The Politics of Friendship on Facebook

Maybe I'm old school, or maybe (though highly unlikely) I'm future-proof, but I honestly don't get the whole "Politics of Friendship" that often goes on, on Facebook. It just confuses me how people can easily add random people to their lists, not knowing a sausage about them, and as of such baring all of their life to the world. Don't they realise the danger in adding people that they don't know? Actually scrap that, cause I'm pretty sure I know the answer, and that answer is simply they don't think. After all these are the very same people who regularly enjoy 'deleting' those they do know and then six whole months later re-adding the same person with an excuse of "oh I accidentally...", yeah right, like deleting someone could be an accident in this day in age- you actually have to click around 3 times to delete a person and around 4 times or so to block a person, basically these people are an absolutely wonderful example of ass-talkers, that's right they talk out of their backside...Ironically you'd be surprised by the amount of times people believe that bull-poop. Usually it's people like me who don't usually delete anybody- because it's pointless (if I don't want you on my friend's list I'm not going to accept you and if I don't want you to see my posts no more ta-ta and welcome to acquaintances option). If you wondering how I even learnt how much effort goes into deleting someone- let's just say I used a willing test subject to see how "easy" it was to remove someone and let me say, too much effort!!!

Why do people even do it? I personally have no 100% clue but I can safely assume it is probably a combination of the thrill of control- the acting of god whom has control over all, jealousy, immaturity or lastly disagreement, which in itself is I guess an act caused by immaturity and loss of control.

Rambles

Frankly I don't really write on here anymore, just when I want to rant anonymously per se, or so it seems.

I'm on anti-anxiety medication these days which does help but at times I still feel like I have done before.

I still don't exist on my college peers radar- or rather I do just they rather wish I didn't exist- judging by the actions they make around me it sometimes seems it's not that I don't exist on their radar but rather than they are more...jealous. Unfortunately, I happen to be a pupil who often get's top marks in class- even though myt attendance isn't fab- and to them I guess they are irked because it might seem like I'm not even trying- which is far from true. I regularly do my course work during evenings or any free time I have- something I am guessing most of my peers do not do- hell they don't really do a lot in college- most of the time they are mucking about whilst I'm sitting there busily tapping away at my work- which is probably why I am always the first in class to finish- everytime. In fact the majority either hand in late or haven't at all yet- so why am I surprised?? Ironically these are the kind of people in my class whom like to lie- yes lie- that they are the best in class with fab grades- yet amusingly they only state certain topics whilst brushing the others over with a brush- as it is the two most arrogant in the class- well- they think they are the best purely on equipment alone- like- a L series Lens or a "pro" camera makes all the difference- whatever happened to meanings?

Talking of the two arrogants- well let's just say that's partially the reason for me updating- this person is always right- even when they aren't and refuse to take no for any answer. In one breath they seem to more than happy that an image of there's is circling on the net on wallpaper websites etc, and yet they got irked at a pro photography for "stealing there image"- even though said image in question whilst the idea is the same it's not identical and has been done by thousands before- the fact that the person in question kept with the it's my image even though seasons, lights, composition of the building etc were different I'll never know- well Delirious is one word I could describe them as. Me also pointing this fact out irked them, and they got so antsy in there pantsy that they deleted me so I couldn't comment anymore- ironically I think being an ex-journo student does make me more knowledgeable on copyright and theft and what does and doesn't constitute. Anyway, kinda made me laugh as person in question was still ranting about this at college even saying I was in cahoots with the pro, I have never seen any of the person's in questions work before. It just irks me that people like that are so god-damn narrow minded they won't allow free speech if it goes against what they are saying- mind you if they continue this in years to come- well let's just say I foresee them getting sued for slander, just because a reverse image search tells you it's the same it's not looking at anything but the image and if your taking a well-known building it's more than likely to pop up- like if you do product photography...

Anyway I guess it is kind of amusing as potentially if I stay on and they do too, then well they'll have to put up with me for another 2 whole years- hooray for that...

Life, the world and everything

Lol seems as though I turn to blogger when life is not going brilliant...so many negatives lol.

So to the majority maybe I sound like a whiny teen, and maybe I am,a little. But when I compare myself to other teens my age, well I wonder why I need to be the one to suffer and lose five and a half years to being ill.

For the first few years I fought tooth and nail to get well.  I got irked when the doctors accused me of things that weren't true. I fought the pain to go out. Sure it was hard and I had slip ups along the way but I got better.

Then I had another, this time minor op and all my hard struggle went down the drain...slowly first...
At this current moment in time I am a ghost of who I once was. I don't get out easily as I suffer from anxiety caused by other issues. I don't socialize much as my old friends pretty much abandoned me instantaneously 5 years ago and the ones at college well I don't even exist on their radar ever. I struggle with my bowels and bladder which tbh causes my anxiety, my anxiety mostly relates to where toilets are when I'm out. I feel lately that if they can't fix me in half a decade I will be stuck like this for eternity...

Positives are the new gp doctor  I am seeing at the moment, she has listened to my issues and started anew. I'm on some new meds and should be getting referred to uriogynaecology. Will be interesting to see if they will help.

Smart Phone Hell

So, my stupid 1 year old Samsung Galaxy S decided to do the black screen of death on me upon reboot. Not like I haven't not had issues with it lately, but equally I couldn't remove Instagram the application which was causing my phone to crash a lot, because "apparently" my phone was no longer "compatible", even though it was on Android 2.2 and had all the other specs required to run the thing, yet market wouldn't let me update!!! More to the point Instagram never did respond to me about what I should do (Frankly there customer service is truly terrible, not even a holding response) How the hell could I uninstall it if it wouldn't even let me update?

Seriously I'm probably more peeved by the fact that the Android system does not have an easy built in way to back up contacts and I have unfortunately lost the majority that I didn't have installed elsewhere. Practically the only thing that I managed to salvage was my some 1000 photograph's (a good thing as I am photographer). Officially not liking the interface of gingerbread but I thought what the heck I've got nothing to lose.

To be blunt, I find it a rather "peculiar" coincidence that my father's phone of the same model which was only just older than mine did the exact same thing last month, I do wonder if "Android" or "Samsung" do this deliberately so people go off to buy a new phone. Either that or the way the software uses the hardware corrupted something important, either way how is a phone that effectively packs in after a year so you have to factory reset a sell-able device? It is clearly defective in some shape or form so seriously how did they not notice this flaw?

And before people going telling me to buy a competing brand such as an Apple iPhone or a Blackberry, things on there side are not all it seems either. I know from peers that an iPhone can get wiped if the iTunes messes up and loses everything and not to count the other countless issues caused by the technology Apple used (god only knows how many times I have replaced the battery on my 5 year old iPod, but least to say I have lost count). Blackberry often encounters similar problems to the Android system and if the Blackberry server goes down then you have no net nothing.

Least to say unless this one year reset thing gets fixed I am unlikely to buy an Android phone or for that matter any Smart Phone again. After all there's just too much too lose, and frankly maybe carrying a phone and a laptop would cause less technological issues, in the sense of less eggs in one basket...

After taking a two year hiatus I'm back.

Long time no see bloggers, least to say I'm no less angry than I was here last time. To be blunt I am sick of the way this country runs and treats us teenagers. No, I'm not having a go at the government, however I am having a go at the NHS.
Although I never covered this last time I was on blogger I suffer from a long-term illness which occurred after my appendix op in December 2007. Least to say for the past 4 years I am unsatisfied with the way the NHS treated me. Firstly they accused me of lying (I wasn't). Secondly they accused me of being "lala" or "loony" (I'm not that either). Thirdly I don't feel they ever told me the entire truth, and being a ill teenager does not have it's benefits...

I have no clue why the NHS thought at first I was "playing" ill, seriously what kind of teen would do that? (ok, I'm sure there's some out there...) For one thing I missed a lot of my social life and pretty much my whole crowd of friends abandoned me at the start of my illness implying they couldn't "cope" being around a sick person. So for the last four years I haven't exactly had much of a social life. The NHS played the card of "oh your just a silly teenager playing sick" for around 2 years, implying my bowel issues and then pain issues were all in my head or just IBS.

Around September 2008, I was finally referred from my GP to gastro at my local hospital, where I was seen by an unsympathetic asshole doctor who tried to put me back on medication I had already tried which had given me other side effects, and when the CT scan came all clear instead of sending/checking with other tests the asshole doctor (who had made me wait a total of 5 hours in the waiting room that day and even saw a old man whining of being in pain, who hadn't got an appointment that day at all...) told me "Dear, it's all in your head, your just a stupid teenager with attention seeking disorder now sod off and don't come back!" (Ok, he'd didn't exactly say that but inbetween the lines this is what I felt, although the all in your head part is totally true). If my dad hadn't complained to PAL's I don't think they would have worked out what was wrong with me, to this day I don't think the GP's would have referred to the hospital again. Before getting sent to the hospital again, I was sent to a children's Bowel clinic where I saw some lunatic young doctor who obviously never listened to word I said and somehow had managed to get my parent's with the wrong surname and that I ate nothing but meatballs (tbh to this day I'm not sure what she was on).

A whole year later, and a few appointments with the Gastro surgical team, they finally figured what was wrong with me. It seemed as though the pain I was originally accused of being in my head was in fact -dun dun dun- a trapped nerve ending caused by scar tissue from my appendix op, and all it took to fix was one anaesthetist with a giant needle (Who knows if the needle that size was really needed or too see if  I would freak out). They also partially admitted at that point that I had sluggish bowels and not IBS.

Even though I was now pain-free, having been house-bound for 2ish years had affected my self-esteem and confidence, which meant I suffered from panic attacks and bouts of anxiety. My parents had asked for counselling several times before this but the GP's never acted and final did in 2010...where they "accidentally" referred me to the adult section and not the children's. Although the counsellor at the adult section was ok, she didn't understand how I felt and was relatively unsympathetic to me. A few sessions in she told me she would refer me to the children's section. I have no complaints on the children's section (they were fab and understanding).

From 2009-2011 they kept tweaking my medication. In early 2011 I got off my laxatives as I had an all clear on my x-ray shape test thing (no shapes where left inside even though I hadn't taken any laxative's). Until July that is...

In July I had a minor operation, technically I should have been all fixed after it, but unfortunately it seems as though the reason I had sluggish bowels the last time and now this time is due to the fact I was allergic to the anaesthetic and after this operation my bowels and bladder packed in, and I ended up in Emergency. I had to be catheterised (I was holding about 3 days worth of fluid about 1.5 litres, which is more than what your meant to hold, really explains why I was in agony). As I'm at that tricky age they decide to put me on the adult ward, unfortunately it was full and I ended up in the old people's ward. I was placed under the kidney section and it seems like none of those doctor's had read my notes, I was back to square one with them trying to give IBS medication (kinda clear if you read all my notes that they don't work!). I stayed in the old people's ward for one week, I'm kinda disgusted by the fact every other ward I've been at the hospital looks clean and orderly yet the one in the old people's ward had a dicky plug socket and numerous health and safety hazards and hadn't looked like it had been done up much since the early 1990's. Secondly as I was at the end of the ward I never did get what I ordered (seems like the asked again and people changed minds so I was always got the odd mushy food). Thirdly the people on the ward section I was in were really nice as my bell was broken and they had to ring their own bells to summon a nurse when I was in pain (and unlike a time in the children's ward when that happened they never got anyone to fix the bell in the old people's ward, I have a feeling it hadn't worked for some time). At the end of the week they "discharged" me even though I couldn't go at either end still. (Seems they never formally discharged me, I don't think they were meant to send me home...). I was home for all of one day when my I took a funny turn and catheter bag started turning red with blood. I was taken back to hospital in an ambulance (took about wasted money) it turned out they had never sent me home so emergency had to make me married and 111 years old (born in 1/1/1900 anyone?) Sadly I never got to take any photo's of this otherwise I would upload them, they were quickly switched the next morning...They finally sorted me out though not before my IV drip disaster (my IV got dislodged in the night and I thankfully woke up in time to find a very swollen hand- I do have a photo of this...and lucky the bell worked in that ward).

Since then I'm back to how was in 2010-2011 on constant medication that never ceases.
Over and out for now.
Kitty Rose

Don't you just hate automated bidders?

It pisses me off, and I imagine it pisses you off too.
So here I am bidding on a pretty worthless item, thinking I am going to win when in the last half second some lazy jerk of a bidder 'snipes' a bidding. It makes me wonder if I should even bother using 'ebay' again?

It happened to me so many times now that I feel 'ebay' should ban this system because after all it's not a fair win and really unfair to us bidders who want to win fairly against a human being. Also it does give 'ebay' as an online community a bad reputation for bidding on items.

I really hope that these so-called bidders end up with their accounts hijacked (after all they give their details to these sites to snipe), it would be a nice ending.

But I do have to thank 'ebay' for their wonderful 'buy it now' system, as I really don't know what I would do without it. So I guess 'ebay' are still slightly reputable in that case. It's just a shame some buyers and sellers are money grabbing monsters who'll do anything to get the item their bidding for or in the sellers case to bump the price up until they get a willing bidder to pay the price they want.

I just have to say this...

Why is it in the UK:

All we every seem to do is moan when it is too late.
And even if we did have the chance to stop it, we don't!

Yes dear bloggers, I am on about the recent bidding on the takeover of Cadbury's. The funny thing is as a country we have only just noticed that all the companies in the UK are disappearing and with it the jobs...
Considering one of the most significant UK owned and based companies to disappear was in 2005 (the car makers "MG Rover") as a country we weren't bothered, neither were we in 2008 when several unique stores in the UK disappeared for ever such as "Woolworths" and "Zavvi". (Although all of these brand names still exist they are owned by different benefactors).

It takes until 2010, two years after the start of the recession, to notice the lack of UK based companies of any kind. Somehow the fact that Cadbury's, a chocolate brand, will soon be owned by an American organisation, is making the people in the UK worry it's the end. Apparently, people in the UK detest American chocolate which is a little funny, when the same people are scoffing "Terry's chocolate oranges", "Mars", "Reece's pieces" and other American owned chocolate brands...

I have this feeling that as time goes on people are only going to get more silly. After all, in the UK we own no car brands, no computer brands, and hardly any electric brands. Yet we worry about chocolate which isn't really a necessity to us these days.
Soon it'll be time to turn off the light and leave the country, fleeing away with our foreign cars and computers. If I weren't a teenager I think I would have already left.

Kitty Rose
Please Note: I have only mentioned companies major significance, although other companies such as water and electricity utilities have been brought up by other companies.