Kevin Muldoon

Being born the year Thatcher became Prime Minister of Britain, I can’t remember a time the Conservatives (Torys) were popular in Scotland. To this day Thatcher is a dirty word up here, particularly where I live.

Frankie Boyle summed up the hatred for this Woman (and party) up here when he was talking about the issue of her getting a state funeral. He said something along the lines of ‘£3 million pound for a state funeral! Why not just buy everyone a spade in Scotland. We’ll dig a hole so deep we can hand her over to Satan himself!’.

So I thought I’d share some Tory billboards that have been vandalised. The site where I found these pictures stated that they were from Scotland though there’s a chance they were from around the UK.

Enjoy

I really have come to hate April 1st over the last few years. Perhaps I was more gullible as a child, perhaps people are just being lazier with their April fools jokes, or perhaps we’ve been here so many times before that we have mentally prepared not to believe anything we read.

I don’t know. All I know is that April Fools day sucks! Within 2 seconds of reading an April Fools article in a newspaper or an online site you realise it’s a piss take, and most of the jokes are so lame it’s embarrassing. Take the Suns article today about Subo having a statue at Parliament – so bad you realised that it was a lie after reading the headline.

So what you are left with is a day where you can’t read the news anywhere as writers and journalists around the world struggle to fool you with an inventive story. 99% of them fail to do this.

Roll on April 2nd says team leader of the ‘Bah Humbug’ brigade!

I must admit, people who believe that the earth is 6000 years old scare me!

My brother Darren asked if I had seen the AC Transit Bus Fight clip tonight. For those who haven’t seen it, here is a summary for you all.

Basically, a Vietnam Veteran named Tom is sitting on a bus talking about going to a funeral and needing to get his shoes shined. An African American guy across from him hears part of this and thinks that the comment was directed at him. I won’t spoil what happens next.

Original Clip

Good Summary

Interview With Tom

Interview With Michael

Apparently this happened after he left the bus

Hilarious Anime Remix

A summary from Ice Cubes Dad in Friday!

The above is just a few of the videos online about the fight. Search for AC Transit Bus online and you’ll see hundreds of them!

My thoughts? It’s not clear from the clip if Tom did say something racist or if the Michael just picked it up wrong. Though I think Tom did the right thing in the end. He walked away from the problem but when he was attacked he retaliated.

What do you think?

Ouch!

I was really surprised to read today that 3 Google Employees have been convicted in Italy because of a video which shows an autistic teenager being bullied. It goes without saying that no normal person wants to see something as sick as that…but what’s it got to do with Google staff?

They didn’t make the video, upload the video or even review it. They simply cannot review every video which is reviewed. Google did take the video down when someone reported it, so how the hell can they be convicted.

If this rule was passed around the world it would pretty mean the end of online video. I can assure you that there are thousands of sick and disgusting videos on Google, not to mention the racist comments which are listed there too. But do they expect every video to be reviewed before going online? Youtube gets millions of uploads a month, it just isn’t possible to do that.

And would anyone work for a video sharing site such as Youtube, Vimeo or DailyMotion if they knew they could get jailtime for some other asshole uploading a video? I know I wouldn’t.

Absolute madness!

Read more at BBC : Google bosses convicted in Italy

I honestly thought this was just some silly internet clip when I found it. Though apparently this is the advertisement that Red House Furniture used to promote itself around North Carolina (USA).

Oh and before you go, remember to order a T-Shirt!

A week or so ago I decided to sell my HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch) as I was frustrated by the touchscreen; I really am terrible at typing without hard keys. Therefore I decided to purchase a Blackberry Bold 9700. So far I am loving it, though I usually feel that way for a new phone so i’ll reserve judgement until I’ve had the phone a few months.

I listed my HTC Hero on eBay last week. The phone was sold on the same day as BloggingTips. However, the buyer didn’t pay. He hasn’t replied to the invoice email or my direct email to him over the last few days either (I’ve had the phone all packaged up and ready to go for a week too).

Which is really frustrating as someone else was winning the auction before he sneaked in and clicked on the buy it now button. Unfortunately, I cannot create a resolution until 4 days after the end of the auction. For some reason the next bidder is no longer registered and the one below that didn’t bid high enough for me so I cannot offer a second change offer to them.

So I need to wait to try and resolve this issue so that I don’t pay relisting fees again. Ebay won’t let me leave negative feedback for him either, they only give me the option to resolve the issue….but I can’t do that for another 2 damn days!!

I could just relist the auction just now but I want to make sure this a’hole gets either a warning from ebay or negative feedback from me. Bloody timewasters!

Have you ever met one of your heroes? I’m not really one to get star struck and have never had any interest in hanging around to get autographs or anything like that.

Though they always say that you will be disappointed if you do meet your heroes. I came across a picture which was taken in June 2006 in Las Vegas. Several of us had went over for a week (myself and a friend had been in Boston and New York beforehand as well). Fraser, who took the picture, never emailed the pic on. However, I came across it tonight on my bebo profile (I’m not proud of logging in there, someone had messaged me!).

So here’s what happened. We were walking around the Rio hotel in Vegas watching the World Series of Poker. You can walk around a few feet from the tables and check out the action. We are all big poker fans so we were loving it and got some pictures with some poker stars (I also gave my card to a few players in order to interview them later for the poker community I use to run).

We were standing outside in the lobby when Greg Hemphill walked past me. I wouldn’t go as far as saying he was a hero, however I was (and still am) a big fan of his two shows: the sketch show Chewin the Fat and fantastic Still Game.

I was standing myself when he came out and I just approached him and started chatting away asking how he got put out. I spoke with him for about 5 to 10 minutes about poker and he talked about some hands he played. It was a little surreal actually as neither of us introduced each other, we just chatted away as if we were old mates.

I then asked if I could get a picture and he was more than happy to oblige. So I shouted on my mates to come over for a pic. Due to him sporting a beard, no one realised who he was at first; they just thought it was some guy I knew from back home because of how long we spoke.

The penny soon dropped and we got a pic with him.

The tabloids write so much crap in their columns that you don’t know what’s true and what’s not. They paint some stars to be a’holes.

Thankfully Mr Hemphill was not, far from it. He was incredibly down to earth and was genuinely pleased to see some other Scottish people over in the USA. He came across as a really sound guy.

I doubt many people recognised him over there but in Glasgow he undoubtedly gets people approaching him all the time so you could understand if he couldn’t be bothered talking to fans.

All in all that was a really great day. Frasers girlfriend got a pic with the legend Doyle Brunson and we all got a pic with the previous World Series of Poker winners Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer, both of which were really nice down to earth guys too. They were stopping in the hallway every two minutes to give autographs and they were obliging everyone. Good stuff.

We also got a picture with the Devilfish, but he was a bit of a dick!

Have you ever met anyone famous (or remotely famous)? Were you disappointed or did they turn out to be as nice as you had hoped?

Will this damn season never end!!!