The Butterfly
A certain student teacher at my school known as Mr Carter (aka Bullet Proof) is in a band called The Butterfly. This band won a competition called BYT (Bright Young Things) and furthermore got to play in a gig for BYT 2006 as they are one of the new promising bands coming out of Leeds. Knowing this I went to see them live with a load of friends except the friends didn’t turn up except Browny who turned up late as he had forgotten to move his clock forward an hour.
Anyway the band were really good live and produced a great performance. I think you should all visit their myspace and also their website thebutterfly.co.uk
I will leave you with a couple of photos taken from the gig.
Checking Out the Bike
It was a nice day today and I felt it was about time that I went under the garage to have a look at what state the old bike is in. Last I remember it had a bit of rust on it and I remember the front brake not being so good. From what I remembered I believed I could easily fix the few problems and go out for a bit of a ride.
But alas my problems were far worse. I would like to just state that my bike is in fact a BMX and I was given it on my 13th birthday. Anyway turns out my bike has a front flat tyre with the wheel needing to be tightened; front brake is jammed and cannot be used to slow the bike down; bake crake has snapped and the thing is covered in rust.
I think I have come to the conclusion that my bike is fucked and that I need a new one so I might start the “buy Tom a new bike” campaign where random rich people give me money to buy a new bike, think it will work?
The Rules of Hardcore
That is right people the rules you have all been looking for are finally here…The Rules of Hardcore. Ever thought there was something missing in your life or not completely sure who you are? Well look at these simple rules and if you meet them you know if you are living the hardcore lifestyle or not.
The hardcore lifestyle has previously been mentioned by Frans who could not keep up his “hardcore lifestyle” as he forgot he was trying to do it.
Anyway these rules where mainly written by me but Starkey helped with a number of them as well. He has also decided that we are sensays and that you should bow to your sensays. Bow down to me now bitch. Also please note that the list of rules maybe changed at anytime so if unsure check back to make sure you have the most up-to-date copy.
The Rules of Hardcore by McKee and Starkay
- Not everything is hardcore
- Gay stuff can never be hardcore- whatever the circumstances
- Weights sessions are hardcore if you do something stupidly difficult
- An event is hardcore if it was fucked up in some way
- You cannot call yourself hardcore- you either are hardcore or your not
- If you crash your car it’s going to of been hardcore
i. Crashing into a car such as a Porsche is definitely hardcore
ii. Crashing into a volvo is fucking retarded, not hardcore - Drinking yourself to the point of unconsciousness is not hardcore- just
fucking stupid - If you think you’re hardcore but not sure then you’re not
- Pushing stuff to the max is hardcore
- Rex Kwan Doe is hardcore (only if you can do good impressions and actually
know who he is) - St Paddy’s day and 3 day weekends are the national hardcore drinking
times - Hitting people in the bollocks is never hardcore
- Eating 2 boxes of Fabs is hardcore (especially in Winter)
- Playing Gallic Football in the snow for an hour is hardcore
- Dancing for 5 hours is hardcore
- Drugs aren’t hardcore, funny or in fact cool
- If you are female, by definition you cannot be hardcore
- French, Americans and possibly Germans will never be hardcore
- The ability to slam a revolving door is hardcore
- Going to a private school reduces your hardcore ability. Going to a
public (not state) school means you can never be hardcore - however hard you
try. Posh states schools also reduce hardcore ability - Do not confuse retarded actions with hardcore moves
- Gangster rap will never be hardcore, neither will Eminem
- If you say something is hardcore and it blatantly isn’t you should chop
your hand off in shame - If you call these rules sexist then you’re not hardcore
- Shaking your fist in an appropriate manner is hardcore
- Complaining about the sensays or the rules isn’t hardcore
- Being 15 with 3 kids isn’t hardcore just very slutty
- Chavs are not hardcore
- Norman who works at Vue in Leeds is hardcore and a legend
- Robbing garden centre’s which are closing down and selling the goods on ebay is hardcore
- Having a fire in sleet is hardcore
Increased Police Presence
I have noticed over the past few weeks that there are a lot more police patrolling the village I live in and also the local town. This is mainly because of a UK craze known as the “Chav”. Now I can understand people who dress up in tracksuits, wear fake jewlerry, fake burberry and drink cheap cider who genuinly have little money but why oh why would you dress like this when you are minted? On top of this people seem to think this is cool but I don’t know.
Anyway there are a lot of chavs about where I live and they seem to think they can win any fight and do what they want. The police are no patrolling the local area and arresting these rich bastards and giving them asbos and rightly so.
I just felt I would mention this to people as it is something I noticed and I really noticed the police presence when my mate got stopped for having someone hanging out of his car window but that is another story and involves how this extra police presence has made the police more bored and think it’s funny to be over aggressive until it back-fires at them.
1 Month No Drink
That’s right I went for a whole month without consuming a drop of alcohol. To those who are not yet of age to buy alcohol legally this may not see like a big deal but to me it is. Staying “T-Total” when I could quite easily go down the pub for a quick pint is a lot harder than it sounds, especially when all of your mates around you are drinking as well.
However my lack of drinking has caused me to remember every night out I’ve been on when everyone else has been drinking and I haven’t been drinking as well as saved me quite a bit of money.
The weird thing in all this is that on Saturday I was feeling really tired and not very well but I still went out for my friends birthday and had a couple of drinks. When I got home I felt better and my mum said I looked better. Maybe I was suffering from withdrawl symptons from not drinking? Who knows.
Exam Results
Today I received the results for my AS-Level resits and also a A2 exam and a cousework module. I am now going to attempt to briefly explain the system of the final 2 years of school (years 12 and 13). In year 12 you study for AS levels which are the equivalent of half an A2 (or A-Level). AS level is broken up into 3 units where 1 unit can be a coursework unit. At Christmas time students may take an exam for unit 1 as that is naturally the first unit you learn. The general idea is that you do bad in this exam you retake it in the summer along with units 2 and 3 (unless one of them was a coursework module).
This is more or less the same for A2 except you can still resit AS units when you are in year 13. In the summer for year 12 I didn’t do very well and ended up with B (maths), D (business studies) and D (ICT) so I decided to resit a few modules in each subject (2 in business, 1 in maths and 1 in ICT) along with doing unit 4 (A2 module) in business this Christmas.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at what I have now exam result wise and I am happy. A break down of what I have is below.
Maths
C1 - 80/100 (A)
C2 - 87/100 (A)
S1 - 74/100 (B)
Total - 241/300 (A at AS Level)
Business Studies
Unit 1 - 70/90 (B)
Unit 2 - 65/90 (B)
Unit 3 - 95/120 (B)
Total - 230/300 (B at AS Level)
Unit 4 - 63/90 (B)
Unit 5 (coursework) - 73/90 (A)
Unit 6 - not done yet
Total - 366/600 (C at A Level)
ICT
Unit 1 - 61/90 (B)
Unit 2 - 68/90 (B)
Unit 3 (coursework) - 68/120 (D)
Total - 197/300 (C at AS Level)
Feel free to buy me alcohol and thank me at anytime.
