Surrounded by Quebecois.
ASK ME ANYTHING!
Did you scream "Vive le Québec Libre!" yet?
No. But im about to punch their rude, red maple leaf asses across the border.
The bus is already running late. FFS.
NO CANADIAN CUTS ME IN LINE! THIS IS WAR!
this is what you get for leaving America.
I'm not! I'm going to Burlington!
Also its worse than I thought. I saw their passports. They're FRENCH. Really real from France French! That explains the rudeness, because Canadians aren't that nasty.
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2009, 04:49:48 AM
The bus is already running late. FFS.
Did you expect any different?
Besides the Quebecois, are there any crazy-eyed people who smell like pee? Chatty old lady with oversized trench coat, hat decorated with plastic flowers? Guy in the corner muttering frightening things to himself?
Nah. I only get those on the bus to NYC. The crazies never take this line because the commies in NH and VT will eat them.
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2009, 05:24:48 AM
I'm not! I'm going to Burlington!
so, like I said...that's what you get for leaving America.
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2009, 05:24:48 AM
I'm not! I'm going to Burlington!
Why are you taking a five hour bus ride just to get to a coat factory?
Take a shit in a bag. When someone questions you, just explain that it's OK because you're an America and we do this sort of thing all the time in America. Then hand them the bag, smile and tell them they're welcome.
Vermont is still America! No matter what the Red Leafs say! Quacking fucks, get off my bus!
Where the fuck is the driver? Its bad enough we're an hour late already. GS won't be happy waiting for me.
Oh why HELLO hot Vermont police officer...
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2009, 08:15:46 AM
Vermont is still America! No matter what the Red Leafs say! Quacking fucks, get off my bus!
listen, I
live in America and I can guaran-goddamn-tee that this "Vermont", as you say, is NOT part of America.
Suu is on a long bus trip (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LongBusTrip)?
Quote from: Cain on December 13, 2009, 02:44:52 PM
Suu is on a long bus trip (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LongBusTrip)?
... and she was never heard from again.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on December 13, 2009, 06:16:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 13, 2009, 02:44:52 PM
Suu is on a long bus trip (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LongBusTrip)?
... and she was never heard from again.
... because she got linked to TVTropes and spent the rest of her existence reading it. :argh!:
Sorry. I'M distracted by Long Trail Hibernator and snow.
After a total of 26 hours in Burlington, I'm taking a shower, catching the city bus downtown and back to the Greyhound. There won't be as many Red Leafs this time. Not on a Monday afternoon. The last time I took this schedule we got stuck in White River Junction, again, and were delayed almost an hour. Good thing I wasn't planning on connecting to the bus to Providence.
Maybe, just maybe, it'll be on time and I can be back at 6. Then I'm going to see if Trav wants to go to the mall, because I'm in no significant rush to go home to the housemates, who are all pissed at GS again and apparently pissed at me em since they assume they're my parents, I'm 10 years old, and I need to tell them when I decide to do things like randomly take off to Vermont on a whim because I'm obviously not an adult. At all.
there are far too many upstanding citizens of PD.com who are forced to live with douchenozzles.
We need to revisit the PD.commune idea.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on December 14, 2009, 05:41:02 PM
there are far too many upstanding citizens of PD.com who are forced to live with douchenozzles.
We need to revisit the PD.commune idea.
Fuck yes. Then you can all see my hairy glory as I walk around nekkid.
TGRR,
Only wears clothes because the police make me.
The bus, eh?
Watch out for men with machetes, and never but NEVER close your eyes.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on December 14, 2009, 05:41:02 PM
there are far too many upstanding citizens of PD.com who are forced to live with douchenozzles.
We need to revisit the PD.commune idea.
Agreed. Still good odds that in person we'll all be douchenozzles who will get on each other's nerves, but it would be fun up until we loose patience for each other.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 14, 2009, 05:51:00 PM
The bus, eh?
Watch out for men with machetes, and never but NEVER close your eyes.
Oh shit, I just remembered that story about that Canadian bus dude.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/2008/08/11/pf-6413481.html
QuoteNathan Carlson has barely slept since July 30.
"Ever since it happened, I haven't been able to get it out of my head," Carlson says haltingly. "I just don't know what to think of it, quite frankly."
The Edmonton ethno-historian is one of the world's leading experts on Windigo phenomenon, and the recent horrific beheading and alleged cannibalism on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg from Edmonton rocked him to his very core.
As the grisly details of Tim McLean's last moments on Earth came to light in the following days, Carlson sank deeper and deeper into a fog of horror and revulsion.
Vince Weiguang Li is accused of abruptly attacking McLean, who by all accounts he didn't even know -- while McLean slept on the bus.
Up until a few days before the killing, Li held a part- time job delivering newspapers in Edmonton. He was well thought-of by his boss and considered a nice guy, if a bit quiet and shy.
On July 20 -- just 10 days before the killing -- Li delivered copies of the Sun that contained an extensive interview with Carlson about his research into the Windigo, a terrifying creature in native mythology that has a ravenous appetite for human flesh. It could take possession of people and turn them into cannibalistic monsters.
The two-page feature talked about how, in the late 1800s and into the 20th century, Windigo "encounters" haunted communities across northern Alberta and resulted in dozens of gruesome deaths.
In one case, a Cree trapper named Swift Runner was hanged after admitting to killing and eating his wife, children, brother and mother in the woods northeast of Edmonton in the winter of 1878-79.
Prior to being charged with murder, he had suffered screaming fits and nightmares, which he attributed to being possessed by a Windigo.
In several other cases, people banded together and killed individuals they feared were possessed by a Windigo. Often, they would decapitate the corpse and bury the head separate from the body in order to keep it from rising from the dead.
Carlson documented several cases in northern Alberta communities where people believing they were "turning Windigo" would go into convulsions, make terrifying animal sounds and beg their captors to kill them before they started eating people.
In last month's bus case, Li allegedly butchered McLean's body, brandishing the victim's severed head at the men who trapped him on the bus until police could arrive.
He was later accused of eating McLean's flesh.
When he appeared in a Portage La Prairie courthouse on charges of second-degree murder, the only words Li reportedly uttered were pleas for someone to kill him.
A lot of his reported behaviour eerily mirrors the Windigo cases recounted in the newspaper feature that Li helped deliver to Edmonton homes just days before McLean was killed, one of the most gruesome slayings in modern Canadian history.
Several media reports called McLean's killing unprecedented - an unspeakable, random attack the likes of which has never been seen in Canada.
But Carlson knows better.
"There are just too many parallels," he says.
"I can't say there's definite connection, but there are just too many coincidences.
"It's beyond eerie."
I'd be interested in a Discordian commune, but only if I could get the assurance I wouldn't have to actually associate with any of you.
Quote from: LMNO on December 14, 2009, 06:10:16 PM
I'd be interested in a Discordian commune, but only if I could get the assurance I wouldn't have to actually associate with any of you.
I propose that we set up the commune such that none of us live within a mile of each other, ideally with our dwelling set many miles apart.
Oh wait...
Quote from: LMNO on December 14, 2009, 06:10:16 PM
I'd be interested in a Discordian commune, but only if I could get the assurance I wouldn't have to actually associate with any of you.
Why not? We'd have fun. You can drive, and I'll shoot stop signs from the passenger seat.
Because, much like this forum, there's a good chance I can only stand 8 hours a day with you spags. :lol:
Quote from: LMNO on December 14, 2009, 06:16:52 PM
Because, much like this forum, there's a good chance I can only stand 8 hours a day with you spags. :lol:
It usually takes 10-24 hours to get bailed out.
Just saying.
TGRR,
Has experience in these matters.
I am a great housemate for antisocial people.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 14, 2009, 06:36:21 PM
I am a great housemate for antisocial people.
I am a great housemate, in that I am a clean freak and I pay my bills.
Other than that, I'm a horrorshow.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 06:37:43 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 14, 2009, 06:36:21 PM
I am a great housemate for antisocial people.
I am a great housemate, in that I am a clean freak and I pay my bills.
Other than that, I'm a horrorshow.
I am not a clean freak. Unfortunately, I am a cleaner freak than any housemate I have ever had, which really reflects more on them than on me.
And I pay my bills.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 14, 2009, 06:41:25 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 06:37:43 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 14, 2009, 06:36:21 PM
I am a great housemate for antisocial people.
I am a great housemate, in that I am a clean freak and I pay my bills.
Other than that, I'm a horrorshow.
I am not a clean freak. Unfortunately, I am a cleaner freak than any housemate I have ever had, which really reflects more on them than on me.
And I pay my bills.
I'm not a clean freak about other peoples' shit (though I will not live in a pigsty), just about my own.
This is fortunate, given the sort of trash I generate, and what some of my possessions are.
I'm totally not easy to live with. At all. But I'm not a slob, either. Just bitchy. :lol:
I enjoy spending a good chunk of my time alone, either reading or working on music.
Not that I'm a shut in. I can be quite fun at parties, but as I get older, it takes more effort.
LMNO
-suspects that this contributes to his lack of networking contacts.
Quote from: LMNO on December 14, 2009, 07:02:49 PM
I enjoy spending a good chunk of my time alone, either reading or working on music.
Not that I'm a shut in. I can be quite fun at parties, but as I get older, it takes more effort.
LMNO
-suspects that this contributes to his lack of networking contacts.
You have to force yourself to get out and about. Otherwise, the circles you move in get smaller and smaller, until one day you wake up and you don't actually KNOW anybody.
I try to meet at least 3 new people a week. I never see most of them again, but I still wind up knowing a ton of people, and the odds of having a good time get better and better.
Bills must are paid or cash set aside before I have any fun out of a paycheck. Money for the upkeep budget and saving too. This is how I keep out of debt. Credit cards are only for emergencies.
Other than that, my living spaces and workspace usually get a degree of OCD - esque clutter. The exception to this is most tool purposes will keep to their own bag / box / storage place, and each project gets a box to ease sorting of bits and peices later on.
Sink, Stove, foor prep space and my cooking knives I am anal about. Though I resist picking up after others, I keep these at least partially clear so I can find my implements and use them when needed.
But... Books are usually more interesting than people!
\
:x
Quote from: LMNO on December 14, 2009, 07:48:41 PM
But... Books are usually more interesting than people!
\
:x
WRONG. People are the greatest show on Earth, once you learn to pay attention. Most people have been conditioned since birth to NOT SEE just how weird everyone around them is. Hell, I can't even go to the damn courthouse without meeting Zalgo in the bathroom. It's there, you just have to look.
MASSACHUSETTS JUST WELCOMED ME AND WE CROSSED THE MERRIMACK FOR THE 5TH TIME. PLEASE ADVISE.
Massachusetts is trying to trick you. Proceed with extreme caution, and don't accept any blankets.
Quote from: Suu on December 14, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
MASSACHUSETTS JUST WELCOMED ME AND WE CROSSED THE MERRIMACK FOR THE 5TH TIME. PLEASE ADVISE.
GET THE MONITOR AND SINK THE BASTARD.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 07:08:47 PM
I try to meet at least 3 new people a week. I never see most of them again, but I still wind up knowing a ton of people, and the odds of having a good time get better and better.
Ooh, that's a good one, I"m gonna try and hold on that for a while.
I'm not old yet, but I have sort of been feeling my circles getting smaller due to what should pass as "getting on with my life" or something. Resulting in mostly being tired a lot.
So the bus was actually ON TIME...But I had to pee so I missed my 5pm train. On the 5:40 now after a bite from McDonalds. Bad idea. MBTA will be able to run the train on the gas I'm about to produce.
I attempted some pictures. But the bus windows were filthy with salt (Until White River when it got hosed down). Snow amounts varied from practically nothing in Burlington to easily a foot+ in Montpelier up in the Greens.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0333.jpg) The peak of Camel's Hump was obstructed by fog. For a clear picture of Camel's Hump from about the same spot a few weeks ago, see also: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0216.jpg
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0334.jpg) Partially frozen Connecticut River.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0335.jpg) Whaleback ski slopes in NH. From what I understand with talking with someone on the bus that those are the Double Black Diamond runs right in the front. I did see part of Killington, aka "The Beast" from a distance, which was also obstructed by fog, and their slopes are almost the entire side of the damn mountain. Not that I really care, because I don't ski and have no intention of learning. Also, I have no idea WTF that smudge is, I think it may have been my reflection on some water on the window.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0327.jpg) You can buy wine in the grocery store in Vermont, which you can't do in Rhode Island, but I really just wanted this for ha-ha purposes. Ha.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0329.jpg) Cheese, bitch.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 09:20:38 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 14, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
MASSACHUSETTS JUST WELCOMED ME AND WE CROSSED THE MERRIMACK FOR THE 5TH TIME. PLEASE ADVISE.
GET THE MONITOR AND SINK THE BASTARD.
(http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/TGRR/Monitor_Merrimack_Battle1.jpg)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 01:40:55 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 09:20:38 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 14, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
MASSACHUSETTS JUST WELCOMED ME AND WE CROSSED THE MERRIMACK FOR THE 5TH TIME. PLEASE ADVISE.
GET THE MONITOR AND SINK THE BASTARD.
(http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/TGRR/Monitor_Merrimack_Battle1.jpg)
:mittens:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 01:40:55 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 14, 2009, 09:20:38 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 14, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
MASSACHUSETTS JUST WELCOMED ME AND WE CROSSED THE MERRIMACK FOR THE 5TH TIME. PLEASE ADVISE.
GET THE MONITOR AND SINK THE BASTARD.
(http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/TGRR/Monitor_Merrimack_Battle1.jpg)
:lulz:
Also, still the wrong White River, Suu! :argh!:
Quote from: Suu on December 15, 2009, 01:18:27 AM
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image0329.jpg) Cheese, bitch.
I POOMPED!
I never realize how "lucky" (? is that the right word?) we are in this state and our neighboring states that we don't have to rush around to different stores to buy our booze. Grocery stores have everything, always, so do pharmacies, and liquor stores ABOUND. So bizarre to me to go to other states (Canuckistan I forgave because shit, it's a whole nuther country and all) and be locked out of a liquor store (NOT WINE AND BEER STORE JUST LIQUOR) because of the time of day and day of the week.
Ah, laws of state.
Quote from: Jenne on December 16, 2009, 02:40:29 PM
I never realize how "lucky" (? is that the right word?) we are in this state and our neighboring states that we don't have to rush around to different stores to buy our booze. Grocery stores have everything, always, so do pharmacies, and liquor stores ABOUND. So bizarre to me to go to other states (Canuckistan I forgave because shit, it's a whole nuther country and all) and be locked out of a liquor store (NOT WINE AND BEER STORE JUST LIQUOR) because of the time of day and day of the week.
Ah, laws of state.
Scotland excels in this one area. All stores are required, not just by law but by actual motherfuckin divine mandate, to sell booze. Grocery stores, off-licenses, convenience stores, fishing and hunting suppliers, tailors, butchers, bakers ... all of them. Like this one time a woman goes into mothercare, looking for nappies (diapers) and gets told - "sorry miss we don't stock them cos we don't have enough room, what with all this booze we have" and the woman started complaining and the police came and beat her about the head and told her "quit your fucken whining, biotch and just buy your baby some of this motherfucken fine booze instead"
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2009, 02:50:54 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 16, 2009, 02:40:29 PM
I never realize how "lucky" (? is that the right word?) we are in this state and our neighboring states that we don't have to rush around to different stores to buy our booze. Grocery stores have everything, always, so do pharmacies, and liquor stores ABOUND. So bizarre to me to go to other states (Canuckistan I forgave because shit, it's a whole nuther country and all) and be locked out of a liquor store (NOT WINE AND BEER STORE JUST LIQUOR) because of the time of day and day of the week.
Ah, laws of state.
Scotland excels in this one area. All stores are required, not just by law but by actual motherfuckin divine mandate, to sell booze. Grocery stores, off-licenses, convenience stores, fishing and hunting suppliers, tailors, butchers, bakers ... all of them. Like this one time a woman goes into mothercare, looking for nappies (diapers) and gets told - "sorry miss we don't stock them cos we don't have enough room, what with all this booze we have" and the woman started complaining and the police came and beat her about the head and told her "quit your fucken whining, biotch and just buy your baby some of this motherfucken fine booze instead"
I feel horrible because that story made me laugh, but I think you wanted me to, so now I don't feel so bad. We don't sell booze just ANYWHERE...like you can't get it in fast food restaurants except Chipotle for what it's worth.
Yeah you can't buy booze anywhere in Ontario other than the government run liquor or beer stores. And people talk about the "freedome of Canada". I laugh. I laugh until I fucking weep.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2009, 03:11:25 PM
Yeah you can't buy booze anywhere in Ontario other than the government run liquor or beer stores. And people talk about the "freedome of Canada". I laugh. I laugh until I fucking weep.
So what are you supposed to do when, say, you're in the middle of toys'r'us and you need a drink urgently?
Canadians would just have to die? :eek:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2009, 03:29:14 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2009, 03:11:25 PM
Yeah you can't buy booze anywhere in Ontario other than the government run liquor or beer stores. And people talk about the "freedome of Canada". I laugh. I laugh until I fucking weep.
So what are you supposed to do when, say, you're in the middle of toys'r'us and you need a drink urgently?
Canadians would just have to die? :eek:
Exactly. In fact, I believe its in our Charter.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2009, 03:11:25 PM
Yeah you can't buy booze anywhere in Ontario other than the government run liquor or beer stores. And people talk about the "freedome of Canada". I laugh. I laugh until I fucking weep.
New Hampshire.
"Live Free or Die"
State Liquor Stores (with no tax!)
Just sayin'.
Vermont has discount state stores too, but not quite like NH. We make "border runs" when we know a large party is imminent because liquor in Rhode Island can ONLY be sold by a liquor store, and taxed EXTRA. Up until 2005 liquor stores weren't allowed to be open on Sunday either. For a state founded on freedom from the Puritans, it's as puritanical as fuck sometimes.