Revenge served searing.
They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, though Thanksgiving dinner teaches us, each and every year, that the “correct temperature” of any foodstuff is pure myth. Piping hot fresh apple pie, for example, is not nearly as delicious as refrigerated breakfast apple pie the next morning. Conversely, chilled cranberry sauce is half the taste sensation as a melty cranberry sauce warmed right up via proximity to freshly carved turkey and still-steaming stuffing.
And thus, back to revenge.
As you certainly recall, the distressed cobbler Vans recently announced its 2024 Pipeline Masters invitation list. The event, which once met something, has since devolved into a pointless spectacle bereft of significance. Wanting to possibly “young it up,” the greatest living, and possibly ever, Pipeline wrangler, one James Duncan O’Brien, was left out of the draw.
Condemnation was swift and coming from all corners. The normally placid Josh Moniz, speaking for most when he penned, “How can you leave out arguably the greatest Pipeline surfer of all time? To suggest that he doesn’t deserve a spot in an event he has helped define is baffling to me.”
O’Brien, himself, “I’ve been processing how the Pipeline Masters has become a joke. Whoever is making these decisions clearly doesn’t understand what’s happening in the water pipeline on the day today!” He later revealed that Vans considered him “too old.”
Well, as wobbly corporate entities are wont to do (see Bud Light, Dylan Mulvaney and Kelly Slater), Vans quickly walked back the snub and included the 41-year-old on the slate.
Now, conventional temperature wisdom would have had him serve revenge upon Vans by winning the contest in a few week but conventional temperature wisdom proven wrong once again.
Hours ago, the carrot-topped King of Pipeline put on an absolute show, snagging a double barrel with bodyboard legend Mike Stewart alongside a handful of other knee-buckling bombs.
O’Brien simply writing, “I’m old enough to know that Vans is a bunch of KOOKS! Sharing one with the legendary Mike Stewart.”
Stewart is 61.
Revenge served searing.
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Sometimes it’s best to take the high road and let others argue on your behalf. Or, open your mouth and let the whole world know who you really are. Who gives a shit about the Pipe Masters anymore!? Let it go brother…
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Hope this poor quality miniseries outrages KVF and pauly, the world needs their graphic nonsense finesse.
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Is BG going WOKE??
let’s go half&half into DelMar racetrack?
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My mother loved that place as a kid! Great pic!
5 cent slots spilled o’ver to the jukebox…dad cap’t Mom over a taco? 50 miles south of tijhuna…Herb Alpert terrority. Need a taxi?
your step-sister and your mama (formerly the Aunt) have lost all faith in ‘revival meetings”…
traffic glad.
Speaking of the proper temperature, I’m watching Sunday night football and an Outerknown ad popped up on my phone. They have a jacket called the Woolaroo and I’m convinced no man would wear that jacket, as doing so would likely lead to getting beat up like Chas did years ago on the North Shore.
temps in the mid 50s tonight OK?
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hiring…
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Gotta be Inglewood
and the left hand turn to go south! then right. 405 back to the One
yep. and a right & a left and we’re going south on the 405…
Did you score the 4 finger bag?
The year Jamie won the Pipe Masters it was called off the day before the finals, for “safety reasons”
As they called it off, Jamie went out and snagged a similar barrel with Mike Stewart.
he also snagged one of the best and longest barrels I’ve ever seen at Pipe.
Next day, the comp was on in smaller conditions and Jamie absolutely dominated.
Go get em’ kid!
I’d love to see it. Anyone know where to find it??
APL stock at 600G
He actually passes Mike in the barrel https://youtu.be/-4Lc4-wji4E
I’m genuinely not sure if anyone else would be able to send it like that on that wave whilst dealing with the added stress of Mike Stewart in the way of the exit. I’ve seen JOB do this a few times, sharing a barrel but being way deeper than the drop in and still coming out.
Hes top 3 no doubt.
Lord James Blear’s middle daughter surfing topless at Pipeline?
Always the guy in front “sharing”
meanwhile guy behind is just being dropped in on by some cunt.
JOB surfs good but is a knob and acts like a right cunt in indo (like many Hawaiians ) seen him make a right goose of himself having a tanty at padang …..
I hear people complain about various pro surfers but I find often its people venting because they tried to surf a crowded lineup with said pro and couldn’t get any waves whilst the pro was catching alot
Fair enough , dropping in on everyone on every set wave that comes though and then arguing with the people you drop.in on is a bad look
Local or not and in this situation JOB was not
Jamie roasted me at Keramas in 2008. I didn’t alter my projection and we bumped rails. He then had the nerve to tell me, “Bra, you think you can paddle out and get the first wave that comes to you?” I reminded him that he’d been catching a set wave, then paddling around every last person out there every time like clockwork all day, not concerned with the rotation (I was out there all morning, just had paddled in to rest my aching back). He didn’t really seem to know how to respond and paddled away.
If he was a local I would have just straightened out, but it was amusing that he felt so untouchable so far from his local. I got sushi with Danny Fuller afterwards and he told me that, despite his supernatural ability to tame Pipe like a harmless puppy, that a good portion of the North Shore boys didn’t actually respect him.
That was a long time ago, and people mature and grow, but that incident stills sticks out and has flavored my perception of him ever since. I will say, that growing up as a haole on the NS probably contributed to a bit of a chip on his shoulder, so I don’t actively dislike the guy. He’s a product of his environment. Some people are able to navigate that gauntlet with more grace than others tho…
Its kinda funny that he doesn’t care too much about respect from other surfers. Stroking into crowded pipe bombs on a 9ft foamy lol
Well put, sir.
I sent him some stickers back in the day, and he never replied.
got a spot on my new boards for one..
(insert shaka emoji) Hope you still have the first issue because shit’s too tight here for another print run.
Nothing a sharp can’t fix..
Every wave can be a party wave if you just shout it out loud enough before droppping in.
JOB is a kook. Good at Pipe, yes. Best ever? Nah. Not even close to those that came before him. His whining is sad and if he actually had any courage he’d decline the invite after bitching about it. Influencer kook.
tbh, his whining about stuff like this is less annoying than his whining about a bunch of idiot beginner surfers paddling out at pipe when his own damn vlog was the very thing that encouraged these kooks in the first place
Gosh, you two are whining a lot!
whining about whining though—a very advanced level of whining
Critical whining
Isn’t that what this brain trust for?! JOB had a good run, but is he really that good at Pipe? Dare I say Andy, Kelly, Ho’s(x2)…Johnny Boy for gosh sakes!
Definitely one of the all time, most naturally talented at Pipe. Just sans the drive of those guys and/or the earnestness of John.
Well put, they see him riding a pink swan on his blog and probably think, if this kook can surf pipe, I probably can too.
I seen one not too long ago pop up in my feed about a girl who’s vids I’d never watched before. She had moved to Cali from somewhere like Nebraska or something for College and learned to surf in a surf school. Set herself a goal of surfing Pipe in a year! So of course, hired a coach who took her money and pumped her tires all year for this silly goal. I flicked on and in a year she was as proficient as you’d imagine on a softie still though. And well, she went out at like 3 ft sanded up summer pipe. Roasted in the comments.
Yup, there is more than one way to be a kook.
Mike Stewart for Cans Pupe Masters!
O’Brien lying to create clicks is standard typical IG influencer/Youtube grifter playing everyone for fools.
O’Brien’s statement about Van’s being kooks reminds me of myself when I come home and complain to my wife about how my boss sucks and that I am done. Yet… just like myself getting up the next day and going to work again… O’brien will show up for that heat
Somehow, I seriously doubt that Vans gives a solitary fuck about what JOB says. A handful of his fans protesting by not buying their products will be unnoticed.
IMMA GONNA BUY A WHOAL LOAD A VANS AND BURN THEM IN MY LIVING ROOM ON THE CARPET!1!1!1! THATLL LEARN’EM1!1!!1!!!
it will stink though,,
THATS TEH SMELL OF FREEEEEEEDOM
I became tired of bosses who suck thirteen years ago, so I started a company and my boss still sucks. He sleeps maybe 5 hrs a night and he is bitchy until the coffee kicks in.