Pirates YarrrrrRRR!!!

Ahoy mateys, i got a lil storey of seadogs and scallywags .


In 1839 , Louis Dagurre invented the 1st practical technology for producing photographs,as he named them "daguerrotypes" .Expensive new technology that could capture a picture like this was indeed in demand, despite cost. The rich elite had their way with it , while the rest of the masses just carried on with life. (AVAST YE)

It wasnt until 1888 ,when an enthusiast called George Eastman was pissed off at the technology ,that he decided to do something about it, and indeed he did ! (PIECES OF EIGHT)



So Georgey aka "Mr Kodak" , yeah u know . Made a device with flexible film that was on a single spindle. The roll could be sent to a developer, and thus driving down the cost of it all !!!

"You press the button and we do the rest" was as it was marketed.(YARR YE LAND LUBBERS)

So $25 bucks the average joe could snap his family and save them in a nice photo album for eternity, not bad eh ? Not so bad indeed for kodak as they were printing 6000 negatives a day from 1888 - 1909 .

This is where it gets interesting, as much as it was an economical achievement, Its the social side of it that is of significance. (HEAVE HO MATEY)

Early in the history of photography, many judicial decisions were made that could have changed it all so...

The arguements was that you could take a photo of something (with out permission Yarrrr) and capture and print the image.Better known as Pirating something of value .

Fortunately for 'Freedom' the courts ruled eventually for the Pirates and in general , No permission was required for you to take a picture of your family in front of or next to a disney poster, or holding a coca cola bottle. Permission was presumed. (THAR SHE BLOWS!!)

It could have all gone differently though, if we had to get permission before we took a pic of our family and friends on the beach. Do you think you would have so many pics now on your hard drive ? Would you stick to the law ? Or would you want those precious moments captured forever.

So when the New York top ten stock exchange elite say "Dont share music. Dont take our profits. Dont steal and plunder and dont take forms of expression and build upon on them freely".

Just think...

Aye... It be time te walk the plank with them land lubbers !

ranting and raving and carrying on....

"(This s a special moment right now,
We'd like to take this time to tell all the kids at home,
Send your parents out of the room this is a kid's song.)

Life's gonna suck when you grow up, When you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, It sucks pretty bad right now.

(Hey! If you know the words, Sing along!)

You're gonna hafta mow the lawn, Do the dishes, make your bed.
You're gonna hafta go to school until you're seven-teen.
(It's gonna seem about three times as long as that)

You're gonna hafta go to work, go to work, go to work,
Your boss'll be a big big jerk, a big big jerk, a big big jerk,
Your boss'll be a big big jerk in all of your career

You might have to go to war, shoot a gun, kill a nun.
You might have to go to war, when you get out of school.

(Hey cheer up kids, it gets a lot worse.)

You're gonna hafta deal with stress Deal with stress, deal with stress.
You're gonna be a giant mess When you get back from the war.
Santa Clause does not exist, and there's no Easter Bunny,
You'll find out when you grow up, that Big Bird isn't funny.
(funny, funny, hahahahaha!)

Life's gonna suck when you grow up, When you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up, It sucks pretty bad right now.
You're gonna end up smoking crack, on your back, face the fact.
You're gonna end up hooked on smack, and then you're gonna die.
And then you're gonna die-ie-ie-ie-ie.

(Something for the kids, Well, I think I smell a lawsuit in that one, What do you think?)"

Not the original video, but you get a feel for the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXkjXKK6OE

Is this what life is all about? No, don't worry... not gonna get very deep at the moment.
Eat, shit, work and sleep... If you win the genetic tombola you might even get some offspring.

I just get tired with ppl blaming their fucked up lifes on everyone else... "I'm just not happy, that's why I'm hooked on smack, have a eatingdisorder, listen to deathmetal, write poetry, am depressed and cut myself in the arms"

Here's a little trade secret for ya all, especially those I described before...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HAPPINESS!!!!

If we went around being happy all the time we would get bored and therefore once again be unhappy, no human being can live in a 24/7 happiness mood. It would bore us to death.
We choose to live our sorry lifes in a way that gives us the less UNhappiness. Yes, it's true, we're all that fucked up in our heads. Lets face it, just take a step back and look in to yourselfs.

Is your lack off so called happiness just not a sign that you're so fucked up in your head that you need professional care?

Back to the example... (this is a few persons I've met in RL, both in my profession and on my time off)

Drug use is a sign off a weak personality... to be able to use a drug and keep control off our life is a good thing, it's a sign off discipline, to be hooked is a sign off mental weakness, you'er giving in to something.

Eating disoders... is just about the same as the drug use... uncertain ppl will go to not eating to become pretty and thin... everyone who has seen a anorectic nude will join me in puking the guts out behind the nearest corner.

Deathmetal is music made by ppl that can't play an instrument or sing, especially sing, it's pale, pimplefaced teens (even the musicians over 40 are teens) that needs to get a life... come on now... I can write a deathmetal song in 2 secs... infact, just take this text, push the mike down your throat and scream this text as loud as you can... it's a deathmetal tune.

Poetry... to write poetry about how miserable you are and put it up on internet for other fuck-ups like yourself to read is just pathetic, I've been reading some off this... shit... and it follows no rules... it follows no "beat" and it's just the same old texts... once again, I can write one off those miserable poems in 2 secs, in fact I wrote one while I was talking to one off these persons... in 1 minute, and sent it to her and she absolutely LOVED it... all I did was to write some shit about darkness and lonliness... 1 minute... that was it.

Depression... OFC you'll be depressed if you act like this! Is there any doubt what so ever? Get a fucking life! Get out there, join social activies like evening courses, start exercising, go to the beach, sit in the park and read a book... just stop sitting indoors in front off a computer all your free time, go to bed in a normal time and sleep your 8 hours a night and you WILL feel much better in the morning, accept life for what it is and RELAX! If this doesn't help, go to a shrink, get medication and try again. Nothing gets you more depressed then just giving up without a fight, don't you tell me about being depressed, I've been diagnosed with clinical depression for more years then most off you snotty pimpelfaced loosers has lived.

Self-cutting... Come on now, that is just a way to get attention and is a normal follow up to depression, here's a tip for ya, there are other ways to get attention and rebel. If your parents are highly educated lawyers or something with a healthy look on the equality between men and women, start listening to some rap artist that likes to call women hoe's... you get the picture...
If your parents are in to ecological shit... get a fuelguzzling car and so on... BE CREATIVE!

Come on now ppl... Life will suck, it always has and always will... that what makes us tick and fight on... lets just make the best off it.

I have more on the subject but no time atm... This text is written to a special person, I have no idea if that person will ever read it but to be honest, I don't give a fuck anymore.

/Matt...

Is this thing on?

I apologize for my blogging n00bness :P I figured out how to cut/paste my blog entries from the EF to this site. I couldn't figure out how to post on the main page to be honest.

Blunked, I'm soooo happy for you!! I'm glad that things are working out for you and the misses. My life is still on hold at the moment... and it sucks... all this waiting is driving me insane. It would be one thing if I were kept informed, but that's simply not the case.

If this continues much longer, I may follow your lead and just say "Screw It!" and book the next flight to Calgary.

Anyhoo... if this posts on the main page, then I'll be sure to post more often :P I promise!!

Best Wishes
Vixen78 aka Sav

drop and cough

Taking the 1st step to immigration and having to go do my medical today was less painful then 1st thought .

It only took 1 hour , and we ended up at 2 different medical centres at that , woohoo !

I know sav is ranting about healthcare on her blog , so far be it from me to say to much praise.

So $80 dollars down ,and 2 tubes of blood later, the nurse sends me and wife AKA the limo driver, on our way to the next place where im getting poked more, $135 im told will be the cost, OK no worries there madam , i fill out the papers go back to lady number 2 , that will be 130 dollars , please go pay at the cashier ,,, no problem !

I pay gracefully , and park my bum down , and no sooner as i think " wow this is going to be a long wait" i hear " MR Wilkes " woohoo !!!

Nurse and her superiour talk about Email, then tell me to take the paper back to the cashier, with a new slip ...

$90 ,, thats 45 less then i originally expected. THE MILKY BARS ARE ON ME !

2 more pokes and im done, Full of TB jabs and M M R holes, my arms are surely to drop off tomorrow .

I wished it took longer to be honest , it just seemed the more time we spent there , the bigger the discount we got !

Ohwell ... Not exactly a funny story from across the pond Matt...


Did I mention we saw a midget in skin tight lyrica and a guy in a wheelchair fall out onto the road last week in hollywood ? ( I know i shouldnt have laughed , it really looked like a setup to be honest, damn jonnny knoxville)..


I saw sav joined up too , and i think jaco fell off the face of the earth... You guys alive ? :)

Matt is back!

Woohoo... still alive and kicking!

This blog seem kinda dead, where's the guy running this joint? I wanna hear some fun stories about living in the US.
(humming on "A englishman in New York")
Come on now!
;-P

/Matt...

It is time...

to celebrate the biggest pagan ceremony/holiday off them all...
June 21 is midsummers eve, the shortest night on the year, here the sun goes down for an hour or so, further to the north it doesn't go down for 2 weeks.
This holiday we celebrate in the traditional viking way, in this day and age we're not to keen on killing animals to please the Gods so we have changed it to getting piss drunk and falling on our backs (Standard Swedish holiday celebration 101).
And the ppl in Hereford do nothing at all, a hint for all you that likes Monty Python...

So another 4 day weekend for me and a great excuse to get wasted, cya all when this is over, hopefully I still got enough braincells left for typing and putting sentences together.

/Matt...

Saturday shake down

So i was up at 7 am , forthe start of the saturday poker event I was taking part in, thinking maybe i would be out in the 1st few minutes or so and head back to bed... Well that was'nt the case.


Long story short as i'm thinking of another blog strictly for my poker'ness as I started writing and It ended up being enough for a book.

I finally went out 54th place out of 3794 and bagging a whopping 3 dollars for nearly 5 hours work!!! Plus another 2-3 hours it took me to actually win a seat in this tournament . I know I know , but seeing as I cant work in the U.S yet, its a start. With no money in my pokerstars account for too long, 3 dollars is all I need !!

So 3 dollars turned into 8 dollars with in an hour of me entering the good old cash games, a slight
improvement but still along way to go. Check out the new blog for more poker ramblings..

Life is...

filled with questions and a long list off answers, the problem is to find the correct answer to our questions... Sorta like in "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" (no, not that cheesy movie, the book)... when they build a computer to answer the big question, the one about life, the universe, everything! The computer thinks for 10 million years and the answer is 42! Because they havn't understood the question they need to build another computer, much larger, to find out what the question really meant.

A while back I was, as usual, brushing my teeth and happened to see the toothpaste tube, what in Gods name possesed them to put a clarifying text on how to properly use the tube on it? Are we all turning in idiots or is the company smarter then us? I don't know what scares me the most, the fact they have put it there or the fact that there might actually be people out there that needs the instruction? But I guess it's another step in the americanisation off the world, someone over there has probably sued a toothpaste company for some ridicilous amount off cash because they have hurt themself from inproper use off the toothpaste tube... who knows?
"Your honor, my client got a almost fatal injury after inserting a toothpaste tube off this brand in to her rectum, it doesn't say anywere on the tube that you shouldn't do it, therefore she's demanding 4000 billion dollars!"

It's like ppl suing the tobaccocompanies for getting lungcancer from smoking. WTH!!! Did the company send out a rep that held a gun to your head and forced to you to smoke until you where addicted? NO! It was a decision you made all by yourself, you better bite the bullet and live with the consequenses off your choises.

Ok, I admit, I'm in a naggin mood today, better give up for now.

/Matt...

I'm tired and I wanna go home...

Time to post some good vids, all on youtube...
Sator: I wanna go home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7jj6WbO9PY
Promoe: These walls don't lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAcO3r5Xjs
Looptroop: Fort Europa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCOVDdzrCU
James@war: Popstar (Rockstar spoof)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk
Nickelback: Rockstar (how many celebs do you recognise?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E

Have fun and enjoy!
Forgot one! From the Bulgarian Idol tv-show... This will make you laugh a crack in your head!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

/Matt...

Showing off now

Twice in a week !

Another WR2 ticket in the bag , which means I can stretch my luck to the saturday and sunday final . I just wished my luck would roll over to the weekly World Series of Poker Freeroll's , where the main prize is a $10,000 seat at the Final , here in Las Vegas . ( i can dream )


Maybe im playing too much poker with 2 seats in the same week ? Damn where is SL and EU when i need it ;)

>insert catchy title<

So...
I'm having a wet dream every night! About this:
http://www.konaworld.com/08_stabsupreme_w.htm
Feel free to call me what you want. LOL
I am and will always be a bikefreak. Freeride, uphill, downhill, xc, road.... ANYTHING that's me against the laws off nature.

If you don't know anything about biking, go to youtube and search for freeride or downhill vids, you will be amazed.
So many roads and hills, so much skin to tear and scartissue to grow. LOL

yes, I'm sitting at work and yes, I am bored once again... wish I could download PE to the workcomputer and spend my workdays doing some pixelated violence towards innocent creatures but no no, if they found out I would get fired, this job might be boring but the paycheck sure is nice so I better not. LOL

Time for a caffeine overdose...

/Matt...

Glad to hear that you're getting along...

Here are a few advice from one married man to another....
1. NEVER start a sentence with the words "You're f%¤&ing mother", when you get to ...er you better be running already.
2. When she says "we need to talk", set the house on fire, it's easier to deal with... because it means "You need to shut up while I tell you all the ways you've been screwing up lately". A man never needs to talk... unless he caught some dicease while out finish, I know it happened to me once.
3. Make sure you always get the last word in any discussion... it's simple... just say "Yes dear"

Other then that, just enjoy your life and have fun. :-)

Ok, I'm bored... what can I do at work to make the time pass?
1. shape my earwax to funny figures
2. see how much coffe I can drink before my eyes start to flicker
3. make paperplanes and do windtunneltest in front off the AC
4. enjoy a long spiritual conversation with myself
5. make prank calls to 911
6. write in this blog
7. try and catch a fly with 2 pencils, like Daniel-san in Karate kid
8............. BORING

ohwell, I'll be back later.

/Matt...

is it all bigger over here ????

So here we are a few days into the blog already welcoming Matt and Jaco ,who both get admin privileges .. ( which means you can poke and fudge this site however you see fit. I mean it , go for it ,, this is all for you to edit and mold i dont mind what you guys do here ......... Aslong as i like it ;)

I got a few more people invited to boot and hopefully you guys know some cheeky sods to post here too ????

Well enough of them . More about ME !!!!!


Well apart from being flipped off by angry american drivers and paying $1.07 at the dollar store , im finding these lands most enjoyable. ( 2out of the 3 times of being flipped off was down to the wifes driving ;) )

Here is a little notice we didnt pick up on whilst buying said purchases


"This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects etc etc.... " It is just good we dont live in california now right ?

And yes we are that poor we need to shop at the dollar store already..

So no high rolling vegas style craziness really , Just chilling with the wife who has bought bacardi rum tonight to drink and is making me a rum and coke as we speak,, well... i type should be the correct way of ranting .... So expect more drunkeness later maybe. I do plan on sharing my theory on Blackjack which is sure to work . As poker isnt going so hot, even though i managed to enter a freeroll texas holdem no limit holdem satelite ( which means anyone with a pc can enter ) and finished 80th out of .......................... drum roll please ....................... 12,000 .... yep............................................................. twelve thousand entrants.....

*pat on back * seeing as these tourneys run every day on pokerstars.com and it is just a ticket into the REAL cash tourney which is this weekend.... hopefully i'll finish better then the last time i was there..

Anyway enough rantings from this side of the pond , glad to have you guys along for the ride.





oh yeah............... It is all bigger here !!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmm crapjobs?

paperclip-bender and the guy who has to decide when a taser-treatment is too much.

suckiest job in the world

(I will not use the word ass in this text)
I have a dog, lets call him Nuts, like any other dog he eats dogfood. Lets just say that contense is something we don't wanna know, at least not me, if you want know just look a can in the store next time you're there. Now on to the reflection, I was reading on the can and happened to notice a tiny little text that made me really scared, now you better hold on to something.
It said... in capital letters... "NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS"

Somewhere out in the world there is a person that has to have the worst job in the world and that person is NOT going home hungry.

If you carefully read the labels on some usual products in the home you can find the most funny little texts, a friend bought a rectal thermometer (see there, I didn't write ass, told you so) for his son and happened to find a text that said... "Each thermometer of the "brand" goes trough a precise testing on every aspect of using"
Have they tried it? Does a person sit in the factory and randomly test them by putting them up... ????? It scared me, I promise it did... And somewhere deep inside me I just felt happy, my job doesn't suck that bad when you compare to these individuals.
So when you have a bad day at work, rememeber that you don't have to eat dogfood or slide a thermometer up your...

/Matt...

easy answer....

... the question "what if i don´t die" leads them to wearing it. ;)

Matt is in da house!

What has he done? Invited me to this, he's looking to have this blog filled with drunken ranting and strange theories.
Not to mention typos and bad english, if you start complaining I'm afraid that I have to ask you to type something in my lingo so I can get to laugh at you.

What now... dunno what to say atm, after all it's 4.16am where I'm sitting and I just got up. I'll be back later with an update.

/Matt...

001 - Couldnt Think of a Catchy Title

Well as promised here it is ..... The Kamikaze Safety Gear Factory BLOG

Is it going as well as you expected ?


Apologies from the start for typos and drunken rants, but thats half the fun right ?

So Blog.... YES ! .. Words... ermmmm ... That happened so , here i am , going somewhere one day , here is a photo ..

What i mean is. After the big move to America and unable to do the PC thing's i love , besides lose at poker , and after getting hooked on blogs, i thought "The world can do with ANOTHER blog " ... Genius i know ...


So rants and such sure to follow here , hope i can get some of my good friends involved too here (you know who you are).

There you have it .... Blog 001. Tune in next time ,,,, same time ,,,, same bat channel