Who the hell are you?

I’m starting to wonder whether or not anyone actually reads my blog posts. Despite the fact that I’ve had just over 1,600 in seven weeks (which is quite a lot in my book), I think most of those views are down to pure luck.

A while ago I wrote a post about Halloween and pumpkins. Nothing special there, except I’ve noticed that the majority of the views I get seem to be from people searching on Google for pumpkin pictures. In fact, I’d say about 90% of the search engine terms used to get to my page contain the word pumpkin, and I think people probably realise they’re not on the page they want and then click ‘back’ without reading on.

It’s all change, and not the small kind.

Tonight’s defeat to Croatia left me devastated…for about 20 minutes. Now that I think about it though, this could be the best thing to happen to English football for years. It’s not like we were ever going to win Euro 2008, was it?

Firstly, the good news is that the F.A have called an emergency meeting for Thursday morning, during which they will almost certainly decide to sack Steve McClaren. He is without doubt the worst manager England has ever had, and the fact that he was ever considered for the job means that those who appointed him should go too. Relegation battles year after year, a lucky run in Europe and a Mickey Mouse Cup do not make a good manager. Those kind of stats certainly shouldn’t get anyone the job of replacing a manager of Sven’s pedigree.

Hilarity Defined.

Last night I went to see the World’s most talented man, Bill Bailey, at Nottingham Ice Arena, or the ‘Enormodrome’ as he called it. It was the funniest stand-up show I’ve ever seen, and I was left with terrible jaw-ache from all the laughing and the big stupid grin I had slapped across my face.

His brilliant combination of music, anecdote and weird ramblings are the work of a genius, or perhaps a madman.

You What?

Found an interesting story on the Sky News website today that made me chuckle about the desperation of drug users. A man from Missouri was arrested for being in possession of a toad with the intention of using it as a hallucinogen.

That’s right, he was going to lick it.

The Colorado River Toad is covered in glands that produce something called 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin, which are very powerful psychedelic tryptamines. So when you lick it, you go a bit loopy.

Kansas Police have now released 21 year-old David Theiss on bail. Perhaps he was just a really stupid and desperate gay man who thought that licking the toad might get him a handsome prince.

Excuses/ranting/suggestions.

I haven’t written anything since Sunday, I’ve been a bit preoccupied and seem to have reverted back to an old unwanted habit.  This would be staying awake at night until some ridiculous hour doing absolutely nothing and for no apparent reason.

Yes, I could have spent my time awake writing posts on my blog and maybe getting some work done, as this is something I definately need to do.  It’s not like I haven’t planned to do the work, it’s just that I’m feeling a bit fed up of having to write essays and think about my dissertation, I just want to get out into the journalism World and earn some money.

The age of ‘Gobbledigook’.

Just been reading this interesting post about Owen Hargreaves’ accent, which apart from being funny, raises an important question.

Are traditional regional accents dying out?

With immigration being a major talking point not just in Britain, but in many parts of the World, could it be that various accents could merge to form a new breed of ‘super-accents’?

Look at Leicester for example, the most culturally diverse city in Britain. Apart from the traditional ‘Lest-aaah’ twang, you’ve also got people from India, Pakistan, China, Africa, Poland and many more.

The Great Olympic Football Debate.

The Scottish and Welsh FA’s have already stated their disapproval of plans to enter a Great British football team at the London 2012 Olympics, and now a former vice-president of Fifa has also slated the idea.  David Will - a Scot - says that entering a team that performs well might result in people wanting to scrap the individual national sides in favour of a unified team.