News – The Ginge World Tour
And Australia breathes a collective sigh of relief.
Cranky Customs wench at 5am Sunday morning was certainly thankful I was atleast leaving her desk. And ticket skank tried to punch me in the balls when she violently tore off the ticket stub – a fitting final farewell from the people of Perth to the guy who sent the break-up letter some months ago.
Even more hiliarious was the total reluctance of the Simon Pegg impersonator at UK Immigration to approve me – sweating like a pedophile at a Wiggles concert, I wound up making up some bullshit about visiting my grandparents in Exeter so they wouldn’t deport me. It’s not an issue since I’ve no intention of working here and the Royal Marines application removes any visa requirements; but apparently saying you’re staying for 3 months, putting the address of a hostel as your UK contact residence on the immigration form, and saying you’re unemployed raises a few eyebrows.
Who’d have though?
Headed to Exeter in a few hours by train, and once there I’ll settle into about a month of fitness, interviews/aptitude testing, security clearances (medical and fitness assessments, and the violation of any attractive female backpacker between the ages of 20-25 year old. The 20-25 thing is flexible though, as is the attractive backpacker bit – I’m a big fan of equal oppurtunity, but corn-holing men not so much.
Obviously big changes going on with the permanent move to UK (eventually), but the Mighty Ginge blog will survive in one form or another – it’s too much damn fun. Like a mythical ginger firebird, it’s going to burst into flames and re-appear somewhere else; fresh, new and a little different. And in keeping with that, I’ve decided to set yet another ridiculous task for myself – taking the “Yes Man” One month challenge.
The Yes Man Challenge -It’ll almost certainly involve something like this
I’d wanted to see it for awhile (and since it’s something I genuinely liked enough to get on DVD, I won’t be reviewing it here), and finally getting the chance to do so has only inspired me to be more of a Yes man myself – sure I’ve jumped out of planes, learnt random languages and generally run amok for nearly 24 years; but while I’m pretty open to experiences, people still scare the fuck out of me. I flick back and forward between laughing gleefully at humanity, and being openly spiteful about my belief we’re headed toward a global Idiocracy – like an autistic kid playing with the power supply on his grandfather’s life support. So in order to stop being such a negative Nancy when humanity fucks itself retarded again, I’ve going to show a little more faith in you all.
Readers would be shocked, but those that know my real-life counterpart are painfully aware the last 18 months have knocked his confidence in people around alot. And in typical Mighty Ginge fashion, I’ve convince him all people are indeed fucked, but it shouldn’t stop him from being awesome or approachable. So he’s going to be dedicated to accepting EVERYTHING that comes his way for the next month, plus all the usual insanity. And, he’s going to be forcing his rude ginger head into atleast 1 conversation with randoms each day. Maybe if he talks to people, he’ll realise he’s actually one of them too. Not the Mighty Ginge though – I’m NOTHING like any of you.
And yes, I just pretended we’re different people – crucify me.
Probably going to see a few changes around here soon too – or more likely, changes somewhere else! At my send-off Firday night the ever generous toothsoup offered me webspace and setup assistance (read: ‘Doing it for me’) to shift the Mighty Ginge to a toothsoup domain. It’s been something I’ve thought about for awhile, but had never actually gotten around to asking him about. Shifting away from Blogspot would allow me run seperate sections of material (rants, movie reviews, “101 things to do before you die”/book updates) all under the Mighty Ginge banner. The other option ofcourse is to start my own domain, something certainly worth considering if I’m serious about this book – at a $180 a year it’s a small price to pay for the post and page design flexibility it’ll bring.
Also the banner is going to get an update too – big thanks to Ser for the time and effort that went into the awesome banner that’s greeted everyone here for so long (time she probably should have used to update her blog more regularly) – but it’s a new Ginge, and hence a new banner. Submissions are more than welcome, but chances are I’ll end up copy/pasting something offensive together in MS Paint.
There are 2 Comments to "News – The Ginge World Tour"
Glad to hear you landed safely mate, when’s your interview and all that?
People are annoying in that they can be both the most fucked and the best thing for you. Just as you’re about to give up defending people, other people go ahead and make you reconsider. Honestly, if we were all just total bastards all of the time it would be so much easier.
Let me know if you still want me to set something up for you, even if it’s just to have a squiz at the dashboard. It’s as simple as one click to do (:
I’ve got aptitude testing Thursday (I’m going in as a marine, not a fighter pilot – I’ll be fine), and then they set the interview date from there.
I’m at the point now where I’m just going to do my own thing – I have a few good friends in WA, but some of them have taken a decade to emerge from the sea of “ordinary” friends I have. My good friends tend to respect me because while I’m friendly to most people, I’m a total bastard to those that fuck me around – it’s about telling them to eat a dick while not getting upset about it… I’m still learning.
May as well go ahead with the dashboard if it’s that easy – I just don’t want to screw you around trying it out on toothsoup only to bail to my own domain. Thanks mate