2023 unpopular opinion thread

[breezy_again]

'YEEEEEWWWWWWW' needs to fucking die

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[KILLEDTHEPOOL]

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every new skatepark should be nothing but big transition with pool coping, over vert, giant bowl corners. no more manny pads, flat bars, stairs, none of that shit. if you wanna skate street, then hit the damn streets. oh and every park should have a vert ramp… that is all 😆
and maybe a launch ramp…
           

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the only viable blue prints for a skatepark are Lincoln City and Whitefish

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agreed but add washington street, burnside and louisville

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Agreed but add the bridge DIY in Charleston, SC

i really wanna get down there soon

[addie pray]

not very cruster to complain about allocation of municipal funds, mister

nolan built a ramp, be punk like him

[manysnakes]

every new skatepark should be nothing but big transition with pool coping, over vert, giant bowl corners. no more manny pads, flat bars, stairs, none of that shit. if you wanna skate street, then hit the damn streets. oh and every park should have a vert ramp… that is all 😆
and maybe a launch ramp…
           

I remember seeing some SKATE TWITTER dorks being upset about that riverside park in New York - a park which appears to have a pretty sizeable street section -  because they had the audacity to install a legit pool in a section of the park. The general consensus was that no one who matters (i.e. their peer group) actually skates that feature, but I see footage of that little ripper Jiro absolutely wrecking the pool so I think these guys might just actually suck at skating.

[Democratic Republic Of Mongo]

If I saw Burberry Erry in real life I’d make sure to act really hyped but call him Blueberry Jerry, and keep insisting that is his name.

[manysnakes]

I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a painting of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

[JugeL]

I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a picture of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

Couldn't agree more

Have a gnar

[jorge]

I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a picture of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

This right here.  Skaters should heckle the shit out of graffiti dudes, you all are the ones ruining spots.  Also, 90% of you are white kids from the cul-de-sac suburbs talking with blaccent you are not hard please drop that shit it is super embarrassing for everyone.

[SatanicPanic]

If I saw Burberry Erry in real life I’d make sure to act really hyped but call him Blueberry Jerry, and keep insisting that is his name.

Would be funny to be like “dude there’s something in your hair”

[ViewFinder]

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I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a picture of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

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This right here.  Skaters should heckle the shit out of graffiti dudes, you all are the ones ruining spots.  Also, 90% of you are white kids from the cul-de-sac suburbs talking with blaccent you are not hard please drop that shit it is super embarrassing for everyone.

The people who do both and ruin spots is lame but here's my unpopular opinion:
In my experience there's more appreciation and conversation about style/history/culture in graff than skating. Of course, you'd have to be pretty interested/involved in either to take that into account.

[JM]

'YEEEEEWWWWWWW' needs to fucking die

You need more good Yews in your life.

[EXTRA SPICY]

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'YEEEEEWWWWWWW' needs to fucking die

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You need more good Yews in your life.

Agreed, long yews are a welcomed sight.


Then again to expose my bias, I’m teetering on identifying as an old dude who is aroused by Anti Hero products.

[TwisT]

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'YEEEEEWWWWWWW' needs to fucking die

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You need more good Yews in your life.

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Agreed, long yews are a welcomed sight.


Then again to expose my bias, I’m teetering on identifying as an old dude who is aroused by Anti Hero products.

[Verdugo]

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I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a picture of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

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This right here.  Skaters should heckle the shit out of graffiti dudes, you all are the ones ruining spots.  Also, 90% of you are white kids from the cul-de-sac suburbs talking with blaccent you are not hard please drop that shit it is super embarrassing for everyone.

Yeah, graff is lame. Pretty much everyone who does it is so into themselves. You’re literally writing your name on things to be seen by people. Practically begging for attention. Skating is way more humble and not full of these wannabe hard asses.

[addie pray]

+ the chinese knock off prestos are better than the regular ones and still snipeable

[SatanicPanic]

Graffiti is fine. The only thing I don’t get is dudes scratching stuff into public toilets. Why claim a toilet?

[manysnakes]

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I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a painting of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

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this is a man employed to fix flat tires posting on a rolling wood trickboard website concerned a different subculture isn't "contributing". extremely loser worldview

I never said anything about contributing; I said it made the world uglier. And that hasn't been my job for half a decade.

FWIW, if you've ever offered any personal details about yourself, I promise that you're too inconsequential to commit them to memory.

[Gab]

I know I’m a couple pages late but grinds and slides to fakie are acceptable if it’s a setup for the next trick. Crook to fakie -> fakie flip -> fakie back tail is way better than crook to fakie -> revert -> tre flop -> another crook to fakie

[addie pray]

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I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a painting of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

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this is a man employed to fix flat tires posting on a rolling wood trickboard website concerned a different subculture isn't "contributing". extremely loser worldview

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I never said anything about contributing; I said it made the world uglier. And that hasn't been my job for half a decade.

FWIW, if you've ever offered any personal details about yourself, I promise that you're too inconsequential to commit them to memory.

i bolded where you mentioned it; mr. finnegans tri-tune is two days behind schedule on the service computer

[SatanicPanic]

The anti-imperialist left is a bunch of navel-gazers who never accomplish anything and I’m not sure they even want to.

[skateboardingenthusiast]

Paul Schmitt talks in too many circles for PS stix boards to not even be that good. Dude reminds me of Neil De-Grasse Tyson.

[JM]

Paul Schmitt talks in too many circles for PS stix boards to not even be that good. Dude reminds me of Neil De-Grasse Tyson.

Let me me ask you this: would you rather have a pockeknife with two blades or one?

There you go.

[manysnakes]

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I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a painting of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

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this is a man employed to fix flat tires posting on a rolling wood trickboard website concerned a different subculture isn't "contributing". extremely loser worldview

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I never said anything about contributing; I said it made the world uglier. And that hasn't been my job for half a decade.

FWIW, if you've ever offered any personal details about yourself, I promise that you're too inconsequential to commit them to memory.

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i bolded where you mentioned it; mr. finnegans tri-tune is two days behind schedule on the service computer

So the joke here is "you used to have this job and you should be embarrassed about it"?

[addie pray]

u the mf joke here

[Dojsha Abuser]

I know I’m a couple pages late but grinds and slides to fakie are acceptable if it’s a setup for the next trick. Crook to fakie -> fakie flip -> fakie back tail is way better than crook to fakie -> revert -> tre flop -> another crook to fakie

Fuck crook to fakie.
Matter of fact, lets leave them to the year 2023. 2024, not a single crook to fakie is to be made.

[Paperclip20]

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Paul Schmitt talks in too many circles for PS stix boards to not even be that good. Dude reminds me of Neil De-Grasse Tyson.

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Let me me ask you this: would you rather have a pockeknife with two blades or one?

There you go.

Most pocket knifes have one blade though lol unless you're making his swiss army knife reference.

But regardless I would easily choose a symmetrical board if I had the choice consistently.

[Eric Dolphy]

I hate virtually all tagging, graffiti, "throw-ups", whatever. The world is a demonstrably uglier place thanks to the incredibly selfish behavior of countless untalented, unoriginal and completely uncreative hacks who are aping a 50-year-old style to which they have absolutely no social or cultural connection.

Maybe ~1% of graffiti actually contributes something to the world. Even the "creative" pieces - ones which proport to say something - are actually like a mural of Marge Simpson smoking a joint, or a painting of Putin with vampire fangs. Dogshit. Keep that crap in your sketchbooks.

Each to their own, but maybe take a closer look at the Think logo in your avatar

[Gab]

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I know I’m a couple pages late but grinds and slides to fakie are acceptable if it’s a setup for the next trick. Crook to fakie -> fakie flip -> fakie back tail is way better than crook to fakie -> revert -> tre flop -> another crook to fakie

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Fuck crook to fakie.
Matter of fact, lets leave them to the year 2023. 2024, not a single crook to fakie is to be made.

I’m with it

[j....soy.....]

At least crook fakie is a trick……fakie crook on the other hand……

[Allen.]

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every new skatepark should be nothing but big transition with pool coping, over vert, giant bowl corners. no more manny pads, flat bars, stairs, none of that shit. if you wanna skate street, then hit the damn streets. oh and every park should have a vert ramp… that is all 😆
and maybe a launch ramp…
           

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I remember seeing some SKATE TWITTER dorks being upset about that riverside park in New York - a park which appears to have a pretty sizeable street section -  because they had the audacity to install a legit pool in a section of the park. The general consensus was that no one who matters (i.e. their peer group) actually skates that feature, but I see footage of that little ripper Jiro absolutely wrecking the pool so I think these guys might just actually suck at skating.

… there’s a pool there? Did not even notice it.