Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 May 2014

#backfire...

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My day has been lightened (although there is currently a storm brewing outside). Yesterday UKIP Harrowgate started up the #whyimvotingukip campaign again as a final push in morale before today's European elections. Over the course of Wednesday, UKIP supporters came out in their thousands raving about their lovely, immigrant-free, 100% British utopia which obviously got the hashtag trending and into the public eye. I don't think anyone really expected the retaliation.

When my friend on Facebook added a link to the hashtag's feed on his wall, I was sceptical as I thought it would be exactly what I've described above but no. There has been one of the biggest backfire I think I've ever seen on Twitter. There isn't even a piece of praise there any more... the whole hashtag has become a complete joke. Here are a few of my favourites:






I sent this to my UKIP supporting friend and he responded trying to back it with "It was planned" "It gives them headlines" etc... but no, it wasn't. The campaign was restarted again by UKIP Harrogate's twitter feed which since then has mysteriously gone private. The whole thing is a massive backfire for UKIP. Although they are supposed to do really well in today's election, the British public do not want UKIP in power and on top of that the majority of us see UKIP as nothing more than a massive joke. As I say to people when I'm talking about the party and their many blunders: yes, UKIP want to be treated as seriously as the rest of the parties but with that they need to behave like the other parties. All politicians have things in their heads that would upset the public but most have the restraint to keep it there. Over the past year so many UKIP representatives have been suspended because the public (not the party) have been outraged by their comments - including Mr Farage earlier this week with his comment of Romanians which he put down to being him being tired. We don't get that from other parties because they know what is right and wrong to say in public.

Do everyone a favour. Take control of your country, vote for anyone but UKIP.

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Who have/are you voting for? Leave me a comment.

Monday, 19 May 2014

Not knowing.

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Not knowing
I like you.
Or at least I like who I am when I'm with you. 
When I look into your eyes, 
I'm on a different planet.
I've always liked you...
Even before everyone else did. 
I still do... 
And I don't know if its worse if you know,
Or worse if you don't.

I find this so beautiful. It reminds me of myself this time last year and to a certain degree of myself now. I don't know who wrote it (if you do, can you please leave a comment?) but I found it via StumbleUpon and it is from a website called: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/243739/not-knowing/. Hope you enjoy it.

I want to start putting more poetry on here, doing Literature this year has really made me fall in love with it! Thanks for visiting, don't forget to follow me on Twitter.

Friday, 16 May 2014

Morrissey has Twitter!?

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Here is Morrissey with a cat.
Who is the maniac that has allowed one of the most outspoken, controversial people in the world a twitter account? Do they realise what they have done? They have given someone who pisses at least one person off per week a means of accessing just about every person in the world in a matter of seconds. Welcome to World War 3...

Of course I am very excited about this announcement as Morrissey is my king and I treat everything he says as if it were in a religious text but oh my... we are all going to die!!

Obviously, the account is to accompany his new single (below) and forthcoming album and to be quite honest, I do think twitter will suit him well as God knows there are so many loud mouth arseholes that must be silenced by his wrath, *cough cough* Katie Hopkins. 

We'll see...




Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Losing all faith in my generation...

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Often I think what it would have been like to have grown up in the '80s like my parents. Yeah, Thatcher was in charge and life in Scotland was pretty grim but the fashion, the films, THE MUSIC. On top of this, the '80s was a time where we weren't all completely dominated and controlled by the media and so, teenagers weren't a bunch of mindless morons! I was able to put up with it - the hashtags and slang was just times changing and the boyband craze has been around since the Beatles but over the weekend things have changed.

Before I start, I'm going to tell you that I like a drink and I do drink often. I'm not pretending for a second that teenagers don't sometimes binge on alcohol - of course they do and it is not a recent thing. Drinking alcohol underage is one of the first hints of rebellion and growing up in a teenager's lives but it gets to the point where is becomes ridiculous. I am of course talking about "neck nominations".

 This is going to be short. I really don't understand it - PEOPLE HAVE DIED! Naively, I thought this was something that a select bunch of idiots did to make a tit of each other and that it would fizzle out in a few days like most Twitter trends. To a degree yes, it is a bunch of idiots making a tit of themselves and yes, this time next week it will probably be old news but I never thought that people who I'm friends with on Facebook would be stupid enough to do it. If you don't know yet, "neck nominations" is a current internet trend where people down a pint of an alcoholic beverage (originally beer) as quickly as possible and then "nominate" their friends to do the same.

These people on my Facebook are 16/17 and well educated individuals who surely must know that a pint of vodka, Budweiser, whiskey and cinnamon is so stupidly dangerous to drink in less than a minute..? Very stupidly dangerous especially when the news has been scattered with stories about how people have died as a consequence of doing it. To me, this internet trend has shown just how ridiculous social media has become and how easily led my generation has become. Where is the logic in the whole thing? 'OOOooh, my friend has tagged me therefore I must DO IT!' ??? Why do people crumble into peer pressure so easily? It's the stupidest thing to come out of  social media EVER.

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Hello old friend!

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Hope your new year is off to a good start! I am so very sorry for going away, A-Levels eh? (Ohh a rhyme). So everything is well and good - although a little busy but I'm living comfortably in the same place I was the last time we spoke.

Since going back to school in January, I have found a lot to write about and have formed a lot of opinions that I didn't know I had or had forgotten I was bothered about. This has mainly come from my Media classes as we have started talking a lot about representation and in particular representation of women and the working class. Also my eyes are being opened to the importance of hard rock and trance in Music Tech and have fallen in love with Haydn in Music. English is pleasant though we are doing drama and as I hate reading aloud, I am keeping my head down a lot unless it is to voice something of importance. NO ACTING. 

I have decided to make a late new year resolution (yes I am aware it is now February) and try very hard to write at least one post a week on things that are happening round and about me in my life. Whether it is about music, the news, books or whatever I hope that you enjoy it!

Until then, you can follow me on twitter or tumblr. Tah-tah!