Some Recent Annoyances

Ok, so today I've handed in my final pieces of coursework, and don't have my exams for a month and 12 days (I'm not counting down, honest), which means I have some spare time to write some more bollocks on here. So here goes, annoyance no.1:

Liverpool Fans:
Just to clarify, I don't have a problem with people who are from Liverpool, who support Liverpool (ok, maybe a small problem, but not huge); rather it is the 'plastic scousers' that really get under my skin. It is these fans that make talking about football in public unbearable. They're only too keen to spout their absolute cock: "You'll never walk alone" or "it's all about history."
My point is that these plastic scousers demonstrate everything that is wrong with modern football (I sound like such an old man, spouting off the Daily Mail). These plastic scousers who are now in their late twenties or thirties, who have no relation from Liverpool are now getting away from being what is essentially a glory-hunter, because they have failed to win a league title in years; it's these same fans who are only too keen to denounce Manchester United or Chelsea fans for being glory hunters, and it annoys me, because they did exactly the same during the 80s. And if any of them give the line: "I've followed Liverpool through the good and bad times," by law, we should be able to actually slap them! I'd like Liverpool fans to point out the "bad times." It is this rash choosing of football teams because of their success that chairmen of football clubs are made social pariah's of. Roman Abramovich has been trashed in the press for his rash sacking of Jose Mourinho, Scolari, or even Avram Grant because he is only interested in one thing: instant success. If people stay loyal to their local team - or manager - success will - more often that not - arise. We only need to look at Wigan or Hull for an example of this. I don't know whether Swindon will ever return to the Premiership, but I won't sell out my team for a period of instant success though, which is what 99% of football fans would like their chairmen to do.

The Complete Degradation of the English Language:
Usually, when I see the press' reaction to the addition of certain words into the dictionary, I usually sigh in dismay for their conservatism. Although, my recent university work has convinced me that this conservatism is in fact founded - although not for the anti-popular culture stance that the media takes. Modernist and Postmodernist writers bemoans the gulf between subject (the self) and object (what's being described) that is increasingly becoming the norm in our society. I've recently done an essay on D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' where one of his points was that language has become so fragmented, and can only refer to the object through other objects - which means that it doesn't even refer to the object itself. The example he uses is in the inclusion of the 'C' word (C U Next Tuesday) in the novel, with the argument being that because it is taboo, the signifier (the word) hasn't become detached from the signified (the Vagina); culture hasn't allowed for the distortion of meaning. It is for this reason that I'll lose faith in modern society when 'words' like 'PMSL' will be added into the dictionary, because it only refers to a by-product - a very rare by-product - of laughing hysterically, when in fact, you're probably just amused. I really hate this horrible abstraction of language.

Right I'm going to end now because I probably sound really pretentious.

Currently Listening To: Flight of the Conchords - Self Titled
Currently Playing: Football Manager Live
Currently Reading: Just about to go back to George Eliot's 'Middlemarch'
Currently Watching: The Sopranos Season 5

Going to Manchester on Thursday to watch Manchester City vs Hamburg: and before I'm accused for being a glory hunter, I'm going for a friend at work, at tickets were only £5!

George Oppen

"I'm reminding myself that I do want to be here, that I would not lack the courage to cut my throat if I wanted to do so. I don't do so. In fact I enjoy life very, very much. I wrote that in a poem in case there was any misinterpretation of that." 1969

Recently

No posts really recently because I've been quite busy, and will continue to be this busy for this week. Currently writing an essay on the relation of George Oppen and Paul Auster to popular culture, and still have an essay to write on Virginia Woolf and D.H Lawrence. This is just a quick currently doing post:
Currently Reading: George Oppen 'Collected Poems'; Paul Auster 'Music of Chance'
Currently Watching: Flight of the Conchords Season One
Currently (Still) Playing: Football Manager Live
Currently Listening to: Bob Dylan 'Dylan'; Flight of the Conchords 'Self Titled'; I Killed The Prom Queen 'Music for the Recently Deceased'

It would be really nice if someone bought me some form of external hard-drive.

Pointless post to satisfy my self-importance; Twitter is also pointless