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Ohh... I should warn you, if you don't have to be anywhere specific this coming Friday DO NOT GO ANYWHERE!!!!
This coming thursday is Thanksgiving day (the day where all Americans over eat, helping themselves become even more obese, and watch American Football), and on Friday, it's called Black Friday, because millions of idiotic twits rush out to the same shops to rush and get Christmas shopping started (it's ugly as feth, but quite hilarious to watch on TV)
Ensis Ferrae wrote: Ohh... I should warn you, if you don't have to be anywhere specific this coming Friday DO NOT GO ANYWHERE!!!!
This coming thursday is Thanksgiving day (the day where all Americans over eat, helping themselves become even more obese, and watch American Football), and on Friday, it's called Black Friday, because millions of idiotic twits rush out to the same shops to rush and get Christmas shopping started (it's ugly as feth, but quite hilarious to watch on TV)
Oh by all things holy Ably... Ensis is right... STAY.INSIDE.ON.FRIDAY.
I don't care how much $$$ you'd save, you couldn't PAY ME to go shopping on this day.
Evidently I don't do coke, yet I've seen it bandied aroundand talked to some of the people selling it.
It wasn't a boarding school of choice for the rich kids...
I read an article that said teenages are the new gurus of life experience.
Anyway freedom of speech and all that. Noy trying to offend you.
I'm not offended at all, pal. I just think that perhaps it's not prudent for you to lecture 30yr old indie-rock musicians from the North of England on drug-use!
Translation: "Back off, the professionals have this covered"
and yeah holy gak fairies... the terror of black friday...
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
It's really not that bad. Just don't go out early in the morning to malls, department stores (including Wal-Mart) or stores that sell things like consumer electronics. They'll be opening at 5 or 6 in the morning with some insane bargains, albeit usually in very limited numbers, and the crowds rushing to get at them can be crazy. If you go out later in the day or evening it's just a busy shopping day, with a bit more traffic than usual.
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Yeah, I was aware of the the Dreaded Black Friday. Probably won't affect me too much, as I can't imagine I'll be going to shopping malls much during my trip - the schedule as far as I'm aware includes a whole load of sensible academic stuff, more's the pity!
I'm going to see the folks at Belmont University about some research partnership, then the Country Music research centre/Hall of Fame to meet some scholars. Apparently I'll be having thanksgiving with the current owners of Sun Records and a whole bunch of other interesting industry folks too, which promises to be very cool.
It sounds really cool! I'm jealous you're having such an exciting trip. I'll just be causing trouble at home and painting figures/writing a brief paper on the Investiture Crisis of the Medieval Roman Catholic church
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
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Albatross wrote: America is awesome. More on this story as it develops.
Have you just discovered the power of your accent on cute American girls?
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I feel like we should have all chipped in to buy Alby a video camera for him to document his adventure vlog style. Because this has to be fething hilarious.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
KalashnikovMarine wrote: I feel like we should have all chipped in to buy Alby a video camera for him to document his adventure vlog style. Because this has to be fething hilarious.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: I feel like we should have all chipped in to buy Alby a video camera for him to document his adventure vlog style. Because this has to be fething hilarious.
I'm in!
Seconded or maybe thirded. I'm not sure lol.
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Mate, you should have fething SEEN the state of me last night! I was in a bad part of town drinking malt-liquor and literally throwing money at strippers. I can barely remember leaving my last message - I DO remember sitting in the hotel lobby drunkenly slobbering all over a Wendy's whilst surfing the net at around 1am, though. Off to IHOP now.
EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, every post of yours gets this song running through my head again....man, I miss the 90s...
Spoiler:
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11,100 pts, 7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
Unless you roll your own. No, I've only met a few people who still roll their own cigarettes, and most of them are older than fifty.
Well, he did start the thread because he rolls his own, and was heading to a place where he was unsure of where to get his supplies.... and I doubt that he is more than 50, though I have been wrong before.
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Yeah, I'm back. Nashville was awesome. I could easily see myself living in the south.
Stories? No problem! Went out for a drink in a honky-tonk on Broadway and ended up in a VERY dodgy strip club, drinking malt liquor (Old English! ) and making it rain. So, I asked this stripper to come out with me for drinks on the following Friday, and she said yes!
Check this out: She only fething showed up, didn't she!?
It was the most random, hilarious night of my life. I ended up dancing to an 80s cover band with a drunk stripper. She had a knife on her. So did I. We got them out in a bar to compare. It got messy.
Here's me at the end of the night:
That's an ice bucket on my head. The whole week was weird as feth, to be honest. Here's a random sampling of what I got up to:
- Got a private tour of the Country Music Hall of Fame
- Had dinner with the owners of Sun Records, plus the guy who produced 'Tequila'. Also, our host had worked for Atlantic and BMI, and was telling us cool stories about meeting Lennon, Jacko, Little Richard, Elton John... and fething Elvis! - Got accosted at the Tennessee State Fair by a redneck dude who looked like a traumatised Vietnam vet. He heard our accent and proceeded to sing Kinks songs at us for 20 minutes, surrounded by onlookers. That's when he decided to switch to Jethro Tull songs. Standing on one leg. He had a replica hand grenade on his stall. He threatened to pull the pin.
- Hung out at this huge mansion owned by a friend of our host, listening to revolutionary audio technology.
- Caught some gigs at the Bluebird Cafe. Guestlist, obviously. - Had the most 'country' Thanksgiving ever - loads of good food, wine and fiddle music, not to mention jars of moonshine and other, more exotic substances.
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7,000 pts
