Patriot!

I'm asked frequently by many of my friends why I "hate" Americans, hate is too much of a strong word, I do respect Americans and I have befriended a few but its not hate that drives me to this annoyance, neither is it what they do within their own country but its what they say about ours. You may have noticed that I am very patriotic and am very proud to be British, so as you can tell there is a little competition between America and Britain, there always has been and probably always will be, but I try not to say shit about them but the problem is all i hear from them is shit about us.

The UK is near enough 37 times smaller than America, but as a mate of mine once said "Bigger doesnt mean Better", this quote is now my baseline to any comparison with America, and this is where my post starts, my friends have always wanted to know what drove me to dislike America so much, well here it is.

First of all I have nothing against AMERICA but more the inhabitants of the country, with over 300 million people situated within the 9,000,000 square kilometres of land the country has to offer we are bound to have a shitload of comments chucked our way about the UK.

I have heard many Americans call Britain "Little America", this is a total misconception of words as the actual title of America should be "Big Britain", this can be derived from such examples as "Little Italy", "Chinatown" and "Little India" these all came second and therefore took there name from their origin (ie Italy, China and India). Now America was discovered many years ago by fellow British colonies who broke away when it was declared independent from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776, so if America came second it should therefore be named after us.

The Number 1 biggest kick in the teeth problem us British people always hear from Americans is the following quote "We saved your asses" or "We won the war", I only have one word to say... BULLSHIT! You might have joined in on World War II "eventually" and aided us to the ending of the war, but never did you WIN it, if I am correct a number of American casualties were infact shot at or wonded by their fellow American soldiers by accident. It is true that their cooperation in the war helped us to victory, but without them we would have still been able t win the war as many people have figured out recently, but it would have taken a hell of a lot longer. You cant come in late to everything and claim it was YOU who did it when you know as well as we do that you didnt.

I really dont feel much like going on and moaning about how annoyed I get by ignoramus' from America (not everyone, but the fair share). Either way, they have to remember they originated from us, they speak our language "ENGLISH", or though you wouldnt believe so today with all their swapped words like sidewalk instead of pavement etc. There city names and states that derive from our cities and counties (such as New York from York, and their state of Boston from our town of Boston) the list continues on and on.

In the end respect isnt the main issue with the Americans, its the amount of abuse they chuck at the country that gave them everything.

Call of Duty

I got a message from someone that watches my vlogs, which I am sorry for that there havnt been any recently, he started asking me which are my favourite maps, weapons, perks etc on Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty World at War and Modern Warfare 2. Well to start of Call of Duty World at War is crap in my opinion... end of. Other than that there is a list below for KraddockK55 who requested this.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Favourite Maps - Crash, Strike, Vacant & Broadcast
Favourite Primary Weapons - M4 Carbine, MP5 & AK-47
Favourite Secondary Weapons - Desert Eagle & Colt 1911

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Favourite Maps - Derail, Estate, Sub Base, Terminal & Carnival
Favourite Primary Weapons: UMP45, Tar 21, Scar-H & Intervention
Favourite Secondary Weapons: Spas-12 & M93 Raffica

There you go Kraddock, hope your happy =]

Games

In my own personal opinion I believe that the best video games are produced by the UK, the US, Japan and Canada... I've never had the chance to try out any games from any other so I dont know. On 'Sent U A Message' they were talking about how games from certain countries recieve different amounts of popularity, I have noticed that the 2 best selling games in the world are British games and few other British games are too.

BEST BRITISH GAMES

• Recent BAFTA winner Modern Warfare 2 is a British-American game that reached Number 1 in the best-selling charts and even went on to the Guiness World Book of Records.
• British-created Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto IV was a huge hit upon release and made it as the 2nd Best-Selling game. Created by Rockstar North (Scotland) and Rockstar Leeds (Leeds cleverly enough). The Grand Theft Auto Series has really boasted the high-quality games us British can create.
• Crackdown was a huge hit upon release mainly due to its Halo 3 beta offer, but it became popular shorly afterwards. Crackdown was created by Dundee-based Realtime Worlds.
• Starring Stephen Fry as Reaver, Fable II was Number 10 in the best-selling games and was created by Lionhead based in Surrey.
• Zombie shoot em up Left 4 Dead is another British-American game that fulfilled its use of causing hours upon hours of just shooting zombies and other mutants
• Coming out later this year, Dead Rising 2 will be funded by the British and Canadians even though it is a Japanese game

There you have it, some of the best games are in fact British which i found amazing that we have so many well-known games. Now just for a list of other great games.

BEST AMERICAN GAMES

• British-American 'Modern Warfare 2'
• 'Saints Row 2' made by California-based THQ
• Australian-American hit, 'Bioshock'
• 'Gears of War' made by Epic Games from Maryland
• Chicago-based Bungie game, 'Halo'

BEST CANADIAN GAMES

• Splinter Cell
• Rainbow Six
• Ghost Recon
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Far Cry 2
• Army of Two

BEST JAPANESE GAMES

• Dead Rising
• Resident Evil
• Street Fighter

In my own opinion overall, UK and Canada make the best video games and the US make a good share but some of which i dont like, ie Halo

Band on the Run

I have been talking to Rob today about bands and music festivals and I wasjut going back thinking about bands I have seen and noticed some big bands and I thought I wud mention them (cos i'm so... wateva the word is lol)

The two biggest bands I have seen was Ultravox at the Royal Symphony Hall in Birmingham and Pink Floyd during their reunion in the NIA which is also in Birmingham.

I have been to four music festivals in Escot Park in Devon now and seen some rather biggish bands there. In 2006 I saw The Proclaimers, The Buzzcocks, Killing Joke, Levellers and Alabama 3 (They did the theme tune for the Sopranos), 2007 I saw Gogol Bordello (Alex likes them), New Model Army, Dreadzone, The Damned and legendary comedian Bill Bailey. In 2008 I saw Squeeze, Supergrass, Levellers again and Ross Noble. Then finally in 2009 I saw Hawkwind, The Pogues, Levellers and Aussie-English band Pendulum. I'm goin again this year to see Levellers for the fifth time (They run the event and are from Paul's faourite town... Brighton), James (Some band from Manchester) and the legendary Jamaican band The Wailers who were part of Bob Marleys band before he died... wow a lot of bands...

Independent Film

I have decided to do some of my own independent films that dont require me to use Phrat Boys for producing etc but only for acting, here is a 30 seconds PRACTICE that I did with Phat Rob in which we tested muzle flashes, gun sounds, editing, text, acting, lighting, etc! Enjoy!

First Vlog

Here is my first vlog that I completed editing today, enjoy!