The Unemployed Ride
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hatehills at 02.6.08 - 1:08 pm
You ain't got no job...You ain't got shit to do.
This ride is a tribute to all the jobless muthafuckas on Midnight Ridazz. We will ride through some of the most affluent parts of Los Angeles and flaunt our unemployededededness in the faces of people spending $17 for a cocktail. If you have a job, you're invited too...you're invited to buy the rest of us drinks.
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Yes! I need my Westsidazz to roll out for this one!!
hatehills02.6.08 - 1:10 pm
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my 2 week notice is in, maybe I can catch the second half of the ride...i know Pizza Eagle already quit his job and joined the Fungrrr Strike 11 days ago. I will send smoke signals his way.
SKIDMARCUS02.6.08 - 1:13 pm
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If you people habitually show up as late for work as you do for rides, no wonder most of you don't have jobs.
PC02.6.08 - 1:16 pm
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Sorry, JC. I didn't see you'd put a date to the Unemployed Ride already, nor did I see the calendar event -- I thought it was a totally different thread for a ride without a date yet.
This is what I get for doing two things at once.
katiepoche02.6.08 - 1:31 pm
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Can i put in my vote now for a
Circle
Of
Death at Wilshire and Rodeo?
illafilla02.6.08 - 1:48 pm
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can we stop by the umemployment office, so we can take there jobs because they are serious laggers when giving out checks!!!
Where's my hard earned dollars!!!
feelingrandy02.6.08 - 2:03 pm
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feelingrandy:
this advice worked for me and i was able to talk to an operator right away. i pushed "1" in the middle of the vietnamese recording so maybe that will work again.
you can call the vietnamese line and play dumb (oh sorry oopps) they will transfer you, you'll get through.
1.800.547.2058
-or-
If you hear "thank you for calling the edd"-hang up
If you hear "welcome to the edd" ...to short cut the menu it is 1.2.1.1.7
It usually takes about 15 tries, but you will get through. You just have to dedicate a half hour of speed dialing.
Good LUCK !!!!!
LizardQueen
02.5.08 - 8:17 am
meandmybluebike02.6.08 - 2:07 pm
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Lets do a scouting ride in Beverly Hills for places to do the Circle of Death?
User102.6.08 - 2:17 pm
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Yes! Circle of Death in Beverly Hills!
funanu02.6.08 - 2:18 pm
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why isnt this ride in the middle of the day on a wed?
mandingo02.6.08 - 2:28 pm
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You should call it the unemployed/underemployed ride. Since some people are employed but make so little that they might as well be unemployed.
I vote for a Circle of Death in Beverly Hills.
skd02.6.08 - 2:32 pm
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as
mandigo mangina says, the circle of death needs to happen in the daytime on a weekday
spiraldemon02.6.08 - 2:35 pm
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What Dingo said. The ride should start at about 10 on a weekday morning and should take you to an EDD office, a pawn shop, Nix Check Cashing, and the home of somebody's weed connection. It should then end at about 1 PM, at somebody's apartment, with a marathon session of smoking out and watching daytime TV talk shows and career college commercials. "Just make the call! You on the phone all day anyway. Why you gotta make it complicated? It's simple!"
PC02.6.08 - 2:57 pm
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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now that would be the ULTIMATE unemployment ride...
skano02.6.08 - 3:03 pm
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10 is way to early for this! 12 noon! My weed man doesn't even answer the phone before 12!
User102.6.08 - 3:04 pm
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What Dingo and PC said.
Also none of the people that (may) employ us live/work in Beverly Hills.
BH is a place where rich Saudis buy their 6th home.
Go there if you want to protest/applaud the price of oil.
marino02.6.08 - 3:06 pm
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You guys are taking this all waaay to literally.
hatehills02.6.08 - 3:11 pm
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What? I'm just trying to give you guise something to do.
PC02.6.08 - 3:14 pm
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by the way, have you ever been to internetisseriousbusiness.com?
Joe Borfo02.6.08 - 3:14 pm
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I'm a Midnight Ridazz forum fundamentalist.
everything on this site is taken literally.
it's my gospel according to Ridazz
spiraldemon02.6.08 - 3:15 pm
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I'm not even unemployed. I have 3 jobs. I was just trying to help.
My plan was:
Waste time at the MR forums -> not do my job-> lose my job -> you get my job.
marino02.6.08 - 3:38 pm
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marino! i want your job. can i have it? i hate mine.
yo delicious02.6.08 - 3:52 pm
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Sounds like an interesting ride.
All I have to do is call my relief and entice them with overtime.
And I'm saved.
bentstrider02.6.08 - 4:43 pm
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I luvz MarIno's job tooth..cahn eyez beez scooutz tooh?
Funder Cat02.6.08 - 5:01 pm
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letz b scoutz togever, funder cat. we will paw our way to the top!
yo delicious02.6.08 - 5:14 pm
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Anybody with a job should totally call in sick for this ride. Show some solidarity with your jobless brethren.
hatehills02.6.08 - 5:31 pm
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damn ... who has a job that keeps them busy at 9pm on a saturday?
illafilla02.6.08 - 5:39 pm
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I'm seriously underemployed.
kyber02.6.08 - 6:09 pm
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Oh, you haven't heard?
The Westside is the best side. :)
hatehills02.6.08 - 7:37 pm
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It's soooo good, I go the 85 miles just to get the good shit.
WestSiiiiiiiieeeeddde!!!!
bentstrider02.6.08 - 7:57 pm
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So... where/when is the ride to the pre-ride happening?
420LaHaRR02.6.08 - 8:06 pm
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where are you planning on riding? are you heading east at all? i'm kinda sick of west side rides...
kathryncupcake02.6.08 - 8:19 pm
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There's a map...peep the ride listing.
hatehills02.6.08 - 8:25 pm
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where are you planning on riding? are you heading east at all? i'm kinda sick of west side rides...
kathryncupcake
02.6.08 - 11:19 pm
YOU DIDN'T REALLY MEAN THAT TO PASS!!!!!!!
We'll let it slide this once. lol
PREZ-OG-C-ID-B!-RAD!-USA!02.6.08 - 10:21 pm
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Hey Harry...are you still the Keeper of the Trailer?
hatehills02.7.08 - 10:06 am
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If this is the unemployed ride, shouldn't it take place at noon on a Monday when the rest of the world is working?
0gravity02.7.08 - 11:58 am
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a weekday day time ride would make more sense. maybe if we found enough change in our bags, we could stop by scoops??
meandmybluebike02.7.08 - 12:02 pm
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Can a Hip-Hop lover not ride the Heavy Metal Ride?
Can a unicycle rider not join the Tandem Ride?
Can a person with no love in their heart not join the Valentine's Ride?
We should not exclude anyone just because they're gainfully employed. Besides, we need them to buy drinks for the rest of us...duh.
hatehills02.7.08 - 12:18 pm
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Another reason to ride Saturday night down Sunset Blvd, is to show the gainfully employed, and those who are unemployed but charging up their credit cards, that it can cost less than one drink at the Standard, Red Rock, the Sky Bar, Cabo Cantina or Bar Marmount to party all night on a bike.
skd02.7.08 - 1:31 pm
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Oie!
Sir Harry doesn't have internet since he is in the process of moving in. He does have the trailer too.
Any message you need to give him? I would give you his email, but what good would that do?
User102.7.08 - 1:38 pm
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The actual Unemployment ride should definitely take place in the early afternoon (like 1pm) during the middle of the week (like Wednesday).
The ride on Saturday should be the Job-Fair ride, and some of the folks with jobs should bring applications and such for where they work. The should & could swing by some of the Day Labor camps at Home Depots, etc.
the reverend dak02.7.08 - 2:31 pm
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GOOD IDEA REV! FUCK YA, I BET I GET TO JUMP IN A TRUCK, FOR 10 DOLLARS, DIGGING TRENCHES, FUCK THAT, IT'S MUCH BETTER WITHOUT A JOB. ---BUT IF IT'S BLESSED.......
eddieboyinla02.7.08 - 2:37 pm
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Thanks User1...I talked to Harry today. He's bringing the trailer, which means we have music for the ride!!
Expect a Crank Mob level of quality on the tunes...that's a promise.
Unless...should we continue the cheesy love song theme from Friday? Now I'm torn.
hatehills02.7.08 - 4:39 pm
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WHHWHHWHWWWWHHWHWHWHWWHHHHHHHWWWWWHHHH'
*COUGH COUGHA COFF COFAIEAF NHG DzpsBV
WHWHHWHWHWHWHWWHHHHHHHHHHHWWWWWHHHHHHHHWH
SKIDMARCUS02.7.08 - 11:23 pm
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Is that a bag of coke disguised as a beanie baby?
hatehills02.7.08 - 11:42 pm
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Ok. I guess nobody wants to talk about drugs anymore.
Vote:
1) Party music
2) Continue Valentine's theme. Love songs.
What say you?
hatehills02.8.08 - 11:16 am
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this ride should be rescheduled and eventually end up at a record store with a help wanted sign in the window so i can no longer be unemployed.
ruinedbyidiots02.8.08 - 11:20 am
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Being unemployed is awesome til you run out of shit to do during the day. Riding your bike for hours a day, everday over the same terrain gets a bit tiring.
Last night I was rummaging through the garbage cans at echo park lake and decided I should have just collected junk while I was unemployed. Scrap metal, old keepsakes, food. You name it.
kyber02.8.08 - 11:26 am
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Party music ... one night of sappy love is enough.
illafilla02.8.08 - 11:43 am
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Wow. You are on fire lately. I like the sass.
hatehills02.8.08 - 11:53 am
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Tab's got sass. Does that make me a diet cola beverage from the '80s?
katiepoche02.8.08 - 12:09 pm
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I wasn't aware that Tab has sass? I should drink some and see if I can raise my sass quotient.
Incidentally, I think tomorrow night's playlist may include ample amounts of ghettotech...It may get raunchy.
hatehills02.8.08 - 12:24 pm
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ghettotech
....
qu'est ce que c'est?!?!?!?
illafilla02.8.08 - 12:28 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_tech
hatehills02.8.08 - 12:33 pm
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MDC - "I Hate Work"
Black Flag - "Clocked In"
Bow Wow Wow - "W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah No No My Daddy Don't)"
PC02.8.08 - 2:06 pm
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How's about a playlist with some songs centered around working?
Dolly Parton- Nine to Five
The Offspring- Why don't you get a job
Unknown(but someone might know)-Yakety Yak song.
Summertime Blues (not Summer, yet. Alan Jackson or the original version)
Take this Job and shove it!!
Devo's version of that "Gold Mine" song.
Brook's and Dunn- I'm a Hard Workin' Man!!!
KottonMouth Kings- Dog's Life
ODB- Baby I got your money!!
bentstrider02.8.08 - 7:15 pm
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I think it's funny that the girls want dance music and the boys want burl.
hatehills02.9.08 - 10:58 am
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The Unemployed Ride Anthem....
The Ziggens -Its great to be unemployed.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=159776922
(sorry I don't know how to link it)
LizardQueen02.9.08 - 2:09 pm
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Coolio "county line"
Leo Dorsey "workin in a coal mine"
Aretha "respect"
dannyzuko02.9.08 - 2:21 pm
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Epilogue.
Hey guys This is David, I just want to give an update on Fernando (Mr Southern Comfort).
We ended up chilling on that corner for an hour before I could get his ass to Astro burger on Melrose, where by coincidence, I ran into a friend with a hatchback who was grabbing a meal. I managed to get a ride for Fernando and myself with him.
Sadly in that hour I managed TO GET MY BIKE STOLEN (I was too busy chasing fernando accross a busy street that I didn't like down my bike properly and in that hour, some guy came by and cut my cable.
MY BIKE WAS STOLEN. I had fernando dropped off at his place with a note about what happened last night, and the remenents of my bike cable in case he doesn't remember.
I need your help. I'm gonna be scouring EBAY and craigslist for a 60 cm 2006 redline 925 fixed gear with Bullhorn bars and tektro brakes on the ends and without fenders.
If you see anything about this on those websites please email me at
thelimitedcircleispure@gmail.com
davidco02.10.08 - 3:40 am
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Fuck Fuck Fuck!
David, that is terrible. You really took one for the team staying with our very drunk friend. Your karma was good! That shouldn't have happened! I truly hope you get your bike back.
Fingers crossed.
hatehills02.10.08 - 11:13 am
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I would like to say thanks to everybody who showed up! I didn't know how the turnout would be since I posted the ride only a few days ago, but we had a great number of people! This was my first time leading a ride, so it meant a lot to see so many folks show up!
The Crank Mob cop (Rusty?) saw us off!! And he wants us to come do a tribute ride for a fellow cyclist cop who got killed. We told him to post it here on MR and he said he would! Nicest cop in the LAPD.
Sorry we lost a few peeps on Sunset Blvd. Traffic was a little hairy, hope everybody made it back ok.
I hope you all enjoyed the ride! One girl told me it was her very first MR ride...that made me happy :)
David, I really hope you get your bike back!
hatehills02.10.08 - 11:27 am
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david-
can u please post pics of your bike so we can all look out for it?
mmhmm02.10.08 - 1:08 pm
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A gentleman(woman?) was kind enough to post this in another thread I put on the board. My bike is like this except that it has bullhorn bars with tektro breaks, fenders removed and there is a chain/innter tube securing the seat to the bike, (underneath the seat the chain is cushioned by red duct tape wrapped about the chain).
davidco02.10.08 - 3:06 pm
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