The last win-win on earth!
It is the giving season, the most wonderful time of the year, when friends help friends and friends help strangers and… ohh who am I kidding? It is a vicious time, a terrible time where Ayn Rand’s ethos reigns supreme. Gimme gimme gimme and have you ever read The Fountainhead? What about The Virtue of Selfishness? Are you a fan? Did you name your son Howard Roark? Do you wear Roark Revival on principle?
None of it matters. The human race is all but lost, thanks to Rand Paul and his damned Atlas Shrugged but would you like to win a brand new custom Jon Pyzel surfboard while helping victims of the California wildfires at the same exact time? It is maybe the last win-win left on earth. An almost extinct combination of altruism and egoism and let’s read about it (AND ENTER HERE)!
The recent California fires have devastated communities and left thousands without homes. The tragedy is too large to know where to begin but the stories of people helping one another are inspirational. It’s hard to know how to help when so much help is needed. The best way we know how is raise some money by auctioning off a custom surfboard and donate it to the Red Cross. The Red Cross are always on the front lines of every disaster and we would like to help their efforts in providing shelter for those who have nowhere to go. You can also donate directly on their website https://www.redcross.org/
The winner of the raffle can select a model from our ghost collection, either custom made for the winner or from our retail stock in time for Christmas. The models in the collection include our best selling board, the Ghost for bigger waves, the Phantom for smaller ones or the Gremlin for mushy days. Go to Pyzelsurfboards.com for more information on boards. This prize includes shipping to any US address. If you live outside the US you can still enter but you will be responsible for all shipping costs.
Australia? Did you catch that last line? You can be selfish too! JP up there in Scotland? A Ghost under your Christmas tree! It is the board that changed Longtom’s life wherein he exclaimed:
If you have a shred of decency, self-respect and pride in your skill set, then the Ghost is worth the effort to figure out. You can do the best surfing in your life on it. Big call, but true. If you’ve given up or were never there then walk on by. This board has nothing for you, and that’s no judgement on your worth as a human being.
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Yes, it is true, Ayn Rand destroyed the world. Don’t worry though, in the near apocalyptic future, she will return with her strikers to rebuild it, and all will be well.
Stay calm and get gold.
I got an old pair of hang ten boardies.
Maybe I’ll get to see Kanye wearing em on the next red carpet.
Pyzel for Pyros
Water boiling under foot
Letting off some steam
If I win you can all come to meet me at the beach and forcibly remove it from my hands. Perhaps then fighting amongst yourselves until the board is nothing but broken chunks.
That would be the appropriate Randian response to the situation.
that jjf turn though. faaaaken ell
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand
apparently there is pretty small minority on north sentinel island that are not too interested hearing the word of jebus.
I read about that today. What a stupid fuck.
Obviously all part of Jebusesess’s plan for his wellbeing.
Just saw an image of their Eden and sadly enough their biggest future threat may be of one of our own creations , surf tourism ?
My very first reaction to the headlines was ” Oh was that some dude hunting more obscure waves?”
I’m waiting to hear how many have read the fountain head….going to be able to count it on one hand….the Pinnacle read on the individual.
Howard Roark…the surfer never known!
Is this ol’ Bushie? I’ll leave these for you, Negs.
I tried Atlas Shrugged, but got pissed off by page 50!
I’m not a fan of destroying books but you you could find your inner Charles Atlas and give the Atlas Shrugged a bit of a roughing up ?
I think I could put together a Mr Punyverse approach!
Paralyse them with Poetry and prose .
This just reminded me of all the douches in college who kept trying to sell the merits of Objectivism as an ethical framework and get people to read any Rand (like they were working on commission)… usually these kids were already winners of the lottery of birth who had never worked an honest day’s job… but that’s neither here nor there…
is the Pyzalien available? I don’t read very carefully sometimes… also, they’re donating the board to the Red Cross?
No it’s available for you! You donate 10 bucks or such and enter the draft!
A couple thoughts:
– it strikes me as odd to raffle a Ghost model to benefit families that may have lost loved ones.
– after the Red Cross $500M, but we built six houses, and yes we have no idea where most of the money went debacle in Haiti, it’s hard to muster any semblence if confidence that the Red Cross will best serve the needs of families/people affected by the fires.
The Virtue of being an evil C*nt !
If you win the Ghost you get The Virtue of Going Like a Mad Cunt.
When I think of selfishness , I am forced to think of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom ( discussed by Camus in his work L’Homme Révolte ) where the all powerful selfish hero of the novel finds himself all alone with no one left to torture but himself .
Would love to be going like a mad cunt on the ghost but donate what little money I have to homeless people in Kiel who sell a magazine concerning their plight called Hempels .
A friend of mine once described Rand as “Nietzsche for Stupid People.”
Ha ha ha I love this so much.