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Some Favourite Insults

October 4th, 2009 · Jewellery, Music, Quotations

I’ve been feeling nostalgic, and thinking over all the marvellous unintentional insults I’ve received over the past few years. There are so many now that I feel they should be collected together in one blog post, to be admired. [Apologies to anyone who has seen some of them before in earlier posts.]
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Today’s Comments…

June 27th, 2008 · Lifeblog, Uncategorized

These were received while busking:
Man putting in 50p: “I’d put in a quid if you’d play something decent.” [What. I mean. What.]
Woman walking past while we were playing some fast jigs: “Thank you. It’s very calming.” [So how was she feeling before? Crikey...]
Middle aged, portly man with glasses and a beard: “Now, you can very [...]

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Busking continued…

June 22nd, 2008 · Lifeblog, Music

Another regular busking-related occurrence is hearing another busker somewhere around the town centre playing ‘Wonderful Tonight’ by Eric Clapton. This happens approximately 80% of the time. I find it particularly grating because when I was working in a shop once, a man played it outside the shop for forty-five minutes without stopping. He just went [...]

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