{"id":1870,"date":"2011-02-08T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2011-02-08T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:14:31","slug":"b3ta-qotw-entry-and-this-has-to-win-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"B3ta QOTW entry…and THIS has to win it:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beating on the Booming Drum of Self Congratulation<\/strong>
\nIt was a warm, liquid afternoon in summer, showing Bournemouth off at its best. Happy people wandered the beach-front shops, bikini-pretty and giggly – and that was just the guys. I, however, lurched along the pavement like a zombie with one of those nasty little rattling Boots carrier bags: bed-hair, bleary, snotty and a doubtless smelly young man. And in front of me was one of Those Blokes.<\/p>\n

You<\/em> know, one of Those Blokes. Stocky, short type with gorilla-hairy arms. Always over-tanned. Dark hair combed back so hard its got furrows and you can see the scalp, which always glints hair-gel green. And, of course, a thick gold chain around the neck. Yeah, thats right, one of Those<\/em> Blokes.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’m that judgemental as a person, but if you are one of Those Blokes the 1st thing I think on seeing is \u2018You knob. Bet you teach PE\u2019 and I haven\u2019t been proven wrong yet.<\/p>\n

Our particular bloke was leant proprietorially against the boot of a grey Ferrari, chatting up two bikini-clad damsels who were at least a decade too young for him. I had to lurch past, so I couldn’t help but over-hear him holding court on the merits of this particular make of Ferrari. Normally I’d have said nothing, but as he expounded fulsome details of all that 0-60 crap, I couldn’t help but mutter sourly:<\/p>\n

‘Yeah, but the seats are too low and clutch is an utter bitch.’<\/p>\n

Bloke shot me a look of smug contempt, gave the Ferrari’s boot a little fatherly pat and said:<\/p>\n

‘Well I think<\/em> I know more about this kind of car than you do ‘mate’.’<\/p>\n

The inverted commas clanged with sarcasm. Right up to the point when I haughtily unlocked the car, threw in the Boots bag and pulled away.<\/p>\n

Even better, he kind of froze up in cringe, so he stayed leant on the boot until it turned into empty air. One of Those Blokes, arse first to the tarmac. Lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beating on the Booming Drum of Self Congratulation It was a warm, liquid afternoon in summer, showing Bournemouth off at its best. Happy people wandered the beach-front shops, bikini-pretty and giggly – and that was just the guys. I, however, lurched along the pavement like a zombie with one of those nasty little rattling Boots carrier bags: bed-hair, bleary, snotty and a doubtless smelly young man. And in front of me was one of Those Blokes. You know, one of Those Blokes. Stocky, short type with gorilla-hairy arms. Always over-tanned. Dark hair combed back so hard its got furrows and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,435],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-b3ta","tag-qotw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}