Boxer brief.
As you know, I am not allowed within a certain number of metaphorical feet of Kelly Slater. The world’s greatest surfer has, likely appropriately, taken umbrage at some of my ponderings and blocked me, and your BeachGrit, across all social media channels. Emails go unanswered. Texts ignored. As example of the fairly vigorous animosity, BeachGrit recently had its Instagram account ripped down. A new one was started and blocked within the hour by the 11x world champ.
Sad, so you can imagine my thrill when an offer came to interview the journalist who just penned the insightful new Sports Illustrated feature starring the aforementioned.
Kelly Slater-adjacent is as close to unbridled greatness as I will ever come.
I, anyhow, led the interview with the truth that Slater is not a “Chas Smith” or “BeachGrit” fan and immediately put journalist Brandon Sneed on his back heel. Neither smart nor professional. Sneed was leery throughout the chat, though exceedingly gracious, answering questions about the days he spent in Cocoa Beach and San Clemente penning the most intimate profile of Slater in the last decade plus, adding details and nuggets based upon his personal observations.
That portion begins today’s podcast and worth a listen. Glean what you can. David Lee Scales and I then pivot to the just-wrapped Oi Rio Pro featuring Filipe Toledo’s shock win over countryman Sammy Pupo, his 4th championship tour trophy hoist on home soil. For those who did not watch, it was a fine event riddled with the adjective “passionate” and its noun for “passion” by World Surf League commentators and its executive suite on various social media postings. Brazilian fans are passionate, its surfers are passionate, its culture passionate, everything passionate.
My question, at which point does using one adjective/noun over and over and over and over again to describe one group of people become overtly xenophobic/racist?
If the WSL held an event in China, for example, with commentators and the executive suite mentioning, over and over and over and over again, the diligence, worker bee nature, of the surfers and surf fans would it raise eyebrows?
Or Israel with commentators and the executive suite focusing solely on the enviable fiscal responsibility of the surfers and surf fans would it cause a pause?
Food for thought. Listen above.
I liked the suicide dialogue. Seemed you were trying to say that Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I need to always step back and find where I am not listening with equanimity. My past projections that create my current perspective are never as useful as opening myself up to a revelation that can help me to evolve from a partiality
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation. (Anonpress.org)
Our perspectives of ourselves and of others when confronted with a choice to resort to anger, resentment or dis-ease we almost certainly are acting from partial perspective. Not that our perspective is entirely wrong but that it is likely incomplete.
Having received from rape and horrific torture and overwhelming abuse even my anger lacked the clarity needed to forgive and experience relief from justified anger.
This is absolute rubbish WTF?
You know you have made it when quotes are misattributed to you!
Twump et
My question, at which point does using one adjective/noun over and over and over and over again to describe one group of people become overtly xenophobic/racist?
wink, wink, nod, nod… again?
MP has the most illuminating discussion of what separates the men from the boyz girls…no uterus…
https://youtu.be/euqEEN8W_Kw
https://youtu.be/RUGKx_kWaVk
You trying to get me canceled again cunt?
Can you please stop posting pictures of Slater–it kind of ruins my day..
Nice to listen to you guys interview mud.
just paddled out
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Passionate – Code for won’t stfu
Or, racked
I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong to make sociological observations, even generalizations in such a benign sense. The foggers are passionate. Like full blown meat headed North American football fans passionate. They’ll wear that as a compliment, but at some point someone should point these things out, because it appears they have something to learn about respectable sportsmanship.. Dancing in the endzone is just a bad example to set for the youths’ sake. Grow up already and try a little humility.
Beach Illustrated Grit
. Kelly should stop listening too lawyers and investment managers and grow a pair. As long as he’s pumping products out of China and building wave pools in the desert he’s an idiot. The fact he can’t face criticism and have a discussion with advertisers makes him a kook in my book. Still liked seeing him win pope.
. Kelly should stop listening too lawyers and investment managers and grow a pair. As long as he’s pumping products out of China and building wave pools in the desert he’s an idiot. The fact he can’t face criticism and have a discussion with adversaries makes him a kook in my book. Still liked seeing him win pipe.
. Kelly should stop listening too lawyers and investment managers and grow a pair. As long as he’s pumping products out of China and building wave pools in the desert he’s an idiot. The fact he can’t face criticism and have a discussion with adversaries makes him a kook in my book. Still liked seeing him win pipe.
. Kelly should stop listening too lawyers and investment managers and grow a pair. As long as he’s pumping products out of China and building wave pools in the desert he’s an idiot. The fact he can’t face criticism and have a discussion with adversaries makes him a kook in my book. Still liked seeing him win pipe.
Gotta love back handed compliments, like when Biden complimented Obama for being clean.
I shall take a leaf from the goats play-book and shun this podcast.