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Originally posted by whatje
people actually explore Virginia?

been in DC the last 4 years...anything past alexandria might as well be another planet.

My wife tells me never to go outside the Beltway, but we do anyway.

Been in the DC area since 92.

I don't recognize DC as part of civilization tbh. Can't stand it when I have to go there for business or pleasure, I get invited to a lot of snazzy gigs but I really can't stand that place. I love NYC, London and Paris but I guess I've lived here too long and just can't stand the District, it ain't even in the same class.

I have partially assembled the army of Northern Virginia right outside of Centreville, just preparing to strike when Lee comes back from the dead and gives the signal.

We look a lot like these guys but we have way more weaponry.
http://www.funnyredneckjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/redneckspecialforces.jpg

Originally posted by Boomy DTD
I don't recognize DC as part of civilization tbh. Can't stand it when I have to go there for business or pleasure, I get invited to a lot of snazzy gigs but I really can't stand that place. I love NYC, London and Paris but I guess I've lived here too long and just can't stand the District, it ain't even in the same class.

I agree that NYC and London are awesome; DC shuts down for the most part on the weekend. OTOH, there is a lot to be said for free museums.

Originally posted by
I have partially assembled the army of Northern Virginia right outside of Centreville, just preparing to strike when Lee comes back from the dead and gives the signal.

We look a lot like these guys but we have way more weaponry.
http://www.funnyredneckjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/redneckspecialforces.jpg

One of my favorite Onion articles of all time:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year,377/


And the SEA connection from that story:

Originally posted by the onion
"Either Southerners will start improving themselves, or they'll be sold to middle-class Asians as pets."

The museums are cool but now that I've been to Europe many times, they just bore me much like our federal buildings and historic older buildings. Once you see stuff that is way, way older, what we offer loses its luster. But me and the missus trek the kids up there a good bit. In fact, I think my sister and I are taking the kids to the zoo in a week or two.

Paris is as cool as NYC and London if you haven't been there. I dig them snails and shit man. And Les Invalides is one of the best museums I've been to. Paris has just got a lot of Parisians in it is all.

I'd make a good pet tbh. Most folks trip out on my drawl.

dc's definitely got less than NYC...haven't been to europe really so can't comment much there. but i like the laid back feel of the city. i'm from california originally so it meshed pretty well with me, minus the snow

I live in NYC and really don't see myself every leaving.The souht can be cool in short doses, but I need concrete under my shoes to feel normal. NYC could be a little better if we had a no looking up for more than five seconds rule, and only once every five minutes. This would prevent tourists from stopping every step to look up again at the same skyscraper while people are trying to get to work or home from.

Originally posted by whatje
dc's definitely got less than NYC...haven't been to europe really so can't comment much there. but i like the laid back feel of the city. i'm from california originally so it meshed pretty well with me, minus the snow

I live in Europe for the past 17 years, and all I can say is that I agree with Boomy. Once you've been to London, Paris, Rome and so on... you get to realize the historical "insignificance" of a mere 235 years. Not that I dont have love for the States and their contributions, it's just on a relative short term scale. I live in Denmark, where we can date our Monarchy back to 965, over 1000 years...

That being said, each place in the world has its own special thing it brings to the table... historically and in regard to entertainment of other sorts. I know that I treasure the years I lived in California.

I spent some time in Prague, and I completely agree that it really puts "history" into perspective for people from the U.S.

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All I can say about this game is that we were looking ahead of the Hustlers toward the mini-Kai's. It's our super bowl. We'll have plenty of time to whoop up on the Hustlers next season.

Originally posted by Boomy DTD
The museums are cool but now that I've been to Europe many times, they just bore me much like our federal buildings and historic older buildings. Once you see stuff that is way, way older, what we offer loses its luster. But me and the missus trek the kids up there a good bit. In fact, I think my sister and I are taking the kids to the zoo in a week or two.

I don't know; I've spent time in a number of places in Europe and I still feel like DC is a beautiful city. Granted, I bike commute everyday through Arlington and The Mall, so I get to spend more time seeing the city than I would if I had to drive it everyday. The age and beauty of Europe is not without it's charms, but it is also full of old hates and suffering as well. I think I always try to keep that sense of wonder wherever I go.

When we stayed in a manor house in Ireland, after talking with the neighbors, our landlady remarked on how the "Kenney's have owned that land for 80 years and think they're landed gentry". Considering that's old money here in the States, the comment was extremely humorous for us.

What I really lament about DC is that it's lost much of it's quirky places (restaurants, book stores, CD shops, etc.) to mega chain stores and such. I love NYC because it has so many people crammed in a small area that it has stuff that caters to every desire; a friend once found a bookstore in NYC that only sold old Playboy magazines- that's it. In DC, the Chinese left China Town years ago, leaving TGIFridays and Hooters to move in and set up shop with their names written on their signs in Chinese characters.

Originally posted by

Paris is as cool as NYC and London if you haven't been there. I dig them snails and shit man. And Les Invalides is one of the best museums I've been to. Paris has just got a lot of Parisians in it is all.

I'd make a good pet tbh. Most folks trip out on my drawl.

I haven't done Paris yet, but I guess part of that is we're trying to hit crazier places when the wife and I are younger and have the energy to really go exploring. We tend to drop into a country, get a rental car, then drive around without a specific plan of where to stay. We've done the Czech Republic like that, done Greece (with a few places planned in advance, such as where we were staying in Rhodes, but otherwise no specific plans), Ireland (hitting megaliths and castles everywhere), England mostly southern England and out to Cornwall), the Yucatan (and down to Chiapas and the Guatemalan border), etc. Paris is one of those places were going to get to, but I think we'll probably end up spending more time driving around megalithic sites in France.

I went to Europe once.

When I got home I was sad.

Originally posted by Kirby
I went to Europe once.

When I got home I was sad.

Sounds like when I went to Australia. Girls there LOVE American men

Originally posted by vladykins
I haven't done Paris yet, but I guess part of that is we're trying to hit crazier places when the wife and I are younger and have the energy to really go exploring. We tend to drop into a country, get a rental car, then drive around without a specific plan of where to stay. We've done the Czech Republic like that, done Greece (with a few places planned in advance, such as where we were staying in Rhodes, but otherwise no specific plans), Ireland (hitting megaliths and castles everywhere), England mostly southern England and out to Cornwall), the Yucatan (and down to Chiapas and the Guatemalan border), etc. Paris is one of those places were going to get to, but I think we'll probably end up spending more time driving around megalithic sites in France.

I've been to Paris several times and the Northwest countryside once. It was quite a contrast and outside Paris, France reminds me of Virginia. Beautiful foliage, farmlands and yes, they even have their version of rednecks. They're very nice outside of Paris, which is an international city so you get that. But I'm a student of the Crusades so one of these days I'm gonna do the south of France and definitely trek to some Crusader strongholds and that kind of stuff. Some of the castles are remarkably preserved.

When I was in Northwest France, we visited a monument to WWI and behind it were the remains of a fortress that Godfrey de Bouillon built before he embarked on the 1st Crusade. That was the 2nd time the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

The first was in the outskirts of Vienna where we visited the Austrian war museum and there in one of the wings was the car that Franz Ferdinand traveled in, complete w/ a few bullet holes.

If you liked Ireland, you'd prolly enjoy Scotland, I haven't been to Ireland but me and the wife enjoyed Scotland. Only went for a couple days bundled around London but we liked it so much we wanna go back and do a week or so.

Weirdest place I've been was Budapest. I was drinking at a cafe, went inside to take a leak and the proprietor tried to convince me to book some whores w/ him. I was like, man all I want is a piss but that's good to know. I told my dad about it and he asked the dude who the chick was that was working there. He said it was his niece. So my dad told him he'd pay for her and would like to watch me do her (just fucking w/ the guy). He hesitated and then said he could hook it up! I should have found that place when I was young and single.

Originally posted by Destruction
Sounds like when I went to Australia. Girls there LOVE American men



this is no shit

I know man! I was 18 when I went there for an All-Star football game. You show up and you can drink legally and all the chicks LOVE you! I was there for a month and it's still one of the best times of my life. I've always wanted to go back.