Entries Tagged as 'melbourne'

ladri di biciclette

May 11th, 2009 · 192 Comments

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

listing in now magazine’s adult classifieds: $70. revenge?

October 6th, 2008 · 75 Comments

…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

um, rene hall?

August 30th, 2007 · 99 Comments

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