Saturday, September 3rd 2011

Southwest Tells Billie Joe Armstrong That He's Looking Like A Fool With His Pants On The Ground

Let me just start by saying that if Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong wore that sophisticated and sexy sequined tube dress on the flight, he wouldn't have any problems.

The gutter baby of Gozer the Gozerian and a Beetlejuice doll from Hot Topic was getting on a Southwest flight from Oakland to Burbank when one of their flight attendants told his 39-year-old ass that he had to cover up his 39-year-old ass by pulling up his pants or he'd be put on the No Sag List. I didn't know General Larry Platt was Southwest's Style Director.

An ABC reporter was on that same flight and said they were pretty much ready for takeoff except for Billie Joe's saggy pants situation. When BJ was told to pull his shit up, he responded with some verbal shade by telling the flight attendant that they obviously had better things to worry about than his ass hanging out. The flight attendant asked him again and BJ responded with: "I'm just trying to get to my fucking seat." Game over. The pilot locked the door, a TSA agent tackled BJ to the ground and a flight attendant tasered his ankles until his thigh muscles grabbed onto those pants and pulled them up. BJ was immediately taken to Guantanamo Bay where they are currently torturing him by forcing him to wear his pants over his ass for hours on end.

No, BJ and his travel mate were both kicked off of the flight. BJ Tweeted this right after Southwest denied his 39-year-old crack the right to be seen:

Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the fuck? No joke!

A customer service rep from Southwest immediately got involved and apologized before putting BJ and his friend on the next flight out:

"As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologize for this Customer's experience. He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction."

Billie Joe could've just turned down his ego, pulled up his pants, sat down, thrown a blanket over his lap and taken his pants completely off (NSFW like this) when that flight attendant wasn't looking. That's what I do. On the other hand, the flight attendant could've also just told themselves that it's Southwest Fucking Airlines and if at least 75% of the people on the flight don't look like trash, then they can't take off. It's an FCC rule.

But really, this is why I want to stick my tongue in Southwest (or Southworst as some hos calls them) and get a job with them one day. They give bitches the QUIT YOUR ASS TREATMENT for saggy pants, being too fat, dressing too slutty and for crying too much.

Just imagine getting paid to tell paying customers: "You hate belts, get off!" or "Your fupa offends me, get off!" or "You look like a penny hooker in a land of quarter hookers, get off!" or "You cry human tears, get off!" or "Your baby's ugly face is a flight risk, get off!"

Just thinking about it is taking me higher than any plane ever could.

Posted by: Michael K


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I travel on Southwest all the time and come to think of it,I havent seen that many fat and ugly people on the flights-well not enough to give a true representation of the general US population….
That must be why I find them tolerable...

"NOSOPD -Not our sort of person darling"

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Submitted by Bjork You on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 9:36am.
Amber Valletta is beautiful. I liked the "Vogue" days when she, Shalom Harlow, and Carolyn Murphy ruled.
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I agree she wasn't wearing a stitch of makeup and was sooo beautiful. Her husband and son were with her and she seemed very down to earth.

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Amber Valletta is beautiful. I liked the "Vogue" days when she, Shalom Harlow, and Carolyn Murphy ruled.

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I fly southwest all the time and I don't mind it. Of couse its not Virgin, but Virgin doesn't fly many places in the U.S.
I don't think its anywhere near "air greyhound". Why do people say that, because its less expensive and there is no 1st class? Just wondering.
However, one time I was flying home from Vegas on SW and Amber Valleta was on my flight, and I did think that was totally strange. You don't usually see a lot of celebs on SW...

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Bitches better not say one bad word about Southwest...that shit is bomb....cheapest flights....take off on time....dont take shit...but you gotta sit next to Iris Chacon on the way to Vegas....but what the hell.

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Still a pants-on-the ground trend in certain circles - wait till they see pics of themselves 10 years from now on with 2 earrings and pants with visible underwear... How gauche and stupendously ridic.

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You would think a nearly 40 year old man would've learned how to keep his pants from sagging off his ass my now...LOSER!!!!!!
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Submitted by LA me on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 5:44pm.
I just luv me a good ear-gasm. I put Q-Tips in each ear simultaneously to achieve multiple ear-gasms!! Sheer Bliss!!!
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Submitted by MickeyHolland on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:03pm.

I think the bust of Lionel in that video was HSOTD once. It was a funny thread I remember. Hello, this is the face of the man that is stalking me!

Here's what I am going to do, I am going to read up on how to be a Buddhist, and I am gonna pray to Buddha that he is going to reincarnate me so when I kill myself I can come back and be cool as
fuck like you.

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I just luv me a good ear-gasm. I put Q-Tips in each ear simultaneously to achieve multiple ear-gasms!! Sheer Bliss!!!

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Submitted by decorative item on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 7:50pm.
The funny thing is that the low pant thing originated in prison. When a prisoner wore his pants down low, it would mean that he was ready for action and looking for a little fun.

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You got it 1/2 right. It did originate in prison...because they would take your belts away. Prolly adapted later into "ready for action and looking for a little fun."

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As we pulled up to the Fontainebleau, a bright-orange Lohan was blocking the entrance. Not accustomed to waiting, apparently, she lowered the car’s window and shouted, "Move that Lohan. I’m Orange Cone." And it was done.

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Submitted by Zorba-the-Geek on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:58am.

My pants sometimes sag too. It's those damn low rise jeans I tell you. My husband will pull them up for me or my mom might suddenly poke me in the fupa. Ain't no big thang.

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Nope. I wear low-rise jeans (Levi Too Super Low). My ass crack doesn't show - ever. Besides that, I also wear a shirt that goes over the top of my jeans. Sounds like his pants were hanging where his underwear was showing, in which case, he spent more time arguing with them than it would have taken to pull up his pants and march his arrogant ass to his seat.

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Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:42pm.

You've given me an idea, I'm going to propose that the notes that the AA at my daughter's school sends out be handed out to 2nd graders to correct as part of the English (AKA "Language Arts") curriculum.
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Oh god, please do! If only for the shits and giggles! LOL

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Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:06pm.
LOL I've been chewing my own tongue off for decades! (And I'm far from being either grammatically or punctually perfect.)
Sometimes I think they've given the task of writing notes to the second graders as an English exercise. Or maybe they should...:)

Reposted for continuity. LOL

AC/DC: Pre Bon Scott

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Submitted by becky n sydney on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:21pm.

LOL I've been chewing my own tongue off for decades! (And I'm far from being either grammatically or punctually perfect.)
Sometimes I think they've given the task of writing notes to the second graders as an English exercise. Or maybe they should...:)

Reposted for continuity. LOL
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Thanks for re-posting. I'd been meaning to mention the hotness of SANS FARDS avi for a while.

You've given me an idea, I'm going to propose that the notes that the AA at my daughter's school sends out be handed out to 2nd graders to correct as part of the English (AKA "Language Arts") curriculum.

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"How nice, to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Oh yes, the "rules." And while all the FA's and the air marshal are attempting to contain the grave threat of the man with the top of his underwear showing, a lone weirdo sits in the back, quietly fashioning a weapon out of a shoelace and a utensil he stole off the snack cart.

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-Submitted by RustyHooligan on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 6:01pm.

When you fly, you don't own the plane. You've paid a small amount of money for a ride--a license to sit there temporarily. You're a guest and subject to the host's rules. If you don't like the rules, or think you were treated badly, then find a new host. "

DITTO!. This is what people seem to forget. We live in times of self-entitlement and forgotten personal responsibility, so people think they can do whatever they want whenever they want either because they think they're so fucking important or because they are paying for a ticket.

I think this 39 year-old man with "arrested development syndrome" pretty much acted like a douchebag. I'm surprised he didn't use the "Do you know who I am??!!" card. And then he goes to twit this shit like a little whiny bitch.

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Submitted by Zorba-the-Geek on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:58am.

Yes, sometimes when I get up, my thong string shows, even with a belt.

My dad, who worked in a sawmill most of his life, has always been accidentally cool. Trucker hats, flannel, and -- saggy pants. Hipsters wish they were as cool as my dad. My mother has been following him around for 38 years, pulling up his pants. It's not on purpose, and it seems to be an assumption that BJA did this on purpose.

I thought the really low sagging pants was a hip-hop thing, no? Green Day is bubblegum punk. It sounded like he just wanted to get to his seat, and the FAs were throwing around their authority.

If it weren't for my mother going on flights with him, this would be my dad. Only, my dad really doesn't take any crap from anyone, and we'd have to bail him out of jail. Which is why my mother goes with him everywhere.

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Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 8:48am.
Submitted by WTFOMGLOL on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 5:42am.

My only comment is -- I am sooo sick of the corporate buzz term "reach out" (to customers)

EVERYONE has latched on to it, including my boss, and every time I hear it, I want to smack someone.

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You clearly are not displaying a "can-do attitude." You need to network more proactively and optimize your client collaboration!!!

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you're right. I'm not "AGILE" enough, and clearly, not a team player.

I hate Corporate America. full of fucking assclowns everywhere.

Submitted by RustyHooligan on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 10:02
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Great story. And shout-out to DB Cooper, who probably died that day, but I like to imagine he survived the jump out of the plane and lived the rest of his days in the mountains of Washington state with the Sasquatch, another NW legend~

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My pants sometimes sag too. It's those damn low rise jeans I tell you. My husband will pull them up for me or my mom might suddenly poke me in the fupa. Ain't no big thang.

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I would've kicked him off the plane for merely existing. Green Day is so bad. Just the worst.

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Droopy drawers at age 39: Maturity fail.

Everyone should fly naked, strapped in upright like in that Roundup ride at a carnival. Terrorist problem solved. Would have to work out going to the bathroom, though.

And yes, you need to follow the rules. Just pull up your fucking pants and sit the fuck down.

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Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 10:17am.

LOL! *rushing to copyright, make public offering* It was United. (Granny sat for the next two hours in meek, crestfallen near-silence, almost whimpering. Her kids stopped drinking and tried quietly to console her. At LAX, no one got off till cops boarded and took her off protesting and wailing in handcuffs. I loved it and thanked the pilot on the way out.)

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Submitted by RustyHooligan on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 10:02am.

I had a good experience that I wish more airlines would adopt. We were flying back from Kona to LA. A granny and her adult kids were partying and smoking near the tarmac right until it was time to board (from the tarmac). They're seated just behind me and continue to order drinks in the air, talking and joking too loudly. About two hours over the ocean, the pilot, in his sternest military voice, announced that there was a problem. Utter, stunned silence. He says, "It seems the passenger in 23C can't follow directions and was smoking in the bathroom. [226 eyes rivet on 23C.] We've notified authorities and will have her arrested when we land." Blah blah. Shut her up right quick.

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ha ha ha! what airline is this, Bitch Sit Yo Ass Down Airways? Please let me know and I will give them all of my business from now on.

Baggy pants are not a security issue but following the crew's rules is. Everyone's a lot more on edge and crews aren't messing around with the chance of an in-flight problem. Your fellow passengers are more on edge, so every disturbance makes their trip worse.

Is there a semi-militaristic or cattle-herding aspect to flying now? You bet. The days of DB Cooper's smoking and drinking before jumping out the back are long gone. People should learn to accept the new realities of flying or stay home.

I had a good experience that I wish more airlines would adopt. We were flying back from Kona to LA. A granny and her adult kids were partying and smoking near the tarmac right until it was time to board (from the tarmac). They're seated just behind me and continue to order drinks in the air, talking and joking too loudly. About two hours over the ocean, the pilot, in his sternest military voice, announced that there was a problem. Utter, stunned silence. He says, "It seems the passenger in 23C can't follow directions and was smoking in the bathroom. [226 eyes rivet on 23C.] We've notified authorities and will have her arrested when we land." Blah blah. Shut her up right quick.

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Green Day irritates the fuck out of me.

That is all.

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Nobody should see your underwear....except TSA.

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Submitted by WTFOMGLOL on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 5:42am.

My only comment is -- I am sooo sick of the corporate buzz term "reach out" (to customers)

EVERYONE has latched on to it, including my boss, and every time I hear it, I want to smack someone.

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You clearly are not displaying a "can-do attitude." You need to network more proactively and optimize your client collaboration!!!

xoxo

Am DEFINITELY on the "pull up your pants" side. I don't want to see your (probably) dirty underwear. I just can't with this mess. And you see guys actually walking and holding up their pants. Please, for the love of God, stop.

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Submitted by Team Valtrex on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:58pm.
Submitted by FunFilled on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 7:26pm.
I'm hesitant to say this, but past the age of 22, pull up your fucking pants.

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Check your keyboard, it put too many 2s in there.

Should read: past the age of 2, pull up your fucking pants.

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Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:29am.
Submitted by joe shmoe on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:42am.

Hahaha...*waiting for a tweet about how things went with the Q-Tip*
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Having urgently satiated the itch as it suddenly emanated, I gently withdrew my formerly rigid and rampantly sturdy Q-Tip from the depths of my ear, it emerged, spent and slightly bent as I nonchalantly tossed it into the eager opening of my trash can.
Good night!
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Hahaha...Sooo much sexier than Courtney, any day. And practical too! You come out of it with clean ears. :D

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"THANK YOU!! OMG, it drives me nuts too. I write/edit for a living, and folks at my company are CONSTANTLY capping the first letter of words that are not proper nouns, and I am constantly ranting about it and trying to correct it when I can.

They say that they do it "for emphasis, to call attention to the word.""

It reads like an eighteenth-century revolutionary tract, just the illiterate version.

I presume you say snottily "If your writing was strong enough, you wouldn't have to call attention to the word" with full schoolmarm side-eye.

Sarah Smile

"My only comment is -- I am sooo sick of the corporate buzz term "reach out" (to customers"

Oh, dear God - cannot STAND it. Any of it. It's such lazy goddamned shorthand. Sorry, MBAs (or, as they'd probably put it, "MBA's"), you're not meant to write. No offense intended.

Sarah Smile

"Being in public spaces means having some respect for others and public decency, and private companies SHOULD hold standards."

Oh, wait a minute - I was under the impression we were discussing airlines. You know, those "service providers" who charge you for a bag of motherfucking peanuts and won't let people use the damn bathroom while they're stuck on the tarmac. I must be in the wrong thread. Because if we are, I find any invocation of "standards" laughable.

And, also, are people seriously referring to this as a "post-9/11 era" in reference to saggy pants? Surely, Billy Joe went through the TSA rigamorole before getting on the plane. This is not a security issue. This is deliberate provocation by the plane's staff, recast as a public safety issue when they got precisely the reaction any normal person would have.

I'm actually astonished anybody would side with the airline on this one. Side-eye at his ensemble? Absolutely. Kicking him off the plane? Preposterous.

Sarah Smile

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Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 4:50pm.

Submitted by Honeybadger on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 3:35pm.
Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:07pm.
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Obviously you knew I meant American Idiot and I never said I was "BFF's", (as if friendship with said band was something to brag about) The fact is that for A LONG time before "American IDIOT", Green Day was a very accessible band and I met them BEFORE Dookie came out, while they were touring with Bad Religion. I'm going to assume that due to the nature of message board/blog communication your post only came across as condescending and leave it at that. If it was in fact meant to be condescending, that's just unfortunate because I'm not here to get into arguments (especially about GD for fuck's sake!) or to prove myself to you or anyone else, I like this site and most posters so have a good one.

Whoa! Easy cobra! I wasn't trying to "get into" anything. Everyone here should know I am too lazy for that. I was merely pointing out that you had a critical element incorrect. Your subsequent GD post sounded like almost verbatim copy of any wiki site. IMO, repeated mention with enhancements (bragging) of negligible interaction with a douchey D list (no offense to D listers) band from the 90's is just kinda lame. Whatever.

Educate yourself on the badass, not-fuck-giving honeybadger, Olivia! ~MK

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My only comment is -- I am sooo sick of the corporate buzz term "reach out" (to customers)

EVERYONE has latched on to it, including my boss, and every time I hear it, I want to smack someone.

oh, and yay! Finally got electricity back at home yesterday after seven days. nice going, Connecticut Light and Power. Way to reach out to your highest-rate-paying customer town. saving the rural areas for dead-fucking-last.
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Submitted by Agnostic 1 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:21am
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Hahaha...*waiting for a tweet about how things went with the Q-Tip*

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Submitted by joe shmoe on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:42am.

Hahaha...*waiting for a tweet about how things went with the Q-Tip*
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Having urgently satiated the itch as it suddenly emanated, I gently withdrew my formerly rigid and rampantly sturdy Q-Tip from the depths of my ear, it emerged, spent and slightly bent as I nonchalantly tossed it into the eager opening of my trash can.
Good night!
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"How nice, to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

The latest tweet from Courtney Stodden.

Wrapping this very delightful day up now by unleashing every one of my physical fantasies unto the fall of the night. Sweet dreams! ;-) XOs

Yes, those are really tweets from her account. I've never met anyone who actually talked like that.

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Submitted by FunFilled on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 7:26pm.
I'm hesitant to say this, but past the age of 22, pull up your fucking pants.

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Check your keyboard, it put too many 2s in there.

Should read: past the age of 2, pull up your fucking pants.

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Submitted by Team Valtrex on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:48pm.

great, just great... now you're pissin' off the furries!LOL!

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I prefer ACTUAL punk, not pseudo MTV punk. He's about as hardcore as Avril Lavigne hugging a stuffed bunny.

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I hate flying. So tired of having everything I carry be searched.

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Submitted by MudTurtle on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:07pm.

You're welcome! As for that other video: in the same way that I would like all the world's oceans to dry up for a couple of minutes so I could see what's on the bottom I would like to have a sneak peak into other people's minds. I do realize that some of the imagery can be very disturbing. Exhibit A: that thing we saw earlier.

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Who are you calling silly cow?

MickeyH, thanks for the nice link. I just watched the fuckery that was that fucked up "going to the store" thing and I'm still shuddering. ugh.

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She appears to be under the delusion that she is so hot that she can go around sans fards. She needs the fards.-Deb 7/29/11

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Submitted by MudTurtle on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 10:55pm.

"Hello people."

Salut MudTurtle! I was watching classic music videos earlier this week and Lionel Ritchie's 'Hello' has been stuck in my mind ever since. I'll probably get schot for this ("cheesy", "sappy"), but for me this is the ultimate feel good video. Back from the days when life was simple and all was right with the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74

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Who are you calling silly cow?

Hello people.

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She appears to be under the delusion that she is so hot that she can go around sans fards. She needs the fards.-Deb 7/29/11

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What a revolting little man. Who would want to sit in a fabric chair that made contact with his bare ass cheeks?

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Who are you calling silly cow?

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Dick move on both counts. I do wish the airlines would stop apologizing to every celebrity.

Here's what I am going to do, I am going to read up on how to be a Buddhist, and I am gonna pray to Buddha that he is going to reincarnate me so when I kill myself I can come back and be cool as
fuck like you.