Two-Thousand and Eight is nearly over.  This year has brought many a challenge for people to cope with, the economic downturn being one of the most difficult.  For normal everyday people the credit crunch has been above anything we have has to cope with in recent years, but alas we have seen it all before in various forms.  For years the banks and credit agencies have been open with their wallets and people have been allowed to run riot.

For one year, The Rantastic has been broadcasting messages of quality and discussion on topics (ish), close to every bodies hearts, and long may it continue.  I have been face with such great topics to talk about and for this I honour and thank all the idiots in the world which without your help The Rantastic would not exist.  Remember when you fall down the stairs or make a comment that you shouldn’t be making or when Alistair Darling takes away vat but makes charges elsewhere; remember its all ammunition for this blog and I’ll be using it in the best way to make you laugh, raise a smile or shock you.

So, thank you retard for being there and giving me something to talk about!

And last but not least, Merry Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful day, and don’t worry I’ll be grumpy tomorrow.

It’s only a week until Christmas now, I’ve nearly done all my shopping which is incredibly unusual for me, every other year I’ve left it until the last moment.

I ventured into town today to have a look around, I still have some things to buy for people.

I’m eternally frustrated by all the shoppers at Christmastime, why do you have to wonder around, jab me in the arms and the worst of all hold a mince pie in your hand while you do it?

Well, I’ve now updated this blog to the new version of WordPress, I’m happy it’s done now it’s a really good version of the blogging software.

We’ve had some major database problems in the past hour or so.  I’ll be working on getting all this sorted out tonight, and it had happen on my birthday too!

Update:

The Database in principal is back online, but we’re missing quite a few images from our library I’m working on this now.

Newer Update:

Right, I think everything is back the way it should be now! Bloody WordPress!!!!

…On Mr. Rants face today, yes that’s right this website has been around for a year!

May it long continue….

Until Christmas.  That’s something which is infallibly clear.  It’s approaching at a rapid rate of knots and won’t be long till it’s over.  I must confess that I still have presents to buy and things to do before the infernal day takes hold.

The spirit is most definitely not in me.  On Monday I went to do some shopping at Westfield Merry Hill and I have to say this was hell.  Even at eleven Am the place was jammed and you couldn’t move around for all the retards carelessly wondering around the place.  I mean, do you people not make a list? Not know what you want and where you’re going to get it from?  Is it just me who meticulously plans their shopping outing to make sure it’s completed in the shortest time?

Seemingly so.

If you are in this picture I'm sorry that you're mentally challenged...

Merry Hill or Merry Hell as it’s affectionately known is one of those shopping centres which is essentially timeless, not in the sense that it’s magical or exciting but in the sense that once you enter you don’t know what time it is, you loose all sense of logic and time and could be marooned in there for hours without knowing it.

Of course Merry Hell has all the normal shops which you’d see in one of these malls; to quote an Americanism. Almost all of them expelling some kind of music or auditory annoyance into the air, Christmas songs or the like which make your blood boil.  If I have to hear; “Lonely this Christmas” or “Stop the Cavalry” one more time this Christmas I will surely commit homicide, or suicide, or both.

I may be bleak willed at this time of year but it really does wind me up and drive me completely barmy.  It’s bad enough at the best of times that I’m continuously subject to the retardation of humanity, but at Christmas this degradation is amplified.

Please can someone speed the next two weeks up so we can get back to kind of normality?