The Gaper Spirit Animal

[TBS]

Todd, thanks for your going into Battle Mode on our behalf. Fight Like Hell!

[spook]

pretty fucking hilarious to invoke something so heady as freedom of speech over a bunch of juvenile ridicule.

[TheMessenger]

That's what most freedom of speech is dumbass.

[TBS]

BTW, I noticed that the photos of the GSA in AK are now missing. Is that intentional, or the unanticipated effect of taking the thread down and putting it back up?

[TGR420]

Let it be known that Sir spalt did all that was right. thank ye for they help.

[ACH]

This place is the lulz for sure.

Laughing to myself after looking again at the pictures and reviewing some of the 73 pages of dialog that the apparently self aware,
is taking himself so seriously. This has the potential to get even more entertaining...

Oh and spook, feel free to not participate in this thread if you are so offended by it.
Trust me when I say, you wont be missed.

[spook]

Hmmm...
Laughing to myself after looking again at the pictures and reviewing some of the 73 pages of dialog that the apparently self aware, is taking himself so seriously. This has the potential to get even more entertaining...

Oh and spook, feel free to not participate in this thread if you are so offended by it.
Trust me when I say, you wont be missed.

who's offended? the gsa thread was the most popular thread i've seen in here in a long while and tgr "taking a stand" on it makes the people here and this brand look, um, oh yeah! juvenile and petty! gapers ridiculing gapers!

it would seem to have the potential to get more entertaining. and in at least one scenario i can see lots of folks who ridiculed the harness dude getting all "butthurt" about some backlash.

[wolfelot]

Wow! So many twists and turns. The GSA has lead us on quite the journey these past few months. I want to know how he became self aware. It should come as no surprise that at first he wanted to inflict his wrath upon us . I believe there are other sagas where at first the protagonist is reluctant to take their role, but in the end they do what is right and own the role of hero.

[TahoeJ]

I'll just say that in taking the initiative to invite someone to the mammoth mini to be one of the fold, accepted and loved, humiliated and disrespected like we all do to each other, my gesture was met with a request to betray fellow maggots.

That's too bad. If he had embraced it all, that would have been awesome. Truly. Easier said than done, I suppose.

[G]

What the hell? 1800 posts?

Could someone summarize this thread for me?

[wheels]

I guess Our hopes that self-awareness would be a joyous occasion for the GSA may have been a bit off the mark. However I belive and will continue to train for Alaska

In the Name of orange pants, the gopros and the holy harness Amen

[jgb@etree]

I'll just say that in taking the initiative to invite someone to the mammoth mini to be one of the fold, accepted and loved, humiliated and disrespected like we all do to each other, my gesture was met with a request to betray fellow maggots.
Adhering to protocol, I referred the matter to TGR420 due to the legal implications and, as op, soups was informed and
made an understandable decision. Sad... there was so much potential for some rock solid win in it all.

Oh my god. Dude, I love you. You actually reached out to the GSA and invited him to the mammoth mini? Why am I just hearing about this now? I literally spewed coffee onto my keyboard & monitor as I put 2+2 together while reading the last 8hrs worth of posts backwards in a wake & bake haze. So who is he threatening to sue?

I nominate splat for maggot of the decade!

Edit:
I guess TGR420 should also be nominated for giving us a great home and being willing to stick up for us when shit hits the fan

Not sure what happened here. Apparently lawsuits were threatened against some mods and they deleted it. I have no history here and have not been threatened by anyone of potential legal battle. Offended person email me if you want to discuss this further . Our mods are great and handle most issues, but this falls in my court so contact me if you have issues. My first job is to protect freedom of speech regardless of whether or not I think people were being assholes( I usually will agree with that in this unruly place). We can pick it up from there and myself and our legal team will do our best to work with you to investigate your rights. Until I personally hear from you my obligation is to the rules of the site, which are to keep this thread active.

[ACH]

gapers ridiculing gapers!

Everybody gapes (including you) at one point or another, not a matter of "if", but when.

In this case the gaping is so over the top, it needed to be celebrated.
And, that is the magic of it.

[Sessiøn]

Dissenters need to realize(as well as the GSA) that we worship/mock the GSA because he is us.....with the volume turned up to 11.

[spook]

Everybody gapes (including you) at one point or another, not a matter of "if", but when.

In this case the gaping is so over the top, it needed to be celebrated.
And, that is the magic of it.

i am the duke of gape.

[Big Tim]

What a long strange trip it's been.

[::: :::]

there's no red gsa-phone at the mayor's office
some mags manage to actually identify the gsa's corporeal being for a IRL invitation?

[bern43]

Dissenters need to realize(as well as the GSA) that we worship/mock the GSA because he is us.....with the volume turned up to 11.

This. Would have been cool if he embraced it. Guess he chose a different route. Great to see the thread back up though.

[Ski to Be]

I am envisioning a jury trial and the jurors trying not to laugh at some of the evidence. They would be in tears laughing between court sessions.

[jaja111]

I know it just repeats the same over and over, but the guy accepting his evolved status from power gaper to a hero, yeah he's a hero having actually trained and gone to Alaska, could have been a totally awesome conclusion to a real saga. But then again, I think we all knew and feared the body with which the spirit spread its good message, would leave the union upon the spirit's ascension to the right hand of Ullr with the wrong idea about the disciples following it.

To the GSA, on my knees with head down in reverence, come speak to us! Come sit at the throne made for you and lest not believe it to be an alter for thy blood to be spilled upon! Take thy rightful place at the head of the table of popular thread-dom in the skinternets (wait that sounds like a term encompassing all the porn on the net)........the snowternets!

(in other words, read the whole thread light heartedly with a thick skin, realize your ever elevating status and the fantastic humor in all of it, and now join to make it better. Sometimes fame finds you and not the other way around.)

[BaNosser]

Oh my god. Dude, I love you. You actually reached out to the GSA and invited him to the mammoth mini? Why am I just hearing about this now? I literally spewed coffee onto my keyboard & monitor as I put 2+2 together while reading the last 8hrs worth of posts backwards in a wake & bake haze.

I nominate splat for maggot of the decade!

Edit:
I guess TGR420 should also be nominated for giving us a great home and being willing to stick up for us when shit hits the fan

this ^ ^ ^

walking the path

Kudos & props...

[stuckathuntermtn]

Blessed are tgr 420 and all his followers.

Believe, ye unholy sinners, or forever have dull edges!

Sent from my DROID2 using TGR Forums

[drdevon]

Glad to see this little corner of sarcastic projection is back in the open.

[daviski]

FEAR!! Be afraid because the outcome we cannot know. One day in the quotidian, the next he knows his greatness and our benedictions may seem "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

Innocence is dead, and in the aftermath can anyone know what lies beyond? Malevolence I fear. A dark mantra repeated on the stair-stepper: "Bastards....Bastards....Bastards....."

Imagine for a moment that moment when someone said, "um, you know, you are kind of a big deal on the internet" Then the google search, and then ----JJESUSFUCKINGCHRIST!!!--- and then, what? A moment few of us will face, that is the crux where character can show, where modern deities emerge.

To the GSA, on my knees with head down in reverence, come speak to us!.......(in other words, read the whole thread light heartedly with a thick skin, realize your ever elevating status and the fantastic humor in all of it, and now join to make it better. Sometimes fame finds you and not the other way around.)

Well said. And GSA you're undoubtedly a very good skier and you have skied great lines in Alaska, and you have recieved personal invitations from really cool and connected people, do you get it? Own this thing or forever be a fool

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Meantime I believe



and I train



for Noeux les Mines

[Crampedon]

I am the best fucking gaper on this forum!