Ferg (Level 29)

Does this unlock the quest?

 They're awful and ruining the experience.
I've watched all the games so far and after a while you are able to zone them out somewhat.
The bad thing is however that they completely overpower all other sounds in the stadium.
The English lone trumpeter,the Mexican instruments,and no doubt the Brazilian samba drums when they will play and so on.
We can't hear chants,songs or even the "ooing and awing" of the crowd during attacks and chances.
Just that constant,annoying,boring drone.
 
 I really hope some people get pissed off and throw their vuvuzelas at some players,then FIFA are held by their regulations to ban them all.
If they refuse to then,they will look like right idiots.
The fact they affect the players' ability to communicate should be reason enough to ban them.

However,I don't see FIFA banning them anyway.
For a number of reasons.

#1)That fool Sepp Blatter said FIFA are supporting African culture for the tournament,and the vuvuzelas are obviously a part of this.

2)The South Africans are very touchy about being told what to do by Europeans(they're still touchy on the whole colonisation thing),so any bans would probably be very hard to enforce,would be met with widespread protest etc,especially as they are the home nation.
Not to mention it's not just South Africans doing it anymore,even if they are the majority.

3)FIFA had problems selling tickets for games,especially group games,and when foreign countries were returning their ticket allocations it was South Africans who bought them up,and that sort of saved FIFA from the embarrassment of empty seats.
(This is why we see South Africans at games,not even looking at the game and just dancing around and blowing them damn horns)
Fifa won't piss off these people after they bought the tickets for them.

Hopefully they will be banned from whenever South Africa get knocked out,not likely though.

So I got my first proper job interview coming up. I'm only 18 and I've only worked in places by assoication, like I worked for my cousin who is plasterer for a summer and worked in my Dad's friends bar for a bit around 2 years ago.
 
But now theres a new store opening in a town near to me so I applied online and got an email and phone call 2 days ago to arrange an interview for Saturday at 2.30 (GMT btw). Its a clothes store but a fairly cheap one, its in Pennys( or Primark as some of ye might know it). I'm a bit nervous I guess as its my first one but hopefully it will be good, got a nice smart outfit picked out for it and all so hopefully I can win them over!
 
Any tips?

 Since I live in Ireland I decided to get up for the finale of LOST at around 4.20(it was on at 5am but Lost: The End is Nigh was at a 4.30am) mainly due to me being so fecking excited to see it. I don't know what it was, I'm not a huge Lostie like one of my friends in particular, but I wanted to see the end ASAP. Maybe I thought it was going to be truely epic. And reading about everyone on Lostpedia last night certainly didn't help. I'm in college doing exams atm and don't have another till Wednesday(my final one-woo!) so after roughly 3 hours of sleep I got up and woke my room mate to watch it.
 
And what can I say? I loved it, everything about it was brilliant - the fight between Jack and Locke was epic(if a bit short lived), it echoed the previous seasons(Jack and Locke looking down the waterfall/hatch) the enticing lead up to what would happen when all the characters would meet up in the flashsides, I was pumped(although that was partly due to the stupid bird that crashed into the window I was sitting beside, not once but twice!)

That was until the final 10 minutes or so, when Jack finally entered the church. Talking to his father it changed everything. I realised this wasn't a story about mysteries or good vs. evil, this is a story about what the show has always been about - people. Darlton were telling us the story of this group of people whose lives were broken and flawed. And how that they weren't going to Live togehter, die alone' as the show implied, instead they were all going to live together and die together, each one waiting till the group was complete again before moving one.

Sure the writers mightn't have answered every question but in the grand scheme of things they didn't really need to. If you want answers you can go and look for them but for me, the show ended perfectly. Bringing the story in a fill circle, from Jack waking up on the island to dieing on it too.

So to end this blog post, I'd just like to say....

thank you LOST for the last 6 years, its been a journey of epic proportions, sure we both may have lost our way in your telling, but in the end you did what you set out to do - tell your story.