Fuelish Panic Risks Lives

With the panic continuing, how long will it be before the UK is in real trouble?

I noticed two different things in the newspapers this morning. Firstly that a mother had set herself alight with fuel that she had been told she should horde because of the panic. Secondly that the emergency services are in danger as several ambulances apparently had trouble responding to calls due to all this panic reducing fuel greatly; fuel that those services need more than others if you don't want to risk peoples' lives.

This shows exactly why you should NOT say anything about shortages of anything. People do not think logically about things, and all that ends up doing is putting thousands of lives at risk. How many lives are going to be gambled before people come to their senses and realize how fucking stupid they're acting!?

I'm not too sure if the woman who set herself alight is still alive, but that's the sort of thing we're risking with this panic. People injuring themselves or others, and if the people who are badly injured are dying, then they could be dead if ambulances and such can not reach them due to running out of fuel.

A Nation Fuelishly Panics

Why do people always panic about things like fuel shortages?

Recently in the UK, there was an announcement that there may be a shortage of fuel soon. Well, they sure proved that correct since several hundreds of people ran to their local fuel stations, and probably beyond to buy as much fuel as they could in a panic. I can never understand why people do that.

One quote that I saw in the paper today mentioned that they didn't want people to go out panic buying fuel. However, that brings up the question of Why fucking announce their may be a shortage? People are stupid and if you tell them there may be a shortage of something, they're not going to remain calm and logical about it; they're going to be major fucking idiots and drain stations of fuel, or store of any food types that may be in shortage.

People definitely need to calm down about shortages. All you're doing when panic buying things is guaranteeing that there will definitely be a shortage of whatever. Calm down! Fuel will be fine if you're not all going out there and draining every station of fuel.

Edd Gould

I was quite surprised yesterday to find out that Edd Gould, creator of Eddsworld died on March 25th, 2012.

A friend, Sharlet, had posted about the death on Facebook on the day he died, or just after that day, and I was sat there thinking "Where do I know Edd Gould from?". It wasn't until talking to Sharlet yesterday on Yahoo! that I found out where I knew the name from. Honestly, I should've just Googled that name, or watched the video she had linked.

By now, I'm sure almost all of the fans of Eddsworld know about his death, so this information will be nothing new at all.

Edd died from leukemia.

I tried to check his website for the toon, but I've no idea what has happened to that page. It states that the page could be damaging to you computer, hence the reason why I linked his YouTube channel and not the website. Wouldn't want anyone to click it and end up with their computer getting a virus or whatever. Anyone wanting to check out his website, I strongly suggest that you don't do it. View his YouTube channel if you want to see his animations. At least it's safe.

A tribute to Edd was posted on his YouTube channel on March 27th, 2012. Interested? Check it out here

Rest in peace, Edd. You'll be missed by all of your fans.

Save the NHS

Wow.

I just got an e-mail from Avaaz revealing that there are only a few days left to attempt to try and save the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK from being shut down by the Prime Minister.

Why would they want to shut down the NHS?

If they do shut it down, it'll mean that we brits will have to start paying for expensive health care, which I'm sure a lot of us, especially those like me who are unemployed, won't be able to afford. It'll leave people like myself with only very low level health care. This makes me wonder what will happen with medication too. If the NHS is shut down, will it mean that I'll have to also pay for my epilepsy medication? If so, I'm going to be kind of screwed because I'm not sure I'll be able to pay for it, and I need that medication.

If you can, please sign this petition and help us prevent the closure of the NHS.

Released for $1!?

This is just totally f***ed up!

I decided to check my e-mail just now, when I saw an e-mail from Causes about a man who had been charged with multiple counts of child rape. That's f***ed up, but the full story is even more f***ed up!

The story says that this man was released from jail on $1 bail. $1!? How could you let someone like that go for $1!?

Here is exactly what the story says. Read it and let me know your opinions on this.

A York County man charged with multiple counts of rape and sex crimes against children has been released on $1 bail because he was not brought to trial within the mandatory 180 days.

Evan David Smith, 39, was being held in York County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail since his arrest on Aug. 24. According to court records, he posted the $1 bail Friday after a bail hearing in York County court.

Moonbase Alpha - It's insane!

Yesterday, a friend of mine, Holly, showed me a video of a game called Moonbase Alpha. The game is available, for free, on Steam, if anyone is interested in trying the game. I'm sure after seeing these videos, there are some people out there who will want to play the game just for the great amusement factor.

From the looks of these three videos, no one seems to play the game properly. What everyone does instead is use the text-to-speech chat that comes with the game just to see what kinds of hilarious things come out of it. For example, one word constantly used on there is eBay. However, the speech pronounces it as ebby.

I used to have a text-to-speech thing when I was a kid, and those things are always hilarious because it can never say certain words correctly. The one I had as a kid I typed "Let's play Broken Sword" into. However, the program said "Let's play Broken Slerd". I've no idea how it could get slerd from sword, but it was so much fun typing random things just to hear the pronounciation.

Anyway, here are three videos of the game that I enjoyed.

Moonbase Alpha - Text to Speech Insanity.

Moonbase Alpha - funny gameplay.

Moonbase Alpha Adventures: Daily Life of an Astronaut.