Threatens to build Surf Ranch on the island that rivals Cloudbreak (just kidding)!
I haven’t had time to properly vet this hot rumor because I’ve been reading shorter and shorter passages of the summer sleeper Cocaine + Surfing to smaller and smaller crowds but it is also too hot to continue sitting upon so here we go.
Google’s co-founder Larry Page has purchased the island of Namotu.
Of course island ownership is the true mark of ultra-ultra-ultra rich men and possibly woke women. I’d imagine the allure is simple. It’s like owning a country without having to become a president/dictator. I’d imagine it is why Donald J. Trump does not own an island because he has the world’s one-time power previously knows at USA. But for the rest of the ultra-ultra-ultra rich… Richard Branson has Necker Island in the British Virgins, Leo DiCaprio has Blackador Caye off Belize, Ted Turner owns St. Phillips off South Carolina, Celine Dion owns Ile Garçon (which in in a river but still an island) near Quebec.
Etc.
And now Google’s co-founder Larry Page has purchased the island of Namotu, best known for being near Cloudbreak and housing professional surfers who can’t afford to stay on Tavarua/like a bit of rebellion in their island choices.
Or that’s always been my impression. When the World Surf League used to have an event in Fiji and some stayed on Tavarua and some stayed on Namotu and they had competitions etc. I always assumed the ones on Namotu were Pepsi drinkers, Chevy drivers, Android users. People who love the other but not quite as popular option.
Namotu’s website reads:
Namotu Island Resort has been at the forefront of world class water sports resorts for the last 19 years. We are the closest island to all seven unique surf breaks including Cloudbreak. Depending on conditions there is something for everyone. Surf, Kite or SUP; Namotu Island Resort caters to all.
You can spend all day in, over and under the water. No matter what activity you may be interested in, Namotu Island’s attentive ‘can do staff are there to make it happen on your schedule. Boat transfers go where you want, when you want.
Larry Page’s Business Insider quote reads:
On robots replacing humans: “The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job — that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.”
But what if it is the right answer? What if working slavishly is the very essence of the human experience?
Tavarua = Apple
Namotu = Samsung
Right?
Or am I missing something…
He has purchased Namotu, Tavarua and Wadigi Islands. There is talk that Google is going to open up something big in Fiji!!
what he should do is drop a lazy $20m and build a decent hospital in Fiji – poor people dying there in third world condos every day – seen it all
Fair call
You know Ben, you could be a good guy, but you aren’t putting that out. If you don’t like it round here, why don’t you fuck off back to your shinier friends.
Dw, i cunt stand typos or millionenials ether!
I thought you said you were leaving to go read Mein Kampf.
What’s with all the deleted remarks…did Benjamin Mayhem go viral?
I’m gonna give you an upvote for legwork, Ben.
Here ya go.
I’d ask the people of Lanai how they feel before listening to your opinion.
He now owns in excess of 98% of Lanai buying out several more properties since the original purchase.
Leave me alone, bully.
It is all so easy. Rich fuckers dont like cold water. Gtfo of the tropics
If I had the loot id buy an island with surf for fucken sure.
Ps and I’d hire the indo dude who’s boat sank going over the falls as my main boat dude because he rocks
Google Fiji Pro 2019! Larry can be desiganted surviver waterman of the year 2019 too.
“sounds like” being the operative term.
If you stick around, you’ll grow to love him.
We’re actually a big hug-fest and aging kook-therapy group.
Some are still in denial though.
Amen
OK Ben. I think I generally agree with your assessment except for the supernatural bit.
We (and I think I am safe to say ‘we’) welcome our own special angle of stupid (360, or 540) on BG but I really don’t think you’d find many Trump-tards or their ilk here.
We don’t do genuine nasty-stupid. *
WPS for all his abusive bravado is actually a Buddhist kindergarten teacher from Buckeye, Michigan.
…or perhaps he’s a very bored Mick Fanning. We haven’t worked that out yet.
* “I have not observed ‘mongst my bretheren/sistren’
“This millennial generation has got to be by far the dumbest generation earth has produced. Even with all the communications available to them.”
They aren’t nesc. dumb, just fucked-over by systems and set up by sometimes well-meaning people, and sometime evil fucks. Also; us elders have been crying about the stupid youth for thousands of years:
Socrates: “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
The whole technology thing is new and we’re all learning daily how it affects our primitive brains.
In case you haven’t guessed. I ain’t a Millennial.
yes I agree.
Don’t feed the Trumpites by using the term to even jokingly denegrate others.
Besides… there are no races, it’s a bullshit construct.
“He is a credit to his race, the human race” Jimmy Cannon on Joe Louis!
No. You’re winning like Charlie Sheen.
Naa, you’re just a wanker, bragging and name dropping in your first 5 minutes here. I did this. I know that. Waaah nobody cares or asked you
Ummm, dunno about ‘winning.’
I do love that word Ben. I am a Typochondriac.
Shit, I got a free leggy and bunch o’wax for complaining about the misuse of apostrophes on a surfwax package. Typochondriacs Ahoy!