Bored now.

Entitled man-child whines he isn't special after all.

AHAHAHAHAHHAA!

Seriously, Dank, die in  a mining rig fire.

Nicely done, Private Pyle.

Dank, the only scammer too incompetent to have himself a golden parachute.

So everyone who has ever had to apply for public assistance is worthless? Less than worthless? There's no such thing as being unemployed through no fault of their own in Rudd-O-Land? There's no disasters that wipe out businesses, no shady business practices that eliminate jobs and fire people to avoid paying benefits, and nobody ends up on public assistance unless they're got a genetically predisposition to be welfare queens?

I don't know how it is in Australia. Here in the States for every 1 job opening there is, even if it is flipping hamburgers, there are 5-15 people competing for it, depending on the region.

My daughter handles job applications for a company. She told me at the last opening there was ($10/hr, 40/week, benefits) there was over 500 applications. All of them qualified, many of them with college degrees.

These people aren't worthless, there just aren't as many jobs as there are people who want them. Combine them with the shitty thing employers do, which is hire people as "temp workers" and then fire them right before they'd qualify for benefits by law, and you've got serious problems.

And as someone who once had to take assistance for a brief period of time, the $100 = 5 hours of community service is a terrible idea for a myriad of different reasons. Number one, you've just consigned them to about an entire work week of community service every month. Taking away time for education, classes, job searching, whatever.

Oh, and speaking as a mixed race American....

Check your privilege.

According to state and federal statistics, more white people are on welfare and food stamps then African Americans.

And yes, if you took away welfare and food stamps, millions of children of all ethnicity would face starvation, homelessness, and many other problems.

But sure, claim it's all about African Americans and all their fault.

Racist. How's the food at the Klan meetings?

I suppose explaining such things as empathy, compassion, reasons, how a society should be judged on how they treat those who have fallen on hard times and the most vulnerable of their citizenry, the duties of a government to serve the public good, and other esoteric topics would be a complete on a man who has it all figured out.

I hope, for your sake, Rudd-O, that you never fall on hard times and have to subsist on the very safety net you so despise.

Do many of you realize that welfare in the United States has the following:

• Lifetime limit to amount of time spent on welfare
• classes and other requirements
• Paperwork, checkins, and child safety classes
• Inability to turn down work

To top it off, the amount of money given for welfare is not that much.

Here in Oregon a family of 4 will receive roughly $700-$800/mo in cash assistance and $350/mo in foodstamps.

They are not allowed to save up money to stave off a disaster, have limits to personal property, and other limitations.

The cost of housing sits (after a quick scan of local listings) at $1,000/mo for a 3 bedroom house. Well, that's unaffordable. How about something cheaper?

I found ONE place that was a 3 bedroom for $550/mo, in a bad part of town, that was a mobile home in a lot. (Everything else that was 3-bedroom was at least $650/mo) That leaves roughly $200 to cover: Electricity, car insurance, phone, natural gas, gasoline for the car.

So, let's assume that someone gets an $8/hr job (seasonal, meaning they'll only be employed for a short period of time), working 32 hours a week (so their employers don't have to pay full time benefits according to state regulation), and using a tank of gas every two weeks to get there. (Public transportation is next to useless for most people) They'll be making $256/week, spending that $56 on gas every two weeks.

So, before taxes, they'll be pulling in $1024/mo.

The concept of "welfare queens" and "living high on welfare" is a fallacy. Nobody WANTS to sit on public assistance. You have no mobility, you have next to no money for anything beyond the basic sustenance, and you're scrabbling harder than if you had a minimum wage job.

Sadly, many employers are now using the part-time to avoid paying benefits (can't get in the way of record profits and shareholder profits), meaning either both parents will have to work (meaning possible child-care costs and even two cars and the additional upkeep costs), or one parent will have to hold down two jobs.

Welfare, food stamps, HUD, and other social safety nets are vitally important to a nation's well-being, and considering the screwed up taxation of the most wealthy parts of the nation, the lack of employee safety-nets, the loss of unions (at least they made sure you HAD a damn job), and many other problems, removing welfare is a horrible thing.

So you aren't going to run in that thread and spew the same bullshit you've spewed before?

Remember? Cancer/death/sickness is just weakness of the soul?

I've read this whole thread, Dank, and have come to the conclusion that you suffer from severe problems, mostly involving your total ignorance in the way the world works and human nature in general.

You complain about government control, but have you ever looked at any nations that have suffered a  collapse of government? Those places ARE hell on earth. Not like you claim we all live in, but a place where women can expect to be raped at any moment, people are killed for amusement, and disease, poverty, and suffering run rampant.

Why don't you set down the bong and the LSD, get yourself treatment for your manic depressive episodes, and go out and experience the world.

You claim to be more intelligent than the majority of humanity, at 50 points higher on the IQ scale than the average person, but cannot even relate to the real world in any meaningful fashion.

Your million man Dank Festival will NOT happen. You know this, and the knowledge that you've failed at yet another thing should bother you. It should show you that your ability to carry though on a project is severely lacking.

Your hookah lounge you got nothing but good advice, nothing but people trying to help you, and instead of following any of that advice, you just hand-waved away everything until you discovered that despite your "we create our own reality" recycled 60's hippy bullshit, you couldn't create jack or shit in your own reality.

Then you wanted to cross the ocean on a  motorcycle, just because you saw a YouTube video and don't understand what was going on.

Then the tidal wave claims. Which you then tried to BS your way out of.

Dank, why do I think you were the type of child who didn't finish the little wooden 12 piece puzzle, but had to go to the nurse every time to get the piece you got stuck in your mouth removed.

Dank, besides from your supposed "ego death" what else have you accomplished in the last month? I mean, actually accomplished.

Listen, we all had our stupid teenage years. We all did stupid stuff, but we didn't think that stupid stuff made us better than everyone else on the planet. We went out and interacted with the world, we went out, made mistakes, had our failures and victories, and strove to better our lives and the lives of other people.

Your blathering on about supposed ego death, begging for money, sponging off your parents, and living a life of ease and comfort doesn't impress anyone here.

We all know you're naive and ignorant, and shake our heads at your unwillingness to put any actual effort into anything while preaching half-formed theories, and in general just wonder what the hell you really think you are going to accomplish with all of it.

We all know:

• You won't achieve your music festival and then make some wild metaphysical claim that it actually happened in an alternate reality.
• Nobody is going to give you a motorbike and you won't cross the ocean on it.
• At no time in this month is a wave of love going to roll across the earth and make people give up who and what they are.

But what will you do next?

The amusing thing is that you claim that going to college is violating your rights as a person, and that you don't feel the need to be asking your parents for the money to get an education, yet you constantly sponge off of others.

What will you do when all of these half-baked plots fall through?

Will you finally move back in with your parents and attend college?

or just move onto your next scam?

Private Pyle fails again.

I'm surprised he wasn't going to wear the Rolex and stroll around his Hookah Lounge when he wasn't at his mansion, using the watch to blind people who get too close the totally kickin-rad bike he's going to buy, as he resurrects Jimi and brokers 20 musicians for his music festival.

So Dank, how's the hookah lounge and the million man concert going?

Been able to afford a motorcycle or pay your fines to get your license back yet?

Grown up to be anything more than a leeching man-child yet, Private Pyle?

In this episode of "The Very Dank Show" our hero Dank decides to stalk a woman.

Next episode our hero Dank will learn the meaning "restraining order" and "angry significant other" and the always popular lesson: "Mace burns"

And Private Pyle is back on the weed.

Define Ego, dank, because I keep thinking of the psychological ego, you are obviously talking out your ass about something else.

And illness, injury, and body part wearing out is NOT  because of ego.

So according to you, only the egotistical and those who don't have enough love in their lives die.

Does that mean that any of us who have lost a loved one is at fault because we didn't love them enough, and the reason THEY died was because they didn't have enough love and too much ego?

My god, you have GOT to be a troll, anyone else would implode from the cognitive dissonance.

And the reason people are going to die are as follows:

Your shitty music will probably kill 2-3 hundred thousand people out of ear raping horribleness.
You are providing no medical attention for injuries.
You are holding an outdoor concert in December in probably sub-zero temperatures

And death is the work of illness, injury, or body parts wearing out, not of ego.

Goddamn, you are an idiot and a terrible troll.

OK, smart guy. The reason why not very many people died at Woodstock is because the local National Guard unit and Red Cross provided not only medical but medevac to the concert goers. And Woodstock wasn't CLOSE to a million people.

And honestly, you lecturing me on death is about as useful as you lecturing me on pleasing a woman, balancing my checkbook, raising children, or getting a job.

You aren't qualified on lecturing anyone on anything beyond how to be a sponge.


This is the dumbest thing I have heard in my life.

Are you saying that people who are with their terminally ill or critically injured loved ones don't love them? That they just didn't love enough to save them?

Dank, you have to be a troll.

Or most naive man-child on the internet.

This is a two parter, Private Pyle, so pay attention.

Death sucks. I've never seen ANYONE who enjoys dying. It's messy, painful, and usually involves a lot of screaming.

Two: With your shitty planning for Dankfest you are basically murdering people.

No medical care? Say hello to my little friend Negligent Homicide.

You seem to have a fear of logic and intellect.

Look, it doesn't matter how many doctors are in the crowd. BJ & Hawkeye could be in the crowd and they would be highly unlikely to do a single thing. Medical insurance would prevent them at the least.

You really would benefit from a tour in the military. Of course, now that I think about it, if you approached the military with the same half-assed attitude you use for the rest of your life you couldn't pass Basic Training much less accomplish your job in garrison or in the zone.

Have you EVER attempted to organize anything? You show a frightening lack of comprehension about the level of effort needed as well as a startling case of Dunning Kruger.

You babble about negativity, but let's look at some things honestly, Private Pyle.

I've helped set up concerts, theater work, military encampments, marchers. I like to organize things and I'm good at it.

Why?

Because I have a REAL checklist that I go down with all the anal retentiveness of an account with the IRS circling.

You have a checklist of what you want, but nothing in your checklist of how to get it. You are relying on people's goodwill and generosity, when I can tell that a plain fact: Individuals are generous, kind, and have goodwill, people are greedy immature irresponsible fuckwits.

You cannot rely on the generosity of mankind to provide medical aid for your million people. That's a major city.

And that's how you need to look at it.

Your concert will briefly transform that 2 mile area, which is 1280 acres (my mistake, those of you who caught my typo, as a square mile is 640 acres), into a fairly large city.

Let's look at everything a city of 1 MILLION people needs.

Transportation.
Living quarters.
Food purchasing
Medical care
Sewage
Potable water
Hygiene facilities
infrastructure personnel

That's just what you need to have a city that large in Civ-IV, must less the messy reality you will need.

How many bottles of water will you need to have on hand? Are you aware of what kind of liability you will face as the organizer?

The old days where you could have a concert in a field with half-assed planning are OVER. There are laws facing public events, even private events.

Have you talked to anyone with any experience in setting up events and listened instead of hand waving them away with "like, karma, dude, will, like, totally, like, make it happen, maaaaaaan."

A concert, even a venue of a few hundred people, requires an immense amount of effort. You aren't willing to put the effort in to open a fucking hookah lounge, and you think a concert will be easy? Have you ever won a game of civilization without using cheat codes, because right now I'm starting to believe that you probably hit "Play Game" and it pops up with "You Lose" before your first turn.

GROW UP, DANK.

Get a fucking job, it'll teach you about prioritizing effort.
Go to fucking college, it'll teach you just how ignorant you are.
Join the military, it'll teach you about organization.

You have no goddamn real drive. Once you find out just how tough it is to do something like this, it'll be like everything else you've done, another abandoned dream from an idea guy. You'll come up with excuses for why it didn't work, probably blaming negativity and your age and people's lack of trust in teenagers, but you'll know, deep down inside, just like we will, that it failed because you refused to apply the least  bit of effort, refusing to listen to any advice, and couldn't get off your ass to take it seriously.

You aren't "organizing a million man concert" you're daydreaming openly on a forum.

You want other people to handle paying for it. You want random volunteers to do medical care. You want someone to lend you the land, almost 2 square miles. You want everyone ELSE to do it for you so that you can attach your name to it.

For fuck's sake, Dank, GROW THE FUCK UP and accept some responsibility in your life.

And I take back what I said about joining the military. They've got it tough enough with being shot at, they don't need a dumbass like you added to the mix. You'd probably eat the ASVAB anyway instead of passing it, jam the pencil in your ass, and pogo-stick out of the testing center.

Your concert isn't going to happen, dank. I'm not a betting man, but I'm willing to throw down cash (dirty fiat dollars) that I won't be turning on the news and seeing "DANK'S ROCKING NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT!" or anything else like that.

Just like I'm willing to bet I won't see anyone shilling your latest album on TV, or see you on VH-1 or MTV talking about your meteoric rise to success.


PAY ATTENTION, PRIVATE PYLE!

Dank, you have no clue what the hell you are even planning. You HAVE to be trolling or posting for attention.

But I'll play along, just to show what an ignorant fool you are.

First of all, you are talking 1,000 acres. A square mile if 440 square acres. You are asking for two square MILES to be donated.

You're hoping for 1 MILLION people. That's 500K people per mile. A mile is 28,000,000 square feet. That means you have 56 million square feet. That means 56 square feet per person. That's a 9x6 area. Now, this is before even the facilities.

Let's build this like a military logistics base.

First of all, we need an area for vehicles. That's always first and foremost. So, we'll need room for emergency services vehicles and a helipad in case of emergency. (Irony is that during Woodstock the US military provided helicopter medevacs as well as bringing in supplies) We'll lop 2 acres off for that. You'll probably ignore that part and figure you don't need to worry about it, since you'll just pedal your bike there and expect everyone else to do the same, and you won't need helicopters, since this is all "positive karma" which, of course, Woodstock lacked, right?

Now, we need living quarters for staff. Nobody willing to work on the staff of music entertainers are going to be willing to stay in military surplus tents, so we'll have to provide trailers, and nice ones. Probably 20/30 footers. We better snatch away 5 acres for that. Not to mention the cost of the trailers. But you'll probably half-ass this and ignore it.

Now parking. For 1 million people. We better consider at least 750,000 cars. Better use truck size. There will be buses, motorhomes, and all of that. So we better go with slicing off at least 30 acres for that. (I've seen a military decommissioning depot with over a million vehicles in it, it was twelve square miles, nothing but vehicles as far as the eyes could see) But I guess you figure everyone will hitchhike and walk so you'll probably ignore vehicle storage.

Security. If you think you won't need security, you're a goddamn fool. Even Woodstock had security. Depending on local laws, you might have to hire a private security firm. Better find one willing to volunteer the time. They'll need to be bonded. Unbonded 'volunteer' security guards opens you up to major lawsuits when one of them beats a guy half to death or rapes a woman. You'll probably figure you don't need security, after all, this is the dank music festival and you don't have to worry about it. So you'll ignore this.

Medical: You'll need medical tents. For 1 million people you'll need the equivelant of a military field hospital, without surgical areas. Your best bet is 1 qualified medic per 500 people. That means you'll need TWO THOUSAND medics. You might want to contact the Army there, champ. Even if you decide to half-ass this, life everything else in your life, you'll need QUALIFIED people to administer first aid, anything else you'll end up with lawsuits when your drunken volunteers fair to treat frostbite and people start losing toes. You can expect, with 1 MILLION fucking people, that there will be an average of 20% of them suffer cold weather injuries, not to mention dehydration, injuries from fighting or the press of a million person crowd (I've been to massive concerts, like Monsters of Rock in the 80's, and just being in the front of the crowd left bruises on my ribs), rapes, assaults, drug overdoses, women going into labor, and just plain stupidity.

Now lets get to things that even YOU can't ignore.

Electrical: Without electricity you won't be doing anything but wishing. Unless you plan on running extension cords from some unwitting farmer's barn, you'll need generators. If you were stupid enough to think the extension cord and free electricity route, you'll find out that you'll lose ALL the electricity in that distance, not to mention possibly catching the cables on fire and burning down everything. So, you'll need generators, and not the little ones your grandpa has in the garage for when the power goes out. You'll need FEMA/military/Construction rated ones. We're talking the big 60KW generators. The generators you'll need cost about $1,200 a DAY to rent, unless you think the Army will be nice enough to loan a dipshit like you a VERY expensive generator.

Light sets: We aren't talking a few spotlights like in your high school theater. You're going to need a concert lighting set. Have you ever been to a concert, Dank? We're talking literally dozens, if not hundreds, of lights, the steel scaffolding to support them, the cabling and controls to run electricity to them. Those light sets cost tens of thousands of dollars, Dank. Nobody is going to lend you $150,000 in lights, not now.

Sound Equipment: This is NOT your high school's PA system, this isn't the sound system you had in theater class in community college. This is a multi-thousand dollar system. Do you realize just how much those systems cost to rent, move, set up? Have you ever SEEN one of those systems? You need a  TEAM of audio engineers.

Sewage Handling: This isn't a couple porta-potties, Dank, this is literally a few thousand for your "Million Man Concert", and they have to be emptied at least every day, every other day at the least. But you probably figure everyone can just shit on the ground, get dystentary, and die.

Dank, this is without getting into the problems of the fact you intend on holding this concert, outdoors, IN THE WINTER, in the North America. I know you probably think "Oh, the desert! I'll do it there!" but are you even aware that in the desert temperatures easily drop below freezing at night? I can tell you from experience that desert nights are COLD. You hold your concert outdoors, in the winter, if it's a multi-day event, PEOPLE WILL DIE if you don't have tents for everyone, medical care, medevac facilities. People will get drunk and pass out, and people will die of exposure.

Don't try to wave this shit away with "Where there's a will there's a way" bullshit. We're talking the real world, not Dank's Imaginary World of Hookahs & Free Money.

While I could set up a military encampment in an hour or so, I'm drawing on centuries of doctrine, procedure, and knowledge to do so. There's manuals for how to do it. I'm TRAINED in how to do it.

You aren't trained to lead ants to a picnic with a jar of honey.

Dank, setting a concert up takes WEEKS of planning. The people who host Burning Man have been doing this for like 20 years, they have massive amounts of experience, and even they take months to plan everything out, make sure they've covered their bases.

I'm serious, you could really benefit from a hitch in the Army or Marines, a tour or two of Afghanistan.

And don't give me that crybaby shit about killing people. 3/4 of the jobs in the military have nothing to do with combat. Go into transportation or supply or another logistics branch, and you'd get an idea of the massive amount of effort and planning it takes to even arrange a convoy.

Take a job with a shipping company. Hell, get a job working for Wal-Mart in the warehouse and you'll get a feel for what it takes.

Right now, Dank, you're an idea man. That's ALL you have, is ideas. You don't have the education, the knowledge, or the experience, or hell, even the goddamn intelligence to understand the depths of your ignorance or what you need to learn to about.

Dank, quit wishing and coming up with ideas and do something. Complete ONE fucking project. In the time you've spent rubbing your face and/or ass against the string of your guitar someone who had taken lessons, even someone with no musical talent and a tin ear, could play simple songs that are beyond you.

Get a job, or just accept your family's help to go to college.

There are people who join the military, go out to fight and die, for the military's promise of college money, because otherwise they will never get the chance to attend college, and you spurn an offer than a significant and measurable amount of the US citizenry cannot afford to do without sinking themselves massively into debt.

Don't waste that opportunity, Dank. Go to college, get an education.

Make your dreams happen.

Right now you aren't even educated enough to understand in what ways you are ignorant, and why you are a laughingstock on these forums.

No, it isn't. You see, you have to do homework, take tests, study, WORK.

A concept completely alien to you.

College isn't sitting in class toking up and then writing down whatever shit crosses your mind.

YOu have to apply yourself in classes, like you failed to do with your business plans. You have to learn things, another thing you failed to do in your business thread, you have to apply knowledge you have aquired, another thing you have failed to do in threads.

You know what, DON'T go to college. Don't take the seat of a person who wants to be a decent student.

Continue begging for money, running your penny ante schemes, and dreaming of being a rockstar in less than 90 days.


How old are you going to get before this isn't you just sponging off your parents? 18? 19? 21? 25? 30?

Are you going to be some pervy fat weirdo who thinks he can play the guitar but sucks and lives with his parents all your life?

Because you are a sponge. Yeah, you return to your "investors" who you consider people investing in you having a nice life and comfort, when in reality it's just you taking the equivelant of payday loans and begging your parents for money to cover the interest.

Giving you money isn't an investment, it's merely supporting a deluded child who thinks the world owes him a living.

You know, I don't normally say this, but you are someone who could benefit from a few years in the Army and a tour or two of Afghanistan.

Yay, page 69, a very sexy page.

Why is it that people always yank this out when the subject of curing things through placebos.

Placebos are...

You know what? Fuck explaining it all. Instead, let me approach it differently...

In theory rounding up a dozen stray dogs and letting them anally master you for an entire 24 hour period could cure cancer. After all, during World War 2 a soldier was given a saline injection instead of morphine and his body introduced endorphins so he felt no pain. If the human body is capable of that, imagine what it could do with the raw protein infusion of a dozen throbbing dog-cocks inserted rectally, where the human body won't bother with the DNA in it and instead use the proteins to bind to the HIV and Cancer.

Open your anus a little!

So in addition to blowing it when it came to the Hookah Lounge and all your other penny ante schemes, you don't even understand the metaphysical meanings of "ego" and "consciousness".

Life experiences make up our consciousness, which you claim that we all share, in some kind of weird hive-mind-esque linkage.

Learn your goddamn terms, Dank.