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Post#1861 » by buckboy » Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:46 am

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The bar I was at bought it. Oops.

That's always the risk with boxing and MMA but 40 seconds....geez


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Post#1862 » by jschligs » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:13 am

I hate Las Vegas.
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Post#1863 » by crkone » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:26 am

jschligs wrote:I hate Las Vegas.


My wife and her parents are from northern NV near Reno and I just go there. Beautiful Lake Tahoe, mines, legal hookers and weed, and gambling. It's pretty great out there.

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Post#1864 » by stellation » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:53 am

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jschligs wrote:I hate Las Vegas.


My wife and her parents are from northern NV near Reno and I just go there. Beautiful Lake Tahoe, mines, legal hookers and weed, and gambling. It's pretty great out there.

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Post#1865 » by Mags FTW » Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:23 am

Man, I have one of my worst colds ever. This is the 2nd night in a row that I am up at 3am because I can barely breathe through my nose. Both nights I was also up at 1. Hopefully none of you in the midwest get this.

I hate this 3am stuff because it's too close to morning to take NyQuil.
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Post#1866 » by Finn » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:57 am

It's not if you stay home & spare your co-workers.
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Post#1867 » by crkone » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:57 am

Mags FTW wrote:Man, I have one if my worst colds ever. This is the 2nd night in a row that I am up at 3am because I can barely breathe through my nose. Both nights I was also up at 1. Hopefully none of you in the midwest get this.

I hate this 3am stuff because it's too close to morning to take NyQuil.


Have you perhaps been in contact with someone of the Wuhan region?

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Post#1868 » by Aaron It Out » Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:55 pm

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steger_3434 wrote:Agreed. I’ve traveled to damn near 30 countries and France (Paris) was easily my least favorite thing. Yeah the arc, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dane as “cool” to see. But you can do all that in an hour


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Funny you mention this, felt the exact same way...feel like one day and I checked off everything I was interested in Paris. But I am like a, see it, absorb it, appreciate it, move on to the next.

I found small towns in Belgium that were much more interesting to me


I'm thinking of traveling to Europe this year. Any recommendations on where to go from you all? My original plan was to pull a London-Paris swing over a week and then next year split a week between Barcelona-Madrid. I've also got Istanbul on my short list, too.

I'd be open to other suggestions.
I think I have the thread bookmarked on my PC, so I'll try to link the thread I made a couple years ago. Ultimately decided on Barcelona, and I'm not sure I could have made a better decision for my first trip. Either way, there were some GREAT suggestions in that thread all over the map, so it'd be worth the read.

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Post#1869 » by Mags FTW » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:03 pm

Finn wrote:It's not if you stay home & spare your co-workers.

My kid doesn't care if I have a cold. He's up by 7 regardless.
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Post#1870 » by MartyConlonOnTheRun » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:54 pm

jschligs wrote:I hate Las Vegas.

Context?

I have a love hate relationship:

Pros:
Easy direct flights from Milwaukee
Super cheap car rentals
Some good deals on hotels
Lots of natural beauty within 5 hours
Easy to get around if not on strip during prime time
Fun things to walk around in.
NBA Summer league (up until 3 years ago when it got super LA-ish and before our draft picks didn't matter)
Sports Books

Cons:
The people
Stupid high prices on random stuff (pools, shows, restaurants)
Going with friends who want the 'experience' to go to these high-end things
Driving down the strip
Freezing cold air conditioning in hotels/casinos (I go to Vegas cause I can wear shorts, why put ac at 60 degrees?)
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Post#1871 » by MickeyDavis » Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:00 pm

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Post#1872 » by ReasonablySober » Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:55 pm

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Post#1873 » by jschligs » Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:57 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
jschligs wrote:I hate Las Vegas.

Context?

I have a love hate relationship:

Pros:
Easy direct flights from Milwaukee
Super cheap car rentals
Some good deals on hotels
Lots of natural beauty within 5 hours
Easy to get around if not on strip during prime time
Fun things to walk around in.
NBA Summer league (up until 3 years ago when it got super LA-ish and before our draft picks didn't matter)
Sports Books

Cons:
The people
Stupid high prices on random stuff (pools, shows, restaurants)
Going with friends who want the 'experience' to go to these high-end things
Driving down the strip
Freezing cold air conditioning in hotels/casinos (I go to Vegas cause I can wear shorts, why put ac at 60 degrees?)


I guess context is important haha, I’m here for work and I come every year. Days are super long, wait time for food is forever, smoke everywhere and it’s loud and bright. I’m a homebody haha
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Post#1874 » by ReasonablySober » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:30 pm

jschligs wrote:
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
jschligs wrote:I hate Las Vegas.

Context?

I have a love hate relationship:

Pros:
Easy direct flights from Milwaukee
Super cheap car rentals
Some good deals on hotels
Lots of natural beauty within 5 hours
Easy to get around if not on strip during prime time
Fun things to walk around in.
NBA Summer league (up until 3 years ago when it got super LA-ish and before our draft picks didn't matter)
Sports Books

Cons:
The people
Stupid high prices on random stuff (pools, shows, restaurants)
Going with friends who want the 'experience' to go to these high-end things
Driving down the strip
Freezing cold air conditioning in hotels/casinos (I go to Vegas cause I can wear shorts, why put ac at 60 degrees?)


I guess context is important haha, I’m here for work and I come every year. Days are super long, wait time for food is forever, smoke everywhere and it’s loud and bright. I’m a homebody haha


I've only been to vegas once when I was 21 or 22 and my experience was that it was fine as a two (maybe three) day stay but no way in hell would I wanna be there any longer. I stayed on the strip and walked just about everywhere. Took a cab to the Palms. My stay was probably different than most. I was with a high roller who got comped literally everything. I'm sure it helped that within 15 minutes of being in town I saw them lose $2k at a table. We ended up way ahead because of the last night at a hot Pai Gow table.
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Post#1875 » by Aaron It Out » Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:43 am

Aaron It Out wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:
I'm thinking of traveling to Europe this year. Any recommendations on where to go from you all? My original plan was to pull a London-Paris swing over a week and then next year split a week between Barcelona-Madrid. I've also got Istanbul on my short list, too.

I'd be open to other suggestions.
I think I have the thread bookmarked on my PC, so I'll try to link the thread I made a couple years ago. Ultimately decided on Barcelona, and I'm not sure I could have made a better decision for my first trip. Either way, there were some GREAT suggestions in that thread all over the map, so it'd be worth the read.

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viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1508329

That's the one. Really good stuff in there.
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Post#1876 » by MikeIsGood » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:10 pm

Pretty crazy day of tennis at the AO.

Serena lost. She was down a set and a break, Wang looked like she would put things away quickly, then during a long rally Serena won it appeared momentum had shifted. Serena won the second set, and you assumed she'd win the third like she often does in this situation. Except she didn't. Wang advanced.

Wozniacki lost, and is now retired. Didn't figure she'd win the whole thing, but hope she'd make it to the second week. She is retiring young due to a series of nagging injuries and diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.

Coco Gauff beat Osaka, the defending champ. Straight-sets win. Didn't see this one, but sounds like it wasn't much of a match. Coco played well and Osaka did not.

Federer almost lost, and then didn't, in the first super-tiebreak on Rod Laver. Fifth set, 10-point tiebreak for the first time on Rod Laver (maybe first time at AO?), and Fed was down 8-4 to Aussie Millman. Looked like Millman would cruise to victory, but he tightened up, and Fed stayed loose and took advantage. 6 straight points led him to the tiebreak win.
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Post#1877 » by Kerb Hohl » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:21 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:
jschligs wrote:
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Context?

I have a love hate relationship:

Pros:
Easy direct flights from Milwaukee
Super cheap car rentals
Some good deals on hotels
Lots of natural beauty within 5 hours
Easy to get around if not on strip during prime time
Fun things to walk around in.
NBA Summer league (up until 3 years ago when it got super LA-ish and before our draft picks didn't matter)
Sports Books

Cons:
The people
Stupid high prices on random stuff (pools, shows, restaurants)
Going with friends who want the 'experience' to go to these high-end things
Driving down the strip
Freezing cold air conditioning in hotels/casinos (I go to Vegas cause I can wear shorts, why put ac at 60 degrees?)


I guess context is important haha, I’m here for work and I come every year. Days are super long, wait time for food is forever, smoke everywhere and it’s loud and bright. I’m a homebody haha


I've only been to vegas once when I was 21 or 22 and my experience was that it was fine as a two (maybe three) day stay but no way in hell would I wanna be there any longer. I stayed on the strip and walked just about everywhere. Took a cab to the Palms. My stay was probably different than most. I was with a high roller who got comped literally everything. I'm sure it helped that within 15 minutes of being in town I saw them lose $2k at a table. We ended up way ahead because of the last night at a hot Pai Gow table.


My first visit to Vegas as an extremely low-roller (age ~22?), I got "hot" in roulette and won probably 3 or 4 times in a row where I had just randomly chosen 6 or 7 numbers to play per spin and was putting maybe $1 or $2 per number...so I was up like $250.

Some guy who had just walked down and watched me decided I was on a heater and put $100 chips on my plays for the next 5-10 spins. He probably told his wife he was going down for a cigarette and when he walked back upstairs he was down $5 grand.

I like Vegas but I'm really easygoing and would like almost any vacation destination. I've gone like 4 times and I think the one time I added a 3rd day, I wanted to die (and this was still in relatively prime partying age) so I agree with the 2 day limit if you're there just for that.

I wouldn't mind going back and enjoying other stuff at this point. I've basically just shown up, drank and gambled on the strip, and left. Now that I'm a washed up married man with kids, I'd like to go and some shows/relaxing stuff and then just gamble a bit on the side. I LOVE to gamble but in a boring, responsible way. I have a ton of fun playing blackjack or whatever it is but I only end up playing about once a year in some sort of 2 day marathon and then I've had my fill. I bet on sports daily but have just lived on an account I deposited $200 in 5 years ago and have never had to re-up.

Also, you haven't lived until you walk to/from the strip from to/from the airport.
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Post#1878 » by MartyConlonOnTheRun » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:00 pm

Kerb Hohl wrote:
Also, you haven't lived until you walk to/from the strip from to/from the airport.

Not sure what is safer, walking with luggage in 110 degree heat during the day, or at night where it is basically "just say no" scenario clip the whole walk?
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Post#1879 » by Kerb Hohl » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:18 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
Kerb Hohl wrote:
Also, you haven't lived until you walk to/from the strip from to/from the airport.

Not sure what is safer, walking with luggage in 110 degree heat during the day, or at night where it is basically "just say no" scenario clip the whole walk?


I generally just have a backpack I think, maybe I had a roller, I don't remember.

This basically occurred like 6 or 7 years ago when all of us coming there pretty much flew in at different times/from different cities.

My one friend that flew in at like 9 PM when most of us were already well on our way, walked into the casino and we asked why he got there a bit later than he landed. "I walked from the airport." He's a loose cannon so we kinda just laughed our asses off.

This was also the time that I stayed a 3rd night and it was just the aforementioned walker and me on the final day. That morning, I blew past whatever budget I had for gambling and that friend actually cabbed/shuttled to the airport like 5 hours before I was supposed to fly out. So as a broken/broke man, I figured I'd try out his theory since I was in no position to do anything productive there anymore. I think it was a 55-60 degree January day there so it was comfortable.

Right before he left we did laugh that on the monorail map at whatever hotel we were at, in big red letters, the airport stop read: "Not in walking distance" on the airport stop.

It was a hilarious experience that our one dumbass friend started. I doubt I'd actually do it again unless I was somehow in the same position of being stuck there with no money on a 60 degree day.
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Post#1880 » by Finn » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:32 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:Pretty crazy day of tennis at the AO.

Serena lost. She was down a set and a break, Wang looked like she would put things away quickly, then during a long rally Serena won it appeared momentum had shifted. Serena won the second set, and you assumed she'd win the third like she often does in this situation. Except she didn't. Wang advanced.

Wozniacki lost, and is now retired. Didn't figure she'd win the whole thing, but hope she'd make it to the second week. She is retiring young due to a series of nagging injuries and diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.

Coco Gauff beat Osaka, the defending champ. Straight-sets win. Didn't see this one, but sounds like it wasn't much of a match. Coco played well and Osaka did not.

Federer almost lost, and then didn't, in the first super-tiebreak on Rod Laver. Fifth set, 10-point tiebreak for the first time on Rod Laver (maybe first time at AO?), and Fed was down 8-4 to Aussie Millman. Looked like Millman would cruise to victory, but he tightened up, and Fed stayed loose and took advantage. 6 straight points led him to the tiebreak win.

That sucks. I was also diagnosed with RA in my mid-20s, it's not a lot of fun. But there are a lot more medication options today then when I starting taking stuff over 30 years ago. I wish her well in her management of the disease.

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