This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. Previous Rants (the legal bit) Just remember all views on this page are those of the contributer and don't neccesarilly reflect those of the Beanokru or its members. This month the Rant comes from Sarah I've decided to write a rant purely for the reason that I've got a lot of things to moan about. Firstly, this town. Doncaster. In theory, a good town to in: large population, good transport links, has a history, etc etc. But in reality it's a crap town, a town that I can't wait to escape from in 6 months time. We have lots of shops in Doncaster. One department store called Binns - it's not been refurbished in decades, the shop assistants are intimidating, and the cafe is a rip-off. Then there are the few clothes shops for teenagers such as myself - all of them full of conventional clothes to wear on a Wednesday or Thursday night, so when you're in town you see several people all wearing exactly the same outfit looking pathetic. Then as for daytime clothes, the jackets with Cuba written across the front. And how many conventionals who waltz around wearing these know where Cuba is, never mind its political situation ? And what gives shops the right to make a profit from exploiting the name of a communist country ? Slightly ironic I'd say. Then, we have the many sports shops, mobile phone shops, cheap bookshops and pound shops. When is a new shop going to open in Doncaster that doesn't fall into one of these categories? Talking of shops, there's also several shops opening specialising in clothes for 'larger women'. Surely this is discimination. Imagine the outcry if a shop called 'Skinny and Sexy' opened. But there's no problem with 'Large and Lovely' even if it has now closed and is sitting empty plastered in tacky fluorescent orange posters. So, we've heard about Doncaster's shops. Now onto the pubs. Please someone agree with me that there are enough bloody pubs in town. We don't need anymore, especially one with late licences cos "everyone goes to Karisma" as conventionals say. And if a classy pub opens it soon goes downhill cos of the people attending it who enjoy drinking tp the extent they are out of control and then have a fantastic night only when threyv'e been in a fight. I could go on for hours about this stupid excuse for a town. I won't go into discussing the Rockport wearing citizens because that would be a whole new rant. But basically I can't stand the place if you haven't already guessed and something needs to be done pretty soon to improve it. Harsh words there. At this point I would love to put some smart Alec comment such as - incidentally Sarah claims in this rant she is a teenager, we are currently investigating this as the tone is definitely that of a moaning old person. However I know that would only get me in trouble. I would just like to add I agree with a lot of what has been said. Now I think it is time for my rant type thing. It passed somewhat unnoticed this year with all the fuss over the death of the Queen Mother, however on April 1st it was April Fools Day as it is most April the firsts. I did however notice a few funny stories which I thought I would include below: - The first concerned a well known brand of noodle snacks which come in a pot. The report basically said to cater for the tastes of the K9 loving South Koreans, a dog flavoured variety of the popular pot snack would be launched to coincide with the beginning of the World Cup. Although I believe I've already tried this, only it was called Chicken and Mushroom on that occasion. - The other April Fool that did catch me out for a while, was on Radio 1. They dedicated a whole 1/2 hour documentary to the subject of 'Animal House'. Saying it was a new form of dance music which was made with the noises of animals. It started of as quite believable as big name DJ's were wheeled in to talk about this new phenomenon. However it got a bit unbelievable when they claimed this new music had sent some people mad and famous bird watcher - Bill Odie explained he thought it wasn't cruel on the animals. If you want to see some other classic April Fool's pranks, including when Richard Branson faked an alien invasion and when the spaghetti crops of Switzerland were struggling go to this site - www.mueumofhoaxes.com |
This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. Previous Rants (the legal bit) Just remember all views on this page are those of the contributer and don't neccesarilly reflect those of the Beanokru or its members. This month the Rant comes from Sarah I've decided to write a rant purely for the reason that I've got a lot of things to moan about. Firstly, this town. Doncaster. In theory, a good town to in: large population, good transport links, has a history, etc etc. But in reality it's a crap town, a town that I can't wait to escape from in 6 months time. We have lots of shops in Doncaster. One department store called Binns - it's not been refurbished in decades, the shop assistants are intimidating, and the cafe is a rip-off. Then there are the few clothes shops for teenagers such as myself - all of them full of conventional clothes to wear on a Wednesday or Thursday night, so when you're in town you see several people all wearing exactly the same outfit looking pathetic. Then as for daytime clothes, the jackets with Cuba written across the front. And how many conventionals who waltz around wearing these know where Cuba is, never mind its political situation ? And what gives shops the right to make a profit from exploiting the name of a communist country ? Slightly ironic I'd say. Then, we have the many sports shops, mobile phone shops, cheap bookshops and pound shops. When is a new shop going to open in Doncaster that doesn't fall into one of these categories? Talking of shops, there's also several shops opening specialising in clothes for 'larger women'. Surely this is discimination. Imagine the outcry if a shop called 'Skinny and Sexy' opened. But there's no problem with 'Large and Lovely' even if it has now closed and is sitting empty plastered in tacky fluorescent orange posters. So, we've heard about Doncaster's shops. Now onto the pubs. Please someone agree with me that there are enough bloody pubs in town. We don't need anymore, especially one with late licences cos "everyone goes to Karisma" as conventionals say. And if a classy pub opens it soon goes downhill cos of the people attending it who enjoy drinking tp the extent they are out of control and then have a fantastic night only when threyv'e been in a fight. I could go on for hours about this stupid excuse for a town. I won't go into discussing the Rockport wearing citizens because that would be a whole new rant. But basically I can't stand the place if you haven't already guessed and something needs to be done pretty soon to improve it. Harsh words there. At this point I would love to put some smart Alec comment such as - incidentally Sarah claims in this rant she is a teenager, we are currently investigating this as the tone is definitely that of a moaning old person. However I know that would only get me in trouble. I would just like to add I agree with a lot of what has been said. Now I think it is time for my rant type thing. It passed somewhat unnoticed this year with all the fuss over the death of the Queen Mother, however on April 1st it was April Fools Day as it is most April the firsts. I did however notice a few funny stories which I thought I would include below: - The first concerned a well known brand of noodle snacks which come in a pot. The report basically said to cater for the tastes of the K9 loving South Koreans, a dog flavoured variety of the popular pot snack would be launched to coincide with the beginning of the World Cup. Although I believe I've already tried this, only it was called Chicken and Mushroom on that occasion. - The other April Fool that did catch me out for a while, was on Radio 1. They dedicated a whole 1/2 hour documentary to the subject of 'Animal House'. Saying it was a new form of dance music which was made with the noises of animals. It started of as quite believable as big name DJ's were wheeled in to talk about this new phenomenon. However it got a bit unbelievable when they claimed this new music had sent some people mad and famous bird watcher - Bill Odie explained he thought it wasn't cruel on the animals. If you want to see some other classic April Fool's pranks, including when Richard Branson faked an alien invasion and when the spaghetti crops of Switzerland were struggling go to this site - www.mueumofhoaxes.com |
Random Rant - April 2002 |
