David’s in a tough spot. He’s fronting this out-of-the-ordinary project for his investment group, and trying to build up his son’s professional career, and leveraging these two corporate movers to manage a new business he’s just bought into… not long after discovering that it exists.
So, it’s hard to look askance at him if he’s suddenly realized that making a profit was also part of the equation.
David could probably tell you what footwear would be suitable for an afternoon round of golf versus a morning tee time, and variations based on weather.
It’s just that the idea of various footwear for doing anything Paste does is a little beyond him.
He also couldn’t pick out a good pair of deer hunting boots if you bet him a substantial amount of money and gave him five choices to pick from.
I’m having a tough time picturing David skateboarding happily.
Determinedly, yes. Focused, yes. Injured, probably.
But not “Happily”.
And that’s a shame. It’s something you should do happily.
Poor Bob.
He probably doesn’t mind at all, but he’s gone from a surfer dude, to being a competition ringer at the first Fest and thereby a momentary Sportsmart employee, thence to a OGS employee, to a house-sitter, to a flunky for an egomaniac with a budget… while being a house-sitter again. It can’t be a calming turn of fortune. Fortunately, Bob supplies his own calm. ‘Til he’s crushed under a kid flyin’ around on a skateboard.
Bob’s my hero.
Advertising doesn’t really have ‘logic’. It has ‘fallacies’.
I was taking a logic course, and a marketing course at roughly the same time back in college.
Turns out that the list of fallacies that automatically render a logical argument invalid… is very, very similar to a list of the most popular sales techniques in advertising.
I’ve tried to take a moment and think if the agency that wants Paste to demonstrate how tough their phone cases are is using a fallacy, but… dang it, I don’t think so. Owning a Slobberknocker phone case will protect your phone even if some kid on a skateboard lands on it. That’s a message I can get behind.
Discuss.
Paste would be better at the insults, but his professionalism won’t allow for such low behavior now.
But he’s gonna need to get another flunky for insults. Bob doesn’t reeeaaaaally know how they work.
I saw a bear strip a ‘Lifeproof’ case off a phone once.
Cracked and peeled it like a banana with a single move.
The phone still worked after the zookeepers lured the bear to the other side of the enclosure and scooped the phone out of there.
I guess the case did its job, right?
Yay, Lifeproof!
Paste overreaches. We know that. He’s not stupid, just enthusiastic to the point of taking everything a little far.
First he wants to ride a bike, then he wants to compete in a freestyle competition, but then he wants to zip-tie rockets to the bike and land a jump onto a stage where people can adore his abilities. A little far, you’ll agree.
First he wants to skate, then he wants to rule the skatepark, then he wants to build his own line of skate equipment that the people at the skatepark with beg for and fawn over while he skates away nonplussed. Also a little far.
Now, he wants to sell a skateboard, then he’s willing to break up the payments over time, then he’s ready to send thugs to do dirty deeds dirt cheap. Enthusiastic, you can see.
Paste may not have a been a Trainer. He was more of an Untrained, in the same sense that those in government are often referred to as the ‘Ungoverned’.
Anyhow, I’m sure plenty of you remember when Paste was ‘training’ Lowell before the first Outdoorfest?
Leave it to Paste to sell people something when there’s nothing to sell.
He’s a good boy.
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