Stab magazine writer made livid by pre-roll advertisements!
Yesterday at roughly 2:30 in the afternoon Pacific Time I posted the 3000 story on BeachGrit. 3000! Oh sure some of them have been better than others and yesterday’s 3000 was a straight crib from the world’s most popular surf website Surfline about Koa Rothman getting cracked in the head by a board ditcher.
Four hours later Stab‘s Morgan Williamson, having just received his BeachGrit Google alert, posted the very same story, cribbed from the world’s most popular surf website Surfline, but added his own twist.
Passive-aggressive rage directed at Surfline itself!
Oh no, the handsome 20-year-old (whom I have never met) didn’t viciously attack Surfline‘s hairline, or the spouses of those who work in the Huntington Beach offices. He didn’t call any Surfline employees’ children “‘tarded to the max” or write anything belittling about employee wives.
What he did do was attack Surfline for running an advertisement before showing the video of Koa Rothman getting cracked. Without irony! Let’s read!
Someone contributing to Surfline filmed it from the channel, sent it to the premier surf forecasting site, who slapped on a 15-second ad promoting a game called “War Thunder”, which I’ve watched about 90 total seconds of while waiting to re-watch the video. And that’s fine, ads are money, money is time and families need to be fed (and it’s not like we’ve never thrown an ad on a clip). By now, it’s making it rounds across surf media. We all cover the same general news stories and aren’t worried about some missile in North Korea–although, the New York Times said we should–because this is surfing.
Morgan Williamson’s impotent lividity at the “15-second ad promoting a game called “War Thunder” is the most delicious thing I’ve read all month. It’s like he has never once actually visited Stabmag.com or that he knows it was purchased by near bankrupt Australian online retailer Surfstitch with bald-faced advertorial being pumped through daily.
And do you think this might be true? Do you think Morgan Williamson thinks he writes for some not-for-profit surf website?
Do you think that he thinks he writes for BeachGrit?
I wonder what other mysteries are buried within Morgan Williamson’s heart? I will spend hundreds of hours this year exploring because, as they all say, money is time!
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Is this the story that marks the precise moment Beachgrit disappeared up its own arse? Or Chas up his own arse? Or Chas up Morgan’s arse? Or Morgan up his own arse? Oh so many arses! Think I’ll go disappear up my own…. I’ll let you know if anyone else is up there.
You crazy! That precise moment happened 4 years ago!
Four years! I’ve only been here five minutes. Why did you have to peak before I had a chance to enjoy the slide?
I think I’m dumber than usual because I don’t even understand this? It’s a video on the internet. Videos on the internet have ads! This is a thing! Idk. I’m lost here.
And maybe he thinks the stickers on all the surfers’ boards are just there because they’re really just fans of the logo design?
That’s it! I mean, I know my board has no stickers because I think stickers are totally ugly.
Would you still find them ugly if they came in a box full of wetsuits and clothing?
I am never one to turn down free, dude. Never. Free is the best.
I think getting paid to wear said free shit is better, but I get what you’re saying ;P
You are not wrong.
damn bearded dildo , probably rides a twin keeled fish or finless , pretends not to understand the relevance in this day and age that money talks , bullshit walks , so onya bike MW and take that peace sign with you or Donald will take you out!
for sure. no way there’s an odd number of fins on that board.
Ahhh, mate, that’s a barbecue. It’s finless.
Based on the amount of play Morgan gets on this site, I think it’s fair to say he does write for BeachGrit.
don’t you mean “he does right for BeachGrit”?
Send him a tee-o!
“And that’s fine, ads are money, money is time and families need to be fed “
Does he really need to say “money is time” when he just established that ads are money? Couldn’t he say ads are money and families need to be fed.
I tink he misunderstands surf writing.
Oh snap
This has nothing to do with this article. Its important though!!!!! Surfers are adventurous. Surfers are explorers. Surfers find Amelia Earhart’s plane (or a piece)?!?!?!?!? Martin Daly.
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It true!
Next Inertia headline: Professional Receding Hairline calls out “bald-faced” surf website
Just plain brilliant.
Plain or brilliant? You so Kelly sometimes, Chas!
Blood Feud: Chas Smith’s Impotent Fury vs. Morgan Williamson’s Impotent Lividity
I would love so much to box MW (for charity of course). His boobs look so comfortable!
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Careful now . . . they say you can measure the worth of a man by the significance of his enemies.
Professional receding hairline vs comfortable boobs blood feud?
What weight class would you come in at?
This is a great question. I punch at 170 but have no idea on earth where Morgs feels comfortable. 200? In a lawn chair?
Maybe MW got confused and thought ‘impotent’ meant ‘important’?
HaHa…like he thought it was some form of potentate.
Put it behind a pay wall and we can all move on and Chas can sort his receding hairline and really concentrate on cocaine and finishing that book or whatever….unless there’s Laird related shark news in which case want to hear all about it
3000 story made it feel like 2001 a space odyssey. And this one is actually 3002 story! Did you not read about Surf Europe hating Spain?
You should get an intern to count how many words have been writ. And how many comments. And how many commenters words. Your intern would have to be good at counting.
I like how he put in the part about North Korea and the New York Times. He’s trying to make us believe he’s “informed” and that he can actually read.
Orange comb-overs, receding hairlines, North Korean ICBM’s, chubby cheerful dictators, War Thunder apps, Morgan, money is time …. but isn’t it time is money? What an upside down black absurd world we live in