Which one should I buy?
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May 12th, 2008
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should I buy a pair of shoes and 3 new shirts or should I buy a grind rail for skating?
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Wake up! The grind rail, of course. Isn’t this answer a little bit obvious?
Build the grind rail yourself from cheap or found materials and forgo the gear, save your cash.
Practice on the rail and other things enough and you won’t have to pay for the clothing in the future. They’ll be paying you to wear their labels.
Just don’t use the grind rail naked if you have no clothes
True. Build your own grind rail, use your old clothes for another year and spend the money on a good stuffed parrot.
Psyla is right. Take your new little friend skating with you. If fact, when you make your next video include the Parrot. When the skating companies view your sponsorship application video, you will be that questionable kid with a stuffed bird in every shot of you sliding down some rail or whatever. They’ll eat it up like the birdseed you wont have to feed your sawdust-filled chum.
For photographic emphasis and to enhance tension, always point the beak of the parrot towards your head.
You should buy one good pair of shoes and get your shirts at a thrift store. Skate nature. That is what makes it fun.
Or you could get a pet squirrel
If you buy a stuffed parrot instead of a stuffed squirrel, you can file the Parrot’s beak down when you’re stressed out, or you could make it serrated, not like Set’s beak.
Sure.. It was a shitty question. At least try to answer it. Make your lame jokes after help is offered.
Maybe you could use some of your $ to get a stuffed squirrel for johnpowell also
johnpowell, it’s very rude to insult someone’s question. If it wasn’t important, they wouldn’t have asked it.
Your nickname could be “Squirrel Master”
I wonder what johnpowell means by “skate nature” is that like au naturale, like nude skating?
maybe grinding bears and deer?
Doesn’t “grinding” mean to have sex with? I don’t think it’s safe to have sex with bears and deer especially while skating after spending hard-earned money on a stuffed squirrel. You weren’t suggesting that he buy a live squirrel, were you?
“Skate nature” means to skate your natural surroundings. Like find a curb that is fun.
I didn’t know curbs were natural, but yeah he should skate naked with his live pet squirrel after having sex with bears….
what could go wrong?
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Should he keep the squirrel on a leash?
Maybe he can just get a tattoo of a parrot on a leash and skip the shirts.
I think some curbs are more fun than others. I know a curb down my street that’s just a whole lot of fun.
yeah, just untill he learns to ride the front of the skateboard, but it has to be the harness style leash because you don’t want to strangle him if can’t keep up. He needs sunglasses too.
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I would think he would want sunglasses but if there was any money left over, I would say that he doesn’t “need” sunglasses.
and be cautious of squirrels that attack, its a serious problem according to the animal planet channel
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Wouldn’t he save more money by buying a squirrel trap & capturing his own live squirrels?
This has turned into Theatre of the Absurd or something…
Absurd Theater! I love it!
I don’t really understand it either.
what’s to understand? Pet squirrels kick ass
Allow me to explain. What we’re trying to do here is to help atr408 spend his money. If he didn’t buy the grinder, the shoes, or the shirts, he would have money left over. I kind of line up with peedub on this one, I would suggest spending the money on a tatoo, but that’s just my opinion. There are more wasteful things to buy if one were trying to waste their saved money.
I have skateboarded for twenty years. Have you? My gut says “no.” It was smart ass comments that didn’t help that pissed me off. Help or get off the pot.
Maybe he can kill a few birds (hopefully not a parrot) with these.
A solid set of shoes is the best thing you can buy if you skate.
Jesus Christ, its not that serious!!
Do you have high blood pressure?
Of course. I don’t really care. And in real life I stare at blades of grass and laugh. You are just random people I won’t remember in the morning.
this conversation is thee most idiotic one I’ve seen in a while.
Fuck.
Oh, and to answer your question; buy some shoes.
Yep. Thats it.
I solemnly declare that I have skateboarded for 20 years.
you should have seen the conversation last week with the little kid telling everyone to f off and then saying everyone was sucking **** because no one liked panic at the disco, that was a good one, but it was removed I think, bummer
I witnessed the conversation and “zack” privately harassed me and would not leave me alone. Also publically as well- he even made a disgusting question about me.
Why bummer though?
I thought the best one was about how wildflower has beaked aliens in her garden that throw things at her when she mows the lawn. I don’t think her eyesight is too good. I think it was the neighbor’s kids.
WHAT IS UP WITH YOU AND BEAKED ALIENS PSYLA
I don’t understand
Ask peedub, there’s something about beaks that profoundly disturbs him.
I did. Pm’ed him, because I don’t understand this phenomenon.
cheeb what’s taking you so long?
Zack sent me a private message telling me he was a virgin or something, I told him that he will most likely remain a virgin as long as panic at the disco is his favorite band. I got a txt message so I had to repond to it first
Maybe peedub had a bad experience with beaks before and now has a deep-rooted psychological aversion to them. I have the same problem with the company “Mor Furniture”.
Birds are descended directly from dinosaurs. Current DNA research shows that chicken has elements of dinosaur DNA.
What does it mean when you PM someone like how TheHaight PM’ed peedub about his beak problem?
sorry psyla… Peedubman doesn’t quite understand the phenomenon but just goes along with it.
explain, please.
And your k session with “scalmari”
about YOUR beak problem.
“private
message”.
Just click on their icon/or name and you will fig it out from there
I trust nothing with wings!
It’s too deep-rooted for me to be objective. The Fluther story explains a lot of it. I began to understand more after my 47th read.
wildflower said that she was drinking salmari, but I read it as scalmari. Calamari is squid… so the thought of octopus and vodka occurred to me.
47? No way. I don’t believe you peedubdude.
You shouldn’t believe me. Has anyone tried to read it backwards, what is it really saying?
It’s true. If you know peedub and he says 47, it’s 47.
psyla, you know peedub?
P+P=♥
I would PM my vodkapuss if someone explained what PM means. Asking this probably would not be a good Fluther question. johnpowell would lambast me.
(psyla I already explained it….)
@TheMightyHaighty- How did you make that dudical little heart?
Oh, sorry, as johnpowell said, I’m a little bit dense.
OH NO! Do I Dare say…. “beaked aliens”?
How can this even be a question?..........You always go with the shoes!
All the other stuff I’m sure you can borrow from someone else…....but not shoes.
atr408 always goes with shoes?
DUH peedubman- everyone knows how too.
Its & hearts ;
(put it all together, though)
♥
She’s so enigmatic, don’t you love her?
“you” as a generic term psyla…..try to stay alert and stay with me here….
OK, I’m with you, go ahead..
Me too. How did you make the heart?
psyla, when in doubt, but shoes are part of one of the options, choose the shoes!
I ♥ shoes!
PEEdub- follow me here: its
& + hearts + ; (semi colon, )
cmon…you’re supposed to be the big smart law-man and I’n showing you how to make hearts!
I ♥ origami as well. Can you instruct me in some of that too?
&;&; doesn’t work on an iTouch.
Yes it does psyla.
I can show you how to make a crane and thats about it… Hey, is it cuz I’m Japanese that your asking me????? :-/
see, psyla- i believed in ya. You’re not too dense after all.
I didn’t know you were Japanese. I ask everyone about origami but you have proven yourself to be a good teacher.
Origami is not the easiest thing to learn, you know…
haha! I’ll show you one day. Its fun. I’ve taught all of my co-workers how to fold a crane and we have contests on who can make the smallest one.
CHEEB howd you do that?
sorry.. I have to LOL to peedub.
He tried!
♪♪♫♫ Dee Dee, a Doo Doo ♫♪♪♫
I can do this: ÐÅØÆÖÝ....
Wow, I wanna change my screen name to that. Can you make an exotic peedub with your fancy keyboard?
sure….
Þéèðuß
or
Þæðüß
…of course, this would technically be pronounced: theeyuss
A mix of Icelandic, Danish and German
I thought you were Irish! What time is it?
Just because I live in Ireland doesn’t mean I am Irish…..it’s 9.16am
Thanks! It’s 1:17AM. Have you been to Germany or Denmark?
I hate to appear foolish, but what language do they speak in Ireland. Ireland, Greece, & Egypt are on my to-do list.
Primarily English, but Irish is also an official language, but mostly used in signs, publications, etc.
psyla, were are you at? Its the same time here, too. (ca)
Psyla is under “the” overpass, right?
…with his tin-foil hat and cardboard box.
I’m in Nevada in a cardboard box under a bridge wearing a tinfoil hat. There’s too many darn earthquakes here lately. I’m getting fed up with all these earthquakes every day.
I wonder if it’s hard to keep the blue and green monsters cold in a cardboard Ice box.
My dad lives at the base of Heavenly. Is that close?
Heavenly is just up the road. There’s a mountain here that might fall down but heavenly will be safe.
[Fluther Moderator]: Wow…looks like a great “chat” going on! Let’s remember to stick to answering the question here, but feel free to continue the conversation in the chat room! Thanks!
I would say that if there was to be an earthquake and a mountain was about to fall, the shoes would be preferable to buy over the grind rail. So if depends alot on what local natural disasters are going on in atr408’s area as to whether he should buy the grind rail or the clothes.
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What was the question again?
Oh yeah! Grind rail dude!!!
I can’t believe I just read the whole conversation
@brew805
I’m oddly impressed…but can you still remember what the question was?
peedub, wildflower, & psyla are known in Fluther as “The Three Answerers” (or “The Theater of the Absurd” depending on who you ask). We are well-known for providing creative accurate answers and for irking johnpowell due to our sense of humor. We have also been known to anger bulbatron9 because we’re Punk Rock Posers. Our suggestion to this question is to buy neither item & waste the saved money by buying something totally useless, such as a live squirrel or a stuffed parrot, & then have the useless item be the centerpiece of one’s life. We seem to promote a Zen attitude towards lifestyle choices.
@psyla you mean known for creating nonsensical chatter thats off topic and belongs in a the chat room?
There is no reason for this question to have 138 responses. Im willing to bet less than 10% are actually on topic.
Edit: because im a nerd and all i counted its actually around 8.6%
I would buy the shoes, you can find cheap shirts online or thrift store like jp said. And grind rail is pretty pointless unless you live in the middle of no where.
Out of 76 answers provided by peedub, wildflower, & myself, only 44 were off-topic. This translates to 42.106 % being On-Topic and not the 10% that you suggest. I apologize for this digression, but I believe that, overall, the off-topic additions were an asset to all Flutherers because the off-topic comments describe how to make symbols in Fluther, such as ♦ ♠ ♥ ♣ which will be an asset to the Fluther community as a source of emoticons to further define one’s Fluther answers. We are humans, not robots, and a certain degree of levity is to be expected and even welcomed. Droll overly-serious replys reveal a person who has no depth of character and little personality. If life is no fun, why would it be worth living? And to stay on topic, go with the shoes!
it was a question about birds, right?
atr408 asked “Should I buy a pair of shoes and three new shirts or should I buy a new grind rail for skating?” the consensus thus far is that he should buy neither and that he should open his mind to other items that could be purchased with the money.
psyla, I think you might have gotten half your score from this post alone
Click the post as a “Great Answer” then! I’ve got Lurve Greed.
ugh, psyla.. Why about me? I contributed to the off topic absurd answers as well? Gee thanks. :-/
I think I’m going to get both :) lol just means I have to wait 1 more week to have enough money. So which one should I buy first? Haha
Thehaight~ we were both left out, it would have been nothing if it werent for us! Where is our award? I want an award damn it!
LOL
buy the squirrel first, if you can’t find one, then go for the shoes!
I know! We were jipped cheeb!
Apologies to you both! The wrath of the uberbatman is the highest award that one could receive. In accepting my award, I’d like to thank my Mother, cheebdragon, and TheHaight for mentoring me and for being the kind & wise Flutherers that have nurtured my angst and helped me realize that I am only mildly dense. Click on uberbatman’s icon to see the PM that ensued!
haha the wrath of the überbatman. Thats hilarious. Wait, so I don’t get an award? Just a shout-out? And cheeb too!? She taught us how to make the nifty symbols.
atr408
I can not stress this enough: shoes! always go with the shoes! ♥ shoes!
Moderators are circling overhead like vultures and soon may swoop down and close our accounts! We must keep repeating the one magical word which supposedly keeps us on topic & keeps the moderators at bay and that word is… “Shoes”.
Indeed psyla, just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…
So it’s the 5 of us – peedub, TheHaight, wildflower, cheebdragon, and psyla? What should we call our alliance? And, oh yeah, ... “Shoes”.
peedub and I were attacked by moderators last night, so I’ve developed a bit of deep-seated psychological disturbance about moderators, kind of like how peedub reacts to beaks, and sort of like how those UFOs attack you when you mow the lawn. Shoes.
Don’t misunderstand, I did not suggest that we call the gathering of us 5, “Shoes”.
we shall be called
“the great überbatman”.
and we shall rule the world.
Shoes, atr—- SHOES
hmmm i like that. The wrath of uberbatman. Makes me feel like a Greek god or something.
I SHALL LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED!
How about the facetious five?
Edit:Shoes (god i hate that damn video)
You forgot to say “Shoes”.
I like the facetious five, über
shoes.
I vote for “The Great Uberbatman”, but “The Facetious Five” will do as well. Both are much better than “The Theater of the Absurd”, which also would be acceptable to me. Thoughts? Shoes.
I’ll settle for a cameo in the current feature at the Theater of the Absurd…
shoes
The facetious five make you guys sound like a group of super villains.
BAM! BOFF! überbatman, I was accosted by a moderator! Great Scott! Buy Batshoes.
Join us, überbatman, on The Dark Side Of The Fluther. Be our leader and you will rule the world. What will be our name when we are 6, oh Greek God. Shoes.
Holy fluther! What a convo! Just think, I’ll never get that five minutes back. =(
Sorry, forgot to add, GO WITH THE SHOOOOOOOoooooooes! I almost ran outta breath holding that one out.
Yes, you’ve irredeemably lost 5 minutes of your life and now you’ll have to quit smoking and whiskey to get your 5 minutes back. But if you gained any sort of illumination at all from this conversation, you can keep the whiskey. Shoes.
Haha, in that case I’ll say that this was one of the highlights of my life just to be able to keep my whisky!
That’s it! You’re brilliant! Don’t buy shoes, 3 shirts, or a grind rail for skating, what better way to waste money and enjoy life than by using the saved money to buy Whiskey!
Dont use the whisky and the nature skating together though. It could mean disaster.
We used to get drunk and then ride skateboards in a group down impossibly steep hills. The night would usually end with all 3 of us laying on the curb moaning & unwilling to stand up. It was actually quite fun. One of us would throw a frisbee to the others as they accelerated down the hill on skateboards.
Not Whiskey, Tequila…..T-E-Q-U-I-L-A.
And how could you suggest not buying the shoes??
@Wildflower has a good point, therefore I shouldn’t argue with her.
I think a good pair of shoes should do the trick.
Yaay, I have a point…does that mean I’m not pointless?? ( – . – )
Get some of these shoes and make this your theme song….
ok I bought the clothes first. Shoes
Whoo hoo….....good move :)
cool, atr. Now you’re going to look all rico suave while you’re skating.
Psh I alredy did lol but I’m not going to wear them to skate. They are going to be my going out clothes because they’re sexy lol
Did you drop the wad on that tuxedo T-shirt you were tellin’ me about?
…That’s effin sweet, dawg!
It’s gonna look dudical when you perform you magic tricks on stage, POOF!
shoes
Im on a iPod touch so if I typed that wrong then just go to ccs.com and towards the top-right corner where it says track my order type in “neff” and find the black one w/ palm trees. Isn’t it sexy?
That is (I can’t believe I’m about to use this word) awesome! Love the colours :)
haha. Do you not say awsome that often wildflower?
Sweet mon. We’re gonna have to roll it Crockett and Tubbs style down to the beach this summer, pick up some babes.
I know! pick me up!
Hahah. Jk.
it is a pretty cool shirt though
Nope. Not a very commonly used phrase over here…....it’s considered very American along with y’all and such.
Crockett and Tubbs is cool…....just please don’t do the net-slip-on shoes with no socks!
‘Jk,’ nothing! You’re totes going with. We’ll be playing live on the beach that night with that greasy band from Lost Boys.
tizzzziiiiiggghht. Let’s go.
And ya’ll? Wldflower.. Cmon really? ;-)
umm. Peedub, I dont know who crocette and tubs are. Thehaight, you know ur not jk. And wildflower, y’all is for hill-billies and I don’t like slip ons
MIAMI VICE
C’mon man. You’re shirt is based on that amazing concept.
hahaha…..aye, to be sure, really. But sure I reckon tis grand all the same ;)
I’m only 17. Miami vice is befor my time
atr408: what about the movie? did you at least see that?
OK OK. I am so not JK.
You got me.
Here, witness the unrestrained radness of Jan Hammer’s brilliant Miami Vice Theme Song.
Oh, and sorry chief, Miami vice transcends time.
haha nope. Sorry. Not even iterested in seeing it
If you don’t wanna see babes, waves and Ferraris then suit yourself.
ATR your missing out, man.
Pshhh.. And you call yourself ‘sexy’
babes? Rather see them in real life. Waves? I got a bath tub. And I like the newer ferraris not ancient ones ;) but haight, how am I missing out? By not watching the movie?
what about scarface? I think that’s better than Miami vice
SCARFACE and MIAMI VICE are two diff categories!!
How do you know it’s better if you never saw Miami Vice??
they are both in Miami and they both are old. Only diff is scarface is better :)
I don’t know for sure but Miami vice doesn’t catch my intrest so its got to suck because not only am I sexy, I have excellent taste ;)
And the worst spelling & grammar!!! :D. C’mon wildflower.. You correct me for spelling “it’s” wrong…but not for atr’s mess? ;)
I’m on an iPod touch. It always tries to auto correct but does a bad job. And I’m half asleep
Yes they share they the common theme of cocaine trafficking but consider this:
The product of Scarface is a ghey-ass shirt like this.
Whereas, Miami Vice inspired your shirt.
haha! :D you win. That shirt is… Wow
it’s too overwhelming…....he even got Crockett wrong….....oh dear me, what is the world coming to!!
it’s a mad mad world, w.
Peedub.
You win.
I’m trippin balls. I think I’m going to sleep
You guys are having way to much fun in here without me!
@atr- Nice choice of shirt. Wiht a pick like that, how can you not wanna at least check out Miami vice?
See, Randall knows what’s up.
You gotta know your roots, man.
Randy- you daaaa man.
Fun? Were having an extravaganza.
sigh… Well if I’m realy bored and I’m dying then I gues I’ll watch it. But I’m to buisy with school. Skating (goin pro) and friends. I havnt watched tv in at least a month. I’m deprived
haha, you’re talking to peeps that are as busy as you or maybe even more busy. It’s all about how you spend your time. Cmon- peedub ma’ man is studying for the most important exam ever, big law man. And me? I’m a busy mofo but still try to make time to do what I gotta do. Damn… I’m rambling on. Ignore this. I’m tired too, and have work at 6 am… Need sleep!
Ppppsssshhhhhhtttttt! Who needs school if your going pro?!?!? Lol. Why don’t ya just take that time when your hanging with friends and all of you check it out. I’m sure your friends would love it too. Its Miami vice for crying out loud! Haha! ^_^
I can’t really count myself amongst the busy folks now. College is over for the semester (whoo hoo, I got Tuesday and Thursdays back!) and I’m off work for 2 weeks at the moment :)
@DaHaight- Do have these: —.— right now?
Sure you can Wild, your going all Heart of Darkness on your backyard right now, machetes and all. Sheet, even the birds appreciate it.
hahaha….but that’s for purely selfish reasons :D
Just wait till I start painting the fence and walls…..I have big plans :)
I’m sure you do. I can lend you my new airbrush if you wanna do a mural of SHOES on the wall.
Yes!! That would be so cool!
yes they are—.—
Or x . x
Night folks.
Night night…....and feel free to call around if you wanna get gardening – just be prepared to get blisters :(
I still cant read these answers without laughing.
This is hilarious. And I vote for shoes.
No! For god’s sake, the grind rail. Get the grind rail!
Too late. He got the shoes. Are there shoes that can double as a grind rail? What is a grind rail?
Sniff….and the people who aren’t here any more.
A grind rail is kinda like a hand rail for midgets. Shorter than a regular hand rail, and usually free of skateboard deterrents.
Well, hell. He can just go to the hardware store and get piping and build his own!
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