In 5 sentences or less...

davidtrios
davidtrios Posts: 9,732
edited December 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I would like to help a fellow Pearl Jam fan out this holiday season. It won't be much, but instead of donating to a cause and pay for who knows what, I'd like to help someone out directly. Please tell me why I should help you...
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  • tacet
    tacet Posts: 323
    because I responded first.
    we're all sentient snowflakes
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    why what? why you wanna help them out? fuck if i know, i don't have that sensation very often.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    If you have to ask why, you don't really want to help that bad do you????
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    Please tell me why...
    ... it's a condition of your parole?
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    DeLukin wrote:
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    Please tell me why...
    ... it's a condition of your parole?
    :lol::lol:
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Lizard wrote:
    DeLukin wrote:
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    Please tell me why...
    ... it's a condition of your parole?
    :lol::lol:
    :lol::lol::lol:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Mookie Blaylock77
    Mookie Blaylock77 Posts: 127
    Please tell me why...? What? :lol:
    Man are u gettin' drunk and getting all sentimental... :o
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Are you people serious? I wanna help someone out for God sakes. Maybe they lost their job maybe they lost a loved one and they need some cash...
  • tacet
    tacet Posts: 323
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    Are you people serious? I wanna help someone out for God sakes. Maybe they lost their job maybe they lost a loved one and they need some cash...

    Fine.
    send me all the cash you have because I lost my job and a loved one.
    we're all sentient snowflakes
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    you people are fucken sick.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    you people are fucken sick.

    we're sick becos nobody knows what the hell you're talking about?

    you ask why, but dont say why what. you say you want to help someone, but give us no sense of the context or scope... help like hold the door open or help like fund their 4 starving children's tuition at harvard for 4 years? you ask for 5 lines... what for? a card? a poem? a statement to the teacher for why you deserve an A for wanting to help someone?

    don't get pissed at us man, you ain't making a lick of sense, so we're just filling in the blanks with a bit of fun!
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    i don't know how I can explain this any better...sorry for being unclear...have fun with my stab at helping someone out.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    Maybe this thread was a cry for help, ya know, like the drunk women who called the cops on herself.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Wow, I didn't know the board was filled with members of the Posting Police Specializing in Grammar Correction and Overall Shittiness. Your offer is very generous to help out someone in need this holiday season. From the responses you received, I would say F* this idea on the forum, and check in with some local churches/temples in your area to find out if there is a family in need that would benefit from your generosity.

    Happy, happy holidays to you, and know that what you give will be given to you in return.

    :D
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    i don't know how I can explain this any better...sorry for being unclear...have fun with my stab at helping someone out.

    it's a nice enough idea, it really is. a bit unclear at first but now that we've got the idea (sorta), it can be appreciated.

    but (and I'm not trying to be mean) it's a bit weird, isn't it? you're basically asking people to explain why you should give money to them. and I'm sure many people here could use some extra cash, god knows I could too, but getting it this way seems rather odd. this is all in my opinion of course.

    I know I would never try and come up with five sentences to try and convince someone on a message forum to help me like this.

    still, if you're willing to help and there's someone who's willing to accept it - by all means go for it! :)

    I'd ask you to donate the money to a charity anyway. :D
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    edited November 2009
    I guess I just wanted to hear someone's story and apparently went about it the wrong way. I borrowed the idea from a poster who wanted to hear a new pj fan's story as to why they wanted to be a fan. the best story won some boots. i guess it doesn't work in this context.
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    I guess I just wanted to hear someone's story and apparently went about it the wrong way. I borrowed from idea from a poster who wanted to hear a new pj fan's story as to why they wanted to be a fan. the best story won some boots. i guess it doesn't work in this context.

    I think you're hitting the nail on the head there. cash makes things more complicated in all kinds of ways.
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    In Seattle/Tacoma 4 cops were senselessly shot/killed in a coffee shop because they were cops. There will probably be a foundation set up to help their surviving families within the coming weeks, you should send your money there.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    I guess I just wanted to hear someone's story and apparently went about it the wrong way. I borrowed from idea from a poster who wanted to hear a new pj fan's story as to why they wanted to be a fan. the best story won some boots. i guess it doesn't work in this context.

    not really. kinda sounds like you're asking people that have fallen on hard times to beg you for some spare change by giving the details of their tragedy.
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    soulsinging wrote:
    UnthoughtKnown wrote:
    I guess I just wanted to hear someone's story and apparently went about it the wrong way. I borrowed from idea from a poster who wanted to hear a new pj fan's story as to why they wanted to be a fan. the best story won some boots. i guess it doesn't work in this context.

    not really. kinda sounds like you're asking people that have fallen on hard times to beg you for some spare change by giving the details of their tragedy.

    i agree with you in a way. I don't want them to BEG, i just want to hear their story. Would you rather donate to some stranger on the street who begs for money not knowing how and why they got to the place they're at or someone whom you get to know why they got to their place?

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