BeachGrit previously reported that Julian Wilson would soon be announcing a new deal with Lululemon.
We have since learned that this is not true and that our reporting was indeed incorrect.
As such, we deleted the original article that included this false report and we wish to formally retract the statement in its entirety.
We have been advised that Julian remains committed to his long-standing partnership with Hurley under its new management.
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Oooooo did they threaten to sue you?
Pull advertis…
Oh wait, your only advertisers are CBD swindlers.
The more one reads beachgrit.com, the more one is grateful that one got to do all this when it mattered.
The greatest hostage article ever written !
When the hell did the lot of Beach Grit become PC? As others have guessed must be the result of a ceast and desist or similar from Bluehell. That or Derek has lost his edge.
so much for your “edit no article, retract no story” ethos. I guess you will have to be content with “don’t use spell check” and “only white spirits before noon”(with a twist of lu lu lemon)
Who would thought, someone does care about The grumpy local demographic.
Can you try to code some juicy details and background into an article?
E.g…
“The admins of a whatsapp group in a small Perunvian town have caught some heat from the local school headmaster after some of the naughty kids posted on the platform that one of their friends (also the headmaster’s son) had sexually pleasured himself using the corpse of a dead octopus.
The naughty kids’ parents received strongly-worded emails threatening expulsion from the school, and they were all called into the headmaster’s office for “six of the best” which hurt their tended rears as well as their dignity.
One of the naughty tried to diffuse the situation by saying it was all just a joke and that so-and-so had told them they’d seen it all happen but you can’t believe anything so-and-so says buy it was funny anyway so they posted it. This argument was met with a whole week of detention after school.
The headmaster could have easily thrown his weight around further and taken steps to have the whatsapp group deleted, and the teenagers are grateful that they still have their little group intact (despite the fresh welts on their bums).
There’s a pumping left that breaks right outside the headmaster’s house, and inside sources have suggested that this whole saga is really a proxy battle to disrupt the local hierarchy at that spot.
Your talent is wasted in the hinterlands of the interwebs.
The BG comments section is where
hope for humanitymy productive early morning start goes to dieSo this is what the aftermath of a surf industry nastygram looks like!
I must have missed this while on my sojourn east. Now I’ll never know just how rank the comments became. Character revealing Jules, have a laugh man!
Japan is west of Newy
Christopher Columbus!!
I honestly can’t remember… was it me who made this blunder? Did Derek fall on sword? Be my memory like Google someday will!
You and Scaly.
Dang I bet LuLu boardshorts would be comfy af
They actually came out with boardshorts about 3 years ago. Not sure if it was a one hit wonder or if they kept producing them. The initial design had a really nice fabric, but the cut/fit looked as if it were designed for kickboxing.
Hahahaahhaha, *by Stab™
Clearly this retraction is part of the attraction.
I’m calling fake news on this retraction attraction. His going to get sacked from Hurley sometime soon and take up a promo role with Hermes.
Scientific fact!
Good old “blubby bubby” (as my brother calls him) must’ve had another cry, boo fuckin’ hoo…
Though seeing as he’s the only fruit still with hurley he should change his name to Shirley.
Or it was the lemons lawyers perhaps ?
About time he retired anyway
Ah to be fair I’ve got to give the new daddy a break.
I have a lot of sympathy for the shocks to the system that a bairn brings.
I sincerely, and truly hope he gets back up to speed for the next season and rips a few people a new one. When he’s on it’s great to look at.
my misses reckons he is great to look at. I have tried mentioning the balding but apparently I am in no position judge.
You’re just saying that because he is a Newy boy now. (I miss him).
I’m just afraid that next time I see him at the shops he’ll pretend to not see me, again. Despite sending him dozens of of love letters and accusing him of paedophilia and then stalking him.
Oh wait…
At least you know someones reading the Grit 🙂
Snowflakes of many persuasions.
Google alerts
Who the fuck are ‘the editors’
Bad people.
Sounds like they done a fuck up.
Would have been a decent fit, because he is a bit of a lemon.
By the number of times he’s always crying you’d think he’s got lemon juice in his eyes
Luh Luh Lemon
Cuz all the yoga mums wanna bang him….
Does this also mean:
– Paedophile shark rings aren’t stalking the coastline of every surfable continent?
– Sam George’s hair isn’t running for preselection in the Democrat primaries?
– Italo ‘Ike’ Ferreira isn’t starring in his own private detective TV series?
– Chris Coté isn’t in a committed lesbian relationship with Pat O’Connell?
– etc?
What’s a pirate detective? Oh wait…ahh, reading glasses can make things way less interesting..
I always liked that Tina Turner song ‘Pirate Dancer’.
“Aaaaargh!
I’m yer Pirate Dancer!
Dancin’ fer booty!
Pass me the grog ye scurvy bilge-sucker!”
I almost fell down a rabbit hole here, potentially wasting hours of today with pirate-themed alternative lyrics. But, stuff to do and I exercised restraint. For now.
I think on my deathbed I’ll look back on this moment as one of life’s big missed opportunities.
(for the record I was going to return fire with “Pirate Emotion” by Ricky Martin)
Dem rabbit holes can be deep-n-dangerous.
My rabbit-holes frequently lead me to all sorts of logical contortions which I find hilarious, but do not translate very well to anyone else.
Thusly, a summation of my entire career here on BG.
Well are you a sell-out trying to milk all the upvotes you can while the going is hot, before they chew you up and spit you out and move on to the next bright young thing?
Or are you building a robust body of work that in its entirely elicits critical acclaim and endures the test of time?
Genius is seldom appreciated in one’s lifetime. At least that’s what I tell myself in front of the mirror every morning (quietly so that my family won’t see me doing it again and laugh hysterically at me again)
Likes & Shares, young fella! Likes & Shares!
It’s the only viable currency I tell ya.
There’s Likes & Shares in them thar hills. You stick with me son and we’ll be richer than Croesus!!
(Manic laughter which goes on for far too long and then tapers off into an awkward silence.)
Uh, yup so…
Where do I sell out?
I’m all oiled up and ready to bend over.
You guys ok?
A little sore.
Cease and Desist? You should ask yourselves ‘What would Steve Rocco do?’. Then go to fucking town on it.
Idk, Steve did some pretty mean stuff to Simone Woodstock when the shoe was on the other foot.
Agree – and Woodstock seems a lovely guy to this day (Andy Roy’s riptide with him worth a listen). You got to admit, though, that amongst the totally amoral things he did, sticking it to the corporate stiffs was a grade a gift from satan himself.
Great interview (thanks for the tip)… Made me reminisce a lot about my formative years.
Julian was not a good fit for Lululemon. Perhaps he didn’t fill their need?
“Now you can squeeze my lemon ’til the juice run down my
‘Til the juice rune down my leg, baby, you know what I’m talkin’ about
You can squeeze my lemon ’til the juice run down my leg
That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout, now
But I’m goin’ back to Friar’s Point, if I be rockin’to my head”
Robby J.
https://youtu.be/Z2ao88jbvXg
What a cop out.
You could’ve just footnoted the original as ‘comedic / satire’ and left it up.
What about all the labour in writing witty comments?
Julian’s lawyers owe us some hefty pay-out for the trauma involved in losing our work, and the reputational damage it has caused our public-facing posteriors.
Hush now.
Sorry.