Eddie Rothman Ranting

Since your eyes are closed and ears are covered, I've got nothing else for you buddy. Have a nice day.

 

hahahahahahaha. I did think that as well. But, if you can get bast his rampant douche-baggery, I think he does a fair job of getting at the core of what people like Rothman are constantly *****ing about.

 

*twat waffle

Nice

 

Kinda like Emasspicoli. A total Swellinfo asset. Gotta be getting paid. No one can be that much of a loser.

 

Thanks pumpmaster........I was starting to think SI was turning into some sort of communist website

 

It has and the purge is scheduled for next week, so I'm glad so many capitalist running-dogs are outing themselves.

 

Without jumping on the Rothman is a douche, or money is all that is great bandwagon, can anyone intelligently take a swing at what he, Kala, Flynn, Kalani, Alan, or I said? That includes you Oldsoul. You're an "old soul", but all you got is, "discuss"? C'mon man, you started the thread.

 

Yay! - For the well thought out response gaff.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said.

 

living somewhere doesn't entitle you to anything. people need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

 

Perfectly stated.

 

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There are accounts which state that Bobs last words to his son Ziggy were "Money cant buy life."

 

i guess if the man can bring about some sort of quantifiable benefit to his community; well a rant
or two isn't entirely out of line. can't help but wonder if he is biting the hand that feeds him (others?).
also getting under-mentioned here is that hawaii, at least surfing-wise, is totally unique.

 

Thumbs up Tlokein and Manisses.

Three things to ponder:
1 Health is wealth. What portion of your possessions, and money would you give if you were incapacitated, not being able to leave your bed, or dieing, to go the other direction and do things like surf again?
2 I did a lot of work for Ira Walker (Google him). Ira has millions of dollars. Ira said to me, on more than one occasion, "I want what you have". He surely wasn't talking about my bank account. What did he mean?
3 My dog has no clue what money is, yet she is happier than a pig in sh!t, and filled with love. Why?

 

+1

The displacement of locals happens on the mainland as well. Big money comes in and runs out anybody who doesn't side with their game. They buy local goverments and force families from their land through property taxes (legal theft) so they can ruin the landscape by massive over development of condos, shopping malls, chain resteraunts, walmarts ect. Then they market the place to people from off with money. Been watching it happen in Charleston for years. A handful of people profit while most locals are screwed.
If you live somewhere and it's nice don't let anybody know!

 

So Gaff, do you really think that surfing is finishing up a cycle and is headed back towards a period of fierce localism? If so, I'd be interested in your opinion as to why this will occur.

 

I'm sure Gaff will put together a much better response but my $.02.

Rise in popularity+SUPs rising in popularity+more $$$ to be made so more shops/camps/etc. renting/selling/putting more people in the water w/o any knowledge of etiquette or safety. Snowball effect w\ end result is more and more people in the water pissing off guys who know what they are doing out there and have been surfing that break for decades.

I blame the N Koreans...and Wayne.

 

Thanks Doug. TBH I don't even mind people that just pursue wealth, if that makes you happy so be it. Its the people that screw anyone and everyone over in this pursuit that I deplore.

Make all the gold you want and bathe in it for all I care, but if you f people and\or the environment over to get there...skin them alive.

 

Understood, just trying to get a grip on why you believe so, and in what type of direction you believe it's going.

For reference, I began surfing in the areas around PB and the LJ reefs during the Chris O'Rourke / Huffman Bros. / Joe Roper era. It was rough. But it seemed like the whole Localism scene back then had to do less with crowds, and more with "isolationism", in conjunction with Californians as a whole being disenchanted with the contest scene during that time.

Anything that was "amp" or "flash" was chastened as not considered "soul". Locals stuck to their breaks and expected others to do the same, for the most part. Surfers felt disenfranchised with the commercialism that they felt was overwhelming the "art of surfing", and were quick to disassociate with anything that reflected it. Consequently, locals identified themselves by riding specific boards, wearing specific wetsuits, speaking specific dialects and not wearing goon cords (or whatever).

Then, of course, polka dot wetsuits and neon boards with guys like Danny Kwock and Joey Buran ushered in the 80's. Localism, for the most part, died...and a new era was born.

I guess the point I'm making is, is that if localism in its worst form should rise again, it appears that it will be for entirely different reasons.