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  1. No worries, Kinks, I'm not necessarily a defender of Vegas. It really is the armpit of America. But I have had some pretty wild experiences out there, thanks in no small part to heavy substance abuse.

     

    Vegas is horrible if:

    You're sober.

    You don't gamble.

    You don't have (at least) hundreds of dollars to spend.

    You don't like the fact that the entire city runs on $ (in a much more in-your-face way then any other city on Earth).

    You hate the desert.

    You want to know what time it is.

  2. Naturally, the Bay Area is also on those "Worst areas for traffic" lists.

    I don't doubt it. What cities specifically?

    Jesus, take your pick. Just about any bridge or freeway interchange is horrible up there, and thus, on the list.

    Uhm, not exactly, no. Where are you getting your knowledge of the Bay Area from? Have you ever been here, and if so, in what cities/counties?

    Almost all of them. I've traveled extensively throughout our great state.

     

    I've encountered horrendous traffic on every major bridge. Granted, every area surrounding major thoroughfares is going to get congested during "rush hour" times, but I've sat in some pretty fucked-up traffic at various times throughout the day on many bridges/interchanges. I'm not exaggerating or lying, I've driven from border to border in California. SF, LA, and parts of SD can be traffic hell, and often are.

  3. No, no. Don't take my sweeping generalizations as nothing more than a pathetic attempt at humor. There are definitely some events in the Winter Olympics that I could watch, and perhaps participate in (on a non-Olympic level of course). But without a doubt the Olympics have some rather silly events. And the ice dancers are probably astounding athletes, but I'll be damned if I ever take that "sport" seriously...... Love those outfits though.

  4. Yeah, who the hell is this limey and why is he on my American tv?

     

    Seriously, though, what's the deal with him? I caught a few minutes of one of his shows (on the Travel Channel or TLC I think) and it seemed like the most thinly disguised scam. **A thump is heard in the next room** "Did you hear that?" **Everyone looks terrified** "There is a stong polter-presence here, in this building" **Landlord looks confused** "Actually, it's just the old plumbing." **Derek-what's-his-face, still looking on edge** "....Which is highly condusive to polter activity."

     

    Please tell me he's not popular in the UK.

  5. I think all this refers to something before our time, when JMac had an army of elves working under sweatshop conditions to produce finely hand-crafted t-shirts of Hellblazer images for his lowly subjects on the STH forum. Best not to worry about it.

  6. Curling, it's like shuffle board on ice. 

    Or that bar game with the sawdust and the little steel pucks.

    Shuffleboard (another incarnation of it anyway; there's also the more traditional old fogey on a cruise ship version with long sticks and pyramids of points).

     

    I was going to use curling in my list, but then decided that just about any other "sport" in the Winter Olympics is equally rediculous.

  7. Clearly you've all forgotten that lava trumps all.

     

    And if anyone ever corrects me while I am playing a non-sport sport such as PRS, bowling, pool, darts, shuffleboard, golf, or aything featured in the Winter Olympics, I will kindly lodge my boot up their anal-retentive ass.

  8. Now, to build off of Palmer's story.....

     

    Almost 10 years ago my 3 best friends and I went to Disneyland and took really strong acid.

     

    While standing in a 2-hour line for the Indiana Jones ride our trips were entering their peak. All of a sudden I looked around and noticed that everyone looked really, really strange. Retarded, in fact. Well, they were. Somehow we failed to notice earlier that we were amidst a group of "special" students. We didn't freak out, but we were very, very confused. Was this all a hallucination? Was this really happening? How did we not see these people before?

     

    I also experienced another crazy coincidence while on hallucinogens a few years later. About 10 of us took shrooms. 30 mins later we walked down a hill to a mini-valley that had train tracks running through it (those familiar with the Claremont area of San Diego will know exactly what I'm talking about). Soon, some of the guys started feeling nauseous (a common side effect that comes on when the psychoactive ingredients hit the system). Once one guy threw up the others followed suit. I was the only one who didn't get sick due to my past experience with LSD and shrooms (this was a first time for most of these guys). The funny thing about it all was that I was sitting at the top of the hill looking down at my friends puking, who were all in a line and in alternately facing directions.

    Sort of like this:

    (-

    -)

    (-

    -)

     

    With the - being the direction of puke, and them arranged on the hill from top to bottom.

     

    This alone was a funny and weird enough sight for someone who's just starting to trip, but it was made infinitely better by a train that (seemingly) came out of nowhere and passed by while all the puking was going on.

  9. Naturally, the Bay Area is also on those "Worst areas for traffic" lists.

    I don't doubt it. What cities specifically?

    Jesus, take your pick. Just about any bridge or freeway interchange is horrible up there, and thus, on the list.

     

    San Diego had one on the list as well (I think it was the interchange near Qualcomm Stadium--- the 5/805/8 one...).

     

    So that makes California responsible for half of the top ten list. Anytime our areas are lumped in with Manhatten, you know it's really bad.

  10. That writer just articulated and organized all my thoughts on the show for me. And even though I really think this is what's going on, I still want the show itself to provide some fucking answers for a change. We got more in the last episode than we've gotten in any previous episode and it's still not enough. They better get to it already, 'cause at this rate there's not a chance in hell I'll return for another season.

  11. It sounds like I am going with Vic on this....

     

    Not sure how Vic and the boys will get Lem out of prison before Mitchell gets to him.

    I think the writers/producers definitely force the action with this episode and were desperate to paint Kavanaugh as "the bad guy" and Vic as the "the good guy." Granted, they're both in grey areas, but K's is a little darker at this point.

     

    Somehow, Aceveda will play a part in helping out the Strike Team, whether willingly or not. The fact that he wasn't even in this last episode makes me think his next appearance will be hugely important.

  12. Well, to get back on the subject... I'm gonna get drunk tonight!  :biggrin:  Hell, maybe I even get laid  :rolleyes:  (JOKE, I don't do that)

    Just wondering.... Since you don't like to be touched, how do you..... um, you know....?

     

    Oh, and Van Gogh painted while drunk.... on absinthe. He also cut off his ear and sent it to his brother.

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