Tubewhore ([info]tubewhore) wrote,
@ 2008-04-09 21:40:00
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Underpants on the ouside
To file under 'Things you Don't See Everyday'



Getting on the train at KX...

 

As we get on, I notice that the carriage reeks of alcohol being metabolised.  As it was late afternoon on a Sunday, obviously the partying had been going on for some time for some fellow passengers. Guy  in white shirt standing up - by what force of will power I have no idea as he was hammered - was chatting incoherently at the Flash.  Bloke in blue scrubs was Flash's mate acting as translator/mediation.  Have no idea of the vaguely piratical girl next to him was part of the gang, or just dressed that way by preference.

After the very drunk guy reeled off on his merry way, Flash got back to the purpose of wandering the tube network in sculpted foam musculature: chatting up girls.  Clearly using his powers for evil, he tried sparking up a conversation with a pair of giggly, trendy chicks in tight jeans, expressing surprise at the drunk stealing his thunder a bit on the 'making an exhibition of oneself' front.

"I thought I'd be the weirdest thing on the train" he announced chirpily. To which the only possible response was for me to state loudly, "I'll fight you for that title". 

But I was not a giggly blonde in tight jeans and so not on his radar, so comment went unnoticed.  'Weird' is not something you can take back to the hire shop in the morning.

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[info]daneel_olivaw
2008-04-09 09:33 pm UTC (link)
He will have undoubtedly been on his way home (or possibly en route to the Shepherd's Bush Walkabout) from Church. The only links I can find are YouTube - so try here or here for context. NSFW.

HTH.

Edited at 2008-04-09 09:34 pm UTC

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[info]tubewhore
2008-04-09 10:05 pm UTC (link)
I think I've just seen Hell...

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[info]daneel_olivaw
2008-04-09 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Oh, it's not to everyone's tastes by any means - but it can be vaguely fun with a big enough crowd.

The club site is here.

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[info]tubewhore
2008-04-10 12:31 pm UTC (link)
Guess I'm just not a natural clubber,orat least not with that density of people... plus all that sportswear.../shudder/

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[info]spangle_kitten
2008-04-10 04:02 pm UTC (link)
My first thought was that he was part of the "Fathers for Justice" movement (which despite being of the view that the Courts don't do enough for decent fathers being denied contact they are also full of nutters that don't deserve to go anywhere near thier children).

Though they are ok for ammusement, I was giving a foreign chap directions outside Euston and he was telling me it was his first ever visit to London - then a crowd of F4J campaigners jogged by in thier superhero outfits and the "what is this mad country?" expression on his face was priceless!

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[info]tubewhore
2008-04-11 08:44 am UTC (link)
yeah, acting like petulant teenagers who are going to throw a strop unless they get their own way is really going to convince people that they have strong parenting skills...and I'm absolutely behind the greater involement of father's in their kids upbringing...

However, thinking on, I wonder if I'm being hypocritical. After all bricking windows, chaining oneself to railings and hunger strikes did keep female sufferage in the public eye. Although of course, in the same way, those sorts of media grabbing antics were often embarrassing to some campaigners for the reasons I give above; asking like a child doesn't add to the perception that women were deserving of votes, and in the end it was how women stepped into replace men in jobs at home during the war that demonstrably proved female capability and made holding back the vote politically impossible (for those over 30 at least) so perhaps these chaps should be forming creches and school run motorpools and after school play gropus to prove what terrific dads they can be rather than handchuffing themselvesto landmarks.

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[info]spangle_kitten
2008-04-11 10:26 am UTC (link)
My main problem with F4J is that they planned to kidnap Tony Blair's youngest son - and although I think Tony Blair was a prize moron he doesn't deserve to have his son kidnapped and it also really questions the parenting skills of any father that would not consider the fear and mental pain of that child.

They also kidnapped the dog of Dame Butler Schloss, who ironically has been instrumental in changing the law to allow fathers more access and gave a very good speech at the local contact centre dinner/fundraiser I went to about how contact is so important and the need for contact centres. So to kidnap her dog just shows utter stupidily and thoughtlessness.

I also worry that they don't vet members at all. They have a website with the names of blacklisted soliticors, and we're on it. I was worried and checked up on the files that could have led to that blacklisting - we do very little contact work indeed and the only file I could find that barred a father from his child was a total perv who was abusing her and her mother. My aunty's firm (who is also blacklisted) had a similar case and she knows who it was that put her on the blacklist because he threatened her with it, and he was a violent thug her client spent a fortune trying to keep away from her child.

So yes, extreme tactics are useful to keep it in the public eye but fathers who do care about thier children should be doing things like, as you say, setting up creches, school runs or setting up and/or supporting thier local contact centre, to prove they are sensible, rather than proving to the Court that they are very irresponsible, and as a lot of thier activity involves criminal damage, trespass and even arson and possible plots to kidnapp, the Courts take a very scathing view.

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