Comments on: Strafe left: The Formative Years #39

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:28:59 +0000

If Boris promises we will see heavily-armed space marines patrolling the crannies of London Village before 2012, he can absolutely guarantee re-election.

By: Pus Filled Sac

Pus Filled Sac — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:06:22 +0000

Some fellow Guardian readers!

I wonder what happened to London if the last remnants of good are buskers. I’ve only seen one who wasn’t rubbish.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:37:39 +0000

MetalCircus: I didn’t vote for the ridiculously-coiffed public school buffoon either. Unfortunately it seems like most people thought that a stint on ‘Have I Got News For You’ qualified him for public office. That, and the blatant electioneering from the Evening Standard (our motto? ‘Ken’s a shiftless bastard and loves amphibians. The bastard’).

Still, once we have rid Olde London Towne from ye vile scourge of busking*, the streets shall be safe for Porsche Cayenne drivers and blond Etonian fops. And nary a newt shall be seen.

*Hypocritically, there is a busker that keeps playing beneath my window (bad cover versions of ‘High and Dry’, ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Wonderwall’). And I *really* want to shoot him. Which probably makes me just as much of a git as Bog-face.

By: Nick Halme

Nick Halme — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:42:16 +0000

That’s fantastic, what level would he be I wonder.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:35:50 +0000

I remember you being able to pay the ‘busker’ in Outcast to stop playing… :)

Oooh, I like this “NEW! EXCITING” feature…

By: King Awesome

King Awesome — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:17:15 +0000

There is a busker in ‘The Darkness’. He even has a quest attached involving his stolen harmonica.

By: Grant Gould

Grant Gould — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:03:44 +0000

I’ve always wondered why the nigh-infinite assortment of subway platform levels in games seem between them to have a grand total of zero drunk and belligerent buskers. Is it just that modern graphics cards lack the polygons to correctly render the stench?

(They also seem to lack the pleasant and talented sort of buskers, but I expect that most of those would sensibly flee at the sound of gunfire and/or alien invasion. Also in most cities they seem to be somewhat rarer.)

By: MetalCircus

MetalCircus — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:17:28 +0000

Nothing will stop Emperor Boris on his triumphant march to squeeze the last remnants of good out of London.

But I don’t know what you lot are wingeing for, you fucking voted for the guy. I didn’t. You did. I saw all this coming. You only have yourselves to blame, fellow Londoners.

By: Arsewisely

Arsewisely — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:46:01 +0000

Farkin hell, I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to like like Halo that much.

By: Mr_Day

Mr_Day — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:17:58 +0000

I heard Mayor Boris is hiring this guy to create a set of weapons necessary to purge London of the menace.

I fully expect him to be shaken and sad to discover the contractor is sadly not really a high tech weapons designer.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:35:07 +0000

Nice armoured bra, there.

By: Arsewisely

Arsewisely — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:23:43 +0000

Not for much longer. Mayor Boris is in the process of culling all underground buskers.