Yesterday, I was involved in a ’sillie situation.’ I was in a plane, and it ‘went down’ to ‘chill in the Hudson River.’ I thought my life was going to be over, and I thought after 17 years of life on Earth, I was only going 2 be a news meme.
Two of my biggest fears in life include:
- finding out my life was “just a meme”
- dying in a plane crash
The plane went down. I closed my eyes, and turned on my iPod. I started listening 2 the song “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John to remind me of a time when ‘everything was okay.’ I was ready to leave the Earth.
I was calmed by the Scandinavian whistling as the plane shot towards God’s Earth. Down… Downer… Whistling… Downest. Splash. Whistling…. Crash. Boom. Whistles. Calm…. [the lyrics to Young Folks].
The descent was similar to the popular Disney ride SPLASH MOUNTAIN. We chilled in the river and the old people who booked the emergency exit seats ‘for more leg room’ were unable to open the doors. I was anxious because I wasn’t sitting near an exit and had 2 wait a long time 2 get out of the plane. Felt like I deserved to ‘live’ more than most of the other ppl on the plane.
We exited the plane in a chill fashion. The flight attendants gave us complimentary beverages and peanuts/pretzels for us to eat while we chilled on flotation devices/exit ramps. I also received a lifetime of free flights from US Airways to any where in the continental United States (I can no longer sue the airline upon receipt of this gift).
Immediately after the crash, I sent my parents a text message that said “I’m Okay.” They are very familiar with this text message, because I have sent it to them after numerous international tragedies. It is important to let people know that you are “safe” after any sort of tragedy happens. Even if u don’t live in the same city, it’s just good 2 communicate.
Let the world know that you are okay [via text message], [via twitter], and [via facebook status message]. Be proud to be alive. Be proud to b part of a worldwide social network that travels faster than mainstream journalists. It’s good 2 be alive,yall.
In the year 2k9, I renewed my lease on life. I will not ‘off myself’ in 2k9.
In 2k9, I will try to be ‘a lil bit more gonzo.’
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It probably would have been cooler to listen to Bon Iver’s “Flume” as you rode that avionic log flume to your (near) certain death.
Better luck next time.
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//////////Reply by David
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 9:22 am
How pompous of you to say: “Felt like I deserved to ‘live’ more than most of the other ppl on the plane.”
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//////////Reply by Alicia
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
@David,
How is that pompous. I think anyone in that situation would feel that way. If anything, it’s natural. You’d be a lying asshole if you didn’t feel that way.
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//////////Reply by Biff
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 6:02 am
@Alicia,
You must be one of those people who would trample old ladies and children to get off the plane because you deserve to live more than they do.
What a self-centered, self-important cunt.
//////////Reply by Perry
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Biff you’re a prick.
Just coz he’s got his priorities right,
sometimes youve gotta look out for number 1
//////////Reply by pako
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
@David,
i totally agree. what a bullshit thing to say. way to let us down dude. you dont deserve to live anymore than anyone else.
look out for #1? what is this 1983 ya dickbag.
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//////////Reply by Fred
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
@pako,
“feltlike” and “acted like” are two different things. We all have dark thoughts – our choices define us.
Thanks for the reminder that life’s good.
//////////Reply by E
//////////Posted January 23rd, 2009 at 8:36 am
@pako, You have the animal right to protect yourself and offspring. Humans are animals. Dickbag.
//////////Reply by schizo
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
@nikkos, please tell me your subcomments are some kind of extended joke? h8 when i can’t tell if people are stupid enough to take carles seriously
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ahahaha flight SUCKS
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“an airbag saved my life.” – the radiohead
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//////////Reply by julian
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 11:50 am
“pull me out of the aircrash, pull me out of the lake.” radiohead – lucky
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I would listen to “At the Bottom of Everything”
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//////////Reply by sam
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@yazmin, that would be scurry, y’all!
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//////////Reply by Speed
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I thought the same thing! But it’s got a really long intro, so I don’t know whether I’d get past the talking before the plane hit the water…?
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//////////Reply by Scmeef
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
@Speed,
I’d listen to the live version, thus skipping the intro and feeling all alive/happy, until I realise no brightly coloured dots fly out of the ocean when you fly a plane into it :(
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Wait… were you really on the plane?
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//////////Reply by survivr
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 11:46 am
@FunkSucks, yes he/she/i/you/we/// were!
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I for one am glad to see no one has yet suggested “Paper Planes.” It’s soooooooo “mainstream,” to borrow one of this blog’s key “memes.”
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//////////Reply by BLACK people
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 11:50 am
@nikkos, fggt, even saying that its mainstream is mainstream. us true alts ignore its existance. fggt.
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//////////Reply by nikkos
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
@BLACK people, what, are VOWELS too mainstream for you too?
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//////////Reply by MagB
//////////Posted January 19th, 2009 at 1:15 am
@BLACK people, to call yourself alt proves that you are completely missing the point.
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//////////Reply by kyda69
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
@nikkos, saying something is mainstream=trying way too hard
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//////////Reply by noona
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
@kyda69, choosing to continue living = trying way too hard
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//////////Reply by terry fuckwit
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
@noona, choosing to try too hard=trying way too hard
//////////Reply by kyda69
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
@noona, haha, someone takes all jokes/criticisms as a personal attack.. I bet ur daddy drank a bit too much, huh?
//////////Reply by xxxrokkstarrxx
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:27 am
@nikkos, @BLACK people, @kyda69,
Saying that saying something is mainstream is mainstream that mainstream=trying way too hard is choosing to continue living is the most mainstream thing EVER.
Us true alts only listen to shitty bands that we pretend to like because you’ve never heard of them.
Now as a symbol of the incessant tragedy and irony that pervades my life, I’m going to go do some blow off the DVD cover for Blow. Fuck your iPhone.
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earlier today, I twtrd “Anyone else thinking that plane’s water landing is a good omen/metaphor for the economy with Obama as pilot?”
Also – unrelated – storm trooper driving a Lotus! http://geekadelphia.com/2009/01/16/stormtrooper-driving-lotus-exige/
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//////////Reply by Adam West
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
@Mark, LOLZ Great pic.
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just perfect.
the plane looked amazing though, like a giant metal whale with just its dorsal fin exposed.
time was it’d take at least a half-hour to get news like this; efficiency is intoxicating.
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//////////Reply by xxxrokkstarrxx
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:29 am
@escher,
No it doesn’t. It looks like a wing sticking out of a river because there’s a fucking plane sinking there. There’s nothing deep or ironic about it. There’s a fucking plane, sinking in the fucking river.
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glad to hear you’re okay carles
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You’re only 17? Not that its a problem or anything, but I thought you were at least 22.
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//////////Reply by Chris
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@Jay, ‘getting’ sarcastic humor is s0 2k8
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//////////Reply by truth
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
:D
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//////////Reply by ron
//////////Posted January 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
@Jay, isn’t it obvious? Only teenagers think its cool to type without vowels.
(The rest of us grew up before text messaging was fused into the development of written communication skills…)
Glad the kid’s ok though that shit would be beyond sad.
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Glad you’re safe. Cheers.
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//////////Reply by lovem
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
@m,
really? like really dog?
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I M OK MoM = send mre $ <3 ya 4 EVS
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What you should have been listening to was Free Bird.
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//////////Reply by xxxrokkstarrxx
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:17 am
@Cook66, the solo from Freebird would be the perfect plane crash music, I agree lol.
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expose yourself to kids, by GG allen. Its the only socially acceptable song given the situation.
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You should’ve been listennin to Paper PLanes by Mia
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Fallout Boy- Sugar We’re Going Down (via ppr plns)
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Should have listened to that song by The Bright Eyes where he talks about a plane crash.
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//////////Reply by djstepdadjeans
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
@scientist,
*See*4th*Comment*
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You should’ve listened to the m83 band’s Lower Y’all’s eyelids 2 dye y’alls hair with the suns.
EPIC death.
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//////////Reply by bibi&geneviève
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
@sam, i lol’d
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i would listen to the sweet murmurs of that single crying infant
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No, wait, it should be Sigur Ros as you’re counting down the seconds/as you’re doing anything meaningful. Any song.
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//////////Reply by smedly
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@Matthew,
i wish i could be in a [non fatal] plane crash just so i could epically blast sigur ros into my ears, creating probs the most meaningful experience of my life
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airbus are so dangerous u know
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//////////Reply by zephyr
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
@anth, i do know and it is frighten
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That’s weird when I took of on a plane going from LA-> Chicago I listened to the same song.
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//////////Reply by broshi
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
@maulie, nonstop?
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//////////Reply by maulie
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 2:56 am
@broshi,
yes. whistling gives you wings….or maybe that was just the plane….or perhaps just sparks knock-off.
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sometimes i wonder if the news agencies can hear themselves reporting on things like this crash: “So the plane crashed and now it’s not flying anymore, because it crashed, and it’s in the water, and yes, we have now confirmed that the water is wet, okay, and this also means that the plane is wet because it is in the water…”
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nonstop?
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The only suitable soundtrack for an oceanic airplane landing is Octopus’s Garden by the Beatles. Ringo is the alt Beatle.
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as my plane was turning on the runway that song by powerline from the goofy movie started… and after the plane sped up the music started going and when powerline sings his first… YEAHHH YEAHHHHH! the plane detached from the earth. it was a truly magical experience.
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//////////Reply by happy light
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
@WTF, the song is titled Eye 2 Eye
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//////////Reply by jw
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
@happy light, he could be talkin bout Stand Out.
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//////////Reply by happy light
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@jw, only eye 2 eye has the big YEAHH YEAAHHH at the beginning that i think we are looking for
//////////Reply by jw
//////////Posted January 18th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
@jw, Oh right, my bad. I only listen to the choruses of songs. ‘Colour me embrssd.’
//////////Reply by happy light
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
@WTF, also, according to FAA regulations using portable electronic devices is not allowed during take-offs and landings
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for next time: listen to elton john ‘candles in the wind’ or the destiny children ‘jumpin jumpin’
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crls is only 17 wat
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You thought you deserved to live more than most of the people on the plane. WTF. Who made you the supreme being.
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//////////Reply by Pete
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
@Tori, I agree, says a lot for the writer’s generation that the “old people” are worth less. Tosser.
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//////////Reply by justchillin
//////////Posted January 16th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
@Pete, crls is better than ‘old ppl’
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//////////Reply by mmrie.
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 12:47 am
@Tori, I thought the same thing.
What do you plan to do for society now that you-who-must-be-saved is alive?
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carles u r sooo funny. but srsly i am deathly afraid of kicking the metaphysical ‘bucket’ via plane crash. personally i wood listen 2 m83s’ ‘don’t save us from the flames’ cuz its epic and bout a car crash..”…tina, tina bleeding all around. liquid metal through me veins. the rays break. a ghost is screaming your name…”
just tryin 2 live/die alternatively yall
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//////////Reply by xxxrokkstarrxx
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:32 am
@mstrcnt, OMFG! It’s a metaphysical bucket?!?! You mean there isn’t an actual bucket?!?! WTF!!!!!
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lol
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+1 for lil wayne flume picture
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“I FEEL LIKE DYING” IMAGE = HRO LANDMARK.
completely biographical;
absolutely classical.
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Amazing stuff!
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I would have preferred to listen to anything by “explosions in the sky”, probably “the birth and death of a day” just for the humor in it. Plus that would be a rad song to die to.
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//////////Reply by d
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 2:09 am
@Rabster, first breath after coma would be the best imo.
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That’s ‘cool’ that you were ‘okay’ and everything. That landing truly was a ‘miracle’ and that pilot definitely is a ‘hero’. I would probably want to write about it too on my “blog” if I were ever involved in something so disastrous and “unfortunate”.
But dude this was the most “boring” and “dull” and “random” thing I’ve ever read. And what’s up with all the “quotes” just kind of randomly “strewn” about? Peter Bjorn? Scandanavian whistling? Is there a difference between “Scandanavian” whistling and regular ol’ whistling?
Congratulations on not dying and stuff. Are you pretty much an unwitting participant in international disasters on a regular basis? “Numerous international disasters”, kind of sounds like it. That would make you the unluckiest, or the luckiest person on the planet; depending on whether you’re one of those ‘half empty’ or ‘half full’ kind of people. Your poor parents probably expect disaster on an international scale every time their phone vibrates. Someone should take your “phone” away.
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//////////Reply by JYF
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 4:38 am
@xxxrokkstarrxx, Aw, a newbie.
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Im amazed at the lack of care i see from people….Here you are speaking of a near death experience and people are telling you what songs you should have listen to and what songs you should listen to next time…as if they are expecting a next time.
live life to your fullest love with an open heart and thank god for everyday..you never know when the next one wont come.
now im not that old only 21 but from the way i live and i know the love i give to my fiance and my family will never make me regret my life when the end comes for me and that is all that we can hope for. That we love and the people we love know that when we say i love you..they know we mean it
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//////////Reply by crepe
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 6:36 am
@Kendra,
“live life to your fullest love with an open heart and thank god for everyday..you never know when the next one wont come.” ya!!!!!!11!
so what song should he have listened to? you never said……
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//////////Reply by lawlcatz
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 10:09 am
@crepe,
are you kidding?
@Kendra,
is xxxrokkstarrxx your fiance?
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definetely listen to slayer
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How can you refer to this as a “tragedy?” No one was killed (unless you count the geese).
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
@Molly,
you….
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These are, easily, the most stupid comments I have ever seen on a blog. None of you know how to speak English…or rather, none of you can type correctly…and you’re arguing over who is more mainstream?…. What is so hard about typing like you would talk?!!?
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
@JC,
…don’t…
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//////////Reply by johnmaus
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
@JC,
I agree, I fucking hate everyone who read HRO now, but since I don’t entirely hate Carles (except for the fact that he’s a pedo now and wants to be in little “alts”) you should replace that Splash Mountain picture with this”
http://i43.tinypic.com/246ufkx.jpg
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“Felt like I deserved to ‘live’ more than most of the other ppl on the plane.”
How dare you?
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
@Mac,
…..’ get it ‘ …..
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While I continue to remain hopelessly confused by the dialect used on this website, I am most glad to hear that you survived the crash, Carles (is that a typo, and should it actually be “Charles”? I hope that’s not offensive to ask!). What a trying experience it must have been! I gather that some of my fellow posters are suggesting alternate songs to have played while the plane went down, and it occured to me that Flight of the Valkyries might have been appropriate. Best wishes with your new lease on life!
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//////////Reply by mstrcnt
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@Self-ID’ed Hipster,
…..yall.
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i seriously hope that other cultures to not degenerate to the low that is the USA.
“srsly”
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Is the collective IQ here 50?
I am so sorry I stumbled on this site. I fear for the future.
I just scanned my computer to make sure I didn’t catch the stupid from this site.
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//////////Reply by tommy
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
@buy a vowel, LOLCLUB
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I was at first overjoyed that all 150 survived the flight, however, after reading the crap you post..I kinda wish only 149 made it.
You deserve to live more than the other people on the plane? To achieve what exactly? This mediocre doggerel-filled blog written by an immature idiot? Let me put it to you in a way you can understand:
LOLZ u2 stoopid 2 rite, yall.
Do me a favor..go back to the Hudson River and drown in it, you fucking fool.
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//////////Reply by d
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
@Jay,
how do all you guys not realize that he is kidding??!!! of course he wasn’t on that plane.
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//////////Reply by A Party
//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
@d, Hahah. Hate that fucking song by “Young Folks.” Whistling is for bitches.
http://www.hipsterwave.com
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Mannnnn… The lil’ wayne “I feel Like Dying” track is so ill.
Video here–
http://www.hipsterwave.com/dj-screw-and-mike-jones-chopped-and-screwed-with-some-purple-drank/
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Great story, it’s a good thing you survived. God Bless!
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hey Crls, it was nice meeting you on that plane, thanks for telling me about your blog, i think it’s super insightful and funny. you were right, we were the only ones who deserved to live on that plane. thanks for suggesting that i listen to Teenagers while the plane was going down, i had that song on my iPod but i never really listened to it until the plane descended. the lyrics made me laugh while i thought we were going to die.
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Big Willie Style.
http://www.hipsterwave.com/diplo-dj-songwriter-producer-and-head-of-hollertronix/
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wow all the colors on the buildings
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This post is asinine. Does it make you feel funny or ironic to post about being in a plane crash and referring to it so casually as a chill time. I can’t tell if you’re being serious or trying to be funny, but you fail at both.
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Have you ever seen the movie trilogy ” Final destination ” you should have died in that plane crash you little panty waste ,,,LMFAO :)
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The story went on and on and on all over the world. I don’t understand. This is your best post of 2009. xx
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//////////Reply by aNoNy
//////////Posted January 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am
@George, i thought it was one of the best ones 2
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Dese r da best cmnts in ze world yall. Carles shouldn’t fone in Hudson madnezz.
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-The Commander Thinks Aloud by the Long Winters.
Mch mre meaningful to be in disintegrating space shttl nmed after an I V leeg school. Air Busses are (ahem) “Weak Sauce”
The crew compartment is breaking up,
The crew compartment is breaking up.
Plz, next time keep your type of transportation disaster in perspective. Thanks :)
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newsflash, you ARE just a meme! you’re the hipster perez hilton!
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