For my sins, I live in one of a set of terraced houses (Picture here when I can be bothered) - it's not the best area in the world, but it's equally a long way from being the worst. In general it's pretty quiet, nothing to worry about, I've lived in similar places before, I'm sure I'll live in similar ones again. It's all part of life.

  What I want to know, though, is why so many people when they live in that kind of environment dispense with normal stuff like knocking on the front door of their mate's residence, and instead decide to yell from the street, and attract attention that way. After all, it's SO subtle - almost like a "look where I am, trying to get into my mates place, and I'm too retarded to use a doorbell".

  And it's not like it's just during the day, or anything useful like that. No, this is even at 2 or 3am, and still you can be woken by someone halfway down the road yelling "Oi, Dave, are you up?" - which is a question which drives me mad - what the fuck do you expect, is he going to open the bastard door or window and go "No, you fucking idiot, of course I'm not up." - it's only 3am, after all. It's one step off asking "Are you awake?" or (my personal favourite in this context) "Does it hurt?".

  The best part though is that with some of these idiots, they don't even bother shouting in the street. No, in fact they're too lazy to even get out of their cars, ansd instead sit there, revving the engine and hooting the bloody horn. At 3 or 4 in the morning. With what appears to be an epically fucked silencer on the car exhaust. And yes, I start thinking about ways to exterminate these people - killing them is too short and swift, I want to eradicate their atoms from the planet. Yeah, I know, we're not supposed to be able to remove matter from existence, but hey, I can dream can't I?

  And so at 4 in the morning my head is filled with ideas involving mining the street, relieving Afghanistan or Cambodia of some of it's minefield excesses, wondering whether a claymore mine will work under a car to a satisfactory level. I wonder how you silence a mine? Then again, I guess if everyone's awake anyway, then who needs to silence it? Maybe something funky (and faily silent) like a Taser? Or the old fallback for silentish killing - a crossbow?

  I think my 4am thoughts are sometimes enough to scare me...