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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Well........it's gone half time and i have now turned over the channel, Liverpool, to my sadness, are being played of the park and i can't bear to watch it anymore as Milan go out onto the field for the second half with the intention off...and probably will adding to their 3:0 score line, the composed Liverpool team that kept Chelsea and Juventus in check is no where to be seen and the AC Milan team that oh so nearly got their ass kicked by PSV have been replaced by a sublime passing, very quick and strike deadly outfit that managed to score in about 50 seconds.
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Ignore that post from earlier, what the fuck do i know about football anyway. Liverpool emerged at half time a completely different side and after 4 mins Steven Gerrard headed home for 3:1, then a minute later Smicer smashes in a 25 yarder that Dida fumbles making it 3:2...then suddenly on 60 minutes Gerrard is brought down in the Milan box and Alonso scores on a rebound from the penalty spot...what an absolutely fantastic, edge of the seat comeback for the reds, Milan must have been wondering what the fuck was going wrong and it rocked them to the core, the bold and flashy AC Milan were gone, replaced by a very nervous team indeed.
Extra time saw a match of 2 very tired teams suffering from cramp but with the last 5 mins of extra time, just when Milan looked like scoring, Jerzy Dudek pulls out not one but two absolutely stunning saves to send the game to penalties.
With palms sweating as the shoot out got under way and Milan going first i noticed that Jerzy was going out of his way to make sure he handed the ball the player and eyeball him, then when he retreated to his goal he started waving his arms, jumping around and wobbling his legs...just like Bruce Grobbelaar did in 1984...it worked though with the first Milan player sending it sky wards, the second Milan player had it saved and finally Shevchenko had his saved turning Liverpool from campaign underdogs to European Champions of 2005.. and because they have now won it 5 times (only the third team to win it 5 times in it's history) they get to keep the cup.
I'm sorry i doubted it for a minute and i still can't believe it'd happened but i couldn't be more happier, the biggest travesty would be if UEFA don't let Liverpool in the competition next year to defend as champions[/edit]
Posted by Mark @ 09:02 PM GMT
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Because of a company (pay-day loans) being malicious enough to troll my website and post pointless comments to peddle their more than pointless service i have disabled comment posting in entries that pass into the archives...i have extended the amount of entries on the main page to 10 and these will be the only entries from now on that will accept comments, why do people/company's have to be complete and utter wankers to try and reach an audience that probably would have amounted to about 10 people...hope their company's goes bust and they all fucking die.
Posted by Mark @ 10:15 PM GMT
Monday, May 23, 2005
Had an interesting day at Asda today, turned up for work at 6am this morning to find all the night staff and a few staff that start at the same time as i do all assembled outside and a fire truck at the back of the building.
Turns out that a faulty light bulb in the George clothing department had set fire to some clothes and had someone not seen it by chance (George department is in a corner of the store and does not have night staff) then Asda Blackpool might not have been saved.
So there i was cursing the fact that i could of had a lye in this morning waiting for the all clear to get to work which didn't come till about 8/8:30am which meant i had to work my bollocks of to get the delivery out onto the shelves before we opened at 9:30am and that although the thick smoke had now cleared with a little help from the air conditioning the air was still heavy with the smell and taste of chargrilled cotton on a bed of cous-cous.
I suppose the most alarming thing of all is that despite the fact that we have heat sensors and sprinklers though-out the building, not one was set off by the heat of the fire and the fire alarm only came on with a bit of prompting.
On another subject is the story this morning in the popular morning tabloid The Sun. On the front page they have 3 young children.....sorry, mothers who all belong to the same family and have given birth to their progeny at the age's of 12, 14 and 16 respectively...inside the so called mother goes on the blame the shortcoming's of the sex education syllabus in schools for her slapper daughters getting knocked up and not, as i would suggest, her complete lack of ability at being a mother, responsible adult and single most important caretaker of her children's future...this family alone rips of us responsible working adults benefits to the tune of over £31,000 a year, all because their mother chooses to pass the buck instead of educating her children in how to keep their legs closed.
Posted by Mark @ 03:43 PM GMT
Friday, May 20, 2005
I got to see Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith yesturday...along with the wife as we managed to get someone to babysit Aaron and i have to say that i enjoyed it immensely.
Warning: Spoiler Alert
The darkest of all six films, it had some wonderfully choreographed fight scenes and Ian McDiarmid as Darth Sidious really hammed it up as the villain to wonderful affect, i was rather disappointed with General Grievous as he had so much potential to be a super villain but just seemed to run away all the time and was rather easily killed by Obi-Wan.
Count Dooku also never lasted long when he got into a fight with the now more powerful Anakin Skywalker and got his hands sliced off.
Perhaps the most disturbing part off the film was the systematic extermination of the Jedi's starting with Mace Windu and 4 other Jedi's when they went to arrest Chancellor Palpatine once they knew he was the Sith Lord...Palpatine easily dispatched the 4 Jedi's before his epic battle with Windu which Palpatine seemed to be losing and it was Anakins intervention at the end which cost Windu his life.
After that the clone armies previously loyal to the Jedi turned on their Jedi commanders and slaughtered them one by one as Anakin went into the Jedi Temple and killed all the young students (possibly the darkest and most distressing part of the film).
The final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin..who had by now become a Sith apprentice and had been named Darth Vader by the now disfigured Palpatine was great and only when Obi-Wan gained the tactical advantage did Vader make his mistake that ended the battle leaving Vader virtually limbless and on fire from the lava he had slipped into.
As Obi-Wan left him to die, only Vader's rage kept him alive long enough for Darth Sidious to come to his rescue and save his life with the help of new robotic limbs, implants and the big black life support suit. The part where you see his mask being lowered onto his face is great, there is complete silence for a few seconds and then he starts to make that infamous breathing sound...pure class.
The film is wrapped up nicely with Padmé dieing in child birth after naming her children Luke and Leia, the children being split up to protect them as Leia goes to Alderaan as a member of the royal family and Luke is packed off to his family on Tatooine (which i'm sure Vader would have found quite easy to trace) with Obi-Wan hiding in exile nearby to watch over him and Yoda going into exile on Dagobah where he would wait for Luke when he was old enough.
All in all i think Lucas has redeemed himself somewhat with this last film and i believe it is as good as Empire Strikes Back...i'm sure many people would dispute this but i think you have to bare in mind that most of the people who have slated these new films are still stuck with the impressions of a youngster seeing what was at the time groundbreaking sci-fi....now as adults they go to see these new films with pre-conceived notions, opinions and ideology's of what the films should be like based on the youthful experience of the first 3 titans of cinematography and come away with overly critical side swipes.
It's entertainment, it's Lucas telling a story using the best technology he has available to him to get his vision across and yes, there are inconsistencies with the acting and continuity flaws between the first 3 and last 3 films but tell me any franchise that hasn't got them...enjoy them for what they are...an epic tale of pure entertainment.
Posted by Mark @ 11:23 AM GMT
Monday, May 16, 2005
Well, Star Wars III is out on Thursday and as it's my day off and the kids will still be in school i have decided to catch the very first screening of it at 10:15 while leaving Fliss to look after Aaron...i have read many reviews of mixed reactions from so called experts and fans but personally i am looking forward to it.
Sometimes you can be to over critical of a film and watch it with preconceived opinions and expectations instead of enjoying it for what it is..pure entertainment. I suppose that after Lucas has finished re mastering the originals...again....and touching up and polishing all six films and then releasing..hopefully, the entire collection in a complete box set he will turn his attention to his new baby...3D cinematography, in which..yes, you guessed it, he will re-master each and every Star Wars movie again in fully fledged 3D that you will only be able to view at picture houses that have the necessary projector to screen them, then the full horror of Jar Jar Binks shall be revealed.....
Posted by Mark @ 08:15 PM GMT
Sunday, May 15, 2005
OMG!!! i want one....with the onset of my 35th birthday and the yearning for the lost years of childhood and the fact that i'm a bit of Star Wars fan i visited this website and was instantly hooked.
It's completely impractical, very expensive and astoundingly childish but i feel the need to own one...a red one....and then dress up as Darth Vader and wander the streets at night pissing myself with laughter....ok, maybe not but the force is strong in this young apprentice.
In fact, most of the stuff on Firebox seems quite cool...i also like the VolP Cyberphone...would be very cool if say you and a friend were playing an online game and wanted to chat verbally while playing..at absolutely no cost... 
..check it out.
Posted by Mark @ 03:07 PM GMT
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Seems that the whole Procter family (well, the Blackpool based one anyway) has come down with a bit of the old cold leaving us all a bit tired, stuffy and sniffly. My right eye puffed up like a balloon last night which was uncomfortable to say the least and Aaron has produced more snot in the last three days than i've seen in my life...and because he can't blow his nose yet it just tends to run down his face and drip...that, of course is providing he hasn't crawled over to where we are sat and wiped his face all over our laps and legs...
It also means that Aaron has had a few restless nights because of his blocked nose which means that we have also had some restless nights when he wakes up crying, isn't parenting fun.
Still, on a plus note is the fact that me and the wife are all set for our little excursion to Cyprus next year for Lee and Sam's wedding..holidays is booked and to be honest it can't come round fast enough. This will be our first holiday abroad since our honeymoon which will make it 5 years next year.
P.s Lee, have you got Galactic Battlegrounds yet?? i'm getting bored of kicking Chris's arse 
Posted by Mark @ 09:12 PM GMT
Friday, May 6, 2005
Well, the slimy lying bastards have won again...i know there's not exactly much to choose from the rest of the party's but come one...Blairs had 2 terms to sort out the stuff he said he was going to sort out 8 years ago and yet key issues like the NHS and immigration continue to get worse, there's only so long that you can continue to blame the previous goverment......
For all those that voted Labour, don't say you weren't warned when you find that they have invented several more tax's as well as increasing the one's we've already got, when we get forced into the EU Constitution by a man driven by the ego of recorded history, when we get saddled with the awful EURO, when deaths from infection in hospitals hits 500,000 a year, when petrol goes past £1 a litre, when you come to sell your home but no one wants to buy it because gypsies have set up camp on the local green and the government refuses to act because of the human rights act, when every mile of road in the country has a camera on it and when immigrants, whether legal or not, are allowed to sponge of the welfare state without being of any economical benefit to this country and whole borough's turn into small foreign country's.
Put it this way, i don't believe the Torys...or Lib Dem's for that matter could have fucked this country up any worse...same wrapper, different flavour.
Anyway..i wonder how many countries were going to invade in the next four years to increase Blair's world profile, i suppose it depends on whether more military cut backs means our armed forces going into battle with slingshots.
Posted by Mark @ 08:42 AM GMT
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Can't possibly describe how elated i am that Liverpool FC are through to the final of the Champions League Cup after beating the so called mighty Chelsea 1-0....it's so much more than just getting to the final, it's the pure delight at stopping Chelsea from getting the treble and shoving those 'we will win' comments and 'were the best' comments back down their throats.....If we lose to AC Milan i won't shed a tear....the job is done
Of course all were gonna hear for the next tens years now is about the validity of the goal but by rights they should of been down to ten men after that blatant foul by Cech....
Posted by Mark @ 09:47 PM GMT
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