Tom Talks | Clarification

I know what you’re thinking ..

Twice in one day? Someone’s eager!

And, if you mean my blog .. then you’d be right!

I just thought of something that wound me up the other day, and I felt the need to have a late night rant about it. You’ll come to find that I tend to rant very late at night, must be something to do with the early hours of the morning that I find appealing for a ‘rant time’. Anyways, the topic I want to talk about is .. clarification.

I’ve come to notice that people aren’t very good at this sort of thing. Clarifying things isn’t some peoples ‘forte’. You are pretty much guaranteed to find evidence of this throughout everything you do in your day to day routines. It can be anything, you’ll wake up and get out of bed .. you go downstairs and whilst you’re making a cup of tea, coffee or what ever else, your breakfast or lack of in some people’s case .. you’ll put on the news. Now, name something .. a group of people .. that you are likely to see on the news .. 5 or 6 times out of 10? .. Politicians. What is it that these people do best I hear you ask .. divert from giving a straight answer.

Here’s a little game for you. When you’re near a television that has the news on, and a politician is being interviewed by the news journalists or the presenters, try and count how many times they get asked a question .. and then never answer it. I must state at this point, I’m talking about in the UK .. I don’t know about other countries, perhaps your politicians actually answer the bloody questions they are asked! So yeah, have fun with that game .. take a drink of something strong or something like that, you’ll be hammered by 10am!

Next, you’ll get your clothes on and go to work or school, or in my case .. university. These places are the worst for it, you can ask any question you like, and unless someone is really on the ball and knows how to do things properly .. you’ll just end up seeing them turn into some sort of social worm and wriggle their slimy little bottoms out of the situation. Always. For instance, we once asked what the word count was for the dissertation for our course .. the answer we got was ‘you should know this figure already. Don’t go asking other people from the years above you what the word limit is, because they won’t know the right amount.’ .. You know what, you’re right. They won’t know the amount if you gave them the same bloody answer you just gave us! Turns out, it was 5000-6000 words .. which was on the online teaching section of the website. Which, by the way, the lecturer we asked .. wrote. The mind boggles sometimes.

You leave where ever you’ve been all day, you get home and you think .. great, I get to sit down with a nice dinner .. this is going to be amazing. I love lasagne so much, I really can’t wait to eat this. Then you turn the news back on again. You begin to wish you hadn’t .. because it turns out all these companies couldn’t ‘clarify’ that the ‘beef’ in their ‘beef’ product .. was actually beef. The reason they couldn’t clarify it .. is because it wasn’t beef. It was horse, donkey and what was rumoured to be a host of other animals. What was missing? Beef. The one thing you assured us on the packaging, it was. Niiiiiiiice. I haven’t got a problem with it as such, because if it’s been going on all this time then I’ve probably eaten a horse, a dog, a cat, a rat and god knows what ever else .. the problem I have is that, it’s marketed as beef. We’re paying the price, because it’s beef. Don’t price it as something it’s not. And the packets, they need to ‘clarify’ what the meat ACTUALLY is .. not what it looks like.

Before you remember what you’re mouthing off about, you’ve scoffed your lasagne. Nevermind, you’ll just wake up feeling a little horse. I’m so sorry, I just had to!

But I feel I should do some clarifying of my own. And most of all, towards Luke. He felt a little bit like he had been left hanging from that last post, so I am here to make sure he knows where this is going aha ..

This blog is not going to be every day. This blog probably won’t even be once every few days. This blog will only have things posted when something interesting happens, or when I feel the need to type out endless ranting about something that ground my gears that day.

So there you have it .. a nice little late night rant .. hope you enjoy it!

Tom.

Tom Talks | New Beginnings

Well hello there .. haven’t done this for a little while, so excuse me if I’m a little rusty ..

I figured, seeing as my time is coming to an end at university and I’m going to be going out in to a world I haven’t yet had any experience of .. I’d start up another blog. Those of you that know me, will almost certainly know of the blog that I did about my life, every day for 550 days. I started that way back in 2011, March 12th to be exact. The reason behind that is because that lovely date is my birthday .. and for all those of you that are sat there reading this, and whom are ‘switched on’ as they say .. you’ll notice that March 12th, is reaaaally close.

That’ll mean I started my old blog, 2 years ago. Mental.

Needless to say, I ended that blog to concentrate on my university work. 550 days is a long time to be writing thousands of words on what I did during the course of each day, but I did it and I’d like to think I’m a better guy for so. But, seeing as all the university stuff is ending relatively soon, it’s time to start a blog up!

This won’t be an ‘everyday of my life’ kind of blog, it’ll be more about certain things that happen and that I want to talk about. It could be anything; the weather, how I feel, new music, an event that happened or even the boring bits like the current state of the economy .. aha, as if I’d write about that!

Stick around though, I’m sure there will be something eventually that you can have a read of and that you’ll actually like! And remember, as Craig Charles once said .. ‘if you don’t like it, spit it out.’

Speak to you all soon,

Tom.