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We're not dead. We're getting better. (Ok, we're not fooling anyone).

So it looks like Sack of Jam has been well and truly liquidated. But it hasn't, honest. We've still got hundreds of free sacks of jam to give away, in various flavours*. So why the lack of updates? Well, since you asked... We're lazy. Not just that; we're completely starved of ideas. So, I now present, Sack of Jam deux! It's way more exciting, containing many more updates (i.e. at least one a month), and apart from that, is exactly the same as the old one.


So, look forward to more updates, and more of the same.


* Disclaimer: Free sacks of jam do not contain jam, or sacks; but may contain nuts.

Me? Update? Jack will be surprised.

Ok, it's been an extreme while, and I apologise for the lack of updates. The reason is, I've been extremely busy with College work, and completely dried of ideas. I still am. Jack's always been the one to carefully construct his posts, with actual research, emailing people and reading stories that other people of written, whereas I just start writing my posts and hope they reach some kind of conclusion. Anyway, I really can't think of anything to write, so I'll just post one of my dreams from my other blog. Complete laziness yes, but at least it's an update..

P.s I have decided I shall post a list. I don't know what of but list-based posts seem to be what I'm best at.

P.P.S A while ago I wrote this short post about wanting to write a wild west story. In fact I've turned it into my film studies coursework. The plot's pretty generic, but that's the point of the coursework, to show genre. I'll post more info about it soon.

So, the dream. Copy and pasted straight from my other blog.

'Fiddling on the Roof'

'Ok, so here’s a quickie from the other day. Quite disturbing to experience, and in truth the only reason that it was a short dream was because I forced myself to wake up before it turned bad.

So, well this is a bit hazy in my memory. We (me and an Asian middle aged woman, yes fully clothed, in a suit actually, she seemed to be some kind of legal person, but just what I have no idea) were walking in the grounds of a large mansion, we had obviously just exited from the building and were talking about the events that had happened inside.

‘So do you think we’ll get the permit then?’ I asked, although I had no idea what the permit was for. I remember looking to my left as I was walking along the gravel path, and looking at some carefully sculpted hedges, representing cherubs firing arrows with hearts for arrowheads. You know the kind; you see them on crappy Valentines Day cards. Anyway, I digress.

So we (the woman and I) entered her car, her driving and me in the back in the seat behind the driver. She turned and gave me a reassuring smile, reassuring what exactly I’m not sure, probably something to do with the afore-mentioned ‘permit.’

So I put on my seatbelt (I want to be safe, even if it is a dream), and we set off. As we start to drive along the long, gravelly driveway, suddenly things get very nightmare-ish. My vision darkens. The sky blackens. Day turns to night. Sunshine turns to rain.

Suddenly the car speeds up and the driver woman disappears, and before I know it I can see from the point of view of the car (like you can in some driving games etc…). I drive forwards and try to get out of the driveway of the mansion (now resembling a haunted house).

As I sped forwards, suddenly I felt a breeze against my face, as if I had been thrown out of the front of the car (going faster than the car, obviously, otherwise I’d have been hit/gone behind the car). Then I realised I was back as the human version of me, and I flew through the air and landed face first in the gravel. My cheek scraped along the gravel and I could feel it bleeding.

I could feel a presence behind me. So without looking back I got up and started to run towards the gate of the mansion that lead to a dense forest (ah, clichés. I have a really good cliché at the end actually; and I woke up, and it was all a dream…not to ruin it or anything). So as I was running to the gate, an idea struck me: ‘I know, why I don’t fly out?’ So, with a lot of concentration, I started to hover, but a feeling of dread crept over me. I wasn’t controlling where I was going. I felt like I was out of control, and was worried where it was whatever it was that was controlling me would take me. I had started heading back to the house.

I was flying up the side of the house now, with large windows up the whole height of the building. My vision was extremely blackened at this point, as I was trying my best to wake myself up right now. In each window there was a different figure staring at me.

In one there was the girl from the exorcist grinning demonically at me, in another were the two ghost girls from The Shining, and the last window before I reached being level with the roof was the body of the Asian woman from the start of the dream, hanging from a rafter, smiling, and staring at me (it was one of the soul chilling-est things I’ve ever seen, even in my dreams).

At this point I was panicking. ‘I’ve got to wake up!’ I kept thinking. I was looking up at the roof, flying up. Something was up there, I could feel it. Whatever it was would be the worst thing I’ve ever seen, I’m sure of it, so I rose up to nearly the height of the building, I was ready to scream like I’ve never screamed before, and as I reached roof level, so close…I woke up. Phew.

Notes

It’s really difficult to create the atmosphere I felt, because obviously I have nothing to compare it to, so the dream on paper seems a lot less effective than in real life.'

Sorry about the laziness, peace.

links and stuff

So I was in the process of doing a article regarding Britain's disregard for civil rights in favour of anti- terrorism laws (yes another one of my rants (To be fair at least we have free speech... to a degree)).
However I feel this has been made slightly redundant by this article.

Yay, more links, 'cos we all love links. The first is a interesting article about the white house Arabic translator. Well I found it interesting.
The second is about "Proposition 8", the law in California that banned gay marriage.

I also found this "great" article on the KKK website about the filth on TV, well I found it funny.
Here's a fun extract:

Those in the racialist movement should continually strive to monitor their home's television viewing. America's future lies in our children and it is our responsibility as parents or future parents to safeguard our children's mind before ideas of abortion, homosexuality, racemixing, globalism, or euthanasia take root.

Otherwise known as brainwashing, also you may want to read their article aimed at young people (I guess I fall into that category) and I thought I'd provide an extract:

Of course, once you do get to college there are no Caucasian Student Unions or European Culture Clubs and don't even think about starting one just because there are tons of them for Blacks, Asians, or what ever. If you were daring enough to try, you would be called all kinds of horrible names. Why, you would wonder. You just wanted to have a club like everybody else. Welcome to the world of hypocrisy and illogical thought.

No welcome to the world of the white majority, to para-phrase Barack Obama in his book "Dreams from my father" (at least I think it was him, I couldn't find the original quote, sorry).

Blacks have to integrate into the White culture, the white's don't integrate into the blacks as they are not the minority.

Basically the white population doesn't need societies that promote white culture as there is less influence on their culture, whereas the black community needs to affirm it's values.
Here's another article from the KKK website this time about "Jewish slave owners" Interestingly it doesn't provide a source (curious that) and apart from other right-wing websites the only other mention to it I could find is in this book, which isn't very clear but it seems to show that although the Jewish population did own slaves it wasn't greater than that of the wasp population.
Also the BNP (known for their political correctness) have a section on their website entitled "Liars, Buggers and Thieves", with the obligatory extract (from the Labour Party):

Labour MP (Rhonda Valley) Chris Bryant poses in his pants on the Internet to advertise himself for casual gay sex encounters. Describes himself as “Horny as buggery” and says, “I’d love a good long fuck”.

Because we all care about his sex life, really?
A quick google search later and I found this from the BBC website, and wikipedia. Finally this from his website (his biography I must admit does not allude to the fact he's openly gay, but then again why should it?):

...Chris was re-elected as an MP (with an increased majority) in 2005...

Obviously the people of Rhondda don't seem to mind that he's gay, considering he had a greater majority after the "scandal".
It's interesting to note that none of the political parties mentioned have articles of a similar nature, how very confusing. Maybe that's why the BNP is considered a joke party?



edit: Woah, wait a sec just noticed this in the "How to get involved section" on the KKK website:

Klanswomen or Klansmen who must remain totally private with their Klan association may opt to become a volunteer in one of the two major political parties. By reaching positions of influence Klansmen and Klanswomen can help pave the way for future Knights' Party candidates by helping to change ballet access laws and making the present political system more "user friendly" for third parties.

. Isn't that illegal? Or at the very least morally wrong?

Edit2: After further investigation of the KKK website (I mean knight's party website obviously) it has to be said it's poorly built at best, even our humble website maintains a better standard than theirs. Scroll to the bottom third or so of the main page and all the pictures and text overlap, and on many of their articles, the page hasn't formatted properly meaning the text is outside the text window.

P.s. They never emailed me back when I emailed them ages ago, I wonder why?

As me and Sam post inconsistently (at best), I thought it's time for yet another update and this time include some proper stuff in it. Like real content and shizzle (sorry been playing GTA: San Andreas recently).
Recently I found this article about the state of the British transport system, which up until now I thought it was a joke yeah it's not great but it's not too bad either is it?
That was before I started using it for long journeys like say my trip back to Bradford from Portsmouth. I have so far made 2 return trips (so 4 journeys in all) and during this time I have experienced 8 train cancellations. Another point the article mentions is the fact that rail fares are sky-rocketing, some might say this is because of the recession etc. However if this is the case, how is it that I paid for a return ferry crossing to Caen for tomorrow (yes it is random (I bought it last night), no I wasn't drunk) for £20, when a single train trip to London is £27 (at off- peak).

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you to read our disclaimer before being offended by anything you read on our blog and that a recent update to the disclaimer has occured:

"We also regret to inform you that our agreements to actively post and update either this disclaimer or the Sack of Jam blog may be false and are therefore not legally binding contracts. Inconvenience caused by our lack of content (wait, what?) are not the responsibility of the management."

Edit: Right I've found several things that I've been meaning to post all of which are news articles. The first one (contains some very graphic images so viewers have been warned) shows pictures from the recent incursion by Israel into Gaza.
The second two are both from the Guardian website. the first is an article about liberty in Britain and the second is an article about David Attenborough getting hate mail from creationists.