A spectre haunting Europe.
Strange days, etc. what with Ultimate Surfers, oversized hurricanes, tough central asian days, lonely New Zealand nights. And is it any wonder that our best turn to times past where, with hindsight, things seem simpler? Easier to understand? One-time Surfer magazine associate editor Ben Marcus, regularly found here, refuses to leave the mid to late 1989s.
Flynn Novak, originator of the eponymous “Flynnstone Flip,” dreams in hues of red, when Soviet Russians represented the “big fear.”
In a piece to Instagram, Novak re-posted, “Covid is a Trojan Horse for communism. It is the duty of every person to make sure Freedom survives covid. Just following orders is no longer an acceptable excuse.”
Covid is a sneaky way for workers to rise up and seize the machinations of control? To crush the feudal system of industry? A spectre haunting Europe?
I suppose so.
More, certainly, as this story develops.
Remember the Flynnstone Flip here.
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Dear Benny…you’re a wealth of useless information…If you were a genie and I had 3 wishes, my first would be…that I wish you had real friends to talk your self aggrandizing nonsense…2 that you had a humble bone in your body and 3 that you would just leave us mere mortals alone to have an ok time talking shit….much love and aloha hoale!…
Paranoid rednecks are indeed trawling the backlines of the world. The same fuckers who probably paddle onto your inside expressing their rights to freedom of choice. Cunts all!
I think you’re reading too much into Nug’s comment
The corporate media and political class response to the Convid was never about improving or maintaining health.
There’s a new APP you should try, it’s called AWSHADDAP.
Did you know ChemTrails are a government conspiracy by the Deep State designed to make people (like you) so gullible and stupid they actually believe ChemTrails are a government conspiracy and there really is a Deep State?
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. T.V. Communist.
Chaskimo roll…
I’ve always found that knowing about something before you speak about something is always very helpful.
thanks to the gods! the right side is full of imbeciles.
Another revealing example of why shapers and professional surfers would do well to finish their schooling. A Congo line including Neal Purchase, Flynn Novak, Matt Biolos, Kelly Slater, …
Authoritarian rule was around centuries before and will be around centuries after the 30-40 years a small number of countries pretended to be “communist”. Cuba and North Korea probably came closest. As far as incorporating socialist ideals, as most countries that are livable do, of course most intelligent people can differentiate between the strict definition and the actual practice. However the folks that bitch about the “scourge of socialism” are the same ones that think their 1st amendment rights somehow prevents your employer from firing your ass when you say something racist. Many of these same people also believe Democratic power players are eating babies or Jewish space lasers cause wildfires.
Laos is pretty commie also. I once worked with a female engineer there. Asked her what made her want to be an engineer. She told me no, she wanted to be an architect but the government told her she was going to be an engineer!
Imagine if Flynn was told he was to be a political scientist rather than a pro surfer! Fuck Communism!
Ahh Flynn Novak. Another born and raised Waialua boy wannabe surf star. The progeny of haole transplant parents from the mainland, his mom was a smoking red hot blondie and his dad, Walt, was a funny witty fuck who taught public school here. Flynn’s from that generation of kids who bet on making $$ during surfing’s sell-out heydays. But just like that grade school dropout and fellow nub, Nate Florence, Flynn’s shelf life is near his use-by date and I wouldn’t be surprised to see these guys soon serving me drive-thru coffee at McDonalds in Haleiwa.
Wow
Coffee at maccas sucks dude make a change
nah they use only a supreme Royal Kona coffee blend here. It’s great and the only thing I get there. And at only a buck for a x-large with hit and run drive thru I’m buzzed before the poseurs and pussies at Starfucks and Coffee Gallery can get out of their Range Rovers.
I heard that downunda Maccas makes their coffee with dehydrated Kangaroo poop. True?
Further down under they use sediment run off – from our best dairy farms!!
Recycling 100% Pure NZ
The dregs are used to pave our State highways
Haha. Long ago and far away, back when you Kiwis used to let us visit, I’d always get confused when ordering my cuppa joe there. Flat white, long white, short black white, WTF? I’d always just order a plunger straight black, no sugar, no cream, no foofy shit, just pure hot java. Man I miss those fush n chups too
Mate, in NZ, the toughest cunts with the biggest dongs get a mochaccino with 3 sugars (I get a long black :/ ). Tomorrow I can get takeaways – straight to the F&C shop
Come back when you can, we have small waves and funny accents
Fuck which cunt on here isn’t from EnZid
You, and a couple of others by the looks of it… Maybe six max ?
(hey I just finished watching Aussie Travel Guides on TV, featuring a lovely Newcastle family called the ‘Frens’, do you know them by any chance ? I’m told that Newy is the NZ of Aussie…)
It is! I have many friends, but alas know no Frens
Haha, nice
An accidentally (?) comedic family on a travel show
No they don’t
They drink nothing but beer, ice cold beer…
Bit harsh
Well that’s a bit harsh.
Where’s the aloha?
The aloha of the Hawaiian people going back to the very first Polynesians to set foo on that northern franchise?
Ben you ignorant slut.
Here’s a short list of introduced western diseases that Hawaiians had no herd immunity or resistance to:
cholera, measles, whooping cough, smallpox, influenza, to name just a few.
These imported epidemics diminished Hawaii’s population from approximately 800,000 at Captain Cook’s arrival in 1778 to 135,000 in 1820 and to 53,900 in 1876.
Hows that for aloha?
Do you think if there were vaccinations back then we might have a better survival rate?
If Flynn wants to spew his beliefs that’s OK. Just don’t be a wimp when others push back on his communist buffoonery.
Yeah I love the people babbling about Communism.
I usually retort: “You wouldn’t know Karl Marx if he jumped into bed with you. Communism died in the 1980s and is buried alongside disco.”
My great great grandfather was bros with Karl Marx, as a matter o’ fact.
Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium in Trier, 1835.
As for the introduced western diseases.
Flounder is the Hawaiians and Belushi and the others are the haole:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
“Heeeeyyyy you fucked up! Your trusted us!!!!”
Wasn’t an intentional genocide, though was it?
And what about the ukulele and horses and rodeo and long pants and pizza and ice and pigs and chickens and all the good things the haole brought to Hawaii?
Hmmm?
I jest, in poor taste.
Hawaii got worked.
Hear me God: Maybe that big piece of land will slide on the Big Island and cause the Super Tsunami that mows Waikiki back down to lagoons and palm groves.
Polynesians brought pigs to Hawaii FYI
As for Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time before a near-shore hurricane and/or a tsunami wipes most of the south shore off the map.
Don’t know why but I’m kinda hoping it happens in my lifetime.
Did the Polynesians bring pigs to Hawaii?
That’s good news for the Hawaiians.
Pork taste good. Bacon taste good.
And from whence sprung from those pigs?
I don’t believe pigs are native to any of the Polynesian Islands.
Still wondering where the Polynesians who brought pigs to Hawaii got them. They ain’t native to Tahiti or the Marquesas, I am pretty sure.
If you’ve got pigs and chicken to go with fish, you’re laughing.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-cli…
Fun fact Ben:
Dogs, chickens, rats and pigs were all originally brought to Hawaii by Polynesian settlers.
https://royalsocietypublish…
So maybe the Polynesians brought all of that all the way from West Java? Or from New Guinea? Ill keep reading.
If you have pigs and chicken along with fish, you’re living large.
Possibly from South East Taiwan where they started their journeys
Possibly on Melanesia or Micronesia on the way
Over the thousand plus years it took to get from there to Tahiti it would’ve been made up of shorter trips with occasional partial returns, kinda like two steps forward, one step back, to pick up and drop off mates, have fights, and talk about the new places they’d been…
Okay my next question and this is dead serious.
Captain Cook “discovered” Owyhee/The Sandwich Islands on his third voyage in the Pacific.
From 1776 – 1778, looking for the Northwest Passage and if you’ve ever spent any time in BC or Alaska you know there are 10 gazillion nooks and crannies in the coast there. Did Cook have to inspect each and every one?
I believe he was returning a Tahitian prince to Tahiti and I’ve always wondered what it was like for those heathen princes to be paraded through Windsor or Saint Pauls.
That would have blown their mind and convinced them of Haole Power.
Anyway, Cook returned the Tahitian dude – Omai – to his home and left Tahiti on 7 December then travelled north and on 18 January 1778 became the first European to see and visit Owyhee.
My question: Did the Tahitians tell Cook there was a more northern franchise of Polynesia?
They had to know it was there as I believe there was back and forth from Tahiti to Hawaii for many many years, maybe centuries.
So: Anyone? Anyone?
Was Cook looking for these Owyhee islands, clued in by the Society Islanders?
Or did he stumble over them?
Anyone? Anyone?
Possibly
Though his trip was all about the transit of Venus and Mercury
with the newly invented chronometer to get accurate positioning with a sextant
I think that was the first trip. And breadfruit too or something. To feed slaves or something. Something.
And I do believe the Polynesians originated in West Java passed through that strait between Australia and New Guinea.
There are pottery and other links between the natives of New Guinea and the Polynesians.
And from there they spread through the Pacific – north to Hawaii, east to Easter Island, south to New Zealand.
They got around, they did.
So the pigs from South East Taiwan?
I don’t know, man.
DNA says the jumping off point was Taiwan for the Polynesians
Most likely a route to the north of new Guinea and Borneo etc rather than south of Timor to the Coral sea which may have been an earlier group who went no further than Melanesia from what I understand.
Though there would’ve been thousands of years of mingling of many people’s in the western Pacific and along the track you suggest prior to the push across from Melanesia.
A lot of basic language of the Pacific has origins in SE Asia as a while so there would’ve been a lot of intermingling from Indonesia to Melanesia
Omg, even your dead (I’m assuming here) great great grandfather knew all the famous people … you never cease to amaze me Ben
“Your,” not “you’re.” you Kublai Khan, yaz.
And yep. GGGF Mathias Schafer was bros with Karl Marx at Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium circa 1835.
They exchanged letters for years but at some point Mathias didn’t dig what Marx had to say, and burned all the letters.
Ooops. 20,000 pounds for just one at Christie’s these days.
No, Euros!
No, pounds!!!
Don’t throw away anything.
Even Chas’ books.
Some day off in the future he might be considered a good writer.
How do guys like him and Kalani Chapman even make money?
Have you found Nate Florence serving you McDonalds as yet? How are your other predictions working out ?
Are we still afraid of commies? I feel so behind.
Communism is a dog whistle. It had been baffling me why all this 50s cold war political terminology had become popular again, but eventually the penny dropped. I was rather slow but I got there in the end…
Actually it’s
The People’s Democratic Rep of Korea.
A riddle wrapped in a nightmare
Nope – DPRK. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The other one is the ROK – Republic of Korea.
One is democratic.
I love people that conflate communism ( an economic theory if I’m to believe my 8th grade history teacher) with authoritarian rule. It’s almost as funny as the dumb asses that “don’t want socialism to mess with their Medicare or social security.”
Equal suffering
Yay!!
Oi Chas
Communism in the old Russian sense isn’t about the workers rising up to seize the machinations of control and crush the feudal system big industry.
It’s the opposite…
Well not according to the manifesto.
But more of a facist dictatorship in practice.
The workers were kept working, but for less freedoms and progress, and anyone who spoke against the rulers got killed or sent to Siberia to die.
P.S.
Though if you towed the party line you were given an apartment in a nicer part of town, and more food etc…
Well the Russians were sick of being serfs but made the mistake in thinking they’d be better off under communism.
Communism only works as a Theoretical thought bubble. In practise it’s completely fucked up and promotes autocrats.
Well it worked in the sense that Russia went from
being an agriculturally based backwater in 1918 to a military and technological global superpower by the 1950’s.
Or in the sense that Cuba isn’t a second Haiti (or Jamaica for that matter)…
20m killed but gotta break a few eggs…
They probably just misplaced the manifesto at some point during October 1917 and the summer of 23.
I’d listen to Flynn. Rumor has it he got a C in his remedial homeschool macro economics course.
has communism ever been properly paired with surf?
I think Dora practiced a rudimentary form, no?
Australian Boardriders Battle. A Socialist paradise where the strong carry the weak
Charlie don’t surf.
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Proper laugh on this one.
What’s worse? This take, or naming a stupid air after yourself?