Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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8 years? Damn!They give me a gun, train me to use it, show me who to shoot and send me out into the occupied territories to defend my country. We're at war with the terrorists right? So I want to shoot the bad guys, just like any loyal citizen.
Lucky me! I'm well-trained in sniping - like, I'm a crack shot! I've got the skills to pay the bills.
So one day, there's these hippies running around in a playground where the bad guys are. They're evil too, the government told me. So I line up the rifle (I'm like a way off in a tower, see) and BANG! I get this peace activist right in the head!! Mint shot, I tell you.
Then what? Medal? Honourable mention in dispatches? No. This twunting peacenik's folks in Britain get all upset that I shot their boy and get my government to prosecute me.
I mean - what's that all about? My country trained me to shoot this guy. They showed me how to do it and they taught me that it was right.
I get found guilty (just of manslaughter, thank Allah! I could have been scapegoated as a murderer by the government bastards), and get sent down for 8 years!!
Bollocks.
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no cake for the impuritay Patrick Stewart hasn't aged since, Thu 11 Aug 2005, 14:43,
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