Taking all the fun out of the beach [pictures]

[davinxtk]

My girlfriend and I went to the beach (Chatham Lighthouse) this morning. The original idea was to watch the sun rise, but it was very cloudy and something caught my eye as soon as I got there.

There were signs all over the beach.
It actually starts in the parking lot...

We were there for about two hours.

The signs on the beach irritated me. I've lived here for 19 years, and while I understand the need for preservation, I also know that everything they're asking takes the bloody fun out of going to the beach.

Hey, what's that hilited in the background?
That's right, exactly the same sign!

There are signs everywhere reminding us to take the stairs and not walk down the dunes. I'm assuming this is simply as a point of convenience, as the dunes are 30ft almost straight down in most places, and there is a very well-beaten footpath directly underneath the sign. I took a picture of that, but my mom's camera kept thinking it was running out of batteries.
It's a Gateway.
Note: this sign is also duplicated in the rear-right of the picture of the green sign above. I took a picture of the taller one, as well, but did I mention I was using a Gateway?

This sign is here so tourists realize two things.
a) The absence of a lifeguard is, in fact, intentional. The town has to cover insurance for all of the beaches it guards, and this one isn't worth that kind of liability.
b) The surf and current are intense enough to kill children, the elderly, and the exceedingly unlucky.
Okay, I get the picture, guys. You're trying to save lives. I think I'd rather go swimming anyway.
*BAM*

Just in case I missed the first ten-foot-high, five-foot-wide white-on-brown, hyphen-inducing billboard, they erected a second with a rather attractive traffic sign on it literally five feet down the beach.


Trying not to make the trip a total loss, I decided to get a picture of beautiful Chatham Harbor Inlet, which formed during storm conditions in 1987. An amazing sight and a beautiful, long walk at low tide.


But there was a sign in the way.

[James]

Holy fuck. Davin posted pictures that AREN'T of his horribly deformed self.

[FartinMowler]

(Ed Mcmahon voice) "Deformed...Yes!"

[glowbelly]

davin isn't deformed. let's see you with your shirt off, james...fartin?

didn't think so.

anyways, those signs suck. it's a shame that they have to be there.

[FartinMowler]

I think where talking about the fangs and the piercings and the stupid angst expressions...

[davinxtk]

For the hundredth fucking time, I don't make "stupid angst expressions" when I take webcam pictures. I don't "smile for the camera" and for some reason this makes me moody. You're on fucking I-mockery, not Disney.com.

The fangs were part of a Halloween costume, I found them when I was browsing through my pictures and thought someone might get a kick out of it. And several people did.

And since when are piercings a deformation?
1) As the sort of people who like condescending and verbally assaulting me are ever-so-fond of pointing out, I'm young. Young people get piercings, get over it.
2) They're extremely unintrusive compared to plenty of the piercings my friends get. I could have something in my mouth or through my genetalia.
3) They're not stretched or guaged at all. This means that if I take them out and apply vitamin e oil, they magically go away completely through a process we call "healing."

Now pay attention to the signs.

[Cap'n Crunch]

WOW SIGNS TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO AND MAKING A CAPTION UNDER SURE IS HILARIOUS. THREAD BACKUPS.

[Matt Harty]

WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT DIG THOSE SIGNS RIGHT UP

[FartinMowler]

Sensitive :/ Nice signs...I've never swam in Lake Ontario because it's a giant toilet

[Perndog]

YEAH, YOUNG PEOPLE GET PIERCINGS, YOU OLD LOSERS. NOW GET OUTTA HERE BEFORE I BREAK YER HIP.

[davinxtk]

Yeah, that's a harbor inlet from the Atlantic Ocean. It's a toilet with currents.

I'm not really trying to defend excessive facial mutilation, but I've got two piercings. At least I'm not going overboard.

[Perndog]

What's the difference (aside from appearance) between two eyebrow piercings and two dozen regular-size piercings around the face?

[davinxtk]

1) How much money they've spent putting holes in their face.
2) The fact that now they're a collection of metal bits, not a face anymore.

[Spastic Colon]

I tape pennies to my face.

[Matt Harty]

Sorry about the thread, Davin.

[James]

Originally Posted by glowbelly

davin isn't deformed. let's see you with your shirt off, james...fartin?

didn't think so.

anyways, those signs suck. it's a shame that they have to be there.

Wahhh. Just because you have a femmy-boner for him, you have to defend him like he matters.

He is deformed. He's a female version of Iggy Pop, minus the fame or heroin addiction. Why would I want to take off my shirt? Why does the fact that Davin likes to strip down and post pictures out the ass mean he's apparently "better" than the rest of us guys? Sorry, but I'm not as big of an attention whore, and I'm not as full of myself as him. So my shirt is staying on, and my pictures few and far between.

Oh yeah, and Davin needs to set on fire.

[davinxtk]

James, Karen and I have been friends for a few years now. She's not defending me because I'm pretty, she's defending me and I'm pretty.

And what says that because I like to strip down and post pictures that I'm worse than you tight-assed semi-rebels? You talk like you've got the market cornered on being a critical, cynical, antagonist. Half of the reason I post pictures around here is because I get a reaction like this. This has been stated and restated, and you seem comfortable as hell in your refusal to catch on.
Get the fuck over it, people like my face and I like feeding it to them. That doesn't mean I don't have substance or character, it just means I'm a little prettier than you. No need to get so testy.

[Rongi]

I only remember 3 people liking your face.

[Ninjavenom]

I like Davin, but that's beside the point. I bet Timmy the Tooth goes to that beach :o

[ProfessorCool]

Life's a Beach sometimes.

[davinxtk]

This face says "God, living in Touristville is fun."

[Mike]

Originally Posted by davinxtk

Get the fuck over it, people like my face and I like feeding it to them. That doesn't mean I don't have

Oh christ. Put the dildo back in and shut your trap.

[glowbelly]

hehe.

at least davin admits that he's full of himself. i've gotten over that fact and have come to realize that he really is a good guy and more than just a pretty face. as a matter of fact, part of what makes me like his pretty face is his character.

so i'll stick up for him no matter what any of you say. i'm not the shallow one. i like him for his insides and his outsides. you're the people who can't get past his looks and the he KNOWS it. you prove it every time he gets moody for the camera.

[James]

So what you're saying is, we're shallow for being annoyed by his personality flaws, and that he's doing it knowing and enjoying how annoying it is.

Well, my eyes are certainly open now. I love him, as he is clearly a wonderful person.

But seriously, I think both you and him are sickeningly full of yourselves. No matter what he looks like, it's just an annoyance that he has to post so many pictures of himself ad nauseum, especially since this thread is the closest thing I've seen to him NOT doing that since he joined. Even if it was a girl who I was attracted to, I wouldn't tolerate the picwhoring and "I love myself" attitude he shoves down everyone's throat.

He's just an egotistical attention whore who takes pride in pissing people off. If it makes me shallow for hating him for that, then I'll be glad to be shallow.

So just shut the fuck up, and let your little pretty boy fight his own battles. Or maybe take your friends back off the boards where they belong.

[Matt Harty]

I'm just gonna come out and say you guys sound kinda jealous.

I'll be making my way out now.