Palin pt 2

so the VP debate is over with it was really good.

why the hell they dont do these things in the uk is beyond me. this was a real good ol slugfest.

palin was alot better than most expected and that sorta negated anything biden could say or do. everyone was waiting for a royal eff up and it never came. she wasnt fantastic but she wasnt exactly poor. biden had to be top game to stand against that. and he was.

i think for that sake they should hold another debate - this time everyone will know that palin wont mess up. so they'd be expecting answers on par with biden.

it was poor of her to constantly not answer the questions... so gov palin what colour is the sky? well what i'd like to go back to is alaska for a second... gov palin where is the white house? i think the main issue here is that mccain is a maverick. gov palin did you just piss of the extremists in pakistan? what we need to see here is the bigger picture here this isnt bush we're talking about.

but tis all good. shame we wont be seeing her much more either as the mccain camp dont want her doing too many interviews. she was given a lightweight like couric and she still complained she was being nailed.

The unspoken Do I know You?

Ok

here's the scene. you've got your freedom. your 18. its university time and being the freedom seeker you are you go away from home. close enough to commute yet far enough to validate a room at the student halls. finally you can do your own thing, drink as much as you can and party 24/7 with who ever you want.

Your out and about in this new city. Enjoying the sights and sounds. Come on Pav lets go to Bar Label. so you saunter off with the crew in tow - slightly giddy as the drinks been flowing all evening.

Theres a small queue to the enterance, the door staff are checking for ID's... so you take your driving licence out and you wait. as the crowd clears you see a horrifying sight. it cant be. you left your town because of this. the heart sinks faster than bush's opinion polls. the doorman. no please no. please god dont let it be. but you cant be sure. not 100%. the most horrifying thought to an asian. do you know me?

its not bad when your 100% that way you can go over and do damage limitation. you can go over chat to them and think yeah its cool. he's here and i'm here we've had a chat we've got some mutual understanding goin on. ok i'm a lil tipsy but hey he's working at the club too.

but when your not 101% thats when its rabbits in the headlights. you dont want to go over and make yourself known. if he is the person you think he is then your damned. you've just made it known that so and so's daughter/son is in such a place drunk and with members of the opposite sex at 12am. with this scenario your even more damned as your not on a level with this person so smooth things over.

but you cant leave things as it is - your dreading the next few days. your thinking if that person was so and so then the next time you see him - he might mention it or hint at it. if its gonna be someone you aint gonna see for time - then your just thinking please let him forget...

so this happened to me tonight. i'm pretty sure i know who she was, due to be engaged to a distant relative of mine. the worst thing was when it came to ID checking the other doorman got her so i wasnt able to confirm 101% if it was who i thought it was.

I probably wont mention it... but come on i wouldnt be me if i didnt torture the other person a lil...

The easy life?

Students

they have it easy. i mean come on. i was working tonight and it was the first weekend of them arriving - so like little lambs they huddled together doing the whole pub crawl. downing as many pints as they can cause all their mates are and thats the tradition for students - get drunk on the grant cheque and live in squalor.

and the uni's almost encourage this. they allow societies to advertise their pub crawls and get the student unions to put the beer at an insanely cheap price. its all a kosher life isnt it?

but then 2am hits. that crawl you've been on where you have to drink at least 2 pints at the 5 different bars you've been to is beginning to take effect. they're staggering all over in a city they're not too familiar with, somehow they've lost their friends but they've still got their wallet and their phone and the keys - thats it! its all kosher isnt it? you got money to get back to your flat, mobile to call your mates to see where they are and the keys to get into bed.

only they dont quite tell the lambs straight from mummy and daddys nest that there's bad people around. people who do nothing more than sit around and look for that drunken guy/girl. so that they can go upto them and ask them for a cigarette just to see how drunk a person is. when the poor student passes the test they act the kind stranger, we'll help you in the right direction. and then bham... its too late. they've taken your phone that you were waving about. if you were stupid enough to get your wallet out that'll be a few notes short too.

i can understand the fact that they're new students, having lived at home this is a new environment. living alone it feels great - do what you want to do no one to tell u off. but come on use a little common sense!

no city wants to promote itself in a negative way. but uni's and local halls need to start doing the right thing and educating them on going at night time safely.

we had one international student from india in. all nice and greasy hair wearin the foam strap slippers, nice weakling walking around at 11pm with a brand new laptop clearly on show. No laptop case, no put it in a bag. the sony sign clearly showing. the battery light flickering away. i really was about to run off with it myself if to show him how stupid he is.

its common knowledge to the locals that thieves target these lambs for slaughter during the first few weeks of uni. but the worrying fact is the uni doesnt really inform the students of their own safety, sober or drunk. how many students will go to one police officer and talk to him during these few weeks?

Authority. bleurgh!

authority noun (authorities) 1 a the power or right to control or judge others, or to have the final say in something;

Why do people have such an issue with the above?

Either they hate the people with it or they go crazy when they're given it.

You can never find a good inbetween. Cops - notoriously on a perma-trip. A few guys messing about with each other last night and out pulls a under-cover police car and they begin searching them. All this stuff about them wanting to fight crime is rubbish. they have only ever turned up once a crime is done and dusted. they're more crime investigation than crime prevention. so they catch a lucky break once a while but in truth they've fully isolated themselves from society. the criminals didnt want to know them in the first place and now good honest citizens are turning their backs on them too.

increasingly they choose to go for the statistics to make them look good rather than going after people they know are doing the crime. we all know so and so is a well known drug dealer, that so and so sells stolen items but for the sake of due process they are left alone.

admins. they also get the power trip award. very rarely do you get admins on message boards who allow something to flow. you'll be having a nice debate about something - maybe controversial but nothing will be offensive. then all of a sudden ugghhhhhhh i'm an admin this is not acceptable. delete delete delete warning warning warning.

people sometimes need to chill out and let things just flow. stop being so big brother, we dont need supervision. we just want to live - dont want to bug anyone else dont want to rob anyone.

Permanent Education?

At what point do we stop educating people?

not kids - but people, adults, fully grown.

Some people are just so ignorant its shocking. A woman in a full niqab set-up walked past the bar i was doing security at, a local hoodie who was drinking there came up "hey yo, bro, your muslim arent you?" yeah why? "well can i ask you something that dress she's wearing. why she wearing it? cause i heard that the man makes her wear it like her husband or boyfriend." no no mate its islamic. a woman in islam is meant to be covered from head to toe and that is what they use to do that. "but mate i know plenty of asian girls they dont" some girls are religious and some arent. its a choice thing.

so he carried on and on - then i walked away leaving him talkin to my protestant collegue who was still trying to get through to him that it was a religious choice. some people who strictly observe religion will wear it and those that arent strict wont. "but you know what i still think its her man that makes her wear it. if it was me i'd be like yo check this i've got a fit wife. you might want her but she's mine"

my collegue again pointed out that its for that reason - to stop the sin of lust she wears that. "na man thats just wrong. i can understand if she wore it in afganistan pakistan or iraq but she can wear what she wants in the uk"

cue the head slamming into the table motion.

some people just are incredibly ignorant. kudos for actually asking but whats the point of asking if your not actually going to listen and learn from the answer.

no doubt he went away none the wiser and one day he's going to go to a girl wearin a niqab and ask her the same question. or worse still. actually take it off and find its actually a ninja.

sometimes we all have to accept that there will be people that no matter how much you talk to them, how much you explain to them - they still wont understand.