[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;46738819]jesus christ thats the worst store ive ever seen in my life[/QUOTE]
It honestly looks like one of those things that popped up during the '90s and then died off, much to the betterment of society. I'm sure it's mostly culture differences talking, but nothing about that premise looks good to me.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;46738819]jesus christ thats the worst store ive ever seen in my life[/QUOTE]
I bet it keeps theft down. now you just worry about the employees walking away with all the items. Employees and burglars, and general theft of catalogs.
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[/QUOTE]
no, we have costco, where you can buy a 4 pack of Ford Tauruses
[editline]17th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=MisterSpuds;46735113]Out of curiosity, can people who live in America easily mimic other American accents or would you have to practise a bit before trying to do other accents?[/QUOTE]
accents are infectious, there's really no practice, it just happens, also unlike the UK for example, english is still english no matter where you go, its usually understandable
In my experience, American accents you hear on television are extremes of what majority of people in those regions actually sound like. Rarely will you come across a southern man whose speech is so drawn out that it's hardly understandable outside of other southern men and so forth.
I know the northeastern accent, the most bland of the accents, is easy to mimic apparently
Just paid $2.82 for gas-the lowest I've ever paid for gas for my car. Regular was $2.68 though
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46739270]In my experience, American accents you hear on television are extremes of what majority of people in those regions actually sound like. Rarely will you come across a southern man whose speech is so drawn out that it's hardly understandable outside of other southern men and so forth.[/QUOTE]
you have never been to louisiana
shit sounds like atlantis language
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46739270]In my experience, American accents you hear on television are extremes of what majority of people in those regions actually sound like. Rarely will you come across a southern man whose speech is so drawn out that it's hardly understandable outside of other southern men and so forth.[/QUOTE]
As someone living in a border zone between the North and the South, I come across the stereotypical "southern gentleman" all the time, and I can never understand a word they say.
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/u3yRKOX.jpg[/t]
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NeXNCOd.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Closest thing I can think of is that a local video game/music reseller use this format for cartridge based video games. You look through their inventory on a kiosk, and they pull the game out for you. Its probably to reduce theft and make it easier to search for a particular game. It will also show you if a game is at their other location across town.
However, this really only seems to work since there aren't high volumes of customers buying a lot of cartridges. And the games are in a few locked cabinets behind the counter. It only takes a 30 seconds for the employee to grab the games you want. If this was at say, Wal-mart, customers would be there for hours.
The Greatest State in the Union, Nevada, checking in! Home of Federal land, Las Calivegas, and the what has to be the blandest accent in these 50 states. And gold. And prostitution...maybe.
We say 'hella' a lot here in California.
[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;46740184]The Greatest State in the Union, Nevada, checking in! Home of Federal land, Las Calivegas, and the what has to be the blandest accent in these 50 states. And gold. And prostitution...maybe.[/QUOTE]
Las Vegas sucks. I should know - I live in Las Vegas.
[editline]18th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/u3yRKOX.jpg[/t]
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NeXNCOd.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
A lot of places here are even lazier (and better) - you order online and pick-up at either the register or a designated "Online Pick-up" spot.
Las Vegas is a shit hole. There's a reason the northern and southern parts of the state really don't associate with each other.
[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;46746883]Las Vegas is a shit hole. There's a reason the northern and southern parts of the state really don't associate with each other.[/QUOTE]
I heard NLV is the definition of shit hole, but LV Metro isnt bad
thurston county washington here, just popping in to say i am pretty nationalistic about my state and will fight over it
[QUOTE=Code3Response;46747078]I heard NLV is the definition of shit hole, but LV Metro isnt bad[/QUOTE]
North Las Vegas sucks because Las Vegas only cares about Las Vegas, not the poverty that makes North Las Vegas awful. North Las Vegas is basically the stop you take to get to Vegas, and if you're sticking around in North Las Vegas it's because you're stuck living here. I've lived in North Las Vegas for 16-17 years of my life.
I've since moved out of North Las Vegas closer to the mountains, but once you're out of North Las Vegas and away from the heart of Las Vegas, the neighborhoods are always dead because it's close to melting outside. It's actually unhealthy to be outside in the dry heat for extended amounts of time, and everyone always feels bad for people who can't be inside a nice, air-conditioned house or car. The heat is what got me into staying inside and geeking out for most of my life, because it beats being outside for more than it takes to get from my house to another source of air-conditioned paradise.
Back in North Las Vegas the heat didn't seem to matter though, because there was always some Mariachi music blasting outside and some sort of party happening on my street every other day. (Not that I have a problem with Mariachi music - I love Latin music and my dad's side of the family is all Mexican.) Oh yeah - a good chunk of the North Las Vegas population - at least the chunk that I interact with regularly outside of the tourists - are primarily Latino. I didn't know a single white person in my old neighborhood.
Then, you have Metro, which I'm just going to use to label the areas closest to and inside Downtown. Downtown is great, and so is the Fremont Experience. While things appear to be more localized than what the Strip offers, that's a total plus. You have bars, restaurants, weird places like Container Park which is literally a small shopping area made completely out of cargo containers, and other neat little things that have much more soul than what's going on in the strip. I love going to Downtown despite the fact that I can't and won't drink, and I imagine it would be better once I'm able to. My father regularly goes Downtown with his girlfriend and they always have a blast.
However, there's no places to shop for food near by, so you end up having to leave the Downtown area often to get food. There's a business that's here in Vegas called Zappos, and they remind me of a weird breed between Google and Amazon. They're all about renovating Las Vegas and constructing this work and play environment in Downtown, and they're trying to start programs and stuff to get people living there. I'm wondering how they're going to make that happen.
Then there's the strip. It's fun to walk the strip, but I'm not a fan of a lot of the hotels here in Vegas nor am I fan of a lot of the restaurants here in Vegas. A lot of restaurants in Vegas sell food that was once frozen with the "gourmet" narrative, fooling people into buying dishonestly expensive food, and a lot of hotel rooms are ran by people who cut corners as part of standard protocol.
The strip still has some cool stuff, though, like the huge M&M shop as well as the Coca-Cola shop. At the Coca-Cola shop, you can taste their products from places like Africa. It's absolutely disgusting but hilariously fun. They have some really nice eyecandy on the strip too, like this winery called Auriole in the Mandalay Bay:
[t]http://savorhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Auriole5.jpg[/t]
ENDLESS WINE. (I haven't had alcohol yet.)
And, finally, I've been to a lot of concerts and shows all over the strip including Nine Inch Nails at Planet Hollywood, Muse at the Mandalay Bay, My Chemical Romance at the Orleans Arena (I'm not really an MCR fan but it was free VIP tickets woo woo), and stuff like that.
The great thing about Las Vegas, now that I think about it, is that we're a big city, so we get the benefits of a big city. Not everything closes after midnight (and that goes for the WHOLE city), whereas with Reno everything's blacks out way faster. Shipping to Las Vegas isn't that bad either.
There is a big problem I'm also interested in, and that's water. We're running out of water, and my mom's taking a lot of classes in College and reading studies that water is going to become increasingly expensive as the demand goes up and the supply goes down. They'll more than likely protect their economy here in the Vegas hotels, though, but it's still something to keep in mind here.
For the past 3 weeks, gas prices were dropping at 2-3 cents a day.
Then yesterday, it dropped 14 cents overnight.
At this rate, it'll be well under $1 soon
/excited
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46749019]For the past 3 weeks, gas prices were dropping at 2-3 cents a day.
Then yesterday, it dropped 14 cents overnight.
At this rate, it'll be well under $1 soon
/excited[/QUOTE]
Some are calling it a $60 billion tax cut for the middle class
Well, the best way to keep Russia from expanding is to send their economy into a death spiral, and since they rely so heavily on oil, the OPEC price war's doing just that. I can't say I'm complaining, since the gas prices just keep going down.
It's also allowed us to reopen talks with Cuba, because Russia can't come from left field and bribe them away from us anymore. So that's good too. Really, the only bad thing that can come from this is short-term dips in profits for domestic refineries and wells, but those margins are built into every barrel already, so that won't affect things too much.
I don't understand it when Europeans say that we're 'playing world police' and that we have an overinflated military, then complain if we don't deal with things like ISIS or the Ukrainian War.
[url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1442516]This thread[/url] is a prime example of what I mean. Europeans expect us to send in [i]our[/i] soldiers and [i]our[/i] aircraft carriers to deal with the Middle East, then they complain until we leave and the next regional conflict erupts. I'd be fine with it if [i]anyone[/i] across the pond acted grateful, but we constantly get shit about, for example, having a massive military that is the only thing sustaining the North Atlantic Treaty.
I know isolationism is a futile endeavour in a modernized world, but it's pretty attractive when we try to keep a semblance of peace and the only reward we get is constant disrespect for fucking [b]everything[/b] we do.
Gas is about $1.90 where I am in Oklahoma. I fill up with about $20 and go for about 260 miles or so on that. It's nice because I live 3 miles from work, girlfriend is 15 miles away.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;46751496]I don't understand it when Europeans say that we're 'playing world police' and that we have an overinflated military, then complain if we don't deal with things like ISIS or the Ukrainian War.
[url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1442516]This thread[/url] is a prime example of what I mean. Europeans expect us to send in [i]our[/i] soldiers and [i]our[/i] aircraft carriers to deal with the Middle East, then they complain until we leave and the next regional conflict erupts. I'd be fine with it if [i]anyone[/i] across the pond acted grateful, but we constantly get shit about, for example, having a massive military that is the only thing sustaining the North Atlantic Treaty.
I know isolationism is a futile endeavour in a modernized world, but it's pretty attractive when we try to keep a semblance of peace and the only reward we get is constant disrespect for fucking [b]everything[/b] we do.[/QUOTE]
Basically as far as FP goes, it's usually pretty futile to portray anything America does in a positive light considering, oh 80% of the Euro user-base which makes up a decent portion of FP has massive biases against it, save for when we legalize pot somewhere or something relatively insignificant along those lines.
Honestly I just kinda try to kick back and relax and imagine what they think living in the US is like, something like walking outside to our duallies we use to drive across the country every day through barren cactus filled deserts, but having to dodge bullets from our literally free-with-a-meal guns and the corrupt pig cops, doctors looking to charge use 100,000 bucks for a checkup, all while praising Jesus and hating the gay menace while we think about how best to pleasure our corporate overlords with one hand while holding our burgers in another. All while the NSA is TOTALLY reading that email your mother sent you on your birthday.
It's a fun thought.
[QUOTE=Seiteki;46751704]Gas is about $1.90 where I am in Oklahoma. I fill up with about $20 and go for about 260 miles or so on that. It's nice because I live 3 miles from work, girlfriend is 15 miles away.[/QUOTE]
When this gets to $2/gal where I am, I'll be happy. Thats a good price imo. It'll still cost me $30 to fill, but thats a lot better than the $40+ I was spending before
[QUOTE=evilweazel;46751779]Basically as far as FP goes, it's usually pretty futile to portray anything America does in a positive light considering, oh 80% of the Euro user-base which makes up a decent portion of FP has massive biases against it, save for when we legalize pot somewhere or something relatively insignificant along those lines.
Honestly I just kinda try to kick back and relax and imagine what they think living in the US is like, something like walking outside to our duallies we use to drive across the country every day through barren cactus filled deserts, but having to dodge bullets from our literally free-with-a-meal guns and the corrupt pig cops, doctors looking to charge use 100,000 bucks for a checkup, all while praising Jesus and hating the gay menace while we think about how best to pleasure our corporate overlords with one hand while holding our burgers in another. All while the NSA is TOTALLY reading that email your mother sent you on your birthday.
It's a fun thought.[/QUOTE]
"You Americans are so ignorant and narrowminded."
lmfao
[editline]19th December 2014[/editline]
So, what are you all doing for Christmas?
sittin at home doing basically nothing, apart from seeing friends I haven't seen in a while and doing stuff with girlfriend and then going back to college in january
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46751956]
So, what are you all doing for Christmas?[/QUOTE]
Having the girlfriend come over and have a Lord of the Rings marathon.
kentucky reporting
chill here
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46751956]
So, what are you all doing for Christmas?[/QUOTE]
We're going to my aunt's house to celebrate Christmas with her, my grandmother, and my great grandmother on her side. Normally we'd go to her beach condo, but she's up here this year instead.
We haven't really done the big family Christmas with everyone since my mom's brother went batshit insane after a divorce, and sort of strained everyone's ties... But a lot of my mom's side has passed away over the years, so it's a smaller group now than it used to be.
Oh, and we're going to Margaritaville on Christmas Day. So that's fun. Nothing says Christmas like really strong cocktails and beach music.
Geez, that sounds more depressing than it should. I swear it isn't as bad as it sounds, we have a lot of fun on Christmas.
As a retail worker in America, I can't wait for Christmas. Just to get this dreadful season over with.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46756606]As a retail worker in America, I can't wait for Christmas. Just to get this dreadful season over with.[/QUOTE]
retail wage slaves unite
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