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Me wants...

2009-12-23T16:11:34Z

www.chicki.co.uk

*Sighs* Is this website awesome or this website awesome? Some of my personal favourites:

Shame I couldn't afford most of it :(

Long-awaited update...

2009-12-22T17:39:39Z

Since I appear to have completely abandoned this blog I thought I'd start it up again. (Even though the only person who reads this is yours truly.)

So, on the whole Rage Against the Machine vs. X factor debacle... I'm going to be completely honest and say I can't stand both songs. And it's a shame, because I really wanted to like the RATM song as I thought the whole Facebook campaign to get them to number 1 was a breath of fresh air as I didn't particularly want to see another manufacutured, drippy ballad hogging the spot yet again. (Especially if it's a cover of a Miley Cyrus song that was originally released about six months ago. Really, Simon Cowell? Is that seriously the best you could come up with?)

But when I heard 'Killing in the Name' on the radio for the first time, my first thought was, "So THIS is our only alternative? ...Geez." Frankly, it made me wish a much better song was chosen for the massive FB campaign instead, one that doesn't make my ears bleed quite so much. Don't get me wrong, I know the band is very popular and I can understand why people like the song so much, but personally I just feel like Stan in that South Park episode where he's made to choose between a giant douche or a turd sandwich for school mascot.

Besides, I haven't bought a single in about ten years and I don't plan on doing so either.

In other news... I think this could possibly be my first ever white Christmas :D Woop! Our tree in front of the living room window so it's really lovely to look at it with a backdrop of white snow. I went for a drive with my mum and stepdad today around the hills and it looked amazing. You couldn't tell where the hills ended and the sky began.

(try to ignore the raindroplets on the car window!)

So yeah, lovely lovely snow. I am, however, worried how my Dad is going to drive us from Cheshire to London for my grandparents annual get-together on boxing day if the weather's going to be like this. I would say that I hope the snow will have gone by then but then that would mean no white Christmas day! Is that selfish of me?

Anything else? Well, I'm stuffed from eating pepperoni pizza and I'm currently listening to some Hole. Although I dislike Courtney Love as a person, I have to admit she has put out some good music. I'm also going to try my hardest not to procrastinate and get down to starting one of the three massive essays I've been assigned to write over the holidays :S

For crying out loud, teenage girls these days...

2009-06-25T22:09:15Z

So I go onto facebook and see this as the status update of someone on my friends list (yeah, she went to my primary school, my mum used to be friends with her mum, but other than that she has nothing to do with my life whatsoever) :

"...would rather be a WAG wannabe any day then (sic) go to that hole they call Glastonbury.."

/Facepalm

As far as I know, a WAG is merely a young woman famous for doing nothing other than riding on her footballer boyfriend's coattails, or football shorts should I say. It's probably up there with going on Big Brother as one of the easiest ways to get famous. However, despite getting pictured in Heat magazine looking fabulous, they don't get any real respect from the public as they have no talent whatsoever, or if they did they certainly don't use it.

And yet, it seems to me there are more wannabe WAGS out there nowadays then there are wannabe female presidents. And that just makes me feel... depressed.

But enough bitching about the WAG lifestyle. What I really wanna know is, how is being a 'WAG wannabe' comparable to attending Glastonbury in any way whatsoever? Now, Glastonbury may not be exactly glamourous, and it may involve getting extremely muddy and slumming it in a tent for a couple of nights, but what makes it so special is the unification of thousands of people all there for the same purpose, and that is to simply enjoy live music.

So perhaps if the girl on my friends list had said 'I'd rather go to a football match than go to that hole they call Glastonbury' it at least would have made more sense. I wouldn't have agreed with it, but it would still have made sense. Hell, even if she said she'd rather be a WAG wannabe than a Glastonbury groupie, it would have made slightly more sense and the facepalm wouldn't have been as hard.

Writer's Block: Adult Onset

2009-02-20T15:03:04Z

Putting legal definitions aside, at what age do you think someone can really be considered an adult?

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That's a tough question. I'm 19 and I still find it difficult to consider myself an adult. But I've always figured that I will the day a stranger refers to me as 'that woman over there' rather than 'that girl over there', and, well, that hasn't happened yet.
In the eyes of the law, I think a person is only truly an adult when they are legally old enough to do anything. And considering in the UK you're not allowed to buy kitchen knives until you're 25, I think I've still got a long wait.

Redhead discrimination - as bad as racism?

2009-02-19T22:45:43Z

It's something that's been on my mind in the past few days. Actually, it's something that's always been on my mind, but most particularly in the last few days as I have recently dyed my hair back to it's natural colour, which is red. (Which I'm going to continue calling it as I detest the word 'ginger'.)
Now it seems as if I can't walk down the street without people shouting the g-word at me, whether it's drunken teenage girls in a passing car or 40-year-old men uttering it to me as they walk past. Am I supposed to be complimented or insulted by this? Well, put it this way - if I had blonde hair, would they feel compelled to shout 'blonde!' at me? If I had brown or black hair, would they shout 'brunette' at me? And God forbid, if I was black then shouting 'black!' at me would be considered a criminal offense.
So why do people find it necessary to loudly shout what I consider a derogatory term for my hair colour in my direction, as if I'm some kind of rare bird they've spotted?
The only possible explanation I can think of is that, by instinct, people tend to negatively judge what they consider different. And as red is the rarest hair colour and technically the result of a mutated gene, redheads are considered different to societal norms.
But why should this be a bad thing? Why should redheads constantly be the butt of rude jokes and name-calling such as 'ginger pubes' or 'gingher', just like I had all through primary and secondary school? (also, what is it with people's fascination with the colour of our pubic hair? Blonde people are likely to have blonde pubic hair. Brown-haired people are likely to have brown pubic hair. Thus, it is totally natural to have the same colour pubic hair as the hair on your head. BFD.)
The main thing that I just can't get my head round is that racism is not accepted in society and hasn't been for many years, yet how come it is still considered the norm to belittle redheads? It's still treating a person like they're inferior just because of their colour. The usual answer people give to that is that redheads have not suffered the years of slavery and segregation that black people have, but I still don't think that makes it right. Prejudice is NEVER right.
The world would be a much better place if people stopped judging each other on their looks and realised that everyone, no matter what hair colour, skin colour, height, weight, whatever - is equal.

Oh, and for more information on this, here's an article that I found rather interesting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6725653.stm

Writer's Block: Six-Word Story

2008-08-14T20:27:32Z

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

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They declared undying love, then died.

Breaking up is hard to do.

He won the lottery, then died.

This story sucks so don't bother.

This is the best story ever.

Hi :)

2008-03-01T00:52:03Z

Hey... I'm new to this website so I just thought I'd give this feature a test run.

I'm Hayley, I'm 18 and from Surrey, England.

Umm... Not really sure what else to say for now!