Las Vegas-classic or dud?

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Strange that we haven't done this. Anyway, I want to go to LV or Disneyland for my birthday. I have been to both and love them.

FACT:In one of these places, I once danced around a pole inside a raised cage. Guess which one it was.

Also what is the ILX consensus on Las Vegas?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Go with an S.O. and stay at the Venetian. Classic.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

SUX

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Las Vegas for hipsters

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Vegas ills me out. I have an almost constant urge to cry for humanity when I'm there. It's tacky-bad.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

its fun for a few days. my gf managed to find all sorts of things to do that did not involve gambling or strippers. but she loves tacky-bad, so there you have it. BURgerPipes! i was disappointed i didnt see any elvis lookalikes though

― kephm, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a slight desire to go there just to check it out, but I'm pretty sure I'll hate it. Don't like gambling, don't like drunk tourists, don't like fake tackiness. And can someone please tell the Travel Channel to not run some stupid show about "Vegas, Baby!" 24/7? K thanks.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That's why retreat into the Venetian and have a non-tacky experience!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

How is a Cardboard Italy not tacky? (friendly question)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

er, have you ever stayed there? the rooms are insanely classy! marble floors, all suites, real furniture holay-molay!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. I'm going again in April for a (wealthy) friend's Bachelor RAGER, WHOOO YEAHHHHH!!! The mandatory boobie-related activities will be tolerable, but some good old-fashined drunken blackjack is what I'm looking forward to.

I like the extreme tack and excess of nu-Vegas. The tackiness is ceratinly not 'fake'. The Bellagio's art collection is just so wonderfully WRONG.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

or do both!

when we go back in a few months i want to explore the highways outside of the city more. the dead abandoned parts

xpost

― kephm, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually like Tackiness, but in Vegas it's just so unrelenting.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My take on Vegas

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care for Las Vegas - Reno is cooler.

I was walking between the Luxor and the Excalibur when this terrific wind arose... I looked around expecting to see a giant dragon fighting a baboon-faced Ra while an animatronic wizard cast balls of fire... But no, it was just a dust storm, pelting my eyes with grit and spinning Fritos bags in a grimy cyclone.

That's when I realized: "What the fuck am I doing in the stupid desert?" It was about 108* and very uncomfortable.

― andy, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oooo i lurve Reno, good call!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

however,
http://www.venetian.com/accommodations/index.cfm
beckons.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fitzgeraldsreno.com/media/images/luckyfood.jpg

Nevada does have awesome ghost towns and kick-axe buffets...

BUFFETS....

― andy, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I've never done the buffet thing actually. They've got some really good restaurants now, or else I am completely tacky and bring wine and cheese from Trader Joes and have a party on the room...

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Las Vegas for hipsters

I read this thread, but it does not work for me. I am no hipster! I am not jaded, I am naive! I have a scheduled bedtime! I have only two pairs of pants! I have a lot of stuffed animals! I carry a coffee flask! etc.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

hubba hubba

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.themirage.com/images/ent/photo_sarmoti.jpg

(Postponed until further notice)

― andy, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

hubba hubba

Of course, not all of that is true.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, on a distant IMAX / desert related note, has anyone seen "The Young Black Stallion" yet? I really want to smoke a bowl and check it out, Laserium-style.

― andy, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I love it, as I mentioned on the earlier thread that Gygax! linked to. I went every year for 6 years straight for March Madness, almost always one of the highlights of my year. Sadly, I'm gonna have to skip it this year.

Pretty much agree with the sentiments of Aaron A. Why visit Vegas at all if not to embrace the tackiness? That's entirely the point of it. It either appeals or it doesn't, I suppose. I certainly couldn't stay there for more than 3 days at a time (and by the third day you're pretty burnt out), but while there I have a blast.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I always get $30 worth of quarters, Everyone laughs at me when I go play slots, but I always come back with $200-$300 and they have all lost their shirts at roulette and cards. I love the way there is no time, no clocks, eternal awake-time. Diabolical!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

orbit, you are living the vega$ dream!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Go with an S.O. and stay at the Luxor.

Although the Algiers Hotel looked really great and rundown and had a wonderfully skeezy old-man bar.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my gf won hundreds of dollars playing the nickle slots!

xpost

― kephm, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

stay with Chr!s B@rrus at the Motel 6 waaayyy off the strip.

― loggedout (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I won $46 with a dime!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

chris barrus, ilx superstud.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

nah.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

*Ned* is the *true* ilx superstud.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Women want him, men want to be him.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

They're both pretty hot, like Brad and George in Ocean's Eleven. But dronerock.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never been to vegas with ned. i'm only speaking from experience here...

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@m, do you have anything you'd like to confess?

― loggedout (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

...and you'll admit it freely? have no no shame you little tramp? WHY have you not been to Vegas with Ned? Don't you know this is punishable offense?

xpost

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not a tramp.

― loggedout (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

nor little.

― loggedout (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

you too! mein gott!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@m, do you have anything you'd like to confess?

I wish!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, for all i know i'm missing out! give me time. (xpost)

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Las Vegas: Classic.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.quartzcity.net/albums/lasvegas-various/IMG_0640.sized.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR does Vegas?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

with my current S.O., yes.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Slot A'Fun

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What? Or are you just restating the obvious?

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

tee hee
hee
hee

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean the joke pretty much made itself with that pic, you're not any more clever for saying it.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a private joke, gal.
grow a sense of humor.
have a slice of pie.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

some days my sense of humor is the only thing keeping me alive

― haha pie is a euphemism for (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

was that a come-on? (x-post)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i got married there at the drive up window of a little chapel. so classic.
also the prostitutes have colour brochures.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

here, jody, have a whiskey sour.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

sure, looks like you've got enough "sour" to go around...

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i think she's sour enough already
(haha xpost)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My oh my.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

was that a come-on?

Haha, gygax!, you are a dirty old man.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

this is a vegas thread! were you expecting something less than sub-benny hill-isms?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

slots a fun!

http://www.kalfakis.gr/images/slot/pista2.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

cool!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: slots a' fun vs. burgerpipe

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

beware the food at slots o' fun... (i know i know, like anyone hear would ever be so brave).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

sure, looks like you've got enough "sour" to go around...

-- jody (jod...) (webmail), January 29th, 2004. (Jody Beth Rosen)

oo oo it's trying to insult me..oooo

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my favourite Vegas sights:
http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/widehoes.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! Excellent!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

But which casino has the "loosest slots"?

― Aaron A., Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That'd be O'Sheas.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the loosest slots were in Atlantic City...what say you?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i expected to really enjoy it because i like kitch in limited quantities, but it was a real low point of the road trip. we ended up spending less than 24 hours there-- arriving in time to check in to a hotel, cab it to the other end of the strip and walk back up, with a little gambling, drinking and denny's on the way.

we only had 2 fights on the whole trip, and vegas was one of them. pretty ugly.

i wouldn't want to go back, i've seen enough. although i am glad that i saw it and don't have the lingering 'oh, i should go there for a holiday for a weekend' feeling anymore.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

One night while we were walking along the strip, we decided to stop and booze up at one of the casino lounges. We were almost done with our first round when we spotted a band setting up on the small stage in the corner. They had propped a sandwich-board sign on the floor with a picture of the group and their name -- L.A. Style -- emblazoned across it with the kind of font you'd see on a paper diner placemat, advertising limo rentals for your high school prom. CKB/JBR mindmeld: "OK, one more round." Band was three people: two singers and a guy (the brains behind the group) with a cheap synth/sequencer setup. He was middle-aged, haggard... looked like someone who'd gotten a couple of paychecks as a studio/road scab 20 years ago but had since fallen on hard times. He kept to himself and didn't smile. Of the two singers, one was a thirtysomething black man resembling a thinner, smugger Al Roker, armed with a decent enough voice to carry the soul tunes, but we speculated that this wasn't a lifer, that he was just doing this on the side to pad out the income from his faltering get-rich-quick schemes. Second singer: dour, hardened, skimpy cocktail dress and heels, poss. ex-showgirl, poss. girlfriend of keyboard player, attractive and shiny-haired from a distance but closer up, weathered and leathery and barely masking at least five years of serious BAD LUCK with a veneer of lipstick and pancake. Her voice: blue-eyed soul with some low-alto operatic flourishes employed whenever she felt the material required them. The singers traded leads occasionally, but it was clearly the girl's show and Al Roker seemed happy doing harmonies and half-assed "dance moves."

We stayed for a few songs, but we really couldn't get through their (picture this) cover of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" with a straight face, and that's around the point where we took off.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the "James Brown is Dead" L.A. Style, right? My god.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the "James Brown is Dead" L.A. Style, right? My god.

Noooooooo. Just a shitty hotel-lobby cover band.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

did you throw change their way?

― kephm, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I WANT TO GO TO LV SO BAD!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to start an illicit slot car club in the vacant apartment above me.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Looks like I will be there for a day or so. Any suggestions? What's the weather like in November? Pool-side?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

tell me about sahara rancho?

― -- (688), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

ah, i see. what happens on sahara rancho, stays on sahara rancho. i should have known. don't worry, i won't tell;)

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

i am going there in a few weeks for work; cant WAIT

― GULLIBLE (Mandee), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

mandee, will you tell me all about it?

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, you didn't mean sahara rancho did you? :(

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

theres a HOOTERS casino now!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Why LV for work?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I like the town's grand quantity of indoor rollercoasters.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am still not really sure if going to Las Vegas was the worst or best experience of my life.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I AM TOTALLY GUTTED
my work trip to LV was CANCELLED today :(

― GULLIBLE (Mandee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

also lots of conventions are held in las vegas because its super cheap apparently, thats why work was sending me.

― GULLIBLE (Mandee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

i almost got married there once but decided against it as we were there for a friends wedding. poor form to get married the night before.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you would steal their thunder

― GULLIBLE (Mandee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

This old town is filled with sin
It'll swallow you in
If you've got some money to burn
Take it home right away
You've got three years to pay
And Satan is waiting his turn
The scientists say it'll all wash away
But we don't believe anymore
'Cause we've got our recruits
In their green mohair suits
So please show your I.D. at the door
Chorus:
This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poorhouse
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain
A fool came around tried to clean up this town
His ideas made some people mad
But he trusted in his crowd
So he spoke right out loud
And they lost the best friend they ever had
Chorus
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain

― Monogram of clouds (emekars), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

L.A. Style

i was thinking of l.a. style last night when that lisa stansfield "been around the world and ay-yi-yi" song came on the radio.

― tuesdays with maury povich (get bent), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

So I'm going for a bachelor party in a couple of weeks. I'm pretty terrified. However, we're staying in a couple of suites at the Signature MGM, which is something, no?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go to LV for the foodz. Incl. that Thai place that's supposed to be so good...Lotus of Siam?

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

'We got the letter from Las Vegas all right, and thought that between gambling (the most uninteresting of all vices: wine, women and murder I can understand, but roulette – the vapidity of it!) and the glaring hideousness of the decorations and surrounding desert and its neighbouring explosions, L.V was about the nearest thing to a nightmare we'd ever heard of. Did you like it'? – C.S. Lewis

― Abbott, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

WTF, who was he writing to?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, I found it from this interesting overview of vol. 3 of C.S. Lewis's correspondence.

― Abbott, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

It is the best summary of Vegas I have ever read.

― Abbott, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

SPELLING
Lewis was a professional pedant about language, so it is surprising to find him opposing spelling reform, not because it is newfangled, but because there is no particular reason why we should all spell words the same way.

'Who would be a penny the worse if though and tho, existence and existence, sieze, seize and seeze were all equally tolerated....This would save children and teachers thousand of hours' work. It would also force those to whom applications for jobs are made to exercise their critical faculties on the logic and vocabulary of the candidate instead of tossing his letter aside with the words 'can't even spell.'

― Abbott, Friday, 23 May 2008 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

RIP Danny Gans, I guess.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 May 2009 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i was there for a bachelor party weekend a couple months back and it was a pretty good time actually, but the economy might be hitting it hard because i don't remember there being so many nightclub and strip joint street teamers wandering around trying to hand out business cards. i felt like as the night would go on, the sales pitches would get more and more intense?

"want to see a show?"
"hey, whaddya say, how bout a strip show?"
"hey, wanna see some titties?"
"hey, we got tits and pussy, come on."
"want a pussy in your face? want some tits in your mouth? come on, check this place."
"these girls will let you do anything? want to come? no? okay, FAG."
"hey pussy, you a faggot or something? only a faggot wouldn't want to see these titties and all this pussy."

― omar little, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

Being taunted into forced heterosexual activities by questioning sexuality as a promotional gimmick seems poor form, even for Las Vegas.

― mh, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

“It’s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly. Unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they’re still building, which is stupid.”

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

Being of, cough, Italian extraction, I expected to have fun and did have fun. However, it was for a wedding and all my family was there.

My favorite thing, though, was that it was scorching hot - over 100 F every day they were there. We stayed on the quiet family-friendly side. Frankly I liked the alien landscape surrounding the town. I liked listening to the Jewel and getting teary.

The Catholic Church where the wedding was had this giant baptismal "font", the size of a wading pool. Desert culture sure is exotic.

It seemed pretty liberal, but as you can see above, there is a dodgy side that is quaint to this easterner. I don't mean quaint in a nice way. I mean real greaseballs. Whereas pimps I've seen are jaded and bored.

― Maps of Ohio I Have Loved (I M Losted), Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:22 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

Is Vegas kind of bleh in December? I saw some good package flight/hotel deals for the Venitian, which above seems to have gotten a big endorsement, albeit 10 years ago. Was thinking about taking the fam for a non-gambling Vegas trip. Neither me nor my wife has ever been, and I don't think my toddler has either.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 02:46 (eleven years ago)

december is a good time to go, the weather should be alright

― iatee, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:50 (eleven years ago)

the venetian is okay but you are giving sheldon adelson your money

― iatee, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:52 (eleven years ago)

Is there a George Soros or warren buffet owned resort I can stay in instead?

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 03:01 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

A good friend of ours, one of the nicest guys we know, has decided to go all-in cliche with a 40th Vegas birthday, and nothing could bum me out more. It would require taking off work, flying, getting an overnight sitter for kids (them too), all in service of a weekend of imo lame. Promises of drinking (can do anywhere), gambling (don't want to do) and no doubt ample karaoke (anywhere) and joking about going to strip clubs (barf, and not just because the trip includes spouses). They're even adding "baby!' to the end of sentences in the invitation. It's just kind of sad to me. I know they'll have a good time, but it's a bummer knowing at least half of our core group of friends just won't go, on principal and in practice, and the other half is totally able to embrace the party-hardy inanity of Vegas, so no doubt the core group of friends will be divided between us staying behind and those taking home lots of nudge-nudge, wink-wink. Insult to injury is that it's in early summer, so it won't even be cold in Chicago anymore.

I don't know, man. Why do people go to Vegas? It's just a bad, ugly place that symbolizes a lot of bad, ugly things vis a vis a lot of bad, ugly people. And bad, ugly, rich people, too. Yeah, my opinion, my baggage, and I do get it, but still. Just had to vent.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2016 13:39 (ten years ago)

A friend of mine got married in Vegas last weekend, and she said the Elvis-led ceremony and the marriage itself are the only things she doesn't regret about the experience. She wanted Vegas to be cheezy, I think, and got blown away by how fratty and porny it is.

― Three Word Username, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:25 (ten years ago)

vegas is fun for 24 hrs max after which pt it's just one big nasty ash tray hangover. at least there aren't dudes handing out hooker ads on the corner of every pedestrian thoroughfare anymore

― if pizza is wrong, i don't want to be right (art), Friday, 8 January 2016 15:29 (ten years ago)

I kept my focus on food and poker and enjoyed my short stay.

― WilliamC, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:33 (ten years ago)

The hooker ads abounded when I first visited at like 11 or so, in the 80s; I totally collected them, though even back then I recall overlooking the sexuality and heading straight to kitsch value. Now, man, it just seems a conflation of the worst America has to offer. It's dirty, ugly, filled with frat guys and sleaze and people walking down the street yelling "wooo!" And all in service of different extremes of conspicuous consumption divided sharply along class lines. The high roller rooms and tables, the cheap motels and doller slots. The all you can eat buffet, and some of the best, priciest restaurants in the country. Like I noted, even the weather isn't a good sell this time around.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:48 (ten years ago)

Dollar, whoops.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:49 (ten years ago)

dud

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:39 (ten years ago)

dud

― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:44 (ten years ago)

the duddiest of duds, nightmarish

― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 January 2016 19:49 (ten years ago)

it was probably fun in the 60s

― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 January 2016 19:50 (ten years ago)

i can have fun there, it's still dud, though

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:54 (ten years ago)

the amount of british people who have visited the u.s. multiple times and only been to florida and vegas is truly saddening.

― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:58 (ten years ago)

i had fun the last time i went (cf my last post in this thread a few years ago) but it's such a dud city. my memories of that weekend actually don't involve much of the fun i was having but the depressing things i witnessed.

― nomar, Friday, 8 January 2016 20:03 (ten years ago)

You all are making me feel much better about my decision not to go, thanks.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2016 20:50 (ten years ago)

as an energy efficiency guy I kinda can't even deal with the amount of waste in that city, it's insane

― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 January 2016 20:52 (ten years ago)

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