Common sense for uncommon times.
We, here at your BeachGrit, dutifully report on every stray thought 11x World Champion, musician, homeowner Kelly Slater has because it is our sworn duty as surf journalists. Because, also, he continues to be the most interesting character in our sphere. And, lastly, because his every stray thought form a complex teleology.
A form of philosophical art not seen since Marcel Duchamp.
Kelly is whimsical, quizzical, conspiratorial, well-considered in equal measure and sometimes even ventures into taut profundity.
Today, via his main stage, he declared:
I was told by the authorities that I ‘can’t stand and look at the ocean’ in Australia today. That’s a first.
Below we have officers guarding Trestles and making sure nobody surfs. Obviously, this type of thing assures that everyone will crowd anywhere else you are allowed to surf/exercise at (and drive a few people crazy).
To ask a rhetorical question, how is this helping? If social distancing works, couldn’t these officers help monitor and make sure everyone just remains aware of it?
Weird times my friends.
Weird indeed and, not to nitpick here, but Kelly’s rhetorical question should be asked non-rhetorically to the authorities and various Coronavirus Gestapo collaborators.
How is this helping?
And, when it is all said and done, will surfers be angry enough to stage a political reign of terror?
Australian, American, French, New Zealander politicians rhetorically guillotined?
More as the story develops.
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I think some people are not reading between the lines here;
“Run their own show” translates to
“Not my problem, let them take the blame”
The guy who is encouraging citizens of Democrat-run states to rebel against Social Distancing rules and walk around with automatic weapons.
The guy who is a complete incompetent and is overseeing a humanitarian and economic disaster and refuses to take the blame for it and so withdraws funding from the World Health Organization.
It’s too bad Covid-19 doesn’t only kill people who voted for and/or believe in Trump.
Next thing you know. Trump will be saying electrolytes are the best defense against Coronavirus.
Brawndo! It’s what plants crave!
Brought to you by President Donald Mountain Dew Trump!
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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I add value where I can.
that’s awesome! did you animate that? good stuff!
They jumped/pumped/humped the shark ages ago.
Surfing just ain’t that interesting, and especially dissecting it every day.
“He is both licking kellie’s ass and the readers ass, simultaneously,
leaving everyone pleased, and Chas hungry, slightly compromised, with a
bad taste in his mouth.”-“felching”
dude. polite means kind/courteous. can’t believe you’ve never heard of the word polite. (and felcher doesn’t mean what you think it does)
Perhaps.
Who do you think taught people in the Levant how to bargain?
I do like to bargain like an arab trader. So maybe I am Phoenician.
Your word first up there: “I’ll”. You referring to You. Your word VONR. Stop making this so easy.
Something tells me that even though I say “No”, you’re going to suck Morgan’s dick anyways.
Epic scene. I knew this girl in Santa Cruz named Jessica who is a goth chick and part native American and she won’t celebrate Thanksgiving and she worships that moviel
From her soul to the big screen.
Just watched a CNN clip showing a bunch of people in Michigan carrying weapons and protesting the social distancing rules and threatening the Governor.
I am in awe of how ducking fumb some Americans are.
I say:Let them congregate and let social Darwinism run its course.
Just so incredibly stupid.
Yep, that’s the scariest part of it all.
The president of the United States is a complete fuckwit who thinks he’s a dictator, and the American people are supporting him because they’ve become too lazy and greedy and stupid to recognize that he’s a charlatan.
The support for Trump helps me understand who the good German people could have supported Nazism and Hitler out of fear, arrogance, ignorance, greed, self interest, insecurity, racism, laziness and stupidity.
Shame on the American People. I really do think – and hope = that Coronavirus is some kind of other-worldly karmic curse on America and his presidency – not that he’ll take the fall for it. He’ll just blame the World Health Organization and let it roll off his back and go play golf and waste another quarter billion dollars and shtup strippers.
Think Rome was this lame before Alaric came a knockin’?
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5G?
Read about that too, the lab situation. Hoping they can prove it and not shove it under the rug
dude. i got it the 1st time. was being polite. jesus. felcher has been around for 60 years. you aren’t coining phrases. keep up.
One might dream
Okay karmic revenge. Nature. The Creator. A just revenge. Idiocracy = bankruptcy.