"Good evening. I'm Alfred Hitchcock and tonight I´m presenting the first in a series of stories of suspense and mystery called, oddly enough Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I shall not act in these stories but will only make appearances. Something in the nature of an accessory before and after the fact. To give the title to those of you who can´t read and to tidy up afterwards for those who don't understand the endings."

So, here you are hearing from me after all this time almost four month's has passed by but never mind that now.

One thing i thought absolutely hilarious today was a certain article from the beeb "smokers emotional reaction to ban"

Basically england is catching up with ireland/wales/scotland in our ban of smoking in enclosed public places so that means pubs clubs hotels offices and basically anywhere apart from your own home or outdoors.

The smoking ban here in scotland was met with fairly low outrage, one night the ash trays where there, the next they were not, everybody goes outside to smoke, if its raining most places have shelter.

When i went down to england earlier this month for a meeting with the editor and writers from onemetal.com i ate at a pub and it had smoking areas and non smoking areas, and because i hadn't seen these in half a year it baffled me what their fucking purpose was, example.

Me and Anna sat down and got our drinks, we were sat in a non smoking area but anna could have reached over and touched people who were in the smoking area with no barrier or anyTHING that could have stopped the smoke drifiting from one area to the next, it simply had a sign. (non smoking area)

Anna wanted to smoke, i don't smoke but i told her to go ahead, so i grabbed a tray for her and a staff member came running over and told Anna she couldn't smoke there, confusing because the guy sat to our left had his smoke rolling over to us.

So this quote just makes me giggle...

"Why can't they have dining areas and smoking areas?" she asked before offering a shot of Sambuca.

Her friend, David, who described himself as a Mandinka warrior, felt the whole smoking ban was just a fabricated controversy, designed to deflect the real attention away from the Iraq war.

Alright buddy, let me say this... sake.. fuck i don't want to even begin explaining because its common sense.

"They won't give up, they'll just get ill standing out in the cold in the street."

Not only that, but there would be "more litter and more fights, it'll just move everything out onto the street".

Her friend was staunch in defence of her right to smoke in pubs: "I'm still going to do it, I don't care if I end up with a £1,000 fine."

Another class A mongol ( i applaud the beeb for being able to find excellent people to interview ) - firstly she's so addicted to smoking that she would quite happily work all month to smoke one smoke in a pub once a month and pay off that fine, without being able to eat, thats healthy.

more litter, more fights.

I agree with more litter, because people are quite simply dick's.

more fights is what's stomping me, does she mean because people who go outside for a smoke are angry violent people and making them go outside to smoke pisses them off so much they start a fight?, or perhaps that people will meet people they don't like or some social interaction will anger them such that they need to start a fight?

Not sure.

Anyway, smart arse Brendan here is just trying to anger you smokers out there

by the way, you'll all appreciate what the ban will do for the smell of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE.

you will be flabbergasted at how simply when you get home from a great night at the pub or club you wont reek of smoke, and when you wake up in the morning your hangover will not be quite as eugh because you didnt smoke so much because it was pissing it down outside.

you will appreciate how much you cut back and how you savour your smoke so.

how you will meet people outside and you will make a connection with them simply because nobody else is outside smoking as to not be bored you'll strike up a conversation which will then continue on inside and hell you might even get laid.

i become a bit of a wanker this late at night, writing essays where i could i have just written...smoking ban...GEET IT UP YEH!

p.s i'm LOVING the exchange rate for american dollar at the moment.

1.00 GBP United Kingdom Pounds = 1.96869 USD United States Dollars.

The day that hits 2 dead I'm i reckon i'll go and buy a US dollar and pin it to my wall, because i'm a prick and its next to worthless

/runs off sniggering.

It is my desire if not my duty to try and talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and televison, and if what i say is responsible, i alone am responsible for the saying of it, our history will be what we make of it, and if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now and there should be preserved kinescopes of one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white and in colour evidence of decadence escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

We are at the moment comfortable, fat and complacent, we have a built in allergy to pleasant or disturbing information, our mass media reflect this, But unless we get up off our big fat surpluses and recognise that televison in the main is being used to distract delude amuse and insulate us, then televison and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it may see a totally different picture too late.

Edward R Murrow 1953 - true to this day.

I've been on this meglomania high for probably quite some time now, since last night at 11:05 =trailstar txt'd me telling me i had the winning bid for a om1n with a winder and a 50mm f1.4 zuiko. £62!!! i was willing to pay £117.86 (i bid extremely odd numbers on ebay - its a tactic )

Also i'm in pain from longboarding the 2 miles home from my friends house, and having to jump off twice because of wankers jumping giveways (cars dont like longboards) - my board already has a big chunk of wood missing from the front where its crashed into kerbs because of me not being very good but i'm loving it, the amount of people that LAUGH at me because i'm thundering down a road and having this daft grin on my face.

Also, i've got £250 in the bank from 4 days work at the pub, love working in a pub its great fun.

The money is heading towards i think a 30d and some glass, niall had me convinced in a few sentences that i should give up the idea of a 400d for £370 and get a 30d for £630 bodies only, not sure exactly how he manages it but he's the man in the know.

life's going great, you'll hopefully be seeing me revert back to my old ways photography wise, its just i got a life this year so photography has suffered, its still me though.

you guys have to go to this..

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