football..... more competition for places in teams..... masses of quality players to select for the country..... win the world cup...... lots of money for the country...... countries pockets get baggy..... i think we all know what that means!?
i dont really make much sense when i go on like this but it releases endorphines into my brain so im just gonna carry on!
I gues what i mean is... when teaching someone something basic so they understand slowly and its not all too much too soon why not make sure of going on to explain the whole thing later on in the term or just even brush over it so they realise there is more to it. A good example here is that stupid thing people say that we only use 10% of our brains!? absolutely no evidence suggesting this is true and loads of evidence to suggest the opposite..... it probably came from some basic level of teaching psychology somewhere.... maybe what was meant was that at any given time we are only using 10% of our brain on average. this doesn't mean we have 90% of brain power we could use for things such as telepathy it just means that for example when you are relaxed the part of your brain that controls excitement is not being used contributing to the 90% that is inactive at that time....... geddit?
I hereby take the opportunity to apologise whole heartedly for this post!
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hello again....
now i know you have all been waiting intensely for the result of the last post link game thing and while im sure you would all love me to tell you what it was exactly i think i'll just end the game here as i feel ultimately this game can only go in a downward direction from this point.... i'm kinda doin an Eric Cantona and finishing while its at its peak. I think its fair to say that there is only one winner in all of this and that it is the points master.... me! you see the game essentially had nothing to do with linking anything nor did it have anything to do with points..... i masterminded the whole damn thing before it even started with the aim something completely different to what i had you believe that it was and so involve you in something you would not have helped me to achieve in other circumstances other than for your own benefit...... Yes you may or may not have already guessed at this point i now hold the record for the most genuinely posted comments on a single post within the network of bloggers involved! by this i mean comments posted by yourself dont count and asking people to post a comment to aid you in breaking a record dont count neever!...... i win! and as the points were just a red herring you dont need to know how many points you all finished on and the reality is is that you were all just pawns being used to my benefit. I guess you could say you have all learned a valuable lesson about life and such as you could relate this to everyday situations and what not.
moving swiftly on.....
a convo i had with TheBum and others at the weekend stirred me into further research... you see i am a big fan of Derren Brown and i think some of the things he does are baffling and very interesting. i have read his book and watched all of his shows and although i agree and he explains himself that he is essentially a showman, what i believe to be true is that he is trying to explain to his audiences how illusions, hypnotism, psychology etc. all work in order to baffle you. He is also very passionate about frauds who claim magical powers. If he used actors or set-ups he would essentially be a fraud himself and after reading his book and watching him in live and pre-recorded shows i would be amazed if this was the case as he is very obviously passionate about psychology, his work and dedicates himself to what he does. I dont feel i am being naive to think this... i thought like others before seeing all of his shows but also reading his book where he explains what he is trying to do in depth. You see the structure of his programs is to lure you into his topic of trickery, using different types of tricks and such that are very different yet use the same principles, then he tells you how certain things are done. As a twist and to make his shows baffling he then goes on to do another more complex trick to make you think what the french connection UK! he does this to make you think outside the box as to how he did it.... the clue to how he did it comes from the explanation of the certain principles earlier on only it involves more complex ideas.
um that wasn't gonna be my point....... i somehow went into one... sorry! my point was gonna be about the news article TheBum read about Derren Brown admitting his russain roulette thing was a hoax. what has happened here (from what i can see from reading the article from the BBC and listening to what TheBum said) is a reporter has taken certain statements made from Jersey spokepeople and statements from the shows producers and taken things out of context and made it look like there was an admission from somewhere of a hoax. TheBum has read this and disregarded the clues that suggest this. (this ties in nicely with what Tobiwan and TehJayHawk harp on about in their blogs.)
What the Jersey police said to cover their own backs was that no live ammunition was used and no one was in any danger of being hurt. Ok they used blanks but you probably know blanks can still be extremely dangerous and can kill when fired at point blank range.... Derren was pulling the trigger with the thing pushed against his head. They said no one was in any danger of being hurt. this was not because it was a hoax, this was because 'after investigating into how the stunt was performed' they came to the conclusion that there was no risk. This means they found out how its done and realised its a tried and tested method of psychology used in many different forms by magicians all over the world. The man who loaded the gun was not an actor, the gun did have a blank loaded into it and Derren Brown new the trick would work and so had no problem pulling the trigger against his own head. Just because mistakes happen and this was potentially something very stupid to perform... NEARLY live on TV... in case something did go wrong..... doesn't mean it was a hoax! How did Harry Houdini die again?
oh and another version of the trick in a different format is magicians use polystyrene cups with fuck off great big nail which a member of the audience placed under one... the magician then slams his hand down on the cups one by one leaving the nailed one till the end. Use the internet and you will find footage of it going wrong in one case the magician used a member of the audiences hand and held her wrist slammed her hand on the wrong cup and as you can imagine his act stopped short.
The End
Im right
Cross Roads
moving swiftly on.....
a convo i had with TheBum and others at the weekend stirred me into further research... you see i am a big fan of Derren Brown and i think some of the things he does are baffling and very interesting. i have read his book and watched all of his shows and although i agree and he explains himself that he is essentially a showman, what i believe to be true is that he is trying to explain to his audiences how illusions, hypnotism, psychology etc. all work in order to baffle you. He is also very passionate about frauds who claim magical powers. If he used actors or set-ups he would essentially be a fraud himself and after reading his book and watching him in live and pre-recorded shows i would be amazed if this was the case as he is very obviously passionate about psychology, his work and dedicates himself to what he does. I dont feel i am being naive to think this... i thought like others before seeing all of his shows but also reading his book where he explains what he is trying to do in depth. You see the structure of his programs is to lure you into his topic of trickery, using different types of tricks and such that are very different yet use the same principles, then he tells you how certain things are done. As a twist and to make his shows baffling he then goes on to do another more complex trick to make you think what the french connection UK! he does this to make you think outside the box as to how he did it.... the clue to how he did it comes from the explanation of the certain principles earlier on only it involves more complex ideas.
um that wasn't gonna be my point....... i somehow went into one... sorry! my point was gonna be about the news article TheBum read about Derren Brown admitting his russain roulette thing was a hoax. what has happened here (from what i can see from reading the article from the BBC and listening to what TheBum said) is a reporter has taken certain statements made from Jersey spokepeople and statements from the shows producers and taken things out of context and made it look like there was an admission from somewhere of a hoax. TheBum has read this and disregarded the clues that suggest this. (this ties in nicely with what Tobiwan and TehJayHawk harp on about in their blogs.)
What the Jersey police said to cover their own backs was that no live ammunition was used and no one was in any danger of being hurt. Ok they used blanks but you probably know blanks can still be extremely dangerous and can kill when fired at point blank range.... Derren was pulling the trigger with the thing pushed against his head. They said no one was in any danger of being hurt. this was not because it was a hoax, this was because 'after investigating into how the stunt was performed' they came to the conclusion that there was no risk. This means they found out how its done and realised its a tried and tested method of psychology used in many different forms by magicians all over the world. The man who loaded the gun was not an actor, the gun did have a blank loaded into it and Derren Brown new the trick would work and so had no problem pulling the trigger against his own head. Just because mistakes happen and this was potentially something very stupid to perform... NEARLY live on TV... in case something did go wrong..... doesn't mean it was a hoax! How did Harry Houdini die again?
oh and another version of the trick in a different format is magicians use polystyrene cups with fuck off great big nail which a member of the audience placed under one... the magician then slams his hand down on the cups one by one leaving the nailed one till the end. Use the internet and you will find footage of it going wrong in one case the magician used a member of the audiences hand and held her wrist slammed her hand on the wrong cup and as you can imagine his act stopped short.
The End
Im right
Cross Roads
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Who said the Hawkins family weren't competitive!?
I dont think i have ever recieved 8 comments on one of my posts, yet start a silly little game and the Hawkins mob cant get enough!
I've had phone calls about gaining points and heard of gloating and squabbling amongst the masses!
Now..... this is how it works. I am the protector of the points and it is through my discretion that points shall be awarded, subtracted, multiplied, fried and high fived!.... scuba dived!
This game is by no means to be taken as a personal assault on yourselves!... or on your shelves!
The points king takes bribing and such as a very serious breaking of the rules!!! points shall be earned and if certain game players wish to climb the rankings then they need to start making those links!
Now the last link was.... when explaining the previous link i stated that i removed certain letters and replaced them with others..... the first 4 letters of the new letters spelt out ROSS..... ross is the first name of ross kemp.... who made a tv series called ross kemp on gangs!
the new standings look like this:
Tobiwan: 10,000 (still out in the lead for BEING CREATIVE in the first round, although earning nil pwuh this time round)
JayHawk:6,800 (this was half of the overall points allocated for this round for getting half right... oh and he has a game in hand)
AllThingsMother: 0 (this may seem harsh but unfortunately giving birth to me has no effect on getting points as this game isn't called 'give arguments as to why you should get points' it is merely called 'the linking game'! also this bordered on bribary however you made an attempt at guessing the link (the spleen thing..... dunno how you got there!?) and this has saved you from having points subtracted from you)....(thanks for joining in though its made the game a bit more exciting with more players!)
El'sBells: 0 (this is actually a gain in points since the last time. these points have been awarded for not getting mixed up in all the silly-nisss this game seems to have brought about!)
LookBeforeYouCrossroads!
I've had phone calls about gaining points and heard of gloating and squabbling amongst the masses!
Now..... this is how it works. I am the protector of the points and it is through my discretion that points shall be awarded, subtracted, multiplied, fried and high fived!.... scuba dived!
This game is by no means to be taken as a personal assault on yourselves!... or on your shelves!
The points king takes bribing and such as a very serious breaking of the rules!!! points shall be earned and if certain game players wish to climb the rankings then they need to start making those links!
Now the last link was.... when explaining the previous link i stated that i removed certain letters and replaced them with others..... the first 4 letters of the new letters spelt out ROSS..... ross is the first name of ross kemp.... who made a tv series called ross kemp on gangs!
the new standings look like this:
Tobiwan: 10,000 (still out in the lead for BEING CREATIVE in the first round, although earning nil pwuh this time round)
JayHawk:6,800 (this was half of the overall points allocated for this round for getting half right... oh and he has a game in hand)
AllThingsMother: 0 (this may seem harsh but unfortunately giving birth to me has no effect on getting points as this game isn't called 'give arguments as to why you should get points' it is merely called 'the linking game'! also this bordered on bribary however you made an attempt at guessing the link (the spleen thing..... dunno how you got there!?) and this has saved you from having points subtracted from you)....(thanks for joining in though its made the game a bit more exciting with more players!)
El'sBells: 0 (this is actually a gain in points since the last time. these points have been awarded for not getting mixed up in all the silly-nisss this game seems to have brought about!)
LookBeforeYouCrossroads!
Monday, February 04, 2008
Untitled...
well tobiwan seemed to be the only person to have a go at the linking game (see comments on last post) and although he did not win he gets 10,000 extra bonus points for impressing me with an outstanding link to my last post. I was stinkingly naive to think that there could be but one link that makes peoples spleens go pop. The correct link was that i mentioned Ashley Cole being a muppet..... Mr. Cole plays for Chelsea F.C. which is owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abromovich..... as such Chelsea have since been nicknamed Chelski......... i simply removed the letters h, e and l and replaced them with r, o, s, s, r, o, a and d! Easy!
So now the score reads,
Tobiwan: 10,000
El: -792 (for posting a comment but failing to attempt a guess at the link)
JayHawk: 0 (for not posting a guess and playing along although i know he's out there coz he posts from time to time!)
No one else has a score as im not really sure that anyone else reads this blog page...... does that make you 3 guys feel exclusive?
Crossroads-on-gangs
So now the score reads,
Tobiwan: 10,000
El: -792 (for posting a comment but failing to attempt a guess at the link)
JayHawk: 0 (for not posting a guess and playing along although i know he's out there coz he posts from time to time!)
No one else has a score as im not really sure that anyone else reads this blog page...... does that make you 3 guys feel exclusive?
Crossroads-on-gangs
Friday, February 01, 2008
ummm!?
ok a picture of me with my nipple out should have appeared on the previous nipple.... i mean post. sad times! it took me half hour to figure out how to post a picture but its just too hard and now my nipples will be...... wait i mean now i cant be bothered to try again! why dont they make it easy like dragging a picture straight out of kodak and putting it straight onto the nipple.... dammit!.... post. the people who design these computery things should really stay a-breast of the situation and try to make it simple for computer-illiterate freaks of modern society like mynipples...... i mean myself...... and my nipples.
try saying nipples 50 times out loud and for some reason the word sounds wierder the more you say it! now try saying just nipple.... really quietly.... almost a whisper...... now touch your left nipple gently........ urr you just touched your nipple while saying nipple to yourself quietly!
anywayz i gotta go get on with stuff i cant hang around here all day talking about nipples.... i might turn into one!
does anyone know where i might find Cheryl Cole? i've got a shoulder she can cry on.....
Ashley Cole..... what a muppet!
ive got a new little game for my blog, feel free to join in at any time. you have to guess at what the link is between my post and the style of crossroading at the end of the post. so for example if i were to post and at some point mention i was in a bad mood...... imcrossroads. geddit? now this can be as obscure and tedious a link as i see fit. answers will be posted on the following post and winners will recieve a special mention aswell.
Crossroadski
try saying nipples 50 times out loud and for some reason the word sounds wierder the more you say it! now try saying just nipple.... really quietly.... almost a whisper...... now touch your left nipple gently........ urr you just touched your nipple while saying nipple to yourself quietly!
anywayz i gotta go get on with stuff i cant hang around here all day talking about nipples.... i might turn into one!
does anyone know where i might find Cheryl Cole? i've got a shoulder she can cry on.....
Ashley Cole..... what a muppet!
ive got a new little game for my blog, feel free to join in at any time. you have to guess at what the link is between my post and the style of crossroading at the end of the post. so for example if i were to post and at some point mention i was in a bad mood...... imcrossroads. geddit? now this can be as obscure and tedious a link as i see fit. answers will be posted on the following post and winners will recieve a special mention aswell.
Crossroadski
Neee-Pley!
All shall bow to the mighty Neee-Pley!
Dont stare.... its rude to stare!
crossnipples.... i mean roads
Dont stare.... its rude to stare!
crossnipples.... i mean roads
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Pillow Talk
I've come to realise that human kind is divided into different categories by what we do with our pillows:
night night, sleep crossroads
- The neat and tidy sleeper. This kind of person wakes up in the morning with their pillow crisp and without a crease in sight as if it were just ironed. This person is very organised and efficient, with no time in the morning to have to fluff up the pillows and also 'it looks messy otherwise'.
- The messy sleeper. This kind of person loves the pillow, it is their sleeping tool which they mould into all shapes and sizes to suit the activity such as reading. This person disregards tidiness for comfort and the pillow emerges in the morning in 'a right mess'.
- The huggy sleeper. This kind of person doesn't use the pillow for its proper use and chooses instead to hug it!? this is because they need comforting and suggests problems with forming relationships as they cling desperately to the protectiveness of the womb. look out partners, you may soon or already have taken the place of the pillow and you will/already do get hugged all flippin night long!
- The active dreamer. This type of person likes to use the pillow as a toy in their dream games and it ends up being all kinds of things such as a helmet, hotdog, giant mobile phone or even a whacking stick to keep the bed bugs away. This person has an over-active imagination and can be very dangerous at night. Buy this person extra padded pillows!
night night, sleep crossroads
Monday, January 28, 2008
How to consume the non-consumer?
i feel it is time for a list or 2! well i dont feel that it is time in the physical sense.... i have'nay placed my hand upon time and felt a bit fluffy and decided that this feeling was an urge of list writing, or that it meant i had to do it. i suppose what the real question is, is why do we allow ourselves to be consumed in time? we are forever engulfed in instance..... the past and present are merely a daydream and/or fantasy and for the most part both are fabrications of reality. the only real thing in life is this moment now........ no its now, now......wait that bit is the past now and this bit is the present....... oh shit now thats the past...... this is tiring stuff trying to hang onto 'the now'!
did you know that everybody exaggerates stories to some extent as a kind of an instinct thing. it is to try to draw the listener or your audience to your experience and you try to make the listener experience it themselves.... which is impossible. a great example of when this happens on a large scale is magic shows and the such. a magician is fooling his/her audience and tricking them into believing in magic as they have no other explanation. now as you and i know there is no such thing as 'magic' and everything has an explanation but you would be surprised at how many people are willing to believe the opposite. part of this process is when someone spreads the word about the magician, what they will do is explain the tricks and exaggerate them in order for the other person to be mystified as well leaving out things in their own memory such as slight of hand or times at which the magician could have planted an object so for example, a magician who makes a coin vanish from his hand after waving his other hand over it may change to the coin was in the palm of his hand then he gently closed his fingers round the coin and opened his hand and the coin had gone. the mind erases the memory of the magician waving his hand over the coin and if this was told to someone else the obvious logic would be that he somehow palmed it or took it at that moment and this would make the person telling it look foolish. and this is why magicians still have an air of mystery and magic is still believed. the same thing with tarot card readers.... they ask some very broad questions and narrow down from clues in your answers and eventually say something which 'means something to you' but also make quess work using broad statements like 'im getting the name dave does that mean anything to you? no? david? dan? oh you know a donald yes donald is the name im getting its just not very clear love!'. also they say things like 'you are a very caring person aren't you and you try to see the good in people'. this technique is known as 'cold reading' and is very effective because EVERYBODY likes to think that they are caring and try to see the good in people or at least the majority of people do but the idiot paying the tarot reader thinks their powers are real as they 'hit the nail' with broad statements like that! when this person tells someone else that this tarot reader said things they couldn't have known this is because they block out the previous guesswork of the fraudster so they can believe in what they are saying and they wont look foolish to the person they are telling. they ignore evidence that may suggest they are wrong and take in all the evidence that back up their beliefs, serving to make their beliefs stronger.
sorry about that went on a bit of a ramble, i must say however that i think magicians are ok as long as what they are doing is entertainment and they dont try to claim to have magical powers but tarot readers and the like are frauds who make a lot of money out of other people's vulnerabilities....... wankers!
here's the lists
things that amaze me:
did you know that everybody exaggerates stories to some extent as a kind of an instinct thing. it is to try to draw the listener or your audience to your experience and you try to make the listener experience it themselves.... which is impossible. a great example of when this happens on a large scale is magic shows and the such. a magician is fooling his/her audience and tricking them into believing in magic as they have no other explanation. now as you and i know there is no such thing as 'magic' and everything has an explanation but you would be surprised at how many people are willing to believe the opposite. part of this process is when someone spreads the word about the magician, what they will do is explain the tricks and exaggerate them in order for the other person to be mystified as well leaving out things in their own memory such as slight of hand or times at which the magician could have planted an object so for example, a magician who makes a coin vanish from his hand after waving his other hand over it may change to the coin was in the palm of his hand then he gently closed his fingers round the coin and opened his hand and the coin had gone. the mind erases the memory of the magician waving his hand over the coin and if this was told to someone else the obvious logic would be that he somehow palmed it or took it at that moment and this would make the person telling it look foolish. and this is why magicians still have an air of mystery and magic is still believed. the same thing with tarot card readers.... they ask some very broad questions and narrow down from clues in your answers and eventually say something which 'means something to you' but also make quess work using broad statements like 'im getting the name dave does that mean anything to you? no? david? dan? oh you know a donald yes donald is the name im getting its just not very clear love!'. also they say things like 'you are a very caring person aren't you and you try to see the good in people'. this technique is known as 'cold reading' and is very effective because EVERYBODY likes to think that they are caring and try to see the good in people or at least the majority of people do but the idiot paying the tarot reader thinks their powers are real as they 'hit the nail' with broad statements like that! when this person tells someone else that this tarot reader said things they couldn't have known this is because they block out the previous guesswork of the fraudster so they can believe in what they are saying and they wont look foolish to the person they are telling. they ignore evidence that may suggest they are wrong and take in all the evidence that back up their beliefs, serving to make their beliefs stronger.
sorry about that went on a bit of a ramble, i must say however that i think magicians are ok as long as what they are doing is entertainment and they dont try to claim to have magical powers but tarot readers and the like are frauds who make a lot of money out of other people's vulnerabilities....... wankers!
here's the lists
things that amaze me:
- magnets..... wow how does that work!? let me have a go
- modern technology....... wow haven't we humans done well as a race in developing amazing technology very quickly!
- the sensor thing you wave your hand over in public toilets so as to avoid touching dirty flush handles...... annoying thing is you still have to lift the toilet lid up...... hmm a gap in the market!?
- animals.... wow some of them are funny!
- hippo's being sent to the moon.
- pencils..... they're so last millenia.
- bills......... his are just so un-amazing
- mud
- tiramisu
- cement mixers
Friday, January 25, 2008
Mad Blog Rush
well it seems to be a bit of a blog rush here at the 'network. 2 blogs in one day i hear you say! but i didn't see you pay! i cry in dismay! 'oh, well here is some hay!?' you suddenly proclaim, and i say ok now put it on the tray and dont play with your jayjay in may....... it may pass away.
i didn't mention that spurs went and did it! we absolutely stuffed the arse nal 5-1! i know that maybe arsenal could have had a stronger team but there is never an excuse to lose a north london derby and that scoreline has embarrased arsenal as a football club and it has made their fans an absolute target of pisstaking for a few years to come. i know it took us 9 years to beat them but they have never given us an absolute belittling as we did to them on tuesday night! after such a poor start to the season i think this has made it all worthwhile and if we go on to win nothing and get nowhere in europe i shall not be left a hollow man come the end of the season. that was our cup final, that was our chance to right so many wrongs and what a scoreline to do it with! i better stop talking shit before my bubble bursts.... which it is likely to do on sunday when we go to old trafford in the F.A. Cup! oh well...... and arsenal you can have your silverware, coz one day we will get there, and we'll be able to say, we absolutely smashed you along the way!
after 2 long long long weeks of solid uni work trying to get everything handed in on time (3 lab reports 2000 words each, a coaching file 3000+ words in total, a 2000 word essay on corner kicks in football and a practical lab exam- which i very nearly aced by the way!) i can finally relax for a week or 2 before the real work starts!..... i know! how does it get any realer than that shit!? but believe me it does! the best thing is though that i feel very positive about all my work so far and im pretty sure i should be averaging a 2:1 but i shall find out in the following weeks! it does make me think how many people would finish with first degree honours if we all put real effort in throughout the year rather than right at the last minute. maybe im learning this slowly but i think it is just in the nick of time!
crossroads BSc
i didn't mention that spurs went and did it! we absolutely stuffed the arse nal 5-1! i know that maybe arsenal could have had a stronger team but there is never an excuse to lose a north london derby and that scoreline has embarrased arsenal as a football club and it has made their fans an absolute target of pisstaking for a few years to come. i know it took us 9 years to beat them but they have never given us an absolute belittling as we did to them on tuesday night! after such a poor start to the season i think this has made it all worthwhile and if we go on to win nothing and get nowhere in europe i shall not be left a hollow man come the end of the season. that was our cup final, that was our chance to right so many wrongs and what a scoreline to do it with! i better stop talking shit before my bubble bursts.... which it is likely to do on sunday when we go to old trafford in the F.A. Cup! oh well...... and arsenal you can have your silverware, coz one day we will get there, and we'll be able to say, we absolutely smashed you along the way!
after 2 long long long weeks of solid uni work trying to get everything handed in on time (3 lab reports 2000 words each, a coaching file 3000+ words in total, a 2000 word essay on corner kicks in football and a practical lab exam- which i very nearly aced by the way!) i can finally relax for a week or 2 before the real work starts!..... i know! how does it get any realer than that shit!? but believe me it does! the best thing is though that i feel very positive about all my work so far and im pretty sure i should be averaging a 2:1 but i shall find out in the following weeks! it does make me think how many people would finish with first degree honours if we all put real effort in throughout the year rather than right at the last minute. maybe im learning this slowly but i think it is just in the nick of time!
crossroads BSc
Morning.....
yes i am blogging at 2 in the morning. this is dedication at its highest ladles and jellyspoons! i mean could you ask for any more from AzzManNetwork? well actually i suppose you could ask for a shoulder massage, a nice cup of hot chocolate and a monkey clasping a minty hammer, but..... you guessed it, you wouldn't have got those things whether you asked for them or not!...... maybe the minty hammer actually...... yes you might have got the minty hammer but without the minty bit....... you would probably just get the hammer with no minty freshness at all! but i've run out of those so please dont ask for one so as to avoid dissapointment!
i am up at this silly time as i am finishing a lab report on blood pressure that is to be handed in to reception by 12:30 tomorrow! ive had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many cups of coffee and my head is going at 55555555555555555mph and my body however is travelling somewhere in the present future or so i was told once, i never did get to see the end of that film someone rang me near the end to tell me 49 little white lies.
here's a joke then bye
a woman is showing a general handyman round her house to inform him of the colours she would like the rooms to be painted. 'i would like it to be red in this room' says cindy. the handyman we shall name barry goes to the window and shouts out 'green side up!'. cindy is a bit pertubed however doesnt like to say anything. they go to the next room and cindy says 'i would like this room to be beige'. barry opens the window and shouts 'green side up!'. getting a bit annoyed now but holding her toungue cindy moves onto the next room. 'i want this room in a chocolate brown' barry opens the window and shouts 'GREEN SIDE UP'. cindy says 'why the hell do you keep shouting green side up ive asked you for brown, beige and red!?' barry says 'sorry luv ive got 2 YTS boys in your garden laying the turf!
the end goodnight
too late for crossroads
i am up at this silly time as i am finishing a lab report on blood pressure that is to be handed in to reception by 12:30 tomorrow! ive had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many cups of coffee and my head is going at 55555555555555555mph and my body however is travelling somewhere in the present future or so i was told once, i never did get to see the end of that film someone rang me near the end to tell me 49 little white lies.
here's a joke then bye
a woman is showing a general handyman round her house to inform him of the colours she would like the rooms to be painted. 'i would like it to be red in this room' says cindy. the handyman we shall name barry goes to the window and shouts out 'green side up!'. cindy is a bit pertubed however doesnt like to say anything. they go to the next room and cindy says 'i would like this room to be beige'. barry opens the window and shouts 'green side up!'. getting a bit annoyed now but holding her toungue cindy moves onto the next room. 'i want this room in a chocolate brown' barry opens the window and shouts 'GREEN SIDE UP'. cindy says 'why the hell do you keep shouting green side up ive asked you for brown, beige and red!?' barry says 'sorry luv ive got 2 YTS boys in your garden laying the turf!
the end goodnight
too late for crossroads
Monday, January 21, 2008
And in the famous words of Porky Pig...........
The JayHawk, Twinkle Toes, The ChazMan and my good self bowled our jolly brains out last night..... things got messy! and...well.... The AzzMan and JayHawk, we did draw 2-2 on games however i was outclassed by some fantabulous bowling from the Daj! he got a turkey which is 3 strikes in a row at one point and whammied a score of 153! my best of the evening was 135 but i only managed 100, 97 and 111 on my other goes. ive done better. as for the poor old (by old i mean young) ChazMan, he managed an alltime record of just 7 points off his first 4 throws (or 8 throws depending on whether you look at it from the perspective of a german rat weasel eating grime off of the two times world champion of table tennis, Ping Pong! he has an amazing back hand!) but he is usually quite good. and Carla 'Twinkle Toes' Davies done herself proud with 2 strikes over the course of the evening.
Anyway............. uh
..........................................uhhh
............mmm
cant think of anything worth typing...
Spurs have yet again set themselves up for a fall getting as far as a semi-final only to draw Arsenal again! the fact is quite simply that we cant beat them and the best we ever get is a draw, even though we always manage to get the lead against them! last year in this same fixture we found ourselves 2-0 up at half time in the first leg only to get nosebleeds and lose the bottle to actually get a result against them! We tend to be given only one chance at doing one over on Arsenal as they subsequently brought their class to the second leg and there was no way they were giving us another chance! we lost that second leg 3-1 i believe. its the same old story with spurs, two weeks ago we played out of our skins to go 1-0 up and then proceeded to bottle many chances to put the game beyond the scumbag's reach....... yes you guessed it they got an equalizer late on, and as history does have an annoying habit of repeating itself joined with the fact that (and this pains me greatly to say it but....) the goons have been a damn classy team this year, i very much doubt they will allow us another chance to seize a place in the final. Maybe the only glimmer of hope is that they now have to come to the lane (whereas last year this was reversed) and while this season so far has not done anything to validate this but..... White Hart Lane has been known to be a bit of a fortress...... somehow i just cant seem to get a clean grasp on this greasy pole of hope. There is a slight dry patch on this pole and this is the fact that we've scored more home goals (NOT OWN GOALS!) than any other team in the top flight this season but while this sounds great we've also let in nearly as much along the way.
this leads me to 2 score predictions:
A realistic and history proven 3-1 to the Arse
and a deluded, hope driven, spurs fan prediction of 3-2 to the almighty white army!
after all isn't false hope what being a spurs fan is all about!? either way it is a game not to be missed and i have a feeling its gonna be a right crackerjack.
CrOsSrOaDs and out
Anyway............. uh
..........................................uhhh
............mmm
cant think of anything worth typing...
Spurs have yet again set themselves up for a fall getting as far as a semi-final only to draw Arsenal again! the fact is quite simply that we cant beat them and the best we ever get is a draw, even though we always manage to get the lead against them! last year in this same fixture we found ourselves 2-0 up at half time in the first leg only to get nosebleeds and lose the bottle to actually get a result against them! We tend to be given only one chance at doing one over on Arsenal as they subsequently brought their class to the second leg and there was no way they were giving us another chance! we lost that second leg 3-1 i believe. its the same old story with spurs, two weeks ago we played out of our skins to go 1-0 up and then proceeded to bottle many chances to put the game beyond the scumbag's reach....... yes you guessed it they got an equalizer late on, and as history does have an annoying habit of repeating itself joined with the fact that (and this pains me greatly to say it but....) the goons have been a damn classy team this year, i very much doubt they will allow us another chance to seize a place in the final. Maybe the only glimmer of hope is that they now have to come to the lane (whereas last year this was reversed) and while this season so far has not done anything to validate this but..... White Hart Lane has been known to be a bit of a fortress...... somehow i just cant seem to get a clean grasp on this greasy pole of hope. There is a slight dry patch on this pole and this is the fact that we've scored more home goals (NOT OWN GOALS!) than any other team in the top flight this season but while this sounds great we've also let in nearly as much along the way.
this leads me to 2 score predictions:
A realistic and history proven 3-1 to the Arse
and a deluded, hope driven, spurs fan prediction of 3-2 to the almighty white army!
after all isn't false hope what being a spurs fan is all about!? either way it is a game not to be missed and i have a feeling its gonna be a right crackerjack.
CrOsSrOaDs and out
Sunday, January 20, 2008
I've had a thought!
its not often you all get the chance to hear from the azzman network is it?! well i have been busy, you see? do you? do you see? i don't mean do you understand that i have been busy i am merely asking you if you have the gift of sight? i do and it makes me kind of giddy sometimes! but its ok coz i can see something near me to hang on to if i do become giddy with sight! can you imagine if i couldn't!?...... Bad times!
we've not long had our internet access back as we moved home and for some reason it took 21 days and 3 phonecalls for tiscali to sort their life out!
anyway ive got this idea about life and it generally involves circles and hard to follow diagrams with no key and lots of lines. i was kinda thinking the other day about a scientific fact/theory (i suppose nothing can be fact in this bizarre dream we call reality- HEAVY!) is that energy is never lost, it is simply transformed to another form of energy so for example the energy from the sun is photosynthesisededed by plants for energy to grow that energy is then eaten and transformed to kinetic energy or mainly heat energy which then is transformed into.... i kinda get lost at this point but you get the picture. if this is the case and if we can for one moment assume our souls or spirits are a form of energy by themselves then it leads to the simple logic that there must be life after death as the energy from our soul or spirit will not be lost but transformed into...... what? i dont know and neither do you so im gonna stop talking nonsense and so should you.
man this network gets deep sometimes!
have you ever wondered why i use so many !!!!!!!!'s? i do yet i still use them coz it just feels right!
i was wondering the other day why i always wait for stuff to happen and i kinda have this instinct, and i guess from talking to others most other people have this too, to assume things will happen for nothing and i get frustrated when they don't. for example, some of my uni work..... i just assume that i will start an assignment with plenty of time before hand in dates although i never make any kind of effort to start it or help myself and then before i can give myself a slap i have only just enough time to work solidly to get it in on time. now, i realise that this will probably mean that it wont be as good as it should be, and i learnt this lesson quite a few years ago, i learnt the theory behind it but never learnt practically from it!? does that make sense?
anyway i am slowly trying to force into my head that you only reap what you sow and maybe one day soon i shall become driven to succeed in the things i want to achieve..... maybe not. i guess this kinda relates to Newton's third law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction..... have a think about that will you!?
so to summarise this lesson i think we've all learned a bit about my mental health, some of you have been able to apply the things you've learnt into a match situation, some of you have been able to develop your skills and start to understand the principles of these skills. i want you all to remember that the drills we do in the session are to increase your performance in a game and you'd be surprised how much the stuff we learn in the session flys out the window when we get into a game at the end. so you should all be thinking during a game.... support play; width and depth in attack; compact in defense; create space and think about where your pass is going!
get a shower and i'll see you at the crossroads.
we've not long had our internet access back as we moved home and for some reason it took 21 days and 3 phonecalls for tiscali to sort their life out!
anyway ive got this idea about life and it generally involves circles and hard to follow diagrams with no key and lots of lines. i was kinda thinking the other day about a scientific fact/theory (i suppose nothing can be fact in this bizarre dream we call reality- HEAVY!) is that energy is never lost, it is simply transformed to another form of energy so for example the energy from the sun is photosynthesisededed by plants for energy to grow that energy is then eaten and transformed to kinetic energy or mainly heat energy which then is transformed into.... i kinda get lost at this point but you get the picture. if this is the case and if we can for one moment assume our souls or spirits are a form of energy by themselves then it leads to the simple logic that there must be life after death as the energy from our soul or spirit will not be lost but transformed into...... what? i dont know and neither do you so im gonna stop talking nonsense and so should you.
man this network gets deep sometimes!
have you ever wondered why i use so many !!!!!!!!'s? i do yet i still use them coz it just feels right!
i was wondering the other day why i always wait for stuff to happen and i kinda have this instinct, and i guess from talking to others most other people have this too, to assume things will happen for nothing and i get frustrated when they don't. for example, some of my uni work..... i just assume that i will start an assignment with plenty of time before hand in dates although i never make any kind of effort to start it or help myself and then before i can give myself a slap i have only just enough time to work solidly to get it in on time. now, i realise that this will probably mean that it wont be as good as it should be, and i learnt this lesson quite a few years ago, i learnt the theory behind it but never learnt practically from it!? does that make sense?
anyway i am slowly trying to force into my head that you only reap what you sow and maybe one day soon i shall become driven to succeed in the things i want to achieve..... maybe not. i guess this kinda relates to Newton's third law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction..... have a think about that will you!?
so to summarise this lesson i think we've all learned a bit about my mental health, some of you have been able to apply the things you've learnt into a match situation, some of you have been able to develop your skills and start to understand the principles of these skills. i want you all to remember that the drills we do in the session are to increase your performance in a game and you'd be surprised how much the stuff we learn in the session flys out the window when we get into a game at the end. so you should all be thinking during a game.... support play; width and depth in attack; compact in defense; create space and think about where your pass is going!
get a shower and i'll see you at the crossroads.
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