JULY CHAT: How the hell is 2018 halfway over already

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Somewhat Heroic: Oct 11, 2007; (Insert Mad Max related text)

Make sure to hit all of the National parks in southern Utah before you move somewhere else. They are breathtaking and there are some amazing roads to drive.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:08

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ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

I just drove through Utah. The only way natl parks there could be less interesting is if they were red and flat instead of red and vertical. Red wasteland.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:12

ExplodingSims: Aug 17, 2010; RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE

Yeah, I went to Zion and did a drive through a few weeks ago, and I'm going to be heading back soon to do some proper exploration there.
I've wanted to visit there ever since I heard about it in New Vegas, and it is the pretty much the most incredible place I've ever been to. It the mountains, the colors, everything there is so incredible.
In the Trukk thread I posted about passing through there, and it was easily my favorite part of the trip. If it wasn't run by Mormons I'd almost consider moving there.

And yeah, the Northwest is my current goal. Probably going to end up in Oregon though. Looks incredible there and nice and green.
Which is something I very much miss seeing.

ilkhan posted:

I just drove through Utah. The only way natl parks there could be less interesting is if they were red and flat instead of red and vertical. Red wasteland.

How do you so consistently have the worst takes in this thread? :allears:

ExplodingSims fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 10, 2018

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:13

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

spog posted:

Britgoons: it's been a funny few days, hasn't it?

Exactly how many more need to resign before we wake up one morning with someone else in charge and nobody breathes a word of Brexit ever again?

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:17

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

Can't pump your own gas in Oregon unless you live in a small county I guess? Always freaked me out going through there.

Beautiful state with a shameful history that they're thankfully kind of fixing.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:20

ExplodingSims: Aug 17, 2010; RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE

I forgot about the gas pumping thing, but yeah, the scenery there looks amazing. I pretty much always go in the store when I pump gas anyways though, so, :shrug:

The coastline there looks amazing though. I'm trying to plan a longer trip out the Portland later this year to try and get a feel for the place.

And yeah, the white supremacist enclaves that apparently live out there kinda freaked me out. But it seems like people are really starting to push back against that.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:24

ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

ExplodingSims posted:

How do you so consistently have the worst takes in this thread?

80-SLC-15-89-6-191-70 was the path. Lots of red rocks. Some impressive cliffs/hillsides/whatever, but mostly just red rocks. It'd be cool if you're into red rocks.

Ouray combined those rock formations with green trees, and that was beautiful.

ilkhan fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Jul 10, 2018

# ? Jul 10, 2018 06:50

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Roof damage seems to be limited to probably a dozen cracked tiles at most, and some of the flashing got torn off.

IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 10, 2018

# ? Jul 10, 2018 07:02

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

In celebration of MGS's corrected vital data and new avatar...

(sorry, I like groove armada...)

ExplodingSims posted:

Nah, I'm not heading back to FL.

Vegas was always just supposed to be a stepping stone to get out the the west. The opportunity just presented itself here, a (What I thought) was a good job, a place to stay without rent, etc.= so I could save up to move out to the Northwest or something. Just intended to be here for a year or two.

But Vegas itself just isn't for me. I don't really care for the city itself. It just kinda feels like a big Disneyland. Everything that's cool or old or interesting gets bulldozed to make way for something new and gaudy.
Plus I think I just don't like the desert.

The desert has one perk - no humidity. Saying this as someone who spent 19 years in the desert anyway. I grew up with swamp coolers, I didn't really get to experience actual air conditioning until I was 12 (when my parents bought a house with real a/c). Even the schools I went to used swamp coolers.

I'm loving over DFW. I'm sick of driving 45 minutes to get to, well, anywhere that's not a grocery store. You can't even tell what city you're in half the time. Austin's a decently big city too, but Austin metro population is a mere 2 million, compared to nearly 7 million in DFW. (I just need to make sure I avoid I-35 even more than I do now)

IOwnCalculus posted:

Roof damage seems to be limited to probably a dozen cracked tiles at most, and some of the flashing got torn off.

Oh god that's one thing I don't miss about the desert... tile roofs. Looks awesome, and I get that it's the most common roofing material in some areas, but it gets expensive once hail comes through.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 08:22

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Exactly how many more need to resign before we wake up one morning with someone else in charge and nobody breathes a word of Brexit ever again?

It pretty much feels like this would be the best option.

But I think if it goes down the pan, we'll end up with either a SuperHardBrexit version of the Conservatives, or Corbyn's Labour.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 08:24

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

InitialDave posted:

It pretty much feels like this would be the best option.

But I think if it goes down the pan, we'll end up with either a SuperHardBrexit version of the Conservatives, or Corbyn's Labour.

So a choice between the political equivalent of a pint of diarrhea and a pint of yeasty piss, gotcha.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 08:48

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

cakesmith handyman posted:

So a choice between the political equivalent of a pint of diarrhea and a pint of yeasty piss, gotcha.

Are the Green Party still a thing? Can we vote for them instead?

# ? Jul 10, 2018 09:05

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I'd genuinely forgotten them, haven't seen them on a ballot paper in my adult life unfortunately.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 09:16

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Amerigoons:

To help you understand what we are going through, our ruling part is/was composed of people who literally cannot stand up straight:

And this man:

Who is an idiot pretending to be a smart guy pretending to be an idiot pretending to be a smart guy

And this guy who appears to have arrived from the 18th century who is anti-EU, anit-abortion, anti-gay rights, inherited �100M, is a fan of offshore tax havens and has 6 kids:

Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg (b. 2007)
Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg (b. 2008)
Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg (b. 2010)
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg (b. 2012)
Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg (b. 22 February 2016)
Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg (b. July 2017)

# ? Jul 10, 2018 09:28

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

spog posted:

And this man:

Who is an idiot pretending to be a smart guy pretending to be an idiot pretending to be a smart guy

"Oh I'm just Boris Johnson, man of the people!"

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, related to essentially every royal family in Europe over the past 400 years.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 09:52

bolind: Jun 19, 2005; Pillbug

Memento posted:

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, related to essentially every royal family in Europe over the past 400 years.

Ah, the inbreeding explains a lot.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 09:56

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

Warren Ellis put it best from his newsletter the day after the vote.

quote:

I've spent the last couple of days wondering what the hell I'm going to say here. As most of you know, my country voted to leave the European Union.

Jo Cox, foreign aid worker, anti-slavery activist and MP, was shot in the face, shot twice more and then stabbed multiple times by a man who gave his name in court as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain." Vote Leave repeatedly flew a plane trailing the slogan banner "Take Control #VoteLeave" over her memorial in London. On the night of Leave's victory, UKIP leader Nigel Farage claimed to have won a war of independence "without a single bullet being fired."

Yes, I'm furious, still.

Ex-commodity broker Farage, inspired to enter politics by Enoch Powell and as cartoonishly-drawn an incipient Fascist leader as could be imagined, is gleefully informing people that Leave promises like 350 million a week put into the National Health Service were bare-faced lies and that he still intends to push for its dismantlement. The EU exit does not block future immigration, and towns like Sunderland that voted Leave experience around a quarter of the average immigration rate per capita. (Sunderland's massive swing for Leave is put down to one of the region's major employers, Nissan, writing to its employees suggesting they may want to consider Remain because something like half their output is sold into the EU.)

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (yes, you read that right) is likely to be the next Prime Minister - while Farage claims Brexit as a defeat of the elite by "ordinary. decent people," he has been an instrument in placing a man related to most of the royal families of Europe and educated in Brussels and Eton into power.

The EU is moving to punish us. Technically, the legal instrument to commence our exit from the EU doesn't have to be triggered for some time -- in fact, some legal voices say there's not actually a basis to trigger it at all. But it seems the EU intend to punitively fast-track British exit in order that other member states get a good look at what happens when you gently caress up this badly.

Immigration is what makes this country great. Always has been. Free movement is what has allowed millions of British people to live and work in Europe. Kind of nervous about showing my face in Berlin or Paris now, to be honest with you.

Scotland want to negotiate their own stay in the EU, which is unlikely, as then it opens up the possibility of, say, the Basque region or Catalonia deciding they might like their own status with the EU as a precursor to another move for independence from Spain.

I confess to still not being completely rational about all this.

The Labour Party's defense of Remain was, frankly, somewhat half-hearted and somewhat stumbling, and now leader Jeremy Corbyn is dealing with movements to remove him by apparently setting up an auto-da-fe that seems quite likely to burn the current party structure to the ground.

And, hey, Sunday morning, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks she sees a way to veto the exit. Concerns about rising hate speech. Leave campaign may not have had a post-win plan. Increases in hate speech reported. Rumblings of Corbyn planning to have ex-PM Tony Blair imminently investigated for war crimes, triggering a Blairite coup. Schisms in EU about speed of exit. Everything is happening very fast right now, and some of what I've said above may be about to change, and may already have changed by the time this reaches you.

I would love to have something brilliantly clever to say about all this, or even warmly comforting, but I am feeling neither clever nor comfortable.

Perhaps I may sleep under Glastonbury Tor until Albion needs me again.

At least you never got Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, out of it.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 10:04

Suburban Dad: Jan 10, 2007; Well what's attached to a leash that it made itself?
The punchline is the way that you've been fuckin' yourself

At least misery loves company ( :911:

politics).

Considering a new username. I will take suggestions and pit them against what I already have in mind.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 12:48

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

Larrymer posted:

At least misery loves company ( politics).

Considering a new username. I will take suggestions and pit them against what I already have in mind.

Punctuation Princess

:haw:

# ? Jul 10, 2018 12:54

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

spog posted:

Britgoons: it's been a funny few days, hasn't it?

Yesterday was pretty incredible.

Today's been fun too because I found out this was a thing...

# ? Jul 10, 2018 13:09

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Larrymer posted:

At least misery loves company ( politics).

The cretins are winning.
It's bad when, some days, I wish I were as stupid as the rest of the country seems to be, then I wouldn't care, or at least could have my opinions dictated to me.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 15:50

Somewhat Heroic: Oct 11, 2007; (Insert Mad Max related text)

ilkhan posted:

I just drove through Utah. The only way natl parks there could be less interesting is if they were red and flat instead of red and vertical. Red wasteland.

An incredibly bad take and I typically don't get too flustered by your posting

From our little excursion down to Zion last year. This is the best photo I had from my phone handy to upload to imgur.

Canyonlands NP and Capitol Reef are :discourse:

as well.

ExplodingSims posted:

In the Trukk thread I posted about passing through there, and it was easily my favorite part of the trip. If it wasn't run by Mormons I'd almost consider moving there.

Eeeeeeh we're not all that bad.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 15:51

Adiabatic: Nov 18, 2007; What have you assholes done now?

ilkhan posted:

I just drove through Utah. The only way natl parks there could be less interesting is if they were red and flat instead of red and vertical. Red wasteland.

This is it. This is the one I ban you for.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 15:55

bolind: Jun 19, 2005; Pillbug

Is there a tablet with a SIM slot that�s a good candidate for a car GPS? I�m thinking to run google maps and not much else. Unless there�s a kickass dash cam combo I�m overlooking.

Edit: something like a 7�-10� screen.

bolind fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Jul 10, 2018

# ? Jul 10, 2018 16:00

builds character: Jan 16, 2008; Keep at it.

ilkhan posted:

I just drove through Utah. The only way natl parks there could be less interesting is if they were red and flat instead of red and vertical. Red wasteland.

At first I thought hey, maybe you're red-green colorblind and this all just looks like sort of neat brown rocks to you. But then....

ilkhan posted:

80-SLC-15-89-6-191-70 was the path. Lots of red rocks. Some impressive cliffs/hillsides/whatever, but mostly just red rocks. It'd be cool if you're into red rocks.

Ouray combined those rock formations with green trees, and that was beautiful.

I never would have guessed that Utah being pretty was the best way to troll AI.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 16:06

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

I've been to Utah and it's got some amazing landscapes. It was also the place that 15yr old me saw the most beautiful woman in the world.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 16:17

builds character: Jan 16, 2008; Keep at it.

Not sure this is the right place for it, but I thought this was interesting, even if not a ton of new information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLVFa8YRfM

# ? Jul 10, 2018 17:14

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

Darchangel posted:

The cretins are winning.
It's bad when, some days, I wish I were as stupid as the rest of the country seems to be, then I wouldn't care, or at least could have my opinions dictated to me.

After watching the Vietnam War documentary, nothing the government/politicians did or will do can surprise me anymore, it's just business as usual.

You think it's bad now, watch the doc and see just how close our country was to completely coming apart because of idiots in the white house.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 17:32

Geoj: May 28, 2008; BITTER POOR PERSON

Applebees Appetizer posted:

You think it's bad now, watch the doc and see just how close our country was to completely coming apart because of idiots in the white house.

Or skip the documentary and watch it happening in real time!

# ? Jul 10, 2018 18:39

meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

EVERYWHERE
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

Geoj posted:

Or skip the documentary and watch it happening in real time!

There is no counterargument to the above statement.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 18:43

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

Geoj posted:

Or skip the documentary and watch it happening in real time!

Well yeah, just saying it's been done before and will continue to be done.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 19:10

ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

Adiabatic posted:

This is it. This is the one I ban you for.

Lol.

The views were impressive, don't get me wrong. Cliffsides and hillsides of water and glacier carved views. 300+ miles of it, though? I'll take more variation than that.

# ? Jul 10, 2018 19:27

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Best National Park is this National Park

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=37.092978&lon=-115.851860&z=12&m=b&show=/25827376/Yucca-Flat&search=Nevada%20National%20Security

# ? Jul 10, 2018 20:04

Geoj: May 28, 2008; BITTER POOR PERSON

ilkhan posted:

Lol.

The views were impressive, don't get me wrong. Cliffsides and hillsides of water and glacier carved views. 300+ miles of it, though? I'll take more variation than that.

Sorry that billions of years of random erosion doesn't suit your aesthetic tastes...?

# ? Jul 10, 2018 20:06