Decadently shameful.
The Surf City El Salvador Pro is now finished and if you missed the action, you can read JP Currie’s accounting. Final’s day was not good. Not good by this measure nor that measure but was helpful, at the end, for cementing the World Surf League as one of, if not most, morally bankrupt organizations on earth.
The League, you of course know, is about putting the world’s best surfers in the world’s best waves but it is equally about equality and yet happily took El Salvador tourism board dollars, gleefully promoted the brave little Central American country even though its record on equality has been slammed by human rights’ organizations.
The League is also about environmentalism with its One Ocean program, much talking about environmentalism and planting a bush in the name of environmentalism, and yet is almost finished building the world’s largest wave pool in a Middle Eastern petro kingdom desert even though its environmental impact is off the charts.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Absolutely staggering.
There is now clearly nothing the World Surf League will not do for money, no place it will not go and promote, no bit of earth it will not destroy. North Korea could host a Championship Tour event, if it wanted. Ecuador could. build a wave pool in the Galápagos Islands if it wanted.
Ain’t that crazy?
I wouldn’t care if Santa Monica simply declared, “We are in the BUSINESS of surfing” but the constant sportswashing, greenwashing is embarrassing.
It’s shameful and sad to be part of.
Anti-anti-depressive.
David Lee Scales and I, anyhow, discussed on our weekly chat and I poked fun of people who drink too much water. Adult men wandering the streets with giant baby bottles is also shameful.
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Now expose the climate change cult as nothing more than a bunch of money grubbing frauds.
i’m hammered on on the podcast request line: ask me anythang…are you still there? I have a problem>
Noted!
In summary, the WSL discourages overfishing, taxidermy and exposed butts…
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is that Meghan the markle?
you dissing Palm Springs date shakes?
We need to consult with our resident expert on the Middle East. Chas has had a fair bit to do with dates and sheiks, I’d think.
Negs or vonr please award Charles the Elo(sticker) already aye…badgermethingything!.
Good use of BG to call this hypocrisy out. Planes, throwaway boards, dodgy sponsors, transparently weak greenwashing … keep at it. And if they do Dubai, let em have it!
BG required listening composed and sung by Pete and Postponements.
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I’ve heard of Arab dates here in the outer reaches of astrograd. From what I understand there are female dates and male dates. Your average sheik is pretty partial to both when they get a break from oil welling. The younger the better, so I’ve been told.
WSL supports…dredging? Well it should. Manscaping perfect righthanders!
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They preach the greenwashing of everything – that is the total load of bullshit!!
That comp built an athlete area that looked like the biggest building in whole town with fucking 300 aircon systems out the back – then still try and crap on about the environmental things they do!!
To redeem their footprint in Elsal they would need to either build the barrier reef or replant the entire amazon
Fuck off with the green hype cunts
Pretty disgusted by this.
All bets on a comp being there next year.
Just fucked. So fucked.
Right on Chas! When you put it down like this though, there’s no reason to listen to the podcast
In your AG1 promo, Chas said sun hasn’t shone in the morning in SoCal since Feb and David Lee responded, that’s why you need AG1, bc of the vitamin D. “That’s what vitamin D will do for you.” Not a user but from I’ve read, the product doesn’t contain Vitamin D.
A, B-6, B-12, B-52, C,
D, K: all essentials. what is taurine? an acidic amino. melamine vs melatonin. all these are fully available in an iceberg lettuce salad with bleu cheese. as seen on tv.Sorry to rain on your parade chas but “The world’s best surfers in the world’s best waves” and “dream tour” were an ASP monikers.
I know this is BG where words are just words and no reads the articles but ” you can’t script this”
Its doesnt really matter cos the WSL buys green credits, plants the odd shrub, equal pay and gives Tyson Wright a platform to annoy us with wokeness.
didn’t they fire the chief of finance and replace with chief of sustainability?
Good listen. Loved the airplane arm rest struggle. Curb Your Enthusiasm should steal.
read Lono the blued armed man by HST shortread chap 1
I need to read more. Right now BG is as literary as I get. 🙂
ha , BG and the WSL…imagine all the talk that’s been going on between WSL/Elo and the Dubaians for the last 5 years, getting a new pool built in a country where being gay ( not to be confused with Joy?) is a crime!
Moral bankruptcy/Hypocrisy and greed seem to be the real basis of the WSL…..will Tyler go to the new CT in Dubai and risk being arrested jailed/flogged?
So really green washing/business with anti LGPT+ ?
WSL / ASP all the same its always been about greed and not much screams inequality & sexisim like the good old A$P.
Say the guy that works in the surf industry. Right…