Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

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Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:44 pm

oh, the places you shouldn't go.



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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:50 pm

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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:20 pm

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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:01 pm

the playa always wins.







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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Savannah » Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:20 pm

Hahahahha!
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Post by burner von braun » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:44 am

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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Token » Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:43 pm

Judging by the lack of gushing life changing miracle stories on the board this year, it must have epic sucked.

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Post by Jackass » Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:44 pm

Token wrote:Judging by the lack of gushing life changing miracle stories on the board this year, it must have epic sucked.
Every year worse than the last. It was better last year...
Sooner or later, it will get real strange...

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Post by FlyingMonkey » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:18 pm

Jackass wrote:
Token wrote:Judging by the lack of gushing life changing miracle stories on the board this year, it must have epic sucked.
Every year worse than the last. It was better last year...

It sucked much worse next year.
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Post by some seeing eye » Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:42 pm

Yep too hot, too cold, too expensive, too out of the way, no vending, hours and hours of traffic jams, destroys your clothes/belongings, bike thieves, snobby burners, mean police, sniffy dogs, shitty music, crappy portopoties, unsanitary, and too dusty. And you could die.
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Post by Lonesomebri » Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:36 pm

Look, I'm out there on the playa this year, I hear someone shout my name. I turn around and it's the young lady from Brazil who is in our camp.
She is out with the naked pub crawl.
She called me by my first name.
She is half my age.
Where is the respect for elders?
This is the kinda of shit ya gotta deal with on a daily basis.

She goes home and writes a travel blog about her experience at the Burn and I have to remind her in print, and I do, that Burning Man sucks.
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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Meat Hunter » Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:22 pm

Not much remaining for next year.

When I went to the doctor in Fernley to have my bronchitis and ear infection treated; the doctor looked up my nose and said that I was "...carrying half the playa back home..." with me.

Do yourself a huge favor and save yourself a good bit of time and even more money --- don't go next year because there will not be much of anything remaining.
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Post by maladroit » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:06 pm

Lonesomebri wrote:Look, I'm out there on the playa this year, I hear someone shout my name. I turn around and it's the young lady from Brazil who is in our camp.
She is out with the naked pub crawl.
She called me by my first name.
She is half my age.
Where is the respect for elders?
This is the kinda of shit ya gotta deal with on a daily basis.
Shocked that you'd be treated so callously by a young, drunk, naked Brazilian girl.

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Post by The Rod » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:10 pm

This year sucked so bad I didn't even consider going.


Next year ain't looking good either.
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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by maladroit » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:26 pm

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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Token » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:49 am

some seeing eye wrote:... And you could die.
Now that is worth living for!

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Post by maladroit » Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:42 am

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Post by unjonharley » Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:00 pm

It would suck better if there was a constant white out and dust devils as large as center camp
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Post by BBadger » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:08 am

Man, if you thought the fleet of dirigibles was bad, it's going to really suck with all the aerial screw drones terrorizing people from the skies.
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Post by unjonharley » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:06 am

And the catapults raining live cats
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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Elliot » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:29 am

:lol:
You promise to bring the cats, I'll build a catapult!

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Post by Simon of the Playa » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:51 am

note to self, bring the sturdy umbrella.


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Post by DerbyDave 18 » Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:55 pm

This year was my first time so I have nothing to compare it to and I loved it. It was amazing and I am definitely going back next year.

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Post by Simon of the Playa » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:44 am

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Re: Burning Man Sucks, Don't Go.

Post by Ratty » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:58 am

This is my new mantra. It's replacing my old mantra. (That I can't think of at the moment.)
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Post by BoyScoutGirl » Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:10 am

DerbyDave 18 wrote:This year was my first time so I have nothing to compare it to and I loved it. It was amazing and I am definitely going back next year.
Careful - with an attitude like that, you're liable to be put in charge of something. Suddenly, it's not just dust, it's dust and work. Only sickos could enjoy that.
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Post by Elorrum » Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:12 pm

this year likely correlation does mean causation... sucking AND not going. -1. ah, we'll see.
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