Eight Signs You Grew Up in an Abandoned Dumpster

My Editor was like “Write More Relatable Content” so I’m about to Write About Where I’m From. I grew up in an abandoned dumpster, not by necessity but by choice. I started in an abandoned Waste Management dumpster paying $66 per month rent and around $20-25 per month in electricity and heating. I had a ton of life experiences and I know some of y’all did too! Take a big bite of the nutty flavor of an Almond Joy bar, and see for yourself!

1. You Cannot Stop Talking About Dumpsters

This one’s easy. And obvious. That’s why I put it first, anyone could probably say “Oh, yeah, the dumpster kids grew up in the dumpster and probably can name any type of dumpster they see off the top of their head.” And I can. I read Dumpster Monthly, I’ve got user manuals on every type of Dumpster I’ve seen (they’re all pretty short) and if I see one in public, I just can’t help but point out that there’s a dumpster there.

2. You Know the Huge Rat

There are a lot of huge rats you’ll encounter in everyday life, but this one’s famous for being the hugest of rats. Even after I left the dumpster for the big city, I’ve seen huge, even huger rats. This one’s the one that sticks with you, though. That’s why I capitalized it, Huge Rat is Huge Rat, the same way God is God. There is one Huge Rat, and all others are false huge rats.

3. You KNOW We’re Crazy About Dumpster Hockey

Ever try to play hockey in a dumpster? It sucks. Those of us who grew up in dumpsters know that there’s nothing better to do, though. Dumpster Hockey is a variant of Ice Hockey and Roller Hockey, where two of us stand up in the dumpster at the same time with sticks and hit a wad of newspaper (We always used USA Today as a sort of middle finger to their destruction of the journalistic tradition). Whoever scored the most goals (which was hitting the wad of newspaper against one side of the dumpster) after three hour-long periods was the winner. I had a horrible record in this, but my best game was a 178-174 victory over Carl Jr, who was reigning Dumpster Hockey champion. (We called him Carl Jr. because his name was Carl and he lived in the dumpster behind the Hardee’s).

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This is the basic diagram of the Dumpster Hockey court. It’s really that simple

Anyway it was a slog of constant scoring and no defense. My record was like 78-122-3 over my adolescence and young adulthood.

4. You Know “The Wizard” Craig George

Craig George, the Wizard, as we all called him, was probably actually a wizard. I one time sat with a group of other kids and watched Craig George in his abandoned dumpster literally replicate a live turkey after grunting for like two minutes. He just held his hands out and it appeared. You can’t convince me otherwise, Craig George is a goddamn Wizard and the turkey was delicious.

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This is the only surviving photo of Craig, during his “Bis Cas White Void” days.

5. You Celebrate Pseudo-Christmas

Pseudo-Christmas is a lot like regular Christmas, except it takes place three days prior, and Santa is one guy on a skateboard. I think he may have actually been Tony Hawk, now that I spend 10+ minutes per day googling photographs of Tony Hawk while eating 3 or 4 of my favorite candy, which is the delightful Almond Joy bar, and have seen many pictures of him.

6. You Know Dark Math

We didn’t have “Common Core” or “Base Ten” here. We knew the dark multiplication. In elementary school, you learned to add while we learned to dark subtract. You learned to multiply while we learned to anti-multiply. You learned long division while we learned evil multiplication. I don’t actually know what the difference between Dark Math and regular math is, but I’m certain my incredibly, quite frankly miraculously small amount of errors I’ve ever made on my taxes speak for themselves. All the more money to drop on a rich, milk chocolatey Almond Joy bar.

7. You’ve eaten far too many Almond Joy bars

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Mmm, mmm, mmm. Sometimes you feel like a nut, right? Sometimes you don’t. But I did all the time. Eating my Almond Joy bars was like a huge, big ol’, delicious treat of Creamy Chocolate, Creamy Coconut, and Two Almonds that I enjoyed every day, and still do.

8. You’re writing like, faux-clickbait articles on a website

sorry to anyone who actually grew up in a dumpster. and Almond Joy. and actual Wizards

please enjoy Almond Joy.

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NEWS: Lawrence Idiot Bought Wide Ruled Notebooks

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LAWRENCE, KS – In a twist that can only be described as “completely believable”, local dumb idiot and college student Joe Bush purchased several notebooks at a Target before realizing that they were Wide Ruled and, in his words, “worthless”.

“Ahhhh, well. That’s… my bad.” said Bush, 21, about the fact that he clearly bought the wrong product. He also claims that he has neither the desire nor the ability to make use of wide ruled notebooks in any effective context. Yet, still, he will not return them.

“I can’t walk back into a target and return six dollars worth of notebooks. I’ll just have to use them in some context. I’ll write notes about everyday life or something. I’ll keep tabs on my oil changes or, like, DVDs that I want to buy, or something. I’ll figure it out.”

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Bush, pictured here with a box of apple juice, is described by many as “average”

Bush, who one time bought a 12-pack of Tab cola because he thought it would be funny, also purchased the wrong amount of notebooks. This is because he’s an idiot.

“They only had one box full of notebooks left at the Target. I just grabbed as many as I could. That turned out to be eight. I’m only taking five classes, and I’m not going to use them for any classes. I don’t know what to do. I’ll like, write jokes on them. Or rap lyrics, maybe. Or regular lyrics. Or draw more of those “Maurice” comics I drew in the 12th grade.”

The Maurice comics he drew in the 12th grade are a collection of bad comics about… like… an arrow sign with legs on it. It’s not good. He came up with the character during a bathroom break at a student journalism conference.

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Yeah, this was one of them. Real alternative humor, there, eighteen year old Joe

Joe spent four dollars on five notebooks at a nearby Wal-Mart even though he knows he’s supposed to feel bad about shopping at Wal-Mart. He is conflicted, but the ends and the means are very limited and ultimately probably unlinked here. The release of the next “Maurice” comic, “Maurice Goes to Graceland”, is in production and may or may not be released.

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How I’m Getting Prepped for the Spring Semester

It is Martin Luther King Jr. day, and you know what that means… It means a lot of things to a lot of people, actually, a day named for a civil rights leader… and like… it’s been a long time since he did his work and we still have a long way to go… and… well… anyway, the spring semester starts tomorrow! We’ve gotta get prepped for success in the coming months! This is what I’m doing, since I have carried a decent GPA into my final semester in my very rigorous major! I think you might be able to learn something, too!

Eating the Same Food for Every Meal

Brown Rice. Pinto Beans. Seasoned Salt for Flavor. One Hostess Ding-Dong. Diet Mountain Dew Code Red.

I originally didn’t have the season salt but I just couldn’t take it, I thought I could eat for sustenance and sustenance alone, but, shit, man, that’s not easy.

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11 Things to Try on YOUR Next Cruise

Hey Guys! I just got back from my first cruise, and I can’t be happier! I had a whale of a time and I’ll never forget the lessons I learned! As always, the Joe Bush Dot Net Tip Team is here to tell you exactly how to have the best time of your life as you rock and roll through the middle of the ocean, miles away from any land if any emergencies happen.

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Ask for Extra Towels

They’ll give them to you. I saw the room where they keep the towels. They have like 3000. At least. They’ll give them to you.

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6 Toy Story Clips that Aren’t Really Any More or Less Poignant Under a Trump Presidency

Toy Story is a classic film, one of Disney’s best, Computer-Generated animation’s earliest, and one of America’s most beloved films. Now that Donald Trump is the country’s president, I took a look back at this classic film to find that, really, I think I related to many if not all of these scenes about the same as I always did. I’m not a horribly political person so I’m not surprised, but, still, here it is

Meeting Buzz Lightyear

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GUEST POST: Rogue Long: A Star Wars Boring

My friend and J0e Bush Dot Net Guest Contributor Maverick Moore has written this review of Rogue One, the most recent Star Wars film from this December. He’s planning on starting up a review site of his own so hit him up on Facebook to stay updated! Consider this a pre-emptive warning that this will contain some spoilers.

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In an attempt to satisfy stockholders fans, it’s that time of the year where Disney releases another one of it’s surefire billion-dollar movies. Apparently unsatisfied with its measly $4 billion revenue in 4 movies, we are getting our annual Star Wars film. This time following the story of Rogue One, a rebel, rebel, alliance dedicated to exposing the fatal flaw of the now infamous Death Star

Well my first complaint with the movie is that I could sum it up in a single sentence. It seems to me that the entire point of this movie and its plotline was to explain why the Death Star had such a ridiculously dangerous shortcoming in its design. “For fucks sake, this thing is the size of a moon and you only need to blow up a single reactor?” said every single person who watched Star Wars. So now, seeking to satisfy the nerds and fanatics, Disney has finally put to rest this gaping plot hole.

It’s too fucking bad that it took almost two and thirteen minutes to do it, because that is a ridiculously thin premise for such a long movie. While it was initially strange, it is now clear why there was no iconic opening crawl: it would be three lines long. The eighth Star Wars movie released falls in between the third and fourth in the story arc. Everything before it is already covered by the third, and it ends literally at the exact beginning of the fourth. This entire movie, longer than both A New Hope, and Empire Strikes Back, covers by far the least amount of story out of any in the series.

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This is one of my biggest complaints with this movie. As soon as I finished the movie, I just thought “so what?.” This movie didn’t matter in the slightest. It really didn’t even need to exist. This entire movie could have been explained by the slightest bit of exposition from a character in a succeeding movie and the overall story arc would have been just as preserved. There are only two characters in this movie that are in the the rest of the series and the rest aren’t even mentioned.

Which brings me to my next point. This plot could be described as having two parts. The first is focused on finding Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), the Imperial scientist responsible for developing the Death Star and the father of Jyn (Felicity Jones). Once that part is concluded, the next part is finding the plans of the Death Star. The first half of this plot is incredibly boring and ends unceremoniously. The second half of this plot is actually a non-stop action scene, right up until the very last second. Somehow, in 134 minutes of run time, this movie just can’t seem to find one single second to dedicate to character development. This is my biggest complaint with the movie. I absolutely didn’t care about a single person in the whole film. We don’t really know anything about any of them. There isn’t an inkling of explanation regarding their motivations, or why soooo many of them so readily accepted death. They aren’t characters, they’re set pieces. They exist solely to transport the audience to the next explosion or gun battle.

To be fair, the action in this movie was awesome. Disney now owns Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar and has unarguably the most resources available to make an action movie. And by God do they know how to make some action movies. Scenes like the Star Destroyer smashing into the other Star Destroyer, or the surprisingly terrifying depiction of the AT-ATs on the beach, or the awe-inspiring mushroom cloud from the Death Star’s main weapon all illustrated Disney’s incredible technical resources and their prowess at creating truly exciting action. Seeing the AT-ATs menacingly emerge from the smoke cloud to rain destruction on the beach immediately brought me back to being 10 years old and seeing those troop carriers swoop down in Attack of the Clones and unload on the droids like a gunship in Vietnam. Being a man-child, I can’t help but to adore the beauty and violence of these well-choreographed scenes. Luckily, the tight pacing of the near constant action made the movies runtime feel quite a bit shorter.

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That doesn’t really matter though. I walked out of the theater feeling disappointed. It wasn’t the grandiose epic that so many of the stories in Star Wars have been. You already know how it ends, you never get to really know the characters, and the whole story is self-contained. You don’t spend years with these characters, seeing the tragedies they endure shape them. You don’t grow up watching them overcome new challenges or learn and develop. You get circle blocks to fill circle holes and it makes the entire thing feel very shallow. And to top it off, it’s another fucking Star Wars movie about the Death Star. How many is that now? 4? Between that, and having the extremely overused die-in-your-arms trope show up TWICE (I’m not even going to count how many times that’s happened in the whole saga), the entire series is starting to feel a little worn-out. This movie existed to explain a single shortcoming and to make a billion dollars. And it did, and will almost certainly do, just that.

Should you watch this movie? Sure. It’s a cultural phenomenon and it’s too well made to be outright bad. It’s just not great.

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I was at Aaron’s Party. This is what really happened.

Aaron Carter’s account of the party he threw at some point during the summer of 2000 is slanted to hell and completely inaccurate. The song he made about his “party of the year” is downright libelous, and tries to normalize a party that really should have been locked away and forgotten forever. Ever since the release of “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” I have been pressured to remain silent by Mr. Carter and the Carter family. However, I have had a change of heart. Too many people have a stunted idea of what happened at Aaron’s Party, and who came, and who got it, at this party. I have picked a few lyrics from this lie of a song and I will bring them to the light of a truth that has abandoned us for the past sixteen years.

“I said Mom, Dad, yo why ya sittin home
It’s a Friday night, have you seen Aunt Joan”

“Aunt Joan” is a myth. “Aunt Joan” was a satanic cult gathering attended by Carter’s parents. Aaron Carter was in the same satanic cult. Nick was not, as he was successful with the Backstreet Boys, and didn’t need the light of satan to be successful. The family had several photos of themselves sans Nick set up around their house, and the ones with Nick in them had his face taped over with a black “x”, which was big enough to cover but small enough to know that it was Nick and that he was not wanted.

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He may not look the part, but he is the only hope we have. Praise be to Nick.

“Joan Carter”, or “JC” is the phrase used by the Carter for the antichrist they worshipped, a purposeful inversion of the “Jesus Christ” worshipped by many. I walked into their (rather large) living room to see one giant pentagram on the wall above their fireplace. They had another, smaller pentagram on the ground as well. It became a dance floor around 10:33 PM.

“I’m crankin’ up the stereo like it’s New Years
Walkin’ ’round the house like who’s Da Man”

Ain’t nobody do it like Aaron can. That’s what we said. When we arrived, he blasted a mix of backwards gregorian chant, slowed down Black Sabbath records, every Backstreet Boys album except with Nick’s verses cut out, and 2 Unlimited’s “Ready for This” through a stereo system. At least, I thought it was a stereo system, though I could hear the music at the same volume and clarity no matter where I stood in proximity to the speaker system itself.

“I guess somewhere along I lost my head
Then I jumped on table, this is what I said”

This lyric leads into the chorus. Aaron lit a table on fire and started throwing photographs of Nick into the blaze.

“Things are goin’ great
Then to my surprise
Some people walked in, I didn’t recognize
I said fellas, yo, ya gotta get out”

Aaron very much recognized these men, and this is why he wanted them out. They knew the Carter family secrets, were loyal to Nick and the rest of the backstreet boys (except for Howie), and made a plan to break up the party and the cult contained within. Aaron was able to use force and coercion to get these men out periodically, but was unable to contain them for long.

“Then walked in
The girl I’m crushin'”

Aaron was actually very taken by this one girl who walked in. I would by lying if I said it wasn’t a little heartfelt, despite the flames.

“And the kid spilled juice
On my Mom’s new cushion”

The “cushion” he’s talking about was one particular ottoman that had become the center of the foul debauchery of this night – sacrifice, coitus, and several other horrors I either can’t describe or my brain has pushed out took place on this unholy ottoman. The “juice” he’s talking about was a mix between bong water, my own vomit, absinthe, liquid heroin, and someone else’s vomit.

“I turned around and
Another kid broke the lamp
They got them from France”

The “lamp” is referencing an eternally burning pentagram that rested on one coffee table. It was broken. “France” references the country of France, in western Europe.

It was after the lamp was broken that Aaron decided to take action. Like the house from Night Trap on the Sega CD, Aaron’s house was loaded with traps and knives that would swing down from the ceiling, like some unholy murder house. Seeing as this was an unholy murder house, Aaron took to “eliminating” the lamp breakers and getting them to get out of there by force.

“Is that a car door
Oh dang, I’m in trouble
Everybody get out now
On the double
I’m dead (you’re done) that’s it for me
I’m gonna be picked off my family tree”

In this scene, Aaron’s parents come home. The fear of being “picked off of the family tree” was real, seeing how they did the same thing with Nick prior to Aaron, and the rumors of a sister, Bertha, who was locked in the attic, swirled around the party like so much blood and absinthe. The “everybody get out” bit was a lie, though, as we all tried to run but the doors were locked.

“Once Mom finds out ’bout this party I had
I don’t even wanna start thinkin’ about dad”

oh, shit, uh, well… uh… I guess the uh… the casual child abuse was cool in 2000

“I’m hustlin around the house
Trying to clean up the mess
I sure put my new white Nikes to the test”

The shoes were a bizarre factor of this party. Everyone else was covered in sheep’s blood, as tends to happen at a gathering of this particular blood cult, but Aaron was spotless. In fact, his white Nikes were shining, glistening, almost giving off a light. Word at the party was that he stole them from his Christ-like older brother Nick, and his possession of the shoes was the one thing keeping him grounded to this earth. If Nick were ever to repossess the shoes, Aaron would return to hell and Nick would return to heaven. That is only a rumor, though.

“The car door slammed
And they’re walking up the steps
I guess life is good with 10 seconds left
(AARON!!!???!!!)

Grounded”

Oh, grounded is right. As in “Aaron sent everyone to the basement to escape through an underground tunnel.” Aaron himself was only seen again a week later, in school, still wearing the perverted angelic Air Maxes, telling everyone tales of this completely normal, yet completely sanitized party that had apparently happened a week before. Some people’s minds were changed to remember a regular party. Some people’s weren’t, but they kept quiet out of fear that they’d be excommunicated like Nick was. I was one of them. I was one of them until now. I know he’s coming for me.

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The Ten WORST College Basketball Student Sections

You asked, and we provided. These are the worst places to catch – or play – a college basketball game in the United States –

10. The Foo Fighters –

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Someone learned to fly in front of these guys, and his name, was, Michael Jordan

Big me, am I right? These guys just played a full set on stage instead of cheering or acknowledging my team or my impeccable on-court performance. I scored 34 points, I think I got the best of them, right?

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30 for 30 Post-Film Report: Catholics vs. Convicts

In lieu of a lengthy introduction, I’m going to simply state that I love documentaries, I have a weird thing with sports that I tried to explain in an article a few weeks ago on The Odyssey, and I’m a sucker for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series of sports documentaries. I have seen every one of them, partially because they’re based in a topic I can easily understand and partially because they’re just well-made films for the most part. They are relevant, as the generally cover how sports can be more relevant than just on the field, and they deserve to be critiqued like anything else.

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This week’s film, Catholics vs. Convicts, presents a great opportunity to exemplify that relevance. This film covers one particular game played between two undefeated college football teams, the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, in fall of 1988. This matchup meant more than just a championship. Coming near the end of the eighties, featuring two rivals with more differences than most, and underlined by a controversial t-shirt, this game is deserving of a film.

However – This film hits and misses more than it needs to, and I’m about to lay out where it did both of them.

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All Three of These People are In Hell

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There’s a popular theory that goes around online amongst the millennials that the popular kids show “The Three Boys, All of Whom are Named Edward” actually took place in either purgatory or hell based on the designs of the show’s characters, also they all died of different illnesses I guess. Here’s a chart.

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all of these boys, each named edward, is dead, according to my theory

My head-canon today is based off of the popular children’s program “ESPN Presents: Football Talkers” and it involves these three people.

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