Okay you "experienced" burners, tell us vergins so

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:46 am

SOCKS! Bring 2 packs of new socks. Change your pair whenever you are back at your camp. I cannot stress how nice it is to slip your feet into fresh new socks

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:43 am

Fire_Moose wrote:SOCKS! Bring 2 packs of new socks. Change your pair whenever you are back at your camp. I cannot stress how nice it is to slip your feet into fresh new socks

Meh.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:26 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
Fire_Moose wrote:SOCKS! Bring 2 packs of new socks. Change your pair whenever you are back at your camp. I cannot stress how nice it is to slip your feet into fresh new socks
Meh.

Now there's a visual....

Playa Tom · Post by **Playa Tom** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:19 pm

The single most important thing you can bring to Black Rock City is a positive attitude, if you have a decent attitude you can get whatever else you forgot to bring.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:46 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
Fire_Moose wrote:SOCKS! Bring 2 packs of new socks. Change your pair whenever you are back at your camp. I cannot stress how nice it is to slip your feet into fresh new socks
Meh.

You could make sock puppets...

Naiad · Post by **Naiad** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:48 pm

Light yourself up at night. You can't just shine a light where you are going, like when you are taking out the trash at home. At home, on your way to the alley, you don't have many bicycles with impaired riders speeding at you - but there will be on the playa. A headlamp doesn't cut it. Delineate your mass: show where your head and feet are, show those hands. Show the outline of your bike. Don't count on somebody else's light to pick you out of the darkness. By the time their headlight illuminates you, it will be "ouch Charlie, that really hurt."

If you don't light yourself and get you run over, well, that's your problem. But if you don't light yourself, and I get hurt running into you, I'm gonna be pissed off. Don't be a darkwad.

Mosin · Post by **Mosin** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:13 am

Naiad wrote:If you don't light yourself and get you run over, well, that's your problem. But if you don't light yourself, and I get hurt running into you, I'm gonna be pissed off. Don't be a darkwad.

That is sage advice, and so very well put!

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:18 am

Naiad wrote:Light yourself up at night. You can't just shine a light where you are going, like when you are taking out the trash at home. At home, on your way to the alley, you don't have many bicycles with impaired riders speeding at you - but there will be on the playa. A headlamp doesn't cut it. Delineate your mass: show where your head and feet are, show those hands. Show the outline of your bike. Don't count on somebody else's light to pick you out of the darkness. By the time their headlight illuminates you, it will be "ouch Charlie, that really hurt."

If you don't light yourself and get you run over, well, that's your problem. But if you don't light yourself, and I get hurt running into you, I'm gonna be pissed off. Don't be a darkwad.

You really should introduce yourself before handing out advice...you are confusing Jkisha.

And also....the speed limit is 5mph for EVERYTHING, and that includes assholes that are riding so fast on bicycles
that they can't see darkwads in front of them before it's too late and try to blame the darkwads
for walking or just standing there in the first place.

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:01 am

I think the sand dunes should be lit up as well.. they will fuck you up as much as any "dark wad".

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:04 am

they are lit, you just have to wear sunglasses to see them..........

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:24 am

are you experienced?

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(in 1968 our music fucking rocked)

I recommend you click on the link, and enjoy the experience, you will.

was I right?

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:30 am

uh uh !!! ::::::: (( Y )) ::::::::

SHAKE that big ol ass !!!

STANK FACIN'

BlackRockCowboy · Post by **BlackRockCowboy** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:44 am

Thanks for all the advice so far. My list is getting freaking HUGE!! LOL.

But there are definitely some things I would of been clueless on. I think I will take extra of everything in case someone needs some assistance.

Am I wierd to think that I have all these friends already and we haven't even met? There is just something about this group of people that makes a virgin(yes I do know how to spell it) feel very comfortable with getting their cherry popped.....

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:58 am

nope, not wierd at all............
my experience is, you'll find, upon meeting people you "talk" to here, they treat you as a friend.
No matter the snark, and sometimes aggressive opining and conversation, in "real life" they are a bunch of nice folks...........

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:44 am

Burners are the smartest, nicest, most lovable, hard working, nasty group of misfits one could ever encounter.

you'll never know unless you go.

And this topless, shirtcocking, yahoo, hippy wants to hug and kiss everyone of them.

(and if you wonder how I can do "topless shirtcocking"(my art), you will have to wait and see..... as the excitement builds)

the men at burning man are all dicks and the women are all pussies.... so go get fucked! (where is this coming from)

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:15 am

Gold Bond and Compression Shorts for guys. Chafing on the playa is not fun...

Homiesinheaven · Post by **Homiesinheaven** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:09 am

The trip back home:

it depends on where you are coming from but staying in a hotel in Reno before driving home to LA was the smartest thing my group did last year. plan ahead and book a room! you eat whatever you missed, get the best refreshing and thorough shower of your life, and sleep like a baby before hitting the road the next day. smartest hotel stay you're ever going to have.

the last thing you're going to want to do after BM is a long drive. everyone is going to be tired and cranky and your mind will be doing backflips trying to sort through everything you experienced. oh, and pack a change of clothes (shoes too) and seal it in a bag with duct tape. after that wonderful shower you can open it and put clothes on that aren't covered in playa dust. feels really nice.

ism · Post by **ism** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:14 am

My first time was last year, and I lived on (and will next year, too) mostly Kippered Snacks and Triscuits, but I pretty much live on them all year round, anyway. People thought it was gross, but I soon had people eating them, when they never would have thought to before. Dem fishies are gewd and easy foodstuffs.

I haven't seen this mentioned on the site, yet, granted I haven't read everything, yet, but Vitamin powders to add to the water you keep in the cooler you fill up with ice every morning. Like Emergn-C, or something. Makes for good morning gifting, too.

...edit, I second guy above me, too. We stayed in a motel the night before and after the burn, book them early, though. The night before we drove to every little freaking town in the area before we could find a decent/affordable one.

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:38 am

lots of good camping info here http://www.ae-zone.org/

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:38 pm

2.5 yards of medium weight cotton cloth. it serves as a dirt mask a skirt a wind break and so much more. I give my volunteers a yard of the stuff and it is unbelievably useful. one thing to ALWAYS carry on your person at ALL times is a ziploc bag for the icky stuff girly stuff oozycrap. its so important.
RobbiDobbs
Chief Poopervisor of the Pottie Project

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:37 pm

NEVER LEAVE CAMP WITHOUT YOUR DUST MASK AND GOGGLES! NEVER EVER EVER!

And pre-cook the bacon you bring. It saves on clean up effort and makes strangers happy when you feed it to them.

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:38 pm

Oh yeah, what's a vergin?

BlackRockCowboy · Post by **BlackRockCowboy** » Fri May 01, 2009 4:35 am

It's a Vegan Virgin Burner

or someone that plans to "veg out" at BM for the first time

or it could just be a typo from an uptight college educated professional over zealous about attending BM for the first time at age 39 ready to let their hair down and enjoy the freedoms that BM represents as well as the challenges put for by the idea of radical self reliance in the middle of the Nevada Desert in the heat, the dust and the almost 50,000 other people that are willing to push their limits and over come their fear of public restrooms to use porta-potties for a week!

Â¡Niers! · Post by **Â¡Niers!** » Fri May 01, 2009 10:28 am

Back to the "Light yourself up" subject.
Don't be like I was my first year. All I had was a head lamp, and as they work great for YOU to see where YOU are going. Doesn't help your ass-side.
I got rammed twice from behind by bikes cause of that. It's no fun for either party involved and the fun just comes to a screeching halt.
This year I am bringing a glow-in-the-dark crocheted hoodie and a UV flashlight to charge it.
Oh...you'll see me this year.
Nothing like a sore ass to remember what not to do.

Ok let the jokes begin.

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Fri May 01, 2009 10:31 am

Were the bikes at least lubed??

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:24 am

The CO wrote:Oh yeah, what's a vergin?

I looked up Vergin wiki and here is what a "Vergin" is. (I never would have thought

from below: "Vergin Worthless - fold mucosa vagina"

(VAGINA! now you have to read it!)

Vergin
Published: 22.06.2008 | Author: admin | Category: The normal sexual development Print this article Why virginity Worthless?

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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:32 am

About the worst transalation I have ever seen.

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:41 am

Have a cold soda and a small snack to hand to your Greeter on the way in - they occasionally get beer but rarely something cold to rehydrate with. Those four hour shifts can be gruelling if the dust is blowing. Remember there is a difference between the Gate (where you show your ticket and are searched for stowaways) and Greeters (where the party starts).

BlackRockCowboy · Post by **BlackRockCowboy** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:03 pm

I type as I am jumping up and down uncontrollably with a grin from ear to ear!!!!!

It is in my hand as I slowly stroke it back and forth gazing at it's beauty not believing that it is here. As I smell it, I breathe the idea of the playa, the freedom, the expression, the attraction of it all drawing me like a moth to a flame. I gaze, glassy eyed now, realizing that after at least 5 years in the making I am starting my maiden voage to the Man. My virginity will be sacrificed as I release years of conservative upbringings and ideals in the middle of the Nevada Desert. Joy starts to seep from every pore in my body as I quiver with excitement and uncontrolled spasms of pleasure. I take a deep breathe and try to bring myself back down to reality, back to a world that I must reside and be productive for another few months until I can bury the past and begin life anew at FREAKIGN BURNING MAN 2009!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus did I just bust a nut or what?? Forgive me for my excitement.....LOL

Cowboy (Official Member, ticket in hand, of the BM Virgin class of 2009)

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:23 pm

Yea!!!!!!!

Come by Jungle Camp and I will give you bacon and a Bloody Mary!

Okay you "experienced" burners, tell us vergins so

Ticket just delivered and signed for!!!