Useless Conversation

[schild]

Just stopped in Nashville for White Castle. Genetic garbage. The whole place.

America, for the most part, is just terrible.

[Yegolev]

I'll say to you what I say to my wife when she goes into this same rant: Can you tell me anyone you know that actually lives up to your expectations of a good human?  In her case, it's a begrudging "no".

Protip: Don't stop in Memphis.

[Chimpy]

Or just don't stop, period.

[Paelos]

Nashville's a fun town if you like country music and drinking. Which Schild doesn't so, yeah.

Also Schild hates 90% of everything so this shocks nobody. I'm probably generous on the percentages.

[schild]

We have stopped as little as possible but that has resulted in crap stops. 14 hour drive today across PA into zee Northeast and civilization.

Paelos, I just came from arguably the best place for bad music and drinking. You did not give a good reason to stop in Nashville

[Paelos]

You did not give a good reason to stop in Nashville

I wouldn't try to convince you to stop anywhere. Like I said, you hate almost everything. Just keep driving on your Magical Misery Tour.

[schild]

Thing is I don't hate everything. I hate exactly what everyone else would hate if they knew better. A little bit of tequila and twang won't fix Nashville. Fire and brimstone from the sky wouldn't fix Nashville.

[Paelos]

I must have missed all those times you were effusive with praise about cities in America other than Austin.

America, for the most part, is just terrible.

Oh wait, no I didn't.

[schild]

Seattle, Portland, SF, NYC, Vegas - these are not bad places.  I'm moving to Providence, which by all accounts everyone loves.

But I don't see why I need to offset taking a giant dump on this backwards shithole with praise. America IS terrible. 3000 square miles of flyover country.

[Nebu]

America IS terrible. 3000 square miles of flyover country.

You need to get out of your house more.  I could list at least 100 places that I've been in the US that took my breath away.  Granted, most of them are places that a majority of Americans will never see beyond a post card.

From your list, we look at the US VERY differently.  I prefer the places with no people.

[schild]

Every place on Earth has pretty uninhabited shit, Nebu. The people are what make them different.

[Yegolev]

I'm pretty sure Vegas is actually bad.

[Samwise]

I'm pretty sure Vegas is actually bad.

Thanks; I didn't want to be the one to say it.

[Chimpy]

I'm pretty sure Vegas is actually bad.

Vegas is both a shitty place and is literally chock full of the kind of people schild claims to hate.

[Nebu]

Every place on Earth has pretty uninhabited shit, Nebu. The people are what make them different.

Most people are shitty.  That's why I avoid them for the uninhabited places. 

So... we agree.

[Trippy]

I'm pretty sure Vegas is actually bad.

Vegas is both a shitty place and is literally chock full of the kind of people schild claims to hate.

Yeah but it has Iron Man slot machines.

[schild]

Oh Vegas is absolute trash, but ya know, fine dining and I can wear athletic shorts 24 hours a day and nobody bats an eye. And the only people I have to talk to are serving me drinks.

[Paelos]

But I don't see why I need to offset taking a giant dump on this backwards shithole with praise.

Why would you leave the paradise you love to actually praise for Rhode Island?

[Nebu]

... and I can wear athletic shorts 24 hours a day and nobody bats an eye.

This is why I enjoy working in academia.  No, I'm not joking.

[Yegolev]

So, both of you are never-nudes?

[Nebu]

So, both of you are never-nudes?

That may change if you buy me dinner!   

[WayAbvPar]

So, both of you are never-nudes?

This explains the hatred of Vegas. They blue themselves for nothing.

[Paelos]

https://www.eightsensiblegifts.com/

Cards Against Humanity Holiday Bullshit is back, and this time it's for the Chosen People.

This is fun if you haven't done it. It's 15 bucks for a bunch of cards and fun nonsense in the mail. DO IT BEFORE THEY RUN OUT! I've done it 3 years running now.

[Khaldun]

I kind of like Vegas. Every once in a billion years. I keep trying to get academic conferences to meet there because it's more affordable and it's roughly like convincing a bunch of monks to have a conference in a Victoria's Secret convention. They want to but know they can't.

Providence RI? Actually it's ok. But seriously it's as much location location location as anything else. (Boston nearby, NYC not that far, upper New England kind of accessible.) Plus Brown U. which I think is kind of a good place but I think Schild will find to be roughly like salt on a snail.

[01101010]

Looks like I'll be heading to Vegas for a conference in the Spring. Given I turn into an alcoholic at conferences to endure the droning on of shit I don't care about, this trip may just be the last one I ever go on as I will be dead.

 

[Chimpy]

I was in Vegas two weeks ago for a conference. It was a good time. I spent 4 dollars between the time the cab dropped me off after arriving until the cab picked me up to go back to the airport. And that was for a pack of halls throat lozenges 

[Paelos]

I was in Vegas two weeks ago for a conference. It was a good time. I spent 4 dollars between the time the cab dropped me off after arriving until the cab picked me up to go back to the airport. And that was for a pack of halls throat lozenges 

Back when I drank I went to accounting conferences. I remember none of them.

[01101010]

I drink at every conference, during every conference. I bring my stainless waterbottle and fill it with tequila and ice and it gets me thru till the evening. I can't even explain why since I drink like once a month otherwise. Yet, conferences, I have a shot before my shower in the mornings.

I am quite excited for this trip though.

[Polysorbate80]

Drinking at events you say?

I own not one, not two, but three flasks.  I might need counseling.  Or to move to Scotland where I'm guessing I can just carry the bottle around openly...?

Unrelated, my wife was bitching about how hard it is to feed the horses when it's dark out.
Her:  I can't hold the flashlight and pull down hay with the pitch fork at the same time.
Me:  Why do you need a flashlight?  Are the lights on the side of the shop not working?
Her: .....
Me:  Something wrong?
Her: ...I forgot where the switch is.

[Samwise]

I own not one, not two, but three flasks.

I usually just need one.

[Polysorbate80]

Mixing the whisky with the vodka and the rum is not advisable.  Once introduced to your stomach, they tend to immediately fight it out with the end result of all three being ejected for bad behavior  

This way I can have rum & coke day, whiskey & coke day, and "fuck it just get shitfaced before breakfast day" with the vodka.

Because hey, everyone deserves a spa day, right?

[Morat20]

Seriously? Shin splints? Fucking stupid old legs.

Now I've got ANOTHER set of stupid exercises to do to build up my anterior what-ever-the-crap it is. I have to exercise so I can exercise. I miss being young.

[Paelos]

I own not one, not two, but three flasks.

I usually just need one.

Also doubles as your shiny metal ass.

[Merusk]

I'm ill. I enjoy conferences and learn a lot when I go. I can't imagine being intoxicated for the whole thing and wasting the money the company's spending on me to be there.

Then again I only go to one a year and it is focused on actual learning rather than marketing BS.

[01101010]

Oh I come back to my dept and always have to make an hour presentation on new stuff I learned and to comment about the other seminar sessions I was in. What works, what didn't... etc. I can't describe it, I just function better at these things while blitzed. Probably has to do with self-medicating against my social aversion disorder, since I can't stand most of those people.