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Nothing you can't fix with a few extra layers of cardboard.

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You might want to reappraise your definition of "Them" and "We".

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Soylent Bench-BQ is MADE OF PEOPLE!!

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And thus began the evolution of humans with rigid exoskeletons who took over the Earth because the other fleshy-blobby-bodied shits were more concerned with finding ways to deny that they were throwing the entire planetary weather system out of balance.

JESUS TRIED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS MEEK THREAT

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"I say, old chap, I found another bloody beggar on my doorstep just this morning!"

(Literally, due to the spikes)

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No rich people live in a block of flats. Think projects, not condos.

When Labour were in power, they made huge strides in reducing the number of people sleeping on the streets by not being complete heartless bastards. Now the Tories are in charge, and they think "complete heartless bastard" is a compliment, because they are callous <em>in extremis</em>, except for the ones that are deliberately nasty.

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They should do what the real, manly men 'Mericans do. Lay in wait then shoot them.

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They need more lawyers. Try that shit here in the US of A and they'd sue your ass so fast they'd own your fucking building by dinner.

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In NYC that spiky alcove would sell for $350,000 in some neighborhoods. America! Fuck yeah!

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<i>You are supposed to be a gentle people</i>

Considering they thought drawing and quartering, not to mention hanging children for stealing bread, was a good idea at one time, this seems to be pretty tame in comparison.

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You had <i>metal</i> spikes?! We had to carve our own from discarded broom handles!

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You got <i>discarded</i> broom handles? We had to carve our own from deadfalls. One killed my Uncle Charlie while he was making floor spikes from its predecessor!

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This may seem like a radical socialist concept, but if you want an area to not be usable as, you know, floor, maybe put something besides floor there? Perhaps, I don't know, a wall, or a pool table?

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are there no prisons, are there no workhouses? has Snipy never read Dickens?

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Well, it makes a handy defense against Daleks who want to ambush you from the alcove. But the money could have been better spent, methinks.

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