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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Bomb Twig on July 19, 2011, 09:51:06 AM
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(http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6830/koston.jpg)
http://instagr.am/p/IB-lx/ (http://instagr.am/p/IB-lx/)
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Is this real?
I'll get the popcorn.
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oh my god i was going skating but this is way better
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"No not never."
Double negative. He was passively promoting the Berrics. Duh.
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Eric Koston is not a faggot, he would never type some shit like that to Alex olson.
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holy fuck, i'll check back later.
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I can't believe that short response made Koston go nuts like that. Like you couldn't just talk to dude at a skate session later about it and say that shit man to man? Typing all that shit so others can see is just dumb as fuck.
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This seems like it's fake because I can't imagine Eric losing his shit like that in "public" but God damn if this is real this will be entertaining.
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(http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff352/racoon1957/homey/popcorn.gif)
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This is 100% real! I was just about to post it!
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I have no doubt Steve Berra would write a reply that long and faggity, but not Koston.
Bitches these days be hating on how cute Alex Olson is.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jzDh02BjRk4/TLs1Xg9TKPI/AAAAAAAAAIw/f7G3FDHHwnA/s1600/alex_olson.los_angeles.jpg)
Could you turn that down?
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Just saw this on instagram. Koston's on a greater good trip. And Olson's lowly twitter will never topple the Berrics.
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heavy
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It's Olson's loss, really. I mean why just today if you didn't visit the berrics you missed a Text yourself before you breakyourself with Luan OLIVERIAIEARIA and a frontside 180 trick tip with Stacy Lowery!
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Olson off Girl?
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Olson off Girl?
within the hour
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Olson of girl!?
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could see him on krooked
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I can see his hat is on Krooked.
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Meh.
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yikes.. i think pros should learn how to control themselves in the social media world.
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Inner team squabble on twitter. What is this world coming to?
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I have no doubt Steve Berra would write a reply that long and faggity, but not Koston.
Bitches these days be hating on how cute Alex Olson is.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jzDh02BjRk4/TLs1Xg9TKPI/AAAAAAAAAIw/f7G3FDHHwnA/s1600/alex_olson.los_angeles.jpg)
Could you turn that down?
he kind of looks like a young CARRIE-era Sissy Spacek
(http://movie-gazette.com/images/gallery/albums/People/sissy+spacek.jpg)
would
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On his siite
Do you realize that you just lost your main sponsor? YOU ARE FUCKED!
ha
http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor)
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why would he lose is sponsor for saying the berrics is boring?
alex may have been slightly out of line with his comment - but koston's response was also a little over the top.. calm down children - get back to skating
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within the hour
How's that new job?
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I'm confused about this spoiled brat part. I get Erics point, but last I remember seeing of alex's set up, he was sharing a shitty studio sized apartment with his dad, a dog, and his dads random lady friends and had nothing positive to say about growing up being an Olson.
just curious..
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Koston speaking up and putting fools in check---Priceless!!!
Eric is the man, bottom line!
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koston is having a bad day
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How's that new job?
its good....why?
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heavy
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Im behind Koston on this one.. Im not saying that Berrics is something we should look up to every day, but thats because Berra is a bitch, the website itself has a cool concept, new videos every day? why not? � Alex was bitching about the Berrics before, he was dissin battle commanders... I hope he gets kicked out of Girl ASAP, he is a bitch, dissin his bosses work is stupid.
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Social networking skateboard beef is amazing. I think.
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Man there are a lot of dumb young kids joining up on Slap. It's starting to look a lot less like skateboardrumors.com and a lot more like shitty Transworld forums :/
I'm confused about this spoiled brat part. I get Erics point, but last I remember seeing of alex's set up, he was sharing a shitty studio sized apartment with his dad, a dog, and his dads random lady friends and had nothing positive to say about growing up being an Olson.
just curious..
You mean the epiclylaterd from about 5 fucking years ago? Alex is an adult now and highly marketable with some of the highest paying sponsors in the bizz: Quicksilver, Vans, Girl, etc and I'm sure he has his own place or something preferable to what was shown(fyi, that epiclylaterd was one of my favorite ever actually, I loved the father and dad interactions and arguments). While I'm sure Steve Olson wasn't a father of the year candidate or anything, it's clear that career-wise Alex Olson has benefited greatly from initially having great connections in the skateboard world. Nothing wrong with that, but that's what Koston's referring to. His opportunities were much greater than just some random skate kid that no one's ever heard of.
On his siite
Do you realize that you just lost your main sponsor? YOU ARE FUCKED!
ha
http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor)
You really think he's getting kicked off Girl? How old are you?
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i get that koston is a legend blah blah but come on, dude clearly over reacted, he must be spending too much time with steve.
and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
i would love to see some figures of unified shops pre-unified sales vs their post-unified sales, while we're on the subject of doing things for the greater good of skateboarding...
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On his siite
Do you realize that you just lost your main sponsor? YOU ARE FUCKED!
ha
http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7807604046/do-you-realize-that-you-just-lost-your-main-sponsor)
You posted that there? That's totally silly. I could see you fitting well on a krooked rubbery rectum-mallet.
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i get that koston is a legend blah blah but come on, dude clearly over reacted, he must be spending too much time with steve.
and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
i would love to see some figures of unified shops pre-unified sales vs their post-unified sales, while we're on the subject of doing things for the greater good of skateboarding...
I would love to see those figures too. I've wondered about that.
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nickdagger. Holy shit that was 5 yrs ago, damn time flies. So what your saying is that Alex's sponsors signed him up because of his name and not his skill? I don't buy that, and if anything it makes Eric (being one of his sponsors) sound jealous and bitter.
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It's funny. Everytime I've met Koston he seems like spoiled fucking brat.
He's a bitter sarcastic dick. Good skateboarder though.
At least I get to see him suck at Street League and try and cover it up with his "funny moves"
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lol Wow
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nickdagger. Holy shit that was 5 yrs ago, damn time flies. So what your saying is that Alex's sponsors signed him up because of his name and not his skill? I don't buy that, and if anything it makes Eric (being one of his sponsors) sound jealous and bitter.
No, I meant what I said:
It's clear that career-wise Alex Olson has benefited greatly from initially having great connections in the skateboard world. Nothing wrong with that, but that's what Koston's referring to. His opportunities were much greater than just some random skate kid that no one's ever heard of.
I love Olson's skating, personally. But let's not pretend that if he was just some little kid no one's heard of from Montana, that his career would have taken off as quickly.
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I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that Koston is Alex's boss or is sponsoring him. Though he definitely has seniority over him on the team at Girl.
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alex is apparently really bored.. just non stop constant posting stuff to his tumblr page and responding to people's regular questions. jerry hsu kicks olson's ass at tumblr haha
the below is from alex's tumblr:
(http://www.edgeoftheburger.com/fileupload/uploads/images/what.jpg)
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I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that Koston is Alex's boss or is sponsoring him.� Though he definitely has seniority over him on the team at Girl.
Is Girl unionized? If so that sucks. I hate unions. People always get promotions based on seniority and not skillz.
What if the real Koston died back in 1994, and they replaced him with a look-a-like Koston? Like the whole "Paul is dead" thing with the Beatles? This would explain a lot, or nothing.
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Is Girl unionized? If so that sucks. I hate unions. People always get promotions based on seniority and not skillz.
Are you trolling? Unions have some problems, but please learn about worker's lives in factories before they existed.
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koston may have some part ownership in girl dist.. was started by caroll, howard and spike jonez back in the day.. not sure what the current ownership situation is though
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had to wiki that shit. I always thought koston was a co-owner... anyway. I can see him getting better opportunities being an olson but he's also a great skater, so that's completely subjective. However eric should look around the room before he starts calling people out for having better connections than content. I respect people that voice their opinion, especially when it's not the popular one and I find much more enjoyment reading olson's blog than the "look how serious we take skateboarding" shit on the berrics.
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I'm confused about this spoiled brat part. I get Erics point, but last I remember seeing of alex's set up, he was sharing a shitty studio sized apartment with his dad, a dog, and his dads random lady friends and had nothing positive to say about growing up being an Olson.
just curious..
well not ever having to work a job and skating and traveling the world your whole life is pretty fucking spoiled
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So if you think for a second that you and you're shitty fuckin' tumblr blog is going to STOP US? YOU'RE CLEARLY MISTAKEN.
Damn, he is out of his mind, hahaha, i love it.
Alex wins, the Berrics is a fucking cheesy website. I hate Berras military fetish.
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well he got on Girl (arguably one of the most prestigious teams in skateboarding) without having put out a video part, and now he's jumping mailboxes, ans talking shit. I like them both.
As for the berrics, well check that Luan stuff.
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yeah koston is nuts, not like alex went out saying "the berrics fucking sucks dont ever watch it". Even if he did, how would his opinion invalidate the berrics? im sure the huge majority of die hard alex olson fans are probably a bunch of fags who dont like the berrics either way.
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yeah koston is nuts, not like alex went out saying "the berrics fucking sucks dont ever watch it". Even if he did, how would his opinion invalidate the berrics? im sure the huge majority of die hard alex olson fans are probably a bunch of fags who dont like the berrics either way.
Well he is quite a looker.
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Crailtap x Berrics viral marketing?
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Berrics skate plaza is going to be open this month. They've done more for skateboarding in three years than any of you favorite skaters have in 20+.
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I predict this thread gets to 11 pages before dinner.
Koston is sick and everything but lets be honest, The Berrics is a little gay.... I love some of what they do. Thank you for the free content, and you're welcome for the page views?
Koston looks like more of a douche in this scenario. There I said it. He's still one of my favorites.
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well he got on Girl (arguably one of the most prestigious teams in skateboarding) without having put out a video part, and now he's jumping mailboxes, ans talking shit. �I like them both.
As for the berrics, well check that Luan stuff.
he went pro after FF though? I'm sure most ams get on companies after local videos and shit, but it doesnt seem fucked up to me that someone who skates everyday with the company owners would be am without having put out a video part.
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I don't understand why him saying he never goes to the site/doesn't like the site or that he would much rather watch a full street part than a Battle Commander means that he completely disagrees with having an indoor park or that he's trying to destroy the Berrics. And if him expressing his opinion on a subject gets him kicked off of Girl, then I'd consider not supporting Girl/Chocolate again.
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I'm confused about this spoiled brat part. I get Erics point, but last I remember seeing of alex's set up, he was sharing a shitty studio sized apartment with his dad, a dog, and his dads random lady friends and had nothing positive to say about growing up being an Olson.
just curious..
well not ever having to work a job and skating and traveling the world your whole life is pretty fucking spoiled
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how many jobs has Koston had to work?
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Berrics skate plaza is going to be open this month. They've done more for skateboarding in three years than any of you favorite skaters have in 20+.
My favorite Skater is Rob Dyrdek, ha!
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I love skateboarding so much i want it to die...again.
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Berrics skate plaza is going to be open this month. They've done more for skateboarding in three years than any of you favorite skaters have in 20+.
My favorite Skater is Rob Dyrdek, ha!
hahahahaha
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the greater good
The Greater Good (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY#)
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i hope he will be kicked of girl
like that i will be able to buy one of his pro model, zinger!
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#team_olson
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#team_olson
FUCK, i was in the middle of photoshoping a team olson graphic. over it now
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there could always be more going on in the background... not every little squabble ends on the internet, i'm sure koston has his reasons
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FUCK, i was in the middle of photoshoping a team olson graphic. over it now
sorry bro. it will probably be relevant again if placed delicately on page 8.
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theres that word again, heavy... is there something wrong with the earths gravitational pull in the year 1985?
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koston forgot to sign out of his twitter at the berrics
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hey eric, get off the fucking internet and do your job instead of being a whiny little bitch
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first and foremost, skateboarding DOES NOT NEED anyone to do anything for skateboarding. skateboarding was doing just fine before it became corporate, and in my opinion it is worse off now that at any other time in its short history. koston, as someone eluded to before, is concerned about helping himself. he is rich and a wannabe celebrity, and a fucking Scientologist at that. I could do without the berrics as most people who skate would not have missed it had it never existed. basically steve berra failed as an actor and came up with a good plan to exploit the current market. i am not saying that there is no good in their hearts toward skateboarding, i just personally do not appreciate when anyone takes it upon themselves to represent skateboarding, or change it for whatever reason, especially when that involves creating an image thats only benefit is to the one making the change, e.g., corporate, non skate sponsorship. not to mention nikes horrible human rights record. skateboarding belongs to EVERYONE WHO SKATES. not these glorified assholes. for every pro, there is a hometown hero who kills it. i am cool with people getting paid to skate, but when it gets to this level of psuedo celebrity infighting, yes i am entertained, but, it has nothing to do with skateboarding, only some deuchebags who skate. so guys, stop pretending that who you are and what you do is more important than the rest of us who skate for fun and dont need anything from you.
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Sounds like this pushed Koston over the edge, Olson's latest coverage was him jumping over a fucking post box, and it was a hippy jump before that. He took a shoe-in to the industry without having to work at it so why would he work at it now - not saying that he's shit - . How can he hate a website that posts footage of skaters skating, how are you going to hate like that when your friends have put loads of time and effort into battle commanders, recruits, building the site and the brand and you're just going to say you hate it? Fuck that Koston should get him kicked off for being a cunt, I'm sure people have had each other kicked off whatever company for lesser.
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Sounds like this pushed Koston over the edge, Olson's latest coverage was him jumping over a fucking post box, and it was a hippy jump before that. He took a shoe-in to the industry without having to work at it so why would he work at it now - not saying that he's shit - . How can he hate a website that posts footage of skaters skating, how are you going to hate like that when your friends have put loads of time and effort into battle commanders, recruits, building the site and the brand and you're just going to say you hate it? Fuck that Koston should get him kicked off for being a cunt, I'm sure people have had each other kicked off whatever company for lesser.
Like doing a ton of coke, yelling at stefan, and punching out a sliding glass door?
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for the record - below is what koston was responding to - if that was koston and not someone fucking around on his phone that he left out..
someone asked alex this on his tumblr page:
Do you ever browse the berrics for whatever reason, despite your opinions (you know, on that stuff...) ?
alex responded:
no not never. you should too
thats actually kinda vague in the first place.. no not ever.. you should too? so you are telling him he should browse the berrics but that you dont? kinda confusing. and absolutely not a big deal at all.. i wouldnt even be surprised if alex is at the berrics right now and is the one who posted the reaction on eric's phone.. now he is probably reading this slap thread cracking the fuck up.. lol
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Berrics skate plaza is going to be open this month. They've done more for skateboarding in three years than any of you favorite skaters have in 20+.
Serious question-What is the Berrics skate plaza?
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Is Girl unionized? If so that sucks. I hate unions. People always get promotions based on seniority and not skillz.
Are you trolling? Unions have some problems, but please learn about worker's lives in factories before they existed.
Just trying to lighten things up around here.
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So I'm just going to type out some funny shit from the comment section on the picture for you technologically impaired
Erickoston: Look, normally I like to be a sarcastic, smart-ass, ball-buster on IG but this really struck a nerve in me. It's truly upsetting that I'm being shitted on by someone basically in my own "family". Sorry u guys had to hear it, but if that's how he wants to communicate it, then this is probably the best way for it to hit home.
Erickoston: I like IG because if all the fun I have on it. That's all it is for me, fun entertainment.
Billy_Marks: @mercedesbendo Alex made it public and @Erickoston called him out! And your right. Your opinion don't matter. So fucking save it!
thepharaoh: Who is Alex Olsen? Ha sounds like a no body to me now.
bamahardy: Wow. This is my favorite insta ever.
Grimcity: I'm always glad I'm just me, but at the moment I'm especially glad I'm not Alex. Damn.
Anthonyshetler: Instagram beef now! Very exciting !!! Between the muska getting arrested then making a apology video and this koston/ Olsen beef, i am completely entertained , I'm on the edge of my sit wondering what's next!!!
Ernietorres: Wow, I'm impressed.
(this one is so fucking long I wish I knew how to take screen caps) Mercedesbendo: @billy_marks @erickoston Koston made it public on here by acknowledging it, dick. Olson is jelouse bc hel never be a Kostor or have his own famous park. koston is the shiz he shouldn;t care about what one spoiled little fuck says. Can't be friends with everyone. And don't get me started on you Billy, I saw your day in the life your no better than Olson, waking up to a beer every morning and acting like your better than everyone your not shit. Maybe you should quit drinking and being an asshole and go work on those double flips pal.
Billy_marks @mercedesbendo wow. You fucking nailed it bro! I'm actually wasted right now. If u think that is my day in the life then your fucking regular. I bet you think all reality tv shows are real too huh?
Mercedesbendo: Nope its just as fake as you are @Billy_marks
Billy_marks: @mercedesbendo cuz u know me so well. Your a joke. You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards.
Mercedesbendo: Haha u mad bruh? @billy_marks
Alright fess up, which one of you is Mercedesbendo?
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Sounds like this pushed Koston over the edge, Olson's latest coverage was him jumping over a fucking post box, and it was a hippy jump before that. He took a shoe-in to the industry without having to work at it so why would he work at it now - not saying that he's shit - . How can he hate a website that posts footage of skaters skating, how are you going to hate like that when your friends have put loads of time and effort into battle commanders, recruits, building the site and the brand and you're just going to say you hate it? Fuck that Koston should get him kicked off for being a cunt, I'm sure people have had each other kicked off whatever company for lesser.
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Did Berra hack into Koston's instagram acount and go on a tiraid?
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lol to do a screen capture just hit Prt Scr on your keyboard, then go to some image program(like paint) and hit edit, paste, then crop the photo and upload it to imageshack or tinypic. Then post it on here.
It takes like 15 seconds. So someone do this. I would but I'm at work and it's blocked >:(
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and here's Mr Mercedesbendo most recent facebooker status upperdate
Nick Bendo
Dosnt have any friends bc he alienates himself from everyone.
Sunday at 2:25pm via iPhone � Like �
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"Your a joke. You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards."
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So I'm just going to type out some funny shit from the comment section on the picture for you technologically impaired
Erickoston: Look, normally I like to be a sarcastic, smart-ass, ball-buster on IG but this really struck a nerve in me. It's truly upsetting that I'm being shitted on by someone basically in my own "family". Sorry u guys had to hear it, but if that's how he wants to communicate it, then this is probably the best way for it to hit home.
Erickoston: I like IG because if all the fun I have on it. That's all it is for me, fun entertainment.
Billy_Marks: @mercedesbendo Alex made it public and @Erickoston called him out! And your right. Your opinion don't matter. So fucking save it!
thepharaoh: Who is Alex Olsen? Ha sounds like a no body to me now.
bamahardy: Wow. This is my favorite insta ever.
Grimcity: I'm always glad I'm just me, but at the moment I'm especially glad I'm not Alex. Damn.
Anthonyshetler: Instagram beef now! Very exciting !!! Between the muska getting arrested then making a apology video and this koston/ Olsen beef, i am completely entertained , I'm on the edge of my sit wondering what's next!!!
Ernietorres: Wow, I'm impressed.
(this one is so fucking long I wish I knew how to take screen caps) Mercedesbendo: @billy_marks @erickoston Koston made it public on here by acknowledging it, dick. Olson is jelouse bc hel never be a Kostor or have his own famous park. koston is the shiz he shouldn;t care about what one spoiled little fuck says. Can't be friends with everyone. And don't get me started on you Billy, I saw your day in the life your no better than Olson, waking up to a beer every morning and acting like your better than everyone your not shit. Maybe you should quit drinking and being an asshole and go work on those double flips pal.
Billy_marks @mercedesbendo wow. You fucking nailed it bro! I'm actually wasted right now. If u think that is my day in the life then your fucking regular. I bet you think all reality tv shows are real too huh?
Mercedesbendo: Nope its just as fake as you are @Billy_marks
Billy_marks: @mercedesbendo cuz u know me so well. Your a joke. You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards.
Mercedesbendo: Haha u mad bruh? @billy_marks
Alright fess up, which one of you is Mercedesbendo?
that is fucking amazing.. why are all these pros bitching back and forth on twitter? and billy marks even calls out the slap message boards!!! this is fucking classic!
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You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards.
aaaaaaaa
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this is the only olson worth giving a fuck about
Steve Olson - Fulfill the Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgQXQSbBNRM#)
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Keep the comments from IG coming...too funny! You can use the snipping tool too to take screen caps which could be in your accessories if you have the right windows.
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Is Girl unionized? If so that sucks. I hate unions. People always get promotions based on seniority and not skillz.
Are you trolling? Unions have some problems, but please learn about worker's lives in factories before they existed.
Just trying to lighten things up around here.
Fuck me, my bad i Just got the joke. I need to take off my super-serious political Nickdagger persona for a second. Back to trollin' :)
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Koston is extremely out of line. Alex was kind of a dick though. Conclusion: this is gay. And sad.
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first and foremost, skateboarding DOES NOT NEED anyone to do anything for skateboarding. skateboarding was doing just fine before it became corporate, and in my opinion it is worse off now that at any other time in its short history. koston, as someone eluded to before, is concerned about helping himself. he is rich and a wannabe celebrity, and a fucking Scientologist at that. I could do without the berrics as most people who skate would not have missed it had it never existed. basically steve berra failed as an actor and came up with a good plan to exploit the current market. i am not saying that there is no good in their hearts toward skateboarding, i just personally do not appreciate when anyone takes it upon themselves to represent skateboarding, or change it for whatever reason, especially when that involves creating an image thats only benefit is to the one making the change, e.g., corporate, non skate sponsorship. not to mention nikes horrible human rights record. skateboarding belongs to EVERYONE WHO SKATES. not these glorified assholes. for every pro, there is a hometown hero who kills it. i am cool with people getting paid to skate, but when it gets to this level of psuedo celebrity infighting, yes i am entertained, but, it has nothing to do with skateboarding, only some deuchebags who skate. so guys, stop pretending that who you are and what you do is more important than the rest of us who skate for fun and dont need anything from you.
berra ripped as a skater and deserved to be pro, he didnt just fall out of the acting business and start the berrics.
The more popular skateboarding is, the more parks that are built to skate, and the LESS douchebags that get into skateboarding cause its the cool thing to do (kinda like how legalizing weed actually decreases use). Although increased popularity increases # of kids, 90% of them are gone after like 7pm anyways.
while i do find it pretty corny how they remind themselves how much they are doing for skateboarding, the berrics is basically the only place where pros/ams can get coverage inbetween video parts and magazines. I can guarantee for every kid that pics up a magazine and sees a pj ladd or jimmy carlin ad, that theres 10,000 kids who watch him skate batb or watch their battle commanders. Whether you like it or not, the site actually is hugely beneficial for anyone who gets covereage from theberrics. So they actually are helping skateboarders.
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What is the berrics street plaza? Are they opening a private park or free street plaza?
I'll definitely give them respect if they start building free parks.
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It's all about
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I can't imagine Koston writing stuff like this. Berra has probably a Q&A with formulated statements for scenarios like that.
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(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5396/erickostonnikesbblackgu.jpg)
For the greater good of skateboarding. Wow! Looks like Eric's been drinking some of Steve's cool-aid.
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/227/erickostonnonike.jpg)
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It's all so depressing and somewhat boring. Oh the egos.
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I understand Alex Olson...there s no mail box to jump at the Berrics, it sucks.
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this is insane. i still can't believe koston would write that.
somebody asked alex his opinion on a website and he said he didn't go there.
that in no way constitutes some sacred insult to the company he rides for.
the og girl would be kicking koston off for this. if he did actually write that...
he looks like the way bigger kook in the building.
when you make a product respect people's right not to like it.
the tone in his answer is exactly why i think most people are turned off by the berrics...
backing olson 100% on this. koston showed his allegiance to girl when he left lakai.
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this is insane. i still can't believe koston would write that.
somebody asked alex his opinion on a website and he said he didn't go there.
that in no way constitutes some sacred insult to the company he rides for.
the og girl would be kicking koston off for this. if he did actually write that...
he looks like the way bigger kook in the building.
when you make a product respect people's right not to like it.
the tone in his answer is exactly why i think most people are turned off by the berrics...
backing olson 100% on this. koston showed his allegiance to girl when he left lakai.
Olson left too
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EVERYONE JUST CHILL THE FUCK OUT
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Sickening. /\
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Alex likes pushing buttons, nothing new, but Koston's reaction was insane. If saying you don't visit the Berrics causes that reaction, I would hate to what happened if he actually said something insulting.
I think Koston's thetan's are out of line. Steve prep the E-meter stat.
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first and foremost, skateboarding DOES NOT NEED anyone to do anything for skateboarding. skateboarding was doing just fine before it became corporate, and in my opinion it is worse off now that at any other time in its short history. koston, as someone eluded to before, is concerned about helping himself. he is rich and a wannabe celebrity, and a fucking Scientologist at that. I could do without the berrics as most people who skate would not have missed it had it never existed. basically steve berra failed as an actor and came up with a good plan to exploit the current market. i am not saying that there is no good in their hearts toward skateboarding, i just personally do not appreciate when anyone takes it upon themselves to represent skateboarding, or change it for whatever reason, especially when that involves creating an image thats only benefit is to the one making the change, e.g., corporate, non skate sponsorship. not to mention nikes horrible human rights record. skateboarding belongs to EVERYONE WHO SKATES. not these glorified assholes. for every pro, there is a hometown hero who kills it. i am cool with people getting paid to skate, but when it gets to this level of psuedo celebrity infighting, yes i am entertained, but, it has nothing to do with skateboarding, only some deuchebags who skate. so guys, stop pretending that who you are and what you do is more important than the rest of us who skate for fun and dont need anything from you.
berra ripped as a skater and deserved to be pro, he didnt just fall out of the acting business and start the berrics.
The more popular skateboarding is, the more parks that are built to skate, and the LESS douchebags that get into skateboarding cause its the cool thing to do (kinda like how legalizing weed actually decreases use). Although increased popularity increases # of kids, 90% of them are gone after like 7pm anyways.
while i do find it pretty corny how they remind themselves how much they are doing for skateboarding, the berrics is basically the only place where pros/ams can get coverage inbetween video parts and magazines. I can guarantee for every kid that pics up a magazine and sees a pj ladd or jimmy carlin ad, that theres 10,000 kids who watch him skate batb or watch their battle commanders. Whether you like it or not, the site actually is hugely beneficial for anyone who gets covereage from theberrics. So they actually are helping skateboarders.
i dont know where you get the idea that the more popular skateboarding gets the less douchebags get into it. ive been skating since the early 80s and douchebags are far more abundant in skateboarding now than at any other time. also, we have this thing called, the internet. people can have footage posted any time they want.
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"Your a joke. You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards."
this is great, how long til this goes to classic slap
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Wow Koston seems like such a little bitch here.
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I think the tension between Alex and the rest of the Girl team has been brewing for awhile.
I remember seeing Cory Kennedy's pro debut video and thinking "oh sweet an Alex Olson diss!" @ 1:51
Cory Kennedy shows up to the North Hollywood Park for a little surprise. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlzUPXSwn0#ws)
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"Your a joke. You don't belong on instagram. You belong on the slap message boards."
seriously, i havent joined instagram because i know i am unworthy
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first and foremost, skateboarding DOES NOT NEED anyone to do anything for skateboarding. skateboarding was doing just fine before it became corporate, and in my opinion it is worse off now that at any other time in its short history. koston, as someone eluded to before, is concerned about helping himself. he is rich and a wannabe celebrity, and a fucking Scientologist at that. I could do without the berrics as most people who skate would not have missed it had it never existed. basically steve berra failed as an actor and came up with a good plan to exploit the current market. i am not saying that there is no good in their hearts toward skateboarding, i just personally do not appreciate when anyone takes it upon themselves to represent skateboarding, or change it for whatever reason, especially when that involves creating an image thats only benefit is to the one making the change, e.g., corporate, non skate sponsorship. not to mention nikes horrible human rights record. skateboarding belongs to EVERYONE WHO SKATES. not these glorified assholes. for every pro, there is a hometown hero who kills it. i am cool with people getting paid to skate, but when it gets to this level of psuedo celebrity infighting, yes i am entertained, but, it has nothing to do with skateboarding, only some deuchebags who skate. so guys, stop pretending that who you are and what you do is more important than the rest of us who skate for fun and dont need anything from you.
berra ripped as a skater and deserved to be pro, he didnt just fall out of the acting business and start the berrics.
The more popular skateboarding is, the more parks that are built to skate, and the LESS douchebags that get into skateboarding cause its the cool thing to do (kinda like how legalizing weed actually decreases use). Although increased popularity increases # of kids, 90% of them are gone after like 7pm anyways.
while i do find it pretty corny how they remind themselves how much they are doing for skateboarding, the berrics is basically the only place where pros/ams can get coverage inbetween video parts and magazines. I can guarantee for every kid that pics up a magazine and sees a pj ladd or jimmy carlin ad, that theres 10,000 kids who watch him skate batb or watch their battle commanders. Whether you like it or not, the site actually is hugely beneficial for anyone who gets covereage from theberrics. So they actually are helping skateboarders.
i dont know where you get the idea that the more popular skateboarding gets the less douchebags get into it. ive been skating since the early 80s and douchebags are far more abundant in skateboarding now than at any other time. also, we have this thing called, the internet. people can have footage posted any time they want.
beat me to it! not to mention this proves that lots of people pay attention to pro's twitters and instagrams which they could easily release footage through
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they should just fight
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the fight between them is no different than this
Pruane2 Getting His Ass Kicked! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-OvKL3xTFY#)
and it seems to be even directed by ty evans.
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JESUS I LEAVE THE INTERWEBS FOR 1 DAY AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS??!
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http://listagr.am/pic/134736241 (http://listagr.am/pic/134736241)
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I FUCKING HATE ALL OF THIS
FUCK KOSTON
for putting this shit on blast. I understand that Koston was upset by the fact Alex put the berrics on blast on this gay little tumblr blog, but Koston is grown ass man with +20 years of experience in the industry. Maybe a simple phone call, a email, a twitter DM, a tumblr message, or even a cute little text to Alex could have solved this little "not never" situation. Instead, Koston put him on blast to his 9000 instagram followers and 67,000 twitter followers.
In my opinion, which has as much weight as grimcity's in this industry, koston is the one looking like the spoiled bitch in this situation?
edit: AND I fucking get it Berra and Koston, you guys are working hard. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD.
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rawdawg @erickoston Damm I use to kinda hate on you but word after that last comment to alex I kind feel inspired by you mr.koston let's keep this up positive vibes you on a roll koston:)
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oh, and Crack is officially
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no not never..
(http://www.edgeoftheburger.com/fileupload/uploads/images/umad.jpg)
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read this shit if you want to see what the kids are saying.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston)
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff)
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team youre a joke
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DAS DA ONE!
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berrics is kinda wack - except that Off the Grid stuff which is cool.
dont tell koston i said that
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team no not never
or
team greater good
anyways, I think this is a great metaphor for the entire berrics situation
the greater good
The Greater Good (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY#)
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damn this one got me
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Koston just went apeshit.
Is this really real?
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Seriously fuck Koston, just because someone doesn't like your website it doesn't mean theyre a bad friend, or that they are stabbing you in the back.
Also, for all y'all twitterers I just typed "@erickoston (and proceeded to type pretty muvh the same thing as above)" as my first tweet, will he see be able to see it?
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If slap could me a shirt that said "no not never, you should too" and have it to my door by tomorrow, i'd so buy that shit.
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scroll to the right
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Wow, this is why I don't like Koston. Olson actually has an opinion and the guy throws an internet bitch fit. I love that his defense of the berrics is "we work hard". Catholic missionaries and Wall Street lobbyists "work hard", but it doesn't mean they're right. The rest of his response was childish name calling. Spoiled brat and neglecting his career? Homeboy has had two covers in the last year alone.
Allow me to insert a personal anecdote about Olson and Koston. I went to one of the demos at Beauty & the Beast 2, and Olson was the first one out skating while the puddles in the park were still drying. He skated the entire time, was having fun, and even battled a line for a good half hour (the one in the tour video with the bs 360 kickflip at the end). Koston showed up about 45 minutes after the demo started, in a fucking Benz or whatever he drives. I honestly cannot remember one trick he made. I vaguely remember him doing a couple of frontside grinds and signing a few autographs. Job well done.
Now of course Koston is a skating legend who has put his time in, that was just one day. But the guy who talked shit on P-rod for going to Nike....and now rides for Nike, the guy who talked shit on Oakley......and now rides for Oakley, the guy who is notorious for complaining and whining about skate spots, the guy partially responsible for one of the worst things about skating today (berrics), and has raked in piles of cash as a result of all this, has no right to call anyone else spoiled. This is ridiculous.
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EVERYONE JUST CHILL THE FUCK OUT
(http://i.imgur.com/BP91c.gif)
Best part of this thread ^
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If slap could me a shirt that said "no not never, you should too" and have it to my door by tomorrow, i'd so buy that shit.
way sicker than worst trends
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Best part of this thread ^
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Wow, this is why I don't like Koston. Olson actually has an opinion and the guy throws an internet bitch fit. I love that his defense of the berrics is "we work hard". Catholic missionaries and Wall Street lobbyists "work hard", but it doesn't mean they're right. The rest of his response was childish name calling. Spoiled brat and neglecting his career? Homeboy has had two covers in the last year alone.
Allow me to insert a personal anecdote about Olson and Koston. I went to one of the demos at Beauty & the Beast 2, and Olson was the first one out skating while the puddles in the park were still drying. He skated the entire time, was having fun, and even battled a line for a good half hour (the one in the tour video with the bs 360 kickflip at the end). Koston showed up about 45 minutes after the demo started, in a fucking Benz or whatever he drives. I honestly cannot remember one trick he made. I vaguely remember him doing a couple of frontside grinds and signing a few autographs. Job well done.
Now of course Koston is a skating legend who has put his time in, that was just one day. But the guy who talked shit on P-rod for going to Nike....and now rides for Nike, the guy who talked shit on Oakley......and now rides for Oakley, the guy who is notorious for complaining and whining about skate spots, the guy partially responsible for one of the worst things about skating today (berrics), and has raked in piles of cash as a result of all this, has no right to call anyone else spoiled. This is ridiculous.
you win
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God Olson. I told you to keep your cock out of Mrs. Koston.
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(http://i.imgur.com/BP91c.gif)
Best part of this thread ^
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Dude those are totally sweet tits.. but this thread is too good to derail with porn gifs. More instagram posts from pros please.
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Im trying not to shit myself, this is gold
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read this shit if you want to see what the kids are saying.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston)
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff)
(http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6329/screenshot20110719at153.png)
sweet jesus twitter is terrible. so fucking embarrassing for humanity.
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There's gotta be more to it than this, right? I have a hard time believing Koston (or any reasonable human, scientologist or not) would flip over just that comment, there must have been more "beef" in the past over this issue. Someone that's up on Twitter/Instagram fill me in?
Or this
God Olson. I told you to keep your cock out of Mrs. Koston.
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fucking koston man, fuck i mean hes fucking freaking the fuck out, i mean man if he fucking cared so fucking much he fucking would of fucking said some thing to the fucking other fucking people who say fucking shit about the fucking berrics. so i mean fuck man because shit eric koston man doesn't care about anybody else who says fucking anything so why would he care about the most fucking beautiful piece of meat in the world..? luv u alex <3
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Best Slap prank ever?
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Berrics skate plaza is going to be open this month. They've done more for skateboarding in three years than any of you favorite skaters have in 20+.
Danny Way did more way more
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Best Slap prank ever?
pretty much.. crackin me up thats for sure
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read this shit if you want to see what the kids are saying.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40erickoston)
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40olsonstuff)
Looks like twitter people are backing koston, (most) slap people are backing olson. So #team_handsome wins.
It has to be more to it though, koston can't get that mad just for a plain comment of tumblr.
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im going out for a while. make sure to post every popular pro and websites responses. see you guys on page 11
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the guy partially responsible for one of the worst things about skating today (berrics), and has raked in piles of cash as a result
Feel free to correct me, but I don't think the Berrics has made a dime. My understanding is that Koston has sunk a lot of his own money into it. That could go a long way to explain his sensitivity about the topic.
So they signed up with that Metal Mullisha marketing firm to not make money? Do they sell tons of ads to break even?
Oh right, it's for the "greater good of skateboarding."
Only the IRS and Koston know the largest source of his income, it may or may not be Berrics, but he must be making something from it.
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ahahaa my god this is the most fun I've had reading SLAP in a long time.
Obviously Koston has some pent up anger towards Alex, and that tiny little scoff at the Berrics set him over the edge. I always back Koston but that awful rant was so lame; straight up some Berra shit.
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People are sure making a big deal about someone as irrelevant as Alex Olson is to skateboarding.
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don't drink the coolaid
(http://www.caribbeanfever.com/img/jimjones.jpg)
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(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/797/screenshot20110719at620.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/screenshot20110719at620.png/)
straight from olsons thing
i do now see where the hatred has come from
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there is something weird heree; I saw olson's tumblr MONTHS, maybe a year ago, and suddenly the photos he took at that time are being posted again (5 hours ago). seems that someone took control of it, dunno
If its true, koston its a fucking dickhead
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Is... Koston a Scientologist? ??? :(
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Olson & Carroll have always seemed pretty tight. Not sure if that'll have any sway in the (speculated) upcoming Girl drama.
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just dorking around on the crailtap site - forgot they have a twitter feed on there where this drama has been goin down.. quite funny
notice the pic of alex in the bottom left window lol
(http://www.edgeoftheburger.com/fileupload/uploads/images/toofunny.jpg)
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Is... Koston a Scientologist? ??? :(
no.
edit: kinda
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Olson & Carroll have always seemed pretty tight. Not sure if that'll have any sway in the (speculated) upcoming Girl drama.
.. . . . Carroll owns a piece of Girl and Koston doesn't. Sooo yeeeah
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Is... Koston a Scientologist? ??? :(
no.
he allegedly took "courses" or has been "audited" or whatever the fuck its called.
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Is... Koston a Scientologist? ??? :(
no.
he allegedly took "courses" or has been "audited" or whatever the fuck its called.
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html)
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koston is illuminati(confirmed), don't pay attention to anything he says
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Is... Koston a Scientologist? ??? :(
no.
he allegedly took "courses" or has been "audited" or whatever the fuck its called.
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html)
say it ain't so, Grecs!
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/jim-greco.html (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/jim-greco.html)
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yikes
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here's another consiracy for you, regarding the olson berrics high ollie video...
anyone else notice the simpsons skatebooks (that someone came into the forums to hype up the resale value) is referred to as fire wood?
hmmm, maybe berrics is funded by ebayed skatebooks?
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So they signed up with that Metal Mullisha marketing firm to not make money? Do they sell tons of ads to break even?
Oh right, it's for the "greater good of skateboarding."
Only the IRS and Koston know the largest source of his income, it may or may not be Berrics, but he must be making something from it.
You're missing it, brah. Just because a business is in it for profit doesn't mean it's making money. An extended period of investment before you go "into the black" is par for the course. The Berrics sells some ads and some tees. Is it so hard to believe that it wouldn't offset:
- Staffing costs (filmers, editors, maintenance, whatever it was Donovan was doing, web developers)
- Hosting/bandwidth fees
- Rent on the Building
- Graphic design
- The marketing firm you mentioned, which wouldn't be cheap
Seems like a whole lot of fucking ads, boards, and tees to push this baby into profitability, don't you think? And how many Berrics United accounts do you think they sold, after all of that backlash. Five? Ten?
You must be on Team Greater Good. (haha)
Who knows, we can only speculate. I'll speculate that Berrics generates more for him than his Spitfire check, but that's just my guess.
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Wow, this is why I don't like Koston. Olson actually has an opinion and the guy throws an internet bitch fit. I love that his defense of the berrics is "we work hard". Catholic missionaries and Wall Street lobbyists "work hard", but it doesn't mean they're right. The rest of his response was childish name calling. Spoiled brat and neglecting his career? Homeboy has had two covers in the last year alone.
Allow me to insert a personal anecdote about Olson and Koston. I went to one of the demos at Beauty & the Beast 2, and Olson was the first one out skating while the puddles in the park were still drying. He skated the entire time, was having fun, and even battled a line for a good half hour (the one in the tour video with the bs 360 kickflip at the end). Koston showed up about 45 minutes after the demo started, in a fucking Benz or whatever he drives. I honestly cannot remember one trick he made. I vaguely remember him doing a couple of frontside grinds and signing a few autographs. Job well done.
Now of course Koston is a skating legend who has put his time in, that was just one day. But the guy who talked shit on P-rod for going to Nike....and now rides for Nike, the guy who talked shit on Oakley......and now rides for Oakley, the guy who is notorious for complaining and whining about skate spots, the guy partially responsible for one of the worst things about skating today (berrics), and has raked in piles of cash as a result of all this, has no right to call anyone else spoiled. This is ridiculous.
I was just thinking about this. �It was a mini interview in a Skateboarder, a 'one last thing' or whatever it is called. �They asked something to the effect of "what is your biggest mistake"? �and Koston said, riding for Oakley.
Also, didn't he just spend a few days bitchin at Dyrdek about the Street League set up? �Why is he trying to tear down something lil robby worked so hard to create? �
Fuck it. �Team Triple Negative / Handsome it is.
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So they signed up with that Metal Mullisha marketing firm to not make money? Do they sell tons of ads to break even?
Oh right, it's for the "greater good of skateboarding."
Only the IRS and Koston know the largest source of his income, it may or may not be Berrics, but he must be making something from it.
You're missing it, brah. Just because a business is in it for profit doesn't mean it's making money. An extended period of investment before you go "into the black" is par for the course. The Berrics sells some ads and some tees. Is it so hard to believe that it wouldn't offset:
- Staffing costs (filmers, editors, maintenance, whatever it was Donovan was doing, web developers)
- Hosting/bandwidth fees
- Rent on the Building
- Graphic design
- The marketing firm you mentioned, which wouldn't be cheap
Seems like a whole lot of fucking ads, boards, and tees to push this baby into profitability, don't you think? And how many Berrics United accounts do you think they sold, after all of that backlash. Five? Ten?
Precisely. Everybody assumes that because Koston's getting paid by Nike that he's got more money than God, but no one realizes that he's still just an employee of every company he rides for, and thus is still a medium-sized fish, financially speaking. If you're a company owner, you're saddled with all the business risk, but you are also blessed with regular amounts of profit if your company is successful. The Berrics, for all it's viewers, as a business is still an internet based entertainment channel and has no substantial way of earning money. Internet advertising is pittance when compared to print, thus all the Newspapers that are going out of business as advertisers move from paper to web. Don't you guys know this? It's in all the papers...
I wish it were more like the old days when there was less shit talking and more fistfights. I would have loved to have heard the stories of how Koston just punched Olson in the face. Kinda like when Billy Pepper punched Phelps and then was banned from Thrasher forever.
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how many people could possibly follow alex olsens tumblr? now how many people do you think follow kostons IG?
i would say koston blew up his own spot with this one.
that said, this is scientific evidence why its impossible to stay away slap.
its gravitational pull is too strong aka "heavy"
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2ns6zb6.jpg)
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It's funny. Everytime I've met Koston he seems like spoiled fucking brat.
He's a bitter sarcastic dick. Good skateboarder though.
At least I get to see him suck at Street League and try and cover it up with his "funny moves"
Yeah I met the girl team once and Koston was by far the biggest dick. Not to me personally but there was this kid at this spot who just wanted to say hi and all the guys were really nice to him but koston was just being an arrogant fuck to this kid for some reason. The guy epitomises the dickhead skater cliche
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glad i took a nap and woke up to a 7 page thread
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the real question is....
Who is going to make an apology video?
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Alex Olson.
One man.
Defying the thought police.
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the real question is....
Who is going to make an apology video?
There are no apologies in skateboarding. Only broken dreams. :'(
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Here's my opinion about this:
Alex is entitled to his opinion and Eric should get the fuck over it. Just because he's your team mate or even your friend doesn't mean he has to like or promote your website.
(http://static.images.memegenerator.net/Instances400/8/8730/8939747.jpg)
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not enough cowbell. i want to see more e-xchanges up in this piece.
at the very least, someone should throw up some rumors to keep me entertained.
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A few guidelines to keep in mind that may help us navigate through this unsettling development:
1) If you're a grown man & you are fighting with someone you know in real life via social media or the internet, you LOSE.
2) If, in the midst of a recession, with rampant unemployment, you are endlessly whining about how hard you work for the "greater good" when you have never had a job outside of skateboarding, you LOSE BIG TIME.
3) If anything you say sounds like it could reasonably have come out of Berra's mouth, you LOSE.
4) If you throw your middle finger to Scientology you WIN.
Having just finished Ricky Oyola's EL episodes and now having stumbled on this thread, I'd say the shittiest part of the internet is finding out what douchebags all your favorite skate legends are.
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the self boasting, and self importance the berrics throws out any chance they get is kind of gross.
everyone works hard in any field. but its a labor of love so you should shut the fuck up about how hard you work.
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It's harder to be a professional skater than it is to be a joe blow. Don't let anyone fool you. well to be a good one. To be a skater that slap likes is probably easier than working a regular job.
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I guess Koston didn't learn much from those Scientology "courses":
HOW TO IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS COURSE
OVERCOMING UPS AND DOWNS IN LIFE COURSE
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A few guidelines to keep in mind that may help us navigate through this unsettling development:
1) If you're a grown man & you are fighting with someone you know in real life via social media or the internet, you LOSE.
2) If, in the midst of a recession, with rampant unemployment, you are endlessly whining about how hard you work for the "greater good" when you have never had a job outside of skateboarding, you LOSE BIG TIME.
3) If anything you say sounds like it could reasonably have come out of Berra's mouth, you LOSE.
4) If you throw your middle finger to Scientology you WIN.
Having just finished Ricky Oyola's EL episodes and now having stumbled on this thread, I'd say the shittiest part of the internet is finding out what douchebags all your favorite skate legends are.
agreed on all counts.
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PS - Berra-related Xenu tangent:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/juliette-lewis.html (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/juliette-lewis.html)
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
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they are both rich and self absorbed,real artists dont care about those 2 personalities.
Thats why they are fucking each other up on the internets,they forgot where they were before,why they are on planet Earth where peeps suffers and fight for real issues...real men beef on the streets and dont put any money on a berric beef'o-a-roni.
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
He didn't have to do it publicly. Koston seems to lack the foresight that his rant would make him look like a colossal, sopping wet, gaping vagina to a lot of people by crying about a mere six words typed by Olson. That is to say if the whole thing is for real.
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
a colossal, sopping wet, gaping vagina.
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real men beef on the streets and dont put any money on a berric beef'o-a-roni.
this.
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berra and koston use the berrics to recruit members to the church of scientology. they plan to unify all skateboarders around the us with their unified program under the will of xenu. through their website they broadcast experimental mind-control messages such as shoot all skaters. berra plans to use the leverage of his recruited berric army to force himself back into the acting world where he can spread his message to a larger audience. through his alliance with rob dyrdek, he has already infiltrated his message into many average american households on mtv. they plan to corrupt the youth by broadcasting videos of their favorite skateboarders performing tricks with hidden scientology undertones. they force anyone who enters their complex into signing away their soul to xenu. they mask their whole plot under the theme of the greater good of skateboarding. koston who had once in the past been bitter and hateful toward nike corporate plot to also use the power of skateboarding to construct an army for their view of the world, now saw an attempt to ally himself with the financial backing of the mega-corp. koston decided with the limitless funds he would receive from nike, nothing would be able to prevent him from manufacturing an army of robotic park skating drones. olson who had once entered the berrics after signing away his soul discovered documents revealing koston and berra's plan to corrupt the minds of the skateboarding youth through catchphrases such as "text yo self", "butter", "buttery", and "banging". in otherwords tysbbb or today you shall breath burnt bibles. (burnt bible is a slang non-believers use when referring to the scientologist's holy book of xenotraphagon) olson signed a treaty with berra saying that if he would be featured in one "text yo self" if he was allowed to flee the berrics and never return. berra agreed but was unaware that olson had found the document and made a copy. olson flee'd to his base and also began to try and infiltrate the media through his good-looks and boyish charm to spread hidden anti-berric agenda in his interactions with the public. it was no use. without the robotic moves of the berrics army, olson was only able to reveal so much. as a last minute resort olson hacked into a public server known as tumblr to reveal the message that no one should never visit the berrics in an attempt to foil their plan.
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Look being G'up means that only close friends or your own girlfriend can take picture of you modelin',other than that it means you will fall off because people will test your intellectual strenght way more and you'll end up like a moron thats why you modelin yourself already,because you never end up looking at yourself in a ratio where you know that you gotta learn.
shits poser...bambinos and seniors gotta learn how to talk to each others...its basics,stop watching fucking TV because you rich and shits...like the whole world is bullshit because of your success,thats as idiotic as giving up on happyness.
Koston have a fucking Nike sponsorship and he flip those fucking Nike boxes in ads all fuckin smiling like they are candy and shit,its disgusting as fuck...Kids are paid 2 $ a day to do those fucking shoes.
Dont get me wrong king kong have nothing against those 2 skatin' but their human side is shaded by Hollywood which is being hypocrits towards the whole world,thats the reason why they deculpabilize using twitters fucked up website tweetin bullshits all day in front of losts fucking kids fans.
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
OOOH GOD THEY ARE SAVING TE WORLD FROM BAD SPOTS
you still believe in santa
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Alex has an opinion and isn't scared to share it. Even if it hurts peoples feelings. Better than being a yes man whos afraid to step on toes. There's nothing to debate here. He doesn't like the berrics and he isn't shy about telling someone when asked. I don't see the problem or the need to debate anything.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
exactly. obviously koston didnt need to do it on the internet but it seems like thats where alex wants to bitch and moan and seem too cool guy for everything.
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I think the real winner in this whole ordeal is that one guy that baited Billy Marks into making a ponce of himself. Well played.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
you're missing the point. one dude expressed an opinion when asked a question, the other dude acted like he got punched in the face because he didn't like that opinion. he has a right to be pissed. but if you make a website, you can't seriously be insulted if somebody chooses not to visit it. that would be like a restaurant that makes food and feels entitled to talk shit on you if you don't eat there.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
exactly. obviously koston didnt need to do it on the internet but it seems like thats where alex wants to bitch and moan and seem too cool guy for everything.
the dude answers questions on his website. anything. ask him about foods and we could get a watermelon debate going.
...on that note seedless are more expensive, but much easier to eat.
he doesnt need the berrics support. so the dude with a nike pro model can stop playing martyr.
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What if Alex simply misread the question as "Do you NEVER go to the Berrics?" and responded with "No, not never...you should [go] too." Which makes a lot more sense considering that if he wanted to say he never went, his response should have been "No, not ever...you shouldn't either." And now he's going to be kicked off of Girl because he forgot a comma and misread a sentence. Damn you English language! Damn you to hell!
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
He didn't have to do it publicly. Koston seems to lack the foresight that his rant would make him look like a colossal, sopping wet, gaping vagina to a lot of people by crying about a mere six words typed by Olson. That is to say if the whole thing is for real.
it HAS to be... right? if this were a joke, who is it on exactly? slap? to get us all riled up? i mean, we'd be arguing in the ricky epicly laterd thread regardless...
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Alex has an opinion and isn't scared to share it. Even if it hurts peoples feelings. Better than being a yes man whos afraid to step on toes. There's nothing to debate here. He doesn't like the berrics and he isn't shy about telling someone when asked. I don't see the problem or the need to debate anything.
Finally!!!!
Please, someone send this to Koston.
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You know who gets a lot of criticism in the skate industry? Nike. But you'll NEVER see a higher-up at Nike spill tears online over negative press, because they understand that it wouldn't solve anything and would only make them look sensitive and offendable.
This is partly why corporations are taking over the industry - the correlation between being able to skateboard and being able to run a skateboard business is diminishing as corporations are increasing able to mimic skateboarding culture and successfully sell to the skateboarding demographic. Additionally, people in the industry are generally vain and petty, like when Phelps bans people from coverage in his mag, or when Jamie comes on here to defend himself, or when Sheckler complains about his haters.
The thing is, you don't hear other businesses endlessly wining over their detractors, or trying to brow-beat the consumer base into liking their product. Remember how well the "Don't do it" campaign worked? The skateboard industry wastes too much time trying to control things they can't control. Corporations like Globe however, don't waste any time whining online to people who don't buy their product, they're too busy making money. The skateboard culture and industry are so heterogeneous and fractured that they spend time arguing over silly drama and fighting themselves while corporations silently establish themselves as the dominant power players.
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What if Alex simply misread the question as "Do you NEVER go to the Berrics?" and responded with "No, not never...you should [go] too." Which makes a lot more sense considering that if he wanted to say he never went, his response should have been "No, not ever...you shouldn't either." And now he's going to be kicked off of Girl because he forgot a comma and misread a sentence. Damn you English language! Damn you to hell!
Brandon Biebel - Yeah Right Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y7tjFOIqis#)
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I think the real winner in this whole ordeal is that one guy that baited Billy Marks into making a ponce of himself. Well played.
i don't have the will to go through this whole thread to find out what you're talking about but i am curious, would you care to enlighten me
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The skateboard industry wastes too much time trying to control things they can't control.
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Alex has an opinion and isn't scared to share it. Even if it hurts peoples feelings. Better than being a yes man whos afraid to step on toes. There's nothing to debate here. He doesn't like the berrics and he isn't shy about telling someone when asked. I don't see the problem or the need to debate anything.
So Koston isn't afraid to call Alex a whiny lazy pro. What's your point?
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"No not never.... you should too"
Did Beetlejuice get into Olson's account?
Beetlejuice Hates Gilbert (1 of 3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oboq6a_cuLo#)
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
you're missing the point. one dude expressed an opinion when asked a question, the other dude acted like he got punched in the face because he didn't like that opinion. he has a right to be pissed. but if you make a website, you can't seriously be insulted if somebody chooses not to visit it. that would be like a restaurant that makes food and feels entitled to talk shit on you if you don't eat there.
i think youre missing the point. alex isnt just some random commentator trying to express his objective opinion. hes on girl with koston and already skated the berrics and used it to his gain already.
to the person who tried making the nike ceo analogy it doesnt work. its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make. this is probably not the first time koston has heard alex whine. hes probably heard it more than a couple dozen times. take all of that into account. he has a reason to be insulted and write what he wrote. is it really that hard to understand kostons motivations here?
and corps are taking over because they dont put out shit product and cut corners like DVS lakai and any number of other skater run shoe/apparel businesses. if you cut corners you dont deserve the money because youre a sack of shit who exploits your customers trust.
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My point was that Koston got overly emotional in a public manner when someone disagreed with his entrepreneurship. Most businessmen don't act like that, because it makes them look like marks.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
you're missing the point. one dude expressed an opinion when asked a question, the other dude acted like he got punched in the face because he didn't like that opinion. he has a right to be pissed. but if you make a website, you can't seriously be insulted if somebody chooses not to visit it. that would be like a restaurant that makes food and feels entitled to talk shit on you if you don't eat there.
i think youre missing the point. alex isnt just some random commentator trying to express his objective opinion. hes on girl with koston and already skated the berrics and used it to his gain already.
to the person who tried making the nike ceo analogy it doesnt work. its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make. this is probably not the first time koston has heard alex whine. hes probably heard it more than a couple dozen times. take all of that into account. he has a reason to be insulted and write what he wrote. is it really that hard to understand kostons motivations here?
and corps are taking over because they dont put out shit product and cut corners like DVS lakai and any number of other skater run shoe/apparel businesses. if you cut corners you dont deserve the money because youre a sack of shit who exploits your customers trust.
so if you have skated the berrics and ride for girl you have lie to endorse the site? i just want to understand what you think he should have answered? should he have lied if he doesn't check the site? i like honest people.
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its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make.
I think it's more like Derrick Rose saying he didn't like how basketball was portrayed in the movie Space Jam, and MJ just snaps.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
you're missing the point. one dude expressed an opinion when asked a question, the other dude acted like he got punched in the face because he didn't like that opinion. he has a right to be pissed. but if you make a website, you can't seriously be insulted if somebody chooses not to visit it. that would be like a restaurant that makes food and feels entitled to talk shit on you if you don't eat there.
i think youre missing the point. alex isnt just some random commentator trying to express his objective opinion. hes on girl with koston and already skated the berrics and used it to his gain already.
to the person who tried making the nike ceo analogy it doesnt work. its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make. this is probably not the first time koston has heard alex whine. hes probably heard it more than a couple dozen times. take all of that into account. he has a reason to be insulted and write what he wrote. is it really that hard to understand kostons motivations here?
and corps are taking over because they dont put out shit product and cut corners like DVS lakai and any number of other skater run shoe/apparel businesses. if you cut corners you dont deserve the money because youre a sack of shit who exploits your customers trust.
so if you have skated the berrics and ride for girl you have lie to endorse the site? i just want to understand what you think he should have answered? should he have lied if he doesn't check the site? i like honest people.
i agree, i prefer honest assholes over undercover cocksuckers.
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
its 2011 not 1996. i wouldnt be surprised if girl/chocolate has its own version of upriver and downriver cliques within it.
you're missing the point. one dude expressed an opinion when asked a question, the other dude acted like he got punched in the face because he didn't like that opinion. he has a right to be pissed. but if you make a website, you can't seriously be insulted if somebody chooses not to visit it. that would be like a restaurant that makes food and feels entitled to talk shit on you if you don't eat there.
i think youre missing the point. alex isnt just some random commentator trying to express his objective opinion. hes on girl with koston and already skated the berrics and used it to his gain already.
to the person who tried making the nike ceo analogy it doesnt work. its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make. this is probably not the first time koston has heard alex whine. hes probably heard it more than a couple dozen times. take all of that into account. he has a reason to be insulted and write what he wrote. is it really that hard to understand kostons motivations here?
and corps are taking over because they dont put out shit product and cut corners like DVS lakai and any number of other skater run shoe/apparel businesses. if you cut corners you dont deserve the money because youre a sack of shit who exploits your customers trust.
so if you have skated the berrics and ride for girl you have lie to endorse the site? i just want to understand what you think he should have answered? should he have lied if he doesn't check the site? i like honest people.
i agree, i prefer honest assholes over undercover cocksuckers.?
That's why I like Nick Merlino.
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You must be on Team Greater Good. (haha)
Who knows, we can only speculate. I'll speculate that Berrics generates more for him than his Spitfire check, but that's just my guess.
Youtube has had billions of pageviews since forever. The first year it turned a profit was 2010.
YouTube is yet to be profitable and from what I read 2 years ago it was losing $500 Million a year.
http://allthingsd.com/20100909/breaking-youtube-still-isnt-profitable-but-it-will-be-says-google-again/ (http://allthingsd.com/20100909/breaking-youtube-still-isnt-profitable-but-it-will-be-says-google-again/)
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its more like seeing one of the athletes on nike football complaining about the shoes they make.
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more like mike dunleavy jr.
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Why hasn't anyone posted an Alex Olson picture captioning the words "you mad"? C'mon now errybody
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dude. im not trying to say whether alex is or isnt qualified to say anything about the berrics. you kept saying that koston was stupid for being mad and another person went as far as calling him a gaping vagina for it. the only thing im saying is that koston is completely justified in replying the way he did and i tried spelling that out as clearly as i could.
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Why hasn't anyone posted an Alex Olson picture captioning the words "you mad"? C'mon now errybody
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dude. im not trying to say whether alex is or isnt qualified to say anything about the berrics. you kept saying that koston was stupid for being mad and another person went as far as calling him a gaping vagina for it. the only thing im saying is that koston is completely justified in replying the way he did and i tried spelling that out as clearly as i could.
fair enough. this is the way i see it... alex has every right to answer a question honestly. koston has every right to react the way he did. and now i/we have every right to say/believe koston reacted like a gaping vagina. we all win.
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What if Alex simply misread the question as "Do you NEVER go to the Berrics?" and responded with "No, not never...you should [go] too." Which makes a lot more sense considering that if he wanted to say he never went, his response should have been "No, not ever...you shouldn't either." And now he's going to be kicked off of Girl because he forgot a comma and misread a sentence. Damn you English language! Damn you to hell!
There is no way he's getting kicked off for this... I wonder how many of Koston's bitch-outs Rickk and Mike have had to deal over the past 18 years. Probably a lot. Either way... Epicly Later'ds have been spawned off of less than this, i.e. Jason vs. Kalis.
Speaking of Kalis, can we get you're opinion on here? I imagine you'll have something to say about respect.
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hating the berrics and hating what it may or may not be doing to skateboarding is 1000% a-okay.........
but if your teammate run's the site and really puts alot of his money and effort into it, saying anything negative is SUCH a little bitch move. backing koston on this all the way. if you don't like it, don't like it. that's fine. keep your negative opinions to yourself and don't bum out people who have helped you out and furthered you.
how people can back olson on this is ridiculous. don't bite the hand that feeds you, don't shit where you eat and and don't talk shit on people who have helped you out. how hard is that to understand? i hate ungrateful people, and to me talking shit on something koston spent so much time on, whether it sucks or not, is a form of ungratefulness.
i still like alex though. dude rips.
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who cares but koston.
end of thread unless more regular bullshit is tweeted.
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but really, how does this help me land nollie-flips?
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this is alot deeper than just a little comment.
im sure koston feels cheated because olson got that major shoe deal from vans,
that was right around the time he jumped ship to nike, im sure he heard about olson's offer
and was a little jealous because he felt he was worth more than "alex olson"
koston is a pioneer of street skating where as alex is younger and kindof just fast tracked his way into money.
this entire "fight" has to do with koston not thinking alex is good enough or hasn't paid his dues to be where he is at.
which totally may be the case, but seriously, a Berra rant has never solved anything. it just makes you look like an asshole
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Come on guys Alex is way to cool to dork out on the berrics hes too busy jumping over mail boxes for commercials!
I hate when skateboarders act like they are too cool for skateboarding, that shit pisses me off and that's exactly what Alex is doing. I don't really care for the berries either but shit I check it and if it's a skater I like I watch the videos not because I like the site but because I like skateboarding. At the same time Alex is entitled to his opinion I just feel his opinion is the same as every hipster douche...to be wayyyy to cool. Koston can do no wrong and he can react however he wants. Alex has had a pretty slack career compared to most other skaters but especially to koston. The guy has had one mediocore video part EVER and a little bit of coverage and makes good money. Don't get me wrong I like Alex, I actually met him before years ago when he was just steve olsons son and flow for toy and emerica, he was actually a really nice kid and I've always really liked his style and it's only gotten better so dont think I'm some alex Olson hater I'm just saying I see where koston was coming from with his comments, minus the greater good part, I'd have to respectfully disagree with that part.
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hating the berrics and hating what it may or may not be doing to skateboarding is 1000% a-okay.........
but if your teammate run's the site and really puts alot of his money and effort into it, saying anything negative is SUCH a little bitch move.� backing koston on this all the way.� if you don't like it, don't like it.� that's fine.� �keep your negative opinions to yourself and don't bum out people who have helped you out and furthered you.� �
how people can back olson on this is ridiculous.� �don't bite the hand that feeds you, don't shit where you eat and and don't talk shit on people who have helped you out.� how hard is that to understand?� � i hate ungrateful people, and to me talking shit on something koston spent so much time on, whether it sucks or not, is a form of ungratefulness.
i still like alex though. dude rips.
shut up, he didnt even directly diss the berrics nor did he even bring the subject up. stop being a nancy, its tight as fuck when a pro skater says something controversial because most pros sugarcoat everything
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Koston can do no wrong and he can react however he wants.
that shit is pretty gay, just because he is a pro doesnt mean he is any better of a person than anyone here, get off his dick got damn
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Why hasn't anyone posted an Alex Olson picture captioning the words "you mad"? C'mon now errybody
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
exactly. obviously koston didnt need to do it on the internet but it seems like thats where alex wants to bitch and moan and seem too cool guy for everything.
the dude answers questions on his website. anything. ask him about foods and we could get a watermelon debate going.
...on that note seedless are more expensive, but much easier to eat.
he doesnt need the berrics support. so the dude with a nike pro model can stop playing martyr.
but do seedless watermelons take aways the challenge that watermelon eating deserves?
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Did i miss something about Koston being a scientologist? I know Berra dabbled in it, but Koston too? Is he still practising?
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
exactly. obviously koston didnt need to do it on the internet but it seems like thats where alex wants to bitch and moan and seem too cool guy for everything.
the dude answers questions on his website. anything. ask him about foods and we could get a watermelon debate going.
...on that note seedless are more expensive, but much easier to eat.
he doesnt need the berrics support. so the dude with a nike pro model can stop playing martyr.
but do seedless watermelons take aways the challenge that watermelon eating deserves?
what is wrong with eating the damn seeds thats what i do
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im not kostons biggest fan but its not like he doesn't have a point. this is probably the 1000th time hes seen or heard alex whine about something berrics related and that last comment was simply the tipping point. he has a right to be pissed. if you put a lot of yourself into something you're going to take it personally when someone goes about their day marginalizing everything you do anytime it gets mentioned.
exactly. obviously koston didnt need to do it on the internet but it seems like thats where alex wants to bitch and moan and seem too cool guy for everything.
the dude answers questions on his website. anything. ask him about foods and we could get a watermelon debate going.
...on that note seedless are more expensive, but much easier to eat.
he doesnt need the berrics support. so the dude with a nike pro model can stop playing martyr.
but do seedless watermelons take aways the challenge that watermelon eating deserves?
what is wrong with eating the damn seeds thats what i do
didn't you see that episode of rugrats where chuckie swallows the watermelon seed? that shits gonna start growing in your stomach and eventually cause you to implode or some shit.
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you guys ever had a friend that was just always so damn negative, hating on everything possible? well thats alex olson. eventually you get fed up with it and you put the person in their place (koston). koston and berra are both going out of their way with the berrics, pouring in money and probably never seeing a direct return (exposure/sales boosts is an obvious return). they really do want to build skate parks all over the country that kids can skate for free, and even if berra is pretty kooky, i think that its still rad that they are doing that.
He didn't have to do it publicly. Koston seems to lack the foresight that his rant would make him look like a colossal, sopping wet, gaping vagina to a lot of people by crying about a mere six words typed by Olson. That is to say if the whole thing is for real.
Does it not bother you that Olson did the same? I don't see what the difference is between tumblr and instagram myself...
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didn't you see that episode of rugrats where chuckie swallows the watermelon seed? that shits gonna start growing in your stomach and eventually cause you to implode or some shit.
shit was dope yo
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Alex has an opinion and isn't scared to share it. Even if it hurts peoples feelings. Better than being a yes man whos afraid to step on toes. There's nothing to debate here. He doesn't like the berrics and he isn't shy about telling someone when asked. I don't see the problem or the need to debate anything.
Finally!!!!
Please, someone send this to Koston.
Why? Because in my opinion, Skate_bored is totally right. People on here need to realize that Olson's motives are hardly noble, he's not trying to improve anyone else's life with those comments, he's just being a whiny bitch.
I don't get why so many people on here are backing such a negative prick just to make Koston (who is a totally cocky douche) look bad. Why can't everyone just hate both of them and leave it at that?
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best marketing idea of the berrikkks in a long time.
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my opinion is more valid than yours!
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best marketing idea of the berrikkks in a long time.
i liked the time they hacked their own website
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oh my god i was going skating but this is way better
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wow, i just realized Koston is the one taking the phone photo and that the shot was snapped rather recently (it was posted up on Crailtap yesterday, the 18th of July)
Interpersonal dynamics change pretty quick, ha.
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oh my god i was going skating but this is way better
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wow, i just realized Koston is the one taking the phone photo and that the shot was snapped rather recently (it was posted up on Crailtap yesterday, the 18th of July)
Interpersonal dynamics change pretty quick, ha.
Or they did it just to fuck with us...
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I have learned on thing from this thread: scientology is for people who lack a moral compass.
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sometimes honesty between friends is best done in person.
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BAT FIGHT with Will Ferrell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXh3XR9zyM#ws)
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this was fun at first. but I think somebody needs to take it up another notch.
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this was fun at first. but I think somebody needs to take it up another notch.
eric and alex should joust. It'll undoubtedly solve everything and make all this drama actually worth something.
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this was fun at first. but I think somebody needs to take it up another notch.
eric and alex should joust. It'll undoubtedly solve everything and make all this drama actually worth something.
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Skate or Die: Beating Lester 3-0 in Pool Joust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyzkhVFGT0#)
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Here's the truth:
Apparently Super Cock hasn't been giving it to his wife properly for sometime...this has been a known fact within the Girl/Chocolate family after last years holiday party, where Koston's wife complained about Eric's non-pleasing mini Thai penis. during a drunken rant to owner/CEO Rick Howard. Word got to Alex Olson quickly and like any fellow swordsman, he knew he must strike while the irons hot. While Koston has been fulfilling his 2011 sponsor's contractual obligation and busy sizing his clubs at the Nike Golf Facility, Olson has been fine tuning his womanizing skills in our nation?s hotbed of poontang: New York City and Los Angeles.
All of Olson's training has proven to pay off last weekend, when he allegedly proceed to "get it in" Mrs. Koston for multiple sessions, while her husband was busy competing in the finals with 10 year younger Street Leaguers. All the shit hit the fan yesterday, when Koston returned to his Hollywood Hills home. Allegedly: Koston entered his home when he saw his wife out of the corner of his eye, crying profusely on the living room couch right under his favorite framed signed Koby jersey. When asked what's wrong, she proceeded to tell her husband about her amazing weekend with the Olsonator and that she couldn't be around him anymore. Furious yet confused, Koston immediately hopped on his Ipad to see what dirt he could dig up on Olson. The last thing he wanted is for the truth to go public, so he decided to take his frustration out on a 6 word comment Olson left on his underground blog: www.olsonstuff.com (http://www.olsonstuff.com). The rest is history folks...
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^ he's half black
Tiger Woods y'all
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Here?s the truth:
Apparently Super Cock hasn't been giving it to his wife properly for sometime...this has been a known fact within the Girl/Chocolate family after last years holiday party, where Koston?s wife complained about Eric?s non-pleasing ?mini Thai penis? during a drunken rant to owner/CEO Rick Howard. Word got to Alex Olson quickly and like any fellow swordsman, he knew he must strike while the irons hot. While Koston has been fulfilling his 2011 sponsor?s contractual obligation and busy sizing his clubs at the Nike Golf Facility, Olson has been fine tuning his womanizing skills in our nation?s hotbed of poontang: New York City and Los Angeles.
All of Olson?s training has proven to pay off last weekend, when he allegedly proceed to ?get it in? Mrs. Koston for multiple sessions, while her husband was busy competing in the finals with 10 year younger Street Leaguers. All the shit hit the fan yesterday, when Koston returned to his Hollywood Hills home. Allegedly: Koston entered his home when he saw his wife out of the corner of his eye, crying profusely on the living room couch right under his favorite framed signed Koby jersey. When asked what?s wrong, she proceeded to tell her husband about her amazing weekend with the ?Olsonator? and that she could be around him anymore. Furious yet confused, Koston immediately hopped on his Ipad to see what dirt he could dig up on Olson. The last thing he wanted is for the truth to go public, so he decided to take his frustration out on a 6 word comment Olson left on his underground blog: www.olsonstuff.com (http://www.olsonstuff.com). The rest is history folks?..
"Apparently" does not equal truth.
TMZ, roll over the ultimate sewing circle is this forum.
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eric overslept his scientology coping with defeat at street league and rising above petty differences class - thats all
lets all give ourselves a homework assignment - just for fun.. i really dont care what this has to do with scientology nor do i really give two shits about yours or eric's beliefs - but everyone if yer up for it go find yer local scientology center and get a picture of you flicking it off. it would really make this thread a lot more interesting. otherwise - lets let it die
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First Oyola talks shit about Koston's switch mongo.
And now this....
Poor Koston :'(
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but really, how does this help me land nollie-flips?
watch the berrics
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well this isnt stupid
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and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
This.
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haha, a few hours of sleep equals 8 more pages in this thread. sick.
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It's been tense since the flare.
Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't.
Just you wait.
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i wonder how eric took the ricky oyola switch mongo comment? oh shit.
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Dont get me wrong king kong.
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It's been tense since the flare.
Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't.
Just you wait.
How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
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It's been tense since the flare.
Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't.
Just you wait.
How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
Funniest thing I've read on slap in all my years of lurking!
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don't drink the coolaid
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Ha ha ha!!! Almost choked on my sandwich.
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It's been tense since the flare. Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't. Just you wait.
I can imagine Koston giving an ultimatum such as "Alex leaves or I leave"
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I can't believe I read all this shit.
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How Megan handles business over there, I don't know...
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Oh the irony!
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Amazing. Olson answers a question, Koston writes a sobbing novel.
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How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
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Hahaha you can not be serious? If you are then you're fucking regular.
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Oh the irony!
great work sherlock now look a couple pages back but im really glad you created an account for this
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I would be cool with this if Kosten would have told Oslen all that shit to his face, instead of doing it publicly throught the internets.
Olson is a lazy fuck though, that much is true. Only one full part in the 6 or 7 years he has been fully on the business... he better come out with two amazing parts for the chocolate and the vans video. But anyway, that's not the point here.
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Spanky still looks like a child, I don't think he belongs in that team.
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I would be cool with this if Kosten would have told Oslen all that shit to his face, instead of doing it publicly throught the internets.
Olson is a lazy fuck though, that much is true. Only one full part in the 6 or 7 years he has been fully on the business... he better come out with two amazing parts for the chocolate and the vans video. But anyway, that's not the point here.
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Spanky still looks like a child, I don't think he belongs in that team.
Who EXACTLY is on Team Handsome?
I know so far contracts have been extended to Dylan, Alex Olson, and Austyn Gillette. Heard rumors D-Gar is going to come on over from Habitat also though...
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How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
Hahaha you can not be serious? If you are then you're fucking regular.
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lolwut
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great work sherlock now look a couple pages back but im really glad you created an account for this
Well, if you'd really like to know I made one a couple of months ago but I was getting pretty bored of fat American keyboard warriors like yourself.
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great work sherlock now look a couple pages back but im really glad you created an account for this
Well, if you'd really like to know I made one a couple of months ago but I was getting pretty bored of fat American keyboard warriors like yourself.
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How Megan handles business over there, I don't know...
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It's been tense since the flare.
Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't.
Just you wait.
How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
Funniest thing I've read on slap in all my years of lurking!
"all my years of lurking"=found out about SLAP over the weekend.
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It's been tense since the flare. Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't. Just you wait.
If he does, new sponsor predictions. I'm thinking Antihero.
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It's been tense since the flare. Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't. Just you wait.
If he does, new sponsor predictions. I'm thinking Antihero.
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toy or alien would be sick
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It's been tense since the flare. Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't. Just you wait.
If he does, new sponsor predictions. I'm thinking Antihero.
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Doubt it. Trujillo on Fourstar, Beauty and the Beast everybody except for Alex looked awfully friendly towards one another...
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and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
This.
berra has at least put out multiple parts that at one point in time were undeniably good. I think its pretty obvious that berra isnt going to be putting out more amazing video parts. I know it, you know it, all his sponsors know it, but due to his work at the berrics, hes gained alot of popularity, hence his products still sell despite him not skating so his sponsors keep him on.
Olson on the other hand, put out 1 video part that if any other am in the industry put out, would still be am, but hes pro, and hasnt done much since other than put out lifestyle footage and jump over mailboxes instead of film actual skateboarding tricks. So whose the milker here?
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It's been tense since the flare.
Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't.
Just you wait.
How does Koston have pull at Girl? Alex has had the most impact on Girls success for many years and counting. Without him they would have no credibility and probably fhave folded by now.
Funniest thing I've read on slap in all my years of lurking!
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It's been tense since the flare. Koston has the pull at Girl, Olson doesn't. Just you wait.
funny cunt.
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and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
This.
berra has at least put out multiple parts that at one point in time were undeniably good. I think its pretty obvious that berra isnt going to be putting out more amazing video parts. I know it, you know it, all his sponsors know it, but due to his work at the berrics, hes gained alot of popularity, hence his products still sell despite him not skating so his sponsors keep him on.
Olson on the other hand, put out 1 video part that if any other am in the industry put out, would still be am, but hes pro, and hasnt done much since other than put out lifestyle footage and jump over mailboxes instead of film actual skateboarding tricks. So whose the milker here?
maybe they both are? the point still stands, koston shouldnt have taken that jab at olson, when berra is no better.
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and i dont see how he can take that "neglecting skating for 3 years" jab at olson, when berra has even topped pops as skateboarding's premiere milker.
This.
berra has at least put out multiple parts that at one point in time were undeniably good. I think its pretty obvious that berra isnt going to be putting out more amazing video parts. I know it, you know it, all his sponsors know it, but due to his work at the berrics, hes gained alot of popularity, hence his products still sell despite him not skating so his sponsors keep him on.
Olson on the other hand, put out 1 video part that if any other am in the industry put out, would still be am, but hes pro, and hasnt done much since other than put out lifestyle footage and jump over mailboxes instead of film actual skateboarding tricks. So whose the milker here?
I dont know about all this.On one hand i feel like koston wouldnt go on that rant from that one comment, like maybe in person he told olson to turn it down on the whole anti berrics thing then this happend. But on the other hand koston and his social networking is a little out of control and i guess he could just snap, who knows.
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We need Bitch II
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We need Bitch II
Haha that's the best logo ever.
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Even if Olson got kicked off Girl, he would get snatched up by another company no problem. I can already see him on Alien or something like that.
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These 11 pages are why I love slap, laughing my fuckin ass off
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Even if Olson got kicked off Girl, he would get snatched up by another company no problem. I can already see him on Alien or something like that.
it would be the only thing worse then girl.
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Maybe they should make a baby together and create something wonderful...
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These 11 pages are why I love slap, laughing my fuckin ass off
and all so quickly.
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Alex is posting some of his fan's opinions on his tumbrl:
This really isn't a question. It is more of a observation of things that have happened as of late. I find it funny that you simply state you aren't a fan of a specific website and someone has a meltdown, to the point of making the whole issue into a personal jab towards one of their teammates no less. You get more coverage than most on the Girl/Choco squad and in the 3 years you have supposed not focused on your "career" you have had multi covers, had videos on various of your brands sites, appeared in bills offerings and been on many tours. The lack of push for that aspect of skateboarding has always been one of the family aspects from Girl and Choco, that is why it seemed odd that it was a focus of his statement to you.
The underlying issue with this whole thing is Berra. It is pretty sad his reach has got to the point where Eric has allowed himself to be controlled by Steve?s personal envy. Looks like the Scientology flick off pic must have broken Berra's or some of his $$$$$ backers balls enough to call for a "lashing" for you.
If your opinion and "shitty tumblr" truly didn't matter or affect there bottom-line aka $$$$$$ they wouldn't have reacted, and further reacted in the way they did.
Berra is a outright and complete cunt and sadly Eric for some reason ($$$$$$) is allowing himself to be a pawn in Steve's lashing out in an attempt to keep you and your honest opinion in place.
Sad.
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Skateboarding is a form of expression and individuality. If you posted on your blog that you dislike all the hype that theberrics site is and creates, then that's a form of expression/individuality as well. If you got kicked off a company that supposedly supports what skateboarding is about then they are fucking defeating the purpose of skateboarding as an outlet to expression and individuality. I like the berrics vids, but this whole ordeal is stupid. just sayin'.
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Just wanted to say i think its rad ur speaking ur mind on the berrics and street nascar etc. Fuck all that shit. They're killing skateboarding, and they're fronting like trying to save it, when its all about more money and energy drink sponsors. Keep on doing what u do, u got people backing you G.
He is not answering anything, but it is implied that he agrees with them. The first one can cause trouble. ::)
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oh boy, talk about adding fuel to the fire
EDIT: here's the link for confirmation
http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/ (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/)
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Haha that's the best logo ever.
AHaha Rocco...!
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uh oh.. slap posters are invading alex's tumblr page haha.
lets see if he responds to any of these
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Olson should land the fandangle.
End this once and for all.
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This really took the wind out of the sails of the Oyola EL thread.
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Team Handsome, prepare for war.
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petition for a "not not never...you should too" shirt. Who's with me??? One of the finer sentences I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
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carroll is one of the owners of girl distribution.. and yeh safe to say that he and alex are pretty close friends. i dont think he has anything to worry about at all
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Alex olson isn't anyone's favorite skater.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
i don't know.. i'm not currently in 5th grade but watching some of those Girl demos and seeing them talk to the kids, seems like when asked who they wanted to see most of them were all "Alex Olson!!" he's definitely big with the kids. and big in Japan too
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i thought alex was catering to the 30+ crowd, but what do i know.
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Koston just Instagramed a pic of an alex olson ad on the berrics and captioned "Oh the irony...."
Then preceded to comment on the same photo saying "kinda funny tho"
Someone screen cap that shit
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instagram post just now from Koston
his comment: "oh the irony"
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alright - instagramers - go bomb that shit lol
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Im not 12 years old and buys every single product of my favorite skater and tries to be like him and shit but... hes one of my favorites, if not my favorite.
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i just realized in that bitch ad koston's deck is a puppet.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down.� i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA.� doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
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what does being black have to do with anything, faggot?
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i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r
Are you saying that Alex Olson is favored above Koston among little kids?
The easiest way to gauge the popularity of a skateboarder
is to see how often a video of "said skateboarder" is uploaded to youtube
lets compare
Alex Olson
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24)
Eric Koston
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24)
Even after omitting the street league related videos you can see that Koston comes out way on top.
There are probably 80 different uploads of his Chomp part and 1,000's of reviews on his products
Just here to prove the obvious. (Koston is more popular than Olson)
I'm not taking sides...... yet
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The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
ALL YOUR POCKETS NOW!!
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down.� i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA.� doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
HAHAHAHA racist, faggot.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down.� i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA.� doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
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but really, how does this help me land nollie-flips?
jump on the treadmill?
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i just realized in that bitch ad koston's deck is a puppet.
holy fucking mind fuck shit. that is too fitting, skateboarding conspiracies.
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4205/picture1hhg.png)
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COTG, when's the last time you had the mentality you couldn't do a certain trick?
Real question.
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That Bob dude is probably the most idiotic and ignorant person on Slap. Probably just trolling though.
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steve berra kissed a really young boy once
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12 pages of thread in 2 days
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down.� i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA.� doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
take the bait bitch go skate some curbs.
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Maybe if you went and skated some curbs, you wouldn't suck at skateboarding.
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Koston to Plan B
Alex to Selfish
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i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r
Are you saying that Alex Olson is favored above Koston among little kids?
The easiest way to gauge the popularity of a skateboarder
is to see how often a video of "said skateboarder" is uploaded to youtube
lets compare
Alex Olson
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24)
Eric Koston
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24)
Even after omitting the street league related videos you can see that Koston comes out way on top.
There are probably 80 different uploads of his Chomp part and 1,000's of reviews on his products
Just here to prove the obvious. (Koston is more popular than Olson)
I'm not taking sides...... yet
i'm sure you're right. i really don't consider myself up on everything (especially with the kids). i just remember being impressed by whatever demo it was, and someone with a camera was asking all the kids who they were there to see and tons of kids in a row said A.O., and i remember thinking, "huh, i guess he's pretty popular with the kids"
then i went and took some metamucil and went to bed early
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Alex stays on Girl
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i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r
Are you saying that Alex Olson is favored above Koston among little kids?
The easiest way to gauge the popularity of a skateboarder
is to see how often a video of "said skateboarder" is uploaded to youtube
lets compare
Alex Olson
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=alex+olson&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C22%2C24)
Eric Koston
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=eric+koston&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=17%2C24)
Even after omitting the street league related videos you can see that Koston comes out way on top.
There are probably 80 different uploads of his Chomp part and 1,000's of reviews on his products
Just here to prove the obvious. (Koston is more popular than Olson)
I'm not taking sides...... yet
i'm sure you're right. i really don't consider myself up on everything (especially with the kids). i just remember being impressed by whatever demo it was, and someone with a camera was asking all the kids who they were there to see and tons of kids in a row said A.O., and i remember thinking, "huh, i guess he's pretty popular with the kids"
then i went and took some metamucil and went to bed early
This is where the other kids at the demo were.
Mike Mo New Jersey Demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcK9Z8sjd2E#)
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can i have your attention, please?
thank you.
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the more I think about this situation, the less i care.
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the more I think about this situation, the less i care.
yeah you're cool
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the more I think about this situation, the less i care.
yeah you're cool
i know, but thanks. seriously though. this thread should be called, "two bitter little spoiled fuckin brats fighting over bullshit on the interweb."
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If you suck at skating having a favorite skater doesn't count.
youre so wise
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Does taking metamucil before bed speed up your metabolism or something?
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thats the reason why they deculpabilize using twitters fucked up website tweetin bullshits all day
Preach.
I think...
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Berrics is like Israel. If you criticize it in the least bit you're labeled an anti-semite.
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looks like koston removed the post where he blew up and wrote a novel and olson removed the original post that started this from his tumblr page along with some of the spam posts with people ranting about this shit.. damage control
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looks like koston removed the post where he blew up and wrote a novel and olson removed the original post that started this from his tumblr page along with some of the spam posts with people ranting about this shit.. damage control
morons
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Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
After reading that Danny Gonzales Interview i realize cotg won't go anywhere in skating because he too angered that son-of-a-cop. (http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=32202.msg817788#msg817788)
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looks like koston removed the post where he blew up and wrote a novel and olson removed the original post that started this from his tumblr page along with some of the spam posts with people ranting about this shit.. damage control
finally, a phone call was made.
best friends forever again
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ERIC KOSTON SHOOTS LASERS OUT OF HIS MOUTH!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_nKciBSKs#)
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People are getting pretty angry about this shit, huh?
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You know who gets a lot of criticism in the skate industry? Nike. But you'll NEVER see a higher-up at Nike spill tears online over negative press, because they understand that it wouldn't solve anything and would only make them look sensitive and offendable.
This is partly why corporations are taking over the industry - the correlation between being able to skateboard and being able to run a skateboard business is diminishing as corporations are increasing able to mimic skateboarding culture and successfully sell to the skateboarding demographic. Additionally, people in the industry are generally vain and petty, like when Phelps bans people from coverage in his mag, or when Jamie comes on here to defend himself, or when Sheckler complains about his haters.
The thing is, you don't hear other businesses endlessly wining over their detractors, or trying to brow-beat the consumer base into liking their product. Remember how well the "Don't do it" campaign worked? The skateboard industry wastes too much time trying to control things they can't control. Corporations like Globe however, don't waste any time whining online to people who don't buy their product, they're too busy making money. The skateboard culture and industry are so heterogeneous and fractured that they spend time arguing over silly drama and fighting themselves while corporations silently establish themselves as the dominant power players.
broke it down!
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The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
The Berrics is gay.
ALL YOUR POCKETS NOW!!
ahaAHAHAHAH
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Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
After reading that Danny Gonzales Interview i realize cotg won't go anywhere in skating because he too angered that son-of-a-cop. (http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=32202.msg817788#msg817788)
None of the companies i would try get sponsored are even remotely connected to deluxe.
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How dare Alex Olson share his opinion on a question that someone asked him on his own personal blog
It sounds like Eric Koston is a little butt hurt because someone decided not to feed his self-entitlement. Seriously complaining about someone not liking what you are doing makes you a "bitter little spoiled fuckin brat."
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I'm sure the reason koston is mad, is because alex olsen is supposed to be his friend. If someone is your friend you don't expect him to throw something under the bus, that you've worked hard to put together , every chance they get. You would think he would have the decency to come to you as a man, if he had any problem with something you're doing, not making slick comments on the internet.
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Koston is a narcissus.
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I'm sure the reason koston is mad, is because alex olsen is supposed to be his friend. If someone is your friend you don't expect him to throw something under the bus, that you've worked hard to put together , every chance they get. You would think he would have the decency to come to you as a man, if he had any problem with something you're doing, not making slick comments on the internet.
Except it wasn't a slick comment. Some kid asked Olson a question, and he game him an answer. No reason why he should of lied, or avoided it. And do you and your friends agree on EVERYTHING? no. I remember Kalis said one time on here that he didn't like Dylan's v-necks or something, but they're still cool with each other. If Koston wasn't such a baby, he would just accept the fact that Alex doesn't like the Berrics, and act like an adult. But apparently he isn't capable of that.
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He's said a bunch of slick backhanded shit about the berrics. On his blog and in interviews. Eventually, you're going to have to tell him what the deal is.
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a few thoughts.
1] if an employee of a company (say a media giant) publicly criticizes the direction of the company or any of it's subsidiaries, then yes, they are most definitely going to be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination. that's standard shit. most corps have what they call a code of conduct which covers this. corporations are just way quieter about it when the shit hits the fan.
2] i'm pretty sure koston was already fed up with alex's negative attitude/comments and his slack demeanor when it comes to getting actual skating done. something about a straw and a camels back?
3] this could still be a prank. either way, it's not really earth shattering. it's fucking instagram.
4] though i'm pretty sure eric is not a scientologist, the response was pretty in line with the way they typically deal with SP's (suppressive persons). especially the veiled threat of a "disconnect". it makes me think that maybe eric was being leaned on by steve to "handle" the PTS. if alex doesn't stop making "suppressive" statements about scientology steve is, by the tenets of L.Rons organization obligated to "disconnect" with him and anyone who communicates with him. if not, then he risks being labeled a SP as well.
5] if those words ^ made no sense to you, good, you're not a scientologist. if you want to know what the hell it meant, check this:
http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/childabuse/disconnect.html (http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/childabuse/disconnect.html)
and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_Person (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_Person)
6] the berrics (no matter how i personally feel about it) has helped skateboarding a lot. from the smaller overlooked kids like corey kennedy (i know, i know) that would've probably quit by now, to companies like blvd et al, that are getting tons of coverage and publicity from the site that they would otherwise not be able to get at all. AND especially the street plaza stuff that's going down. that's sick.
i don't think they help the overall mindstate of groms in the park, but that's what we older dudes are there for. and yes, i'm intentionally omitting the free video argument (well, i WAS). i still don't go there everyday, but i do think that the pro's outweigh the cons by a fucking longshot.
k
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GIVE ME MY WALLET!
It's my wallet!
GIVE ME MY WALLET!
It's my wallet!
YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH!!!
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If you suck at skating having a favorite skater doesn't count.
Maybe if you went and skated some curbs, you wouldn't suck at skateboarding.
who the fuck does this guy think he is?
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If Alex Olson had wrote on his Tumblr that he fucked Koston's wife at the berrics and his cum stains are still on Berra's couch and socks...I think I could understand Koston's (http://s2.postimage.org/dkz7dz6py/Liberace_koston.jpg) outburst.
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look at this shit someone wrote up about the whole thing.. nice article bro :-\
http://n-sb.org/10430/eric-koston-mad-at-alex-olson-for-hating-on-the-berrics/news/ (http://n-sb.org/10430/eric-koston-mad-at-alex-olson-for-hating-on-the-berrics/news/)
in other news im fairly happy with my new sig..
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
This has to be a joke. Alex Olson is without question one of the worse riders Girl has ever had on the team when it comes to skating. For Koston to even be remotely threatened by his overwhelming imaginary favorite skater status by kids is laughable. Anyone who knows anything about skating knows he's lucky to be on that team in comparison to the type of people that have historically rode and ride for them.
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Maybe if you went and skated some curbs, you wouldn't suck at skateboarding.
who the fuck does this guy think he is?
I'm not sure, from what I've gathered so far.... he's a California ledge rat obsessed with all tech skaters and firmly believes that the word faggot is the worst and only insult known to man. He hates the idea of people having fun on a skateboard and hates faggots who are not constantly trying to progress. He hates the fact that people enjoy making films with their friends about skateboarding that aren't pushing the boundaries in every shot. I think it stems from the fact that he posts on a message board where most of the community disagrees with him and he's had to argue his point so many times he's gone fucking mental and has turned into a sad irritable little bastard. He takes himself and skateboarding much too seriously and would gladly drink the undigested Mountain Dew from P Rod's urine.
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HAHAHa I love how everyone's insults of me always include p rod's dick. You guys are the biggest faggots on the face of the earth.
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looks like koston removed the post where he blew up and wrote a novel and olson removed the original post that started this from his tumblr page along with some of the spam posts with people ranting about this shit.. � damage control
finally, a phone call was made.
best friends forever again
at least on paper. anyways mike mo is the best guy on girl. good vibes all around. i wouldnt expect any of this garbage from him.
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I understand that it's media outlet and a great marketing tool for marketing tools but can someone please explain how a website for a private skatepark is actually 'helping skateboarding'?
And don't say that "they built a skate plaza" BS. The city's funds pay for stuff like that. Kids across the world have been helping cities build skateparks for years.
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I understand that it's media outlet and a great marketing tool for marketing tools but can someone please explain how a website for a private skatepark is actually 'helping skateboarding'?
And don't say that "they built a skate plaza" BS. The city's funds pay for stuff like that. Kids across the world have been helping cities build skateparks for years.
free content...? i really dont get that argument either. the internet is full of free skateboarding content.
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I understand that it's media outlet and a great marketing tool for marketing tools but can someone please explain how a website for a private skatepark is actually 'helping skateboarding'?
And don't say that "they built a skate plaza" BS. The city's funds pay for stuff like that. Kids across the world have been helping cities build skateparks for years.
this is actually an excellent fucking point
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down.� i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA.� doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Didn't you say some shit like you would be the first to congratulate Ricky Oyola if he nollie heel crooked down a handrail? lol such a typical cali kook you will never go anywhere with skating you are black and have a shit style.
really dude go fuck your self, I'm sick of Racist shit on here! Leave, delete your account and don't come back.
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If planning to build build several skateparks across the country isn't helping, then nothing is.
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If planning to build build several skateparks across the country isn't helping, then nothing is.
(http://www.seanpaune.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/koolaid.jpg)
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Street skating is better than skatepark skating. You`ve evidently gone mental, take another break from posting.
Anyone questioning Alex`s skills compared to other girl riders should rewatch his FF part or the multiple web clips he`s been in. Quality over quantity.
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I like how nowadays in the world of skateboarding absolutely no one seems untouchable. Who would have guessed 10 years ago that someday even the KOST would get urinated on?
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Skating plazas is equally as fun as street skating, if not more. This coming from someone who skated99% street for the first 8 years of skating(I've been skating for 11 or 12). Plazas have everything. a bunch of good "street "spots in one place.
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Anyone questioning Alex`s skills compared to other girl riders should rewatch his FF part or the multiple web clips he`s been in. ? Quality over quantity. ? Like the Girl dudes were ever known for quantity...
There are and were Girl Riders riders that are flat out legends or going to be. Sheffey, Mccrank, BA, Carroll, Koston, Howard, Guy, P-Rod etc... It isn't even debatable. There is no comparison unless your talking about the Jereme Rodgers and Tony Fergusons...
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Skating plazas is equally as fun as street skating, if not more. This coming from someone who skated99% street for the first 8 years of skating(I've been skating for 11 or 12). Plazas have everything. a bunch of good "street "spots in one place.
1% learning pivot fakies?
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learning how to drop in. Nah, I used to go to long beach a lot to skate the little rail, and flat bar.
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Anyone questioning Alex`s skills compared to other girl riders should rewatch his FF part or the multiple web clips he`s been in. ? Quality over quantity. ? Like the Girl dudes were ever known for quantity...
There are and were Girl Riders riders that are flat out legends or going to be. Sheffey, Mccrank, BA, Carroll, Koston, Howard, Guy, P-Rod etc... It isn't even debatable. There is no comparison unless your talking about the Jereme Rodgers and Tony Fergusons...
i also agree most f girls team has been pretty legendary but you have to admit some of them havent put the most footage out ever.
how many shots did howard, mulder,fernandez, and daniel castilo have in yeah right? they weren't even on a drug trip like guy to get a pass either.
side question has jeron wilson ever had a full part besides the DVS video?
edit: accidentally wrote fully flared instead of yeah right, whoops.
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daniel castillo doesn't ride for lakai, jesus fernandez had a full part, and richard mulder not only was retired, but he rode for nike, anyway. Jeron wilson has had parts in a few girl/chocolate videos.
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Anyone questioning Alex`s skills compared to other girl riders should rewatch his FF part or the multiple web clips he`s been in. ? Quality over quantity. ? Like the Girl dudes were ever known for quantity...
There are and were Girl Riders riders that are flat out legends or going to be. �Sheffey, Mccrank, BA, Carroll, Koston, Howard, Guy, P-Rod etc... It isn't even debatable. There is no comparison unless your talking about the Jereme Rodgers and Tony Fergusons...
Tony Ferguson?? Dude are u really putting Tony and Jereme together in one sentence? Dude is nothing but a legend since the plan b video!
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL!!!!
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Maybe if you went and skated some curbs, you wouldn't suck at skateboarding.
who the fuck does this guy think he is?
I'm not sure, from what I've gathered so far.... he's a California ledge rat obsessed with all tech skaters and firmly believes that the word faggot is the worst and only insult known to man.� He hates the idea of people having fun on a skateboard and� hates faggots who are not constantly trying to progress.� He hates the fact that people enjoy making films with their friends about skateboarding that aren't pushing the boundaries in every shot.� I think it stems from the fact that he posts on a message board where most of the community disagrees with him and he's had to argue his point so many times he's gone fucking mental and has turned into a sad irritable little bastard.� He takes himself and skateboarding much too seriously and would gladly drink the undigested Mountain Dew from P Rod's urine.
HAHAHa I love how everyone's insults of me always include p rod's dick. You guys are the biggest faggots on the face of the earth.
and I love how you just confirmed everything he just said. do you hate the gonz too?
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I don't hate him per se. I hate people that are too hyped on him. I, personally, don't give a shit about him.
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Didn't you hate on Cardiel?
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I don't hate on anyone.
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Waiting for tons of konston fans to start shit talking the berrics on tumblr, so that they can coax him into writing 3-paragraph rants directly to them.
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I don't hate on anyone.
I know it's been a long, long time, but did you not hate on Oyola, anyone who may like or at least respect Oyola, and pretty much every east coast skater?
Or is calling everyone a faggot not hating, just playful banter?
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I don't hate on anyone.
Paul Shier?
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
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Pretty sure you've dished out a pretty hefty portion of hate towards the Gipper on various occasions.
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I hate him, I don't hate on him. I think he's a faggot with no integrity, this is true. me hating on him would be, if I saw him do something tight, and didn't give him props/talked shit on it. Nothing gipper ever does in his lifetime will ever be worthy of praise. He's a spineless faggot.
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Anyone questioning Alex`s skills compared to other girl riders should rewatch his FF part or the multiple web clips he`s been in. ? Quality over quantity. ? Like the Girl dudes were ever known for quantity...
There are and were Girl Riders riders that are flat out legends or going to be. �Sheffey, Mccrank, BA, Carroll, Koston, Howard, Guy, P-Rod etc... It isn't even debatable. There is no comparison unless your talking about the Jereme Rodgers and Tony Fergusons...
i also agree most f girls team has been pretty legendary but you have to admit some of them havent put the most footage out ever.
how many shots did howard, mulder,fernandez, and daniel castilo have in yeah right? they weren't even on a drug trip like guy to get a pass either.
side question has jeron wilson ever had a full part besides the DVS video?
edit: accidentally wrote fully flared instead of yeah right, whoops.
Your questioning what Rick Howard has done in skating in comparison to Alex Olson? COTG pretty much covered the rest but thanks for the laugh.
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I hate him, I don't hate on him. I think he's a faggot with no integrity, this is true. me hating on him would be, if I saw him do something tight, and didn't give him props/talked shit on it. Nothing gipper ever does in his lifetime will ever be worthy of praise. He's a spineless faggot.
Haha! Fair play, at least you tell it like it is.
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I hate him, I don't hate on him. I think he's a faggot with no integrity, this is true. me hating on him would be, if I saw him do something tight, and didn't give him props/talked shit on it. Nothing gipper ever does in his lifetime will ever be worthy of praise. He's a spineless faggot.
so by your definition, when 'don't hate' on people by saying their shits whack its just because they aren't worthy of praise?
ill fullcab flip into your face bitch, and i usually agree with you
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
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this shit doesn't even really matter, but it's funny how SLAP is rushing to defend olson, despite him catching alot of heat on here before for various things, simply because the person he was talking about is part of the 'skateboarding establishment' and partners with steve berra. this place is full of lemmings. 'fuck the berrics dude!!'. such an original thought.
the whole berrics 'ruining' skateboarding is so delusional. everyday i go out and skate and it is just as fun as it has been for the last 10 years. picking up your board and heading outside will always be an incredible feeling no matter what the berrics is or is not doing. if you are letter what some website does upset you, you are regular.
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this shit doesn't even really matter, but it's funny how SLAP is rushing to defend olson, despite him catching alot of heat on here before for various things, simply because the person he was talking about is part of the 'skateboarding establishment' and partners with steve berra. ? ? this place is full of lemmings. ? ? ? 'fuck the berrics dude!!'. ? ? such an original thought. ?
the whole berrics 'ruining' skateboarding is so delusional. ? everyday i go out and skate and it is just as fun as it has been for the last 10 years. ? ? picking up your board and heading outside will always be an incredible feeling no matter what the berrics is or is not doing. ? ? if you are letter what some website does upset you, you are regular. ?
I don't get where this comes from. I don't think I've heard one person or read one post claiming the berrics is ruining skateboarding. Just like I don't get why Berra or Koston think that people are out to stop them. There is is a huge difference between saying something is lame and actively protesting.
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
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Here's the truth:
Apparently Super Cock hasn't been giving it to his wife properly for sometime...this has been a known fact within the Girl/Chocolate family after last years holiday party, where Koston's wife complained about Eric's non-pleasing mini Thai penis. during a drunken rant to owner/CEO Rick Howard. Word got to Alex Olson quickly and like any fellow swordsman, he knew he must strike while the irons hot. While Koston has been fulfilling his 2011 sponsor's contractual obligation and busy sizing his clubs at the Nike Golf Facility, Olson has been fine tuning his womanizing skills in our nation?s hotbed of poontang: New York City and Los Angeles.
All of Olson's training has proven to pay off last weekend, when he allegedly proceed to "get it in" Mrs. Koston for multiple sessions, while her husband was busy competing in the finals with 10 year younger Street Leaguers. All the shit hit the fan yesterday, when Koston returned to his Hollywood Hills home. Allegedly: Koston entered his home when he saw his wife out of the corner of his eye, crying profusely on the living room couch right under his favorite framed signed Koby jersey. When asked what's wrong, she proceeded to tell her husband about her amazing weekend with the Olsonator and that she couldn't be around him anymore. Furious yet confused, Koston immediately hopped on his Ipad to see what dirt he could dig up on Olson. The last thing he wanted is for the truth to go public, so he decided to take his frustration out on a 6 word comment Olson left on his underground blog: www.olsonstuff.com (http://www.olsonstuff.com). The rest is history folks...
This thread is getting ridiculous. ^
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Does taking metamucil before bed speed up your metabolism or something?
Heck yea it does!
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the more I think about this situation, the less i care.
yeah you're cool
i know, but thanks. seriously though. this thread should be called, "two twenty bitter little spoiled fuckin Slap brats fighting over bullshit on the interweb."
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someone call the fucking WAAAAAAAAmbulance already.
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the whole berrics 'ruining' skateboarding is so delusional. �everyday i go out and skate and it is just as fun as it has been for the last 10 years. � picking up your board and heading outside will always be an incredible feeling no matter what the berrics is or is not doing. � if you are letting what some website does upset you, you are regular. �
realest post ive seen on this entire. way too many people bitching about the industry nowadays. online & locally. it really doesnt fucking matter, skateboarding is skateboarding. period. who or what makes money off of skateboarding doesnt matter, at the end of the day their skaters. people hate on guys who are "sell-outs" like p-rod, sheckler, etc. its THEIR JOB. mountain dew & target sponsors are BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. people hate on guys like this but at the end of the day:
everyday they skate more than you do
they skate better than you
& they get paid millions to do so
i have nothing but respect for people like that, their living the dream. theyre skating at an extremely high level & are rich because of it.
as far as the olson/koston thing, its whatever. they were both wrong. kostons getting older & is slowing down, which is hard for any professional athete. he was prolly pissed that day, for whatever reason. if anybody watched the arizona street league qualifiers online youd know what i mean.
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Wow, this is why I don't like Koston. Olson actually has an opinion and the guy throws an internet bitch fit. I love that his defense of the berrics is "we work hard". Catholic missionaries and Wall Street lobbyists "work hard", but it doesn't mean they're right. The rest of his response was childish name calling. Spoiled brat and neglecting his career? Homeboy has had two covers in the last year alone.
Allow me to insert a personal anecdote about Olson and Koston. I went to one of the demos at Beauty & the Beast 2, and Olson was the first one out skating while the puddles in the park were still drying. He skated the entire time, was having fun, and even battled a line for a good half hour (the one in the tour video with the bs 360 kickflip at the end). Koston showed up about 45 minutes after the demo started, in a fucking Benz or whatever he drives. I honestly cannot remember one trick he made. I vaguely remember him doing a couple of frontside grinds and signing a few autographs. Job well done.
Now of course Koston is a skating legend who has put his time in, that was just one day. But the guy who talked shit on P-rod for going to Nike....and now rides for Nike, the guy who talked shit on Oakley......and now rides for Oakley, the guy who is notorious for complaining and whining about skate spots, the guy partially responsible for one of the worst things about skating today (berrics), and has raked in piles of cash as a result of all this, has no right to call anyone else spoiled. This is ridiculous.
Best post. You're absolutely right about all of that.
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the whole berrics 'ruining' skateboarding is so delusional. �everyday i go out and skate and it is just as fun as it has been for the last 10 years. � picking up your board and heading outside will always be an incredible feeling no matter what the berrics is or is not doing. � if you are letting what some website does upset you, you are regular. �
realest post ive seen on this entire. way too many people bitching about the industry nowadays. online & locally. it really doesnt fucking matter, skateboarding is skateboarding. period. who or what makes money off of skateboarding doesnt matter, at the end of the day their skaters. people hate on guys who are "sell-outs" like p-rod, sheckler, etc. its THEIR JOB. mountain dew & target sponsors are BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. people hate on guys like this but at the end of the day:
everyday they skate more than you do
they skate better than you
& they get paid millions to do so
i have nothing but respect for people like that, their living the dream. theyre skating at an extremely high level & are rich because of it.
as far as the olson/koston thing, its whatever. they were both wrong. kostons getting older & is slowing down, which is hard for any professional athete. he was prolly pissed that day, for whatever reason. if anybody watched the arizona street league qualifiers online youd know what i mean.
You're hurting feelings with that one. Your rep is about to plummet.
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the whole berrics 'ruining' skateboarding is so delusional. �everyday i go out and skate and it is just as fun as it has been for the last 10 years. � picking up your board and heading outside will always be an incredible feeling no matter what the berrics is or is not doing. � if you are letting what some website does upset you, you are regular. �
realest post ive seen on this entire. way too many people bitching about the industry nowadays. online & locally. it really doesnt fucking matter, skateboarding is skateboarding. period. who or what makes money off of skateboarding doesnt matter, at the end of the day their skaters. people hate on guys who are "sell-outs" like p-rod, sheckler, etc. its THEIR JOB. mountain dew & target sponsors are BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. people hate on guys like this but at the end of the day:
everyday they skate more than you do
they skate better than you
& they get paid millions to do so
i have nothing but respect for people like that, their living the dream. theyre skating at an extremely high level & are rich because of it.
as far as the olson/koston thing, its whatever. they were both wrong. kostons getting older & is slowing down, which is hard for any professional athete. he was prolly pissed that day, for whatever reason. if anybody watched the arizona street league qualifiers online youd know what i mean.
i could care less.
and the truth hurts. anybody who had the opportunity would take it. the thing is most, 90% of skaters dont get that opportunity, so they either respect it & be happy for the fact that a talented skateboarder gets paid well, or they hate on it because its not "core"
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berra and koston use the berrics to recruit members to the church of scientology. they plan to unify all skateboarders around the us with their unified program under the will of xenu. through their website they broadcast experimental mind-control messages such as shoot all skaters. berra plans to use the leverage of his recruited berric army to force himself back into the acting world where he can spread his message to a larger audience. through his alliance with rob dyrdek, he has already infiltrated his message into many average american households on mtv. they plan to corrupt the youth by broadcasting videos of their favorite skateboarders performing tricks with hidden scientology undertones. they force anyone who enters their complex into signing away their soul to xenu. they mask their whole plot under the theme of the greater good of skateboarding. koston who had once in the past been bitter and hateful toward nike corporate plot to also use the power of skateboarding to construct an army for their view of the world, now saw an attempt to ally himself with the financial backing of the mega-corp. koston decided with the limitless funds he would receive from nike, nothing would be able to prevent him from manufacturing an army of robotic park skating drones. olson who had once entered the berrics after signing away his soul discovered documents revealing koston and berra's plan to corrupt the minds of the skateboarding youth through catchphrases such as "text yo self", "butter", "buttery", and "banging". in otherwords tysbbb or today you shall breath burnt bibles. (burnt bible is a slang non-believers use when referring to the scientologist's holy book of xenotraphagon) olson signed a treaty with berra saying that if he would be featured in one "text yo self" if he was allowed to flee the berrics and never return. berra agreed but was unaware that olson had found the document and made a copy. olson flee'd to his base and also began to try and infiltrate the media through his good-looks and boyish charm to spread hidden anti-berric agenda in his interactions with the public. it was no use. without the robotic moves of the berrics army, olson was only able to reveal so much. as a last minute resort olson hacked into a public server known as tumblr to reveal the message that no one should never visit the berrics in an attempt to foil their plan.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Actually, he's my favorite skateboarder.
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http://n-sb.org/10430/eric-koston-mad-at-alex-olson-for-hating-on-the-berrics/news/ (http://n-sb.org/10430/eric-koston-mad-at-alex-olson-for-hating-on-the-berrics/news/)
"The crew at The Berrics kinda reminds me of guys that are closet homosexuals but are scared that people to find out."
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i don't think they help the overall mindstate of groms in the park, but that's what we older dudes are there for. and yes, i'm intentionally omitting the free video argument (well, i WAS). i still don't go there everyday, but i do think that the pro's outweigh the cons by a fucking longshot.
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Man so good. What are older dudes there for? Not for fucking with the mindstate of the grommets at the park? There is one thing with pushing them to skate, but another thing to pushing an opinion?
That is different than pushing a "lifestyle" in my mind.....So corny to all it a brand,
All the lifestyles have been around for ages......
Pushing a mindstate and a consistent opinion is not good for the kids at the park.....
Maybe if you're doing that too much, you are not taking enough pictures, filming videos, art stuff, etc......
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Yea, I'm glad i didn't have any old faggots trying to push what they liked on me. I don't do that to the kids at the parks either. If they ask me,my opinion on someone/something I give an honest without trying to shit on what they believe, or come off as an elitist, like I'm sure most dudes on here do. Even when they say dumb shit that I would probably read on slap.
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What the fuck is in the water at the Berrics? Pure insecurity mixed with blind arrogance?
And Koston being a good dude? Do you guys see the same smarmy cunt I see?
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I'm never one to get into skateboard "drama" or internet beef. But after reading this thread I floated over to Olson's Tumblr and saw this.......
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_longtuD5HB1qdddxdo1_500.jpg)
.....I am intrigued. One of you pervs has to have info on this photo. If so spill it.
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It funny seeing Koston finally take on the Berra Scientology tricks of Public shunning and retaliation.
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i don't know anything but i always got the impression that Alex and Carroll are pretty down. i remember some interview he said Mike Carroll is the only person he skates with in LA. doesn't Carroll have more pull at Girl than Koston?
i'm guessing Koston is a) a little bitch for getting that riled up and b) actually threatened by A.O. since that's like tons of kidz favorite sk8r and if he disses the Berrics maybe kids will start saying fuck the Berrics
Actually, he's my favorite skateboarder.
No he's not, and these are not the droids you're looking for. [waves hand]
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
like I stated above, your voice will be slightly heard. all im saying is that youre a little annoying man, and if you wanna go anywhere you might wanna try being a little more humble
then again, I dont know why the fuck im writing this. on the internet, the most regular person always 'win'
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Dissapointed Koston didn't tell Alex to "go fuck his face".
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
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My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
like I stated above, your voice will be slightly heard. all im saying is that youre a little annoying man, and if you wanna go anywhere you might wanna try being a little more humble
then again, I dont know why the fuck im writing this. on the internet, the most regular person always 'win'
How am I not humble? because I point out how elitist most of you dudes are, and that you don't skate enough to be so?
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wow. read a few pages of this. And.........
fuck koston.
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epicly laterd did more for olsons career than his actual skating and thats just the truth whether you want to accept that or not.
i also think its funny that you guys immediately want to blame berra for kostons rant as if koston has no valid reasons to be angry about anything himself. some of you guys arent even trying to see it from his side.
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circling and circling and circling and then circle some more
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Koston and olson are cool.twitter sucks.
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circling and circling and circling and then circle some more
And when it stops everyone's sore!
Ha! I rhymed!! 15 pages and counting...
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I'm never one to get into skateboard "drama" or internet beef. But after reading this thread I floated over to Olson's Tumblr and saw this.......
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_longtuD5HB1qdddxdo1_500.jpg)
.....I am intrigued. One of you pervs has to have info on this photo. If so spill it.
whatever that is it came from a kraft jar so it MUST taste gross
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i don't think they help the overall mindstate of groms in the park, but that's what we older dudes are there for. and yes, i'm intentionally omitting the free video argument (well, i WAS). i still don't go there everyday, but i do think that the pro's outweigh the cons by a fucking longshot.
k
Man so good. What are older dudes there for? Not for fucking with the mindstate of the grommets at the park? There is one thing with pushing them to skate, but another thing to pushing an opinion?
That is different than pushing a "lifestyle" in my mind.....So corny to all it a brand,
All the lifestyles have been around for ages......
Pushing a mindstate and a consistent opinion is not good for the kids at the park.....
Maybe if you're doing that too much, you are not taking enough pictures, filming videos, art stuff, etc......
hey now, don't go reaching for what isn't there.
when i talk to kids at the park, i make a point to not even answer those types of questions (what do you think about so and so?, etc). i just tell them that they're doing well and should try something maybe a little harder or different if they're getting frustrated. and if they want, i'll try it with them and then maybe lets make a fun ass line of it. that way, they stay focused on getting better and i get to try a bunch of stuff i maybe couldn't/wouldn't otherwise. win/win.
shiiit, i learnt bluntslides over the loveseat to bigspin out that way the other day and the little kid was just barely learning to blunt stall when i suggested he try to slide. we both rode out (he didn't bigspin, but he got the slide down and popped back in) and we were smiling the whole time. just slamming and going for it. that's how you help a kids mindstate. not by telling him what to think, but helping to direct that energy into the act of getting better. that's my mindstate, and if you think that pushing that mindstate on a kid is out of order, you're a fucking idiot and i hope you never have kids that want to skate.
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I'm never one to get into skateboard "drama" or internet beef. But after reading this thread I floated over to Olson's Tumblr and saw this.......
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_longtuD5HB1qdddxdo1_500.jpg)
.....I am intrigued. One of you pervs has to have info on this photo. If so spill it.
whatever that is it came from a kraft jar so it MUST taste gross
I would take the diabetic coma to lick every square inch of marshmallow off that womans body.
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EVERYONE JUST CHILL THE FUCK OUT
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
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My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
like I stated above, your voice will be slightly heard. all im saying is that youre a little annoying man, and if you wanna go anywhere you might wanna try being a little more humble
then again, I dont know why the fuck im writing this. on the internet, the most regular person always 'win'
you just said that people that aren't great skateboarders doesnt deserve to have opinions about pro skaters and then proceeded to say that another guy sucks. how is that being humble? do you know what humble means or were you too busy calling people on messageboards faggots to learn it?
ive seen your footy. youre good at ledges, but unless youre at that level now and you are 8 years old, you arent good enough to call people out that way and act fucking king. youre just another person on this messageboard so calm down.
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
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My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
like I stated above, your voice will be slightly heard. all im saying is that youre a little annoying man, and if you wanna go anywhere you might wanna try being a little more humble
then again, I dont know why the fuck im writing this. on the internet, the most regular person always 'win'
you just said that people that aren't great skateboarders doesnt deserve to have opinions about pro skaters and then proceeded to say that another guy sucks. how is that being humble? do you know what humble means or were you too busy calling people on messageboards faggots to learn it?
ive seen your footy. youre good at ledges, but unless youre at that level now and you are 8 years old, you arent good enough to call people out that way and act fucking king. youre just another person on this messageboard so calm down.
The point is, chances are if you suck at skateboarding, it's because you don't skate enough. If you loved skateboarding like a lot of you said you did, you would be skateboarding everyday. Contrary to popular belief, skateboarding is not a fucking lifestyle; it's an activity, So if you're not actively out there skating, you're not a skateboarder. A lot of you fags don't skateboard, and therefore have invalid opinions on skateboarding.
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If you think anything I'm doing is hating, then you have a skewed definition of hating.
you should calm down little boy. everyone has the right of an opinion, regardless of what the fuck you think or how skilled they are themselves. I like alex olson and i'd rather watch a video of a rider with flow than someone ledgedancing.
does that make me wrong? no.
does it fucking matter? no.
does it matter what the fuck you think? no. not alot of people care. even if you were someone worth caring about, only a few people would care. but since you arent shit, your opinion matters even less.
although, since this is the internet, your voice will be remotely heard anyway. and thats okay. as long as you remember, in real life, nobody cares about your opinion.
but to get back to the subject. Alex has never been afraid of saying whatever he thinks and I like him more because of it. his tumblr wouldnt be as entertaining if he didnt give honest answers to the questions that people ask. he answers everything truthfully and I repsect him for it
So basically you care about COTG opinion since your addressing him. Such irony.
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My name was mentioned in a transworld, someone's reading what i have to say, and they cared enough to mention me, not slap, but me. EAnd it wasn't even opinion that i expressed, it was something they induced from reading my posts, sooooo... Not saying that it matters, but it happened.
like I stated above, your voice will be slightly heard. all im saying is that youre a little annoying man, and if you wanna go anywhere you might wanna try being a little more humble
then again, I dont know why the fuck im writing this. on the internet, the most regular person always 'win'
you just said that people that aren't great skateboarders doesnt deserve to have opinions about pro skaters and then proceeded to say that another guy sucks. how is that being humble? do you know what humble means or were you too busy calling people on messageboards faggots to learn it?
ive seen your footy. youre good at ledges, but unless youre at that level now and you are 8 years old, you arent good enough to call people out that way and act fucking king. youre just another person on this messageboard so calm down.
What if someone skates every single day for years, and all they've learned is nollie heel noseslides on low ledges? Are they still a skateboarder, or a faggot elitist Tom?
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If he's been skating for 11 years that's probably not all he could do, but even if that's all he could do, his opinion is worth more than 99% of the people on slaps's.
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If he's been skating for 11 years that's probably not all he could do, but even if that's all he could do, his opinion is worth more than 99% of the people on slaps's.
Then what if the same person had been skating for 20 years, and after all that time could only carve around a mellow bowl and occasionally scratch the coping? They're just very clumsy, and could never grasp difficult skateboard tricks but have taken way more slams and devoted even more of their time to progressing skateboarding than the first case..........are they less of a skateboarder?
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That's not possible, unless you're either physically, or mentally handicapped.
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That's not possible, unless you're either physically, or mentally handicapped.
But I've seen it.........there's a few guys that frequent a local park who skate there every day from when they get out of work until dark. Sure they used to be way more talented in their youth, but now all they do is carve around and do the occasional scratcher. Is my opinion more valid than their's because I'm much better than them but don't skate as much even though they've been skating twice as long as I have?
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That's not possible, unless you're either physically, or mentally handicapped.
But I've seen it.........there's a few guys that frequent a local park who skate there every day from when they get out of work until dark. Sure they used to be way more talented in their youth, but now all they do is carve around and do the occasional scratcher. Is my opinion more valid than their's because I'm much better than them but don't skate as much even though they've been skating twice as long as I have?
Man, the way you worded it made it seem like they've been skating 20 years and all they had ever done was do that. You're an idiot. I'm sure in like 25 years that's all I'll be doing, too. And there are exceptions to every rule.Not saying in your case specifically, because those dudes are probably better than you.
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That's not possible, unless you're either physically, or mentally handicapped.
But I've seen it.........there's a few guys that frequent a local park who skate there every day from when they get out of work until dark. Sure they used to be way more talented in their youth, but now all they do is carve around and do the occasional scratcher. Is my opinion more valid than their's because I'm much better than them but don't skate as much even though they've been skating twice as long as I have?
Well in that case, I'll just quit skateboarding. Thank you for your time Mr. Ghetto.
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i want to see some cotg footage. i feel left out
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Attacking CotG is about as old as attacking Steve Berra, give it a rest. You may not agree with his opinions but if you're trying to completely discredit them then you're either dumb, arrogant, or an asshole.
anyways, who's going to the new skate plaza on friday?
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The Berrics must be pretty big of Alex has heard of it. Do you think he skates?
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Koston was in a bad mood the other day
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Koston was in a bad mood the other day
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proof of how hard scientology fucks you.
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I find that the skaters i like the most are the ones i hear the least from.
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Attacking CotG is about as old as attacking Steve Berra, give it a rest. You may not agree with his opinions but if you're trying to completely discredit them then you're either dumb, arrogant, or an asshole.
anyways, who's going to the new skate plaza on friday?
Wow
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I actually didnt really care that alex didnt like the berrics or told people not to go there until i saw how many ads hes got on the berrics... I just watched a 30 second quicksilver ad of him before the tommy sandoval banging, and he had those two other banners on the berrics that other people posted.... How the fuck can quicksilver keep supporting this guy? I'm sure they pay alot of fucking money to put those ads on the berrics, not to mention paying alex olson to ride his skateboard all day. Then he comes out and tells people not to go on that website... Pretty much every company he rides for benefits hugely from the existance of theberrics, and he comes out and openly hates on it and tells people not to go there? What an ungrateful shit, koston is right. He should be kicked off every company he rides for. People like danny gonzalez got booted from the industry for openly complaining how little money they were making... Meanwhile olson sits around collecting checks from his sponsors while he jumps over mailboxes and basically talking shit on his own sponsors. And people think olson is cool for it...
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i don't think they help the overall mindstate of groms in the park, but that's what we older dudes are there for. and yes, i'm intentionally omitting the free video argument (well, i WAS). i still don't go there everyday, but i do think that the pro's outweigh the cons by a fucking longshot.
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Man so good. What are older dudes there for? Not for fucking with the mindstate of the grommets at the park? There is one thing with pushing them to skate, but another thing to pushing an opinion?
That is different than pushing a "lifestyle" in my mind.....So corny to all it a brand,
All the lifestyles have been around for ages......
Pushing a mindstate and a consistent opinion is not good for the kids at the park.....
Maybe if you're doing that too much, you are not taking enough pictures, filming videos, art stuff, etc......
hey now, don't go reaching for what isn't there.
when i talk to kids at the park, i make a point to not even answer those types of questions (what do you think about so and so?, etc). i just tell them that they're doing well and should try something maybe a little harder or different if they're getting frustrated. and if they want, i'll try it with them and then maybe lets make a fun ass line of it. that way, they stay focused on getting better and i get to try a bunch of stuff i maybe couldn't/wouldn't otherwise. win/win.
shiiit, i learnt bluntslides over the loveseat to bigspin out that way the other day and the little kid was just barely learning to blunt stall when i suggested he try to slide. we both rode out (he didn't bigspin, but he got the slide down and popped back in) and we were smiling the whole time. just slamming and going for it. that's how you help a kids mindstate. not by telling him what to think, but helping to direct that energy into the act of getting better. that's my mindstate, and if you think that pushing that mindstate on a kid is out of order, you're a fucking idiot and i hope you never have kids that want to skate.
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Dude I'm not arguing with you. I'm talking about pushing political viewpoints and the value of popularity, that kind of bullshit.
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I find that the skaters i like the most are the ones i hear the least from.
The truth.
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I've seen COTG's footage, and he's not even close to being better than the 10th best kid in the town that I live in. And its a small town (50 000 people), in Canada! I don't know why he's so insecure, or why he insists that his opinion means more than everyone else's. Because he skates everyday and is a LITTLE bit better than average? And what about his crazy homophobia? His beef with Gipper? COTG has made it extremely clear that he was obviously sexually abused by a male authority figure when he was a child.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
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give us some new footy cotg.
man if i was sponsored, i would do my all to support my sponsors and all the other people riding for the company sponsoring me. i mean, if you're hating on your team-mates hard work even though he has your back, you kind of must suck dick.
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fuck this
koston can do no wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacC7nGdLn8
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Sifting through the Childoftheghetto arguments is like being forced to watch Kate's episodes when I all I really wanna know about is what the Smoke Monster is. Please keep your loud bickering down when I'm trying to read about pro's loud bickering!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
I've never boxed a day in my life, and I visit boxing forums frequently. I'd bet money that 90% of people that watch basketball have never played on a competitive level. And i can guarantee that everyone that watches nascar has never driven one. sooo.......
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
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fuck this
koston can do no wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacC7nGdLn8
Wow, who could argue with that kind of person logic!!
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I've seen COTG's footage, and he's not even close to being better than the 10th best kid in the town that I live in. And its a small town (50 000 people), in Canada! I don't know why he's so insecure, or why he insists that his opinion means more than everyone else's. Because he skates everyday and is a LITTLE bit better than average? And what about his crazy homophobia? His beef with Gipper? COTG has made it extremely clear that he was obviously sexually abused by a male authority figure when he was a child.
You created an account just to post this? That's pretty pathetic. Get a grip.
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fuck this
koston can do no wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacC7nGdLn8
Wow, who could argue with that kind of person logic!!
according this thread, alot of people.
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Sifting through the Childoftheghetto arguments is like being forced to watch Kate's episodes when I all I really wanna know about is what the Smoke Monster is. Please keep your loud bickering down when I'm trying to read about pro's loud bickering!
nail. head. thump. kate episodes sucked.
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Attacking CotG is about as old as attacking Steve Berra, give it a rest. You may not agree with his opinions but if you're trying to completely discredit them then you're either dumb, arrogant, or an asshole.
anyways, who's going to the new skate plaza on friday?
wow what?
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i don't think they help the overall mindstate of groms in the park, but that's what we older dudes are there for. and yes, i'm intentionally omitting the free video argument (well, i WAS). i still don't go there everyday, but i do think that the pro's outweigh the cons by a fucking longshot.
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Man so good. What are older dudes there for? Not for fucking with the mindstate of the grommets at the park? There is one thing with pushing them to skate, but another thing to pushing an opinion?
That is different than pushing a "lifestyle" in my mind.....So corny to all it a brand,
All the lifestyles have been around for ages......
Pushing a mindstate and a consistent opinion is not good for the kids at the park.....
Maybe if you're doing that too much, you are not taking enough pictures, filming videos, art stuff, etc......
hey now, don't go reaching for what isn't there.
when i talk to kids at the park, i make a point to not even answer those types of questions (what do you think about so and so?, etc). i just tell them that they're doing well and should try something maybe a little harder or different if they're getting frustrated. and if they want, i'll try it with them and then maybe lets make a fun ass line of it. that way, they stay focused on getting better and i get to try a bunch of stuff i maybe couldn't/wouldn't otherwise. win/win.
shiiit, i learnt bluntslides over the loveseat to bigspin out that way the other day and the little kid was just barely learning to blunt stall when i suggested he try to slide. we both rode out (he didn't bigspin, but he got the slide down and popped back in) and we were smiling the whole time. just slamming and going for it. that's how you help a kids mindstate. not by telling him what to think, but helping to direct that energy into the act of getting better. that's my mindstate, and if you think that pushing that mindstate on a kid is out of order, you're a fucking idiot and i hope you never have kids that want to skate.
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Dude I'm not arguing with you. I'm talking about pushing political viewpoints and the value of popularity, that kind of bullshit.
that's cool, it just seemed like you insinuated that i was talking about pushing that kind of shit on groms in my statement and i never said anything of the sort. it's clear now.
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At crailtap.com, Olsons shit isn't coming up on the main page in the Twitter feeds section. But if you click on 'view more', he's still all over it.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J7VwLoKwn50/Tb-NLcPp1EI/AAAAAAAAAEE/YhZXPpRken8/s1600/omg-double-rainbow-what-does-it-mean_design.png)
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yet, there was no footage, when there was footage of Phanner's tricks at the same spot.
Team Triple Negative.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
I can respect that. You have to understand where I'm coming from, too. You have dudes on here saying I'm not a real skateboarder, when all I do is skateboard. That doesn't make sense to me. I love skateboarding, so you can imagine how I feel when some clown tries to say I'm not skating for fun, or I don't love skateboarding, because I actually like going out there and progressing. That''s the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I wouldn't go skate everyday if I didn't love it, or I wasn't having fun.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
all you do is suck dick... everyday... all day. are you pro yet? like, pro dick sucker. not like a pro everyday skateboarder or whatever you claim to be.
pro blumpkins?
quid pro quo? pro choice?
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What is up with slap and dicks? That disturbs me.
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What is up with slapping dicks? That entices me.
there you go.
gotta go watch adventure time, go nollie heel something, er... whatever.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
After reading this I'd really like to know how you can discredit Ricky Oyola? What makes him so appealing to me and a ton of other skateboarders is it's very apparent he is incredibly passionate about skateboarding, to the point that he literally ruined his career by sticking by his good friends' sides and never changing his opinion. I honestly rarely agree with you, but I have to give you props for always sticking to your opinion and no one else's............you really can't see that in Ricky?
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this thread is horrendous. all symptoms of a bored first world. even the most legendary fools can get a little pissy. ha.
The Chamillionaire/Michael Jordan Story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZQERHL6ow#)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
yeah, I understand. skateboarding has different faces for sure, and its stupid that people call out other skates for not skating the way that they like. as corny as it sounds, freedom is what makes skateboarding great
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lying ass. I Love how people are using two year old footage that i didn't even care about to judge my skating. That just shows how stupid you guys are.
what else should people that dont know you do? its all youve shown. and since you just said all that, you have some shit to prove now. caring about skateboarding enough to be on this messageboard daily and read about it shows that youre a skateboarder.
what about people in canada or something that has snow 7-8 months of the year and loves skateboarding to death? they cant skate as much as people in california but maybe they sit there waiting for spring so that they can skate again, are they less skateboarder than you just because you can skate some ledges?
Also everywhere has indoor skateparks. If you loved going skateboarding, you would do what you could to skate as much as possible.
I get what you are saying, but its just not the same. I played soccer every day my whole life until the age of 15 and I watch games all the time and follow my team that ive been supporting all my life. if all that went away, it would suck but it wouldnt ruin my life.
I started skateboarding at 13. Ive skated twice or 3 times in a month cause I fucked up some things in my foot and ankle, and I can seriously say that I feel like im not myself and I dont know what to do when I wake up. I cant imagine nascar bringing up that feeling in people, but most skateboarders would probably feel the same way.
I know you said that you dont think skateboarding is a lifestyle, but it sure as hell is more than just another activity
After reading this I'd really like to know how you can discredit Ricky Oyola? What makes him so appealing to me and a ton of other skateboarders is it's very apparent he is incredibly passionate about skateboarding, to the point that he literally ruined his career by sticking by his good friends' sides and never changing his opinion. I honestly rarely agree with you, but I have to give you props for always sticking to your opinion and no one else's............you really can't see that in Ricky?
When i saw him say he was taking lots of ibuprofen to go skate I thought that was cool. I actually do respect that he's passionate about skateboarding. I can't co-sign him talking shit on people to try to get props, though. It's cool that he likes the type of skating he likes, but it's apparent that a lot of people don't think what he's doing is that great.
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Crailtap trying to show that the beef is over....?
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All homo.
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This came out today on the Berrics.. Koston sounds like he was just crying
http://theberrics.com/text-yoself-beefo-yo-wreck-yoself/eric-koston-at-street-league-az.html (http://theberrics.com/text-yoself-beefo-yo-wreck-yoself/eric-koston-at-street-league-az.html)
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Dear COTG,
Between having nearly 7000 posts (99.99% of which is telling random strangers how much they suck at juggling wood with their feet) and skating as much as you say you do, how do you manage to still put your meat wand into girl hole? I am truly curious. Do you have more hours in your day? Do you dual task? I could certainly use your technique as I am overburdened with bullshit in my life. Please enlighten us to your ways.
Sincerely,
Camel Filters
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Steve Martin thinks you guys are thinking wayyyyyy to hard in too this!!! 17 pages long.....really?
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worst thead 2011
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COTG virgin confirmed
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You have to understand where I'm coming from, too. You have dudes on here saying I'm not a real skateboarder, when all I do is skateboard. That doesn't make sense to me. I love skateboarding, so you can imagine how I feel when some clown tries to say I'm not skating for fun, or I don't love skateboarding, because I actually like going out there and progressing. That''s the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I wouldn't go skate everyday if I didn't love it, or I wasn't having fun.
at the end of the day it really shouldnt matter to you what someone else thinks. especially on the internet. you & alot of these posters you seem to be "debating" with both make valid points, but all of you sound ignorant. i will agree people are comin at you reckless on here, but you dont make it any easier on yourself by fighting "fire with fire", when at times you sound pretty damn ignorant yourself.
this thread is ridiculous. i find it funny because the topic (koston vs olson) & the conflict on here stems from the exact same problem. alot of ignorance, bullshit hating, & people getting serious as fuck OVER THE INTERNET.
this message board is supposed to be another outlet to commune about skateboarding, for skaters from ALL backgrounds & personal involvements within the sport. that is what skateboarding is, an action sport. and like with any sport their are different levels of involvement within it. at the end of the day, we are all skateboarders in one way or another and have our own INDIVIDUAL PASSION for skateboarding. respect anybody who has that passion. regardless if their pro, grom, super-good, or not skilled at all.
EVERYBODY needs to really stop getting so involved in the "politics" of skateboarding. all it does is bring a lot of bullshit conflict between skaters.
seek to understand before wanting be understood. All of you guys.
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For the record, I saw Olsen skate within the past year and he was ON POINT. I understand what frost was saying but yeah, he wasn't fredgalling' it or anything.
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alex olson quiksilver commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWLG8E5AWE#ws)
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Brick Killed A Guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsSttJsZOc&feature=related#ws)
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this thread is horrendous. all symptoms of a bored first world. even the most legendary fools can get a little pissy. ha. The Chamillionaire/Michael Jordan Story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZQERHL6ow#)
Damn poor Chamillionare. I bought that dude's first album "the sound of revenge" when it came out hahaha.
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HADNT HEARD ANYTHING THING OF THIS, READ FIRST PAGE THOUHT THIS IS JUICY WONDER WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING. SO I SKIP TO PAGE 17 AND ITS COTG HATE.
BRILLIANT
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Alex Olson Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtQqG-KUQo#)
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Alex Olson Line
fucky fucky
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alex olson quiksilver commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWLG8E5AWE#ws)
how can anyone hate on alex olson? he makes skateboarding look fun.
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It's ridiculous,
the amount of faggotery the industry can display is just embarassing...
Muska looking bad apologizing on a video, now Koston and Olson fighting over useless shit...
@CoTG talking about your skills or mocking other people skills at skateboarding is getting old dude
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It's ridiculous,
the amount of faggotery the industry can display is just embarassing...
Muska looking bad apologizing on a video, now Koston and Olson fighting over useless shit...
@CoTG talking about your skills or mocking other people skills at skateboarding is getting old dude
wtf is this ? twitter?
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This is just nuts.
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Alex Olson fully flared trailer LAKAI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-E22uBPq78#)
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Fuck who's right or wrong... Hypocrisy, that's what it is.
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You have to understand where I'm coming from, too. You have dudes on here saying I'm not a real skateboarder, when all I do is skateboard. That doesn't make sense to me. I love skateboarding, so you can imagine how I feel when some clown tries to say I'm not skating for fun, or I don't love skateboarding, because I actually like going out there and progressing. That''s the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I wouldn't go skate everyday if I didn't love it, or I wasn't having fun.
at the end of the day it really shouldnt matter to you what someone else thinks. especially on the internet. you & alot of these posters you seem to be "debating" with both make valid points, but all of you sound ignorant. i will agree people are comin at you reckless on here, but you dont make it any easier on yourself by fighting "fire with fire", when at times you sound pretty damn ignorant yourself.
this thread is ridiculous. i find it funny because the topic (koston vs olson) & the conflict on here stems from the exact same problem. alot of ignorance, bullshit hating, & people getting serious as fuck OVER THE INTERNET.
this message board is supposed to be another outlet to commune about skateboarding, for skaters from ALL backgrounds & personal involvements within the sport. that is what skateboarding is, an action sport. and like with any sport their are different levels of involvement within it. at the end of the day, we are all skateboarders in one way or another and have our own INDIVIDUAL PASSION for skateboarding. respect anybody who has that passion. regardless if their pro, grom, super-good, or not skilled at all.
EVERYBODY needs to really stop getting so involved in the "politics" of skateboarding. all it does is bring a lot of bullshit conflict between skaters.
seek to understand before wanting be understood. All of you guys.
Haha, nah man this is Slap.
Seriously, that's what we do.
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You have to understand where I'm coming from, too. You have dudes on here saying I'm not a real skateboarder, when all I do is skateboard. That doesn't make sense to me. I love skateboarding, so you can imagine how I feel when some clown tries to say I'm not skating for fun, or I don't love skateboarding, because I actually like going out there and progressing. That''s the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I wouldn't go skate everyday if I didn't love it, or I wasn't having fun.
at the end of the day it really shouldnt matter to you what someone else thinks. especially on the internet. you & alot of these posters you seem to be "debating" with both make valid points, but all of you sound ignorant. i will agree people are comin at you reckless on here, but you dont make it any easier on yourself by fighting "fire with fire", when at times you sound pretty damn ignorant yourself.
this thread is ridiculous. i find it funny because the topic (koston vs olson) & the conflict on here stems from the exact same problem. alot of ignorance, bullshit hating, & people getting serious as fuck OVER THE INTERNET.
this message board is supposed to be another outlet to commune about skateboarding, for skaters from ALL backgrounds & personal involvements within the sport. that is what skateboarding is, an action sport. and like with any sport their are different levels of involvement within it. at the end of the day, we are all skateboarders in one way or another and have our own INDIVIDUAL PASSION for skateboarding. respect anybody who has that passion. regardless if their pro, grom, super-good, or not skilled at all.
EVERYBODY needs to really stop getting so involved in the "politics" of skateboarding. all it does is bring a lot of bullshit conflict between skaters.
seek to understand before wanting be understood. All of you guys.
thank you Mr. Miyagi
(http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/KarateKidcatchingfly.jpg)
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they should just fight
once there was a time when things were settled that way. BUT WE USE TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM NOW BRO GET WITH FUCKING PROGRAM JEEEEEZ.
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(http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i374/duffmanshredder/KOSTON.png?t=1311110835)
you just made me shit in my pants a little
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You have to understand where I'm coming from, too. You have dudes on here saying I'm not a real skateboarder, when all I do is skateboard. That doesn't make sense to me. I love skateboarding, so you can imagine how I feel when some clown tries to say I'm not skating for fun, or I don't love skateboarding, because I actually like going out there and progressing. That''s the dumbest shit I've ever heard. I wouldn't go skate everyday if I didn't love it, or I wasn't having fun.
at the end of the day it really shouldnt matter to you what someone else thinks. especially on the internet. you & alot of these posters you seem to be "debating" with both make valid points, but all of you sound ignorant. i will agree people are comin at you reckless on here, but you dont make it any easier on yourself by fighting "fire with fire", when at times you sound pretty damn ignorant yourself.
this thread is ridiculous. i find it funny because the topic (koston vs olson) & the conflict on here stems from the exact same problem. alot of ignorance, bullshit hating, & people getting serious as fuck OVER THE INTERNET.
this message board is supposed to be another outlet to commune about skateboarding, for skaters from ALL backgrounds & personal involvements within the sport. that is what skateboarding is, an action sport. and like with any sport their are different levels of involvement within it. at the end of the day, we are all skateboarders in one way or another and have our own INDIVIDUAL PASSION for skateboarding. respect anybody who has that passion. regardless if their pro, grom, super-good, or not skilled at all.
EVERYBODY needs to really stop getting so involved in the "politics" of skateboarding. all it does is bring a lot of bullshit conflict between skaters.
seek to understand before wanting be understood. All of you guys.
(http://www.memecenter.com/uploaded/294fe8b6a6799ef2cb2ab36b6f9c329c.jpg)
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"Eric is using instagram - a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures!"
YEP
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alex olson quiksilver commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWLG8E5AWE#ws)
He got super sick on that trip, the amount of footage he has had come from that trip is amazing.
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"Eric is using instagram - a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures!"
YEP
ha
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fuck the Alex Olson clips on this page are so good! It is undebatable that he is amazing at skateboarding, and has amazing style to boot. Internets drama thread to a classic COTG trollin thread to an AO appreciation thread. Oh so entertaining!
Alex Olson with a warm up session at the Venice park. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkK95R1EnPg#ws)
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So one thing that is fucked up is corporate culture. You got all these sponsors, Nike, Adidas, Converse, energy drinks, major TV Networks. You know when you get hired at one of those jobs, you have to read a 20 page manual on how you are suppose to behave while working for that company. And dudes wanna get sponsored by Starbucks?!?!
If those companies are the main sponsors than there is no reason to believe that they won't be pushing their corporate culture on us, and I think corporate culture
is trying to kill our Bill of Rights, generally speaking
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Thanks slap, took me 3 days to read this. The first 5 pages or so gave me some good laughs, the rest was 13 pages of this vs. that and you guys taught me this equation ... My opinion is always > Your opinion .... Slap posting 101
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The fact that eric koston went on a kook internet rant that i'm sure he regrets makes him more interesting to me.
nobody dislikes alex olson anymore for this.
all around entertaining. steve berraism is bringing housewives-level-shit to skateboarding. we should have andy cohen host skate talk and maybe my wife will quit asking why i still like skateboarding so much.
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So one thing that is fucked up is corporate culture. You got all these sponsors, Nike, Adidas, Converse, energy drinks, major TV Networks. You know when you get hired at one of those jobs, you have to read a 20 page manual on how you are suppose to behave while working for that company. And dudes wanna get sponsored by Starbucks?!?!
If those companies are the main sponsors than there is no reason to believe that they won't be pushing their corporate culture on us, and I think corporate culture
is trying to kill our Bill of Rights, generally speaking
i used to work for nike and it was the worst. the only thing that used to stop modern day slavery under corporations was unions and government. but with globalization they have grown too strong. unions lose clout because they can just grab third world labor if US workers don't please them. skateboarding was slightly different in that we had our own microcosm. but the pros cashing checks today from the multinational corporations are really just cashing in on selling skateboarding to them. sounds pretty birdoesque... but it seems to be going that way. once the same companies that outsourced the american workers job fully control the narrative of skateboarding, it will be no different from any other corporate marketing vehicle. to me, that was why prod riding for target was watershed.
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shit this has already (though a lot of pages) turned into a cotg thread?
seriously people? how does this happens? it's a king/queen of trolls.
it wakes up, trolls slap.. farts and goes back to sleep. who has time to post that much? it's probably some middle 40s he/she in a trailer park hoping it's talking to some boys under 15.. why does every thread have to be about it?
weak.
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(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/dudebro1/soulja_boy1-1.jpg)
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shit this has already (though a lot of pages) turned into a cotg thread?
seriously people? how does this happens? it's a king/queen of trolls.
it wakes up, trolls slap.. farts and goes back to sleep. who has time to post that much? it's probably some middle 40s he/she in a trailer park hoping it's talking to some boys under 15.. why does every thread have to be about it?
weak.
I like you and all, but this is just a terrible post. 0/10
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Koston could never do anything wrong. ever.
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i used to work for nike and it was the worst. the only thing that used to stop modern day slavery under corporations was unions and government.
Check your history as currupt government is the biggest enabler. Google corporatism or mercantilism or two-time Medal of Honor winner, Marine Major General Smedley Butler and his book War is a Racket.
i agree with you that a corrupt government enables corporatism. but if government functioned correctly, it would protect us from becoming feudal slaves. without government, there is no society. no middle class. no fucking hope. corporations know this. that's why they spend all their money trying to convince libertarian yokels that they need less government and less regulation.
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off nsb lol(http://shoes.n-sb.org/img/thumbs/3fb94e0c01d3a576c733afdce20ee31a.jpg)
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From page 2
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From page 4
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I remember when I was younger I used to want to meet my favorite pros... but now with all of these avenues available for them to express themselves directly to the "common people" it really goes to show what a bunch of fucking self absorbed man-boys most of them really are.
Support your locals, your friends, they're probably way cooler than any of these fucks.
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I think it was in Roll Forever, or something, but there was a photo and/or video of Dennis Busenitz with "WHO GIVES A FUCK" written on his griptape. I tried to find it, but couldn't. Someone should really post that photo in here. A bunch of times.
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I remember when I was younger I used to want to meet my favorite pros... but now with all of these avenues available for them to express themselves directly to the "common people" it really goes to show what a bunch of fucking self absorbed man-boys most of them really are.
Support your locals, your friends, they're probably way cooler than any of these fucks.
best post ever.
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koston this, olson that yada yada yada im going to jerk off over skate magazines
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"koston. no hes horrible." one of the many highlights of rickys epicly laterd. kostons a fucking fag who cares
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I remember when I was younger I used to want to meet my favorite pros... but now with all of these avenues available for them to express themselves directly to the "common people" it really goes to show what a bunch of fucking self absorbed man-boys most of them really are.
Support your locals, your friends, they're probably way cooler than any of these fucks.
best post ever.
Agreed.
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i used to work for nike and it was the worst. the only thing that used to stop modern day slavery under corporations was unions and government.
Check your history as currupt government is the biggest enabler. Google corporatism or mercantilism or two-time Medal of Honor winner, Marine Major General Smedley Butler and his book War is a Racket.
i agree with you that a corrupt government enables corporatism. but if government functioned correctly, it would protect us from becoming feudal slaves. without government, there is no society. no middle class. no fucking hope. corporations know this. that's why they spend all their money trying to convince libertarian yokels that they need less government and less regulation.
Corporations are legal fictions that obtain obscene privileges from government. They collude with government at the expense of the consumer and small business. Without a government monopoly privilege businesses would never have gotten so large and out of step with the average consumer.
If you are interested in these ideas I would suggest:
The Market for Liberty by Linda and Morris Tannenhill - http://freekeene.com/about/books/ (http://freekeene.com/about/books/)
Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart - http://freekeene.com/about/books/ (http://freekeene.com/about/books/)
Market Anarchism Library - http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm (http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm)
The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf (http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf)
The Private Production of Defense by Hans Hoppe - http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf (http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf)
The Idea of a Private Law Society by Hans Hoppe - http://mises.org/story/2265 (http://mises.org/story/2265)
For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard - http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp (http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp)
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard - http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp (http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp)
understood. my point is that without government, there would be no small business or consumer period. it would be 100% survival of the fittest which results in 99.9% of us being slaves and the .001% beings kings. libertarianism and anarchy are utopian pipe dreams.
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you've got to be fistfucking me ^^^
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I remember when I was younger I used to want to meet my favorite pros... but now with all of these avenues available for them to express themselves directly to the "common people" it really goes to show what a bunch of fucking self absorbed man-boys most of them really are.
Support your locals, your friends, they're probably way cooler than any of these fucks.
Well put. Although, exceptions exist, I have a feeling more and more of the ams and pros these days are very egotistical.
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I remember when I was younger I used to want to meet my favorite pros... but now with all of these avenues available for them to express themselves directly to the "common people" it really goes to show what a bunch of fucking self absorbed man-boys most of them really are.
Support your locals, your friends, they're probably way cooler than any of these fucks.
So true.
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thats really anyone in show business that you like/look up to growing up.
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I heard it was berra... not koston
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I heard it was berra... not koston
Koston wishes.
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gay
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How in the fuck did this thread turn into a debate about governments?
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agree to disagree. if the government has no incentive to protect you, you change the government... you don't get rid of all government. i hope you can see the distinction. but back to skateboarding and what not... tell me again how this dude was never better than shop sponsor status :):
Donny Barley - Element World Tour '99 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpqssn-bFmg#)
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i used to work for nike and it was the worst. the only thing that used to stop modern day slavery under corporations was unions and government.
Check your history as currupt government is the biggest enabler. Google corporatism or mercantilism or two-time Medal of Honor winner, Marine Major General Smedley Butler and his book War is a Racket.
i agree with you that a corrupt government enables corporatism. but if government functioned correctly, it would protect us from becoming feudal slaves. without government, there is no society. no middle class. no fucking hope. corporations know this. that's why they spend all their money trying to convince libertarian yokels that they need less government and less regulation.
Corporations are legal fictions that obtain obscene privileges from government. They collude with government at the expense of the consumer and small business. Without a government monopoly privilege businesses would never have gotten so large and out of step with the average consumer.
If you are interested in these ideas I would suggest:
The Market for Liberty by Linda and Morris Tannenhill - http://freekeene.com/about/books/ (http://freekeene.com/about/books/)
Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart - http://freekeene.com/about/books/ (http://freekeene.com/about/books/)
Market Anarchism Library - http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm (http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm)
The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf (http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf)
The Private Production of Defense by Hans Hoppe - http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf (http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Hoppe.pdf)
The Idea of a Private Law Society by Hans Hoppe - http://mises.org/story/2265 (http://mises.org/story/2265)
For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard - http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp (http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp)
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard - http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp (http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp)
understood. my point is that without government, there would be no small business or consumer period. it would be 100% survival of the fittest which results in 99.9% of us being slaves and the .001% beings kings. libertarianism and anarchy are utopian pipe dreams.
Right, and my point is you are 100% wrong as the government has 0% incentive or obligation to protect you they actually exploit you to the fullest extent possible.
Open your eyes.
If you or anyone else have an affinity for books here are ten youtube videos you can watch:
http://blog.mises.org/15734/youtube-on-the-political-economy-of-liberty/ (http://blog.mises.org/15734/youtube-on-the-political-economy-of-liberty/)
do you realize how stupid that statement is?
i'm so tired of these internet-scholar new world order conspiracy theorist trolls
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you must be illuminati huh
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here's an alternative to the ten videos posted somewhere above:
Flip - Skateboards - Sorry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBAbUb-LEY#)
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agree to disagree. if the government has no incentive to protect you, you change the government... you don't get rid of all government. i hope you can see the distinction. but back to skateboarding and what not... tell me again how this dude was never better than shop sponsor status :):
Donny Barley - Element World Tour '99 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpqssn-bFmg#)
Me and some friends of mine were fanning out about this part a few weeks ago, made me pull out the smart phone and peep it on youtube... switch hardflip 5050 is fucking insane, as is that whole part.
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This is the most fucked up thread evar.
@sluggers : you wear dreadlocks right ?
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Let me guess you are all brainwashed products of public schools.
The Whitest Kids U' Know - Pledge of Allegiance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BfqDUPL1I#ws)
oh shit, homeschool alert
I bet you have a ponytail
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Ugh, yeah Libertarians are the worst.
And yes, learn your history kids:
i agree with you that a corrupt government enables corporatism. but if government functioned correctly, it would protect us from becoming feudal slaves. without government, there is no society. no middle class. no fucking hope. corporations know this. that's why they spend all their money trying to convince libertarian yokels that they need less government and less regulation.
Or, if history isn't your thing, look at how workers are treated today in countries where there are no workplace standards.
Or just keep blindly worshiping the market and a political philosophy that has zero relevance to the world we live in.
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any berrics thread on slap will get at least 10 pages and still (some of) you guys front like its whatever. alex hasnt done shit for skateboarding except make it prettier like spanky and dylan. ( i know they both skate!!!) but other than dylan its not their main marketing tool. alex had one part and hes talking shit about his teamates site that he has been FEATURED on.
Thats some spoiled brat shit. team infighting? alex should KNOW when to keep his mouth shut. you dont have to say everything that comes to mind and ypou damn sure shouldnt post negative shit about your (friends?) and teamates...unless you need it to get coverage cause your ass doesnt skate you just model and milk it.
the berrics wouldnt be shit without koston. girl wouldnt be what it is today without koston.
koston koston koston.
;D
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any berrics? thread on slap will get at least 10 pages and still (some of) you guys front like its whatever. alex hasnt done shit for skateboarding except make it prettier like spanky and dylan. ( i know they both skate!!!) but other than dylan its not their main marketing tool.? alex had one part and hes talking shit about his teamates site that he has been FEATURED on.
Thats some spoiled brat shit. team infighting? alex should KNOW when to keep his mouth shut. you dont have to say everything that comes to mind and ypou damn sure shouldnt post negative shit about your (friends?) and teamates...unless you need it to get coverage cause your ass doesnt skate you just model and milk it.
the berrics wouldnt be shit without koston.? girl wouldnt be what it is today without koston.
koston koston koston.
;D
i think weve learned a lesson...
have a twitter/tumblr/myspace whatever - you will ruin your reputation
dont say a word and youll be just fine - aka PJ ladd
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I gotta say, with the new Off The Grid's and them building public parks now, my opinion of the berrics is definitely going up.
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
damn, you're slow. took you that long to figure out?
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any berrics? thread on slap will get at least 10 pages and still (some of) you guys front like its whatever. alex hasnt done shit for skateboarding except make it prettier like spanky and dylan. ( i know they both skate!!!) but other than dylan its not their main marketing tool.? alex had one part and hes talking shit about his teamates site that he has been FEATURED on.
Thats some spoiled brat shit. team infighting? alex should KNOW when to keep his mouth shut. you dont have to say everything that comes to mind and ypou damn sure shouldnt post negative shit about your (friends?) and teamates...unless you need it to get coverage cause your ass doesnt skate you just model and milk it.
the berrics wouldnt be shit without koston.? girl wouldnt be what it is today without koston.
koston koston koston.
;D
i think weve learned a lesson...
have a twitter/tumblr/myspace whatever - you will ruin your reputation
dont say a word and youll be just fine - aka PJ ladd
just for the record, this thread wouldn't exist if koston hadn't posted that rant on his "instagram".
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any berrics?? thread on slap will get at least 10 pages and still (some of) you guys front like its whatever. alex hasnt done shit for skateboarding except make it prettier like spanky and dylan. ( i know they both skate!!!) but other than dylan its not their main marketing tool.?? alex had one part and hes talking shit about his teamates site that he has been FEATURED on.
Thats some spoiled brat shit. team infighting? alex should KNOW when to keep his mouth shut. you dont have to say everything that comes to mind and ypou damn sure shouldnt post negative shit about your (friends?) and teamates...unless you need it to get coverage cause your ass doesnt skate you just model and milk it.
the berrics wouldnt be shit without koston.?? girl wouldnt be what it is today without koston.
koston koston koston.
;D
i think weve learned a lesson...
have a twitter/tumblr/myspace whatever - you will ruin your reputation
dont say a word and youll be just fine - aka PJ ladd
just for the record, this thread wouldn't exist if koston hadn't posted that rant on his "instagram".
exactly, both of them posted a stupid thought on the web and now i think less of both of them. pity i still love their skating and kostons new shoes
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i dont get why people says AO is slacking. he has had a lot of ads lately...
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i dont get why people says AO is slacking. he has had a lot of ads lately...
because if youre not whoring yourself on the web these days, you are "neglecting your pro career."
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just checked up on this mess. easy to see now who wins here.
AO page and feel some inspirational photos and some light hearted skate references > Kostons Instagram with images of him at a golf tournament or fixing his hot water heater.
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kostons done enough for skating to make a crap load of money and no one should be complaining.
if he wants to rant hes earned it.
alex hasnt done shit that most ams cant but he's pretty.
this is skating this shit should never be PC.
your favorite pros are people with emotions. if you were koston and alex olson was shitting on anything you did you'd probably rant too and/or slap him. he hasnt done shit except align himself with other fashion conscious/psuedo gay skaters and take still life photos of "beautiful" shit.
no one complains about tony hawks $$ making schemes. i guess alot of current skaters were raised on that game so he's like skate jehovah or something. that stupid board thing was some complete bullshit meant to do nothing but get your $$$$. but thats ok.
build parks and host contests and free skate days and pizza parties for kids and you are all bad...cause your business partner is a scientologist?
stupid hater bullshit.
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can we please get off this saving skateboarding bullshit?
Skateboarding does not need saving. skateboarding is intangible. The only thing anyone is can save is their own investments or financial interest.
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
No you're just a libertarian idiot child who thinks he's on to some really cool utopian shit. But you're not - none of the data from social psychology or cognitive science support libertarian principles, whether you want to believe that or not. People are individually shitty and capricious when it comes to making informed choices about literally anything, and they're incredibly prone to unethical behavior if they feel it won't go recognized or that the benefits of that behavior outweigh the risks, social or otherwise. So we need some form of government, though the US government as it exists is far from ideal. But the direction to move in isn't towards more "personal freedom", which basically gives corporate entities free reign to fuck your face if they feel like it.
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Also I think Koston is being a wiener and the Berrics is wack as fuck, if I need to weigh in on this issue.
(http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/9b/9b2436b3c7437a1cffb7e5369d571212532db9a8_full.jpg)
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i think weve learned a lesson...
have a twitter/tumblr/myspace whatever - you will ruin your reputation
dont say a word and youll be just fine - aka PJ ladd
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no one complains about tony hawks $$ making schemes. i guess alot of current skaters were raised on that game so he's like skate jehovah or something. that stupid board thing was some complete bullshit meant to do nothing but get your $$$$. but thats ok. build parks and host contests and free skate days and pizza parties for kids and you are all bad...cause your business partner is a scientologist?
This would be a good time for someone to step in with a "nigga please."
Tony's foundation has built hundreds of parks all over the country. The dude has done more skateboarding charity work than anyone else on the planet, plus he's always been a super cool dude.
Taking snide shots at the Birdman will get you nowhere, my friend.
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but for real.... who would you rather kiss? AO or EK?
no homo.
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can we please get off this saving skateboarding bullshit?
Skateboarding does not need saving. skateboarding is intangible. The only thing anyone is can save is their own investments or financial interest.
This, and skateboarding would be better if it was more underground and a smaller industry.
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
No you're just a libertarian idiot child who thinks he's on to some really cool utopian shit. But you're not - none of the data from social psychology or cognitive science support libertarian principles, whether you want to believe that or not. People are individually shitty and capricious when it comes to making informed choices about literally anything, and they're incredibly prone to unethical behavior if they feel it won't go recognized or that the benefits of that behavior outweigh the risks, social or otherwise. So we need some form of government, though the US government as it exists is far from ideal. But the direction to move in isn't towards more "personal freedom", which basically gives corporate entities free reign to fuck your face if they feel like it.
Haha, 5 words before you began the ad hominem attack.
Thanks for playing but your argument is now invalid.
I don't think you quite understand what ad hominem means.
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
No you're just a libertarian idiot child who thinks he's on to some really cool utopian shit. But you're not - none of the data from social psychology or cognitive science support libertarian principles, whether you want to believe that or not. People are individually shitty and capricious when it comes to making informed choices about literally anything, and they're incredibly prone to unethical behavior if they feel it won't go recognized or that the benefits of that behavior outweigh the risks, social or otherwise. So we need some form of government, though the US government as it exists is far from ideal. But the direction to move in isn't towards more "personal freedom", which basically gives corporate entities free reign to fuck your face if they feel like it.
Haha, 5 words before you began the ad hominem attack.
Thanks for playing but your argument is now invalid.
I don't think you quite understand what ad hominem means.
I think he just wanted to use the new vocabulary he learned in school today
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
No you're just a libertarian idiot child who thinks he's on to some really cool utopian shit. But you're not - none of the data from social psychology or cognitive science support libertarian principles, whether you want to believe that or not. People are individually shitty and capricious when it comes to making informed choices about literally anything, and they're incredibly prone to unethical behavior if they feel it won't go recognized or that the benefits of that behavior outweigh the risks, social or otherwise. So we need some form of government, though the US government as it exists is far from ideal. But the direction to move in isn't towards more "personal freedom", which basically gives corporate entities free reign to fuck your face if they feel like it.
Haha, 5 words before you began the ad hominem attack.
Thanks for playing but your argument is now invalid.
I don't think you quite understand what ad hominem means.
I think he just wanted to use the new vocabulary he learned in school today
thats the ad hominem
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no one complains about tony hawks $$ making schemes. i guess alot of current skaters were raised on that game so he's like skate jehovah or something. that stupid board thing was some complete bullshit meant to do nothing but get your $$$$. but thats ok. build parks and host contests and free skate days and pizza parties for kids and you are all bad...cause your business partner is a scientologist?
This would be a good time for someone to step in with a "nigga please."
Tony's foundation has built hundreds of parks all over the country. The dude has done more skateboarding charity work than anyone else on the planet, plus he's always been a super cool dude.
Taking snide shots at the Birdman will get you nowhere, my friend.
yup, Tony raised the cash to build an amazing park in Nederland that I skate a lot, and he came to the opening to do a demo and signing. And he isn't constantly trying to claim he's saving skateboarding, talking about himself and how great he is, or write insecure rants all over the place. He just raises money for skateparks, and lets his actions do the talking. He still probably skates a lot more than Berra too.
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Nah, mix of public and private school.
Is skateboarding full of mind numb drones and robots? Is this the Berra and Dyrdek MTV influence?
No you're just a libertarian idiot child who thinks he's on to some really cool utopian shit. But you're not - none of the data from social psychology or cognitive science support libertarian principles, whether you want to believe that or not. People are individually shitty and capricious when it comes to making informed choices about literally anything, and they're incredibly prone to unethical behavior if they feel it won't go recognized or that the benefits of that behavior outweigh the risks, social or otherwise. So we need some form of government, though the US government as it exists is far from ideal. But the direction to move in isn't towards more "personal freedom", which basically gives corporate entities free reign to fuck your face if they feel like it.
Haha, 5 words before you began the ad hominem attack.
Thanks for playing but your argument is now invalid.
enough with the "thanks for playing" line... and again, you invalidated your account when you rated barley as shop sponsor material.
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no one complains about tony hawks $$ making schemes. i guess alot of current skaters were raised on that game so he's like skate jehovah or something. that stupid board thing was some complete bullshit meant to do nothing but get your $$$$. but thats ok. build parks and host contests and free skate days and pizza parties for kids and you are all bad...cause your business partner is a scientologist?
This would be a good time for someone to step in with a "nigga please."
Tony's foundation has built hundreds of parks all over the country. The dude has done more skateboarding charity work than anyone else on the planet, plus he's always been a super cool dude.
Taking snide shots at the Birdman will get you nowhere, my friend.
just dont let him near your wife
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no one complains about tony hawks $$ making schemes. i guess alot of current skaters were raised on that game so he's like skate jehovah or something. that stupid board thing was some complete bullshit meant to do nothing but get your $$$$. but thats ok. build parks and host contests and free skate days and pizza parties for kids and you are all bad...cause your business partner is a scientologist?
This would be a good time for someone to step in with a "nigga please."
Tony's foundation has built hundreds of parks all over the country. The dude has done more skateboarding charity work than anyone else on the planet, plus he's always been a super cool dude.
Taking snide shots at the Birdman will get you nowhere, my friend.
yup, Tony raised the cash to build an amazing park in Nederland that I skate a lot, and he came to the opening to do a demo and signing. And he isn't constantly trying to claim he's saving skateboarding, talking about himself and how great he is, or write insecure rants all over the place. He just raises money for skateparks, and lets his actions do the talking. He still probably skates a lot more than Berra too.
Well put.
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i'm not letting this thread get to the second page
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1000th post! fuk you all and fuk this thread! i love and hate you all :D im drunk! fuk yeh!
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People over the age of 7 actually like the berrics?
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People over the age of 7 actually like the berrics?
people who dont skateboard actually post on slap?
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
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21 pages....
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
rumor has it power balance bracelet = scientolgist
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koston's ill. I bet AO can't switchflip front crook...
But then again I bet he can beat Koston in a pickup game.
AO Mixtape Vol.9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdEVbngcjA&feature=related#)
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Did anyone see Koston's Instagram today?? He calls out Leo! this thread is about to hit 40 pages ....
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http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p150958917 (http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p150958917)
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::) yeah he really called him out.
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I fully support Koston's full-blasting other skaters' hilarious bashing of his park/world domination plans over social networking sites.
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The best people dont go to the Berrics.
I like that Leo hates certain people on rvca, hates shaun white, and hates the berrics.
Which other awesome skater will Koston call out next?
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does Koston really believe that Leo or Alex give a shit about what he thinks?
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People over the age of 7 actually like the berrics?
people who dont skateboard actually post on slap?
what makes you think i dont skate
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Koston is trying to make it seem like he really doesn't care about that comment, but he obviously does.
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leo hates everything, koston is becoming a senile old man
any real updates?
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i miss thinking koston was cool
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
That's some damn fine internet detective work.
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This is one nasty mess.....
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Is Koston's wife hot?
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lol her imdb
one of her roles:
2003 Yeah Right! (video)
MJ Intro Guest
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Wait wait wait wait...MJ flashed Koston's wife?....thread of the year.
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
yep. that does it for me.
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So according to the imdb, Koston's wife has only worked 3 times in 10 years (Yeah Right doesn't count)? No wonder he needs that Nike money.
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safe assumption is that koston has been pretty well off for a good decade now, she probably doesn't need to work.
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(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/01/dd10de53ec0d437ca6cb33bf4702fb8a_7.jpg)
Looks like Koston's been working on his photoshop skills
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Why can't everybody just love his and Steves website?
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Koston is a narcissus.
nar?cis?sus (n?r-sss)
Any of several widely cultivated bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus, having long narrow leaves and usually white or yellow flowers characterized by a cup-shaped or trumpet-shaped central crown.
Yes, Koston is a flower.
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now wait a goddamn second here.
what the fuck is an instagram?
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^ another way for homosexuals to show each other pretty pictures they took? i dunno
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I used to use instagram to share pictures of the kids with loved ones. But now i can keep up with the latest WWE beef.
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
whoa that's fucking insane
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
Knew I had a reason for thinking he's a phoney cunt.
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
what does that even mean? scientologist vows? can you elaborate on what the vows were, or where you heard this?
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
what does that even mean? scientologist vows? can you elaborate on what the vows were, or where you heard this?
something about eating a placenta? ;)
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haha fuuuuck
I ask one simple question and it becomes a huge shit storm.
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The earlier link (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/eric-koston.html) about Koston and Scientology is old and incomplete. If you look (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/steve-berra.html) at Berras completed courses you see that his listing stops about 6 years ago as well. The magazines that these lists come from are not a a complete record of involvement, nor have all of the magazines been publicly listed. He has done more courses more recently than those listed.
The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of aspiring actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/). If we look at her history in Scientology as the same site, we see over 15 years if involvement in the church, both under her old (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-turner.html), and new name (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/ashlee-koston.html). She also has a website (http://www.our-home.org/ashleeturner/success.htm)publically proclaiming her involvement in the church.
Berra and Turner are hardcore, committed members of this church, with 13 and 17 years of direct involvement. These people are "lifers", not members with a passing interest which has faded over time. Eric Koston's long term 'best friend' (best man at wedding etc) and wife are these people, and we are seriously pretending that he is not directly, 100% involved in this thing? This is not even considering the precepts of Scientology forbid close relationships with non-Scientologists (e.g. his wife and Berra would be pressured not to associate with Eric Koston if he was not currently involved in the church).
Dude is deeply involved in this stuff, anyone who claims otherwise is being simply disingenuous.
Koston and his wife's vows at their wedding were scientologist. This is a fact.
what does that even mean? scientologist vows? can you elaborate on what the vows were, or where you heard this?
something about eating a placenta? ;)
Madventures Madcook: Eating a Placenta (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RWUIFHD_s#)
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The far more interesting fact never commented upon is Kostons wife, Ashlee Koston (nee Turner). She is some sort of failed actor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877393/).
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http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067 (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067)
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http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067 (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067)
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http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067 (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067)
now THAT'S comedy
OMG.. brilliant!
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now wait a goddamn second here.
what the fuck is an instagram?
hahaha
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I;m not sure what we'renot taling about aright no but notne of these mother cukers get in the way of me having a good time skating dail.y Im way the past in the point in my life where I think that Eric koston and leo romero have anything figured out that I dont.
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http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067 (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/7001638067)
now THAT'S comedy
OMG.. brilliant!
(http://troll.me/images/victory-baby/yes.jpg)
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http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/ (http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/)
?Hey @the_tempster, is there any room on the team for a seasoned veteran with a mean ass nollie crook?!? I wanna tour with @stupidface real bad"
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Hahaha its funny that Koston thinks stupidface is insulting.
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koston is such a meanie
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Hahaha its funny that Koston thinks stupidface is insulting.
thats actually Leo's instagram name
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(http://oi53.tinypic.com/35bclmf.jpg)
bazinga!
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I must have missed a chapter in this skateboarding soap opera. What's Koston's beef with Leo?
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Hahaha its funny that Koston thinks stupidface is insulting.
Now its not funny anymore.
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pretty sure ot12 requires you to shed your dignity.
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http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/ (http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/)
?Hey @the_tempster, is there any room on the team for a seasoned veteran with a mean ass nollie crook?!? I wanna tour with @stupidface real bad"
oh god really? he's tryna start shit with everyone now? when you're a seasoned veteran, you should know people are gonna hate on shit. c'mon.
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starting to think koston is real annoying
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starting to think koston is real annoying
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koston is beat
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i will be very sad if this is all a well orchestrated ruse and none of this is genuine bickering
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I have nothing further to add to this thread, but this is my 1000th post. Good a place as any to put it.
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Its taken people this long to realize Koston is a tool? WAKE UP America.
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http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/ (http://instagr.am/p/JVC-8/)
?Hey @the_tempster, is there any room on the team for a seasoned veteran with a mean ass nollie crook?!? I wanna tour with @stupidface real bad"
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e185/bloose/EricKostonerickostononTwitter_1312499966735.png)
It's funny how Koston is the sole protector of The Berrics these days. Where has Berra been?
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Someone please shut this man up already.
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koston beef with leo now?
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Old news. The new hot shit is the Berra/Grim beef. Ready...go.
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care to elaborate?
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Old news. The new hot shit is the Berra/Grim beef. Ready...go.
go on..
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Check Neal or Berra's twitter. The TL:DR of it is, Grim suggested he get someone to manage PR. Berra scoffed and then proceeded to get upset with some kid on Twitter. Grim told him that's what he was talking about and Berra just acted like it was a joke.
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Check Neal or Berra's twitter. The TL:DR of it is, Grim suggested he get someone to manage PR. Berra scoffed and then proceeded to get upset with some kid on Twitter. Grim told him that's what he was talking about and Berra just acted like it was a joke.
Anyone got screenshots or something? I'm not on the twitter.
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I'm not on the twitter.
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I hope Leo sells more product now.
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I went from being annoyed with Koston for no reason, to thinking he was rad a few years ago (since Super Champion Funzone), to being totally annoyed with him actually for a reason now. Dude's in his 30s, he needs to man up and quit acting like a little bitch when someone states an opinion that they aren't down with something he's involved with.
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Koston doggin Leo? nigga betta fall back.
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leo rules
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I bet Leo or Olson could/would kick Eric's ass if he weren't a stinking rich pussy who would instantly sue.
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I bet Leo or Olson could/would kick Eric's ass if he weren't a stinking rich pussy who would instantly sue.
Olson would kick his ass but Leo? No way.
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Check Neal or Berra's twitter. The TL:DR of it is, Grim suggested he get someone to manage PR. Berra scoffed and then proceeded to get upset with some kid on Twitter. Grim told him that's what he was talking about and Berra just acted like it was a joke.
Haha, unfortunately not. He removed a couple of days of correspondence (on Twitter as mentioned). It started off with a back and forth I was having with Deaner and I made a tweet that said I could do PR and IT work there to such a degree that Berra wouldn't get shit on so much. I mentioned in the post (and have a history here) of being guilt-free of enjoying footage on The Berrics, and even liking Berra (yet disagreeing with him on a number of things, I'd list them but it'd make this already-gonna-be-long-post into something even more tedious).
Anyway, it was a joke about me being his PR guy, but I wrote the "being shit on" thing because I figured it was just common knowledge that he and the Berrics get shit on all over the place, not just here (I sent him an email explaining as much, with links to Google searches with the queries "fuck Berra" and "fuck the Berrics" later on in day 2 of 3 of twatsorizing).
He responded a bit defensively I guess, and I explained that I wasn't blasting him... I had actually thanked him for having a quick conversation on video for a compilation I did at the last Johnny Romano MaW event in Houston. I'd sent it to him several times but every time I asked if he's gotten it he'd say no, so I just gave up (a number of weeks and months ago).
There was a pretty boring back and forth, and he brought up the video out of nowhere, jokingly saying he hadn't watched it because he didn't have a PR agent. Actually, I think that's around the time I told him I wasn't shitting on him.
I told him that there was an impression that he was overtly defensive, and postured himself as "carrying the weight of skateboarding."
He took exception to that, saying the hate towards him and the site was really limited... (shit, that's when I emailed him the Google links)... he maintained the site had a huge fanbase, I just contended that it was possible to have an even larger fanbase, referring to the posturing and defensiveness.
Later on, he called some random dude a pussy and a "girl" that turned out to be a guy Berra had spoken to before on a few occasions (the guy had tweeted that he was bummed because he was nodded away from approaching Berra before Steve posted the pussy comment).
I self-retweeted my post about the overt defensiveness, and then said something to the effect of "Like this?" I think Steve resolved it with the other guy, and as mentioned earlier he said he was just joking.
I wasn't really fighting him, but I made a point that he disagreed with and IMHO I think I pointed out that at least one of the things I said was correct, almost immediately after the fact.
Sorry for the mess of writing up there, on a cold pill.
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I dont want to be kicked out of the forum or anything, but dude to what extent this matters to anybody other than yourself or Berra? You get any worth out of this affair?
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It was brought up, someone asked for screenshots, so I explained it to the best of my memory. I figure the post's worth is dependent on whoever reads it.
...and as far as kicking anyone out, c'mon! If I get called out on something I get called out on it, but my admin'ing is 99% tech support.
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http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/ (http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/)
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This is all just a joke or Koston doesnt have a life.
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Grim ftw
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http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/ (http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/)
4/1/12 - april fool's?
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it might be about what leo said in his SOTY article....
http://instagr.am/p/I_3NF/ (http://instagr.am/p/I_3NF/)
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team "everybody loves leo"?
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http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p150958917 (http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p150958917)
this guy is a total fuckin dillweed
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EVERYONE JUST CHILL THE FUCK OUT
(http://i.imgur.com/BP91c.gif)
all I got out of this thread.
had higher hopes, but, oh well.
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http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/ (http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/)
4/1/12 - april fool's?
what the fuck is going on is this shit real?
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http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/ (http://instagr.am/p/JFMvu/)
4/1/12 - april fool's?
what the fuck is going on is this shit real?
I think so.
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Someone please shut this man up already.
the fact that koston was sort of the silent partner always seemed to boltser the berrics' credibility for me.
now that this is going on that train has definitely left the station.
how embarrasing.
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I fucking hate the instagram/twitter formats. Really hard to follow/see when things were posted/etc.
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I'm pretty sure they're just fucking with each other back and forth jokingly. Templeton and the RVCA team manager are a part of it too.
But Koston is definitely a lot more involved in it than Leo, probably cause he's actually angry but doesn't want to blow up again like with Olson.
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Check Neal or Berra's twitter. The TL:DR of it is, Grim suggested he get someone to manage PR. Berra scoffed and then proceeded to get upset with some kid on Twitter. Grim told him that's what he was talking about and Berra just acted like it was a joke.
Anyway, it was a joke about me being his PR guy, but I wrote the "being shit on" thing because I figured it was just common knowledge that he and the Berrics get shit on all over the place, not just here (I sent him an email explaining as much, with links to Google searches with the queries "fuck Berra" and "fuck the Berrics" later on in day 2 of 3 of twatsorizing).
He responded a bit defensively I guess, and I explained that I wasn't blasting him... I had actually thanked him for having a quick conversation on video for a compilation I did at the last Johnny Romano MaW event in Houston. I'd sent it to him several times but every time I asked if he's gotten it he'd say no, so I just gave up (a number of weeks and months ago).
There was a pretty boring back and forth, and he brought up the video out of nowhere, jokingly saying he hadn't watched it because he didn't have a PR agent. Actually, I think that's around the time I told him I wasn't shitting on him.
I told him that there was an impression that he was overtly defensive, and postured himself as "carrying the weight of skateboarding."
He took exception to that, saying the hate towards him and the site was really limited... (shit, that's when I emailed him the Google links)... he maintained the site had a huge fanbase, I just contended that it was possible to have an even larger fanbase, referring to the posturing and defensiveness.
Later on, he called some random dude a pussy and a "girl" that turned out to be a guy Berra had spoken to before on a few occasions (the guy had tweeted that he was bummed because he was nodded away from approaching Berra before Steve posted the pussy comment).
I self-retweeted my post about the overt defensiveness, and then said something to the effect of "Like this?" I think Steve resolved it with the other guy, and as mentioned earlier he said he was just joking.
I wasn't really fighting him, but I made a point that he disagreed with and IMHO I think I pointed out that at least one of the things I said was correct, almost immediately after the fact.
Sorry for the mess of writing up there, on a cold pill.
I got a few from Twitter pre-Berra-deletion.
(http://i.imgur.com/kPS0U.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/h5uH3.png)
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I fucking hate the instagram/twitter formats. Really hard to follow/see when things were posted/etc.
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koston what happened meng look how awesome you were!
YEAH RIGHT! Eric Koston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnbBi-95T0#)
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Congratulations Koston. You got 38th out of 44 in the Coastal Carnage qualifier.
http://www.skateparkoftampa.com/spot/skresult.aspx?ID=661 (http://www.skateparkoftampa.com/spot/skresult.aspx?ID=661)
Thumbs up indeed.
(http://www.skateparkoftampa.com/spot/headshots/252.jpg)
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team "everybody loves leo"?
i think so
i'm on team "koston is a geriatric fuck"
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Tosh Townend 30th, Koston 38th. Jah Rastafari!
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Nobody posted this picture? This doesn't seem like just messing around.
http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p155772771 (http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p155772771)
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The caption on that photo is extremely unfunny. Koston just needs to stop; everything he has done thus far with with all this beef has been awful and makes himself look really dumb.
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Yeah all this bullshit is making me miss the unfuckwithable Koston of 1996-2003 or even the "im so rich and talented I don't even try anymore" Koston of the fully flared era.
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it might be about what leo said in his SOTY article....
http://instagr.am/p/I_3NF/ (http://instagr.am/p/I_3NF/)
Leo is the fucking shit. Koston needs to give it up. Some dudes are into it, some aren't. Some aren't 30+ and can film incredibly 18 minute B side bonus parts...
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Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to professional skateboarding.
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Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to professional skateboarding.
Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to society.
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Can somebody please break Koston's iPhone in half? Dude's better off without it.
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Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to society.
I stand corrected.
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Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to society.
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Nobody posted this picture? This doesn't seem like just messing around.
http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p155772771 (http://instagram.heroku.com/users/erickoston#p155772771)
jesus. it keeps getting worse. koston is like the delusional aging hot chick that really believed her jokes were the reason everyone kicked it with her. except in this case his looks were his skating.
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Check Neal or Berra's twitter. The TL:DR of it is, Grim suggested he get someone to manage PR. Berra scoffed and then proceeded to get upset with some kid on Twitter. Grim told him that's what he was talking about and Berra just acted like it was a joke.
Anyway, it was a joke about me being his PR guy, but I wrote the "being shit on" thing because I figured it was just common knowledge that he and the Berrics get shit on all over the place, not just here (I sent him an email explaining as much, with links to Google searches with the queries "fuck Berra" and "fuck the Berrics" later on in day 2 of 3 of twatsorizing).
He responded a bit defensively I guess, and I explained that I wasn't blasting him... I had actually thanked him for having a quick conversation on video for a compilation I did at the last Johnny Romano MaW event in Houston. I'd sent it to him several times but every time I asked if he's gotten it he'd say no, so I just gave up (a number of weeks and months ago).
There was a pretty boring back and forth, and he brought up the video out of nowhere, jokingly saying he hadn't watched it because he didn't have a PR agent. Actually, I think that's around the time I told him I wasn't shitting on him.
I told him that there was an impression that he was overtly defensive, and postured himself as "carrying the weight of skateboarding."
He took exception to that, saying the hate towards him and the site was really limited... (shit, that's when I emailed him the Google links)... he maintained the site had a huge fanbase, I just contended that it was possible to have an even larger fanbase, referring to the posturing and defensiveness.
Later on, he called some random dude a pussy and a "girl" that turned out to be a guy Berra had spoken to before on a few occasions (the guy had tweeted that he was bummed because he was nodded away from approaching Berra before Steve posted the pussy comment).
I self-retweeted my post about the overt defensiveness, and then said something to the effect of "Like this?" I think Steve resolved it with the other guy, and as mentioned earlier he said he was just joking.
I wasn't really fighting him, but I made a point that he disagreed with and IMHO I think I pointed out that at least one of the things I said was correct, almost immediately after the fact.
Sorry for the mess of writing up there, on a cold pill.
Thanks for the post, grim.
Kinda sounds like your incident just kinda proves how much berra/theberrics does get shit one. It seems like he was really quick to be defensive and assume you were trying to shit on him. Kinda sounds like he's pretty use to getting shit on, so he sort of assumes people are shitting on him, when they in fact aren't.
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I love how detached and deluded these berrics idiots are, they have no real idea of why people perceive them as Fuckwits.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the Berra.
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HAHAHAHAHA
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Social networking is pretty much the worst thing to happen to society.
100%, quote of the year
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(http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/08/04/502293eeef294813bd40aa06d7fa437d_7.jpg)
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you must massage the mongoose first.
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Eric Koston:
?Hey @worldsbestdad @stupidface(Leo), I didn't know you guys were back in town?! Also next time you guys are goin to MJ's, call me up!"
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/07/fc3df5a641fe4e689907f7b45043ee2e_7.jpg)
sick burn bro!
EDIT: wait, stupidface is Leo Romero right? ahh whatevr
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Who is worldsbestdad?
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(http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/e/e1/Hom.gif)
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remember when people talked about how koston was the cooler owner of the berrics?
big gulps huh? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=praFGD51ih8#)
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Eric Koston:
?Hey @worldsbestdad @stupidface(Leo), I didn't know you guys were back in town?! Also next time you guys are goin to MJ's, call me up!"
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/07/fc3df5a641fe4e689907f7b45043ee2e_7.jpg)
sick burn bro!
EDIT: wait, stupidface is Leo Romero right? ahh whatevr
hey, my local Trader Joes!
seems like Koston is going off the deep end. must be cuz of the Scientology
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(http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/08/04/502293eeef294813bd40aa06d7fa437d_7.jpg)
Does Nike have a dental plan?
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I was more or less on koston's side when he blew up on AO, but this shit is insane. he's a 12 year old girl.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the Berra.
Amazing.
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Who is worldsbestdad?
Jimmy Arrighi(sp?), he's the RVCA team manager I think?
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(49 minutes ago)
ERIC KOSTON:
"Drive in a van full of sweaty dicks like @worldsbestdad & @stupidface or Buds with the buds on the golf course."
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/08/26d09a6cb21d4b01985fe550375750f6_7.jpg)
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Damn, Biebel too?
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i keep checking back in here every now and then and its becoming the eric koston show on slap
i cant help but be interested for some reason, skate nerdery
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i'm almost embarassed for koston.
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i'm embarassed for koston.
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i'm embarassed for koston.
Yep, he's jumped the shark.
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(http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/08/04/502293eeef294813bd40aa06d7fa437d_7.jpg)
Does Nike have a dental plan?
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff19/briden108/untitled-15.png)
koston needs braces?
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Dear Eric,
Next time you're skating that rail in the dark, keep an eye on those bushes.
Love,
(http://theskateboardmag.com/content/crops/heath-kirchart-travis-bickle.jpg)
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i'm embarassed for koston.
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It must be hard for Koston to skate with all that sand in his vagina. I wonder how he does it.
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i'm embarassed for koston.
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Eric Koston:
?Hey @worldsbestdad @stupidface(Leo), I didn't know you guys were back in town?! Also next time you guys are goin to MJ's, call me up!"
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/07/fc3df5a641fe4e689907f7b45043ee2e_7.jpg)
sick burn bro!
EDIT: wait, stupidface is Leo Romero right? ahh whatevr
holy shit this is pathetic, eric koston (a pro for girl skateboards, a company i've always viewed as fairly progressive and anti-homophobia) is mad that some people choose not to watch videos on the berrics and his response is to hate gay people?
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Eric Koston:
?Hey @worldsbestdad @stupidface(Leo), I didn't know you guys were back in town?! Also next time you guys are goin to MJ's, call me up!"
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/07/fc3df5a641fe4e689907f7b45043ee2e_7.jpg)
sick burn bro!
EDIT: wait, stupidface is Leo Romero right? ahh whatevr
holy shit this is pathetic, eric koston (a pro for girl skateboards, a company i've always viewed as fairly progressive and anti-homophobia) is mad that some people choose not to watch videos on the berrics and his response is to hate gay people?
I don't really know what you're talking about, but Koston is completely blowing it. It sucks. I always thought of him as the Tiger Woods of skateboarding, but kinda in a cool way. Now he still reminds me of Tiger, but he is ruining his career by posting whiney shit on twitter, while Tiger ruined his career by banging chicks.
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Eric Koston:
?Hey @worldsbestdad @stupidface(Leo), I didn't know you guys were back in town?! Also next time you guys are goin to MJ's, call me up!"
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/07/fc3df5a641fe4e689907f7b45043ee2e_7.jpg)
sick burn bro!
EDIT: wait, stupidface is Leo Romero right? ahh whatevr
holy shit this is pathetic, eric koston (a pro for girl skateboards, a company i've always viewed as fairly progressive and anti-homophobia) is mad that some people choose not to watch videos on the berrics and his response is to hate gay people?
I don't really know what you're talking about, but Koston is completely blowing it. It sucks. I always thought of him as the Tiger Woods of skateboarding, but kinda in a cool way. Now he still reminds me of Tiger, but he is ruining his career by posting whiney shit on twitter, while Tiger ruined his career by banging chicks.
I am really getting bummed out by how whiney he reacts to this shit instead of going: "You don't like it? Well fuck it, I do!", he is acting like a fucking bitch,....
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I still don't think he's being serious, much like the "Fuck your face!" debacle. He's always been a goof so making a joke like this doesn't seem out of character.
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well this is one way to keep everyone's attention if you're not gonna put out throwaway clips and whatnot.
i guessed hyped for the choco video?
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Chill out guys. It's just some private jokes between me and toy. I'm not turning into some old crazy cranky fuck (yet).
Peace.
eric
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If it's private, why is it on the internet
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Waiting for Berra's tweet claiming that FROSTONGIRL on Slap boards is some canadian dude called Dan Watson...
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Waiting for Berra's tweet claiming that FROSTONGIRL on Slap boards is some canadian dude called Dan Watson...
;D
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Chill out guys. It's just some private jokes between me and toy. I'm not turning into some old crazy cranky fuck (yet).
Peace.
eric
FUCK YOUR FACE
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Fight here instead! Everyone thinks this is skating's center of hate already anyway.
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Chill out guys. It's just some private jokes between me and toy. I'm not turning into some old crazy cranky fuck (yet).
Peace.
eric
Hatin' on other skaters comparing them to gay dudes was the lamest move ever.
I feel sorry for all the kids idolizing you and following you on instagram/Twitter and shit. That kind of attitude is wack.
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that's the whole problem, these aren't private jokes hinted in a printed interview somehwere, this is the fucking internet, he should know better than to deconstruct his image (seemingly)
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i figured it was jokes after it kept getting more and more outrageous. you guys take everything this seriously? dag, you wouldn't last a minute around my friends. im glad he responded though. and i disagree with the whole "it's the internet, be careful" thing. if you want to make a joke with your friends, who cares if someone overhears you and misinterprets things? it's a joke and not for them anyways. and the same thing happens at demos and shit in real life too. it's just easier to eavesdrop on the internet. but hey, i guess if it gets you 20-something pages, then hey...whaddayagonnado? it's slap. by the way, where the rawb been at? he has way better jokes.
k
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Chill out guys. It's just some private jokes between me and toy. I'm not turning into some old crazy cranky fuck (yet).
Peace.
eric
Make an instagram post with your SLAP name flipping off the computer monitor to prove it's you!
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Chill out guys. It's just some private jokes between me and toy. I'm not turning into some old crazy cranky fuck (yet).
Peace.
eric
If they are private why would you post them on a social networking sight where anyone in the world can see?
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I haven't seen any tweets from the Toy dudes attacking Koston? Wouldn't "jokes between us" imply it's going both ways? Besides, nothing Koston says is funny, from the gay jokes to "buds with buds on the golf course". Leo's noseblunting gap to rails, Koston's getting whooped by Tosh Townend in contests. Hopefully the lack of attention his daughter is receiving will prevent her from turning out like Eric.
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I haven't seen any tweets from the Toy dudes attacking Koston? Wouldn't "jokes between us" imply it's going both ways? Besides, nothing Koston says is funny, from the gay jokes to "buds with buds on the golf course". Leo's noseblunting gap to rails, Koston's getting whooped by Tosh Townend in contests. Hopefully the lack of attention his daughter is receiving will prevent her from turning out like Eric.
damn that's harsh otis. whew.
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If they are private why would you post them on a social networking sight where anyone in the world can see?
by "private" joke, i'm pretty sure he didn't mean private like, "you're not supposed to see them" and more private like, "you're not supposed to get them". like an inside joke.
k
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no doubt koston is serious about this, he just gets butthurt over his skatepark too easily and thinks he can shut the haters up by attacking them through this when in reality he just enhances some unnecessary drama and comes off as a little cuntsucking bitch rather than the well respected skateboarder we all once liked
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We need some people in the know to shed some light on whats going on.
I'm pretty sure the Alex Olson thing was real, but the whole Leo beef seems a little too much for me to take seriously. What pros who posts on SLAP who would know Koston or Leo personally?
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our operating thetan levels are too low to converse with.
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our operating thetan levels are too low to converse with.
thank fucking christ.
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C'mon Eric, don't be a drive-by poster... I mean, we know you have time to kill. You and Steve should both post here. Just think of this place as an elaborate Instagram app!
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eric koston would never post on a forum for cowards.
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pri·vate? ?/?pra?v?t/ [prahy-vit]
adjective
1. belonging to some particular person: private property.
2. pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction.
3. confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting.
4. personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings.
5. not holding public office or employment: private citizens.
pub·lic? ?/?p?bl?k/ [puhb-lik]
adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
2. done, made, acting, etc., for the community as a whole: public prosecution.
3. open to all persons: a public meeting.
4. of, pertaining to, or being in the service of a community or nation, especially as a government officer: a public official.
5. maintained at the public expense and under public control: a public library; a public road.
I guess we can't tell the difference? Wow.
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I hope it all turns out to be a joke because Koston has burned through a lot of his Mouse capital. On a continuum of skate careers between Heath Kirchart and J. Cassanova, he is more on the J side. He could save his rep, though, by squashing the beef, quitting Nike, and skating the mega ramp. My 2 cents.
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pri�vate? ?/?pra?v?t/ [prahy-vit]
adjective
1. belonging to some particular person: private property.
2. pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction.
3. confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting.
4. personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings.
5. not holding public office or employment: private citizens.
pub�lic? ?/?p?bl?k/ [puhb-lik]
adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
2. done, made, acting, etc., for the community as a whole: public prosecution.
3. open to all persons: a public meeting.
4. of, pertaining to, or being in the service of a community or nation, especially as a government officer: a public official.
5. maintained at the public expense and under public control: a public library; a public road.
I guess we can't tell the difference? Wow.
are you kidding? do you always read out of order? 2. pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction.
not backing up koston but come on, no wonder people generally think of slap as a bunch of idiots. you're trying pretty hard there. when he said private its pretty obvious that he meant that it was an inside joke situation. imagine if you have a bunch of random ass people following every move you made, including "private" jokes with friends that they didnt understand.
and either way, that wasnt even eric posting on slap.
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Exactly! He mean't "inside joke" not "Private joke" peoples
he's a professional skateboarder, ok?
He didn't go to college to be one of those
not everyone can be a rocket-surgeon at English like us.
it's pretty neat though, that he actually posted on SLAP
and either way, that wasnt even eric posting on slap.
he did so >:( 8)
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AO said a couple words and got a whole paragraph, we got like 25 pages and thats all we get?
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Why would Koston just now choose to get pissed at people talking about the berrics?
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People are buying into the 3:37 a.m. post by Koston? Dude doesn't read this site and doesn't post at 4 a.m.
If I'm up at that hour I'm dealing with a crying kid. This site isn't iPhone friendly or whatever.
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leo is probably just laughing at him, i cant wait for leo to laugh in his face while hes back lipping some 22 stair
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Oh, so I'm not allowed to randomly give Eric Koston some shit? Look at what you're trying to apply logic to. And I'm the idiot? Seriously, what the fuck are you doing here on SLAP?
What is this world coming to?
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shit and blood.
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erickoston: I caught @stupidface planking at the park today http://instagr.am/p/J1HTx/ (http://instagr.am/p/J1HTx/)
How is this supposed to be funny? Koston really needs to give this shit up. I'm more embarrassed for him by the day
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looks more like a kid than leo
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I wana be a pro skateboarder and start a beef with Eric Koston by saying some mean stuff about the berrics.
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I can understand why Koston would be pissed off. Leo basically called all of the guys with battle commanders (i.e., Guy, Ellington, Appleyard, Ladd, Mike V) dipshits. It's good that Koston is sticking up for the guys that made videos for the Berrics, but I've lost a ton of respect for him in the way that he's been handling the situation.
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I can understand why Koston would be pissed off. Leo basically called all of the guys with battle commanders (i.e., Guy, Ellington, Appleyard, Ladd, Mike V) dipshits. It's good that Koston is sticking up for the guys that made videos for the Berrics, but I've lost a ton of respect for him in the way that he's been handling the situation.
when was this?...link?
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
Does anyone else remember Leo ending the RVCA United Nations? Seems hypocritical that he'd call out guys with Battle Commanders when he has his own footage on the Berrics.
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
Does anyone else remember Leo ending the RVCA United Nations? Seems hypocritical that he'd call out guys with Battle Commanders when he has his own footage on the Berrics.
sometimes sponsors can make you do things that you don't want to do.
also have you seen footage of him there before or after that? probably not.
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erickoston: I caught @stupidface planking at the park today http://instagr.am/p/J1HTx/ (http://instagr.am/p/J1HTx/)
How is this supposed to be funny? Koston really needs to give this shit up. I'm more embarrassed for him by the day
Pretty creepy if Koston really did take this picture.
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
well, if it was reversed and he said "I know people around me would rather go on the Berrics and watch a battle commander than watch some dipshit have a part in a skate video " would that imply that he was calling everyone who'd ever filmed a video part a dipshit? Clearly not.
Koston should keep off the internet
Douche Chill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBelT-Xi1CY#ws)
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People are buying into the 3:37 a.m. post by Koston? Dude doesn't read this site and doesn't post at 4 a.m.
If I'm up at that hour I'm dealing with a crying kid. This site isn't iPhone friendly or whatever.
...there's some confusion about where the IP address actually resolves, but it's very possible that it's him.
Aside from that, doesn't he have a little one? He could be up... and I'm sure he has a desktop somewhere.
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eh, they're pros not wordsmiths. we all say stupid shit etc, internet just documents 3am thoughts
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
well, if it was reversed and he said "I know people around me would rather go on the Berrics and watch a battle commander than watch some dipshit have a part in a skate video " would that imply that he was calling everyone who'd ever filmed a video part a dipshit? Clearly not.
Koston should keep off the internet
Douche Chill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBelT-Xi1CY#ws)
Fair enough, but who would you say are the dipshits with battle commanders that Leo is referring to?
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
well, if it was reversed and he said "I know people around me would rather go on the Berrics and watch a battle commander than watch some dipshit have a part in a skate video " would that imply that he was calling everyone who'd ever filmed a video part a dipshit? Clearly not.
Koston should keep off the internet
Douche Chill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBelT-Xi1CY#ws)
Fair enough, but who would you say are the dipshits with battle commanders that Leo is referring to?
torey? shane?
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really doubt leo knows the difference between battle commanders and like recruits n shit well enough to be talking shit on any specific skaters, definitely just talking about lame berrics edits in general.
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I think what Leo meant to say was: " I'd rather watch a real video part , than a video part filmed at a park."
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Leo said "I know people around me would rather watch a skate video as opposed to going on the fuckin' Berrics and watching some dipshit have a Battle Commander". To me, that implies that he's calling all those guys dipshits.
i think it implies that the people around him think those guys are dipshits. anyways, fuck the berrics, and fuck twitter.
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http://toymachine.com/newspost/8230/insta+worship/ (http://toymachine.com/newspost/8230/insta+worship/) - new post about koston.... don't know what the fuck is happening.
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The skatebording industry is like high school, especially all this, "you're stupid", "nuh uh, you're stupid!".
Koston has always come off as goofy extremely immature.
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(http://www.tumyeto.com/images_new/news/8225p1010133.jpg)
"Brad Staba and Eric Koston getting wacked for some Leo roust."
eh, maybe it could be a "private" joke....
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derp
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theory: Koston is up at 3:00 am because he is worried sick about what people are saying about him on Slap. He paces the halls of his Beverly Hills mansion, "should I say something?" finally settling on his gold couch and typing a pithy response "guys, it's just an inside joke." The minute he hits send he instantly regrets it. "why did I get involved? I should just stay off the new medias like everyone on Slap keeps telling me. FUUUUU...
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I hope it all turns out to be a joke because Koston has burned through a lot of his Mouse capital. On a continuum of skate careers between Heath Kirchart and J. Cassanova, he is more on the J side. He could save his rep, though, by squashing the beef, quitting Nike, and skating the mega ramp. My 2 cents.
Because he made some goofy instagram posts? I'm as confused and disappointed about these posts as you but come on. Dude has only put out great footage for 20 years now.
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I hope it all turns out to be a joke because Koston has burned through a lot of his Mouse capital. On a continuum of skate careers between Heath Kirchart and J. Cassanova, he is more on the J side. He could save his rep, though, by squashing the beef, quitting Nike, and skating the mega ramp. My 2 cents.
Because he made some goofy instagram posts? I'm as confused and disappointed about these posts as you but come on. Dude has only put out great footage for 20 years now.
You're right. And it's really hard to hate on the guy after I saw his dork tricks in the newest Manolo's Tapes.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the Berra.
I'd gnar you if I could
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People are buying into the 3:37 a.m. post by Koston? Dude doesn't read this site and doesn't post at 4 a.m.
If I'm up at that hour I'm dealing with a crying kid. This site isn't iPhone friendly or whatever.
Aside from that, doesn't he have a little one? He could be up... and I'm sure he has a desktop somewhere.
I figure he would have been back by now for more. Not sure why pros ignore SLAP forums. Look how much good it did Josh and all he did was have to endure dicks on his face, hah.
So glad someone neg'd me for posting that though. Really?
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(http://www.tumyeto.com/images_new/news/8225p1010133.jpg)
Girl or Toy machine.
MAKE THIS A FUCKING DECK AND I WILL PURCHASE IT
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When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle
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is this suppose to be funny or something? koston just keeps getting worse every time he opens his mouth on or off the internet.
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yous have given me shit for the word crend (career end) before, but it's just so appropriate right now.
Koston is crending deep
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yous have given me shit for the word crend (career end) before, but it's just so appropriate right now.
Koston is crending deep
Mean Girls - Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENNA0cBHm8#ws)
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I always wanted to change my forum name to Eric Koston's narcissism. Dude is a fucking pile.
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I always wanted to change my forum name to Eric Koston's narcissism. Dude is a fucking pile.
Are you self-quoting in your sig, pretending like someone interviewed you? And that's you're fantasy response?
Bahahaha
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Are you self-quoting in your sig, pretending like someone interviewed you? And that's you're fantasy response?
Bahahaha
I love how your nick sounds like ANUS Stephen.
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yous have given me shit for the word crend (career end) before, but it's just so appropriate right now.
Koston is crending deep
and now we can give you shit for saying yous
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It must be hard for Koston to have parts that top the level nowadays, but not be as nearly as recognized as he should be, self ashaming himself in front of his fan base, in which I included myself, but I'm sorry, koston is now not more than a joke, his new shoe in nike sb is ugly, his style is hard to see, but most importantly I had respect for crailtap. Mike Carroll, MJ and Howard are role models, Koston is not.
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uhhh....since when has any skateboarder been a role model
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Carroll a role model HAHAHAAha.......
A real dickhead yes.
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Yes kids, you should absolutely look at pro skaters as role models. They are not just normal people who sometimes you even forget they are pros. You would never not look at them as pros because they do not have the same hangups, faults, faults, and insecurities as "normal" people. They are essentially gods and the best course of action is to do everything exactly like them because they do not make mistakes. They are, after all, pro skaters.
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I always wanted to change my forum name to Eric Koston's narcissism. Dude is a fucking pile.
Are you self-quoting in your sig, pretending like someone interviewed you? And that's you're fantasy response?
Bahahaha
Haha inside joke
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I always wanted to change my forum name to Eric Koston's narcissism. Dude is a fucking pile.
Are you self-quoting in your sig, pretending like someone interviewed you? And that's you're fantasy response?
Bahahaha
Haha inside joke
this is the wrong thread to say that :p
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@stupidfaces you guys really broke my heart. (sadface) But still i gotta admit this board is the most entertaining shit
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@stupidfaces you guys really broke my heart. (sadface) But still i gotta admit this board is the most entertaining shit
If this is how you're gonna post on here then just go away.
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after taking a long look at this thread and throughly reading the comments, all I have to say is.....i got poopy in my dick hole.
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Well, the IP resolved that time. Not Eric.
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I always wanted to change my forum name to Eric Koston's narcissism. Dude is a fucking pile.
Are you self-quoting in your sig, pretending like someone interviewed you? And that's you're fantasy response?
Bahahaha
Haha inside joke
It's a quote from a Corey Duffel interview.
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I saw a tweet from Koston that had a photo of two homosexual men walking down the street holding hands. The caption said something along the lines of "Hey @stupidface and @________ (I forget who the other was) didn't know you two were in town! You guys should have called me!" I though it was pretty ironic that he combated someones intolerance of the Berrics with his own intolerance of gay people by using their way of life as a way to insult someone else.
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This is from rattrays instagram. Then someone writes : show that to @stupidface (leo) then templeton writes Leo hates that shit anyways, but erickoston might be pissed. Then Koston replys to Templeton with ''Or I could give a flying fuck''
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Koston off scientology!!! :o
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(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/918/berranetics.jpg)
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I sold shoes to people from a Church of Scientology, does this make my store part of the Berrics Unified?
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That wallride Olson did in the DQM demo footage is one of the sickest things I've ever seen.
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this should be in classic slap
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this should will be in classic slap
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That wallride Olson did in the DQM demo footage is one of the sickest things I've ever seen.
agreed. no hands, and he rode away w/ speed.
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That wallride Olson did in the DQM demo footage is one of the sickest things I've ever seen.
That nollie laser was a WTF moment too.
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That wallride Olson did in the DQM demo footage is one of the sickest things I've ever seen.
Link?
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dqm demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tWVxldsCg#ws)
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Thanks, that was sick.
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Well, the IP resolved that time. Not Eric.
bummer! I really thought this time it was him.
We'll just have to keep trying
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I sold shoes to people from a Church of Scientology, does this make my store part of the Berrics Unified?
what sort of shoes did they buy?
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this thread needs to die
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''Or I could give a flying fuck''
He could flying fuck your face
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http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/ (http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/)
?Wow @stupidface, so all this skating you've been doin for a living has finally paid off....?
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/15/b2787e3b192a4eb6888760aa4efb15f4_7.jpg)
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I can see his hat is on Krooked.
hahaha. olson fits krooked better than girl in my opinion
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jesus christ
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Leo has an ad skating, cool stuff!
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This is getting sad....Koston needs to be better than this.
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http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/ (http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/)
?Wow @stupidface, so all this skating you've been doin for a living has finally paid off....?
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/15/b2787e3b192a4eb6888760aa4efb15f4_7.jpg)
I commented:
"Nike. Work Irresponsibly
#sweatshop"
and got this reaction.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0cc74X191qbno3mo1_500.png)
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Saw the Pac-Sun commercial the other day and felt a little queezy
just saying...
at :24 you've got several good pro skateboarders
and at :48 Leo cruises by the screen
PacSun Dress Irresponsibly Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nlMLkTT6Q#ws)
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http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/ (http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/)
?Wow @stupidface, so all this skating you've been doin for a living has finally paid off....?
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/15/b2787e3b192a4eb6888760aa4efb15f4_7.jpg)
"Nike. Work Irresponsibly
#sweatshop"
and got this reaction.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0cc74X191qbno3mo1_500.png)
god damn, Koston's catching feelings on the internet daily.
someone should instagram/facebook/twatter him and let 'em know that's not a good thing.
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somebody ask him about being illuminati please
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http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/ (http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/)
?Wow @stupidface, so all this skating you've been doin for a living has finally paid off....?
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/15/b2787e3b192a4eb6888760aa4efb15f4_7.jpg)
"Nike. Work Irresponsibly
#sweatshop"
and got this reaction.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0cc74X191qbno3mo1_500.png)
I wonder if those people in the factory even give a shit about learning how to skate.
god damn, Koston's catching feelings on the internet daily.
someone should instagram/facebook/twatter him and let 'em know that's not a good thing.
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Koston is out of his fucking mind. Could he be any more out of touch with reality? His Nike factory comment is so delusional it barely makes sense. He's moving from Berra crazy to Tom Cruz crazy.
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I can't get down with a 36 year old man that spends this much time on Instagram and Twitter.
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delusional Scientologist
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Can somebody find the photo of Koston grinding a hubba wearing the full Lakers uniform. It was an Oakley ad.
Then compare it Leo's photo, and measure the embarrassment levels.
Please factor in that in an interview when asked 'worst mistake?', he replied "riding for Oakley". Which of coarse he does, now, again.
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If I had an Instagram, I'd just send him this:
(http://www.necro-equine-sadism.com/beating-a-dead-horse.jpg)
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this dude is crazy. what happened to froston?
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Question for all the situation monitors out there:
Has Leo responded at all to any of this, or is he pretty much ignore the K-man's half winded insults and slurs?
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I don't think that last rant was as crazy as the Olson one. He got too heated, but I can understand why Koston would want to describe how his shoes aren't made in a sweatshop, as that is one of the most fucked up things, I think, about riding for Nike.
That line about the mini ramp is kind of funny. "SKATING TIME, EVERYONE MUST LEARN FAKIE ROCKS OR WE WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTH BENEFITS!!!!!!!"
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Koston is out of his fucking mind. Could he be any more out of touch with reality? His Nike factory comment is so delusional it barely makes sense. He's moving from Berra crazy to Tom Cruz crazy.
nah, it's true.
plus nike has had to stop using sweatshops due to pressure from human rights groups like years ago. they just recently had a bit of embarrasment due to cons being sourced from one and they changed factories immediately. nike has the bomb factories. a buddy of mine was looking into getting a shoe thing started up and was hollering at one of the factories that do nike's stuff. they were talking mad employee satisfaction and sample turnarounds of like three days from the template submissions. they said they learned to do that shit from nike coming in and consulting with them. i mean, wages-compared-to-the-US notwithstanding, nike's been on their game as far as ethics is concerned since like 2003 at least.
k
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Koston is out of his fucking mind. Could he be any more out of touch with reality? His Nike factory comment is so delusional it barely makes sense. He's moving from Berra crazy to Tom Cruz crazy.
nah, it's true.
plus nike has had to stop using sweatshops due to pressure from human rights groups like years ago. they just recently had a bit of embarrasment due to cons being sourced from one and they changed factories immediately. nike has the bomb factories. a buddy of mine was looking into getting a shoe thing started up and was hollering at one of the factories that do nike's stuff. they were talking mad employee satisfaction and sample turnarounds of like three days from the template submissions. they said they learned to do that shit from nike coming in and consulting with them. i mean, wages-compared-to-the-US notwithstanding, nike's been on their game as far as ethics is concerned since like 2003 at least.
k
Why isn't this widely reported on? I've only heard/read bad things about Nike's factories. If someone puts out a report or something on this, I might buy my first pair of Nikes.
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http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/ (http://instagr.am/p/KYsSb/)
?Wow @stupidface, so all this skating you've been doin for a living has finally paid off....?
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/15/b2787e3b192a4eb6888760aa4efb15f4_7.jpg)
"Nike. Work Irresponsibly
#sweatshop"
and got this reaction.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0cc74X191qbno3mo1_500.png)
"Attention, to keep our core image, all the sweatshop workers must learn a pivot to fakie on a mini now, NOW!"
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I wasn't debating the working conditions. I'm having a hard time with the skateramp and forced employee skate sessions. Sounds ridiculous and exaggerated. Am I to believe that a factory worker that make sneakers gives a shit about what the sneakers are made for, nor why should they? For some reason, to me, Koston's statement about how great the factory is sounded just like someone trying to sell me religion.
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I wasn't debating the working conditions. I'm having a hard time with the skateramp and forced employee skate sessions. Sounds ridiculous and exaggerated. Am I to believe that a factory worker that make sneakers gives a shit about what the sneakers are made for, nor why should they? For some reason, to me, Koston's statement about how great the factory is sounded just like someone trying to sell me religion.
i didn't see anywhere he mentioned forced skating. i'm pretty sure he said they give employees DAYS off to learn how to ride it. as in, if you want to ride it, go for it. and yes, you'd be surprised how many people would test out the waters if given the chance (and a miniramp next door). wouldn't you? shit i got a decent job and i don't get time off to learn switch tre's. i'd prolly have them shits on lock if i did.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the Berra.
fucking brilliance.
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nike has the bomb factories.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to watch yourself become the Berra.
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Koston is out of his fucking mind. Could he be any more out of touch with reality? His Nike factory comment is so delusional it barely makes sense. He's moving from Berra crazy to Tom Cruz crazy.
nah, it's true.
plus nike has had to stop using sweatshops due to pressure from human rights groups like years ago. they just recently had a bit of embarrasment due to cons being sourced from one and they changed factories immediately. nike has the bomb factories. a buddy of mine was looking into getting a shoe thing started up and was hollering at one of the factories that do nike's stuff. they were talking mad employee satisfaction and sample turnarounds of like three days from the template submissions. they said they learned to do that shit from nike coming in and consulting with them. i mean, wages-compared-to-the-US notwithstanding, nike's been on their game as far as ethics is concerned since like 2003 at least.
k
Uh huh.
http://www.teamsweat.org/ (http://www.teamsweat.org/)
Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uYCWVfuPQ#)
Human trafficking in Nike's sweatshop factory in Malaysia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZktmrGGMU#)
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^^^^^damn, nikes tight as hell
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THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY.............STAY TUNED FOR MORE SENSELESS INSTA-FITS TO COME.
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Makes me want to know less about the pros I like.
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okay, to save me going through 30 pages, I have 2 questions:
What happened with Olson and Koston?
What's happening with Leo/Ed and Koston?
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okay, to save me going through 30 pages, I have 2 questions:
What happened with Olson and Koston?
What's happening with Leo/Ed and Koston?
Just start reading.
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okay, to save me going through 30 pages, I have 2 questions:
What happened with Olson and Koston?
What's happening with Leo/Ed and Koston?
Just start reading.
fuck that it's 3:25 am
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i just read through this entire thread.
I think my eyes are bleeding.
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THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY.............STAY TUNED FOR MORE SENSELESS INSTA-FITS TO COME.
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whoooaaa hahaha - something tells me koston is having a rough time on the family front.. maybe wifey isnt satisfying him.. either that or koston has been hanging out in zenu's spaceship a little too much lately. get a grip my friend
oh P.S.: the quote below in my sig by alex olson is what got this ridiculous thread going and caused koston to go off in his first crazy rant. that was alex's response to a question on his tumblr page by a fan - asking besically if he liked skating the berrics and whether alex disliked said berrics.. im not even sure alex could make sense of his own answer there -- no not never? koston must be dangling by a thin thread haha
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THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY.............STAY TUNED FOR MORE SENSELESS INSTA-FITS TO COME.
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Call him a megalomaniac and tell him that he's more delusional than Jereme Rogers.
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just wait to see whats ahead.
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i'm still shocked none of koston's friends have told him to hang this up. career suicide after a perfect career. he must have been saving all the kook for a rainy day.
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"erickoston I've been busy all day u assholes. Still am.... @bif_loves_skateboarding you fuckin rule! @Josh_maier you're a FAGGOT and you're profile pic looks like you have downs syndrome. Fuckin pussy!"
I just keep losing respect for Koston.
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I have to get an instagram now to fuck with this idiot.
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Homophobic slurs and Making fun of the mentally handicapped. I wouldn't think Nike would put up with that kind of stuff from one of their high profile endorsees. This is pretty entertaining though, in a Charlie Sheen kinda way.
Team No Not Never & @stupidface
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if i was one of his sponsors id make it so that he has to delete all online accounts, hes not just bringing down his own name but the companies he rides for.
must be having a midlife crisis or something, dudes making a fool out of himself
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I am going to light a candle and pray to something or other that this is not really Koston. Then I am going to sleep. When I wake up in the morning hopefully all this horrible madness will be gone.
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He's the Billy Corgan of skateboarding
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He's the Billy Corgan of skateboarding
I was gonna say George Lucas.
I think this is what happened to Koston.
George Lucas Strikes Back {HD Trailer} (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM#ws)
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He's the Billy Corgan of skateboarding
The Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band ever but I have to agree with this one.
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used to think this was a joke, i guess i shouldn't be surprised that carroll is still ahead of his time.
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"erickoston I've been busy all day u assholes. Still am.... @bif_loves_skateboarding you fuckin rule! @Josh_maier you're a FAGGOT and you're profile pic looks like you have downs syndrome. Fuckin pussy!"
I just keep losing respect for Koston.
Holy shit. He actually posted that? Calling someone a "FAGGOT?" Wow. Pretty amazed/ashamed.
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COTG was calling people on the internet faggots way before Koston. True pioneer.
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COTG was calling people on the internet faggots way before Koston. True pioneer.
Is faggot an LA slang or some shit or just some internet used word? If you were going talk shit to someone in person, the last words you're going to say is call someone a faggot.
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What's funny is that COTG had been saying Koston was an asshole for the longest time and everyone here gave him shit for it like Koston was untouchable.
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What's funny is that COTG had been saying Koston was an asshole for the longest time and everyone here gave him shit for it like Koston was untouchable.
thats because most people on here think COTG is a kook and disagree with anything he says because they cant bring themselves to agree with him..
but - no denying that Koston seems like a prick.. even if he feels like he is joking with all this stuff it doesnt come off like that. Dude's internet privileges should be revoked
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COTG was calling people on the internet faggots way before Koston. True pioneer.
Is faggot an LA slang or some shit or just some internet used word? If you were going talk shit to someone in person, the last words you're going to say is call someone a faggot.
what? that happens all the time and i live in massachusetts
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the best/most successful people in each profession normally turn out to be fucking crazy anyway. we all respect what they do and assume that their personality is to match.
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Koston is out of his fucking mind. Could he be any more out of touch with reality? His Nike factory comment is so delusional it barely makes sense. He's moving from Berra crazy to Tom Cruz crazy.
nah, it's true.
plus nike has had to stop using sweatshops due to pressure from human rights groups like years ago. they just recently had a bit of embarrasment due to cons being sourced from one and they changed factories immediately. nike has the bomb factories. a buddy of mine was looking into getting a shoe thing started up and was hollering at one of the factories that do nike's stuff. they were talking mad employee satisfaction and sample turnarounds of like three days from the template submissions. they said they learned to do that shit from nike coming in and consulting with them. i mean, wages-compared-to-the-US notwithstanding, nike's been on their game as far as ethics is concerned since like 2003 at least.
k
Uh huh.
http://www.teamsweat.org/ (http://www.teamsweat.org/)
Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uYCWVfuPQ#)
Human trafficking in Nike's sweatshop factory in Malaysia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZktmrGGMU#)
okay, a couple videos. here's some real facts that you can research yourself.
Despite claims of exploitation for profit, in the past decade, Nike profits as a percentage of total revenue have ranged from only 1.94% to 10.11%. The median was 8.3% and the average was 7.77%.[6]
William Stepp, of the Mises Institute, argued that minimum wage is arbitrary and causes unemployment. Stepp continues further, stating that the workers were not exploited and clearly received benefits from working at the factories "by showing up for work every day, and by accepting a paycheck based on mutually-agreed-upon terms." In addition to pay, these benefits include free annual physicals, uniforms and clothing, a clinic and health service, a canteen stocked with food, recreation and entertainment, and transportation. However, Stepp did criticize Nike for its association with the World Bank, which he says is the real exploiter of third world countries.[7]
A study by the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities found that 70% of Nike factory workers in Thailand rated their supervisors as good and 72% thought their income was fair. In Vietnam, most workers "thought the factory was a 'good place to work' and planned to continue at least three years" and 85 percent felt safe there. Further, they felt that the factory offered a more stable career and higher income than farmwork.[7]
Nike began to monitor working conditions in factories that produce their products.[8] During the 1990s, Nike installed a code of conduct for their factories. They spend about $10 million dollars a year to follow the code, adhering to regulations for fire safety, air quality, minimum wage, and overtime limits. In 1998, Nike introduced a program to replace its petroleum-based solvents with less dangerous water-based solvents.[3] A year later, an independent expert[who?] stated that Nike had, "substituted less harmful chemicals in its production, installed local exhaust ventilation systems, and trained key personnel on occupational health and safety issues."[2] The study was conducted in a factory in Vietnam.
Recently, Nike has developed an intensive program to deal with claims of unfair practices. Nike hired a staff of 97 people to randomly inspect several hundred of their factories each year.[citation needed] Nike also gave the Fair Labor Association, a working conditions watchdog, the privilege to randomly inspect any factory that produces Nike products.[citation needed]
Nike has audited roughly 600 factories since 2002, giving each a score on a scale of 1 to 100, which is then associated with a letter grade, A through D. Some factories receive an A and most receive a B. When a factory receives a grade of D or lower, Nike threatens to stop producing in that factory unless the conditions are rapidly improved. In 2004, Nike expanded their monitoring process even further to include environmental and health issues.
this is from businessweek in 2004. even then, they were already leading the pack in that arena:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_38/b3900011_mz001.htm (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_38/b3900011_mz001.htm)
the real issue that i think people tend to lose focus of, is that nike doesn't actually own or operate any of the factories that make their stuff. the real problems (including falsification of factory documents such as payroll records, lack of effective grievance systems for disgruntled workers and hiring practices that do not ensure minimum age standards are met) are the responsibility of the actual factory owners first, and the respective govt's and their legislation second. i think nike has taken on a ton of the burden for making the factories a better place to work, but if you expect them to do anything further than inspecting, grading, publicizing, etc, then you might as well be petitioning for them to open their own factories in the US and only employ union workers. it's also not like they've been seeing unreal profit margins as a result. i'll re-quote the first line from the above excerpt for those that missed the numbers:
Despite claims of exploitation for profit, in the past decade, Nike profits as a percentage of total revenue have ranged from only 1.94% to 10.11%. The median was 8.3% and the average was 7.77%.
that's not really that much considering their output. it's just that they dominate so heavily in so many areas that 10% to them is still billions. that's not exploitation, thats straight balling. now there are always going to be issues cropping up in the factories in china, vietnam, malaysia, etc. but you don't hear anyone criticizing the obliteration of US textile quotas do you? that alone probably contributed to more sweatshop labor than anything. and that was done by the public officials americans put into office. basically saying that you don't have to buy American if you don't want to. where previously there was protection for the market to a certain degree, now its the wild fucking west (or east). i just think in the big picture, nike does what it can, being as large as it is, and that there are far more worthy targets that are easier to hit. i mean prod just signed to target right? check their record. they contract to almost three times as many factories as nike, have no oversight committee in place at all, and guess what parent company makes most of the house label stuff for target? the same ones that made elwood. and i fucken loved elwood. yall can't fuck with me on this. i know my shit player.
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I wouldn't be surprised if one of Koston's sponsors has a word with him sooner, rather than later. He's gonna end up like Tiger Woods if he carries on at this rate.
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he used to be a funny asshole. now he's just a sad asshole.
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used to think this was a joke, i guess i shouldn't be surprised that carroll is still ahead of his time.
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Perhaps McCrank as well.
YEAH RIGHT! Eric Koston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnbBi-95T0#)
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I think koston is really acting like a bitter little spoiled fuckin' brat.
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calling out fans on the internet is low. my opinion of koston keeps plummeting. dude's just talking down to everybody. fuckin prick
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this thread reminds me of why i love heath kirchart
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the amount of gossip and stupid shit posted in this thread is unbelievable.
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the amount of attention you guys gives to the stupid shit koston keeps spouting is unbelievable.
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Uh huh.
http://www.teamsweat.org/ (http://www.teamsweat.org/)
Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uYCWVfuPQ#)
Human trafficking in Nike's sweatshop factory in Malaysia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZktmrGGMU#)
okay, a couple videos.
Yeah, usually when people post youtube videos in an internet debate it's a bullshit move, but this is a bit different, considering in the videos they actually go to the sweatshops and interview the people who work there. Turns out the results from that paint a much different picture than the one you do. But then again, who should we trust about what it's like to work in a sweat shop? On one hand we have you and Nike PR reports and on the other we have people who actually work there. Gee, this is a tough one. Let me get back to you on this.
this is from businessweek in 2004. even then, they were already leading the pack in that arena:
And the video I posted was from 2008(Somehow the utterly thorough Nike factory investigations you refer to above missed this):
Human trafficking in Nike's sweatshop factory in Malaysia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZktmrGGMU#)
And this is from this year:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014325/Nike-workers-kicked-slapped-verbally-abused-factories-making-Converse-line-Indonesia.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014325/Nike-workers-kicked-slapped-verbally-abused-factories-making-Converse-line-Indonesia.html)
Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours? Or threaten their workers that if they accurately describe their conditions that they will be beaten or fired? Do these thoughts ever cross your mind? But you know, whatever.
It's funny to think about how many millions Nike spends on just avoiding paying people livable wages. How much would it increase the pay of a Nike factory worker, if instead of spending all the millions they spend on PR and these factory inspections, they just gave the money to those factory workers? What would it increase their pay by if you split it evenly amongst them I wonder?
the real issue that i think people tend to lose focus of, is that nike doesn't actually own or operate any of the factories that make their stuff. the real problems (including falsification of factory documents such as payroll records, lack of effective grievance systems for disgruntled workers and hiring practices that do not ensure minimum age standards are met) are the responsibility of the actual factory owners first, and the respective govt's and their legislation second.
Am I missing something here? Corporations know the facts that you describe. Everyone does. It's known that operating costs are nothing in countries where you don't have to worry about workplace standards or regulations. That's why the corporations moved their production there in the first place. It's not like corporations are some metaphoric ostrich who just assume the factories they use have found some magical formula to produce their goods at prices no humane countries can. They are aware that it costs money to pay your workers a decent wage, they are aware it costs money to make your factory conditions safe and not insanely hot, they are aware that it costs money to put in fire exits or to build a factory to code so it doesn't spontaneously collapse. Nike and other corporations do not want to pay these costs. So they don't. They move productions to countries where they know workplace conditions are terrible. So for them, and you, to then say "well geez it's really the factory owners who are responsible for this... we just wanted to pay them next-to-nothing, we didn't know anything about the squalid conditions!" ...Is about as dumb as you can get. Don't be this stupid or a corporate apologist. It's gross.
i think nike has taken on a ton of the burden for making the factories a better place to work, but if you expect them to do anything further than inspecting, grading, publicizing, etc, then you might as well be petitioning for them to open their own factories in the US and only employ union workers. it's also not like they've been seeing unreal profit margins as a result. i'll re-quote the first line from the above excerpt for those that missed the numbers:
Yeah they've had a real rough go of it. I shed a tear for them nightly.
but you don't hear anyone criticizing the obliteration of US textile quotas do you?
Um... Are you fucking kidding? Everyone is criticizing the WTO and NAFTA for this and other policies. Of course not everyone knows exactly why their factory shut down, those that are able to find out why are pretty fucking bummed. And it's not like these policies force corporations to move their production. They have a choice. They've decided to increase their profits off the backs of some desperate slaves all the way on the other side of the world... Everybody wins! Wait... what? What's called globalization is a massive castatrofuck for the majority of the world, and certainly for American workers. Also for the environment, which suffers greatly when pollution is increased and massive amounts of resources are used needlessly transporting goods all the way across the world that could have been produced here. Estimates put the figure over 3 million jarbs in the past decade alone have been outsourced. What's our unemployment rate again? You're a straight up idiot if you think this has been good for american society, or even the american economy. It's been great if you own stock in Nike, or are Phil Knight, or want a slightly cheaper pair of shoes. Otherwise, fuck no. It's been terrible.
i just think in the big picture, nike does what it can, being as large as it is, and that there are far more worthy targets that are easier to hit. i mean prod just signed to target right? check their record. they contract to almost three times as many factories as nike, have no oversight committee in place at all, and guess what parent company makes most of the house label stuff for target? the same ones that made elwood. and i fucken loved elwood.
Certainly there are worse offenders. This thread is about Koston, and Nike was brought up.
yall can't fuck with me on this. i know my shit player.
Oy vey. Are you a libertarian?
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"Frost snapped, just went berserk on him."
Owen Wilson was right.
YEAH RIGHT! Owen Wilson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLPlf9nVDg#)
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Yeah, usually when people post youtube videos in an internet debate it's a bullshit move, but this is a bit different, considering in the videos they actually go to the sweatshops and interview the people who work there. Turns out the results from that paint a much different picture than the one you do. But then again, who should we trust about what it's like to work in a sweat shop? On one hand we have you and Nike PR reports and on the other we have people who actually work there. Gee, this is a tough one. Let me get back to you on this.
haha, youre funny. like the media can't skew a story as well by interviewing the 15% of disgruntled workers instead of the 85% of the ones that like their jobs. i could make a video of any company that paints the same picture right here in the US. also, my point wasn't that it doesn't suck, but that it's ultimately not the responsibility of the companies (though they do have to answer for who they contract to), but rather the countries and the legislative bodies that allow this shit to thrive as a culture for their own profits. like china spent all those years devaluing their currency for the good of the people? please.
Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours? Or threaten their workers that if they accurately describe their conditions that they will be beaten or fired? Do these thoughts ever cross your mind? But you know, whatever.
of course. that's why they got in house inspectors in the first place. so they could do a better job of policing the spots as the chinese guys who were previously hired were in on the sham from the get-go. but again, you can only do so much when you're not the man on the ground, especially when you have the fucking world bank backing the scam team. god, you can't be this dense.
It's funny to think about how many millions Nike spends on just avoiding paying people livable wages. How much would it increase the pay of a Nike factory worker, if instead of spending all the millions they spend on PR and these factory inspections, they just gave the money to those factory workers? What would it increase their pay by if you split it evenly amongst them I wonder?
see the problem is the chain of command. if they stopped the inspections there would be almost 100% corruption at the top tier (not saying there isn't any now mind you). and nike doesn't cut the workers their checks because they don't own the manufacturing business. they pay the business money and the business pays the workers. without the Pr and oversight, nike could pay the factories whatever the hell they want and it would only mean the mgmt team would get more. the workers would be more fucked than ever. period. there's no way you could be dense enough to think that throwing money in the general direction is the solution.
Am I missing something here? Corporations know the facts that you describe. Everyone does. It's known that operating costs are nothing in countries where you don't have to worry about workplace standards or regulations. That's why the corporations moved their production there in the first place. It's not like corporations are some metaphoric ostrich who just assume the factories they use have found some magical formula to produce their goods at prices no humane countries can. They are aware that it costs money to pay your workers a decent wage, they are aware it costs money to make your factory conditions safe and not insanely hot, they are aware that it costs money to put in fire exits or to build a factory to code so it doesn't spontaneously collapse. Nike and other corporations do not want to pay these costs. So they don't. They move productions to countries where they know workplace conditions are terrible. So for them, and you, to then say "well geez it's really the factory owners who are responsible for this... we just wanted to pay them next-to-nothing, we didn't know anything about the squalid conditions!" ...Is about as dumb as you can get. Don't be this stupid or a corporate apologist. It's gross.
yep you're missing the entire fucking point of the issue here. i'm not a corporate apologist at all. i'm a regular informed citizen with the clarity of vision to see the difference between a corporate issue and a global cultural issue. the issue of working conditions in third world countries is NOT a corporate issue. the business world will take advantage of the conditions put in place by the world bank and it's cronies, but they are not the problem nor will they ever be a significant part of the solution. the solution needs to come from the top down and that won't happen as long as the focus stays on the symptoms instead of the root cause.
it's like cursing the snot for giving you a cold. backwards as hell.
Yeah they've had a real rough go of it. I shed a tear for them nightly.
cry me a fucking river. i didn't even insinuate that they had a rough time, just that they've responded in mostly positive ways to the criticism (recently) and actually took action to correct what they could without fucking themselves over.
Um... Are you fucking kidding? Everyone is criticizing the WTO and NAFTA for this and other policies. Of course not everyone knows exactly why their factory shut down, those that are able to find out why are pretty fucking bummed. And it's not like these policies force corporations to move their production. They have a choice. They've decided to increase their profits off the backs of some desperate slaves all the way on the other side of the world... Everybody wins! Wait... what? What's called globalization is a massive castatrofuck for the majority of the world, and certainly for American workers. Also for the environment, which suffers greatly when pollution is increased and massive amounts of resources are used needlessly transporting goods all the way across the world that could have been produced here. Estimates put the figure over 3 million jarbs in the past decade alone have been outsourced. What's our unemployment rate again? You're a straight up idiot if you think this has been good for american society, or even the american economy. It's been great if you own stock in Nike, or are Phil Knight, or want a slightly cheaper pair of shoes. Otherwise, fuck no. It's been terrible.
i meant people criticizing on slap.
and yes the policies do force the hand of business. it goes like this. the policies move the markets, and the markets guide the hand of business. also, their profits aren't increasing that much, it's mostly just keeping up with the market to keep your margins where they are. now the eighties, those were some times of heady profits. nowadays? not so much. and when did i say any of this was good for american society? we're fucked just like every other society in the world right now. we're undergoing a global implementation of a financial caste system right now and the rich don't give a fuck where you live. are you kidding me? how can you say all that and still think of this as a corporate issue? the companies cant solve this any more than a boycott could solve the race issues in the sixties. they can make their voices heard, but it's the ruling bodies that have the power to change the way the shit really goes down. and i think in that respect, nike has made more noise than most, so i give them credit for that.
Certainly there are worse offenders. This thread is about Koston, and Nike was brought up.
fair enough.
Oy vey. Are you a libertarian?
no.
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Dear Girl Skateboards:
I have always wanted to buy a Mike Carroll, Anderson or even an Olson deck from your company (8.5" please). I have followed MC's career for 20 years.
But I haven't bought one, because your product is wack chinese shit.
Now I have another reason not to.
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Dear Girl Skateboards:
That would probably be more effective if you sent it to Girl instead of posting it here.
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Yeah, usually when people post youtube videos in an internet debate it's a bullshit move, but this is a bit different, considering in the videos they actually go to the sweatshops and interview the people who work there. Turns out the results from that paint a much different picture than the one you do. But then again, who should we trust about what it's like to work in a sweat shop? On one hand we have you and Nike PR reports and on the other we have people who actually work there. Gee, this is a tough one. Let me get back to you on this.
Basically what you're saying here, is that it's not Nike's problem that they use exploitative labor, because ultimately it's governmental and trade organizational policies that create conditions so miserable that people are willing to work in the sweat shops in the first place. I do not and will never agree with this.
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Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours? Or threaten their workers that if they accurately describe their conditions that they will be beaten or fired? Do these thoughts ever cross your mind? But you know, whatever.
of course. that's why they got in house inspectors in the first place. so they could do a better job of policing the spots as the chinese guys who were previously hired were in on the sham from the get-go. but again, you can only do so much when you're not the man on the ground, especially when you have the fucking world bank backing the scam team. god, you can't be this dense.
How did the in house inspectors miss the human trafficking in Malaysia again?
And again, while I basically agree with you that WTO and other policies are at fault here as much as anyone. That doesn't excuse Nike of paying people pennys while spending millions to make it look like they aren't. I know it make sense on some corporate .pdf somewhere. But if you could stop and actually just think about that for a second, I feel you'd probably get it too. Maybe.
It's funny to think about how many millions Nike spends on just avoiding paying people livable wages. How much would it increase the pay of a Nike factory worker, if instead of spending all the millions they spend on PR and these factory inspections, they just gave the money to those factory workers? What would it increase their pay by if you split it evenly amongst them I wonder?
see the problem is the chain of command. if they stopped the inspections there would be almost 100% corruption at the top tier (not saying there isn't any now mind you). and nike doesn't cut the workers their checks because they don't own the manufacturing business. they pay the business money and the business pays the workers. without the Pr and oversight, nike could pay the factories whatever the hell they want and it would only mean the mgmt team would get more. the workers would be more fucked than ever. period. there's no way you could be dense enough to think that throwing money in the general direction is the solution.
I liked this paragraph. It's almost as if you're accidentally arguing against Nike using slumlord exploitative factories without even knowing it! That you're saying Nike couldn't even pay their workers better if they wanted to because of the sketchy factories they use, is the problem.
Am I missing something here? Corporations know the facts that you describe. Everyone does. It's known that operating costs are nothing in countries where you don't have to worry about workplace standards or regulations. That's why the corporations moved their production there in the first place. It's not like corporations are some metaphoric ostrich who just assume the factories they use have found some magical formula to produce their goods at prices no humane countries can. They are aware that it costs money to pay your workers a decent wage, they are aware it costs money to make your factory conditions safe and not insanely hot, they are aware that it costs money to put in fire exits or to build a factory to code so it doesn't spontaneously collapse. Nike and other corporations do not want to pay these costs. So they don't. They move productions to countries where they know workplace conditions are terrible. So for them, and you, to then say "well geez it's really the factory owners who are responsible for this... we just wanted to pay them next-to-nothing, we didn't know anything about the squalid conditions!" ...Is about as dumb as you can get. Don't be this stupid or a corporate apologist. It's gross.
yep you're missing the entire fucking point of the issue here. i'm not a corporate apologist at all. i'm a regular informed citizen with the clarity of vision to see the difference between a corporate issue and a global cultural issue. the issue of working conditions in third world countries is NOT a corporate issue. the business world will take advantage of the conditions put in place by the world bank and it's cronies, but they are not the problem nor will they ever be a significant part of the solution. the solution needs to come from the top down and that won't happen as long as the focus stays on the symptoms instead of the root cause.
Meh, again you're right about the root causes but that's not to say we shouldn't expose wrong when we see it and hope the policies which in part lead to them one day get changed. Why do you think the WTO policies are the way they are? Corporations write them brah. Embarrassing the fuck out of them to the point that they have to spend so much it's more cost effective to either move production back here or actually take care of their workers elsewhere has as much of a chance as affecting changing as just constantly screaming about the WTO. We actually know people like Eric and can say shit about sweat shops. Who do I contact about the WTO? Hold on I'll email my congressman!
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Bottom line is that Koston is acting EXTREMELY unprofessional. I don't want my skaters being wholesome or anything but anyone w/ any kind of job in the public eye has to have some kind of integrity. He's on some Youtube comments section shit at this point.
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Nick Dagger is on it.
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Nick Dagger is on it.
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"erickoston I've been busy all day u assholes. Still am.... @bif_loves_skateboarding you fuckin rule! @Josh_maier you're a FAGGOT and you're profile pic looks like you have downs syndrome. Fuckin pussy!"
I just keep losing respect for Koston.
Holy shit. He actually posted that? Calling someone a "FAGGOT?" Wow. Pretty amazed/ashamed.
I was actually talking about him making fun of down syndrome.
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"erickoston I've been busy all day u assholes. Still am.... @bif_loves_skateboarding you fuckin rule! @Josh_maier you're a FAGGOT and you're profile pic looks like you have downs syndrome. Fuckin pussy!"
I just keep losing respect for Koston.
Holy shit. He actually posted that? Calling someone a "FAGGOT?" Wow. Pretty amazed/ashamed.
It's not like I needed another reason to not buy girl or nike, but Koston's really not helping any.
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This may be abp but just in case, this is from a few weeks ago. Leo's been taking some pretty good swings too:
(http://i.imgur.com/oStei.png)
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leo romero and eric koston in the year 2011:
leo romero drops EIGHTEEN MINUTES of face melting skateboard footage.
eric koston drops a THIRTY PLUS PAGE THREAD about how he has fallen from being a well respected pro to becoming an IGNORANT HOMOPHOBIC EGOTISTICAL piece of shit "pro".
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Koston really is crending deep!
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Oh man... Rereading my posts in this thread... I guess when I'm really sleepy I turn into the Gipper, jesus.
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micky reyes (mickeydlx)- "that's what you get when you quit thunder" i hope he's not serious.
who is koston tweeting to exactly? because when i click on @the_tempster and @stupidface it takes me to some regular new orleans rapper and wesley temps not ed or leo.
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Every sport has rivalries. Now that Street League is here, why can't we have some? Go home team!
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Koston is ashaming himself so bad, making fun of diseases in a really bad way, but what this really shows is how inferior he is. Someone has to show him some ethics and force him to apologize in public. Sad.
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this is worse than the time koston had beef with iggy van zan about digging up green pipes point
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this is worse than the time koston had beef with iggy van zan about digging up green pipes point
oh my god hahahaha
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these dudes should put the phones down and take it to the ring.
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these dudes should put the phones down and skate.
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Basically what you're saying here, is that it's not Nike's problem that they use exploitative labor, because ultimately it's governmental and trade organizational policies that create conditions so miserable that people are willing to work in the sweat shops in the first place. I do not and will never agree with this.
nope, you're confused again. it's not nike's responsibility to solve the issues of exploitative labor. it is however their problem that their brand is associated with those practices and they've responded by trying to solve the problems in some novel and interesting ways. just because they aren't doing exactly what you think they should be doing (which you still haven't made clear) is no reason to assert that they're the problem itself. clear now?
How did the in house inspectors miss the human trafficking in Malaysia again?
i'll let you answer this one. "Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours?" you made that one too easy.
And again, while I basically agree with you that WTO and other policies are at fault here as much as anyone. That doesn't excuse Nike of paying people pennys while spending millions to make it look like they aren't. I know it make sense on some corporate .pdf somewhere. But if you could stop and actually just think about that for a second, I feel you'd probably get it too. Maybe.
first, the WTO and policies are ENTIRELY at fault. no one else involved even comes close. second, the pay scale is not set by nike. its set by the govt and business owners in their respective countries. if you can find a factory anywhere in america that can handle the volume they require and do it for anything even near the price, let me know. oh yah, there aren't any. china, vietnam, pakistan, thailand all spent years subduing their people, their currency, their respective labor markets and influencing trade agreements via the WTO to position themselves where they are. now there simply aren't any options left on the table that make sense when it comes to the kind of volume they demand. i mean, you're not going to buy shoes at twice the price, so they can't feasibly make them at twice the price. you don't need a corporate spreadsheet to know that.
I liked this paragraph. It's almost as if you're accidentally arguing against Nike using slumlord exploitative factories without even knowing it! That you're saying Nike couldn't even pay their workers better if they wanted to because of the sketchy factories they use, is the problem.
not what i'm saying. i'm saying that most, if not all, of the factories out there that can do that kind of volume are that way and that it's pretty much sanctioned via the govt there under the influence of the WTO and world bank policy. if there's only peanuts on the table, you can't just decide to eat almonds.
Meh, again you're right about the root causes but that's not to say we shouldn't expose wrong when we see it and hope the policies which in part lead to them one day get changed.
totally agree.
Why do you think the WTO policies are the way they are? Corporations write them brah.
true, but i think using the general word "corporations" without making a distinction between which ones are actively involved in the policy process is unfair and naive. talk about walmart, talk about target, talk about the people who actually have members on those boards that actually make that happen. but give credit where it's due when there is action in the other direction. demonizing and generalizing has never helped any cause. informed and specific criticism, and sustained pressure is what works. and it's this method, incidentally, that got nike to go from being the flamethrowing assholes they were, to getting into the good fight (not exactly on the front line and doing what they could from where they stand. so the proofs in the pudding.
Embarrassing the fuck out of them to the point that they have to spend so much it's more cost effective to either move production back here or actually take care of their workers elsewhere has as much of a chance as affecting changing as just constantly screaming about the WTO. We actually know people like Eric and can say shit about sweat shops. Who do I contact about the WTO? Hold on I'll email my congressman!
true. but again, thats what they're already doing. they were embarrassed by their own responses and media attention they got in the early days of "fuck nike" when all they were doing was attack ads and shit. then someone got the bright idea to actually do something about the problem and as far as i can see, they're doing a lot. they may or may not be doing enough, but then again, i wasn't arguing that they were the saviour of the sweatshops. i'm just saying given their recent progress, the demonizing is a bit out of place. give credit where it's due. have you even seen the factories that lakai uses? soletech? any other company? nope, because it's not in the media and no one posted a video of them on youtube. which means your viewpoint is still that of a pawn because they got you looking right with the media hype and there's more real shit happening on the left.
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Oh man... Rereading my posts in this thread... I guess when I'm really sleepy I turn into the Gipper, jesus.
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ha! i had the same feeling before posting that last one. but i still think it was a pretty constructive argument in a thread about twitter-gram. and i like your points too even if I disagree in certain ways.
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This may be abp but just in case, this is from a few weeks ago. Leo's been taking some pretty good swings too:
(http://i.imgur.com/oStei.png)
What else has Leo said?
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why are people on slap pretending to get angry about koston saying faggot or person?
because they like leo and alex's hair?
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why are people on slap pretending to get angry about koston saying faggot or person?
because they like leo and alex's hair?
NO YOU FUCKING regular FAGGOT!!!! we like leo's mustache.
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I don't know man. Maybe if it was '93 and Koston (or whoever) was throwing around those types of insults, it wouldn't seem like a big deal to me. But in this day and age, and how skateboarding is now (population-wise, how it's seen by common folk, the corp sponsors), it just seems like it's a bad idea for a big name pro with sponsors such as his, to go spouting off insults like that. On one hand, maybe more people should do it so the world would go back to leaving skaters alone (apart from busting us), but otherwise I don't see it as a smart move.
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I don't know man. Maybe if it was '93 and Koston (or whoever) was throwing around those types of insults, it wouldn't seem like a big deal to me. But in this day and age, and how skateboarding is now (population-wise, how it's seen by common folk, the corp sponsors), it just seems like it's a bad idea for a big name pro with sponsors such as his, to go spouting off insults like that. On one hand, maybe more people should do it so the world would go back to leaving skaters alone (apart from busting us), but otherwise I don't see it as a smart move.
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koston is just proving he's as gifted at trolling as he is at board flipping. lulz.
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I would absolutely lose it if Koston wearing a black hoody proceeds to make a black and white video on the berrics saying he's sorry about everything he's done.
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micky reyes (mickeydlx)- "that's what you get when you quit thunder" i hope he's not serious.
what is mickey talking about?
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He's just being a big bitch, talking shit on Leo for switching from Thunder to Indy.
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micky reyes (mickeydlx)- "that's what you get when you quit thunder" i hope he's not serious.
what is mickey talking about?
leo quit thunder to be on indy
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That would probably be more effective if you sent it to Girl instead of posting it here.
i think its more effective here on the slap forum then at Girl they throw it in the thrash and nobody read it.
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Basically what you're saying here, is that it's not Nike's problem that they use exploitative labor, because ultimately it's governmental and trade organizational policies that create conditions so miserable that people are willing to work in the sweat shops in the first place. I do not and will never agree with this.
nope, you're confused again. it's not nike's responsibility to solve the issues of exploitative labor. it is however their problem that their brand is associated with those practices and they've responded by trying to solve the problems in some novel and interesting ways. just because they aren't doing exactly what you think they should be doing (which you still haven't made clear) is no reason to assert that they're the problem itself. clear now?
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How did the in house inspectors miss the human trafficking in Malaysia again?
i'll let you answer this one. "Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours?" you made that one too easy.
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And again, while I basically agree with you that WTO and other policies are at fault here as much as anyone. That doesn't excuse Nike of paying people pennys while spending millions to make it look like they aren't. I know it make sense on some corporate .pdf somewhere. But if you could stop and actually just think about that for a second, I feel you'd probably get it too. Maybe.
first, the WTO and policies are ENTIRELY at fault. no one else involved even comes close. second, the pay scale is not set by nike. its set by the govt and business owners in their respective countries. if you can find a factory anywhere in america that can handle the volume they require and do it for anything even near the price, let me know. oh yah, there aren't any. china, vietnam, pakistan, thailand all spent years subduing their people, their currency, their respective labor markets and influencing trade agreements via the WTO to position themselves where they are. now there simply aren't any options left on the table that make sense when it comes to the kind of volume they demand. i mean, you're not going to buy shoes at twice the price, so they can't feasibly make them at twice the price. you don't need a corporate spreadsheet to know that.
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I liked this paragraph. It's almost as if you're accidentally arguing against Nike using slumlord exploitative factories without even knowing it! That you're saying Nike couldn't even pay their workers better if they wanted to because of the sketchy factories they use, is the problem.
not what i'm saying. i'm saying that most, if not all, of the factories out there that can do that kind of volume are that way and that it's pretty much sanctioned via the govt there under the influence of the WTO and world bank policy. if there's only peanuts on the table, you can't just decide to eat almonds.
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Meh, again you're right about the root causes but that's not to say we shouldn't expose wrong when we see it and hope the policies which in part lead to them one day get changed.
totally agree.
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Why do you think the WTO policies are the way they are? Corporations write them brah.
true, but i think using the general word "corporations" without making a distinction between which ones are actively involved in the policy process is unfair and naive. talk about walmart, talk about target, talk about the people who actually have members on those boards that actually make that happen. but give credit where it's due when there is action in the other direction. demonizing and generalizing has never helped any cause. informed and specific criticism, and sustained pressure is what works. and it's this method, incidentally, that got nike to go from being the flamethrowing assholes they were, to getting into the good fight (not exactly on the front line and doing what they could from where they stand. so the proofs in the pudding.
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Embarrassing the fuck out of them to the point that they have to spend so much it's more cost effective to either move production back here or actually take care of their workers elsewhere has as much of a chance as affecting changing as just constantly screaming about the WTO. We actually know people like Eric and can say shit about sweat shops. Who do I contact about the WTO? Hold on I'll email my congressman!
true. but again, thats what they're already doing. they were embarrassed by their own responses and media attention they got in the early days of "fuck nike" when all they were doing was attack ads and shit. then someone got the bright idea to actually do something about the problem and as far as i can see, they're doing a lot. they may or may not be doing enough, but then again, i wasn't arguing that they were the saviour of the sweatshops. i'm just saying given their recent progress, the demonizing is a bit out of place. give credit where it's due. have you even seen the factories that lakai uses? soletech? any other company? nope, because it's not in the media and no one posted a video of them on youtube. which means your viewpoint is still that of a pawn because they got you looking right with the media hype and there's more real shit happening on the left.
k
Stop talking about Sweat Shops, Nike and all the other shit get bulid in Asia for the American Market... it just silly.
They dont want to produce it by herself, they want to buy it cheap as possible and the want to sell it expencive as possible - nobody give a shit about the people in Laos, Vietnam or Cambodia and how they earn there money.
If you give me the nike money - i swear i can build up an factory in Asia where they can build shoes in good quality for an fair price under good conditions for the workers. But the industrie dont want that - they will change the factorys from time to time to give pressure in the market and get the shoes for a better price - for a better profit - nothing else.
Back in the days Companys have produced shoes in USA - now the produce shoes for half price - and shoes get cheaper the last 10 Years?
The changed production from korea to china, from china to Vietnam and now the produce in Laos and Cambodia... to save money in production.... you fill that if you buy a pair of Dunks - "oh 20cent cheaper again... thanks good that nike change the factory again!"
just a stupid game... on the shoulders of the workers in asia, but with an great shareholder value for the big & fat white man.
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I don't know man. Maybe if it was '93 and Koston (or whoever) was throwing around those types of insults, it wouldn't seem like a big deal to me. But in this day and age, and how skateboarding is now (population-wise, how it's seen by common folk, the corp sponsors), it just seems like it's a bad idea for a big name pro with sponsors such as his, to go spouting off insults like that. On one hand, maybe more people should do it so the world would go back to leaving skaters alone (apart from busting us), but otherwise I don't see it as a smart move.
Fair point but Koston used to be funny and I never felt him being disrespectful reading his interview and shit even in the "ghetto days". It's just weird that he is turning into this paranoid asshole.
I'd love to see him kicked out of Girl and ride for Snoop Doggs Skate Company
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Fuck all you whiney fags.
Koston is the shit. He has always been the shit. He could make a million lame tweets and be sponsored by Halliburton and it still wouldn't come close to undoing the radical he's brought to skateboarding over the years.
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Basically what you're saying here, is that it's not Nike's problem that they use exploitative labor, because ultimately it's governmental and trade organizational policies that create conditions so miserable that people are willing to work in the sweat shops in the first place. I do not and will never agree with this.
nope, you're confused again. it's not nike's responsibility to solve the issues of exploitative labor. it is however their problem that their brand is associated with those practices and they've responded by trying to solve the problems in some novel and interesting ways. just because they aren't doing exactly what you think they should be doing (which you still haven't made clear) is no reason to assert that they're the problem itself. clear now?
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How did the in house inspectors miss the human trafficking in Malaysia again?
i'll let you answer this one. "Have you ever actually considered that the factory owners take the Nike inspectors(and most investigators) on phony tours?" you made that one too easy.
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And again, while I basically agree with you that WTO and other policies are at fault here as much as anyone. That doesn't excuse Nike of paying people pennys while spending millions to make it look like they aren't. I know it make sense on some corporate .pdf somewhere. But if you could stop and actually just think about that for a second, I feel you'd probably get it too. Maybe.
first, the WTO and policies are ENTIRELY at fault. no one else involved even comes close. second, the pay scale is not set by nike. its set by the govt and business owners in their respective countries. if you can find a factory anywhere in america that can handle the volume they require and do it for anything even near the price, let me know. oh yah, there aren't any. china, vietnam, pakistan, thailand all spent years subduing their people, their currency, their respective labor markets and influencing trade agreements via the WTO to position themselves where they are. now there simply aren't any options left on the table that make sense when it comes to the kind of volume they demand. i mean, you're not going to buy shoes at twice the price, so they can't feasibly make them at twice the price. you don't need a corporate spreadsheet to know that.
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I liked this paragraph. It's almost as if you're accidentally arguing against Nike using slumlord exploitative factories without even knowing it! That you're saying Nike couldn't even pay their workers better if they wanted to because of the sketchy factories they use, is the problem.
not what i'm saying. i'm saying that most, if not all, of the factories out there that can do that kind of volume are that way and that it's pretty much sanctioned via the govt there under the influence of the WTO and world bank policy. if there's only peanuts on the table, you can't just decide to eat almonds.
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Meh, again you're right about the root causes but that's not to say we shouldn't expose wrong when we see it and hope the policies which in part lead to them one day get changed.
totally agree.
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Why do you think the WTO policies are the way they are? Corporations write them brah.
true, but i think using the general word "corporations" without making a distinction between which ones are actively involved in the policy process is unfair and naive. talk about walmart, talk about target, talk about the people who actually have members on those boards that actually make that happen. but give credit where it's due when there is action in the other direction. demonizing and generalizing has never helped any cause. informed and specific criticism, and sustained pressure is what works. and it's this method, incidentally, that got nike to go from being the flamethrowing assholes they were, to getting into the good fight (not exactly on the front line and doing what they could from where they stand. so the proofs in the pudding.
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Embarrassing the fuck out of them to the point that they have to spend so much it's more cost effective to either move production back here or actually take care of their workers elsewhere has as much of a chance as affecting changing as just constantly screaming about the WTO. We actually know people like Eric and can say shit about sweat shops. Who do I contact about the WTO? Hold on I'll email my congressman!
true. but again, thats what they're already doing. they were embarrassed by their own responses and media attention they got in the early days of "fuck nike" when all they were doing was attack ads and shit. then someone got the bright idea to actually do something about the problem and as far as i can see, they're doing a lot. they may or may not be doing enough, but then again, i wasn't arguing that they were the saviour of the sweatshops. i'm just saying given their recent progress, the demonizing is a bit out of place. give credit where it's due. have you even seen the factories that lakai uses? soletech? any other company? nope, because it's not in the media and no one posted a video of them on youtube. which means your viewpoint is still that of a pawn because they got you looking right with the media hype and there's more real shit happening on the left.
k
Stop talking about Sweat Shops, Nike and all the other shit get bulid in Asia for the American Market... it just silly.
They dont want to produce it by herself, they want to buy it cheap as possible and the want to sell it expencive as possible - nobody give a shit about the people in Laos, Vietnam or Cambodia and how they earn there money.
If you give me the nike money - i swear i can build up an factory in Asia where they can build shoes in good quality for an fair price under good conditions for the workers. But the industrie dont want that - they will change the factorys from time to time to give pressure in the market and get the shoes for a better price - for a better profit - nothing else.
Back in the days Companys have produced shoes in USA - now the produce shoes for half price - and shoes get cheaper the last 10 Years?
The changed production from korea to china, from china to Vietnam and now the produce in Laos and Cambodia... to save money in production.... you fill that if you buy a pair of Dunks - "oh 20cent cheaper again... thanks good that nike change the factory again!"
just a stupid game... on the shoulders of the workers in asia, but with an great shareholder value for the big & fat white man.
shit the fuck up idiot and go tweet something.
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koston is just proving he's as gifted at trolling as he is at board flipping. lulz.
precisely.
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koston posted this.
@erickoston
Jealousy is pathetic
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/19/d122a0dc006c4f0fb842e09d26982b10_7.jpg)
and then this
@erickoston
....The sequel to this back-peddling fuckin coward http://t.co/Jz2iAQR (http://t.co/Jz2iAQR)
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/19/a43ce9ce2ca847de8a0758f0f788bdaf_7.jpg)
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I hate when people put "your" instead of "you're".
Someone troll Koston about Nike/sweatshops/his intro in Menikmati/etc.
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Somehow I wish this was one big huge joke and koston ed leo and olson were in on it...and they we're just playing around with everybody else...but yeah I kinda dont think it is.. :-\
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micky reyes (mickeydlx)- "that's what you get when you quit thunder" i hope he's not serious.
who is koston tweeting to exactly? because when i click on @the_tempster and @stupidface it takes me to some regular new orleans rapper and wesley temps not ed or leo.
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http://youtu.be/orpcuGtOfZI (http://youtu.be/orpcuGtOfZI)
Is this @stupidface? Looks like a regular faggot.
Sorry Koston you're not Kobe or even Tiger. You're still just a skateboarder, and even though you have a big time Nike contract more people know who Shawn White, Bam and Andy Mac are than you. With every stupid tweet and comment you are alienating true fans and possibly corpo sponsors with comments like http://instagr.am/p/J_K0I/ (http://instagr.am/p/J_K0I/) which could easily be taken negatively if anyone is paying attention. I hope this really is just some inside joke and Koston really isn't such a narcissistic asshole.
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32 pages of people acting like they are suprised at the fact that koston is an asshole? i thought we were skateboarders, not little girls who spread gossip off skateboarder's twitters. wow.
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32 pages of people acting like they are suprised at the fact that koston is an asshole? i thought we were skateboarders, not little girls who spread gossip off skateboarder's twitters. wow.
were you REALLY expecting anything different from slap?
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32 pages of people acting like they are suprised at the fact that koston is an asshole? i thought we were skateboarders, not little girls who spread gossip off skateboarder's twitters. wow.
Whoa whoa whoa, I already knew Koston was an asshole.
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this is worse than the time koston had beef with iggy van zan about digging up green pipes point
oh my god hahahaha
I'm absent from SLAP for a month and come back to this... hahaha, I couldn't stop laughing.
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Despite his greatness in skateboarding, I can't support someone of this craziness/stupidity. It's up to each person to decide though. As for me... I've bought my last pair of Oakley shades, and I'll never watch MTV's Trippin' with Cameron Diaz again... this will be the hardest part for me. Excellent program.
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
That's just adorable. Horribly inaccurate all over the place, but adorable.
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
Leo didnt earn SOTY? Did you not see the 2 amazing parts he put out or all the covers he had that year? You are a dumbass if you think he didnt earn it.
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
idjits- a word used to describe a terrorist idiot, and idiotic digits
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
jaesi25: a little rascal he is
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Think about it like this:
Koston is a clear example of someone who thinks whatever they're doing is better than anything else from anyone else, and these instagram posts are a small look into an egocentric mind that has always been there, just not exposed to the public.
When Prod left es to go to nike, Koston talked shit and then sucks the teet when it's presented to him.
When someone disagrees with the berrics, Koston talks shit.
And he's not the normal shit talker, he's sensitive too.
It looks like he'll always hold some sort of grudge, and by the amount of posts/comments, you can tell that he thinks about it often and is prodding for a reaction so he can retaliate with some "well-thought out" attack.
bottom line, he's a pussy. we all know people like him.
/rant
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(http://crailtap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/glitter_wall_8_17_11-600x332.jpg)
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Some basketball guy. Koston sooooo wacky, eer no.
(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/21/b9fd00a67f68438d879cc42f6cab1cd0_7.jpg)
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"erickoston I've been busy all day u assholes. Still am.... @bif_loves_skateboarding you fuckin rule! @Josh_maier you're a FAGGOT and you're profile pic looks like you have downs syndrome. Fuckin pussy!"
I just keep losing respect for Koston.
this is the kind of comment you would expect a 14 year old internet troll to say anonymously, not a grown man with a kid who's a career professional and public figure of sorts
pretty sad
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koston lost when he talked mad shit about p-rod and nike. i always thought that was foul.
then years later he goes to nike.
and shouldnt this thread title be changed to BITTER OLD JADED BRAT now?
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this sums up my feelings
Anchorman - Poopmouth! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxm-cVCdziI#ws)
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micky reyes (mickeydlx)- "that's what you get when you quit thunder" i hope he's not serious.
who is koston tweeting to exactly? because when i click on @the_tempster and @stupidface it takes me to some regular new orleans rapper and wesley temps not ed or leo.
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leo has never and will never melt a face. thats just dickriding on your part.
i cant believe skating has become so soccer mom mainstream that you guys care that koston called some random kid a faggot. a kid who was heckling him. You guys know this kid or what?
fuck that kid fuck alex and leo. they havent done shit. phelps gave him a SOTY... so fucking what. he didnt EARN it. look at leo and every other soty and tell me he deserved it...youre wrong and gay in love with his pretty boy bullshit. I like alex's skating but as soon as he got on he established himself with the gang of milkers.. You hang with Dill... you DO NOT SKATE. AVE anyone...?
koston's part in menikmati is better than anything they will ever put out...and its ten years old and he still skates.
and since when is he a scientologist? thats BERRA you idjits! get it right.
The choco vid will shut you up and remind you how and why he got to where he is... he fucking EARNED it skating and destroying for the past 20 years.
fuck your new style american booooyyyyyfriends!
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koston lost when he talked mad shit about p-rod and nike. i always thought that was foul.
then years later he goes to nike.
and shouldnt this thread title be changed to BITTER OLD JADED BRAT now?
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I miss chomp on this koston. :'(
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20 years of people riding your dick and your ego would probably be fucked too.
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20 years of people riding your dick and your ego would probably be fucked too.
Yeah probably, can't wait the momentum when I'll be able to say that his part in Yeah Right was shitty and everybody will agreee with me.
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he must have got some shit for those instagram post,
all the links are broken so he probably deleted them.
dude is blowing it.
and as far as leo not earning soty...just stop.
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so, I just wanted to say something, yet I in no way want to appear that I think all is alright with Koston.
So, I got introduced to him a few weeks ago at the opening of the Berrics outdoor plaza (westchester?) whatever. Anyway, the guy was super nice and we just kinda talked about what ever. Not that normal meet a pro and he gives you a minute or two, like we were talking about all sorts of shit, his kid, the park, basketball, ect. At one point I was about to walk away as not to be that guy, but he just kept talking to me. This is after this thread had started too, when my opinion of him had slipped quite a bit. I have to say my interaction with him and all the things I've seen from his twitter/instagram are quite contradictory. I'm left kinda confused.
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the instagram/twitter stuff is when he has a computer screen and the internet between himself and the person he is addressing - in person when dealing with a stranger i would only imagine he is a nice guy and seems super cool. koston cant handle himself as far as social media goes -- i have seen him delete about 10 instagram/twitter posts since this thread started. i think he might have a problem
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the instagram/twitter stuff is when he has a computer screen and the internet between himself and the person he is addressing - in person when dealing with a stranger i would only imagine he is a nice guy and seems super cool. koston cant handle himself as far as social media goes -- i have seen him delete about 10 instagram/twitter posts since this thread started. i think he might have a problem
On this weeks episode of Intervention.....
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Koston is embarrasing...
http://instagr.am/p/LMfN5/ (http://instagr.am/p/LMfN5/)
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this has gotten old. but i hope he keeps it up and i hope none of this is a joke
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It's all a joke. These dudes are grown men that play with toys for a living. How serious could they possibly be?
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(http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/a/e/upload/2d27fb5e.jpg) (http://xmages.net/i/3067209) (http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/a/e/upload/158ed28c.jpg) (http://xmages.net/i/3067210) (http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/a/e/upload/58383f5b.jpg) (http://xmages.net/i/3067211)
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It says "I hate the Berrics". Last issue of Monster Children.
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I thought it said "I hate the Berries", thanks for clearing that up for me.
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Sorry, blackberry cameras suck.
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I thought it said "I hate the Berries", thanks for clearing that up for me.
Thank God he did. I got heated for a minute. If he hated was hating on berries, I would have started an internet rivalry the likes of which has never been seen. Koston's little bitch-fest would pale in comparison to the shitstorm I would've created. For example, I found out one of my best friends hates strawberries. I straight up graped that fucker...
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eric koston, the brett favre of skateboarding.
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^no, just no.
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this thread is officially a slap pal with 1001 replies.
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hahaha Leo called koston a faggot.
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I remember when I used to care what pros say or do.
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Sorry, blackberry cameras suck.
I will totally agree with you on that.
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to alex's defense, i stopped watching the berrics a long time ago. it's banal. + there was an actual part where berra said that him and koston were into advertising (i think it was that video on geoadvertising). what it means in short term is "more money from more places". pros aren't pros anymore. most of them are just models. they're modeling one thing or another and alex let his humanity/honesty slip a bit (which isn't supposed to be a bad thing). the expectations are unreal and need to change so that pros can work on their skateboarding career itself and not inane bullshit (like his personal preferences or what he wears).
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Definition - banal
ba·nal/?b?nl/Adjective: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
(http://nerdmeltla.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/the-more-you-know.jpg)
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im not good at youtube. but this made me think of @1:17 http://youtu.be/oz88kJSdT6Y (http://youtu.be/oz88kJSdT6Y)
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anyone have a pic of the credits of yeah right, where koston claims the biggest regret he have had was riding for oakley. and then years after he joined again to get signature frogskins and a leather backpack? i thought of this when i saw the pic of him holding the no nike sign. and i should have just made one post.
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anyone have a pic of the credits of yeah right, where koston claims the biggest regret he have had was riding for oakley. and then years after he joined again to get signature frogskins and a leather backpack? i thought of this when i saw the pic of him holding the no nike sign. and i should have just made one post.
it's in super champion funzone, not yeah right.
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anyone have a pic of the credits of yeah right, where koston claims the biggest regret he have had was riding for oakley. and then years after he joined again to get signature frogskins and a leather backpack? i thought of this when i saw the pic of him holding the no nike sign. and i should have just made one post.
touche.
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im not good at youtube.
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this really does not have to do with the whole koston/alex thing but i was bored last night and thought i would ask alex olson something on his tumblr.
http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/9592056618/what-are-your-thoughts-on-steve-berras-affiliation-with (http://olsonstuff.tumblr.com/post/9592056618/what-are-your-thoughts-on-steve-berras-affiliation-with)
you dont have to verify the email you use, just type in a bull shit email and password and your set if you want to ask him something ha
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Haha stir that pot.
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first the triple negatives and now this: "know one knows"? wow.
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first the triple negatives and now this: "know one knows"? wow.
it was painful just reading that
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first the triple negatives and now this: "know one knows"? wow.
hey give him a break, he was "un-schooled"
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Unlearned
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Unlearned
fuck he types like a person.
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(http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/09/11/906ef395043e4b108e11fc5c889f8ee9_7.jpg)
?Do I play King of the Road today? Or do I play golf ???
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(http://www.thrashermagazine.com/imagesV2/KOTR2011/SocialBlogging/Social_Folder_Images/FyouKoston.jpg)
:P
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i can't believe some of you are taking this shit seriously...
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(http://www.thrashermagazine.com/imagesV2/KOTR2011/SocialBlogging/Social_Folder_Images/FyouKoston.jpg)
:P
Bj Penn? wtf?
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BJ is in on this!?!?! bahahahahaah!!!
rear naked choke kostons head off.
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i love leo.
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nick merlino = 2011 leo.
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Haha, this is getting wild. Is that St Andrews that Koston's at?
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I don't want to see pics of Koston playing golf. I want to see pics of Koston skating. Actually, I don't think I want to see any pics of Koston at all, anymore.
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i love leo.
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BJ is in on this!?!?! bahahahahaah!!!
rear naked choke kostons head off.
Gayest thing ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVM2wtL_CdQ#)
...until I got the mental image of BJ "rear naked choking" Koston.
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BJ is in on this!?!?!? ? bahahahahaah!!!
rear naked choke kostons head off.
Gayest thing ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVM2wtL_CdQ#)
...until I got the mental image of BJ "rear naked choking" Koston.
thats what i was going for. my work here is done.
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(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrl2xfNBjW1qbmk3co1_500.jpg)
haha
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^^ I really hope that photo means that it was all a joke that they were both in on...
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^^ I really hope that photo means that it was all a joke that they were both in on...
i for one, do not
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that picture is too good
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Anyone else see this?
http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/kotr-2011-nike-blog-2/ (http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/kotr-2011-nike-blog-2/)
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holy shit - Grant at china banks - thats going to be epic. washington street too
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so bummed this is fake :(
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Hahaha this is so good!
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/Burton77/_RNO3940.jpg)
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Hahaha this is so good!
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/Burton77/_RNO3940.jpg)
radical ::)
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checking in 35 pages later and what's this?
oh yeah, koston is still the man.
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Rickrolled.
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checking in 35 pages later and what's this?
oh yeah, koston is still the man.