Jack's blog: "stories from the 4th"

i only bomb on double points days, and my list is generally about 30 minutes long, so you have a good 25+ minutes at the end of my bombing to get some love from me if you just follow these few simple guidelines!

1. HAVE A FOLDER WITH 250 PICS IN IT. it cant be NSFW, since we're not allowed to bomb those. a bomb is basically instant 11s on up to 250 pics, BUT if you have less than 250 you get less points (and so do it). so all you need to do is throw some random junk together and load it in a folder.

1a. oh yeah, when mass uploading, only do about 20 pics at a time, or it fails.

2. MARK YOUR BOMB FOLDER. links in the SB are nice, but sometimes they're broken or i get a message that the pics are currently unavailable for some damn reason. SO, mark a folder with lots of text stuff to be eye catching, such as BOMBBOMBBOMB or >>>>>>BOMB<<<<<<<, etc etc. you get the idea =). that makes it easy to find the correct folder in a hurry.

3. bombing is very rushed! to get the most out of it, you have to bomb someone every 30 seconds. so if your folder(s) are marked, you're making it that much easier to get yourself taken care of

4. and this is a personal one. i dont care if you pay me fubux or not, if you ask, chances are i'll just go ahead and bomb you once my pre-list is done. offering fubux doesnt make a difference, though of course if you feel like throwing some my way i wont say no =)

5. actually, no 5. i think that covers it nicely.

SO, to summarize: have a 250 folder, make sure its well marked, and be patient! i honestly feel a little bad when i see folks rating my pics manually, or asking for bombs, and then when i look at their albums they dont have any that are over 100 pics. do us both a favor and make a 250!

~Adam (Jack)

so about 10 years ago i was on a neighborhood street near my buddies house with close to a dozen other kids/teens out and about, setting off firecrackers, etc. the kids down the street came home from the indian reservation with a goddam FOOTLOCKER full of explosives (which was cool) but all 4 of them were completely trashed out of their minds (which is foreshadowing).

they pile out of the car, and drop the crate on the pavement next to it. one of them grabs a 4ft string of firecrackers and, visibly swaying, tries to light it. he misses the long fuse, catches one of the first short ones, the first couple firecrackers go off in his hand, so he jumps and drops the whole string.

....right into the crate of other stuff

i look over at the first few pops, and see all 4 of these guys scatter. theres a couple bigger bangs, a few rockets shoot out, and i'm just starting to realize something is amiss when theres a fucking thunderous boom. turns out they had almost 2k worth of quarter sticks of dynamite, artilery shells, rockets, you name it. anyhow, something huge went off, shattered the box, and threw dozens of lit explosives into the air. EVERYONE scatters. theres m500s blowing up in the air around us, shells blowing everywhere, my buddy got hit flat in the forehead with a chunk of wood the size of his hand from what was left of the crate, a few exploded on the roof of the house nearby, etc etc.

everything comes to a stop, we all look around, the drunk guys dive back in their car and speed off. the rest of us realize no ones hurt, theres no fires, everything is fine, and the front door of the house opens. the man walks out on his front step in a ratty brown bathrobe with a beer in his hand and says "no more of that now" and goes back inside. we're all totally stunned, he had no idea at all what had just happened out here.

so yeah, rain of explosives, comedy, suspense, pretty amazing in retrospect but fucking terrifying when it was going on!