UK Rioters

Hi,


Each and everyone of the UK rioters are hated by me. As if it wasn't bad enough having riots in London they spread like wildfire into other cities, including my city, Leicester.


The riots have no logic. Why the hell would they want to destroy their own town? The logic lacks - if they're rioting for economic reasons then why are they are causing millions of pounds in damages? If they're rioting because no ones employing them then why destroy business that could and why would an employer employ them now? If they're doing it for fun then why are they destroying places of entertainment like restaurants and theatres? It's just stupid.

On WDC I have created what's known as an In and Out for people to post suitable punishments and their own opinion on the UK riots. I am allowing imaginative responses.

I don't know if you need an account, but it is free and a great site so I'd recommend doing so anyway.

http://www.writing.com/main/handler/item_id/1800864-UK-Riots-In-and-Out

Thanks

Matt B

London Rioting

Hi,

The rioting in London has disgusted me. Despite being 16, I have only utter disapointment and hatred towards others of similar age to me who have been involved in the rioting. Peoples' homes and livelihoods have been selfishly destroyed. Each and everyone of the rioters are imbeciles who deserved to be locked up and the key thrown away.

The images on the news are the most shocking I have ever seen for something like this. Those who claim to be rioting with reason are wrong. There is never a just cause for such destructive behaviour. I would post images and videos to enhance my point, but I find them to awful to watch and would not want to force you to see them.

The employment crisis is the same for the majority of people, and yet I don't see the majority of people rioting. All I can see is a large number of yobs and prats destroying not only business and homes, but the reputation of young people - of which we were slowly increasing.

I do not understand how anybody could view this rioting as right. Those in the riots are there to cause as much disruption as possible and to gain as much looted product as they can.

I can only hope that if this post is read by any of the rioters that they understand I feel they have no place in civilised society and should be punished severely.

I have had to hold back my language for this post as I am so utterly dismayed by the havoc the rioters have wreaked.

Below is a link to a brilliant poem by a friend of mine about the London Riots:


Words, Scribbles and Passion: Londiniensis Flagrans: "Just a short 1st Draft of a poem. It's not great, but I felt there is little else I can do but write about the disheartening events taking p..."

I'm back!

I am back from my relaxing holiday in Palma Nova, Mallorca (Spain). With the exception of one morning the weather was hot and the suncream annoying. Lazing by the pool stupidly hoping to get the tan that never comes reading a good comedy crime or one of the New Scientist magazines I took with me or just sleeping. It was bliss.

Then I decide to cool down by going for a swim in the pool sometimes lying on the far too small semi-deflated inflatable. After a splash around I return to the sun lounger and dry off with very little help from my towel. Again I lose myself in Humpty Dumpty murder case willing Jack Spratt to succeeed.

After I realise I'm melting I go to out cool room on the second floor of the hotel. I throw myself onto the bed and rest until lunch. At lunch I enter the air conditioned dining room and am confronted with an all you can eat buffet (the holiday was all inclusive). After finding a food stuff I like I eat it with ravish. I rise and collect seconds (sometimes even thirds) and eat that too. I rise again and find the puddings. For some reason in Spain there is always some kind of blamanche/table cream/set thing that I always love. After my fourth lot of pudding I realise that they're clearing the lunch stuff away.

I return to the sun lounger and rest/read for a while. At some point I'll go into the pool or maybe go to the room for some escape from the unforgiving sun. Dinner goes much the same as luch, but with nicer food and higher quantities.

I either return to the sun or retreat to the room where I stay until the entertainment.

The entertainment was... varied. Yes, varied is a good way to put it. Some nights it was shockingly bad and other shockingly amazing.

As a family we would go for evening walks along the beach which were pleasent and cool - with the nightime breeze being a god-send in comparison to the unrelenting sun of earlier.

So most days played out like that and I loved being able to relax. On one day we had a game of min/crazy golf. My golfing skills are reasonable and I got a hole in one on a par 3, so I was very pleased despite not winning overall.

On two of the days we went to the beach. The beach had pedalos with slides available and so we hired one for an hour on both days and pedalled out to sea (within the sectioned area, ofcourse). After we reached a reasonable depth I started the sliding. It was really fun. I mean it was the best bit of the holiday for me. I'm a confident swimmer, but have never gone much further than where I can stand in the sea so sliding in and going under was a bit of a shock. The sea was cool, but not cold which made it even better. I can't really explain in to you as it was just sliding and jumping from a boat with pedals, but it was fun.

Also I am glad to take the hotel band off after wearing it non-stop for a week!


Thanks
Matt B

The Crinklebottom Short

Hi,
I thought I'd post with you all the opening paragraphs of my new contest piece which is being co-authored by two of my WDC friends. The opening section describes the main character and is (many) flaws.

Mr. Crinklebottom has a fat arse. Seriously it is huge. Even as a child, his behind was twice the size of every other kid his age. As a matter of fact, Mr. Crinklebottom's buttocks are so large his clothes must be specially tailored. His parents couldn't afford to purchase him tailored trousers, to cover his fat arse; they'd simply make him wear a burlap sack originally containing potatoes bought at the local market. The sack, tied around his waistline, hung like a burlap skirt down to the young Crinklebottom's swollen knees—doing little to create popularity with his peers.

Despite being fat arsed he still had room for more imperfections. If there’s a hole he’ll inevitably fall into it. If it’s a narrow hole the fire brigade will inevitably be called. Not from a friend, but from a construction worker who needs to use the hole. This ‘hole-magnetism’ as his parents used to call it has been with him his whole life. His psychiatrist, paid for by his dad, theorises that it’s because he was dropped, accidentally, in a hole by the midwife when he was first born.

To be fair to Mr. Crinklebottom, he is a very jolly chap. Despite the lack of friends or a loving family he is still very happy. He has a job at the nearby chair manufacturing plant and gets royalties from the saying ‘move your fat arse’. This isn’t because he’s optimistic, it’s because he’s rather stupid. Or, as his parents would say at dinner parties ‘academically challenged’.

It's got a different tone than I normally write with. I felt, along with my co-authors, that the slap in the face style works quite well. The style changes slightly when the main story starts; it's in a style which looks at what Crinklebottom is thinking in the third person. This allows the reader to get closer to the character whilst still being able to laugh at the sheer stupidity of the character.

There are a few types of co-authoring. The type we're using is that there is a lead author (me) and the co-authors read over what the leader writes and gives suggestions. The co-authors also provide vital support when the lead author is stuck and they also give plot ideas. Originally the opening paragraphs said 'Mr. Crinklebottom sucks.' But my co-authors suggested getting closer to the chacracter gave me a the first paragraph which I then altered and ran with.

Thanks

Matt B

The Magician's Tattoo - Snippet from chapter 4

Hi,

I know my previous snippet was from chapter 1, but I thought I'd give you a section where the comedy is so ouvert it's almost childish! In the word of Miranda's mum from Miranda "Such fun, such fun!"

The Magician's Tattoo - Old Version

Hi,

I know alot of my readers are from WDC and know me from the CSFS. This post, however is for those who don't know me from the CSFS. Below is the opening section from my novella in progress, 'The Magician's Tattoo'.
 

It feels so good!

Hi,

I don't think, unless you're in GCSEs/A Levels, that you can know how good this feels!

All my GCSE exams are over, and all I have to do is going to a few A2 ICT classes because I opted to do the fast track ICT course (finish everything a year early). Ashame I don't have the full extended holliday, but it's not like we'll be doing much in those lessons anyway.

Thanks
Matt B

The Final Summit by Andy Andrews

The Final Summit is about the pathway humanity has strayed away from and how to get society to become successful again. Being a sequel to The Traveller's Gift, the main character is David Ponder. Armed with the seven decisions he learnt many years ago, he is the one to lead a summit which is to answer the question.

David meets many famous historical figures, who are all travellers, and they help in the working out of the answer. Whilst figuring out the answer, the famous figures explain about their lives and this is often relevant to the question and the answer they propose.

It takes a number of attempts before they get the right answer and even when they do they break a few rules of the summit to do so. Without giving the answer away, all I can say is this:  I too believe the answer to be correct.

On the whole, the story built up tension as they came close to an answer and then fell to a rather sombre mood every time the answer was incorrect.

The characters stories were very interesting and I learnt a lot of history in reading this book. It was pleasing to see that Andrews introduced little known history to the book making it a more interesting read.

The ending was very exciting to read, such that I read three and a half chapters in one sitting, compared to my usual one chapter per sitting.

The characters were well laid out, though I thought, bar the introductions, they all seemed very similar. There were a few comic exchanges between characters and a few quirks pertaining to some characters, but I couldn't help but get a bit bored of a couple of them.

Now, I'm not religious so I wasn't reading this with the aim to change my religious perspective or anything like that. The book may have been Christian, but the Christian aspects of the book could be removed and a similar story be left standing. However, the religious aspects of the book were done well and this book is in no way a book about faith.

The overall message was inspiring and all but one of the answers they thought of, I agreed with. As the ending was faster paced than the rest the final message was all the more powerful as their working faster ties in with the answer.

Overall, I thought the book very good, though it did dip a bit in the middle. I would recommend it to anyone who is willing to think morally when reading a book. If you're the kind of person who doesn't want to change, then don't read it.

I recieved a free copy of this book from www.booksneeze.com and the opinions expressed are my own and are in no way related to booksneeze.com

4 Stars

3 More Exams to Go!

Hi,

As the title suggests, I've only 3 more exams left.

GCSE ICT Exam (OCR)
GCSE Science Exam (OCR)
GCSE Electronics Exam (OCR)

If you want to see examples of these exams go to http://www.ocr.org.uk/

Thanks
Matt B

BookSneeze book has arrived

Hi,
Finally The Final Summit has arrived. Now, I'm not religious but I think this book is. It'll be interesting to see whether the morals stand without requiring a religious background to them. Of course, I will not let my beliefs, or lack thereof, effect my review but it will undoubtedly effect how I read the book and what I take from it. This is the first 'morals novel' I've ever read so it should be interesting and hopefully eyeopening.

Thanks
Matt B