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“I proved critics wrong – Beckham” screams the headline of the BBC article. “*****” I scream back in reply.

Beckham’s been ******* useless this tournament. Come on, he takes every single free kick that has a chance of going goalwards. I’d make a guess that this tops 30 dead-ball shots he’s had in 4 games. Out of all those, he’s had two or three on target. Two of these have gone in, one via an unlucky defender.

There are loads of players with a better record than that, and many more who at least would have got the ball closer than many of Beckham’s squandered efforts.

Let’s face it, with the exception of the Sweden game – the only one we’ve not won – England have been crap so far. Either it takes decent oppositon for us to wake up as a team, or we were lucky that day not to get hammered.

The way I see it, unless we buck our ideas up and stop winning by narrow 1-goal margins we will get humiliated by the first decent team we face. As it stands, we’re lucky that Portugal have lost two players to red cards. Aside from that, and based on their performances, they’d **** on us from a great height next weekend.

I really hope I’m wrong. I want my country to win the World Cup as much as anyone. But Beckham needs to get himself in gear and concentrate more on his football and less on what we think of him. One lucky strike in a game we should have strolled through is not “answering the critics”. If anything, it asks more questions.

Oh, and his wife’s still a ******* minger. I wonder… if you got her and Cheryl Tweedy (who she was sat next to) and put them on some scales if they’d together weigh as much as a normal, healthy person?

Got this mail from Dean, who owns the house next door:

“I thought I’d let you know, I have officially requested that the tenancy
agreement for No.17 not to be extended. I’ve been told that they will be
leaving within 2 months.

That’s before I heard about the Police visit!

Sorry again for the trouble it’s caused, I will be selling as soon as
it’s empty.”

So – relief, in the first instance. Then infuriation, then mystery.

Relief: the ****’s going. Thank ****.

Infuriation: why couldn’t Dean have terminated the agreement earlier? Like a year ago? Hence I’m not that really appeased by the apology. If he was that concerned, the matter could (and should) have been nipped inthe bud a long time ago.

Mystery: what police visit? I had them round to see him at least once maybe a year ago, but I’m not awar eof anything since then. I’ve asked Dean and I’m interested in the reply.

Oh, speaking to Steve a while ago it turns out that the neighbour backing onto cuntboy had been around. He was asking Steve if he knew about the noise and so on. Since I moved out, it’s got worse and has been louder, longer and more frequent at all hours of the day and night. And he’s been chucking his beer cans and stuff over the fence into the guy’s garden.

Needless to say, said chap popping round made no difference. Well, the ****’s gone soon. I only have the deepest sympathies for whatever poor ******** he ends up next to when he moves. I hope they turn out to be bikers with a short temper and a large collection of power tools.

Some Spanish “green” MPs have had a decent idea – give apes rights. Now, I don’t think they’re talking about the vote or anything, but protection from slavery and torture. Basically, a right to live where they do in a manner in which they’re happy without the threat of people kidnapping them and using them as playthings or whatever.

All well and good.

Then along come the god-botherers:

Archbishop of Pamplona and Tudela Fernando Sebastian said he could not believe it was even being proposed.

“We don’t give rights to some people – such as unborn children, human embryos, and we are going to give them to apes,” he said.

Whatever happened to all creatures being equal in god’s eyes, Mr Sebastian? So what if there’s still arguments raging over the whole abortion thing? Is it always the case that we should finish one discussion completely and utterly (and in your favour, most likely) before moving on to something utterly unrelated?

Let’s all take a leaf out of his book, people. Stop worrying about the poor state of the NHS, and that silly scuffle in the Middle East. Take your mind off the last major earthquake and what we can do to help. There are still people out there who think the earth is flat – we really have to sort that out first before we move on to anything else.

George Bush does it again. Targetting a minority in a bid to take people’s attentions away from the atrocities being commited in his name in other parts of the world. This time he’s calling for a gay marriage ban, most likely to stir up some support from the Bible-bashers across the southern states.

As the article says, the amendment is highly unlikely to go through but is simply a smokescreen to gain some support – suppot which has been sliding rapidly over recent months.

And who thought the manipulative, self-serving, pathetic little man couldn’t sink any lower?

He states that “Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.”

This is **** on so many levels. The reason we’ve had ages of experience is that it’s been the only relationship accepted by society for thousands of years – at least here and in the US.

Does anyone have the divorce/separation rates for gay couples as compared to hetero ones? Divorce must rate as one of the largest upsets possible in a child’s life. Many kids get through it, but it can be hugely traumatic. Gay couples rarely get kids except through adoption. It’s bloody hard for them to have a family otherwise. Whereas hetero ones can pop them out like peas from a pod without being means-tested or having their backgrounds probed to make sure they’re “suitable”.

I’m no expert and I’ll be utterly honest. I’m a little unsure about kids being raised by same-sex couples. I just don’t know how well-adjusted the children will be and I can assure you they’ll be bullied mercilessly at school. However, I don’t think they’ll catch “gay” from mum and mum or dad and dad. That’d just ludicrous.

As I said, though, a gat couple has to prove beyond a doubt that they’d be good parents before they can adopt – moreso than any hetero couple. Of course, there are other routes, especially for lesbian couples, whereby getting pregnant is a lot easier than the adoption route… but we’re off onto another conversation here.

Bush needs to… well. Bush needs to **** off, foremostly. Sadly, this won’t happen until the next election when he can’t stand again (thank ***** for that). In the meantime, he’s going to gain a few points as the religious right ignore the dying troops and chaos in the Middle East for a chance to persecute people in their own country over a lifestyle decision that defines who they, as people, are.

He’ll be appealing to have all Jewish kids gassed and only allowing people with blonde hair and blue eyes to reproduce next.

I pinched this one from Damo’s blog.

4 jobs I have had in my life
1 – Implementations Consultant (helpdesk geek)
2 – Technical Account Manager (helpdesk geek)
3 – Support technician (helpdesk geek)
4 – Support consultant (helpdesk geek with a car)

4 films I can watch over and over

1 – Blade
2 – Aliens
3 – Star Wars trilogy (original, un-******-with versions)
4 – Shawshank Redemption

4 places I have lived
1 – Gateshead
2 – Strathaven
3 – Gateshead
4 – Bradford

TV Shows I like to watch
1 – Top Gear
2 – CSI (in all three flavours)
3 – Far too much on the NatGeo or Discovery channels
4 – Blackadder

Four places I have been on holiday
1 – Austin, TX
2 – Andorra
3 – Bangkok
4 – Ostend

4 favourite Foods
1 – Beans on toast
2 – Jaffa Cakes
3 – Roast beef and Yorkshire puds
4 – Beer

4 places I would rather be right now
1 – Somewhere I was earning a living. Like right here in 5 months’ time
2 – Christchurch (be there in 10 days or so)
3 – Kho Pipi or somewhere else in Thailand I’ve not been yet
4 – Antarctica cos I don’t know anyone else who’s been there