Rochdale AFC has a travelling supporter called "Tazzy", who leaves reports on his away-days. Tazzy is unemployed, yet has aspirations of becoming a journalist/sports photographer. His speciality is photographing his food and drink as he trawls round the lower echelons of the football league, and this recent effort recording his trip to Blackpool/Fleetwood is now available. Warning, your eyes do not deceive you, and (in his mind) his grammar is perfect.... ***Away Day Review: Fleetwood Town FC 0 – 0 Rochdale AFC @ Highbury Stadium*** | rochdaleawaydayreview
At least he tried. I got bored after the first 'paragraph' and then just looked at the pics, which didn't make me want to read the rest of it. Good luck to the guy, everybody has to start somewhere
He's very accurate with his train times. :Happy: I was out of breath reading that 1st paragraph, just waiting for the full stop. Oh, and nice jeans. :Wideyed:
At least the lad is doing something. Perhaps, with a little guidance and training he could be successful. Train in, not select out chaps
He spent around £200 on travel,beer and kebabs............. unemployed? How much is jobseekers a week these days?
Awww bless him If he saves a bit of money from his food etc he could make the next match Made me smile At least he is doing something with his life which is more than some wasters on our streets A mentor would be nice for him and encouragement
I wondered how long it would take someone to work that out. It was the second thing to jump out at me after the shoite writing
I found this amusing from one of his previous reports. Very precise times, clearly he only chilled for 20 minutes! He seems to write how he speaks, I have visions of a him with a Northern accent actually speaking this way to someone. Good luck to him really. I can't see how he can afford all of this either, Jobseekers allowance would be spent in a couple of hours, if that. The rugby players were practicing on the field’s behind the ground at the Sports Centre at 6.20PM, then at 6.33PM we chilled out for abit, then went into their bar at 6.53PM. I got an Guinness which were £2.50 it didn’t last long till i ended up getting another. Then me and chunk entered the ground admission were £5.00 then the Match Kicked Off after the Footballers had warmed up, The 1st half were anybodies Match but it ended up staying 0 – 0 at half time
I liked it. Good luck to him. In a world of sanitised expression, his normal world writing was refreshing.
It may well be that he is in receipt of some form of disability benefit and has a very good reason for having no job and a little bit of money. Maybe he scrimps and saves all of his benefit money just so he can have a good time on match day. The writing could be a form of therapy or treatment or advancement towards employment. There are so many reasons to not ridicule and belittle the guys efforts and unemployed doesn't always mean 'lazy' unless you read the Daily Mail.
"Stream of consciousness" writing is a recognised form, just like the "naïve" school of painting. Good luck to him, I say.
I suggest reading a good critical commentary first, so that you might have some idea what is going on. And don't feel obliged to read it through in order - you can pick and choose the sections you want. Or start with the last chapter. In the end you'll find you have to read it two or three times to get the most out of it. Well that's what I think.
My favourite book to twist my mind is Catch 22. That was either a happy accident or a fantastically well planned piece of writing. I understand that some see it as nonsense and others see it as intelligent but I really enjoy the way he makes the english language dance to his bidding. I give it my colleagues who learn english as a second language as an example of how delightfully playful, manipulable and fluid the english language can be.
