Pre-trial notions

Okay a pre-trial blog, following tradition,

So... good luck everyone. But remember there's life afterwards. OK I think I am being cheesy now, just like my belonging short story as people in my English class can attest to.

One day I was trawling through the SMH, and man this character in SMH letters signifies the epitome of idiocy. If you would care to read below:

Slow drivers the limit

Correspondents in the eternal debate about speeding (Letters, July 30) have referred in reverential tones to the speed-compliant driver, the little law-abiding ninny who never does a kilometre over the speed limit.

Enough. It is this very person who causes difficulties. Speed limits are set at the lowest common denominator. They are not set to accommodate good, or even average, drivers. They are designed for people who can barely drive in a straight line or notice other cars, let alone anticipate or perform complex traffic movements. Law-abiders do 50 km/h because they are incapable of doing 51.

Anyone lacking the confidence to safely drive at 10km/h over any given speed limit makes a strong case that they should not be on the road. Rather than such incompetents being further encouraged to slow down the majority of road users, they should be asked to keep up with traffic.

If this fellow is serious, which is probably the case, then he is rather deluded or suffers from extreme ignorance or arrogance. "they are incapable of doing 51 km/h" What?? It takes little skill to step on the accelerator. People who speed and crash generally aren't out of control. Quite the contrary. They think they can manage the freedom of deliberately ignoring the speed limit.

I'd like to see this guy try and pull that crap when he's rounding those bends that have a strict limit otherwise your car will zoom off the road.


Anyway on other things Bohemian Rhapsody was pretty good today. I thought, we should have made the scaramouche bit more dramatic, something like this:

Scara-MOUCHE!!!

I did that during one of our last practices and because I was one of the few who did I looked pretty dumb haha.



Ah, now it occurs to me, English short stories. It seems that there are only four outcomes in a short story:

• Subtle - if marker likes story.
• Obscure - if marker hates.
• Overt/clear link - if marker like.
• In your face/ham-fisted/simplistic blah blah blah - if marker hates.

So yeah if you try and make it too deep and meaningful it gets lost anyway.

And another thing, those of you who do chem, are you going to call your chemist guy "Luke (not his real name)"? I am giving serious considerations to doing that in this upcoming exam.

Goodbye for now.



Bee tee double-yew if you read this post before 21/8/2009 then clearly you are procrastinating XD