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No you don't. No you don't think that. If you added up all of the things I've ever stole, you wouldn't even be able to charge me with grand larceny. REE-LON, on the other hand, most significant act of intellectual property theft in the last 50 years?
Hym "No you don't give a fuck about thieves. No you do not. You give a fuck about WHO steals and who gets away with it. And you want the cripple to get away with it and you want to retroactively punish me for a nebulous theft and a murder that has yet to happen that you were perfectly willing to provoke."
Thieves by Hym Iam October 18, 2025

thieves and villains

they are from new yorks hudson valley and started in february 2007. they have played/toured with between the trees, mayday parade, the hush sound, forever the sickest kids, the morning light, etc. They were also on the 2007 Van's Warped Tour and featured on FUSE all summer. They used ambient guitar tones and mix it with emotional indie rock that has touches of 90's alt rock and bands like jimmy eat world.

members: sergio (vocals/guitar) chris (guitar/vocals) justin (bass) john (drums)
Thieves and Villains live and die to stay fly yo!

thieves with badges 

NARCS, POLICE, ETC. ANY ONE WEARING A BADGE WHO HAS BEEN GRANTED WAY TO MUCH AUTHORITY WHO ROBS YOU OF ALL YOUR MONEY AND ANY PROPERTY OF YOURS THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE FOR THEIR OWN.
NARCS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THIEVES WITH BADGES

Thieves' Can't 

A cryptolect, an argot, and/or a set of secretive low-key code word terminologies (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) used by thieves, beggars, vagabonds, criminals and hustlers in primarily of Great Britain in the early 16th century onwards until falling completely out of use in all language and literature by the late Victorian Era.

Simply put, it was the speakeasy, lowkey language and/or code word in itself, at the time used to avoid tipping off less knowledgeable agents of law enforcement.

The term was likely devised by the self declared "King of the Gypsies of Derbyshire's Devil's Arse", now known Peak Cavern, by either at the time Richard Skelton and/or/both his soon to be successor Cock Lorel (his real name a mystery, lost to time, but his pseudonym meaning rascal leader) and their band of misfits who either preyed upon the rich or all folk of the Shires of Britain at the time.

The term became extremely popular after literature of the 16 and mostly 17th centuries would depict the lives, both fictional and real, of these rogues, both recent and historic at the time, by modernfolk who could read to those who could not, usually at less reputable pubs or "public houses"at the time.

In modern times, it's used primarily by geeks who play tabletop RPGs or those who have a keen interest in histoical literature. Some secretive clever groups of our society today might adopt the code for their own use in secretive deeds.
Thief A: "oi good fortune, brethren. Spot a pint for a recount of my most recent misfor-?"

Thief B: "nay, AN' HUSH! ...now see gent yonder table there in the nook? Dressed fine, he is, aye? Alone? Surly well endowed in coin an no match us? Thieves' can't."

Thief A: "Behind the pub when he goes to take the piss? We can purloin the loot and disperse, if you can muster up that pint fo'a fellow roué?"
Thieves' Can't by NegativeZEN February 24, 2021

Thieves Guild Stuff 

When you are sucking off Delvin while Vex watches in the Ragged Flagon
Dude, I was just doing some thieves guild stuff in there.

Thieves' Bargain 

1. A type of bad-faith agreement in which each party is openly exploiting the other while tacitly agreeing to a measure of exploitation themselves, with each party hoping to outmaneuver the other to come out on top.

2. Any exchange in which the party accepts an obvious and material negative in hopes that the eventual benefits to them will be even greater.
"Your Honor, this is outrageous! To even suggest that the prosecutor would make a thieves' bargain with the notorious Velma Kelly... then fabricate the very evidence that set her free!"

"The 'Thief's Bargain' spell reduces the cooldowns of Shadow Blades, Vanish, and Feint by 33%, but using one reduces your damage by 10% for 6 sec."
Thieves' Bargain by DramaGuy23 April 18, 2023
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Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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