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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:46 pm

It's just past midnight, I just got home, dinner is in the oven, and I'm still quite drunk, actually.
Today has been an ... odd day.
It started quite mundanely. A friend had convinced me to avoid the awfully commercial, awfully pop-music oriented open-air music festival that, as every, turns the downtown area of my town (about a mile from where I live) into a demilitarized zone, and go to a peace-festival with alternative music and whatnot instead. A forty-five minute journey by train, which is even a free-ride for me (on account of my disability). On the way there, my phone acted up, so I applied the panacea of all things IT, the ultimate fixxer, a power-cycle. Without remembering first, of course, that I had to get a new micro-sim-card to fit my new phone a few months back and, thus far, had only ever used the PIN once. So didn't know it. Untethered from the world of digital communication, I embarked on my journey to that festival.
It was nice. A bit rural, many tie-dies, quite a few topless men in men-skirts performing certainly fascinating acts with sticks (get your mind out of the gutter, you ...).
It was uncannily relaxed. Peaceful. No worries, no stress. Everybody was just having a nice summer day, enjoying the weather and (surprisingly sparse) music, nothing to get upset about. Kids played ball with balloons, old people wandered through the crowd unmolested.
I didn't notice what was entirely off, of course. Even amidst all that nice, chillaxed atmosphere, something was off. Very off. My friend pointed it out to me, only then did I notice it. And was astounded, flabbergasted, shocked and even surprised.
There were no cops.
Where I'm from, as soon as three people or more gather with advance notice, cops will be present. That's the way it goes. Hereabouts, in the urban part of the land, you assembler a group of people and tell someone in advance, cops will be there. Especially if you assemble a thousand or more people in some small-ish area, and then provide them with music and fair-trade coffee and t-shirts. Definitely then.
There wasn't one. Not a single cop-car, not even a single cop, at least not in uniform. Not one.
After two hours, two hours after we had arrived, an hour after festivities had officially begun, one finally turned up. One cop. Not a squad, not even a good-cop, bad-cop duo, just the one. Dressed in the nice, white uniform they got for special occasions in the summer. Before walking the beat across the grounds of the festival, he obviously had to stop off and make introductions and whatnot first. He spent about 20 minutes at the biggest beverage stall getting, well, a beer.
For someone from an area where the police automatically presume that anyone who got out of bed this morning is about to violently rape a fire-hydrant, any fire-hydrant, and laugh while they're doing it, this was a rather ... unusual experience, really. Even though, with all the rural flair, 100k people doesn't make a town particularly small, this was entirely outside any of the urban-centric experiences of public events I've had. Not to mention any experience I've had with the cops. We got drunk on organic beer (the alternative was swill, no safe-the-whatnot pretense), got a little ripped off on the token-system they used at the beverage stalls, talked about getting ripped-off for a good cause, and stumbled to the train station to get home by about 8:30 pm.
Which was where things got properly ... well ... this friend who dragged me to that festival?
I basically carried a torch for that woman for over a decade. No, I'm not exaggerating.
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Well ... if there is, I'm not sure whether I'm still in it.
I'm too drunk to figure out whether to be jubilant about that, or whether to be petrified about potentially ruining a great friendship. :?
There's good reason I got home only at midnight, rather than about 8:30. No, I didn't get "lucky". Probably could have, but didn't (and don't) want her to wake up regretting things.


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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by motorpsycho67 » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:08 pm

DerGolgo wrote: No, I didn't get "lucky". Probably could have, but didn't (and don't) want her to wake up regretting things.


Wise move......... but, maybe you should tell her that. No doubt she would appreciate your consideration.

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:01 pm

Trying to find some peace and quiet for sleeping. But that's not an option tonight, no.
The German team is playing Brazil in the semi-finals of the world-cup tonight.
Germany has three world-cup wins on it's score, but the last one was in 1990. Brazil, meanwhile, has collected like 5 titles. They are the behemoth in the soccer world, are they not.
In a top-flight game of soccer, you get one, maybe two goals. If it's three, it's exciting, apparently.
It's half-time now. The German team is leading. FIVE NILL. Unheard off doesn't really describe it. I don't follow soccer, I haven't watched a game since the 1996 European Cup. And even I know this is not ... it just doesn't fucking happen. Five goals in one game,if that happens, ever, it's a 3:2 or something, and everyone will rave about how exciting that game was. Also, most of these goals would happen during overtime. NOT IN THE FIRST HALF.
People are honking horns and blowing vuvuzelas. I can only hope the Netherlands make the finals and wipe the florr with the German team as the German team is tonight giving the stadium a Brazilian wax.
I don't like my countrymen when we win stuff internationally, people here get excited in the entirely wrong way.
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Post by DerGolgo » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:42 pm

Fucking SIX NILL. And there's like another twenty or so minutes to play, including overtime. I'm now convinced the Brazilian team is throwing the match. The preparation for the world cup included a lot of police brutality, anti-union intervention by the government, generally bad stuff. The Brazilian unions are actually rooting for Brazil to loose - it's an election year, and a world-cup victory would probably help the government to win, win big.
I think the Braizilan players may actually value the welfare of their fellow people higher than their professional success. They just waited for a stage in the tournament, and an opponent, that would let them make a moderately dignified exit, one that would let them keep some face. Though, losing THAT BIG before it's even overtime ... that feels like a pretty graphic protest to me.
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Post by DerGolgo » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:45 pm

Seven-Nill. This is preposterous. Even if the Dutch, or anyone for that matter, win the finals. My countrymen will not forget this one. They will act like Germany won the worldcup, just because of this game. And there are still a few minutes left ...

EDIT:
FINALLY! Last minute of the regular game time, and the Brazilians have made a goal. The face-saving goal, I'm sure they waited for the literally last minute on purpose.

Huh. No overtime. 7:1. I'm already dreading just going out the front door tomorrow.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:48 pm

Trying to come up with how to spend my last few hours.
The shelling has started. The troops will be in the streets within minutes. This is it.

The German team has just won the FIFA world cup in the sport of football/soccer.
I live surrounded by 80 million deranged idiots who won't give you the time of day but, all of a sudden, feel ever so jovial about belonging to the victorious herd.
Fucking hell.
I have to get up reasonably early tomorrow. When the German team wiped the stadium with Brazil on Tuesday, the riots didn't subside before 1 AM. This is ever so slightly bigger than a spectacular semi-final massacre of the opposition.
Fucking heck. I was hoping for a solid defeat. That would have given me at least a little peace. Until the next big, international tournament. But NOOO. The next couple of days, you will not find a sane person in this country!
And they won't let go of this in ever.
I don't mind that people enjoy watching football. I watch Big Bang Theory, they watch football. Fair enough. But the expectation and constant reminder that I'm somehow obliged to be overjoyed that a group of people I've never met have bested another group of people I've never met, doing something that is utterly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things and that I'm not remotely interested in ... oh fucking heck.

I'm serious when I say the shelling has started. They have saved up fireworks from new year's, it's a fucking warzone out there. Anyone who doesn't have something to drink, or to blow up, is driving around with their palm firmly attached to their car horn. Everybody is screaming.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Pintgudge » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:02 pm

So very sad for you.

The Seahawks won the Super Bowl.

I am conspicuously unAmerican in that I do not watch, enjoy, or have the faintest clue about

Football

Baseball

Basketball

Lacrosse

Hockey

Et cetera.

I kind of like watching the Americas Cup, especially last year!

Considering where I live, the Seahawks win was maybe 1/4 the hubbub of your present predicament.

I feel for you.
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Post by DerGolgo » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:17 pm

I know football/soccer is a game where 22 grown men in short-shorts run after a little ball and try to get it into the other guy's box. That's about it, and that's about all I care to know about it.
It's 1:16 AM here. It's been about two hours since the game finished. The shelling has, at last, stopped.
ALL ELSE?!?!
If this was America, and I had a big, many gun, there would be at least three little depictions of a man with an air-horn carved into the stock.
Good fucking grief ...

I took a nice, big dose of anti-histamines to help me get to sleep, I've had trouble sleeping for a few days now.
So, now, I'm so tired I'm near collapse, yet it's still too damn loud to sleep. I hope I collapse, it seems so appealing ...
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Bigshankhank » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:49 pm

Ok I am not a huge sports fan, but cmon you are talking about an event of world significance, not just something limited to the extents of any single nation's boundary. Dont get me wrong, I need my sleep like a motherfucker, and can appreciate others who are having their sleep interrupted, but this happens once every four years, and to an extent it unites the WORLD in something greater than their individual squabbles. Bear it for another night or two and appreciate the greater effect of an event like this.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by motorpsycho67 » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:42 pm

Bigshankhank wrote: Bear it for another night or two and appreciate the greater effect of an event like this.

You want to talk greater effect?


Let's talk about the 250,000 Brazilians who were evicted from their homes to make way for this tournament....
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Post by xtian » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:55 pm

Seriously, it's just a test in social cohesion, you have to surrender to the normative feasting and pay allegiance to the conformity of the rejoicing. I failed the test. I failed to pain my face and go down in the street to act like a retarded on acid for hours just because some fashion millionaire on drugs pushed a ball in the cage of another drugged addict illiterate millionaire on national TV. I like to interpret it as the superiority of free thinking.
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Post by Bigshankhank » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:03 am

motorpsycho67 wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote: Bear it for another night or two and appreciate the greater effect of an event like this.

You want to talk greater effect?


Let's talk about the 250,000 Brazilians who were evicted from their homes to make way for this tournament....

Goddamn you're right, all the strangers who came together to party in the street are all fucking monsters.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by guitargeek » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:28 am

Fuck FIFA.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:54 am

I don't mind people having fun. I don't mind people coming together to have fun on a societal scale like that.
I can even understand the happy associated with seeing the team you like win.
But when people talk about the world-cup over here, it's herd-mentality, bordering on nationalist mania. The mere idea that someone might be a German but not support the German team is utterly alien. It's not part of people's reality over here.
I do not doubt the sincerity with which people over here are in favor of "our team" winning, nor the sincerity of the joy they feel when that does happen.
But the entire thing feels like ... people don't root for the German team because they like the players, or their game, or the coach. But because they are German. They are kin, of the tribe, of the herd. I get the impression, they see the German team walk onto the pitch, they get to watch someone they can rationalize, or at least feel, a similarity, a connection to, someone they can associate with. So the right side of their brain tells them there's a little bit of themselves walking onto the pitch. They cheer because of a primordial instinct that was favored by evolutionary mechanisms as it benefited family and tribal cohesion.
Which is fine, too!
But everybody seems so obsessed with the righteousness of their support for the German team and their really quite nationalistic screams, so few people seem to even consider what has them party as they do ... the same mechanisms, or at least related ones, that have them so excited and convinced of their awesomeitude have me basically see the ugly side of all things social and tribal rear it's ugly head. The ugly side that's about excluding people, about one group of people supposedly being better than others, and all the crap that comes from that.
If people were just having a party but nobody was taking it quite so seriously, if people behaved as though they were aware of the silliness of the entire concept ... I'd probably party with them. And I don't like football/soccer, nor do I usually feel comfortable partying with strangers.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by calamari kid » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:05 am

Competitive tribalism is a thing, and it does have it's ugly side. Still I can't help but feel it's better expressed through sportsball than bashing each other over the head with a club.
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Post by DerGolgo » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:13 am

YES! Absolutely!
It's just that, the way many over here express it ... the bashing others over the head seems implied to be the next stage.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by calamari kid » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:23 am

Oh, it's that way everywhere. My chosen form of expression is baseball, the pastoral easy going sportsball according to George Carlin, and yet the level of vitriol expressed in various game chat threads can be extreme. At the same time there are many participants in those threads who disparage such behavior and there is an effort to quash the worst of it by the leadership of the community I participate in. Suppression of such an ingrained behaviour (instinct?) is no quick or easy task, evolution is slow.
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Post by Bo_9 » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:42 am

As a middle-aged guy in the central US (supposedly we are mid-west) that doesn't watch or acknowledge college basketball, or pro football (American), I feel your pain. These folks will act like they themselves pushed "their" team to victory and damn anyone who says otherwise.
I talk about baseball, 8-9yo machine pitch and 10-11yo softball all the time. LOL!
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Post by xtian » Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:21 pm

calamari kid wrote:Competitive tribalism is a thing, and it does have it's ugly side. Still I can't help but feel it's better expressed through sportsball than bashing each other over the head with a club.
futball allows you both in total social acceptance. and eventually a good dose of public destruction, all for the sake of sponsors, nationalism and cultural conformism.
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Post by Rench » Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:31 pm

I have just finished the 4 day cataclysm of my good friends wedding. It is ASTOUNDING how much time and effort these things take these days.

I've been Putting off everything until "the wedding is over". Turns out, summer is half gone and I haven't accomplished shit!!!

Doubling down now. On ride time, yard work time, and posts!!! :mrgreen:

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Post by wyckedsin » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:01 pm

Picked up a 1930's-1940's hand plane for a whopping $1.50

right now I am considering what I need to do to refurbish it. Square up the face, hone the blade etc etc etc

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by motorpsycho67 » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:20 am

Bigshankhank wrote:
motorpsycho67 wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote: Bear it for another night or two and appreciate the greater effect of an event like this.

You want to talk greater effect?


Let's talk about the 250,000 Brazilians who were evicted from their homes to make way for this tournament....

Goddamn you're right, all the strangers who came together to party in the street are all fucking monsters.


Yeah ,you're right....... fuck those homeless people, entertainment is much more important!
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Post by Bigshankhank » Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:58 pm

motorpsycho67 wrote: Goddamn you're right, all the strangers who came together to party in the street are all fucking monsters.
Yeah ,you're right....... fuck those homeless people, entertainment is much more important![/quote]
I understand what you are saying, however I take a pretty dim view of the homeless so that would be a poor choice of argument to make towards me.
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Post by guitargeek » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:39 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:I take a pretty dim view of the homeless
:|

Well, aren't YOU nice?
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Post by Bigshankhank » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:45 pm

guitargeek wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote:I take a pretty dim view of the homeless
:|

Well, aren't YOU nice?
Generally, yes I am.
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Post by guitargeek » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:29 pm

So whadya got against people who're born into poverty and homelessness?
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by motorpsycho67 » Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:33 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:
guitargeek wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote:I take a pretty dim view of the homeless
:|

Well, aren't YOU nice?
Generally, yes I am.


Except when it comes to the homeless.... screw those shitbags, right?
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Post by Bigshankhank » Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:00 am

There are, in my experience, three common kinds of homeless folk:
-those who find themselves homeless due to unforeseen circumstance (commonly due to a change in the economy/loss of work). Typically these people are scrambling to take advantage of what services are offered, either through the local municipality or charitable organizations, because they understand that homeless is not something one aspires to and they want to change their situation.
-those who find themselves homeless due to mental health issues, or release from penal facilities, and who are subsequently unprepared to "deal with" the world outside. These people are victims of a rehabilitative system which does not work, as well as often being victims of their peers who abuse them for their medications (which further prevents their functioning) or abuse them for their background which essentially forces them into servitude. These folks are essentially trapped in homelessness.
-those who, by personal choice, have created their own homelessness and refuse to leave it. Despite what some people may say, there are people who choose the "Urban Outdoorsman" life. Whatever their reasoning, they are where they are by direct action or lack thereof on their own part to change their situation.

Back to my preface, this is based on my experience, and given that I have primarily lived in cities and suburbs in the East and South and I acknowledge there may be other categories in rural or Central and Western states of which I am not aware. However, working in both my professional capacity as a construction manager as well as working with charitable organizations, I have worked with and tried to help scores of the homeless.
Those who are working to change it, I have no beef with.
Those who are mentally ill or are trapped by a checkered past, I have sympathy for.
Those who stand on the corner and live off of handouts because they refuse to abide by the rules of society, I have no sympathy for and sadly, they are by far the largest and most visible group.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Pintgudge » Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:58 am

What about the. 250,000 Brazilians who were evicted from their homes in order to build the stadium?



250,000




EVICTED



How are these particular homeless people to be compared to a guy with a sign on the freeway entrance?

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Bigshankhank » Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:19 am

Well luckily it's an easy round number for when the next census comes through. Reading back through what I wrote, those unfortunate souls would fall into category 1, homeless due to unforeseen circumstances. Are there programs available to help them get back on their feet? Have we given those programs time to take effect? I ask this un-ironically, I genuinely do not know enough about Brazilian politics to answer it myself. Also, I read recently about some high-level church figure who is from that part of the world, where is his group in helping this situation? I also seem to recall a bunch of people saying the same thing about East London prior to the '12 Olympics, things seem to have stabilized there despite all the hooplah. Any social or political event is going to cause some harm, not everyone can come out a winner. It sucks, I know and I am not making excuses, but its a hard fact about the world. Others who are more politically motivated than I will take up the charge on this issue, for now I take pride in standing up for the issues that I find important and I take that seriously. I didn't mean to derail this thread.
Right now I am at work preparing to erect a 250' tall tower crane. I am fucking excited.
It's time for Humankind to ditch the imaginary friends of our species' childhood and grow the fuck up.
-Davros

"Lasse mich deine Seele dem Herrscher der Finsternis opfern"

Let me sacrifice your soul to the ruler of darkness

Always carry a bottle of whiskey when you travel in case of a snakebite. Futhermore, always carry a small snake.

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