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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Shtonk on April 25, 2024, 04:01:55 AM
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Any (ex) pro skaters that are really smart, erudite, well spoken, kinda the way Ted Barrow is or just scientifically certified geniuses? I know Rodney Mullen will probably come up and somebody's gonna shitpost Mickey Papa's TED talk. I'd say Grosso in his own way seemed a lot smarter and considerate even than what he let on.
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Alexis Sablone is wicked smaht.
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john rattray has a chemistry degree or someth
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@Shtonk try using that little white bar with a magnifying glass imagine to the right of it at the top of the page...
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=76851.0
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sorry, although the fourth post in that thread is an ABP as well. maybe rehashing subjects every now and again ain't that bad. Also college degrees don't really make you very smart automatically, with all due respect. Ocean Howell was a good mention in the other thread tho. Still have to read his book.
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The link to the ABD is dead. Yes I know you don't need a high IQ to get a degree, especially if you come from money/power.
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Mark's skating. The style is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the tricks will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Mark's aesthetic outlook, which is deftly woven into his skating - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of his parts, to realize that they're not just boring- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Mark truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Mark's existencial catchphrase "It lacks tastefulness" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as his genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a habitat tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
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if a pro can speak at least 3 different languages, like tom penny speaking Spanish, English, and French, id say they have some level of IQ.
just cause a pro graduated college doesnt mean theyre smart. im sure they are smart, but there are different levels to intelligence. some people excel in school and then flounder in the real world
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Nik Stain - Mathematics
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Brandon Biebel seems really smart
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Brandon Biebel seems really smart
Also, Duane Peters is definitely Mensa.
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Sean pablo wishes he had a degree.
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Quick question, OP: will you stop posting once every thread on the first page has been started by you?
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Mullen was in his senior year for chemical engineering when he dropped out to start World Industries.
He's an odd dude, but seems pretty smart.
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Nik Stain - Mathematics
I was gonna say isn't nik stain a math genius or something
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Andy Roy
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Andy Roy
*Andy Fucking Roy
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sorry, although the fourth post in that thread is an ABP as well. maybe rehashing subjects every now and again ain't that bad. Also college degrees don't really make you very smart automatically, with all due respect. Ocean Howell was a good mention in the other thread tho. Still have to read his book.
recently used ocean howell as a source for a paper
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There was a Captain and Casey episode that showed Salman Agah getting some sort of business degree online. Count it.
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when someone tells you they have multiple degrees, theyre actually pretty dumb
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Alexis Sablone is wicked smaht.
Alexis has to be the only skater with a Masters degree from MIT
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Yp8AAOSw9l5jV9KC/s-l1200.webp)
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Max Palmer & Cyrus went to Pratt (probably doesn’t count)
Ryan Lay has a degree in something
Julien Stranger & Jerry Hsu seem to read hella books
Dill and Suciu talk like they read a lot but seem fried
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The suciu hate here is so weird.
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Rodney Mullen is a genius.
John Rattray seems like a smart dude.
Not sure it that makes him high IQ but GH is quick AF with the smart hating...
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Are you asking naturally smart as in IQ? Or smart as in educated?
There are a good amount of people with college degrees in the skating community.
Like someone said, Suicu likes to think he's Will Hunting when really, he's the dude will schooled at the Harvard bar.
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There was a pro vert skater in the 90's named Darren Menditto who is a physician. He was never on my radar but for some reason I always remember this short article about him holding down pro status and doing med school/residency at the same time.
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Suciu is my favorite skater and I think all the hate is unwarranted. I've read and watched as many of his interviews as I can, I dont think he comes across as someone who is trying to sound smart when he talks about his interests outside of skating. He just sound like someone who has interests outside of skating.
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Suciu is my favorite skater and I think all the hate is unwarranted. I've read and watched as many of his interviews as I can, I dont think he comes across as someone who is trying to sound smart when he talks about his interests outside of skating. He just sound like someone who has interests outside of skating.
I'll bet
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Fred Gall
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The birdman has more than a birdbrain.
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Based on his Epicl'y Latered episode, I'm not convinced Cardiel is literate
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Kelly Hart
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Phil Ebenshade street pro from the 80s is a lawyer. Brian Chung former Black Label Pro? I know he was pro on Torque quit skating to become a Doctor.
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https://www.lexmed.com/find-a-doctor/detail/4375/brian-m-chung-md
https://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2010/04/chrome-ball-incident-459-planter-warts.html
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I was gonna say isn't nik stain a math genius or something
I wonder if he calls the pencil he uses to solve math equations his "stain stick"?
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The suciu hate here is so weird.
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The suciu hate here is so weird lacks tastefulness.
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Are there any pros named Maximus Intelligentus? If so, I would say them.
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bobby puleo his is like 190 it seems
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wasn't Arin working in some kind of a medical/science lab before getting on Sci-Fi?
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wasn't Arin working in some kind of a medical/science lab before getting on Sci-Fi?
Yeah, she talks about it in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjgYK52sYM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjgYK52sYM)
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Isn’t this question an oxymoron as the intelligent choice is to not be a pro skateboarder
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
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any of you suciu haters gonna come with receipts or what?
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There was a pro vert skater in the 90's named Darren Menditto who is a physician. He was never on my radar but for some reason I always remember this short article about him holding down pro status and doing med school/residency at the same time.
Darren Menditto is a local legend in the Philly area vert scene. He's pushing 50 and still ripping. I believe he also manages the department of the hospital he works at, so he's like the head doctor there.
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
in stem and regular
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im pretty smart
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
I understand MS is really good, yet really boring. Does this mean I have a high IQ?
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
Same.
Tonnes of absolute bozo's can somehow get themselves through a degree.
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kevin bradley a genius
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
Same.
Tonnes of absolute bozo's can somehow get themselves through a degree.
George W. Bush was a straight A student at Yale.
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im pretty smart
im rich and smart
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
Same.
Tonnes of absolute bozo's can somehow get themselves through a degree.
So you’re positioning yourselves as arbiters of intelligence? Little narcissistic don’t you think?
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This sounds like a great Jenkem piece.
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This sounds like a great Jenkem piece.
As long as they leave in the question mark.
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
I understand MS is really good, yet really boring. Does this mean I have a high IQ?
No, because you „don’t get“ the smart nuances of his performance art that makes it interesting.
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Lots of you quickly jumping on this thread to state a university degree doesn’t make you smart. Smacks of insecurity just fyi.
I have one and I agree with them.
Same.
Tonnes of absolute bozo's can somehow get themselves through a degree.
So you’re positioning yourselves as arbiters of intelligence? Little narcissistic don’t you think?
Nope. Just saying having a degree doesn't automatically mean someone is intelligent. It's not rocket science fool.
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Kelly Hart
the nine club boys attempting basic arithmetic is terrifying
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Suciu is my favorite skater and I think all the hate is unwarranted. I've read and watched as many of his interviews as I can, I dont think he comes across as someone who is trying to sound smart when he talks about his interests outside of skating. He just sound like someone who has interests outside of skating.
Skateboarding has a problem with educated people.
Some will call you genius because you went to school after HS or call you pretentious if you use 3 syllable words. how lost can you be ?
it certainly has something to do with this:
Isn’t this question an oxymoron as the intelligent choice is to not be a pro skateboarder
and a bit of inferiority complex
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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.
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I kinda feel bad for Suciu getting flack because almost every time he talks about anything academic, it's because an interviewer asked him a very stupid question about it.
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Dr. Darren Menditto
His IG is drmoose1. He is an ER doctor and a vert pro with a board on toxic.
https://brand-x-toxic.com/products/menditto-cat-mouse-moose-deck-10x32-26
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Seems to me the Muska is pretty intelligent. We talked for about an hour. He refused to go bombing with us. Cuz all us kids just wanted to go bombing with him rather than skate!! Lololol. I'm dying rn.
Also He was right. I should have repeat escaped to LA before I violated probation again. Lol.
Always listen to the Muska kids.
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im a data scientist
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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.
Dude rode for skate mental for close to a decade. how is that smart?
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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.
This is kinda how I feel. There's no way that someone who's worked that much with the berries isn't full of regrets too. I feel like Shane's more case of luck. Look at little Will.. In my opinion he blows doors on Shane but he's all but invisible.
He didn't get all twisted up in the berries. He ignore them s**** even though he's coming from a gos background unlike like Shane. He's completely the route of gos
The berries hurt everyone except for tpud.
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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.
Yeah, I'm not sure about this one. Didn't he nearly get sued by Nike for breach of contract to DC, but stayed on? Then he got the opportunity for a pro Nike shoe and just opted to slap his name on a worse version of the Janoski. Then left Primitive to start a board company with the Girl Scouts of America logo. He's said no to drugs, but he's certainly made a few missteps.
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The way Jerry Hsu articulates himself is quite eloquent; it gives me the impression that is he may have a relatively high IQ
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Nik Stain is news to me, is there anything out there about it? Like an article or a thesis?
Didn't know Alexis's degree is from MIT either, pretty rad. I always smile about how much GH loves her.
With Suciu it feels like I'd really like to read something he's written and is convinced about enough to put out there. I remember vaguely that a "leaked" text of his circulated on here a while ago. If that was genuine, it's worse than Kyle Beachy.
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MIT is like basically the farm for the war machine my dawg. Noam Chomsky got hella pentagon friends.
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Phil Shao RIP
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kevin bradley a genius
I think KB is a lot smarter than people think, despite his poor habits and inflated ego
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Rick McCrank
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Degrees:
- Diego Bucchieri, Chemistry
- Jimmy Gorecki, Communications
- Dan Murphy, Psychology
- John Rattray, Physics
- Jeremy Reeves, Culinary Arts
- Phil Shao, English
- Ocean Howell, Phd in Architectural and Urban History
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Mike Barker has a degree in landscape architecture and seems like a smart dude based on the spot research instagram.
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Isn’t this question an oxymoron as the intelligent choice is to not be a pro skateboarder
I disagree with this. What a fun way to travel the world in your early 20s. A truly rational person would realize that is a once in a lifetime opportunity. But you have to have an early exit and a back up plan…
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Nik Stain is news to me, is there anything out there about it? Like an article or a thesis?
Didn't know Alexis's degree is from MIT either, pretty rad. I always smile about how much GH loves her.
With Suciu it feels like I'd really like to read something he's written and is convinced about enough to put out there. I remember vaguely that a "leaked" text of his circulated on here a while ago. If that was genuine, it's worse than Kyle Beachy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuDQHGnQUpA&t=100s
stain mentions it at the 1:40 mark
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Dr. Darren Menditto
His IG is drmoose1. He is an ER doctor and a vert pro with a board on toxic.
https://brand-x-toxic.com/products/menditto-cat-mouse-moose-deck-10x32-26
I thought he was an orthopedic specialist a while back but his CV says DO.
A guy at FDR dislocated his arm once and Menditto… we’ll say, offered good advice.
A few years ago he was still skating Cab 6s or 7s which I thought was cool - he said he still had a closet full from when he was getting flow.
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Shuriken Shannon is smarter than you think.
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Jack Sabback went to Temple before it was cool.
Ocean Howell wrote a book and has been a professor.
Duane Pitre is a composer.
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Rayssa Leal posted a video on insta of her solving a Rubik’s cube.
Brian Michaud from bootleg and Andy Stone from early 101/Capital etc. both became engineers.
(Michaud wasn’t pro, I know. Still pretty awesome)
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I read a quote from one of Jim Greco's grade school Math teachers who said that young Jim was very strong in that subject
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I'm not familiar with a lot of the new skaters but I'd say a lot of the 80s guys like Gonz, Lucero, Lance, etc., seem intelligent to me. People that are creating new things or doing their own thing are usually more intelligent than the average person.
I don't think degrees are indicative of IQ at all anymore. Aside from STEM or accounting degrees, I think getting an undergrad degree today only shows that you wasted your time and money (taxpayer money too?) and that you can probably read and write on a 10th grade level. Higher education is supposed to teach you how to think efficiently and critically, not what to think. There is certainly no shortage of dummies graduating from college nowadays. Largely because the professors are dummies, college has become a money-making racket, and the primary/secondary education in the USA has turned into shit.
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
Do you mean applied physics?
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D. Gree McBrain who was pro for Think seemed very intelligent.
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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.
Wasn't there some post a few years back that he is a sex addict?
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I'm not familiar with a lot of the new skaters but I'd say a lot of the 80s guys like Gonz, Lucero, Lance, etc., seem intelligent to me. People that are creating new things or doing their own thing are usually more intelligent than the average person.
I don't think degrees are indicative of IQ at all anymore. Aside from STEM or accounting degrees, I think getting an undergrad degree today only shows that you wasted your time and money (taxpayer money too?) and that you can probably read and write on a 10th grade level. Higher education is supposed to teach you how to think efficiently and critically, not what to think. There is certainly no shortage of dummies graduating from college nowadays. Largely because the professors are dummies, college has become a money-making racket, and the primary/secondary education in the USA has turned into shit.
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Mark suciu wishes he was smart
Do you mean applied physics?
Your question lacks tastefulness, blocked and reported
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Bobby Puleo seems very intelligent. Talking to him about skatebloarding and skate adjacent topics it's like talking to my dad about the civil war.
My father was the authority on that shit. Dropped out of school in the 5th grade but was doing lectures at colleges around the time he was in Gettysburg or Glory or whatever movie. Public interest had peaked in civil war stuff.
I hated that shit. To me it did not matter what colour uniform you had. All was racist bastards. And in the reenactment circles it was the northern guys from around the Chesapeake who was the most racist. I never fucked with camp at those things.
Fuckin drop the bomb right here on this field slightly to the left of the actual Antietam. I'll take cover with my brother at the sunken road while we erase all these bastards from the planet.
Kill racist today. No one will miss um
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I think KB is a lot smarter than people think, despite his poor habits and inflated ego
Yea he’s the type of guy that used all of his brain data capacity on funny unnecessary stuff and the drinking doesn’t help him at all but I also wouldn’t say he’s stupid.
There is a certain IQ necessary to make jokes like he does.
College degree doesn’t mean you’re insanely smart. You were just able to focus on one thing during your wildest years.
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Wes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUGVFEO9Yc
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Reading this on my phone, the thumbnail above says “How Wes Kremer lives an anal.”
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I wonder where Wes's anal life will take him after pro skating.
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I wonder where Wes's anal life will take him after pro skating.
Ask Pontus
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College degree doesn’t mean you’re insanely smart. You were just able to focus on one thing during your wildest years.
I'd say KB is pretty fucking focused on one thing over the past two years or so. I reckon he's at MPhil stage now.
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I wonder where Wes's anal life will take him after pro skating.
I hope he goes digital. I wouldn't want to see another pro lapse into obscurity.
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John Worthington has a mechanical engineering degree and set himself up with a career in glass blowing already, and he just went pro a few years ago