Useless Conversation

[FatuousTwat]

I have gotten that from a few people and my response is to stop playing, look them in the face with my "seriously-concerned" face and say "You know this is all pretend, right?  These are not real people."

Great idea. Throw their own bullshit back in their faces!

[Selby]

I saw a car catching fire on the ride in to the office today.

The last time this happened, I took a picture of it.  It turned out pretty neat.  Definitely made my drive much more interesting.

[Sky]

I knew I had been in LA for too long when I was walking with a friend to the corner store, we passed a burning car and neither of us mentioned it. Didn't occur to me until we got home and cracked our 40s just how jaded that was. Just like passing an interesting plant or something. "Oh, there's that."

[Pennilenko]

Didn't occur to me until we got home and cracked our 40s just how jaded that was.

Hey, thats what my friends and I used to do back in the ghetto.....................................................................

[stray]

I knew I had been in LA for too long when I was walking with a friend to the corner store, we passed a burning car and neither of us mentioned it. Didn't occur to me until we got home and cracked our 40s just how jaded that was. Just like passing an interesting plant or something. "Oh, there's that."

Did your life kind of resemble the movie Repo Man?

[Nevermore]

I knew I had been in LA for too long when I was walking with a friend to the corner store, we passed a burning car and neither of us mentioned it. Didn't occur to me until we got home and cracked our 40s just how jaded that was. Just like passing an interesting plant or something. "Oh, there's that."

I can shenanigans.  Nobody walks in LA.

[stray]

canned shenanigans. i want some

[Yegolev]

[Sky]

I can shenanigans.  Nobody walks in LA.

You didn't know poor people, apparently. We were walking to the corner store. A block away. Yes, that means there was a car on fire less than a block from our house.

I did have a skateboard to get to work. Didn't have enough money for the bus.

We used to shower under the neighbor's garden hose at night. Heated the house in the winter with construction site scraps in the fireplace.

I've been poor.

[Yegolev]

Heated the house in the winter with construction site scraps in the fireplace.

I suppose this was not LA...?

[lac]

I was dirt poor once, luckily only for a couple of months. I was totally broke. I heard Dylan sing "when you got nothing, you got nothing lose" on the radio and I remember thinking "fuck you, Bob, if you got nothing, you got nothing to eat."
Took me a long time to appreciate him again.

[voodoolily]

I've eaten dumpster-dived food. No big deal, really, it was all bagged day-old bread and bagels and pastries from behind the bakery, and pizzas still in the boxes from the pizza joint. I also crashed a few parties just to get food. Ah, the college days.

[stray]

Pffft. Shit, I AM poor. Get off my [non-existent] lawn.

[Cyrrex]

Pffft. Shit, I AM poor. Get off my [non-existent] lawn.

Obviously, you don't love God enough.

[Nevermore]

I can shenanigans.  Nobody walks in LA.

You didn't know poor people, apparently. We were walking to the corner store. A block away. Yes, that means there was a car on fire less than a block from our house.

I did have a skateboard to get to work. Didn't have enough money for the bus.

We used to shower under the neighbor's garden hose at night. Heated the house in the winter with construction site scraps in the fireplace.

I've been poor.

Did you run into any missing persons?

[rattran]

They weren't missing persons until after he ran into them.

[Sky]

Heated the house in the winter with construction site scraps in the fireplace.

I suppose this was not LA...?

Yeah it would get down to maybe 50 some nights in the winter, so we'd get a fire going and all camp in the living room. No heat, water or electricity.

Being poor was so much better in upstate NY, because we had a big enough fan base to support us. Always a bed or couch open, always meals and beers to be had. Fuck big cities.

[Nevermore]

Ok, no one seems to get the joke/reference so I'll just let it drop.

Yeah it would get down to maybe 50 some nights in the winter, so we'd get a fire going and all camp in the living room. No heat, water or electricity.

It would get colder than that sometimes.  When I lived in Long Beach it got into the 30s on a few occasions.  I was poor enough at the time to not have the gas heat hooked up and I was living in a little studio so if I was sleeping at home it was lots and lots of blankets.  Thankfully I can count the number of times it got that cold on one hand.

[Sky]

Someone called the cops on me once when I was in the front yard breaking up wood for the fire. City folk 

The best part was I had to go inside for ID and there was a raging party going on. But they had seen the lights and everyone ran upstairs to hide and be quiet, except my girlfriends. So I walk in with the cops and there are beer bottles everywhere, a nice fire going in the fireplace and two scantily-clad women draped about the couch. The cops give me a big cheesy grin, I get my ID and they tell me to have a good night.

[Yegolev]

Did your ID say McLovin?

[Merusk]

You know.. it's not his views, his attitude or even his general personality that makes you want to hit Sky upside the head.  It's the little things that slip into his anecdotes without even a second thought.

[Sky]

Like what? 

[Yegolev]

It's mostly how we are jealous of your rockstar lifestyle and lament our comparatively tame histories, and how you are always telling a story where the point is none of those things.

EDIT: Here, specifically, some of us remember being very poor and how having no money kept us from having a single girlfriend.  Just to illustrate.

[NowhereMan]

Or for some others: What would you rather have, central heating or two hot scantily clad chicks on your couch?

[Signe]

Central heating.

[Strazos]

Cover yourself in scantily clad chicks, and there's your heat. 

[voodoolily]

You don't have to feed your furnace, or buy it beer or penicillin.

[Rishathra]

On the other hand, your furnace isn't typically scantily clad, or a chick.

[Lantyssa]

Central heating.

I must agree with the henna covered feet.

If I'm so desperate I want women over comfort, I'll snuggle a jackhammer.

[apocrypha]

Central heating would cost us about £3000 to install in our house (big guesstimate). I could probably hire a couple of models for a couple of hours for about 1/10th of that. So, yeah, central heating please!

Oh, and are they your feet Signe?

[Merusk]

What Yeg said.

You overly-practical people seem to think he was supporting these ladies.  I'm guessing not.

[Yegolev]

Right.  When Sky said "girlfriends" in the plural, that should have clued you in.  Besides, he wasn't supporting even one woman if he was chopping wood in the front yard.  Still, that's not it.  You guys are focusing on the wrong bits, which is (I think) why he tells these stories in the manner he does because I doubt he is so oblivious as to not chuckle at everyone's responses.  That's what I'm doing, anyway.

Picking between central heating and a couple of hot chicks?  Where the hell did that come from?  The two are unrelated insofar as Sky was chopping fucking wood, not running a lemonade stand in order to buy a furnace.  Who buys a furnace in LA anyway?  Just cover yourself in sluts until the cold snap is over, that's what I'd do.

[Sky]

Support them? Hah. How do you think we got the beers? Bored rich girls are the best friend of poor musicians.

And that was then, all that shit is out of my system. Today I go for central heating :) Less drama. I'm happily boring now. Also why I'm a disgustingly romantic cheeseball, I really appreciate the girl I'm with now because I know what's important in a relationship. But stories about that aren't as much fun as band days stories.

Saw BBVD last night, they are such a hot band, got a pick from Scotty after the show.

[Pennilenko]

Online traffic school sucks!

[NowhereMan]

I didn't realise we needed a licence for the information super highway.