Neighbours

Neighbours are the most unpredictable bunch of people you will ever know.

I'm not talking about that annoying soap where everyone

talks with a foreign accent.... I mean your actual everyday neighbours.

Where ever you live you always have the 'difficult' neighbour,

.....yanno....

the one who complains about the loud parties and the

kids football that keeps going over the wall !!

What do they want you to do about the parties ?

Cancel your birthday until its an appropriate time for them ?

 Doughnuts ...

I like to imagine these kind of people as socially challenged

 idiots who sit in their houses all day long waiting for a bit of

 excitement in their lives, that may come in the form a child's small ball...

Is it just me or is that last statement creepy ?!

 Having said that it does express how dodgy these neighbours actually are !

There's always the arguers ...

In my street they come in the form of two lesbian lovers who live directly

opposite my house and also a chavy family a few doors down.

The lady lovers physically and verbally argue constantly,

 and they once smashed their own windows in...

Don't ask me, I really don't understand the concept of smashing

your own windows, you must be real special to feel that you've won the

 argument after smashing your own window...

Who's feelings is that supposed to hurt exactly ?

 Erm. Ok.

Everyone has the nosey neighbour.

My version stands outside her house no matter what weather it is,

 she lives on the opposite side of the road a few doors down..

She has an ASBO daughter who thinks it's ok to emerge from

her own house looking like a smack'ed who hasn't had her fix ..

You can just tell from the way she looks that she definitely hasn't had a bath

(unless you count body spray as a bath)

(if you do count body spray as a bath you're just disgusting)

 but that's just one of my many assumptions because in the 5years

 I've been her neighbour I haven't ever dared to get close enough

 to prove my theories correct !

My nosey neighbour also has a son who I am convinced must be suffering

 from some sort of mental lack of common sense and general

 basic intelligence, this is not another assumption, these theories were made

 concrete from the moment I saw the kid running down the road,

 at top speed,

sprinting like he was in the Olympics,

 in nothing but a bath towel. . .

Yet after all this,

the woman still gossips in the sunshine and the snow,

 in her pyjamas.. with other neighbours as if her own family are angels.

Now absolutely everyone has that one neighbour

 who they suspect of being a full blown crack dealer.

Now I'm not even talking weed or ''happy cigarettes''

I'm talking a established crack'ed factory supplier...

I know that the amount of dodgy happenings on my street is no

 coincidence, and some peoples behaviour just leads

 me to come to that one and only conclusion...

I refuse to put specifics on A.Genius as I am a valued member

of the community who would be gravelly missed if anything

suspicious ever happened to my dear self

*ahem*

but trust me folks, I'm speaking the truth.

Still Aspiring

Someone change the subject ..QUICK

Everyone suffers during those awkward unavoidable moments ..

Yanno like when someone calls themselves fat and they are actually fat, 

you have three options...

A. Lie and say ''no you're not''

(which makes you a bad and dishonest friend) 

B. Agree

C. Sit and simmer in the stench of utter silence

Now these moments are harsh enough without throwing a teacher into the mix.

So there I was in dance class, and randomly there was a small stress ball at the back of the class...

Some girl nearly trips over the ball which is when my male teacher exclaims

''ARE MY BALLS GETTING IN YOUR WAY?''

Well...

The teacher carried on talking, 

but the 5 other studentsand I stood in the most uncomfortable 

situation we would probably EVER find ourselves in,

not even daring to laugh as we were trying to avoid the teacher asking the

inevitable question ''What's so funny ?''

Just another day in my life of unbearable awkwardness.

I'll soon develop the much needed lack of emotion. 

Until I do, Help.

Still Aspiring

Though 5 million times less complicated than Facebook,

it's a breeding ground for cyber beef. 

No-one used to go around cussing each other on their FB status' with such passion

..or parring whole nations of people through one worldwide debate.

Thanks to Twitter music artists have collaborated, 

people have become famous, 

Xfactor has hilarious running commentary,

and Paris Hilton has been caught in possession of Cocaine... ahem ...

The only thing that i find deeply worrying, 

and 

could in fact reduce me to a blubbering mess of hot milk chocolate.. 

Is the fact that in years to come people will have to tell their kids how they met.. 

''Wait, so mum you met dad on twitter ?'' 

Now lets consider the fact that unlike Facebook or even Myspace, 

Twitter doesn't really support life sharing in the way that other sites do. 

There's no instant chat or large information section to tell you loads about that 57 year old guy, called 'Jeff',

 

who is leading you to believe he is a 

19 year old girl called Alesha ...

So how the hell do people meet prospective guys/girls by reading

a series of 140 character sentences. 

That to me is begging it.

*Begging it is a term used to refer to a person who goes out of their way for some kinda attention from the opposite gender or friends.

Still Aspiring

Psychological Blog of the week

Psychological topics encountered in the media

Avatars As Communicators Of Emotions
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2008) — ''Current interactive systems enable users to communicate with computers in many ways, but not taking into account emotional communication.''

An Avatar is a user or creators representation of him/herself, which is used as a virtual person in chat rooms, cyber world, forums or in video or internet games.
I find the idea of having a virtual me that i've created fun, but maybe thats because i'm a teenager, you know, the whole thing about avatars is you control your destiny, for the stereotypical 45 year old social outcast who say, lives with his parents, having an avatar is a way to be everything he wants to be, online he can transform into a rich good looking twenty-something, with a model for a wife and a two perfect children with whom he travels the world in his private jet. Whereas for me creating an avatar is enjoyable for the simple fact that i can dress it up in cute outfits and control it's every move making it do crazy things that i would'nt dare do in real life.

However whether people create an avatar to escape their terrible home lives for hours or if it's just a innocent form of ''big kid play'', those who create avatars are consiencely or sub-consiencely playing out their hopes and dreams or simply what they wish to experience without the repercussions that real life offers.
The topic of Avatars has been treated as something outrageous and unrealistic, as if only the weirdest people would take part in something that has actually changed modern day culture. I feel people don't gage why others have avatars, journalist have conducted reports from a purely superficial point of view, only looking at avatars as a type of game or activity and not as a second life, which it has become to many.

Many forums such as GAMETRAILERS.COM and ANSWERBAG.COM currently have debates on whether Avatars are positive or negative , personally I believe it depends on the indivisual, how it affects your life and how serious this pixelized you is taken .

Still Aspiring