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« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2015, 08:52:40 PM »


Obviously my vicious racism against the Indian people has spread to my taste buds. 
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« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2015, 08:54:45 PM »

Crossing the San Gabriel Mountains. These mountains were so difficult to pass through in the old days that California considered splitting in two states.


This looks like a place where Grumps would have grown up:
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« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2015, 11:29:05 PM »

I'm here. Wow that's a lot of suburbs. So that's where all the people who left L.A. because of high rent went. There are so many advertisements of female strippers, this place is so decadent, I should have stayed on the 15 and gone to Salt Lake City. I enter the hotel and immediately encounter the cigarette + old people Vegas smell. I'll start practicing blackjack on my phone for a bit...
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« Reply #28 on: February 27, 2015, 09:15:53 AM »

I guess it's time to start writing Joe's eulogy Sad
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« Reply #29 on: February 27, 2015, 09:27:37 AM »

Maybe this is the sleep deprivation in me talking, but "you're completely unattractive to me, maybe we could register voters together" is either the best let-down line or the worst pick-up line I've ever heard.
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« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2015, 09:58:26 AM »


This looks like a place where Grumps would have grown up:


Nah.  Grumps is from the lush, wet, snowy mountains on the other side of the continent.  His neighbor was Loretta Lynn when he was growing up.
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« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2015, 11:37:45 AM »


This looks like a place where Grumps would have grown up:


Nah.  Grumps is from the lush, wet, snowy mountains on the other side of the continent.  His neighbor was Loretta Lynn when he was growing up.


Ah, i knew it was somehow related to trailers.
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« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2015, 04:51:07 PM »

Currently all by myself in the hotel room since the hockey game was early and i was sleep deprived from too many sugary pancakes. Strange memories on this nervous afternoon in Las Vegas. Six years later? Seven? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. The 2008 Presidential  election was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.…

History is hard to know, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I stopped watching a primary half-crazy and, instead of going to sleep, went on the Atlas Forum, not quite sure which subforum to visit but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that…

There was madness in any primary and every poll, at any hour. If not on the Atlas Forum, then on cable news or the Huffington Post. Obamamania was everywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than seven years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look east to when the suburbs end, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the Democratic wave finally broke and rolled back.
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« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2015, 05:35:16 PM »

This is turning more into Lost in Translation than Fear and Loathing.
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« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2015, 05:47:39 PM »

Joe Republic I should be near the Tropicana buffet and the Mandalay Bay Aquarium this evening if you'd like to meet up.
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« Reply #35 on: February 27, 2015, 05:58:07 PM »

Please follow the script, Retro, and do what we are expecting of you. I urge you to.
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« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2015, 06:06:51 PM »
« Edited: February 27, 2015, 06:09:35 PM by Torie »

A photographic "art study" of where the unendurably hideous sprawl foisted upon this planet by our species that is the Vegas conurbation begins on its NW side. Want to make Vegas a bit less of a tortious assault to each and every aesthetic sense that humans possess? Photoshop it!



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« Reply #37 on: February 27, 2015, 06:07:53 PM »

Please follow the script, Retro, and do what we are expecting of you. I urge you to.

Is this a death threat?
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« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2015, 06:19:31 PM »

Please follow the script, Retro, and do what we are expecting of you. I urge you to.

Is this a death threat?


...how is that in any way a threat? What?!

This is serious- people have been banned for this very thing. How on Earth can that be considered a threat?!?!
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« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2015, 06:23:06 PM »

Please follow the script, Retro, and do what we are expecting of you. I urge you to.

Is this a death threat?


...how is that in any way a threat? What?!

This is serious- people have been banned for this very thing. How on Earth can that be considered a threat?!?!

I interpreted it as he's expecting me to kidnap Joe Republic.
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« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2015, 06:28:22 PM »

Please follow the script, Retro, and do what we are expecting of you. I urge you to.

Is this a death threat?


...how is that in any way a threat? What?!

This is serious- people have been banned for this very thing. How on Earth can that be considered a threat?!?!

What do you think most people are expecting, given retromike's.. err. reputation?
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« Reply #41 on: February 27, 2015, 07:03:20 PM »

What do you think most people are expecting, given retromike's.. err. reputation?

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« Reply #42 on: February 27, 2015, 08:30:46 PM »

Waiting for the hockey game to start. Damn it's cold. I wish my best friend liked baseball but no he had to like this. I'm actually messaging this from the locker room, which smells terrible. It reminds me of high school P.E. except we're not preparing for a mosh pit.

The crowd is about 20 people, and they're all the girlfriends or female family members. And me.

Earlier i went to the mob museum which was pretty fun:

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« Reply #43 on: February 27, 2015, 10:45:17 PM »

They lost, 6-5. A good game, I suppose. I may hit a buffet soon for more gluttony. I really overdosed on the bacon yesterday Smiley I'm starting to wonder if Bushie is the Oklahoma version of me, i can sympathize with the gluttonous. I pm'ed Joe, but unfortunately he has plans. However, I found these in the mob museum gift shop, I can use them for later.

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« Reply #44 on: February 28, 2015, 02:20:04 AM »

I'm walking down the Strip and a few scantily clad young women tried to come on to me! It was so scary Sad Should I call 9-1-1?
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« Reply #45 on: February 28, 2015, 06:29:24 AM »
« Edited: February 28, 2015, 06:35:43 AM by retromike22 »

Finally back at the hotel at 3:15. Had a burger at Luxor, then walked from casino to casino until we hit the stratosphere. Played some blackjack, in total i probably averaged out :/ A very uncomfortable juxtaposition of rich and poor, as the rich walked past the homeless and buskers on the walkways. The further north we traveled the ghettoer it became. A few drunks as well, which was half comical and half concerning to watch. Where are all the police? There's no management of this chaos. Las Vegas is like Back to the Future Alternate 1985 when Biff wins big. I don't think I like this city of gambling, smoking, drinking, and clubbing. Am I really that square? Huey Lewis has my back. But I do enjoy the food.
 
Once back at the hotel, I gluttonized further, with a chocolate cake (not a piece, I mean ONE chocolate cake) and chocolate milk. Oh and I found my kind of game:

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« Reply #46 on: February 28, 2015, 11:50:26 AM »
« Edited: February 28, 2015, 12:10:30 PM by RR1997 »

#prayforJoe


Obviously my vicious racism against the Indian people has spread to my taste buds.  

High-five. I'm Indian and I absolutely dislike Indian food a lot. Indian food is disgusting. There's a lot of reasons why I should be proud to be of Indian descent, but the food is not one of them. I don't see why white people (or people in general) like that crap. I'm tired of white people telling me that they love Indian food. Pfft...white people nowadays. Tongue

Luckily all my white friends (almost all my main friends are white) dislike Indian food too, so that's a sign that I hang out with good people. Smiley

Edit: There are some dishes I like (such as the roti and the samosa ), but most of it is terrible.
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« Reply #47 on: February 28, 2015, 11:55:52 AM »

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« Reply #48 on: February 28, 2015, 02:07:02 PM »

Oh god, you kept heading north after the Stratosphere?  You poor bastard.
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« Reply #49 on: February 28, 2015, 07:23:07 PM »


I sat on a bus next to an Indian dude who wouldn't eat any meat except veal.  It was a hell of a long trip.  Cleveland to Fort Worth.  Nearly 24 hours.  This guy wouldn't eat a steak or a pork chop or a lamb shank, but he'd eat veal.  Seriously, veal. 

I'm assuming that RR1997 is Dravidian.  About 30 percent of the folks from the indian subcontinent are Dravidian.  They are the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, for example, and the Telugu-speaking people of the South.  They may not like to think of themselves as "white" the way the Hindi and the Bengali and other Indo-Europeans of Northern India do.  Actually, in US, UK, and German atlases they do not show up as Aryan, so it's not necessarily an Indian thing.  Clearly, the Europeans historically don't consider Dravidians "white" either.  Why any of them wouldn't like Northern Indian cuisine I can't imagine.  Maybe RR1997 is just radically anti-Aryan.  Like, I don't like the Hindustani people of Northern India or the Marathi of Goa, therefore I don't like Saag Paneer or Chicken Vindaloo. 

There may also be some animosity.  I know many people from Nanjing.  Most of them who are over 40 won't have anything to do with Nikon, Toyota, or Mitsubishi.  Nevermind that a good camera is a good camera, or a good car is a good car, or a good stereo is a good stereo.  All they can think about is the Rape of Nanjing.  To be sure it was horrific.  Probably the most horrible acts of Man's inhumanity toward Man that had ever occurred to that point.  When they found out that Obama refused to visit Hiroshima they applauded.  That, I can understand.  The reluctance not to even test drive a Toyota I cannot.  Well, I can sort of.  Old prejudices die hard.  I also know a filipino girl who won't eat anything except Chef-Boy-R-Dee Ravioli in a can.  She wants so badly to be "American" and to be accepted by all her American friends that she turns down the savory and hard-prepared meals her mother gives her in favor of partially-hydrogenated cottonseed oil posing as cheese. 

Of course Hockeydude is just being Hockeydude.  He's not bigoted toward Indians of any stripe.  He has deeply-entrenched bigotries, but they include only Republicans and anyone who believes in any religion or gods.  Hindus may be collateral damage, but they aren't the primary target of his anti-religious bigotries, Christians are.   If he genuinely doesn't like Indian food I can only assume that he has some DNA damage, a conclusion that is supported by several other lines of evidence.
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