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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 26 Nov 2014 08:22 #244133

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 28 Oct 2015 02:52 #267046

Markz OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 8227 Karma: 426	Some jokes are worth repeating!! You know you're on GYE for a while when... Bigmoish wrote: ...your wife TOTALLY thinks you're watching porn when you're on GYE, and you don't even care...
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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 28 Oct 2015 03:08 #267047

Markz OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 8227 Karma: 426	ben durdayah wrote: 37. You stand in front of Buckingham palace shocked and start screaming "Hear O' Addicts Guard is the Guard, Guard is one, d'ya hear me for cryin' out loud..." until you are unceremoniously escorted away. Now go back to page one... Enjoy
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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 28 Oct 2015 03:30 #267048

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 00:13 #267130

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peloni almoni wrote:

jeff foxworthy called. he wants his routine back.

".... and if everytime you hear someone with a chicago accent you walk over with a wink hand him a large coffee and a pair of corduroy's, then you might just be a GYE addict"

Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 01:07 #267137

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peloni almoni wrote:

jeff foxworthy called. he wants his routine back.

".... and if everytime you hear someone with a chicago accent you walk over with a wink hand him a large coffee and a pair of corduroy's, then you might just be a GYE addict"

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 01:18 #267139

Markz OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 8227 Karma: 426	You know you're on GYE for a while when... You start getting too comfortable on the forum and.... You start throwing pillows at the great reb Cord'
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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 02:26 #267143

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 11:36 #267180

Markz OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 8227 Karma: 426	...you start counting 94 sheep jumping over the fence to fall asleep, then you see this Shepard dressed as a Russian soldier and you realize those weren't sheep - they're ground forces entering Syria...
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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 13:40 #267203

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markz wrote:

You know you're on GYE for a while when...
You start getting too comfortable on the forum and....
You start throwing pillows at the great reb Cord'

Unless it's a pillow like this one:

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 13:48 #267204

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INTERNATIONAL PILLOW FIGHT DAY

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Introduction
If you are reading this, you have probably transcended the “why” stage and are now squarely concerned with the “how”. Any city worth living in has at least an annual pillow fight. Organizing a massive pillow fight is perhaps the simplest of free events or interventions, but also one of the most rewarding. The following guide details our experiences with organizing pillow fights in two countries, and outlines the main choices you will have to make when planning your own.

Before You Get Started
There may already be a pillow fight happening in your city! Many people e-mail us asking what they need to do to get a pillow fight going in their town, without realizing one is already in the planning stages. We are happy to connect these people, but the best thing you can do is ask yourself, “Is there a group in my city who already does pillow fights? I should see what their plans are for this year,” before you set out to organize one yourself. Collaboration is key!

Never Ask Permission
Our advice to anybody who has ever wondered is to never ask permission. This may change in the distant future if we witness some kind of crackdown against free events and interventions, but in the meantime, it is very unlikely that anybody will say yes. We must also remind you: the “permit culture” we citizens witness in city halls around the world is perhaps the single largest barrier to experiencing the full richness of public life in the cities we live in. Do not ask for permission, public assembly is a human right.

We got a call from the New York City Parks Department a week before a pillow fight in Union Square, asking what the hell was going on. They told us we’d need a permit. We said, “that’s nice!”

In all our time doing this and communicating with many similar groups around the world, we have never heard of police arresting or ticketing anybody in relation to a public pillow fight.

Where to Hold Your Pillow Fight
Perhaps the most important question to answer about your pillow fight is where it will be. Do not use parks, please. This advice goes for almost all free events and interventions you might dream of, from water fights to Capture the Flag. This is not only to protect the park from huge amounts of litter, but also to protect you from the throes of banality and boringness. Most events in parks are boring.

This also goes for universities. Even if your college or university is the only thing around, please try to engage the public as well. Perhaps one of the worst things about insular college students is the fact that their lives never involve leaving campus. Broaden your horizons and use the city, not the campus.

In small or medium-sized European cities, the location for a pillow fight is usually fairly obvious: the largest, most central public square is the natural place. In North America, we are not so blessed. It is essential that you choose a location in the downtown core of the nearest large city, preferably a public square located near one or more subway/transit stops. Attempts at pillow fights in the “sorta-downtown” of small towns or suburbs have usually failed. Besides, most people with any imagination will eventually move to a city.

By the way, public squares with steps make excellent pillow fight locations.

When to Hold Your Pillow Fight
There are two preferred staging times for pillow fights: the “Friday night pillow fight” and the “Saturday afternoon pillow fight”. We have always opted for the latter type because it is generally warmer, guarantees a greater diversity of ages (parents and children tend to be somewhat absent from nighttime events) and, if one is so inclined, sunlight makes it easier to take beautiful photographs that will become your memories of the ephemeral event.

The Saturday afternoon pillow fight, however, will necessarily lose those hungover souls whose Friday nights ran quite late, or perhaps never ended at all. The largest nighttime pillow fights, those that have taken place in San Francisco, usually begin around 6:00 PM. The largest Saturday afternoon pillow fight, a Newmindspace event in New York, started at 3:00 PM.

Don’t bother with Sunday. The only thing worse than a hangover is getting hit in the head repeatedly when you have one!

Getting the Word Out
We must begin with a simple request: please do not call your pillow fight a “flash mob”. Massive pillow fights predate flash mobs by at least a decade, and calling it a “flash mob” cheapens your event: it brings to mind images of anonymous, mindless zombies, assembling in public briefly to bewilder passersby and disperse, having never milked the sweetest benefits of a free public gathering. Pillow fights are not flash mobs.

The four most useful tools for promoting a pillow fight are, in order of declining usefulness, a mailing list, a website, social networking sites and blogs. A true mailing list, such as Dada Mail (software) or YMLP (service), is in our experience the best way to reach people; Google or Yahoo! Groups are less than ideal because people can turn the e-mail function off. A true e-mail list grows organically (via a signup link on your website) and people do not often “get sick of e-mail” like they do of Myspace. Before we organize an event in a new city, we create a mailing list and post the link to the list in a number of different places specific to that city.

Paper flyers are costly, wasteful, and they might fall into the wrong hands, but that personal connection you get from handing a pillow fight flyer to a person may be the thing that persuades them to attend.

Example Rules for a Pillow Fight
Even when one is liberated by a free event, it is still important that certain bad behavior like violence be minimized. We generally send out these rules in our communiqués:

“+ Soft pillows only!
+ Swing lightly, many people will be swinging at once.
+ Do not swing at people without pillows or with cameras.
+ Remove glasses beforehand!
+ The event is free and appropriate for all ages.
+ Wait until the signal to begin.
+ Feather-free pillows only!”

For the signal, we have used standard athletic whistles, air horns and marine rescue whistles. It is also possible that you have chosen a public square that is blessed with a loud, hourly bell or chime, which makes a good substitute.

Before and During the Pillow Fight
People begin to assemble in the square. There is a feeling of euphoria running through most of the crowd, and you are probably a little nervous. If you feel that not everybody is there yet, do not blow the whistle. It is best to wait for people to arrive by subway, light rail or bus than to start on time.

The signal sounds!

Once people start swinging, most of your job is done

This is the part where you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor, start whacking people with your own pillow, and at times, laugh uncontrollably. Ideally, the community will police itself if people become aggressive, and there will not be much to worry about. Again, we have never heard of police arresting or ticketing anybody in relation to a public pillow fight.

Somewhere around the 20-minute point, people may gain their “second wind” and begin forming ad-hoc alliances, charging the middle in forms reminiscent of historical fiction films like Braveheart or 300.

To Disperse or Stay
As we mentioned earlier, there is really no reason to disperse when things are just getting good, so we recommend against it. As the pillow fight goes on (it could last for two hours or more), you will notice interesting social phenomena that are particular to free events and interventions. Additionally, people will make new friends, re-unite with old ones, meet future lovers, and revel in the blissful one-ness of a free, fun, social gathering.

Some groups have made the mistake of making their pillow fight last 15 minutes, or even worse, 5. It is best to estimate that the pillow fight will last an hour if you are pressed to select an end time.

Just wait until the pillow fight’s natural end, when even the most stalwart soldiers grow weary.

Cleaning Up
The ideal pillow fight would leave no trace of its occurrence. This is not possible, however it is an ideal for which we should all strive. Bring rubber or vinyl gloves, trash bags and brooms, at the very least, and ask members of your community to do the same. If you expect a particularly large amount of mess, consider using a portable power pack (more info in Appendix E) and an industrial vacuum on wheels.

Conclusion
Once you have had a pillow fight, you may wonder what to do next. We try to limit the number of pillow fights in a given city to once a year. There are many other kinds of fun to be had, from parties on subway cars to giant games of Capture the Flag.

You may give your group a name. It is best to think of something that will allow you to do other events. “Pillow Fight Brazil” is too limiting, and “Cleveland Flashmobs” uses the obsolete word “flashmob.” Something like, “Prague’s Urban Playground” or “Urban Playground Austin” works just fine

This guide is a building block of our goal to spread free event culture to every corner of the world. Imagine that in any large city, anywhere on the face of the Earth, there may some day be free, fun, massive public events like pillow fights, creative interventions, games and interactive art installations on every day of the year. Imagine that no matter where you went, you could find these events and the fun-loving clan that clings to them. Imagine that in the future, we will be united by our drive to live free, fun public lives! That is the era we dream of.

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 18:27 #267254

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markz wrote:

...you start counting 94 sheep jumping over the fence to fall asleep, then you see this Shepard dressed as a Russian soldier and you realize those weren't sheep - they're ground forces entering Syria...

9494 You transgressed the 94th gye rule not to change your avatar image in the middle of the work week. Now I look like an idiot

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writing that joke, and the Russian shepard dissapeared.

You know you're on GYE for a while when... you notice people dump their trucks and start driving trains which is against the 1st amendment!!

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 18:31 #267255

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I sent him that train, the reason is hard to see in the tiny avatar image. here it is in all its glory...

And of course he had to change it, he was trying to sneak into Syria but you blew his cover.

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 29 Oct 2015 18:35 #267256

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Re: You know you're on GYE for a while when... 18 Nov 2015 05:13 #268921

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You know you're on GYE for a while when...
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1. there are no DEAD batteries, only powerless ones

2. you count the steps going to the second floor and there are only 11 steps. You call a contractor...

3. You kid runs in saying he fell, you say "fell shmell"

4. You tell your friend that you called because you 'Just wanted to say hi' and hang up

5. sometimes you feel that now you are 'Just Having Fun'

6. every Gerrer chusid gets surreptitious looks, 'maybe he is the heiliger Guard'...

7. when you meet someone new you tell them "hi and welcome, you should be getting the official welcome package soon..."

8. passing roadkill is a meaningful experience

9. if someone says the Bardichever lived 200 years ago, you say 'nuh uh, he lives in Kentucky and drives a big truck and sells ice cream

10. you are at a bris and you hear the baby is named 'Dov' and you go over to the baal simcha and say that is a beautiful name, he asks "why so?" and you say ummmm, well you see, it's a long story, not for now and change the subject

11. you go in to meet an adam gadol and he asks you how things are going, you say "Baruch HaTatty"

12. you are at the grocery and you stop at the 7up and start grinning

13. you keep wanting to borrow your kid's tricycle

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