Sometimes you may hear some people saying “Young people today, they have no manners!”, but between me and you, the readers of my blog, I’m here to tell you that it’s not just young people who have no manners, it’s also the older generations that seem to have a complete disregard for good manners and polite etiquette.

So, the other day I was out and about, doing my normal amount of window shopping and with stores having doors!, I know you can see where this is going right! (in a Stewie Griffin voice), after walking through the doors, I held them open for an elderly gentlemen, at which point he just walked through and never said a word, not one iota!

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Those of you who have been following me on Twitter, will have seen a couple of weeks ago, me tweeting about some careless git who had caught the trim on my new Mini Cooper, suffice to say I was extremely upset!!!

I wouldn’t have minded if whoever had done it, had left a note on the windscreen saying, “I’m so sorry, I caught your car, here’s my number to contact me”, but no, not a thing and thanks to this, I’m not going to swear, person it has just cost me £83.92 to have the part replaced and fitted, I mean come on, I’m not made of money in the first place and this is a major chunk out of my weeks wages to have this done.

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It’s that time of year again when Channel 4 decide to bombard with a complete and utter pile of … careful Karen might tell me of for swearing Yes it’s time for Celebrity Big Brother which begs the question:

WHY?

Plain and simply really, why do channel 4 bother with this complete and utter dribble, it’s bad enough having just suffered Help I’m a Washed Up Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. It seems that everything is celebrity these days, don’t they get enough stardom and lime light from what they do anyway, oh hang most of them have a flagging career anyway

Yes, I know what fans of the show will say, “If you don’t like it don’t watch it!” ok that may be the case but then every time you turn on the TV in the morning it’s this celebrity did this, that celebrity did that, I DON’T CARE!!!!!!

Ok my rant is over …. Or is it?

Now I’m not really against games been made in to movies, well some of them I am! But, there comes a time when we must say to Hollywood “NO!” and this is one of those times.

Shadow of the Colossus is a truly visual PlayStation 2 game, ok so maybe there is not too much to it, the idea is to ride your horse around the mythical land, find the different Colossi and kill them, which is no easy task as the creature are huge and I mean huge.

But honestly how can you turn this game into a film, there is one character killing the creatures, would you sit through a film for 90 mins. to 2 hours with a guy firing arrows at giants, climbing up them and then killing them?

Supposedly the script will make some major changes to make the film more action packed and interesting, but surely if this is done then it takes away the spirit of the games haunting feel with it’s melancholy music and peaceful landscapes.

I personally thought this was a wind up from one of my friends until they pointed me in the direction of The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog with info on the film.  So what next a movie version of The Sims, or even Pacman (or have they done that already ) I mean it’s bad enough that Hollywood has ran out of ideas in making movies and has to re-imagine/re-make some of the classic movies, but to keep making video game movies, I suppose one good thing of this Shadow of the Colossus movie is, so far the name Uwe Boll hasn’t spung up

OK, so what could I possible have to moan about with the Golden Globes, well, to put it simple quite a lot

First of all the speeches, I mean come on! Kate Winslett spent three minutes gushing away and saying

“I’m so sorry Anne, Meryl, Kristin – oh God, who’s the other one… Angelina!”

Honestly aren’t they in the business to get these awards and every year the speeches just get longer and longer and longer and… well you get the point!

And then you get prats like Sacha Baron Cohen who was booed after these idiotic words:

“This recession is affecting everyone, even celebrities,” he told the star-studded audience. “Victoria Beckham hasn’t eaten for three weeks. Charlie Sheen has been forced to have sex without paying for it. It’s true.

“And even Madonna has had to get rid of one of her personal assistants. Our thoughts go out to you Guy Ritchie.”

I mean come on it’s not even funny and then there is Ricky Gervais, now I know I’m going to step on a few toes here by saying he’s not even funny (pause for screams of how dare you)

Ricky Gervais did raise a laugh from the audience, in my point of view it was a mercy laugh, for saying,

“I’m not even nominated, which detracts from the credibility of any awards ceremony.”

and referring to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who vote for the awards, he said:

“That was a waste of a campaign.” and “That’s the last time I have sex with 300 middle-aged journalists. It was horrible.”

Is that funny, I don’t think so.

The award that I really think is deserved, and I know many that will agree and many that won’t, is Heath Ledger for the Posthumous winner of the Best Supporting Actor.

But I suppose at the end of the day, what do these awards prove, well to put it simply that celebrities are there to annoy us (specially Ricky Gervais) and entertain us, this is what the awards do while we are watching or reading about them, so a job well done

It’s been an awful day today, I got up this morning to a cold and icy day, it took me a good twenty five minutes to clear the car of ice and then I had to “skate” along the drive to open the gate!

What made it worse was that the local council really didn’t think this was going to happen, even though the rest of us did.

Our street was like an ice rink and the little country lane I have to drive up to get to the main back road to work was just as bad, surely it should of been gritted knowing people use this narrow road to get to work ect in the morning, so there I was doing a steady snail pace up the road to get to work, it must of took me at least an extra twenty minutes to work this morning, good job I started out early!

I’m just hoping that tomorrow isn’t the same as today, or I’m going in later!!!

OK here it is my Monday Moan, I know this will step on a few toes, but to be honest, I DON’T CARE!!!!!!!

Well I’m afraid it’s nearly that time again when descent, watchable telly goes right out the window and Ch4 is about to bring us Celebrity Big Brother.

Yes I know there are so many “fans” out there that spend all night watching the live feed on TV and then doing nothing but talk about it the next day in work to anyone and everyone, you know who you are!

So what is all the fuss!?

Personally I would prefer some good TV such as some interesting dramas or even the TV companies to stop axing the good programmes such as Eli Stone or Pushing Daisies.

I really don’t understand the “thrill” that people get from watching a collection of has been celebs making complete idiots out of themselves, I mean it bad enough with the standard Big Brother, but come on, has TV really come to this. Will celebrities stop at nothing, what next celebrity sitting on the toilet, oh hang on, isn’t that the same thing