Things You Are Stoked On But Not Stoked On

[shucknjive]

its our dads [cool]

[Banned from the room]

Built a board that performs completely different than what i been riding since 7" noses happened.

It feels like i swapped my left leg for my right.
That was the plan though because i was getting bored.

Change is challenge. Blood feeds the gods the gods grant makes.

I Changed everything about my conduit which took me like 4 months to get all the sacred artifacts together as one.

Are the gods upset with me? Snapped my soul immediately.

Board change 8.5 dlx 5.6 high and I got a switch wallie at lynch yesterday. It took a few trys. Thats a good sign.

A few more tricks nothing significant but i am pretty sure im in the clear now.

The manny pad is not working out rn. Its just going to take time and some business and company it looks like. Theres no way id risk my life on a fucking primitive deck.

Imagine me with my vest on going into the fire with a fucking soy sauce board.

I hope im in the clear.

I should be burned with a Chapman blank 3 color.

My tomb should be a beautiful butter ledge for everyone. A big circle E on the top.

Love is the answer

[MOE SYZLAK]

Haven’t skated in 3 weeks due to a knee injury on my left and a toe injury on my right. The weather cleared up today so I went for a lil mellow session. It was fun to dork around in the 2ft quarter but it sucked not being able to pop anything.

[50mm]

3 weeks skating every day, but it seems I've tweaked my knee a bit. Will take it easy but I have to get to that magic 30 days straight.

[ClownOfTheDay]

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My girlfriend of 6 years and I decided to break things off on good terms a couple months ago. I'm 22 so its been a lot to process but I've been feeling positive about the future and meeting new people.

Went to a show last night and met a girl I matched with on Tinder and it went really well. She's really cool and I stayed at her place for the night. Long story short she wanted sex and I couldn't even do it. I wanted to but it just wasn't happening and I've never had this problem before. It was a trip but she wasn't too bummed, but it definitely had me feeling fucked up.

Stoked: We already are making plans to go on a real date and I like her so that's sick.
Not stoked: Did not smash. Could not smash. Very embarrassing. Frustrating.

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We're you too nervous or too drunk? I've had it happen. Including my first time lol. But I don't know anyone who fucked like an animal their first time. I was nervous as fuck. It happens if I have a new partner sometimes too, like the first time.

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I was pretty drunk but mostly nervous. She invited me over the night after and once again, the same problem occurred. It was worse the second time, she was bummed. She was texting me the next day and anyway, invited me over once again. So third night around, we had sex for maybe a minute before I went limp. This time, it was awful. She was kinda pissed this time and obviously I was very frustrated and bummed. Now things are very weird and I don't know whats happening. She told me this whole issue is a pretty big turn off and that my nervousness around her is too. I only became nervous after failing in the sack and now its consuming me which is only making the issue much fucking worse. She also said she thinks its wild that I like her so much so quickly especially after getting out of a long term relationship only a month ago. I am remembering now that I have a really bad habit of falling too fast, which is something I hate about myself. I am calling for desperate measures now and I have a doctors appointment tomorrow hoping to get Viagra, being hopeful that I have another chance (her patience is running low but from the things shes said I think I could have another shot). This whole thing has got me really fucking bummed, clearly all she wants is just a casual fling but even then I'm totally cool with that. I just hope shes not totally over it but I guess thus is life.

Also pretty crushed to hear the news of Kobe and his daughter. RIP

From my experience with love, I currently have myself a little girlfriend, we have been talking for a week straight and I already know I really like her, I wouldn't say I fully love her yet but I might get there soon. I too have this problem but I learned to control it. Love is more than just sex and affection it's building a friendship with someone that inter connects two people. Love is what makes the world a better place. Maybe I'm talking out of my ass on Tuesday morning, but love is more than saying " I love you". There are so many types of love.

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My girlfriend of 6 years and I decided to break things off on good terms a couple months ago. I'm 22 so its been a lot to process but I've been feeling positive about the future and meeting new people.

Went to a show last night and met a girl I matched with on Tinder and it went really well. She's really cool and I stayed at her place for the night. Long story short she wanted sex and I couldn't even do it. I wanted to but it just wasn't happening and I've never had this problem before. It was a trip but she wasn't too bummed, but it definitely had me feeling fucked up.

Stoked: We already are making plans to go on a real date and I like her so that's sick.
Not stoked: Did not smash. Could not smash. Very embarrassing. Frustrating.

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We're you too nervous or too drunk? I've had it happen. Including my first time lol. But I don't know anyone who fucked like an animal their first time. I was nervous as fuck. It happens if I have a new partner sometimes too, like the first time.

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I was pretty drunk but mostly nervous. She invited me over the night after and once again, the same problem occurred. It was worse the second time, she was bummed. She was texting me the next day and anyway, invited me over once again. So third night around, we had sex for maybe a minute before I went limp. This time, it was awful. She was kinda pissed this time and obviously I was very frustrated and bummed. Now things are very weird and I don't know whats happening. She told me this whole issue is a pretty big turn off and that my nervousness around her is too. I only became nervous after failing in the sack and now its consuming me which is only making the issue much fucking worse. She also said she thinks its wild that I like her so much so quickly especially after getting out of a long term relationship only a month ago. I am remembering now that I have a really bad habit of falling too fast, which is something I hate about myself. I am calling for desperate measures now and I have a doctors appointment tomorrow hoping to get Viagra, being hopeful that I have another chance (her patience is running low but from the things shes said I think I could have another shot). This whole thing has got me really fucking bummed, clearly all she wants is just a casual fling but even then I'm totally cool with that. I just hope shes not totally over it but I guess thus is life.

Also pretty crushed to hear the news of Kobe and his daughter. RIP

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From my experience with love, I currently have myself a little girlfriend, we have been talking for a week straight and I already know I really like her, I wouldn't say I fully love her yet but I might get there soon. I too have this problem but I learned to control it. Love is more than just sex and affection it's building a friendship with someone that inter connects two people. Love is what makes the world a better place. Maybe I'm talking out of my ass on Tuesday morning, but love is more than saying " I love you". There are so many types of love.

I had always heard like your first love is always your strongest and most special. I always felt that by about a year and a half your love starts to get a little less fun, and that that is just natural. Mind you I was with my 2nd girlfriend who really sucked at the time, but I even felt that feeling fade rather fast with my first serious girlfriend, but she also sucked. Both of them were really fucked up and I have no clue why I was ever with them.

When I met my current girlfriend it was different because we were texting for like 2 weeks before we ever met. Then over the course of like a month of hanging out and texting that initial spark really got going and never really stopped. Oddly enough I think it helped a lot that we texted first and got a feel for each others mindsets instead of just seeing each other and letting attraction be such a strong factor. It really changed my thoughts on relationships because of how its grown to be better and better. For me that's what love is all about. That and you gotta be sexually attracted to them or that shit will not work. A lot of people think that love and lust can't happen together because of the dumb saying, but I think they have to exist together or your fucked.

[Dr Dew]

“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called ‘being in love’ usually does not last. If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean ‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married,’ then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from ‘being in love’ — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. it is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”

― C. S. Lewis

[beatifk]

Been spending time with a new lady. She's really cool.

However, I also work with her and I'm technically her boss.

So it's a bit tricky/risky/stupid.

But, fuck it, we're both into it, it happened naturally (I didn't pursue her, nor she me) so there's no foul play involved, so we're going for it.

These types of relationships must have worked out somewhere on earth at some point in history, right? They don't all end in complete disaster, right?

[JB]

Been spending time with a new lady. She's really cool.

However, I also work with her and I'm technically her boss.

So it's a bit tricky/risky/stupid.

But, fuck it, we're both into it, it happened naturally (I didn't pursue her, nor she me) so there's no foul play involved, so we're going for it.

These types of relationships must have worked out somewhere on earth at some point in history, right? They don't all end in complete disaster, right?

Jim and Pam from The Office lived happily ever after, I think.

[Lorem_Ipsum]

These types of relationships must have worked out somewhere on earth at some point in history, right? They don't all end in complete disaster, right?

My lady and I have been together for 13 years, and worked together from 2015 to 2018. While it's not the same as your particular scenario, I found working with her to be fun. Talking about work wasn't a constant bitch-fest and we were able to push each other to be better at our jobs. It did not end up in disaster, my time there just came to a close while she is still enjoying her work. Also we worked down the block from some awesome slappy curbs that I could skate if she was working late. I hope that you get to experience something similar!

[WastedHippy]

“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called ‘being in love’ usually does not last. If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean ‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married,’ then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from ‘being in love’ — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. it is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”

― C. S. Lewis

I like this, makes you think about a subject you may not always consider

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I had an interview like 60 miles away and in area's with heavy traffic. I still get paid while I go to interviews since it's within the company. After the interview I went to a skatepark out in the area I had been wanting to check out. It's a good park but slippery as fuck. I guess that's why they make park wheels? I was skating 51mm tablets so yeah but literally everyone there would just randomly slip at some point. The park has all the basics in a nice layout but it's too slick for me. I asked what's up with it, one of the guys was like this is my home park and I can hardly skate it.

[authentic_creed_bratton]

Spf’s stick to that shit like a gummy hand from a vending machine

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Spf’s stick to that shit like a gummy hand from a vending machine

Well Spohn Ranch built it and they are about to build this insane park out here.
https://www.spohnranch.com/final-design-revealed-for-city-of-la-quintas-x-park-2019-07-09/

I'll eventually have to find something that sticks, Probably wont get the tablets again, just happened to have these new when I wanted a smaller wheel.

[Dr Dew]

damn skateparks in california are seriously on another level. lowkey jealous that shit looks amazing

[silhouette]

Randomly ran into my ex while shopping groceries and in the conversation, she casually brought up how she almost killed her new boyfriend just a few months ago - both are schizophrenic. They got into an argument over pretty much nothing and out of rage, she tore both mirrors off his car with the guy inside, then ran back to her flat on the third floor of the building which has a balcony leaning just over where the car was parked and threw a C-clamp out and down at the car, smashing the windshield with the dude still inside. Dude somehow dodged or survived the hit, took the fuck off in the smashed car and just a few hours later she called him to apologize 'because she had seen blood'. They're still together like it never happened (in the busiest street of the city too).

I'm obviously not stoked on that person's mental state right now, but I'm definitely stoked not to be the boyfriend anymore.

[munchbox]

Randomly ran into my ex while shopping groceries and in the conversation, she casually brought up how she almost killed her new boyfriend just a few months ago - both are schizophrenic. They got into an argument over pretty much nothing and out of rage, she tore both mirrors off his car with the guy inside, then ran back to her flat on the third floor of the building which has a balcony leaning just over where the car was parked and threw a C-clamp out and down at the car, smashing the windshield with the dude still inside. Dude somehow dodged or survived the hit, took the fuck off in the smashed car and just a few hours later she called him to apologize 'because she had seen blood'. They're still together like it never happened (in the busiest street of the city too).

I'm obviously not stoked on that person's mental state right now, but I'm definitely stoked not to be the boyfriend anymore.

1. congratulations on your judgement, in an different reality that could be you
2. what street is this? whoever saw that shit deserves a medal for minding their own business

if that all happened in broad daylight...whats harder to get away with than murder? do it there you heard it from me

[silhouette]

Probably happened in the evening, in fall/winter here shit starts getting dark in the middle of the afternoon. Small town (50,000 inhabitants) but again, relatively busy street with some restaurants, banks and whatnot, I'm sure there were at least a few witnesses including neighbors because of the noise. I actually asked her about that, she said her focus in the moment was 100% somewhere else so she wasn't even thinking about other people being around.

Both must have looked fucking crazy. It probably all went down in under a minute before anyone on the streets could react (who could have seen a fucking C-clamp coming?). My ex is one of the most quick-thinking, situation-improvising but also hindsight-lacking people I've ever known, not a good mix.

[L33Tg33k]

I'm doing on the job training as a family visitation monitor. My job is to be there and take notes of everything said and done by the noncustodial parent and the child. Shit is unbelievably boring until it suddenly isn't. Sometimes kids have huge tantrums and parents have meltdowns. So far I've been pretty much doing the entirety of the job with none of the pay because I am yet to be certified as a professional. Once I get my certification, though, I sand to make around $50 an hour. I'm doing a visitation right now, but I've noted everything I can think and I've got an hour more to go. This forum, instagram, reddit, and three coffees are helping me stave off sleep. Also, I've got a Hinge date today at a wine bar. I don't really know how to feel about that besides worrying about how expensive this thing is going to be. I'll pretend to be a normal person.

[JB]

I'm doing on the job training as a family visitation monitor. My job is to be there and take notes of everything said and done by the noncustodial parent and the child. Shit is unbelievably boring until it suddenly isn't. Sometimes kids have huge tantrums and parents have meltdowns. So far I've been pretty much doing the entirety of the job with none of the pay because I am yet to be certified as a professional. Once I get my certification, though, I sand to make around $50 an hour. I'm doing a visitation right now, but I've noted everything I can think and I've got an hour more to go. This forum, instagram, reddit, and three coffees are helping me stave off sleep. Also, I've got a Hinge date today at a wine bar. I don't really know how to feel about that besides worrying about how expensive this thing is going to be. I'll pretend to be a normal person.

You got this man. Just be you. You don't need to put on an act for anyone, especially anyone worth spending time with.

Hope the job works out too. That would be some decent $

[L33Tg33k]

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I'm doing on the job training as a family visitation monitor. My job is to be there and take notes of everything said and done by the noncustodial parent and the child. Shit is unbelievably boring until it suddenly isn't. Sometimes kids have huge tantrums and parents have meltdowns. So far I've been pretty much doing the entirety of the job with none of the pay because I am yet to be certified as a professional. Once I get my certification, though, I sand to make around $50 an hour. I'm doing a visitation right now, but I've noted everything I can think and I've got an hour more to go. This forum, instagram, reddit, and three coffees are helping me stave off sleep. Also, I've got a Hinge date today at a wine bar. I don't really know how to feel about that besides worrying about how expensive this thing is going to be. I'll pretend to be a normal person.

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You got this man. Just be you. You don't need to put on an act for anyone, especially anyone worth spending time with.

Hope the job works out too. That would be some decent $

She cancelled.

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I'm doing on the job training as a family visitation monitor. My job is to be there and take notes of everything said and done by the noncustodial parent and the child. Shit is unbelievably boring until it suddenly isn't. Sometimes kids have huge tantrums and parents have meltdowns. So far I've been pretty much doing the entirety of the job with none of the pay because I am yet to be certified as a professional. Once I get my certification, though, I sand to make around $50 an hour. I'm doing a visitation right now, but I've noted everything I can think and I've got an hour more to go. This forum, instagram, reddit, and three coffees are helping me stave off sleep. Also, I've got a Hinge date today at a wine bar. I don't really know how to feel about that besides worrying about how expensive this thing is going to be. I'll pretend to be a normal person.

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You got this man. Just be you. You don't need to put on an act for anyone, especially anyone worth spending time with.

Hope the job works out too. That would be some decent $

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She cancelled.

Keep in contact with her, but also keep hunting. My girlfriend cancelled our first planned date last minute, typical girl shit.

[Ramrod]

im moving to florida for a year or so :/

[L33Tg33k]

^Pretty sure that's 100% unstokage unless you're going to Miami. God help you if you go to the panhandle.

[Ramrod]

^Pretty sure that's 100% unstokage unless you're going to Miami. God help you if you go to the panhandle.

hopefully it wont be too bad, ill be in Lakeland, the Boss' home town.
not too far from Tampa, and there was a cool local park when i visited last year.
Miami was pretty fucking cool as well, didnt get to skate it at all though.

[givecigstosurfgroms]

  Where I'm at they sell cooked chicken on the street but they don't cover it so there will be flys on it.  This one vendor brings spiders to his little stand and he's got 3 or 4 webs hanging above the chicken.  Im not even kidding.

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  Where I'm at they sell cooked chicken on the street but they don't cover it so there will be flys on it.  This one vendor brings spiders to his little stand and he's got 3 or 4 webs hanging above the chicken.  Im not even kidding.

Reminds me, last time I was in Budapest, our crew's Airbnb was just atop of a pizza place, so literally every night after skating all day that was the logical hangout spot for late food and beer; the place itself as a whole was honestly decently clean and we'd go at hours were they were making and baking fresh pizza non stop on rotation so the only visible flaw, a persistent swarm of flies chilling next to the stand where they'd normally let them sit, while pretty alarming, looked harmless since the stand was always empty so just something we'd crack jokes about, like hey imagine if what we're eating had actually been sitting there for hours. The pizza was actually good, too. Two weeks after the trip, one of our local homies sends us an IG story of a fucking pigeon literally inside the stand, under the glass, just casually feasting on one of the exposed pizzas in the daytime with flies on them and no one doing anything.

[layzieyez]

That's Pete the Pizza Pigeon, their unspoken mascot. He local.

(say "Pete's a pigeon" out loud)

[givecigstosurfgroms]

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  Where I'm at they sell cooked chicken on the street but they don't cover it so there will be flys on it.  This one vendor brings spiders to his little stand and he's got 3 or 4 webs hanging above the chicken.  Im not even kidding.

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Reminds me, last time I was in Budapest, our crew's Airbnb was just atop of a pizza place, so literally every night after skating all day that was the logical hangout spot for late food and beer; the place itself as a whole was honestly decently clean and we'd go at hours were they were making and baking fresh pizza non stop on rotation so the only visible flaw, a persistent swarm of flies chilling next to the stand where they'd normally let them sit, while pretty alarming, looked harmless since the stand was always empty so just something we'd crack jokes about, like hey imagine if what we're eating had actually been sitting there for hours. The pizza was actually good, too. Two weeks after the trip, one of our local homies sends us an IG story of a fucking pigeon literally inside the stand, under the glass, just casually feasting on one of the exposed pizzas in the daytime with flies on them and no one doing anything.

  Well you got a ‘fly’ steeze silhouette ha

[rusty knees]

Stoked on sitting here at work getting paid to do nothing, not stoked on how boring it is.