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[crabmeat thompson]

i've been doing some extensive surfing with my son this week in the perfect little conditions up here. i noticed there was something not quite right with him, and he was getting caught up in his leggie a bit, and then it struck me. Like petrol being thrown in my eyes and a wooden stake being drawn simultaneously through my heart.

my son, is in fact a goofyfoot.

quelle horreur


how did you handle the news when you learned of tom's horrible natural affliction of his right foot forward?

[Natho]

Oils are still one of the greatest live acts I've ever seen. Up there with the likes of AC/ DC. Saw Rob Hirst in Newport the other day. He is pretty open about what he thinks about Garrett's dreadful shot at being a politician.

[Nick Carroll]

how did you handle the news when you learned of tom's horrible natural affliction of his right foot forward?

Well it was of a piece with our brotherly relationship to that point. Most of the time I had looked on him with a certain amount of pity, and that was merely exacerbated by his, as you call it, "affliction".

Thank the Lord we have all grown up now.

[alakaboo]

You mean figuratively.

[Drailed]

i've been doing some extensive surfing with my son this week in the perfect little conditions up here. i noticed there was something not quite right with him, and he was getting caught up in his leggie a bit, and then it struck me. Like petrol being thrown in my eyes and a wooden stake being drawn simultaneously through my heart.

my son, is in fact a goofyfoot.

quelle horreur


how did you handle the news when you learned of tom's horrible natural affliction of his right foot forward?

Braithy, I am about to tell you something which will make you feel a whole lot better about it. I too am a goofy footer.

Rest easy brother.

[Beerfan]

Goofy here too. Just be thankful he's already a better surfer than you Brian

[crabmeat thompson]

i wonder what atrocities one must have committed in a previous life to earn the burden of riding waves goofyfoot in their next life?

[Trev]

i wonder what atrocities one must have committed in a previous life to earn the burden of riding waves goofyfoot in their next life?

Dunno. But they'll all come back to ride SUPs in the next.

[BA]

Piss off you blokes. Goofyfooters on the whole are known to have higher IQ's, are better looking, better lovers, smell better, are not fatties, and don't soil their pants like natural footers.

[Beanpole]

i wonder what atrocities one must have committed in a previous life to earn the burden of riding waves goofyfoot in their next life?

Particularly on the Nth Coast.
Indo however....

[Nick Carroll]

You mean figuratively.

Oh you can safely assume that any time I refer to things like "adulthood" in this context, it is carrying a significant load of irony.

[ctd]

Piss off you blokes. Goofyfooters on the whole are known to have higher IQ's, are better looking, better lovers, smell better, are not fatties, and don't soil their pants like natural footers.

I'm left handed, left footed, shoot with my left eye and use chopsticks left handed.

But f;&k all that, I surf natural.

[gardie]

I never understood why Garrett didnt join the greens. Given the messages in the songs.

I think he woujld been a huge boost to their primary vote and put them in a real position of keeping the bastards honest.

Instead became another of the balnd laborites who lost all credability with me once he approved the tasmania pulp mill.

[alakaboo]

Because like most activists he was terrible at politics, and got terrible advice.

[Narra Kook]

Who here had an Oil's hand logo on their board in the 80s? Is there a more iconic NN board than an Energy Thruster with an Oil's hand logo on the nose?

Since others are confessing their sins, im a goofy too. Could this explain my kookness?

[Nick Carroll]

I never had an Oils hand on a surfboard. Cultural Moment Missed I guess.

Then again I can't remember any of the NN crew having such a thing either, so...

I wouldn't worry about being a goofy NK. Just be thankful you aren't one of Braithwaite's children.

[marauding mullet]

. Just be thankful you aren't one of Braithwaite's children.

Imagine being his residential host

[crabmeat thompson]

I'm a pleasure to be around mullay. mostly.