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  • UsagiUsagi Got catz in my zone Ca-catz in my zoneRegistered User regular
    he probably doesn't like kitties either, Swill

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  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    Swill wrote: »
    I did drink pbr while I did that!

    Portland's Best Reserve bro

    also if you talking shit about portland, you got a beef with me personally

    You live in Portland! There's more microbreweries per capita than any other city in the world!

    Stop drinking shit.

  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    I am literally crying in anger right now

    I quickly ran my two kitties to my kitten bomb shelter

    I don't like them to see me angry

    edit: yo narbus! how it do man. a man who comes to the defense of portland is alright with me, sorry I brought shame but it was all that was in my fridge!!!!

  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    Well, fuckin' call me. I'll put good things in your fridge*


    *that's code for butt

  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    i'll stop drinking...

    ...swill

  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
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    Hashima Island

    Is that the DLC map for Modern Warfare 2? Pretty derivative.

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  • FishmanFishman scientia potentia est Robot ProvocateurRegistered User regular
    Let's see, I lived in Antigua Guatemala for a few months. It was pretty awesome.

    One of my favourite places I've been would have to be Český Krumlov. Stayed there for a few days when backpacking Europe back in 2001.

    More recently, I also visited Himeji, which is damned neat.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    portland is great if you like paying ridiculous amounts to live with a bunch of hipsters

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  • KoshianKoshian __BANNED USERS
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    portland is great if you like paying ridiculous amounts to live with a bunch of hipsters

    sounds awesome

  • vermiculturevermiculture Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    portland is great if you like paying ridiculous amounts to live with a bunch of hipsters

    maan I dont know what youre talking about. Portland was the cheapest city I've ever lived in and I would go back in a heartbeat even if it meant living with the tightest of the tight pants

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    also. Pumapunku is awesome

    so is machu picchu

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    hawthorne is basically the only hipster area

    if you get out of that district it is not so bad at all

  • simosimo Registered User regular
    italy is pretty much my favorite place

    the best places are siena (especially during palio) and valle d'aosta and parma

    the worst place is naples

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  • FishmanFishman scientia potentia est Robot ProvocateurRegistered User regular
    I think my favourite places in Italy were the Amalfi Coast, Florence and Rome. Florence for the art, Rome for the fact you can be standing on a street corner with gelato-sticky fingers and wonder what you're going to do about it when you here the sound of one of the public aquaduct-fed fountains behind you.

    Ancient rome had public works like woah.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    i tend to like the places that are less touristy, but florence and rome are certainly both amazing

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  • Brodo FagginsBrodo Faggins Registered User regular
    I like Hawaii simply because on certain parts of Oahu, you can snowboard and surf in the same day.

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  • KoshianKoshian __BANNED USERS
    maui is a really gorgeous place

    the parts that aren't covered in rental mustangs and golf courses anyway

  • DruhimDruhim Usagi's cuddlefish Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Maui can be nice for a week or two, but after that I'm itching to get back to civilization where every place I go for dinner doesn't have some hack playing his version of a Jimmy Buffett song. It really gets boring for me after that because there's not really much cultural diversity there.

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  • FishmanFishman scientia potentia est Robot ProvocateurRegistered User regular
    I went to big island instead; the water might be slightly less, but the real draw was volcanos and astronomy.

    Hell, if I want beaches and surfing, I'd go to Fiji, Raro, Tahiti or Aussie ahead of Hawai'i.

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Registered User regular
    There are huge parts of Florance/Rome that are not touristy, or at least not gone to. Trastevere or that area east of the train station come to mind.

    Both are worth wandering through in a tourism season.

  • simosimo Registered User regular
    oh definitely

    i spent more than a month in florence and know and love a lot of the less touristy areas, especially in the northern part of the city

    i'm a lot less familiar with rome

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  • FishmanFishman scientia potentia est Robot ProvocateurRegistered User regular
    Florence story time:

    So one night when I was in Florence, eating pasta in some restaurant not far from the Piazza della signora, when I heard a loud bang. Not quite sure what was going on, I continued my meal, even as the retort was repeated several times; I declined dessert and made my way to the streets.

    There I found a parade - a parade for all intents and purposes, of historical recreationists. Except not.

    Historical recreationists in the colonies might be some kind of sad LARP thing, but here were hundreds of italian towns folk, dressed up in the traditional dress and colours of the towns of Tuscany - Siena, Pisa, etc. They marched to the square, where they engaged in what can only be described as a show of peroquial pride, armed with renaissance polearms and the like. There, they began a series of what I can only presume was a traditional contest between the various towns of the region in ancient sports, held late into the evening as I watched, perched on the stone next to Cellini's Perseus.

    Also, it turns out he bang I heard was from the cannon that several towns brought with them. They liked to fire it if they won something.

    The whole thing was pretty surreal, but cool.

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  • LoathingLoathing Registered User
    Garthor wrote: »
    bombardier wrote: »
    Canadian Forces Station Alert. It's the northernmost permanantly inhabited place on Earth. My godmother's husband was stationed there for a 6 month stint in the 90s I think. From what I heard, it's basically one big beard growing competition. The olympic torch for Vancouver passed through there!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Alert

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    Wikipedia wrote:
    Alert has a polar climate. This means it is very cold and, on average, has snow cover for 10 months of the year.

    I've been stationed there before.

    I had to make up for my lack of beard growing skills, with liquor consumption skills.

    gnodab wrote: »
    There is nothing quite like smashing a bullhorn so hard in the ass with a supersledge that its head explodes.
  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    Florence story time:

    So one night when I was in Florence, eating pasta in some restaurant not far from the Piazza della signora, when I heard a loud bang. Not quite sure what was going on, I continued my meal, even as the retort was repeated several times; I declined dessert and made my way to the streets.

    There I found a parade - a parade for all intents and purposes, of historical recreationists. Except not.

    Historical recreationists in the colonies might be some kind of sad LARP thing, but here were hundreds of italian towns folk, dressed up in the traditional dress and colours of the towns of Tuscany - Siena, Pisa, etc. They marched to the square, where they engaged in what can only be described as a show of peroquial pride, armed with renaissance polearms and the like. There, they began a series of what I can only presume was a traditional contest between the various towns of the region in ancient sports, held late into the evening as I watched, perched on the stone next to Cellini's Perseus.

    Also, it turns out he bang I heard was from the cannon that several towns brought with them. They liked to fire it if they won something.

    The whole thing was pretty surreal, but cool.

    Heh, i was once in the piazza de signoria for what i thought was a historic concert, only to then see a bunch of japanese models dressed in what i could only call E3 model outfits. They had closed off the entire plaza for a video game PR stunt involving fortza i think. Italy can be such a duel personality, but seeing all that high tech gear in the open in that part of town was really surreal. People everywhere, tourists mostly, all playing video games on HD tvs, outdoors in florance.

  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Registered User regular
    Man i wish i had a house outside of that nutty place.

  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    When I was in Florence, I would run into this same pot dealer every day who looked like a gutter punk on a bicycle. I would always have to tell him no thanks. Then on the day I went to do my laundry, I was wearing a shirt for the movie Zombie, and he flagged me down and gave me free pot and told me I should come to his apartment to watch Fulci movies. I declined, telling him I still had laundry to do.

    Later that night, I got destroyed on a really terrible high gravity beer in a bar full of Germans, and a girl had to physically stop me from urinating on the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and going to jail/Hell forever.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    Mackinac Island is nifty
    Motorized vehicles have been prohibited on the island since 1898, with the exception of snowmobiles during winter, emergency vehicles, and service vehicles. Travel on the island is either by foot, bicycle, or horse-drawn carriage. Roller skates and roller blades are also allowed, except in the downtown area. Bicycles, roller skates/roller blades, carriages, and saddle horses are available for rent. An 8-mile (13 km) road follows the island's perimeter, and numerous roads, trails and paths cover the interior. The road encircling the island and closely hugging the shoreline is M-185, the United States' only state highway without motorized vehicles.


    I love you, Usagi! Come, let us kiss with tongue.

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    P.S. the searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind her:
    Spoiler:

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • tastypastrytastypastry Registered User regular
    I like Hawaii simply because on certain parts of Oahu, you can snowboard and surf in the same day.

    Don't you mean Hawaii (the big island)? You can snowboard on Mauna Kea but I don't think there is anything like that on Oahu. -My parents lived there for a couple of years until last year.

  • UsagiUsagi Got catz in my zone Ca-catz in my zoneRegistered User regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    Mackinac Island is nifty
    Motorized vehicles have been prohibited on the island since 1898, with the exception of snowmobiles during winter, emergency vehicles, and service vehicles. Travel on the island is either by foot, bicycle, or horse-drawn carriage. Roller skates and roller blades are also allowed, except in the downtown area. Bicycles, roller skates/roller blades, carriages, and saddle horses are available for rent. An 8-mile (13 km) road follows the island's perimeter, and numerous roads, trails and paths cover the interior. The road encircling the island and closely hugging the shoreline is M-185, the United States' only state highway without motorized vehicles.


    I love you, Usagi! Come, let us kiss with tongue.

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    P.S. the searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind her:
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    tongue kissing and Tahquamenon Falls? woo hoo!

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT TONGUE KISSING

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  • UsagiUsagi Got catz in my zone Ca-catz in my zoneRegistered User regular
    there's a Michigan trivia quiz in order to qualify for tongue kissing, Pip

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    hmm

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    Usagi wrote: »
    there's a Michigan trivia quiz in order to qualify for tongue kissing, Pip

    I have listened to Sufjan Stevens's Greetings from Michigan at least once

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  • DruhimDruhim Usagi's cuddlefish Registered User, ClubPA regular
    well I at least know what wreck Salient is referencing
    is that good enough?

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  • UsagiUsagi Got catz in my zone Ca-catz in my zoneRegistered User regular
    Druhim wrote: »
    well I at least know what wreck Salient is referencing
    is that good enough?

    :winky:

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    L|ama wrote: »
    Swill wrote: »
    portland owns, end of story

    *sips PBR, adjusts nuts in jeans to re-establish circulation*

    fiordland in new zealand is a pretty cool place, especially milford sound

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    Man Milford Sound looks amazing. Last time I was in the area it was winter and we only went skiing, but I want to go back in the summer and take one of them boat cruises that go up into the sound... are they any good?

  • FearghaillFearghaill TEAM NICKRegistered User regular
    L|ama wrote: »
    Swill wrote: »
    portland owns, end of story

    *sips PBR, adjusts nuts in jeans to re-establish circulation*

    fiordland in new zealand is a pretty cool place, especially milford sound

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    Man Milford Sound looks amazing. Last time I was in the area it was winter and we only went skiing, but I want to go back in the summer and take one of them boat cruises that go up into the sound... are they any good?

    I was there in the summer, pretty much exactly a year ago. It was one of the most amazingly beautiful places I've been on a trip full of beautiful places. It was also very wet. Don't let Llama's pictures fool you, it rains more often than not there.

    Dammit I want to go back to New Zealand. Permanently. What's immigration like/how's the IT industry there?

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    there's a Michigan trivia quiz in order to qualify for tongue kissing, Pip

    The only questions on it are, "29, or two for fifty?" and "What's a paczke?"

    Of course, I personally am also willing to accept the lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and/or any song by Bob Seger as extra credit.

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    there's a Michigan trivia quiz in order to qualify for tongue kissing, Pip

    The only questions on it are, "29, or two for fifty?" and "What's a paczke?"

    Of course, I personally am also willing to accept the lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and/or any song by Bob Seger as extra credit.

    longest test devised by man

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  • UsagiUsagi Got catz in my zone Ca-catz in my zoneRegistered User regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    there's a Michigan trivia quiz in order to qualify for tongue kissing, Pip

    The only questions on it are, "29, or two for fifty?" and "What's a paczke?"

    Of course, I personally am also willing to accept the lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and/or any song by Bob Seger as extra credit.

    Also, "how do you pronounce Mackinac?"

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