''Couples night''

It’s becoming increasingly hard to remain patient with friends who overlook me because I am not 1 half of a couple anymore.

Yes, I am single again.

My dearest friends repeatedly have dinner parties where I am not invited as it’s a ‘couples night’.

Umm, what the fuck?!?

And how very dare someone judge you on your god damn ‘relationship status’ in life, I think it’s a fucking outrage.

So, because I do not have someone’s hand to hold at a dinner gathering, that somehow now handicaps me?

Does being single mean somehow you are changed and can no longer converse with friends or eat and drink in an enclosed space now?

When did single-dom become some new form of disability?
Where you have to be excluded from things?

Did I miss that chapter of the book?

It’s pathetic and narrow minded and I think that when I am in a relationship(again)I shall not exclude any friend of mine because of their relationship status.

“Oh, you’re STILL single are you? Fuck you, you’re not coming to my dinner party”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

A meal with friends is a meal with friends and a good night out with friends is a good night out with friends.. Whether they are single or have a partner.

Anyway, balls were royally busted today over this latest debacle…

And I was promptly invited to my friends for dinner this Saturday.

*Snigger*

A good moan can sometimes be very successful. Don't accept any shit.
Get moaning people!!

No title, deal with it!

To all the scrotes, scumbags, leeches, users and insecure fuckwits that insist upon being in my life, flitting around in my world, hanging around me, sapping my energy, my spark, my pizzazz, my time, my friendship, my kindness, my heart and soul and just about everything from inside of me – to fill your own unsatisfied bellies with – how about you all just FUCK OFF.

Sometimes enough is enough.

Pissed..

Forgot to record the Apprentice on the BBC 1 whilst watching BB on 4.
Grrrrrr....

The Cutty Sark Fire - Devastating

Just for the record this SUCKS ass!

Whoever did this deserves their very own, personalised and pointy ship's mast shoved right up their crack for this.

As a child, we went on school trips every year to see this ship.

If i'm truthful - I didn't quite dig it as a child. I had no interest in it at all at the time.

But when it's something that you see (atleast once or twice a month) - and it get's taken away from you...
It kinda bruises the heart a little.

I'm beginning to see why people like history.

It was 138years old.

It was a powerful and dominating figure on the Greenwich landscape.
I can't believe that mindless thugs - left it looking like this.
It's beyond sad really.

How she used to look:

Fortunately the ship's rigging, seen here in 2005, along with much of the decking, had been removed to allow restoration work to take place on the hull. A forensic investigation has already begun, with police treating the incident as suspicious.

Pics are taken from:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/2007/may/21/1?picture=329885920
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6675593.stm

Londoners Stop Whinging... Please.

Why do people always get so pissed off in stores because they have to queue for like..
Oh I don't know... say SIX minutes to get to a cashier?

Then they look at you (in the queue in front of them) - like you're supposed to agree with them at the inconvenience it is to their life. Err... How about fuck off, you sad miserable whining twat.

I mean seriously, are there not worse things in life to get stressed about and raise your blood pressure for?

Is SIX minutes REALLY that long?
Go on... Think about it.

They normally are: Grumpy old men / Grumpy (normally fat) women (cos their ankles hurt from all the weight they are carrying) / Or people in their 20's who are just discovering themselves and think it's cool to speak loudly in public - All huffing and puffing because they have to queue to pay for their goods.

Grumble grumble.. why have they only got one till open? Grumble grumble grumble.

Like there should be a cashier that magically appears, at the precise moment that they are ready to pay.

The above is also applicable for people waiting for buses, trains or for a waiter to come serve them.

How about one portion of Shut the hell up?

I confess I like to swear from time to time... So?

Can I just say that if you don't like the swearing in my blog... Then ermm how about..fuck off!

I know how to write without swearing.. However, it would not really be 'my style' not to (on some occasions). Language to me is fun. Language helps (I believe) to define us and who we are. Language is about expressing yourself, at all the various levels.

I've spoken this way since I was a child.
My mum allowed us to swear, as she believed it was an expression of self.
Not AT her, of course, but at one another if we wanted to.

You'll notice I use it more when ranting or am really passionate about something.

I'm not dumb.
I know big words.
I can have an intelligent debate 'without swearing' if I choose to.

But you know what, this blog is about me!
The realness of me... I'm not trying to be something i'm not.
And from time to time, I will swear just because I want to!
And you know what… sometimes it just feels so good!

Live with it...

Or Jog on.

Couldn't care either way....
:-)

... Shit fuck wank.

Mars STOPS using animal products - U turn?

Not that my blog had anything to do with it...
I was just venting in an earlier blog about the potential loss of eating some of my fave bars of chocolate... because of animal intestines being added to them.

Yesterday however, Mars did a big fat U turn... They apologised and have now said they are NOT going to be using those nasty nasty animal products in their chocolate!

Thank the lord!

Was probably all a big publicity stunt.

Anwhoo... I pinched this blurb off another site:

Mars in public apology

Mars has taken out full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologies to consumers.
The move has been taken after a public outcry in response after it emerged the whey used in the company’s chocolate products was changing from a vegetarian to an animal based source.

Some of the nation’s best loved brand - Mars, Snickers, Maltesers and Galaxy – were to be affected.

In a statement in the press adverts, Managing Director, Fiona Dawson, said, “We made a mistake. We apologise. The consumer is our boss. Therefore we listen to your feedback.
“But being sorry isn’t enough. Therefore we commit to you today that we at Mars UK will ensure that a selection of your favourite brands will be suitable for vegetarians in the near future.”

Dawson said the company would be changing their manufacturing process from today and that consumers would be informed on progress.

“Expect to hear from us soon, “ she said.
An embarrassing U-turn for the company? Perhaps.
However the headlines following Mars’ plans to introduce animal products provided no end of exposure, negative as it was.Today’s move certainly positions the company as consumer friendly and ethical.

Site taken from: http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Article.aspx?id=2035

My previous blog:
http://www.remioduyemi.com/2007/05/mars-starts-using-animal-products-wtf_17.html

Mars starts using animal products - WTF?

Now I'm no vegetarian...

But I have been in the past (Boarding school will do that to ya, believe me)...

And I suspect that with the way my body reacts to foods (particularly red meat and fish) and adding that to how deeply I feel about the way in which food is made / slaughtered and put to market....

I know in my heart or hearts... That I should revert to vegetarianism...
I just have yet to find a way to make it work for my lifestyle...

My sister is a staunch Vegan.

Anyway - the reason for my rant on this.... Well I've just read an article on the BBC website about certain CHOCOLATE BARS that are now going to have chemicals added to them - chemicals retrieved from animals stomachs! AY??

Now Firstly why use such a ridiculous product when there are so many alternatives
And Secondly why would you go and do that to CHOCOLATE?
That's just so wrong and unfair.

Morally now, I won't be able to buy these products.
In the past i've had to stop using products that contained animal fat in them.

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Here is the article.. Very bad news indeed!


Mars starts using animal products

Masterfoods' brands are household names Some of the UK's best-selling chocolate bars, such as Mars and Twix, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians.

Also affecting brands such as Snickers and Maltesers, owner Masterfoods said it had started to use animal product rennet to make its chocolate products.

Masterfoods said the change was due to it switching the sourcing of its ingredients and the admission was a "principled decision" on its part.

The Vegetarian Society said the company's move was "incomprehensible".
'Extremely disappointed'

Masterfoods said it had started using rennet from 1 May and non-affected products had a "best before date" up to 1 October.

Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step .

Rennet, a chemical sourced from calves' stomachs, is used in the production of whey.

It will now also be found in Bounty, Minstrels and Milky Way products, and the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars.

"If the customer is an extremely strict vegetarian, then we are sorry the products are no longer suitable, but a less strict vegetarian should enjoy our chocolate," said Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager for Masterfoods.

The Vegetarian Society said it was "extremely disappointed".

"At a time when more and more consumers are concerned about the provenance of their food, Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step," it said in a statement.
"Mars products are very popular with young people and many will be shocked to discover that their manufacture now relies on the extraction of rennet from the stomach lining of young calves," it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm

Dogs are not fucking accessories

I have to say nothing pisses me off more these days than seeing young black boys bopping around with dogs as accessories… Correction: Add to that chavs and thugs as well.
They seem to think it makes them look cool and tough in front of their mates.

No, in actual fact it makes you look like a fucking dick (I sometimes want to say to them).

Is this just a Lewisham Syndrome I wonder?

Just group after group of young men with dogs I see day after day – like they are at some ghetto version of the crufts dog show, showcasing their wonder.
They even take the dogs into smoky pubs :-(.

The only exercise these poor dogs get – is after school when these eejits return home and decide to walk their pet to the local KFC to hang outside it, with more eejits with dogs.

It really annoys the hell out of me. And they know by my face that I actually hate them all.

THEY ARE KIDS WITH DOGS!

They can't even look after themselves properly.
Dogs feel thing, have emotions, need to be trained, need to be looked after and need to be loved and I know they are not getting this.

One 'Youf' told me not to stroke his beautiful puppy pitbull dog because he wanted her to be tough and he didn't want people to touch her as it'd make her soft.

What a cock.

Sometimes I really wish that dogs were not so loyal.
I wish they were able to run away from their knob head owners… but they never would.
Even abused dogs go back to the same owners that hurt them and it’s just so sad.

I sincerely get upset by it.

I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to report someone if I knew an animal was being abused!
But this whole craze of rappers and celebrities on TV – sporting their dogs, ‘Pitbulls’ and ‘Staffs’ only adds fuel to the fire. It makes the numbskulls think ‘if I get a dog like that I’ll look really cool, I can be a gangster’.

But dogs are not toys.

Furthermore, who the fuck is selling these dogs to these little chavs?

I can’t wait for this ridiculous phase/craze to be over with.
Bring back the bottle tops on shoes, or the really cool high top sneakers that are a must have or even bring back the stupid hats (with tags still on) craze…

But please can we move on from this ‘dogs are accessories phase’… It sucks, royally.