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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Don and Mike are fucking retarded/ Volunteer, even if it only helps you | ||||
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| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 1:59 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | I haven't listened to them until today, I've been a little busy watching the news. I hear they've been playing "Born in the USA". Does anyone think before they do shit? That song is anti-American. Its a song about a guy who went to Vietnam to fight the good fight, came back and got shit on by his government. He's not praising being born in the USA, he's saying it sarcastically. Born in the USA is not a fucking patriotic song you asses! Also, anyone feeling helpless about this situation, go volunteer somewhere or bring supplies to your nearest fire department. I volunteered at the Hard Rock Cafe last night for only about an hour before they sent me home, but it made me feel better that I could say "I'm here, I can help". I donated 84 ponchos before it started raining, hopefully that helped someone who needed them, but it really made me feel good. I was supposed to go back this morning to make sandwiches, but I can't stop coughing and I really knocked myself out last night. I figure the time to not show up is when they say they'll be full. In the weeks to come, I'll have no problem staying a volunteer if they still need me. | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:09 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Roger...do you think if I go down there tomorrow at a really odd time like lets say like 5am or something there will be less people? I really want to do something...anything...its to the point where I would go to people's houses and clean their bathrooms. "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:12 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | The Hard Rock isn't open until 8am, but if you call the Javits center and ask if you can help at 5am, you might get somewhere. If you feel really helpless, find your local Fire Dept., they're usually only blocks away. Bring them dog food and kennels and maybe bake them some brownies. I'm sure they'd be happy to take it. | ||||
| MashedPotatohead NIGGA PLEASE! All the bitches in here are crazy! | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | I say go EVERYDAY until they say YES. It will come to a point where people stop asking because they keep getting turned away. Don't take NO for an answer | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I called a number that I got off the television and they said that they don't need anyone today, but that I should call tomorrow and that they had people lining up as early as 7:00 this morning. I know that the rescue effort is a 24 hour effort and I assume so is volunteering. I don't sleep very well at all, and ever since the tradgedy have been taking sleeping pills just to get a few hours sleep so I was thinking if I go into Manhattan in the wee hours of the morning I can get on line first or something. I will stay as long as I am needed or as long as my body holds up. Thanks for the ideas though. "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:18 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | You're right Mashed, I didn't let them stop me. I called yesterday and they said don't come down, but I did anyway and was able to help. There were like 5 women and 2 men carrying boxes and boxes of clothing up the stairs, I helped with that. It might not sound like much, but it was something that needed to be done. I will be going back over the weekend and into the future. I'm not allowed to donate blood because I'm still sick, so this is how I help until I can. I keep hearing they will need blood well into the future, for as long as months, they'll be needing volunteers too. The people who are working very hard right now will need a break in the future and that's where the people who haven't helped yet will come in. Unfortunately we will all get our chance to help. | ||||
| o&aswallow | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:24 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | FMFB, I heard a good suggestion earlier today. Try getting in touch with a fire house near you. Many firefighters families may need help at home. Even the simplest things like shopping or taking the kids to a park or something. You may not even need to travel far from home. Before you meet Allah, get ready to meet some good old American whoop ass. Pennsylvania resident, but original NYC listener. | ||||
| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | They need vehicles at the Hard Rock Cafe for the weekend. I called to ask if I should bring my Jeep or something with more cargo room. They have my number and will call when they need me this weekend so I'm not going down til tomorrow. I'm hoping to get over being sick so I can give my all so I'm not pressing my willingness to help yet. Hug your family and friends. This message was edited by Roger on 9-14-01 @ 2:41 PM | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 2:29 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | OAS, thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking of stopping over by one of the firehouses by me today, but to be honest with you, I don't know what to say. I guess thank you would be a good start. "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 3:09 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | I gotta say, that Ray Charles song D&M play at the end of their show is touching. Btwn that song and the smell in my apartment coming from Manhattan, I don't know whether to cry, puke, or do both right now. | ||||
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| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 01 | I'm right across the river Roger and, unfortunately, I haven't had much of a choice but to do both. | ||||
| Drunken GW I Pissed on a Church to get this Status. | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 3:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | FMFB...I live in Jersey and all the local Fire Depts are over there either at the site or backfilling the station houses for those on site. Dropping of food is probably your best bet. Fireman always can eat. Whether it be a tray of lasagna, sanwiches or as Rog said some brownies, it something you're doing to help and that's all that matters. Just give a call to a local Dept and make them aware of your intentions. This message was edited by Drunken GW on 9-14-01 @ 3:31 PM | ||||
| FoundryMusicJeff | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 5:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I don't think they realized that. A lot of people who haven't read too far into the lyrics just think of it as a real patriotic song. I don't think they meant anything by it. Chief Engineer of the Starship Foundry. (NCC 1841-A) Visit FoundryMusic & Chat   | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 6:20 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | I agree with jeff who cares about the inner hidden meanings to songs right now? Truthfully i am not even listening to the radio nor do i care. Don & Mike played born in the USA for patriotic reasons and nothing else. But i agree do whatever you can do today, the smallest things help. I followed the lead of a friend of mine and scraped up my last few dollars and bought 2 cases of dasani water that i got a break on for the cops who were on ocean parkway earlier we have had 2 bomb scares on ocean parkway by my house. I also bought em some sandwiches and such. Just the smallest thing not to make yourself feel better, you don't matter right now. But to help the people who are trully making a difference.  "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling May God Have Mercy On thier Souls. Beacuse We Will Not. -- John McCain 9-12-01 She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| MashedPotatohead NIGGA PLEASE! All the bitches in here are crazy! | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 6:32 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Roger - Check you e-mail I'm leaving you my numbers - I have a Jeep and will more willing to do my share of driving this weekend also. I just got home from make 4 runs with donations ( Clothes/Food/Dog Food/Work gloves) that I bought with my own money. (The amount of table dances I could have gotten would have lasted for well over 2 consecutive hours - NO JOKE). The guy at Home Depot said they were out of gloves, but once I said I was buying them for the workers downtown - they called around the store and found me 3 dozen pairs. People were 'thanking' me for what I was doing, but I kept telling them I was no 'hero' - the real heros are the ones at ground zero. This message was edited by MashedPotatohead on 9-14-01 @ 6:46 PM | ||||
| Roger | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 7:58 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: I disagree with you. Its not a hidden meaning, its what the song says. I don't think D&M should play a song that says "Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me" Went down to see my V.A. man He said "Son, don't you understand" I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms now Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go" What is patriotic about that? It tells how we fucked up with Vietnam. I don't want anyone thinking this could possibly be another Vietnam, but there are people who are saying that already. If you are gonna play an uplifting song, play a fucking uplifting song ! I don't think we need to hear a song that bashes being born in the USA. I know I don't wanna hear that kinda shit right now! | ||||
| Mr. Brownstone | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 9:01 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | quote:Neither is Rockin' In The Free World by Neil Young, it's a song that rips Daddy Bush a new asshole. Yet I heard it on Q104 this morning as a patriotic song. Dumbasses!!! If you want to help the firefightewrs, pull up to the station house and say thank you to the guys hanging out in front.  Two openings available at Mr. Brownstone Academy of Dance . | ||||
| FoundryMusicJeff | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 9:29 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | We understand that. How many times have you heard a song, try to sing it, and realize you only know its chorus? Born in the USA is what most people know, so it SEEMS like a patriotic song. To insinuate Don & Mike were trying to say anymore than that is a little unfair. Chief Engineer of the Starship Foundry. (NCC 1841-A) Visit FoundryMusic & Chat | ||||
| Is Don on the phone? | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 9:33 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: Thanks for the support folks. You are heroes, and true Americans. | ||||
| opak | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 9:41 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: May. 00 | Another idea that I heard you can do...a lot of these guys havent been home in days...call the FD or PD and see if they might have anything you can do for their families...hell even if its just dragging trash cans to the curb for em...it'll help... Maybe call the local union halls too...steel workers...etc... This message was edited by opak on 9-14-01 @ 10:28 PM | ||||
| WyzeGuy | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 3:48 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Just got back from the Javitz Center, amazing scene down there. My brother and I, anxious to help and knowing that they're turning away rescue workers, went to Pathmark and loaded up his car with cases of bottled water. Apparently, they have all the water, soda and other sundry items that they need. They said they've been receiving truck-loads of the stuff and that the only items they have an immediate need for is work boots. While they're grateful for individual efforts, corporate contributions have been pouring in. Felt a little stupid, truth be told, but oh well, at least we tried. They're asking people to hold on to whatever they were planning to donate, and to do so in a few weeks (when, I suspect, they feel momentum may have dwindled down a bit). Roger, good on you for doing what you did!! | ||||
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