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Have I mentioned I am going on holiday tomorrow? Well, I am. Diving in the Red Sea. Which is well exciting and manly.
What's the best place you have ever visited?
Alt: Have you ever returned to somewhere you have holidayed and stayed in the same place again?
Apologies to those of you that have not yet been on vacation without your parents. Or are too fat to leave the house.
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YesI returned to Los Gigantes in Tenerife as the first holiday there was exceptional
Best place was Cancun. 5 star hotel, optics in the room and a fridge full of beer. Argentinian restuarant serving quite simply the best steak EVAR and all inclusive for everything.
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:31,
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Also Holland on numerous occasionsFucking excellent place
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:33,
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Cool. I have never been to Mexico, I'd love to go.
I am going to Amsterdam on business the week after I get back off holiday. It's a tough life.
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Mexico is very much on my 'must see' list.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:37,
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Speedboating in the mangrove swamps at 40mph is FUN!(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:40,
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Or motorboating if you preferI have an excellent action photo of our boat in mid air, lifting off a wake somewhere at home
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:45,
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Not so much AmsterdamI like the south of Holland. Life seems a lot more laid back there
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:39,
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Venlo and Venray are both lovelyMy Dad used to work out there
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:42,
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We know a couple who lived there in a fucking massive farmhouseso visited around there loads of times. Really nice and friendly people there
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:48,
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Very wiseGet a trip in before they bring in the law preventing foreigners from visiting coffee shops.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:52,
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Holland is nice, I've been there several times.But Belgium is a shithole. I'm going to the Scarborough cricket festival in August, and somewhere hot too, either Egypt or Morocco.y
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I have been told Bruges is beautiful.Loads of nonces though.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:38,
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I wuz arrested, but yes, it looks nice. The people are cocks though.
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Belgium seemed ok the times I've been there(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:39,
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Been to Los Cristianos in Tenerife a couple of timesand also Rovinj in Croatia, which is absolutely gorgeous. I would go back there in a heartbeat.
Florida with the kids this year - our first time. I think I might be more excited than them.
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Los Christianos was lovely years ago but has now merged into Las Americas stag/hen do hell(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:40,
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I went around 1992/1993then again a few years ago on a day trip from Los Gigantes.
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:44,
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Florida is brilliant. Try and get away from the parks/resort for a day, which is quite difficult because they are so damn good. Great place.
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I've got the Orlando Flexiticket Plus thingSo we get entry to all the Universal stuff, plus Aquatica, Busch Gardens, Seaworld, etc. Skipping the Disney stuff though - we're only there for 2 weeks and want to see something of Florida as well.
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This is booked in for a few years time(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:47,
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I think we all like a good bit of Busch(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:50,
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*takes notes*It's a good year to go, so I'm told. Decent £ v $ at the moment.
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You should get 1.60 for a quid which is slightly above average. Slightly. (, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:54, Reply)
copenhagen is a lovely place.and fuck me, those danes can sure pack away the booze.
they make scots look like muslims.
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mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:32,
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croatia is full of hotties too.well nice.
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mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:41,
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fucking hell, you sound like a dick.(
mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:41,
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The last time I went abroad was 2008so I'm not really the best person to be answering this question.
The last time I went somewhere where the people spoke funny and had alien customs was Bristol.
Actually, I went to Riga in '10. That was a stag weekend though, so i don't think it really counts.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:33,
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How about the last time you visited home, Pierre?(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:34,
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I haven't been to France since 1994.I hear it's changed some.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:35,
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I believe that they're still cheese-eating surrender monkeysso I guess plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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I should go back to France soon.Fun fact, French women find French spoken with an English accent sexy.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:45,
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I'm buggered thenEvery time I try speaking French in France, I get asked if I'm Dutch.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 17 May 2012, 12:34,
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we had a house in spain when my mum was still aroundso obv went back there a few times. other than that, no. i like to go to different places, so barbados is the only place i've been more than once. and america, but different places.
the grenadines is the best place i've ever been. like you imagine paradise, only with turtles and tortoises and iguanas and a seriously hot french captain on board your pirate ship. AND to get there you have to go on one of those tiny planes that only holds about 10 people.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:34,
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Do you go back to the same hotel in Barbados? I liked Barbados. Except for the teeth sucking, fag poncing, BO stenching locals. The cunts.
St Lucia is nice. I got a helicopter from the airport to the hotel because that's how I roll.
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no, i've stayed in different hotels every timegoing again this christmas, bring that shit on.
never been to st lucia. i like the funny little island that is half french, half dutch (st martin, i think it is), hardly any tourists. apart from us, of course. pasty english cunts.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:42,
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Isn't that one with the rather pant-browning final approach?Which might explain why it's quite quiet.
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i don't know, as we went as part of a cruisesome of them do have horrifically terrifying runways though. best not to look.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:13,
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Taghazout, a surfing village north of Agadir, MoroccoEdit: AgaDIR, you FUCKS!
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Frisbee OG wanker, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:39,
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Were you there on a pineapple pushing and coffee grinding holiday?(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:42,
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*pushes pineapple**shakes tree*
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:43,
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fuck both of youif i'm singing that for more than 2 mins, you both die
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:44,
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LookThis chevron is going
TO THE RIGHT
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:45,
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Don't swear at me, you fucking wanker.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:51,
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Diving in the red sea?Why don't you wait a few days till she's off blocks again, you filthy pervert?
Med cruise was very nice. I'd love to do that again.
Alt: I've stayed with the same American friend a couple of times, does that count?
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 10:47,
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Why bother?You'll be changing the sheets afterwards either way, if you're not filthy.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:50,
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Sick. Because I am in a hurry.
That sounds nice. I have never been on a cruise. Although I regularly go cruising.
Alt: No.
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Yeah, we did two weeks round and round the med, starting from Palma.It was well good. The only place we didn't get off the boat was Tunis, because it was too bastard hot. About 50 degrees in the sun, and I don't imagine it was much cooler in the shade.
Alt: then no, I haven't.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 10:54,
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Hahahaha. Didn't get off the boat because it was too hot? Very Anglo Saxon.
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fat people and hot climates don't mix too well(
b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 11:13,
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It's a very tricky questionbut seeing the mist rising over Delphi at dawn was, despite clearly being achingly beautiful, fucking amazing.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:50,
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Did it tug at your tender heartstrings, you massive bumder'Achingly' indeed, pfft
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Frisbee OG wanker, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:52,
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long standing joke on here, b3ta.com/search/answers?q=achingly+beautiful
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Top tipLurk for a while and work out what's an injoke and what's not.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:53,
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I prefer the less subtle approach of sensational fucking up and dealing with the falloutFirst nonchalantly and then with foot-stamping
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Frisbee OG wanker, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:57,
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You're making a tit of yourself.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:53,
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he's moving here fulltime.LOLOLOLOLOL!
oh man, you're going to love it.
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mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:58,
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It'll be like the last time he came over here.He thinks because he's can scrape along at the bottom of the /talk social order he can come over here and bully people. Then everyone realises he plays frisbee and he's right back down at the bottom again.
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I am hugely tolerant.I suffer fools EXTREMELY gladly.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:03,
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We were when there was a better male female ratio,but people like you have scared all the girls away.
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he should get along well with swipey.mind you, they're probably too similar to get along.
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mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:03,
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That reminds meI'd love to go see Petra, or Armana. I bet they're amazing.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 10:56,
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No ta. You're mixing me up with that chutney from last night.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:03,
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It's odd that NA takes much of the flak for that, despite Lab saying it first.(
Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:13,
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Two Thai islandsSamui and Pha Ngang.
If you went off the beaten track (and avoided the Israeli tourists*)they were superb. Beautiful beaches, excellent snorkelling, great street food and the nicest natives I've ever come across.
*Look up 'self-absorbed self-righteous ignorant rude arrogant fuckwit' in a dictionary and you'll see them looking back at you.
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I have to deal occasionally with an Israeli support team.I wouldn't like to condemn an entire nation by my experience of one man, but he was the most thoroughly unpleasant, arrogant, rude, unhelpful cock I have ever *ever* spoken to.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 10:58,
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They are, as a rule, all cunts. Still, a holocaust will do that to you.
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Who, Simon Wiesenthal? God, me too.Let it go, you cunt - you won, didn't you? No need to rub it in.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:04,
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I think this is my best post ever.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:07,
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He is a Nazi hunter, isn't he?(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:15,
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His number must have been55378008 or something
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:20,
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I once almost killed an Israeli solider by pushing him round at great speed in a shopping trolleyHope this helps
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:02,
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I loved Krakow.I'd love to go there again for a long weekend, although with a girl so we could do nice things instead of getting caned on ridiculously cheap beer and drugs for three days like I did last time.
In other news I've just been pissed over, I'm drenched. I'm supposed to be going out straight from work as well. Can charge eighty quid for it though which is nice, I might get pissed on more often. I feel like one of those fetish workers.
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We're going to see Blackbird Blackbird this evening.Although I'm not texting her to arrange times, she can get in touch with me.
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I'm willing to bet a lot of money she doesn't get in touch though.If I call her it'll be fine and we'll go, but why should I be sorting everything.
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I had this same conversation the other day.The upshot of my response was "fuck you, then."
I like to handle things in a calm, rational and above all adult manner.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:11,
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She always agrees to meet me, fucking hell she's coming upto Newcastle in a couple weekends to stay with me.But it's always me inviting her/arranging things. I'm very wary of looking needy/clingy.
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This one outright refused to make any effort. It's something she never does, apparently. I can't be arsed.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:18,
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Well keep away from where I live -Hulme- due to these little scamps.menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1506125_fraudsters-offer-to-sell-laptops-and-leave-victim-in-hulme-with-sack-of-potatoes
I can't believe someone would hand that amount of cash over, without even looking in the bag, FFS.
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It's not like it used to be, I understand.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:06,
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Anyone who was trying to buy a laptop in a garage forecourt is a retard.Or they were trying to buy stolen goods.
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British Columbia was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. But then Chicago was such a great experience and made me fall in love with life again.
Alt:We have a family house in Ireland which I go to every couple of years. But the place has become uber touristy now and not as cool as I remember it being.
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Your family house is uber touristy?(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:06,
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I've only been to Ireland twiceOnce to Dublin, fun but expensive. And I went to a wedding in the West of Ireland, which was lovely. Before the Euro came in, it was as cheap as chips.
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I DJed at the Guinness Jazz festival in Cork once.Nice enough place, but there were Paddies fucking EVERYWHERE. It was like Kilburn.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:13,
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Kilburn is mainly full of Slavs now. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:18,
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Cork is nice, our house is in a place called Schull, second most southernly point in the country after Mizen head.
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Mount Everest base camp was awesome. Kathmandu and Moscow are also great places to see.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:06,
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So you went to the tallest mountain in the world.The tallest mountain in the world.
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Yes. I couldn't see over the top. The air is rather thin at 19,500ft so I didn't have energy for much tbh.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:10,
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Think of how much thinner it would have been for the normal height people(, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:11, Reply)
Kathmandu is on my bucket listAs are China, Finland, South Africa and Burma.
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Tallinn is pretty amazingI go to Tromso a fair bit with work and I love that as well. And San Diego pretty much single handedly makes up for the rest of California.
But probably Kenya/Tanzania for the sheer epic fucking hell nature of things.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:07,
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Makes up for the rest of California? California is fucking awesome. It's got EVERYTHING.
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I thought someone would rise to that.California is pretty good. As long as you raze SF, LA and Oakland to the fucking ground and remove every single cunting resident of the whole state, I'd live there.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:10,
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I liked Los AngeleseI liked the people, a mixture of stupididy and happiness was quite refreshing.
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LA is fucking horrible.SF is so far up its own arse you can see teeth. And pretty much the entire population of the state are so false I'm amazed they aren't bra padding.
But some bits of it are quite pretty.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:18,
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See I don't think they're actually that false, I think its just so rare to see someone act and talk to you like that(in the uk) that you assume it's false.
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I've spent more of my life in Californiathan anywhere else except the UK, and I strongly disagree.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:24,
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I think it'd be amazing to live there.Be a bit of a culture shock at first but I find it hard to imagine you wouldn't be a happier person for it in the end.
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provided that you're happy with your life as a material shamI'm sure it would be.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:25,
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:27,
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You are wrong, wrong, wrong. LA's great. SF is great. Even Oakland is OK.
The rest of the state is brilliant. Mountains, desert, national parks, wine country, Pacific Ocean, theme parks etc etc.
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I think you'll find it's 'freaking awesome' actually.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:14,
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or electricity(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:22,
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I'm fairly sure it hasn't got Glasgow in it, as well.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:23,
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I'd take Glasgow over Oakland in a heartbeat.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:26,
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I was hoping to go to Kenya next year with my son's scout expeditionPaedoLOLS.
But they've cancelled it due to lack of numbers. Bit of local charity work, couple of days on a game reserve, then climbing Mount Kenya. Gutted.
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Particularly the gas lamp quarter and Torres Pine Park. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:19,
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i liked the old wooden rollercoaster that is right on the seafrontit's really high, so you get fab views. and it all lights up at night.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:21,
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There's only 2 places I've found in the USthat you could possibly pay me enough money to convince me to live there. San Diego and Portsmouth, NH.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:19,
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i want to go to montanai like the idea of being able to drive for hours without seeing another human being
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:20,
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Poor old Battered's phone went flat after two days.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:23,
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The day they went ranchinghe had to ride a pony ololol "charger", you see.
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Kroney, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:28,
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Dunno why but I've never fancied going to the USATravelling East has always been my thing. I'd like to be convinced otherwise.
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I've been to Amsterdam twiceand Cornwall quite a lot, but otherwise I don't go on holiday enough to go to the same place repeatedly. Istanbul is probably the best place I've been. Or Prague.
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Oh, Prague was lovely.Did you see that fabulous astronomical clock? There's a nice one of them in Strasbourg too.
And, being as Mucha is about my favourite artist, I had to drag mr b3th to the Mucha museum. He was 'well' 'chuffed'.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 11:16,
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Isn't Prague just full of stag dos now? My housemate went a couple of months ago and said the place was beautiful but full of drunk groups of lads from Rotherham/Doncaster/Birmingham etc etc.
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We went about ten years agoand stayed away from the party scene. Though we did like the fact that one of the pubs in the middle of town is called The Dog's Bollocks.
And we went right at the beginning of January, because that's when mr b3th's birthday is.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 11:23,
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I think you made all the right choices.I want to go but I'd have to read up on the place extensively to avoid the loud, trashy areas. I want nice cafes, architecture and quiet cobbled streets with tucked away restaurants. I cannot believe at 21 that just came out of my mouth.
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and you want to go to California?fucking hell. My flat is older than the whole state.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:28,
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That's pretty much what we did.But then, we're already old.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 17 May 2012, 11:29,
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The 19 year old me would be disgusted with my current self.My current self is pretty happy with how my tastes have changed.
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We just need to wean you off the sunglasses and £150 shirtsand we've got a perfectly well-rounded individual. Score.
Well, except the supporting Fulham thing, of course.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:34,
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I have one more pair of sunglasses to buy and then I'm done, I mean that. With clothes as well, I'm done.
The Fulham supporting thing I had no choice over and is something beyond my control I'm afraid. As much as I'd like to, I think I'd be disowned by my family if I stopped.
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a whole life spent in Plymouth, sadtimes :'((
mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:16,
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It's a good lifeSea air, ice cream, as much sand as I can eat. I can't complain.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:25,
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Good news. If you look at the QOTW poll you'll see Rory is back. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 17 May 2012, 11:28,
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