‘VEGAS BABY’! We shouted pretty much the entire way there...
...In our heads we had all come to the conclusion we were going to ‘win big’ and dive onto the roulette tables at every given opportunity. The guys had mental images of the film Swingers and how they would be ‘so money’, the girls, well… the girls were more interested in the pools and the cocktails… me, I was pretty excited about the amount of steak I was going to consume and Mountain Dew! Ahhhh Mountain Dew!

Problem was I didn’t really understand the tables and was too scared to get involved and end up looking like a knob so I stuck to the Blackjack games which were sunk into every bar in our hotel. This did work pretty well in my favour as I ended up leaving Vegas on the up… about $10! Wooo!

So that’s the gambling side of Vegas but the far more entertaining side was wandering down the strip. Now you do assume that Vegas is going to be full of nutters and also full of prostitutes, its just common sense to think that where there is lots of booze and money there will be some sort of prostitution going down… and there was… LOTS.

Walking down the strip anytime from 10.00am onwards you’ll get confronted by quite a few ‘working girls’ and their pimps, I was prepared for this. What I wasn’t prepared for however were the hoards of guys and girls in red t-shirts covered in the words GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS. Now these guys spend their days flicking business card-sized bits of porn into peoples faces. No one is safe, you could quite obviously be with your family wandering around with your tiny son or daughter by your side and you’ll still get the card flickage in your face – its odd.

Anyhoo a group of us were wandering along gently confused by the men and their flicking, clicking cards. Two of the guys with us decided to mimic the card action and stared making clicking noises and throwing their hands around the place when all of a sudden we heard this guy speak rather loudly to one of my friends ‘Sir, if you don’t like pimps and hoes you should have gone to Vermont’… wise and rather humorous words indeed.

Has anyone else experienced the flicky card men in Vegas??
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 8 May 2009, 11:23, 3 replies)

Yes.
They annoyed the hell out of me.

I went to Vegas for a bit back in November, and was amazed by these card guys. It's not so much what they were doing that drove me to distraction, but more who they were doing it to... They'd flick these things at mums with their little kids. Woman walking past on her own, with a baby in her arms? Here, have a face full of calling cards! I bet that's just what you wanted, right?

Luckily they only seemed to lurk around a very specific area, so any time we went out, we simply avoided them. It was that or give the LVPD the interesting task of removing a wodge of cards from the rear end of some chump in a red shirt.

Oh, the noise got on my tits too.

And at the end of the day when all the flicky people have slunk off to wherever it is they slink off to, the entire Strip is plastered in porn mulch from these abandoned little cards...
(Kitimariana, Fri 8 May 2009, 14:03, closed)

Ahhh...
...good its not just me then! I know tons of people that have been to Vegas and no-one ever mentioned the flicky men!!

You're right about the state of the floor once they bugger off, you find yourself walking on a path of porn.

I think I was only bothered by a few of the flicky men, I must have been sending out a lesbo vibe!?!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Fri 8 May 2009, 14:30, closed)

The thing was...
He wasn't one of the Mexicans they employ to do it. He was a giant black man who then informed me that he was "born and raised" in Vegas, and that "God still loved him".

Wonderful city. :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 May 2009, 16:36, closed)