Why are you trying to kill me?

Ok, the title is a bit over the top but that's why me blogs called Complete Utter Banter. Now I am a frequent (perhaps to frequent) user of the site Play.com. Normal items I purchase from there are PS3 and Xbox 360 games and Blu Ray, you know, rectangular shaped boxes.

Now, big sale a very pointless things which you've wanted are in it. So I brought a mini portable (and very good) speaker. Now just before I get to the main point of the blog, I would just like to say I am not the most craziest person about saving the planet, I just like to help like recycling, turing off stuff I don't use etc. However when Play.com sends me a product which is 10cm in height and 8cm in diameter in a box measuring, get this now, 37cm in length, 28cm width and 10 cm high, I do get mad that they are wasting that much card which could be used to package at least 3 more of the same product.

Also one main thing packaging is suppose to do is protect, I can clearing see that the product must have had a bit of beating rolling about in the box.

Now I know what you are saying, but that's only one product, but if a load of these products are brought and possibly a lot of other small products like this are brought then that is a lot of packaging used and I know that not everyone recycles.

So the one main thing I have taken from this is if all our land fill sites get filled up or when all the trees are used up, I know how I am going to go blaming is.

Awesome Error

Quick post. Now it is rare something bad that happens can actually be quite good or in this case amusing. Now it well known that the internet isn't the most secure piece of technology and some times particular websites don't work or are undergoing maintenance. General thing to do is put up a message saying that there is an error or the website is being changed and most of the time these messages simply just like default messages.

So it is quite humorous when you come across an error saying this

"Database Error"

Auto Message:

Okay.. so the database did not connect or something.

A human will fix this soon as he knows about it.

Is there anything which they can't do

With the new lego shop opened in Cardiff St Davids 2 a while back, there wasn't many shops that focused on lego. Now, I did know a lot of lego sets they sell. But that a lot to myself means little since the lego shop opened.

Now every time I go in the lego shop and that's a lot, there is always something new brought out within that time. New Starwars sets, new Ninjago set, architectural models, Creators set etc. There are all sort of different sets. Although also at very high prices.

So when a small seasonal sets comes out, it perfect for myself. So as this season is Easter, well last week, a nice Bunny and Easter Basket to go with our other Easter decoration (please don't ask) suite me perfect. There is so much lego which is always available.
So my question is, is there anything lego can't do.

Bravery

Now, do you find sometimes where you say to yourself that you are going to be Brave, then you just wimp out in the end. Do you know what I have to say to that, WIMP WIMP WIMPY GIRL (sorry if you are a girl and reading this). Now next time you come into that situation, just think to yourself, do I want to be just as awesome as this guy in the picture. You should say yes because this is just epically awesome.

Hidden away, then Brought Back to Life.

The Film that smashed box office in 2010. Yes this is Toy Story 3. Featuring characters from The Toy gang Woody, Buzz Light Year, Mr & Mrs Potato, Rex etc. Then you have your new characters, Ken, Buttercup, Lotso. Although are they all new characters.
Pixar is known for adding little film 'Easter Eggs' into their films featuring characters in which the film they Star in haven't even been released.
This said check out this screen shot from UP released in 2009.

As it clearly shows Lotso first feature film wasn't Toy Story 3 but UP as you can see very closely at this picture. This then said, what other films has Disney Pixar put in to their films. Well if you want to know. Look very closely at the Disney Pixar films and you might pick something up.

Coca Cola

just searching through the web doing some Web Skipping (Like Channel Skipping, get it) and I did come across Coca Cola and one thing led to another and ended up looking at a numerous number of there TV advertisements.

Now watching these adverts, as well as there amazing Coke Drinks and the hundreds of other drink (people living in the UK here have never herd of) they make, they definitely should pride themselves on the real captivating adverts they make and the team which work on them.

Sharing the Happiness and the Coke side of my life with you, here are a couple of adverts which I think are really cool and here is a link to there YouTube Channel which you should check out in some free time.

http://www.youtube.com/user/cocacola

Starbucks Relativity

As being fellow Barista in the Starbucks Golden Chain there is a few things in which I get annoyed about when people talk about Starbucks. This is to defend the chain of store I work in (Fair enough I think), things said like Costa or Coffee #1 is better . Well as it says in the name, Costa 'costs' a lot more than Starbucks and Coffee #1 is just a very small chain of coffee shop, doesn't account for.

Although one of very few things I do agree with about Starbucks is that there are flipping loads of them around. In Cardiff, I can count at least 10 possibly more, but defending them again, it does provide the service to customers of wherever you go there will always be a Starbucks near. And looking on that Wide Web I did come across a very funny, possibly factual and defiantly amusing (certainly the caption below the image) picture summing up what one thing about Starbucks.

Aberystwyth News

This is the year which most counts in my life and if I don't get it right then it can go really wrong, this I am talking about A Levels final year, and ongoing from that choosing your university. As a good thing to do to be that little bit organised is going to a few university open days. A couple of weeks ago my friend was going to Aberystwyth Uni and as he offered if I wanted to go I said yes.

Summary. The University site was very nice, the course wasn't the right one for me and that is a big shame. But anyway to make the most of the day me and my friends went down into Aberystwyth town (which didn't take that long to look around).

Well as we were looking around on the sea front we came across this news sign in a Window of office license shop (sort of), and came across this,

Well I think this just shows what there is in Aberystwyth. After a bit of research and 79p down in my bank, I did find out that the shop is "Next". Well I think there could have been a better shop which could have opened.

Merchandise Overload

Since the film Toy story 3 has come out all I have seen is all different types of Toy Story Merchandise. Action Figures, Learning toys for children based on Toy Story, costumes even character torches. But apart from all the spin off stuff like the torches I have wanted some of the merchandise, more specifically the collectors editions of Woody and Buzz (in his original spaceship packaging and both with collectors certificates) and also the Aliens (yes they are soft toy but I don't care).

All of this stuff I do confess I did see in the Disney shop resulting in me actually going into the Disney shop which I don't mind. But as Disney are trying to create and ship off all this new merchandise there must be a problem which will creep up somewhere and as I saw, there was. While looking at the huge, changing selection of Toy Story toys (every time I go into the Disney shop there is some new Toy Story toy which wasn't there before), I did come across a merchandise mistake. Take a look at the photo below.

1. If you can spot the mistake then well done

2. If you can't spot the mistake and have seen the film, get a new pair of eyes.

3. If you can't spot the mistake and haven't seen the film yet (but who hasn't), then whatever time it is now to you, go out now and see it in the cinema.

The mistake if you haven't spotted it is that on the packaging it say Toy Story 3 when in fact RC Car wasn't even in the 3rd film alone with other characters like Bo Peep and Wheezy.

Advice for Disney, recheck your products before shipping and make sure you have staff and designers with common sense.

A Real Toy Story

Ok it has taken me a while to do this blog post on Toy Story 3 actually a while to do a blog post at all. Let me start by saying that it is really great and sure did live up to Toy Story standard (if you know what that is). Although there were a few different things to the whole film.

In every Disney Film the is a dark, scary scene for the younger audience, though in his film there was defiantly more than one dark and scary scene. There was a big change during the film into the dark side. It was a bit of surprise with the dark side that it did take, but some of these dark sides did come out really funny.

The other different part of the film that it was very emotional film. It focused on the theme of growing up, basing it all around andy growing up and moving on going to college. Though the growing up was more about the film. Through my child hood I have grown up with Toy Story but now to know that the last film has been made, it is the end of an ere. But to also know of a first hand what it will be like when I go to college and the feelings that I could possibly feel just had a turn on me.

My mum one day called me in to watch Loose Women and they were talking about Toy Story and that some men cried at the end. I think men crying at a film is some what ok depending on the film but Toy Story is one which men shouldn't cry but it does brake that rule due to the emotional side. I personal shed a tear, just at the situation picturing myself in Andy's potion.

A Coner rating for Toy Story 3 is
9/10 just because after seeing it two times it does get a bit predictable.

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