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It’s your choice.
Sep 15th
Ok, so in the past hour or so I have taken a wee bit of flak from people on twitter, facebook etc. Why? Because I made a few jokes about Patrick Swayze dying. Those jokes were:
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All i have to say on the matter of Patrick Swayze being dead is that it has to be a lie.
Nobody puts Patrick in the coroner.
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Twitter is announcing Patrick Swayze as dead. Demi Moore’s new business said to be ready to produce lots of pottery with a silent partner.
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Patrick Swayze in final talks for a second movie. He is agreeing the final terms to appear in Ghost 2. His agent, Mystic Meg open for calls.
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Patrick Swayze’s last words reported to be: Dont worry, i dont mind being dead. I’ve had the time of my life.
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Jimmy: Prepare to die.
Dalton: You are such an asshole:
Shepy: Bet his advice is looking a lot more sensible right about now, eh?
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Am I heartless? Perhaps.
Is it insensitive? Perhaps.
Do I care? Not in the fucking slightest.
You see, I am a firm believer in only directly reacting to things that happen in my own life, things I experience, things that I should react to. I’ve never met Mr Swayze, I’ve never met any of his family, in fact as far as I know I have never even met anyone that has met him.
Why then should I feel any kind of remorse of the passing of a man that had zero influence in both my own life, and the lives of anyone I know?
Granted, having no remorse and openly mocking are poles apart, however I am a firm believer in the theory that “Anything is far game for comedy, as long as there is no malice”. I would quantify that “no malice” part in so much as anything I say here is essentially of no consequence, it can in no way affect ‘how dead’ he is, my refraining from these jokes is not going to bring him back to life.
Are the friends and family of Mr Swayze likely to be upset by his passing, sure! Are those people ever likely to look at my blog, twitter or facebook accounts? I sincerely doubt it. The chances of what I say reaching the eyes or ears of those directly affected are so very slim that they are almost incalculable.
Twitter, Facebook, reading a blog and essentially every other form of communication on the internet is very much a democratic system. Your vote is with your eyes. If you like the content, then you follow the person, add them as a friend or read their blog. If you don’t like the content then the answer is simple…don’t.
If you don’t like my tweets… unfollow me.
If you don’t like my status updates… unfriend me.
If you don’t like my blog posts… stop reading.
If you don’t like me…. go fuck yourself.
I have always, and will always, say what I like, I pride myself on being an open and honest person. To me that includes not censoring myself in a public forum, if you are too delicate to read these things then perhaps the internet is not the place for you.
No doubt I will lose a few readers, followers, friends, whatever. I could care less, for I know that those that DO chose to stick around do so because they are interested in what I have to say, my opinions, the real me. Not some false, fabricated and PG rated diluted version of my opinion.
To those reading this as their last communication from me: Sorry you didn’t appreciate my jokes or how opinionated I am, however I guess I won’t miss your friendship, we are obviously incompatible anyway.
For those sticking about: Cheers for appreciating when someone is joking, being able to distance yourself from the shock and awe of the daily mail type crowd, and congratulations on being able to form you own opinions, I look forward to talking to you next time.
~Shepy
Nürburgring 2008 Round Up
Jul 30th
Well, I have finally gotten round to sorting out all the pictures from the Nürburgring and uploaded them to my gallery.
Thankfully this year all of the cars that went out came back in the same condition as they went out in which we were all happy about, especially Martyn. He has had the misfortune of crashing on the ring in the last two years we have been out there. The hotel where we stayed is the Ringhaus, which has the hotel rooms named after corners on the circuit rather than being numbered. In 2006 Martyn was in the Hohe-Acht room and managed to crash on Hohe-Acht on his second lap out around the ring. Last year he was staying in Brünnchen and managed to crash on that corner as well. It had become a bit of a running joke that we were either going to make him stay in a tent, or ask Frank the hotelier to make sure his room was an easy corner or a straight. Thankfully there was no crash at all this year from our group, though there were plenty on the ring during the time we were there, partially because of the number of cars on the track for the BF Goodrich race on the Saturday and partially because of the wet conditions on some of the other days the general public were out on the track.
There were still a few strange goings on while we were out there, such as the decision not to go back to the Ringhaus again next year after a meal we ordered one night took nearly an hour to arrive and wasn’t even what we asked for. Also finding that the linen closet was wide open with a board with all the room keys hanging on it unattended means we will be looking for new accommodation for next year’s trip.
Also in the hotel at the same time as us was a bunch of other U.K. guys who were Audi fanatics, and as Glenn and I rounded one of the corners we spotted one of their cars pulled over at the side of the track with a guy projectile vomiting over the barrier. Thankfully I had camera in hand and managed to grab a quick snap or two of it for mockery purposes back in the hotel later on.
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