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Moron Madness
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
We’re back from our vacation in Wildwood. I hoped for more relaxation, but it wasn’t to be. I rode my bike most mornings. I walked miles on the boardwalk with my wife and kids. We played the Cape May par 3 golf course. I went deep sea fishing with my youngest son. I made it to the beach twice. We made it to the Shamrock a few times, but we had more fun on the outdoor deck at Westy’s Pub. Watching an 85 year old couple who were barely 4 feet tall dancing like they did in the 1950’s to current pop hits was worth the price of admission. The scene brought a smile to the faces of anyone in the vicinity.
I ate more pieces of white pizza from Mack’s than I can remember.
How I resisted getting more than one cup of peanut butter ice cream with chocolate jimmies at Kohr’s, I’ll never know.
We saw two outstanding displays of fireworks while we were there. The weekly fireworks are launched on the beach at my street, so we just need to go to the top deck or stand in the street to see the colorful display. The wind was blowing from the ocean, so the debris and ash floated onto our deck.
I always have mixed feelings about Wildwood. I love sitting on the deck early in the morning drinking my coffee and listening to the seagulls squawking. It is peaceful and relaxing sometimes. The weekends tend to be loud, with obnoxious day trippers invading. The paintball game on the boardwalk a block from my house perfectly describes the sights on the Wildwood boardwalk. Moron Madness (you shoot at a guy dressed up as Osama bin Laden) is an apt description for the Wildwood boardwalk.
It is tough to generalize about the thousands upon thousands of people walking/waddling on the Wildwood boardwalk. In the early morning hours, before 9:00 am, you see joggers, bikers, and mostly in-shape people on the boardwalk. This is the time when I find the boardwalk to be enjoyable. It’s quiet. The sun is coming up over the ocean. The dozens of tattoo parlors haven’t opened for business yet, and the freaks are at a minimum.
By 11:00 am the obese, tattooed, pierced, XXXL bathing suit wearing land whales have disconnected from their CPAP machines to hunt for donuts, soda and breakfast sandwiches.
No one is safe as the thundering herd shuffles along, blocking bikers and joggers, as they grapple for position in front of the Dunkin Donuts on the boardwalk at my block. As they breathlessly anticipate the enjoyment of inhaling a dozen chocolate donuts with sprinkles, the incessant Mr. Softee music from next door is whispering to them – come buy a triple fudge sundae for lunch. It’s only $3.49. How can you pass up that deal?
This is just the beginning of temptation for the thousands of morbidly obese blobs straining the wooden structure known as the Wildwood boardwalk. The boardwalk is a veritable smorgasbord of funnel cake, fried oreos, fried cheesecake, tornado fries, lemonade, curly fries, corn dogs, zeppolis, fudge, cotton candy, salt water taffy, ice cream waffles, churros, pizza topped with cheese fries, triple fudge sundaes, and of course a large diet coke. How can 300 pound women in bikinis pass up the opportunity to do some carbohydrate binging?
The funniest “upscale” purveyor of toxic junk food is Wildwood’s only French establishment – La Bakerie. Where else could you find a Nutella Crepe, S’mores Crepe, Fried Snickers, Fried Twix, or Fried Nutter Butter? It’s like you’re actually in Paris.
I can’t help it that I’m an observer. I observe businesses, vehicles, street signs, clothing choices, and the people wandering the vast swaths of ‘Murrica. Liberals, progressives, Obama lovers, and control freaks have a problem with my observations because they don’t believe any behavior, clothing choice, or life choice should be judged, scorned or ridiculed. What we have here is a failure to communicate. I see ignorant, stupid, obese people who make bad life choices every day. They reveal themselves by their actions and their appearance. They stand out like a sore obese thumb in Wildwood. As I’ve noted earlier, there are many normal people in Wildwood, but it appears abnormalcy is winning. The dichotomy is most apparent on the weekends and holidays.
The reason for this is quite simple. It costs $1,500 to $2,500 to rent a condo for a week in Wildwood. Only families with one or two working parents can afford to spend a week in Wildwood. This virtually eliminates black people. First off, there are few black two parent families. Secondly, there are even fewer black families with parents that work for a living. Therefore, you only see middle aged white parents and their kids strolling the streets and boardwalk during the week. When the weekend arrives Wildwood is inundated by day tripper white and black trash. Wildwood is the only free beach below Atlantic City. Stone Harbor, Sea Isle, Avalon, and Ocean City charge $5 or $6 per day per person to access their beaches. The Free Shit Army doesn’t like to pay, so they gravitate to Wildwood. Luckily, SNAP cards are not accepted at the food joints on the boardwalk, or Wildwood would look like West Philly.
I actually enjoy taking a jaunt on the boards during the weekend to make note of the freaks, land whales, rapper wannabes, and the ignorant unemployable tattooed masses. I don’t have to exaggerate one iota regarding the sights that threatened to burn my corneas. My wife and kids can confirm all of my observations. Why do 250 pound girls think they can pull off wearing a bikini? Is there no shame? You shouldn’t be banned from the beach because you’ve eaten yourself to the size of a hippo, but for christ sake wear a one piece bathing suit and a moo moo. Why are so many poor people so fat? The number of waddling morbidly obese unmarried women and their uncontrollable horde of bastard children is mind boggling. And why do these people find it amusing to feed seagulls on the boardwalk creating havoc and a bird shit attack on innocent bystanders? Do they have no sense of decorum or civility? Anyone who feeds a seagull on the boardwalk is an outright idiot.
Idiots abound during the weekends in Wildwood. Moron madness sums it up nicely. The proliferation of tattoos amongst the ignorant is astounding. I certainly can understand soldiers getting a tattoo on their arm representing their unit or service as a form of comradeship. I understand motorcycle club members identifying themselves by a distinct common tattoo. But young girls with multiple tattoos on their legs, arms, necks, and backs is revolting and stupid. We saw an attractive young girl at the Shamrock bar with a full leg tattoo. When my wife saw it close up while in the restroom, she noticed it was faces of ghouls and vampires. What happened in her childhood to lead her to deform herself in such a manner? It reminds me of cattle being branded by farmers, except the cattle are human beings being herded and corralled by their government keepers and they brand themselves.
I’m baffled as to why so many people feel the need to mutilate their bodies. These are lower class people with limited financial resources. Some of them have thousands of dollars worth of ink deforming their bodies. The combination of ignorance, illiteracy, mathematical incompetence, and no self respect is a toxic mixture destined to keep these people trapped in poverty and unemployable. I have a theory about why the poor feel the need to tattoo themselves. We live in an egocentric facebook culture where everyone is competing to be noticed. People are desperate for attention. The rich don’t get tattoos. They drive BMWs. They wear Rolex watches. They wear Armani suits. They live in McMansions. The poor can’t afford bling, real estate, or luxury cars. But they can finance tattoos with their credit card. The easily led, ignorant, lemming like masses are just following the lead of the other ignorant masses. You can’t teach stupid.
The funniest aspect of the boardwalk is the tramcar – I hear “watch the tramcar please” in my sleep. After wolfing down a few fried oreos, washed down by a 32 oz lemonade, the tattooed masses hail down the tramcar to drive them the ten blocks to their motel rooms. They are too ignorant to understand the irony of being transported on something called the Boardwalk.
There is nothing particularly wrong with the people enjoying themselves on the Wildwood boardwalk. They aren’t bad people. They aren’t committing crimes. They are spending money and keeping the economy going. But, I can pretty much guarantee you that not one of these people has ever visited The Burning Platform or would even understand the issues we debate every day. They are willfully ignorant. They don’t want to think about hard stuff. They have been dumbed down by our public education system. They have become obese by eating the toxic frankenfood peddled by mega-corporations. I noticed one heifer with one of those ugly Apple iWatches on her immense wrist. Where do these supposedly poor people find $500 to waste on an egocentric useless bauble. Ignorant Americans are addicted to status symbols because their lives are so shallow and their intellects are deficient. True self worth comes from within, not from what you wear, drive, or paint on your body.
They have been brainwashed by their government with decades worth of propaganda that has sedated them, made them fearful of phantom terrorists, and supportive of blowing up people in foreign countries without a declaration of war. They actually believe the armed police forces roaming our streets kept us safe from a terrorist attack on the 4th of July. Their pea sized brains are unable to process the fact that more people have died in bathtub accidents since 9/11 then have died at the hands of terrorists. They don’t question, think or care about future generations. They don’t understand the long term financial implications of a country with $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities. They don’t even understand the term liability. It’s almost enough to make a man go to the Boardwalk Chapel and pray for the souls of the ignorant masses.
At least the merchants on the boardwalk are creative and retain a sense of humor. I’m sure some progressive politician from Washington D.C. would be offended by being told to grab a wiener. Or maybe in our new gay America, this joint would be celebrated by the LGBT community.
Coincidence or not? You decide.
Some boardwalk stores actually provide some hope. Teaching the masses on the boardwalk to disobey might take more than a shirt. I would estimate that 75% of the people strolling along the Wildwood boardwalk have never heard of Edward Snowden, let alone what he did. And of those who have heard of him, most buy the government storyline that he is a traitor. But 99.9% of these morons know the courageous story of Bruce Jenner’s transformation into a freak called Caitlyn. They are oblivious to the military industrial surveillance state they occupy. The militarization of local police forces doesn’t reach their radar screens. Miley Cyrus twerking videos are more important.
They have no worries about the fact that Obama and the captured corrupt politician snakes slithering around the halls of Congress have added $7.6 trillion to the national debt since 2009, a 75% increase in six years. They care not that their president uses drones to murder people in foreign countries. They think having troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and dozens of other countries around the world is keeping them safe. They are happily unaware that the American empire overthrows governments on a regular basis if they don’t do what we tell them to do.
It seems that everyone on the Wildwood boardwalk embraces the surveillance state. They all have tracking devices attached to their hands. Vacation used to mean leaving the office, disconnecting, relaxing, and recharging your batteries. With the proliferation of iGadgets, the masses have been trained by the Bernaysian propagandists to have the attention span of gnats. Rather than enjoying themselves on vacation, they have to prove to the world they are having fun. They “need” to check-in on Facebook. They must post selfies from the bar. They have to take a picture of their meal and tweet it to the world. The vacuous multitude are gloriously distracted from reality by their technological chains. The State is ecstatic, as the plebs wallow in bread and circuses (funnel cake & roller-coaster rides), and provide an electronic tracking signal for the NSA to exploit when necessary. The willfully ignorant masses will not disobey en-mass until they are no longer getting monthly government transfers, ATM machines stop spitting out $20 bills, and their credit cards come back declined.
After observing for too long, I needed a break. We had one particularly enjoyable walk that we captured in a few pictures. As you walk down the boardwalk towards North Wildwood the rides and games fade into the distance. It gets quieter and less congested. When we reached the end of the boardwalk we decided to keep going for another 15 blocks to The Rocks at 2nd & JFK Boulevard. There was no one on the path with us. It became quiet and peaceful. The moon was full and reflecting on the rippling waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
The sun was setting in the West providing an orange glow over the lighthouse and the bay in the distance.
The scene couldn’t have been more breathtaking. No people. No technological distractions. No noise pollution. Just the sea, the wildlife, the sand dunes, and a shining orb in the sky.
But then we had to walk back to reality. That is the dichotomy you experience in Wildwood. There is much to enjoy and savor, but it is overwhelmed by moron madness. I’ve come to believe that Aldous Huxley’s fears have been manifested on the boardwalk of Wildwood and across our entire nation. The masses don’t read books. We are inundated with so much useless information, we have been reduced to passivity and egotism. The truth is buried in a sea of irrelevance and our culture is based upon triviality. Our almost infinite desire for distractions and pleasure have produced a profoundly abnormal society. The ignorant masses are acting normally only in the context of living in a sick, demented, abnormal society.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” ? Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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Awesome coverage. I've advertized on your site before. Wallet =mouth.
Yeah? "Well it's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Stopped reading after the generalization that all people with sleep apnea are fat, disgusting slobs. I was questioning who was a bigger pretentious prick, this author, or that Kunstler bozo...
I question the intelligence of anyone who would spend their vacation anywhere in New Jersey... Or within 100 miles of a boardwalk anywhere.
This article is a bunch of judgmental drivel that does more harm than good.
http://noagendashow.com is the antidote
So you went on vacation and brought your politics and shit blog with you and as a result you had a bad time. Boo hoo.
Fuck you Jim Quinn.
I am Chumbawamba.
Here’s a good one for y’all:
AP source: Fed's gun used in San Francisco pier slaying
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ap-source-feds-gun-used-in-san-francisco-pier-slaying/ar-AAcGD5k?ocid=ieslice
This is proof positive that we need gun control..
to take them out of the hands of the government.
moron madness moron madness moron madness moron madness moron madness moron madness
"White Pizza" ? How is this not rayciss?
i like how there are no groups of dindus looking like they are training for the knock out game or shooting someone in the back, america needs more of this not less.
Sorry, Jim, I generally like your work, but in this case:
1. Sell your place in Wildwood. It's been a laughing stock for decades.
2. Some of these poor people, of all races, are fully aware of their plight. Unfortunately, they have few alternatives.
3. You are not as white, rich and educated as you think you are. Not compared to some of us, who, inter alia, wouldn't be caught dead in Wildwood.
Carry on.
Exactly - there were those oh so offensive fatties (the vapors!) every other time Clan Quinn has been there, and yet they keep going back. Have a large cup of STFU and remember "there by the grace" etc etc. You or yours could be disabled at any moment, son.
I was somewhat disposed to always check out a Burning Platform submission, but now it can Burn Down for all I care. Condescension without contribution is a waste of time. At least Denninger tries to bring some knowledge with his.
As someone who identifies as a White Pizza i do find it racist
What this author calls "Moron Madness" is just the new American normal. If you don't accept it, you should worry: you are this close to become a scapegoat... or a terrorist, or something.
Yup, what could be more depressing than one of those fake American towns, full of tourist traps, 'restaurants' with with only greasy sugary and artificially flavored food on the menu, and a little train with "Coca Cola" written on it?
That does not seem like a fun place for vacation. I would be pissed off too, if I made a bad choice like that. Quinn's got the blog, so he's venting on it. Wonder if he used a smartpoop to take those pictures.
Amen brother. Where did they scrape this up from? Probably a NSA plant.
Long tattoo guns and tattoo needles.
I went to Wildwood, NJ once. Never again. Virginia Beach is far superior.
As bad as the Wildwood boardwalk zombies are, the people who wear a "I'm Ready for Hillary" button are 1000X worse.
Holy Mother of....! I swore off Va. Beach 20 years ago, this past July 4th, because it was so bad. Yes, there were tattooed ho's back then, too. This author has my deepest sympathy regarding his shitty, over priced vacation. He should try September, provided no 'canes are comin'. Myrtle in Sept. is very nice. I'm sure Wildwood is too.
Have you ever actually been to Wildwood? The beach sand is just dirt. At least there is real sand at VA beach. And as "bad" as VA beach might be, I guarantee the human element is an order of magnitude better than Wildwood.
Yes . . . It all sucks and this guy chose to spend his vacation there.
So who's the dumbazz ?
(Or weenie who let his wife & kids dictate where they would go)
Though I do agree with many of his points - - - the American people have been conditioned, over at least the last 100 years, - to the point where real freedom means nothing to them.
The only ones 'conditioned' are those who deserve to be enslaved.
Sxxx
My thoughts exactly
How else are you going to observe the great unwashed unless you wallow in the trenches with them. Do you question the intelligence of reporters that have gone to Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, the killing fields of Cambodia? Why of course you would.
Its called the immersion technique. Or you can just immerse yourself on the internet but then you won't get the full flavor of Americanus boobus. You certainly won't get any pictures if you don't do it in person.
An analogy you "might" be able to understand. Pretend he's a bird watcher. Got it?
Did you read it?.....he actually was watching pigeons.
Yea, did you read it?
He was on VACATION fucktard. Immersion is what reporters do when they WORK.
You've never heard of a working vacation? You don't think its possible to combine both? FUCKTARD?
You must be new around fight club... fucktard and fuckshite are terms you need to learn and learn to love.
Needs moar mobility scooter!!
Funny, I just got a ResMed S9 VPAP (ASV Mode), on the black market of course (f the .gov apnea/Rx monopoly!). I'm not too butt-hurt over the generalization of the author. ;-)
I just picture the pretentious prick author riding his 3 speed bike at 5 mph on the boardwalk as he judges everyone, LOL
And his look of shock when his doctor says that he has colon cancer and he's only 48 years old AND despite all his nutritional clap trap.
@ Tom Servo:
While the article does have a judgmental tone, I think you (and many others) may be missing the point...that being, that most of these people he references are completely oblivious to the world around them.
The "social media" crowd often likes to give off the appearance that their "life" is more than it really is - While being so concerned about self-image, vanity, "how cool we are"...they miss the fact that most of the REAL world around them, is going to shit.
It's hard to not be judgmental, for me; I used to live in NJ, so I get what Quinn is saying about the daytrippers that invade the beach towns 100%. Where I live now, there are not only a LOT of stupid people, but like the people Quinn talks about "They CHOOSE to be ignorant, and are PROUD of it".
Around here, a lot of people are quick to mention their involvement with Church. These same "religious" people, have no problem shitting all over other people 6 days out of the week, the idea being that "saying sorry to God on Sunday" makes it okay.
I disagree with how the author characterizes some people - I know a few "fat" people who I count among my closest friends, and also know plenty of good-looking people who could have numerous judgments passed on them.
How exactly does this asshole KNOW the people walking by him are ignorant? Because of how they look?
If that is the case, I'd say he is the ignorant one.
>> Around here, a lot of people are quick to mention their involvement with Church. These same "religious" people, have no problem shitting all over other people 6 days out of the week, the idea being that "saying sorry to God on Sunday" makes it okay. <<
The hypocritical Christian idea is always a big seller. Can you identify five such hypocrites whom you personally know who do as you describe?
cRAZY but seems whatever corner i turn at work
there exists some 250-300 lbs over weight person.
they seem to be taking over the world
Visit Australia. You don't see very many fat people there. Why?
Because I'm not there.
Yes, I was not impressed with the article either. He simply judged everyone by a number of negative stereo-types with himself as lord emperor of the delta quadrent. Pretty much divide and concour mindset and actually, very snobby. Wont win any hearts and minds in my book. I actually find many slim and trim health nut perfect folks vain, superficial, and immoral. You know, headonists, obsessbed with me, myself, and I. Guess what type of kids they raise?
Try writing an article that can unite people together in a good way or in some way help people.
I bet you have a tattoo or three.
"By 11:00 am the obese, tattooed, pierced, XXXL bathing suit wearing land whales have disconnected from their CPAP machines to hunt for donuts, soda and breakfast sandwiches."
LMFAO! Exactly right - nearly everywhere in the USSA.
Hey, laugh all you want. It's going to be the fat people that survive the economic winter, not the thin...
Not totally true. If the sh*t really hits the fan then fatties will die first due to diabetes. The Prepper Nurse had a video about it. I used to like her but she is buddies on youtube with Prepper former Spec ops guy from Maine aka Maine Prepper who still loves Uncle Sam's BS and the is an NWO stooge. My guess is he likes his pension.
I wonder if the average sick obese patient I see on 10+ meds ever contemplates these drugs are not manufactured in the USA anymore. You would think if you are totally dependent on these things, you'd be sure to be adequately supplied. Or contemplate changing your lifestyle?
Must be like everyone in cali not worried about the drought because the spigot always flows. I hope there are enough piano sized coffins in storage if the supply chains break down.
Miffed
I rarely downvote, but Maineprepper has a terminal degnerative brain condition due to a combat injury. He knows he has some issues and has taken down his own youtube chanels. If you could find someone who has the recordings of his E-novel, it would change your misconeptions about his views. The gentlemn is no NWO stooge and is a patriot to the US Constitution. His passing will be a great loss to America.
This isn't an accident
It is a prerequisite for FASCISM
Standard demonization of the victims by Quinn, with no criticism of the government crime bosses who created this situation. Glyphosate contaminated food, flouridated water, poor families split apart first by the Great Depression then by narcotic drugs starting in the 1960s on (bought in by government protected druglords). So some people make bad choices concerning their attire, their body decorations (tattoos) and their eating habits. At least they are going outside. What about those people hooked on antidepressants who are afraid to go outside or those people in jail for the rest of their life in sunless cells serving the new normal jail sentence, decades in prison. Or those veterans with PSTD who weren't human wreckage before Clinton, Obama and the Bushes decided to sell out the USA to Saudi Arabia. Quinn, you are a arrogant spoil sport who can't see anyone different from you having fun.
"The ignorant masses are acting normally only in the context of living in a sick, demented, abnormal society."
The masses of people have done the best they could, for generation after generation, to adapt to living inside of a society which was controlled by the groups of people who were the best at being dishonest and backing that up with violence. The accumulating sickness and insanity of society is the result of each short-term increment of social successfulness being able to be based upon enforcing frauds, through integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. Over time, that automatically gets worse, faster, to the degree that any attempts to fix those problems usually backfire badly, to cause them to continue to still get worse, faster ...
The deeper problems are PROFOUND, since there are no ways to actually stop each short-term increment of what actually happens being controlled by those who are the best at dishonesty and violence. Rather, the only possibly realistic solutions are necessarily INTENSELY PARADOXICAL, inasmuch as there would have to be better systems of lies backed by violence, to actually change anything, since anything which was not better at dishonesty and violence would continue to be defeated by what was then best at doing that.
MORON MADNESS is the long-term result of the masses of people adapting to their lives being lived at the bottom of deep pits, inside of deeper pits, which were dug out by generation after generation living inside of various sorts of systems of slavery, based upon society being controlled by those who were best at backing up lies with violence. One of the ironic manifestations of MORON MADNESS is in the ways that authors like Jim Quinn superficially observe that, but do not engage in deeper analysis of how and why civilization is controlled by best applications of the methods of organized crime.
As Cognitive Dissonance has previously stated on Zero Hedge: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
That applies to everyone, (including me too, of course.) However, I REPEAT, the two main ways that manifests are, FIRST, the degree to which social observers tend to not see the social facts that civilization is controlled by the best organized crimes, & SECOND, since they do not tend to engage in that deeper analysis of how and why civilization is controlled by the best organized crime, they even more fail to appreciate that the only genuine resolutions to the real problems would have to be better organized crime.
Note to Jim Quinn: Get some fucking new material!!!! You're the fucking moron...
Thundering herd? really? you mean you think thsoe five or six people in line at DD is a herd? that palce looks like a ghost town, not a summer beach resort on July 4th.
what a dump, you'd done better at the beaches of South Brunswick, NC...or even Myrtle Beach.
So this article is actually a good piece of writing.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and obviously well nigh on the negative side of partiality...by for my two cents this was a good read.
There is much to be said for reading actual books...be interesting if the Author had pointed out more than Huxley but that is at least one.
What has always stood out to me about myself and others now is how consumed everyone has become with our "touch screen."
Let's face it: nothing beats face to face communication especially if it's about nothing in particular.
The author might be expressing a pathology he sees...but at least the folks are out and about.
Always easy to be a cynic...embracing anything at a variance with our belief system is always fraught with danger...
shark much? The ecosystem is dead
its odd i have a big garden at home and i haven't seen a bee all summer. i think monsanto's roundup gmo stuff damaged their genetics and subsequent generations have all died. just like what is going to happen to kids of kids today.
Have a read of this pdf, it might help you come to terms with things.
Nature Rebounds - Jesse Ausubel, 2015
What's wrong with tattoo's? I have one so I can be different - just like everyone else.
How does that make you different when the new normal is to have one or more?
exactly tattoos r so mainstream now it isn't funny
even old farts are doing it
No I don't.
While it's ruined in the explanation ...
"I can be different" <-> "just like everyone else"
... see? Sheesh!
Don't bother explaining, it was perfectly clear. That guy just came in off the boardwalk, and hasn't digested his fried snickers yet.
Does your tattoo say: See, me too! I got one too guys!
I have scars, tattoos are for losers.
+100. I've got enough accumulated concrete burn to make a collage...
I have tatoos of concrete burns and knife scars for instant street cred'. I also have one of the My Little Pony characters, but it's holding a broken beer bottle.
Best complemented with a semi-constipated look, indiscernable from irritation or anger.
LOL! Feral New Jersey. What do you expect? The governor is a moron but light years better than Corzine, McGreevey, or Florio.
Moron Christie, who never passed up a funnel cake or pizza, brags that he has seen Springsteen hundreds of times in concert. What an idiot. You would think he might listen to something decent from the Jersey Shore like Southside Johnny.
I am not a huge S Side Johnny fan but he is a good guy and better than Springsteen or Bon Jovi who are both libtard douchebags.
Southside Johnny was awesome back in the early 80's. I have not been to Wildwood since then. But the author is right about the mess people have become.
He failed to mention the fact that Wildwood is a hot spot for Philadelphia residence to visit.
I'm thankful millions of dumb asses like Jim Quin think wildwood is a good place to vacation. It keeps the crowds away from the really nice places.
I won't say where I was last week, but it was 1000x nicer, nearly empty and 1/4 the cost.
Seriously, what's with the hate for heavy people and tattoos? Not everyone in those categories is a brain dead retard.
You have obviously not spent enough time in flyover country.
Like your wife? The shadow of her ass has it's own zip code.
Hate is a strong word and I don't think that is true here. There is just something aesthetically wrong with a large bulbous lumpy form covered in tattoos. This applies to men, women and all races.
I was in the girls locker room at yoga and saw a young girl with a drop dead gorgeous figure. She had tattooed on each her sides a peacock feather. I must say the work was exquisite and it looked very good on her body. However, at 75 that feather will look like a shredded bush after a hurricane.
Tattoos seem like narcissistic self mutilation to me.
Miffed
"I was in the girls locker room at yoga..."
Pics or it didn't happen!
Actually, tatoos and piercings are a serious turnoff for me, even on a young hottie. Spoils the view, the way I see it.
I don't think it's all about narcissism though. More of a group identity and rite of passage sort of thing. A reversion to primitive norms, like you see in tribal societies. I put rap in the same category. It's not the lyrical content so much as its repetitve nature - like a tribal drum beat.
Same goes for bling in all it's manifestations. No different than a wampum vest or head-dress that denotes status. Totems, rock and cave paintings? Look around you. The walls, bus shelters and rail cars are covered in them.
If you view modern society from the perspective of an anthropologist, it all starts to make sense.
Agreed. I think bottom line, regardless of how amazing the artwork is, it just looks like shit on the human body. Stand 50 feet away a look at someone with tattoos and you think 'oh my they must have tumors', you get up close... oops was just a bunch of tattoos
... Not everyone in those categories is a brain dead retard.
You think ?
Sorry, IMO, really a boring moronic article ... probably why I do not do Facebook, Twitter or whatever ... the trivia of other people's lives does nothing for me.
Never got to the end. Was there a point?
Yes. How to take interesting subject matter with "now and gib me" on full display, and fuck it up with political spin.
The point here is willful ignorance runs deeper than the author can swim.
Speaking of ignorance, ask the author to explain why Bldg.#7 fell down and you can see what he's all about. End of clicks from me on this OP.
No. He died of a heart attack just as he was about to finish. Life can be cruel that way. He bent over to adjust his spandex bicycle pants out of his but crack, and his heart exploded.
This article could be summed up in four words: "get off my lawn!"
That was pretty good.
If you don't like America, move to the Congo. I'm sure you'll find plenty of shit to bitch about there too.
Haha, Quinn seems like a fun guy to hang out with. Real uplifting guy.
I've been to New Jersey, if I wrote an article about it I'd be pretty disenchanted, too.
Remember...it is NJ. I am a Seaside guy myself from back in the day. Just a tad lower on the totem pole ! Hang on LBI these days. No boardwalk is the key.
I think he failed to articulate that NJ is filled with some of the most media/TV/"news" brainwashed morons in the country. Cory Booker and Robert pedo Menendez are their senators and so was Corzine.
I would guess 70% of NJ still loves Obola. True idiots and probably 20% of the population in NJ is okay.
Says the man from Douchetown where sweeping generalizations rule.
Ever heard of freedom of speech ? Or freedom, in general ? It means that I am free to make sweeping generalizations any fucking way I want ! If you don't like it, don't read it, and don't by the book...
How about I not only buy the book and read it, but write a scathing review in the Saturday Evening Post? Would that also be free speech?
"Go ahead, make my day" !
Ummm I wasn't talking about you LOL.
Likewise my reply to Freddie above is also freedom of speech. I think to make sweeping generalizations about all the people in a state because some of its politicians are corrupt (as if NJ is the only state with corrupt politicians) is dull. It's also ironic in that one of the things the article complains about is "willful ignorance" - to me sweeping generalizations are willful intellectual laziness. What's worse?
First things first: if something applies to a majority (even relative) of people, it's no longer a generalization (and definitely not sweeeping...)
For once, I was inundated with a useful reading.Thanks.
Ha ha. Ripping the blacks in black and white. It's only 90 minutes away but u should stay at Seaside Heights if you really want to see A zombie show. Wildwood is like Boca Raton compared to Seaside Heights.
"waddling morbidly obese unmarried women and their uncontrollable horde of bastard children is mind boggling."
This species of human is growing in numbers. It is a scene right out of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clYwX8Z43zg
Far too many words and totally bad photography. But other than that, I totally agree.
Doesnt willfully ignorant=stupid?
"They have been brainwashed by their government with decades worth of propaganda"
Right. ONLY government propaganda is to blame. The billions spent by corporate 'Murca on advertizing propaganda has nothing whatsoever to do with this huge swath of dumbshits.
This is why I quit reading, listening to or considering most all analysis by right wing ideologues. Their confirmation bias cannot be overcome so all conclusions from them is incomplete and always errs on the side of licking the sweat from the ass crack of rich people. They cannot help it. They have been brainwashed themselves.
Haven't you heard...corporate America did an LBO on the government. It is now a wholly-owned subsidiary.
I don't disagree. However, I doubt government propaganda has much to do with the way people present themselves in public. It sure seems that fashion magazines, movies, TV, commercials, etc... would have much more to do with that than government's 911 terror BS. But then, I'm not a right wing ideologue, so I have a difficult time seeing these connections that appear so obvious to this guy.
Thank goodness someone understands that.
It is New Jersey. Brainwashing there is on the level of North Korea. Corzine, Menendez, the mummy Frank Lautenberg. One of ythe most corrupt shitholes in the world.
Brainwashed to the level where I am sure 70% still love Obola and would vote for him 10 more times if they could.
Oh by the way. Periods and commas are your friend.
To wit: Oh, by the way, ...
Dupe
Since it would some folks don't get punctuation - especially the guy complaining about it:
You do understand that "Oh by the way." is not a sentence, right?
Or maybe Freddie was just being ironic.
Quinn:
Speaking of MORONS... you still a 9/11MORON ?
9/11 Is the Litmus Testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LE0eTYc
When the fuck are you going to wake up?
I guess you like being a TOOL!
keep the faith
cut - and - paste much, DAVIDPIERRE?
at least get some new material.
and if quinn is a moron, then what does that make you?
a loser who was kicked off of the moron's blog?
lololololol!
Still doing 9/11 nonsense, you fucking idiot?
There are very different classes of people. The people I know are all much younger college students at UCLA. They read and study books until they walk into things. They are extremely competitive and most of them are in shape. They're smart and in my 1st year as a junior, I'm now a senior, I have not noticed anyone high or drunk. There are 29,000 undergraduates. All these people are doing something with their lives. There is a 3.6 or so default rate on the loans so most graduates end up with decent jobs. But even if they don't get better jobs their minds will be changed, matured and tempered to face any problem. My parents never pushed me to go to college. They had no idea of what exercising the mind for 4 to 10 years does for a person. Despite all the dead weight out there I have hope because education is now a big part of the US social structure.
Are you honestly comparing the demographic make-up of UCLA to the Jersey shore? I hope your field of study isn't statistics...
Funny. A friend just moved to SoCal. He sent me a few pictures. My first comment was, "What the hell, I thought everyone in CA was fit and tanned. I see the same Walmart types there as I do on the East coast."
So, what...UCLA is outside of the normal college paradigm? Nobody is drunk or high? Every one of them are doing something (assuming you mean productive) with their lives? You should take off your True Blue glasses and take another look.
Yeah - if they were so smart - why the F are they still in LA? Please tell them to stay there. And how exactly do you know that 29,000 undergrads are all doing something with their lives. If they are taking soft phony majors they are not doing anything with their lives.
Eucation is a big part of a scam that Education Inc has foisted on unsuspecting young people who end up having to pay for university corruption. Just the research grant system alone is a sewer of corrupution.
I have WAY more respect for a homeless panhandler on a street corner than I do for corrupt elitist tenured university professors turning tricks for research grant money. At least the homeless people are resonably honest.
What the fuck? I thought you were an alien (the "space" kind). If you think college edutainment and indocrination are going to save us, maybe you are.
You sound like my neighbors daughter. She has a Masters degree and works at Kohl's as a cashier and complains that "this wasn't what they told me would happen."
PS She lives at home with her mom too.
last i had heard, UCLA had been overrun by the Chinese - so I think it is an outlier instead of the mean. I hope you are not studying finance.
Today's winner of the MDB look-alike contest!
Ocean City is a free beach
http://ococean.com/things-to-do/relaxation/beach/
Wrong ocean city,,,,,u provided a link to ocean city maryland,,,,,,ocean city New Jersey does charge the author is right, the wildwood beaches keep getting bigger because the beach replenishments from the beaches Quinn says wash away to wildwood
that's Ocean City, Maryland, moron . . .
So let me see if I've got this straight....
You are a perennial Wildwood aficionado
And you're talking shit about the empty-headed goobers that go there?
Quinn needs to revisit the principles of libertarianism and most importantly the root: Do anything you like so long as you don't initiate harm or violence against anyone else.
We all have our own opinions. Jim doesn't like tattoos, neither do I, but whatever floats your boat... Tastes and passions vary, as they damn well should! It would be incredibly fucking boring to be surrounded by mini-me clones. Who am I, or you to judge?
I understand the frustration with stupid people, but the examples listed are half-baked, poor examples of stupid people. Here's a real one for you: I live in a mountainous, tactically advantageous region, and heard a woman state that she wished she could be poor in California vs. rich here. I used to live in Southern California and everyone I knew who grew up there, including me, left and didn't come back. That's an idiot. Walking into an ambush/tornado/apartment fire when you should know better because you think it's a great idea is idiotic.
That's just logic.
Perfect Jim! And thank you for not reminding people that we caused this decline--deliberately. We gave them junk food, TV, fluoride, mercuy, lead, "schools," medications, fructose, even best-sellers. Thanks for blaming the victims, and not mentioning my role in all this.
Thanks also for going to make-believe places like Wildwood on vacation, and for not letting on that there are still some beautiful, uncrowded, places on earth where you could find solitude. Maybe, after all, you too are a victim of the sick culture I created, despite your puffed arrogance?
Hi David. How is your boss Beelzebub? When is he gonna call you home? You really need to take a dirt nap.
Thanks Freddie. I'm going to get me a young body someplace (one of my victims, probably), and find another body to rest rest my head on. So, I'm figuring I'll be good to about 2115!
You missed $cience, terrrrrism, endless war, captured MSM, and, most importantly, a global, predatory, whorish financial system.
Yes David. But remember those programs were aimed at the useless eaters. Only lazy idiots fail to read and research, breed with no forethought, eat crap until they're so bloated and diseased they're physically repulsive and then refuse to take responsibility for any of it.
Not that easy to escape. I'm 100 years old, and, for awhile, I believed in Little Red Riding Hood. Actually, I even believed for a short period in my own fairly tales about 9/11, Federal Reserve, JFK. It's similar to what I did with that fellow Chapman--numb him to a point where he was no longer in control of his thoughts and actions. That is, more or less, what I did to the vacationers--puffy Quinn included--of Wildwood. They could be healthy and free--but I deprived them of that option. Only a few of you can ever escape my clutches.
It wasn't difficult. All I had to do was follow my intellectual curiosity and question everything.
Anyone who doesn't deserves their fate.
An appropriate follow-up to this commentary:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endanger...
You already posted this to another page on ZeroHedge.
Standard Disclaimer: What the fuck is your problem?
I used to go to Avalon and Stone Harbor, NJ from the 60's to the 80's. Actually, most females were in good physical condition and many looked great in bikinis. They had pride in their bodies. Guys as well. No social media to f*ck things up and just maybe a few transistor radios. The only ones riding the tramcars were the elderly - not those too obese and lazy to walk. It's like a "before and after". JFK had America on a physical fitness program through the schools before he was killed. Now 2/3 of all Americans are overweight or obese. And I guess now you need either bigger tatoos or more tatoos to cover all the extra skin flab. What a zoo.
Btw, only went to Wildwood one night during our vacations to check the roller coaster rides, etc.
Never were 'tram cars' in Avalon or Stone Harbor and the women still look good in both places because they are affluent and have lots of money for various high-level maintenance routines (nails, hair, skin) along with leisure time to eat well and exercise. Also is large social emphasis on staying trim and thin (almost too thin) even if you have 2 or 3 kids.
Funny!
Place looks like a Potemkin Village from the before i was born era. Hideous colour arrangements and GMO a la carte or wall to wall.
Standards have slipped Worldwide although prices are on the up.
I'd hate to tell you how much 6 days in Spain cost 3 of us but couldn't have been far off a burger flippers annual take home and wasn't good value at half the price.
This guy should run for President because he can connect with ordinary people better than Hillary or Jeb. This is because he has so much more respect for them than either of those two.
Every tatto is at least partially motivated by the desire to feel wronged and "judged" if anyone expressing anything less than full-throated approval.
Kind of like putting a rainbow filter on your FB photo and checking who doesn't "Like" it.
I hung on for a while...
A bit too much, Mr. Quinn.
Imagine if all the collective passion were to be concentrated on corrupt points of control, rather than the easy fallout.
Everybody claims to "know" its all falling apart,... don't they?
Everybody knows.
Ah... Wildwood, played there many summers and Carney's in Cape may next to the Par 3 golf course where the fun really began. But if you want to see the real mutants, go to Seaside Heights, there the show never ends.
The author really comes across as a arrogant snob.
You might mean lines like this:
"The masses don’t read books. We are inundated with so much useless information."
Books are immune to useless information? I did not know that!
One of the biggest problems with all these social commentary articles is the universal assumption that everyone is the same. The poisonous use of the word "we" when damning the culture, as if we all have some kind of culpability for what the aristos allow on the mass media, and for that matter assuming the mass media is somehow equivalent to "the culture". Not everyone participates in or shapes this thing called "society". Many of us don't even believe such a thing exists.
The constant shaming, the faux self shaming of the 3rd party observer feeling angst over how "we" are so very terrible. It is an attack against our personal sense of moral righteousness, designed to prepare us for any bad thing that befalls us at the hands of those who have power. We are supposed to feel as if we deserve the lash that is about to fall.
Fuck guilt. Fuck propaganda masquerading as social commentary.
Reading this article and the majority of comments is like reading the whining of a bunch of old guys who think sweater vests are cool but somehow want to think their cynicism is the most cutting and intelligent. NJ isn't the only place where ticky tack, obese people making bad food choices, and teenagers just tying to get laid by wearing the latest fashions (which these days happens to include tattoos) converge - especially in summer. It happens in nearly every town in America. Evidence of this and the shallow ability of most Americans to understand what's going on around them is not just a product of the jersey shore can be seen on any social media outlet, cable news and by traveling.
The people are lulled in a fatal security to be awakened only by the outpouring of the wrath of God. They are blind to eternal realities. We are now in the closing scenes of this earth's history. "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come." Revelation 14:7. The very end will come as an overwhelming surprise, "in such an hour as ye think not." Christ says, "As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matt. 24:37-39. The passage of the same-sex marriage bill is a sure sign that the very end is nearing. "As it was in the days of Lot, . . . even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."
40 year resident / renter in Ocean City New Jersey or OC, just up the pike. I can't agree more. OC is more "white bread", alcohol dry, "family beach". Wildwood is deep South Philly. Atlantic City though, just up the coast from OC is really a trip and the boardwalk has to be seen to believe. They have the tatoo shops and also message parlous right on the beach. The whole prognosis was spot on and most entertaining. Macs is a must and eat it there, on the beach, it doesn't travel well. Carlin was a genius.
I got hard reading about vacationing near a Mr Softee.
When is the season over?
Reading about these people sure makes you wanna enlist, to fight, bleed and die.
So they can have their Freedumbs, and I can be called a Selfless Patriot for perpetuating their lifestyle of 'Merican Exceptionalism.
Who's with me?