Okay, try this one on for size... last nights dream:
Im not too sure why, but for some reason or another i was in some fast food joint somewhere in Australia.... the usual, talking smack, eating a burger with some friends tho i cant seem to recall who they were... There were a bunch of dudes sitting across the table from ours... and they were talking shit... im not even sure what, but i knew it was directed at me and it wasnt pleasant. So i pushed my chair back, walked over to their end of the table and got in their face... i think more along the lines of saying something like "you wanna say that again?" or some other random tough guy shit like that.... so apparently the repeated whetever it was, and i just cocked back for a second, and punched the guy in the face pretty much as hard as i could.
So, i guess it was on... were were scuffling about... at least in that slow-motion retarded way that you would when youre dreaming anyway... and next thing i remeber is taking a step back and theres a cop standing right there. basicly everything stood still right there and i just figured... oh fuck.
running over the situation in my mind, i remeber thinking, the absolutle worse thing that coul happen really is that i get taken to jail overnight and pay some kinda bail / fine... whatever. So... im kinda bummed out as he's slapping the cuffs on me. Then another cop shows up and cuffs the other 2 idiots as well.
I was with someone familiar at the time, can't make out who it was... but i know i wasnt alone when the cop drove us off. Anyways, we end up in this massive warehouse... mostly full of mattresses and old clothes and shit.... and the cop told us to start moving all this fibreglass padding shit from one end of the warehouse to another... so i figured wtf... and started doing it... seemed like we were only moving shit for like 15 minutes, then the cop comes back at us... gives us 25 bucks each and lets us go.
how bizzare i thought... oh well! I remeber thinking how awesome it was that the other pricks were probably in jail getting assraped while i just made 25 bucks moving some shit around in a warehouse. Neat.
Next scenario i find myself floating around a road, driving most likely, and looking out the window... it reminded me of vancouver... more noteaby that sea to sky highway bit... im looking over the cliffside and the watter keeps rising and falling t o and from street level... then we ended up in my house somehow.
I was reading some tech magazine and i spot an article in there about some kind of etch-a-sketch drawing contest.... somehow this got me really pumped so i went and got an etch-a-sketch. I was fiddling with the thing for a little bit, and then i had this great idea.... so i setup a camera, and took a pic of the blank etch-a-sketch.... then i started to fill it all in with pure lines... then took another pic of it completely filled in with lines.... then i thought i'd photoshop the hell out of it and stamp in a graphic / composite of the 2 photos of like a mona lisa or something so it looked like i had mad etchasketch skills... so i ended up totally cheating and doing that... and we submitted my photo to this tech magazine... and they came back and basicly called us out for cheating... but somehow gave me another chance to retry... i was relieved.
SO!!! another brilliant idea.... i run out and grab an Audrino board and a couple of digitally controlled motors, and i wrote this script / software that parsed an EPS file ... and controlled these motors to turn the etch-a-sketch knobs accordingly to get an insane image on the etch-a-sketch...
came out perfect.... so we took tons of photos of the etch-a-sketch thing and sent those photos in.... i was all ... this is genius... again, the magazine came back to me and said... dude... we know this is fake... so i was all.... "okay okay you got me... " and then i explained to them how i programed this audrino / motor rig to control the knobs on the etch-a-sketch to output an EPS file to the etch-a-sketch controls... and they were all "whoa! really?" cool!
so that perked their interests at least... and they called me up and said they wanted to come over and do a piece on it... and take vid / pics and shit.... so i thought, okay, i didnt win the contest, but at least this is still kinda rad...
So these guys show up with their cams and gear and shit... and ive got my 2 motor / audrino rig setup for them to check out... and the "director" was all... hmmm... lets put like a plastic dummy over the motors and bits... like a mannequin of sorts... so that it looks like some dude is actually doing it. So im all.. yeah whatever, cool. and then they started to fit this weird rubbery humanoid figure over my rig.... which started to become more and more real...
i finally had a chance to look at my surroundings while this rubbery human type thing was being fitted on my etch-a-sketch rig... and it turned out we were in some sort of dank cave / cavern.... REAL medieval like.
So anyway... this rubber humanoid figure whos starting to look really fuckin evil now, is twicting about due to the motors being driven underneat it... and making this perfect etch-a-sketch drawing.
So while that thing is whirring away, i look around this cavern and i start to hear these fucking grumbles and crackles from all over the place.... so i look back at the floppy rubber human thing again, whos looking insanely evil now, and it starts talking backwards while still whittling away on this etch-a-sketch.... now im fuckin freaked out... trying to figure out what the fuck is going on with this thing.... now its just me and the etch-a-sketch demon, in a cave, everyone else is gone..
as for the crackling / grumbling sounds... i looks around inside the cave and i start to see shit come out of the dirt... skeletons and shit mostly... and weird corpsey things start hissing around and walking in from around corners.... i mean, it was clear, this etch-a-sketch robot thing was conjuring up the dead and shit... didnt have much time to take any of it in really...
then i woke up to pauls fucking phone ringing.
okay : (
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ReplyDeletehey man, you'd be the perfect subject for my psych study on dream recall. if interested contact at zalcodray@gmail.com. also, come to bleu detroit's grand opening oct 1 ;)
ReplyDeleteKids, never do drugs!
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ReplyDeleteCaptain Kirk. Kobayashi Maru. That's all I gotta say about that reprogramming etch-a-sketch thing. Brilliant! (Btw what did you eat for dinner before that dream?) :D
ReplyDeleteHaha sounds like your pent up hatred for the faceless internet haters is manifesting in your dreams. Man, and that second bit with the etch a sketch...forget daft punk, make a movie out of that, that's some crazy shit.
ReplyDeleteI can never hit people in dreams, it's always like I'm underwater ad in low gravity. Good for you.
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ReplyDeleteJust read it. Weird shit. Feels good man.
ReplyDeletei see a movie coming on :)
ReplyDeletewow that was fuckin intense hahaha. dope shit makin an etch a sketch-er
ReplyDeletecrazy dram dude...
ReplyDeleteEtch-a-Sketch Demon sounds like a good song name. Amazing dream(s) though.
ReplyDeletehaha sick dream, i gotta stop smoking so I can have some fuckin dreams like that! Going to the Cypress Hill Smoke Out on October 16 and I'm pumped for your 'Unhooked' show! Not quite sure what that means exactly, but I'm sure it'll be dope and I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the good work, the VMAS were off the chain thanks to the Meowingtons hat & Mau5 tracks in the background. PS I'm pissed I'm missing your sets in Ibiza, put something online!!!
ReplyDeleteDrugs are bad, mmmkay? Lol.
ReplyDeleteAbout par with most my dreams though. Especially the whole everything going fucking evil shit at the end.
Its getting weird up in here. Who knew the mau5 was into programing audrino's. SOmethign out of the pages of Make magazine
ReplyDeleteThat is one of the better dreams I've read about in the last few months. I wish you weren't so damn well known and actually had some time to sit and talk about this kind of shit.
ReplyDeleteHey your dream about water is your problems and you all of sudden being at home is you moving to LA. Away from the problems!
ReplyDeleteLol! Never use drugs again :D
ReplyDeleteYour Dreams are Crazy ;)
wowww what the fuck. dude sound a little like my fuckin random dreams. I can remeber a recent one with a t rex that had legs made of fruit roll ups and i was flying a banshee in halo then like randomly just morphs into a whole new scenario of me trying to throw omeletes at a homeless guys face. idk. ha dreams r pretty much like my 2nd fav hobby. i have a reoccuring dream of like armegeddon alot except with like bbig aliens and those things from the one movie with dakota fanning. Theres a powerful force behind dreams i believe try to interpret them for what them may mean. Good shit. Yeahhhh go Al Gore
ReplyDeleteWTF dude! Nice dream!, at least you don't have dreams about an oil refinery exploding and shit!
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Freaky shit, dood!
ReplyDeleteYou are very busy,even when you sleep.
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ReplyDeleteo_O crazyyy... eat less fast food..
ReplyDeletewow. freaky! That's some kinda dreamnessage there!
ReplyDeleteDude...the worst is when you're in a dream and it feels ultra-realistic and you can control what happens...like you are able to think something knowingly and see it unfold before you..but in a dream-like way. Lucid dreaming...pure amazing.
ReplyDeleteIt's all good Joel, Fuckk it.. . .
ReplyDeleteBump "Strobe" to chill it., ,
4rm LA , Bam! (=
Best** not worst lawl
ReplyDeleteSomeone was clearly trying to perform INCEPTION on YOU!!! Are you sure you're really awake?
ReplyDelete*(cue dramatic inception song)DUNNN!!!
But honestly though, seems like you're mad about some jackass being dumb and scared about machines replacing your very real music skills.
I never remember my dreams this vividly at all. This was pretty funny though because it took me a while to figure out it was a dream. Me= fail at paying attention.
ReplyDeleteGreat! Now i'm gonna have eff'd up nightmares about this shit... thanks Joel! :P LMAO
ReplyDeleteWell in any case, first, second, whatever. I can tell you that warehouses usually represent your memory. So say like a warehouse of memories in your mind. The cops more than likely represent someone you respect as an authority in your life, and that authority sort of urging or forcing you to deal and move things around in this area of your mind. The etch-a-sketch thing I would say is you creating a monster and now having to deal with it, and sort of being afraid of the unknown, and the past, or skeletons in your closet per say. I hope that might have given you some insight. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing you don't do drugs...I don't want to even think about what would be going on in that head if you're dreaming that stuff sober! Next time you should try and have a lucid dream. They say you can control your dreams by doing a reality check in your dream, like checking your watch. If you look back again and it's changed, you're dreaming! Then you can go off and do all sorts of crazy stuff XD
ReplyDeleteDude, that sounds like one of my usual (completely sober) dreams. Awesome.
ReplyDeletePlus bonus blog points for Arduino ref.
Seriously though, have you seen the video of the guy that did that, using an Arduino to control stepper motors to draw on an etch-a-sketch? It sucked ass. Motors were all wiggling all over the place and shit. I know you can do better than that... lol.
Joel keep blogging. Makes my day more exiting! Tired of being around boring folks who all they do for fun is drink. Ho Ho I got drunk! Ho HO Crazy!
ReplyDeleteyou have some fucked up dreams but so do i. i really like how you shared with us keep it up :P
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ReplyDeleteCan't beat my sleep paralysis. Everytime I stop dreaming (get out of paradoxal sleep state) I should normally wake up. Instead I'm paralyzed for minutes, feels like I'm about to fucking die. I also have some hallucinations coz I'm still somewhat dreaming. Anybody else gets that crap?
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ReplyDeletepics or it didnt happen
ReplyDeletenot as bad as last week when i had a dream about an evil boat that could kill me through my mind whenever i thought about it ... im not joking
ReplyDeleteThats pretty intense, I have deja-vu dreams all the time.. Pretty Intresting.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't read the whole post, I need more caffeine.
ReplyDeleteCan't beat my sleep paralysis. Everytime I stop dreaming (get out of paradoxal sleep state) I should normally wake up. Instead I'm paralyzed for minutes, feels like I'm about to fucking die. I also have some hallucinations coz I'm still somewhat dreaming. Anybody else gets that crap?
ReplyDeleteI fucking love you and wish I could live inside your head for just one day! xoxo
ReplyDeleteAren't dreams wonderful? I have always wished that I could take snapshots (or videos, even better) from my dreams and paste them into reality. But since we can't do that I would like to paint scenes from them. Perhaps in the future I might have the free time to do so. Your images are amazing, be glad that you are one of us that can remember them clearly....everyone doesn't have that ability! I can remember dreams from my childhood like it was yesterday. If you're ever interested in hearing some of them let me know. :)
ReplyDeleteHere, in Romania, dreams have an interpretation, which in most cases they prove to be real. For example, your dream: A fight between people means arguing with someone in your family. I see you also dreamed a jail and some cops. This means you'll have some problems, or even losing something. My advice: Be careful on what you are doing these days, and what decisions you have to take. Take them wisely, and don't pass your safety boundaries.
ReplyDeletesounds cool,, in some way :D :P..
ReplyDeletei had a dream last night as well,, and it was my very first deadmau5 dream :D :D!!
hehee,, i know what u're thinking - WTF wirdoo??
no no,, u see, it was kind of cool - i was sitting in some bar (it looked familiar, and some of my friends were there, but i couldn't figure where i was exactly), drinking some beer (that i have not paid still :P) and i remember there was som programe on TV something like football game or so.. sudenly there's a unknown guy in front of me giving me a flayer for tonights deadmau5 show in the very same bar!! i was like soooo WTF?? is this for real?? woop woop :D :D!! but my excitement didn't ended like this - just few moments after, i saw u Joel like few meters away from me!! i came immediately to him and asked if he could take a photo with me.. he said "i'm just going to pee and will be back in a second" - i was soo excited and i turned around for my friend to take a photo of us.. he was something mumbling/grumbling like "it's ok, i'll do it" and talking to someone else there.. but i was like COME ON U MORRON!! HE'LL BE BACK IN A MINUTE!!
and u were,, my friend finaly finished talking around and pulled out f**ing iPhone to shot us,, i was like NO F**ING WAY but nevermind let's do it anyway :D :D..
i have to mention, Joel, u were soooo cool,, we were standing in some corner and u lined on your wall like a retard, i did exact pose on my wall an we looked so weird and cool - i remember u laughing so loud and crazy,, it was moment to memorize :D :P..
after we got ready to take a picture, a asked my friend to "pull back a little" cause he was so close,, but then every thing went wrong..
idiot of my friend didn't understood me well - it was my mistake because i didn't speek to him in Croatian (we live there,, so please sorry on my shity english) - and he thought i told him that we'll take a photo out there on the dance floor, so turned around and walk away :-0!!
i was so embarrassed, but u mau5 was so cool at any way :D :D,, and said "lets get after him" lool,, i was like "ok :D :D"!!
so we started moving, and somehow i remember i didn't pay for my beer lool,, and started searching in my pockets but there wasn't ANYTHING in there!! (this is sooo weird in dreams, no money, no f**ing mobilephone of camera to take photos, no any sh*t) but i didn't lost that flyer for party lool :D :P..
this was so weird but i asked u Joel to pay for my beer, and u was like "no problem, wtf, lets get to bar"..
so we didn't take photo, but we headed to bar and then, like it usually is in dreams,, i couldn't f**ing reach u, u were like some in front of me, and faster,, and f**ing bar seemed like mile away.. on the way there, some of your people (guess management,, maybe it was this guy Paul :P) stopped u and started asking sh*t about stage and something about that show.. u seemed little angry and asked me am i comeing or what?? sure i was there, but u were again faster and i f**ing lost u somehow.. :( :/
that's when i woke up,, it was like 4-5am and couldn't fall a sleep again till morning :D :P..
it's good we didn't take photo cause i feel like i'll be searching for my friends phone to check cause it seemed soooo real :D :P..
lool,, i need a therapy :D :P..
P.S. one more time, sorry for sh*ty english :D :P..
cheers,, alen..
lol all I have to say is I had Pandora open while reading this and Aerodynamic (Daft Punk) was playing. I could almost live the dream. insane.
ReplyDeleteever consider polyphasic sleeping? hahahaha. I've done it. it fucks with you. Sleep is fucking important. Polyphasic sleep is about getting more sleep (REM), not less, but while sleeping less. A 1 hour nap can feel like a day, 20 minutes can feel like 3 days etc (it's real, i've done it, it feels fucking nuts). YOU BEING THE MAU5 already know about this tho. Be careful with it if you ever do it, it changes the way you sleep permanently. Time distorts, the naps feel great though. I am more of a sleep deprivator in general though. It's a learned process that's personal. Nakamatsu does it, laff.
ReplyDeletei think it means that you know deep down inside you are a pussy and the only time u are able to take out the frustration on all the shit people used to say to you before you got a mouse suit is when you are dreaming ;__;
ReplyDeleteDreaming is interesting. I hate obtaining money in dreams, depresses me when I wake up and realize it was all a dream.
ReplyDeleteThat should be a music video...
ReplyDeleteThat is some insane shit! Sounds like anxiety dreams. I'd agree with Brittani about the etch-a-sketch dream.
ReplyDeleteThe people in the first dream could also be representations of your inner hater (i.e. self-doubt) and inner authority figure (self-discipline, or maybe superego if you wanted to get all, like, Freudian and shit). If that's true, that could be a good thing--it would mean you have self-doubts but that you stand up to them, eliminate them, make yourself get some work done, and ultimately end up better off.
I.e. it would mean you are successfully policing your thoughts, which is a good thing. :)
im no psychologist
ReplyDeletethe fight at the start represents instability and misplaced anger
the water level rising and falling is your anxiety levels
the etch sketch competition represents the industry, the etch sketch being your computer, the final sketch being your music. The first sketch is your experimental electronic, which the industry rejects. The machine you create is deadmau5, and you program the machine to create the finest art. The industry first rejects the art produced. Then the industry notices deadmau5, a machine capable of consistently churning out art at an incredible rate. the gradual evil-ness of deadmau5 is the industry taking more and more control.
you need to save deadmau5.
Seriously dude. You should check out the movie "Inception". You'll love it. Well, maybe not.
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ReplyDeleteJoel you fucking rock. Lov ya man... U remind me too much of myself~ hahaha... get home to Meowingtons lol...
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ReplyDeleteGet on the ground, drop to the floor, everybody's walkin' the dinosaur!
Gnnnah !-D
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you dream in arduinos and etch-a-sketches is heartwarming.
ReplyDeletecool story bro!
ReplyDeleteHaha dreams are so frkn random. I never got the chance to tell you but you were in my dream! Way back before edc.so I was at a rave what was edc I guess walking around with friends taking to random ppl and whatnot but it looked like a school or something or a ranch idk there was no concrete on the floor just dirt.so i walk into what was the backstage and I see you and I'm like oh shit its deadmau5! So I walk in there by myself and talk to you and out of nowhere I pop out with a blue deadmau5 helmet that I apparently made on my own to give to you and I was like "you do a great job joel zimmermann, I hope you like what I made for you"and I was trying to act professional, i didn't want to act like a crazy fan haha so you said something and I couldn't make up what it was cuz you were already wearing a mau5 helmet thing but I assumed you said thank you..and I shook your hand and then I left haha random ass dream.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like something out of a horror movie...
ReplyDeleteSounds like lucid dreaming. I've had simliar real feeling dreams and thats what i was told..
ReplyDeleteYou should've went back to sleep and finished ur dream! !!!!
...what did you eat before going to sleep?
ReplyDeleteWell, that last dream is pretty clear. You're at home creating something brilliant and get credit for it. People want to see it and share it with the world(video, photo). They however wont let your creation be the way it is but enhance/adjust it to something that isn't 100% your creation anymore. The location changes from the secure home to a rather frightening dark cave and your creation is more and more out of control and kinda takes on its own life.
ReplyDeleteJoel Zimmermann starting to create music on the side, gets recognized, marketed and globalized in rapid speed with having to rely on others. But the more people get involved the more control slips out of your hands. Your creation (the robot knobs) could also be the personification of yourself and then get tweaked and changed to something else that is scary and not necessarily pleasant.
hahaha i love the arduino card.......
ReplyDeleteWow. great read =] That's some crazy dreams you got there Joel. That's pretty amazing that you can remember them in such graphic detail. I wish I was able to recall my dreams, but I usually forget them a couple minutes after I wake up. Sucks... I should start writing them down, or how do you keep them in your memory after waking up? Do you replay it in your head or something?
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ReplyDeleteOne question... Did you eat anything before you went to sleep?
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, every time I eat Pizza and M&M's before I pass out, I have the most fucked up dreams, like the time with - no shit - David Bowie clones that were fucking ZOMBIES. We had LASER GUNS and shit!
And I just get to excited about all that shit, but seriously. I even made a frigging AIM screen name out of that shit.
But yeah... this kind of makes me really want to get a tablet just so that I could draw this shit into Photoshop or something... It would make the most fucked-up awesome animation... I'm gonna go drawfag some shit.
that is a fabulous recollection of a fabulous dream my son! Well done. Tonite, before you go to bed, concentrate on kittens and say..>I will not dream of kittens...I will not dream of kittens.
ReplyDeleteHi Joel, my name is Donielle. I'm writing all the way from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (no i don't have gators in my yard or wear overalls!) haha okay so I'm not going to say I'm a huge deadmau5 fan, tell you about any deadmau5 dreams, or tell you that the industry is controlling you. ha ha. i just started listening to your music last week because i saw a photo of your mask, and thought it was unique. i thought I'd let you know that for fun,i study dreams,psychology,body language, and etc. I HIGHLY doubt it is anything incorporated with the industry in which you work. Personally, I'm sure that it is just emotional shit. which, you seem to be a smart guy, so i'm sure you figured that. Anyway, thought i'd let you know that is some freaky shit. i constantly have nightmares, which i won't spill my guts, but i have the shit on my plate to explain it. so just hang in there if I'm right! hopefully the death-a-sketch won't return!! Btw, i admire your outlook on this whole fame thing. people don't understand that you, and other people that are well known are just normal. i'm friends with the model bobbie brown's daughter, Taylar Lane. had no idea her mom dated tommy lee or that her dad made the song cherry pie until last month and i've known her for almost 5 years (explains the nice house though! haha). she's just a regular cool girl that likes to get drunk with me :) i hope i'm conveying my point accurately to you, keep up how you're doing cause it is what is making you pretty cool. hopefully you'll see this, and i dont look like a total fucking idiot.
ReplyDeletep.s. i might go by the voodoo show to see you perform in new orleans,but that crowd fucking sucks it dry with their crazy antics! with that said, it would be nice if you performed solo at the house of blues or something. i know a lot of people that would show up.
-donielle
mate ive had a few beers and shit but this made me lol so hard...what an amazing dream, i wish i had this shit regularly. the fact u can hit a dude while dreaming is awesome, all mine are wimpy wimpy punches in mah sleep, this is brilliant :D
ReplyDeleteThat's what happens on vacations man, your mind tripped out ,bad steaks in Malta and shit, glad you are getting back to work soon, welcome home........
ReplyDeleteyou created a this big awesome thing, then it turned into a monster and it came back to kill you it looks like. Could be a sign or some shit like that haha
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry this is a non-sequitur, but I wanted to post this where you'd see it instead of your FB page where each entry you post gets, like, 2500 comments, LOL.
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Every time I log into this guy's sites, I think of you. You, being the snarky, clever, and cunning guy you are, I'm sure you already know about him, but I had to put it out there in case you didn't. Your rants on shit are so much alike, I PMSL from pretty much everything you post. :)
IT'S A SIGN! Come and move to Vancouver, we sure wouldn't mind having you around. ;)
ReplyDeletehahaha! doooood thats crazy. i love dreams. they're the shit. oh and im pretty sure we'd be best friends.
ReplyDeleteThe end sounds a bit like too much minecrafting... ;)
ReplyDeleteI just had a lucid dream where i saw you, Joel Zimmerman shooting a commercial in my house in MY bed with 3 women and 5 cats and you were in the middle of them posing like in some Calvin Klein ad, but you only had a meowingtons cap on (NOTHING ELSE). And then you said "DUDE, if you want to be like me, then you should totally smell like me." and you held a black bottle of Deadmau5 Fragrence and there was a green text on the bottle: "Scents 'n' Stuff" Then the commercial ended in a comedic way when you looked at all the cats and yelled "WHERE THE FUCK IS MEOWINGTONS!?"
ReplyDeleteI'll never sleep again. Ever.
lmao, made me laugh XD
ReplyDeletebahah, you totally played minecraft that evening.
ReplyDeleteactually had one myself about caves, deserted islands and evil things. and the moving around bit? sure those weren't blocks? ;)
Haha, that's hilarious. Always wish I could punch that douche bag without consequence.
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