Random Musings - Day #22

The people are friendly in Liverpool, at least at the place I was working at. I was told about the interesting fact that the young ladies like to go out on the weekend mornings in their pyjamas. Presumably not changing from the previous night's activities. In fact, this actually started in Ireland/Northern Ireland

I've always wondered what happened to Gordon Burns, especially with the reemergence of Britain's toughest game show, The Krypton Factor. Well, I was slightly surprised to find him presenting the regional news on BBC 's North West Tonight. Good for him! Anyways he presented the following article...

I have always had a few reservations about the US Immigration but it looks like the Canadian authorities have gone one better. They threw out a Brit for being disabled back to Manchester. Arguably, the British man was there illegally at some point. But if you read the bottom of that article, it states: "The Immigration Act frankly prohibits people with disabilities from immigrating to Canada," said Laurie Beachell of Disabled People's International. "The effect would mean people like Stephen Hawking, world-renowned physicist, brilliant man, could never become Canadian."
Lovely...

Microsoft cuts 5000 jobs! It's doom and gloom as the credit crunch/recession/whatever you want to call it appears pwning everything!

Sport is also being effected. Troubled insurers AIG are not renewing their sponsorship for the Manchester United team shirt. A few other premiership sides have suffered as well notably West Ham, Newcastle and West Brom still have no shirt sponsor!
Also feeling the pinch is horse racing as Essex course, Great Leighs closed last week and see the last remark as Ricky Hatton and his camp seek to fight in the UK rather than the states due to the declining pound.

Back to football and it looks like the TV rights are going to go down the music industry route as the premiership look to stop the Internet pirates from streaming their football games. There are a number of sites that do this already, so no surprise the Premiership are screaming as the big pockets are getting picked. boo-hoo-mr-magoo!

Random Musings - Day #4

Yesterday was arguably the best day of football in England. It was round 3 of the FA Cup, where little teams like Blyth Spartans and Barrow take on bigger clubs like Middlesborough and Blackburn. Also Southend holding Chelski at Stamford Bridge! There will be at least two non-league sides in the 4th round with Torquay and Kettering making it.

Round 4 will be great with Liverpool drawing Everton and Kettering taking on premiership Fulham.

Manchester United look like they are 4th round bound as the are leading 3-0 against Southampton. I am listening to the commentary. I love Ian Holloway's colour commentary on the radio. He was eulogising over United's Berbatov. "He has been carressing the ball all afternoon. Any girl would love him so much!" He says a lot of weird and wonderful stuff. There are some notable quotables about.

He should write a book or be a panelist on one of those quiz shows like 8 out of 10 cats or mock the week.

Just to add, I was told that it was possible to get live streams of football games for free from my dad. After doing some research, there apparently is a way at the moment, through freepremiership.com which leasds to myp2p.eu.

I've had a haircut to basically tidy up my hair. Essentially I've not had it touched for 8 months, so it is everywhere and a little itchy at the back. I think I have my own style. I got a friend to cut it. This turned out to be a good idea. Every time I go to the barbers, I ask for a short, back and sides they cut the top off anyways, which is not what I want. I don't believe there is a name for my hairstyle. But see my hair is long on top and drops down, I could style my hair in a number of ways.

A children's classic albeit very creepy was also brought to my attention in the form of Noseybonk. It's simply some guy with a mask that has a long pointy nose and sets riddles for himself for the viewer to work out. He's the very saw-like trailer.