Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

[LMNO]

I remember his idea for crowd sourcing government in real time, based on some elaborate ranking system.


He did NOT like our critiques.

[Cain]

So, last night, a guy (not one of our students) got jumped by a gang of five, including one with a weapon, right outside the building.

In addition to being terrible, this meant having about 12 police officers and 3 forensic scientists lurking outside the building, looking at our CCTV, trying to distinguish vomit from blood and other fun activities.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I remember his idea for crowd sourcing government in real time, based on some elaborate ranking system.


He did NOT like our critiques.

He hated any and all forms of criticism, including constructive. He would fly into an irrational rage and start accusing people of being jealous. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, last night, a guy (not one of our students) got jumped by a gang of five, including one with a weapon, right outside the building.

In addition to being terrible, this meant having about 12 police officers and 3 forensic scientists lurking outside the building, looking at our CCTV, trying to distinguish vomit from blood and other fun activities.

The fuck, Cain. Your neighborhood... it sounds like it would fill gang members from East Oakland with confusion and terror.

[Cain]

Nah, the guy didn't have a gun or anything.  The weapon in question did look like an improvised flail though...wooden handle and what looks like leather strips on the CCTV.  Not 100% on that, but I suspect with 4 other guys pummeling him, it didn't make much difference.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nah, the guy didn't have a gun or anything.  The weapon in question did look like an improvised flail though...wooden handle and what looks like leather strips on the CCTV.  Not 100% on that, but I suspect with 4 other guys pummeling him, it didn't make much difference.

A FLAIL????  LITERALLY getting medieval on the guy?

[Cain]

So it seemed, yeah.

Weaponry in London is weird.  With the gun ban, you have the usual knives, bottles and occasionally baseball bats (though since baseball isn't popular here, police tend to pick up on it).  But then you have the guys with replica katanas and rapiers, lighters and aerosol, lathi and zoot sticks...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So it seemed, yeah.

Weaponry in London is weird.  With the gun ban, you have the usual knives, bottles and occasionally baseball bats (though since baseball isn't popular here, police tend to pick up on it).  But then you have the guys with replica katanas and rapiers, lighters and aerosol, lathi and zoot sticks...

Goddamn.

[LMNO]

Dare I ask what a zoot stick is?

[Cain]

Dare I ask what a zoot stick is?

It's actually an American term.  We probably have another charming term for it, but basically it's a 2x4 with razor blades planted in it.  It's name comes from its use in the Zoot Suit Riots, where it was used primarly by anti-Mexican gangs and off duty riot police officers. 

I've actually been reading The Big Nowhere lately, the prequel to LA Confidential, and the serial killer in the book uses a zoot stick.  The whole plot is bound up in the Sleepy Lagoon murder (linked to the Zoot Suit Riots), corruption in the LAPD, racism and anti-Communist hysteria.  So typical Ellroy.

[LMNO]

Holy crap.

Well, now I know something new.

[East Coast Hustle]

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

Which is, also to be fair, not usually home to the degree of dick-waving I expect to see everywhere else on Peedee.

The dick-waving quotient increases by about 748% any time Thwack decides to grace us with his presence. He's still PeeDee-ing like it's 2006.

What can I say, sometimes elements of times past should return. There is a lot to be said for not taking yourself too seriously, and there are some here that really need to remember that.

No argument there, it's just that experience shows us that the people who tend to self-appoint themselves for that task are usually in that category themselves.

[minuspace]

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

Which is, also to be fair, not usually home to the degree of dick-waving I expect to see everywhere else on Peedee.

The dick-waving quotient increases by about 748% any time Thwack decides to grace us with his presence. He's still PeeDee-ing like it's 2006.

What can I say, sometimes elements of times past should return. There is a lot to be said for not taking yourself too seriously, and there are some here that really need to remember that.

No argument there, it's just that experience shows us that the people who tend to self-appoint themselves for that task are usually in that category themselves.

I mean, otherwise the whole shtick would be, just, inconceivable, and tedious.  Mainly tedious.

[minuspace]

And, on that note, I just had to mute a TV because THAR WUZ PLEIN ME SONG.  I'm going to be okay.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

Which is, also to be fair, not usually home to the degree of dick-waving I expect to see everywhere else on Peedee.

The dick-waving quotient increases by about 748% any time Thwack decides to grace us with his presence. He's still PeeDee-ing like it's 2006.

What can I say, sometimes elements of times past should return. There is a lot to be said for not taking yourself too seriously, and there are some here that really need to remember that.

No argument there, it's just that experience shows us that the people who tend to self-appoint themselves for that task are usually in that category themselves.

Plus there's something kind of amazingly self-absorbed about someone who goes around trying to knock people down a peg or two for... what? Not being funny enough? Dance, monkeys, dance! Had a rough year? Not in a jolly mood? I DON'T CARE, LIGHTEN UP AND ENTERTAIN ME ME ME ME ME ME!

I mean, gosh, sorry if my mood is too serious for you.