I apologize for being a dick

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I apologize for being a dick

Post by Dork » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:08 am

I apologize for bitching at a guy for asking to put his cup in my trash bag. I had been collecting moop, was cranky, and decided that because you used the words "my cup" instead of "this cup I picked up off the ground" that you had just gotten the cup from a camp giving away beverages, that you neglected to bring your own non-disposable cup, and that you were then hoping I would free you from the responsibility of properly disposing of it. I should have asked you where you got the cup before refusing to take it from you.

I apologize for accidentally shining my headlights on two playa BJs while driving my art car around Saturday night. I turned away as fast as I could and wished you had not felt it necessary to stop what you were doing. I will attempt to make my forward lighting less jarring next year.

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Post by unjonharley » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:12 pm

I spend a lot of time picking moop. I have a grabber. It's easy to pick stuff up with. If I see a bunch in front of a camp. I get off my trike After being on my bike for a while. The only way I can get off is to fall off and catch myself before hitting the ground. Then get the cane. Some times I shake before getting to move. "This little fucked up show I have to do" gets campers off there dead asses in a hurry. Most people help fill the moop bag as I go by.

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Post by Dork » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:35 pm

The funniest is when people see my moop bag, pick something up real quick, deposit it in my bag, then keep walking. Great, you picked up ONE piece of moop that I would have gotten just fine.

So, does anyone else have any overstimulation/sleep deprivation/dehydration-induced dickery they would like to get off their chest? I know I wasn't the only one.

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Post by geekster » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:57 pm

I apologize for telling our neighbors that if they didn't baffle that fucking jackhammer of a generator they had, that they might just awaken one morning to find someone had cut it in half.
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Post by puffycloud » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:58 pm

i would like to apologize to the guy who came up to my camp at 4am and started pissing a few feet away from where i was sleeping. i grabbed a high-powered led flashlight, rolled over, shone it directly on him and his little wang, and screamed, "DO NOT PISS HERE!"

dude's face was pure shock and horror as he tried to cut off the stream and run for it.

actually, never mind. i don't apologize. it was a glorious moment. :D

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Post by unjonharley » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:06 pm

Guess I should say some thing. to the guy I offered to disassemble his fucking genny wth a hammer. It was shooting fumes under the van and up my nose. He did say the wrong thing to my shutting it off.

He said "I was here first"

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Post by geekster » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:33 pm

Which reminds me ... do they make a backpack mounted plasma torch?
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Post by skygod » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:59 pm

I am sorry I brought bratwurst to my Israeli neighbors.. Wasn't thinking.
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Post by Ever » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:40 pm

I can't grasp why you would get mad at someone asking to use your garbage bag, moop or not. I understand your apology and think it's cool that you're doing so, but it sounds that you're only offering it seeing that it wasn't his garbage.. Who cares if he was just coming from a camp/neglected to bring a non-disposable/etc. Would you really have said no if it was indeed from a camp and project the assumption that he's the type of guy who always relies on other people to free him from his responsibilities? Seems much easier to just toss the shit in the bag and move on..

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Post by Dork » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:05 pm

Maybe I should have also let the guy empty out all the garbage from his camp. I was carrying a huge garbage bag, after all. Why shouldn't I be expected to let stangers pawn off their responsibility on me? I mean, I was carrying around a plastic bag in broad daylight! Just like how as soon as many people leave the event, the first garbage can they see gets filled, then piled high, then a pyramid builds around it. It's actively looking for the slightest justification to pass the responsibility on to someone else because you can probably get away with it.

Yeah, it would have been easier to take it and in most situations I would have. For whatever reason, I was in pissy moral crusade mode at that moment and the guy rubbed me the wrong way.

Let me ask you this - if I had not been carrying the bag but happened to have large pockets would it still have been acceptable for him to ask me to deal with his garbage?

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Post by Bin Noddin » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:29 pm

skygod wrote:I am sorry I brought bratwurst to my Israeli neighbors.. Wasn't thinking.
Hey, I was born in Israel and I love bratwurst. Ruined by too many years in Wisconsin.
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Post by unjonharley » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:33 pm

Bin Noddin wrote:
skygod wrote:I am sorry I brought bratwurst to my Israeli neighbors.. Wasn't thinking.
Hey, I was born in Israel and I love bratwurst. Ruined by too many years in Wisconsin.


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A Israeli polock??¿¿

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Post by Bin Noddin » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:40 pm

unjonharley wrote:
Bin Noddin wrote:
skygod wrote:I am sorry I brought bratwurst to my Israeli neighbors.. Wasn't thinking.
Hey, I was born in Israel and I love bratwurst. Ruined by too many years in Wisconsin.


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A Israeli polock??¿¿
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Post by AntiM » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:40 pm

I'm positive I was a dickette to someone at some time. If so I'm sorry, unless you deserved it.

I have some harsh words for the folks who used my pin and clip bag on the Home for Wayward Art for trash, and to the mook who thought their unwanted costume helmet made of rice krispies and mentos was art enough to donate late Sunday afternoon. I damn near left it on one of the traffic cones but that would have been wrong. I am looking forward to SMASHING it. Dicks.

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Post by sputnik » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:42 pm

I confess, I was a dick too. I'm sorry.

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Post by brayandtrill » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:15 am

ditto...
Sorry to the guy who stopped to thank me for doing moop duty and told me he had more "moop" for me as he dug into his backpack. I gritted my teeth and told him to please take his moop back to his own camp...but he was actually trying to give me a gift. It was a really cool lighter.

Sorry to the folks at "DMT - the Lab" when my husband ran up and started yelling at them after spotting our stolen bikes in front of their camp. They turned out to be really nice and obviously had nothing to do with the theft.

Sorry to our "neighbors" for telling them they should move to 8:30 and Disrespectful after they decided cram up between our and our roadside view, box us in and peg their tent down UNDER our car so we could not even walk between. Still, it was a little much folks but we could have handled it better.

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Post by unjonharley » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:26 am

brayandtrill wrote:
Sorry to our "neighbors" for telling them they should move to 8:30 and Disrespectful after they decided cram up between our and our roadside view, box us in and peg their tent down UNDER our car so we could not even walk between. Still, it was a little much folks but we could have handled it better.


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our camp was completely surounded, guy ropes coming in from all sides. Had to drop one persons shade to leave. Lots of fun.......

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Post by skygod » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:05 pm

"Hell is other people"_ Jean Paul Sartre
There was quite a shouting match across 2:30 concerning a camp with a noisy generator.
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Post by 2_rivers » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:22 pm

I joined in an angry mob throwing playa at what used to be a clean new bmw ,driving down 4:30 on Fri. morning, and then, I took off my pants, layed down in front of it and did a naked playa angel and I'M NOT SORRY!!!! Hahahaha :lol:

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Re: I apologize for being a dick

Post by spectabillis » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:17 am

Dork wrote:.. apologize for accidentally shining my headlights on two playa BJs while driving my art car around Saturday night. I turned away as fast as I could and wished you had not felt it necessary to stop what you were doing...
<sarcasm>

them stopping was not your fault. how dare them, i mean really now thats just not acceptable. dont they know that rangers will approach them under the heavy suspicion that someone is being sexually assaulted? after all, the rangers dont know, and they will err on the side of caution and stop whatever is going on no matter what.

</sarcasm>

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Post by blyslv » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:12 am

I'm sorry I put myself in a situation where drama was to be expected. Still, I thinking hitting me was over the top.
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I apologize for beng a dick

Post by madmatt » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:27 pm

I was a dick to the guys at Vamp Camp on the esplanade on Saturday, because they had an obvious newbie out on the street calling out "come get some free stuff people, we're giving it away for free!"

And no, it was not meant sarcastically. They had what amounted to the contents of 10 supermarket vending machines sprawled on their bar. I was a dick for making some snarky remarks about resembling a sale at Target.

Got those guys were idiots! I apologize again.

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Post by BAS » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:21 pm

I apologize for whatever it was I probably did, whenever I probably did it.

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Post by madmatt » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:35 pm

BAS wrote:I apologize for whatever it was I probably did, whenever I probably did it.
That was YOU?!?!?!?! It's cool, you were probably drunk at the time.

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Post by skygod » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:40 pm

That was YOU handing out baby wipes at the Jots?
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Post by BAS » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:11 pm

madmatt wrote:
BAS wrote:I apologize for whatever it was I probably did, whenever I probably did it.
That was YOU?!?!?!?! It's cool, you were probably drunk at the time.

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Well, yeah, I was...!

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Post by BAS » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:12 pm

skygod wrote:That was YOU handing out baby wipes at the Jots?
Well, the did have George W. Bush's face on them!

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Post by emmablue » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:22 pm

This was my first year, would someone please explain what moop is?
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Post by ibdave » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:49 pm

emmablue wrote:This was my first year, would someone please explain what moop is?
MOOP

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Post by SED » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:36 pm

emmablue wrote:This was my first year, would someone please explain what moop is?

YOU DICK!!! I demand an apology for you not knowing what moop is!!
It ain't the hanging, it's the drop.

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