God? Nah, I'll take science thank you.

God? Nah, never needed it.

So where to start, I guess most of you who will read this will probably be aware of my feelings of organised religion and that I am an atheist, not agnostic. Not blinded by a faith dreamt up 2000 years ago, nor blinded by science. Evolution is FACT. The evidence is there. It makes me chuckle that an argument against evolution is that it is called The Theory Of Evolution which shows a massive misunderstanding of what theory means in this context. I have part read the bible when we were given one in secondary school, and found it dull and uninspiring.  Why do you need a book to tell you how to live your life? "The 10 Commandments" = good shit to live your life by sure but what about all the other stuff contained within the monotheistic religious texts; condoning of rape, the legal murder of "heretics" by the Jewish army in the old testament I could go on but this not about listing all the shit wrong in the Bible. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/page/bible-contradictions

Visit these two sites for more information on the contradictions/inconsistencies found within the book. Yes, evidence suggests that the historical character of Jesus may have existed and that his message may have been one of peace and love but his message and biography is very similar to deities that went before him, but when I see the vitriol spouted from hateful people in God's name then something seems to have gone wrong? but what about the evidence that has been ignored or hidden as suggested by the Dead Sea Scrolls Deception.  Websites like Godhatesfags.com amongst others horrify me, they really do.  If there is a god which there isn't, would he/she/it/they give a single solitary fuck about where people are putting there sexual organs? The idea that God is like man is a fairly gross distortion from the original idea of god being ineffable and something we would never be able to understand read The History of God by Karen Armstrong is a very interesting read starting from the beginning which is a very good place to start. I don't judge people for holding religious beliefs as long as they keep them private and DO NOT use it to think they are better than another group of people or to keep a certain demographic down such as the role Christianity has played in trying to prevent equality for women for starters.

Yes I know the Bible is a collection of stories to lead a better life but when it is used to be shitty to another group? Then surely the point has been missed, and people are so blinkered that they go "look this bit is good" but ignore the horribleness found within it. Give me wonderful science and the natural world any time of a day than someone in the sky judging my actions.  I know science does not have all the answers, and there is so much about the human body we don't understand but I will take science with its evolution and gravity and its testable hypothesises. 

Following some  reading which I have done what worries me is that not necessarily in this country, but definitely in America that atheists are viewed with suspicion, that somehow the ability to think for oneself and not follow the crowd is a bad thing?! and that somehow being atheist means that we struggle with morality, I don't need a book to tell me what is right and wrong, I have had a good upbringing which was warm, affectionate and treated me respect.  Watch this clip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHoyTvyh4o  to watch Richard Dawkins slap someone down who suggests atheists can't have absolute morality. Some of the most amoral people have been so-called Christians, or people acting in the name of god, which if you think about it is very conceited. The fact that they think they would know what god would somehow meant. I am sorry if this is coming across as an attack on Christians, that is not my intention but majority of my reading has been around Christianity, no religion is free from attacking like dicks against another ethnic group even different cults within the same religion Protestants Vs Catholics, Sunnis Vs Shia.

I will never comprehend the fundamentalism of right wing Christians who kill doctors performing abortions, the Taliban and Saudi govt for their apparent hatred of women shown by the stoning and beheading of women on a regular basis or the gross female circumcision. Or the impact of the Conquistadors on the Americas or the impact of those escaping religious intolerance had on the native tribes of North America, the war on women in the dark ages and the role that the Catholic Church had in this.

I believe in religious freedom but not when it is entwined with hatred, and I don't agree with tax free status they seem to get. There is no place for religion in government and this is why in my opinion it means that people who get into power can then use their power to push their own agenda which may be against the wishes of the electorate. All you need to see is how the Right Wing Fundamentalists have hijacked the Republican Party in America.

I never push my beliefs on others and would like the same back.

And have Jehovah Witnesses' ever been successful in converting someone by knocking on their door? I was once asked if I knew of anyone on the street who would be interested in what they say? I wanted to reply "let me just check my idiot list, yes number 42 are up for a bit of religion".

If you have faith in religion and it gives you strength then good for you, but God, Nah I don't need it.  In my eyes there is so much wrong with organised religion and I don't need to be part of a group who follows blindly and tries to take a moral high-road on a number of issues. 

(One day I may write something which flows a bit better than this, and yes I realise I could save this as a draft and hone it but I have said what I need to say)

"morally wrong" you say, "f**k you" I say

Another misinformed, badly written blog

I keep meaning to use these to talk about what’s been going on in my life but then realise who really wants to read that and also who is going to read a ranty blog about the state of things with no figures/stats/evidence to back it up.  I will leave that to the professional writers who need to make sure they have these to hand.

So today (Tuesday) the news broke that it’s “morally wrong” that people pay tradesmen cash-in-hand.  First off, where the FUCK does the government get off on deciding what is morally wrong when it comes to anything?! They bend over backwards to let the financial sector and big business fuck the tax payers over either by bailouts or agreeing ridiculous tax bills with companies like Vodafone who get to pay a fraction of the tax bill they should pay. Think of the amount of TAX PAYERS money used to prop up the financial sector back in 2008/09 when the crisis first hit us, was this our making? No. Did we agree to them using our money to bet on hedge funds and other ridiculous shit, for lack of a better word, like the Futures market. No. Who fucking suffers? Us. How do we suffer? With the lie that by cutting services, the public sector, benefits that this will somehow encourage growth.  I still remember DickFace, sorry Cameron, explaining that somehow the private sector would somehow create jobs for all the thousands of public sector workers who faced unemployment.  Don’t get me wrong there is a lot of waste and unnecessary posts and ridiculously high wages in the public sector but austerity cuts like these DO NOT encourage growth. Fact. 

And after their “promises” that the NHS would not be privatised, what are we seeing? They are allowing NHS trusts to go broke. Yes PFI may have been introduced by the Labour government but that is no excuse. This is not a defence of ridiculous NEW Labour policies. New Labour were also a bunch of self serving pricks in bed with corporations and the financial sector whilst eroding our civil liberties and Blair wants to come back into politics.  The man who takes money from JP Chase Morgan and Uzbekistan here you go if you need information on this wonderfully free country http://www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/uzbekistan 

The Capitalist system does not work. We need a massive rethink about private ownership of companies and how they fit with each other. We need a rethink in diplomacy and how we treat each other.  We need to rethink how we treat this planet. I do not like using this word but the rape of Planet Earth has to end and real sustainable renewable energy needs to be the focus and not biofuels which place energy needs above the dietary needs of people http://www.howtopowertheworld.com/disadvantages-of-biofuels.shtml look here for some information if needed.  Yes we need to rethink fossil fuels and quickly yet there is no pressure for Shell, BP and various others to actually do it, and neither is the pressure there for governments due to the massive payments that these companies have to be making.

I could go on more but this rant for now is over. 

News from the Mattyverse

Preamble - So I tend to write when I am in work and then re-read it back to see if I want to share it, and in work I can seemingly marshal my thoughts a little bit better. I also get topics come into my head when I am working to walk listening to music but I thought it was time for a break from a typical Matty rant, the types of rants that people more eloquent, articulate and more importantly funny embark on but there you go.  


(The important stuff you should read, really! No pressure but seriously life altering stuff) We are six months into 2012 and it is shaping up into being a very fine year, the kind of year where in the future if it were a wine it would be a vintage.  After the very shaky start which saw me end up in hospital and needing emergency surgery to have my gall bladder removed, it has just got better and better (even to moments of pure ecstasy more on that later.  If you have read previous posts then you will have already read how unwell I actually was and how it took the removal of my gall bladder and stepping back from life to see how poorly physically, emotionally and mentally I actually I was.

Through the course of 2012, through the support of loved ones and maybe through the removal of the aforementioned offending organ (although funny that I just typed girl in there before organ, no prizes for guessing the offending girl though!) I have got better and better, my anxieties have largely gone, the bounce and smile are back in meaningful ways along with self confidence and belief to stand up for myself and not keep the peace anymore in family matters which has lead to confrontation which I do hate.

I have done so much fun so far this year, highlights of which include going to Liverpool for the night with my girlfriend Sarah and her little one, spending time with my best friends and their little one, a civilized meal for my 31st (yep 31 and I still find it surprising that I got here but this is not the place for the dark days of my past) I had an awesome drunken unexpected night in Leamington (not calling it's full name), Slam Dunk in Leeds was a lot of fun as it involved too much booze and loud music, I have  been to Orlando and there were some proper moments of sheer joy such as going on the Hulk Ride and Harry Potter @ Universal Worlds of Adventure
along with seeing Coheed and Cambria and meeting the lovely Julie Brown. 


There is still so much to come this year; celebrating Sarah's birthday, Shell Island, Gaslight Anthem, Just So Festival and plans afoot for more awesomeness.  I am growing older, never up....and more comic book/graphic novel collection keeps growing  

So where does life go from here? Onward and upwards,  yes I still get low and I still don't know why although I do blame the man period for why it happens on a regular occasion (I think I may have used occasion on one too many occasions....did you see what I did there? I really do split my sides with my word play skills).

There are no earth shattering epiphanies held within this blog and no "the moral of the story is", I will leave the lessons to Thundercats as it worked for me and I am sure countless others of my generation.

Some people have fallen out of my life for a variety of reasons some of which I may be to blame for but that is the nature of friendships, but some are stronger and I feel there are people around I can count on when necessary and I want to see more of these people now life is settling down and I have my health back. 


I love my life, my little family and the friends I have who kick my ass when it's necessary. I have also met some lovely people in 2012 as well and am at almost peace with myself and the decisions I have made which I have lead to me writing this today.

Matty C

Love, Peace and Harmony. 

Musings about adverts

MAY 2012 - ADVERTS DRIVE ME GRRRY


So my plan to write regularly to keep things building up in my head totally failed, then I realised I was waiting for something to happen to provide inspiration to make me want to write again.

Adverts in the United States of America are crazy, I don't really see adverts back home as I don't watch much normal TV.  I caught an advert trying to sell some product to aid weightloss and it's final line was "Being thin is great", no wonder some people have an issue with their body image when they are bombarded day and night with both images of airbrushed perfect people and lines like that during adverts.


People who work in advertising/marketing only have one agenda which is to make people buy more shit that they don't need.  I don't get how advertising works, I realize half of it is to inform people about certain products being out on the market but the amount of lies they tell in adverts is astounding such as Lynx with the offer that if you wear it you will become irresistible to the opposite sex, don't get me wrong I understand the appeal of that but its horseshit. Or adverts for cars which suggest you will be luckier in your love life which seems to be the focus of a lot of adverts, and seriously who takes their partner to McDonald's for "make up coffee", get some fucking class in your life if you are one of those people, or maybe your ex/soon to be ex- partner just wants a McDonald's breakfast and wants you to pay.

I hadn't really forgotten the amount of adverts that get thrown at you in the USA but how do they sit and watch so many adverts during a 22 minute program stretched to 30 minutes with adverts....8 minutes of adverts and then you get in the car and the billboards....oh the billboards especially the ones pushing political agendas such as the anti-abortion ones which in Florida are seemingly everywhere.

Another phenomena we don't have in England, although I may be wrong in this respect is the sheer amount of adverts they have in the USA for restaurants/fast food places, it's mind-boggling, it really is.  "eat here, no eat here, use this coupon and get this free, buy this one meal and get 5 kiddies meals free we know you don't have 5 children but we are preying on the fact you're a fat lazy dumbass who will think it's a bargain!" .  


Also free refills, that's what a nation with an obesity crisis needs! easier free access to sugar and sweeteners, the waitresses look at you like you're mental when you turn down a 3rd drink, granted most of the drink is fucking ice! Oh the ice! So much ice!! That's probably why they can do the free refills, anyone agree? I remember playing Theme Park and cranking up the amount of ice you put into the drinks to ensure that one drink does not quench the thirst!

We live in such a consumer capitalist society in the US and Britain that I can't see things getting better in turns of consumption and people only buying what they actually need which if were to happen would decrease the pressure on the rapidly depleting world's natural resources. Just saying ya know? New ways of thinking have to be approached 

Endings, New Beginnings and Changes

So where to start; with the negative to get it out with and then move onto the positives or just let it flow as it should? This may be one of my most unstructured posts to date but I am sat with my fingers itching to get out what is inside and not let it build up inside.

The weekend just gone I finally made it down to Basingstoke to swap stuff with an ex-girlfriend and this was a very serious relationship, well to me it was.  The relationship ended May 2011, but I was fucked if I was going to spend 3 hours on a train just to spend 2 minutes to pick my stuff up so I was eager to go with a friend.  So after a conversation on Friday night after already agreeing to it last year but I wanted to make sure it was cool, I sent a message to my ex to check it was sorted.  So down we went, and the swap was made.  I had already been left a little confused by her decision to give jewellery back to me which I hadn't asked for, and wouldn't have asked for as it was a gift.

So that was the end of what had together and a new side was showed to me, one I knew she had but hadn't expected it to be turned my way, I could go into more detail but that solves nothing as it is down with now.  So that was the Ending as mentioned in the title and it goes hand in hands with New Beginnings and Changes.

My friend and I  made our way back to the Midlands but got struck by the snow, fortunately my friend had already asked if we could call in on her mum, and with the snow being bad it was a wise decision which lead to much fun in a new place :-D



Since my gallbladder has come out I have been able to grab so much of my life back and a lot of my old self has returned, the Matty that people, well a person remembered so well from 4 years ago.  I have been able to look at myself and can see now how unwell I really was and that the gallbladder had extremely negative affects on me, not just physically but also in my head and that this shit had been going on for far too long.  I have for the first time been able to sit back from things and let the little things go without over-analysing things and I am also no longer afraid to ask the questions to which in the past I may have not liked the answer but life moves on, and we cannot control everything within in our lives.

Negative behaviours I have managed to cut out, and be more appreciative of those people who are there for me, not necessarily in person but I love them all the same.  Changes are still coming my way and life no longer holds the fear for me.  There is stuff about me that people will only know if they have spent significant time with me, or if I have told them about it directly.   I also have someone in my life who kicks my arse when it needs a good kick, but who without which life is just that little bit more dull than it has to be.

As for the New Beginnings, well it is the first time since 2008 that I will be celebrating my birthday pain-free, I no longer have serious problems with my back threatening to ruin dancing times, old fears have been faced and new ways learnt of dealing with things which raise themselves up.

So there it is, The Matty has metaphorically undergone a rebirth :-D

The WAR to End Wars?

The “War to end all Wars” ended over a lifetime ago,

Yet again war was found less than a life time later,

Millions died, millions slaughtered, lives destroyed,

But still we fight wars in the name of freedom,

A war fought all those years ago against a fascist regime

But all I see in the west is fascism on the rise

But the truth is too ugly a theme

Wars for oil, conquest, cultural hegemony of the globe

Blood of the innocent stains the ground across the world

And our governments lead us down dark roads

Into Police States and claim it’s for our safety.

And I wish for a brighter day.

A day when freedom means freedom of speech,

Freedom of thought, free from the shackles of being told

What to believe when all I see in the media is the propagation

Of lies, conceited deceit that they know best for all of us,

And it makes me question, makes me wonder

Whether the lives that were given was merely in vain

Merely a delay for a structure in to which we become trapped

Like laboratory mice all fighting for the same piece of cheese.

Gallbladder Out!!

This time last week I had been in a hospital bed for 2 hours after being told by the emergency doctor who arranged the appointment at the Walk-In Centre they would do what they could to keep me out of hospital.  Now I feel far better than I did last Sunday, and far better in my noodle.  Related? Maybe, the stress of not knowing when the gall bladder problems would strike was starting to drag me down, I hadn't realised how bad it had got until this. Anyway, I need to back up to June to put this into some kind of order.

In June I suffered my first pang of pain, I put this down to my efforts at the physio the day before, it eventually went and at this time I was off work.  The bursts would come and go and I told no-one about them as I didn't think much of them as they didn't seem important.  Then I ended up in A&E one morning and was preliminary diagnosed with gallstones, went back to my GP who wanted clarification so organised an Ultra Sound.  I kept getting the pains randomly and without any kind of trigger.  One Monday or Tuesday morning in work I felt absolutely wretched, so I went to the walk-in centre who identified that I also had a UTI, and I had an ultra sound which confirmed them. However,  at this point someone messed up and a referral was never done to the consultant.  The pains kept coming I tried cutting things out to no avail.

In December I saw a private consultant who offered to take it out of me for 6 grand, but I couldn't justify this being paid and also I had in consideration that I desperately wanted to make my friend's wedding as well.  Things seemed to settle down, and I started to seriously consider a liver flush which my girlfriend had herself done, I had never been dubious but wanted to see how it affected her.  I had also been without a laptop myself to do any serious reading up on this.  However, after seeing Occupational Health they helped me and we found out that it was seriously recommended that doing a liver flush whilst having stones was very unwise so this ruled this out.  This was only a week last Wednesday, the 5th January.  I went back to my GP who said I could ask to be put on the waiting list for NHS Surgery so I did this on the Friday afternoon.  The Friday evening I had a lovely evening with my girlfriend, Saturday I felt great and then Sunday struck. 


Sunday, ah Sunday, I woke up in agony and it was such a horrible fucking day, so fast forward to ending up in Hospital.  They said they would look to get rid of the infection and I would be on my way, Monday evening I was very poorly, and then again Tuesday, they came to see me on Tuesday evening and said they would put me on the emergency list for surgery. This happened on Wednesday morning and I have been recovering since, and doing well.

All I know is something feels different, something which I cannot put my finger on but it is not a negative feeling in the slightest.  Things which were in me have left, that is both literal and metaphorical.

I would also like to say thank you to everyone who has supported me.

(Sidenote :- I am sorry for anyone I may have acted a dick to or been harsh with after receiving 2 get well soon cards but I was frustrated and don't hold grudges) 

Fun with words and letters

eeeee.........the sound of an E being pushed over, much to the annoyance of Time who had become Tim and poor old Rune was now the verb Run. 



Please feel free to add your own fun inventions :-D 

Grammar, punctuation and the general misuse of language

As stated in a previous writing this is a place for me to get stuff out of my head, and that is coming but it will come with a massive warning before you get into the main text about what you’re going to be reading; so for now rest easy and get yourself a drink, actually first get yourself a drink and then rest easy also maybe treat yourself to a nice tasty biscuit, and I will sit here with my glass of water unable to have anything tasty because of my knackered gall bladder.

So previously (in vain hope I claim that) stated I am going to attempt to have a theme within each entry, the last one being sponges/greed and the first I guess was talent/success (well actually it was a diatribe against X Factor and other shows regarding talent).  This first bit is getting all the rubbish out of my head first (and in all honesty is not a necessary read unless of course you are already hanging on what I come out with my words. 

This writing is about words, see what I did there (I’m a funking genius!) and the misuse of words, sayings and other various things which I have noticed by people either on Facebook, famous people or other things which my radar has indicated is wrong.  I will be the first to admit that I do misuse words, and , ay it wrong.  Those of you reading this should know I have issues with language and grammar and it’s misuse, first example of this; the misuse of “their”, “there” and “they’re” along with “you’re” and “your”.  Seriously how difficult is this to get wrong, and don’t cheat by using “UR” or “u r”, this is lazy and as far as I’m concerned not particularly acceptable in a text message, and it’s really fucking lazy when it is on MSN Messenger or in an email/message. You change the context of what’s being said, and as we all know  (all smart people anyway, if this offends and you are an misusing offender of words, well I’m impressed that you have read this far!) context is one of the hardest things to establish on the internet or via a text message.  I realise that some of this is an age thing, but when some of the people who consistently do this are older or a similar age to me, it makes me think this is not an age thing, but either a laze thing or just that you’re a bit thick and you wonder what the bright yellow thing in the sky is. 

Phew, wow that just flowed out of my fingers; I really must have needed to get that out there.  Anyway, there is more to come so do you need another biscuit for dunking?  What’s your choice of dunkable biscuit?  I used to like dunk custard creams, tasty.  I was watching The Idiot Box a while ago and there was a sportsperson on tv who said that when their likeness was revealed to them that it “literally blew them away” so here comes my next gripe, the abandon which people use  “literally” with.  If you look up the synonyms of this you get; factually, exactly, accurately and plainly.  So unless this person was actually blown away by a big gust of wind that come through, and I am hazarding  a guess that this was not the case and she simply meant she was “blow away”, and why she felt the need to add “literally” in there is anyone’s guess, answers on a double sided postcard.  I never really understood double sided postcards when I was younger, how did the postman know which side to send as you had to put your name and address on it as well.  Anyone else have this trouble? I went to university with someone who believed that Double Sided Sticky Tape, the most famous of accessories that Blue Peter used to create things, was purely made for Blue Peter and did not exist outside of Blue Peter.  This now sounds like a good lie to spread if you wish to make people seem foolish in front of others.

Finally, (the crowd screams noooo, we want more shite to push out the shite in our head already there) the people who I have noticed who offend the most when speaking are football players, commentators  and managers, everything seems to happen at the end of the day, and come out with dazzling statements such as “goals win matches” and live in the glorious place of “if” where everything hinges on “if” occurring. 

 (Disclaimer) I take no responsibility for any glaring grammatical issues which appear throughout, or for the overuse of "misuse" in paragraph 3. 

A Blog Spread Across 2 Months (Ish)

5^th December 2012  blog # 2

Excuse the rather weak current title, it is simple a Work-In-Progress (WIP).

Today’s musings will cover a great amount of topics but not the chocolate bars, so all you chocoholics may wish to stop reading and get yourself a bar of chocolate before continuing on reading words which will open your eyes and mind to a whole other way of thinking, or not, and I will have merely wasted some of your precious time away from looking at videos of cats on Youtube. 

Damn, I really should take notes about what is in my head before sitting here with a keyboard because it flies all over the place, not literally though mind you.  Be a bit weird that a head floating around, unless of course it was dispensing wisdom. “Eat less red meat” “smile more” “don’t use facebook to whine about your unfair life”

On my toddle home last night, (this is a continuation of yesterdays writing so we are now on the 6^th.  It came into my head about sponges/leeches, and the various forms these people take, and how greed seems one of the main tenets of the human condition.   We probably all know someone who is a sponge personally and we know how people “sponge” off the Welfare State.  I am of the firm opinion of the necessity of the Welfare State, and the massive help it can give, but like most things it is open to abuse or people feel they are entitled to it like the MPs and their expenses, and executives and their massive unwarranted pay rises whilst the workers receive paltry increases. And when they talk about pay capping executive pay in the UK for executives we receive the same excuses, we will not get the best talent in the world to run businesses, but from the outside looking in, some are not doing a very good job at “running” the business.  Most of the time it is about trying to squeeze more work from a smaller workforce and placing unrealistic demands on sales so that people get a bonus so that they can get a decent wage, much I guess like the model of waiting staff and taxi drivers are expected to have their income boosted significantly by tips. (something I know of by speaking with a taxi driver who told me there is an expectation of the powers that be that they will make an extra 10% on their daily earnings through tips)

This writing was pre-Christmas as you can tell by the date, (please do not take that as an insult to your intelligence) I just wanted you to know that this part is post-Christmas writing with all the optimism that a New Year brings which can be quickly deflated by opening the newspapers.  This writing initially was about sponges that we all meet in our life, and maybe you are one of the sponges of life and you have no shame.  Maybe you leech off your friends, your loved one or family/parents.  One of those who takes without ever giving back. And you’re not a fun sponge like spongebob squarepants, you’re an unfun sponge!

I seem to have deviated about sponges/leeches so I am guessing that I what was narking me off has subsided into the background.  This is not a call to communism, but how that sponges take many forms from those who directly impact on our own lives to those who possibly seem like they don't but in all likelihood do,

A harmless rant

So here is my first blog, well more accurately rubbish in my head which I feel the need to not share because maybe will read this, but commit to something so when my faculties are failing me I can look back and go “god how conceited I was” or maybe hopefully I will be thinking “wow look how insightful I was, go me!

Anyway, the first topic I would like to discuss is “X-Factor”, personally I have no interest in this glorified karaoke machine with the seemingly only goal to generate more money for Mr. Cowell who is a prick of the highest order.  I don’t know if anyone has ever done a chart for “Prickishness” but in my opinion he would be right near the top along with Jeremy Kyle, and various others whose names escape me (not the most thought out piece admittedly but when I started writing I did not think I was going to be needing examples of Pricks). Anyway sorry about that brief diversion back to the topic at hand. X-Factor, well more the reaction people have to the judgements of people being “kicked off”, now again this is not particularly well researched, it’s more based on what I have seen on Facebook on (Sunday’s I think) when one of these people is voted off, again I do not know the process of how people are “voted” off this show, whether the judges choose people and then the people who watch it get rid of their least favourite, who knows, who should actually care.  

What I have noticed is that people describe the decisions when they don’t agree with them as “disgusting”  which the dictionary describes as “Arousing Disgust; repugnant” which seems a little strong to me, just because the flavour of your viewing pleasure has been kicked off the show.  In reality the winner has probably been chosen from a long time ago, and the whole show just seems geared to people spending money on phonecalls/texts and marketing for the Christmas single.  How many of the X-factor singers have gone on into any kind of fame after their first two singles, and how many from the “finalists” have gone on to anything.  Seriously? People describe these decisions as “disgusting” please do yourselves a favour and get the FUCK over it.  It is a tv show with one aim, making money.  And all you people who enjoy watching others get ridiculed on tv because they believe they can sing, that is all horseshit.  Set up to fail, and you think it’s funny.  Admittedly when I was younger I used to find this humiliation funny but then I saw it for what it was “humiliation” and then they bring back the “worst” on to live tv for the finale.  Now that is nearer disgusting then any singer ever being voted off a Karaoke show.

On a lighter note on certain days short extracts are going to appear focusing on letters/words, some of you may have seen this appear on Facebook (in my ongoing quest for admiration and attention, it’s going well)