{"id":6667,"date":"2010-05-12T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:46:21","slug":"best-advice-for-ladies-who-want-to-get-in-bbq-fest-team-booths-dont-bring-douche-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/best-advice-for-ladies-who-want-to-get-in-bbq-fest-team-booths-dont-bring-douche-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Best advice for ladies who want to get in BBQ Fest team booths: Don&#8217;t bring douche with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of conversations about BBQ Fest and being on a BBQ team this week.\u00a0 A number of females have asked me, &#8220;If the booths are all private parties, how do I get into them?&#8221;\u00a0 Let me give you a best practice: <strong>Don&#8217;t bring douche with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not referring to Summer&#8217;s Eve or similar products.\u00a0 (If you bring those with you, we&#8217;d prefer not to know, thanks.)\u00a0 By &#8220;douche&#8221; I mean a guy, or worse, more than one guy, displaying particular traits.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re thinking about coming to BBQ Fest with a guy, ask yourself these questions.\u00a0 The more &#8220;yeses,&#8221; the more likely it is that he&#8217;s a douche.<\/p>\n<p>1) When he wears a polo shirt, does he pop the collar?<\/p>\n<p>2) Does he spend more time on his hair than you do?<\/p>\n<p>3) When he goes out, does he wear Affliction, Ed Hardy, or similar graphic tees?<\/p>\n<p>4) Does he buy his shirts one size too small, to show off the fact that he works out?<\/p>\n<p>5) Does he use the phrase &#8220;GTL&#8221; (gym, tanning, laundry) in a non-ironic way?<\/p>\n<p>6) If you went with him to Music Fest, did he randomly yell out &#8220;WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!&#8221; for no reason?<\/p>\n<p>7) Has he been in a fight in the past month?<\/p>\n<p>8\u00a0 ) When he wears a baseball cap, does he tilt it at an angle?<\/p>\n<p>9) When you take pics with him, does he make stupid faces and throw hand signs?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still not clear on the concept of &#8220;douche,&#8221; I recommend you spend 15-20 reading posts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hotchickswithdouchebags.com\/\">Hot Chicks with Douchebags<\/a> site.\u00a0 Look at the pics of the guys there.\u00a0 Then look at the guy you&#8217;re considering bringing with you to BBQ Fest and ask yourself honestly, is he a douche?\u00a0 If he is, you&#8217;re going to have a much harder time getting in team booths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of conversations about BBQ Fest and being on a BBQ team this week.\u00a0 A number of females have asked me, &#8220;If the booths are all private parties, how do I get into them?&#8221;\u00a0 Let me give you a best practice: Don&#8217;t bring douche with you. I&#8217;m not referring to Summer&#8217;s Eve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/best-advice-for-ladies-who-want-to-get-in-bbq-fest-team-booths-dont-bring-douche-with-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best advice for ladies who want to get in BBQ Fest team booths: Don&#8217;t bring douche with you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->