Kicking those on the spectrum a new low for The Inertia.
It is a dangerous and scary world for adult learners. Halloween spooky year ‘round. Those who boldly took up surfing during the pandemic deal with myriad aggressions and micro-aggressions. Grumpy locals eyeballing them, Costco employees muttering “kook” under breath while they are surfboard shopping. Various instagram accounts lurking, waiting to capture them with backward fin set-ups or wetsuits.
Thankfully there is The Inertia. The safe space surf website has long been a comfort for the vulnerable. A place they can mingle amongst the likeminded and be coddled by a sensitive leader who understands them intimately.
You can imagine their horror, then, when Zach Weisberg and his merry band turned werewolf, viciously tearing into the flesh of meek volume enthusiasts.
Safe surf website goes wild
The “definitive voice of surfing” posted a piece titled “Why You Should Rethink That Mid-Length Surfboard Purchase You’re About to Make,” days ago, wherein the contributor listed various reasons why adult learners should steer clear of boards that were trendy three years ago.
“Mid-lengths are for people who never shut their iPhone light off,” the cis-presenting white male wrote. “People who listened to vinyl before it was hip. People who think TikTok is the sound a clock makes. People who still ride potato chips, listen to Bobby Dylan and believe him when he says they’ll be…Forever Young.”
Very hurtful.
The Inertia then shared the piece on social media, punching their community in the teeth with the line “The number of people who can’t spot sarcasm on the internet when they see it in 3..2…”
Ouch.
The Inertia community reacted with predictable sadness, “whoever wrote this is an absolute hot dog” etc., only to get told they didn’t understand sarcasm again and again until one poor fellow declared, “Hey, inertia, there are actually plenty of people on the spectrum that can’t detect sarcasm – including yours truly, half the time. It’s comical to me, but I don’t think it’s funny for everybody.”
The Inertia merely sneered.
Kicking the autistic a new low.
A change.org demanding apology currently in the works.
More as the story develops.
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Charles, you have already offered to put them in touch with Jonah to help them learn to be funny, I assume? He worked wonders with you.
Although, the dickheads would probably be better served by John Cooper Clark if they intend on being funny + worth reading.
Must suck having to constantly keep changing their male tampons, they should really book an appointment with a specialist to sort their hormones out for good.
Amen!
BEAR WITH US, WERE CHANBGING YOU INTO A NEM FREQUENCY
Thank goodness we have such a humanitarian community here at Beach Grit. Truly, truly such a warm place sticking up for those marginalized and disregarded by The Inertia, let alone some of the legacy surf brands.
Is this the sarcasm that the inertia fools were referencing?
I lovingly tried to share theGrit with some of my friends…”Thx Dane. I’ll pass it along like the fruitcake at a holday party. You troll!”
If you think the Inertia can’t sink any lower you are probably wrong—from articles about best beach chairs to portable hot water rinses, to changing ponchos—is nothing to how they’ve sold out surf spots and Fawned over just about any pro surf dude, from Lenny to Laird, from Sups to foils, they’ll try and promote almost anything for some web-hits and to make a buck, with Zac as the ringleader, closely followed by Haro, Cranberry, Coogan, etc.
A certain superhuman surfer from Maui might take issue with The Inertia’s disparagement.
Which one?https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Lest we forget.
The young one with killer air game and poor choice of accountants.
If you didn’t say Maui,it could be any of the poor deluded buggers.
Never go full retard
Straight Trollin Troll!
That the wildcard next season?
i simply don’t understand that sarcasm. help me! i’ve fallen off my custom vinyl, adjustible computer lounge chair and I can’t get up.
With the length of their article headings – lucky the Inertia not been taken to the claeners/claners /cleaners by the dyslexic community
The autism iceberg.. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Zach Wiceberg
Clever!
Leave it to Beaver Clever
Autism + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Mental Illness
Wait a minute… I thought all autistic surfers were on beachgrit??
I can’t hear you with my headphones on.
*thoughtistic
Only the ones vaccinated as children according to LGR.
Plenty libtards too, apparently
People still use that ‘insult’?
I see it all the time
I believe they prefer the term spastic window licker surfers
and candidates for brain salad, stem-cell surgury…
Well its official. The inertia has overtaken the second place sarcasm ranking leaving stab in the lonely third spot. No surprise to anyone BG is still holding down top spot for sarcasm and thickness of commenters skin.
Fortunately, we here at BG, traffic in NOTHING but sarcasm.
Right?
RIGHT?
Home sweet home!