Shootout in Soi 24
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 4:30 pmThis from my friend Clint at work — a reminder that the Land of Smiles isn’t always in a good mood:
“I saw a shootout the other night, scared the fucking shit out of me. It was right across from Rockwell [ed. — the school where we work]. On Thursday night I finished at 9pm and then hung out in the alley between Rockwell and the parking lot of the Chinese restaurant right there on the corner, drinking beer with the construction workers and shooting the shit, when we heard this big bang. At first I thought it was a motorcycle wreck around the corner, but it was followed by 20 more bangs, and we realized it was a gun fight. We ran away into the building, and one of the construction workers pulled out a sword from his bag, I shit you not, and charged outside, thinking it was part of the political upheaval and wanting to take a bite out of some protester’s leg or something. But it was the motorcycle taxi dudes across the street who take up that whole corner, some dude came by on a motorcycle and started shooting at them, and one of them started shooting back. The motocrycle assailant took off and got away, and I think one guy was dead (some medics leaned over him and then threw a white sheet down on top of him) and another guy I think wasn’t dead but unconscious and was being treated for a gunshot wound to the arm. Aren’t you glad you don’t work nights?”
I am glad I don’t work nights, although avoiding gunfights wasn’t the kind of safety I had in mind.
In other news, I have to rave about a movie. It’s called The Fall. This is a picture from it. I suck at writing reviews, so here’s an intelligent one, and another. One great strength of the movie is it’s strange and gorgeous, exotic imagery; another is Catinca Untaru, who plays the young girl, Alexandria, who together with injured 1920s stuntman Roy (Lee Pace) is at the heart of the story. It’s a fantastical movie with a grounding in reality. If Pan’s Labyrinth was your thing, The Fall might well be worth your time. Official site here.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
If I had a penis I would very much fap to that picture.
I’m glad you don’t work nightshift too. Again, for totally different reasons.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I don’t have a penis, and I fapped… (oh, hang on, no I didn’t. Just checked the urban dictionary. I feel so old when I have to look slang up.)
October 15th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Well, rest assured ladies! Women are now starting to appropriate the verb fap for themselves! I, I don’t really know how a woman faps but that’s okay…
fap fap fap
…On a more serious note, jeez, that’s scary. D: (And a sword, wtf?)
October 16th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Oh wow… I never would have found this movie if not for this.
Thank you! It looks gorgeous. I’ve already ordered it from Netflix.
Re: kiss kiss bang bang: Omg a SWORD? o_0
October 16th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Sexy losers used schlick as the female verb of fap
October 16th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Maybe the average Thai construction worker packs a sword with his lunch every day as a matter of course. They generally don’t wear hardhats or welding goggles, so maybe they feel a sword will offer a sort of general protection against the hazards of the job.
Schlick. I like it. Though it takes longer to type than “fap”, so I’m not surprised if “fap” is winning the battle for general usage.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I think the female version is ‘frig’, although as a word ‘fap’ wins just because it’s funnier. Onomatapea at work. Schlick isn’t as goofy.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I just know fap generally was a credited to sexy losers
October 16th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
“Frig” I do know. If I can fap rather than schlick and still be a sexy loser, that’s good enough for me.
Well, I’m glad that’s settled.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
What did I just step into? D:
October 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
A hail of bullets in Soi 24!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Ouch!
October 19th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
The masked bandit has no mask? Its weirdness quotient is already exceeding City of Lost Children never mind Pan’s Labyrinth.
October 19th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
He takes the mask off for reasons I can’t recall… but yeah, it’s that sort of movie. The plot is driven by things other than logic.