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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #100 on: 16 Jul 2010, 23:51 »

I'll be seeing you in New York, but if you head down to DC afterwards I'll be in that area too, we might be able to do like a group meetup at the zoo! because in my opinion the zoo is the main reason D.C. exists (what? culture, history, seat of national govt? bah). Zoo is free and awesome and full of good things. Expensive food and souvenirs but hey. Also Generous George's Positive Pizza is in Alexandria.
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« Reply #101 on: 20 Jul 2010, 12:11 »

Holy hell everyone, I am in New York, holy hell.

(actually it is Hoboken right now, but Hoboken is pretty nice anyway)

Posting this from a Starbucks on Hoboken's main street. I got into New York at about 7pm last night and caught the Manhattan Express bus to Port Authority, and from there (with the help of an entrepreneurial gentleman who made sure we got our tickets and knew where to go, for the low low price of $2 each) caught the bus out to my uncle's place in Union City, NJ. My uncle is an 80-something year-old renaissance man who produced, directed and presented television for decades, knew Frank Sinatra and Alfred Hitchcock (among others, I'm sure) and lives in an indescribably beautiful four-storey walk-up smack bang on the Hudson. Out of his back window is the stereotypical postcard view of the NY skyline. Today we drove around NJ, taking in Union City, Hoboken, Secaucus and probably a few other towns. It's kind of hard to tell when you leave one town and enter the next around here. I also had my first Wal-Mart experience. Obviously stuff like this is positively mundane for the majority of you guys, but back in Perth there is literally nothing at all like Wal-Mart. It was pretty overwhelming, and the idea that you could literally fill your entire life with things entirely from Wal-Mart, that if you chose to do so, you would never have to go anywhere else for any material possession (except for house and car, I guess) is more than a little terrifying. In fact, there is a lot about my U.S. experience so far that has been kind of terrifying, or at least awe-inspiring. In a lot of ways, America is just as alien to me as Japan.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #102 on: 20 Jul 2010, 14:06 »

Actually I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart sells cars. And possibly even trailer park homes.
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« Reply #103 on: 20 Jul 2010, 14:19 »

I'm pretty sure they don't, sadly. Actually, not so sadly, as it is probably better for everyone that we don't see thousands of Chinese slave-labor made cars on the streets.

I was serious about showing you two around when you get to Colorado, although, like I said, I don't have an available couch.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #104 on: 20 Jul 2010, 22:30 »

Oh god, Dovey, I know that Wal-Mart feeling so well! You should've seen the European and Australian part of the Camp Edith gang last summer, I'm sure the Americans who saw us found us very amusing.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #105 on: 21 Jul 2010, 02:29 »

I seem to remember Liz and Eed had to go round picking jaws up off the floor.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #106 on: 21 Jul 2010, 07:36 »

Jens was taking pictures of the outside and the inside. I remember stepping through the doors and everyone was all "OMGGGGGGGGGGG"

Then we bought candy and booze. Oh Wal-Mart.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #107 on: 21 Jul 2010, 09:39 »

Jodie bought all the pop tarts

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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #108 on: 21 Jul 2010, 11:05 »

Oh man I want pop tarts now.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #109 on: 21 Jul 2010, 11:22 »

You can buy booze at Walmart?

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« Reply #110 on: 21 Jul 2010, 11:24 »

Only some of them, state laws get weird. I think they can do beer/wine in MD but not liquor because that is state-controlled and only sold at county stores.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #111 on: 21 Jul 2010, 11:31 »

Yeah, in NY it is Beer only. They could technically carry wine, but you have to close by a certain time to carry it. Actual liquor is dedicated stores only.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #112 on: 21 Jul 2010, 11:55 »

You can buy booze at Walmart?

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You can buy any kind of booze in any supermarket in the UK.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #113 on: 21 Jul 2010, 13:18 »

They had all kinds at the one we went to, so apparently Indiana wants their people to get drunk. North Dakota and Minnesota cannot sell any alcohol IN the store, but there is a Wal-Mart just across the river in Minnesota that has a liquor store attached, with a separate entrance.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #114 on: 22 Jul 2010, 04:39 »

The one we went to in California had a piercing parlour in the Walmart
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #115 on: 22 Jul 2010, 04:53 »

Jodie bought all the pop tarts

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First things I bought in America: Bus tickets, sweet iced tea, Brown Sugar + Cinammon Pop Tarts, Honeycombs cereal
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #116 on: 22 Jul 2010, 05:19 »

I love how foreigners first goal in America is to make a bee line for diabetes.
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« Reply #117 on: 22 Jul 2010, 05:31 »

When in Rome . . .
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #118 on: 22 Jul 2010, 06:28 »

Eight bucks?? Arizona tea is 99 CENTS here
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #119 on: 22 Jul 2010, 06:54 »

I love how foreigners first goal in America is to make a bee line for diabetes.

this is actually eerily accurate, canada isn't even that much different from america and yet even i did this immediately upon arriving in chicago this year. it's like a switch flips in your head or something.

pretzel m&ms? whatever this pink stuff is that is apparently only 99 cents for a two litre bottle? YES PLEASE
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #120 on: 22 Jul 2010, 07:25 »

Eight bucks?? Arizona tea is 99 CENTS here

Jens said "bottle" so I can only hope he means the gallon containers which are still only $3 here.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #121 on: 22 Jul 2010, 07:36 »

Hmmm... First thing I ate when I came home after living abroad for several years was an Arby's giant roast beef sandwich.    Then I got sick.

To each his own, I guess.   (I don't really have much of a sweet tooth)
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #122 on: 22 Jul 2010, 08:01 »

eight bucks for ariZona is highway robbery
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #123 on: 22 Jul 2010, 08:02 »

Scarred do you seriously capitalize the z in Arizona iced tea?

I'm not holding Jens responsible 'cause he's a Norwegian talking about a local American product but dude what?
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« Reply #124 on: 22 Jul 2010, 08:40 »

When in Rome . . .

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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #125 on: 22 Jul 2010, 08:54 »

Scarred do you seriously capitalize the z in Arizona iced tea?

I'm not holding Jens responsible 'cause he's a Norwegian talking about a local American product but dude what?

Read their website - it's AriZona, AZ for short.
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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #126 on: 22 Jul 2010, 09:04 »

If your buddy from Brooklyn is asking you for one, it's "Yo man, let me have a 'Zona!"
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« Reply #127 on: 22 Jul 2010, 22:57 »

Scarred do you seriously capitalize the z in Arizona iced tea?

I'm not holding Jens responsible 'cause he's a Norwegian talking about a local American product but dude what?

Read their website - it's AriZona, AZ for short.

Yes, I know how they market it.

But when was the last time you spilled a glass of water and asked someone to pass you Bounty The Quicker Picker Upper?
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« Reply #128 on: 22 Jul 2010, 23:52 »

hEy MaN dOn'T fLiP a BiTcH
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« Reply #129 on: 23 Jul 2010, 11:33 »

If you've ever had iced tea from Arizona you would not hesitate to differentiate either.
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« Reply #130 on: 23 Jul 2010, 12:06 »

I have and I honestly prefer the stuff made somewhere in the state of Arizona to the brand-name stuff
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« Reply #131 on: 24 Jul 2010, 14:04 »

I love how foreigners first goal in America is to make a bee line for diabetes.

Sigquoted. This has kind of become the catchphrase for our trip Stephen, thank you!

I have not decided what is my favourite soda yet, but the whole high-fructose corn syrup thing doesn't make as big of a difference as I thought it would, so that is cool. I have not had AriZona yet though! That is next I guess.

Anyway the other day we also walked around the Sam's Club in a more thorough manner. For the other foreigners or whatever, Sam's Club is a place that is owned by WalMart, except that they specialise in bulk products, like 5 gallon tubs of pancake mix or boxes of 36 corn-dogs or 1000 zip-loc bags or a year's supply of adult diapers. You can also buy Dom Perignon and engagement rings there, for some reason.
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« Reply #132 on: 24 Jul 2010, 14:10 »

Shit! I gotta marry like 12 bitches in half an hour, where can I find rings?!

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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #133 on: 26 Jul 2010, 05:52 »

Dovey, did I already miss your trek to DC?  I am still in summer vacation and looking for Things to Do, and I'd be happy to help show you around the city, to the extent I can.

Only some of them, state laws get weird. I think they can do beer/wine in MD but not liquor because that is state-controlled and only sold at county stores.

Wait, I thought MD's booze laws were by county?  I know up here in Howard you can only buy things at liquor stores, except for some gas stations and the like selling beer, but the Shoppers down in College Park does all sortsa booze.
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« Reply #134 on: 26 Jul 2010, 06:02 »

You can also buy Dom Perignon and engagement rings there, for some reason.

True Wal*Mart/What-was-he-thinking story:  Years ago, when I was in the Army, I had a buddy of mine drag me into a nasty, skanky strip club in El Paso, TX where he proceeded to drop a fat gang of cash.  Seriously, it was something in the magnitude of $700 or so in a place that was BYOB.    Afterward, on the way back to the barracks, we stopped in a Wal*Mart where he bought his girlfriend a $96 engagement ring at two in the morning.

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Re: Let me sleep on yr couch
« Reply #135 on: 26 Jul 2010, 06:34 »

J you're right about the county thing, I grew up in montgomery county where everything is SUPER controlled. Now I live in PG and there are non-county liquor stores (everywhere) but I've never seen even beer sold in a grocery store.
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« Reply #136 on: 26 Jul 2010, 11:49 »

So Dovey and his lady have been staying at my place for the last two days.

Yesterday evening we went for a swim in my friend's pool and smoked some weed.

Aforementioned friend's twelve year old brother waited until we got high to reveal an entire pot of Kraft mac 'n cheese which he had made and proceeded to bring up on a serving tray, already portioned out for eight people.

Then he hung out with us the whole time.
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« Reply #137 on: 26 Jul 2010, 13:19 »

My lord that kid is brilliant.
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« Reply #138 on: 26 Jul 2010, 13:30 »

Dovey I think you hanging out in CO would have been awesome but I'm in LA right now and I don't know whether our habitation of Colorado would overlap.
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« Reply #139 on: 26 Jul 2010, 15:46 »

I'm still here, and the river's great for swimmin' this time of year if you make it up.
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« Reply #140 on: 26 Jul 2010, 17:27 »

I love how foreigners first goal in America is to make a bee line for diabetes.

Sigquoted. This has kind of become the catchphrase for our trip Stephen, thank you!


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« Reply #141 on: 26 Jul 2010, 22:52 »

I am pretty sure Dovey was going to be coming to CO in the spring/summer next year, after wintering at a ski resort, right?
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« Reply #142 on: 26 Jul 2010, 23:03 »

Oh then maybe we can hang still. I didn't realize this tour was that long.
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« Reply #143 on: 26 Jul 2010, 23:04 »

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« Reply #144 on: 26 Jul 2010, 23:04 »

Pretty cool vacation idea, huh?
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« Reply #145 on: 27 Jul 2010, 22:19 »

It's become my Thing to photograph every eagle statue/poster/fresco/etc. that I see
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« Reply #146 on: 27 Jul 2010, 22:40 »

Fargo doesn't have any eagles that I know of, but we do have ridiculous bison scattered about town. They are kind of fun!

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« Reply #147 on: 27 Jul 2010, 22:58 »

Awesome, other people are doing it.  Around here we have tigers
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« Reply #148 on: 28 Jul 2010, 04:45 »

We have mermaid statues/sculptures/whatever everywhere.


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« Reply #149 on: 28 Jul 2010, 04:54 »

You might think that DC would jump on the statue thing with some eagles. But no, they chose PANDAS

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