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HARD TIME
You're the shit for real! Every month I get a
mag, I got about 10 fellow convicts in line,
waiting to scope it out. From jits to these old
dudes talking about, "Man, I used to skate,
but then turn green when they see 95% of
the stuff skaters do today. But it's cool. They
are skaters at heart.
I want to say something to Susan Sobiston,
whose letter was in the June issue. Skate
chicks rule. I love seeing them in Thrasher.
Shit, you say, "There are no girl skaters who
deserve to grace the pages of Thrasher." Who
the hell wants to see a dude 50/50 over and
over again, just 'cause he's pro? If a girl can
skate, she is deserving of Thrasher's almighty
pages. It takes real guts for a chick to skate.
They have my utmost respect.
And John O'Sullivan, you're full of shit. Of
all the Irish I've seen since I've been in prison,
85% of them were fuckin' and suckin'. Take
that and stick it in your ass.
Aaron Lee
Fort Pierce, FL
Use grease. T-ed
GET IN-LINE
Top 20 Reasons Rollerblading Sucks:
1. Your mom has tried it.
2. Bladers wear kneepads under their jeans.
3. You can't do blunts, and it doesn't
pull chicks.
4. The skates are made entirely of plastic.
5. Anyone can hop and grab their foot.
6. The general public loves it.
7. That Corey Haim movie Day Of The
Rope or whatever, where it's pseudo, Mad
Max in-lining.
8. It's not as noisy as skateboarding.
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15. Their
cross-legged
grinds make
Richard
Simmons look
straight.
16. They'll
never grow to
love the feeling
of griptape and
hardrock
maple.
17. It's been
exploited to
hell by major
advertising
companies,
from tampons
to imitation
beef jerky.
18. It's too
fucking easy.
19. The Miami police department has
recently started an "in-line patrol" along
with bike and horse patrols.
20. There is nothing punk about getting
"in-line."
Joshua Douglas
San Francisco, CA
HOT TOPIC
This is in regards to Len Gutkin's letter in
the July issue. T-ed was right about you.
You are an idiot. You are so full of shit
about rollerbladers not bothering us. The
big deal about rollerbladers is they crowd
every skatepark and always get in our
way. They always cut me off. I've had to
push them out of the way just to do a
9. You can't beat someone over the head with trick on a funbox at my local skatepark.
your blades.
10. Ice skating involves real blades.
11. Oxymoronic, "No Fear" stickers on
their helmets.
12. Have you ever seen one try to climb out
of a bowl?
13. Oakley blades, Van Damnable day-glo
bicycle shorts with tucked-in fuchsia tanktops,
stylish styrofoam bicycle helmets, Evian shoul-
der harnesses, the Friends soundtrack playing
on the walkman, and they still think they're
on the cutting edge.
14. Bladers do handrails at .0002 mph.
And they are posers, too. They copy off
our sport, doing shit like wallrides and gay
grabs with retarded names. They aren't
influenced by us, they think they're better
than us. Rollerbladers are the worst thing
that ever happened. We don't just pretend
they give us shit, they do give us shit.
Rollerblading isn't a sport, it's wannabe
skateboarding. And they don't have any
rights, either. When rollerbladers skate a
spot after we have, then leave before we
come back, the cops get on our ass for
what bladers help destroy. We need to
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