Final Blog

Age? 20

Sex? Female

What is your degree subject (both if joint)? English

Does ‘Being Bad’ relate well to the other modules you are taking? Sometimes

If so, how? And if not, why not? It makes you read more sources such as the newspapers and internet news which is something I would not normally read so it has broadened my reading horizons which always helps when doing an English degree.

Have you found ‘Being Bad’ too demanding, too easy, or at an appropriate level? Just right!

Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate? Yes, very enjoyable too.

Are there any topics not included in the module that you would like to see included? I think that within the twelve weeks the module covers the best ones it can.

Do you think that the format for classes has worked well? Yes!

What did you think of the module team? Very good.

Do you think it would have been better to have had more:
Small group discussions? No

Discussion and debate among the class as a whole? No

Information and talk from lecturers? No

The approach taken in the module is interdisciplinary (drawing on perspectives from English Literature, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Media Studies and Politics): do you think this a useful way of approaching the topics covered in the module? Yes!

Do you think that interdisciplinary modules are a good idea? Yes

Do you think you have benefited from the interdisciplinary approach taken in the module? It makes it more interesting because every lesson is different.

Would you like to see more modules that cover this kind of subject matter? Yes

Are you planning to take the follow-up module PH2004 ‘It Shouldn’t Be Allowed’ at level 2? Yes

Would you recommend ‘Being Bad’ to a friend? Yes

Do you think that the blogs (web logs) were a good idea? Yes they are very good. In fact sometimes stress relieving to get things off your chest!

What did you think of the other assessments (e.g. would it be better to have one longer assessment rather than two shorter ones?)? No they are very nice bite size chunks which makes the module more manageable.

What have you learned from the module? That are all sorts of bad behaviour everywhere and some of it is often overlooked. Everyone has different opinions on what they consider as right or wrong.

What parts of the module have you found most useful and why? All of it, it was always enjoyable and a new learning curve.

What parts do you think were a waste of time and why? N/A

Are there any other comments you wish to make regarding ‘Being Bad’? I thoroughly enjoyed this module it was funny, entertaining but most of all educational. The assessments were a pleasure to do which can not normally be said. It was not too demanding but it was not a doddle either. Thank you for a fantastic 2nd Semester. :)

Reply to Euthanasia - Wrong or right?

http://beingbad01.blogspot.com/2009/04/euthanasia-wrong-or-right.html

I have some rather controversial thoughts on this post because it states that if the person is dying of a terminal illness then that makes it right for them to kill themselves but "normal" suicide is not!

I cannot say i agree with taking your own life or not because i think that it is a very personal decision that until any of us are in that predicament we cannot judge?!

My dad had a very close friend who i grew up to know as my "Uncle", he was a happy go lucky bloke. He had a loving family, who had plenty of money behind them and he had many friends and a fantastic job so why on earth did one night my dad receive a phone call from my "Uncles" brother to tell him that he had been found dead?! It had been a suicide!

He had only been to see my dad days before and showed no perculiar signs of depression or of what was to become of him....

However, revelations happened when his mum and dad had to start sorting things out. They found some awful things out....he had met a new girlfriend and he poured all of his money and heart into the relationship because he had never really had a real girlfriend before. But whilst doing this he had stopped paying his bills. He had been living in a house with no electricity, gas or water for over three weeks! But he had this girlfriend so he didnt seem to mind, but then she dumped him and he went home knowing the bailiffs were due to come to his house at 9am the next morning and hung himself.....after two failed attempts.

I am not saying taking his life was the right or wrong thing to do....because to this day i miss him so much! BUT it was after all his decision....it was his life and he knew what he was doing with it! He could have asked for help yet he chose not to....was he selfish was he wrong....i cant tell you but all i can say is i hope that he is happier where he is now!

Boxing

My partner and I ordered the boxing on Sky Box Office and forked up £15 for the privilege to watch it. The fight that i really wanted to watch was Hitman Hatton who was due to come out at 4am English time. But i had planned to sleep for a few hours then get up to watch it, which i did which was amazing in itself to get my butt out of bed at that time!

And i was excited, adrenaline was rushing and i was hoping and praying for Hatton to win!! The rigmerole of the boxers coming out and taking their corners took long enough and finally the boxing commenced. In the first round Hatton got knocked down twice and it was making me feel awful everytime i saw him struggling to get back up, holding on to the Pac Man because his legs were like jelly. But he made it through to the second round.

After some brawling, suddenly from out of nowhere Pac Man gave Hatton a shocking left hook and Hatton fell straight back.....no arms out to break his fall.......he was UNCONSCIOUS!! Then it hit me like a big left hook - how can this be entertaining?! I actually realised thee gravity of the situation, these are two grown men hoping to knock the other one out!!

Hatton lying there unconscious being put into the recovery position, eyes rolling around i thought about his poor mother and fiancee at the side of the ring having to watch from afar their precious boy/man lying on the floor, possibly waking up ok or maybe not?

Then the bigger question came to me? Men with licenses training to beat the living daylights out of each other is considered entertainment, but two men drunken and brawling in the street is illegal!? I am not sure if i could watch boxing again after this epiphany?!

Reply to Mother being jailed for lying

Mother jailed for lying.

There have been so many opinions expressed on this story and I myself have numerous ones.
I can understand a mother's devostation finding out that her son had committed such an awful crime and wanting to shelter him from the conseqeunces yet i also disagree with her actions because if he was big enough and old enough to commit the crime he should face up to doing the time. But could a mother really stand and give damning evidence about her child knowing that it will seal his fate in jail?! I dont know if i could?

Perhaps her going to jail is her commumpence but i am not sure i find this as a really hard story to take one particular side of either right or wrong ??

Reply to Emma Watabiki Post on Childrens Tv Adverts

http://tinkerbelle88.blogspot.com/
This is something that i have only recently encountered because i do not normally watch the childrens channels however since my step children have started visiting regularly i am obliged to watch such rubbish lol

But i noticed how there were so many more adverts between programmes than there are on normal channels and these children are being bombarded by toy after toy after toy and they are constantly asking for these new and wonderful gadgets that they have been convinced or brain washed into wanting!

It is awful having to tell them no but there is no way on this earth that you can possibly afford to keep buying such things. I understand that these companies need to make money but could they make it a little more subtle and less often because they are driving me insane!

Jack Tweed to remarry

Following on from the recent blogs that i have done about Jade i found this recent news article rather distasteful!

To hear that Jades mother only buried her daughter over a week ago and is already insisting that her son in law should re marry as he is only twenty one and has his whole life ahead of him. I can completely understand her point of view, but is now really the time to voice her opinion on the situation? Jade is barely even cold....???

Parents as friends

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/g20_video/7988551.stm

This is a fantastic news article and the idea is ingenius!

Parents are always worried about what it is their children are up to on the internet yet everyone knows how much of a big brother regime there is on the social networks like 'facebook, myspace and twitter' etc. So I think it is a good idea for parents to join (even if they have no intention of using it) and become friends with their children. This way they will be more conscious about what they get up to on the network and probably wont get up to as much mischief as they would if they didnt have 'big mummy and daddy'.

However, i am sure there can be implications with this because there are ways to discretely message people without it being known to the whole world and most children have mobile phones too therefore it may not be so effective but it is worth a try?!

Trust

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7988008.stm

This link is to a news article about a woman who is thought to have been murdered by her husband. This is one of many cases where someone close who is considered as a loved one has committed such a brutal crime.

I find it quite scary in the fact that you may think you know someone but perhaps you are not even scratching at the surface?! I am sure this woman would not have married someone that she knew would later murder her for whatever his reasons may be.

Can you ever trust anybody with your life?

I see trust as a very big thing because without it there is going to be one hell of an insecure relationship. Constantly checking up on people, doubting things that have been said and accusations. Not what i would consider as a healthy lifestyle. But what exactly is trust? Is it we trust someone to not cheat? Trust them to lock the doors at night when you leave them to lock up at night? Trust them to not let you down and always have your back? I find humans when pushed into certain situations become primitive again and i think when it is a situation of either your neck or mine the majority would save their own.....does that mean that they are untrustworthy?

I read once (cant remember where) that humans actually are not very good at co habiting. They are very lone creatures and find it very hard to adapt to having to put up with one another...is this man in question perhaps not so well adapted to this lifestyle and that is what made him flip? God only knows and i think it may be best that way....but my goodnes....humans are hard to understand?!

Body modification

I cannot disagree with body modification, no matter what speculation there may be about it. I know that if i had the money and the guts to go for surgery i would. There are so many imperfections that i would love to correct. However, my mother says that what i see as imperfections make me 'me'. So are surgical body modifications wrong because they take away your individuality?

As for piercings and tattoos, i say each to their own! I have had my ears pierced so many times and a couple of other piercings and a tattoo which will become two soon when i decide what i want done next. I think unlike surgery these define a person, making them individual and expressing themselves.

I am sure people have very different opinions to my own?! :D

Suicide

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2316695.ece

I recently read this article and was pondering whether i believe if it is true or not. I know that humans are very easily persuaded and many are followers because it is easier to follow than lead. But i have to ask myself, if a friend of mine killed themselves would i really do the same thing? They say that suicide is a cowards way out but my god i cannot agree with that for a second. It takes some guts, even when i have been what felt like rock bottom i still could not even contemplate doing such a thing!

This post is not to say that suicide is wrong but that does not mean that i think it is right. At the end of the day it is a choice, a conscious choice made by whoever does/did it. But what i find wrong is that scientists can claim that its a trend that can be followed in a 'click'. I think it is perhaps a potentially dangerous comment to make because it could influence a trend to begin because of it (if that makes any sense lol)

My dad's best friend killed himself a few years ago and my dad was devostated but his first thought was not to go kill himself cause his friend had?!

I find this news bulletin slightly hard to get my head round...is it just me?

Jade Goody Funeral

Her funeral was long awaited by the press, more pictures to sell more magazines and i hoped for a nice funeral that would be classy with some surprises because Jade was always full of them. And her funeral did exactly that with floral tributes such as a marmite pot!! It had a fantastic turn out and i hope she is resting in peace watching down on her sons wherever she might be. But i had a conversation with someone recently who lost a loved one recently in Iraq and he said that he whom he loved served, fighted and died and still was not acknowledged the way that Jade was and it saddened him because he thought he should have been as he was a fantastic man with a family waiting for him to come home. He did come home, but in a coffin, to be buried and his family are having to deal with the same things that Jade's are but they are not looked after and praised in the way that Jade's family is. I can see where he is coming from and agree with him. But i suppose that does not sell magazines though does it?!

Jade Goody

I have always liked Jade from the moment she stepped into Big Brother. She irritated me like mad at times with how uneducated she was but that is what made her so funny because she really was as dumb as she made out. But she had knowledge on things that you just wouldn't expect. She certainly hit the nail on the head when she claimed she was like marmite - love her or hate her! lol

I was always pleased for her as she created a career for herself and would never begrudge her of it just because off her being a 'reality TV star' she made a name for herself and she played it and I can not blame the girl for it!

Recently though as I am sure EVERYONE knows she has suffered publicly with cancer and I cannot knock the woman for making cervical cancer more aware to ladies. The amount of people who have shrugged off having a smear test because of it being 'awkward' have been ringing up to get appointments!

I followed the news closely because I hoped and prayed for her and her boys sake that she would make a full recovery but unfortunately the cancer became terminal and she was living on borrowed time. And she was just waiting to die and I can not imagine how that must have felt knowing she would one day very soon never see her little boys again!

BUT I find it so disgusting and morally wrong that as much as we all knew she was going to die that a magazine decided to write an obituary and tribute to Jade before she had even died! It’s like me picking up my local paper and seeing mine in the paper.....considerate eh?!

Magazines all over jumped on the band wagon about Jade, they made plenty of money selling magazines slagging her off but when it suited (to sell more mags) they have sympathy for her!

I was almost speechless when I saw the magazine and could not believe that writers had the audacity to do such a thing! What does everyone else think?!

Sexting

http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/local/18876179.html

I must admit....i was totally taken aback when i saw the word sexting. I was knew it was a combination of sex and text but i did not realise that such innocent messages could be classed as this. I read up on the subject on this website and realised how common sexting is. I think there are some very innocent sexting going on but i know of a lot of people who use it a very provocative and perhaps unconventional way which i think most people would maybe cringe at. I had friends at school who sent all sorts of filthy messages to their boyfriends and pictures of alsorts of the anatomy and i thought it was awful....god forbid that your parents get hold of your phone and see the types of things you have been sending and receiving?! And to see the statistics of how many people go do the real thing after so many saucy text messages were shocking. Like i said i think that sexting generally probably is not really bad behaviour, a nice flirty text message wont hurt anyone. But if someone starts sending porn like texts i think its a bit .....hmmm naughty?! lol

Recession

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/jan/22/recession

I found this timeline to show how the recession has progressed and only worsened over the last year but i have to ask myself how come nobody saw this coming?! I notice when my bank account is overdrawn by the slightest penny and begin to panic so why did banks etc not take action sooner when things started to look slightly bad...i know i do not have particularly extensive knowledge on the recession because i have not been effected by it as much as others and havent really followed it as much as i maybe should or could have. But all i know is that everyone is blaming each other, no one is willing to own up to their own mistakes. Watching prices of food, petrol, gas and electric go up and wages not going up and infact in a lot of cases wages being lost through redundancy....people are on their knees with not many options to save themselves. People are trying to look for quick fixes by 'making up money' but this will not solve anything. It will only cause more problems in the long run because the made up money will have to be paid back to get things running smoothly again so it will just dig us a bigger hole and cause a bigger problem. I am not sure what should be done to be honest and i am not going to pretend like i do. But that G20 summit has achieved nothing....but it did cost us over £7 million in security .... and the rest! Nice one!! :)

Child abuse

I have been trying to follow the news a little better because i tend to have very little knowledege about what is going on in the world. And something i have read about a lot recently is a poor boy who had been beaten up by his mother's boyfriend....and eventually died from a brutal and fatal attack from him. He was stamped on that hard that it caused a certain organ (cant remember which one) to rupture on his spine and he proceeded to cough up blood for up to 48 hours before he was even taken to hospital where he later died! And this man has only got 10 years imprisonment.....it was through scottish courts and received a sentence which is equivalent to the english sentence of manslaughter rather than murder! It absolutely sickened me.....the coroner said that there were over 40 seperate accounts of injuries on this poor boys body. It makes me so sad to think what that poor boy went through in his very short life. I cant even begin to imagine how he felt and what he could have only wished for as a little boy. Perhaps even just a cuddle?! I find it shocking that they say that this monster who did this to him may only get six year in prison if he is on his "best behaviour". The court of justice just does not bring enough justice any more. I think sometimes capital punishment should come back, an eye for an eye, a life for a life?!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6008412.ece

Gas Prices

Since recently moving into my own place with my boyfriend i have taken on an awful amount of bills :(

We had set a realistic budget for each month and stuck to it perfectly until the gas bill came through.....we are currently in the process of switching from npower to e on and had the bill of what we had used during the 40 day period whilst with N Power and they charged us a very hefty sum of £150.43 which instantly i thought must have been a mistake.

So i rang the company up only to be told by some rude woman on the phone that if you use the gas you pay the price! So disgusted with her service i rang e on who i am due to be with shortly and explained the situation and they told me that with the units used they would have charged me no more than £85 for what we had used!

Now i understand that different people offer different prices, it is like the supermarkets constantly trying to compete with one another but how on earth can N Power condone charging me over £65 more than a different company for the same product?!

I would never ever reccommend N power as a supplier and am very pleased that i am with E on now :D

Knife hospital admissions down 8%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7939166.stm
Some good news about Knife crime finally. Perhaps it is starting to sink in that killing or crucially wounding someone is not as amazing and 'big' as it was once thought. But then again i am a little bit pessimistic and think that they have probably moved onto something a bit more endangering such as guns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6960431.stm

I wish that crime would calm down and places would become a bit more civilised. I still remember the stories me grandma told me about how she could leave her front door unlocked and windows open at night and it was the norm, there was nothing to fear. Strange how society appears to have developed for the worst. Not quite sure why though?!

Fraud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7939847.stm

This is an interesting story following the constant reminder of the recession that we are in at the moment. I am sure this man was not feeling the pinch in such hard times. It is said that he should be sentenced for 150 years but there is no chance that it would ever happen, in fact he may only get a few months!! What a punishment eh?! I am sure that will really deter people from doing such things ever again. How on earth he thought he could get away with such a scandal, god only knows!!

Reply to Emma Watabiki Post on Red Nose Day

http://tinkerbelle88.blogspot.com/
I have a few more points to add to this rant that Emma has had about Red Nose day. I agree that tramps are looked upon as awful people who are begging and most would walk on by and not think twice about donating any money to them, even if they are starving!

Yet Red Nose Day has a fantastic backing by celebrities of all kinds who ask us to be kind and donate money, even if its only £1! Yet something that bugs me is, these celebs earn so much god damn money, why dont they just give a million and it would save all us poor 'non celeb' people who are working hard to keep a roof over our heads at the moment because of the recession that looks like it is going to plummet into a depression at any point.

However, i see charity as a very uplifting thing to do. I like to donate to at least one child charity and one animal one a month. RSPCA and NSPCC and i feel thats my participation done.

But i do love watching the celebs make absolute fools out of themselves so perhaps it is worth the £1 i donated lol

Mother Jailed For 'Horrific' Cruelty To Son

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mother-Claire-Biggs-Jailed-For-Horrific-Cruelty-Campaign-Aginst-Son-Rhys-London/Article/200903215238574?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_2&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15238574_Mother_Claire_Biggs_Jailed_For_Horrific_Cruelty_Campaign_Aginst_Son_Rhys_London

I have followed this story since it emerged and it has made me cry on many occassions. I cannot imagine ever hurting a child with intent. To brutally attack them and make their lives a misery. People like this should be sterilised at birth to ensure that they cannot reproduce and cause harm to a vulnerable child who is solely dependent on their parents. I am glad that she has been jailed, and rightly so! Yet eight years imprisonment just doesnt do justice for that poor baby boy. This is when i wish there was still capital punishment, a life for a life! Especially when i know that she wont even serve the full sentence of eight years. Because like all other criminals, they are well behaved in prison!!!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/School-Shooting-In-Stuttgart-Germany-Fatalities-Reported-By-Police/Article/200903215239043?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15239043_School_Shooting_In_Stuttgart%2C_Germany%3A_Fatalities_Reported_By_Police

This is yet another case of gun crime. It is awful to think that someone could go into a school and gun down innocent children for no real reason. The gunman was described to be an educated seventeen year old with a degree but still had the animosity to be able to do such a cruel and wretched thing! This along with knife crime is a terrible doing that is going on everyday all over the world. Perhaps rather than educating and preaching so much about sex and smoking some more lessons should be taught on the affects and the consequences of threatening crimes!?!

Prostitution

http://www.prostitutionreform.co.uk/

This website i found particularly interesting about prostitution. It has talked about slavery being abolished over 200 years ago yet there are still slaves within the sex trade being forced to work as prostitutes. What a thrilling life to lead...its awful!! To have sex with someone for money when you are forced is unforgivable.

However, there are women and men who choose to go on the streets to earn themselves some money. Yet can it be seen as a choice if they have children and they need feeding? Is it as disgusting and demeaning if they are doing it for the good of their kids? To keep a roof over their heads and keep food in the cupboards?

I am not really sure what my opinion of this is....I can only try to imagine what situations some of these people must find themselves in to either be forced into it or having to as to survive.

Masturbation

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Ashley Cole arrested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7925963.stm

Another fantastic example of drunkeness! The great affects it has on people. This lovely man decided to start hurling abuse at police officers and got himself arrested. But this is not only a case of drunkeness this is also about this man being an idol and a role model to many youths. He is a famous footballer and is married to a famous singer, young people think he has it all and he then does something like this which almost gives youths the 'thumbs up' to go and do the same. When wont these people realise that they are in the spotlight and everything they do is documented and implements the way people are growing up nowadays?!

Drunkeness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7935311.stm
This news article is about a woman who bit off her boyfriends tongue during a drunken kiss. She is now facing jail. How much do you have to drink for you to become so blotto that biting someone's tongue of is a good idea (let alone your own boyfriend's?!).

I think as much as everyone has a go at smokers, alcohol is a more dangerous drug abuse. It can cause liver problems, people drink drive, its addictive (proven to be more addictive than cigarettes) and it makes people act like absolute morons if they have too much. Maybe a bit more action should be done about stopping people drinking......Is there a non drinking day coming up at any time?!

Sex lessons for five year olds?!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sex-Education-For-Five-Year-Old-To-Be-Brought-In-To-Avoid-Child-Dads-Like-13-Year-Old-Alfie-Patten/Article/200903215238060
What on earth is going on in the world for people to think that telling a five year old such intimate and shocking details on life will help avoid thirteen year old dads?!

I agree that there is much more detail needed within sex education to 'clue' kids up a bit better about the consequences. Such as pregnancy and disease. But i think that five is slightly drastic behaviour! I did not know anything at that age and didnt start to gain knowledge on such facts until i was about 10 or 11 which worked perfectly fine for me, as i have not been pregnant.

These teen parents are normally a case of a drunken fumble or just taking that risk hoping 'it wont happen to me' but unfortunately it does.

If you are willing to play with fire, expect to get burnt!

Non Smoking Day

http://shopping.sky.com/cms/article/want_to_quit_smoking
I found this link on my homepage of the internet and slightly chuckled to myself. Another money making scheme for 'greater good'. All of the ways that people can quit smoking just because its non smoking day soon. To me it is so ludicrous, next we will have non chocolate day, and maybe eventually we can have a non breathing day. I have had enough of non smoking being crammed down my throat. Its a choice for gods sake, just as it is to eat chocolate (breathing isnt though lol) and to drink and to gamble and to cheat and to lie! They are all choices that we consciously make and if we wanted to stop smoking etc etc etc we would without there being a whole day revolving around it!!

Lying with integrity

I know that lying is bad yet everyone does it. From the tiny white lies to the big whoppers!! I have told lies in my life, to my parents in particular. :) But sometimes i think a lie is better than to tell the truth.....is it just me? Obviously not, because then nobody would like would they?
I have not really told any big lies in my life i dont think (not that i recall). But i think there is also a fine line between telling a few porky pies to being a compulsive liar. I had a friend at school who would have the most amazing stories about what she had been up to every night and weekend and i was so envious of her life, but then i found out it was all billy bull **** and was questioning why she found the need to lie about it.
But on a funnier and naughtier note i told a little lie today, my mum was ringing the house phone and i claimed that i didnt hear it :) woops!! Never mind, the lie was for greater good i promise :)

Teenage Parents

I find this one a very difficult subject as I do have a few friends that are in fact teenage parents and they are better parents than some 'adults' I know that have children. They provide for their children, they work or are in education to get that fantastic job so that their children can have the lifestyle that they deserve and crave. However, when watching the news the other day I could have died. I saw this boy sat on a hospital bed holding this baby that he was going to have to look after and provide for the rest of his life. I thought he only looked about eight years old so when they said he was thirteen I suppose that was a bonus lol But I just thought to myself what kind of life will the baby grow up to have but nevertheless, what on earth is the poor mother and father going to do. Will they continue in education or will they be yet another drop out who end up on the dole, struggling for survival. Then will the baby grow up and repeat the cycle that she has been brought up to know?? I don’t think it makes me angry, more upsetting than anything. My mum was a teenage mum (18) and she always told me as I was growing up that she would not have changed things for the world but there were things she couldn’t do because of the responsibilities of a baby. I know how irresponsible and childish I can still be at 20 so heaven knows what that boy at only 13 is going to be like. And that is if he evens sticks around because doubts are already setting in for the simple fact that he wants a DNA test. Kids are growing up far too fast, my thirteen year old brother’s shock me at times with what they know and what they get up to and I am not sure how and where they gain the knowledge.

Reply to Rachel Evans blog re infidelity

http://rachull39.blogspot.com/

I totally agree with Rachel's outlook on infidelity. There have been numerous reports that in human nature we are just not made to be faithful. We are compared to other animals, like birds, tigers, cats, dogs etc etc etc and none of which are faithful to any one partner. They will be with and 'do' whoever takes their fancy. But that is completely frowned upon in human nature, as we are supposed to be the more refined and developed existence. The names branded upon people who are a bit happy go lucky with partners is unbelievably cruel at times. Normally the women get the most stick whereas the men tend to be seen as cool dudes lol

I personally have never cheated on anybody, don’t think I could as I am lame at lying and see a relationship as something to work at if there are problems or walk away if it gets that tough. No point sleeping around and still having to go home to someone you quite frankly can’t love all that much if you are cheating on them.

I find this such a hard thing to get my head round because as I have mentioned before, there is so much media about cheating, the celebs do it, it’s on the TV all the time and yet we still perceive it as a wrong doing.

Reply to Andrew Kirby Post on Smoking

http://soveliss.blogspot.com/

I also have been a smoker for a long time, I started at twelve and I will admit that it probably was not the smartest move I ever made. I cannot blame anyone else for my smoking and never would try anyway. Smoking for eight years and can officially say that I am addicted and a grouchy git if I do not get my intake of nicotine :D

I agree with Andrew in the fact that yes there are health risks involved with smoking and there is no getting away from that, but like he mentions, it is not going to be so horrific that my parents should have to bury me. Like the fag packets say 'Smoking can cause a long and painful death' so I don’t think I have to worry about dying to quickly lol

As for having to smoke outside all the time, it seriously is annoying. We go on about equal rights and so on yet we are reduced to being sent out into the rain, snow and freezing cold just because of a certain habit that we have. I understand completely about the effects of passive smoking and agree that non smokers should not have to put up with such 'filth' because my partner is a non smoker and he detests me smoking in the car next to him (woopsy) but like Andrew said when there was smoking areas the non smokers could choose to passive smoke or not. I think things get taken completely out of context and too many legalities are pushed on to things that are not as important as some of the things the government should be focussing on.

Reply to Emma Watabiki Post

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Emma has mentioned a website brought to her attention by Nicola claiming that there are certain genes that can affect people and the way that they behave. I agree with this as there are things such as ADHD which is a behavioural problem which needs medication to suppress the fits and to calm the person down. However, I think it is a slight cop out that a gene is what is the cause of anti social behaviour because you can definitely tell that the upbringing of a child and the way that there parents interact with them has an impact. If someone grows up seeing their parents smoking, doing drugs, drinking alcohol and stealing perhaps to feed their habits, it is more likely for the child to grow up and repeat the same life style and path. I think it is very hard though to pin point what is the cause of ALL anti-social behaviour because in some cases, children have had the best upbringing that they could possibly have with a private education, money, friends and something triggers in their life to make them go off the rails.

Infidelity

Infidelity is hard to describe because I think everyone has the temptation to cheat. Whether they choose to or not is a different matter. But it is always there subconsciously. It has become such a popular well known thing that there are even TV programmes based on such "bad" behaviour, for instance 'Mistresses'.

I have been cheated on and I know how crushing it is to your ego to have someone betray you but there are some people that have what is known as an 'open' relationship where they can sleep around with whom they want providing they are honest to their partner about it. Can this be classed as infidelity, because they have had permission??

Infidelity used to be a crime that could in extreme cases be punished by death. The family would be shamed and the social etiquette and shame that came from cheating was horrendous. Whereas now, most people laugh about it, think it is something fun and exciting to do and talk about. Has society developed in a good way or a bad way when it comes to infidelity?

Shoplifting

Shoplifting is common with people of all age. I remember when i was younger many of my friends used to do it, but i never had the guts to do it :) They said that the buzz was intense and they got to have things in their wardrobes and drawers that they could never afford and that their parents would never buy for them. They always said the risk was something that was entertaining because there was always the possibility of being caught. I have never shoplifted, i never had the guts and my parents would have killed me!! lol

Being Bad - Week 12

There are a number of topics that could be discussed within the lesson in week 12.
I have looked at the module guide to see which ones will have already been discussed and there are still a few that i think could be delved into:

1. Alcohol (Binge drinking)
2. Body Piercings
3. Violence

I think that these may be interesting to talk about in week 12.