"Anyone who is offended by facts should not book a lesson with us because I only speak the truth...."
Interesting times, as they say.
Take a corner, don’t deviate into the centre.
If you veer left try and avoid the circular firing squad; those on the right try and justify your orange king.
Anyway, this is pretty good.
The owner of a Santa Monica surf school recently cancelled a lesson ‘cause of the Pandemic, emailing pupils that it was due to “the Chinese flu.”
One woman, Esme Torres, got on Google Reviews and wrote,
“Lesson got cancelled due to covid-19 and I received and email stating it was canceled due to “the Ch*n*se flu” this is very unprofessional of you and I will not be rescheduling. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS”
And here, the owner stepped in.
I’ve written this 3 time but google keeps censoring my reply so here’s one last attemp without saying where the virus originated, maybe this one will not be censored.
Not quite sure why your panties are in a wad. Where did the virus come from? What did the media call it in the beginning? So was I wrong to call it what they did? Amazing at how people forget these things and would rather be politically correct. So when I was refunding you, I only stated a fact and referenced the name the media was calling it at the time. The Media said that chXnxx was the source of the virus so my refund message to you I put in the information that was the available to me. I should have had the foresight to call it covid long before scientist came up with the name, I guess I’m just not that clever. I’m sorry me referencing the origin of the virus offended you. I hope this helps you better understand my frame of my mind.
Oh and BTW, I will not allow you to reschedule with us. . And as far as your statement ” DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS”, I don’t capitulate to cancel culture and snowflakes. And anyone who is offended by facts should not book a lesson with us because I only speak the truth….well for as long as freedom of speech is still a right. It would appear censorship is alive and well. Welcome to the Orwellian dystopia.
Just to let you know I was deeply depressed and frustrated by having my rights stripped away, my business shut down and being stuck inside my small apartment for months on end. I felt like my whole life was falling apart. My business which I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into for 15 years was dead and I was stressing out about it shutting down forever and surfing is know so my future seemed so dead. 2020 was the year planed on buying a house and possibly retiring and after the STAY AT HOME order, my whole future seemed lost. I am a social animal, an out doorsman and a waterman and all that was taken away from me. FYI I also I have a compromised immune system and I’m 51, so I was hyper worried about the possibly of catching the virus and possibly dying. Also being a surfer, drowning is my greatest fear and as we know those who are seriously affected basically drown in their own fluids. Seeing my country that I so love and served for being decimated, seeing the world fall into choas and all because of a cover up. So No, renaming the virus will change it’s origin.
Perhaps you should direct your angst and frustration for the global implications due to a cover up that has cost trillions of dollars, put millions of small business out of business forever, countless people suffering, lost homes, lost jobs, tens of thousands of people dead and dying, the families that have to morn their loss, etc, etc, etc….. But no wait…. you did your part! You wrote a bad review! now you are a true activist you have stood up for… what? CPP narrative, the far left, and censorship,…. YAAYYYYY!!!! Go celebrate yourself. Sheepeople like you disgust me. Get a life.
Hardly succinct, but heartfelt yes?
Whose side y’on?
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Sounds like the surf teacher is a bit of a red neck but I find the constant outrage mob even more aggravating these days.
Growing up I had to put up with bullshit parental advisory – explicit lyrics stickers on CDs that I wanted to buy. We were left wingers who’d been down south and held peasants in our arms and we railed against that censorship bullshit. Yet that’s exactly what the triggered crowd are calling for. It simply beggars belief.
Fuck, think of all the punk albums that raged against authority. These soft cocks who should be listening to them would be the ones burning them.
The world has turned upside down.
Yea, yell it out!
This has gotta be Marty at Kapowui, speakin’ his mind!!!
hahaha…
If Trump was the hard-assed gunslinger he claims to be, he would – with the swipe of a pen – nullify the $1 trillion in American debt held by China. And that would just be a fraction of what the “Chinese flu” has cost America.
Let’s say that $1 trillion is costing America 4% – and it’s probably more.
I think this math is right:
$1,000,000,000,000 x .04 = $40,000,000,000 / 365 = $109,589,041 / 24 = $4,566,210 / 60 = $76,103
Wouldn’t that money be better spent within America?
And what do you think the total economic damage to America is?
Tens of trillions? Hundreds?
And then Trump would encourage nations around the world to do the same – cancel Chinese debt as damages and compensation for a pandemic that started in a country that is hideously, grotesquely overpopulated.
China and America are almost exactly the same size: 3.7 million square miles.
Imagine America with 1.1 billion more people. Would that work?
Nyet!
China is a hopelessly, irresponsibly overpopulated country that is desperate to feed its people, every day.
My friends in New Zealand say China wanted the amount of beef in a month that New Zealand produces in a year.
China is a mindless eating machine, which is why they eat bats and start pandemics.
Trump should go all gnar with China, cancel that debt, tell the world to do the same.
Might start World War III, but probably not.
Overpopulation is the Eighth Deadly Sin.
I’m surprised BG is giving space to a surfer whose biggest fear is drowning as opposed to being bit by a GW!
At Muriwai in NZ we have have a surf school that’s run by a total local legend and his lovely family. Not even remotely dipshitty or fuckwitty.
It’s Kapowui Surf Lessons run by some old Chipendales looking kook whose clearly spent more time lifting weights than he ever has surfing. Can’t actually do anything but crawl to his feet and go straight. Just a full shitshow on water. Lifeguards routinely have to rescue his instructors and students. Word on the street is he’s a drunk and was ran off the Venice Pier for exposing himself years ago.
This amazing. He might not realize it but he created the perfect “how right wing are you?” measurement tool. I was with him until the third paragraph. Anyone make it to 4 or 5? Any pansys stop at 1 or 2? Can someone make a lefty version?
I always wonder whether people confuse “it’s” with “its” cuz they are ignorant, or because it’s (its) an auto-correction error.
This poor bastard was looking to buy his first home and retire in the same timeframe. That’s huge. That’s a go-getter. Most people buy their first homes and then retire thirty years later or so. He deserves five stars… for life goals… I do agree with the one star because of his questionable business of supplying more crowds to an already overcrowded water pastime (lifestyle).
at 51!
Chin nose?
Is that similar to ‘ass to mouth’ ?
I love crazy and all parties here are fucking nuts. This is the surfing yelp version of the Murray show and i hope it gets great ratings
pronounced “Kapowui”
He almost had me going until he got to the “cover up” part.
Cry me a river. I have three school age kids – we had to self quarantine twice due to possible exposure. They have been out of school since March and will likely be here in the house through fall. Toughen up, have some patience chrissake. And cover up? Someone get this fool some tinfoil stat.
How is anyone on the side of a douche bag operating a surf school in Santa Monica and acting in an inappropriate way as a businessman?
I like that his name has been spared or the name of his “school”. That’s Stab level moderation.
Like it or not, as a business owner he should understand that his political stance in an uber liberal town would be unpopular beyond inappropriate, but then again he fears drowning and whined like a snow flake.
If you use the term snowflake you are 60% more likely to have a stroke in the next year. Fact.
It’s actually the Surf School Flu.
Pandemic pandemonium.
surfschools are fucked, couple weekends ago, busy long weekend surf, we had local (now mobile it seems) surf school big van and trailer full of softcocks (opps soft tops) taking up a fair percentage of tiny carpark at local kids and mums spot, 2 cars also from instructors, get out and its 2 instructors pushing 2 kooks into waves infront of the kids , cunts, could have had fuck all impact if they gave a fuck and just brought the kooks in their cars from the depot or whatever it is this fuckwits start their day off. 1 cunt making money from exploiting surfing, crowding a spot and creating possible future crowds. Wankers. As for the China virus…..
And now you’re blocked
My biggest fear as a surfer is sharks. It used to be drowning. Thanks BG.
That’s like an inertia call no – next we get tips on how to swim good!!!
Mine is becoming an 11 times world champ and still being a sad cunt.