Popular Post Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Posting this for the tombots to help cope with their grief. Hopefully they can learn to understand and manage their feelings of loss and move on. Consider this your psychological handbook. Stage 1: Denial This is where we see the common tombot cope with a state of total shock. Naively assuming they could get by indefinitely with AVA EPs every 6 months, a blink tease, AVA album, a blink tease, AVA EP, a blink tease...their world came to a startling end on that infamous day that we finally saw "Blink-182 with Matt Skiba" book a show. Reactions are commonly: Denial: "oh he's just filling in temporarily" "haha hehe tom will be back guys" "LOOK HES BOOKING SHOWS" "this is all just a prank guise!!1!!1 those blink tricksters" Stage 2: Anger It starts to get ugly here. The common Tombot has started to realize that what happened was real. Their messiah has been kicked out of the band. To cope with this, the tombot paints Skiba as the enemy. It is Skiba's fault that messiah was kicked out the band. How dare he show up to shows wearing weird clothing and not singing in a nasally voice! Reactions include: "BLINK-44" "Alkaline-44" "PLUS BINKL-182" "SKIBABOT!!! SKIBABOT!!!!" "blink is dead" "this might be good BUT ITS NOT BLINK" "WHY WOULD THEY LET SKIBA SING TOM SONGS WHAT THE FUCK" "WHY IS SKIBA WEARING A HURLEY SHIRT" AHHHHHHHHH Stage 3: Bargaining The good ole bargaining stage. What a hoot. It's here that the tombot makes a deal with God (in their case Tom Delonge, of course). "If we let Skiba do this, just for ONE album and ONE tour, will you come back? Please Tom" "Hail Tom, full of grace, you are with thee, blessed art though among blink fans, and blessed is the fruit of thy Gibson mediocre sounding guitar, Holy Tom, mother of God, pray for us Skiba listeners, now and at the hour of blink's death. Amen" Stage 4: Depression Okay, listen up tombots. This is very important. I believe most of you are currently stuck lingering in stage 4. It's crushing the boards. We have to get you through this state. In stage 4, true depression like symptoms start to show through. Despite epic blink performances, unlike anything we've seen in years, you can't find enjoyment. The reality of Tom being gone has really set in and you just can't find the passion for your band anymore without him. You wake up each and every day with a small Tom Delonge flavored tear, and the tear just won't pass. I get it. You need a hug. Preferably from a tall man wearing Dickies and a hurley shirt. Stage 5: Acceptance Jesus fucking christ will you people please just accept that blink has a new member and move the fuck on. If you can't bring yourself to like blink with Skiba instead of Tom, it's time to find a new band. And for the love of God, a new message board. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Value Boy Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I came up with Alkaline44, pretty proud it made the cut on this totes hilar post to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisx37 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 At least there's a happy ending! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Watcher Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 This post is the stuff of legends. You are a god among men; a Tom, if you will. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpen5311 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Stage 6: creamed pants 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotNow Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Grade A shit post. Quality stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Step 7: we finally ban Clarke 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy030 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 LOL this is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Hoppus Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 thanks, Ghent. we should perpetuate this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 4 minutes ago, Clarke said: It's getting out of hand Ghent. I can't tell you how many people have expressed their frustration with you pulling the "tombot" cards, both publicly and over PMs. I love how this is your go to line in arguments! The vague PM accusation. "People are on my side, you just can't see it!1!!1!!!" The proof is on the boards. You get called out for being an ass hat daily for various reasons. I'll trust that over Kyle and Poet Danderson pm'ing you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Anyone who can't find joy in what is currently going on inside the blink camp is an absolute, freaky ass, fanatical extremist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervic Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 The most annoying thing here is that Tombots don't even exist anymore, yet we have to hear Ghent whine about them on a daily basis. Reminds me of back in the olden days when Oliver would force us into these conversations about money and greed, when nobody was even talking about it in the first place. Same shit, different day. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!ke Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Get over it. We all know how you feel Clarke, you've made that very clear time and time again. You don't have to keep yelling, "No Ghent, there's another side to it all!" We get it. Why don't you just go post a single topic about that instead of retorting every single one of Ghent's posts with essentially the same thing over and over and over again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champ182 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I think Ghent is just bored and itching to argue or something. There isn't nearly the amount of Tom love or Skiba hate that he keeps talking about. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 2 minutes ago, Champ182 said: I think Ghent is just bored and itching to argue or something. There isn't nearly the amount of Tom love or Skiba hate that he keeps talking about. I mean I would normally consider this plausible, I love to argue on here, if I'm pro at anything in life it is blink online arguments....but in this case no, it is pure frustration that some idiots here are raining on the blink parade right now all because of their unhealthy obsession with a past member. It sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervic Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 4 minutes ago, Ghent said: I mean I would normally consider this plausible, I love to argue on here, if I'm pro at anything in life it is blink online arguments....but in this case no, it is pure frustration that some idiots here are raining on the blink parade right now all because of their unhealthy obsession with a past member. It sucks. Yeah, it's so shocking that people want to still talk about a member that was in the band for 23 out of 24 years. It's like, how can people be so stuck on 96% of blink's entire history, geez. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 1 minute ago, supervic said: Yeah, it's so shocking that people want to still talk about a member that was in the band for 25 out of 26 years. It's like, how can people be so stuck on 96% of blink's entire history, geez. I realize you only come here once or twice a year, but surely you know that Tom hasn't been very active within blink, despite being a member since 2009....right? You know this right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervic Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Actually I'm on here almost everyday, just don't post. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Value Boy Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Ghent, it seems to me that you're terrified of the prospect of new blink not being that good and you're just trying to ram the new line up down peoples throats at every opportunity, it's basically blink boards propaganda. You keep saying their new album is going to be bad ass...on the basis of what? one single and couple of 15 second joke songs? a few live performances (admittedly better sounding) and the above isn't enough for most of us...what's the problem with people sitting on the fence/being unsure for now. Let people form their own opinions of the new line up rather than crying every time someone says anything slightly negative about the band. And if this places is bumming you out it might be time to step away from the keyboard and go spend some time with your friends and family (or Chewy and Mike) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Watcher Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Man, Ghent really gets under the skin of Tombots people who love Tom 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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