Hello again for those who missed me... Anyone? At all? No, okay I'll carry on then.
I was watching a kind of behind the scenes documentary type thing for a certain comedian (who shall remain nameless) tour a few years ago, and I couldn't help noticing a strange trend that has suddenly started from no where. I'm of course referring to the strange trend of people proposing to their partners in front of a few thousand people.
Why? Is your typical restaurant not goo enough now? Will you not look enough of a prat if you just propose in front of a few people, and get turned down imagine the pain you would feel if you we're rejected in front of 15,000 people, and even worse you have to drive home with them afterwards!
Not to mention the poor act on stage, he'll have to be pretty amazing to make people remember him, even if he did people's ever lasting memory of that fateful night would be some love struck sap who had his heart snapped in two while a comedian and 15,000 other people watched, no matter how good you are they'll never forget that.
You'll all be surprised now to know that I am in a relationship, with a lovely woman (I know, shocking isn't it?) so this isn't jealousy talking. If I am too propose one day, which I highly doubt given my views on marriage, I'll do it in the now traditional British way, in McDonald's over a Big Ma and fries.
Friday, 25 January 2013
Thursday, 7 June 2012
The dwarves have it easy.
As many of you have taken the joy of pointing out (repeatedly and annoyingly) I am very tall. 6 foot 5 inches to be precise, every time I meet someone new, this is the first thing they notice.
Trust me, you wouldn't. And here's why. As a result of my large height and build, it means I have large sizes in all things: t shirts, trousers, shoes and even rings, to the point where it is almost impossible to walk into a shop and buy an item of clothing, like any normal person.
Let's take for example, shoes. I take a uk size 15 shoe (yes 15) this means when I walk into a shop and ask whether they have a shoe in my size, I am met with a slack jaw, gormless expression and an absent: "what?" this means I must go to the Internet, where even there, choice is limited, hence why I only own one pair of shoes, and one pair of trainers. However Johnny dwarf can walk into any show he wants and purchase clothing or shoes, thank to the miracle that is the kid's section (or equality as the government call it) well where is equality for the tall? Where is the section for us giants?
The most recent case of this is when I tried to purchase a ring for myself recently, again I take a large size (x or y for those keeping track) and even though it says in the brochure: 'available in sizes r-z' they didn't have my size, as usual.
Trust me, you wouldn't. And here's why. As a result of my large height and build, it means I have large sizes in all things: t shirts, trousers, shoes and even rings, to the point where it is almost impossible to walk into a shop and buy an item of clothing, like any normal person.
Let's take for example, shoes. I take a uk size 15 shoe (yes 15) this means when I walk into a shop and ask whether they have a shoe in my size, I am met with a slack jaw, gormless expression and an absent: "what?" this means I must go to the Internet, where even there, choice is limited, hence why I only own one pair of shoes, and one pair of trainers. However Johnny dwarf can walk into any show he wants and purchase clothing or shoes, thank to the miracle that is the kid's section (or equality as the government call it) well where is equality for the tall? Where is the section for us giants?
The most recent case of this is when I tried to purchase a ring for myself recently, again I take a large size (x or y for those keeping track) and even though it says in the brochure: 'available in sizes r-z' they didn't have my size, as usual.
Monday, 20 February 2012
Come With Me, and Together We'll Save the Great British Pub. (And the Economy)
As many people know, I don't smoke. And unless some deranged killer puts my entire family on a guillotine and threatens them with death unless I smoke a Lambert and Butler, I never will be.
This being said, I completely oppose our smoking ban, which for some reason, doesn't include the pub in the House of Commons, one rule for us, another for them. It is the height of governmental stupidity of men in anoraks and high-vis jackets churning out health and safety rules quicker than the banks lose our money, telling us how to live our lives and what to do.
And this dictated decree is killing one of Britain's proudest and most affluant culture's: The Great British Pub. Think about it, before the smoking ban, there was literally a pub on every corner, making our ecomony millions, and keeping us above water basically. But as soon as our government detected another way of spoiling peoples fun, here we are now in 2012, 4 years after the ban came into order, and 100 pubs are closing every week, and the country has no money.
Now, I'm not the brightest fork in the spanner drawer, but even I can tell you that banning something in a public area which makes you millions, perhaps even billions every year, is stupid. Then I would give you a pound and send you down the shops to buy sweets, because you'd have to be a child to suggest it in the first place.
Sort it out, please, and all of a sudden Britain will have more money, it's that easy.
This being said, I completely oppose our smoking ban, which for some reason, doesn't include the pub in the House of Commons, one rule for us, another for them. It is the height of governmental stupidity of men in anoraks and high-vis jackets churning out health and safety rules quicker than the banks lose our money, telling us how to live our lives and what to do.
And this dictated decree is killing one of Britain's proudest and most affluant culture's: The Great British Pub. Think about it, before the smoking ban, there was literally a pub on every corner, making our ecomony millions, and keeping us above water basically. But as soon as our government detected another way of spoiling peoples fun, here we are now in 2012, 4 years after the ban came into order, and 100 pubs are closing every week, and the country has no money.
Now, I'm not the brightest fork in the spanner drawer, but even I can tell you that banning something in a public area which makes you millions, perhaps even billions every year, is stupid. Then I would give you a pound and send you down the shops to buy sweets, because you'd have to be a child to suggest it in the first place.
Sort it out, please, and all of a sudden Britain will have more money, it's that easy.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
T.W.A.T.K.H Awards 2011 (AKA Happy New Year!)
(Generic announcer voice) Ladies and gentleman, please take your seats at the T.W.A.T Awards 2011, as we introduce, the host who can boast the most roast, the man we all know and love, ladies and gentleman, it's Mr. Ken Hawkins!!
(Me) Thank you! Oh, your too kind for your raptourous applause. What a year it's been this year, TV exectutives were in deep trouble for showing a man dying on live TV, although to be honest I didn't think Peter Kay's Royal Variety hosting was THAT bad. (Much laughter) I laughed as well, and the world watched in shock as angry protesters rioted angrily in London, yep, this years guests on Question Time were brutal.
And with the laughter out of the way, we move on to the awards, you are reading what is undoubtably the longest blog on this page, the winners were decided by The Academy of Ken, by that I mean me, Elvis and Michael Jackson. As well as one people's choice award.
Our First Award is Moron of the Year, this year it has been a hardly contested category, consisting of: Everyone's favourite Lepracaun Louis Walsh, 70-odd year old sex god and country bankrupter Sylvio Berlasconi, Welsh footballing love rat Ryan Giggs and the most famous Tory suck up since David Dimbleby, Nick Clegg.
And the winner is... Nick Clegg! Sadly, Nick can't be with us to pick up his award, but he did sent us a note, which reads as follows: "Dear Ken, sorry I couldn't pick up my award, but I'm too busy making the tea for Mr.Cameron, and this maid outfit chafes dreadfully." Well Done Cleggy!
Our next award is a more serious one, Album of the Year, as my regular reader (hello Josh) knows I'm a big music fan so this is a big honour. The nominees are: Noel Gallegher's High Flying Bird's self titled debut album, Adele's record-breaking album 21, Canadian Crooner Michael Buble's festive offering Christmas and the much anticipated Born This Way from Lady GaGa.
And the winner is... Adele, for her frankly brilliant album 21, a fantastic album.
This leads us to award number three, sticking along the same lines as the last one, but this time, it's Film of the Year. This honours 2011's great films, ranging from comedy to action, the nominees are: The highest grossing comedy of the year The Inbetweeners Movie, eagerly awaited sequel The Hangover Part II, the series concluding multi-billion dollar blockbuster Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and action packed sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
And the winner is... The brilliant, tear jearking and wonderfully enotional Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the deserved winner.
An award ceremony wouldn't be complete without a lifetime achievement award. Mine is no different. This man, is approaching his 50th birthday, although you would never think to look at him, at least one of his films have a special place in everyone's heart, be it his brilliant comedy acting in films such as The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber or his Golden Globe winning dramas: The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, this man is my personal idol, and I own everything he's ever done, and will follow him until his retirement, ladies and gentleman, Jim Carrey!
Now, this next award is unique to my awards, nobody honours their fans and followers with awards, I'm different however as this award is T.W.A.T.K.H Follower of the Year. And this particular guy, I've known him for longer than I care to think of, he's read and enjoyed every one of me blogs, even being the only person voting in the people's choice award, a lovely guy, who I promise to him will enjoy my rants for many years, Josh Skerrett, you deserve this, unfortunately, he didn't prepare a speech, however I know he's over the moon with the award.
Now we move to the I Didn't See That Coming Award, covering the shocking storys of this year, nominated are: The death of Bin Laden, Westlife announcing their split, Take That's mammoth ticket sales and the devestation of the Japan Floods.
And the winner is... Westlife announcing their split, devestating news, thankfully, I will be seeing them live on their farewell tour so not all bad news!
One of our man awards of these is Man of the Year, which is the one we come too now, the nominees are: Michael Buble, Jeremy Clarkson, The Go Compare Man and Gary Barlow. A tight category as you can see.
And the winner is... Jeremy Clarkson, I still love him, plus this one will cause more controversy, so I'm all for it.
Now we move onto the last award... of set A, the People's Choice Award, voted for by a grand total of one person (Josh) so our unanimous winner is... Let's All Riot, Because We're Mindless Sheep, dated 23rd August, I must say, one of my favourites too.
Onto Set B, and the Charlie Sheen Winner Of The Year, an award named after the biggest winner of all, Charlie (who is also nominated). Here are the nominees: Charlie Sheen, Best Actor Oscar Winner Colin Firth, ancient football manager Sir Alex Ferguson and WWE superstar and current champion Phillip Brooks (known as CM Punk).
And the winner is... Phillip Brooks, not only has he won the title twice this year, he also went against the system and walked out with their title back in July. Fight The Power.
Serious again with TV Show of the Year, we've had a good year for TV this year, let's look at the nominees: An Idiot Abroad 2, Life's Too Short, Two and a Half Men and Shooting Stars.
And the winner is... An Idiot Abroad 2, another brilliantly funny series from Master Manc, Karl Pilkington.
The next award is for Dated Reality Show, because let's face it they're getting old. The nominees: Big Brother, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celebrity...
And the winner is... The X Factor, come on Simon, sort it out.
We all enjoy a laugh, none more than me, except my wife, and some of her friends (shameful Monty Python referance, I know) so that said, Comedian of the Year, the nominees: Chimpius Sweatius Lee Evans, He was back on nights Peter Kay, John Bishop and Micky Flanagan.
And the winner is... Lee Evans, I saw him live back in november, he's still as brilliant and energetic as ever, after nearly 25 years.
Now an award dear to my own heart, The Best Awards Award, a category that the graceful academy has seen fit to nominate this very ceremony in. Here are our nominees: The BAFTA's, The Oscars, British Comedy Awards and T.W.A.T.K.H Awards 2011.
And the winner is... The T.W.A.T.K.H Awards 2011, I'm chuffed, I truly am, I'd like to thank the academy...
And we move into the final set of awards Set C. We start the end with The Rock God Award, this is awarded to someone who I believe has achieved god-like status, over the past year and beyond (the realms of death). The nominees are: Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson and Jon Bon Jovi.
And the winner is... Rob Halford, the man's 60, and he's on a world tour that started in April, and won't finish until next July, now THAT is dedication.
Sticking with music, the next award is for Timeless Album, the nominees are: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, British Steel, Paranoid and Blizzard Of Ozz.
And the winner is... Sgt. Peppers, there could only be one winner really.
And now for Comeback Of The Year, now there are no nominees for this as I was keeping the winner a secret, here's the story: Way back in 1968 in Birmingham, four men formed a band which would go on to change the face of music, these men were: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill. Unfortunately in 1969 the band split, but on 11-11-11 in New York, Black Sabbath announced they were returning for a new album, world tour and to headline Download Festival 2012, So Comeback of the Year, Black Sabbath.
This year we have lost many people valuable to us, musically, actor or otherwise, and as much as I'd like to produce a slickly made video documenting who we've lost I'm just going to give an award In Memorium, to a singer who although battling her own demons, produced two fantastic albums, with a voice belonging in a smoky Jazz bar in New Orleans, this award goes to Amy Winehouse.
Now to the final award, I hope you've enjoyed reading the awards, and look forward to a new year where I can give out more pointless gongs. My Final Award is for Godlike Status, the nominees are: Charlie Sheen, Lee Evans, Ozzy Osbourne and Sir Paul McCarteney.
And the winner is.. Lee Evans, scooping his second award of the evening the only multi-winner, I'm sure he'll be proud of this fact.
And that's that, this year's been a blast, not just blog wise but personally for me, I've left school, started college, seen a whole new personality bloom, I hope next year will be just as good, and to all of you a very Happy New Year, as I Ken Hawkins, sign of for 2011.
Peace and Love
(Me) Thank you! Oh, your too kind for your raptourous applause. What a year it's been this year, TV exectutives were in deep trouble for showing a man dying on live TV, although to be honest I didn't think Peter Kay's Royal Variety hosting was THAT bad. (Much laughter) I laughed as well, and the world watched in shock as angry protesters rioted angrily in London, yep, this years guests on Question Time were brutal.
And with the laughter out of the way, we move on to the awards, you are reading what is undoubtably the longest blog on this page, the winners were decided by The Academy of Ken, by that I mean me, Elvis and Michael Jackson. As well as one people's choice award.
Our First Award is Moron of the Year, this year it has been a hardly contested category, consisting of: Everyone's favourite Lepracaun Louis Walsh, 70-odd year old sex god and country bankrupter Sylvio Berlasconi, Welsh footballing love rat Ryan Giggs and the most famous Tory suck up since David Dimbleby, Nick Clegg.
And the winner is... Nick Clegg! Sadly, Nick can't be with us to pick up his award, but he did sent us a note, which reads as follows: "Dear Ken, sorry I couldn't pick up my award, but I'm too busy making the tea for Mr.Cameron, and this maid outfit chafes dreadfully." Well Done Cleggy!
Our next award is a more serious one, Album of the Year, as my regular reader (hello Josh) knows I'm a big music fan so this is a big honour. The nominees are: Noel Gallegher's High Flying Bird's self titled debut album, Adele's record-breaking album 21, Canadian Crooner Michael Buble's festive offering Christmas and the much anticipated Born This Way from Lady GaGa.
And the winner is... Adele, for her frankly brilliant album 21, a fantastic album.
This leads us to award number three, sticking along the same lines as the last one, but this time, it's Film of the Year. This honours 2011's great films, ranging from comedy to action, the nominees are: The highest grossing comedy of the year The Inbetweeners Movie, eagerly awaited sequel The Hangover Part II, the series concluding multi-billion dollar blockbuster Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and action packed sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
And the winner is... The brilliant, tear jearking and wonderfully enotional Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the deserved winner.
An award ceremony wouldn't be complete without a lifetime achievement award. Mine is no different. This man, is approaching his 50th birthday, although you would never think to look at him, at least one of his films have a special place in everyone's heart, be it his brilliant comedy acting in films such as The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber or his Golden Globe winning dramas: The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, this man is my personal idol, and I own everything he's ever done, and will follow him until his retirement, ladies and gentleman, Jim Carrey!
Now, this next award is unique to my awards, nobody honours their fans and followers with awards, I'm different however as this award is T.W.A.T.K.H Follower of the Year. And this particular guy, I've known him for longer than I care to think of, he's read and enjoyed every one of me blogs, even being the only person voting in the people's choice award, a lovely guy, who I promise to him will enjoy my rants for many years, Josh Skerrett, you deserve this, unfortunately, he didn't prepare a speech, however I know he's over the moon with the award.
Now we move to the I Didn't See That Coming Award, covering the shocking storys of this year, nominated are: The death of Bin Laden, Westlife announcing their split, Take That's mammoth ticket sales and the devestation of the Japan Floods.
And the winner is... Westlife announcing their split, devestating news, thankfully, I will be seeing them live on their farewell tour so not all bad news!
One of our man awards of these is Man of the Year, which is the one we come too now, the nominees are: Michael Buble, Jeremy Clarkson, The Go Compare Man and Gary Barlow. A tight category as you can see.
And the winner is... Jeremy Clarkson, I still love him, plus this one will cause more controversy, so I'm all for it.
Now we move onto the last award... of set A, the People's Choice Award, voted for by a grand total of one person (Josh) so our unanimous winner is... Let's All Riot, Because We're Mindless Sheep, dated 23rd August, I must say, one of my favourites too.
Onto Set B, and the Charlie Sheen Winner Of The Year, an award named after the biggest winner of all, Charlie (who is also nominated). Here are the nominees: Charlie Sheen, Best Actor Oscar Winner Colin Firth, ancient football manager Sir Alex Ferguson and WWE superstar and current champion Phillip Brooks (known as CM Punk).
And the winner is... Phillip Brooks, not only has he won the title twice this year, he also went against the system and walked out with their title back in July. Fight The Power.
Serious again with TV Show of the Year, we've had a good year for TV this year, let's look at the nominees: An Idiot Abroad 2, Life's Too Short, Two and a Half Men and Shooting Stars.
And the winner is... An Idiot Abroad 2, another brilliantly funny series from Master Manc, Karl Pilkington.
The next award is for Dated Reality Show, because let's face it they're getting old. The nominees: Big Brother, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celebrity...
And the winner is... The X Factor, come on Simon, sort it out.
We all enjoy a laugh, none more than me, except my wife, and some of her friends (shameful Monty Python referance, I know) so that said, Comedian of the Year, the nominees: Chimpius Sweatius Lee Evans, He was back on nights Peter Kay, John Bishop and Micky Flanagan.
And the winner is... Lee Evans, I saw him live back in november, he's still as brilliant and energetic as ever, after nearly 25 years.
Now an award dear to my own heart, The Best Awards Award, a category that the graceful academy has seen fit to nominate this very ceremony in. Here are our nominees: The BAFTA's, The Oscars, British Comedy Awards and T.W.A.T.K.H Awards 2011.
And the winner is... The T.W.A.T.K.H Awards 2011, I'm chuffed, I truly am, I'd like to thank the academy...
And we move into the final set of awards Set C. We start the end with The Rock God Award, this is awarded to someone who I believe has achieved god-like status, over the past year and beyond (the realms of death). The nominees are: Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson and Jon Bon Jovi.
And the winner is... Rob Halford, the man's 60, and he's on a world tour that started in April, and won't finish until next July, now THAT is dedication.
Sticking with music, the next award is for Timeless Album, the nominees are: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, British Steel, Paranoid and Blizzard Of Ozz.
And the winner is... Sgt. Peppers, there could only be one winner really.
And now for Comeback Of The Year, now there are no nominees for this as I was keeping the winner a secret, here's the story: Way back in 1968 in Birmingham, four men formed a band which would go on to change the face of music, these men were: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill. Unfortunately in 1969 the band split, but on 11-11-11 in New York, Black Sabbath announced they were returning for a new album, world tour and to headline Download Festival 2012, So Comeback of the Year, Black Sabbath.
This year we have lost many people valuable to us, musically, actor or otherwise, and as much as I'd like to produce a slickly made video documenting who we've lost I'm just going to give an award In Memorium, to a singer who although battling her own demons, produced two fantastic albums, with a voice belonging in a smoky Jazz bar in New Orleans, this award goes to Amy Winehouse.
Now to the final award, I hope you've enjoyed reading the awards, and look forward to a new year where I can give out more pointless gongs. My Final Award is for Godlike Status, the nominees are: Charlie Sheen, Lee Evans, Ozzy Osbourne and Sir Paul McCarteney.
And the winner is.. Lee Evans, scooping his second award of the evening the only multi-winner, I'm sure he'll be proud of this fact.
And that's that, this year's been a blast, not just blog wise but personally for me, I've left school, started college, seen a whole new personality bloom, I hope next year will be just as good, and to all of you a very Happy New Year, as I Ken Hawkins, sign of for 2011.
Peace and Love
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Christmas- Something Not Even I Can Moan About.
It's fair to say that whoever you are in this world, whether your busy ruining our country's chances at Eurovision like Nick Clegg, or putting festiv smiles on our faces, like Mr. Michael Buble.
You all recognize December 25th as a time for joy and happiness, celebration and love, and a time to see smiles on childrens faces as they ride their new bikes down the street with Glee.
Now can you see why even me, the great ranter, has nothing to complain about, because everyone is so happy and joyful, and as a plus E.T. is on the telly, which is always good. There's something for everyone, my only quibble this year is there's no Royle Family on Christmas Day, but there is Doctor Who which saves my Christmas. As a Christmas lover my whole life, it is my duty to spread this cheer for my readers, as I know Christmas for some people Christmas is a very stressful, often upsetting time, take solstice in this fact: It Could Be Worse.
You could be Nick Clegg.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All!
You all recognize December 25th as a time for joy and happiness, celebration and love, and a time to see smiles on childrens faces as they ride their new bikes down the street with Glee.
Now can you see why even me, the great ranter, has nothing to complain about, because everyone is so happy and joyful, and as a plus E.T. is on the telly, which is always good. There's something for everyone, my only quibble this year is there's no Royle Family on Christmas Day, but there is Doctor Who which saves my Christmas. As a Christmas lover my whole life, it is my duty to spread this cheer for my readers, as I know Christmas for some people Christmas is a very stressful, often upsetting time, take solstice in this fact: It Could Be Worse.
You could be Nick Clegg.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All!
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
2011 in Review- Part 3, September- December: More Disasters Than You can Shake a Stick At, A Bad Time to be a Tyrant and Merry Christmas To All!
I write this on a VERY cold late December night, knowing the year is about to come to an end on a very sweet note, and that this is my last review of the past year, and I hope you've enjoyed my company this past year, I'll get on with being funny now.
These four months were a bad time to be on planet Earth as everything from Earthquakes to floods and back again happened, first in October, monsoon floods killed 657 people in Thailand, making itterrible year for flooding in the far east after Japan's big flood earlier this year. Then in Turkey a 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake hit the city of Van, killing aother 604 people, soothsayer types say that this is an indication that the 2012 theory will come to fruition as of the amount of natural disasters happening. While anyone with half a brain cells will tell you it's caused by tectonic plates moving not doomsday approaching.
Big news broke in October where tyrant Coronol Gaddafi was found in a drainpipe, and killed by his own people, many around the world celebrated the death while I'm sure it saddened some brainwashed lab monkeys. In more recent times, Kim Jong il died in December, leaving his nation in mourning, strange considering the reign of tyrany he has caused over the years, including mass violence and trying to take over his next-door neighbours, causing terror to many innocent civilians, although I'm assured he sold some cotton to Canada one time in the 80's so he can't be all that bad.
Finally, as we all know, December brings that time where everyone's happy and jolly, except if your with your own family, then your all presumably at each others throats. We're told that, despite the recission and all, it's one of the highest spending Christmasses in recent memory. So it looks like we're in more a very Merry Christmas, especially if Nanna gets hold of the bottle of brandy, then she'll be VERY merry.
That concludes my year in review, although that's not it from me for this year (your not that lucky) you have my special Christmas blog on Christmas Eve, and The Ken Hawkins Awards 2011 on New years eve (the categorys of which will be posted on the Facebook page soon after the blog is posted.) Which should be interesting, anyway if you have your wits about you and don't spend Christmas Eve reading the dribble I come out with, Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year (or something like that). Oh, and to one of my most loyal readers, Josh, Happy Birthday for the 28th (that was your birthday present by the way)
Peace and Love.
These four months were a bad time to be on planet Earth as everything from Earthquakes to floods and back again happened, first in October, monsoon floods killed 657 people in Thailand, making itterrible year for flooding in the far east after Japan's big flood earlier this year. Then in Turkey a 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake hit the city of Van, killing aother 604 people, soothsayer types say that this is an indication that the 2012 theory will come to fruition as of the amount of natural disasters happening. While anyone with half a brain cells will tell you it's caused by tectonic plates moving not doomsday approaching.
Big news broke in October where tyrant Coronol Gaddafi was found in a drainpipe, and killed by his own people, many around the world celebrated the death while I'm sure it saddened some brainwashed lab monkeys. In more recent times, Kim Jong il died in December, leaving his nation in mourning, strange considering the reign of tyrany he has caused over the years, including mass violence and trying to take over his next-door neighbours, causing terror to many innocent civilians, although I'm assured he sold some cotton to Canada one time in the 80's so he can't be all that bad.
Finally, as we all know, December brings that time where everyone's happy and jolly, except if your with your own family, then your all presumably at each others throats. We're told that, despite the recission and all, it's one of the highest spending Christmasses in recent memory. So it looks like we're in more a very Merry Christmas, especially if Nanna gets hold of the bottle of brandy, then she'll be VERY merry.
That concludes my year in review, although that's not it from me for this year (your not that lucky) you have my special Christmas blog on Christmas Eve, and The Ken Hawkins Awards 2011 on New years eve (the categorys of which will be posted on the Facebook page soon after the blog is posted.) Which should be interesting, anyway if you have your wits about you and don't spend Christmas Eve reading the dribble I come out with, Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year (or something like that). Oh, and to one of my most loyal readers, Josh, Happy Birthday for the 28th (that was your birthday present by the way)
Peace and Love.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
2011 in Review- Part 2, May-August. Dead Terrorists, More Arab Uprising and Scandanavian Serial Killers.
The next 4 months of the past year, May to August if your wondering, were eventful in different ways, VERY different ways.
The first big news came, on May 2nd of this year, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, after over 10 years of looking in Pakistan. This was great news and there was much rejoycing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail kind of dull cheer) all over the world, the news was first announced at an event by WWE talent John Cena at a PPV event, then the sound barrier broke. It was great news, but it poses a few questions, Bin Laden was found at a big complex at an estate in a city in Pakistan, how do u not notice the worlds most wanted man putting his bins out on collection day? Or popping down the shop to buy more shaving foam. Also, there was compliants from some Americans about having a black president, but in one year he achieved what the dumb hillbily couldn't in nearly nine. Your move white America...
There was even more trouble in the middle east, with more countrys deciding that there main square would look much better with bullets strewn around the place and a lot of mess that's mainly because they wanted their basic human rights, so I'm 100% behind them, and support them in overthrowing the tyrants.
Then more tragic news came out of Norway, where on July 22nd, in a town whose name it's impossible to spell or pronounce, Anders Behring Breivik, who acted as a lone wolf, killed 77 people in two separate incidents, the details are too upsetting to go into, but I will say this, it feels like only yesterday I and a lot of other people, turned on the news to see this horrific story, so I'd like to take this moment to say RIP to the victims of these attacks.
That concludes the second set of four months of 2011, next week we'll cover the last 4 months which I'm sure will be great, I haven't researched yet, but we shall see next week.
The first big news came, on May 2nd of this year, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, after over 10 years of looking in Pakistan. This was great news and there was much rejoycing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail kind of dull cheer) all over the world, the news was first announced at an event by WWE talent John Cena at a PPV event, then the sound barrier broke. It was great news, but it poses a few questions, Bin Laden was found at a big complex at an estate in a city in Pakistan, how do u not notice the worlds most wanted man putting his bins out on collection day? Or popping down the shop to buy more shaving foam. Also, there was compliants from some Americans about having a black president, but in one year he achieved what the dumb hillbily couldn't in nearly nine. Your move white America...
There was even more trouble in the middle east, with more countrys deciding that there main square would look much better with bullets strewn around the place and a lot of mess that's mainly because they wanted their basic human rights, so I'm 100% behind them, and support them in overthrowing the tyrants.
Then more tragic news came out of Norway, where on July 22nd, in a town whose name it's impossible to spell or pronounce, Anders Behring Breivik, who acted as a lone wolf, killed 77 people in two separate incidents, the details are too upsetting to go into, but I will say this, it feels like only yesterday I and a lot of other people, turned on the news to see this horrific story, so I'd like to take this moment to say RIP to the victims of these attacks.
That concludes the second set of four months of 2011, next week we'll cover the last 4 months which I'm sure will be great, I haven't researched yet, but we shall see next week.
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