Monday, 27 August 2012

You Know What's Bullshit? - Pay Toilets

I never thought that I would experience the very thing that James Rolfe was talking about in Episode 6 of You Know What's Bullshit. However, I experienced this very thing yesterday while I was in Plymouth yesterday.

I badly needed to go to the toilet, so I got to the public toilets as quickly as possible. I sadly ended up getting there and found that I had to pay 20p to get into the toilets. Worse yet was that I didn't have a 20p coin on me. I had to buy something I didn't want just to get 20p to use the toilet.

As James says in the video, public toilets are mandatory unless you stay indoors. It's a real pain in the fucking ass that, in some places, you have to pay to use the bathroom. It's not like it's a matter of choice. When you've got to go, you've got to go. It's not exactly healthy for you to hold back the need to go just because you don't have the money to pay to use the bathroom. Who's fault is it going to be if your bladder explodes just because you don't have the money to use the bathroom?

At one point, while I was in Plymouth, I needed to go so badly that I was thinking about finding an alley to go down, away from prying eyes and going to the toilet. That was another thing mentioned by James in the episode. "As soon as you have to start paying for your bodily functions, I say go back to nature."

So, as a word of warning, if you're ever going to visit Plymouth in Devon, UK, make sure you have a few 20p coins on you, just in case.

What a load of fucking bullshit...

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Deadly Danger Dungeon

If anyone is up for one hell of a difficult challenge, then this is a game just for you.

I first saw this game on a YouTube video by James Rolfe, better known as The Angry Video Game Nerd. In one of his series, Board James, he's talking about a board game called Deadly Danger Dungeon. This game was never for sale in stores, though, as it was a game James designed himself when he was 12. It's damn close to being impossible to complete. All over the board are traps that will kill you instantly, while other traps only take away one hit point. You only have three hit points to get through the game

Someone online has recreated the game and put it online on a site called Kongregate. The game can be found here.

How far can you get? Play it and find out for yourself!

I was also sent a video by one of my best friends, Liyah. It's a video of herself singing You Gotta Be by Desiree. Due to her being afraid to upload it to YouTube herself, I decided to upload it for her friends and others to view.

Some people aren't going to agree with me, but her singing is amazing. Check out the video here if you're interested, and let me know what you guys think.

Thanks in advance for any positive comments!

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

We fucked up...

I felt rather lousy after leaving the project today. Why? It's because we all upset Richard because we weren't doing the tasks we were meant to do. But for Jack and I, we were stuck for what we could do after a while. We were meant to be placing insulation between the walls. We ran out of that rather quickly and were left with nothing to really do.

A gap was left in the cladding that Jack and I had placed up to put the insulation into the walls. I had no idea how to fill in the gap. When I eventually asked Richard how we should complete it, I was told, "I don't care."

He said something similar when I was helping Hanna and Tamika with cladding another of the walls. This is what I think had upset Richard. Instead of insulating the walls, Jack and I were helping Hanna and Tamika.

What the girls were supposed to be doing was building some chairs. So, the four of us ended up upsetting Richard. I left for the train, sighing and feeling horrible as fuck for managing to upset Richard. I feel fucking awful, and I'm honestly very sorry for not doing the tasks I was meant to do. Will it be any better tomorrow? I have no idea. I do know that I'm going to feel awful when turning up to the project tomorrow...

All I know about tomorrow is that I am NOT looking forward to it.

Saturday, 18 August 2012

Blocked...how typical!

After trying to message a user on Plenty of Fish, I think I finally discovered why I'm not getting any replies from any of the women.

I tried to message this one female asking how the weather was in her city and how they were doing lately. When I clicked "Send", a message popped up telling me she had blocked me. Seriously? I got blocked for my last message to her. A few of the people I have messaged all got similar questions. I just asked about movies and music and if there wasn't anything on their profile about that kind of stuff. I've never once sent something that could be offensive.

In a message from one person, I was told I'm probably not her type, and she said I should try to remove anything negative from my profile. I did that, but now, after being blocked by one person (and possibly many more people), it is no wonder I had negative stuff in my profile. It's hard to be positive about yourself when people are blocking you. It makes me question a lot of things. The female I tried to message had things on her profile about always getting cheated on and that there are no nice guys left in the world. As I mentioned in my last entry, there's a good reason behind that. It's because you're ignoring those guys. That was proven to me after being told this female had blocked me.

What I'm going to have to do soon is try messaging some of the other females I've messaged and see if I get blocked messages from trying to message them, too.

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Plenty of Quiet Fish

It's been such a weird week so far.

Since about Sunday, I've been signing into the dating website Plenty Of Fish. I've messaged several people on that site and even talked to one of them. But it amazes me that so many people on that site are unwilling to talk. Except for one person, I haven't had any messages on there. Two other people have messaged me, but they never answered any of my questions. Instead, the replies were basically "No thanks" messages. Is it so hard for people to talk on these sites? It's not like I've been asking them, "Do you want to date me?". Instead, I'm just trying to get to know more about them. So much for that, though.

What amazes me even more about these sites are the women who complain that there are no nice guys left out there, that they're always getting cheated on, and all this. However, when a nice guy messages them, they completely ignore the guy. Why? Is it because I'm not the best-looking guy in the world? I doubt I'm ugly, but I'm not a great-looking guy. I know that. So, why is no one giving me a chance? Why is no one willing to talk to me?

Anyway, enough about the dating site websites. Hopefully, there are people out there who understand what I mean by this.

Tuesday was a rather sad day. I arrived at the youth project and discovered we were working on another raised bed. For what? Richard's cat, Coco. I was told by him that Coco was terminally ill and that the raised bed was for her. Later in the day, he brought Coco back to the woodlands. In the time he was away from the house, Coco sadly died. So, just like Muffin, his elderly dog, she is now buried in the woodlands.

It's sad that over the past 9-10 months, I've had to experience the deaths of three of Richard's pets. I know - it's worse for Richard, who's had these animals for years. But it's sad to me, too, because I got to know the animals, and seeing them die is depressing, even if I'm not the owner.

Anyway, rest in peace, Coco. I hope you'll be treated well in the afterlife.

On Saturday, I got a package from Amazon UK containing three volumes of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD and also an external hard drive. I badly needed the hard drive because my computer's hard drive was getting extremely full. Since this computer cannot write onto DVDs, I figured a large external hard drive would help clear the pictures, music and videos off my computer.