Graham Hancock guys, you want to learn? Check him out, books, vids utube has good stuff...
Oh and count me in for caring :) In fact I care a serious amount!! Always will :) Peace and fuck off :)
Mister Arseface: You might be amused by my personal Joe Rogan anecdote. A few years ago, fatigued by the clip joint prices for room service at my trendy Hollywood "boutique" hotel, I ventured across Sunset to Carney's Hotdog Stand. After obtaining my dog and a hearty grain beverage, I discovered the only other diners in the railroad car were Joe Rogan and his entourage (two bored looking toadies.) His non-stop, and inescapable monolog, delivered at the top of his lungs to the nearly empty room consisted almost entirely of bellowing "I fucked her!" I see his wit has not appreciably improved. Pity.
Arseface u need a hug??????????????????????
Ur posts have all bin negative lately granted the vids have bin shite anyway hope all is ok.
As for the vid i enjoyed the pyramids are an amazing thing and 1 of the top items on my BUCKET LIST
Not atall planet.
I am my usual self - sweetness and light and full of the joys. It's just the standard of videos. But thanks for asking. The pyramids are well worth a visit, but there's a lot more to Egypt. Just take care when you're there - fundamentalists tend to target tourists!
Bucket list - how about everyone tells us their top twelve? Might relieve the tedium of the videos!
I'll kick off.
Places I haven't been and would like to see before I die. (I'm open to comments). Some are maybe a bit cheesy....
In no particular order -
Petra
Chicago
St Petersburg
Antarctica
The Galapagos Islands
Madagascar
Alaska
Shanghai
Angel Falls
Tibet
Sydney
Tourist space shuttle
arseface no disrespect intended and this is not a personal attack.
First you whined about the videos then you complained about the posts (that took a lot of effort on my part I could try again but it must be appreciated) now your whining about the videos again what gives.
Anyway you touched on a favorite subject of mine - Cheese.
I personally prefer cheese sticks the type that you pull apart like string I think they are called stringy cheese sticks.
yeah... something like.... cheese curds, bratwursts, and good beer. Apparently dares a lotta polka up here (I'm convinced it's a dieing breed no pun intended for the old folks... kinda like the CW's leavin shortwave one day at a time).
New Orleans (again)
Paris (again and again)
Bourgogne
Provence
Tuscany
MidiPyrenees...All that French stuff from the south west (incredible pate's and fois gras....to freekking die for....or from.
New England....seafood to love, to live, to laugh with.
Australia....decent lamb....great energy....
Tokyo...real sashimi...hmmmmmm....robbers of the ocean, perhaps...but this site is not targetting people.
Haiti...where "hot" started. (bring a side-arm).
Germany....brats, potato salad, beer.....to die for (or from)
Nicosea....just kidding....
Russia...boiled beets and mashed turnip...no butter, of course...cabbage as an epicurean finale, for those who might elect the more cosmopolitan course.
Big Macs....Toronto, Canada...for those who can't find a McDonalds to improve their dietary regimen, a source of hope and carbohydrates, and animal fat.
Tourist space shuttle whats that all about like your list St petersburgh i imagine were talking russia and not Florida anyway heres my Top Ten
Great Wall China
Barrier Reef Australia
Tokyo Japan
Australia
Iceland
Egypt
Bermuda
Hawai
Alaska (on a cruise)
They're having to do it to elephants in Africa now as their increasing numbers are creating an imbalance
Attract all the herds of stupid people into a kill zone with promises of a free trailer home then cull them humanely.
My bucket list:
1. Agree with going into space - my deposit is down already but need to save a little for that one: http://www.virgingalactic.com 2. Cage dive with Great Whites off Gaansbai (next year or two)
3. Have kids
4. Galapagos Islands
5. Salmon fishing on the Kola Penninsula
6. Okavango Delta
7. Bhutan
8. Mount Roraima (my grandfather climbed it with my grandmother who was pregnant with my Mom at the time - this was obviously before Shamu gave Gran pneumonia)
9. Everest Base camp (no way could I ever summit)
10. See my grandkids
Of course all this is all contingent on my child/drug/gun running enterprise getting off the ground sufficiently profitably.
Killing 'em by the millions by the way not thousands
Taiwanese fleets are hoovering them up to sell to China mostly (think they prefer to be known as asian rather than gook by the way)
There's a film all about the shark fin industry made by a guy I know called Steve Galster - it's horrific when you see it. Cutting fins off the animal then throwing the still alive corpse back. Disgusting - you'd probably like it I guess.
It should be on Animal Planet or Discovery at some point unless it's already run in the States.
I did not want to correct you about the corpse thing - you are probably right I would like it but that is a short coming of mine. oh and BTW a lot or most come from Indonesian fisherman.
Indo for sure but this guys film was suggesting Honduras was one of the major sources - there are no real, enforced restrictions on shark fishing there so apparently the Taiwanese have been wiping the stocks out
Thing is apparently shark fin doesn't actually taste of anything. Chicken or beef stock is basically what gives it taste... I don't get why the attraction to it.
That and removing predators from the ocean fucks the rest of the system up and is clearly a dumb thing to do
Still thinking about wind for my little minifarm, permita are always a problem. Flatlanders move up here and don't like the smell of cow shit, like the cows( as they drive by with the kids, "look joey a moocow".) but can't take the spring air. Don't want the turbine to block the view. They can't see the forest 'cause the trees are in the way.
As for the stone work, they know how they were built in africa and it wasn't slaves the birth of engineering. the south american stonework was cut with string & silaca water, then rubbing/sanding and slaves. There was no time limits, no overtime and no unions so anything could be done. Spacemen did it all.
gy - Perhaps biomass is the way to go if you have a farm. They are being quite successful with it on the dairy farms in VT.
I agree with the City folk moving to a rural area and then complaining that the air stinks, why so many trees, where are the strip malls, where is the StarBucks, this town is dead, bla, bla, bla. They are more annoying than black flies, and much more destructive.
It's easy to see that the pyramids where not built by the lowest bidder. The big dig on the other hand was, if we could just find that contractor and get them to do state work we would be set.
The pyramids are worth a look, as is the Sphinx. But for real laughs, stay a few nights in Cairo, one of the biggest and without doubt most hideous cities on the planet.
I stayed in the downtown Dahab Hotel - revolting food, wicked and vengeful staff and cockroaches the size of baby rhinos. I don't mind any of these things, but when the night porter sneaks into your room at three in the morning and tries to examine your prostate with a walking stick, things have reached an all-time low.
Don't get me wrong - I like surprises as much as the next man. However, I checked out pretty quickly and slept in a doorway next to two dogs for the rest of the night.
Cairo at night is one of the most exciting places I've been, if you like STDs and the most aggressive beggars outside of Calcutta.
And if you venture up the Nile, there's always the chance of a real adventure as the locals try to machine gun your boat.
Not my number one place - oh, I nearly forgot. I was bitten on the buttock by a camel. If you haven't been bitten on the buttock by a camel you have never suffered true pain.
Egypt - fuck it.
wished I could have traveled more, I've been working forever, paid for four kids to go to college so they would be smarter than me, ended up paying for some grad school too so they did turn out smarted.
When I was 16 I couldn't understand who stupid my father was, when I was 20 I couldn't believe how much he learned in 4 yrs. MT
Never been to Egypt. Always thought it sounded like a worthwhile adventure. My brother went and gave a strangely similar report to yours so maybe not...
laughing out loud at that Garbage. Sorry! I can only imagine the discomfort the whole night must have been... well the anal probe part! Having to spend the night out unexpectedly is another story. Done it on many occasion.
I hope you can see the humor in it today, and thanks for sharing such a story with the rest of us.
No, I didn't forget to tip the porter, but he sure as hell tried to tip me!
I woke up pretty damn quick. I thought I was shitting myself until I realised the movement was in the other direction. At which point I decided I didn't like it much and hit the fucker as hard as I could. Which wasn't very hard, but seemed to do the trick.
Mako -
Don't ever be put off going places by my experiences! There have been more good than bad, but the bad ones lways make better stories in my opinion.
For instance, when I was in Venice I saw beautiful sculptures, ate great food, blah blah blah.
But you might be more interested to know I fell in the Grand Canal after drinking six bottles of wine with a Latvian deaf mute and had to have my stomach pumped.
C'est la vie.
Certainly didn't sound like la dolce vitta with the stomach pump tho. At least your Latvian friend must have been a great help in offering encouragment though
One of the most amusing things I have ever seen happened at the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
The usual scrum of tourists and backpackers all throwing coins over their shoulders resulted in an unfortunate injury to a Somalian umbrella salesman when he was hit squarely in the eye by one tossed by an Australian bimbo. He fell to the ground and everybody stole his umbrellas as he writhed in agony.
What a laugh!
The pyramids are truly amazing. Both the Egyptian and the Mexican (Aztec & Mayan) pyramids are truly amazing. I always found it fascinating that cultures on opposite sides of the planet had so many similarities. No one has fully explained that yet.
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