quibblemuch |
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Do they also sell guns and 'malt liquor' there?
Probably not.
But... I was driving through the great state of Wyoming once and saw a drive-through liquor and gun store. I'm not going to lie: a tear welled up in my eye and I sang a little patriotic hymn. Sadly, I was a brokeass college student and could afford neither liquor nor guns. Wasn't even my car. Ah, lost youth...
lisamarlene |
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That's about how I felt when I stopped for gas once in North Carolina and saw a cold vending machine that only sold different kinds of bait in little tins.
I was in the middle of a long road trip, didn't have any rod or tackle (or a license) and hadn't fished in over a dozen years, but all I wanted in the world at that moment was to take a break and go fishing, because America.
DungeonmasterCal |
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I remember reading when the Olympics were held in Brazil whole shanty towns were forcibly emptied to make room for the facilities. Terrible stuff.
Ah well, I started a buzz kill so now I think I'll stop with the depressing stuff...lol
Thinking of running my group through a "Land of the Lost" sort of scenario, one that will last for a few sessions. I won't go into the details of the campaign as a whole, but I've sort of painted myself into a corner and I think this, or another dimension where time doesn't flow the same as the Prime Material's does, will help solve the problem.
quibblemuch |
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Ooo! I like it.
And when/if they get back to their regular time stream, you can have fun with the historical jump. I once had a PC discover that he’d been presumed dead as a martyr and now there was a whole order of paladins dedicated to him as a saint... with the predictable mangling (or outright manufacturing) of his Deeds & Sayings.
Drejk |
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I used to know someone from the Netherlands who, when she saw the news about Hurricane Katrina, was shocked when she saw how poor parts of New Orleans was. She, like much of the world, had no idea how much extreme poverty existed in America.
But... but...
America! The land of wealth and plenty!
DungeonmasterCal |
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Ooo! I like it.
And when/if they get back to their regular time stream, you can have fun with the historical jump. I once had a PC discover that he’d been presumed dead as a martyr and now there was a whole order of paladins dedicated to him as a saint... with the predictable mangling (or outright manufacturing) of his Deeds & Sayings.
That's brilliant!
Ed Reppert |
Ed Reppert wrote:Europeans sure have strange views about the US.If that's in response to me, I'm American. Just a weird one.
It wasn't. I liked your idea. :-)
Dizzydoo42 |
Europeans sure have strange views about the US.
When I was in college (Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, TN) there was a foreign exchange student from Jamaica. He was so impressed with all the glitz and glamour of Nashville. That first term he said, "America is so much fun, so much to do, so much to see." It only took him till the end of the school year, "America what bunch materialistic money grubbers." He was soured and disillusioned with America and all its people. I felt like quoting Yoda, "This is my home it is."
Orthos |
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Ed Reppert wrote:Europeans sure have strange views about the US.When I was in college (Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, TN) there was a foreign exchange student from Jamaica. He was so impressed with all the glitz and glamour of Nashville. That first term he said, "America is so much fun, so much to do, so much to see." It only took him till the end of the school year, "America what bunch materialistic money grubbers." He was soured and disillusioned with America and all its people. I felt like quoting Yoda, "This is my home it is."
Pretty much. As I've said elsewhere, I don't have any particular patriotism or loyalty to my country, I just live here 'cause I was born here and moving elsewhere is expensive.
Asmodeus' Advocate |
Eagleland! Land of the brave! Home of the eagles! We're so awesome they named gridiron football after us and now Canada has to live with that. Ha! Take that Canada! I think Football Canada joined the International Federation of American Football because they were jealous of our eleven player teams, which are clearly superior. Two dozen players on the field! Can you match that? Didn't think so, Canada. Get on our level.
Oh yeah! Can you smell the patriotism? Can you smell it? Makes you want to go murder people to protect American business interests, don't it? Boo ya! Murder! Football! Murder football! Yeah!
*wanders off committing acts of patriotism, like lighting cars on fire*
The Vagrant Erudite |
Dizzydoo42 wrote:Pretty much. As I've said elsewhere, I don't have any particular patriotism or loyalty to my country, I just live here 'cause I was born here and moving elsewhere is expensive.Ed Reppert wrote:Europeans sure have strange views about the US.When I was in college (Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, TN) there was a foreign exchange student from Jamaica. He was so impressed with all the glitz and glamour of Nashville. That first term he said, "America is so much fun, so much to do, so much to see." It only took him till the end of the school year, "America what bunch materialistic money grubbers." He was soured and disillusioned with America and all its people. I felt like quoting Yoda, "This is my home it is."
I 100% love my country, and it's not at all because it's public knowledge the NSA is watching us, and I don't want to be dragged away to some patriotism camp when the country becomes even more despotic than it currently is. Nope. That's not the reason at all that I totally love my country.
America isn't a totally horrible place, but it's far from perfect. I think Daniel Tosh said it best. "We're top ten."
Did I mention I love my country, NSA? Please don't drag me away. I'm not a threat.
Ed Reppert |
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Home. Reading, maybe watching Netflix or Amazon Prime.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." -- General Carl Schurz, Senator from Missouri, remarks to the US Senate, February 1872.
TriOmegaZero |
It's been non-stop board games with my parents while they are in town. I imagine we'll do much the same on New Years, although I might see if there is a movie we could all watch together. They haven't kept up on the MCU, otherwise I'd say we could watch something there. Maybe Ant-Man, that doesn't take much buy-in.
lisamarlene |
We get home around midnight on the 30th after 8 days and Whingey Wizzard has to work all day the 31st and the 1st, so what will likely happen is:
31st: throw the kids in the car in their jammies impossibly early and drive WW to work.
Take kids in jammies to Winco and Kroger to restock groceries.
Give them breakfast, start a loaf of bread dough to rise and a crock pot of Hoppin' John to simmer, and then meet grandma at the Arboretum for the "noon drop" party in the children's garden.
Go back and pick up WW from work.
Go home and play board games or watch movies and crash early.
Then on the 1st, throw the kids in the car in their jammies, take WW to work, then at 2, go to a small party with a bunch of old college friends who still live out by the university (about an hour away if there's no traffic), then go pick up WW from work.
Which will be bittersweet; I haven't seen any of them since we moved back, except for my old roommate, who came the day we arrived to help us unload the truck in the 109 heat. But they're all in a vastly different tax bracket with better homes, better cars, better lives. And they all had kids much earlier than we did, so most of their offspring are either in high school, college, or the military (and one is already engaged), and here I am with a 5 and a 7 year old. So not like we have much in common anymore since our old chain-smoking-at-Denny's-till-two-a.m.-talking-about-our-screenplays days.
DungeonmasterCal |
One of the FLGS' in my city bought out the other one and is now in a much larger and superior location. I thought they'd have some sort of New Year's thingy (they're always running some sort of card tourney) but they plan to be closed Monday and Tuesday. I had kind of hoped to get my group to play there for the holiday but that's not gonna happen.
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Vanykrye wrote:Ha! Start off the new year with a bang, as it were.captain yesterday wrote:The same thing I do every night.The General has to be a very happy woman. ;)
I spent over a hundred dollars at Victoria's Secret for Christmas, it's been more of a week and a half type of situation.
quibblemuch |
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Woooo! Panic attack with no known trigger! Just suddenly freaking out for no reason! Woooo!
Wooo! Go panic, go panic, it’s yer birfday, go panic!
*does Panic Dance*
Just remember, this is the result of systems evolved to keep you safe in a dangerous world. And evolution is a f$!!ing a$@#**% who refuses to admit that there haven’t been leopards trying to kill us for YEARS. F+@&ing evolution...
DungeonmasterCal |
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I don't like getting wet and I certainly don't like cold and wet (though winter is my favorite time of year. Go figure) so I'll just rely on Dr. Xanax to get me through it. And this chair. And this tv remote. And this paddle ball game. I don't need anything else. Oh, and this ashtray, and my dog $(*&head.