Sticks and stones

Some people really do not get it do they?

I come over as this guy who laughs and jokes about almost everything, you can put every kind of situation in front of me and I'll throw out a few wisecracks and there's a stupid grin on my face. The smile is infectious and other laugh and smile too...a clowns job is never really done.

But, like a lot of people, I'm merely wearing a mask.

There is an individual in my flatmate's life (let's call him...nothing, he's not even worth mentioning by name.) who got it into his stupid head that I had split him and my flatmate up. Yes, we are friends but that is it and it has always been the case although some have always believed that a man and a woman cannot be just friends (and frankly that is just pathetic).

Anyways, this individual whenever he mentions anything to do with me he can never say my name but calls me "Fatty" to whoever he is speaking, especially my flatmate or her son...I know he does this because he knows it will get back to me. I call myself The Fat Bloke...and that is because I'm a bloke and, well I'm fat (I guess the clue is really in the title) and although I quite regularly make fun of myself (much to Haunted Rock Cake and Cuddle Bunny's annoyance) on the inside it is quite a different matter...

Why does he have to do this? Appart from the fact that he knows name calling hurts more than people let on (the saying Sticks and stones means diddly squat...) I'm guessing he is just too immature to handle his lot in life.

I know a few things about him, but you never hear me talking about him with a derogatory name like Slaphead, Cripple and so on and I'm younger than him (by many years) so he really SHOULD know better.

Sadly I know this is never going to be the case, until this old man dies...not that I wish it on him (I'm not that kind of person, and I'm certainly not dropping down to his level no matter what).

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More ASCII Art Wallpapers

As promised here are some more links to some of the other ASCII art wallpapers I have made.
So far they have all been given a thumbs up from the relevant peoples, but if anyone involved with the organizations who run the charities or make the product do not like them then please email me on number2.turds@yahoo.co.uk and let me know. In brackets you will find Twitter usernames and websites.

Anyways the next batch of designs are as follows:

Starbucks (@Starbucks http://www.starbucks.com)
Red Bull (@redbull http://www.redbull.com)
PlayStation (@PlayStationEU @SonyPlayStation http://www.playstation.com)
Guitar Hero (@GuitarHeroDevs @GHWT @GuitarHero http://www.guitarhero.com)
Marmite (http://www.marmite.com)

Please feel free to comment, and I'll post more links to others done soon.

Support Bully Free Zone's "Follow The Heard" Campaign!

Bully Free Zone have kicked off a new campaign called "Follow The Heard" and I thought I should tell you guys all about this.

The message behind this campaign is that basically do not suffer in silence, tell someone if you are being bullied. You tell someone what's going on, and you keep telling people until it gets sorted out.

What Bully Free Zone want is for people to tell them about experiences of being bullied where it has helped to tell someone to get it sorted...or maybe you were the bully and you realized that you have a problem and that you got help. Maybe you have a poem about your experiences that you would like to share....whatever you have it can all help in the fight against bullying.

For more details on what Bully Free Zone are doing go to
http://bullyfreeteam.blogspot.com/2009/07/as-part-of-bully-free-zones-follow.html and if you think you have something that can contribute towards this brilliant campaign then please email Kev Walsh on office@bullyfreezone.co.uk as soon as you can.

Please, if there is anything to you can do to help, then get in touch....bullying really needs to be reduced greatly...it's unlikey that bullying will ever be totally irradicated, but just stopping it little by little is nothing but a good thing.

ASCII art wallpapers

I have had some fun this week, as I have been messing about with some ASCII art and at the same time I promoted a few things too!

I made the ASCII art that I did into wallpapers for people to download. most of them have been for charity, but there have been a few company logos I decided to do too, and the links for each one are as follows (In brackets are Twitter usernames and websires):

Bully Free Zone (@BFZonline http://www.bullyfreezone.co.uk)
Percy The Pigeon (@PercythePigeon http://www.areyoubeingbullied.com)
Bullying UK (@bullyinguk http://www.bullying.co.uk)
X-Games 15 (@espnxgames)
Vans (@VANS_66 http://www.vans.com)
Dogs Trust (@dogstrust http://www.dogstrust.org.uk)
Born Free Foundation (@BornFree_UK @BFFoundation http://www.bornfree.org.uk)

I have done some more, but I'll put up the links for those later!
Please feel free to leave your comments here and let me know what you think!

How can this be?

I'm shocked, this is something I'd never expected to find.

I was reading tweets from some charities this morning and Bully Free Zone (@BFZonline) asked if there was any other charity apart from them that did direct support for victims of bullying. so I thought that I'd have a look for any kind of bullying support in the Tadley area.

I found nothing.

How can this be? Bullying is a major problem no matter where you go, no matter what age you are and no matter what walk of life you come from. I cannot believe that there is no issues with bullying so there is nowhere that can help.

As I have said before I have been bullied, and when I was in school Childline had just started and I'd never heard of the NSPCC (although I think they were around in the 80s). It seems it is just as bad now, even with all these big anti-bullying charities out there. How canit be that there are big organizations but nowhere that is grass roots to help pick up the pieces? and by that I don't just mean the people who are bullied, but also the bullies (after all a lot of the time they need help themselves...if they have the help perhaps they would stop bullying or not even do it in the first place!).

I really don't know what to say, how can it be like this?

Please take care of your dogs in this weather...

I'm kinda shocked about what I heard on the news this afternoon...

On Tuesday, 2 German Shepard dogs belonging to Nottinghamshire Police had passed away after being left in a car.

I used to be a dog handler for a security company and I just cannot believe that this has happened. You never EVER leave a dog in a car on a hot day, it's just asking for trouble the thing is that leaving a bowl of water or having the window open slightly does not help, the heat can feel furnace like very rapidly.

Please, if you have a dog, please be very careful if you have a dog in the car...in fact be really careful even if your dog is at home. Here are some tips that might help keep your dog cool:

• If you leave your dog alone, they will usually find the coolest spot wherever you are.
• Do not think just because the window of your car is slightly open and there is a bowl of water in the car your dog will be ok, it doesn't stop the temperature rising so rapidly to lethal levels.
• Unless you have no choice, do not take your dog out for a walk until later in the day when it is cooler, it will make it more bearable for you too!
• I personally used to spray my dog reguarly to keep him cool, and Preston loved it! If you do this don't forget to spray the paws and underside of the dog too!

Please, take care of your dogs and other pets during the hot weather.

Percy The Pigeon wallpapers

You may have read a few blog entries back I'm supporting a cause called Percy the Pigeon, a great anti-bullying campaign.

I have designed a few wallpapers to try and help spread the word a little further, which you can check out on my Twitter feed (@yamerias) or you can click on the links below to get to the images directly...

Wallpaper #1 - Please Tell Someone http://www.twitpic.com/8yxzp
Wallpaper #2 - Book Front http://www.twitpic.com/8yxi1

The Percy The Pigeon campaign is based on a book called "Matty-Boy & The Secret Pigeon Racket" which is a fun book with a strong anti-bullying message. Please buy this book, each copy of the book bought means a donation of 50p to Bullying UK, who help victims of bulling.

For more details of this brilliant campaign and to find out how to buy the book head on over to http://www.areyoubeingbullied.com

Cool advert!

Well, have a look at this advert on a bus shelter in Tadley...

I'm not sure how old this poster campaign is for Tango in the UK, but this is the first time I had seen it and it made me smile!

What a way to advertise your product, by saying that if you drink a huge amount of it you flatulent emissions will have a citrus fragrance....priceless!

Britvic have al;ways had some really cool promotional campaigns for their Tango soda drinks, I wonder if there will be any more posters like this around? I'll have to look out for them!