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idali  10
05-29-2004 01:37 PM ET (US)
Dave Bell  9
05-28-2004 02:11 PM ET (US)
The image which now comes to my mind is of a flasher meeting one of those disguised horror robots from Japanese comics and animation, which looks like a cure, underclad, girl, until the flesh camouflage is torn away during weapon deployment.

Then they're the Police -- "No, it's not blood, it's ATF oil."
Charlie Stross  8
05-28-2004 10:35 AM ET (US)
Pepper spray would just convince him of his own importance.

Pointing and laughing is much better. Which is why Feorag was disappointed ...
Steven Francis Murphy  7
05-28-2004 10:02 AM ET (US)
That sounds like the perfect moment for just a dose a pepper spray, Charlie. I don't think I'd have aimed at the face. :)

Everyone has these problems when they go out. I never run into any of this crap (well, least not since I left Korea).

Respects,
Steve
Flyover Country, US
Martin McCallion  6
12-11-2003 08:31 AM ET (US)
I don't know: when I was a kid we used 'bampot' as a less sweary synonym for 'bastard', more or less. Or at least, that's the way I've always thought of it. I've started using it again recently -- I'm hoping to get my kids to start using it around Hackney -- and I feel it's too good a word for the sorts of scumsuckers you describe, Charlie.

Then again, your definitiion is so specific, and evocative, that it deserves some recognition at least.

Either way, it's good to see it back (though I suppose if I'd stayed in the West of Scotland it would never have gone away).
Steve GloverPerson was signed in when posted  5
12-10-2003 09:39 AM ET (US)
Also see also this story by Chris Brookmyre: http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/bampota.htm
Charlie StrossPerson was signed in when posted  4
12-10-2003 06:55 AM ET (US)
The dictionary definition ain't right. Imagine a small guy who wanders into a biker bar, orders a beer, and then starts asking the denizens rude questions about their taste in [music/vehicular transport/clothing]. And not because he's drunk and wants a fight, or because his girlfriend's left him and he's feeling so self-pitiful he wants to get himself beaten up, but because he doesn't care: that's a bampot. Bamports are dangerous. Suicide bombers would be bampots if they weren't politically motivated; as it is, J. Random Bampot is basically a bomb waiting to explode. They're dangerous fuckwits, and I feel it's about time we extended the definition to cover bampots with chemical weapons and machine guns, as well as the usual bampots with knuckle dusters, chibs and sharpies.

See also: http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/.
jim braiden  3
12-10-2003 06:51 AM ET (US)
A bampot is a wazzock with ambition.
Andrew Nicolle  2
12-09-2003 11:59 PM ET (US)
I'm guessing a crackpot, or a loon. Dunno if this is what Charlie means:

http://english2american.com/dictionary/b.html
David T Bilek  1
12-09-2003 07:20 PM ET (US)
Not to make my ignorance even more apparent, but... what's a "bampot", exactly?
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