You might think at this point, "What a nice job this bastard has," but if I pitched you the story as something like "I spent 10 days in a tent avoiding the rain with a group of drunk, sunburnt British adolescents," would you still envy me?
McInnerny said "It's always nice to play a bastard... I'm glad Halpen's a three-dimensional bastard!
'Just say I was nice with nice people, but a bastard with bastards.' The biography, containing previously unpublished photographs and poems by the twins, describes how Ronnie had considered bringing an Arab boy back to London after falling in love with him while on holiday, and how he refused to hide his sexual preferences from the law or his fellow gangsters.
'What I want you to do is run up too fast on this bastard, leave a nice big gap that he won't be able to resist running into, and when he does, I'll be waiting for him.' Chook left the gap, the bloke fell for the trick and Poppa cleaned him up something shocking, as only Poppa could do.
They know that nice idiots generally win and awful bastards generally lose.
A review in NextGen reported that "the game caters to both the goody-goody player who wants to be nice and lawful, and the evil bastards who just want to kill everything and take no guff from anyone".
It was like, "Pete, you outlasted the bastards, man!" It was so nice..
Watching the transfer of power, Mr. Springsteen said, "was like, 'Pete, you outlasted the bastards, man.' It was so nice".
GF Newman, for instance, wrote the superbly named "Bastard trilogy"—Sir, You Bastard, You Flash Bastard, and You Nice Bastard which chronicled the misadventures of the corrupt DC Terry Sneed.
He was still trying to make nice with the pope, and he would have lost piety points if his girlfriend had started popping out his bastards.
Bastard, bastard, miserable bastard.
