I feel this so much. Growing up in Pacific Beach was such fucking horseshit and now when I go back I stay pretty far away. Bros and surfers made my life miserable. I feel like half the shit I do is in response to that. Which is definitely not healthy but you get shaped by pain in ways you can't change and it's better to do something about it then to let it simmer, I guess,
i love how san diego natives are often so dark and goth because we reacted to the surfer bros... also i had a realization recently... the so cal sufer bro is the rest of the country's redneck. these surfers would be rednecks if they lived in west virginia or rural oregon or wherever and vice versa
Hahaha...this essay was cool and a fun read. I have a lot of "dudes" and "totallys" peppered in my speech but am by no means devoid of emotion or anti-intellectual...thank God. There is also "hella" in there. I'm from NorCal and we can't help it though!
I feel this so much. Growing up in Pacific Beach was such fucking horseshit and now when I go back I stay pretty far away. Bros and surfers made my life miserable. I feel like half the shit I do is in response to that. Which is definitely not healthy but you get shaped by pain in ways you can't change and it's better to do something about it then to let it simmer, I guess,
i love how san diego natives are often so dark and goth because we reacted to the surfer bros... also i had a realization recently... the so cal sufer bro is the rest of the country's redneck. these surfers would be rednecks if they lived in west virginia or rural oregon or wherever and vice versa
Oh whoa, you're right. I've never thought of that.
Hahaha...this essay was cool and a fun read. I have a lot of "dudes" and "totallys" peppered in my speech but am by no means devoid of emotion or anti-intellectual...thank God. There is also "hella" in there. I'm from NorCal and we can't help it though!
I started saying hella ironically, to make fun of NorCal people, and now it’s been 25 years and I still can’t get it out of my vocabulary
my girlfriend (who was born and raised in L.A.) used to HATE when I said it.
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If you take a flight to Huatulco from Tijuana you'll be a whole plane full of these guys endlessly talking (and never listening) about waves.