[gmku]

Or: Battles was playing in my headset when I avoided a near-death experience.

[sonicl]

I once nearly died while listening to Sonic Youth. I was driving along listening to "Making The Nature Scene", and two years later a car skidded on the same piece of road. If I'd been driving along there two years after I did, that car could've hit mine and I could've died in a huge ball of fire.

I have nightmares sometimes.

[gmku]

Just think. It staggers the mind.

[sonicl]

Oh God, don't get me started about staggering. I narrowly missed staggering off a cliff once.

[gmku]

I staggered several hundred miles from a cliff once.

[sonicl]

If it had been 10,000,000 years earlier there would've been a cliff where I staggered.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sonicl

If it had been 10,000,000 years earlier there would've been a cliff where I staggered.

I had a similar thing when I nearly got stabbed, shot and raped. If I had've been five minutes earlier to the pub on Friday, and five minutes earlier someone was in there who wanted to stab, shoot and rape someone, and I, five minutes earlier, had've gleefully shouted 'please stab, shoot and rape me' (as I rarely do), I could've been stabbed, shot and raped.

But it turns out the guy who wasn't there didn't have a gun. He also didn't have a knife or a penchant for raping, but if he was there, and liked stabbing, shooting and raping people... by god, I shudder to think.

[sonicl]

And all that could've happened in Bristol? Sweet Jesus, I went to Bristol once.

[king_buzzo]

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

So I was walking to the city this afternoon after school. I got out early and started walking to Broadway. I got there at about 1:30 and decided to take a shortcut through the middle of the carpark to get to the road. On the way I noticed an electricity sub station and I tried to see if I could look inside. I then continued on my walk. When I got home I found the whole thing exploded 15 minutes later and caused a massive fire. I saw the footage on the news: I wouldn't have survived.

But yeah I was listening to Tonto at the time.

haha.

tonto is the balls.

[gmku]

In any case, ZERO, a story to tell your grandkids some day, for sure.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sonicl

And all that could've happened in Bristol? Sweet Jesus, I went to Bristol once.

Yeah, this is how it is for me EVERY DAY. Somedays, I can't leave the house because it's AN ACTUAL DISTANCE from where Hiroshima happened SEVERAL YEARS AGO and then I think, 'Wait! My house is near somewhere where ACTUAL PEOPLE died AT SOME POINT!!!

It's hard, y'know? Hard.

I am actually quite near where that old fella was dead on the couch for ages, as it happens.

[sonicl]

My heart goes out to you, man.

[Glice]

Thanks, man.

[Glice]

 

For no decent reason I find these things hilarious.

[gmku]

Hey, there's blood in the soil across this great land. Revolutionary war, civil war, genocide of the Native American, lynchings, drive-by shootings. There's probably not a square mile of U.S. turf where people have not died some horrible death.

[sonicl]

Quit trying to lighten things up, man, this are serious.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by gmku

Or: Battles was playing in my headset when I avoided a near-death experience.

I like this one, though if I avoided a near death experience, wouldn't I have died?

[Cantankerous]

sue the bastards.
gmku, sorry to inform you: just because you're an old geezer and you've been around the block 84 times or however old you are DOES not mean you've become witty or clever in the process.

[PAULYBEE2656]

Originally Posted by Glice

 

isnt that the bassist from interpol?