The Megaphone : A Debate Blog

So as of this Sunday smoking in public places such as pubs, clubs and restaurants will be officially as illegal as killing someone is. What does everyone think about this.

I have mentioned this here before that most of the facts I spurt out are completely unfounded and usually just things I vaguely remember hearing. So here’s one. I heard that there is no substantial evidence that passive smoking causes serious harm… this may not be true.

What does everyone think. Is it a good thing or is it going to ruin the infamous “smoky atmosphere” British people have kind of romanticised about it’s small local pubs.

As a non smoker I think it’s a good thing cause your clothes and hair doesn’t stink when your hungover and the last thing you want to smell is smoke.

When I was in New York you couldn’t smoke in the pubs and I think it aided in not giving you as bad a hangover. Also the smokers liked it because they had their own little cool kids smoking gang thing going on outside.

What do you think… is the smoking ban good or bad?

They say “the best things in life are free”. I think this statement is a load of crap. Apart from the absolutely amazing Ray Spinto dice game I got at a Spinto Band show, I can’t remember ever getting anything free that wasn’t rubbish.

Can anyone tell me where I can get some cool new free stuff. What’s “the best thing” in your life that was free?* Or do you also believe “you don’t get anything in this life for nowt”?

Comments below… you know the drill

* Obviously people and emotions and sexual intercourse (that wasn’t paid for) don’t count in my survey… I’m a bloke I want material possessions.

Today I want to get hypothetical on yo’ asses… because this is not a real offer. I’m not really some big Mafia type with massive amounts of money, despite what I’m sure you were all thinking.

So I present you with the question, would you accept £8 million to deliver a box to say… Russia. You don’t know exactly what is in this box, but the people you are dealing with are sneaky scary types and for that amount of money you know it will be used for no good… maybe terrorism.

The things to think about here are:
• You could live the rest off your sunny days in Orange County sleeping with beautiful Mischa Barton types (or Adam Brody if you don’t have a penis… or even if you do… you know what I mean), not really knowing what you contributed to.
• It might just be a precious tea pot that you are delivering.
• You might be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people… people with wives and kids and jobs helping poor homeless people get their lives back on track.

So what would you do? Deal or no Deal?

I must accept my first complaint, courtesy of Rhys as a compliment… someone actually cares if I update this sucker. For like the third time in a row I must apologise for the lack of nu-posts, next week I intend to get back on the tri-weekly post bandwagon, thank you for your patience… or lack there of in Rhys’ case.

Today I want to talk about karma.

I am a big fan of My Name is Earl, despite it’s suspected scientology propaganda undertones… which I will discuss no further. Earl lives his life by the motto “Do good things and good things will happen to you. Do bad things and it will come back to haunt you”.

Do you believe in karma, or is it all pure coincidence.

I believe that karma comes back and bites me on the ass ten times harder than it should… sorry for the disturbing mental picture. There are numerous examples of this that I could tell you about, but let me just tell you about the latest incident.

On Sunday I went to watch my friend’s band. Almost as soon as I walked through the door a kind woman walked up to me and handed me £5 saying “I walked in behind you and I think you dropped this”. I do lose money all the time and I knew I had at least one £5 note in my pocket earlier so I said “thank you very much”.

The next time I reached into my pocket I realised I had two £5 notes in my pocket, and started thinking maybe that wasn’t my £5. My friend said “if it wasn’t yours then karma will make you lose £5 at some point in the near future”. But here’s where the “ten times harder” bit comes in.

Today I had a freak burst tire on Mariah (my car). Karma had only gone and hammered a massive nail into it… proving that the £5 couldn’t have been mine, and it is going to cost me way more than £5 to fix said tyre… which proves two things. Thing the first, I need to do more good deeds and thing the second ain’t karma a bitch.

First I must again apologise for the lack of postage on the blog front this week, my boss has been making me work like a sonovabitch.

I want to know all about your pet peeves today.

I have absolutely loads of these… far too many to mention on this post. I blame being a designer on the fact I am a perfectionist to the point of having mild obsessive compulsive disorder. In my career everything has to look right. Unfortunately this has spilled over into real life and I have to make things look “right”.

The worst pet peeves of mine are to do with the way things look. If I go to a party I will ask if I can read the cards on the mantle piece so I can put them all back at the perfect angle… I know it’s weird, leave me alone. I also have to have the bed made really neatly… but I’m not a hygiene freak, it just has to look “right”.

I’m not as bad as my friend who couldn’t get to sleep because he knew there was a bit of fluff on the living room carpet, but he couldn’t get up to move it because he was too tired… that’s weird.

I have others like people not using their winkers when driving. Old(ish) people who call you dude thinking you will be like “wow, he’s down with the kids”… I need to stop or I will get angry.

Also what are your opinions on the big news stories like Paris getting out of jail free and Emily saying the ‘n’ word and getting kicked off Big Brother?

Shout me a holler boyee…

Wednesday night saw the horror of the evil Big Brother takeover begin. I do believe Channel 4 will have me hooked on this programme no matter how much I tell myself I hate it. The person who is really grinding my gears at the moment is the posh conservative voting “there’s this new kind of music it’s called indie”, Emily. What’s that you say… indie? No way, where can I hear me some of that oh wise one? For someone who claims to be uber intelligent that is something pretty moronic to say.

Anyway despite getting me really annoyed, she did provide me with today’s question. Upon entering the house we were told some of the contestants answers to quick fire questions. One of the questions was “what is you favourite word?” and her favourite word was “hoodwink” which really is a good word.

So in another blatant act of plagiarism I ask you all what is your favourite word?

I have many favourite words… is that really geeky I’m not sure… also not bothered. So I like moron. I also really like zealous mainly because it is a z word. I really like tryst too, because it is a nice sounding word and has a nice meaning. I also like uber, which is not an English word, but is still ace. I really overuse the word bizarre, which I used to think was a good word, but now I’m just trying to phase it out of my vocabulary.

I’m sure you guys will like far superior words to me… I am Welsh.