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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Hot Shit & Shit

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Hello Procrastinators!

Welcome to another week of Hot Shit & Shit. This week in the firing line we have Topshop and Topman. 

Known as the suppliers for the under fifteens we all love to hate, Topman especially likes to produce clothes that are equal parts offensive and vile. If I remember correctly they were the first promoters of the low-cut male vest that came into fashion, exposing guys' hairy nipples everywhere for the first time in years. Not to mention the fact we've had to endure Kanye West-esque baggy trousers and leather t-shirts, knicker sized hotpants and disgusting patchwork shirts.

So here's a roundup of this week's best and worst of Topshop and Topman!


HOT SHIT




This dinosaur jumper is amazing. If it wasn't £30 and I wasn't living off Supernoodles I'd get it myself.




This skirt is really cool. It's just waiting to be worn out drinking. It'd go with anything, too.





This is a side of the nineties I'm actually glad to see. Woo, jelly shoes! Time for the beach and ice creams and plodging in the sea!





Not everyone's going to agree with me about this but these glasses are geeky-cool. I think they'd probably suit most people and they're vintage in a Clark Kent type of way.





This top is kind of grungey AND cheap (by Topman's standards), wooo!





There's another t-shirt where the skeleton is bigger but for some reason it's £12 more so sack that. This t-shirts simple but maaaarvelous.





This shirt is an investment. Wear it open during the day time for summer-y excursions or buttoned up for a night out. Perfect for a student budget!








SHIT





This dress isn't, like, vomit inducingly bad... But I'm pretty sure we all slated Kim K when she wore a similar dress when she was preggers. And now this is on sale for £95! WTF?!





So I'd heard that 70s clothing was coming into fashion but really this takes the biscuit. It looks like someone raided ABBA's wardrobe and then puked on it.





These are named "Destroyed Joggers". Why the hell would I want to buy joggers that look like I've been doing P.E. class in them since I was eleven? Do Topshop not realise I don't exercise in joggers? I sit on my arse in them and slob out and I have dinner medals all over them but they're still less embarrassing than these.




Hello nineties! Not only is this dress cheap and tacky, it will have people coming up to you all night asking if you've dressed like one of the Spicegirls for a joke.






Oh god, no! Please! This t-shirt is far too long it makes you look like you've borrowed your older brother's t-shirt because you're too lazy to wash your own. Not to mention the fact it looks like you've been caught in a thunderstorm. 





Do you want to dress like your dad? Because this is how you dress like your dad.





Joey Essex has a lot of things to answer for... and this is one of them. Gaaahh!





Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahaahahaha. Hahahahahaha.



Have you seen any online atrocities that need to be shared with the world and mocked? Let us know in the comments!

Jess x



Monday, 2 March 2015

One Last Tweet Before You Die

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Hello Procrastinators!

 This is a Happy Monday post and although it's not going to make you smile, it could help you to realise what you post online is more important than you think, and that life is too short to waste. And facing the reality of life is just as important as blocking it out and forcing yourself to be happy. As the following tweets will help us all realise is we never know when this one life we have is going to end and we best make the most of it while we can. Okay, so preaching over, let's begin...

 We're at a strange place with technology at the moment. We live our lives through it, and then when we die, it precedes us as something physical and accessible by anyone we've ever been in contact with. Our tweets and Facebook posts and blogs can outlive us, and our past selves can be judged from them.

 Leonard Nimoy sadly passed away on February 27th 2015 and the world was in mourning. People who possibly hadn't even seen Star Trek were flung into public displays of deep sadness - but obviously not for the retweets or the likes. Most poignantly was Nimoy's last tweet before he died. He sent it just five days before he passed away and it's actually profound.


Reading about his last tweet made me question whether any other celebrities had such philosophical final tweets, their last word to the internet world. It led me to a site called The Tweet Hereafter, a list of all celebrities who have died, their last tweets, the time and dates of their deaths and how they died. It's morbidly interesting.

 Some people were tragically taken before their time and their tweets about upcoming events or things they were excited for, so everyday that it was clear they were taken off-guard.

 

Harry Potter night tonight again with Sarah. There's nothing like it………. The movies are ok. ∞
Tweeted:March 12, 2014, 8:27 p.m. UTC
Died:March 12, 2014, 10 p.m. UTC
Heart attack







 

oh. IT'S A SHARK TORNADO. ∞
Tweeted:July 12, 2013, 1:25 p.m. PST
Died:July 13, 2013 PST
Overdose






 

I just moved up to the rank of Noteworthy on the Who's Who of Southern Africa! whoswho.co.za/mandy-rossouw-… ∞
Tweeted:March 12, 2013, 3:25 p.m. SAST
Died:March 12, 2013, 4 p.m. SAST
Unknown







Some, however, are so relevant that it's almost prophetical. 

 

It's about to be a very eventful night to say the least ∞
Tweeted:Nov. 12, 2014, 1:33 p.m. EST
Died:Nov. 14, 2014 EST





 

It won't last.... It'll never last.... ∞
Tweeted:Oct. 23, 2014, 8:17 a.m. PST
Died:Oct. 23, 2014, 12:45 p.m. PST
Gunshot  |






 

I get by with a little help from my friends! Live to Love! Love to Live! Love You Live! Hope to see… http://t.co/NWBjbG0LJ7 ∞
Tweeted:July 7, 2014, 2:29 p.m. UTC
Died:July 8, 2014, noon UTC
Heart attack







Some even use Twitter to make public their suicides, or their suicide notes.

 

Adios folks. Suicide note is here: https://t.co/zmoBtwk034 Good luck y'all ∞
Tweeted:Oct. 1, 2014, 1:59 p.m. PST
Died:Oct. 1, 2014, 2 p.m. PST
Suicide 







 

I'm sorry. ∞
Tweeted:Jan. 5, 2013, 2:34 p.m. PST
Died:Jan. 5, 2013, 2:35 p.m. PST
Suicide 






 

The end. ∞
Tweeted:Dec. 23, 2012, 8:59 p.m. PST
Died:Dec. 23, 2012, 8:59 p.m. PST
Suicide






Some of the tweets relate to their deaths in such a way that it's freaky, like this one:

 

Order your RiflemanTV t-shirts! gaohunts.com/proddetail.asp…#riflemantv http://t.co/TwFrHQOFXI ∞
Tweeted:March 7, 2013, 2:18 p.m. CST
Died:March 8, 2013, 10:30 p.m. CST
Gunshot 








 

What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay ∞
Tweeted:Feb. 13, 2013, 1:37 p.m. SAST
Died:Feb. 14, 2013 SAST
Gunshot







And some serve to remind us that your tweets, texts or Facebook posts could be the last thing you ever get to say, your very final and public words to the world, and could be what you are remembered by.

 

Alex Rodriguez should follow my example of retiring graciously and disappearing into a distant land rather than continue to be a mockery. ∞
Tweeted:Oct. 17, 2012, 5:15 p.m. LMT
Died:Nov. 1, 2012 LMT
Homicide










So think before you post online - none of us know how long we've got so make every day count!

 Jess x







Was Catfish (Series 5 Episode 1) Worth It?

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Hello Procrastinators!

 It's the best time of the year - the Easter time of the year when we get the official notice that the new series of Catfish is starting again. Series 5 looks to be an amazing one, full of somehow even more intense story lines and crazy endings. 

Episode one begins with an apology that Max won't be joining Nev for most of this series, masked by Zac Efron smiling at the camera to distract from the bad news. Because Catfish is all about the hosts and Max and Nev are the perfect combo. One without the other just isn't the same. Last series Max missed out on a few episodes so they got in some celebrity to cover for him and it was okay but the celebrities are only given one episode to try and impress us and just as they're getting into the swing of things and we're starting to like them, the episode ends and someone else is shoved in.

This time around we had Charlamagne who I guess is big in America but his fame wasn't so hard-hitting for us Brit viewers. Definitely no Max. His strange comments about men inherently wanting to bang women were strange but as the episode went on he got more likeable. He was quite funny in parts but he just didn't fit in quite right. His sincere exclamations about how "real" the show was seemed, conversely, really fake. But the girl who they help, Miracle, is actually nice and you hope for the best even though you know it's Catfish so it's probably not going to be. I'm not going to tell you anything other than that, you can watch it and find out for yourself.

In parts we were literally on the edge of our seats, gasping and cursing the adverts for ruining a big moment. Somehow after four series Nev still seems, even if it's acting, to be genuinely excited and intrigued about people and who they've fallen for. It would be easy for him to be cynical, pessimistic and to be bored of the show but he's still as anxious and into the show as we are. 

 I can't wait for the rest of the series, the only way it can go from episode one is up! Hurry up back, Max!

 Jess x