Signs that you're a Burnerd

RebA! · Post by **RebA!** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:23 pm

Told this story on the old eplaya bout a year or so ago. But its worth another mention.

Its a hot day in seattle (yea that happens here on occasion) and I am on the bus. As I am getting off the bus at my stop for my work at the time. I tell the driver thank you, and he says "Keep Cool"

I open my mouth to utter "Piss Clear", but I caught myself just in time.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:26 pm

After my first year I started to take my clothes off to put on sunscreen

In a parking lot

In Montana

My friend was doing exactly the same thing. We caught ourselves just seconds before the shirts were all the way off.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:28 pm

consumer wrote:
- You giggle everytime you see a "Jiffy Lube" ad/sign/location

This is so one of my favorite BRC things.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:42 pm

thank god i live in the bay area - so many bernerds out here you can't walk ten feet in any direction without tripping over one.

i live within walking distance of both home depot and target.

III · Post by **III** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:54 pm

>walking distance

is ueless if you're picking up a couple hundred board feet of lumber..

DogBoy · Post by **DogBoy** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:59 pm

Flux said it best-

A bin?
A bin?
A fucking bin?

God, how I hate you self-righteous neat freaks with your well-organized little lives!

A bin indeed! Grumble, grumble, grumble...

No shit. I have an 8x10 shed that can't even think of holding all my crap.

Along thread lines-

You buy casters, hardware, & weird shit at Harbor Freight Tools because its cheap & it MIGHT be handy on the playa.

During the month of August you can't stop thinking "Is that a burners car?" every time you see more than on jug of water in the back seat.

You start your own event that everyone (ie:your non-burner pals) loves & thinks is the coolest thing around, and it's just a warm up for you. (I'm gonna try out the solar rig/trebuchet/homemade bike/whatever just to make sure it works by BRC...)

You see a Burning Man sticker on a car & just know that person must be cool.

You have a burn barrel in your backyard.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:00 pm

You have a burn barrel in your backyard.

Ooooh. Good idea!

DogBoy · Post by **DogBoy** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:05 pm

Check your city regs. I am constantly hassled by Community Enforcement (Strange combo of words, particularly to a burner). They still can't tell me why a barbeque is ok but my barrel is not.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:08 pm

you could always throw a grill on it and claim it IS a barbeque.

stu · Post by **stu** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:19 pm

Bingo! That will work in a suprising number of places.

And I love your avatar. Took a while until I *saw* the twitch.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:31 pm

Another sign: you scoop up playa soil and place them in little glass 50ml bottles to send off to people during the winter because you know that sometime around January, there's gonna be a few people who are seriously Jones'n for some.

herself · Post by **herself** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:30 pm

FOR GOD'S SAKE

Don't any of your people have any self respect?

This is starting to sound like insipid and slavish devotion.

Since when did burning man become a big fucking fraternity?

herself

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:31 pm

Harriet, go take your meds.

herself · Post by **herself** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:41 pm

I am sweating rather heavinly now than you mention it, Badger.

Will monitor as appropriate.

TestesInSac · Post by **TestesInSac** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:42 pm

I dunno, she has a point and I just LMAO'd.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:50 pm

I am sweating rather heavinly now than you mention it, Badger.

I'm sweating rather heavily myself. It's because of the fucking heat. Damn hot outside (for you folks o/s the bay area the temp is about 90) with no clouds in the sky, a small marine breeze blowing in over the coastal mountains.

Wait, what the FUCK am I whining about?

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 6:29 pm

Badger wrote:
I am sweating rather heavinly now than you mention it, Badger.
I'm sweating rather heavily myself. It's because of the fucking heat. Damn hot outside (for you folks o/s the bay area the temp is about 90) with no clouds in the sky, a small marine breeze blowing in over the coastal mountains.

Wait, what the FUCK am I whining about?

the heat, remember? it is thoroughly ennervating.

precipitate · Post by **precipitate** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:14 pm

> Wait, what the FUCK am I whining about?

I was chastised this morning for complaining about the heat.

I was in the hills above Malibu, in full sun, wearing jeans and a dark blue
t-shirt. Temps in the high 70's to low 80's. There wasn't a hint of breeze.
And I drank a 4-pack of Inebriator Stout (9.1%) plus some bourbon and
some other beer and I don't know what else last night, only to be
awakened by the evil star around 8:30. It was in the high 80's by the
time we left at 10:30.

I said, "Ooh. It's hot," and hunkered down towards shade.

Someone else said, "You call yourself a burner?"

I pointed out that I don't wear jeans and dark clothes on the playa, and I
have better shade (the people who own the land haven't gotten much up
yet, so it was basically follow the sun around the trailer for shade). I
almost got snarky about their tattered silver tarp, but then I remembered
that they're some of my best friends and wonderful human beings who do
really cool shit, but haven't gotten around to it up on their land.

It was funny. And reminded me how differently I deal with my personal
comfort when I'm not in the desert. Gotta do something about that.

antron · Post by **antron** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:31 pm

precipitate wrote: I almost got snarky about their tattered silver tarp, but then I remembered

i guess that means you've completed your bm 2k3 recovery, and need to start planning for next year...

antron · Post by **antron** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:52 pm

but you definitely are a burnerd when you ask your partner if they want to go to costco for the afternoon

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:23 am

antron wrote:but you definitely are a burnerd when you ask your partner if they want to go to costco for the afternoon

and they're a burnerd if they reply:

"can we also go to target and bed bath a beyond? i know exactly what i want to get and it won't take long, i promise"

then 3 hours and $500 later, you smile and say, "did you get everything you need, babe?"

consumer · Post by **consumer** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:27 am

Precipitate, I had a very similiar conversation yesterday:

Getting into my non-burner roomate's car, I immediately expressed how fucking hot it is (please note that I live in Phoenix). As we start heading down the road, I ask him why the hell he isn't running the air conditioning. He says, "Costs too much; burns too much gas."

I then made it clear that I didn't care what his reasons were, and that he best just start the god damn a.c. He reluctantley turned it on, but was quick to point out how much of a whiner I was being. He then said, "Don't you get hot out at that Burning Man?"

I replied, "Yes, but its not nearly as hot there as it is in Phoenix. Plus, I take the time to set up a decent shade strucutre, I have my camel-bak filled up with cool water, I'm wearing only a skirt, and I..."

He started laughing hysterically at the skirt part.

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:34 am

A friend hurridly got off the phone because he had to go to the "Porto Pottie".

"LMAO",
mr smith

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:10 pm

You know you're a burnerd when you go to parties, and you come home with a pocket full of cigarette butts...and they're not even your brand.

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:11 pm

I went to the EarthDance festival in Northern California this weekend, lots of cool music and freaky people.

I knew I was a burnerd when the sight of trash cans -- and overflowing ones, at that -- shocked me more than anything else I saw or experienced there.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:25 pm

OregonRed wrote:You know you're a burnerd when you go to parties, and you come home with a pocket full of cigarette butts...and they're not even your brand.

when i checked my pockets after the beach burn on sunday night i found:

-a cigarette butt ( mine )
-the phone number of the 18 year old newbie burner named strayswingcat, who plays alto sax and has a weakness for explosives
-large quantities of sand

III · Post by **III** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:08 pm

i know i'm a real nerd cause i got all excited over free tickets to a stephen hawking lecture.

TestesInSac · Post by **TestesInSac** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:15 pm

III wrote:i know i'm a real nerd cause i got all excited over free tickets to a stephen hawking lecture.

Well, he is pretty popular. Not that I'm questioning nerd creds or anything.

JonoVision · Post by **JonoVision** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:37 pm

Gotta check out www.mchawking.com.

PJ · Post by PJ » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:00 pm

III wrote:i know i'm a real nerd cause i got all excited over free tickets to a stephen hawking lecture.

I think a Stephen Hawking concert would be even cooler.

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