Entries Tagged as 'melbourne'
failed strategies in bicycle theft deterrence:
1. assuming the thief who stole your bike is schooled in italian neorealism; appealing to said thief’s desire to be one of the cool kids.
2. feigning empathy for said thief.
3. chiding said thief for his stupidity via a barely legible run-on sentence without double-checking “you’re” grammar first.
(grazie mille to nadia [...]
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Tags: Amsterdam · australia · bicycle · london · melbourne · stealing
…well, you know how it goes.
meanwhile, in melbourne…
and in london…
…a saucy variation on a much-photographed placard from london’s soho:
but my favorite sign was spotted by nick at a backpacker’s hostel in rio:
related: the whore of west babylon
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Tags: "customer service" · australia · canada · melbourne · rio de janeiro · sex sex sex · toronto
meric spotted this sign in melbourne while going to the launderette a few doors down. the bizarre thing, says meric, is that it’s in a shop window. “i have no idea what kind of dastardly person would steal poor dave’s bananas but every time i walked past it i laughed so much a little bit [...]
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Tags: australia · bananas · beverages · coke · food · melbourne · not-so-veiled threats · revenge · stealing · virginia