What is the worst place you ever found yourself in?

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 3:30 pm

Originally posted by fable:
Nah. You're just afraid they'll find out what you are, and exorcise you.

Using grape juice as holy water.

NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 3:31 pm

probably but then id give them the "finger of death", cast imp. haste and run away

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 3:39 pm

well, I felt really out of place changing in the Girls change room for gym... with them around...

VoodooDali · Post by **VoodooDali** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 5:52 pm

Fable--New Jersey rocks! If you think it's bad here in NJ--try where I grew up--St. Louis, boring and conservative. I got out of there as fast as I could.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 12:19 am

Stuck in an elevator for a few hours with strange looking people.

If it wasn't for my Gameboy (was young then)
I swear I would've freaked out.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 1:39 am

Have to agree with fable, New Jersey was one of the worst places I have been. That because it was Sept. 11th and I could see the WTC towers collapsing.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 5:12 am

Originally posted by VoodooDali:
Fable--New Jersey rocks! If you think it's bad here in NJ--try where I grew up--St. Louis, boring and conservative. I got out of there as fast as I could.

My wife's from St Louis, and while I've found it a boring and conservative place, it's a lot more attractive than many similar boring and conservative places which grow like weeds across much of the non-seaboard USA.

NJ is conservative, and not boring in all the wrong ways: you can't ignore the aggressive drivers, the sports obsession, the derision associated with any profession not accomplished through the use of your hands. Then there's the absurdly high number of people per square mile (highest in the US), the absence of parks, the stench of the oil refineries in the northeast and southwest, the glitzy, swank casinos and grinding local poverty of the southeast, etc. I'm afraid St Louis really doesn't begin to compare.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 5:45 am

DP and Grunt

The former Soviet Union a year after the fall. The was no food. The was no money. The Rouble was free falling. When you bought a tramway ticket, you got a 100 becasue the ticket price was set. People from all over the country came to the big cities to beg. There were children, elderly, ill, disabled or just poor people lying on the streets everywhere you went.
I was a student on a low budget trip, so I didn't have a lot to give

I bought food whenever I could - you got a lot of food for your Western hard currency - and gave to people I saw, but that was all I could do

This was before the Black sea fleet was divided between Russia and Ukraine, so the situation were very tense. Everybody was afraid. During the Yalta negotians, scouting planes were flying several times a day as a constant remider of the threat of civil war.

I was a block a way when the demonstrants outside the radio house in Moscow were shot by the army police. But I didn't know what had really happened until later, since there were no accurate news reports inside the country.

Another bad place I've been to was a ward for terminal care of AIDS patients.

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 2:27 pm

Originally posted by fable:
How so?

they collect... old shingles...

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 2:30 pm

Originally posted by Tamerlane:
Stuck in an elevator for a few hours with strange looking people.

If it wasn't for my Gameboy (was young then)
I swear I would've freaked out.

Okay okay, you think THAT is strange...

One time I was hanging out at the local Dunkin' Donuts with my friends Aaron and Justin and we were making up a rap song to make fun of this teacher. So Justin sang the chorus a few times to get the feel of it, then this Jamaican bald guy came over and started dancing. No joke. That was the scariest thing, especially since it's about a bald Jamaican teacher

Crassus · Post by **Crassus** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 3:19 pm

Walking through the red light district in Amsterdam. I suppose there are some arguments for why it's better for prostitution to be legalized than not, but the open view of prostitutes behind those glass windows made me uncomfortable.

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 3:21 pm

Originally posted by Crassus:
I suppose there are some arguments for why it's better for prostitution to be legalized than not, but the open view of prostitutes behind those glass windows made me uncomfortable.

Yuck!!!!!!! That must have been quite sick!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 3:26 pm

Originally posted by Crassus:
Walking through the red light district in Amsterdam. I suppose there are some arguments for why it's better for prostitution to be legalized than not, but the open view of prostitutes behind those glass windows made me uncomfortable.

I've been there too. A very depressing place indeed.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 3:27 pm

Originally posted by Crassus:
Walking through the red light district in Amsterdam. I suppose there are some arguments for why it's better for prostitution to be legalized than not, but the open view of prostitutes behind those glass windows made me uncomfortable.

So don't look

@C.E I agree that it is depressing, but that system is still better than what happens in Canada and the States, where women are for the most part on the streets, and do not usually get regular medical checkups.....

[ 10-02-2001: Message edited by: dragon wench ]

Vinin · Post by **Vinin** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 5:00 pm

Wow, some NJ bashing by fable being done here. Personally I love NJ,

- Its close to NYC and philly
- Many good companies are based here, Lucent
- there is NOT an absence of parks, I would know, I've run in about 50 for cross country
- Its o culturally diverse, chinese, spanish, european ppl are all here
- Sports and music are our life man, Go Devils and The Youth Ahead and Bruce Springsteen, all from NJ

Man, NJ is a great place to live even if it does have some of its faults I mean other states have their own faults why jus pick on us?
BTW fable wha state you live in?

VoodooDali · Post by **VoodooDali** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 6:50 pm

I think Fable lives in NJ like me. BTW, Gruntboy, I saw the WTC go down to, I have a clear view over here in Jersey City--or I did, rather. It still makes me want to cry every time I go outside and look. But anyway, I like where I am in NJ--just a short ride on the PATH to Manhattan, cheaper rent, diverse population, weird people, etc. And parts of South Jersey don't seem so bad, great shoreline, Atlantic City, and close to Philly.

Crassus · Post by **Crassus** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 7:17 am

@ VoodooDali - I live in Jersey City also (although sometimes it seems like I spend more time in Manhattan in my office).

I'm thinking about moving to Hoboken now. The PATH train is now ultra-crowded because it's taking on approx. 1.5 to 2 times mre traffic.