Reply To: One forum to rule them all
I agree with everything @vilicious said about sea monkeys, and would like to re-emphasise that from my experience going to other concerts, all these nice things are true of JoCo fans in general, and sea monkeys are just the ones lucky/rich/motivated enough to go on a cruise (and yes, on average there’s a stronger connection between sea monkeys because they’ve met in person for a week.) I don’t consider them to be superior to other fans in any way. But the point is, it’s absolutely not about stockpiling junk; we’re discussing buying airfares, nights in hotels (yes, these things are expensive, extravagant, wasteful, bad for the environment, you could find all sorts of criticisms of that, but they are not really stockpilable commodities, so the “stockpiling junk” phrasing makes no sense here), fezzes (which help @chicazul raise enough money to go on the cruise, because we want to see her) 25-cent ‘hug me’ markers… okay, maybe the occasional formal dress, but that’s not the focus of most of our discussions and not an important part of the cruise. We’ve said that nobody cares if you wear the same dress twice, or don’t wear anything fancy.
If you want to accuse people of stockpiling junk, go after the Artificial Heart level 4 participants, or the people who buy every available T-shirt at concerts, such as, uh… me. 🙂 Even level 4 turned out to be more of an experience than an object.