ulfnir
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Because the undead won't kill themselves.
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« Reply #1375 on: November 18, 2009, 07:43:48 pm » |
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Yeah Bangors in the north, but its nowt like splott, which is, i believe, a suburb of cardiff? The place would be lovely if someone would just send a huge mechanical beast to stamp all over the estate, maes gierchen.
(gets out brazing torch)
I must say, as a disclaimer, I don't advocate causing trouble to the expendables. They breed with enormous rapidity. They tend to get their comeuppance. The fellows who beat me so badly got imprisoned.
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Miss Katonic 1898 + Cowperthwaite's other half
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« Reply #1376 on: November 18, 2009, 08:04:13 pm » |
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Ah Splott, yes, not far from where I live, sadly.....
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« Reply #1377 on: November 18, 2009, 08:04:19 pm » |
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I don't know how long ago that happened, Ulfnir, but it sounds like you're taking it in stride. While the injuries are ghastly (blinded?!) you don't seem to hold much animosity toward your attackers.
As for me, I can honestly say I've never really been heckled at all in my life. I've always stood out and got quite a few odd looks (goth) but no one has ever really spoken up to me. Once I was told by someone I went to school with that he and his friends believed that I would 'snap' and cause quite a bit of injury to anyone that angered me. While I have no idea where they got this notion as I would rather flee than fight, I'll let them believe such if it means I won't have to put up with their remarks!
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Disclaimer: The above post may not necessarily reflect the views of the Poster. Furthermore, the above post should also be taken with a grain of salt. Preferably, many grains.
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" ~Oscar Wilde
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ulfnir
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Because the undead won't kill themselves.
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« Reply #1378 on: November 18, 2009, 09:29:49 pm » |
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I don't know how long ago that happened, Ulfnir, but it sounds like you're taking it in stride. While the injuries are ghastly (blinded?!) you don't seem to hold much animosity toward your attackers.
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« Reply #1379 on: November 18, 2009, 09:34:16 pm » |
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This is true, but I know if I were in your situation(s) then I probably wouldn't be as calm about it as you, no matter how long ago it happened. You sir, are much more forgiving than I.
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« Reply #1380 on: November 22, 2009, 04:21:49 pm » |
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Well, I for one hope "getting on with life," will present you with an apportunity to, not so much do your attackers active harm, but lets say a good chance to withhold assistance at a critical time.
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Rev.Hammer
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Fighting sanity every day!
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« Reply #1381 on: November 22, 2009, 10:46:42 pm » |
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Generally, I do not suffer much unwanted commentary on my travels. I think that is more because I project a visage which disencourages such things. I am squat at 5'10" and a solid 15 stone. My hair is short and I have a face like an unmade bed. I generally wear a scowl of apparent discontent and malediction. So, very few insist on aggravating me. For those remaindering, I ignore them. For those that will not let me ignore them, I have no fear of them. It is women , generally, that query my attire and usually that line of questioning is towards my undergarments as I oft wear my kilt. Please, this is not a boast, I am not one given to such in the least. Just a statement of reality. |
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« Reply #1382 on: November 23, 2009, 12:44:25 am » |
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yes, I'm afraid that kilt to a woman is a little like stockings to a man..... But hopefully the interest isn't too unpleasant?
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Rev.Hammer
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Fighting sanity every day!
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« Reply #1383 on: November 23, 2009, 01:29:39 am » |
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Much to my humor and my wife's ( The Baroness ) consternation, it is a never ceasing source of amusement.
Once I was at a friend of mine's home helping him pull an engine from a wrecked 1963 Imperial on a rather hot day. The Baroness sweetly brought out another cooler of adult libations for us hard working chaps. I was in my kilt and was sitting on a rollaround stool. A neighbor lady and her husband had been watching us strapping young American lads fight this old hulk of a car for its beloved engine. They walk over and he jokingly asks me what I had on under my kilt. She laughs it up with her husband.
Mind you, the Lady Baroness stands nigh and this neighbor knows full well that we are married!
I was tired and I was also in no mood, having been perspiring mightily and having had cut and burnt my hands.
So I raise my kilts edge and illuminate them as to the matter.
He walks off in a huff making comment that the effect of me being a bodily orifice. He noticed then that his wife wasnt right behind him upon departure. She was still looking.
The Baroness said to her rather testily:
" I suppose that you have seen one before, but evidently you havent seen THAT one before!?"
The neighbor retrieved his wife, I got a good (and deserved) scolding from the Baroness, and endless ribbing from my friends.
The look on her husbands face was more than worth it....
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The Hon. Archibald Keyes
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« Reply #1384 on: November 23, 2009, 12:58:03 pm » |
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She clearly stopped due to the not-altogether-unfair misconception that it would, in fact, be Hammer Time.
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Rev.Hammer
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Fighting sanity every day!
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« Reply #1385 on: November 23, 2009, 06:32:53 pm » |
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« Reply #1386 on: November 24, 2009, 07:53:39 am » |
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*urinates the farthest again*
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you gotta love livin babe, cause dyin is a pain in the ass -----
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Rev.Hammer
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« Reply #1387 on: November 24, 2009, 08:30:46 am » |
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Its all in the wrists!
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« Reply #1388 on: November 25, 2009, 03:16:31 am » |
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However, in the major urban centers (like DC where I am currently located), the REAL gangbangers (well, not so much the MS 13 Salvadoreans, but certainly the black gangbangers) are very appreciative and supportive of my unconventional appearance. I'm sure it helps that I work as a tattoo artist in a black-owned shop in a black neighborhood with black co-workers and a heavy majority of black clientelle, but even total stranger thugs are always giving me props.
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« Reply #1389 on: November 25, 2009, 04:48:07 am » |
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Pardon me for asking, but do you go to Spellbound or Midnight, by any chance?
Ha! Yes, I do. In fact, I just met up with Alex, another Brass Goggles cat, at midnight this past saturday. I swung by spellbound as well. I'm not there every weekend, but next time you're planning to attend, let me know, and I'll see if I can meet up with ya. |
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« Reply #1390 on: November 25, 2009, 07:05:16 pm » |
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Ahhh norms... (thats what my friends and i call normals, duh) They never fail to bore me. I live in Washington DC, and we are lucky enough to have a sideshow- themed bar (the Palace of Wonders) which hosts burlesque and sideshow acts at least twice a month. Last month my friends and i went, and we like to go all vickied out in our best. (This goes over quite well with all the performers and the staff, we don't even pay cover anymore!) I was standing by the stage swilling scotch in my waistcoat and derby when a girl came up and said how she admired my outfit. Thanks, i said. Then she asked "Are you going for a clockwork- orange thing?" This threw me off for a minute, because when i hear the word "clockwork" now, the Kubrick film isnt the 1st thing i think of. It took me a minute to realize she was refering to my hat and cane. "Nooo" i told her. "Not exactly". I can only assume that the tightness of my inseam simulated the codpieces worn by the toughs in the film, and this coupled with my abnormally long eyelashes, hat and cane must have caused her to picture the only other place she had scene someone wearing a derby in a modern setting.
Later the same night my companion was heckled for his tails and topper. "Where's the choclate factory, Charlie?" called the ruffian. We called back to him that he was mistaken, and that in point of fact, it was Willy Wonka who was the proprietor of the chocolate manufactory, and not Charlie. All too funny. My friend "Willy Wonka" ended up going back to the hotel with a lovely tattooed sword-swallowing lady. What transpired there?? Well, a Gentleman never tells....
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« Reply #1391 on: November 25, 2009, 07:11:02 pm » |
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you live in dc? have you seen that guy on the razor scooter? down by the smithsonian, he has like a weird buckly belt and high black boots and mc hammer pants... when i saw him he had on this puffy blue office type shirt, and sunglasses, he was riding a little like electric razor scooter.....
ever seen THAT guy?!?!
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« Reply #1392 on: November 25, 2009, 07:52:55 pm » |
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Off topic, sorry: The last handful of posts have been from Steampunks in the DC area, so why isn't there more Steampunky stuff to do in this city? We need to organize or something. One...two...three...NOT IT!!
But hey, let me know next time you're taking your droogs to Palace of Wonders, would ya? One of these times I'll swing by and meet up with ya. My coworkers go down to H for sticky rice karaoke all the time, so it wouldn't be hard for me to hitch a ride with them.
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« Reply #1393 on: November 25, 2009, 10:00:18 pm » |
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Sorry, i haven't seen that guy on the razor scooter... (the windows of my carriage are smoked glass) If i had, though, i'm sure i'd remember it.
As for the Palace of Wonders, i will drop you a line Vagabond. December might be too busy for me to organize some people to go out there, but we shall see. I just recently started posting here though i've been reading for quite awhile. FYI I just saw a bunch of posts in the geographical section that had to do with DC/ VA/ MD steampunks trying to collaborate...
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« Reply #1394 on: November 26, 2009, 12:21:23 am » |
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For those who remember the events which, in part, started this thread, they have been made into an animated film which is about have it's international release http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8378666.stm |
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« Reply #1395 on: November 26, 2009, 03:22:22 am » |
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« Reply #1396 on: November 26, 2009, 03:56:05 am » |
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However, in the major urban centers (like DC where I am currently located), the REAL gangbangers (well, not so much the MS 13 Salvadoreans, but certainly the black gangbangers) are very appreciative and supportive of my unconventional appearance. I'm sure it helps that I work as a tattoo artist in a black-owned shop in a black neighborhood with black co-workers and a heavy majority of black clientelle, but even total stranger thugs are always giving me props.
Pardon me for asking, but do you go to Spellbound or Midnight, by any chance? YOU MUST JOIN US !!!! |
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« Reply #1397 on: November 26, 2009, 04:35:46 am » |
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However, in the major urban centers (like DC where I am currently located), the REAL gangbangers (well, not so much the MS 13 Salvadoreans, but certainly the black gangbangers) are very appreciative and supportive of my unconventional appearance. I'm sure it helps that I work as a tattoo artist in a black-owned shop in a black neighborhood with black co-workers and a heavy majority of black clientelle, but even total stranger thugs are always giving me props.
Pardon me for asking, but do you go to Spellbound or Midnight, by any chance? YOU MUST JOIN US !!!! This is shaping up nicely. An army of Steampunks amassing together to do battle with the hecklers. Each armed with his or her "soul liberating" tool of choice. Since hecklers preffer to single out our numbers one or two at a time let see what happens when they are met with a phalanx of begoggled marauders equipped with an array of devices that can destroy the living and then bring them back from the dead only so that they can be destroyed again. (save for the ones deemed fit to be kept as zombies or just for further study) Sorry if I'm acting out of line. I been following this thread and it started looking as though it was better suited to the geography thread. (besides, what better way to deal with the hecklers than making believers out of them?)  Arvis |
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« Reply #1398 on: November 26, 2009, 05:38:11 am » |
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just imagine the fresh hell of some poor former highschool_football_star turned 7_year_political_science_major_young_republican stumbling unwittingly into a bar full of steampunks....
ah i hate bluebloods.... yea i wish my daddy paid my way through college, bought me a car, a lawyer and a ditsy trophy wife that i beat because i need viagra but wont go to the doctor...
but i had to work my way to those things, pay my own way to an education, a car, legal representation, a house and a girl... i appreciate them more than mr. young republican ever could and i think that has earned me the right to dress how i want, to have a drink with my equally hardworking, equally weird buddies and not have to hear "hey can you pull a rabbit out of that hat!" hollered by mr. young republican as his slightly bruised trophy wife giggles at my girlfriend because she doesn't wear pradda.....
"and that's how it happened your honor"
damned bluebloods...
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« Reply #1399 on: November 26, 2009, 05:43:50 am » |
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just imagine the fresh hell of some poor former highschool_football_star turned 7_year_political_science_major_young_republican stumbling unwittingly into a bar full of steampunks....
ah i hate bluebloods.... yea i wish my daddy paid my way through college, bought me a car, a lawyer and a ditsy trophy wife that i beat because i need viagra but wont go to the doctor...
but i had to work my way to those things, pay my own way to an education, a car, legal representation, a house and a girl... i appreciate them more than mr. young republican ever could and i think that has earned me the right to dress how i want, to have a drink with my equally hardworking, equally weird buddies and not have to hear "hey can you pull a rabbit out of that hat!" hollered by mr. young republican as his slightly bruised trophy wife giggles at my girlfriend because she doesn't wear pradda.....
"and that's how it happened your honor"
damned bluebloods...
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