How many criminal friends have you got?

[Globalti]

Perhaps I should have written: "....they sometimes CAN'T understand male loyalty." Would that sound better?

(I post this because my wife sometimes derides my loyalty to very long-standing male friends, of whom she disapproves, so I can understand ColinJ's post.)

 

[rich p]

Perhaps I should have written: "....they sometimes CAN'T understand male loyalty." Would that sound better?

(I post this because my wife sometimes derides my loyalty to very long-standing male friends, of whom she disapproves, so I can understand ColinJ's post.)

So the 'they' you extrapolate this remarkable piece of scientific research from, is actually, your wife?

 

[Globalti]

Eh? Who claimed it was scientific research? It was merely an opinion. Not everything written in web fora has to be peer-reviewed. Lighten up!

 

[ColinJ]

Perhaps I should have written: "....they sometimes CAN'T understand male loyalty." Would that sound better?

(I post this because my wife sometimes derides my loyalty to very long-standing male friends, of whom she disapproves, so I can understand ColinJ's post.)

Funnily enough, I decided that I wouldn't have stood by my friends if they ever did something as awful as that***, because quite clearly they wouldn't have been the people I thought they were.

*** A young Coventry man was singing Boney M's version of 'Brown Girl in the Ring' as he wandered home from the pub. Two thugs decided to inflict the death penalty upon him for this lapse of taste. They knocked him to the ground and kicked him to death.

 

[rich p]

I did nick some sweets from the corner shop when I was a kid and a penny bun from the bakers when I was 8.
Oh, and the BrinksMat fiasco, of course.

 

[Crackle]

Hand me the "snort of derision" smiley...

I can't find it, what about this?

 

[Fnaar]

Eh? Who claimed it was scientific research? It was merely an opinion. Not everything written in web fora has to be peer-reviewed. Lighten up!

I have reviewed the theorem, and find it to be wanting

 

[Aperitif]

"....she sometimes CAN'T understand male loyalty."

I used to play rugby with a young chap who got a bit carried away with weightlifting and steroids etc. He was good-humoured, short, stocky and got himself very fit. I think he's still in prison for setting fire to his house in an attempt to kill his wife. He killed his two children instead. Another rugbyman, also a hooker funnily enough, is on the sex offenders register. He went by the sobriquet 'one punch' - as that's all it took for him to flatten many errant people who decided they might like to push him around. Gaelic football player too - and eventually he 'came out'. Then got caught up to no good in the public swimming baths with young boys etc. I seem to know quite a few crims actually...oh, and another rugby friend has an ex-wife who shacked up with Nick Leeson of 'Lost My Barings' fame. Thick as thieves, me.

 

[Aperitif]

I only know the one pirate, though.

Must be Martinique in that case. (Is he a country?)

 

[Globalti]

We have a long-standing friend from Harris, not himself a criminal AFAIK, who ended up working in the shipyards in Belfast and has some spine-chilling stories to tell about life in that city and how he suddenly realised he was being sucked into criminal circles. When the realisation dawned he was so scared he packed his bags and jumped on a flight to Australia and we haven't seen him since though we get a couple of emails a year.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

As I was saying to my neighbours, Slasher Newman and Steve 'drop the nut' Harris, the other day 'there doesn't seem to be any criminal element to this area at all.

 

[wanda2010]

Some of you actually scare me now .

A nephew of mine has very close links with people who know people. How he managed to avoid going completely down that road I have never understood, but am glad for his children's sake.

 

[Banjo]

I have one casual friend who served life for murder. He was the 18 year old driver for a gang that shot someone in a robbery. Completely reformed character you couldnt wish to meet a nicer ,gentler or more honest guy.

 

[Fnaar]

We take care of our own raaand 'ere. You blab, and you're mincemeat, sunshine, and not the Christmas sort, neither.

 

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 2357169, member: 1314"]I know a tie thief. He's a Fnrttc-er as well.[/quote]
Yes. Let's also not forget 'Fingers' Frank, who used to stick to wine glasses until he got a taste for clothing. And DavyW He says he's got 'buns of steel', but he's more at home in Greggs, stealing buns.

As I was saying to my neighbours, Slasher Newman and Steve 'drop the nut' Harris, the other day 'there doesn't seem to be any criminal element to this area at all.

...so you think, twobikesmcginty...