top douche bags fucktards at BM 2010

[AntiM]

There was a camp there that not only grabbed an insane amount of land for a sound camp that never did much, but they also posted a "not-a-through street" sign at 8:00 and F, blocked the road with their RVs and after being told to clear it by a ranger completely destroyed the street sign at 8:00 & F.

I wonder if they thought they could get away with it because of the double village blocks? I live in a village, I know it confuses people! Hushville places us (HFWA) at the T intersection because if we aren't there, folks try to drive through Hushville. If anyone has seen how tightly packed the village is, they'd know how dangerous that can be. We have been asked why we're camped in the middle of the road.

[ron5657]

The top douche bags of 2010 (and any year) are the fucktards with the Megaphones! How irritating is that? If I wanted to hear you, I would go up to you and talk to you. I don't want to hear you rambling on insulting people who walk by. I think you people with the megaphones just like to hear yourself talk. The first day we were setting up camp, some douche bags were walking down the street with construction gear on, hard hats, etc, shouting "get to work im the boss" in a cheesy guido accent. They were holding up a stop sign preventing people from traveling in the street. I would prefer to hear a loud gas powered scooter drive by than someone with a megaphone who is full of themselves!

[junglesmacks]

The top douche bags of 2010 (and any year) are the fucktards with the Megaphones! How irritating is that? If I wanted to hear you, I would go up to you and talk to you. I don't want to hear you rambling on insulting people who walk by. I think you people with the megaphones just like to hear yourself talk. The first day we were setting up camp, some douche bags were walking down the street with construction gear on, hard hats, etc, shouting "get to work im the boss" in a cheesy guido accent. They were holding up a stop sign preventing people from traveling in the street. I would prefer to hear a loud gas powered scooter drive by than someone with a megaphone who if full of themselves!

lol.. were they changing the D street signs to "Denver" from "Detroit"?

Hilarious. Personally, I think the megaphones add that certain je ne se quoi. It's all part of the experience, homeskills.

[gerlachedNloaded]

i second the megaphone jabbering. i found it unnecessary, rude, and generally childish to berate fellow burners for your own amusement. we're there to build a community TOGETHER, not tear each other down for kicks. two big thumbs down, regardless if it was a joke or not.

[Bob]

I don't mind megaphones but LOUD TALKERS are just SO RUDE!!!

[C.f.M.]

Jerks with megaphones are the worst.

[junglesmacks]

i second the megaphone jabbering. i found it unnecessary, rude, and generally childish to berate fellow burners for your own amusement. we're there to build a community TOGETHER, not tear each other down for kicks. two big thumbs down, regardless if it was a joke or not.

Berating, sure.. that sucks whether or not it's with a megaphone or not. But.. the correctly timed megaphone use with proper technique I find quite amusing. Now.. pass me my tea.

[C.f.M.]

No, no, people with megaphones are just AWFUL and should be banned from Burning Man. What a NUISANCE!

[gerlachedNloaded]

word.

[junglesmacks]

Yes! Damn the personal freedoms and mutual license of self expression unless I enjoy it! Damn it all!

PS.. directed at CFM.. not you GNL. I agree with the statement that berating for jollies has no place at BM.

[brody]

I'm not in the "ban megaphones" camp, but I find that there's usually a regrettable combination between overblown ego and the choice to use a megaphone*. People who think they're really, really funny and that they're so proud of what comes out of their mouth that they want to broadcast it to a wider audience....usually aren't that funny. Or are trying too hard. Or want attention and think it's 'edgy' or transgressive or whatever.

People who are genuinely, effortlessly witty usually don't feel the need to amplify it, because it's not a big deal and they don't think it's special that they're funny.

Either that or there's alcohol involved, in which case they're still probably not funny except as trainwreck-in-progress.

There are exceptions, of course, but in my 7 years at Burning Man I've run across damned few.



*I'm speaking of using it recreationally, as opposed to directing traffic or giving instructions or MCing an event or whatever where amplification is USEFUL.

[knowmad]

Being Rudely shaken down By the Ice Stations Crew (Via Megaphone) for Schwag, while waiting for Ice on Saturday during pre-event . and because I wasn't amused, I was forced to the end of the line. mega waste of everyone's time. as we were working on our installation and standing inline makes us a man short. If I didn't know some of the nice and hard working individuals with DPW. I'd be tempted to be a bit more stingy with the PBR's. every time I hear a shake down spiel I think "Douchebagburner"

[Fire_Moose]

Guy walking down the street with a megaphone: "Horse cock! Horse Cock!"

Me: "Learn how to use a megaphone!!"


Didnt hear it again all week...

[C.f.M.]

Guy walking down the street with a megaphone: "Horse cock! Horse Cock!"

Me: "Learn how to use a megaphone!!"


Didnt hear it again all week...

I also gave out instructions.

THE MEGAPHONE IS FOR TALKING. IF YOU ARE NOT FUNNY, DO NOT TOUCH THE MEGAPHONE. DO NOT PRESS THE BUTTONS THAT MAKE ANY NOISE OTHER THAN VOICE AMPLIFICATION.

I will take it from you. And then beat you with it. Verbally. Until you cry in shame.

[Savannah]

We got a description of the LEO art car:

"a saloon"

Not much, but something. Did anybody else encounter such a car ?

I saw a saloon art car parked behind a spindly fence on the corner of approximately 5:30 (or 5:00) & Esplanade during the afternoon. It was cool, law enforcement's or not. It was about the size and height of a bus, lots of bar room wood, open sides, old-style oil painting of a nude horizontal against the center back wall. I took a photo. I would have given a couple of airline bottles of good whiskey to ride. I would have carded the person who took it from me.

[motskyroonmatick]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! MEGAPHONES were so much funnier last year!

I just decided to not make a hexayurt for 2011 and instead spend $450 on equipping my entire camp with MEGAPHONES. Ebay here I come!!!!!

[ConnieH]

haahaa...we had several megaphones in camp, used to entice passersby into our bar, solicit alcohol & mixer donations from members of our camp who where holding out, and to rouse the lazy members on work day. Maybe some random jabbering, but not many of us put up with that. If anyone around 4:30 & C were offended, I hope you at least came in and had a drink and got over it

[Da Mule]

Guy walking down the street with a megaphone: "Horse cock! Horse Cock!"

I hear that often. You know - some things are just so shockingly BIG, they incite you to foolishly repeat what it was that you just saw.

Me: "Learn how to use a megaphone!!"

Didnt hear it again all week...

That's cuz he didn't see me for the rest of the week.

[buckycat]

Megaphones are the new shirtcocks. But occasionally they are funny. "I LOST MY GLOWSTICK HAS ANYONE SEEN MY GLOWSTICK" through a megaphone still warms the cockles of my heart everytime I hear it.

I saw the surly NYC-style work crew changing the street signs on Denver and thought they were awesome. Excellent street theater art. I myself changed the signs on my block from "Cairo" to "Catro" in a nondestructive manner. Detwist yr panties.

The Petting Zoo has been a kickass bar for years, and so what if they were out looking for booze? I imagine some of that booze would have been served right back at their bar. Detwist yr panties.

I got caught in a chicken wire "gifting" cage, maybe the same one previously mentioned, like 5 years ago and I remember that moment of "oh-shit! I fell for it," and I loved it, and it was easy to self-extract. Detwist.

The only fucktards I would point out are all the undercover LEOs, and the non-undercover LEOs who rolled down from the Man site to the Temple like 15 vehicles deep on Sunday AM, then parked in formation, got out, and stood in a militaristic fashion right in front of the Temple, in a show of force. F those guys. They'll put you in a REAL cage that is non-self-extractable.

[Savannah]

I'm not sure anyone can top the guy who drove around BRC in some artcar in ether 2000 or 2001, commenting on all he saw and occasionally making impudent requests. (Token also remembers him--the guy was that good.) A rare wit, that guy. Don't know what he or his car even looked like, but he slayed me. That's how rare megaphone brilliance is; I'm still appreciating the brain of that one faceless guy, 9 or 10 years later. And that's why I will support megaphone use in perpetuity, especially 9:30am - 2:00am . . . on the off-chance that I will get to laugh my ass off once again.

(Motskyroonmatick + megaphone = also pre-approved.)

[Kinetik V]

Looks like it's time to exercise the right to freedom of expression by ordering up the biggest damn megaphone I can find and bring it next year. When I'm not talking I can hook up an MP3 player to it and play Barbra Streisand's Yentl soundtrack on continuous loop mode. Or maybe the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen on loop would work too!

For me megaphones are a part of the wonderful "Cacophony" that is BRC...up there with the ship horn blasting at 6 am sharp, the long guy walking on the outer ring road yelling FUCK YOU or the classic "stinking hippies get your ass out of bed and take a shower" at 7 am, or the sound of that propane powered machine gun sound that echoes off the mountains in spectacular glory...it's all part of what makes it special to be in BRC.

After reading other threads and then coming to this one it sounds like most of you want to slowly strip away and ban the one or two things you don't like at the expense of everyone else. Multiply that desire by 52000 people and if carried out there won't be an event worth a damn to go to! Think about it.

Meanwhile I'll start loading my memory card with playa music now...starting with the Streisand stuff.

[LostinReno]

The F'tards across the street that land grabbed 1/4 acre (of corner real estate) and never used it for anything all week.

Was that 8:30 and F?

There was a camp there that not only grabbed an insane amount of land for a sound camp that never did much, but they also posted a "not-a-through street" sign at 8:00 and F, blocked the road with their RVs and after being told to clear it by a ranger completely destroyed the street sign at 8:00 & F.

I was camped right on that corner so I ended up having many great interactions giving directions to lost people. One person's obnoxious drama is another's chance to have some fun.

It was on the corner of 6 & H, they had yellow tape marking it off with a porch swing in the middle of it (From Sunday thru Tues). One of our other neighbors went skipping in there, hopped on the swing and accidentally knocked it over. The people blocking off the area proceeded to get butthurt over it, our neighbor simply replied "But I thought this was marked off as a playground" Then stumbled off to her camp . Wed's a rental motor home showed up with a small shade structure, the whole rest of the area was open for the remainder of the week, meanwhile some F'tard showed up in the middle of Thursday night, parked his 24'+ trailer and pickup halfway in the middle of H, blocking our whole camp in and killing our view of the street. We asked him politely if he'd move, he moved his trailer up about 10'....dickhead!

Or maybe the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen on loop would work too!

Crap! I now have "Flash, ahhhhhahhhh" stuck in my head!

[AntiM]

I'm not for banning megaphones, but now and then I do want one myself. I'd carefully step outside of Hushville boundaries and reply: "Use of the megaphone does not make you funny. Back away from the megaphone." And repeat.

My favorite, "Nothing to see here, move along."

An encounter: girl with megaphone, setting off siren function at 7 am. "Wake up Hushville, wake up! Stop sleeping and get up." So I got up, walked over to her, and asked her at the top of my lungs and in her face, "WHAT?! I CAN"T HEAR YOU! WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" She ran away. I think I made her cry. I think I might not mind that I did. I may be evil and cruel when awakened for no sane reason after I managed to get to sleep.

[ygmir]

*looking for towel for screen and keyboard*

[Lord Of Ruin]

For working in DLot, I find the megaphone invaluable for shaming folks into paying the fuck attention.

Most people want to find their way quickly and efficiently to where they need to be. But every once in a while someone acts like a douchebag and it gums up the works for everyone.

This year....the girl who decided, even though she was being let in early without an EA pass to jump outta line and snake past everyone in an effort to save perhaps 10 minutes.

I jumped in front of her hood and berated her with a megaphone so badly that people in nearby RVs were cheering and she meekly backed back into her former spot in line.

I swear to all that is holy some people were just raised with no manners at all.

So..ummm...yea...I love me some megaphone. And not to worry...if you're using one in a douchey way, I can humiliate you enough to put it away.

LoR

[Eric]

A megaphone is almost as much a part of Fandango as the booze is. Luckily we have some brilliant megaphone artists (Matt's Sunday morning Gospel Brunch megaphone preacher was gut busting), but it's also used to get people into the bar so they can get them drunk. And it works. Well.

There are many things I find more annoying than megaphones.

[C.f.M.]

(for the record, I'm a card-carrying member of PLO* and had people asking me to go get the megaphone...or the microphone. Good times on the Enterprise! I do use my megaphone for good...mostly. The siren buttons should be broken, immediately, once a megaphone is received.)



*Peace Love Obnoxious, IMP**

**Insane Megaphone Posse

[cowgirl]

not much bitching this year:

1 guy sprayed me with water while I rode by. He was *inside* his van... I turned around and let loose on him, a tired of screaming and swearing. He called me a fucking bitch and I gave it back... In the end, I really needed to do that to someone, scream my head off, and he provided the outlet.

Back in camp, Felony Arson offered her metal bat should I want to return to his vehicle n' give him more.

Monday afternoon - 2 assholes emptying what looked like a 100 gallon tank of grey water into the portos. They had guilty looks on their faces and totally knew they were fucking up.

Not much else beyond some redneck screaming his head off about 'respect' and being held back by other men, 5 ft. from my van. Redneck drunks stay home.

Glad I wasn't trapped in that human trap thingy, I'm claustrophobic somewhat and a panic attack would not be welcomed by your 'art'.

[Bob]

Spray bottles ought to be confiscated at the Gate, I hate that shit.

Chicken John and Mateo can have megaphones, everyone else stand politely in line until they're finished please.

[FaeTora]

A guy on the playa ran into me with his bike. I ried to move out of his way but he wasnt paying any atention to where he was biking so he still ended up swaying off and into me. I fell on my bad knee and it is now almost completely non-weight baring. oh well. Sai la Vie.