It's late September and today it's 24 degrees in Naples when the sun burns off the clouds.
We're snarled in traffic, air pollution building as the drivers honk their horns and the scooters, some with two or three passengers, thread their dangerous path through the chaos.
On the streets, dogs are barking, people are shouting. It's madness here. All the drivers rest their left elbow on the open window of their car while they push the horn with their right hand.
The kid comes from nowhere.
One minute we're looking at the stream of vehicles ahead, the next he's right there at the driver's window of the car in front of us.
So fast you can hardly see it, he thrusts both his hands into the car. There's a fierce but brief struggle. Now he's running, a flash of gold from his hands. He's onto the back of a moped and weaving away at high speed.
Later our taxi pulls level with the victim.
There's an exchange of laughter.
A Rolex? No, it was only a fake.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Sitting in Italian traffic has been the most boring experience of my life. I don't /like/ people washing the car window there but sometimes its hard to stop them, and i saw some stupid comedy golf thing where a windowwasher became his caddy and he was all like "hes just trying to earn a living!" so I gave this nice lady 20p (on average this is far more than I was earning for 30 seconds of work, in fact, hundreds more?! I was on 2.80 an hour in a restaurant) and she starts shouting at me demanding more. Bah.
[ 01.10.2004, 04:28: Message edited by: jnhoj ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
You got mugged by a child.
Posted by Kuang (Member # 724) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: You got mugged by a child.
Try reading it, fuckwit, and you might notice that the victim was a driver in front of us.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Fair enough.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kuang: Try reading it, fuckwit,
OK!
quote: kid
Fuck! How could anyone get the impression the mugger was a child after that? Especially as he's on the back of a moped, inferring he was a passenger not a driver.
I can't believe you got mugged by a child, you fucking wuss.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Reading this, it reads like one of those stories that appear in Viz. Posted by Astromariner (Member # 446) on :
Poor old Roy is taking a lot of abuse today.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote: Poor old Roy is taking a lot of abuse today.
I can take it. I'm bringing most of it on myself, but that's part of the fun.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Roy is vaguely entertaining, but utterly unpolished. He/She/it could probably try harder.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Roy is vaguely entertaining, but utterly unpolished. He/She/it could probably try harder.
Try harder? Do you mean try and get more abuse or work more at avoiding it?
'Vaguely entertaining' makes me sound like a Timothy Dalton Bond film.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
A repertoire of one-liners is not the way to a reputation for quality.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:A repertoire of one-liners is not the way to a reputation for quality.
What is?
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote: A repertoire of one-liners is not the way to a reputation for quality.
quote: What is?
I think you have to sleep with at least one other forite and slag off everyone not-within-earshot at a meet.
[ 01.10.2004, 09:56: Message edited by: fish ]
Posted by Kuang (Member # 724) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Kuang: Try reading it, fuckwit,
OK!
quote: kid
Fuck! How could anyone get the impression the mugger was a child after that? Especially as he's on the back of a moped, inferring he was a passenger not a driver.
I can't believe you got mugged by a child, you fucking wuss.
Thorn's decline continues.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: I think you have to sleep with at least one other forite and slag off everyone not-within-earshot at a meet.
lololol
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kuang:
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Kuang: Try reading it, fuckwit,
OK!
quote: kid
Fuck! How could anyone get the impression the mugger was a child after that? Especially as he's on the back of a moped, inferring he was a passenger not a driver.
I can't believe you got mugged by a child, you fucking wuss.
Thorn's decline continues.
O wait - now I get it. Fucking hell, that story's a mess.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: I think you have to sleep with at least one other forite and slag off everyone not-within-earshot at a meet.
Aye, that works. If you're too busy to do this though, register an insurmountable number of trolls so that you can take out your rage anonymously.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Ooh! MiiiAAAAOOW! Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Truisms are funnier in pairs.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Does being passed out comatose and half naked next to NWOD count as "sleeping with a forumite" even if said forumite was clinging to edge of bed in terror at the time?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Does being passed out comatose and half naked next to NWOD count as "sleeping with a forumite" even if said forumite was clinging to edge of bed in terror at the time?
How forites mate...
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Could you shift that way a bit? I'm perch(ed) nimbly on the end of the thread here.
[ 01.10.2004, 10:20: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: If you're too busy to do this though, register an insurmountable number of trolls so that you can take out your rage anonymously.
My cockles are glowing that anyone would consider the meagre contribution of my three little trolls as engendering "a reputation for quality".
I'm trying to think of a way to return the compliment... . . . . . . I'll have to get back to you.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
So, who wants a shag then?
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
"Artist's" impression:
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bandy: "Artist's" impression:
I've never wanted Louche more!
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
Just to clarify, she's on the left.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: I'm trying to think of a way to return the compliment... . . . . . . I'll have to get back to you.
You could say I have nice eyes!
Louche is being modest above. I wouldn't have described it as terror, but I was certainly wide-eyed.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: So, who wants a shag then?
SeeMO history suggests that Pink is always a good place to start.
[ 01.10.2004, 10:40: Message edited by: fish ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: SeeMO history suggests that Pink is always a good place to start.
I like the fact that your edit was androgenous too.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: [message edited by: fish]
wuss.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
NWOD, you're a gentleman. Bandy, the hair colour is wrong, but otherwise, you're frighteningly accurate.
Darryn, can you delete all my post-3pm posts in the journey to the next server please?
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
I tried to capture the essense of your predator dreads. Obviously my MS Paint skill wasn't quite up to the challenge though and the image i held in my mind's eye was distorted somewhere near where my hand meets the mouse. Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
You wouldn't believe it, but in real life Louche is actually quite a lot like Mr Tickle as depicted, in Bandpaint.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
quote:Originally posted by fish: SeeMO history suggests that Pink is always a good place to start.
I like the fact that your edit was androgenous too.
What did Fish post? I need to know!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Instead of the word "fish" it was the word "bandy".
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Jesus, Thorn.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Do you mean pink, Thorn?
See, it's easy to fuck peoples names up.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess:
quote:Originally posted by fish: [message edited by: fish]
wuss.
I didn't have the heart to shatter their illusions of your squeaky clean facade.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
Thorn, cyi ... I expect.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
quote:Originally posted by fish: I didn't have the heart to shatter their illusions of your squeaky clean facade.
I started typing a faux-coy reference to a mythical encounter that happened at some meat, before realising it could easily be interpreted by several people as an allusion to various RL events. People without my handy TMO Ho Flo-Chart Guide would be helplessly confused.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I started typing a faux-coy reference to a mythical encounter that happened at some meat, before realising it could easily be interpreted by several people as an allusion to various RL events. People without my handy TMO Ho Flo-Chart Guide would be helplessly confused.
Leave while I'm still asleep - fine. Don't leave a note - fine. Don't return my call, text, or email - fine.
I can handle rejection. Fine. It's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again in my life. But I didn't appreciate your casual brush-off at the time AND I CERTAINLY DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR FUCKING PATHETIC REVISIONIST ATTEMPTS TO TURN MY FUCKING LOVE LIFE INTO SOME SHIT JOKE! JUST BECAUSE IT DIDN'T MEAN ANTHING TO YOU, DOESN'T MEAN IT DIDN'T MEAN SOMETHING TO ME!
JUST PRETEND FOR 5 FUCKINGMINUTES THAT YOU'RE A NORMAL WARM-BLOODED HUMAN BEING AND HAVE SOME FUCKING HUMANITY, OK????
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Do you mean pink, Thorn?
See, it's easy to fuck peoples names up.
Yeah. Jesus. I don't know what's rong with me today.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Do you mean pink, Thorn?
See, it's easy to fuck peoples names up.
Yeah. Jesus. I don't know what's rong with me today.
I am having a spaz fit. Hendo and Benguin are supposed to be coming down and I want to watch the DVD preview of 15 years of Warp Records, but it starts well early and those fuckwits are being useless and not phoning me to tell me what they are doing and when. So basically I am stuck at work and cannot go anywhere or do anything until this happens!
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