I figured out what it is! It's back. The belief. The belief that I had when Fox was in Eurovision and I truly believed he could win, the belief that Griffin could win Fame Academy, the belief that Wales could really beat France on Saturday that held til the last five minutes of the game along with the belief that England could beat Ireland that also held til the last five minutes of the damn game. My new belief is that JK can win The Games. I know Jade is a strong contender but the belief is nothing to do with logic, in fact it's almost blind belief. I say almost because 'the belief' is essentially founded on something, usually talent, so it's not completely blind. Argh, I sound like I'm writing an essay and I have to argue my point! Today The Games clashed with Planet Earth so I hijacked Kirst's room to watch it; after rendering me her tv she discovered that it also all clashed with The Best of Top Gear, which traumatised her for all of five minutes before she realised she could tape it. However, it meant she then had to put up with my yelling at the tv for an hour whilst having no idea what was going on and deciding instead to watch bunnies sing and re-inact movies on her laptop.
I knew JK wasn't half bad at what I will hereafter call 'stick fighting' yet I had the nerves, a surefire symptom of 'the belief'.Having already ranted to anyone who would listen as to why they were introducing stick fighting rather than a martial art that involved any kind of punching or kicking, I settled down to the hope that since JK had already beaten Peter Duncan in heats, he could do it again. After listening to me yell at the tv during the women's cycling in the hope that Javine wouldn't win, Kirst then had to sit though me yelling for almost all the time JK was fighting. So about two minutes then. And it turns out I was right to believe, he won. Except even I knew that if Jade beat MacPlat'num*, then there was a big chance he would beat JK in the final since he'd done it in the heats already. Yet despite this, it came to the final, and I yelled for the full three minutes, and I believed he could win. And he very nearly did. Yep, the belief is definitely there.


Conversation of the Day:

Comedy Nik: hopelessly disillusioned and fed up; come on JK! says:
why are they making the boys do stick fighting in The Games? It's weird, why can't they just do karate or taekwando or something? or fencing.

Coza: Byron Groupie and Proud says:
lol - they *should* do fencing, that would be more entertaining - they might hurt each other

Comedy Nik: hopelessly disillusioned and fed up; come on JK! says:
fencing doesn't hurt, the swords bend. I've done fencing before, the stick fighting is just stupid.

Coza: Byron Groupie and Proud says:
bah, I want actual pain here

Comedy Nik: hopelessly disillusioned and fed up; come on JK! says:
lol if they did proper martial arts, there would be pain

Coza: Byron Groupie and Proud says:
that's what I'm wanting, no use otherwise

Comedy Nik: hopelessly disillusioned and fed up; come on JK! says:
see, if I had a say in the games, they'd have proper kayaks not the crappy inflatable ones, and I'd make the boys fight with punches and kicks not stupid sticks [and I'd fix it so JK won]

Coza: Byron Groupie and Proud says:
Lmao! Now - aside from the JK bit - that is exactly why you should be put in charge, I might even watch it if that were the case

Comedy Nik: hopelessly disillusioned and fed up; come on JK! says:
I know! it'd be a PROPER competition not STUPID STICKS

Of course then I asked about the new *top secret* DA project and the conversation decended into whether when killing each other, we would use sticks...


*Yes I know that's not actually his name, but Longman called him that on the Breakfast Show last week to Kirsty Gallacher and I think it's hilarious so am calling him that from now on.