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Bad year
Exhaust the naughtiness batteries | |
I'm often surprised by how fond I am of people who used to be bad. Ex-druggies, punchy guys from school, reformed slags. There is something nicer about reborn niceness than original niceness - if you see what I mean. Anyway...
...rather like national service, which takes a year of a youth's life
in some quarters, the state-endorsed "bad year" would be a strategic investment in the good of society by encouraging binge-drinking, drug-taking, sexual promiscuity and general larkiness for one year only. A lifetime, give or take, of naughtiness would be burnt out in one year. So, if you are arrested for being a twat in your "bad year" - the punishment is a bit of a laugh with the copper or twenty press-ups. Or a clip round the ear at the outside. Nasty crimes get punished as usual, so all we are really tolerating is the self-inflicted stuff. Alcohol would cost less, condoms would be free, traffic cones would be provided free of charge, and so on.
I suggest you can choose which year it is, maybe between 20 and 25. You are given an ID card in the shape of some cartoon breasts, say, or a clown's face.
By the way, I'm about to move from London to Paris. I'm wondering how many people in France use the HB. Or understand it.
there are other *HB*s to understand...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hb
[xandram, Dec 31 2007]
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Baked: College/University. |
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[xandram] And the bakery now assumes it's rightful place on that linked page. |
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Bun(+) When I was 23 a rented a small house on the "beach" (Raratan Bay, NJ side) with 5 guys and 1 girl. All rooms became bedrooms, and on room was hot bunked by the third shift guy and a first shift girl. He slept on the livingroom couch on weekends. I refer to it as "the year of living stupidly" because it was the classic fraturnity experience I never got in college. There were several times when that minor "get out of jail free" card could have been handy, such as our "fun with model rocket engines" weekend or "black powder explosives" weekend. |
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Anus Horribilis (or annus mirabilis, for pedants)? Otherwise known as "a gap year/lifetime". Widely known to exist! I spent my annus in Londondres, where we of Southfields coined the phrase; "Find the Gap!"
Wait, "Spent my anus" didn't come out right.
Wait, "Spent my anus, didn't come outright." didn't come out right.
I give up. |
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there was a concept like this in Androids Dream, a book which was recommended on a different thread here. There is a race of aliens in that book who send their youngsters on a quest to experience all they can, usually on other worlds, and they are exempted from any moral considerations during that time. Because they do it on the cheap (or this one did), the alien on the quest works for some lowlife thugs by eating people alive and doing other dirty work. |
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// alien on the quest works for some lowlife thugs by eating people alive and doing other dirty work // |
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They told us to do it ! It's not our fault ! We were 'just obeying orders' !!!! |
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