Rant number 310
It never ceases to amaze me when a rant presents itself, it really doesn't.
I had some ideas about irritations that I could cover, and was all ready to type one of those up when I got home.
I'm not a person who enjoys silence, so I put on the TV as a bit of background noise and bam!
A rant was born.
The inspiration was simple enough - an advert for Iceland (the supermarket, not the country,) in which there was much 'wonderful' looking food promised at rock bottom prices.
The thing is though, that Iceland sell a load of shit. The lowest common denominator if you will.
The stuff they sell outwardly looks acceptable - but always tastes pretty horrible and is of appalling quality. Everything is reconstituted and packed full of chemicals (especially yummy yummy MSG) - to hide its lack of actual ingredients (and the fact that it is packed full of sawdust.)
This alone I wouldn't mind - if they didn't pass it off as something better than it is. It may be cheap - but not that cheap!
Even that isn't my biggest problem though.
The worst thing of all applies to all of the products they sell:
The fact that it is designed to be lazy - convenient food. Everything can be microwaved, zapped, over cooked without any attention. It's marketed as such - for chav mums, to feed their brood without having to put down her fags - or so it seems.
I'm not down on inexpensive food stuffs me. You can cook from scratch a decent meal for practically pence - but that food would have nutrition. The kind of shit they sell - is marketed at people who don't care - and that just isn't on.
Rant over.
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Monday, 5 November 2012
Monday, 7 May 2012
Rant 128 7/5/12 Subject: Prequels
Rant number 128
Yesterday, for my pains - I watched 'The Thing,' which is a prequel to 'John Carpenters: The Thing.'
The lack of originality in naming the film really should have been an early warning sign. Like a lamb to the proverbial slaughter however, I waded in with both feet and wasted two hours watching this turkey.
This rant is not strictly about how disappointing the movie is, its more about the almost unending let downs that are offered by prequels.
Think about it? Have you ever seen one that made you think 'wow, what a fabulous film of its own right?' No me neither.
The whole thing is an extension of the running low on ideas that Hollywood is suffering with - like the endless reboots (but thats a rant for another day!)
Some films actually have brilliant sequels that take a story forward and keep it going. Alien (up until resurrection - anything after that is shit) for instance has some great movies. I cannot however think of any prequels that have ever even matched the originals they are pre-ing.
Each time however, I manage to get my hopes up only for them to be dashed on the rocks of disappointment.
Until proven otherwise, I think they just need to stop making prequels!
Rant over.
Yesterday, for my pains - I watched 'The Thing,' which is a prequel to 'John Carpenters: The Thing.'
The lack of originality in naming the film really should have been an early warning sign. Like a lamb to the proverbial slaughter however, I waded in with both feet and wasted two hours watching this turkey.
This rant is not strictly about how disappointing the movie is, its more about the almost unending let downs that are offered by prequels.
Think about it? Have you ever seen one that made you think 'wow, what a fabulous film of its own right?' No me neither.
The whole thing is an extension of the running low on ideas that Hollywood is suffering with - like the endless reboots (but thats a rant for another day!)
Some films actually have brilliant sequels that take a story forward and keep it going. Alien (up until resurrection - anything after that is shit) for instance has some great movies. I cannot however think of any prequels that have ever even matched the originals they are pre-ing.
Each time however, I manage to get my hopes up only for them to be dashed on the rocks of disappointment.
Until proven otherwise, I think they just need to stop making prequels!
Rant over.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Rant 87 - 27/3/12 Subject: Bad blogs
Rant number 87
The inspiration for this rant yet again was provided to me by BBC's news-beat. Fertile ground indeed it seems!
It was about a popular blogging site (not this one, I think it was tumblr?,) which has made a decision to filter certain subject matter on their website. Good on them I must say (although of course, someone has to protest.)
Which brings me swiftly round (although, admittedly once again not all that swiftly. It generally takes me at least 4 lines to get to the point of my rants - does that qualify me as some kind of waffler? Oh crap I'm a waffler...) to my point.
The kind of content that they are trying to filter - is blog content that suggests, condones and deals with negatively, the very fragile subjects of self harm, suicide and eating disorders.
People may kick out against this type of filtration and call it supposedly 'against their freedom of speech.' In truth though, everything you write online has the potential to affect someone; anyone.
Without trying to unfairly stereotype, this type of content is written mostly by teenagers, for teenagers. The thing is, what some write to vent their frustrations, others will read to increase there own. What if a girl or boy with an eating disorder comes across a blog which tells them that there is an easy way to get thinner by - say, making themselves sick. Most might think the information is ridiculous, but others may take it to hard. Its dangerous.
The thing is though - that a hundred thousand million (probably) websites exist out there where you can write anything, upload practically anything and where no-one would have the knowledge, resources or inclination to filter the information.
The internet has some dark, dark corners and its an organic beast, morphing like a virus to protect even its seediest inhabitants. Filtering some information in one place doesn't do anything. Somewhere else will come along. A special forum - possibly disguised for instance? Its not hard, and teenagers are smart when it comes to evasion.
My rants may be occasionally spiteful, often contrite and sarcastic - but I never write anything I think could hurt anyone! I wish that there was a way to make the rest like it.
Rant over.
The inspiration for this rant yet again was provided to me by BBC's news-beat. Fertile ground indeed it seems!
It was about a popular blogging site (not this one, I think it was tumblr?,) which has made a decision to filter certain subject matter on their website. Good on them I must say (although of course, someone has to protest.)
Which brings me swiftly round (although, admittedly once again not all that swiftly. It generally takes me at least 4 lines to get to the point of my rants - does that qualify me as some kind of waffler? Oh crap I'm a waffler...) to my point.
The kind of content that they are trying to filter - is blog content that suggests, condones and deals with negatively, the very fragile subjects of self harm, suicide and eating disorders.
People may kick out against this type of filtration and call it supposedly 'against their freedom of speech.' In truth though, everything you write online has the potential to affect someone; anyone.
Without trying to unfairly stereotype, this type of content is written mostly by teenagers, for teenagers. The thing is, what some write to vent their frustrations, others will read to increase there own. What if a girl or boy with an eating disorder comes across a blog which tells them that there is an easy way to get thinner by - say, making themselves sick. Most might think the information is ridiculous, but others may take it to hard. Its dangerous.
The thing is though - that a hundred thousand million (probably) websites exist out there where you can write anything, upload practically anything and where no-one would have the knowledge, resources or inclination to filter the information.
The internet has some dark, dark corners and its an organic beast, morphing like a virus to protect even its seediest inhabitants. Filtering some information in one place doesn't do anything. Somewhere else will come along. A special forum - possibly disguised for instance? Its not hard, and teenagers are smart when it comes to evasion.
My rants may be occasionally spiteful, often contrite and sarcastic - but I never write anything I think could hurt anyone! I wish that there was a way to make the rest like it.
Rant over.
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