"I'll put a Jihad out on you!"
Back when I was on my illustration and design degree, sometime in 2002, myself and the regular gang would sit around or on my desk and chat about the usual nonsense - how to fix the socio-political problems of the world, whether or not God existed, and who would you rather fuck - Wilma Flintstone or Betty Rubble. You know, the normal high-brow stuff.

This particular day was no different, we happened to be all sitting around discussing what we were doing for our dissertations. We had been chatting for a good fifteen minutes or so on the subject when Crazy Richard piped up.

Now I have to digress momentarily here - I'm fairly dark-skinned; I'm of a mixed European decent. I have been mistaken for a wide range of nationalities from Spanish to Greek, from Turkish to Pakistani. In actual fact, aside from English, a sizable portion of my ancestry is Portuguese. All of my friends on the degree - all those sat around my desk on that day, just happened to be white.

When Crazy Richard decided to join in the conversation, he asked, in a serious and thoughtful voice with genuine curiosity, whilst the rest of us were focused on matters of literature and art:

"So, Steve, have you experienced any backlash since the September 11th bombings?"

The loud and animated discussion on our dissertations fell silent. Our studio - that hub of activity and opinion went as quiet as the grave. Everyone’s jaws had dropped. Only my good friend Ben had the ability to say anything - all he managed in a quiet and shaky voice was "...but he's not even Asian".

Richard never understood the reaction he got for his question...



He was never one for subtlety, and here is an older post on another of his many crazy adventures:
www.b3ta.com/questions/flirting/post643796
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 12 May 2011, 13:38, 3 replies)

MORE!
please more!!
(Document Pocket, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:10, closed)

for the next suitable QOTW, I might post another :D

( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:17, closed)

Well, have you?

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 13 May 2011, 0:51, closed)