Hello Ian - thanks for reading and leaving a comment. And yes, I don't have an editor work on these shorts because he's too damn expensive, and I do like a long sentence, but yes, there will be people who read this and think 'wow, that's a dark life' and others who read it and think 'yep, I know that dark life'.
As a rule, Meester Dangerfields stories are damn funny, yes I like the sex and drug content, but I like sex and used to do loadsa drugs. Men of a certain age often have parallels, the soggy bag of porn was a classic, I used to carefully dry it out on the radiator. I knew all the local places where you might find dumped gash rags..
Nice one Wavesmith. And yes, I think that's why the carrier bag of porn one was so well received, because - weirdly - we all found one - or two. But drying them out at home, wow - that's dedication. Thanks for reading.
Hello Mike - I was a bit concerned when I saw a notification for a comment on part one as I thought someone got half way and was going to say 'I can't read any more of this shit', which says a lot about my confidence, lol. Thanks for reading. Now put everything to one side and read part two! Thanks for reading and leaving a comment.
I read both, I’m just rubbish at doing the comments so I randomly attempted part 1 and 2..Knowing you understand advertising and reading into stats etc. You must come accross certain wildcard anomalous groups who unknowingly stymie the data..Well that’s me that is…Chris it was excellent and I’m into your writing style. .. Catch you soon
You're right - this is one of the reasons I didn't want it in two parts, but it just got out of control. People will get to the end of this and think, hmm, not many comments or likes here. But it was either cut it in half or lump it. Means the world that you like it, Mike. Cheers.
Love this! Brilliant expressive writing the captures the gonzo grime of it all, reminds me so much of my uncle and his scoring stories a rich tapestry of visuals and smells, superb stuff Mr Danger, as an added bonus I’ve asked you a few times to tell this story on YouTube well the part about the charity box anyhow!
Hello Rob, thanks for reading, you know - when you asked me to tell the charity box story, I couldn't remember what one you meant - and then when I was writing this I thought - aha - this is the story I was asked to tell the other day. So there you go. Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
Ha! Just seen this myself... Yeah, I lived in Tree Estate with a dirty slut ex g/f for a few years whilst I was in the Navy, I used to go in most of the pubs there and the clubs most weekends... Me and the g/f went in there a lot. Dirtford was like a step up for me really, I grew up in Grays and Tilbury... so was nice - for a while - to have loads of pubs you can go in without having to fight everyone in there... I hear its all changed there now with the NEW Kentish people, same as the NEW Essex people...
No way, Tree Estate, I know it well. And yes, people keep scaring me saying I'll be shocked when I go back, which is a concern as I have my mother over there.
Hopefully, “the Good Lord willing and (the phone don’t ring),” I can send that yet this morning. Well, it’s still Saturday night somewhere…( a self-imposed deadline).
My first impression was that I had gotten a “You might like this…” referral to a “hunting” site. “Why don’t kids these days want to be hunters? A grand old tradition that allows for family bonding…Nothing says bonding, like taking your assault rifle and turning a deer into venison burger...”
No, Chris, I *didn’t* like it. I didn’t like it at *awwllll*, (drawn out Southern drawl) (from *Mash* when they put a Captain’s patch on Radar’s sleeve: “It’s for Corporal Captain. Just a new rank they are trying out. What do you think of it?” “I don’t like it…). And I don’t like being confronted with vivid descriptions of what happens to a person when their hijacked brain turns them into a zombie, behavior controlled by ultimately toxic amounts of a substance/behavior dedicated to removing all joy from life except a very brief explosion as the needle delivers what they have been scrounging for with their barely functional body for as long as it takes.
But…I was fascinated and just kept scrolling. Doom scrolling, I guess. Very good writing. More on that later, after I get a good night’s sleep, something denied me for 25-years, waking up sick and tired, breaking my daily vow to not do *that* again tonight. Doing *that* again…
(I wrote this reply after the one below) Hello Pete - I've just realised you're the lad I replied to on the Writer Office Hours, self-promo in disguise, Substack thread. You know the censored me for calling that out. Quite disappointing. Anyway, I thought you probably wouldn't like it, but also predicted you might be somehow attached to it, having heard and possibly lived similar situations.
Hello Pete - this is very interesting. Thank you for taking time to write a detailed response. I'm good with 'doom scrolling', but I'll wait until you've had a good night's sleep and see what else you've got to say. But thanks for giving it time, that's not an easy thing to get from someone these days.
Hello Will. I swear Dirty Lynn was thinking much the same, it was written all over her face, albeit in some kind of bukkakean hieroglyphs. Thank you for reading and leaving a comment - it means a lot to me.
Kind of brings about, a sense of nostalgia and want in me and a sad sense of emptiness that I find in now being clean. I alway's feel that something is missing. But when your in it it's just pure hell.
It's much the same when I'm writing it. I think the attraction is the lack of actual responsibilities and that your life is focused on one thing and only one thing. Kind of simplifies things in a chaotic way. Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, really appreciated.
You've got it exactly, gives you a purpose. An all consuming purpose at that. I was weirdly unsubscribed from this substack by the way. Maybe it was automatic as I've not been engaging with it for a while now. I got a few more to read now today at some point anyway cheers Chris.
Feb 4, 2022·edited Feb 4, 2022Liked by Chris Dangerfield
By the way don't know if it was this one or the second one. But I loved the bit when Hunted asked you if you thought you was the only junkie who had ever read a book and you said some times you thought you were. Made me chuckle as I often thought the same about myself as well. Of course there are a lot more than society and even other users probably give them credit for.
'Hunting'! it was Hunting!' lol. I made the same mistake almost every day I knew him. But yes, I know the part you mean. It's weird, there's such a lot of disheveled, broken, junkies that you arrogantly think you're the only one who has a bit of manageability, but there's plenty of very successful junkies, I know because I used to supply them. In Minecraft, I mean.
You should find the link to part two at the end of part one. Thanks for reading, much appreciated. Let me know if you're still having trouble finding the rest of my archive.
Hello Elbostrom. That's quite the compliment, and as long as the modifier 'of the 21st century' includes a development, or at least some originality - I'll take it. Thanks for reading and leaving a compliment.
I haven't been able to reply for months due to a dodgy phone, well bravo bravo on a surberb descriptive memory of a rather you'd probably like to forget memory, unless Dirty Lynne wasn't that bad lol x
Hello Liz - thanks for reading and leaving a comment. And yes, some things we do we don't really want to remember, but you know, when you need a bag - you need a bag.
Great tales that many can relate to.
Encompasses the struggles, filth and humour of a self induced hell.
A couple of sentences required a couple of readings but did not distract from the overall message.
Thanks Christopher, WE ARE NOT ALONE.
Hello Ian - thanks for reading and leaving a comment. And yes, I don't have an editor work on these shorts because he's too damn expensive, and I do like a long sentence, but yes, there will be people who read this and think 'wow, that's a dark life' and others who read it and think 'yep, I know that dark life'.
As a rule, Meester Dangerfields stories are damn funny, yes I like the sex and drug content, but I like sex and used to do loadsa drugs. Men of a certain age often have parallels, the soggy bag of porn was a classic, I used to carefully dry it out on the radiator. I knew all the local places where you might find dumped gash rags..
Nice one Wavesmith. And yes, I think that's why the carrier bag of porn one was so well received, because - weirdly - we all found one - or two. But drying them out at home, wow - that's dedication. Thanks for reading.
It’s just really good, no witty remark required.
Hello Mike - I was a bit concerned when I saw a notification for a comment on part one as I thought someone got half way and was going to say 'I can't read any more of this shit', which says a lot about my confidence, lol. Thanks for reading. Now put everything to one side and read part two! Thanks for reading and leaving a comment.
I didn't quit after Part 1, because "I can't read any more of this shit..." but rather because I am about to nod off and want to be fresh for Part 2.
Fair play. I look forward to your response, if any.
I read both, I’m just rubbish at doing the comments so I randomly attempted part 1 and 2..Knowing you understand advertising and reading into stats etc. You must come accross certain wildcard anomalous groups who unknowingly stymie the data..Well that’s me that is…Chris it was excellent and I’m into your writing style. .. Catch you soon
You're right - this is one of the reasons I didn't want it in two parts, but it just got out of control. People will get to the end of this and think, hmm, not many comments or likes here. But it was either cut it in half or lump it. Means the world that you like it, Mike. Cheers.
Nice one, just trying to push the algorithm, not written a book report since school. Have a nice day.
Haha, Cheers Liz.
Love this! Brilliant expressive writing the captures the gonzo grime of it all, reminds me so much of my uncle and his scoring stories a rich tapestry of visuals and smells, superb stuff Mr Danger, as an added bonus I’ve asked you a few times to tell this story on YouTube well the part about the charity box anyhow!
Hello Rob, thanks for reading, you know - when you asked me to tell the charity box story, I couldn't remember what one you meant - and then when I was writing this I thought - aha - this is the story I was asked to tell the other day. So there you go. Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
AMAZING! I couldn't stop reading this Part 1! The Railway Tavern hahahaha I've been in those toilets with an ex bird..... ..
Fantastic half week there.... I have to read part 2 NOW!
Hey John - only just got notified about this comment - glad you liked it. Have you literally been in The Railway Tavern in Dirtford?
Ha! Just seen this myself... Yeah, I lived in Tree Estate with a dirty slut ex g/f for a few years whilst I was in the Navy, I used to go in most of the pubs there and the clubs most weekends... Me and the g/f went in there a lot. Dirtford was like a step up for me really, I grew up in Grays and Tilbury... so was nice - for a while - to have loads of pubs you can go in without having to fight everyone in there... I hear its all changed there now with the NEW Kentish people, same as the NEW Essex people...
No way, Tree Estate, I know it well. And yes, people keep scaring me saying I'll be shocked when I go back, which is a concern as I have my mother over there.
Hopefully, “the Good Lord willing and (the phone don’t ring),” I can send that yet this morning. Well, it’s still Saturday night somewhere…( a self-imposed deadline).
Hello Pete - no worries, as and when. I appreciate you giving it a read, that's already a privilege.
My first impression was that I had gotten a “You might like this…” referral to a “hunting” site. “Why don’t kids these days want to be hunters? A grand old tradition that allows for family bonding…Nothing says bonding, like taking your assault rifle and turning a deer into venison burger...”
No, Chris, I *didn’t* like it. I didn’t like it at *awwllll*, (drawn out Southern drawl) (from *Mash* when they put a Captain’s patch on Radar’s sleeve: “It’s for Corporal Captain. Just a new rank they are trying out. What do you think of it?” “I don’t like it…). And I don’t like being confronted with vivid descriptions of what happens to a person when their hijacked brain turns them into a zombie, behavior controlled by ultimately toxic amounts of a substance/behavior dedicated to removing all joy from life except a very brief explosion as the needle delivers what they have been scrounging for with their barely functional body for as long as it takes.
But…I was fascinated and just kept scrolling. Doom scrolling, I guess. Very good writing. More on that later, after I get a good night’s sleep, something denied me for 25-years, waking up sick and tired, breaking my daily vow to not do *that* again tonight. Doing *that* again…
(I wrote this reply after the one below) Hello Pete - I've just realised you're the lad I replied to on the Writer Office Hours, self-promo in disguise, Substack thread. You know the censored me for calling that out. Quite disappointing. Anyway, I thought you probably wouldn't like it, but also predicted you might be somehow attached to it, having heard and possibly lived similar situations.
Hello Pete - this is very interesting. Thank you for taking time to write a detailed response. I'm good with 'doom scrolling', but I'll wait until you've had a good night's sleep and see what else you've got to say. But thanks for giving it time, that's not an easy thing to get from someone these days.
Dangerfield is some strange sort of gnostic demiurge... the world we see around us in all its filth, pathos and iniquity is His creation...
Hello Will. I swear Dirty Lynn was thinking much the same, it was written all over her face, albeit in some kind of bukkakean hieroglyphs. Thank you for reading and leaving a comment - it means a lot to me.
Kind of brings about, a sense of nostalgia and want in me and a sad sense of emptiness that I find in now being clean. I alway's feel that something is missing. But when your in it it's just pure hell.
It's much the same when I'm writing it. I think the attraction is the lack of actual responsibilities and that your life is focused on one thing and only one thing. Kind of simplifies things in a chaotic way. Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, really appreciated.
You've got it exactly, gives you a purpose. An all consuming purpose at that. I was weirdly unsubscribed from this substack by the way. Maybe it was automatic as I've not been engaging with it for a while now. I got a few more to read now today at some point anyway cheers Chris.
By the way don't know if it was this one or the second one. But I loved the bit when Hunted asked you if you thought you was the only junkie who had ever read a book and you said some times you thought you were. Made me chuckle as I often thought the same about myself as well. Of course there are a lot more than society and even other users probably give them credit for.
'Hunting'! it was Hunting!' lol. I made the same mistake almost every day I knew him. But yes, I know the part you mean. It's weird, there's such a lot of disheveled, broken, junkies that you arrogantly think you're the only one who has a bit of manageability, but there's plenty of very successful junkies, I know because I used to supply them. In Minecraft, I mean.
Struggling with substack. Can't find anything but the hunting tales
Hello Anglo - click on this link and they'll all be there (there's a link at the bottom too saying 'see all'': https://chrisdangerfield.substack.com/
Struggling to find your stuff on substack
Here: https://chrisdangerfield.substack.com/
Awesome mucker. Looking forward to part two
You should find the link to part two at the end of part one. Thanks for reading, much appreciated. Let me know if you're still having trouble finding the rest of my archive.
You might very well be the Hunter S Thompson of the 21st century
Hello Elbostrom. That's quite the compliment, and as long as the modifier 'of the 21st century' includes a development, or at least some originality - I'll take it. Thanks for reading and leaving a compliment.
Can't wait to read part 2 👍🏻🤪
Nice one, Louise - it gets better, by which I mean worse. Thanks for getting this far.
I haven't been able to reply for months due to a dodgy phone, well bravo bravo on a surberb descriptive memory of a rather you'd probably like to forget memory, unless Dirty Lynne wasn't that bad lol x
Hello Liz - thanks for reading and leaving a comment. And yes, some things we do we don't really want to remember, but you know, when you need a bag - you need a bag.