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MisterBishi
18-09-2003, 09:00 PM
I don't know about anybody else, but when I'm walking through the city centre, looking for some cool shit to spend my surplus cash on, in order that I can do my bit to help the country out of economic gloom, I want to do so with minimum interruption and little or no human contact.

I want to be able to walk into a shop without having to stop and kick some young mum's ass for smashing my ankles with her pushchair when she got distracted by the smell of her finger, I want to be able to try on a pair of jeans without having to punch some fag in the windpipe for looking at me funny, I want to be able to change floors without having to fly-kick a bunch of teenage girls who think the exit to an escalator is a good place to convene with their huge GAP bags and talk about Limp Bizkit and, most of all, I want to be able to walk from shop to shop without some minimum-wage failure bodychecking me and saying 'Do you mind if I ask you some questions? kthx".

Be warned you degenerate mishaps, the next bottom-feeder that stops me from going about my business in the name of market research is gonna find themselves asking a question they didn't expect to have to ask: "Why am I face down on asphalt in an unfamiliar place??"

Is it too much to ask for these miscarriages of marketing to use some initiative? Have they never thought to themselves, while standing in the cold, being shunned by assholes like me "Hey, these people are all walking, maybe they could be going somewhere"? Why don't they harass people standing at the bus stop without shit better to do than tell you how often they moisturise or which slogan 'appeals' most to their tiny daytime TV brains?

If, through some inexplicable series of events, I ever find myself to be homeless, these are the people I'm going to hassle incessantly for change, these are the people who are going to stand there listening to me reel off my Oscar-worthy script about what terrible injustices I've suffered to make me deserve their money for smack. And if ever they tell me they don't have time for my shit, I'll bodyslam those hypocrital bastards traight through the aforementioned bus stop and into a passing horse.

I wonder whether these people ever ask themselves questions when they've finished pissing off decent people with money to spend from their decent jobs. I wonder whether they ask "Why do have no self esteem?" or "Why do my kids sniff glue?" or "why am I regarded as the lowest form of life on Earth?"

Naiad
18-09-2003, 09:14 PM
Originally posted by MisterBishi
I wonder whether they ask ..."why am I regarded as the lowest form of life on Earth?"
Negatory, dude - that title deservedly goes to advertising/marketing execs. ;)

thingy
18-09-2003, 09:19 PM
Agreed, those homeless people really need to get themselves better PR reps.

utopian
19-09-2003, 03:21 AM
Retail workers raped you as a kid, didn't they?

m0loch
19-09-2003, 03:42 AM
Originally posted by MisterBishi
little or no human contact.


Paxil or some other pharmaceutical has been running television ads lately heightining my awareness of "social anxiety disorder". My wife asked me "Do you have that?" My answer was "No, I just happen to think most other people are assholes". Looks like I'm not the only one who feels that way. I'm not sure I agree that these people are the lowest form of life on earth though, maybe that title should be reserved for the telephone or door-to-door ("I used to be a crack addict but if you buy these magazines I will not have to revert to a life of giving hand jobs for drug money") magazine pushers.

Nandragon
19-09-2003, 06:36 AM
What the hell is up with damn department stores that push retail clerks on you anyway. I'm damn sure not going to buy something or even browse with someone gawking over my shoulder!

And I ABHOR those young chickies at the cosmetics section.
They can't be but about 17 selling wrinkle formula, or age spot covers! And at christmas I NEVER go near a big name dept store. They hire teenie boppers to spray perfume on everyone that comes in the store.

<<<allergies

One christmas after shopping for Polo, i spent the evening in the er getting breathing treatments

Conny!
19-09-2003, 06:15 PM
Originally posted by Nandragon


And at christmas I NEVER go near a big name dept store. They hire teenie boppers to spray perfume on everyone that comes in the store.


That reminds me of the futurama episode where bender proceeds to spray the perfume chicks with oil. That was awesome.

I also hate these people that jump at you to "ask just one question." It pisses me off as well when you ignore them or tell them your'e not interested that they get a real dissapointed look on their face, but its not like i'm the last person thats not going to give a fuck about there in your face marketing bullshit.

ripit
19-09-2003, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by MisterBishi

I wonder whether they ask ..."why am I regarded as the lowest form of life on Earth?"
Originally posted by Bifrost
Negatory, dude - that title deservedly goes to advertising/marketing execs. ;) Sorry to be contrary but you seem to have forgotten parking cops. Those guys are definitely the lowest form of life found in the CBD.

MisterBishi
19-09-2003, 07:51 PM
Look you bunch of shitkickers, it wouldn't have been funny if I'd written "why am I regarded as the lowest form of life on Earth apart from marketing execs, traffic cops, builders and the black?", would it?

thingy
19-09-2003, 08:06 PM
It was meant to be funny?

MisterBishi
19-09-2003, 08:09 PM
:(

Bostonmess
19-09-2003, 10:56 PM
Originally posted by Nandragon
And at christmas I NEVER go near a big name dept store. They hire teenie boppers to spray perfume on everyone that comes in the store.

<<<allergies


Could be a nice lawsuit there? :)

Why don't the homeless make themselves useful and put a saddle on themselves and rent themselves out as a human taxi that takes you from shop to shop to cafe carrying your shopping/children etc.

iaidoka
19-09-2003, 11:41 PM
as a minimum-wage failure ... I dont know what to feel. being annoyed by dicks trying to sell you things DOES blow.... but hey.. us failures have to stick together.

dozer
19-09-2003, 11:59 PM
while i agree i hate the surveys and other bullshit, but cant really consider myself being that much further up the food chain that i can run them down in the porsche and then beat them with my rolex while skulling a bottle of dom

rosamund
20-09-2003, 12:05 AM
Two words: Hare Krishnas... :swear:

Two more words: greeaarghhaagh BASTARDS!!!

The centre of town is knee deep in them most afternoons! that and they keep asking me to buy them some milk for their commune. :mad:

rickbitch
20-09-2003, 12:06 AM
I usually tell them that I charge standard film rates for my time, which are $50 an hour, with a minimum of 8 hours, and if they wish to pay me cash, I'll be nice and drop it to $40 an hour. That is what my time is worth, and if they want to take up any of my time, they have to pay for it.

BlueBoy
20-09-2003, 12:56 AM
Originally posted by thingy
It was meant to be funny?

For what it's worth, I laughed! :)

Bostonmess
20-09-2003, 02:10 AM
Originally posted by rosamund
Two words: Hare Krishnas... :swear:

Two more words: greeaarghhaagh BASTARDS!!!

The centre of town is knee deep in them most afternoons! that and they keep asking me to buy them some milk for their commune. :mad:

Gouranga! :D

King_Crud
20-09-2003, 02:45 AM
I know for a fact that a lot of the bums in inner Dublin sell drugs from their sleeping bags, I saw it tons of times when i lived there last year, and then they'd ask for change pretending they were homeless. Feckers