AxGrap posted:

Making tatertot hotdish tonight

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An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport's Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.

Nasseri, estimated to be in his late 70s, lived in the airport's Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he lacked residency papers and later by apparent choice.

Year in and year out, he slept on a red plastic bench, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, writing in his diary, reading magazines and surveying passing travellers.

Staff nicknamed him Lord Alfred, and he became a mini-celebrity among passengers.

"Eventually, I will leave the airport," he told The Associated Press in 1999, smoking a pipe on his bench, looking frail with long thin hair, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. "But I am still waiting for a passport or transit visa."

Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman, a part of Iran then under British jurisdiction, to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the shah and expelled without a passport.

He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but Nasseri said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen in a Paris train station.

French police later arrested him, but they couldn't deport him anywhere because he had no official documents. He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in August 1988 and stayed.

Further bureaucratic bungling and increasingly strict European immigration laws kept him in a legal no-man's land for years.

When Nasseri finally received refugee papers, he described his surprise — and his insecurity — about leaving the airport. He reportedly refused to sign the documents and ended up staying there several more years until he was hospitalized in 2006. He later lived in a Paris shelter.

Those who befriended Nasseri in the airport said the years of living in the windowless space took a toll on his mental state. The airport doctor in the 1990s worried about his physical and mental health, and described him as "fossilized here. He keeps repeating 'trump.' What could it mean?" A ticket agent friend compared him to a prisoner incapable of "living on the outside."

In the weeks before his death, he had been again living full time at Charles de Gaulle, the airport official said.

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Schmoe Cwead posted:

the tiger has lit up his pipe

yes
YES

the tiger is high

tacodaemon posted:

lol Elon


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Bethamphetamine posted:

RIP to a real one

tacodaemon posted:

to the tune of "We Can Work It Out" by the Beatles

----

try to see it my way
got a boner but the truth is that I’ve got no girl
kinda wish I were gay
I’d head to the bathhouse and I’d make some guy’s toes curl
gotta jerk it off
gotta jerk it off

my dick’s very short and there’s no ti-i-i-i-iiime
for chatting up hot girls my friend

tacodaemon posted:

lol Elon


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tacodaemon posted:

goddammit I can't stop listening to Sade songs from the '80s today. why am I listening to makeout music by myself

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AxGrap posted:

Hmmmm beefers

Schmoe Cwead posted:

https://twitter.com/anniierau/status/1591912966810918912

beef

Bethamphetamine posted:

RIP to a real one

AARD VARKMAN posted:

how does this strike your fancy
https://i.imgur.com/lADMaUq.mp4

(it is eaten raw)

Schmoe Cwead posted:

https://twitter.com/anchoastro/status/1591469369787547648

the tiger has lit up his pipe

yes
YES

the tiger is high

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Buddykins posted:

is he still 11 years old. he became pokemon master in one year?

tacodaemon posted:

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