Life's a beach.
Imagine being a tourist in Hawaii, seeing the light at the end of a forever long pandemic tunnel, feeling the warm Spring sunshine on your face. Flying from the America’s midwest, say, or northeast. Getting tested before leaving, tested again upon arrival.
Covid free.
Strolling on the white sands of Waikiki with the wife and children at sunset. Daytripping to the North Shore to show them the famous Banzai Pipeline. Traveling to the most beautiful east side to show them where Jurassic Park was filmed.
Stopping by for a swim at Waimanalo Bay Beach Park and seeing the last of your children’s innocence draining away as they gaze out in abject horror, taking in a lewd bacchanal as multiple fifteen-foot Tiger Sharks feast on the carcass of a dead Humpback Whale.
No safety anywhere.
Covid still in the air, China and the U.S. saber rattling. Britain’s royal family in tatters.
The world an apocalyptic mess.
Life’s a beach, ain’t it just though.
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That was one of your most beautiful works, Sir Charles
It’s that kinda 70’s soul that I miss in life.
I was born in Cali in the early 60s, and lived there all of my life. It really is turning into a shithole, particularly the large population areas. This year, I moved away. Are you happy C4? Cali: you can have it. As for me, I’ll be sitting on my lanai, with a panoramic view of the Kona coastline while the fires and fail politics destroy California, thanking my lucky stars that I’ve escaped.
I have spent time in Hawaii and I got restless. For whatever reason being on a small island that you can drive around in a day made me feel uncomfortable.
Weather was another issue. Around here it’s changing hour to hour. The monotony of it in HI got to me.
Everybody has their own preference. Gotta say the fires are a bad situation. The drought this is year is gonna suck.
“ being on a small island that you can drive around in a day made me feel uncomfortable”
Made me feel grounded and in touch and with a real sense of community but each to their own.
OT: Gabe is a whole new person:
https://www.instagram.com/t…
He’s having fun????
He’s done the hard work.
Now the rewards
He still wants #3 tho.
Used to be an amazing Mexican place in an old house there in Waimanalo called ‘Bueno Nalo’. We’d run around the place as kids until our chimichangas arrived and then gorge like that shark.
The stat about California having half the homeless population is way off. Feel free to do the math based on the numbers linked below. I added up Texas, Florida, Oregon, Washington and New York and those populations combined surpassed the population of CA. CA is 3x more than Fl, not 9x.
https://www.usich.gov/tools…[]=1400&fn[]=2800&fn[]=6200&fn[]=10000&fn[]=13200
If you want to stop illegal immigrants you need to punish companies that are willing to hire them, until then nothing will stop it. Simple supply and demand.
Contest is on, catch you in the live thread.Scratch that, debate awayAbsolutely. Social security verification would fix the issue overnight. If we as a nation decide to increase the numbers of immigration, we need do do it legally. Its not fair to the people dying trying to get across the border or to the U.S citizens.
Right now its a big scam by companies that want cheap laborers who have no rights. It’s also destroying our middle class by suppressing wages.
One thing I notice is that the divisiveness is kind of waning little by little, like letting the air out of a balloon. The anger is slowly dissipating, I hope.
Fox etc still trying to pump it up for the sake of the scam. Gotta keep the base’s bloodlust ticking over or they’ll wake up and realise how much they’ve been shafted.
Tell people what reinforces their beliefs for ratings. Trying to to get along with the other side and solve problems is not part of the agenda.
We’ve ALL been shafted. There is no Left. There is no Right. No Republicans nor Democrats. There’s the ruling class and the non-ruling class. The divisions are a construct designed specifically to keep everyone at each other’s throats, so we don’t focus our energy on overthrowing our rulers.
That’s a convenient cop-out for not tackling the deep-seated issues of the right-wing.
There are certainly shitty people in power everywhere but the majority of the Democrats and Left-leaning activists want genuinely helpful social, economic and political change rather than digging in to further the profits of the rich.
You seriously reckon the Democrats are left wing?
Lefter than the Right.
Right of centre.
They’re neoliberal.
Off for the day
The homeless thing in my opinion is not a California thing, that’s a nationwide issue, so many homeless are shipped out of their state with a one way ticket to California or warmer climates.
Population growth is also on a decline across the entire United States.
The border is controlled by the Federal Government as well.
So I’m not seeing how these issues you bring up are a California specific issue.
It’s the same fight. I keep warning the Aussies on this site to watch out, don’t let it happen to you.
We’ve just banned fairy bread.
We are doomed.
It’s bread and butter covered in gay colored sprinkles
It’s happening, don’t worry about that.
From small towns like yallingup, Noosa, Bellingen and Point Lookout, to whole areas like northern New South Wales.
Move to an area because it’s “quaint” then proceed to rip out its soul.
The skindogs? oh wait it’s already taken.
I feel like the right complains more about California than the people who actually live in California.
It’s cause the left ain’t right
Glad he moved back. I hope everybody else that moved here from everywhere else gets the fuck out too. It used to be a low key small town and it got overrun by aggressive assholes that tore down houses to build mc mansions.
I grew up with families that had wealth but they drove VW beetles around and gave their money to the Sierra club. It was full of musicians like Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.
Now traffic is a nightmare because of the tech kooks that moved here.
Back to sharks
You live on the west side?
Hawaii isn’t Mississippi last time I checked.
I finally was able to satisfy one of my childhood dreams a couple of years ago, I bought a powell peralta 80s single kick from the skate shop on Haight Street and rode it across the Golden Gate bridge. Box ticked
That’s all time, good for you. I need to start doing stuff like that. Lived here my whole life and haven’t even been to Alcatraz. Tommy Guerrero would be stoked.
Wonder if you went to Skates on Haight. I don’t know if it’s there anymore.
Yeah that was the shop. I dont know bout livin in san fran dude i went on the red tour bus and sat on the roof and that was the second coldest ive ever felt. Only second to lake louise haha. Alcatraz was alright i guess you hav to see it at least once. Its one of those places
Haha,yea I see tourists on the busses and they look miserable. I live north of the bridge. A big moutain blocks the wind and fog so its not like SF
I raise my fin in support of the oppressed, and marginalized Tiger Shark! For too long, all the other sharks have had Ocean Privilege©(I’m creating a passport for you to be able to get in the Ocean), and I think it’s time to raise our fist/fins in support of gay fish, and soc’s(sharks of color).
Maybe they can pay Turpel thirty dollars to come up with a name.
Must remind the tourists from the Midwest of eating deep fried pork rinds at the county fair.
low blow
Oh you have first hand experience with Midwest cooking. Nothing like a Sunday church potluck to put some meat on your bones
Edit : not normally so mean but my back hurts like a mofo. Love all my relatives in the Midwest.
Come on, too soon. You can’t have scoliosis too!?
I get everybody wearing the lame wetsuits/boards he rides/wears. But everybody having scoliosis now……
Hey if it gets me a “mysterious strawberry blonde” stalker. Is she a good cook?
The important qualities!*
Lazy ass sharks, can’t even kill something of their own
Who put the shark hot sauce on that carcass?