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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Watson on June 06, 2013, 04:23:32 PM
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A lot of you have been hitting me up lately, asking what's happening with YouWillSoon. In the last few years, the main focus of the site was to call out what I perceived to be bullshit in the skateboard industry. Over the years, as the site grew in popularity, I got to know some of the people I had previously slandered on the site. One of those people in particular was Steve Berra.
Steve and I have maintained a heated back and forth for a couple of years now. Last month, after a long chat with Steve, hashing things out, I actually went down to meet with him and spend some time at The Berrics. After seeing what actually goes on there, what it means to people, and what they do for skateboarding, I'm afraid I have to admit that I was wrong about them. They are trying to promote skateboarding in a positive way, and I feel that I should be doing the same. I'm not going to erase my negative past, what's done is done, but moving forward, I will no longer be maintaining youwillsoon.com. I'll leave the site up as a record, but will not be changing the tone of it or posting in the future. I'm older, and it's time to start acting like a man. A positive man.
I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but I will suggest leading by example. Actions speak louder than words. Please take a good look in the mirror and be the person you want to be.
(EDIT: This post is actually just a prank that my friend pulled on me after I left my Slap account logged in at work. Please keep reading before you think I would ever be friends with Steve Berra, that friggin turd.)
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Damn it, Scientology got him.
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interesting
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-sb
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well, watson, i'll miss the site. been following it forever. sad to see it go.
but i'm still keeping my fingers crossed that this is a huge hoax/plot to befriend steve berra, get real close and then humiliate him to the up most degree
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-sb
damn beat me too it
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8208/8182843099_b73dabdf19_z.jpg)
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Good on you Watson. The fact that you came in here to let us know what happened to your site is pretty awesome. Best of luck.
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That isn't the real Watson! He's already dead.
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1.) You met Berra and decided to stop blogging and, more generally, stop being negative? You offered more than just Berra-bashing, youwillsoon was fun as fuck to read and I think added something to the skate community.
2.) Your last post ever is going to be about the new Blueprint team?!
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THIS THREAD IS PERFECTION
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I feel like there are way more things to bash anyways aside from the Berrics.
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I fucking loled
also if this is true, then a spot just opened up for someone of similar testicular fortitude to fill with their own site
(http://www.troll.me/images/monitor-lizard/i-will-be-monitoring-this-thread.jpg)
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damn dude no way, a part of me dont beleive it, but i can see where hes coming from. wish you the best Watson
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Ain't nothing that dc money can't buy!!!
Go for it Watson, grab that cash...
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A trip to Wonka's factory and you're won over. You're the Charles Templeton of sk8brd blogs.
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so when is your street league trip, watson?
how was your business lunch with phil knight?
anyways i see where you coming from. I have been to the point where posts/jokes/photoshop ideas popped into my head to release on this message board that had myself in tears of laughter when thinking about it. a lot of them i had already typed in and was ready to post. but there is that point where i read the post once again and think "naw dude it's funny as shit, but it's kinda harsh. If i'd be that guy and read that about myself I would be really pissed off. might as well cry." Then i think about karma and decide to delete it.
at the end of the day i still try to be a nice person.
In most cases somebody else comes up with that same joke a few posts later anyway.
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This would make a lot more sense if it were posted on April 1st.
I'm glad that you want to be more "positive" but your changing viewpoint on this jackass scientologist is just not right.
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this can't be real. what is real? am i real?
first the fresh prince, now they got Watson?? fuck you xenu
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hahaha
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That's right, build a pile of shit then eat it, money over dignity any day!
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This thread is like 1 million litres of Gatorade and Mountain Dew, yet it will still not quench Berra's thirst for praise.
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Boo This Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p_ncbffCE#)
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hopefully this is a joke - maybe someone got access to his account? if it's real, why post it here other than to appease berra somehow? why not just make a post on the blog itself, seems like that would be more believable/poignant.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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A lot of you have been hitting me up lately, asking what?s happening with YouWillSoon. In the last few years, the main focus of the site was to call out what I perceived to be bullshit in the skateboard industry. Over the years, as the site grew in popularity, I got to know some of the people I had previously slandered on the site. One of those people in particular was Steve Berra.
Steve and I have maintained a heated back and forth for a couple of years now. Last month, after a long chat with Steve and his lawyers, hashing things out, I actually went down to meet with him and spend some time at The Berrics.
Fixed it.
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Somebody rescue him from the berrics because he's obviously being detained for "cleansing". His name is Robert Paulson.
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youwillsoon was like bane, that necessary evil and shit.
someone else needs to pick up the torch
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ESPGEDvYrgc/TChF2ANmjRI/AAAAAAAAAbU/C8um__z_T_0/s1600/cool+star+wars+photos+darth+vader+with+teddy+bear%5B6%5D.jpg)
Do your thing. Thanks for the memories.
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Nonotever.com that's what the new YWS should be called.
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Boo This Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p_ncbffCE#)
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sarah mclachlan - i will remember you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0#)
goodnight sweet prince.
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>:( ??? >:( :-\ :'( :(
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what did he offer that slap doesn't? I didn't know he was that popular, weird. Steve Berra is a pothead, fuck him
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oh well
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goodnight sweet prince.
goodnight sweet prince.
If you're picking a natalie merchant song this is more fitting. this is cancerous.
Natalie Merchant-My Skin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qMUmWA20A#)
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If this is true than good for you for doing what you think is right. I dug the blog in that you didn't hold back, but I dig even more that you recognize where distance and rumor can muddle things and you're trusting your own perception.
On that note, I love SLAP for being the default place to call out people on bullshit, but I'd like to see posters exercise more discretion, fact checking, and skepticism before jumping to conclusions. I think people tend to get high on SLAP's reputation as a DIY news source and take rumored words as gospel too quickly. I've seen total bullshit spread and reacted unfavorably to, only to be quickly debunked.
Of course, there are plenty of truths as well. By all means, share rumors and voice your opinions on them, but take a minute to step back before perceiving things as the immediate truth and allow yourself to develop an opinion on it.
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bummer, youwillsoon is awesome.
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shit is full of shit
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Nonotever.com that's what the new YWS should be called.
Not what I was expecting.
http://nonotnever.tumblr.com/ (http://nonotnever.tumblr.com/)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/898079d88cb2930d1d818725d9353eb2/tumblr_mnwxam37101rpt4j7o3_250.jpg)
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Ahahah amazing hack. I was quite surprised to find out that I made a post on Slap today. I don't know who logged into my account, but big ups on doing a good job of it. All the grammar, capitalization, and use of punctuation was proper, specifically with the term "YouWillSoon". However, there's just no way I would not capitalize a title of a thread.
Whether the blog is done or not, I assure all of you that there is no fucking way in hell I'd ever go hang out with, agree with, or endorse some stupid dingleberry scientologist fucking kook who's running a website that is doing as much towards making skateboarding look lame as fucking longboarders. Fuck The Berrics, fuck Berra, fuck Street League, fuck energy drinks, fuck unwarranted "positivity". Karma doesn't exist, if you think something sucks, say it.
For real though Kudos to whoever made this thread, they did a good job and I fully back whoever knows my shit well enough to do it right. Gave me some good LOLs for sure.
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yaaaay!
(http://ronekysdc.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/vdiybht3ez.jpg)
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Didn't expect that.
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Watson, i am taking your canadian citizen ship away, have fun in guantanamo bucko
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If this is true than good for you for doing what you think is right. I dug the blog in that you didn't hold back, but I dig even more that you recognize where distance and rumor can muddle things and you're trusting your own perception.
On that note, I love SLAP for being the default place to call out people on bullshit, but I'd like to see posters exercise more discretion, fact checking, and skepticism before jumping to conclusions. I think people tend to get high on SLAP's reputation as a DIY news source and take rumored words as gospel too quickly. I've seen total bullshit spread and reacted unfavorably to, only to be quickly debunked.
Of course, there are plenty of truths as well. By all means, share rumors and voice your opinions on them, but take a minute to step back before perceiving things as the immediate truth and allow yourself to develop an opinion on it.
Well put.
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I wasn't buying it but had to keep reading until I came to Watson's follow up post. Reason it failed to convince me was because the original post said that Berra and his site were "doing something positive for skateboarding", BULLSHIT!
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Ahahah amazing hack. I was quite surprised to find out that I made a post on Slap today. I don't know who logged into my account, but big ups on doing a good job of it. All the grammar, capitalization, and use of punctuation was proper, specifically with the term "YouWillSoon". However, there's just no way I would not capitalize a title of a thread.
Whether the blog is done or not, I assure all of you that there is no fucking way in hell I'd ever go hang out with, agree with, or endorse some stupid dingleberry scientologist fucking kook who's running a website that is doing as much towards making skateboarding look lame as fucking longboarders. Fuck The Berrics, fuck Berra, fuck Street League, fuck energy drinks, fuck unwarranted "positivity". Karma doesn't exist, if you think something sucks, say it.
For real though Kudos to whoever made this thread, they did a good job and I fully back whoever knows my shit well enough to do it right. Gave me some good LOLs for sure.
Plot twist: This is actually the fake post
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pantha rei
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I wasn't buying it but had to keep reading until I came to Watson's follow up post. Reason it failed to convince me was because the original post said that Berra and his site were "doing something positive for skateboarding", BULLSHIT!
Is this Slaps miniature version of the movieindustries "I knew they where faking" responses when Casey Affleck admitted that Im still here was fake?
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All of us like to read your posts and your blog.
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Watson is very smart not to come out with hippy bullshit like in the first post. When i read the 1st page i was sure he was trolling.
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, huge sigh of relief, was waiting for your second post. then I saw it, and I was happy.
all is well on the internet.
2Pac Hit Em Up [Dirty version] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hTuSaTUOUk#)
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rescue mission successful
(http://web-images.askedlastnight.com/images/could-you-survive-chinese-water-torture-jun-6-2012-9-600x424.jpg)
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Watson is very smart not to come out with hippy bullshit like in the first post. When i read the 1st page i was sure he was trolling.
was waiting for your second post. then I saw it, and I was happy.
It wasn't trolling, someone legitimately signed into my account and made that post. I have no idea who it was. I just got a text from a friend who told me his friends were tripping on the thread I just made hahah. So I checked it out and was pretty stoked.
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i believe you Wilson.
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The fuck. People seriously hack accounts on Slap?
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Excellent Hack! Had me legitimately fooled for a minute...
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whoa.
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Hall of fame.
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The fuck. People seriously hack accounts on Slap?
If one has the knowledge to do so, then yes.
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If this is true than good for you for doing what you think is right. I dug the blog in that you didn't hold back, but I dig even more that you recognize where distance and rumor can muddle things and you're trusting your own perception.
On that note, I love SLAP for being the default place to call out people on bullshit, but I'd like to see posters exercise more discretion, fact checking, and skepticism before jumping to conclusions. I think people tend to get high on SLAP's reputation as a DIY news source and take rumored words as gospel too quickly. I've seen total bullshit spread and reacted unfavorably to, only to be quickly debunked.
Of course, there are plenty of truths as well. By all means, share rumors and voice your opinions on them, but take a minute to step back before perceiving things as the immediate truth and allow yourself to develop an opinion on it.
Wait...if I'm understanding you correctly...you're saying that PJ Ladd has AIDS? OMG!
;)
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Um...well then I guess I take back my post on page 1? Jesus H.
They say there's a sucker born every minute...I've got this minute covered, ladies and gentlemen.
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Hacked.. Sure..
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Hacked.. Sure..
Wha....you're inferring it could all be a potential publicity stunt?!?
But...this is skateboarding! Where integrity rules supreme! How dare you, sir, how DARE you!
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Hacked.. Sure..
Oprah you're everything: rich; street smart; a handsome lady. Whatever your opinion on this is I will share it.
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Watson, have you traveled to Columbia recently? There is a drug there called "Devil's Breath" that may explain that confession.
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The fuck. People seriously hack accounts on Slap?
If he left it logged in, I could totally see a homie doing it.
Ahaha thanks Hate, as soon as I read that post I figured it out.
Got "hacked" by Lowry. Kevin's been in town the last week and helping out at Ninetimes, and one day the Ninetimes Facebook page was open so Kevin posted one of Jason (the owner's) video sections with the caption "I'm the best!"
(http://oi42.tinypic.com/2vmx6hh.jpg)
So the next day Kevin left his Facebook open so I "hacked" his with this:
(http://oi43.tinypic.com/4lsfwi.jpg)
And the day after he got me back with this thread because my account must have been logged in. Good job Flowers, ya got me.
And fuck you to anyone who would think I would do this as a "publicity stunt". Seriously, I would only do something like that if I were truly friends with Berra.
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Definetly a post to read from the beginning. Good guys win. Long Live Wilson!
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Watson is very smart not to come out with hippy bullshit like in the first post. When i read the 1st page i was sure he was trolling.
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was waiting for your second post. then I saw it, and I was happy.
It wasn't trolling, someone legitimately signed into my account and made that post. I have no idea who it was. I just got a text from a friend who told me his friends were tripping on the thread I just made hahah. So I checked it out and was pretty stoked.
Im gonna assume Garrett? If so i was the guy who texted him haha.
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PJ Ladd has Anthrax in his butt.
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And fuck you to anyone who would think I would do this as a "publicity stunt". Seriously, I would only do something like that if I were truly friends with Berra.
Hey, it's the era where dipshit hypocrites like Nieratko write emotional, impassioned stories to try and convince us that their corporate-paid Vans cash is okay while telling us that Nikes is inherently evil, I don't fucking trust ANYONE in this game any longer, so you can most certainly color my ass jaded when it comes to taking anything related to skateboarding at face value again. Sorry 'bout that, but that's where we stand these days, everything needs to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism no matter who you are or what site on the internets you update with regularity.
And, yet one burning question remains - how does Berra, as fucking dorky as he is, still remain skateboarding's biggest boogeyman after all these years? I swear, someday parents will be telling their kids tales of the Wicked Steve luring children into his gingerbread house, skateboarding has truly made that kook larger than life with it's unhealthy obsession where it can't let go of that Xenu-loving fucktard. God almighty, hasn't anyone here ever heard the phrase "if you stop giving them constant attention, eventually they'll go away?"
Guess not.
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Me, Myself & Irene: Did you have Fun? (Dildo Scene) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeZPj8uPRQ#ws)
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If this is true than good for you for doing what you think is right. I dug the blog in that you didn't hold back, but I dig even more that you recognize where distance and rumor can muddle things and you're trusting your own perception.
On that note, I love SLAP for being the default place to call out people on bullshit, but I'd like to see posters exercise more discretion, fact checking, and skepticism before jumping to conclusions. I think people tend to get high on SLAP's reputation as a DIY news source and take rumored words as gospel too quickly. I've seen total bullshit spread and reacted unfavorably to, only to be quickly debunked.
Of course, there are plenty of truths as well. By all means, share rumors and voice your opinions on them, but take a minute to step back before perceiving things as the immediate truth and allow yourself to develop an opinion on it.
I'm not a journalist, I'm not doing that shit.
I read on the internet that PJ Ladd has AIDS.
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WOW how many of you were about to start accepting the berrics a little more? Jesus Watson do you now realize how much power you have?
SHEEP
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classic slap
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tha hell IS youwillsoon?
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Nonotever.com that's what the new YWS should be called.
Not what I was expecting.
http://nonotnever.tumblr.com/ (http://nonotnever.tumblr.com/)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/898079d88cb2930d1d818725d9353eb2/tumblr_mnwxam37101rpt4j7o3_250.jpg)
bookmarked
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is there already a new blog from watson?
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I'd like to seriously reply to Watson, you are the biggest fucking joke on the planet. What the fuck have you done for skateboarding? Why do you feel the need to be such a hard headed dick, who honestly has no room to talk what so ever when it comes to the world of skateboarding? You hide behind a computer somewhere in Canada, I would bet my life savings that Lil Wayne skates more than you do. You probably don't even skate anymore, oh but I did hear that you we're a professional Fingerboarder! Lots of street cred there buddy, but the biggest kicker, you'd never say any of the shit you say to anyone's face. You're too much of a pussy, and you're so core dude, so core. What you are is a fucking loser. A piece of shit who has no respect for what we all love, skateboarding. And I would love to say this all to your face, shut your blog down, the 8 people that check it will forget in a heartbeat, and I hope I find you one day. In the meantime you should probably try skateboarding again, so you can remember why we all fell in love with it in the first place.
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I'd like to seriously reply to Watson, you are the biggest fucking joke on the planet. What the fuck have you done for skateboarding? Why do you feel the need to be such a hard headed dick, who honestly has no room to talk what so ever when it comes to the world of skateboarding? You hide behind a computer somewhere in Canada, I would bet my life savings that Lil Wayne skates more than you do. You probably don't even skate anymore, oh but I did hear that you we're a professional Fingerboarder! Lots of street cred there buddy, but the biggest kicker, you'd never say any of the shit you say to anyone's face. You're too much of a pussy, and you're so core dude, so core. What you are is a fucking loser. A piece of shit who has no respect for what we all love, skateboarding. And I would love to say this all to your face, shut your blog down, the 8 people that check it will forget in a heartbeat, and I hope I find you one day. In the meantime you should probably try skateboarding again, so you can remember why we all fell in love with it in the first place.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA <3
...But seriously Watson, we need a new post soon!
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I'd like to seriously reply to Watson, you are the biggest fucking joke on the planet. What the fuck have you done for skateboarding? Why do you feel the need to be such a hard headed dick, who honestly has no room to talk what so ever when it comes to the world of skateboarding? You hide behind a computer somewhere in Canada, I would bet my life savings that Lil Wayne skates more than you do. You probably don't even skate anymore, oh but I did hear that you we're a professional Fingerboarder! Lots of street cred there buddy, but the biggest kicker, you'd never say any of the shit you say to anyone's face. You're too much of a pussy, and you're so core dude, so core. What you are is a fucking loser. A piece of shit who has no respect for what we all love, skateboarding. And I would love to say this all to your face, shut your blog down, the 8 people that check it will forget in a heartbeat, and I hope I find you one day. In the meantime you should probably try skateboarding again, so you can remember why we all fell in love with it in the first place.
-sb
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I think you misread, PJ doesn't have AIDS. Chase Webb was born with fetal alcohol syndrome though.
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I'd like to seriously reply to Watson, you are the biggest fucking joke on the planet. What the fuck have you done for skateboarding? Why do you feel the need to be such a hard headed dick, who honestly has no room to talk what so ever when it comes to the world of skateboarding? You hide behind a computer somewhere in Canada, I would bet my life savings that Lil Wayne skates more than you do. You probably don't even skate anymore, oh but I did hear that you we're a professional Fingerboarder! Lots of street cred there buddy, but the biggest kicker, you'd never say any of the shit you say to anyone's face. You're too much of a pussy, and you're so core dude, so core. What you are is a fucking loser. A piece of shit who has no respect for what we all love, skateboarding. And I would love to say this all to your face, shut your blog down, the 8 people that check it will forget in a heartbeat, and I hope I find you one day. In the meantime you should probably try skateboarding again, so you can remember why we all fell in love with it in the first place.
(http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/Cry-Baby.gif)
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I like it when all of Slap comes together to produce a solid comic gem of a thread like this.
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Bump. Gone? Erased?
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I think you're right, we've witnessed the death of youwillsoon once and for all. It's a sad day, hopefully something new is in the works.
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PJ Ladd has Anthrax in his butt.
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#nvr4gt
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Watson, have you traveled to Columbia recently? There is a drug there called "Devil's Breath" that may explain that confession.
(http://bogota.tropicanafm.com/images/2002144_n_vir3.jpg?u=250523)
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- Had the domain set to auto-renew
- Changed my credit card to a different rewards program so my number changed.
- Couldn't remember the password to log in to the domain server.
- Clicked on the "reset password" option but never received an e-mail.
- Forgot about it.
- Domain name expired.
- Tried to log in again but still didn't know the password and the password reset never sent an e-mail.
- Called the domain server and they needed a password (which I didn't have) or a registered credit card number (which I didn't have) to make any changes on the account.
- Found out it was registered to an old Hotmail account I hadn't used in years, thus why I was not receiving password reset e-mails.
- Tried to log in to the old Hotmail account but it was inactive for so long I had to get them to text me a verification code to reset it.
- Got in to the old e-mail, reset the password, renewed the domain name www.youwillsoon.com (http://www.youwillsoon.com). Hopefully will be up and running in 12-24 hours.
- In the meantime you can still access www.youwillsoon.blogspot.ca (http://www.youwillsoon.blogspot.ca) but there's still no new posts.
Man, this not-blogging business is hard work.
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Well, after all that effort, you at least owe us a 2013 Soonies.
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Well, after all that effort, you at least owe us a 2013 Soonies.
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Well, after all that effort, you at least owe us a 2013 Soonies.
"PEOPLE WHO THINK YWS OWES THEM SOMETHING GET 404'D IN THE RAIN." -Phelper