Kalashnikov

It's not too hard to see what's happening. To quote what's his name... Ed Norris, from The Wire. Americans are by and large a stupid people. People see that they've been in lockdown for about a month and a half, depending on where you live. The numbers are steady. We're not showing any sign of rapid decline, but some places are steady enough, hospitalizations in major cities and outbreak centers like NYC and New Orleans are "leveling off." They also see, that they, and nobody they know have gotten sick. So what's the typical moron reaction? "We must be being way too strict about this lockdown crap!" People, as a whole, lack the ability to look at things objectively or from a "forest instead of the trees" perspective. They only care about what they can see, or what directly affects them at that point in time. I'm not sick... nobody I know is sick... this is bullshit, let's get back to normal. They can't put two and two together that the reason things are starting to level off is because we have been in lockdown for 6 weeks. There's still plenty of people getting sick, we have about 25-30k, sometimes more, new cases a day in the United States. There's still a lot of spread. Not to mention, it can 2 weeks to get symptoms. I understand that people are going broke, they've lost their jobs and they need to get back to work. I understand that the unemployment system is overloaded. But we just need to pull through. Because what happens if we open everything back up right now when we're just starting to see results from our actions? The spread increases, and we go right back to square one. The restaurant you were a waiter at brings you back in, you work for 3 weeks, and then everything has to go back to lockdown status because, surprise, there's a huge surge in cases. Waiting this out right now will cost less for individuals and the healthcare system, both in monetary terms and in terms of life, in the long run. We need to get back to a containable level, like New Zealand has. Of course this is much more difficult for us than it is for New Zealand considering they have 5 million people and we have 330 million, but either way, it's what has to be done. We can't jump the gun on this, as tempting as it might be for some. I'm dreaming of the day I'll be able to walk around the city again, walk into random establishments and just do what I want. Dreaming of being able to have friends over, go to parties, and just be myself. I'm dreaming of being able to go back to NYC and enjoy the city. But we need to wait.

Baby wipes master race. All y'all knock yourselves out spreading that dookie around on your booty.

I feel this. Granted I can sometimes get into drinking from time to time, it's not something I really enjoy enough for it to become an all-encompassing problem. Like I'll go hard sometimes and then I'll just wake up and be tired of it. The anxiety the next day, feeling like shit, all of it. I know people that drink every day hard and have for years, I don't see myself ever getting there just because it's not my drug of choice; it's not THAT great. But, I do realize that because of my past with heroin/opiates that things can become problems, on the flip side. But the whole meeting thing was never for me. It's been 5 years since I've done heroin, and I don't have the desire to do it anymore. The thoughts are no longer in my head. I never went to a meeting. It works for some, but the whole "let's meet up and talk about how we're not normal" isn't for me, personally. For some people it really helps, and that's great. But for myself, I feel like it's traveling down the same road to spend the rest of your life considering yourself a dysfunctional person because of your affinity for a substance. I know I can't do opiates, they've been a huge problem in the past, so I won't do them. I'm not going to spend the rest of my life going to meetings to talk about how they fucked up my life. That part of my life is over, I'm past that, I don't want that to define me. Like I have a friend that I used to get high with, who is now clean and has been, that still likes to bring up the times we went and got high. He's in a recovery group on Facebook where they post heroin memes, and sometimes he'll send them to me. I just can't help but be like, "damn... you're still thinking about that shit? Time to move on. There's more to you than that." I don't know. Just me, I guess.

I don't know why I found this so funny, just like "alright, that's the last fucking straw."

I think I stumbled across this place in like 2006 from BombingScience maybe? To be honest I don't actually remember but I felt like I found a goldmine of pictures. Brick Slayers is what drew me in, it was a quick link to the local drama for anything that I'd miss in my day to day. Ended up staying for Channel Zero after I finally decided to venture in maybe a year or two after finding the site. I remember a few times I was laughing so hard that I was crying just with some of the clowning on here.

The more I work from home, the less desire I have to work. Like it's so hard to get in the "work mood" when I just have to roll out of bed to the computer. I shower and everything before work but I just don't know if I could do a permanent work from home thing. I could definitely do like a Wednesday and Friday at home, Mon-Tues-Thurs at the office or something, though.

Isn't going outside to kill scorpions kind of a futile effort though? Like wouldn't it be easier just to work on keeping them out of your house? Seems like it would be similar to going outside in Florida and trying to kill all of the flying roaches.

Anybody else find it at least slightly amusing that Mr. "CLOSE THE BORDERS, KEEP THE MEXICANS OUT, PABLO AND PEDRO ARE BRINGING DRUGS HERE, WE CAN'T LET EVERYONE COME INTO THIS COUNTRY, NO MORE MUSLIMS ALLOWED BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA BLOW SHIT UP" took way too long to shut the shit down? I know it's easy to play Monday morning quarterback, but really, when this shit started popping off in China in early January, we should have immediately blocked commercial flights from China and Chinese nationals from coming into the country, and when it started spreading into other countries, they should have closed non-essential flights (minus trade, basically) to everywhere else.

Fuckin' Winghead came to see me, says I gotta build a fuckin' RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAMP on Beansie's house. Doing Duolingo, wondering if I should go get a beer.

I said you owe me a 10 second car, not a 10 minute car. Is this where you talk about how to decimate all with $15k in overnight parts from Japan? Jokes aside though, only forums aside from this I fuck with are also car forums. mbworld.org or benzworld.org when I feel like talking about how to fix GERMANKRAPPE. That and Reddit are pretty much it.

I have been going not too easy on the drinking with this quarantine shit. Doesn't help that I'm at my girl's parents' place and they definitely enjoy having some drinks. Although, I will say I hate waking up on Monday realizing I wasted a whole weekend drinking. But on the same side, it's not like there's shit else to do right now. I'm sure many other addicts/alcoholics are struggling with this quarantine thing. I'm not getting shitfaced every night but I have a couple. I guess I failed with my plan. Kinda feel alone-ish. Wish some of the homies were still alive (swordfish in particular) so I didn't feel that way. On the plus side, even considering I've been drinking, I have been exercising like crazy. ~3 miles of running a day plus whatever else I feel up to doing.

Too late for this?

Damn this thread is fun. @Drue_DownI'm so envious of the Chicago glory days. I remember riding the Blue Line or the Metra when I was a kid in '95, '96 and just staring out the window, going home to (awfully) sketch and I couldn't wait until I was just a few years older so I could be out there myself. My old man would take us down to Marshall Field's on State for candy and the train ride to and from where I could just watch the graff was my absolute favorite part. Then of course before that could happen my parents moved us and I didn't get back to Chicago until '06 for a few years. It was still fun to paint at that time but the days of the city being covered in graffiti were long gone, your shit would ride for a day or so tops, maybe a weekend if you're lucky, and then the chocolate brown would be covering it.

I mean I feel you, I'd be pissed too but a) I'm not coughing NEAR anyone, just when they're close enough to hear it, and b) this is some fancy fuckin subdivision where you wave to your neighbors and shit. Nobody is gonna do that, they'll just tell the whole neighborhood to watch out for you behind your back. I wouldn't be walking around the hood doing the same shit. @misteravenEyyyy vecino. Or at least former. I didn't think there was anyone from around the way here. I'm by Jackson Hospital.

And here we go again. Miami-Dade County just put a mask mandate in. Previously, the City of Miami had a mask mandate and a curfew. Everything the city does, the county is like a week behind, which isn't good considering the actual city of Miami is fairly small. I'm staying at my girl's parents' place in the suburbs and when we take the dog out for a walk, there's a fuckload of people out walking on the trail with no masks. When I see somebody coming in the distance, I let them get a little closer (maybe like 50 feet) then start coughing like crazy (to the point where my fake coughs actually make me start coughing). I wait to see if anybody crosses the street. Nope. People will walk right by you even if you're coughing, I always end up having to cross the street first. No fucks are given, at least here. It'd be one thing if people only put themselves at risk, but unfortunately everyone else ends up paying for the stupidity of others. I've had one person (in a mask) thank me for crossing the street before getting close to him (I keep at least like 30 feet) while I was taking the dog out. Out of probably hundreds. People still just don't care.

I clean my phone, wallet, and my keys pretty consistently. I just wipe them down with my homemade Lysol wipes (paper towels that have soaked in 90% ethyl alcohol).

Yeah definitely, the number of cases is only the people that have been tested. And if you guys have noticed, it seems only "important" people are being tested. I have a friend who has a 100.8 fever and a dry cough, she can't get tested because her fever isn't high enough. They're quite literally being bitches about .2 degrees. I told her she should just eat something hot and run down the block then go try again. Not to mention, there's "80,000" cases in China. So we can assume that number is closer to what, probably 150k? We have a shelter in place order but they haven't said anything about my WFH being extended, it's currently until the 6th. I have feeling it'll be extended though.

We need DAO back up in this motherfucker to tell you that you need to type out Insane Clown Posse so people don't get him and his crew confused.

Crackheads definitely got the 'rona, be careful. Or would it be the opposite? Crack makes you immune to corona? You gotta figure holding in all that rock smoke has to power up your lungs to level 7000.

Pfft I haven't gotten nothing for free but I'm about to go party in L.A. on Saturday. 36 bucks! For real though it's pretty crazy how they're essentially flying empty planes just to maintain the flight paths. I've been staying at my girl's parents' house, been quarantined since last Monday and haven't left aside from taking the dog for walks. The good news is that everybody tolerates each other well, and I've been working from home, but I still have cabin fever. Not to mention I haven't seen the city in 2 weeks now almost, I feel like I'm lost in suburbia. Been ordering off Instacart and Shipt for food. My job should be secure at least for a while but my girl's sister already got let go, she was a server at a restaurant. I gotta be honest, in 2020, in a first world country, having to deal with some shit like this was the absolute last thing on my mind. Couldn't nobody tell whoever it was to keep the fuckin' bat at a rolling boil for 3 minutes?

Just checking in here, hope everybody is doing alright. I've been sober minus a few drinks on New Year's Eve when I went to watch the fireworks with my girl. Fucked up that once but otherwise I've been sober. I do plan on drinking Saturday since I'll be in New Orleans. Gonna see what the city has to offer, catch a few handstyles, smash down a po' boy, chill with the girl, just relax. Then no more drinking until New York in February, and should be going to Costa Rica in April provided I get my passport straightened out. My plan is to try and keep the drinking this year to trips. We'll see how it plays out I guess.

The reason doesn't make a difference, it doesn't change the outcome at all. Even if he wasn't painting though, graffiti definitely attracts a certain type of person. A live for today, fuck tomorrow, let's do it type of personality, I guess.

Be careful homie, benzo withdrawal is dangerous. Nothing wrong with tapering if you need to. Best of luck though, small victories indeed. I hear that shit. I've been 100% sober since I last posted (aside from cafecito if you count that, I don't). Going to my girl's for Christmas Eve tomorrow night, then Christmas dinner with her aunts and uncles the next. I know the whole family is probably gonna be lit but I've already told myself that I'm not going to so I'm content with it. Actually a little happy as Christmas in pretty much all of my past years aside from the past few has been something along the lines of wake up, smell food cooking, drink, try to keep a healthy buzz around my parents without looking like a total drunk, wait and hope somebody gives me money, call up the H man, wait, wait, finally go out to meet, get high. Past few years since I quit heroin it's pretty much just been get drunk all day. So this will be the first sober Christmas since I don't even remember when. Now that I haven't drank for a little while I'm starting to notice all the little shit that's wrong with my body, that either alcohol was masking or I just brushed off as nothing being hungover a good majority of the days.

What the fuck. Oontzers are dropping like flies it seems. RIP JUGZER. By all means, not throwing any shade on JUGZER as I have no clue what happened, but to bring the topic up but I guess it's kind of to be expected that lots of people die young in this lifestyle. Graffiti is full of risks, dangers, venturing into the abyss, drugs/alcohol, bad decisions, and general fuckery. Wish it wasn't that way.

Would not consider that thick. Then again, thick to me is 2.5 jiggles back when you slap the ass. 3 full jiggles back is fat.