Merry everything!
California will be shut down, entirely, by midnight tonight. No more pumping iron in the gym. No more getting super fit in the gym. But do you remember a simpler time, when the only terror that haunted our dreams was radical Islamic terrorism? A utopian bliss, in comparison and, as it happens, I wrote a book about that joy which you should gift friends and family.
Of course, when a book is being written much ends up on the floor. Like this passage right here.
On the way home from Somalia, a handful of years ago, I rode a weird transport airplane with four with 7-foot-tall Taliban. I can’t imagine they were up to any good in Somalia and their faces were etched into furious scowls beneath their black turbans, in the middle of their wildly bushy beards. I decided to sit next to them so at least I’d be the first to know when the hijacking was occurring. I mumbled something in the little Pashtu I knew and the 7-footer sitting next to me broke into a smile. We chatted in Arabic for the duration of the flight to Dubai. He leaned in heavily on me, insisting God was one and that I must recognize. I told him I agreed, and that Jesus was God was the Holy Spirit. Three in one. Weird but true. Absolute blasphemy to any Muslim and his frown returned. We went back and forth, he tried to trick me into saying the Hadith and converting to Islam, I told him I couldn’t. I was a believer too. At the end he capitulated and patted me on the shoulder with a giant, muscled paw and said, “You and I, we are people of the book.”
But you are a person of the book too, even if that book is the World Surf League Rule Book.
Pipeline is tomorrow-adjacent. Join the Surfvival League here before it’s too late. You can win $1000 and a Panda surfboard.
Happy Hanukkah (in four days)!
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Chas is a fluent Arabic speaker? Somehow I cannot imagine this to be true. Interesting book but should be in the fiction section.
If you can imagine the limits of the universe, you may need to expand that a little. Did some study in Egypt.
Both difficult to comprehend.
Every word of that book is true. Even undersold.
Never fluent but conversational!
Reports are filtering out that Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini is dead. First the nuclear scientist, and now the radical Islamic radical of all radical Islamic radicals, and just before Christmas. Gifts indeed.
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Good luck with the lockdown, Charlie and Californian BeachGrit crew. It’s pretty fucked. Hopefully you guys can still surf. Strongly suggest building a decent shed this afternoon in order to avoid wives and kids during these difficult times. Make sure it’s air tight so you can hot box the cunt. Also, given my time again I would have spent the extra money on acoustic insulation. Keeps you warm at night and you don’t have to change the volume every time you switch over from music to porno. Love you all. Will see you here a lot more in the coming days I suspect.
read the book.
happy hanukah to you, too!
Ballsy witness bordering on martyrdom.
Why did ISIS cross the road?
That’s where the bombs will go.
why did the racist cross the road?
to get away from himself!
Let it go … it’s not healthy
just starting ….just not in me to let public racism go unanswered , otherwise it just becomes the norm…..hard to sit on the fence …….I see a problem , and become the solution , or try!
A transport airplane ride with a 7-foot tall Taliban…sounds like a blast.
Excellent work there my comrade of the truth and freedom.
Derek’s fins would love to make gags like that but he’s not allowed by his masters.
What a sucker.
You and me having to battle that Taliban leader Derek’s fjns reminds me of a joke…
Marine versus the taliban.
A Taliban leader was leading a team on a patrol when he hears from over the hill; ”One Marine vs. two Taliban!”
So the Taliban leader sends two of his guys, hears a firefight for a little while. He thinks he won until he hears; ”One Marine vs. five Taliban!
The Taliban leader sends five more of his guys and again hears a firefight, the dust settles and he hears; ”One Marine vs. all the Taliban!
The Taliban leader sends the rest of his guys and starts calling in reinforcements. He hears the firefight again and is getting ready to send everyone else when one of his fighters comes over the hill on his hands and knees barely alive. The Taliban fighter’s last words were; ”Don’t do it! There’s two of them!”
Boom boom!!
So can ya tell me why the fucken Taliban are still getting stronger now?
The Chinese love that Opium, and seek to dig a trail for their Belt and Road Initiative right through Afghanistan.
huh , are you referring to when China was addicted to opium , by the colonial powers that invaded China 100 yrs ago?
We here in Victoria are part of the China Silk road , and with the USA’s opioid crisis , oxycontin anybody…or the heroin and ice problem…….you sure the CIA ‘s not part of the opium growing effort?
do you think Otto would stoop to calling American indians , First Nation Fuckwits ??
Not so sure Otto is as white as you make out , to the point of dismissing Indigenous peoples and denigrating them like you….racist vermin alive and well on Beach Grit , go bexy.
Get those leaves burnin
You’ll be right.
nah, like burning / BBQing white racists…..yum!
Ah … I think I understand now
Yeah, but the come down is devastating.
Well at least it is someone I could talk to at an equal level.