| RavenBlog |
|
| Comments on Tuesday 29 January 2002: |
| The other day, we drove through a human corpse. Which was surprising and entertaining. We were driving behind a large truck, so we couldn't see what was approaching. A police car was flashing lights on the shoulder, behind another car. I assumed it was just that someone had been pulled over. As the truck passed the police car, it wavered violently in its course. We slowed, in case of maybe having to do a sudden lane-change. The truck pulled away ahead a little, revealing, just over the line to the left was a smooshy red blob. Smooshy, gooey, but still identifiable as the top half of a thoroughly dead person. Red splattered across from there, through our lane, leading to some splattery legs on the shoulder. We both raised eyebrows as we drove through, too late to safely swerve. I am suitably proud. Who else has driven through a corpse?
[22:16] |
| Icarus |
| Cool. If you like that perhaps you should check out Gran Theft Auto 3 either on a ps2 or coming out soon on pc. It's the nuts and you can mash up people proper. love iccy |
| RavenBlack |
| I enjoy the idea of a game about stealing grandmothers. |
| Meander |
| Okay hon, you have thoroughly grossed me out. I think I need to throw up. |
| Weena |
| What a weirdo. |
| Rialian |
| A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course...and of course a corpse can't talk of course, unless that corpse is REANIMATED BY GUINEA PIGS and then it squealls too much!!!!! ===Sorry. Work is getting to me. do you know what it is like to have to hand-wash, shampoo, and blow dry 9 Guinea Pigs? Do you? No...I did not think so. Oh, how I have fallen. I used to help the clueless get clues about their child-rearing strategies having gone horribly wrong, and now I am reduced to washing ill guinea pigs. If you see a guinea pig with a corn-rowed pelt, you will know I finally snapped completely. |
| Nik |
| Probably more between than through. |
| Nik |
| Did you, aha, intone to the deceased "Pull yourself together!" on your way through? Ahem. |
| Nik |
| Perhaps the one half could do with "a leg (up)"? |
| Eperdu |
| Who has? I have. I've driven through ... 9 corpses. Ages ago. Honest. Bah. You get all the best blog entries. |
| Jenny J. |
| I envy you. |
| Jheti |
| Hrrm...I nearly drove through the entry-sign to a subdivision once, but this is unquestionably cooler...*sigh* |
| Tory |
| Right on. I want to drive through a corpse. I'd also like to chat with the bloke that washes guinea pigs. |
| Kevan |
| Lovely reactions. I trust passing strangers will be proud of themselves and their envious acquaintances think them terribly cool, if you lot should ever die horribly on a road somewhere. |
| RavenBlack |
| What would you prefer? "Oh no, someone I don't know died stupidly, how sad"? I have no objection to passing strangers finding my splattery corpse amusing, should I ever be in that situation. |
| RavenBlack |
| In fact, if I were a splattery corpse I would like an open-casket funeral with a casket rigged to open small holes in the sides at the touch of a remote button by a similarly-minded friend. That way I could ooze gore on the coffin-bearers, who would perhaps say "ew" and drop me, allowing me to bounce/roll on the ground in two pieces, leaving further yucky trails around the funeral-place. Mmm, I rather hope that when I die I get to be splattery and emotion-inspiring. Like a piece of Giger art. Not that I'm wanting death any time soon, mind. But if you find me already dead, feel free to splatter me and laugh about it. |
| bridgehajen |
| You must have had an overdose of The Cure at some point in your life. No, seriously, I dumped into your blog site yesterday and was immediately impressed by both its prose and its entertainment value. Not quite sure, but I may be hooked for good now. Cheers! Keep it up, morbidity and all. |
| Rialian |
| ===Ravenblack, I think you need a monitor on this blog for gory-ness that makes people think. Perhaps call it a "Giger-counter"? (chuckle) |
| blackrose13 |
| well I've never driven through a corpse but I have seen one dropped on a gurney once, it wobbled back and forth likea board and the guys knees didn't bend it was kinda weird. |
| Nigthshade |
| Nope, haven't driven thru a corpse. I envy you. I have, however, had my arms up to the elbows in a live human being. That was fun - without the guilt of feeling pleased about someone else's tragedy (the victim involved didn't die. Yay.) |
| Nightshade |
| Wow. I envy you so much I can't even spell my own name right. |
| Kevan |
| [going back a bit] Ech, I'd prefer people to at least recognise the dead as having had lives and leaving upset friends and family behind, rather than just being cool comedy props, is all. "Oh no, someone's died, how sad" seems a better reaction than "haha<\/A>/, someone's died, how cool" - I'd rather live in a world of people who tended to the former, who reacted to other people's tragedies. |
| Goinstadi |
| Unfortunately the best thing that I have driven through is Mile Marker 13 on my birthday while it was raining. Talk about fun.... |
| RavenBlack |
| Fair enough, Kevan. I'd rather live in a world where people only react to tragedies that have some bearing on their own life. Otherwise everyone would be upset all the time, and that would be no fun. |
| Kevan |
| Oh, I don't mean anything so absurd as cellophaned flowers for dead royalty, as mindless racist attacks in response to terrorism; just the instinctive reaction to tragedy being thought and empathy rather than indifference or amusement. Other people being recognised as having their own lives and hopes and everythings, rather than being cardboard nobodies who don't mean a thing. Did you really not bat an eyelid at a thousand innocent strangers dying horribly in Lagos, then? |
| RavenBlack |
| I didn't even know that a thousand innocent strangers died in Lagos. I didn't even know that a thousand strangers of any sort died in Lagos. However, over a thousand strangers die from smoking every day, apparently, so one more thousand either way doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. Thousands of people die without appearing on the news, and nobody (except the people who know them) cares. I don't see why being newsworthy makes a difference. Yes, it sucks that people die. My feeling bad wouldn't help them, their loved ones, or anyone. It would be bad for me and my loved ones, because I'd be less happy. Where's the advantage? |