Extremely troubling.
As much hullaballoos and ruckuses as major media cause, it’s still the small town, local newspaper where true information resides. Honest facts presented honestly, not fired in the kiln of “left” or “right.” Not glazed with a lead-free layer of bias.
And it was this morning that I read in the Encinitas Advocate that Surfline, a company that invites you to “know before you go,” had been granted unanimous approval by the Encinitas City Council to add four more cameras on public structures.
The deal, which will last three years, allows for three cameras to be affixed to the Marine Safety Center at the very popular with inland residents Moonlight Beach and one on the lifeguard station at iconic Swami’s.
The city will receive $645 a month total, which seems like a sweetheart deal. Like, not at all the going market rate. Like, worthy of investigation.
The City Council, heading off potential criticism, insured their public that “…the camera systems are controlled by the Surfline company, not the subscribers, so viewers can’t redirect them to stare at sunbathers on the beach.”
And this raises very much concern. I am assuming the Encinitas City Council has never met anyone who worked for Surfline. Never gazed into those beady eyes, heard the darkness seeping unfiltered from those mouths. Never felt the cold, clammy handshake or been touched, inappropriately, slightly below the waistline.
Surfline men, including Surfline Man, are never to be trusted. Not trusted to deliver accurate surf forecasts nor trusted to hold to even the lowest standard of decorum.
From this point hence, we must assume that Huntington Beach’s Surfline office is wallpapered with images of Moonlight and Swami’s sunbathers.
Extremely troubling.
It might be a bit short, it’d go something like this:
Kelly Slater’s a cunt.
Fuck I’m clever.
Vote the assholes out!
Sailing addiction fueled by Surfers. It was never intended to benefit Surfing
Because a gentleman, like CB, refers to it as a ‘bottom’
For comedic purposes.
$675.00 per month, and Encinitas won’t be using this to monitor for any possible trouble at the beach? Ummm. Big Brother is watching you.
Good point. They’ll use it to nab people illegally consuming alcohol or not wearing covid masks
Jesus fucking christ one of these days I’ll start a series called BeachGrit Man.
At least poor ol Surfline Man knows he’s not cool
Beach Grit Man will often preface declarations with “One of these days I’ll start….”. The plan makes the man.
Is it going to be an autobiographical series ?
You’d make a great natural leader for the ‘Beachgritman’s Lives Matter’ movement…
Prob more qualified to write Dinosaur Man
I’ve got a weird feeling beachgrit man is going to be borderline rehabish….!?
Does anyone here actually think they’re cool? It’s my experience that gatekeepers are the arbiters and also, the only ones that care.
I think Marx was onto something when he said
“ I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member”
― Groucho Marx
…..BeachGrit man gets into political arguments and spends the better part of a week trying to convince everyone he’s right . Meanwhile, a good swell with clean conditions has come and gone, his dog is ready to run into the street in front of a car from being ignored and he’s missed a half dozen potentially good work calls
You got it SSD. We know how to prioritise!
My proposal on the Dragon’s Den will be “Crumb Cams”.
Located in the bakery aisles of all major supermarkets, the live streaming cameras will allow subscribers to monitor real-time pecan plait stock, almond croissant levels, and act quickly to take advantage of Reduced To Clear stickering activity on jam donuts and cream buns.
Actually not that bad of an idea – an app that allows you to track supermarket specials in your local area
Discount subscription for Seniors Card holders
HANDS OFF MY STALE PAN AU CHOCOLAT, KOOK.
Would this cam be able to count the number of poppy and sesame seeds, salt pellets, onion and garlic flakes that fall off of ‘everything’ bagels?
$675 per month does seem ridiculously cheap vs the heat the City council is already having to endure.
Surfline Super Duper Deluxe Elite Subscription with user controlled high definition cams featuring the same technology that allows the NSA to read a license plate from 200 miles away.
(200 miles away) Do you think this the 90’s?
Haha, true!
Surfline Man reads BeachGrit and now is Surfline Perv Man
Tell the teacher we’re Pervin’
With Surfline U.S.A
[Chorus]
Haggerties and ###Swamis
(Inside, outside, U.S.A.)
Pacific Palisades
(Inside, outside, U.S.A.)
San Onofre and Sunset
(Inside, outside, U.S.A.)
Redondo Beach LA
(Inside, outside, U.S.A.)
All over La Jolla
(Inside, outside, U.S.A.)
At Wa’imea Bay
(Inside, outside)
Everybody’s gone Pervin’
with Surfline U.S.A .. ?
Bravo.
You see em wearing their baggies
Huarache sandals too
A dirty sweat soaked wife beater
One arm bigger than the other
A box of kleenex, jar of lube too
Pervin USA
If they weren’t for checking out sun bathers on the beach then why not install more cameras in IB. Or Oceanside?? I already don’t believe you Surfline.
Fuck, they’re blowing up all the secret spots! Gonna be so crowded now
I love how they think that these cams will be by default, used to perv on chicks and not check the waves. Straight outta the department of low expectations textbook.
If one attends a beach the likelihood of seeing sunbathers is very high, what is the Irresponsible Encinitas City Council to do about this? Now greasy starring Sam’s and Sally’s will be forced to eyeball sunbathers in person.
Trent should start the hashtag #cancelsurfline or #cancelencinitascc
Jeezus. What sort of resolution you getting on your surf cams? Given that it’s about 250m away from the beach, I can’t work out if the sunbakers are male or female.
Actually, I can’t even work out the size on the surf cam at Coolum because it’s from such a stupidly high angle. I have to work it all out by how much whitewater/crowds are happening.
I mean… someone should come up with a solution to cash in on this obvious gap in the market for low quality images of nekked boobies, served-up on the interwebs. WHY HAS NOONE THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE????
Then the poor molested surf cams will be left alone to do their lonesome task.
Just as a side note; I kinda used to do a similar nefarious thing by abusing the ‘golf cams’ at St. Andrews golf course in dear auld Scotland. You could select one and then pan it up to look AT THE SURF on the West Sands to ascertain whether it was “worth” the 45 minute drive to nearby breaks. A viewer had a minute to play with the camera before someone else had a turn.
I would get annoyed on golf competition days because they would take control and not allow me to zoom it to the seashore. Cunts.
Looks like they’ve changed it now to predetermined views to stop arseholes like me fucking with their shit. Double cunts.
https://www.standrews.com/P…
Tyrannical control of Surfer manipulated golf cams. Chas/Derek have some incredible content here!
Surfline Man gets up early and anxiously awaits the morning report. He’s on coffee #3 and 5-6 bongloads deep when he checks again and his favorite spots that all say 1-2’ and poor. He’s amped, he’s high, he froths anyway. Drops a mean steamer, then drives his lifted F350 turbo diesel to the coast, Blazing down Interstate 8 at 85 mph, he keeps one eye (barely) on the road and the other on his Lifeproof cased iPhone, sliding through his Surfline just hoping Tourmaline or Bird Rock will say 2-3’ and fair. As he gets to the I8-I5 connector he’s faced with a tough decision: Go straight into OB or head north…hmmm?!? What to do? Easy. Look at Surfline again. Guiding the 9,000 lb rig with his knee, Starbucks Grande in one hand, phone in the other, something happens that nearly blows his mind as well as cause a 10 car pile up. A glitch in the Matrix! Surfline reports OB is exactly 2 feet! Not 1-2, not 2-3 or even 3-4. TWO FEET EVEN!!!!
None of us, even Surfline Man (or El Cajon Man as described above), can ever trust Surfline to get anything right. Water temp, I don’t think so. Tide, those are just numbers and don’t count, Forecast Accuracy, not worth $1/ YR, much less $90/YR. Actual Wave Height, dream on. Today they show 2-3 ft for every north county San Diego spot, but the regional forecast is 3-4 for all of north county. Sounds about as accurate as US presidential polls – right Hillary?
When was the last time you read an article on Surfline? Nobody surfs at Moonlight anyway and anyone who is smart enough (and uses a board less then 6′ 6″) never even thinks for going to Swami’s. There are enough fish kooks and asshole old timers on 10′ 0″s that it is not worth the effort.
VOTE HERE: biggest assholes in the lineup? A: Swamis B: Trestles C: Any La Jolla area reef D: Salt Creek E: Write In Vote: Enter your Aussie spot here
Can you drive across the border yet, or do you have to be a pro on a business trip?
My understanding is you can get back from Mexico driving if you are US Citizen no problem. US recommends not traveling to Mexico, but it does not look like they are stopping anyone.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/trave…
Too f funny. Mex’ is ALWAYS open for business, amigo! Where else do you bury the dead?
Tide charts? Local papers as a source of reliable reporting? Ha!
I was looking at the tide at our local and Bill, (legend), said that it was low when it was clearly high. Bill said he was going off the tide times from the local paper; ‘The Coolum Times’. He is committed to his line. Comes in the next morning and sheepishly admits that The Coolum Times may be wrong. It seems Bill went through the last week of editions and found that the tide time was the same each day…
Coolum Times and Tide wait for no man …. not even Bill ?
Tiiiiiiides wait for no one and they won’t wait for me
Well, it isn’t not titled ‘The Coolum Tide Times’ for nothing.
The best part of it was how sheepish Bill was in acknowledging the error after his vehement defense of the masthead the day previous.
We love Bill though. Still riding a short board in his 70s. Not like some mid-length sell outs.
Thank you Bill !
I’ve never had issues at Trestles. La Jolla reefs are overrun by no skill kooks who 15-20 years ago would’ve been harassed out of the lineup. The level of surfing is objectively worse now than at any time I’ve been alive… listen to me sounding like a delusional cranky old timer, only I’m right! People out surfing Windansea (which admittedly is a horseshit wave, but used to have good people out) with five step pop ups.
Over 4ft. Horseshoes thins out crowds naturally! Hospitals definitely doesn’t invite the weak hearted when it goes. Swamis is for tank squadrons. I don’t give (2) sh!+s about (B.)! Salt Creek is for limpys. I think it’s wherever I’m surfing, G.
D. Salt Creek any day that undisciplined kid London is surfing there.
I remember the 1-900 number. That was the biggest Val misdirection of the 20th Century. I would be getting suited up for 3-5 Cliffs, and the “true Surfline” would say 1-2′ poor. Loved Sean Collins back in the day.
I was a sucker for that. My wife would open the phone bill and think it was some kind of 900 sex talk number! I finally dialed the number and handed her the phone to convince her. Then she questioned why I didn’t just drive to the beach and check it myself which she was entirely correct about.
Cliffs still gets that treatment, which is actually good. Summer reefs have been a helluva a good time the past month even though it says 1-2 and poor.
I mean come on, you have to start writing for Beach Grit. This is gold. I am going to read it to my 4 year old son now as a bedtime story. More ScottSanDiego for the people of San Diego (or Carlsbad)!!!!!!!!
More likely to zoom in on a bum taking a horse shit on the sand or one of those psychopaths with metal detector slithering along the high tide mark. Surfline man gets off on it though so all good.
I resent being called a bum, thank you.