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A thread for with which to vent.
- Thread starter Radical Edward
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anic: 
Recently got back into music after a really dumb hiatus where I sold my amp and some gear. Now trying to buy it all back slowly, but for the life of me, cannot find a 4 pro worth buying. Starting to REALLY irritate me that before I really wanted to buy another, they were all over. Now that I want one, nowhere to be seen. MOTHER F******!
and now you guys have not only bennies but the Sandy-damage gawkers too? Or are they not so bad? We were down the shore a few weeks back and already there were groups of folks walking around gawking at the damage. (we thought we'd be the only ones!)
Yeah, the Lookie Lous are here in full force but they're good for the local businesses too. This weekend is the Seafood Festival and that's been it's usual craziness with traffic, Ocean Ave. closed near the lake/park, etc. But what's really strange is not seeing the Fifth Ave. Pavilion in the background. However, I find I'm kind of getting used to the fairly unobstructed view of the ocean since the boardwalk and it's buildings were washed away. The boardwalk has been replaced (and nicely done) but not yet the buildings/shops that were on the boards. Some "trailer-ized" shops and the usual restroom trailers are there.
And yes, the lemon stand (my personal favorite) is back, having been moved inland before Sandy hit.
Sad thing about not having the Fifth Ave. Pavilion is that they have nowhere to hold the weekly big-band concerts/dances.
My facebook has already started blowing up with the "benny go home" comments. You know, usually I don't care, but you would think people who be happy to have their economy stimulated by tourism? If not for those benny's, a lot of those businesses wouldn't make it through the first season after re-opening. Sad but true.
It's sad that things happened like they did, a lot of my friends had total losses, not only at the shore, but in north jersey and the nyc metro area. I do not think it's cool for people to go check out destruction like that.
It's sad that things happened like they did, a lot of my friends had total losses, not only at the shore, but in north jersey and the nyc metro area. I do not think it's cool for people to go check out destruction like that.
I think that's just a "****** kid" type of thing and less a "****** northerner" type of thing.
It happens all summer here. There are arrests every season for just such offenses. Also, there's also a zero tolerance noise ordinance....Too much noise and you get a summons and fine. Then there's the "Animal House" ordinance. It can get to be a real mess around here.
I've been to hell and back in this life so there really isn't anything good to complain about except stupid first worldness.
I like to complain about stupid guitar/bass designs a lot.
My favorite example was when I had a few RKS guitars in my shop a while back.
After a lot of headache over their horrible designs and what a pain they where to work with I was very glad to see them go and am happy that company is out of business.
I like to complain about stupid guitar/bass designs a lot.
My favorite example was when I had a few RKS guitars in my shop a while back.
After a lot of headache over their horrible designs and what a pain they where to work with I was very glad to see them go and am happy that company is out of business.
That's exactly it I'd wager. If it were just the crowds to contend with I'd guess that you could rationalize it as at least it's bringing in $ and helping the local economy. But when you factor in the drunken party antics and scumbags who could care less about other people's property I can fully sympathize with the "shore folks".
(I'm a sympathetic benny
)3 years ago, I watched my friend commit suicide. Still sucks.
I haven't had a girlfriend in three years. Haven't had relations with a girl for two and a half years. Haven't had a date for a year.
I went to school for five years to earn an education degree. Now I can only find a job substitute teaching. $90 a day, way to make use of my degree.
I can't find a drummer. The ones I can find lack any sense of professionalism. My guitarist is lackadaisical about learning his parts and/or composing music.
I used to want to be a painter. My art was routinely rejected.
Yeah.
I haven't had a girlfriend in three years. Haven't had relations with a girl for two and a half years. Haven't had a date for a year.
I went to school for five years to earn an education degree. Now I can only find a job substitute teaching. $90 a day, way to make use of my degree.
I can't find a drummer. The ones I can find lack any sense of professionalism. My guitarist is lackadaisical about learning his parts and/or composing music.
I used to want to be a painter. My art was routinely rejected.
Yeah.
Smartphones and people who post on Internet forums with them are leading to the eventual but inevitable downfall of civilization through abuse of grammar. There are more run-on, punctuation-free paragraphs appearing and most of them are unreadable.
I'm far from perfect due to a poor education at the hands of the nuns at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Home For the Rude, as well as learning to read while on the toilet with a MAD magazine, but some posts are so poorly composed it's too much work to decipher them to understand the poster's point.
And stop with the excuses when you get called out for it. When you use "there" meaning "their" or "they're", its not your phone's fault. Stop it.
I'm far from perfect due to a poor education at the hands of the nuns at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Home For the Rude, as well as learning to read while on the toilet with a MAD magazine, but some posts are so poorly composed it's too much work to decipher them to understand the poster's point.
And stop with the excuses when you get called out for it. When you use "there" meaning "their" or "they're", its not your phone's fault. Stop it.
Your grammar is fine. The English langauge is far more flexible than some blowhards would have us believe, though there are limits.
Trying to figure out and plan what my life will be puts my vent at max....all my plans, hard work, preparation? Finding my "happy" place?
Squished in comparison to what I've arrived at.
Squished in comparison to what I've arrived at.
This reminds me of a guy I went to High School with. After consumption of some psychotropic...erm...medicine at a festival, he "remembered" the missing number between 3 and 4 and couldn't understand why nobody else could remember it.
