Did you arrive at surfing late? Do you eat up ridicule?
How did I miss this film? Did you see it when it first appeared eight years ago?
Oh it cuts the meat right off the bone.
The Surfer was made by Dominic Coleman, funded by the British government, and was inspired by “a chance conversation I had with a really funny guy at a beach in South Devon in UK. He was a SUPer,” DC told Liquid Salt magazine.
The story is good.
“He and his wife were carrying his massive paddle board across the car park to his brand new VW T5 van with all the flash wheels, tinted windows, and body kit. I asked him if he’d had a good surf and he launched into a monologue about how his surf had been. His wife and daughter then attempted to carry his board to the van whilst he stood chatting to me. He also told his daughter who was about eight to mind that she didn’t damage the board which I thought was hilarious… He struck me as being one of the new breed of surfers in the UK where suddenly you get someone not traditionally associated with the activity really getting into it, spending thousands of pounds on it and becoming an expert on it. We’re all like it to an extent.”
DC adds, “I am painfully aware that the irony of this film is its really close to me. I live in London, I’m a middle-aged, middle-class bloke who’s got into surfing really late.”
As an aside, what does middle-class have to do with a man’s ability in the water? If you are poor, or very rich, can your idiocies be excused?
Do you think, if he was interviewed now, DC would’ve added the helpful epithets “white” and “straight”?
And, tell me, do you recognise anyone you know in The Surfer?
But watch here! It’s good.
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I want to laugh but there are some painful similarities to myself. Ouch.
All I can say is thank the surf gods for the fact that my mother-in-law does not live near where I surf…
Being middle class allows you to buy all the unnecessary shit associated with being a middle aged, beginning class fucktard.
Oxford Dictionary defines Middle-class Surfer as ‘A moderate income aficionado of the sport of wave riding held in a perpetual social tier between quitting everything to surf all the time and risking everything to surf all the time due to the inability to make a choice for the risk of losing to surf some of the time’
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When he ask’s his wife why she can’t be stoked for his stoke. Priceless..
Apropos of nothing relevant go back and look at the photo of the nuclear mushroom cloud. Am i, after a tiny little bit of infused chocolate and a nurofen for a dodgy back the only one who see a scary monster face in there?
I see a clown.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
I’m also, sadly, exceedingly sober and un-medicated.
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No, it’s certainly there
can I deny who I am, no I can’t!
As the saying goes “if you havent started surfing, dont”
or as the infamous graffiti that used to adorn the Pleasure Point Seawall, “Jesus says, if you don’t live here, don’t surf here”. That stayed up for quite some times but things have changed back at home. But I agree!
If the British government funded this film, I believe BeachGrit might have just stumbled upon a new advertising money pipe line.
‘Middle Class’ has a slightly different connotation in the UK.
A leeeettle more towards the sort of ‘upper crust’ plebian, than the typical American interpretation of the masses.
I’m confused, is he acting or not?
Aren’t we all?
Is this the same guys who did the surf trip to Iceland?