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Wear Your Commitment.

I see what you are saying about the appeal to the younger audience and trying to build new fans. I could respect that, that is just good business. Which we can all agree, Lucas knows what he is doing in that regard. I didn’t care for the movie too much and I am a huge fan from the start. I think this was strictly aimed at the kids, But agree that the film looked pretty cool as now in retrospect I can forgive the film for its animation style. Glad they didnt waste something spectacular on a kiddie movie.
With the release of this movie, follow up tv series, The Force unleashed Video game (that is a whole other story, Vader was the brain child of the Rebellion? What? ) there will be inconsistencies that probably never will be explained. I can only imagine how hard it truly is to follow the plot lines of something as huge as the SW saga. But what can I say Mr Lucas you have spoiled us with your iron fist. I do appreciate that, I really do. I know us original fans are getting old and you must appeal to the next gen of fans, but don’t alienate us completely.
I do believe our time as adults is coming. With the live action tv series that is in pre production, I think we will be pleasantly surprised and vindicated!

All this being said because violence aside… the game just plain played horribly. Not to mention that after a while it felt like violence for the sake of violence and the backslash it was going to get. Something I’m planning on writing about soon… RIGHT ON THE 8-BIT CORNER!

((Feels like a hypocrite since his last article was about a game which had fatalities in them…))

Personally, I’m not against buying clothes in places like H&M, despite how much rubbish there sometimes is in high street shops… However, I do love to go charity shop crawling. You never know when you’ll find a great bargain (Recently to my shoe collection I’ve added a £7 pair of purple doctor martens and a £20 pair of New Rocks in amazing condition!), and some clothes never go out of fashion. In Japan converse shoes are HIGHLY collectable!

And of course, lets not forget that despite not living in the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s and that we have such great access to pretty much most things we’d like to wear, we can always take a leaf out of the seemingly long forgotten ‘make it like your mum made hers’ approach and be the pioneers of our own style!

Right now, I’m going for the steam-punk aviator look. Tomorrow? I think I might revive Japanese Pirate fashion and break out my vintage funeral kimono.

Who knows?

I can understand how in some parts I may have mislead the reader into thinking I only want to surround myself with people who like me for the way I look. I did fail to mention the nature of my lifestyle and how infact i feel quite the opposite about who I socialise with. I am actuallyrather picky, and cannot bare to be arround people I do not find intellectually stimulating.

As I said in my article, I am a very judgemental person. So I can only assume others judge me the way I judge them.

Assuming you would lead the template lifestyle of completing education, starting a career, and getting married; I think it would do you more of a service to look normal like you do now, rather than resembling a model body image, because you’re likely to meet people who are smart enough to see through temporary appearances and focus on personality and common interests, which would be a more long-term solution for relationships.

People (especially people with lower intelligence) will treat you more favourably by how “fit” you are, and perhaps that’s what you want (judging by what you said in the article), but like I said, I think it’s a great service to yourself weeding out people who only want to talk to you because of how you look like.

Although I may have painted a vulgar picture about being “fit”, being in good shape is great for health, and I think that should be the main motivation in going to a gym a few times a week rather than going to improve body image, which I know for a fact doesn’t work, because results wouldn’t come fast enough and patience would wear thin real quickly.

Good to hear you’ll be more accepting of your current body image!

First off, I know for a fact that you can ask somewhere to delete your details after you deleted your account. A friend of mine did this and it was completely easy to do. Send an email and they’ll do it.

Because you fail to realise, my friend, that every place you sign up to does it because, obviously, you give them the information and they keep it. ‘Personal freedoms’ go out the window when you give these so called ‘freedoms’ away. And like I said, you can get those deleted. Facebook isn’t any different from any other service you sign up to.

None of it has anything to do with people wanting to express their views over something they don’t like on a Social networking site.

And this hypocrisy nonsense is just that. Nonsense. I didn’t say people were terrible for making a group. People have made worse groups (The one in protest of Soldiers not being allowed on Facebook, for example) but one that will make positively no difference by not going on Facebook for a day 2 months away is one I have to call out on. And again, if you noticed, I praised the Facebook petition group and saw the point of its owner because they’re actually DOING something constructive and has been in the forefront of this whole thing instead of relating a historical figure with something as petty as social networking.

And what is up with you over exaggerating about how I say things? I didn’t ‘whinge’ or mope like other internet columnists would. I gave my thoughts and backed them up. That’s what good columnists do. And me criticising something online from a website is no different to The Guardian finding hypocrisies with The Sun’s coverage on a subject. Look up the Madaline McCann stuff and you will see exactly what I mean.

I’m still waiting for direct comments, Colin. And thus far, you’re not giving them to me. Instead, you’re just making bogus claim after bogus claim. If anyone is foolish around here right now, it’s you.

Hell, of course they’re raping your personal freedoms - sorry, did you expect the money grabbing students to care when they sell your details onto the highest paying advertiser company? And once that information is gone, there’s no way in hell you’re getting it back.

Anyway you come off a total hypocrite in your article - you say people are terrible because they’ve protested and formed groups against the new facebook - what are you doing whinging about these people through a website? Just as bad, no?

Because, throughout my article, I made it very clear that I can see people’s point. I can see why the new look can be confusing and I can see why people hate it. But making groups and being rude about things doesn’t make change. The Russian Revolution wouldn’t have happened in this generation because people would be too busy making Facebook groups about it and not actually doing anything.

You pretty much did what I expected people to do. Skim read my article until it got to the capital letter part and persumed I meant that you guys talk nonsense and that is just as bad.

Not everything is one giant conspiracy theory and not everything in business is evil in the intention of putting down ‘your personal freedoms’. But if you don’t like something, do something. Delete your Facebook account. You’re capable of doing it and it would make much more of a message then not going to it for a day.

But since they’ll be a new Muppet Show, Pepe will probably there so it makes sense (Yes, I am trying to cover my dirt ridden tracks. I’m a Journalist, damnit!)

And anyway, Pepe rules.

Just go look for yourselves…
Pépé -definitely a ‘New Muppet’-; is on there…
3rd / 4th (it’s doubtful) from the right on the bottom…

Cultural no-knows…
Shame on you!

The first thing is that I think the sky is the limit for you because you’ve got the ability to learn and learn quickly, and that’s the greatest quality one could have. I believe that potentially in 5 years time, you could be one of the top Internet entrepreneurs from London, if that’s the road you choose.

Otherwise, I think you’ve got a great journalism career ahead of you, or hopefully if I can be my selfish-self for a second, I definitely hope you’ll be with Starrcadia during that time, as I think you would be an invaluable asset to a business which revolves around our mutual interests.

Meanwhile, Entertainment Newsline’s growth is accelerating at an amazing speed, and we’re committed to taking it to the next level. We’re already working on some BIG ideas, and I can’t wait until they’ve all finalized so we can announce them.

Congratulations again, Mr. Mason!

~ Ricky Leone

P.S. Lol, what disagreements?

Google has overshadowed it in everything else they have. Search engine, email and overall useability. It out Yahoo’d Yahoo.

An example would be prison break: first of all they put the third season (not sure i think its the third) on Sky one - what do they think, that every student in uni has cable. Which makes life twice as hard coz then you have to befriend someone who has diigital tv (which is mean i know but desperate times call for desperate measures! though i would never do something like that!)

And to top off the whole charade Sky one cut the season into bits with loads of breaks -why? Because they want to be on the same time length with America. Whereas if America just released everything at the same time they would being having this problem in the first place and fans could be able to watch their favourite shows in peace without any interruption. Anyway the point is that it’s a fantastic idea and i hope they enforce it soon x

Tom Humes