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Do you think Eric and Dylan would’ve liked Kill Bill? What about other movies and/or tv shows they didn’t have the chance to watch?

Look at what the handy-dandy E-C Search pulled up for ya. 😉   They weren’t really into tv shows, at least not that they wrote about, but I do recall mentioning that they probably would’ve dug Fight Club in a post.  Plus, probably American Psycho, Final Destination, Ocean’s Eleven, Black Hawk Down, The Mummy, Resident Evil, Matrix Sequels, etc. Just to name a few.

Would Dylan have responded well to his girl’s concerns about his behavior? i.e. smoking, drinking, staying up way too late. I just feel that anyone that cared about him would have pointed out these harmful choices without trying to completely change him as a person. What do you think?

I think it would be all in her subtle approach over a period of time.  Certainly, he would not respond well to his girlfriend constantly lecturing him about the various ways he should make changes to be more healthy.  That would just get on his nerves because it would translate as her loving him conditionally rather than for who he actually is..er, was.  

Whatcha think of Columbine0bsession

There was a lot of drama going down recently with columbune0bsession at the centre of it, what’s your opinion of him?

I’ve been asked this a couple of times now..not sure if you’re the same person?   In any case, we’ve had a few like this one here over the years doing the wannabe-shooter edgelord thing on Tumblr.   But you know, they have a symbiotic relationship with you guys in that they rely on your appalled, negative, berating reaction for the shock value attention. It makes them feel all the more bad ass in the cocky shit they’re saying.  I would not deny that they are troubled, of course, that is obvious. They have even mentioned they have suffering bullying somewhere along the line.  So, broadcasting that they will be the next shooter or that they are doing this for E & D because ‘they are gods’ is a way for them to take back their power and a sense of control in their very powerless personal situation in their everyday life.  In their struggles and frustration they are blowing off steam on their blog.  I recall they mention they don’t have weapons but ‘when I do, I’ll set a date’ type thing. Regardless, of how serious they can make good on their boasts: I feel it is important to reserve being judgmental and see this as an opportunity to help someone who feels so desperate, so disconnected, that they have concluded the only thing left to do is follow in the footsteps of E and D over the cliff with them. So, notch it down – less harshness, less criticism and more compassion.   Because, well, many of us on the tag have been in this dark place in our minds on more than one occasion, haven’t we? 🙂 We have all been there.. we understand it better than anyone else.  Try to approach from walking in their shoes, this one who is in pain right now (and doesn’t even recognize it they are so numbed out) and see it as an opportunity to help rather than to rebuke and ostracize.

If it gets the the point where reporting is necessary to prevent them from harming others and themselves, than we have the means, we can and we will do so if it comes to that time and feels appropriate to do so.  But we should always look at this type of situation as a way to prevent a potential tragedy in the making.  Remember Halifax.  Many of us were devastated by having a very up close and intensely personal experience right in our own TCC backyard just a couple of years back. People knew those three and talked with them regularly on the tag. Everyone knew things about them yet no one knew that they’d taken it beyond just an online game.  James was both loved but also hated..and bullied too on this very tag and by the very people that feel badly for the bullying E & D endured.  Always, always keep that in mind. We feel for Eric and Dylan because we see them in ourselves. Anyone of us could be that it we gave in to it.   If you resonate with The Boys then stand beside one that aspires to be them in the lowest point of their life when nothing else matters but dying and death as a way to be heard.  Be that sort of impartial, gentle support that those two needed (and didn’t have) for others like them. We are all connected here in the very subject that has brought us all together on the tag. All connected not separate. And because of that, we are able to join forces to help one another out through our darkest times.  And, I’m not suggesting here that we can change everyones’ mind but we can certainly be there to be neutrally compassionate rather than harass and bully them more. Generally, if you make them feel more like shit, than they already do, they will feel even more justified in their conviction to shit on humanity.   I really liked the wisdom within two of @naturalselection89 posts from yesterday. They get it. 🙂  See here and here.

I think that they had “good luck” planting the bombs at the cafeteria, like any of their friends spotted them or said “Hi” to them. I image Dylan being so nervous if someone said “what’s in your bag?”

They had a lot of good luck leading up to…that is, until the bombs didn’t blow. Even still, in many ways they are lucky that were allowed to have roamed the school for as long as they did and that the authorities didn’t charge in, catching them off guard and taking them into custody.  It was a failed bombing but they still had just enough luck on their side do as they pleased and go out having the last word. 

Also, I’m sure the two practiced what they would say in case one of their classmates asked them what was in their gym bag.  I think they were reasonably prepared for ‘what if this happens; here is what I’ll say’ type scenarios. They probably had a good time mock rehearsing them too.  Of the two, I honestly think Eric would be more nervous than Dylan about being asked.

Why was Dylan called quacker?

It seems like Devon tended to gift names of endearment that fit her friends personalities. Her guy, Zack, was Bear and Dylan was Quacker.  We can only speculate why she dubbed Dylan this goofy nick.  It comes across painting him as that demented, wacky-bonkers dude that possibly does a mean Donald Duck impression. 

Just look at these multiple, potential possibilities… 😉

Cracker –

•

a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information a cracker who had broken into the intelligence agency’s database attempted to leak the classified  hacker, cyberpunk  
( good possibility here 😉 )

•

 A term in Southeastern United States English to describe poor white trash, derived from the Scottish meaning of the verb “to crack,” which, in this sense denotes ostentation.
 
Crackers – 

•  having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind
“prisoners in that hellhole either died of disease or went crackers”
 Crazy, coo-coo, lunatic, crazy, nutty, loony, wacky, kooky, twisted, demented, deranged   (good possibility here given his sense of humor ;))

Quacker – 

  
 •

A person who or thing which makes a quacking sound, especially a duck.

(good possibility here ;))

• a white person who has no idea whats going on around him. associated with Cracker but not the same meaning.

•  When a person laid a loud fart sounding like a duckI  heard someone laid the biggest quacker   omg lol

Quack –

•

A fraudulent charlatan such as a phony medical doctor.  A scam-artist. A person who makes up bullshit medical products or advice or prescriptions that don’t work. A snake oil salesman.

And then there’s this

pièce de ré·sis·tance… 😉

Quackers – (Plural)

•

A fantasy prone mid teen to late 40 year old guy that wears flip flops, big dog t-shirts, sports a ponytail, and is more than likely to be overweight.

The name is derived from the duck like sound emitted from the voice box of this particular form of life.

Almost every single Quacker is into the fantasy tabletop game Warhammer, and recently Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning.

“I wanna kill me some Elves! QUAAAAAACK!”

Any sane man would respond, “I believe we have entered a pond my friend, because of all these damn quackers!”


Although, Dylan does not mention playing Warhammer specifically in his list of game likes. We know that he did play card games with TCM members and associates and probably at various times, joined in on playing games like Magic, D&D and fantasy tabletop games such as or like Warhammer.  This exact, specific geeky nick is a remote possibility that Devon would affectionately name him after that. More like something Zack might call him – so I find it doubtful though amusing.  Interesting stumbling on this nerdy term that I hadn’t heard of before. 

And the answer is.. we still have no clue why Devon affectionately called Dyl that..but based some of the above, we have a hint of an idea. 😉

Maybe no one recognized Eric in the crowd when they planted the bombs but I find it really weird how no one recognized Dylan, especially because he was huge. ‘Normal’ clothes or not someone who is 6’3 is way easier to spot than lil old Eric, imo…

Eh, except for that fact that Brooks was 6’5, Chris was around 6′3-6′4ish,
Zach was 6’2 , Nate was 6’2 and plenty of the jocks were tall too?   Dylan was not the only tall guy in the school. There were plenty of other peers that were around his height so that wouldn’t at all necessarily make him stand out.  There goes yet another tall, skinny guy lugging his back pack over one arm and a class project Adidas gym bag over his other arm meandering toward a cafeteria table and dressed in an unassuming plaid shirt and backward ballgame and bedhead hair..what’s to notice?  Business as usual.  The dudes were careful to look pretty unassuming before they went back to their car for the final ‘gear up’ in full combat uniform.

I feel like Dyl would’ve nope’d out of advanced calc a lot, especially because it was right after 6-7 am bowling x.x do you think he cut calculus class a lot?

No, I don’t think he cut AP calc all that much..more like he fell asleep and Robyn would have to nudge him to wake him up or else, the teacher would bust him. lol   But yeah, not the best timing for such a dry, hardcore math class given that he went to bed late and had to get up at 4:30-5 am, throw on some clothes and zoom off to to 6 am bowling class. By 2nd period, he just started to tank. lol  Anyone would – though, he certainly could’ve managed better by not getting to bed so damn late.

It’s so hard to believe that absolutely no one saw E or D planting bombs at the cafeteria, I mean at least someone should have seen them (not the bombs ofc). When the cafeteria students looked through the windows or when they saw the attackers on TV, it’s impossible that no one recall seeing them briefly at the cafeteria that morning…

No, because the two were wearing average clothes that blended in with every other student inside and outside the cafeteria. Lots of kids hauled big backpacks and bags and they were banking on acting as though they were hauling around a class project (haha) in their duffel bags which the two referred to as their ‘Bags of Terrorism’. There is no 11K account of students seeing them enter with their bags and planting the bombs.  Ironically, only 2 or 3 students mentioned in retrospect that they recalled seeing huge gym bags on the ground during the lunch hour. I tend to recall one said that a few students tried to push one out of the way a bit with their feet (yikes!)  But, yeah, students hauling around big ass bags or stuffed backpacks sitting on the floor of the cafeteria – all fairly unassuming normal stuff to see on your average day at CHS.

Were E & D aware of the video cameras of CHS the day of the massacre?? It would be so creepy if someone made eye contact at the surveillance tapes…

They were aware of it but too preoccupied to spend time gesturing and mocking the cameras.  The reality is that NBK went fast and didn’t go down the way they planned. They were swept up in the midst of it when everything went down really quick quite differently than they imagined. So, if they thought about walking up to a camera and sticking their middle finger up at the lens and all other ‘cool’ things they fantasized about doing while having ‘godlike’ dominion over their school, that is not how cold, hard reality turned out.  They could’ve made eye contact with the cameras but none of the footage that has been released show as such – assuming that is all the footage there actually was. So, no, the boys pretty much ignored the cameras up-off at a distance while going about their business.

The guys were too involved in films/video/tapes/etc & it was 1999 (unusual to use technology) do you think they though about filming the events of 4/20?? They made lots of video evidence..

Well, technology was not that unusual at the time. lol  It was just lower tech than what we have now but back in the day, it was considered quite ‘high tech’ by nineties standards. I’m sure the boys might’ve given it a moments consideration to capture NBK on video but ultimately,  tossed the idea,  since it’d be a lot of work trying to video tape NBK themselves and carry out the massacre.  Planning and executing the massacre was intense enough as it was and they had to worry about setting those bombs, gearing up and getting back by the right time and stupid shit like carrying their heavy ammo bag around with them to reload their weapons every few minutes. They also pretty much held a weapon in each hand when not slung on their belts.. Not handy to be whipping out a video camera to switch taping one another. or positioning a camera somewhere which might not even be level enough to catch anything.  All of that would just slow them down and they had a schedule to keep before the authorities were alerted and were on the way to the school.  Plus, remember, this was supposed to be a bombing not a school shooting.  The two were aware that the school had all of about six cameras in the school, most of which were positioned in the cafeteria. I’m sure they figured that those would get blown to bits along with everything else when the propane bombs blew.  And lastly, they honestly didn’t have multiple video cameras.  They stole borrowed the school property camcorder and when they went to Rampart Range they used someone else’s camera to shoot part of that.  So, no, not enough tech resources, time or easy logistics to film the event.  The Basement Tapes were supposed to serve the purpose of demonstrating their very planned and calculated evidence “before” their surprise attack.