why? wtf

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:47 pm

so ive been telling all my friends that next year im going to bm (virgin burn) and that i want a few people to go with me ..for the ones who don't know what it is i say its kinda like a better version of woodstock .... for those who kinda know what it is are all like ... really your seriously going to that nudist colony or wow why are you going there all it is is a bunch of druggies in the desert .... that kinda pisses me off ....sorry just ranting

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:51 pm

Don't advertise it to those that you know wouldn't understand, simple as that. Save yourself the judgments. As someone else that lives at least PT in FL, 99% of the people here couldn't even imagine someone wearing something that doesn't have a logo on it, let alone ass-less chaps made out of 3" monster fur.

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:02 pm

true true no one understands why i would go out to the desert for a week with 50 thousand people for no other purpose then to have fun

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:06 pm

You know, I was just in Florida and I DID see damn near everyone wearing clothes with huge brand labels, most notably "Hollister".

Junglesmacks advice is perfect. Just don't try to explain it to anyone.

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:14 pm

i think i may be one of the few people in florida that doesnt wear name brands all i wear is a military style olive drab jacket , band shirts , and cargo shorts,

Post by **Sham** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:28 pm

As I'm typing this, there are 4 piles of clothes sitting in front of me for my semi-decade cleaning. I am finding some older stuff with Abercrombie & Fitch, the Gap and Old Navy on them. For some reason, I can't ever imagine that I would wear that stuff. What the hell was I thinking way back when, when I bought this crap. It's all off to Goodwill, tags and all.

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:02 pm

Shambala wrote:As I'm typing this, there are 4 piles of clothes sitting in front of me for my semi-decade cleaning. I am finding some older stuff with Abercrombie & Fitch, the Gap and Old Navy on them. For some reason, I can't ever imagine that I would wear that stuff. What the hell was I thinking way back when, when I bought this crap. It's all off to Goodwill, tags and all.

Ebay it. Seriously.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:05 pm

What the hell was I thinking way back when, when I bought this crap.

Abercrombie & Fitch??

Maybe unconsciously questioning your sexuality? Because nothing says "Maybe I am" like a A&F hoodie worn with any version of their cargo shorts.

Throw in a few casually worn plastic Mardi Gras necklaces and your position as Pass Around Party Bottom Boy is asssured.

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:22 pm

junglesmacks wrote:
Shambala wrote:As I'm typing this, there are 4 piles of clothes sitting in front of me for my semi-decade cleaning. I am finding some older stuff with Abercrombie & Fitch, the Gap and Old Navy on them. For some reason, I can't ever imagine that I would wear that stuff. What the hell was I thinking way back when, when I bought this crap. It's all off to Goodwill, tags and all.
Ebay it. Seriously.

what ^ said ebay it and save money for bm

Post by **Sham** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:51 pm

Isotopia wrote:Throw in a few casually worn plastic Mardi Gras necklaces and your position as Pass Around Party Bottom Boy is asssured.

Plastic Mardi Gras beads? Who knew?

Post by **Eric** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:19 pm

Shambala wrote:
Isotopia wrote:Throw in a few casually worn plastic Mardi Gras necklaces and your position as Pass Around Party Bottom Boy is asssured.
Plastic Mardi Gras beads? Who knew?

ooh ooh!! Me! I knew!!

again with the homo stuff Eric? I really need to step back & have a strawberry daiquiri and think about this. It better have an umbrella in it. And a hot waiter. In a speedo. What was the question.......

K-mom · Post by **K-mom** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:23 pm

Shambala wrote:As I'm typing this, there are 4 piles of clothes sitting in front of me for my semi-decade cleaning. I am finding some older stuff with Abercrombie & Fitch, the Gap and Old Navy on them. For some reason, I can't ever imagine that I would wear that stuff. What the hell was I thinking way back when, when I bought this crap. It's all off to Goodwill, tags and all.

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That's you at 1:40, isn't it? ISN'T IT!!?

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:42 pm

Shambala wrote:
Isotopia wrote:Throw in a few casually worn plastic Mardi Gras necklaces and your position as Pass Around Party Bottom Boy is asssured.
Plastic Mardi Gras beads? Who knew?

I think they might be better known to that crowd as "thunder beads"...

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:45 pm

Captain Goddammit wrote:
Shambala wrote:
Isotopia wrote:Throw in a few casually worn plastic Mardi Gras necklaces and your position as Pass Around Party Bottom Boy is asssured.
Plastic Mardi Gras beads? Who knew?
I think they might be better known to that crowd as "thunder beads"...

Ben who?..........

FaeTora · Post by **FaeTora** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:42 pm

Ok. I will say this as a recent non-virgin. Screw them all. It's not nice but it is true. You need to do what is best for you! What you want is more important than what they think. You aren't hurting anyone, so you should do it! Once more, if they do love and respect you, they will respect your decisions even if they don't agree.

For me, no one believed I was really going, that someone like me would go. But I felt a draw towards it, have for awhile now. So, I went. With a few disapproving faces but noone said a word to me about it. And you know what? It was one of the best decisions of my life! Mother (his burner name) told me, when I left, I would know the true meaning of home. And I do.

And I miss it so.

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:54 pm

o i dont care what they say im going and thats final ive been wanting to go since i was 10 im nearly 20 and im positive after i go ill be returning every year .. off topic how do people come about making burner names? or getting one

masho · Post by **masho** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:23 pm

Junglesmack is spot on. Ironically you are trying to explain something to people that you haven't experienced. More ironically after you experience it, it will likely be even harder to explain accurately.

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:38 pm

my friend that went described it as returning to your roots,going back to being a caveman and being human agian

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:56 pm

weirdscience wrote:how do people come about making burner names? or getting one

Typically by saying or doing something that's so originally stupid that it marks you for life in the *ding* "community". (drink)

weirdscience · Post by **weirdscience** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:19 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
weirdscience wrote:how do people come about making burner names? or getting one
Typically by saying or doing something that's so originally stupid that it marks you for life in the *ding* "community". (drink)

if thats how it goes ill have like 300 b4 my first burn ends

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:56 pm

My sister told me that she knows I don't do anything that Burning Man is actually mis-known for: drugs, alcohol, nudity sex... (I'm working on the last two!) so she knows there's got to be something else, something pretty different from what people assume. She tells her church friends about leave no trace. It blows her away that something that size gets built and gets removed every year. She loves the pictures of all the stuff people make. I basically take the photos for her, since I know how little my efforts in that realm actually convey.