The Fortress of Solitude
Location:Great Grimsby, England
Sunday 13 June 2010
My lucky pants and socks was so unlucky last nite
These are my fave lucky boxers and they helped USA no end last night but all the same love me love my shorts lol
The Fortress of Solitude
The Fortress of Solitude
the boozer here i come
first may I say this is my first post from my new laptop, i love the iPhone but posting blogs from and using as a P.C aint the coolest idea lol. i just wanted to say ive had a great idea for a book i plan on writing,its gonna be very cool. im going to the pub today as ive got tomorrow off work, cant beat a sunday schlurpy yummylicious. five or six pints then maccy d's and home for facebook lamity and more HD videos on YouTube. so for now bye bye and hello beeriod number three lol. lloyds here i come
Sunday 6 June 2010
Kennedy speech Berlin
The greatest speech ever I love Kennedy
The Kennedy Berlin speech
I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.
Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."
I appreciate my interpreter translating my German!
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.
What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." Hear this .wav 198K
President John F. Kennedy - June 26, 1963
The Fortress of Solitude
The Kennedy Berlin speech
I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.
Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."
I appreciate my interpreter translating my German!
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.
What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." Hear this .wav 198K
President John F. Kennedy - June 26, 1963
The Fortress of Solitude
Location:Grimsby England
Tuesday 1 June 2010
The way I feel at the moment
Well I guess this needs a little prologue, so here it is. I am stuck totally in a rut of nothing in life, I want to achieve so much more get a new job etc. The one thing I need to change beyond all others is my terminal singledom, I have great freinds all of whom are settled, don't get me wrong I have some aquaintances, I can stand around in the pub drinking with, but at the end of the day I'm 32 and I should be doing more constructive things with my time. I have been single since December 06 that's knocking on four tragically empty years, I'd had my heart torn out in the September of that year, by the upto that point love of my life. After Trish she told lie after lie and cheated a few times, I'll use real names, I met Georgina who was so damn good for me, but due to me being an insecure moron she ended it. All I have to say is fair play to her on that. Every other girlfreind has tended when lookin back, to have used me in games with thier exes, which is great for self esteem not. But anyway back to the point at hand, I seem to have started this new decade as I started the last TERMINALLY SINGLE. Anyways I wrote a poem below, that ten years later i'm still emotionally living through. It's written in the hi-coup non rhyming style enjoy
Grounded feet on my little island
Am I so disgusting or hideous, that even worms disdain of me. Am I to be allowed no love, and in which case, will those who have it ridicule me.
And will the tide not turn in my favour, I'm guessing that they will, heap upon me a thousand fathoms of pain, to which I cry, am I the chosen martyr, for all our earths ills.
Then I have to ready myself, for not one but many a day of attonement, and steady my already sunken ship. Long ago scuttled on the island shores, of loneliness, of which I have no choice to call home.
Everyday a journey to a realised end, that is so very solitary of confinement.
My world is my own and I'm alone, and that's not how I want it to be. It's like I'm stranded in a crowd of millions, trapped in sacrificial singledom. But it's my job I guess, to be the odd number in life, and solemnly I accept it.
Was my creation and life, so malevolent and ill judged, I seem to think so. Because against all the usual, hope that everyone else has, I'm not allowed to feel the everything they share.
So I'll remain on my little island, looking for the faint light of rescue, and make the best of my worst situation, make believing, one day, that everything comes good.
The Fortress of Solitude
Grounded feet on my little island
Am I so disgusting or hideous, that even worms disdain of me. Am I to be allowed no love, and in which case, will those who have it ridicule me.
And will the tide not turn in my favour, I'm guessing that they will, heap upon me a thousand fathoms of pain, to which I cry, am I the chosen martyr, for all our earths ills.
Then I have to ready myself, for not one but many a day of attonement, and steady my already sunken ship. Long ago scuttled on the island shores, of loneliness, of which I have no choice to call home.
Everyday a journey to a realised end, that is so very solitary of confinement.
My world is my own and I'm alone, and that's not how I want it to be. It's like I'm stranded in a crowd of millions, trapped in sacrificial singledom. But it's my job I guess, to be the odd number in life, and solemnly I accept it.
Was my creation and life, so malevolent and ill judged, I seem to think so. Because against all the usual, hope that everyone else has, I'm not allowed to feel the everything they share.
So I'll remain on my little island, looking for the faint light of rescue, and make the best of my worst situation, make believing, one day, that everything comes good.
The Fortress of Solitude
Location:Grimsby, England
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