Nobody gets out.

[alexsarll]

Pubbing to mark a rare London appearance by rentaghost31, I find myself once more randomly in the same pub as Seeing Scarlet, who are clearly my Pub Stalkers. A fun evening, with a special mention for kiss_me_quick who had clearly drunk all the booze in the entire world before she even arrived.

publicansdecoy directed my attention to this petition in support of free speech, inspired by the c*rt**n row. I've signed it, of course, though I doubt it'll do the least bit of good - none of the good guys are making credible threats of violence, after all. And thinking about all the petitions I've signed over the years, I can't remember a single one which has succeeded. Tuition fees, the Arthur Simpson Library, ID cards, Routemasters, Gillespie Road, opposition to various Midlands building projects...lost causes, every one.

The man who raped his drunk underage stepdaughter while she was dying almost sounds like a hypothetical, doesn't it? An example constructed such that even Mail readers would be obliged to admit that, regardless of whether she was wearing a short skirt, his behaviour was definitely wrong. Alas, it was not. The human race there, marvellous.*

A new ad at Victoria claims that 98% of Londoners who move to Milton Keynes prefer it. Well, that's as maybe, but they moved to Milton Keynes, and as such their opinions are of no interest to me. Although that said, I shall myself be deserting the Smoke for the weekend, so do take care of it, won't you?

*This being the internet, it can pay to make sure - that last sentence was uttered with bitter, leaden irony, OK?

Comments

[angelv.livejournal.com]

RE: petitions - did you ever sign the one to get the proper crossings installed on the Stroud Green Road/Tollington Park crossroads? That worked!

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

I can't think of that nasty story without being reminded of the Derek and Clive sketch wherein Peter Cook, after running down an old lady, decides, "naturally", to rape her. (There's a particularly D&C twisted brutality in that story, combined with a Cook-esque element of surreal preposterousness to it, all of which made me smirk, which is probably rather wrong of me).

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, The march is more important and more likely to have an effect than the petition.

-x-

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

The man who raped his drunk underage stepdaughter while she was dying almost sounds like a hypothetical, doesn't it?

It's a hypothetical that gets more than nine years, in my book.

Milton Keynes is pretty cool, in a lot of ways.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

How horrible.

Where are you going for your weekend away, Barry?

ps: don't worry, I won't follow you there and go through your bins or anything stalky like that!

Mann Gegen Mann

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

FYI...if you don't already know, there's a new Rammstein single out next month.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

Oh come on Alex, don't pretend you've never been in that situation: a girl has fallen down the stairs, she's got massive - probably fatal - head injuries, and a lethal concoction of drink and drugs inside her, she's unconscious, she needs to get to a hospital immediately... but then you realise, she's young, she's pretty, she's vulnerable... we've all been there, right lads?

...Lads?

[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

"...even Mail readers would be obliged to admit that, regardless of whether she was wearing a short skirt, his behaviour was definitely wrong. Alas, it was not."

Boy, did I ever misread that sentence.