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Post by unplugdacusticaz on May 11, 2007 15:37:00 GMT -5
You guys are dirty-minded. All oatmeal meant by that comment was that sometimes the ferris wheel jolts and shakes, so lots of people tend to spill their carbonated beverages and/or beer....making it sticky! Duuuuh!
Post by oatmealschnappz on May 11, 2007 16:02:26 GMT -5
unplugdacusticaz said:
You guys are dirty-minded. All oatmeal meant by that comment was that sometimes the ferris wheel jolts and shakes, so lots of people tend to spill their carbonated beverages and/or beer....making it sticky! Duuuuh!
Exactly! It was an innocent and utterly wholesome statement!
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Post by thefussydutchman on May 11, 2007 16:11:05 GMT -5
Anybody think there may be cicadas at Bonnaroo this year??? I know in a few weeks the 17 year cicadas are supposed to be emerging. Are there even cicadas in Tennessee?? If there are it could make it an even wilder weekend.
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we wont, and we're slowly learning that fact & we're very, very pissed off......."
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we wont, and we're slowly learning that fact & we're very, very pissed off......."
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Post by thefussydutchman on May 11, 2007 17:30:46 GMT -5
I'm not sure but there was an article in the Sun Times about 17 year cicadas emerging here in Chicago in a few weeks. That could just be here and maybe not down south.
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we wont, and we're slowly learning that fact & we're very, very pissed off......."
Mid-june is too early for Cicadas around here. June bugs - July Flies....Cicadas are what I always learned as "July Flies" growing up...you usually start hearing them sing in the early evening in late July/early August around here. We have them every year, though some years are worse than others....I used to collect the molted skins off pine trees when I was really young....yeah I know - totally gross! What can I say...there wasn't a lot to do out in the country! ;D
That photographer/artist that take pictures of large groups of naked people should come to Bonnaroo. It would be cool to get all 80,000 people naked at the what stage just before one of the headliners came on. I'd drop trou' to be in that picture.
Two stories - Late night in '05, fresh cleaned portajohn, decided to jump all over it. The second i get in i realize my portajohn is rocking thanks to the couple next to me. However, the rocking stops after a few seconds, and i hear the guy, very drunkenly, proposition the girl for oral sex. She, also very drunkenly declines and tells him to keep going. 20 seconds later, the same thing happens again. She declines again. 30 seconds later, same thing. She's getting irritated and he seems to have no idea what's going on. They go back to sex. I finish up, decide to get out, but then the banging ends, and he starts asking again. But this time he just kept asking and asking. I wanted to get out, but it was too funny to pass up in the state i was in. Finally i start cracking up and they hear me and i can tell they're actually worried about being discrete about having sex in a portajohn so i left, walked out, not really wanting to see them. Second was also late night the same year, it was very late, i was wandering past the sonic forest near the Tiki Bar, had no idea what it was, and then as i got closer i realized there were three people behind the bar. All naked, one attractive girl and two guys, laughing hysterically and all over each other. It was too much for me to comprehend at the time, and i just sort of kept wandering.
Post by ChiefPemperToadWigginsky on May 13, 2007 8:41:26 GMT -5
cicadas are wicked cool. They are in TN almost every year too, at least where i am. If they do arrive at bonnaroo, which is unlikely. no worries they are harmless, and full of preotein. 5-6 cicadas have more protein then any kind of meat. bring some ranch though, some of em are kinda dry.
and would a kid really be affected by the sights and sounds of bonnaroo if s/he didn't know those things were "wrong"?
Straight up fucking in the middle of a campsite might lead to a variety of questions, but some naked people or some guy smoking a pipe isn't going to be the end o the world...is it?
Post by ChiefPemperToadWigginsky on May 13, 2007 9:24:38 GMT -5
^^^preach it idioteque. kids will only be traumatized by it if they are programmed to beleive the naked body is suppose to be shameful and gross or by their parents 'flip out' reaction.
^^^not always true, I have always told my 11 year old son that nudity is no big deal and have been very honest and strait forward about stuff but as he approaches puberty he has commented that "sexy" girls on TV or in movies make him feel "funny". (cute, huh?) A full on naked chick would freak him out. Sexuality is something to ease into gradually. My kid needs exposure to vanilla sexuality first, he'll discover other flavors when he's ready.
I'm curious if those of you who are saying Bonnaroo would be ok for kids have kids of your own? I have 3, boy 12, girl 10 and a boy 7. Besides all that goes on, ( partying, nude people. dirty messed up wookies, etc...), I think just the environment itself can't be good for them. It's hotter than hell, the bathroom facilities are fairly ruff, it's loud all the time. It sounds like a lot of the adults are having trouble with the elements. What's a young child going to do? I see pictures of families with infants, are you people mad? I will be using this year to judge for myself if this is going to be somewhere I would bring my kids. Those who have taken infants to this, I would like to hear how that went.
Post by trippindaisy on May 13, 2007 22:32:18 GMT -5
biglou said:
I'm curious if those of you who are saying Bonnaroo would be ok for kids have kids of your own? I have 3, boy 12, girl 10 and a boy 7. Besides all that goes on, ( partying, nude people. dirty messed up wookies, etc...), I think just the environment itself can't be good for them. It's hotter than hell, the bathroom facilities are fairly ruff, it's loud all the time. It sounds like a lot of the adults are having trouble with the elements. What's a young child going to do? I see pictures of families with infants, are you people mad? I will be using this year to judge for myself if this is going to be somewhere I would bring my kids. Those who have taken infants to this, I would like to hear how that went.
I always took my daughter to concerts and events similar to Roo, have been doing so since she was a baby. We went to Big Cypress for 4 days for Phish when she was 7 or 8. It is just a huge responsibliity and a lot of work, so you do sacrifice a little of the adult fun. She is now 15 and is a pretty well rounded kid, so I don't think anything she has seen has harmed her in any way. I just don't shelter her - she needs to learn about people and life.
I think the elements are the hardest thing to deal with for the kids. I know she had a hard time with the heat at Roo last year - and we live in TN so we are pretty used to it.
I'm curious if those of you who are saying Bonnaroo would be ok for kids have kids of your own? I have 3, boy 12, girl 10 and a boy 7. Besides all that goes on, ( partying, nude people. dirty messed up wookies, etc...), I think just the environment itself can't be good for them. It's hotter than hell, the bathroom facilities are fairly ruff, it's loud all the time. It sounds like a lot of the adults are having trouble with the elements. What's a young child going to do? I see pictures of families with infants, are you people mad? I will be using this year to judge for myself if this is going to be somewhere I would bring my kids. Those who have taken infants to this, I would like to hear how that went.
The inevitable answer to this question as I see it is either Take an RV or leave them at home. An RV will provide the children their own little air-conditioned world to escape to when the festival becomes too much.
Post by stuckinutero on May 14, 2007 11:42:31 GMT -5
bamabelle said:
Mid-june is too early for Cicadas around here. June bugs - July Flies....Cicadas are what I always learned as "July Flies" growing up...you usually start hearing them sing in the early evening in late July/early August around here. We have them every year, though some years are worse than others....I used to collect the molted skins off pine trees when I was really young....yeah I know - totally gross! What can I say...there wasn't a lot to do out in the country! ;D
Ahh cicadas. I love those things. They're also old as dirt. Tons of people wonder why they constantly make that annoying sound.
They've been in existence for so long that they've developed immense camouflage with their surroundings. Over time they began to make that sound simply so they can find each other to breed. So next time you're laying awake in bed, thinking about how nice it would be to squash that annoying bug. Just remember, brothers just trying to get his schwerve on.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
