Ask Carroll

[marauding mullet]

I am not sure there is much choice in it though, like do you choose who to fall in love with? On some level perhaps. But there's plenty of examples of people falling in love even when it is insanely inappropriate. I myself have experienced this.

Who was he?

She, cranked.

You're not really getting what I said there.

It's OK cranked, I laughed.

[rmb]

The line is out of a Kendrick Lamar song.
I will rephrase it for you Nick, Would you prefer to be broke rather than brownnose, crawl suck cock etc and be rich?
Can you relate to this line or anyone you know?

It seems like the sort of thing you think when you are about 19 years old.

Then most throw away common decency and join the race to the bottom. I imagine the surf industry would have plenty of people who are using the sport as a platform for their own profit clothing industry types, managers and media personalities. Your brother has probably had a few people leach of him for their own benefit being someone of such a high profile.

[el rancho]

What a fruitcake

The line most likely would relate to you rancho at a guess you would be the one sucking cock for cash though.

How else could I afford my lavish asbestos-riddled, fibro flat if I wasn't?

The line is out of a Kendrick Lamar song.
I will rephrase it for you Nick, Would you prefer to be broke rather than brownnose, crawl suck cock etc and be rich?
Can you relate to this line or anyone you know?

It seems like the sort of thing you think when you are about 19 years old.

Then most throw away common decency and join the race to the bottom. I imagine the surf industry would have plenty of people who are using the sport as a platform for their own profit clothing industry types, managers and media personalities. Your brother has probably had a few people leach of him for their own benefit being someone of such a high profile.

If that's not brown nosing I don't know what is.

[Nick Carroll]

I can't believe Michelle Phillips was let through to the keeper??

what did you want me to say? Belinda Carlisle?

[Nick Carroll]

don't think I didn't consider it.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

Was Michelle the fat one?
You should have picked Wendy O Williams, I think.

[el rancho]

Who her?
I'm on board

[rmb]

What a fruitcake

The line most likely would relate to you rancho at a guess you would be the one sucking cock for cash though.

How else could I afford my lavish asbestos-riddled, fibro flat if I wasn't?
Location location location

The line is out of a Kendrick Lamar song.
I will rephrase it for you Nick, Would you prefer to be broke rather than brownnose, crawl suck cock etc and be rich?
Can you relate to this line or anyone you know?

It seems like the sort of thing you think when you are about 19 years old.

Then most throw away common decency and join the race to the bottom. I imagine the surf industry would have plenty of people who are using the sport as a platform for their own profit clothing industry types, managers and media personalities. Your brother has probably had a few people leach of him for their own benefit being someone of such a high profile.

If that's not brown nosing I don't know what is.
Ha Ha cos I have lots to gain by asking Nick irrelevant questions

Rancho in all seriousness a asbestos den is no place to bring up kids your better than that.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

Ok I take it all back.
California Girls

[lostman]

Belinda > Michelle

[Cranked]

I am not sure there is much choice in it though, like do you choose who to fall in love with? On some level perhaps. But there's plenty of examples of people falling in love even when it is insanely inappropriate. I myself have experienced this.

Who was he?

She, cranked.

You're not really getting what I said there.

It's OK cranked, I laughed.

Yeah it was just a lead for Nick, I expected a stunning one liner.

But it leads me to, I think, a much more interesting question.

Nick in each of these categories, whose work do you admire the most:

1. journalism
2. literature
3. philosophy

[rmb]

Nick have the surf industry and clothing companies discriminated against surfers who speak out against them or have lobbied for better money and conditions for surfers on the WCT. Has the surf industry ever discriminated against surfers reps and have high paid sponsored surfers ever hindered the collective of pro surfers in organising and lobbying for better money in contests?

[Nick Carroll]

cranked: well I had a number of zingers in store but I was in a pretty serious mood around the issue under discussion so I went flat on ya

the truth is that I love you cranked. I love you. There, I said it.

now back to the latest

1 Jeez I admire a lot of journalists, here are three pieces that really zapped me over the years, they're not anywhere near complete or inclusive though. I really liked Hunter Thompson's book on the Hells Angels, it was free of his super entertaining linguistic fireworks but all the better for it. John Hersey's staggering book "Hiroshima", which made up an entire issue of the New Yorker and describes the events and aftermath of the atomic bombing of that city, is probably the best and most important piece of journalism of the past 100 years. And I remember a piece by Andrea Dworkin, the lesbian feminist, called "Waiting For Wood", which is a brilliant story about the porn industry, written with a lot of empathy and intelligence about the men who are the "meat" of the industry, underpaid and pushed to perform in an environment which is not always friendly to "wood".

2 I am a fan of modernism, James Joyce, Eliot, the great early to mid 20th century American writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner etc, the detective noir novelists Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the Irish writer Edna O'Brien, Annie Proulx, Canadian Lorrie Moore, David Malouf, some Cormac McCarthy, the English writer Evelyn Waugh, fcuk, literally hundreds of others. A soft spot for sci-fi and farcical modern humorists like Carl Hiaasen. A soft spot for Virginia Woolf.

3 yeah, fcuk philosophers.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

Oh and thank you for recommending Robert Graves' Goodbye To all That a while ago. It blew my mind and I would never have heard of it otherwise.i shall seek out the Hiroshima text.

[el rancho]

Hell's Angels is really really good.

[Davros]

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is a good read as well. He had an accurate moral compass Hunter S Thompson I reckon.

[marauding mullet]

Board selection question Nick.
Knowing you have a decent quiver from which to choose, does duck diving ever come into the equation when deciding what board to use on a particular day?
I know for me at least, I've taken a bigger board out on a solid days, to suit the wave size but paid the price trying to get out, it's fcuken hard work.

[Cranked]

the truth is that I love you cranked. I love you. There, I said it... yeah, fcuk philosophers.

I thought we had agreed to keep it quiet about "the love that dare not speak its name" and now you're off fcuking philosophers