I keep hearing about this conference, concert, seminar thingee. I hear tech execs and CEO's attend, I hear hippies attend.
In a few words or sentences please explain this to me. I honestly cannot tell what it is from the articles.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
August 25, 2018, 03:39 PM
RogueJSK
It's a week-long art festival, out in the middle of the desert in Nevada.
August 25, 2018, 03:43 PM
bobtheelf
A bunch of hippies on a week long drug bender with lots of sex and other naked people in the middle of the desert. With some art. And a big fire at the end.
August 25, 2018, 03:44 PM
erj_pilot
And probably 98.9472317% of those people you NEVER want to see naked... It's essentially a modern-day Woodstock.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 25, 2018, 03:44 PM
LS1 GTO
As I recall, it used to be a festival where you didn't need to spend much, if any, money to have a good time.
Not so much anymore now that rich people think it's hip to rough it in their $2M motor homes, with private chef, after flying in on a private aircraft (to avoid the traffic doncha know).
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers
The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...
August 25, 2018, 03:45 PM
Fundman
If there was only an internet website where you could search for information by typing in key words and it would give you hundreds of results answering your question. Some day...
August 25, 2018, 03:48 PM
46and2
A giant party/festival/concert in the desert, been going on for 30+ years.
They burn a giant effigy, hence the name.
50,000+ people attend.
Very diverse crowd.
August 25, 2018, 03:48 PM
GGF
It's a place for Democrats to go act like Democrats.
You know, fornicate with people they don't know.
August 25, 2018, 03:49 PM
newmexican
Just a bunch of hippies on acid having a week long orgy in the Nevada desert. They make art and food and play music too. I’d imagine there’s lots of interpretive dancing as well.
Last year a guy committed suicide by running into the burning man fire. So there’s that.
It’s a bunch of hippies on drugs that dance and have sex all week.
I have some old acquaintances on Facebook that go every year so I see the photos when they eventually post them. It’s something els.
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August 25, 2018, 04:06 PM
RAMIUS
quote:
Originally posted by GGF: It's a place for Democrats to go act like Democrats.
You know, fornicate with people they don't know.
Holy shit. I’m a Democrat! (Thanks for adding politics)
August 25, 2018, 04:06 PM
46and2
It's far more than just Democrats or Hippies. I know dozens of Republicans who have gone at least once. And it's true, it'll be a mix of CEOs, hippies, college kids, all sorts really.
August 25, 2018, 04:44 PM
mark60
It's also a drunk guy at a Bills pregame tailgating a couple years ago. We really get into our tailgate parties.
August 25, 2018, 04:57 PM
220-9er
quote:
Originally posted by GGF: It's a place for Democrats to go act like Democrats.
You know, fornicate with people they don't know.
Hopefully not on our nickel. But then they wouldn't be democrats.
It's an art festival. No buying or selling allowed. People bring art, make art, become art, experience art. Look up "Impotence Compensation Project" if you like fire cannons that shoot flames 300 feet in the air. It was originally a very libertarian kind of experience. You could do whatever you wanted, even if it was likely to get you killed. Nobody could or would stop you. See "Drive-by Shooting Gallery". Think of topless chicks sitting on the roof of a Suburban, at a slow roll, firing full auto at an array of stuffed animals and you get the idea. Also look up "Frogbat" on Youtube to see what the staffers do for fun, with weapons. Many years ago, they banned weapons from the event. Until then, it was well attended by the Full Auto crowd. In 1998, my friend watched a guy lay out a half a dozen land mines in a string and set them off, for giggles.
It's more controlled, safer, and less cool, now.
Bruce
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August 25, 2018, 05:47 PM
RNshooter
Oh, and 1 more thing:
Even after the weapons ban, many of us still bring guns. Lots of them. We will drive out beyond the edge of the event, to the open desert, and practice. You have to keep it on the down low so someone who is inviting you to go shoot will ask you "Do you want to go to Church?" If you're known to have a 50 cal, everyone invites you to Church.
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
August 25, 2018, 05:54 PM
arfmel
Don’t eat the brown acid
August 25, 2018, 06:01 PM
bald1
Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192
August 25, 2018, 06:37 PM
cne32507
Saw a bunch of Burners loading up at a Walmart in Reno today. Just normal shit for the man-bun crowd. Supply stores in Reno love Burners. Airport's busiest week of the year. They come from all over the world, but mostly UC Davis profs. Oughta see 'em next Monday after a week in the high alkaline desert. Everything looks like it has been wallowing in talc.
It's essentially a modern-day Woodstock.
