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Yeah, I'm a Hypocrite, Dickmeat. So What?---
Everybody loves a lecture. And who better to give one than a hypocrite? What you are about to read is as self-directed, as it is directed at some of you. Just keep in mind, you'll know exactly who you are and when I'm addressing you. If you can't figure it out, you never will. The overwhelming majority of you reading this, are not going to be addressed at all, and this is simply for your entertainment, or maybe something to pass along to old friends who no longer come here. I was quite serious when I said I was considering changing concrete disciples to kookversuskook.com, at least from my own perspective. The only difference between me and some of you is that I actually work at this. I, along with Jeff, MRZ, and our contributors, try to continually deliver some decent skateboarding coverage, information, and maybe even entertainment. In case you haven't figured it out, we all have day jobs, and we do this strictly out of our undying love and passion for skateboarding. I'll be the first person to admit my shortcomings, and my trespasses. Yeah, I've engaged in some pretty harsh dialogue directed at certain people at times. Perhaps, the only difference is closure. Skateboarding is skateboarding, you leave your drama at the door or you settle it, and move on. I'm no better than anybody else. Neither are you. And if you are a contributor, that doesn't give you a license to blow it. I would hope we all can collectively be a lot better than that.
The Internet is the Worst Place in the World.---
It's true. For as much as the internet has opened up a wealth of information (and misinformation) to people who once had to go to libraries and use the dewey decimal system to find something out, now it's merely a few googles away. No need to ever leave the house again, porn, news, movies, sporting events, all streamed right into your home. You can even waste your employers money by engaging in social net-jerking all day when you're supposed to be performing tasks to earn your paycheck. But perhaps the most insidious aspect of the internet is that it turns absolute pussies into big strapping tough guys on bulletin boards. It's like a phone booth that Clark Kent can step into and become Superman™, but rather than emerging to kick some criminal's ass, Superman™ sits in his little glass box and hurls epithets instead. At the end of the day, nothing is solved and Superman™ is sitting on a pile of checks his kryptonite-sensitive ass can't cash. Across town, Lex Luthor™ has an equally large stack of worthless paper. I.O.U.'s for an ass-kicking which will never come due. This is the way of the world wide web. And these nemeses have been going at it since the 1940's. But now, rather than having to back up their shit, these arch-enemies can simply hide behind a keyboard, sipping Mountain Dew™, and turn their long-running grudge into a public soap opera online. Even more egregiously horrible is that neither one will start their own website on which they can feud the days away. Instead they will simply find one site after another to pollute with their never-ending bullshit, obviously in the name of vanity and the overwhelming need for an audience, sympathetic or otherwise. Where is Supermanwillkickyourfuckingass.com? Sadly, it doesn't exist. 404 Error, not found. OMFG What dicks! LOL! No, instead, even the message boards at LadiesHomeJournal.com aren't safe from the keyboard brutality of cowards. There once was a time when there was no other way to talk shit other than manning up and bringing it face to face. If fists flew that was how it was going to play out, and you had to deal with it. Not anymore though. We have arrived, so to speak, in a world in which we are insulated from personal responsibility, from having to stand up, from having to be smarter, from having to be tougher. Technology makes us smarter you say? Bullshit. Technology makes us idiots, on so many levels. That idiocy gets played out daily on our website. So for all of you fuckers who think the pen (keyboard) is mightier than the sword, in this context, you can suck it. I've been stuck with a real blade, and no amount of hastily typed words can make that kind of hole in you, guaranteed. If you disagree, go into the kitchen, grab a steak knife and punch it into your ribs. No? Yeah, I thought so.
Fuck You, Fuck You, and Fuck You Too.---
That's right. Fuck you. We here at Concrete Disciples have only tried to do what we feel is right. To represent skateboarding and to present it in a way that doesn't cater to the industry's wishes, that doesn't brown-nose corporate entities for the sake of getting ahead, rather, to simply tell the truth, and offer a perspective that comes from 9 decades of collective knowledge and involvement. We'd like to think that the coverage we offer is insightful and unique, and doesn't subscribe to some bro-down conformist bullshit. Jeff started this thing back in the mid-90's and he has been dedicated to it 100% from day one. What he has built over these years is being tainted. Tainted by pointless long-running feuds on the BBS that drive a lot of users away. Tainted by all-out theft of our content. Tainted by a bunch of shit-talking crybabies. MRZ and I are 33% partners in this thing too. And we have some rather badass contributors who bring some very cool content into the mix. So when you repeatedly take a huge steaming crap on our bulletin boards you're shitting on the 3 of us, our loyal contributors, and our program. You're also shitting on yourselves. What the fuck do you think this is? Do you think we do what we do, merely so we can sit around and jack ourselves off over how "cool" our website is? Fuck you. We do this for you. We do this for skateboarders all over the world. We do this because we love skateboarding. So every time you turn a legitimate skate thread into yet another personal soap opera and all-out chump war, maybe you want to think about how that effects what we are trying to do. Maybe you want to grow a pair of fucking balls and deal with your petty personal bullshit out in the real world. Maybe you want to appreciate for a moment that we don't have to provide you with shit, we don't have to have message boards, we don't have to have articles, we don't have to do anything. We can close the fucking shop, right fucking now. We can tell all of you to simply fuck right off. Maybe we'd be doing the world a great service. We'd be forcing people to get off of the fucking internet for a minute and actually go ride a fucking skateboard rather than just talk shit about it. Or maybe you'd just all go over to some other so-called skateboarding website and continue your drama there. As far as rules and regulations, moderators and wimpy bullshit, we're not going to go there. You fuckers know who you are, and you know where the line is. If you need to be told where it is, you belong somewhere where you can be over-regulated by some fat egotistical megalomaniac blob that doesn't skate, until you get banned of course. By virtue of your bullshit, you have driven away many true lifelong skateboarders who simply don't want to repeatedly deal with this crap, they just want skateboarding. And when you drive them away, you directly effect us and what we are doing. There are those rare individuals that should be driven out on occasion, but they are very rare indeed. Fuck your Texas death match keyboard battles, you prove nothing, you solve nothing.
Get to the Point Asshole.---
I said there was a line, and you all know exactly where it is. Neither Jeff, MRZ, or myself are babysitters. Grow the fuck up. It's still obviously open season on usurpers and people who distort the truth or push crappy product without permission. There is a license to call these types out, use it wisely, or defer to us to handle it. We are perfectly capable of fighting our own battles. We aren't going to change the no-ban policy. We are considering the creation of a whiny crybaby section for the forums where you could conduct your boofuckinghoo outside of the true skate-related threads. Until that time, you've been told exactly what the deal is. Stop fucking up our trip. This site costs money to maintain, it also costs us money to travel and cover scenes and events. Our advertising partnership provides us with a very limited amount of revenue to offset the cost of keeping this going. Rarely do we break even, if at all. When our traffic drops off because people are bailing out because of your bullshit, that directly effects our ability to keep doing what we do. If you have even a small modicum of respect for what we do or a tiny amount of appreciation for the content we create, save your fucking drama for the real world. This is a skateboarding website, not a stitch and bitch daycare center for adult babies. Skateboarding websites are a dime a dozen these days, and the majority of them are straight up bullshit. Fake-ass extreme sports sites with "important" guys' names attached to them, faking the funk for all it's worth while ripping us off. In other words there are plenty of places to sword fight with your limp dicks, far away from our domain. Now get up out of that fucking chair and go ride your fucking skateboard, if you even still can, after rotting away in front of your computer, talking so much shit for all of these years.
Fuck You Very Much.
-BLKPRJKT
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Tuesday 28th 2009f July 2009 10:11
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