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# FUCK YEAH


It was genuinely foul today. And I lurked on a street corner for about ten minutes, getting wet, taking a few surreptitious photos and wondering when the first drivers would report me to the police.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 21:45, archived)
# you nutter
well done
although part of me wishes you had got arrested just for the explanation you'd had to give
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 21:50, archived)
# Ahaha and in German too
I've learned two things about my German in the last two days

1) It's a lot better than I expected it to be
2) It's shit

Managing to explain to a German police officer about Smug would seriously over-extend my abilities
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 21:53, archived)
# I thought the Germans were proud of their good English?
Can't think why, when German is such a fun language.
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:24, archived)
# Some Germans are
but what I learned from living here is that a lot of Germans lack confidence to actually speak English. In many ways that's a good thing because then you're forced to learn German to live here. Up here there's less of a habit for people to swap into English when your accent gives you away, but it's not actually that bad. The younger someone is, the more likely they are to have better English than the average American. That makes me feel stupid when they've stood patiently listening to me stagger through childish, broken German for two or three minutes, of course, but there we go.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:28, archived)
# Ich bin von ein puerilendigitalkunstcommune
Das ist der haus von Herr Schmug
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:49, archived)
# Ich moechte an Ihren Balkon gehen
und viele Fotos machen, mit Orangensaft, und Buttercroissant! Bitte, bitte schoen.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:50, archived)
# Vot eez zis ? Zis eez not ze german I know. Achtung Tommy ! Vor you zee var is over.
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 23:04, archived)
# MENSCH MEIER!
Hoisted on my own petard.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 23:13, archived)
# Wow, is that THE balcony that smug once sat on?
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 21:56, archived)
# It most certainly is
In future years this could become one of Hamburg's tourist attractions, although it may not be for the type of tourist Hamburg would wish to attract.

There's no chance of getting up there, it's a privately-owned building with some kind of half-impressive looking meeting room downstairs.

That's right, not only did I lurk on the corner and take surreptitious photos but I peered through their windows. I think I might now be on an Interpol list.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 21:57, archived)
# im sure they would have been intrigued if you explained the situation
either that, or worried...
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:20, archived)
# I'm sure they'd have been very intrigued
Enough that after I explained it to a constable I'd explain it to a sergeant, and then a captain, and then an anti-terror officer. I'd be a celebrity!
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:26, archived)
# maybe they could have even arranged to have you meet smug on that very balcony for a reunion photo?
I dont think that stardom could possibly compare to meeting Freebase though. I'd probably faint with excitement!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:31, archived)
# If I am ever in LA I shall certainly go to Freebase's gym
Ideally I would meet the man himself, though what I'd say I have no idea. "Err, hi, err, 'Jonesy'. Err, I've made a load of photoshops of you gurning, you know, based on that photo of you on a rowing machine? Flanbase was in the same photo set! Sorry, I forget Flanbase's name. We call you 'Freebase'. Err, can I buy you a beer?"
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:47, archived)
# You should print out a lovely leather-bound photo book (phone-book sized)
of all the 'shops b3ta has done of freebs and flan, and present it to him, michael aspel style.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:50, archived)
# Ahaha
"Jonesy, this is *your* B3ta! Jonesy, what are you doing? What are you doing with that weight? No, Jonesy, please, no!"
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:51, archived)
# Haha
I do wonder how he would react to seeing himself becoming an internet celebrity to some strange people
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:52, archived)
# He comes across fairly well actually
so I suspect he already knows, has judged as as totally unimportant, and ignored us. It would be brilliant to test this hypothesis in person though.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 22:54, archived)
# I'm sure he'd be really nice about it. He'd probably invite you round his home for dinner.
One of his Youtube vids there's some guy trolling him really aggressively. Jonesy basically outdoes him by being extremely polite and reasonable, and even ends by inviting him down to the gym for a free training session.
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 23:32, archived)