» Evil Pranks

The prank that keeps on going......
IN the mid nineties, my mate ends up working in a high powered, serious money job in Thailand. He frequents the ahem bars ahem but has a problem. His name.

"Alastair" is completely unpronouncable by the girls, so, like about 90% of Thais he decides to use a nickname. Only he lets the girls help him choose it.......Biiiiiig mistake.

They explain that Alastair sounds similar to Oyster, and the Thai word for oyster is "hoi". OK, he thinks, I see the logic, so he goes around calling himself Khun Hoi (Mr. Hoi).

THREE YEARS LATER

While at a meeting tea break, an American Thai is casually chatting to him, and they swap business cards. The guy looks fazed, then looks at Alastair.

"Who gave you this nickname?"
"Er..some friends. Why isn't oyster a good name?"
"Technically Hoi can mean oyster, but usually it means cunt"

Long silence.
(Fri 14th Dec 2007, 7:19, More)

» Have you ever seen a dead body?

The killing fields and S21
Went there when I was in Phnom Penh. So many bodies/skulls it sort of gets so big that you no longer comprehend the magnitude, until... until you get to the tree.

You see the bastards killed most with a blow to the back of the head with a shovel. Men, women kids. Everyone.

Except the babies.

As they were too small/couldn't sit up, the guards smashed their heads off a tree, in which they had helpfully inserted some nails so as to speed things up. Oh yeah, at S21, they thoughtfully photographed the prisoners, and they are many of women with their babies. They all were murdered.

I have never wanted to waste someone before, but on that day, given the opportunity I would have had no qualms whatsoever taking out a former guard or two.

Sometimes all evil needs in order to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
(Fri 29th Feb 2008, 10:27, More)