“Dark and gloomy and ominous and spooky."
There are three certainties in life and only three. 1. Death. 2. Taxes. 3. The mainstream media becoming stunned when surfers paddle out in a hurricane, cyclone or tropical storm. Now, usually this journalistic jaw-dropping comes to us from Florida where a reporter on the beach, dumbfounded, asks a surfer what in tarnation they are thinking. Climate change seems to be drying up the eastern seaboard’s hurricanes, though, replacing them with big ol’ blowers in the Pacific.
The latest, Hurricane Lala whipping up froth around the Hawaiian islands with The New York Times on hand to be shocked, headline screaming, Some Daring Surfers Seek Waves as Hurricane Lala Approaches.
Bodysurfer Paul Healey, 61, was interviewed on the Big Island and shared, “I hate all this anxiousness around the storm. We have time, so why don’t we enjoy it?”
Over on Oahu, surf shop employee J Tyler Landon, 34, said, “It gets us pumped, Those strong winds generate a lot of energy on the surface of the ocean, and that energy is thrust right at us.”
He also let slip that he was not surfing Saturday, forecasted to be the most unruly, because the ocean was “dark and gloomy and ominous and spooky.”
Jake Luedtke, 33, paddled out on the North Shore, Saturday morning, and described as “a perfect window.”
Andrew Giletti, 35, opted for the West Side and declared, “It felt like anyone who was wanting to surf just did it anyway, I’m more worried about my house getting a window blown in than something happening in the water.”
The New York Times reporters shaking their heads in utter bafflement.
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Sorry all.
First date not happening til tonight. Plans changed.
Much online ado has been afloat.
It’s fucking wild to this old man but I’m just strapped in and enjoying the ride.
Haha see my above reply to SC, Blowin.
It was a wide shot and I just cropped it closer up.
It was an epic pic too. I had no idea he thought it looked blurry
Storm surfing aside, which is of course perfectly fine and a pleasure, the hurricane was fucking gnarly. Rained so hard so fast that it washed coffins out of graves and ejected the occupants. And such. Hope rural Hawaii recovers okay!
…dont the hurri at the pacific be called typhoon? i’m confused…
Sorry mate don’t post any pics or clips online. I put some pics up on here of me at Cloudies cuz I thought me face was blurred out and far enough away then my dear mate Crayfish put up a perfectly zoomed in shot of my face and went what the fuck are you doing cunt haha. Never again
I have nothing to hide. I’ll post a pic of me and Brutus sharing a beer if I see him on the north shore.
hahaha I just cropped it up closer from the wide shot. Not my fault you didn’t know pics can be zoomed up.
We both deleted it as soon as you freaked out how detailed it was. Assumed you knew that when you posted it. Epic Pic
haha funny shit. Did you end up getting all the vaseline and toothpaste off your screen?
Nothing like a moral compass in your bumhole!
Xox
Always know where to find it!
Haha bless you dear Sofa.
Xox
No shit
The world has truly spun of its previously know Axis
Dogsnuts doesn’t change
Are you trying to start another WAR?
NO MORE WARS
At least you can pronounce CUNT correctly
We don’t need your trash on our sidewalk Hahah
There is no need to bring the “active” moderator into this
He just wants to bake cakes with french chicks who also like…
I knew there was something off with that Sheila when he said she couldn’t get enough of his seppo accent haha
Baited lure
And they say Fish are Dumb and have NO FEELINGs
Hopefully he’s still rooting and not currently tied up and gagged in his freshly ransacked new house!!
We need a Welfare Check on Channelbottoms
He could be in danger!! Anyone on here from the Newy area?
His liver is safe
Prob gone for the kidneys
I just here for the updates
Yep, exactly it. Wade Carmichael the new Trevor Hendy
Right?
Poor old Bede everyone always gets his name wrong!!
Wildcard for Sasha?
running in front of buses, now you’d have me rushing home on a Sun arvo to tune in.
The saddest part of this story is Tyler being 34 and still working in a surfshop
cross.
it’s pretty shit really but you can normally rattle off a closeout reo or 3.
It does have it’s moments.
interesting hypothesis.. I concur
I’ve tried sooo hard to exxplain Pretzel Logic.
I would love to tour the southland, in a traveling minstrel show
Babylon sisters best intro ever?