
Pooflake says: Tell us your stories of conflict. From the pettiest row that got out of hand, through full blown battles involving mass brawls and destruction to your real war / army stories.
( , Thu 31 May 2012, 11:55)
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My brother and I used to fight when we were little. We were both vicious little bastards and so our fights would go on for ages and often land one or both of us in casualty. This one day when I was ten and he was six we were having a spectacular scrap and he was winning. He was beating the crap out of me. In my defence I should say that being beaten up by your six-year-old brother when you're ten is a deeply humiliating experience which I simply could not allow to happen, and that is why I clobbered him over the head with a cricket bat. It was a great shot and I'm frankly amazed he retained consciousness, but alas he did, and went screaming to mummy.
It was at this point that I realised that although he had been giving me a sound beating up until this point, I had no physical evidence of such. Therefore, when Mummy Fluffles came to interrogate me, I was going to be in Deep Shit. I did the only thing I could do: I bit my own arm. I bit my arm so hard I drew blood, so that when she thundered into my room I could say, "See what he did to me! SEE?"
All went to plan up until this point, when Mummy Fluffles took one look at it and said, "You did that yourself, didn't you?"
How did she know? My brother had lost a milk tooth a couple of weeks previously. I had a complete set of toothmarks on my arm. Bugger.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 9:44, 14 replies)

I can't help but imagine that you grew up to be Joe Pesci's character from Goodfellas.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 9:50, closed)

I can imagine you scrapping with your brother, having met you the term 'feisty little bugger' came to mind! How's the classical music world treating you?
CP
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 9:57, closed)

( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:02, closed)

But feisty? I am most flattered that you would think of me in such terms. And in the spirit of returning compliments, I shall say that I would never dream of messing with you ;-)
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 12:04, closed)

( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 12:10, closed)

attracts classical musicians?
I'm sure this place is way out of proportion to the population average.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, closed)

you're their fricking leader
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, closed)

and this is the perfect place for our delicate souls to get intellectual nourishment.
And laugh at penis jokes.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:06, closed)

I dunno...if they're all professionals then I'd say it's probably out of proportion, but if most of them are amateurs then not so much. There are loads of people out there who play classical music for fun, which I think is pretty damn cool.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 12:02, closed)
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